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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - February 15, 1968, Norwich, New York The weather variable cloudiness and occasional Snow flurries through riday. Low temperatures night around to highs on Fri Day 20 to 25. The e evening Sun Chenango county s daily newspaper vol. La no. 235thursday, february 15, 168 Norwich . 13815 8� per copy s in spots county Board meets Page 3 a no Progress Quot reported in drug co Union dispute Page 3. Preferred Mutual reports gains Page 5..marines bomb historic Citadel today \ a round the state around thu it nation around the world Wallace names running mate Richard a Nixon gov. George Romney riot equipment stockpiled Washington a the army i s stockpiling riot control equipment in strategically located depots across the country officials said today and is ready to Airlift it to any City if civil disorders break out next summer. Market report at 11 10 a.rn., Continental Telephone corp. Was 28 open and High 27% Low and last Norwich Pha Macal co. 40 High Low and last . Grant 30% open and Low 30% High 30% last Montgomery wards 23v4 open and Low 23% High 23% last . Fishman 13% High Low and last. Over the counter general Laboratory associates 13 bid 15 asked mid states raceway 7% bid 8 asked Raymond corp. 27 a bid 28 asked Victory markets 9% bid to asked Gladding corp. 13% bid 15 asked National Bank and Trust co. Of Norwich 54 bid Chenango co. National Bank of nor wich 300 heartland under bombardment a Tanta cd. A presidential candidate George c. Wallace has chosen As his temporary or maybe permanent running mate a former Georgia governor who was championing states rights advocating segregation and criticising the supreme court Long before Wallace. The former Alabama governor tapped the weekly newspaper publisher Marvin q Tiffin wednesday As the Man whose name will be paired with him on the ballot of several states which require that vice presidential candidates be named Well ahead of time. The a temporary Quot tag attached George 1� the Griffin candidacy was not detailed but Wallace Wallace is considering an Independent convention and such a convention if held might decide to name a vice presidential nominee to pair with Wallace. A the Griffin May Well be the vice presidential candidate Quot Wallace said but he said the main problem now is getting on the ballot of As Many states As possible. To fight Mills Miami Beach flu. Apr Al Cio political strategists plan to urge president Johnson into an open fight against rep. Wilbur Mills d-ark., to win enactment of the presidents proposed to per cent income tax surcharge. Labor sources believe Johnson income tax Bill is dead unless he appeals to the voters Over the head of Mills who is chairman of the House ways and Means committee and a chief congressional opponent of the proposed tax hike. A unless pressure is built up in the congressional districts there Isnit going to be a tax Bill Quot said one High Al Cio political expert who works closely with Congress and the White House. A a we re going to Start giving him hell Quot the source said of the Al Cion a plans to fight Mills in the sense of Johnson a income tax measure. Nixon lashes strikers Boston apr Richard m. Nixon has brought the strike of sanitation workers in new York City into his presidential Campaign declaring that breaking the Law a cannot and must not be twice his statements about the strike touched off j thunderous applause As he campaigned in new Hampshire for its March 12 presidential primary the earliest in the nation. Nixon is in Boston today for a $500 per ticket fundraising event a meeting with Massachusetts gov. John a. Volpe and an address to the 101st annual Middlesex club Lincoln Day dinner. He told a tightly packed audience of 1,480 at a Republican rally in Derry ., wednesday a there is no protest that justifies the use of lawlessness or violence to accomplish its state democrats support lbs Buffalo . Apr a Resolution supporting president Johnson for re election but skirting the Vietnam Issue received overwhelming approval from the new York state democratic committee wednesday. The state committee however declined to support a second Resolution endorsing the presidents Vietnam War policies As a majority of the delegates voted to table the measure. The first Resolution drafted by Erie county democratic committee chairman Joseph f. Crangle won 51 votes from the 57 delegates present. The Crangle Resolution included a Blanket commendation of . Sen. Robert f. Kennedy d-. And 26 democratic congressmen in the state. Romney issues warning Manchester Apr gov. George Romney said today that a two or three situations similar to Vietnam could develop simultaneously Quot in the decade ahead and the United states must not spread its Povier so thin As to Render it impotent. A we must not be impetuous about jumping off to tomorrows trouble spots Quot the Michigan governor said in a position paper on foreign policy. A for our resources Are not unlimited. A we must not spread