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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - August 6, 1968, Norwich, New York Norwich residents polled on Choice for president report. Pm. 3 the Ven Jing s in vol. 78, no. 90tuesday, August 6, 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10c per copy / Church sets Center drive Ike suffers apparent new attack Washington apr for Mer president Dwight d. Eisenhower recuperating from a heart attack suffered renewed Chest pains Early this morning Walter Reed army Hospital announced. The Hospital announcement said it appeared to be another myocardial infarction or heart attack. The announcement at to . Edt said his condition then was stable and he was comfortable and free of pain. The attack of. Curved at 6 15 . Only monday night Eisenhower had addressed the Republican National convention by television and appeared in Good health. A myocardial infarction is a blockage of an artery in the heart. That was the same kind of heart attack which Eisenhower suffered on june 15. That attack described As major occurred in Walter Reed Hospital to which he had come after suf Fering a Milder attack in Call for la. At that time he was flown to March air Force base Hospital april 29 from his Home at the Al Dorado country club nearby. He was transferred to Walter Reed later. The Hospital said the newest attack came after Eisenhower had spent a very restful night. The first announcement gave no further details but said fur ther bulletins will be issued As indicated. In his nationally broadcast convention speech Eisenhower urged the Republican party to unite in a Vietnam policy that seeks a peaceful settlement without an american Retreat. Among other things Eisen. Hower said that during the months of his convalescence from his fifth heart attack he has had time to think Over the course his party should follow. Eisenhower who is 77, suf. Feed his first heart attack in 1955 during his first term As president. He underwent surgery for an intestinal inflammation in june 1956, and suffered a mild Cere bral stroke in november 1957, but i e completed his two full terms As president and retired to his Gettysburg pa., farm Home. His second major heart attack came in november 1965, while he was vacationing at the Augusta ga., National Golf club. A second attack at that time preceded the two he had suf. Feed this year. He underwent surgery in 1966 to Correct a Gall bladder Condi Tion and was hospitalized three times in 1967, twice for Gastro intestinal ailments and once for treatment of an enlarged pros. Tate gland. Plans for a new Parish Center for St. Bartholomew s Catholic Church were announced today by the Rev. Guy a. Festa pastor who said the Cost of the Center is estimated at $250,000. Purpose of the new Structure to be built on Church property will be for spiritual. Social cultural education and Community service activities. Story on Page three. Sky spy rocket launched secretly to scan Globe Cape Kennedy Fla. Apr in the first secret satellite launching Here in five years the air Force today rocketed a new experimental spy in the sky payload on a Mission that could produce a vast amount of intelligence data about Russia red China Southeast Asia and other potential trouble spots. A towering Atlas Agena rocket thundered away from Cape Kennedy at 7 08 . Edt to propel the super spy Nick named a spook Bird Quot by some officials toward a High Altitude orbit from which its instruments could take a comprehensive look at wide areas of the Globe. Reversing a Long time press policy the air Force did not in. Form newsmen in Advance of the launching although Many knew about it. Some officials said the orders to cloak the launch in secrecy originated with the joint chiefs of staff and the state department. Both organizations reportedly were concerned that information about the satellite would be upsetting to certain nations during a delicate period in internal. Tonal relations. However its hard to hide something As big and As powerful As an Atlas Agena rumbling off a launch . The rocket is 11 stories tall and sounds like too freight trains howling in unison. It was quite visible and thousands watched As it blazed across the sky. Eight minutes after the launching the air Force issued a Brief statement that an experimental payload had been launched with no details. The satellites primary purpose reportedly was to test improved sending devices that could Lead to an operational sys tem that could pinpoint missile and other military installations and provide Early warning of rocket attack. The last secret space launch ing from Cape Kennedy was oct. 16, 1963, when another at Las Agena orbited a pair of nuclear detection satellites. That shot received such wide publicity that the air