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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - April 4, 1968, Norwich, New York I i weather w indy with showers and thunderstorms tonight temperatures in upper 40s and Low 50s. Friday considerable cloudiness scattered showers and cooler highs mainly in the 50s. The evening Sun Chenango county s daily newspaper vol. 78. To. 14 thursday april 4, 1968 Norwich . 13815 8� per copy sum spots Cazenovia College to Honor or. And mrs. Otic a. Thompson Page h theater i Lanager makes Concession s to a better movies Quot group. Page a 4 Duward it Crandall is n a a president of chamber of Commerce. Page 3johnson agrees to Hanoi a offer today a round the state around the nation around the world bulletin London apr soviet informants said today they expect preliminary Vietnam peace talks to begin in Moscow next week. They said the North vietnamese have already assured the United states privately they will launch no major offensive if All american bombing attacks Are halted. The sources who cannot be identified by name said Hanoi already has begun lifting the siege of Khe Sanh As a sign of its intentions. None it of these statements could be confirmed in official Western circles. The officials cautioned however against expecting an Early end to the peace negotiations. They said they expected them to go for months. Other sources recalled that 12,000 americans were killed in Korea while truce talks were going on. The russian informants said Moscow was not consulted by Hanoi before wednesdays conditional acceptance of presi Dent Johnson Scall for peace talks. They said that in View of peking a present relatively Low influence in the North vietnamese capital they did not believe the red chinese were consulted either. A what you americans seem to find hard to realize is that North Vietnam is a Sovereign nation a one russian said. Huh has labor support Washington apr vice president Hubert h. Humphrey has won key labor support for a presidential bid and aides Are saying the new Hopes for Vietnam War negotiations have boosted his prospects Humphrey said wednesday he a still a a weighing the decision whether to seek the democratic nomination. An aide called speculation that he would make the announcement today in Pittsburgh but the vice president he said is under a enormous and growing pressure to announce a decision sooner than he had Hanoi a declared willingness to begin limited peace talks not Only improves Humphreys position the aide said but undercuts Vietnam policy opposition by sen. Robert f. Kennedy and Eugene j. Mccarthy the Only announced democratic candidates so far. Wait and see attitude develops new York apr president Johnson a decision not to seek re election has led to a wait and see attitude on the presidential candidates among his supporters in Indiana and Oregon two key primary states. In two others supporters of sen. Robert f. Kennedy already have staged a lightning raid on the Johnson Delegate Camp in California and have won Over a few Johnson men in Nebraska. The new York Democrat faces sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy in the four primaries and first indications in an associated press Survey Are that Kennedy gained most fro in the presidents decision. The voters give their verdicts in Indiana May 7, Nebraska May 14, Oregon May 28 and California june 4. Will ignore injunction Memphis Tenn. Apr or. Martin Luther King or. And other civil rights leaders say they will ignore an injunction prohibiting another mass March Here next monday if the injunction is allowed to stand. Federal officials say the restraining order will be enforced by Federal troops if Neces sary. A hearing was scheduled today before . District judge Bailey Brown who issued the injunction wednesday after City officials said they feared a recurrence of the rioting following a March led by King a week ago. King told a cheering audience of some 2,000 persons wednesday night a a we re going to March again we be got to March again in order to put the Issue where its supposed to Hubert Humphrey Martin Luther King lbs picks veterans Washington apr two diplomats with More than 50 years of experience Between them in dealing with communists have been picked by president Johnson As his special envoys for any Vietnam peace talks. Ambassador at Large w. Averell Harriman once ambassador to Moscow and Llewellyn e. Thompson the current . Ambassador to the soviet Union Are in Washington poised to go whenever the White House signals them to launch discussions with the reds. Harriman has already carried out More special missions for presidents dating Back to Franklin d. Roosevelt than anyone in government. Both