Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - June 16, 1969, Zanesville, Ohio Good Morning Overheard i Nobody cooks like my wife bat they came pretty close to K In the Army The Times Recorder Labor Takes Look At SDS Read Victor Riesel In Tuesday's TR VOL NO 20 PAGES ZANESVILLE OHIO 43701 MONDAY JUNE 16 1969 TEN CENTS Gaullism Expected 7 More Years Pompidou Elected President Of France Congress Faces Big Decisions WASHINGTON gress faces some tough deci- sions this week on taxes spending smoking and what to do about campus violence After five of keyed activity long weekends and frequent recesses the legislative pace has begun to pick up The House Ways and Means Committee a tax battlefield almost since the start of the cession in January is to take a crucial vote Monday on keeping the 10 per cent surtax alive past its June 30 expiration date President Nixon got the divided committee off dead center last week with a personal plea to House leaders He said a tax the 10 per cent level through Dec 31 and at 5 per cent for another six vital to the attack on inflation Barring last-minute upsets the committee was expected to clear the surtax extension of federal telephone and bile excise levies and removal of 5.7 million low-income persons from the income tax rolls Senators meanwhile will de- bate a proposed economy order demanding that the President trim bis plans for spending on nondefense and so-called con- items by is 1970 This conflicts with a provision ding flie President to exceed his over-all billion proposed budget and with no exemptions unless Congress later approves them On Tuesday the House takes up a proposed six-year sion of an expiring four-year-old law mat requires health hazard labels on cigarette packs but bars federal or state agencies from taking tougher action to discourage smoking Anti-smoking forces without much nope of success win offer amendments to toughen the health warning and to free such agencies as the Federal Trade and Federal Commissions to act on their own White the Senate permanent Investigations subcommittee re- sumes its inquiry into the cause of campus disorders the House Education and Labor tee after a final day's bearing will try Tuesday to agree on a biQ to deter such disruptions Robert A Hinshaw grand master of Ohio Grand Lodge center assisted by left to right Russell Painter Zanesville mayor Charles Moody deputy grand master Marion Moore senior grand warden and Walker Huffman superintendent of Area Joint Voca tional School and Technical Institute officiated in cornerstone laying ceremonies held Sunday at the Chandlersville road school Masons Sponsor Program Cornerstone Ceremonies Held For New Vocational Institute Over a hundred persons attended the impressive public Masonic ceremonies Sunday mat marked the laying of the cornerstone for the Muskingum Area Joint Vocational School and Technical Institute on Chandlersville road sponsored by the Grand Lodge of Ohio Lodge of Amith 5 Lafayette 75 and Honor Lodge 726 Walker Huffman tendent of the school and nu 0 Is food purchased hi a grocery store object the state sales J R No with the exception of a few items such as pop chewing gum etc which are not actually food items there is no state tax on purchased at a grocery store Please tan to Page for mm answers and institute gave the welcoming address Colors were posted by the Honor Guard of Cyrene Commandery 10 Knights Mayor Russell Painter was the principal speaker Zanesville Memorial Concert Band directed by Nelson Foucht presented several bers M W Robert A Hinshaw of New Concord grand master of Ohio presided at the stone laying assisted by area grand officers The stone en- closing a casket containing memorials and histories was placed in the northeast comer of the 16 sided Administration Building following consecration corn wine and oil Charles Moody chairman Fred A Harmer Clarence A Lucas Walker Huffman and Donald D Baustian arranged the program Viet War May Hurt GOP Vote WASHINGTON publican National Chairman Rogers C B Morton said Sunday that if the Vietnam war continues beyond early the GOP would suffer In the congressional elections that year -j think this nation is growing very restless under the that Morton said and if I were to take Me issue as overriding all the 1 think the progress toward peace is the No I issue of the The Maryland congressman said on television that the Nixon administration above else is dedicated tc ending this with honor and making sure we don't accept a camouflaged defeat He was asked about the on Hie Republican party if President Nixon is unable to end the war and the United States remains in for some more months perhaps years A little bit would depend on what the other party has to Morton replied but very frankly and candidly I don't think thai active fighting casualty lists beyond early 1970 will do any good in the elections of 1370 The party chairman denied a suggestion that the Republicans would use a Southern gy in toe 3972 presidential election of the type ihst helped Nixon win last fall T think the next election is going to be on grades this administration gels with the public and the job we do and I think that is the real crux of it and any strategy is airily not to be he Victory Won By Landslide PARIS zens elected Georges Pompidou president