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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - April 11, 1968, Norwich, New York Weather f air and Cool tonight with Chance of some scattered Frost lows in Low to mid 30s. Fair with some High cloudiness and a Little warmer on Friday highs in Low or mid 30s. The evening Sun Chenango county s daily newspaper Sun spots White store Bridge to be renovated Page 5 Sandra Piper writes a bout Costa Rica Page 5 demonstration staged at Colgate Page 3 vol. 78, no. 19 thursday april la 1968 Norwich . Bris 8c per copy civil rights Bill wins applause today a round the state around the nation around the world draft Rocky is on Washington a encouraged by gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller a latest pronouncements of presidential availability republicans who want the new yorker nominated for the White House have unleashed a new promotional Effort. Sen. Thruston b. Marten of Kentucky announced formation of a Rockefeller for president committee and said it would include a group of political and business leaders prominent in the gop. He scheduled a news conference for today to announce the committees makeup. Even As that announcement was being drafted a source close to Rockefeller said its probably too late to Stop the March of Richard a Nixon toward the Republican nomination. Morton said the movement he announced was a spontaneous draft an Effort of which Rockefeller has been advised in Advance. Movie wins five oscars Santa Monica Calif. Apr in the heat of the night won five oscars including Best picture acclaim and Best actor honors for Rod Steiger at the 40th Academy awards ceremony. Katharine Hepburn 58, was named 1967�?Ts Best motion picture actress As a perplexed Mother whose daughter plans to marry a negro in a guess who a coming to the accolades of movie land were scattered and there were a few surprises wednesday night. Considered hotter contenders than Hepburn were Faye Dunaway of the explosive a Bonnie and Clyde and Anne Bancroft the neurotic who seduces a youth half her age in a the Steiger was acclaimed by Sidney Poitier the Boyfriend taken Home to a a dinner and the negro costar of Steiger in a a heat this Way a a he a probably the greatest actor in the in accepting his award Steiger thanked Poitier for giving him understanding of racial prejudice. Mayor Stokes says a Cool it Cleveland apr since the night or. Martin Luther King or. Was assassinated Cleveland mayor Carl Stokes has gone into the City a negro areas with one message Cool it Stokes message has paid off. There has been no Recial disturbances in this City which has about 280,000 negroes. As he walked through negro areas Stokes and every one else were conscious of racial disturbances in some of the nations major cities where National guardsmen were sent in to quell the rioting. A negro Stokes went into the heart of the Hough area where five nights of rioting and fire bomb ing hit Cleveland in 1966. The mayor attended or. Kings funeral in Atlanta tuesday and said the first thing vice president Hubert a. Humphrey told him was a we Are All so proud of your Gen. Abrams succeeds Westmoreland Washington a president Johnson has moved quickly to replace postmaster general Lawrence f. Of Brien first Cabinet casualty of his a flame Duck administration while making official the expected appointment of Gen. Creighton w. Abrams As . Commander in Vietnam. Tile president told White House newsmen wednesday he had accepted of Briens resignation and had nominated w. Marvin Watson now presidential appointments Secretary to fill the Cabinet Post. In addition to naming Abrams 53 to take Over for Gen. William c. Westmoreland when he becomes army chief of staff in july Johnson picked . John s. Mccain 57, now commander of . Naval forces in Europe to succeed retiring . . Grant Sharp As commander in chief Pacific. The military reshuffle also involved Johnson a naming of Gen. Andrew j. Goodpaster now commandant of the National War College in Washington and staff Secretary to former president Dwight d. Eisenhower to succeed Abrams As Deputy . Commander in Vietnam. Bailey takes Lead Washington apr National chairman John m. Bailey is taking the Lead in a Strong movement among dem. Socratic organization members to avoid , ments to potential presidential nominees. If the movement spreads As indicated the democrats could wind up in August with the kind of a wide open convention politicians talk about but which Seldom materializes. Bailey said in a Telephone interview that since president Johnson took himself out of consideration he intends to remain a absolutely Neutral in the nomination contest. A i have a convention to run a he said a and i am not going to take Bailey indicated he expects to remain National chairman through the Conven. Tion after which the nominee usually picks his own Man. 46 bodies recovered Wellington new zealand a searchers in patrol boats and mountaineers scouring Wellington Harbor a Rocky Shoreline have found 46 bodies from the ferry Wahine which Sank wednesday in a wild storm officials reported. Thirteen persons were listed As missing. This sharply reduced earlier police estimates that the dead might read too or More the 8,944-ton oceangoing car ferry hit a Shoal just inside Wellington Harbor during storms from the Pacific and Antarctic and capsized a mile off Shore six hours later. A total of 735 persons were aboard 605 passengers and 130 Crew officials said. President will sign Bill into Law soon provisions of Bill Washington apr congressional passage of landmark open housing legislation has won applause from civil rights leaders along with renewed demands for massive Federal attacks on shabby housing and unemployment in riot prone slums. A 250171 House vote wednesday sent to the White House a civil rights Bill to outlaw discrimination in the Sale or rental of 80 per cent of the nations housing by 1970. President Johnson said he would sign it into Law As soon As possible. The House action followed by a Day the funeral of slain civil rights Leader or. Martin Luther King whose numerous campaigns often focused on open housing. It also came after a week of widespread racial violence following