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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - April 22, 1968, Norwich, New York Weather partly sunny this after noon High temperatures near 70. Fair to partly Cloudy and continued mild tonight and tuesday lows tonight 40 to 45 and highs tuesday 70 to 75. By Chi in Chenango county s daily newspaper in vol. 78, no. 26 monday april 22, 1968 Norwich n y. 13815 8c per copy Sun spots horse barn is destroyed by fire at Greene Page 6 three chosen for boys state Page 5 cancer programs plan Ned for april 30 and May i Page 3u.s. Aides show no concern Over reports Saigon braces for possible attack today i a around the state around the nation around the world up Quot troop reduction foreseen new York apr Secretary of defense Clark m. Clifford said today South Vietnam a increased fighting effectiveness will permit a leveling off of . Efforts in the War and a in due time a permit gradual troop reduction. Clifford made that assessment in a speech prepared for the annual membership meeting of the associated press his first Public address since he became defense chief seven weeks ago. Clifford said his assessment was based on results of a comprehensive review of american policies and programs in Vietnam ordered by the president after the setbacks of the communists tet offensive. A the results a were Clear and the results were encouraging a Clifford declared. A they disclosed that Hanoi could not Bend South Vietnam to its will by military Force. A we concluded that americans will not need always to do More and More but rather that the increased effectiveness of the South vietnamese government and its fighting forces will now permit us to level off our Effort and in due time to begin the gradual process of Lindsay prefers Rocky new York apr mayor John v. Lindsay says he could support former vice president Rich Ard m. Nixon As the Republican presidential nominee but he would prefer gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller of new York. In answer to a question on the webs to a new makers Quot program Lindsay said Rockefeller a is available Quot for the nomination a and will serve if Lindsay said sunday he disagrees with Nixon that there be a moratorium on criticism of the Johnson administrations Vietnam policies while efforts to arrange peace negotiations Are underway. The mayor said that he Felt the problems of the War were a intimately tied in with the problems of the cities Quot in the United states adding a the needs of the cities have to be Nixon has said he would not join other candidates with a pie in the sky Quot promises that solutions to Urban problems were just around the Corner. Foreigners tops in drama new York apr an australian actress and a British author took two of Broadways top three Tony awards for drama sunday night but the musical honors were almost All american. Zoe Caldwell who won a Tony in 1966 As the Best supporting actress was named Best dramatic actress of the 1967-68 season for her role in a the prime of miss Jean Brodies a and Tom Stoppard won the drama trophy for a Trosen Crantz and Guildenstein Are the Best actor award went to Martin Balsam for his role in a you know i can to hear you when the Waters a hallelujah baby Quot which chronicles half a Century of negro history and which closed three months ago was named the Best musical play and its Star Leslie Uggams shared the award for Best actress in a musical with Patricia Ruthledge of Brittain. Migs Ruthledge was honoured for her role in a Darling of the Day a which also is no longer playing. Robert Goulet was named Best actor in a musical for his role in a the Happy three urged to run san Francisco apr a group of moderate California republicans is urging gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller gov. Ronald Reagan and sen. Charles h. Percy to make it an open scramble for the 1968 presidential nomination. The Volunteer California re Public league claiming 4,000 members statewide adopted a convention Resolution sunday calling on the Trio to speak out on critical issues and make known a their willingness to serve the country As in urging the Resolution but without mentioning candidate Richard m. Nixon one Delegate said a a lets not Shilly Shally lets put Forward some Guys who Are going to say the league had about 150 voting delegates at the week a m end convention. Rockefeller a for presi m in Dent sentiment was evident through out the meeting but an attempt gov. Rockefeller push through a Resolution urging the new York governor and unnamed a other moderates Quot to run was deleted in View of the leagues bylaw against endorsing the candidacy of a non California. Space pact signed Moscow apr the soviet Union the United states and great Britain today signed the agreement to Rescue astronauts and return space equipment or parts that fall outside the country of origin. The agreement was signed by soviet foreign minister Andrei a. Gromyko . Minister Emory a Swank and British charge do affaires Peter Dalton. Later in London foreign Secretary Michael Stewart . Ambassador David k. E. Bruce and soviet ambassador Mikhail Smirno sky signed the British copy of the agreement. Other countries that signed in Moscow today in a second ceremony were Austria Australia Czechoslovakia Bulgaria Iceland Italy Hungary Laso East Germany Norway Romania Ghana Sierra Leone Poland Finland somali Nepal and Mongolia. Saigon apr All South vietnamese army units in Sai gon and the surrounding la provinces were put on a too per cent Alet today because of intelligence reports indicating an impending big attack on the capital vietnamese sources