houses have codes Washington apr both the House and Senate now have official codes of ethics aimed at curbing conflict of interest by requiring Congress members to make Public some information on their outside financial dealings. The House adopted its code wednesday on a 405 to i vote. The Lone dissenter rep. Peter . Frelinghuyse r-n.j., said the codes financial disclosure provision a proves nothing and is of no value to the voters in judging whether his congressman is honest. The Senate adopted its code March 22 on a 67 to i vote. The Lone dissenter sen. George d. Aiken r-vt., called it a fraud on the Public too weak to mean anything. The two codes differ substantially in their Public disclosure requirements. Both codes stemmed from the clamor last year following the censure of senator Thomas j. Dodd d-conn., and exclusion of rep. Adam Clayton Powell d-., from the seat to which he had been elected. Hearings planned Washington apr sen. John l. Mcclellan says hell hold a new round of hearings on the problem plagued Multi billion Dollar fill warplane grounded by the air Force and Well on its Way toward being junked As a Navy weapon. The Promise of More Public hearings before the Senate investigations subcommittee headed by the Arkansas Democrat who characterized the fill program As a a tragic Blunder a closely followed these developments a two of the first six air Force fellas sent to Southeast Asia for combat duty were lost within a week after entering the Vietnam War perhaps handing the communists the fruits of . Research that alone Cost $1 billion. A the Senate armed services committee1 voted to junk the Navy a f111b program on which $400 million reportedly has been spent. It approved instead $287 million to Start work on a substitute plane. Lbs will Fly to Hawaii tonight for talks with too officials Washington apr president Johnson has agreed to direct contacts on peace Between North vietnamese and . Representatives and will Fly to Hawaii late tonight to discuss peace and War prospects with top american officials from Sai gon. Washington is understood to have messaged Hanoi informing the government of president to Chi Minh of . Readiness to meet for initial contacts on peace talks. Officials indicated the first Hanoi Washington Contact would probably be Between top . And North vietnamese diplomats in Moscow Vientiane Laos or some other capital where both countries have embassies. The first purpose in the . View would be to set a time and place for actual talks on scaling Down the War and eventually negotiating a settlement. The situation has developed with such Speed since Johnson ordered a partial halt in the bombing of North Vietnam Sun Day night that even surprised . Government leaders Are not quite sure what will happen next. They voiced cautious optimism about peace prospects but appeared by no Means certain the United states and North Vietnam can actually reach an agreement soon. As if in response to their doubts North Vietnam a communist newspaper warned the United states today not to expect any concessions in return for a total bombing halt. The paper nhan Dan Iii a statement to hours after the Hanoi announcement said Johnson a speech sunday a and the subsequent acts of the . Aggressors have made it Clear that the . Government remains obstinate and has not Given up its sinister design of aggression against South Vietnam which is Manifest right in Johnson so limited bombing concerning North prior to this statement which reached Washington Only Early today the Washington Hanoi agreement to talk after years of continuously expanding War was regarded in Washington As a great breakthrough toward eventually ending the conflict. Johnson announced in a Brief late afternoon appearance wednesday that a we will establish Contact with the representatives of North a consultations with the government of South Vietnam and our other allies Are now taking place a Johnson added. A dangerous element officials said privately is the possibility of a split Between the . And South vietnamese governments Over How far and How fast to go in the search for peace. South vietnamese leaders although almost totally dependent on . Military and economic support have sometimes been outs Okenly critical of . Efforts to find a Way to make peace. In Saigon South vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu met with . Ambassador Ells Worth Bunker and the envoys of five other allies to discuss Hanoi a offer. The session was preceded by hints in the nation-a1 Assembly of South vietnamese dissatisfaction with the turn of events. Reaction worldwide to Hanoi a move and Johnson s follow up also was generally optimistic. French president Charles de Gaulle a