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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - February 13, 1968, Norwich, New York The weather variable cloudiness a. Toner Windy and cold with scattered Snow flurries through wednesday. Low temperatures tonight Zero to to above highs wed. Mesday in the teens and Low 20s. The so eni Chenango county a daily newspaper in vol. La no. 233 tuesday february 13, 1968 Norwich . 13815 8c per copy Sun spots scouts Are honoured Page 6. Honor Roll announced Page 5 Fred Shaw to address historical society meeting Page 3.All ies tighten vice on red troop ground assault is a i i in round ass fluid Gilmour succeeds i Hompson repulsed at Hue state nation world unions quit Ada by the associated press the presidents of three major labor unions have quit the americans for democratic action Board Over its endorsement of sen. Eugene j. My earthy a presidential bid. They called the endorsement of the Minnesota democrats candidacy ill considered and an unwarranted repudiation of president Johnson solely on the Vietnam War Issue. Mccarthy is running in opposition to Johnson a Vietnam policy. In the Republican race mean while former vice president Richard a Nixon took a decidedly harder stand on the Vietnam War than Michigan gov. George Romney and said a this is a War we cannot afford to the Ada resignations came monday from , Abel of the United steelworkers Union Louis Stulberg of the International ladies garment workers Union and Joseph a. Beirne of the communications workers of America. Pleased with new York Schenectady . Apr former Alabama gov. George c. Wallace a third party candidate for president says a a we re going to do excellent in new York Wallace contended in a radio interview that a people in All walks of life were backing him in new York. A you should see the volume of mail we get from new York a a he said. The interview was prepared by radio station six Nashville tenn., for the general electric broadcasting co. And broadcast monday on Way the general electric outlet Here. Action stalled new York apr Balking Senate republicans at the state Capitol have stalled action on emergency legislation to support gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller a controversial settlement of new York City a nine Day garbage strike. The gop con trolled Senate postponed action on the governors Bill monday night As Many Republican lawmakers shied from the Prospect of approving the plan to have the state temporarily take Over the City sanitation department. The delay marked the Days second setback for the Republican governor. Earlier the Democrat dominated Assembly refused his request to make a personal Appeal for the Bill before a joint session of the legislature on the group it a would be a big Rockefeller threats Washington apr the United states asserts it must continue patrol flights by nuclear armed bombers to meet a the threat posed by soviet nuclear state department press officer Carl Bartch replying publicly to a soviet protest said monday the United states deeply regrets the Jan. 21 crash of a b52 bomber in Greenland in which four Hydrogen bombs were lost. A but what we regret even More a Bartch said a is that world tensions make necessary the carrying out of such flights in the interest of collective Security against the threat posed by soviet nuclear one argument of the soviet protest delivered saturday to the state department was that development of Long Range missiles with nuclear warheads have made such bomber patrols unnecessary. Bartch said the . Reply implies Dis agreement that missiles have made the bomber patrols obsolete. Army desertions Down Washington apr the Navy and Marine corps posted five and six year highs in desertion convictions respectively last fiscal year and Pentagon figures also show More air Force members were convicted for desertion than the year before. But desertion conviction figures for the army with far More men in uniform continued an Over All downward trend underway since world War ii. Desertions have drawn fresh attention with the recent publicized cases of . Servicemen seeking Asylum in Sweden assert edly in protest of the Vietnam War. The Pentagon maintains most men do not desert because of disillusionment Over Vietnam but rather because they done to like the regimentation of military life. Adams is buried Berwick a. Apr Nick Adams Hollywood television and movie Star was buried today in the Rural cemetery of the ukrainian Catholic Church which he attended As a boy. Adams 36 died in his California Home last wednesday of a drug overdose. More than 2,000 persons milled in and around the Church during the requiem mass. On sunday police estimated 15,000 men women and children filed through the Small funeral Home for the viewing. The Wilkes Barre american legion Post provided an Honor guard to the cemetery in nearby Briar Creek township nestled in the rolling Hills of Central Pennsylvania where Adams Long had dreamed of becoming a movie idol. Market report at 11 05 . Continental Telephone corp. Was 25v2 open Low and last 25% High Norwich Pha Macal co. 40% open Low and last 41% High . Grant 31 High Low and last Montgomery wards 23% open and last 23 Low 23% High . Fishman 13% open and Low 14 High and last. Over the counter general Laboratory associates 13i/2 bid 15 asked mid states raceway 7% bid 8 asked Raymond corp. 29 bid 30 asked Victory markets 9% bid to asked Gladding corp. 14% bid 15% asked National Bank and Trust co. Of Norwich 54 bid Chenango county National Bank of nor wich 300 bid. As Norwich Bank president Eaton Cole also assume new posts Everett a. Gilmour will sue need Otis a. Thompson Aspesi Dent of the National Bank and Trust company of Norwich effective immediately. The announcement was made at the close of the organizational meeting of the Board of directors following the Bank a annual meeting tuesday feb. 13. Or. Gilmour also has been named chief administrative officer of the Bank. Or. Thompson will become chairman of the Board of directors and continue As chief executive officer. He succeeds Robert s. Eaton who has been named honorary chairman. Eugene m. Cole has been named executive vice president. He will however continue to remain associated with the Trust department As Trust officer. Or. Gilmour joined the Bank in 1946 As a member of the Bainbridge office staff. In 1951, he became manager of the new Berlin office and in 1957, was transferred to the Norwich office As head of the newly created Public relations and business development department. He was elected a director of the Bank in 1962 and executive vice other Story Page 3 president in 1963. Or. Gilmour is a graduate of several banking schools including the Stonier school of banking Rutgers uni. Varsity school of Bank Public relations and marketing North Western University new York state banker a school of agriculture Cornell University and the new York state Bankers school of Public relations Syra Cuse University. Or. Thompson and or. Eaton together have served the Bank with careers that have spanned most of this Century. Otis Thompson joined the Bank in january 1913 As cashier. He also became a director in 1913, and in 1938 was elected to the presidency. The intervening decades have seen the Bank grow from resources of less than two million dollars to the present figure of Over 67 million Anda staff of less than ten to Over two Hundred employees. From 1938 until 1941, or. Thompson served As a director of the Federal re serve Bank of new York. Over the years he has been actively associated with Many civic Church business and professional groups in the Norwich area and throughout the state. Or. Eaton was first elected a director in 1932, and since 1947 has been chairman of the Board. He has been associated with the Norwich Pha Macal company All of his business life having served As treasurer and president and at the present time As a member of the Board of directors. Or. Eaton is also a director of Utica Mutual insurance company Eugene m. Cole has been associated with the Bank since 1943, except for 14 months a Broad with the american Field service during world War ii. He joined the Trust department staff in 1951, became a Trust officer in 1958 and vice president in 1964. He attend Cornell University and is a graduate of Stonier school of banking rut Gers University Pennsylvania banker a association school Bucknell University school of banking University of Wisconsin and several new York state banker a association schools. Or. Eaton presided at the 112th annual meeting which was held at the Norwich office. Approximately 200 share owners and guests were present for the meeting and luncheon following. Philip m. Crippen vice presi Otis a. Thompson Dent and cashier acted As Secretary of the meeting. Raymond b. Fernalld and Gideon m. Blaisdell acted As proxies representing those share owners unable to be present and Embry d. Faatz Warren e. Eaton and Raymond j. Doyle served As inspectors of election. Principal business of the meet ing was the election of directors to serve during the coming year. All present directors were re elected As follows Otis a. Thompson Robert s. Eaton William r. Turner Earl b. Clark Philip l. Card John i. Richer John b. Turner Lee a. Elliott or. William p. Elliott William j. Carry Edward h. Of Hara Carl e. Fribley Charles w. Triolo i. Richer Mitchell . Weinman Everett a. Gilmour George e. Raymond Carroll f. Vail Leroy Scott fran Cis a. Demeree William s. Kingman Lewis f. Bonham Charles a. Smith jr., Paul a. Garrison Clarence f. Gaines honorary. The directors oath of office was administered by Wellington l. Swart of Bainbridge. Departmental reports were Given by David a. Dolly vice president instalment loan department David w. Patchin assistant vice president farm department Carl j. Chase vice president mortgage depart ment and George e. Raymond senior vice president and Eugene m. Cole. Remarks by Ever Robert s. Eaton the Ett a. Gilmour concluded departmental reports. In his report to the share owners Otis a. Thompson stated that business in the area served by the Bank was generally Good during 1967, resulting in a year of record growth. Total resources deposits Loans and investments Trust department assets and earnings All registered new highs. A we Are