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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - April 12, 1968, Norwich, New York Weather fair to partly Cloudy tonight and saturday Low temperatures tonight in the upper 30s and 40s and highs saturday in the 70s. The evening Sun Chenango county s daily newspaper vol. 78, no. 20 Friday april 12, 1968 Norwich . 13815 8c per copy Sun spots Sermonetti Page 7 easter in area churches pages 7 and 5 Colgate sit in continues Page 3 Chrysler recalls cars Detroit apr recall of More than 100,000 Chrysler 1968 Model vehicles for possible defects including faulty carburettors and brakes has been announced. Chrysler said thursday 100,080 Chrysler Dodge and Plymouth cars equipped with High performance engines and four barrel carburettors May have fast Idle cams which could operate improperly after prolonged use. The Auto firm said notices also were being sent to dealers and customers regarding possible Brake fluid contamination in 240 medium duty Dodge trucks. In another callback 27 current Model Dodge darts equipped with a 383-cubic Inch engine and manual steering will be checked for installation of incorrect left Side engine exhaust manifolds. Remove studded tires Albany . Apr state police advised motorists today to replace studded tires with regular ones before the end of april or police May Force the change. Supt. William e. Kir wan said a Survey had shown that studded tires used last summer caused pavement deterioration. A state regulation allows the use of studded tires when Snow May create hazards. Kirwan said they should not be used Between May i and october 15. Volpe is interested in up Boston a some leading Massachusetts republicans cheered the word from Washington thursday that a new organization is forming to Back new York gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller for president. One of the organizers is sen. Edward w. Brooks r-mass., who was an Early Backer of gov. George Romney of Michigan. Since Romney a withdrawal Brooks has been supporting gov. John a. Volpe of Massachusetts As a favorite son gov. Volpe candidate. Volpe is interested in the vice presidential nomination. Josiah a. Spaulding Republican state chairman called the Rockefeller committee plan a a wonderful and said it would restore to the republicans the Campaign momentum they lost when Richard m. Nixon wound up alone in the Field for the gop nomination. Assessment is favourable Washington apr the Johnson administration s avowed Hope for a gradual shift of the major War Effort from . To South vietnamese forces is based on an assessment that they stood up Well under the Viet Cong Winter offensive Pentagon sources said the assessment was made both by Gen. William c. Westmoreland and by Gen. Creighton w. Abrams who will succeed Westmoreland As . Commander in Vietnam by july 2. The views of both generals were made known to president Johnson and his top advisers in personal reports at the White House during the past few weeks. The sources said Secretary of defense Clark m. Clifford was drawing on this military judgement in telling newsmen thursday of a policy decision to turn Over gradually the major Effort to the South vietnamese. Clifford stressed that it is a Long Range plan which he said will require a a period of testing to ascertain whether such a system will report on deaths authorities say 19 of the 39 persons killed in the Post assassination violence either were shot while they were looting or died As a result of fires. All but five of the 39 were negroes. Four of the victims were females 15 of the dead were 21 years of age or under including one 11-month-old baby who burned to death in his crib i n Chicago. Of the total 25 persons died from gunshot wounds to died As a re suit of fires and 4 died from other causes according to an associated press Survey. Eleven persons died in Chicago 7 in Washington 6 each in Baltimore and Kansas City 2 each in Cincinnati and the Detroit area and i each in Memphis Minneapolis Tallahassee Trenton and Jacksonville. Police 1 gunfire accounted for la of the gunshot victims nine were shot by unknown persons and five were shot by private citizens. No deaths were specifically attributed to National guard action. Saigon apr . Foot soldiers artillery and dive bombers repulsed 400 North vietnamese and Viet Cong troops who stormed an american bivouac today and drove to within a few feet of the gigs Foxholes. After five hours of close Quarter fighting in War zone c 49 Miles Northwest of Saigon vietnamese and Viet Cong fled leaving 128 of their dead and More than 50 weapons on the Battlefield. All of the enemy bodies were killed inside or on the fringes of the american perimeter. A photographer Al Chang reported from the Battlefield that More bodies were probably farther out victims of the massive air and artillery strikes. Sixteen troops were killed and 47 wounded. Chang said the fighting was at such close Range that at one Point the 25th division infantrymen fixed their bayonets As their ammunition ran Low. They did no to have to use them. Two americans were found dead