Kings assassination and it was in that atmosphere that one southerner explained Why he voted for the Bill. A i think this Bill is symbolic a explained rep. Hale Boggs a la. A either we move ahead As one people or we move toward a police Johnson hailed passage of the Bill but also urged Congress to enact the rest of his program including housing and Job programs. After King s slaying the president said he would address Congress to outline an expanded social program. But he postponed a scheduled appearance last monday and has not set a new Date. The presidents advisory commission on civil disorders which recommended a massive social program aimed at eradicating slum problems scheduled an emergency session. Mayor John v. Lindsay of new York commission vice chairman said ifs too late to help the people killed and wounded in the week of rioting but added a it is not too late however for the nation to move against this crisis with the urgency and Enterprise that the commission sought to Lindsay did t specify when the meeting would be held nor did he say what further moves would be made to win acceptance for its recommendations. But he said that As a beginning the Senate should restore funds for summer programs in slums. The Senate moved in that direction wednesday rejecting a Money Bill from which the House had stripped $75 million for the Job program and $25 million for the head Start preschool program. Joining in Praise for the open housing measure and in the Call for More congressional action on Job and housing programs were George Meany president of the a Al Cio Dore schary National chairman of the anti defamation league of b Nai by Rith and the Rev. Ralph d. Abernathy King s successor As head of the Southern Christian leadership conference ence. Robert c. Weaver Secretary of housing and Urban development and a negro said Johnson s pending housing Bill provides the Way to build six million Low and moderate income Homes in to years. The riot commission wants this accomplished in five years. Rally for March Elwood Berry a member of last years graduating class at Colgate University Hamilton helps rally students for a March on the schools administration building wednesday afternoon. The demonstration which included an All night sit in was to emphasize Sun staff photo a demand to the College by the association of Black collegians that the charter of a Campus fraternity be revoked because of alleged discrimination. Story More pictures Page 3. Lowing Are the main provisions of the civil rights Bill passed by the House wednesday open housing makes it unlawful to discriminate in the Sale or rental of housing on the basis of race color or religion. Upon enactment the ban would apply to housing built with the Aid of Federal funds including five die Iii night of racial violence n. Vietnam suggests Warsaw for talks by the associated press five negroes died during a second night of racial violence in Kansas City but elsewhere there were Only scattered and sporadic incidents As the nation a troubled cities edged Back toward normalcy. The deaths raised to 39 the a. Tonal toll in the wave of rioting and disorders that followed the assassination of or. Martin Luther King or. One week ago to Day. All of the Kansas City victims were shot to death. Some apparently were caught in the crossfire that flared at times Between snipers and police supported by National guardsmen. More than 75 fires of incendiary origin were reported. At least 20 persons including two guardsmen were injured and police and guard troops Bat tied snipers shooting from rooftop Vantage Points and from moving cars. Sixty persons were arrested. In Newark City officials imposed a limited curfew for the Early morning hours in a Small Section of the City. There were scattered reports of looting but otherwise the City remained Calm. The officials said the Midnight to 6 . Curfew was ordered after several Hundred negro youths gathered on blocks near where a Row of stores had gone up in flames earlier in the evening. A total of 47,000 National guardsmen remained commit ted to riot control duty in 15 states and the District of Colum Bia. There were also 20,000 Federal troops in Washington Chi. Cago and Baltimore. The nations capital passed its first business Day without major incident. It was expected the 14,000 troops would be released soon from their patrol duties which already have been re. Diced. Mayor Walter e. Washington said the curfew would be fur ther eased if the peace continues. Three Days of violence be. Ginning last thursday took seven lives and left More than 1,000 persons injured. Chicago s mayor Richard j. Daley lifted the curfew for minors which was set saturday and said the 11,900 Federal troops and guardsmen May be. Gin withdrawing from the City soon. The decision he said will be made by a the superintendent of police arid the military. I done to think we should put any time limit on eleven persons were killed and some 500 injured during the two Days of violence. A dusk to Dawn curfew was lifted in Pittsburgh but 4,473 guardsmen remained in the City with no immediate indication of when they would be withdrawn. Authorities said there were 35 arrests and 41 fires reported during the Day bringing the totals to 1,265 arrests and 515 fires since the trouble started. Moscow apr the official soviet news Agency Tass reported today that North Vietnam has suggested Warsaw As a site for preliminary peace talks with the United states. Tass Sam in a dispatch from Hanoi it had Learned from reliable sources there that the North vietnamese government had decided on the polish Capi Tai after the United states refused Ito first suggestion phenom penh the cambodian capital. Tass said a it is believed in Hanoi a authoritative circles that the . Refusal to accept phenom penh As the meeting legislators begin vacation Albany . Apr new York s state legislators began a 21/2-week Spring vacation today leaving budget troubles behind them and a on gov. Rockefeller a de it a a a Bill that would improve their pension plan. In a flurry of activity before recessing for the Eastern passover Holiday period the Legisla Ture gave Swift passage to a hastily drawn measure that would liberalize