Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - April 25, 1969, Zanesville, Ohio Good Some of as are Hke Ml useful whn puked aid very easily Herbert quoted by Eari Times Recorder Hitler Movement In U.S Read Drew Pearson In Saturday's TR VOL NO 22 PAGES ZANESVILLE OHIO 43701 FRIDAY APRIL 25 1969 TEN CENTS Communists Reject Move Concessions Offered In Viet Peace Talks Americans Postage Rate Hike Bids Made Hit Reds To Break From Air Proposed By Nixon Deadlock SAIGON Air Force blasted Communist troops near the Cambodian border with the heaviest raids of the Vietnam war Thursday and military sources said U.S bombers were hitting Bed targets in neighboring Laos at a record level Field reports indicated the Communists of- fensive in Vietnam was flagging with more than North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed or wounded in nearly nine weeks of fighting Dispatches from Laos said Laotian troops had scored a of victories on the Plain of Jars in the seesaw battle for control of that strategic area with Pathet Lao guerrillas and North The U.S command said flew 14 sions Wednesday night and early Thursday 11 of them against jungles 50 to 75 miles northwest of Saigon where troops of the North Vietnamese Army 1st and 7th Divisions were believed regrouping and resupplying U.S spokesmen did not announce the exact bomb tonnage dropped by the but informed sources said between and tons were unloaded on Communist forces in War Zone C a longtime Viet Cong stronghold Some bombs fell within miles of the Cambodian tier American headquarters said Communist gunners shelled 10 allied military bases and South Vietnamese towns Wednesday night and early Thursday a total far below the intensity of barrages during the early stages of the offensive which began Feb Official U.S casualty reports listed North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed since the offensive began but military sources said the Communists were suffering three wounded for every man WASHINGTON UPI Nixon asked Congress Thursday to raise the price of a class postage stamp from 6 to 7 cents and promised major reforms to end deficits that have doubled the cost of mailing a letter in the past decade Postal rates for all classes of mail except air mail cards and letters would increase under Nixon's plan to cut the Post Office Department's record expected deficit of billion by more than half Effective July 1 first-class letters would require a stamp and the rate for cards would go up a penny to 6 cents Second and third class mail rates also would rise but the air mail rate of 10 cents for letters and 8 cents for cards would re- main the same The President said in a brief message to Congress that he would submit plans by June 1 for long-range reform of the postal system to make it more reliable and self-supporting This administration is determined that the cycle of greater and greater postal deficits and more and more rate increases will be Although the President gave no hint what changes he would recommend Postmaster General Winton H Blount told newsmen the administration intended to ask for removal of public service costs have risen from million in 1960 to a current rate of million These costs include special postal privileges for educational institutions nonprofit organizations and veterans Blount did not explain how these would be affected Bates for second-class mail already scheduled to increase by per cent next Jan 1 would rise by an additional 12 per cent the following July 1 for newspapers and magazines circulating outside the county where they are published The increase for second-class editorial and advertising matter would feature a new handling charge of of a cent effective July 1 1970 Scheduled increases this in bulk class rates would be raised further on Jan 1 for a total boost of per cent over existing rates The price of a first-class postage cents up a penny each in 1959 1983 and early last year Beallsville O -I Jio v me Rare Spider BlteS Servicemen Cleveland Youth 5 Bid Rejected CLEVELAND UPI A year-old boy bitten by a spider lay in a coma at a Cleveland hospital Thursday while doctors injected serum into his body hourly in hopes of saving his life Todd Quester was believed to have been bitten last week by a rare brown recluse spider at his Amherst home He became ill but his parents Mr and Mrs Donald C Quester believed he was stricken with flu Thursday when he showed signs of ordination they took him to University Hospital Hospital officials who cut red tape to have the lifesaving Inside Today's Times Recorder Those New Love Seals A dramatic and almost historic event is taking place by a religious organization winch has developed a new technique for communicating the essence of ancient truths to the public For a story on Love please turn to Page School Integration Problems There is growing sentiment that the Nixon Administration is failing to cope with the problems of school integration or giving rise to fears that way is being paved for the election of a Democrat as president in 1972 For an analysis on this please turn to Page rum rushed from Sao Paulo Brazil said it would be at least 24 hours before it would have any effect The hospital located the rum and had it flown to the United States through ments with the State ment Joint Chiefs of State the Navy and the Sen William Saxbe helped with the arrangements From New York the vaccine was put on another flight to Cleveland Hopkins Airport and a waiting helicopter rushed it to the hospital Injections be- gan at once shortly before noon The nearly mile journey of the serum was necessary be- cause that South A m e r fc a n country was the only one in the world with the vaccine Doctors planned nine hourly injections The QUesters translated their fears that their son was bitten by a spider to the doctors after seeing a bite on Todd's hand WASHINGTON UPI U.S Hep Clarence E Miller said Thursday Defense Melvin Laird had re- his request to remove six residents of Beallsville Ohio from Vietnam The Monroe County of 400 has lost five all former students of Beallsville High School in tion in Vietnam We deeply regret that any American servicemen must be sent to face the potential ards of service in Laird said We are aware of the concern of Beallsville Ohio residents to those troops in combat Miller had asked Laird to in- the situation and if possible to remove the ville residents from combat Four of those killed in action are buried in a cemetery over- looking the high school PARIS a series of allied concessions at the nam peace talks the United States declared Thursday it is willing to hold simultaneous negotiations on political and military issues The rejected the move as a Bidding to break the ence deadlock South ese negotiators also took two softening steps seen as tant concessions during 14th formal session of the conference in Paris Thursday The Saigon government which previously