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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - February 27, 1968, Norwich, New York The weather mostly Cloudy with a Chance of occasional Snow flurries tonight and wednesday. Low temperatures tonight in tile 20s and highs on wednesday near 30. The be n in g Chenango county a daily newspaper in vol. La no. 243 tuesday february 27, 168 Norwich. . 1381 8c per copy Sun spots route 23 bids to be opened april la Page 5 Guernsey Library completion expected by May Page 3 Sherburne Board asks support of building program Page 7enemy tanks penetrate state nation world Illinois has problems Chicago apr state demo cratic leaders continue considering today candidates for the party ticket amid controversy Over Adlai e. Stevenson Illus stance on supporting the Johnson administrations Vietnam policy. The leaders headed by Chicago mayor Richard j. Daley finished listening to various aspirants monday night but put off announcing the party a 1968 candidates for . Senators governor and other state offices. Their closed door sessions started late because Many of the officials attended the funeral of former sen. Scott w. Lucas earlier in the Day. Stevenson 37, made another bid for the office of governor. He did not alter his stated position that he might disagree with president Johnson a Vietnam policy if he were slated for the Senate race to oppose Republican Everett m. Dirksen. Or. Pressman Dies Rich mayor Ard Daley Angeles apr or. Joel l. Pressman 67, of actress Claudette Colbert died monday of los husband cancer. Pressman a Larynx specialist., was a professor and chief of the division of head and neck surgery at the medical school of the University of California at los Angeles. . Creates a cd Washington apr the United states is a creating More Viet Cong than we Are destroying a says Arthur z. Gardiner former director of the american foreign Aid Agency in Saigon who now Heads a federally backed organization operating there. Saying he was expressing his personal views Gardiner told an interviewer the United states should try hard for a peace settlement and pull its forces out of Vietnam. He said such an approach would save american lives because a we Are going Down now on a course that has no ending a unless we do something different. We Are going to be Hope Lessly bogged Down in a major land War in Asia which our military leaders have said we should avoid at All relax censorship new York a Pete Seeger a singing of an Antiwar song a big Muddy a sunday night on the smothers Brothers Tele vision show constituted an a obvious relaxation of censorship of the show a Columbia broadcasting system spokesman said monday. A it was scheduled for the first show of the season and found objectionable a said a spokesman for the network who asked not to be identified. That lbs allowed Seeger to sing it this time was an a obvious relaxation of censorship a he said. The last chorus of the song which tells of soldiers on Maneu vers being led into Quicksand by a Captain referred to As a the big fool a was Cut from at least one lbs affiliate wbk to in Detroit. Reach agreement Santa be . Apr gov. David f. Cargo and representatives of the new Mexico Educa Tion association announced today an agree ment designed to meet demands of the association which has been threatening a teachers strike. However the action came too late to keep some schools from being closed today by teacher walk outs an association spokesman said. The agreement reached in 13 hours of negotiations that began monday Calls for the governor to name a nine member emergency task Force and direct it to a de. Zelop a comprehensive program to improve education for All children in new the task Force will be charged with developing a comprehensive and feasible program for improved education for implementation during the 1968.69 school year. The task Force is to prepare its recommendations for legislative action no later than april 15. Cargo cast aside an Nemea deadline to Call a legislative session by noon monday. He contended lawmakers needed a Concrete program to work with. David f. Cargo Market report at 11 10 , Continental Telephone corp. Was 26% open 26% Low 26% High and last . Fishman 13% open 13v4 Low 13% High and last . Grant 31% open and High 31% Low and last Montgomery Ward 24% open and Low 25 High and last Norwich Pha Macal co. 40% open and Low 41 High and last general instruments corp. 43% open 44% High 43% Low 44 last. Over the counter general lab. Oratory associates 12% bid 14% offered mid states race Way 7% bid 8 offered Raymond copy. 27 bid 29 offered Victory markets 9% bid 10% offered Gladding corp. 16 bid 16% offered National Bank and Trust co. Of nor wich 54 bid Chenango Ca National Bank of Norwich 300 bid. Today around the around the around the new buildup along cambodian Border feared by allies Saigon apr communist tanks were reported monday night Only 50 Miles Northwest of Saigon in their deepest penetration of South Vietnam. South vietnamese military Headquarters said a Force of civilian irregulars and their . Special forces advisers came on a column of three tanks and a half tracked armoured person Nel Carrier near the cambodian Border. The . Command identified the vehicles Only As a a armoured vehicles of an unspecified Type accompanied by an estimated battalion about 400 men of enemy troops. The appearance of communist armoured forces in the area and so far South raised the possibility of a menacing new enemy buildup along the cambodian Border. Previously the presence of enemy tanks has been confirmed Only in the Northwest Corner of the country near the . Marine combat base at Khe Sanh. The . Command said the Allied Force blew up one of the vehicles with antitank rockets and the explosion killed 30 enemy soldiers. A to blow up that hard it had to have