re ported. American officials did not appear to give much credence to the reports. An american military spokesman said . Troops were on the same Alert they be been on since the Viet congas la. Nar new year offensive in february. Vietnamese troops had been on a 50 per cent Alert since the conditions irritating to Hanoi Tokyo apr North Viet charged sunday that the United states a instead of going a any place a has set two and then four conditions a for the preliminary talks to arrange a Vietnam peace conference. Hanoi a communist party newspaper nhan Dan indicated the North vietnamese still Are holding out for the two Sites which the United state rejects a phenom penh Cambodia or Warsaw Poland. The Hanoi government has rejected to Sites proposed by the United states. Nhan Dan again accused president Johnson of going Back on his assertion that . Envoys would go anywhere at any time in efforts to end the War. Johnson asked thursday for assurances that the conference site would be accessible to other governments involved in the War that it have adequate and presumably secure Communia. Tons that it be open for news coverage and that it be a place where neither Side would have a psychological or propaganda advantage. The United states had opposed phenom penh for negotiations because it has no diplomatic relations with Cambodia and objected that Warsaw a communist capital could not be considered Neutral. Nixon asks lbs to Cut his budget Cheyenne Wyo. Apr Richard m. Nixon is now begin Ning to develop his second major Campaign theme what he Calls a the crisis of the Federal budget Quot a in his drive for the Republican presidential Nomina Tion. He has called on president Johnson to Cut the budget by $8 billion. Nixon said in a statement in Cheyenne a the United states is today hurtling Down a path to Ward the worst economic crisis of the postwar the former vice president conferred for 3v2 hours sunday night with Wyoming gov Stan Hathaway and said afterwards we talked about the crisis of the budget the War in Vietnam and All the other major National and International problems con fronting the Nixon charged the Johnson administration with five years of a fiscal in answer to a reporters question he said a yes this will be a major Campaign theme. It will be a lasting theme although i wish that be Nixon a other big Campaign Contention to Date is that the democratic presidential candidates Are so deeply divided among themselves that they cannot provide the leadership to heal the divisions in american Public opinion. Nixon said that he would make deep cuts in spending for Public works the nonmilitary space program the supersonic transport and in government personnel at Home and abroad As a first step toward reducing the Federal budget. Nixon is touring Wyoming Montana Nevada and Idaho holding conferences with the Republican governors of these states. He is scheduled to Fly to Hele. A monday afternoon for a meeting with Montana gov. Tim Babcock. February offensive with half of them allowed overnight passes. Now All troops Are restricted to their bases. The intelligence reports said the communist attacks would be on the scale of those during the february offensive when thousands of Viet Cong and North vietnamese troops infiltrated into Saigon and attacked All Over the City. Officials reported sunday that a North vietnamese colonel had surrendered and turned Over plans for another assault on Sai gon by 10,000 enemy troops. The colonel the highest ranking defector to fall into Allied hands said the assault had been planned for today but some unknown circumstance had resulted in a delay. Allied forces reported killing at least 135 enemy soldiers Sun Day in six clashes within 40 Miles of Saigon. Most were in areas where Allied forces have been carrying on the biggest offensive of the War operation Complete Victory to Root out enemy forces in the 3rd corps area. In the air War against North Vietnam american fighter bombers returned in Force to the skies Over the Southern Panhandle sunday flying 151 missions. The deepest penetration was by Navy fliers from the Carrier Bon homme Richard. They hit four trucks along a Highway 22 Miles North Northwest of coastal Vinh. The target was 168 Miles North of the demilitarized zone and two Miles South of the 19th parallel the Northern limit for the bombing set by president resurgence of . Air Power was facilitated by a break in the Monsoon weather which on saturday limited the number of air missions to 94. But the Monsoon Lias begun to break and sunday there were a Light to broken Clouds a the . Command said. The 151 missions was the second highest total of the year a. Preaching the 160 flown on Fri Day before the Clouds settled in again. Navy air Force and Marine pilots reported hits on com nuni. Cations lines artillery Sites and a radar installation. They also reported igniting three fuel dump fires and setting off numerous secondary explosions. In South Vietnam . Marines on a sweep a mile South of the Khe Sanh combat base sunday made Contact with an estimated company of North Viet namese holed up in bunkers. The marines attacked the fortified position and called in artillery support from Khe Sanh. The leathernecks said the North vietnamese pulled out leaving 21 bodies in the bunkers. One Marine was killed and 20 wounded. The . Command reported today that Allied forces Cap tured More than 15,000 individual and 3,300 enemy weapons in the first three months of 1968�?enough, it said to fully equip the infantry Batta Lions of More than four North vietnamese army divisions. Ray Galt vary in descriptions strength of troops despite talk about possible