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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - January 4, 1968, Norwich, New York The weather Snow continuing into ear. By tonight. Colder tonight with lows of Zero to to above. Friday generally fair and very cold with highs 8 to 18 above. The Ven i Chenango county a daily newspaper in Sun spots town Board organizes Page 3 ski club film Page 8 grand jury indicts 12 Page 3 vol. 77, to. 205thursday, january 4, 1968 Norwich . 13815 8c per cop big tax hike will include business state nation world one of quilts Dies Brisbane Australia apr the last born of mrs. Patricia Brahams quintuplets became ill and died today at the age of four Days. There was no indication that any of the other four babies were threatened. The attending of. Ste Tricia announced that Geoffrey Roger became ill in the morning and died in mid afternoon. A Hospital Bulle. Tin earlier today had reported All five babies in satisfactory condition. The quilts Australia s first were born within one hour and 15 minutes sunday. Mrs. Braham 36, gave birth six weeks and a few Days prematurely but until today the quilts had been progressing so Well it was thought they might leave the Hospital before the anticipated six to eight weeks. Geoffrey had weighed 3 pounds to ounces the same As his brother Richard Gibson and sister Faith Elizabeth when the babies were first weighed 48 hours after birth. Annabel Dorothy then was the largest of the five at 3 pounds 14 Oun. Ces and Caroline Jean the smallest at 3 pounds 5% ounces. North puts out feelers Vientiane Laos apr North Vietnam has asked the governments of Laos Cambodia and Burma if their capitals Are available for preliminary Vietnam peace talks a Well in. Formed laotian source said today. . Embassy sources admitted they had heard of the reported approach from Hanoi but they were noncommittal. High laotian officials said they did not know How firm Hanoi a intentions were and that the laotians were adopting a a wait and see the laotian source who reported the North vietnamese Over Ture said it was made on new years Day by Nguyen Chan the North vietnamese charge do affaires who was seen in conversation with Premier Souvanna Houma at Prince Souvaini nays annual new years reception. Romney a a setup for Nixon Washington apr Mich. Igan gov. George Romney who concedes he trails Richard m. Nixon in popularity polls a May be a setup Quot for Nixon in new Hampshire s Republican presidential primary says a Liberal gop group. The Ripon society said in its current newsletter a Nixon Romney contest in new Hamp. Shire could be similar to the West Virginia democratic Pri Mary of 1960 in which John f. Kennedy Defeated Hubert h. Humphrey. Humphrey quit the presidential race after that defeat and Kennedy went on to win the nomination and the White House. A Romney May be a setup for Nixon just As Humphrey was for Kennedy Quot the Ripon society said. A was John Kennedy demonstrated in 1960, a landslide vie. Tory even Over an opponent who never really had a Chance can be made a convincing Selling gov. Romney Point in the Campaign for Dele. Gate votes in other plenty of Fenny Stamps Washington apr the Post office department Antici Pating a heavy demand for Stamps when the Cost of mailing a letter jumps to six cents sunday says it has 1.4 billion Penny Stamps on hand to help americans use up their five cent Stamps. The Post office began stockpiling one cent Stamps last september when Congress started considering the departments proposal to hike the Cost of mailing a letter from five to six cents the third postal rate increase in to years. The department also has been working around the clock producing six cent Stamps All bearing the profile of former president Franklin d. Roosevelt. It has about four billion of these. Travel Appeal explained Washington apr president Johnson s exemption of Western hemisphere nations from his Appeal that americans not travel abroad is based on solid economic foundations say key administration sources. They said present administration thinking is to continue that exemption when and if restrictive measures such As a head tax or a tax based on the number of Days spent abroad. Are adopted to discourage overseas travel. One source said the Basic rationale behind the exemption is that Money spent by . Tourists in other Western hemisphere countries eventually returns in one form or another increased travel to the United states or Export sales and services for example. Market report at 11 15 a.m., Continental Telephone corp. Was 28% open and Low 29% High and last Norwich Pha Macal co. 45% High Low and last a amp a communications 27% High Low and last . Grant 33% open and High 33 Low and last Montgomery wards 23% open Low and last 23% High . Fishman 12% High Low and last. Over the counter general Laboratory associates 14% bid 16% asked Jerrold corp. Taco 35 bid 36% asked mid states raceway 7% bid 8 asked Norwich Mills 40 bid Teize chemicals 29% bid 29% asked Raymond corf. 28 bid 29% asked Victory markets 9% bid to asked National Bank and Trust co. Of Norwich 54 bid Chenango co. National Bank of Norwich 300 bid. Gis repel Cong Saigon apr . Infantrymen today pursued North vietnamese troops that tried to overrun three american bases near Danang and the communist death toll in South Viet names five Northern provinces climbed to at least 400 since the new years truce ended tues Day. The North vietnamese kept up heavy machine gun fire at american helicopters moving troops and supplies into the que son Valley South of Danang. One helicopter Quot was shot Down today making a total of five downed in two Days. The Crew was rescued and . Fighter bombers tried to Knock out the enemy guns. Brig. Gen. Charles Ryder assistant commander of the Amer ical division said his troops killed a about 300&Quot enemy troops including 241 in attempts to seize Landing zones Ross and Leslie in the Valley about 25 Miles Southwest of Danang. The other attack wednesday