a lot of ammunition in it a one . Officer said. Some South vietnamese sources said there were reports the tanks were russian t34s, a world War ii weapon. The . Command said that after nearly two hours of fighting the vehicles that were still Mobile and the remainder of the enemy Force broke Contact and fled to the West presumably to Cambodia. But a . Spokes Man said the enemy later launched a counterattack and the Force of about too South vietnamese and americans then withdrew. Neither the South vietnamese nor american spokesmen had any reports of the armoured vehicles opening fire. The . Command said there were no american casualties and South vietnamese casualties were South vietnamese head quarters said the government troops suffered no casualties. Speculation about a new communist buildup along the cambodian Border was strengthened by another Green Beret ambush earlier monday at Loc Ninh 80 Miles North of Saigon. The americans and their South vietnamese irregulars pounced on a 21/2-ton truck carrying communist troops destroyed the Lehi Cie and killed 17 of the enemy the . Command said. One american was wounded and South vietnamese casualties were again described As Light. Loc Ninh was the Kickoff Point for a communist offensive late last october. For a week the enemy tried to overrun the District Headquarters compound a special forces Camp and a . 1st infantry division patrol and artillery base. But they were beaten Back after More than 1,000 were killed. Undeterred the reds attacked government District towns and . Reinforcements along the cambodian Border and struck at the Budop special forces Camp. Communist gunners again shelled Saigon Stan son Nhut airbase Early today and other sections of the capital and its suburbs. No casualties and Only Light damage were reported at the sprawling military and civilian air base but South vietnamese military spokesmen said More than too Homes outside the base were set afire and there were some civilian casualties. In the Northwest Corner of the country where the communists used tanks for the first time in the War to overrun the Lang Vei special forces Camp three weeks ago communist shelling of the . Marine combat base at Khe Sanh continued without let up. The count monday was 200 rounds of artillery rockets and mortars with Light damage but no report of casualties. Other Marine posts below the Eastern sector of the demilitarized zone took More than 500 rounds from communist gunners monday but Marine head quarters at Danang said casualties and damage were Light. Koreans claim More . Violations Tokyo apr North Korea claimed today that . Spy ships a a recently mingled with South korean fishing boats and violated communist territorial Waters. The North korean Central news Agency did not say if the alleged violations occurred before or after the North koreans seized the Pueblo on Jan. 23. Lbs wants permanent farm Aid program Washington apr presi Dent Johnson urged Congress today to make permanent the Backbone of his farm Aid program authority to pay Farmers billions of dollars annually for idling land not needed for crops. He predicted Sharp declines in crop prices if the program Isnit extended. The program highly controversial in Congress and among farm groups is Likely to become a major farm Issue in this years presidential election Campaign. Voted by Congress in 1965 for a five year trial it is scheduled to expire next year. Payments have been running in excess of $3 billion a year under so called Supply and Price stabilization programs for wheat feed grains Cotton and Wool. This big Money measure was part of a seven Point farm and Rural areas Aid program the president placed before Congress in a special farm message. Other main Points of the program included a a three year Extension of the food for Freedom program today s chuckle w1 Shin ton bureaucrats have finally figured out How to balance the budget they re going to tilt the country. Under which this country provides food production know How to developing countries. A a congressional study of ways to give Farmers greater Power to bargain for prices. A establishment of a a National food Bank under which reserves of wheat feed grains and soybeans would be stored for emergencies. Such legislation was recommended last year. A increasing the outlay for the food stamp program which helps feed the poor from $225 minion to $245 million a year. A expansion of such programs As loan and Grant assistance to Small Farmers. A development of better Federal programs in Job training for the Rural unemployed and underemployed. Johnson said the Farmer a does not fully or fairly share in the country a Prosperity. A this income lags. It is less than two thirds the per capita income of the City Dweller a he said. A this production costs Are rising and he is trapped in a vicious Price Cost the president said agriculture still faces an old problem of overproduction. But Progress in solving this problem he said has been made under the food and agriculture act of 1965 under which payments and commodity Price supports Are offered Farmers retiring land from crop use when it is not needed. Fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War took place in Hue where communists were entrenched inside the walled Citadel. These photos show action by . Marines who fought and died in House to House combat in the ancient Imperial City. Rockefeller outlines new health insurance plan Albany . Api a gov. Rockefeller stepped Forward with a new compulsory health insurance plan today but its prospects for approval seemed Little better than the one the legislature shelved last year. Rockefeller gave the plan its first airing monday night at a dinner of the new York state league of women voters. He addressed the group min utes after signing a bipartisan Bill redrawing the states con Gressional