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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - February 7, 1968, Norwich, New York The weather increasing cloudiness tonight with Chance of occasional Snow or flurries on thursday. Low temperatures tonight in teens or Low 20s highs thursday 25 to 30. The svening Sun Chenango county s daily newspaper sunspots thousands of baby Chicks die in fire Page 5 six homeless in Mcdonough after f ire Page 3 Bloodmobile to visit Oxford Page 5 vol. 77, no. 229 wednesday february 7, 168 Norwich. . A fils 8c per copy pc attack special forces Camp state nation world Mccarthy plays hockey senator Mccarthy Concord . A at a time when presidential aspirants like to show the voters their skill at sports sen. Eugene Mccarthy has set a new athletic Standard taking in a rough game of ice hockey. In a yellow sweatshirt Black trousers a red helmet and borrowed skates the Minnesota Democrat challenging president Johnson a Vietnam War policies in primaries skated out onto the ice rink Here tuesday night to join in a game of hockey. Mccarthy 51, had been Captain and High scorer of his St. Johns College team Back in Minnesota but it had been along time since he had been on skates and he told friends later a this is my last before swinging into the hockey game a favorite sport with new Hampshire voters Mccarthy took a shot at the regular democratic part a a Ford names Knudson Detroit apr Semon e. Knudsen named president of Ford motor co. After resigning a top position with general motors corp., will take Over Many of Henry Ford ills duties with the nations second largest manufacturing firm. Ford announced tuesday that Knudsen 55, had been chosen As president. He said Knudsen will be the chief operating officer and take on Fords duties As chief executive in his absence. Ford whose Grandfather founded the automotive company remains As chairman of the Board. In Washington business circles there were rumours that Ford might be in line for a High government Post possibly at Cabinet level. But the White House said it knew nothing of such a move and Ford told a news conference strike Leader jailed St. Louis apr negotiations Are at a standstill and so Are most of the trains of the Missouri Pacific Texas amp Pacific and Seaboard coast railroads. The strike by the International brotherhood of trainmen began monday night against Ropac and its subsidiary Texas amp Pacific and spread to Seaboard tuesday. The Issue How Many men does it take to run a train nearly 50,000 employees on the three lines could be affected by the strike. There was no indication of How Many were observing the picket lines although Ropac spokesmen said most of its 23,500 employees refused to Cross the lines. Lindsay wants More Money Albany. . A wrestling with tax spend problems in an election year the polic itally split legislature was besieged today with pleas to Jack up state financial Aid to local governments. Mayor John v. Lindsay of new York and Nassau county executive Eugene h. Nickerson topped an imposing list of municipal officials who asked the lawmakers to Shell out More state Money to their beleaguered communities. The forum for the High level requests was the annual budget hearing at chancellors Hall conducted by the Legislatures fiscal committees groups struggling now to determine How to handle gov. Rockefeller a proposals to spend $5.5 billion in state Money and increase business personal income liquor and Gas taxes in the next fiscal year. The thrust of most of the messages including Lindsay a was that the state is too stingy in kicking Back to localities the tax mayor Lindsay Money poured into Albany by the billions each year. Negotiations at standstill new York apr the Leader of a five Day strike by sanitation men begins a 15-Day jail term today for defying a courts Back to work order As 40,000 tons of garbage enough to fill 666 Railroad Coal cars lie soldering in the streets. John j. Delury president of the striking uniformed Sanita Tion mensa association was sentenced tuesday and fined $250 for criminal contempt under the states Taylor Law which forbids strikes by Public employees. State supreme court Justice Saul s. Streit continued to today a hearing on contempt charges against the Union itself. Under the Taylor Law the Union could be fined up to $10,000 a Day or $1 a Day for each of its 10,000 members. Early Market report at 11 05 . Continental Telephone corp. Was 26v2open, High and last 26% Low Norwich Pha Macal co. 44 High Low and last . Grant 325/s open and Low 32% High and last Montgomery wards 24vs open 24% High and last 24 Low . Fishman 14% High Low and last. Over the counter general Laboratory associates 14 bid 15 asked mid states 7% bid 8 asked Raymond corp. 29% bid 31 asked Victory markets 9% bid to asked Gladding corp. 15v2 bid 16 asked National Bank and Trust co. Of Norwich 54 bid Chenango co. National Bank of Norwich 300 by. Russian made tanks used americans killed in assault Sun staff photo four injured in 2 vehicle rash Chenango county sheriff s sgt. Andrew Sebeck inspects damage to car and truck involved in collision about 4 10 pm yesterday at the intersection of route 12 and the East River Road near North Norwich. Truck operator Wayne Hyland 33, of Munnsville and a passenger Wayne Garlick. 