Force removed the classified Label from the program and opened future launching to press coverage. More than 60 per cent of the satellites launched by the United states have had military assignments with Russia launch ing an even greater percentage. Almost All of the . Satellites have been fired in secrecy for years from Vandenberg air Force base calif., a much More secure area than Cap Ken. Nedy. The Vandenberg satellites most of them on reconnaissance assignments rocket into a North South Polar orbit where they pass Over All areas of the Globe at least once a Day. After several Days they return their photographic and other sensor gathering data to Earth for re. Cover. Reportedly the satellite today was launched from the Cape so that it could enter a highly Ellis. Tical orbit that extends out to thousands of Miles instead of hundreds of Miles for the Yan Denberg launched payloads. Information available indicated the launch today was the first of two authorized in a program labelled 817, with the air Force. Hubert Gene agree to debate Washington apr the vice president Hubert h. Hum. Prey and sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy Camps have agreed to the format for a National television debate the week before the democratic National Convell Tion. Aides to both the democratic presidential contenders said monday the hour Long confrontation would be divided into three segments on foreign of. Fairs Domestic problems and the candidates concepts of the presidency. Czechs to keep economic l ies Prague apr Premier Oldrich Cernik declared monday night that Czechoslovakia s re. Form minded leaders will not forsake economic ties with the soviet bloc but he called for a Quot new Quality of cooperation within the Warsaw pacts economic organization. Cernik s address to some 6.000 party functionaries in the capitals Park of culture was viewed As an attempt to dispel soviet fears that Czechoslovakia would turn increasingly toward the West for Trade and Aid. A we have and will continue to have a supreme interest in the broadest possible bilateral and multilateral cooperation with the socialist countries a Cernik said. Humphreys people said in Minneapolis the debate will be either aug. 23 or 24. But the Mccarthy Camp which had proposed three separate debates beginning As ear. Lyas july 21, said it would be sometime during the week before the convention begins aug. 26. A there s fairly substantial agreement but the dates Arentt All that certain a said Blair Clark Mccarthy a Campaign manager. Clark said the agreement pro Vides for direct Exchange Between the two candidates on is sues. Humphrey aides said All three major networks have been notified of the tentative agree ment. In another development in the democratic race it was Learned monday a key Mccarthy aide has been relegated to a minor role after a clash with the candidate Over who would manage his strategy at the convention. Washington attorney Thomas j. Finney refused to comment on the reasons and said he had not resigned but acknowledged he is a a Good Deal less Active than i was two weeks a a let a just say in the terminology of the Mccarthy Campaign that i am on Retreat a Finney said. Other sources said Finney had demanded More control Over the convention operation and had been soundly rebuffed by Mccarthy. The convention strategy will be managed by former democratic National chairman Stephen a. Mitchell. With the Republican National convention dominating politics the democratic candidates planned no campaigning until later in the week. Mccarthy has scheduled a rally in Columbus Ohio wednesday and Humphrey leaves his Waverly minn., Home Friday for a trip to Cor pus Christi Tex. Third party presidential candidate George c. Wallace continuing his Campaign in Houston Tex., for a dinner and a rally tonight in Delmar stadium. Nixon mum on 1st ballot nod May visit Moscow Miami Beach fun. Apr Richard m. Nixon front runner for the Republican presidential nomination said today he May make a trip to the soviet Union this month. And he said of elected president he would travel to Paris to work to a Are establish a dialogue with Gen. Charles Degaulle and the French speaking at a news conference Nixon Deello a to predict a first ballot nomination at the cop National convention saying a i believe it will be on an Early ballot but i m not going to make any he said he has mad no decision on a possible running mate. If he wins the nomination wed i a Aday night Nixon said he would Confer with aides and party leaders and make his Choice known thursday. Asked about reports he planned a trip to the soviet Union Nixon said his staff has recon Nenrod such a trip Between the Republican and democratic conventions. The latter begins a in. 26 in Chicago. Quot i will not make a