District lines. The measure swept through both houses monday afternoon with lion. A Good health care in my View ought to be a fundamental human right a Rockefeller told the women voters. He went on to sketch out a plan that would require All employers in this state to provide Basic health insurance for their workers and members of the workers families. He coupled it with a proposal designed to curb the soaring Cost of Hospital care. Iwu not ready to go Back to work members of local 251, . Indicated they were not ready to return to their jobs at the Norwich Pha Macal company during a two hour membership meeting in Norwich township Grange Hall monday. The meeting of nearly 450 registered members of the local was closed to the press. But Thomas e. Boyle Union inter National vice president was re ported As saying that no official action was taken but reaction by the employees was not to re. Turn to work. Desi Cion by the employees to reject the com Panyk a return to work offer was a unanimous a Boyle said. He said the session was Classi. Fied As a a strategy meeting. Meanwhile Union members continued t 0 picket the drug firms plants charging they Are even before the governor spoke however key democrats in the legislature examined his statement and pronounced the plan unsatisfactory. Sen. Seymour a Thaler of Queens the democrats health expert in the legislature pre dieted that it would be Anat Cep table both to management and labor. In the democratic controlled Assembly the health committees chairman assemblyman Albert m. Blumentahl of Man Hattan said simply a a in a not under Rockefeller a plan All employers would be required to provide Basic Hospital benefits with the insurance premi mum Cost to be divided equally be tween the employer and the worker. It would afford these benefits a up to 120 Days of Semi private care in hospitals or psychiatric institutions. A the usual in patient Hospital services such As a rays of drive started to Aid Beaver Meadows Amily Beaver Meadow a family of five was left homeless late monday morning when fire destroyed their two Story Frame Home near the Center of this town of Otselic Hamlet. Some 20 firemen from ply. Mouth and South Otselic found the Home of or. And mrs. John Smith in flames when they arrived at the scene shortly after 9 . Fire officials said mrs. Smith was hanging up clothes when she looked Back and saw the House filling up with smoke. She ran inside and took her pre. School son to safety according to Plymouth fire chief Donald Bliss. Two other children both girls were in school at the time. Mrs. Smith then went to a neigh Bor s Home to Call firemen. Other neighbors managed Only to save a television set and Sev eral smaller items. A dog and a cat were also rescued. Cause of the fire was undetermined although it is believed to have started in the upstairs por Tion of the House. The Home was being renovated and or. Smith had just finished panelling the living room Sun Day authorities said. The family was staying with neighbors firemen reported until a trailer at the family Camp can be brought to the site. Estimate of the loss was not immediately available. A movement Lias been started to collect food clothing and household goods for this family and anyone who would like to give May leave their donations at tile Atkyns general store. Clothing is needed for the girls one a size 12 dress and a four shoe. The other a to dress and three shoe. The boy requires a size six clothing and an 11 shoe. Or. Smith wears a 15-15% shirt 34 trousers and eight and a half shoe. Mrs. Smith a size 18 dress and a nine shoe. Reject offer Cairo apr an egyptian government spokesman rejected israelis offer of direct negotiations under . Auspices monday night saying the israelis should comply with peace proposals already approved by the . Security Council. Or. Mohamed Hassan Elzay Yat said Israel appears to be intent on imposing its own peace terms on the arabs. The Security Council called last november for israeli withdrawal from Arab lands Cap. Tured in the War last june 5-10, Arab recognition of Israel a so Lution to the palestinian refugee problem and free navigation through International water ways in the area. Crating room oxygen drugs and blood. A Hospital maternity benefits of up to $150. A outpatient services for emergency care minor surgery diagnostic x rays and Laboratory services. A up to too Days of Home care following hospitalization. Rockefeller said that while most of the larger employers in the state already provided comparable benefits Small firms do not a and they employ most of the estimated 2.2 million workers in this state who have no insurance at All. To protect such Small business against the a financial Burden of providing such coverage he said the state would pay tile employers share of costs above a certain level. He did not specify the cutoff Point. His office said he would Supply these and other details when he submits his Bill later in the week. One other feature in the Rockefeller plan that he did spell out was that when an employer was eligible for medicaid his share of the insurance Cost would be paid for him from welfare funds. Thaler called this provision a transparent attempt to shift part of the costs of medicaid to the states business Community a since the employer still would have to pay his share of the premi Murn. He predicted this would encounter Strong opposition from management. A similar health insurance plan advanced by Rockefeller last year was shelved by the legislature after it was attacked by business As too costly and by labor As inadequate. A these Are minimum fragmentary benefits a Thaler said. A a it a a Pale substitute for the wide Range of medicaid benefits that the governor and republicans in the legislature Are try. Ing to take

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