Sunday choosing at least seven more years of Gaullism without Charles de Gaulle over the more moderate Alain Pompidou 57 a former premier under De Gaulle's regime won a landslide victory with a strong campaign for French stability both political and economic He will take office Thursday the acting president conceded to dou less than an hour after the polls closed at 8 p.m declaring that I am cabling my congratulations to the winner I sought to defend a policy of change and a return to a tore said My straggle bad not been useless Tomorrow Monsieur Pompidou and his government will be obliged to take into account my points of view With 48.88 per cent of the total registered voters ed for Pompidou polled 57.52 percent to 42.48 The election was held to choose a successor to Charles de Gaulle who resigned after a referendum defeat April 27 The victory of Pompidou showed while Frenchmen may have not liked De Gaulle the man they approved of the continuation of Gaullist policies In a more moderate form Voter turnout was heavy throughout France despite a Communist call to members to abstain from voting in the ejection Pompidou and won spots on Sunday's ballot after emerging as the two top vote getters among a field of seven candidates in the first round of balloting on June 1 A majority is needed for a person to be president in France Pompidou failed to get in th first round Pompidou won on a ticket pledging to maintain basic principles of the Fifth Republic but to give more attention to the 50 million needs than the image of grandeur pursued by Gaulle Sources close to the said that during the campaign he had taken a leaf out of President Nixon's own election ise ol change without upheaval his inauguration is expected to form an running from the Gaullists through the parties to and including the Socialists Bandit Orders Chicken Legs DAYTON UPI A lone bandit entered the Frying Pan Restaurant here Sunday ed a pistol at a cook and de- manded money and a bag of chicken legs He got both and left Police said the loss of and chicken legs was undetermined CPI An American right holds a grenade took place at Hoc Men Vietnam northwest of launcher at the ready as members the Saigon Airborne Division cross a small river The action Base Hit Along Laotian Border American Defenders Hurl Back Three Red Attacks In Vietnam SAIGON UPI American defenders of a fortress in the middle of the A Shau Valley hurled back three assaults Sunday in six hours of fighting against North Vietnamese troops trying to drive allied forces from the strategic area along the Laotian border Military spokesmen said 51 FORECAST Considerable cloudiness today Fair and cool tonight See details on Page North Vietnamese regulars were slain American losses were surprisingly men of the Airborne Division wounded and none killed The North Vietnamese saults were mounted against a Division artillery outpost nicknamed a tion about half the size of a football field carved out of jungles in the A Shau Valley 380 miles northeast of Saigon is an Apache Indian phrase meaning We Stand Together The A Shau Valley stretching for more than 30 miles through some of the worst fighting terrain in Asia is a natural Inside Today's Times Recorder If heat Surplus The Nixon administration facing a growing wheat plus may order 1970 wheat planting allotments slashed to the lowest level on record turn to page The Rule Of One Man Drew Pearson says that not many realize there's an indirect connection between the tragic list of boners pulled by the Navy in recent years and the paternalistic position of Rep Mendel Rivers the South Carolina solon who presides over the House Armed Services tee Please turn to Page Almanac 12 A News 9 A Bridge 4 B Hospital News 2 A Births 1 B Jeane Dixon 6 A Crossword 7 A Tim Bishop 4 A Classified B betters To God 6 A Comic 4 B Letters To Editor 7 A Calendar 1 B Memory Lane 4 A Drew 4 Report 5 B 11 A Sports Pages R Deaths 2 A 20 page A Earl Wilson 12 A Weather 2 A Farm News 8 B Women's Pages A infiltration funnel for North Vietnamese troops threatening Hue and Da Nang the two biggest cities in South nam's northern reaches It was the second consecutive day of sharp action in the valley U.S troops atop a foot peak overlooking the A Shau reported killing 31 North Vietnamese Saturday in a battle that cost 11 Americans killed and 42 wounded In a related development U.S military sources in Saigon said Sunday that saturation air raids by American bombers against the Ho Chi Minn trail in Laos had cut the number of North Vietnamese trucks traveling toward South Vietnam from 400 a day to about 100 a day U.S including engine have been flying upwards of 400 raids a day on the trail part of which winds into the A Shau Valley Military spokesmen said the first wave of North Vietnamese hit at Sunday At The second wave stormed out of the behind a barrage of rocket-propelled grenades and fighting raged until daybreak when American Counted 24 North Vietnamese bodies at the wire surrounding the 56 Persons Die When Roof Falls SEGOVIA Spain roof of a spacious convention hall and restaurant collapsed Sunday during a beauty contest dropping tons of concrete on more than 500 persons below said at 56 persons were killed and more than injured They said the toll could go as workers dug through tiw wreckage
