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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - February 23, 1968, Norwich, New York The weather fair to partly Cloudy and cold tonight Low temperatures Zero to 5 above. Sat urday increasing cloudiness with High temperatures in the 20s. The evening Sun Chenango county s daily newspaper vol. La no. 241 Sun spots Norwich rotary to sponsor Bloodmobile visit Page 7 Sandra Piper writes from Costa Rica Page 7 concert association membership drive ends saturday Page 3 Friday february 23, 1968 Norwich . 13815 8c per copy Hue and Khe Sanh pounded by pc state nation world asserted authority Tokyo a Mao tse Tung asserted his shaky authority Over Kwangung province by setting up a ruling revolutionary committee there. But witness said scores of chinese were killed and wounded at the inauguration. Travellers reaching Hong Kong reported that fighting broke out among rival factions battling for places at the Mammoth inaugural attended by an estimated 600,000persons. One traveler said he counted about a Hundred bodies of persons who had been beaten to death with clubs and other crude weapons. Another informant said the fighting spread and the was called in to quell it. Peking a official new China news Agency Nina which reported the a triumphant establishment of the committee made no reference to trouble. Recent differences have Arisen Between rival organizations Mao tse Tung Mao in the Southern province of which claim to support 40 million people. Boycott planned Salt Lake City a word that the International Longshoreman a Union was planning to Boycott incoming foreign Copper at . Ports provided an apparent lift to sagging morale at picket Sites in the Salt Lake Valley thursday. A i just wish they had done that five or six months ago a said Veteran Cooper worker Lou Chase 59, of Magna Utah a Copper mining town on the end of Salt Lake Valley. Warrant issued St. Petersburg Fla. A an arrest warrant has been issued for Lawrence m. Rhodes jr., 28, of Welch w. Va., on charges of hijacking an Airliner and forcing its 108 occupants to Fly to Cuba. Rhodes a native of West Virginia a Coal mine Region who told acquaintances he was the son of a Rich new Mexico Man was accused by the Fri of hijacking the Delta airlines dc8 wednesday and kidnapping its occupants. The warrant was issued thursday. The Fri said Rhodes was also wanted in the Christmas eve robbery of a $12,000 Coal company payroll in West Virginia slogan county. A Rhodes is believed to have been living recently in the Tampa Fla., area with his wife Marjorie a said Fred Frohbose special agent in charge of the Fri in Miami. Havana radio in its account of How Rhodes jammed a pistol beneath a stewardess ear and forced the Captain to divert the Miami bound plane listed a St. Petersburg address for Rhodes. Rocky Speaks out new York Agov. Nelson a. Rockefeller says americans cannot solve their Domestic or International problems by pulling a gun or calling out the troops or dropping a bomb which he said Many favor when frustrated. The Republican governor who spoke with newsmen thursday was asked if he believed the time for Vietnam peace talks had arrived. He replied that he was a just talking about the principle not making a specific application to a situation concerning which As i have said Many times i done to have detailed Rockefeller made it Clear that his comment on reactions to Domestic problems was a reference to the recent strike by new York City a 10,000 sanitation men during which he rejected mayor John v. Lidsay a request that he Call out the National guard to Clear away the mountains of garbage and trash. He again defended his refusal to Call out guardsmen on the ground it might have caused violence in the streets. Morton not a candidate Louisville by. Congressional sources say sen. Thruston b. Morton r-ky., May announce that he will not seek a third term but will retire from Congress for reasons of health. The 60-year-old former Republican National chairman called a news conference today but declined any Advance comment a fall i can say is that in a going to have a press conference. In a not going to say anything until the sources said thursday night gop officials and the senators associates were trying to persuade Morton not to retire. Morton has been considered by some As a Likely successor to the republicans Senate floor Leader Everett m. Dirksen or even a contender for the vice presidential nomination. Market report at 11 05 a.m., Continental Telephone corp. Was 26v2 open and last 26 5/8 High 26 3/s Low . Fishman 13v4 High Low and last . Grant 30 5/8 open 30 is High and last 30/2 Low Montgomery Ward 24 open 24 3/s High 23 7/8 Low and last Norwich Pha Macal co. 40 3/4 open and High 40 Low and last. Over the counter general lab oratory associates i2v2 bid 14 offered Gladding corp. 1814 bid 18 3/4 offered mid states raceway 7v4 bid 8 offered Raymond corp. 27 bid 29 offered Victory markets 92 bid iov4 offered National Bank and Trust co. Of Norwich 54 bid Chenango county National