was against nearby Landing zone West Ryder said he believes the North vietnamese a May be re grouping and i fully expect them to continue the two of his companies patrol Ling were attacked Early today but reports of the action were sketchy. Two of the que son Valley bases came under sporadic mortar attack during the night and the americans fired thou Sands of mortar and artillery rounds. Delayed reports from other parts of the 1st corps area the five northernmost provinces listed 111 communists killed. A platoon of . Soldiers bolstered by a squad of marines said about 25 Viet Cong riflemen opened up on them wednesday about 20 Miles South of the que son Valley. The americans said lifter beating Back the initial at. Tack they surrounded a nearby communist fortified Village and attacked it killing 51 enemy sol Diers. They reported no amen. Can casualties. Bowles la line for sensitive Cambodia Post Washington apr Ches ter Bowles . Ambassador to India will be tapped by presi Dent Johnson As his special in. Voy in talks with Cambodia s Prince Sihanouk the washing ton Post reports. State department and Diplo. Matic officials in Washington would neither confirm nor deny that Bowles is to draw the presi. Dental assignment. At Issue in such talks Sug. Tested last week by the cambo. Dia chief of state is what . Officials term the growing use of Cambodia As a Sanctuary for North vietnamese and Viet Cong troops battling the United states and her allies in South Vietnam. The Post quoting informed sources said in today a editions that Bowles would be named for the task possibly today. There was speculation elsewhere Bowles selection might be an. Bounced at Secretary of state Dean Rusk s scheduled Washington news conference today. Bowles 66, has previously at tempted to restore Harmony to .-cambodian relations. In 1965, he held talks in new Delhi with cambodian officials after Sihanouk severed diplomatic relations with the United states. Governor gives Levitt credit for proposals child escaped Viet Cong raid bewildered survivors of a can Only stare vacantly after communists shelled the Community and then moved in to Capone vietnamese woman and child Ture ii children aged la to 16. Viet Cong attack on their Village try a a Cool diplomacy Whites negroes form peace corps Atlantic City . Apr after several years of racial tension and periodic violence at Atlantic City High school the students have formed their own group a the peace corps a to head off further trouble. Their program involves what one member described As a Cool corps teams each with a negro and a White member Are visiting classrooms during school hours in an Effort to discuss racial attitudes with each of the schools 2,850 students one third of whom Are negroes. Adults Are excluded at the students request. The first corps project was 12 after class meetings with seniors to ail their feelings. The corps composed of 30 White and 30 negro youths was formed two months ago a week after five policemen were As signed full time to patrol school corridors and Yards. The police Mon Are still at the school. The organization has no officers and acts on a consensus basis. Of the present sessions negro senior Cory Clairborne says a a it a surprising How frankly students both negro and White have spoken of their a pretty blonde Sophomore coed admitted at a corps discussion that she feared negroes and when she saw a negro boy in the school corridor she would walk to the other she said that before she enrolled in High school a the Only personal Contact i had with the coloured was the maid who cleaned our Charles goddamn a negro senior and corps member says a the White girls fear of negro youths is a Basic cause of the trouble at the school. He attributes this fear to the Lack of negro enrolment in the elementary schools of tour Small surrounding communities whose pupils attend the High school the Only Public High school in the area under a tuition arrangement. The four communities Ventnor Margate Longport and Brigantine have a total of three negro families. There Are 23,000 negroes in Atlantic City. Good mail contends social segregation of the races spurs a prejudiced White parents to instill in their children a fear of negroes and when their daughters begin Here they re because of this frankness the corps has made some Progress says Sonny Popowsky president of the student Council who is White. Men have gone j a lonely italian town san Giovanni in Fiore Italy apr this town of Pov erty whose name Means St. John in Flower has blossomed for four fleeting weeks and receded again into its lonely. Ness. Eight thousand of its menfolk almost every Able bodied male of the 20,000 population have headed North again to their year Long jobs in Germany France Switzerland and the factories of North Italy. Those who remain behind to wait through the dragging months until 1968�?Ts Christmas and new year workers Home leave Are the women the Chil. Dren and the old. St. John blooms Only in those four weeks each year when the menfolk come Back Home. Couples had to queue before the Parish Church Over this Christmas and new year Hoh. Day for too marriages crowded into the Brief Homecoming for Young migrant men who had saved enough to wed the girls who waited. Then they left the new brides to learn the towns old lesson of patience and loneliness until next year. Homecoming fathers this year fondled 400 babies born last fall that they had never seen before. It has been that Way As Long As the oldest resident can remember because there is no work Here. The Only change is that in the past year or two some of the migrant workers started taking their wives North with them. A they found out that a lot of what they earn goes for meals and laundry Quot explained Don Giuseppe Indrieri 72, the Par. Ish priest. A so some of them Are taking their women with a if you done to leave you done to eat Quot said Biafora Oliverio 59, who has been the town s busiest midwife for 35 years. The priest agreed. A