23, of Vernon Center were treated at Chenango memorial Hospital Norwich and released. Driver of car Sylvan Schroer 42, of Sherburne and his wife Leona also 42, were in satisfactory condition this morning at the Hospital suffering multiple facial lacerations. Details of the mishap were not immediately available. Troops students clash Seoul apr . troops clashed today with about 400 demonstrating South korean College students. At least 24 Btu dents were injured by bullets or Rifle Butts the South Krean National police reported. The gis from the 2nd . In Fantry fired an estimated 20 rounds of warning shots during the Melee on the free Dom Bridge a mile below the de. Militarized zone the police said. Nine students were reported in serious condition. None of the soldiers was reported Hurt. The injured included several girls the police said. The students were Demon Strating against .-North korean talks for the release of the Pueblo and her Crew. Police said the demonstrators were trying to March Over the Bridge across the Irvin River to the conference site at pan Mun. Jom where . And North korean officials met today at an open meeting of the military armistice commission. But the Pueblo was not mentioned at the meeting. Anti american Demontra on broke out in Seoul this week for the first time in five years after South korean offi. Vials accused the United states of slighting South koreans cause in the secret talks american officials have been holding at Panmunjom with the North koreans since last Friday. Korean officials did an about face today and withdrew much of their criticism. But the clash Between the students and Arner. Ican soldiers was certain to inflame Public opinion. The armistice commission meeting today touched briefly on the communist commando raid on Seoul Jan. 21, which the Lone communist Raider captured removing liability Law assured . Apr the Senate has Given final Legisla Tive approval to a Bill that would remove financial liability from property owners who allow the operation of snowmobiles on their land. The measure which was passed previously by the As Sembly and was approved unanimously by the Senate tuesday was sent to gov. Rockefeller. If signed it would become effective next sept. I. Property owners now cannot be held liable for injuries that arise when they permit their land to be used for Hunting fish ing trapping or training of Hunting dogs. The Bill recommended by the joint legislative committee on conservation was co sponsored by the committee chairmen assemblyman Charles f. Stock Meister a Rochester and sen. Leon e. Gifreda r Suffolk county. Said was aimed at killing presi Dent Chung Hee Park. The South korean government had contended that the . Government should be paying More attention to the assassination raid and the heightened North korean infiltration across the demilitarized zone than to the Pueblo. In Washington the Pentagon announced it has received the name of one Pueblo crewman who died and three who were injured when the North koreans seized the intelligence gathering ship Jan. 23. The Pentagon said one of the injured men was in serious condition and the other two were in grave condition. Before the Battle at the Freedom Bridge a highly placed South korean official had said today there was Little dispute Between the . And korean governments on the handling of the current crisis with North Korea. A High foreign ministry official told korean newsmen his government had been con suited before each of the .-North korean secret talks and was informed fully of the results afterwards by . Officials. These attempts to Calm the rising resentment against South koreans chief ally and foreign supporter contrasted sharply with earlier officials complaints that South koreans Case was being neglected and the United states in its desire to get the Pueblo and its Crew Back was preparing to make dangerous concessions to the communists. Saigon apr the North vietnamese sent their russian tanks into the Vietnam War today apparently for the first time against South vietnamese irregulars and their american Green Beret advisers fighting furiously to hold onto a special forces Camp in the Northwest Corner of South Vietnam. Reports from Danang said a special forces sergeant had radioed that Only five of the 25 americans in the Lang Vei Camp were still alive he and four others in the