Bank of Norwich 300 bid. Corp. Donald g. Brant killed in Vietnam War yet Cong try desperately to reinforce the Citadel a 21-year-old Marine is the City of Norwich a first fatality in the War in Vietnam. He is Corporal Donald Gene Brant son of Francis a. And Mary Frances Sapp Brant of 20 state Street. The . Marine corps has reported that corp. Brant was killed in action on feb. 20. Corporal Brant died As a result of a gunshot wound suffered while on patrol. At the time of his death his unit was operating near Danang in Quang Nam province Republic of Vietnam. Corporal Brant was born March 4, 1947 in Norwich attended school Here and was graduated from Norwich High school in 1965. After graduation he was employed at Chenango memorial Hospital and at the Taco Plant in Norwich. On aug. To 1966 he enlisted in the Marine corps and had been in Vietnam since May 1.1967. He was wound corp. Brant de in August 1967 but returned to duty. The Corporal was a member of Norwich Lodge 1043, . Besides his parents he is sur Vived but four great aunts miss Minnie Sapp and mrs. Albe Carter of Jacksonville Fla., mrs. William Miller of Baxley ga., and mrs. Clair Johnson of Douglas a. Two great uncles also survive flank and Walter Sapp of Baxley a. Military honors will be accorded by the . Marine corps Headquarters Oneonta. Funeral services will be announced at a later Date pending notification by . Marine corps Headquarters Washington , Brown is in court Copper strike poses election year problem today Miami Beach Fla. Apr the escalating Copper strike Battle is posing rapidly mount ing election year problems for both president Johnson and his political allies in the labor movement. Gov. Wallace Quot quite Good after surgery Montgomery Ala. Apr gov. Lurleen Wallace has in. De gone her third operation for cancer and her doctors say they Are a quite pleased with what the operation actually did reveal and could not really be More satisfied with the findings. A a the report from the team of physicians came thursday after a malignant tumor was re moved from mrs. Wallace s a. Domen. Another medical bulletin on her condition is planned about mid morning some 14 hours aft. Or mrs. Wallace Spost operative condition was pronounced a quite the 41.year-old governor spent approximately four hours on the operating table Here thursday afternoon As surgeons removed a radiation shrivelled cancerous tumor and a Section of her Bowel. Examination of the liver Lym. Phatic system and other Abdom Inal organs they said revealed that they were Normal. It was the third cancer opera Tion for mrs. Wallace in about two years and followed by Sev. In months the removal of an malignancy and a Sec. Tion of her Colon in an operation at m. In Anderson Hospital and tumor Institute in Houston Tex. Al Cio unions who now View the strike As a vital test of labors strength against americans corporate giants stepped up the pressure with a threatened boy. Cott of multimillion Dollar cop per imports. A a we be got to bring these Copper Barons into the 20th Cen. Tury a said Al Cio president George Meany in announcing a major financial drive among All 128 Al Cio unions to help the Copper strikers. The 26 unions representing 60,000 strikers in the 22. State walkout have already poured far More than $15 million into strike benefits. Although expressing Confidence in eventual Victory Union sources Are privately express ing deep concern Over these. Vere financial Drain. The United steelworkers in. Ion the major Force behind the strike is already feeling the i. Mancial Pinch and a prolonged Copper strike could affect its bargaining strength with the big steel Industry later this year. The steelworkers plan a special convention to raise dues to replenish strike fund coffers. Johnson so far has refrained from invoking an 80-Day Taft Hartley a Cooling off injunction and declined Industry de. Mands to release Copper from government stockpiles. The politically powerful unions already committed to sup. Port for Johnson a re election in november have made it known either move by the administration would be regarded As a hostile act. But the threatened Boycott on the docks of . East and Gulf coast ports could dry up sup. Plies of foreign Copper and Force a major showdown. Richmond a. Apr Black Power militant h. Rap Brown comes into Federal court Here today to try to explain his weekend trip to California to a judge who ordered him not to leave new York. The hearing before . District judge Robert r. Merhige or. Was the second of its kind within three Days for Brown. Several charges have been filed against Brown during the past seven months. Judge Merhige freed Brown or finn Hom Fol but. 19 pending the outcome of his a. Peal of a Virginia decision to extradite him to Maryland where he is wanted for trials on charges of inciting to riot and arson. But the judge specified that except to attend court proceed Ings Brown was not to leave the judicial District of new York state the residence of his coun Sel William Kunstler. Bushy haired Man is sought Washington