the town lives Only on the Providence of god Quot he said. Albany . Apr gov. Rockefeller has decided to seek a major increase in the state in come tax rather than the sales tax it was reported today. Highly placed sources said the Republican governor also had made a firm decision to ask the legislature to raise business taxes. These were said to be his de. Vices for finding the $500 Mil lion in extra Revenue needed a he told the lawmakers a vedness. Day a to provide More state Aid for education medicaid and other welfare programs. By no coincidence they Hap. Pen to be the main elements in a tax. Increase plan suggested last month by state comptroller Arthur Levitt. The sources said Rockefeller was delighted that Levitt had spoken up and that lie intended to give the democratic office Holder a full credit Quot in his budget message. Levitt a main proposals were for a 20 per cent surcharge on the income tax a that is raising everyone a payment by 20 per cent a and an increase of about 18 per cent in business taxes. He estimated these moves would produce Between $500 million and $520 million in new Revenue. The sources said Rockefeller had decided to adopt both proposals although there was some possibility the percentages might be changed. Levitt took both republicans and democrats by Surprise when he volunteered his ideas in in id dec Ember. Republican leaders in the gov. Eminent notably Rockefeller saw Levitt a move As a pre. Christmas political gift. It meant they could Advance a tax plan along these lines and claim democratic parentage for it. Democratic legislative leaders quickly sought to disown Levitt a ideas because of the negative political Angle. Now they Are questioning whether Rockefeller really needs a major tax increase As he contended in wednesdays a state of the state Quot message to the opening session of the 1968 legislature. Speaker Anthony j. Travia democratic Boss of the Assolin Bly said he was not convinced. A if he thinks a $500-million in crease is necessary this year Quot Travia said a lie is going to have to prove it in a Way his message does no to even begin to a. Rockefeller said he probably could manage a budget of around $5 billion with existing financial resources but that More state Aid should be sup. Plied and this would require another $500 million. The Senate a democratic minority Leader Joseph Zaretzki said Rockefeller ought to make do without a tax boost. He said he would not vote for an income or sales tax increase but might be willing to raise business taxes. The Legislatures ranking republicans Senate majority Leader Earl w. Brydges and Assembly minority Leader Perry b. Duryea jr., praised Rockefeller a message but were noncommittal on the tax question. Rockefeller a reasoning in accepting the main elements of Levitt a plan was said to be this a Levitt argued that the sales tax is a greater Burden for Low. Income taxpayers than the in come tax since Many people in the Low wage bracket pay no in come tax at alb Rockefeller accepted this View especially since he is advancing other programs designed to improve employment and education opportunities for the poor. A Levitt pointed out that business had escaped tax increases throughout the first nine years of Rockefeller a administration in line with the governors the. Ory that keeping business taxes Down helps keep Industry in this state. Rockefeller agreed that it was time to ask business to pay More. Levitt s proposal was to in crease the main business Levy the corporation franchise tax from 5% per cent of net income to 6% per cent. He suggested comparable increases in the taxes on insurance companies Public utilities Banks Ai j unincorporated businesses. Iof s Brydges in Fine form Albany my. Apr ailing Senate majority Leader Earl w. Brydges is in a Fine form Quot and expects to return soon to his duties As the state s leading Republican legislator his temporary replacement said wednesday. Finance chairman Warren m. Anderson it. Binghamton told senators at the formal opening of the new York legislature that the ranking Republican in the Senate was in a Fine form Quot tuesday night when he addressed a Republic. Can conference dinner Here by Telephone. Brydges entered Millard fill Are Hospital in Buffalo satyr Day for treatment of an Inesti. Nal virus. Gov. Rockefeller in his annual message also noted Brydges absence. The weather word is blame it on Dixie today a chuckle living on a Small income be so hard to do if it weren to for the Effort to keep it a secret. Albany Only. Apr a Dixie born Snow storm sliced in to new York state today threat ening to dump up to six inches of new Snow on top of a frosty Blanket draped Over the state last week. The weather Bureau said bit. Ter cold Riding an Arctic air mass out of Canada would a. Rive on the heels of the storm. Although the Snow was expected to be heaviest in the Hudson Valley and catskills the cold will chill the entire state by Friday the forecasters said. Light Snow fell overnight in Western and Northern counties As a Canadian storm Center passed North of the great lakes. Temperatures were relatively moderate Early today. They ranged generally from the teens through the 20s, in Sharp contrast to below Zero cold that gripped the state tuesday. Kiwanis honors contest w Inners winners in this years Christmas decorating contest sponsored by Norwich kiwanis club received their prize Money during the clubs weekly dinner meeting at which the winners were guests. William Carson right project committee chairman presents first prize Check of $25 to or. And mrs. Ray Pashke of 14 Adams Street. At left Are or. And mrs. Singleton 23 Hayward second place winners of 3 and mrs. Cutler Burre Plymouth Street won thir and $10 but could not att meeting. Many honorable tons were cited and a s Man said All entries wer worthy. Because of the v spouse to the contest it n come an annual affair. Today 41 around the around the around Tow

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