Headquarters Bunker. He reported a knocked out tank was on top of the Bunker. The . Command said Lang veins defenders destroyed five of the nine russian t34 tanks sent against them. The massive assault on Lang Vei four Miles West of Khe Sanh could be the Kickoff of the Long anticipated offensive along the Northern Frontier which Gen. William c. Westmoreland has predicted will be the biggest enemy push of the War exceeding the furious assaults on South vietnamese cities and towns last week. The Campaign against the cities the largest enemy offensive so far has died Down at most Points after eight Days but Viet Cong forces still fought stubbornly in Saigon and Hue. The . Command said the enemy death toll in the past eight Days reached 22,748 by Midnight tuesday. It said 1,768 Allied troops have been killed including 614 americans and 1,130 South vietnamese. Military spokesmen said the North vietnamese began Pound ing the Lang Vei Camp with artillery at dusk tuesday then launched the ground attack about two hours later. The nine russian tanks rumbled East along Highway nine leading the infantrymen through the Campos minefields and three lines of barbed wire. The Campos garrison�?300-400 South vietnamese and Montag Nard irregulars and their american advisers took cover in their bunkers and North Viet soviets reportedly refitting subs with nuclear missiles Washington apr the soviets Are reportedly refitting some of their submarines with nuclear missiles capable of achieving twice the Range of present weapons from submerged firing positions. The program to permit the soviet g class subs to fire their missiles from below the oceans surface indicates the user has mastered technology pioneered with . Polaris missile firing submarines Pentagon sources said. These sources said the new missiles will have a Range of about 800 Miles. . Intelligence closely watches soviet gains in the nuclear weapons Field but sources would not say How this country Learned of the g class refit. The soviet Navy has some 30 subs in this diesel powered class. The g class subs make up most of soviet submarines capable of launching ballistic missiles. It is not known How Many of the g class boats Are getting the new weapons but presumably All eventually will. The other soviet ballistic missile firing submarines Are nuclear propelled in what is called the h class. Over All the soviet Union has some 350 submarines largest sub Force in the world. But most Are attack submarines designed to sink shipping or enemy subs rather than to bombard hostile countries with missiles. . Strategists believe the missiles aboard the g class subs Are targeted primarily against strategic objectives in the eurasian land mass rather than the United states. However the missiles in the h class submarines with a Range reportedly up to 3,000 Miles Are believed targeted against the United states. The g class ballistic missile submarines went into construction to years ago and were designed for surface launching of missiles. Submerged launching enables submarines to elude detection much More easily. The g class submarines mount three missiles in a Large con Ding Tower from which they Are launched vertically. The h class subs also Are built to launch three missiles vertically. By comparison the powerful nuclear powered . Polaris submarines each can eject 16 missiles that can carry nuclear namese sprayed the bunkers with flamethrowers to drive the defenders Back from Rifle and machine gun ports. . Headquarters said radio Contact was lost with the americans in the Camp at 3 10 a in. But was re established at 4 20. . Marine artillery at Khe Sanh fired tons of shells almost on top of the Camp after the Green berets called for close in support. Air Force and Marine fighter bombers raked the area i bombs Cannon and machine guns. A . Spokesman said heavy Contact continued through the night and diminished about 11 w i Quot in a it a ? f. A.m., but some fighting continued. . Headquarters said radio Contact was being maintained throughout the Day. South vietnamese Headquarters said the irregulars also were still holding out in the Camp and were in radio communication with an observation plane. The Camp was kept under a rial observation All Day but visibility was poor. A ground patrol in the area also reported radio Contact with men inside the Camp. The Camp is 20 Miles South of the demilitarized zone and about four Miles East of the laotian Border. Searching glance is Given barefooted vietnamese woman and child standing in shambles of their Danang Home. First cavalry trooper was Flushing out snipers. Warheads close to 3,000 Miles away. With 41 Polaris subs in its Fleet the United states has 656 of these missiles available for combat. The roughly 40 soviet missile firing submarines mount Only about 120 of these weapons and few of them Are on a Par with the Polaris. In addition the soviets have some 40 submarines that fire relatively Short Range a a cruise missiles similar to pilotless bombers which remain in the atmosphere. Experts say these can be intercepted much More easily than a ballistic missile which rises into the Edge of space and plunges toward tar get at blinding speeds. 