decision on that or give any consideration until after the Nom nation a he said. At this time he added the a likelihood of such a trip is not although he has called soviet leaders the key to a Vietnam settlement Nixon said the trip would not be an attempt to negotiate an end to the War. There a can be Only one president Only one Secretary of state at a Nixon said. The candidate replied a after the election after the inauguration yes a when asked whither he would go to Paris. Later in the session. Nixon said he would not travel to the soviet Union unless communist leaders agreed to meet with Hirn. A an Era of negotiations with the communists is dawning Nixon said. The next president he added a must proceed on the Assumption negotiations with the soviet world eventually with leaders of the next super Power Ching will have to take place meanwhile Nixon backers pegging their first ballot presidential nomination Hopes on late Roll Call switches have been told they probably wont get any help from Ohio gov. James a. Rhodes a key favorite son. Also the repeated Contention by Nixon spokesmen that they Are More than 30 votes Over the 667 needed for nomination when the balloting starts wednesday May have sprung a leak. Charles Mcwhorter a Nixon floor manager said a a we re going to win it on the first bal lot. You watch those switches at the end of the Roll it All. They la put us implicit in this statement was the acknowledgement that de. Spite a drive to tip Over favorite sons and to commit a pledged delegates Nixon has not been Able to Lay his hands on the prize winning total. Told of Mcwhorter a estimate Rhodes said he is holding fast to hts no committed stance As a favorite son controlling the 58-vote Ohio delegation. But he implied strongly that Nixon will have to look elsewhere for any needed margin at the end of the first count. A a let a see what they can do on the first ballot a Rhodes said. A then we will figure out what we will do a asked of he still would be run Ning As a favorite son on the second ballot Rhodes said a that s the Ohio governors seeming Assurance that he will hold fast against a Nixon Blitz was even More heartening to the Camp of gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller of new York the former vice pres Identa a chief rival than California gov. Ronald Reagan s announcement that he now is an Active candidate for the top nomination. Reagan sentry into Active Competition was hailed by Rockefeller and his supporters As Likely to Cut into Nixon s first ballot strength. But Rhodes is i vital cog in any Effort to assemble enough favorite son and uncommitted votes to keep Nixon from grabbing the prize Early. Rockefeller and Reagan a need for Rhodes was emphasized when Maryland gov. Spiro t. Agnew who May put Nixon a Nam in nomination quit As a favorite son. Although Rockefeller picked up 14 of the Maryland votes to 12 for Nixon agnews action gave the former vice presidents Effort a Strong psychological lift. Ohio a delegation is pledged to give Rhodes 56 votes with two going to Nixon. An associated press Check of publicly committed and pledged delegates show Nixon with 586, Rockefeller 259, Reagan 167, favorite sons 195. Confused alliances by convention a Clear it up by Saul Pett Miami Beach Fla. Apr the picture is becoming clearer at the Republican National convention. Gov. Spiro t. Agnew of Maryland who backed gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller of new York when he was not a candidate has now com1 out for Richard m. Nixon a new York lawyer now that Rockefeller is a candidate which some observers regard As meaningful at a time when William Miller is working energetically for Rockefeller four years after he fought Rockefeller so hard he became the vice presidential candidate be Hind Barry Gold water who is now for Nixon the Man he shrugged off in 1964 As becoming a More and More like Harold Stassen every More consistent than anybody Stassen is now for Stassen in a fiery Campaign which has won the full uncompromising support of his Nephew whose support was not visible in 1956 when Stassen thought the next vice president should be Christian Hefter who then delivered the nominating speech for Richard Nixon As vice president. Wilt Chamberlain was Neutral that year. Former president Dwight d. Eisenhower made his position Clear last night. He is not a candidate for president said the general who in 1964 had a conversation with William Scranton of Pennsylvania which persuaded Scranton that the was for him until Ike announced it was his poll by not to support candidates be fore they were nominated. Gen. Eisenhower has since declared for Nixon some Days before any wkly was nominated but several weeks after it was announced that his grandson David Eisenhower was engaged