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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - February 2, 1968, Norwich, New York The weather turning a Little colder late tonight and saturday. Rain becoming mixed with or changing to Snow before tapering off to flurries by saturday afternoon. Lows tonight in 30s with Little or any Rise saturday. The evening Sun Chenango county s daily newspaper Sun spots Sermonetti by the Rev. Robert Coombs Page 5 mental health clinic and intensive care units to expand Page 6 Paul Winter ensemble was a musical experience Page 3 vol. 77, no. 226 Friday february 2, 1968 Norwich . 13815 8c per copy allies crush communist offensive Joday around the state around the nation around the world Rochester . Apr City police issued a nationwide bulletin thursday night for an automobile bearing Massachusetts License plates in their investigation into the theft of a Rembrandt painting valued at More than $100,000. The Alert for the car believed to be a Gray Jaguar was issued after a state thruway toll Booth attendant reported that the Driver a Young Man asked directions to the Eastman House museum Here Early wednesday. The 300-year-old Rembrandt work a portrait of a Young Man a was discovered missing from the museum wednesday morning. Police said the attendant told them the car contained three other Young men and two Young women besides the Driver. The License number was not recorded they said. Proposes dial-a-v0te views clash at hearing Buffalo . Apr a provision in the states proposed new criminal procedure Law that would accept testimony of a criminal accomplice As valid evidence Drew support from judges and opposition from a lawyer thursday. The clash of views came Here during the first of a series of six Public hearings conducted by Richard j. Bartlett chairman of a com Mission named to revise the old code. The second session took place today in Rochester. Judges Frederick m. Marshall of Erie county court and William Ostrowski of buffaloes City court said they favored acceptance of an accomplices testimony. The current code of procedure required corroborating evidence by a non defendant. Ostrowski urged that the new Law to a step further and permit the testimony of victims of morals crimes to be accepted. Such persons presently must submit additional proof besides their own word fora conviction to be possible. Market report at 11 10 a.m., Continental Telephone corp. Was 27 open and Low 273/4 High 271/? last Norwich Pha Macal co 45v2 High Low and last . Grant 33 1.4 High Low and last Montgomery wards 24 open 24i4 High 23% Low 233,4 last . Fishman 14% open and Low 143/j High and last. Over the counter general Laboratory associates 14 bid 16 asked mid states raceway 7% bid 8 asked Raymond corp. 31 bid 32 asked Victory markets 9% bid to asked Gladding corp. 163/8 bid 16% asked National Bank and Trust co. Of Norwich 54 bid Chenango co. National Bank of Norwich 300 bid. Red troops still control Hue two us. Copters shot Down Hospital Heads new directors and officials of Chenango memorial Hospital were among some 80 persons attending the annual meeting of the organi Sun staff photo nation thursday night at the can president of the Board of direct a Sawata country club. From left tors Robert straight Hospital Are Harold Mckenzie of Oxford administrator and Norwich director or. L. Eugene daily mayor Melvin Osborne. Hospital rates lipped to balance budget to talk Saigon apr . And South vietnamese officials said today their forces were crushing the biggest communist offensive of the War with skyrocketing losses to the enemy. But red troops were reported in control of much of Hue the an Dent Imperial capital and South vietnamese dive bombers still roared Over the streets of Saigon attacking Viet Cong holdouts. Associated press correspondent John Lengel reported from Hue 50 Miles South of the de militarized zone that four battalions of Viet Cong and North vietnamese controlled most of the streets in the coastal City. Lengel said . Marines and infantrymen and South vietnamese troops were battling More to maintain their positions than to oust the enemy. South vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu and . Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker went on television to assert that the communists were being Defeated with unparalleled losses. The . Command said 10,553 of the enemy had been killed in the four Day countrywide As. Saults on the cities and towns of South Vietnam. Allied losses . Ready by Casey Jones several rates at Chenango memorial Hospital including those for rooms were increased yesterday in an attempt to balance this years record $2.1 million operating budget. Costs of All rooms were increased $5 per Day to a charge of $23 for Nursery $37 for three or four bet rooms $40 for semiprivate and $45 to $51 for private. Charges for some services also increased including operating room Cost to match the present Workman a compensation schedule rates and inhalation therapy Electrocardiogram and delivery room costs. Or. L. Eugene daily president of the hospitals Board of directors told some 80 persons attending the annual meeting of the organization thursday night at the Canasa Acta country club the prime source of income for the institution is room rate charges and the increases Are the Only Way in which the budget could be balanced. He noted that operating costs have increased drastically during the last few years a from 1967 when the budget was $1.5 million to 1967 at $1.8, to this year when it reaches $2.1. During the same period of time however the percentage of expenditures for personnel has increased from 71 to 78 per cent although the number of employees has remained about the same. In the last five years the num. Ber of employees has increased by 23, remaining about even the last three years. Wages for the workers How Ever have increased some $882,-ooo to $1,643,000 in 1968. Although Hospital authorities managed to keep the room rates the same in 1964 and 1965 they have had to increase them $5 per year since then to balance the budget. Other items bringing about the budget changes Are the in crease in the minimum wage to $1.60 per hour yesterday a pen Sion plan for employees which went into effect this year and increases in Supply costs. Elaborating on the pension plan or. Dailey said the Board had been considering such