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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - January 15, 1968, Norwich, New York The weather periods of Light Snow or flurries this afternoon Anc Quot tonight. Windy and turning colder late today and tonight Clearing and cold tuesday. Temperatures tonight to to 15 and 15 to 20 tuesday. The evening Sun Chenango county s daily newspaper Sun spots building fought being torn Down Page 6 Norwich welcomes new Baptist minister Page 3 Norwich among top swimmers at bilk a meet Payee 8 vol. 77, no. 21?monday, january 15. 168 Norwich . 13815 8� per copy786th . Plane lost in combat state nation world Brydges opposed 70 increases Earl Brydges Albany . Apr gov. Rockefell Rry a bid for increases in the states taxes on gasoline and liquor was set Back today As the Legislatures most powerful Republican indicated displeasure toward the plan. A if we re going to have to raise taxes a said Senate majority Leader Earl w. Brydges a it should be a Broad based tax a like the income tax. We hit people from All the Niagara Falls lawmaker thus edged into the Camp of his democratic counterpart. Assembly speaker Anthony j. Travia who emphatically turned thumbs Down on liquor and Gas tax increases last week. Travia Reserve i de judgment on Rockefeller a impending request for boosts in the income tax and business taxes but As for the others Travia said Rockefeller would not need them to balance his new budget and he would not approve them. The governor will Send the politically split legis lature a $5.5-billion spending program tuesday with requests for about $500 million in tax increases to help finance it. He is known to be contemplating a one cent a gallon increase in the gasoline tax and a 10-cents-a-fifth increase in the liquor tax. Congress at a glance Washington apr the second session of the 90th Congress convenes at noon today. It adjourned its first ses Sion a month ago. Here show the session shapes up political lineup in the Senate 64 democrats 36 republicans in the House 246 democrats 187 republicans. Two House seats Are vacant and a third will be with the resignation of rep. John Bell Williams a Democrat who is to be sworn in As Mississippi governor tuesday. Major issues Vietnam War policy taxes spending crime gun controls racial violence and Urban problems civil rights foreign Trade and travel and congressional standards of conduct. State of the Union president Johnson will report wednesday night to a joint session of the Senate and the House and outline his legislative program in a nationally televised address. Con con costs Over 56 million Albany . Apr Assembly speaker Anthony j. Travia reported today that the constitutional convention Cost about $3.5 million less than the $10 million budgeted for the Enterprise. The Brooklyn Democrat who served As president of the convention told the associated press that a nearly Complete accounting showed costs totalled $6,477,-001.29. Travia responding to an inquiry said that a few Bills were still pending but that these were minor and would not affect the Over All picture significantly. He provided this breakdown of convention costs delegates salaries a $2,-784,632.36. Administrative offices and personnel a $2-866,130.07. Maintenance and operations including postage printing Telephone charges a $650,4 8 0.02. Official stenographers travel for delegates and travel for Public hear Ings a $175,758.84. A every Effort was made to save Money on convention operations a Travia said. A people usually expect government to spend As much As it can. Well a that a not the Way we concerned Albany . Apr state comptroller Arthur Levitt saying he is concerned about rising interest rates attached to government borrowing has invited City and county Fis Cal officers to meet with him in new York City. The Jan. 31 meeting Levitt said sunday would be to discuss a urgent problems affecting Long term a Over spending Over building Over borrowing a Here Are the causes of the disease of which High interest rates Are the worst symptoms a the democratic department head said in a statement. Arthur Levitt wednesday is strike deadline Detroit map a bar gainers for the United Auto workers and general motors corp. Today worked against a wednesday strike deadline in an Effort to Complete local contract negotiations at seven plants employing close to 40,000 workers. Friday strike deadlines have have been set against two other plants employing 5,300 Union workers. Membership increases new York apr the National Council of churches reports that estimated Church membership in the United states has risen to 125,778,656 a about 1.1 million More than the 124,682,422 reported a year ago. The new figure was reported sunday night in the councils �?o1968 yearbook of american Market report at 11 15 ., Continental Telephone corp. Was 29% open High and last 29 Low Norwich Pha Macal co. 45 High Low and last a amp a communications 28l/e High Low and last . Grant 34 High Low and last Montgomery wards 26 open and last 26% High 253/4 Low . Fishman 12i/2 High Low and last. Over the counter general Laboratory associates 15 bid 17 offered Jerrold corp. Taco 36 bid mid states raceway 714 bid 8 offered Norwich Mills 40 bid Raymond corp. 31% bid 32% offered Teize chemicals 29 bid 301/2 offered Gladding corp. 15 bid 151/2 offered Victory markets 9% bid to offered National Bank and Trust co. Of Norwich 54 bid Chenango co. National Bank of Norwich 300 bid. Today around the around the around the Clouds to strike defends bombing Saigon apr a mig21 flashed up through Monsoon Clouds to shoot Down a . Air Force thunderchief sunday during a strike against an Airfield deep in North Vietnam the . Command announced today. The Pilot is missing. The f105 thunderchief was taking part in a radar attack on the yen Bai Airfield and storage area 78 Miles Northwest of Hanoi. It was the 786th american warplane reported lost in combat Over North Vietnam. This in this includes 36 downed by migs while american pilots claim to have shot Down 103 of the communist jets. Hanoi claimed three . Planes