apr the government is throwing Large numbers of Federal Bureau of investigation agents into the search for the Early morning bomber who touched off a blast at the soviet embassy. Scores of Fri men govern ment demolitions experts and Washington policemen have been working Over the debris on the embassy grounds since the explosion wednesday morning. So far they have not been Able to determine or have chosen not to report publicly the Type of explosive used. An intensive search is being made for a Man seen by a cab Driver who was close to the building when the bomb went off on a window ledge. Cabbie Richard e. West told police he attempted to drive after the Man who was on foot but lost him after he rounded a Corner. Protectors defense directors who shoulder responsibility of North american air defense command Norad Are air Force Raymond j. Reeves right commander in chief and Royal Canadian air Force air marshal w. R. Macbrien Deputy commander. They Are shown at their command positions in Norado a underground combat operations Center shielded by a steel building inside a Granite Mountain near Colorado Springs Colo. Saigon apr North Viet namese threw a new battalion of troops at hues Citadel thursday and on another front sent their heaviest artillery barrage in two weeks thundering Down on the . Marine com Bat base at Khe Sanh. Military spokesmen said the communist battalion of perhaps 500 men stormed the Northwest Wall of the Cita Del in Hue in an attempt to rein. Force the besieged communist troops inside the fortress. South vietnamese officers in Danang said government forces counterattacked and drove the enemy off killing 223 communist troops. They said South vietnamese casualties were Light. With the Battle for Hue in its 24th Day . Military spokes men said the North vietnamese and Viet Cong Are a very desperately trying to reinforced the Citadel where an estimated 350 or More red troops hold part of the Southern Wall and the and. Joining Palace compound where Vietnam a emperors lived in the 19th Century. The . Spokesman said the government troops were react ing quickly and effectively and killed another 126 enemy troops in a series of six lesser clashes most of them holdouts or infiltrators in the Northwest Section of the fortress. Government Cas. Salties again were termed Light. Vietnam press the govern ment news Agency reported that two companies of South vietnamese marines captured one Gate of the inner walled pal. Ace just inside the outer South Wall. The communist command Post is reported to be inside the inner Palace grounds. . Marines reported killing 21 communist troops in clashes thursday As they secured the East Wall of the Citadel. But a correspondent George Mcarthur reported from Hue that the communists in strength still held the East Bank of a canal running parallel to the East Wall. Just to the North and West of Hue More than 1,000 air cavalrymen and paratroopers were fighting a running Battle to Block communist reinforce ments and supplies headed for Hue. The . Command reported that the american Force had killed 163 enemy troops in the past two Days and captured 92 masks apparently consigned to the communist forces in Hue where the marines have been using tear on enemy Posi. Tons. Twelve americans were reported killed and 137 wounded in these operations. On the Northwest Frontier where an estimated 40,000 North vietnamese troops Are poised communist gunners slammed 377 rocket mortar and artillery rounds thursday into the . Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and Marine positions flanking it. The barrages killed nine americans wounded 22, destroyed a big ch53 helicopter and damaged a twin engine cl23 cargo plane. Twenty Miles to the Northeast nearly 300 mortar and artillery rounds hit the Marine outpost at con to Linen just below the Demil. Itari Zed zone. But the hunkered marines reported Only two men wounded. Air Force b52 bombers made two strikes thursday and two More today on the enemy gun positions around Khe Sanh. Little ground action was re. Ported elsewhere and for the first time in three weeks there was no report of fighting in the suburbs of Saigon. In the Mekong Delta thurs Day South vietnamese infantry men of the 9th division killed 40 guerrillas in a Battle two Miles Northeast of my Tho. Nine government troops were killed 37 were wounded and three a Mored personnel carriers were destroyed or damaged by ene my rockets a government spokesman said. . Warplanes flew through the Monsoon overcast in North Vietnam to attack the Hoa Lac Airfield 20 Miles West of Hanoi. Pilots used radar to guide them because of the murky weather. Other strikes were aimed at two radar Sites 85 Miles Northwest of Hanoi and at highways and storage areas in Central and Southern North Vietnam. Gen. Earle g. Wheeler chair Man of the joint chiefs of staff arrived in Saigon presumably to determine whether Saigon woman prays tear fully after being Force to flee during fighting within the Capi. Tol City. The number of . Troops in Vietnam should be increased