4-Way race expected Madison wis. A a four Way Republican race appears Likely in Wisconsin a april 2 presidential preference Pari Mary. Six gop candidates were chosen for the primary ballot by a nominating committee tuesday. But within hours new York gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller arum Illinois sen. Charles Percy announced they would withdraw by filing disclaimers of 1968 presidential intentions. On split votes the committee rejected attempts to place the names of new York sen. Robert f. Kennedy and former gov. George Wallace of Alabama on the ballot under the democratic Label. Rockefeller said his selection caused him a a embarrassment because he is supporting Michigan gov. George Romney. Percy said he planned to a respectfully but firmly withdraw. Under Wisconsin a new Pri Mary Law a person named by the bipartisan committee can withdraw if he signs an affidavit declaring he does not intend to become a candidate. If Rockefeller and Percy step aside the four gop candidates left on the primary ballot Are in order Richard m. Nixon California gov. Ronald Reagan Romney and former Minnesota gov. Harold Stassen. Nixon Romney and Stassen have launched campaigns in the Badger state. Medicaid sure to get trimming today a chuckle if you put off until tomorrow what you should do today there will probably be a higher tax on it. Albany . Apr the Senate a Republican majority has decided to Cut Back the states costly medicaid program to a far greater extent than the savings proposed by gov. Rockefeller. The effect of the decision As assessed by gop senators would be to reduce medicaid costs to the state and local governments by $170 million beyond the $2oo-million reduction suggested by the governor. The policy decision was hammered out tuesday at a closed conference of the Senate Republican majority. Whether the democratic con trolled Assembly will concur is doubtful since Assembly Lead ers have resisted efforts to re Duce the scope of the states medical assistance program. Rockefeller called for a Down Ward revision of the medicaid program after the Federal government reduced its level of financial support. As the program now stands the state and local governments shoulder the medical Bills for families deemed unable to pay for their own care the typical example being a family of four with a net annual income of $6,000, after allowing for taxes and certain other deductions. Rockefeller proposed to lower the income eligibility stand Ard to $5,400, to limit benefits to persons Between the Ages of 21 and 65 to in Hospital care and to reduce the amount of personal savings that recipients could have and still qualify for medicaid. The major departure from Rockefeller a plan unanimously agreed upon by the gop senators was to exclude the 21-65 age bracket from the medicaid program altogether. They also agreed to reduce the income eligibility Standard for a family of four to $5,300. At the same time they decided to ignore Rockefeller a proposal on personal savings on the ground that the economies involved would be insignificant. Under the present Law medicaid recipients Are allowed to have personal savings equiv Ilent to 50 per cent of their net annual income. Rockefeller had recommended cutting this to 25 per cent. Republican senators said the net effect of their decisions would be to save an additional $85 million in medicaid costs for the state government in the next fiscal year plus an equiv Ilent amount for local govern Mentse for a total of $170 million. The gop bloc put off temporarily a decision on another Rockefeller proposal a to vary the income eligibility Standard depending upon the Cost of living in different parts of the state. Rockefeller a theory was that the Standard should be higher in Urban areas and lower in less populated sectors where living costs Are not As High. The senators action came As somewhat of a Surprise since sen. Norman f. Lent a Nas Sau chairman of a legislative committee that has been study ing the problem had predicted after holding Public hearings across the state that the Senate would Settle on a measure closely resembling that proposed by Rockefeller. The agreement forged at tuesdays conference closely parallels provisions in a Bill offered by Republican Sens. James f. Hastings of Allegany Quot Cattaraugus county and will Ham e. Adans of Buffalo Erie county. Today 1 a a around the around the -1 around the

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