not unmindful a said or. Thompson a of the problems facing the nation in 1968. At Home inflation racial tensions the War on poverty and crime no recommendation seen for prescription drugs today a chuckle nowadays you can to Tell whether a girl is wearing a High miniskirt or a Low lobster bib. Washington apr administration sources predict president Johnson a forthcoming health message to Congress wont recommend adding the Cost of prescription drugs to the medicare program. Said one Well placed source at the department of health Edu cation and welfare a i think you can look at the presidents budget for hew and get a pretty Good idea of whether he will ask for prescription drugs to be the budget generally would keep hew spending under tight rein because of soaring Vietnam War costs threatening inflation and a Cost cutting Congress. Or. Milton Silverman staff director of a hew task Force studying the prescription drug Issue said the total Cost of such drugs for medicare patients would be More than $1.5 billion a year by 1970 or 1971. A Bill to add prescription drugs costs to medicare has been introduced in Congress by sen. Joseph m. Montoya d-n.m., with32co-sponsors. Senior citizens organizations have been pressing hard for such a measure. They contend the Cost of drugs in addition to what the elderly have to pay to take part in medicare makes the program a financial Burden for Many older people. Montoya a Bill would author ize the government to pay Only the Cost of generic equivalents of prescription drugs. Administration officials did not endorse such proposals at the last ses Sion of Congress on the ground they first had to make certain that generic drugs a those known Only by their chemical names Are in fact equivalent in performance drugs. Saigon apr . And have Cost the North vietnamese Softli vietnamese marines and Viet Cong 2,393 dead Alx Gnu launched a ground assault half of them inside the Cit and against Strong enemy forces in South vietnamese Eugene m. Cole and abroad the Vietnam War and a serious deficit in our balance of payments due entirely to our Liberal foreign Aid program following world War ii and the Cost of the Vietnam War. While pro Gross due to the magnitude of the problems will necessarily be slow we can have Confidence that our government and its citizens will successful meet the Challenge. We look Forward to 1968 with a Buffet luncheon for All share owners and guests was served in the Bank cafeteria following the meeting. To Brand name Silverman said the govern ment share of prescription drug costs could be reduced to any level Congress wanted depend ing on How much would be borne by participants in medi care the health care plan for americans 65 and older. Side the walled Citadel at Hue today but heavy Small arms machine gun and rocket fire drove them Back. The North vietnamese troops fought from gun pits burrowed deep inside the Grimy Black Stone Walls of the inner Citadel in the former Imperial capital 400 Miles Northeast of Saigon. A photographer Al Chang reported from Hue that the sky had cleared after two weeks of Monsoon Rains but no air sup. Port was flown for the marines today. Air strikes had been flown against enemy positions in the Citadel monday and there was no immediate explanation Why no planes were in the air today. A where the hell is our air sup. Port a one Marine asked Chang bitterly after the costly unsuccessful assault on the citadels inner Walls. A we Are being chopped More than 1,000 . Marines and South vietnamese troops were tightening the Vise beside the North Bank of the perfume River. On the South Bank in hues modern Quarter the americans had regained control and the population crept out of refugee Camps and Shell marked Homes to Bury the dead in hastily dug Graves. A the situation in Hue the last three Days is generally the same a a . Spokesman said in Saigon. A they Are holding out along the South Wall of the Cita Del with their extremely Strong Point at the Southwest Allied spokesmen said that the 14 Days of fighting in Hue lbs Beady to talk if no double Cross Washington apr presi Dent Johnson says despite the massive communist offensive in South Vietnam he will halt bombing of the North Start peace talks tomorrow and let the enemy a write the agendas a if Hanoi does no to try a double Cross. This was Johnson a off the cuff reaction monday when i of la College student visitors at the White House argued that Cam. Pus Antiwar demonstrators a Are not just the unwashed but include Brilliant Young people. Rep. Roman c. Pucinski Del earlier told a Chicago audience a presidential emissary was in Hanoi to discuss a possible bombing halt and negotiations to end the War when communists attacked the . Embassy in Saigon last month. Pucinski said a was a matter of fact the . Had to Stop the bombing of Hanoi to assure Safe passage for the emissary a whom he declined to name. But he said the emissary was still in Hanoi a was far As we know and he May still be talk ing to the North the White House and state department declined comment. Johnson said he thought he understood Youthful Vietnam dissenters a none of us want to die a but