ourselves so thin that we become impotent Quot said Romney Campaign ing for the Republican presidential nomination. A that is what the communists a we must not spread our time or consume our energies running around on a bucket brigade trying to put out every fire that comes along Quot he said. A i believe we Are slipping too far into the role of trying to solve All Saigon a �?. Marine jets bombed the massive Brownstone Walls of hues historic Citadel today for the first time in the 16-Day struggle to crush the communist attack in the former Imperial capital. But there was no immediate word that the leathernecks on the ground made any gains against the stubborn North vietnamese holed up inside. Over North Vietnam two More . Planes were lost wednesday As american warplanes hit the Hanoi heartland wednesday with the heaviest strikes in six weeks. . Pilots said they pounded the vital canal Des Rapides Bridge just outside Hanoi and two airfields with 3,000-Pound bombs and knocked out four missile Sites in the protective ring around the communist capital. The United states has now announced the loss of 790 american combat planes in the three years of air War against North Vietnam. Another american planet which the Pentagon said was unarmed was shot Down by red chinese Over China Shai Nan Island tuesday night and the . Command reported earlier that american pilots shot Down two communist migs wednesday Northwest of Hanoi. Other . Air Force fighter bombers joined american ground troops army helicopter gunships and artillery 13 Miles Northwest of Saigon in a massive attack on a communist Force caught in the open this morning. A sweep of the area after the Battle produced 127 enemy bodies the . Command reported. In Hue . And South vietnamese pilots unleashed bombs rockets and napalm on sections of the old walled Citadel where the remnants of a North vietnamese regiment stubbornly held out. Marine officers said the pilots were bombing with a discretion Quot trying to avoid historical and architectural treasures. South vietnamese soldiers towed away the last floating Span of a Pontoon Bridge across the perfume River reducing the flow of refugees from the Citadel Side of the River because enemy troops were believed among the crosses. . Troops had noted a a lot of what you Call draft age men coming across As refugees Quot said maj. Joseph m. Gratto 31, of Canton ., intelligence officer of the 5th Marine regiment. He said that with the pounding . Warplanes Lave been dealing the communists a we think some of them Are trying to get artillery fire As Well As air raids was used to soften up the communist positions in the massive Walls before Allied ground troops tried an assault. There were rumours that one artillery round fell Short and hit a theater housing refugees. A ifs possible Quot said Gratto. A the theater would be in the target laotians attacked by Viet Cong Vietnam apr laotian government troops skirmishes with comm., Ai v North vietnamese attackers wednesday morning around Saravane in Southeastern i Laos laotian military sources report id. Two laotian outposts were attacked and the government forces move-1 out of their positions which were not entrenched. The two forces Are engage in a perennial shifting game of a hide and seek Quot the sources a i the aria is about 50 mile East of the vietnamese Border and roughly parallel to Danang. Quot to Oxford and Coventry a firemen Battle fire which gutted photo by Riley the trailer Home of or. And mrs. Ter Day afternoon. Four persons were left homeless by the Blaze. Michael Ryan near Oxford yes four homeless after trailer fire legislature is on standby basis talks give no basis for halting bombing a o Washington apr the latest round of peace probing Between the United states and North Vietnam has not produced any basis for halting the bombing of the North and opening peace talks. But Secretary of state Dean Rusk in reporting this wednesday declared the United states remains interested a in a serious move toward peace when Hanoi comes to the conclusion that it is ready to move in that Rusk issued a statement after reports from Paris and Rome of intense diplomatic activity on the peace front involving . Secretary general u Thant and foreign minister Amintore fan. Fani of Italy. Both have talked with North vietnamese representatives. U Thant spent 75 minutes in Paris wednesday with Mai Van to chief North vietnamese representative there. News dispatches reported he left the meeting convinced North vietnamese and . Positions Are too far apart to provide Hope for any Early peace conference. Fanfani met Early this month with two Hanoi representatives who arrived in Rome feb. 4 and left feb. 6, according to an announcement of the italian for eign ministry. A report of his discussions was dispatched to the state department Here immediately after the talks. The department was also re ported to have been informed of Thant a contacts with North vietnamese officials in the course of a trip that has taken him to Moscow and new Delhi As Well As Paris. State