to be married to Julie Nixon whose sense of commitment about Warren Gamaliel Harding Lias always remained murky to most historians. So was Wilt chamberlains. John Wayne was Neutral that year. Meanwhile this year today in fact Richard Nixon the new York lawyer has a press steel hikers to hold Price on arms items Washington apr two of the major steel Price boosters have agreed to hold the line on some defense items but the government is still probing for the first significant crack in a nearly solid Industry front. Republic no. 3 producer and Marinco no. 5, assured the Pentagon monday they would not raise prices on military barbed wire and certain steel used in Shell casings. But both firms quickly noted they Hadnot raised the prices on the items accounting for less than 25 per cent of the Pentagon purchases in the first place. Despite the pledges from Arronco and Republic and continued escalation of government pressure on the Industry there appeared to be Little if any net. Gain for either Side. There was no movement from Bethlehem steel the no. 2 pro. Ducer which sparked the cur. Rent War of nerve by hiking prices on All Basic Mill products suspect checked while getting ticket israelis hit Jordan. Kill 5 Tel Aviv apr israeli ground troops crossed into Jor Dan today for the first time in four months and killed five members of an Arab sabotage band that had slipped into Southern Israel to attack a hos. Pital the israeli army announced. Weather periods of rain this afternoon. Warm and humid with showers Likely tonight. Lows in the upper 60s to Low 70s. Rain ending wednesday Clearing and Cool. The army said the intruders fired a Bazooka Shell at a Hospi Tai clinic in the Ein Yahav set. Dement near the Frontier in the Negev desert. No damage or casualties were reported. Two other saboteurs were wounded and captured the army said and then led israeli troops to two mines they had planted near the clinic. The Chase Over Stony water less terrain was the first time since april 8 that israeli ground troops crossed the Border in Pursuit of Arab guerrillas the army said. Washington apr a Baton Rouge la. Policeman halted a car for running a Stop sign last month. Before the officer finished making out the ticket a routine Check by a new computer hundreds of Miles away in Washington d.c., reported that the Driver was wanted in a half Mullion Dollar new York Bank robbery. Unusual not any longer said the Tai monday in reporting on the first 18 months operation of the National crime information Center. The Fri called the Center located near its Headquarters in the capital a the greatest and. Vance in Law enforcement in 25 years and said its responsible for 500.600 arrests or recoveries of stolen property each month. The big computer is the guts of the Center which serves As a warehouse of facts on 586,000 wanted men stolen cars missing guns and hundreds of other items bearing serial numbers. The Center provides almost instantaneous information to More than 700 police departments in 43 states the District of Columbia and Canada. Hawaii will be hooked up to the system aug. 9 and by the end of the year All 50 states will the Fri said notices of stolen cars or descriptions of fugitives and missing property Aire fed electronically by police agencies into one of 62 terminals. These terminal Points relay the information to the pm Ilion Canter in Washington. California alone has 300 police departments which feed information into one terminal. New York state has about 140 Agen Des which run their data through two relay Points. The Tai said police in the smallest communities May Benefit from the computer. 11 they need is a teletype ult and somebody who can Type. What Ever information they have or require is sent by teletype message to the nearest terminal and an answer from the Bank can be flashed Back in seconds. The Fri envisages More uses for the computer. Already being researched is a system whereby fingerprints could be identified at the push of a Button. And a Boon to Banks and those companies dealing with stocks and Bonds would be an instant identification process of such serialized paper assets. A a a e can foresee the Day when a Bank Teller for instance would be Able to have identified As Legal or stolen any Money order or draft presented to her. Darla still has her Ian of University Park a. Apr in the 1920s she was the blonde Little Darling of the Origi Nal a your gang silent movies. Today she a the Darling of a new gang Tau Delta Phi fraternity at Pennsylvania state University arid the Only House Mother Ever initiated As a a a brother into the group. She a still a real charmer. When she was in pictures at age 3 to 7 she was the lovable Darla the poor Little Rich who romped around with Span by freckles Farina Alfalfa and spot