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Uh Since Bonthtng HaltU. S. Reconnaissance Plane Is Shot Down; Crewmen SavedSAIGON (UPI) — Ground fire today shot down a U.S. recon-iaissancc plans shooting pic lures of North Vietnam's soul hero anhandte, American headquarters said.It was tho fourth American plane shot down over North Viet-lam since the. nor them bombing stopped Nov. I. Tlivce were re-rotmaisance plane, liic fcxirlh an escort plane guarding piclure-aking pilots.The pilot and UU backseat radar man turned Hie crippled lane out to the South China son today, bailed out ami wereSchool Tax Referendum Is TomorrowVoters in the Canandaigua school district will head for the Elementary School tomorrow to letermine whether llio real es-:ate tax limit will be raised, hereby adding somo $180,000 to Ihe district's income next year.Tlio voting will loko place between noon and 9 p.m. at Ihe school on West Gibson.The district is limited by the amount of local tax revenue it can raise. The existing legal limit is 1.23 per cent of the full value of taxable property within th© school district.Set by the state constitution, the tax limit can be changed only by a $5 per cent vole in favor of tiie increase proposal.• An increase up to 1-5 per cent has been proposed by the Can* andaigua Hoard of Education. Raising the tax limit wouldbring in an estimated $189,000more money for tho district's schools.To the individual properly taxpayer. the added revenue for the school district will mean an average of nlxmt $5.59 per $1,000 assessed value.The board has said (he district’s financial squeeze is evident by the fact that the present school budget came to with In $62 of the legal limit.This year's budget is $4,008,-325 compared to last year's figure of $4,280,808. The decrease was made-when voters declined to raise the fax limit last spring.Higher enrollments, employee salaries, worker benefits and building maintenance have bceticited as reasons for the proposed increase.What? No Hacon?INVERNESN Scotland (UPI) — Mike Kluczyvski claimed Scotland's egg-eating championship Sunday after downing 38 fried eggs ai a single siding. 'Ilie closest challenger ale 32.alono responsible for Kennedy's,staying, to bo valid, accurate and correct, binding and con-! •trolling upon all courts of the: United States. The assassination report was prepared by a commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren.In addition, Shaw asked Ihe Supreme Court lo declare conspiracy law, ils jury system, and portions of its; criminal procedure.If the court refused to block his trial, he asked it to order Garrison to furnish certain: particulars of 1 he crime alleged-Jy committed so that he could prepare a proper defense-WASHINGTON (UPI)~Rep,Wilhiir Tilte D*Ark. rhafr--lt;* rescued off the North VI el names© port of Dong Hoi,Whit© trying to rescue Hie crewmen of planed si lot down previously, American hoadqunr-ters sddt U, S, war planes bombed North Vietnam gnu positions firing nt Uiem, Thcra wer® no rejxnts today of tho need for bombing to protect the downed fliers.In tho ground war, U.S.Marines drove a wedge itilo a Communist bastion threatening Da Nang and., with South Vietnamese troops, killed 91 guerrillas.An American official called Sunday's fight, one of tho fiercest since Uia bombing of North Vietnam slopped 39 days ago and said Marines sweeping tho battlefield today aro finding bodies faster than they ©an count them.Tho Leathernecks lost 16 men killed and 37 wounded, Including heavy casualties lo on© 45-man platoon, battlefield reports said. South Vietnamese tosses were described os “tfghlP with no fatalities.Marines closing n massive noose around what they call Dodge City, 13 miles south of tho allied stronghold nt Da Nang on South Vietnam's northern coast, said the fighting erupted near* where they had found 47 guerrilla bodies, 12 hunkers and 30 covered foxholes from an earlier battle. Da Nang is South Vietnam's second largest city, 360 miles North of Saigon.From hideouts In a ticoline, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese opened up with mortars, machincgiins and rifles while tho Marines dovo for cover and hurriedly called for divebombcrs and artillerybarrages.A column of South Vietnamese troops and armor moved into help.Tho battle raged until nightfall when tho Communists brokeit off and vanished Into