Sites for peace negotiations the War in Vietnam continues with the troop strength reported As follows ., 516,000 men South Vietnam 730,000 and allies 62,000, Viet Cong forces Are estimated from 207,000-222,000 and the number of North vietnamese in South Vietnam at 60,400, gems missing after Jet crash Windhoek South West Afri Ca a a $700,000 shipment of diamonds was missing today in the wreckage of a South Afri can jetliner that crashed saturday night killing 122 persons. Six persons survived the crash including american diplomatic courier Thomas Taylor. The . Diplomatic pouches he took aboard in Johannesburg South Africa were recovered from the wreckage sunday. South african airways new. Est Boeing 707 had just taken off from Windhoek first of four stops on a flight from Johannes Burg to London when it began to wobble and plummeted out of sight. Watchers at the Airport heard a crash and saw flames spurt into the sky. Rescuers said they found Taylor beside the wreckage and lie told them a a done to worry about me. See to the Taylor 36, of Tahlequah okla., was re ported in Good condition. The airline identified three other american passengers or. E. Fussenegger connected with the austrian textile Industry who was killed Roche and Benjamin Thomas jr., 57, director of european operations for Southeastern engineers inc. Of West Point a. The airline did not say Wyeth. Or either Roche or Thomas was the one survivor whose had not been made Public. It also gave no Home towns but said Thomas had been living in Yorkshire England. Mccarthy fire Rusk Washington apr sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy says Secretary of state Dean Rusk should be fired and says one acceptable replacement would be Mansfield. The democratic presidential candidate also said sunday that director j. Edgar Hoover controls the Fri As a a kind of fief Quot and should be retired. Turning to Republican presidential candidate Richard m. Nixon Mccarthy said it was the a old Nixon Quot who accused democrats of dishonesty by promising massive and immediate pro Grams to Aid the poor. A about the time you would like to think that or. Nixon has come around to speaking rather straight you know and using the language As he should Quot the Minnesota Democrat said a the then goes Back to words like phone workers defy Back to work order Washington apr the a f l a i o communications workers defied Back to work court orders today in two states in the fifth Day of the nation wide Telephone strike and said the injunctions blocked chances for an Early settlement. A fall Hopes for a Quick solution have faded Quot said cd a president Joseph a. Beirne who denounced the court orders obtained by Southern Bell Tele phone co. In Alabama and Ken Tucky As a preposterous Quot and Beirne said the injunctions indicated the Bell Telephone sys tem and its Parent american Telephone and Telegraph co., want a to go on fighting a the strike of nearly 200,000 Union members in some 40 states instead of settling the wage dispute at the bargaining table. At amp to president Ben Gilmer reported meanwhile that Telephone service in most areas was being maintained without undue trouble despite the first nationwide strike in 21 years. A management people who Are filling in at the switchboard Are gaining experience and customer cooperation has been most Gratifying a a Gilmer said. Some customers however found it strange to dial for an operator and hear a Many a voice reply instead of the usual female a voice with in addition to the unions an Gry reaction to the court injunctions company reports of cables being Cut and phone Booths damaged and Union charges that company supervisors were driving trucks into pickets fur ther heated tempers in the strike. Beirne called his 13-Man Union executive Board into session sunday to consider Gilmers offer to explore a Union proposal. But the meeting ended after eight hours a without any Prospect for an immediate Settle ment Quot Beirne said. No formal company Union talks Are scheduled lie said. The injunctions order Bell system employees whose con. Tracts have not expired to go Back to work despite picket lines of their fellow Union mein. installers employed around tile nation by the Bell subsidiary Western electric co. Some 23,000 Western electric Telephone installers in about 40 states Are on strike in addition to Bell system operators linemen repairmen clerks and oth. Or workers in no states. Western electric manufacturing employees in Buffalo n.y., also have walked out. Where Bell system contracts have not expired such As in Al Obama and Kentucky Many Telephone workers Are refusing to Cross the picket lines of the Western electric installers. The Union previously rejected company offers of a 7.5 per cent increase in wages which now average $3.27 per hour for Wes Tern electric Telephone install ers and $2.79 for Bell system workers. The company said the Union had demanded increases of 10.5 per cent Over 18 months. The new Jersey Bell Tele phone co. Offered a $1,000 re. Ward for information on dam age to about to Telephone Booths including one riddled by bullets and also said 62 cables have been slashed since the Start of the strike. The walkout began four Days earlier in new Jersey where members of the Al Cio inter National brotherhood of electrical workers struck before the communications workers. Union officials in new Jersey protested the firing of four workers accused by the company of misconduct. Union officials also charged that company supervisors in new Jersey were deliberately running their trucks into pick ets. The Mountain states Tele phone co. Reported in Albuquerque n.m., that 