a program for the past two years and have been attempting to find a suitable plan. For the past several years. He added the Board Felt the Hospital could not handle the economic costs of financing such a project. A with the introduction of this plan we will have Given another reason for employees to join us and stay with us during their professional careers a he said. The Board president also spoke about the medicare and medicaid Laws and said a probably the greatest Impact that has taken place this year is the full implementation of them. He said a patient count at the end of december showed about 50 per cent of the hospitals population were medicaid and medicare patients meaning that their Bills Are being paid partially or entirely by the state and Federal governments. A when you contrast this to our situation just a few years ago in which the Only payments of this Type were being received from county welfare you might realize the tremendous Impact of the Federal government on Hospital care and the ultimate control that is going to be exerted on All types of medical care by the Federal govern ment a he commented. Although there is some legislative revision presently taking place in the state he predicted that a in the Long run we will see More and not less Federal and state dollars subsidizing medical care in the a this will result in even greater control Over our activities by these various agencies a he declared. Another Story Page 6. Drug firm workers refuse to Bend beg today a chuckle in the old Days if you wanted to know whether a girl had Knock Knees you had to us ten. Members of local 251, International chemical workers Union meeting at the . Homo this morning heard Thomas Boyle International vice president term what the Norwich Pha Macal company management Calls a bargaining in Good Faith As a getting Down on our hands and Knees and but this he declared a a we la never do. If anyone is bargaining in bad Faith its the Boyle told the standing room Only audience of Union members that letters they received from the company regarding the drug firms offers were full of lies. He urged members to bring him the letters which he planned to package up and Send Back to the company. Regarding the pension fund Boie said a we Are requesting four tilings i we request to know the amount of Money in the fund 2 we request the names of the trustees of the fund 3 we request to know the earnings of monies deposited in the fund and 4 we request to know where these monies Are invested and by the International vice president declared that the company has refused to answer where and by whom the monies Are invested and a a we la seek legally to find he told the Union members that a if we find out the answer we might find that the monies were reinvested in the Boyle pointed out that the company claims that for every Dollar put into the fund by the employees the company puts in 3>2. But according to figures the company published under the welfare and disclosure act As requested by tile Federal government the company contributions amount to $134,343.70 while the employees have contributed $159,000.50. Boyle again challenged the company president Louis Bonham or a representative to a debate with me publicly the issues in the dispute and let the Public decide who a he declared that a a we re not about to weaken and we absolutely refuse to get Down on bended knee for a i citation officer appointed John s. Bartlett of Hamilton has been appointed to fill the vacancy or. The Chenango county probation department that has existed since August i960. Or. Bartlett will work in various phases of investigation and supervision with concentration on cases involving youth that come to the attention of the department. A native of Hamilton or. Bartlett meets qualifications both As to education and work experience. He received his bachelors degree in business administration in 19c1 after graduation from Manlius school where he was Active in varsity athletics. He has also served As a swimming instructor and life guard. His social work experience includes both Public welfare and employment service. A the addition of or. Bartlett a said j. Howard Brown senior probation officer a will alleviate the heavy Load under which the present staff has been working and should help greatly to provide prompt service to the various courts and free mrs. May h Boyd to devote More time to the involved and delicate counselling area of her duties As intake Washington apr military officials say they Don t foresee any imminent Call up of ground Force reservists As the United states readies today a second bid to recover the Pueblo through talks with her North korean captors. These were the major developments in the ongoing Asia Cri Sis a the state department announced thursday . Willing Ness to engage in face to face talks with North Korea aimed at gaining return of the Pueblo and her 83-Man Crew. The action followed a broadcast hint by North Korea that a settlement might be possible through new talks at Panmunjom tile korean War truce site. A president Johnson said . Bombing of North Vietnam will continue until the enemy gives a some better sign that a halt would not result in stepped up terrorism and aggression against South Vietnam. Prominent woman Dies Philadelphia a Caroline Katzenstein 80, proponent of the 19th amendment to the . Constitution which gave women the right to vote in 1920, died wednesday. Miss Katzenstein former executive Secretary of the National women a party Laboured actively for improved working and salary conditions for women. Were put at 917 dead and 2,s17 wounded including 281 americans killed and 1,195 wounded. Thieu said a the Back of the Viet Cong attack has been he said there is still communist resistance a in a few provincial capitals. But we can consider they have been totally a although the enemy raided numerous cities and towns throughout the Republic and achieved some temporary successes they have failed to take and hold any major installations or localities a said a . Communique. A although some enemy units Are still occupying positions in a few cities they Are rapidly being driven out. The a1-lies have detained 3,076 suspects and captured Over 1,800 individual and Over 300 Crew served but As Thieu and Bunker broadcast South vietnamese bombers were strafing a Block of houses near the Racetrack in the southwestern