ihe darkness. Marines sold tho Reds left some of the sturdiest bunker dugouts they had seen In the war.In two other operations, allied troops reported turning up Sunday two major guerrilla caches within 60 miles of Saigon.The lower court rejected all of Shaw's requests.frt seeking Supreme Court intervention, Shaw accused Garrison of “conducting a reign of terror in an illegal, useless and Fraudulent probe of tho assassination.He cited a previous Louisiana case where the Supjvmc Court took the rare step of interfering in a state criminal proceeding on grounds it crated a chilling effect on freedom of expression and threatened irreparable damae.His own rights, Shaw claimed, are being violated by a calculated, deliberate state assault, resulting in irreparaWe injury, clear and imminent/' Shaw charged that Louisia-| rra’s conspiracy statute wasunconstitutionally vague and! Krrtarf TTiii-thrif Kc* card if tin‘Political Offensives’ Are PlannedHy GEORGE SIBERAPARIS (UPI)-Tho Viet Cong announced today it was tryingto set up a puppet Saigon government without wailing for results of Pur is negotiations.Tho Viet Cong announcement came in n communique broadcast by Hanoi Radio and heard In Saigon.The communique said now was tho tiino lo launch a series of poll I lea I offensives demanding nn end to tho war, the restoration of jwaco and tho establishment of a pcaco cabinet which will negotiate with the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam.Jn Saigon political officials said tho Viet Cong call for tho peace cabinet was part of a guerrilla ca; .palgn that began after the United States halted bombing North Vietnam Nov. 1 to help gel negotiations started hero with Hanoi tho Viet Con* and tho Soitlh viriimmese,Tho Viet Cong communique) ordered Us Saigon area followers to st nr I work toward thopuppet regime Iwcausc (ho Sotiih Vieteameso government ilow was encountering serious difficulties militarily, politically! economically atul socially.In Paris, American and SoutK Vietnamese diplomats w ora mapping joint strategy for the open lug of the Vietnam ncgotia* Uons with ihe Communists.Tho conference opening date remained uncertain pending agreement between tho United Sinter and North Vietnam on procedure ground rules.Bolh Communist and anti-Communist diplomats said it Is unlikely telks will open this week as had boon hoped.Vice President Nguyen Can Ky and his Ralgon delegation arrived Sunday. Joint strategy sessions wilh American officials began immediately and were continuing.Ky met an hour Sunday with W, vcrell Uarriman, the U.S. roving ambassador ami chief delegate. American spokesmen said thoy held substantivo talks.Ky later I old nesvsmen he had brought something new' to Paris but gave no details. On Ms arrival at Orly Airport, ho surprised some diplomats by staling ho would not demand North Vielnam and the Viet Cong surrender.“We will not demand advantages or privileges. We will not demand that those on the other side surrender, Ky said. Wo only ask that justice and reason prevail.” He said Ihe aggression against his country must cease.His chief negotiator, Ambassador Pham Rang Lam, however, war tied Saigon would not accept a peace at any price. The former foreign minister vowed his delegation would enter the conference only if tho North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong were represented by a single merged delegation.Lam said although Saigon and Uie United Stales would represent one side* 3n a two-sided conference, the two delegations would remain distinct.The dispute over the point of the number of delegations Is tha main stumbling block stalling the conference, originally scheduled to open Nov. 6, following President Johnson’s order to halt air strikes against North Virtnam Nov. 1.The Americans and SouthVietnamese have insisted the conference be held under a your sidc-our side” formula, in which Washington and Saigon would constitute one side arxl Hanoi and the Viet Cong the other.North Vietnam and the Viet Cong, however, have Insisted the conference must be a fourway affair with each of the four delegations having equal and independent status.les Shaw Must Stand Tr ial iassination Conspiracy Case
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Canandaigua Daily Messenger
Canandaigua, New York, US
Mon, Dec 09, 1968
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