the dog. She did no to make it into talkies because she says a i just got too old for the now she a mrs. Shirley Cher. Ringtone at 51 just Plain a pm oms to the gang at the frat House. But their Darla too. A i think being a House Mother at a fraternity Louse is the most rewarding Job a Middle aged woman can have a she says smoothing Back hair that now is mostly Gray. She has two sons one in College and her husband is an electronics technical writer. Nearly 5 per cent last week. The Bethlehem increase followed Industry agreement with the United steelworkers on a labor contract expected to Cost 6 per cent a year. President Johnson reportedly is pinning Hopes for a Price Roll Back on Industry Leader . Steel. If . Steel holds out in refusing to increase some prices a especially on big tonnage Sheet and strip other Cointa. Nies could be expected to do likewise to remain competitive As they did in 1966. Meanwhile labor Secretary Willard Wirtz told a news conference a there is real basis for concern Over the level at which wages and prices Are chasing each he said he favors a the exercise of private rep. Joe l. Evins d-tenn., ordered the staff of his House Small business committee to study the increases. Chairman Paul Rand Dixon of the Federal Trade commission postponed a scheduled hearing on pricing practices until mid. Week so he could discuss the situation with congressmen. The Pentagon the general services administration and the department of housing and or. Ban development have All is sued orders to shift buying wherever possible to firms which have held Back from a general increase. But the pressure of the marketplace on producers is nil since hardly anybody needs steel right now. Users Are work ing off a inventory a built up As Protection against the strike that never came. Our Industry sources said the government As Well As the Industry is still trying to unravel the jumbled mass of Price Revi Sions that followed a new contract with the United steelworkers Union last week. A a it a a problem in semantics a said an Industry source. A whether they re called Selec Tive increases or general in creases depends on How you define conference scheduled six years after he was Defeated for governor of California when he was a California lawyer and told the press a you wont have Nixon to kick around any Shirley Temple was Neutral that year. Now. Jovial round faced Leonard Hall who was Campaign manager for Richard Nixon in i960, is Campaign manager for Rockefeller after being for gov. George Romney of Michigan who had Rockefeller s support when Rockefeller Wasny to a candidate and George was. It was always assumed that if Romney did no to make it he would Back Nelsen who else but thai remains unclear As of this writing at a tune when George is still a favorite son candidate and Dean Martin is uncommitted. John Lindsay on the other hand who is mayor of new York is now four Square for Nelson Rockefeller for president in the Hope some cynics say of kicking him upstairs and getting him out of new Yorkus garbage problem. President Iii Hospital Eor i checkup san Antonio Tex. Apr president Johnson a visit to the Hospital today is described by his personal doctor As a in keeping with the policy of an annual physical checkup. The Texas White House pie Turni the presidents admission to Brooke army medical Center As routine although it did not use that word in the official announcement and neither did the presidential doctor vice . George g. Burk Ley. Johnson and his wife who is taking the Opportunity to also have a checkup May stay overnight at the Hospital a Quick 75-mile helicopter ride from their Johnson City ranch. Press Secretary George Christian said monday that As far As he knows the president s health is Normal a yes a was the answer he gave to a specific question on the Point. Chi is Ian announced Johnson a intention to enter the Hospital at a briefing Reading a for null statement by Berkley the president usually has his annual checkup at the White House which has extensive facilities. With Congress in recess however an i the republicans hold lug their presidential nominal lug convention in Miami Beach Johnson is on an extended visit to the Texas Hill country. The president had a checkup at Brooke late in 1965, shortly before a Gall bladder operation at the naval m dial Center at Bethesda my. Johnson although he has aged noticeably in recent years and has appeared tired Over the past few months has enjoyed Gene ally Good health since a massive heart attack in 1955. Besides the Gall bladder oper at Ion he has twice been fined to the Bethesda while president. Con Hospital today a chuckle some people never get interested in anything until it is none of their business

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