inside their Bunker. Around them were the bodies of eight Viet Cong gunned Down by the two americans before they were killed. A radio operator held out against to Viet Cong until a company commander it. Richard j. Prairie of Kankakee 111., and three other infantrymen reinforced him. Prairie was awarded a Silver Star on the spot. The heavy fighting broke a week Long Lull in the Vietnam War and was the first major action. Reported in operation Complete Victory the biggest Allied Campaign of the War in which too Jolo troops Are sweeping through la provinces around Saigon. Bulletin Washington apr the White House said today president Johnson will meet wednesday in Honolulu with president Chung Hee Park of South Korea. The announcement said John son would leave for Hawaii from his Texas ranch where he will spend the easter weekend. The meeting with Park had been planned for last weekend when Johnson was scheduled to Fly to Honolulu to meet also with his advisers from Vietnam. But that trip was cancelled after violence erupted in the nation a capital and other . Cities following the assassination of or. Martin Luther King or. Instead Gen. William Westmoreland . Military commander in Vietnam and Ellsworth Bunker ambassador to South Vietnam flew to Washington for conferences. Washington a president Johnson voicing outrage at the slaying of or. Martin Luther King and the violence that followed it has signed an historic 4�pen-housing Bill As a Federal task Force girded to enforce the new Law. It is the third landmark civil rights Bill to become Law since Johnson entered the White House. A fall America is outraged at the assassination of King the president told a crowd of civil rights leaders Congress members and government leaders in the East room of the White House thursday. A and America is also outraged at the looting and burning that defiles our de Cracy. A we just must put our shoulders together and put a Stop to both a he said of the violence that takes the lives of men like King and of the slum riots. The signing came one week after Kings death in Memphis Tenn. Hie president recalled that King was among the civil rights leaders who met with him two years ago to Lay the groundwork for an open housing Bill. Mrs. King was invited to attend the ceremony but could not arrange to be in Washington White House aides said. The new Law will prohibit discrimination in 80 per cent of All housing sales and rentals by 1970, but much of it takes effect next Jan. I. The Law also makes it a Feder Al crime to use threats or violence to interfere with anyone seeking to exercise his civil rights and prohibits the crossing of state lines with intent to incite rioting. The measure follows up the 1964 civil rights act which con Gress sent to Johnson eight months after the death of president John f. Kennedy another assassination victim. That measure opened up All Public accommodations to negroes and strengthened their voting rights in 1966 Johnson signed the Vot no rights Bill which outlawed literacy tests As a requirement for voting. As Johnson was signing the new Bill thursday in a ceremony nationally telecast and site Hassel for peace talks is indication of the future Washington a . Officials say the lengthening hassle Between Washington and Hanoi Over a site for prelim Ary a talks signals the kind of difficulties expected when and if peace negotiations get under Way. They noted it has been More than a week since the opposing sides publicly declared their . Company welcomes return to work suggestion a Complete surprised was the reaction of the Norwich pharma Cal company negotiating committee members to the evening suns report that the negotiating committee of in we local 251 had suggested members return to work. A. Charles Clark director of personnel said that the negotiating committees did not meet in joint session but that state and Federal mediators met with each group separately on wednesday. The mediators or. Clark reported did indicate that the unions International representative Thomas Boyle had proposed the idea of binding arbitration but that there had not been any mention or suggestion then of employees returning to work. The company did reject arbitration in View of the number and complexity of the unresolved issues both monetary and non monetary. A it is in the Best interests of both the Union and the company if these issues Are resolved jointly through the process of negotiation As they always have been in the past a or. Clark commented. A however we have wanted the Union employees Back since we re opened the Plant on feb. 12,�?