declared a we have gone just As far As decent and honorable people can go to seek a Vietnam peace. Casualties were reported moderate mean ing the government Force was hard hit. There was no announcement of . Casualties. Hue 400 Miles Northeast of Saigon is the last of 35 South vietnamese cities and towns where communist forces Are still fighting As organized units two weeks after the Start of their biggest offensive of the War. It has Cost them by government count 32,245 men killed or More than half of the 60,000 troops . Officers believe they committed to the offensive. Military spokesmen said the communists on monday shot Down a South vietnamese air Force Al sky Raider bombing and strafing the Citadel the two mile Square fortress which was the seat of Vietnam a 19th Century emperors. The Pilot parachuted unhurt and the plane crashed outside the City. Communist gunners also shelled and attacked the staging area of a government engineering battalion and the Headquarters of an infantry division in Hue. The attacks were repulsed and the enemy left behind three dead a government military spokesman said while South vietnamese losses were one killed and four wounded. A Little Progress reported Seoul apr . Prest dental envoy Cyrus Vance met for almost three hours today with South Korea s Premier and other top Cabinet ministers but korean sources reported they made a very Little Progress to Ward eliminating differences be tween the United states and its asian ally. The meeting was a rough going a one korean source reported. The conference ranged Over problems of the Complex crisis resulting from South koreans worries Over her defences in the face of North korean threats. Vance planned another meet ing with Premier Chung Ilkwon wednesday and then was sex. Petted to pay his second visit to president Chung Hee Park. Whether that would be Vance a final conference nobody in authority would say but the presi. Dental envoy already has sex. Tended his visit one Day into wednesday. Korean sources said Vance and the koreans agreed tentatively that the foreign and defense ministers of the two governments would meet annually to review Mutual Security prob lems with the first meeting to be held in Washington in june. A spokesman for the . Pm. Bassy would not comment on the report. Informed sources also reported that the koreans were asking the . Government to Tell North Korea it will denounce the 1953 armistice agreement if the communists Send Down any More raiders like the team that tried to assassinate president Park. Rocky a image May be damaged Albany . Apr Politi Cal Cross currents Are flowing through the state Capitol As gov. Rockefeller struggles for vindication of his role in end ing the new York City garbage strike. Friends of the Republican governor frankly express fear that his Public image May have been damaged to the Point where his prospects for the Gap presidential nomination will be seriously impaired. A it can to help him a said a Veteran Republican senator. A and it could Hurt a even though Rockefeller repeatedly disclaims White House ambitions seasoned politicians at the Capitol think otherwise and tend to examine his every action in the Light of potential candidacy. Accordingly while Many re publican lawmakers find his formula for ending the strike distasteful some Are trying hard a out of sympathy for Rockefeller a to Swallow the bitter Pill a prime example is Senate majority Leader Earl w. Brydges a basically conserva Tive Republican from upstate Niagara Falls. Brydges Long has espoused Stern measures in dealing with Public employees who strike or threaten to strike. He was said to be sharply disappointed when learning of Rockefeller sconces Sion to the sanitation workers Union. But when mayor John v. Lindsay denounced the governors action in angry terms and when newspapers across the state flayed Rockefeller Edi tonally Brydges began to rally to his defense. A major consideration is that in any dispute Between Rocke Feller and Lindsay Brydges and Assembly minority Leader Perry b. Duryea jr., tend to Side with the governor. Lindsay just Isnit As popular Here. At a Long conference monday in the executive mansion Rockefeller pleaded with Brydges and Duryea to support him. They promised to see what they could do with their Balky gop colleagues. Paradoxically in his time of need Rockefeller had unsolicited backing from the often hos tile democratic leadership in the legislature. But the democrats had reasons other than sympathy for the governor. For one thing most of the democrats live in new York City and were personally of. Felted by the garbage strike. Most also regard Lindsay As an Arch political enemy and Are inclined to be contrary where he is concerned. From a political viewpoint they could accept the Rockefeller plan because it pleased organized labor with whom Many democratic lawmakers have a firm Alliance. An added Factor is that the democrats never have been Happy about the Tay Lor Law which Lindsay and other Rockefeller critics have accused the governor of under mining. I around the around the around the

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