end of Saigon to Clear out communist troops. Rockets streaked from armed helicopters into other Viet Cong entrenched in a crowded squatter area in a Northwestern suburb of the capital there was fighting in at least half a dozen other spots in Saigon. Marauding bands of guerrillas roved the capitals streets sniping at helicopters approaching the top of the . Embassy building. South rangers caught one group of Viet Cong eating soup at a sidewalk restaurant. The heaviest fighting was reported in the southwestern Section of the City around the Buddhist an Quang Pagoda. Lengel reported the communists in Hue were attacking with water Supply is Cut new Berlin the villages water Supply has been Cut for All families in this Community and the new Berlin Central school has been closed after two Breaks this week in the water system. Authorities said this morning repairs should be completed by the first of the week. A Gasket on a 400,000 gallon stand pipe which supplies most of the villages water ruptured tuesday spilling water on the ground and yesterday a water main on the villages two Spring fed collection basins broke emptying the water into a Brook. New berlins water system was changed two years ago officials said but the broken main was not included in renovations. Mayor Roger Williams asked Village residents to refrain from using Large amounts of water until repairs Are completed. Machine guns mortars and rockets. He said the enemy fire was so intense that two . Helicopters were shot Down As they tried to run the Gauntlet to collect wounded. The Viet Cong and North vietnamese held a major part of the old walled Citadel once seat of the vietnamese emperors but now a pile of ruins and the Headquarters of the South vietnamese a 1st infantry division. South vietnamese troops held a Small part of the Citadel while the americans were fighting from a half Block Square compound housing the . Advisory Headquarters. Lengel said refugees had poured into the City swelling the Normal 40,000 population enormously and civilian casualties from Hie fighting were believed Lii ii. He reported a senior american civilian adviser to the pacification program May have been captured and the Fate of nine other american civilians was not known. A no one really controls Hue a Lengel said. A there Are islands of government resistance and islands of Viet Cong strength reports of civilian casualties were lagging far behind the military figures. Thieu in a preliminary report said 136 civilians had been killed and 1,841 wounded including 90 killed and 1,082 wounded in Saigon. But reports from other cities and towns indicated the figure would increase greatly As More information came in. The total of enemy dead re ported by the allies was More than three times tile previous record for enemy dead in one week of the War. But tile Ameri can Deanii toll was Well below the weekly record of 337 last May during a period of heavy shelling of Marine posts below the do. Negotiations Hall Al b i negotiations Between Bennett Ireland and local 297 of the International molders and Allied workers Union have halted for the present following a meeting Between Union and management negotiating committees yesterday afternoon. Spokesmen for both sides said the 110 Union employees would continue to work under the old contract which expired at Midnight wednesday until a fed eral mediator arrives in Norwich. It was not immediately known How soon this would be. Authorities Sari the company has offered a five cent per hour wage increase in each of the two years of a new contract but Union members Are seeking More. Members of the local have already turned Down two company proposals reportedly by a Large majority. Fills vacancy Johns. Bartlett Center newly appointed to the staff of the Chenango county probation department receives his office keys from j. Howard Brown senior probation officer. Looking on at right is judge Lynn n. Peterson of the county Sun staff photo family court. The two departments work closely in the various social service activities in the county. Total agreement Washington apr president Johnson and Al Cio president George Meany launched today a political Road show aimed at lining up the 14 million member labor organization behind the democratic ticket. They were in Back patting rapport on Vietnam and a wide sweep of Domestic programs and problems. And they were in total agreement Congress should enact Job and housing programs additional education and health measures and As Johnson put it a at the same time protect Johnson dismissed the idea that Domestic George problems can to be tackled while the Vietnam Meany conflict rages. A a it a just the same As saying you can take care of one child and you can to take care of the other a he said. Nixon is in new Hampshire Manchester . Apr seeking a winning image As he bids again for the presidency Richard m. Nixon returns today to familiar Republican stomping grounds a ahead 3-1 in the poll of gop voters but three weeks behind his chief rivals personal Campaign Start in new Hampshire. Nixon a news conference planned for noon in Manchester was tentatively rescheduled for 2 . When foul weather along the Eastern Seaboard delayed the arrival of newsmen. Nixon will be joined by his wife and their two daughters for a press reception in Concord tonight. The highlight of his opening Campaign this weekend will be a speech after a roast beef dinner with 1,300 republicans saturday night in Concord. Search for painting Washington a sen. Russell b. Long proposes a dial a vote system to Speed decision making in the Senate. A a in a just quietly trying to do a Little behind the scenes work the Louisiana Democrat said a trying to get them to Wake up to the fact that the Telephone his objective a system which would permit senators who Are away from the floor to vote by Telephone on Bills and have their votes counted. He suggested the Senate Secretary could handle the Telephone balloting. Long said in an interview the Senate wastes the equivalent of 200 Days a year delaying votes to accommodate absent members or waiting for people to show up for Roll Calls. A if you just let a Guy Call up and say a i want to be recorded this Way or that Way a then we could get on with the business a said Long the assistant democratic Leader. Senator Russell Long

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