� or. Clark stated. A the suggestion that employees return to work comes As Welcome news. We have seen no reason for employees to be losing wages since the reopening and would be glad if they decided to return to work while negotiations continue. Uneasy Calm marred by sniping fires Kansas City apr an uneasy Calm under a tightened curfew returned to Kansas City a near East Side thursday night following two nights of violence in which six persons were killed. The near quiet however was punctuated by reports of sporadic sniping and isolated fires. Besides the deaths that occurred during the previous nights of looting and fire bomb Ings 68 persons have been injured. City officials were heartened thursday night that the violence had waned. Mayor Ilus Davis who continued a 7 . Curfew said a it appears the number of Law violations Are greatly reduced. I think it is necessary to watch for the next several hours to see what the trend will be in restoring Calm to the police chief c. M. Kelley said the situation was much better than the two previous Days. Liquor stores and gasoline service stations were closed at 5 ., and by 7 of clock City streets were virtually deserted. Not Long after dark however sniper shots were reported from the Vicinity of the police and National guard command Post near the trouble zone. Snipers fired on firemen who responded to two false alarms and at one place firemen were forced under their truck. Only a few incidents were reported thursday during Daylight hours. One looter was shot and wounded. Three White men were arrested thursday night for carrying concealed weapons. Readiness for contacts. And on the record the mane vering to Date has involved Only initial talks rather than negotiations aimed Only at setting the stage for an actual peace con Ference. The White House objected to Warsaw which the North Viet amese proposed thursday on the ground the capital of com Monist Poland would not provide a Neutral fair setting. The North vietnamese have so far refused to accept . Site suggestions that Are known to include Geneva Switzerland Rangoon Burma Vientiane Laos new Delhi India Jakarta Indonesia Vienna Austria Berne Switzerland and Bonn West Germany. The United states also objected to Hanoi a Choice of phenom penh Cambodia on grounds Washington no longer has Diplo Atic relations with the Neutral nation a situation raising communications and logistic prob lems. Presidential press Secretary George Christian said the . Government first Learned of North Vietnam a proposal to meet at Warsaw from Reading the soviet Agency Tass and Only later received the Hanoi message through official diplomatic channels. The United states he added has not yet received a Hanoi response to . Proposals for Sites in Neutral countries. Other sources said the North vietnamese before their Warsaw proposition had previously indicated they prefer an asian locale and had named Rangoon also deemed acceptable by Washington. While president Johnson reportedly has not ruled out sending peace envoy w. Averell Harriman to Warsaw or phenom penh if the North vietnamese insist he is said to be pressing hard for selection of a Neutral nation where both sides have diplomatic accreditation and facilities exist for rapid private communications Back to Washington. The argument Over a site generated fresh criticism of John son at Home and Broad. Tass chided Johnson for . Reluctance to hold talks at phenom penh and noted past administration utterances about sending peace emissaries anywhere anytime. A the president said several months ago that he would meet anyplace anytime then the administration raised objection to meeting in Cambodia which is broadcast the Justice departments civil rights division was assigning a newly forme. Task Force to assemble the governments enforcement pro Gram. The task Force will operate under Stephen j. Poliak assistant attorney general for civil rights. It will search for violations and May refer some cases to the Fri for further investigation Poliak said in an interview. The act is not expected to substantially break up Large Urban negro slums immediately but should Benefit Middle class negroes who can afford to buy or rent better Homes but who have been excluded on racial rounds. Poliak said some Large housing developers have refused to sell or rent to negroes on grounds that White residents would move or refuse to buy. Poliak said the new Law leaves the developers no such reason to discriminate. The Bill provides for conciliation through the depart ment of housing and Urban development on questions of housing discrimination. If conciliation fails to solve the Issue Hud May file court suits or individuals May file their own suits in Federal court. The new Law requires individuals to work first through the framework of state or local open housing Laws when these Laws Are substantially eau Iva Lent to the Federal Law. This is the Case in la of the with such Laws. 23 states christians and jews four into Jerusalem Jerusalem apr thou ands of Christian and jewish pilgrims thronged Jerusalem today for easter and passover which coincide this year. Visitors jammed hotels Pri vate Homes and pensions the overflow bedded Down in schools and monasteries. The christians came for the annual Way of the Cross procession tracing Christ a path to Calvary on the first Good Friday and to celebrate the resurrection on sunday. The jews came to Pray at the wailing Wall before Sundown Start of the week Long festival of Pas sover commemorating the exodus from Egypt. Hebrew historians claimed that this is the first passover in 3,258 years that a jewish army has been stationed