had frowned on an early departure of American troops from Vietnam declared for the first time that mutual withdrawal of foreign troops is a key issue in the negotiations South Vietnam also appeared to have dropped its insistence that the Viet Cong disavow Communist before they could participate in the political life of South Vietnam In presenting the new can concession U.S delegation chief Henry Cabot Lodge told Communist negotiators they must be prepared as the Republic of South Vietnam is prepared to begin the process of serious discussion among South Vietnamese of the ments of a political solution We see no reason why the military and political aspects of a settlement cannot be worked out at the same Lodge said The conference has been stalemated since its beginning in January when the Communist side made it clear it would not agree to separate treatment of political and military questions surrounding the Vietnam conflict In stating the new American position Thursday however Lodge said the United States could not carry out any undertaking of importance without the approval of the government of the Republic of South Vietnam Viet Cong and Hanoi men promptly rejected Lodge's call for simultaneous political and military discussions Almanac Bridge Births Crossword Classified Comic Church News Calendar Drew Pearson Deaths Earl Wilson 8 A 5 B 1 B 12 A B 5 B 2 A 1 B 4 A 4 B Financial News Hospital News Jeane Dixon Letters To God Memory Lane Movies Police News State Report Sports Pages Weather 6 B 4 B 6 A 5 A 4 A 8 A 12 A 7 A B 4 B A Women's Pages A Rains Threaten Flooded Areas By United Press International Flood fighters kept the gorged Mississippi River hobbled Thursday but forecasts of rain threatened to boost crests sharply as they rolled ward through Midwest Most riverside communities in Iowa Illinois and Wisconsin reported dikes and levees holding well as moved down the nation's biggest river But river observers cautioned that a long which would keep pressure on dikes longer thai a quickly falling flood conM cause dangerous wear and tear on OK Tiger Kills Five NEW DELHI tiger has killed and eaten five persons in Uttar Pradesh state during the past five days the Press Trust of India reported Thursday FORECAST Sunny and warmer today and not so cool tonight See details on Page I cut my grass for the first time this spring and the next day It turned brown on top What causes H George Imlay of the Imlay Co said that your first mowing exposed tender grass that then was nipped by the low temperatures In addition your mower blade might have been dull fraying the top at the grass instead of making a dean cut But don't worry growth a fresh mowing will end the browning Cherry Trees Burst Into Bloom The cherry trees on the Herman Seller farm on Dietz lane burst into full bloom Thursday as the sun broke through a gloomy three-day overcast Although the weatherman forecast chilly degree readings for this morning the temperatures were expected to rise today into the And when the cherry trees bloom can Spring real Spring be far behind Photo by Trost New Building Due In Dresden Ceremony Set Monday For Tri-Valley School ceremonies will be held at Monday for the million Tri- Valley High School building to be built diagonally across the street from the present high school in Dresden Throwing the first spadeful of earth will be Sophomore Class President Steve Miller son of Mr and Mrs Gerald Miller of Nashport Route 2 and Vice President Greg Bickle son of Mr and Mrs Bobert Bickle of Frazeysburg The youths were selected for the honors because they head the class that will be the first graduating class in the new building in 1971 School Superintendent Norbert Kurtz is in charge of the brief ceremony which will also be attended by Jack Anderson principal of the high school and members of the school board They Chester Culbertson president Gilbert Cox vice president Kenneth Felumlee Robert Cullins Floyd Hogue and William Jennings clerk Also m attendance will be Joseph Baker Newark architect who drew the plans for the new bulding as well as representatives of the 0 J Paul Co of Zanesville who won the contract to construct the building the Lawrence Electric Co of Zanesville who will do the heating and ventilating work and the Modern Plumbing Co of Newark who will do the ing The new building planned to serve 600 pupils will have 47 classrooms dining facilities a gymnasium an in- struction room large enough to hold 175 persons and a large lobby commons area Funds for construction of the new school were by voters of the district in May 1968 Hampton Classes Suspended Riots Spread Through Colleges Please tare to Page for more and By United Press International A black student sit-in forced Hampton Institute to suspend classes Thursday and a campus blockade by Negroes and Puerto Ricans kept classrooms empty at City College of New York The threat of a court order ended the occupation of a George Washington University building students at Marquette University ly gave up a sit-in at the school's student union Punches were thrown in a tense confrontation between opposing groups at Elsewhere across the nation there was increasing evidence of student body disagreement the aims and tactics of militant demonstrators White and black militants appeared to ease the pressure somewhat on the east's Ivy League schools with peace of a kind returning to Cornell and universities Rut other less prestigious schools were shaken by disorders and Predominantly Negro ton Institute at Hampton Va suspended classes indefinitely after 100 singing chanting students occupied the school's administration building Members of the Students for Democratic Society SDS give up occupation of the Sino-Soviet Institute building at George Washington when the Washington school cned to seek a court injunction Their departure was peaceful but an observer said they left the building really torn up with windows broken file cabinets rifled and furniture piled up in improvised cades Fist fights broke out at CCNY when students tried to get into a building held by the rebel students CONSPIRACY ON CAMPUS Rioting and disorders on U.S college campuses are the outward signs of a conspiracy that reaches back to Moscow Ever since the beginning of the cold war Communists have the managed riot as a deadly weapon to undermine and destroy Western society A series Copley News Service writer Robert Belts beginning Monday In this newspaper describes now Uic method Is being used today lo disrupt American duration with the ultimate aim of destroying this nation In the United Slates Communists have long since from behind their fronts to conduct a blatant of youth subversion They are more secretive about strategy and tactics The of written after months of Investigation tells bow Red wreckers nwe In any controversy Infiltrate and take over various groups manipulate radicals and work ip rMs Watch for SPAPERI