above the present allotted quota of 525,000 because of the setback dealt by the communist Offen. Sive against South Vietnam a cities and towns and the threat to Khe Sanh and the other Marine posts along the demilitarized zone. Informed sources in washing ton said the callup of 50,000 National guardsmen and Marine reserves is one of several of. Tons being considered. Study new Long Range missiles Washington apr Navy engineers Are studying a possible new generation of Long. Range missiles that would be fired while floating upright on the Ocean s surface like partially submerged Bowling pins. Pentagon sources said such a missile would be released from a submarine and then fired by Remote control As it bobbed on the surface. A weighted Bottom would keep the missile from tip Ping Over. Target information would be fed into the missile s guidance system before it was released from its submarine source said. The proposed new system would be cheaper and simpler than the Polaris submarine with its complicated mechanisms for launching and firing missiles. The new weapons would have a Range of about 6,000 Miles roughly twice that of the most advanced current submarine fired missile the Poseidon. This new approach is one of four being kept on the Back Burner for possible development in the event the soviet Union achieves significantly greater accuracy with its intercontinental missiles and thus threatens the survivability of land based american missiles. The other approaches involve a placing Poseidon missiles on surface ships. A mounting land based inter Continental ballistic missiles on trucks so they might be moved about to foil a knockout blow. A creation of an entirely new Long Range land based missile fired from a revolutionary Type of silo which would be specially concealed and protected. These concepts emerged from a study project ordered by Secretary of defense Robert s. Mcnamara in late 1966. Called Strat a the study s objective was to examine a future ballistic missile Basing concepts and missile performance characteristics required to counter potential soviet strategic Offen Sive forces and proliferation of antimissile systems. National guard and Marine reserves May be called up Washington apr about 50,000 National guardsmen and Marine reserves would be called up under a plan tentatively pro. Posed by the joint chiefs of staff to Bridge a Vietnam War caused Home forces manpower . But in sketching details of the pcs plan sources said thurs. Day night it is Only one of a number of options being consid ered to reinforce .-based forces depleted by the wars needs for troops. The sources said the pcs pro. To Sale which also Calls for put. Ting on Alert another 130,000 or so reservists for possible later callup May differ from propos. Als by the and the other services for solving the prob. Lem. National guard sources said they anticipated a of up to 90,000 guardsmen and re. Serviss but other sources Dis. Counted such an estimate As premature. Word of the pcs proposal leaked out As the chiefs chair Man Gen. Earle a Wheeler arrived in Vietnam after an in. Announced flight from washing. Ton for a visit expected to last several Days. Wheeler told newsmen in Saigon his purpose in making the trip was to get first hand information on the wars course in. Formation that presumably would include future troop requirements. President Johnson has said the United states will up its troop ceiling now set for 525,000 by july in if a larger Force is needed. A number of High ranking members of congressional com. Uni Trees dealing with military affairs have recently bemoaned what they say is a reduction to dangerously now Levels of forces based in the United states. Such forces ostensibly for use in emergencies that might arise around the world were further reduced by last weeks presi. Dental order sending 10,500 paratroopers and marines to Vietnam on a deployment basis to meet a West. Moreland request. In another Viet Nam related development Robert s. Mcna Mara speedily accepted sen. J. W. Fulbright a request to make Public the Secretary of defense a full congressional testimony on the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Pentagon Security censors working on a Federal Holiday thursday at Mcnamrar a Behest cleared for Public release All but 250 words in the 62,200 words of testimony the defense chief gave the Senate foreign relations committee in closed session earlier this week. Mcnamara a move was the latest in his ongoing Battle with Capitol Hill critics of . War policy about the August 1964 a. engagement that touched off massive . Military Escala. Tion in Vietnam. Fulbright the Arkansas dem. Cerat and foreign relations committee chairman claimed a 21, statement my. Namara issued the Day of the hearing told Only the adminis. To ration a Side of the incident. Today a chuckle every Mother knows which Side the bread is buttered on the Side the kids drop on the floor. Today around the around the around the Nelson Rockefeller

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