on the red sea Over which the israelite escaped from Egypt. Israelis army also was there during the 1956 Suez War but pulled out of the Sinai desert before pass Over began. Jewish housewives and Cooks were Busy preparing the seder feasts which at Sundown inaugurate passover. Seders were prepared for army units from the syrian Golan Heights to the Suez canal with the biggest in the Sinai desert near it. Sinai. This easter is the second Christian Holiday to attract Large foreign crowds to Jerusalem since Israel ended Jorda Nian control of most of the Christian holy places in the War last june. Israeli troops were on guard against any Arab attempt to Embarrass the government with disruptive violence. The first such Holiday Christmas also was heavily guarded and there was no trouble. I Oday s chuckle there a a new cigarette almost ready for the mar let. It comes with ear plugs tor those who done to want to h Quot Why they should not so t Fri continues Hunt for Assassin today a round the state around Tow nation around the world suspects a pickup order is withdrawn repulse attack president signs civil rights Bill Mccarthy has plan Boston a sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy d minn., has proposed a guaranteed minimum income and a federally subsidized health insurance program to raise the Standard of living of the nations poor. The United states a has passed the Point of no return with reference to Domestic problems a the democratic presidential candidate said thursday night in a speech before More than 1,800 cheering students at Boston University. The Minnesota senator described the report of the president s commission on civil disorders As a the most significant political document i think to be published in this country in this total eclipse tonight new York apr if the weather is Clear a total eclipse of the Moon tonight and Early saturday will be visible in nearly All parts of North and South America. The eclipse will be total for about 50 minutes. The full Moon will enter the Shadow of the Earth at 10 10 . Est and have a Coppery red translucent appearance astronomers at the american museum Hayden planetarium say. The first part of the spectacle will be a dark Shadow on the Moons upper left Edge. The Shadow moving gradually across the face of the Moon will cover it completely by 11 22 . Light will begin to appear along the left Edge of the Moon at 12 12 . And the eclipse will gradually ebb. A total lunar eclipse occurs Only when a full Moon the Light giving Sun and the Earth Are in a direct line. Memphis Tenn. Apr the Fri issued then withdrew a pickup order for Erie starve Galt a Birmingham ala., White Man As the wide scale investigation of the assassination of or. Martin Luther King jr., entered its second week. Federal agents refused to say Why they were seeking Galt. The bulletin distributed on the statewide police teletype network in Florida said Galt was driving a White Mustang. Witnesses in Memphis told investigators earlier they saw a Man in a White Mustang drive away from the Rooming House from which King was shot last thursday night. At about the same time the pickup order was sent in Florida Federal agents in Atlanta impounded a White Mustang that had been parked since last Friday at a Public housing project near the Georgia state Capi Tol. The message withdrawn with the explanation that it was released by mistake described Galt As a White male 36 years old about 5-foot-11 and 175 pounds with Blue eyes and Brown hair. This roughly matched the description circulated by Federal authorities the night of King s slaying. American special agent John Han Long of the Miami Fri office who withdrew the pickup order about four hours after it was issued said a i cannot comment a when asked for further details. In Atlanta the residents who first told police about the abandoned White Mustang said the car bore the same Alabama License As Given out by the Fri and bore two stickers which said earlier reports indicated the investigation had spread to Mexico. The Florida teletype message said Galt was last seen driving a White 1966 Mustang Hardtop Alabama License 1-38993. Birmingham police said this tag had been issued to Erie s. Galt 2608 Highland ave., Binning Ham. A the Fri was All Over the place a before the car was impounded an Atlanta witness said. He said the vehicle was towed away Between 5 15 . And 5 30 . Thursday about the time the Florida teletype message was sent. Witnesses in Memphis who reported seeing a White Mustang pull away from the Rooming House said the car had a red and White License plate. Alabama tags Are red and White. Forces president arrives Vincent Mel. Barnett jr., president of Colgate University Hamilton leads Wellington Powell chairman of the colleges Board of trustees through mass of sitting demonstrators in lobby of administration Sun staff photo building. Some 400 students Are remaining seated throughout the building As the demonstration in protest of alleged fraternity discrimination nears end of second Day. Story another picture Page 3

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