longtime critic of . Foreign policy described curtailment of american bombing As an apparent a first step in the direction of . Secretary general u Thant welcomed North Vietnam a move and offered the facilities of the world body in Geneva for any peace talks. Home front optimism was voiced by such War policy critics As chairman j. W. Ful Bright d-Ark., of the Senate foreign relations committee sen. George d. Aiken r-vt., and sen. Albert gored Tenn. Johnson a statement on establishing contacts was directed As much to Hanoi As to his american audience. Only a few hours earlier Hanoi had broadcast a declaration of a its readiness to have direct contacts with . Representatives. Contact would be made the Hanoi announcement said a with a View to determining with the american Side the unconditional cessation of the . Bombing raids and All other acts of War against the democratic Republic of Vietnam so that talks May Johnson cited this Hanoi policy statement and recalled he had said sunday the United states stood ready to Send its representatives anywhere at any time to discuss a the Means of bringing this to an Johnson then said he was ready for Contact. It appeared significant he used the word a a contacts which the North vietnamese had chosen to describe the first Exchange. The North vietnamese have said for Many months they would not meet the United states in peace talks until All bombing was stopped. A a contacts seems to be their term for preliminary discussions which they Are not willing at this time to consider the los Angeles times reported in a copyrighted Story that a version of Johnson a san Antonio peace formula was made known in Hanoi a month before the president announced it sept. 29. The times said this was the proposal alluded to by Johnson in his sunday night speech when he said a tonight i renew the offer i made last the newspaper said two frenchmen or. Herbert mar Covich and Raymond Aubruy outlined the peace proposal in Hanoi last july 21 and returned to the North vietnamese capital a month later with the major peace offer. And the times reported the peace offers possibly containing additional . Concessions was delivered again to Hanoi last january by a ranking romanian official not identified in the Story. The Hawaii conference has been in process of organization for to Days or More. Secretary of state Dean Rusk will Fly to Honolulu from meet Ings in new zealand and Australia. Secretary of defense Clark m. Clifford and chairman Earle g. Wheeler of the joints chiefs of staff also will attend. Officials said Bunker along with Gen. William c. Westmore land . Commander in Vietnam will be on hand from Sai gon. Watching and waiting is the name of the game at Khe Sanh As american Relief Force drives to within a mile of the base. Thieu a government welcomes peace talks Saigon apr the govern ment of South Vietnam said to. Day it welcomes current moves to bring about peace talks Between the United states and communist North Vietnam. In its first official reaction to Hanoi a offer to meet . Representatives president Nguyen Van Thieu a government said it is consulting with the United states and other allies a regarding the contacts to be undertaken with North vietnamese authorities for the purpose of exploring the possibilities for eventual negotiations to end the this was in Sharp contrast to a statement by a largely roman Catholic bloc in the vietnamese House of representatives which charged that Hanoi a offer was a Only a trick to get the United states to Stop the bombing the statement by 21 of the houses 135 members called for resumption of full scale bombing and expressed opposition to the visit to the United states planned by president Thieu. The government communique was issued after Thieu held a 7 . Conference with . Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and then met with Bunker and the ambassadors of the five other nations with troops fighting alongside the South vietnamese a South Korea Australia the Philippines Thailand and new zealand. The foreign ministry said they met to assess Hanoi a reaction to president Johnson a speech sunday night. Asked by newsmen if Thieu would attend president John songs weekend conference in Honolulu Bunker replied a not to my Johnson in announcing the meeting had made no mention of the vietnamese saying he would Confer with american officials from Saigon. The communique said the Sai gon government a welcomes the initiative to bring an Early end to me War in Justice and a the governments of the a1-lied countries will be inconstant consultations on any Points of substance or decisions in con. Junction with these exploratory a in this spirit it gave its agreement to partial cessation