department press offi. Cer Robert j. Mccloskey asked whether rusks totally negative report on the probing covered the Thant and Fanfani explore today s chuckle husband painting House to neighbor washing win Dows a a you re Lucky Only getting a two week vacation. I get Tion replied a it takes into account everything we a at no time has Hanoi indicated publicly or privately Quot Rusk said in a statement a that it will refrain from taking military advantage of any cessation of the bombing of North Viet Nam. Nor has it shown any in Terest in preliminary discus Sions to arrange a general president Johnson who has been kept closely informed of All the exploratory discussions Laid Down the Basic . Position in a september speech at san Antonio Tex. No Steps up recruiting Albany . Apr state leaders of the National Farmers organization stepped up their recruiting drive today after hearing the groups National president urge them a to get every new member you Oren Lee Staley told the 300 delegates to the first convention of no members from new York and new Jersey in a Tele phoned Appeal wednesday that they must be ready when the organizations milk withhold ing action is resumed this Spring. A you can turn new York and new Jersey upside Down Quot Sta. Ley asserted by bringing More members into the no and refusing to sell Dairy products at Low prices. Staley spoke from Corning Iowa where the no has its National Headquarters. The anticipated milk Boycott is the third phase of an All commodity holding action that began Jan. La. No members attempted to keep grains and meat off the markets in Many states in a bid to win Price increases for Farmers. No Date has been announced for the milk withholding. The convention delegates elected John Livingston of Delanson Southwest of Albany to the 32.member National Board at Corning. Albany . A the legislature kept itself on a standby basis today ready to address itself again to the new York City garbage problem if necessary but hoping that May or John v. Lindsay will work out his own solution. Senate and Assembly leaders decided wednesday that it would be Safe to suspend operations for the week and adjourn until next monday. But majority Leader Earl w. Brydges told members of the Senate they should be prepared to reconvene quickly if a new emergency flared in the City. Speaker Anthony j. Travia said he also would Call his mein hers Back from their Home districts if developments warranted. Meanwhile Lindsay pursued efforts in the City to forge a final settlement of the labor Dis Pute that led to the nine Day strike of sanitation workers. They returned to their jobs Only after gov. Rockefeller said the state would take Over the City sanitation department and give the workers a larger pay raise than Lindsay would allow. After two Days of struggling with a Bill Rockefeller offered to implement his plan leaders of the legislature asked Lindsay tuesday to take another crack at resolving the dispute himself. In adjourning the Assembly wednesday Travia said he would defer action on the legislation As Long As negotiations Between the City and the Sanita Tion workers Union continued. Brydges said he was adjourning the Senate a in Hope that both parties intend in Good Faith to resolve this dispute at the local level of us feel that it thus the legislature closed out a three Day work week that was almost entirely preoccupied with the City a garbage crisis. Oxford a a family of four was left homeless yesterday of. Ter noon when fire swept through their trailer off the East River v Road about five Miles South of x Oxford. Blaze broke out about 4 45 win. At the Home of Michael Ryan according to Oxford fire chief Clifford a Chuck Quot Ross. The family which included two Small children were at or. Ryan a parents Home located nearby firemen said. The fire was discovered by or. Ryan s father who was emerging from his barn and about the same time by state Highway workers who were passing by. Exact cause of the Blaze has not been determined the chief said although the fire seemed to be behind a Gas water Heater. Some 30 men answered the alarm and Coventry was summoned by Mutual Aid. Firemen said the c4-by-12 foot Home purchased in september was completely gutted by the flames. A chair and a living room Couch were the Only items saved authorities said. The trailer was reported to have been insured but not the contents. The family is staying with or. Ryan a parents. Vance says talks have been a Good and very useful Seoul apr . Presidential envoy Cyrus Vance left for Washington today saying his talks with South korean leaders had been a Good and very South korean officials expressed general satisfaction but legislative spokesmen of both the government and opposition parties were critical. Vance promised the South koreans a immediate consultations Quot whenever their Security is threatened. But he walked at the demand for a pledge of immediate retaliation. The official spokesman for the ruling democratic Republican party said a it is hard to believe that the contents