20 Telephone cables had been Cut and a we concluded that this was deliberate because the Cut ends of the Cable pairs were turned Back up and concealed in the Bale bind Memphis Tenn. Apr a ranking Memphis police officer acknowledges there Are a a whole lot of discrepancies a in official descriptions of the Man sought As the sniper Slayer of or. Martin Luther King or. Asst. Chief Bill Price referred to statements that James Earl Ray 40, an escaped Missouri convict and Erie starve Galt first sought for Kings april 4 assassination in Memphis Are the same person. A you done to know what to look for a Price said sunday As officers Here and elsewhere continued their investigation of the slaying. The nationwide manhunt continues. The Fri issued a conspiracy warrant wednesday for Galt then updated their Case Friday by saying a fingerprint comparison showed Galt was really Ray. The naming of Ray in the Case caused confusion primarily because earlier official statements indicate that Galt and Ray were in different places at the same time. When Galt was charged As a conspirator in Kings death by Rifle Bullet the Fri said the Man had taken dancing lessons in new Orleans in 1964-65. The Fri said later the earlier description should have said Galt reportedly took dancing lessons rather than stating it flatly. During that time Ray was in the Missouri state prison at Jefferson City serving a 20-year sentence for a 1959 supermarket robbery. The age of the Man also was in conflict. Witnesses who saw a Man in a school Aid Issue tops court list Washington a a new York Case involving the separation of Church and state is sue tops the supreme court Calendar As it opens two weeks of hearings the last of its current term. The High court is scheduled today to hear two hours of arguments in a bid by two new York school districts to overturn a state Law requiring Public school systems to lend textbooks to students i n parochial schools. School boards in East Greenbush n.y., near Albany and one on Long Island Are opposed by the . Government the state of new York five other states with similar Laws three organizations with religious ties and a major Union. Supporting the boards Are the new York civil liberties Union the american jewish committee the american jewish Congress the anti defamation league of by Nai b Rith and protestants and other americans United for separation of Church and state. Mavin e. Pollock of new York City attorney for the two school boards said in a Brief filed earlier with the court that a new York is using its taxing Power to support religious institutions a and thus violating the f first amendment. Countered atty. Gen. Lour i. Lefkowitz of new York a Hie provision of textbooks to All children enrolled in grades 7 through 12, without regard to the nature of the school attended does not constitute an establishment or Aid to religion but rather an Aid and Benefit to the child receiving the Memphis Rooming House from where the fatal Bullet was fired estimated his age As in the late 20s. The Fri in issuing its warrant for Galt said he had Given his birthrate july 20, 1931. That would make him 36. Theft by said Friday Ray is 40. The personalities of the two men Are sometimes at Odds. A prison pal described Ray As virtually a no Drinker. The Fri describes Galt As a fancier of Beer and Vodka. There were other differences Galt neat appearance. Ray careless appearance. Galt Southern accent. Ray born in Alton 111. No Southern accent. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark who came to Memphis after King was slain at first ruled out a conspiracy but then theft by issued its warrant for Galt on a conspiracy charge. Korea clash kills i 4 in. Koreans Seoul a three North koreans and one american were killed sunday in the second major clash in eight Days in the . Sector of the korean front. Each Side accused the other of starting the Battle in which three americans were wounded. The . Command demanded an investigation by a joint team of observers As provided by the 1953 korean armistice. The communist Side ignored a request for an observers meeting today a . Spokesman said. The spokesman said a group of at least eight North korean soldiers opened fire on a , patrol in the 2nd . Infantry division Are of the demilitarized zone. The patrol returned the fire and intermittent shooting went on for two hours the spokesman said. Three of the communist soldiers who had crossed the military demarcation line were killed but their bodies were apparently dragged Back because they could not be found monday he added. A North korean broadcast said the american Force was made up of a Over 50 fully armed bandits across the Der and attacked guard Post in tie broadcast armed bandits who slipped militarized zone i communist to maidu san. Said a several were killed in the a fierce it made no mentions of North korean casualties. In haste sunday South of the Pawn enjoin armistice conference area communist ambush killed two american and two South korean soldiers and wounded two other americans. Another american was wounded saturday while on patrol duty in the Buffer zone the . Command said. Later sat Urda it a . Observation team invest gating the shooting was fired on. I i a americans have been killed and 18 wounded since Jan. 21, when a North korean coi Leando group invaded Seoul in an a tempt to assassinate Prestien Chung Hee Park. It i Jyz a chuckle the doctor in a Rural North Carolina clinic asked the weather beaten Mountaineer How he was be Ling. A it s like this Quot the Man drawled a a in a still kicking but i ainu to raising any

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