of the bombing of North Viet Nam As a first step toward negotiations. Relief closer Saigon apr the Spear head of a huge american Relief Force drove through sporadic enemy artillery and mortar fire today to within a mile of the . Marine combat base at Khe Sanh. A . Spokesman said he expected some of the 20,000.man Relief Force to link up with the 6,000 marines inside Khe Sanh by Nightfall for the first breakthrough in the siege of the fortress now in its 11 the week. Marines and helicopter borne air cavalrymen were pushing in three prongs toward the base. Reports from the Field said they were encountering sporadic artillery and mortar fire but Little other resistance. A company from the 3rd a. Rine division was the spearhead of the drive. After advancing along Highway 9 on the North East helicopters landed them Northwest of the base and they were reported about half a mile from the barbed wire Perrine. Ter. Men of the 1st air cavalry division pushed up from South of the base and were reported within 2.5 Miles of their goal by mid afternoon. The bulk of the Relief Force Force drives to k he Sanh More Marine infantrymen and an Engineer Convoy found the going tougher As they struggled West along the cd High Way 9. They had to Stop repeat edly while engineers r repaired Bridges and the Road. By noon today they were 5.5 Miles East of the base. A Khe Sanh or bust a said a sign on an equipment tra Lier. Senior . Officers w Ere Puz. Led by the Lack of resistance the Relief Force was i meeting. They had expected Savage fight ing. That could still be ii a store. The Relief Force had cot be with. In Range of big Nort h Viet namese artillery and rocket guns in the co Roc mountains to the West inside Laos my the troops still had to Cri it is the main enemy Trench lines i which extend to within too Yards 5 of the base. The Convoy on Highway 9 was i moving through an area c f Hills and Jungles on both sides of the 3 winding Road Good ambush ter rain. Intelligence officers said the y had preliminary indications tha t major elements of the n Ort h vietnamese Force were wit u drawing but they warned the it Saturn 5 flings rocket into orbit Cape Kennedy Fla. Apr americans Saturn 5 super rocket Flung a 132-ton satellite into orbit today despite the loss of two second stage engines that left a question Mark Over whether the huge Booster is ready to carry men into space late this year and to the Moon in 1969. Had astronauts been aboard today they would have reached Earth orbit but it would have been a wrong orbit. There were eight killed in rash of tornadoes by the associated press a monster storm punched its Way through the mid continent today after raking the Middle Mississippi Valley with death dealing tornadoes and burying parts of the great Plains in a blizzard. Foot deep snows spilling out of the massive storm were whipped into 6-foot drifts by 50-mile-an-hour winds and left much of Wyoming and adjacent parts of Colorado and Nebraska virtually paralysed. Helicopters and Snow plows were poised to move out at Daybreak in search of hundreds of stranded motorists and isolated ranchers. Eight persons were killed and scores were injured wednesday night in a rash of tornadoes which churned out of the storm system and ripped hardest at Arkansas and Tennessee. Heavy rain accompanying the twisters brought a threat of Flash flood ing in northeastern Arkansas. Temperatures plummeted sharply in the Wake of the storm. Cold wave warnings were issued for much of the Central Plains. Heavy Snow warnings were out ahead of the storm in the Dakotas and Minnesota. Hardest hit by the outbreak of tornadoes and High winds was Arkansas which counted six dead. Authorities searched through the night for other pos sible victims in wooded areas and Rural communities in the Eastern half of the state. As Many As six twisters struck that Section in a two hour period. The severe weather later skipped across the Mississippi River and unleashed a wave of tornadoes on Western Tennessee. Two persons died when a twister smashed a House at ate a 30 Miles North of Memphis. Ambulances shuttled 30 to 40 victims to the Memphis naval air station Hospital with Var ious injuries after a Tornado struck a Mobile Home Park at Millington North of Memphis. Two blocks of Homes and a Church were levelled and five persons were injured in a Tornado that hit the Vincent Community West of West Memphis Ark. Nine Homes were demolished and six persons were injured at Crawfordsville Ark., a few Miles farther West. Arkansas Power and Light co. Reported at least six towns without electrical Power after the storms ripped Down portions of a 500,000-Volt line Between Little Rock and Memphis. Seven other cities had Only