of the communique would eliminate the Peoples worries about increased North korean assemblyman Kim Yung Sam floor Leader of the opposition new democratic party said a so Little has been achieved that we wonder for what the american presidential envoy Vance and South korean president Chung Hee Park wound up four Days of bargain ing sessions with a joint communique which denounced the a increasingly aggressive and violent actions of the North korean communists Over the past 14 months in violation of the armistice the communique said Vance and Park a recognized the need for continuing modernization Quot of South koreans armed forces and Seoul a plan to bolster its defences by arming korean War veterans. This indicated that the United states had made some commitment in response to demands for modern arms and equip. W. Sicily still stunned Palermo Sicily apr one month after the earthquake that killed hundreds of persons and wrecked or damaged 51 communities Western Sicily is still stunned bewildered and afraid. Nearly All of the 50,000 Home less Are still living in tents or in requisitioned buildings Miles from their former Homes. So far 235 bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the 12 farm towns that were closest to the Center of the quake. But scarcely a Day goes by without another body or two being found by teams digging away at the wreckage. It May be years before All the wreckage is cleared. Three towns Gibellina Sala. Paruta and Montevago Are but piles of ruin on the Mountain sides. In others like Santa Margherita Belice Santa Ninfa Salemi and poggioreale most of the buildings still standing Are not Safe. Nearly All will have to come Down. Every Day trucks and bulldozers pick away at the debris. More earthmoving equipment arrives from other parts of Italy. But one month after the quake Jan. 15, the wreckage looks almost untouched except for pathways cleared through it. For the refugees in the Countryside churches and hospitals have been set up under Canvas. At the tent City outside Santa Ninfa social workers have started a kindergarten. But everywhere one hears the same anguished question a when can we at least move into the bar Racks Quot most of the refugees Are living in tent Camps Miles from their Homes. Some of the men tried to get to the Fields to work but the distances were too great. There have been no facilities for truck or bus shuttles. The Barracks Are close to Home. There have been More than 115 aftershocks since the discs. Trout quake and almost daily new ones Ripple through Western Sicily. Palermo and other major Cit ies escaped serious damage but panic sent a Large part of the population Pell Mell into the Countryside. Fearing that one of the after shocks May wreck the cities thousands have still not returned. Thousands More who live on upper floors have moved in with friends or relatives on lower stories. There is still fear of Eidem. Is. When meningitis broke out Early this month there was a run on sulfa drugs. Fights broke out among customers. A Black Market sprang up. Many still take daily doses of sulfa pills despite warnings in the press that this could be Hari Ful the meningitis fears closed Palermo a schools. They have not reopened. Ment particularly heavy arms. Much of South koreans Arsenal is of world War ii Vintage. Vance and Park held their second meeting Only 31/2 hours after the . Envoy had emerged from an All night session with foreign minister Chol Kyu hah. Vance and Park pledged that their governments would con. Suit at once to determine what action should be taken under their Mutual defense pact if communist aggression continued. They also agreed that the . And South korean defense ministers would meet annually to discuss Security problems. Park and his aides had tried to persuade the United states to commit itself to a immediate retaliatory measures jointly with the Republic of Korea Quot in the event of a major red attack. Vance arrived Here sunday to try to smooth .-South korean relations which were strained by the . Response to the North korean attempt to assassinate president Park Jan. 21, and the seizure of the Pueblo two Days later. The South koreans claimed that the americans paid More attention to the ship seizure than to the attempt on Parks life and demanded Quick action to beef up South koreans de sense. There was Strong criticism of . Policy. Korean sources said Park was still not completely satisfied with the results of Vance a visit. President Johnson last week asked Congress for a special a. Propri Tion of $100 million for South korean defences. Some South koreans in hich places said this was inadequate and that the assignment of anti guerrilla equipment would be far from enough help. The communique did not men. Tion the secret .-North to. Rean talks at Panmunjom on the Fate of the Pueblo Crew. Foreign minister Choi told newsmen however that his government would cooperate with . Of. Forts to obtain release of the crewmen through the Panmunjom talks

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