a retirement plan already More generous than the one applying to other state officials. Rockefeller cleared the Way by sending a special message waiving the requirement that Bills must a a age on the lawmakers desks for three Days before they can be brought to a vote. The lawmakers then sped the Bill through both houses without debate a by a 103-36 vote in the Assembly and 49-6 in the Senate. Republicans cast most of the negative votes. Among other things the Bill would make it possible for legislators to retire at one Quarter of their annual salary after Only 5 years service in the Legisla lature. Rank and a file members Are paid $15,000 a year plus $3,000 for expenses which also is counted As income for retirement purposes. This was the major action taken on recess Day As Senate Republican leaders abandoned an eleventh hour Effort to Settle the continuing dispute Over ways of financing Rockefeller a $5-billion-plus budget. The legislators resume action on monday april 29. Senate majority Leader Earl w. Brydges the legislature s leading Republican tried to get his democratic opposite number Assembly speaker Anthony j. Travia to agree to raising state taxes on gasoline and liquor. But Travia adamantly refused. He told Brydges that since the Assembly had passed a Complete budget a balancing plan last week there was nothing to discuss. Later Rockefeller induced Travia to discuss the matter with him with Brydges sitting in. Travia stuck to his guns. As a result the legislature recessed without having completed action on measures providing the Revenue to support Rockefeller s spending plan. Both houses had approved the appropriation Bills a last week a and the state thus had authority to pay its Bills and its employees. But the governor objected to the Assembly approved plan to balance the budget largely by postponing $200 million in state Aid payments and calling in $95 million in Loans. He said again wednesday that this approach is a so fiscally irresponsible that i can t go along with the Senate had been willing to concur in the Assembly plan but fearful of a Rockefeller veto had withheld action on the four Bills embodying the financing features distasteful to Rockefeller. The governor insisted that the lawmakers should reconsider their earlier decision to scrap much of the $494-million tax in crease he requested to support his budget. They did so out of reluctance to raise taxes in this election year. Among the measures they deleted were his proposals for a $270 million 20 per cent a a surcharge on the state income tax plus a cent a gallon increase in the Gas tax and a dime a fifth Rise in the liquor tax. Place May be taken to indicate that the United states delays solution of this the soviet news Agency said North Vietnam had received a a reply from the United states to its suggestion of Linom penh and this had a voiced a this decision by the United states cannot but cause wonder a Tass continued a because the United states has repeatedly expressed willingness to Send its representative to any Point on the Globe to establish contacts with a representative of the dry democratic Republic of Vietnam. A it was also Learned from reliable sources today that the democratic Republic of Vietnam has now suggested Warsaw As the venue of a preliminary meeting with a . Representative a Tass went on. No other details on the proposals were Given. N. P. Co rejects offer Thomas e. Boyle vice president of the International chemical workers Union said the Norwich Pha Macal company rejected an offer by the Union to arbitrate the issues and disputes Between the company and local 251. Or. Boyle said the Union proposed to let the dispute be settled by a panel of mediators and in the meantime the workers would return to their jobs. The Iwu vice president said the unions proposal and the company a rejection were made at a meeting of the two groups wednesday. He said that both state and Federal mediators attended the meeting. Cha and Veteran administration mortgages Public housing and Urban renewal housing. Such housing is already covered by an executive order issued in 1962. After dec. 31, 1968, the Law would apply to other housing except for single family houses if the owner does no town More than three houses dwellings of four units or less if the owner occupies one of them and housing provided by religious organizations and private clubs for members. After dec. 31, 1969, the sin Gle family exemption would apply Only to owners who sell or rent their houses themselves without using the services or facilities of a real estate broker. At that Point it is estimated the Law would cover 80 per cent of the nations housing units. Enforcement would be through private court action brought by the person claiming he was discriminated against by conciliation through the department of housing and Urban development or by suits filed by the attorney general where a wide pattern of discrimination is alleged. A plaintiff proving discrimination could collect $1,000 in damages. State Laws granting the same Protection would not be invalidated by the Federal Law. Interference with protected activities makes it unlawful to interfere by threats or violence with anyone engaged in activities protected by the Constitution or Federal Law. It covers threats or violence by private persons As Well As by officials. Penalties would vary Accord ing to the seriousness of the of sense up to life imprisonment in the event of death of the victim. Anti riot makes it unlawful to travel in interstate Commerce with the intention of inciting organizing or participating in a riot or to help anyone else do so. Also makes it a crime to teach or demonstrate the use or making of firearms or explosives or transporting such weapons with knowledge that they will be used in a riot. Indian rights creates a Bill of rights similar to the first to amendments to the Constitution for american indians in relation to their tribes. Also permits tribes by special elections to determine whether they want to be placed under state criminal and civil jurisdiction. Today a chuckle Man to lawyer a my wife is suing me for divorce. See that she gets

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