partial electrical service the company said. Arkansas communities hit in eluded Star City Gould Dewitt Paragould Vincent and Crawfordsville. Search operations frequently were hampered by debris and tangled Power lines and authorities said it would take some time to make any estimate of damage. Damage to the trailer Park alone in Tennessee was estimated at More than $500,000 by Millington mayor Tom Hall. He said 30 trailers were destroyed and 70 others damaged. The Park is occupied mostly Byser ice personnel from Memphis naval air station. Police said Power and Utility lines Are Down throughout Millington As Well As in adjacent Rural areas. The springtime weather violence also extended into Missouri Illinois Kentucky and Mississippi. A Tornado touched Down in Desoto county miss., during the night and smashed a House trailer and Home East of Hernando. One Man was injured. Severe winds pounded half a dozen communities in southwestern Illinois in the St. Louis area damaging Homes Power lines and Trees. There were no reports of serious injuries How. Ever. Speculations that had it been a manned Moon Mission it Wou id have been aborted because of fuel shortage. The flight plan today Call so for third stage to restart its e n. Gine after three hours in space and propel itself about 322,0 of Miles to demonstrate it can i by to lunar distances. The Apollo 6 Craft wits to reach an Altitude of Only 13,8 of Miles before diving Bat k through the atmosphere for a Parachute Landing in the Pacil in Ocean nearly to hours fab n launching. There was no immediate word from the control Center on what alternate plan would be i it tempted As the result of t he wrong orbits being achieved. The monster rocket tall As a 36-Story building and weighing a massive 3,105 tons blazed t be sky right on schedule at 7 n. Est with a staggering burst of Power that Shook the ground f or Miles around. The first stage worked perfectly. The second stage ignited on schedule two and one half in in. Utes later at an Altitude of nearly 40 Miles. At 7 minutes 37 seconds into the flight two of the second stages five Hydrogen powered engines suddenly Cut Oft about two minutes Early. As a result the guidance sys tem commanded the third stage to Burn about two minutes longer than planned to compensate for the loss of Power in the Sec Ond stage. This consumed a valuable to tons of fuel that would have been used for restarting the engine later. To it is came from a initial raw d the Only reported action of a by size came wednesday when g gunship helicopters caught an t estimated 200 North vietnamese i n the open two Miles Southwest it if Khe Sanh. The gunners a claimed 20 of the enemy killed. The . Command said the North vietnamese fired More than 230 rounds of mortar rocket and artillery fire at the Var ious advancing units wednesday but casualties were Light. Engineer support troops replaced destroyed Bridges and shored up sagging ones. Bull dozers lurched Down Steep Banks moving huge masses of Earth to create bypasses beside each Bridge to take care of the heavy traffic. The operation named Pegasus after the mythical flying horse was commanded by it. Col. Victor a Terry 39, of Triangle a. The Mission began monday with about 8,000 troops moving off from Calu 12 Miles East of Khe Sanh but by today the Force had More than doubled. The of tile operation was to open Highway 9, the land Supply route to Khe Sanh which has been closed for nearly three months. Helicopters and cl30 cargo planes have been the Only Means of supplying and rein forcing tile 6,000 marines and 1,000 South vietnamese. Vankleeck is Ottaway assistant up Capbell Hall . Apr r. John Vankleeck assistant general manager of the Middletown times Herald record has be it a appointed an assistant vice president of Ottaway , inc. Lyndon r. Boyd president of the Ottaway group made the appointment wednesday. At the times hernia record publisher Charles a. King named Milton d. Mclean who since 1966 has of a in executive assistant to Boyo to succeed Vankleeck. Mclean will become business manager of the Middletown paper Vankleeck 4 3, has been with the times he raid record for five years. He is a graduate of the Drake journalism school in new York Anco i a former reporter for the Binghamton Sun. Van Klee k joined the Otta Way organization in 1947 As a reporter Fogt the Oneonta Star became managing editor of the former Endicott bulletin in 1953, bought that i weekly review i times in Oxford in 1955 and eight year s later returned to the Ottaway group. Toc key a a chuckle sleep is what you think you i need when the alarm goes off it a weekdays and what you done to need on a Holiday

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