were shot Down sunday including an rb66 electronic counter measure plane loaded with highly sophisticated elec tronic equipment to Jam North Ign rejects no company proposal local 251international chemical workers Norwich Pha Macal company turned Down a company proposal for a new contract sunday. Tile vote was unanimous a Union spokesman said. In the event the company fails to come up with a favourable offer this week the local voted to strike by a vote of 442 to to. The present contract expires at Midnight on Jan. 21, a Union spokesman said. Formed in 1945, the local has a membership of about 570 workers. According to the unions Constitution a strike vote must be approved by two thirds of the members attending a meeting. Vietnam a radar warning system. With much of North Vietnam blanketed by Clouds . Planes flew Only 83 missions sunday. The Only two raids above Hanoi were on the yen Bai Airfield and the Sam tra Railroad Yard on the Northwest line 94 Miles Northwest of Hanoi. Bomb drops were made by radar in both strikes and no assessment of damage could be made because of the weather. . Spokesmen say the yen Bai Airfield has never been completed and there have been no reports of migs flying off the Field. It is used primarily As a storage area for military supplies according to intelligence reports. The raids in the Panhandle were aimed at trucks water traffic and storage areas in the continuing . Campaigns to Cut Down movement of men and supplies from North Vietnam into the South. There have been reports that the North vietnamese Are moving Large quantities of men and supplies to the South both through the Southern Panhandle and Down the to Chi Minh Trail through Laos. The main thrust of the . Air Effort has been on cutting Down the movement of truck convoys through Laos but these strikes Are never reported by the . Command because Laos is supposed to be Neutral. American Green Beret troops spotted North vietnamese units fording a River five Miles Southwest of Khe Sanh sunday after 9 . Marines were killed and 70 wounded in an ambush in the same general area. Saigon apr president Nguyen Van Thieu declared today that a the communists started this War and if they want peace the Burden of de Escala Tion is on them. Thieu added that Hanoi has not indicated any softening of its Long established four Points for ending tile Vietnam War which he said constitute a Noth ing less than a demand for our surrender to the All possibilities tor peace in Vietnam should be a thoroughly explored a the South Viet namese president said. But a after a reasonable time if the communist aggressors remain Adamant heavier pressure against them will become in a speech prepared for a meeting of the society of vietnamese newspaper editors Thieu also defended the bombing of North Vietnam reserved for his troops the right of hot Pur. Suit of communist forces into Cambodia bulletin Palermo Sicily a a catastrophic wave of killer earthquakes smashed across the Western tip of Sicily today and police said More than 220 persons were killed. Police said most of the victims died when a Hospital at Montevago collapsed and buried 200 persons. New Berlin Man Hurt in two car Accident weather causes havoc Mig drops through Thieu Snow sleet and freezing rain covered sections of the nation from Northern Mississippi and Georgia to the great lakes and new England today. Schools were closed in areas from Illinois to Georgia. And tens of thousands of persons in five states were left without electricity Over the weekend. Weather related deaths num. Breed 46 for the weekend. Highway traffic slowed to a crawl through much of the area East of the Mississippi. Major roads were generally icy and Many secondary roads were in. Passable. Residents of Southeastern Ohio were digging out of 17 inches of Snow that fell sunday and in Western West Virginia a new cover of 11 inches of Snow left 33 inches on the ground. The weather Bureau issued warnings for More of the same kind of weather today. Heavy Snow warnings were posted for Northern Maine with 6 inches or More of Snow expected. Freezing rain warnings were issued for Southern Maine ver Mont new Hampshire northeastern new York and Interi. Or sections of Massachusetts. Travellers warnings were posted for most of the area from South. Era new York to northeastern Arkansas and Northern missis. Sippi. Gale warnings were up from Eastport me., to Block Island r. A and locally heavy rain sat. Rated Southern new England Early today. Elsewhere the Northwest was lashed by Strong winds and locally heavy rain today from Washington to Central califor. Nia. The temperature Rose above freezing sunday in new York City for the first time in nine Days. But a driving rain Cou pled with Salt spread during re cent snowfalls seeped into Ca ble shafts and caused Short Cir cd its. Gas explosions popped manhole covers in the City and fall ing tree branches and the Short circuits Cut off Power to some 12,000 Homes in the metropolitan area. There were numerous Power and Telephone failures in upstate new York. Thousands of Homes in East. Pm North Carolina were without electricity and Many have been without heat or Light since a severe ice storm hit the state wednesday. Freezing rain downed Trees and branches and caused minor Power failures at Erie a. Today s chuckle clothes done to make the Man but a Good suit makes a lawyer. Campaigning Romney will slide Down a lire pole or pitch Hay at a county fair to get the vote. At right with mrs. Romney he attends costume party on cruise to Virgin islands last year. A Rodgers family is welcomed welcoming words Robert Davis left chairman of the Board of trustees of the first Baptist Church welcomes the Rev. Robert a Rodgers and his family during an open House reception held sunday afternoon. Several speakers representing the Church the City and the county spoke at the 3 . Service with an informal hour and refreshments following in the Fellowship Hall. Also pictured Are mrs. Rodgers their son John and two daughters Kathy and Beth. See Story on Page 3. Heart transplant patient undergoes major surgery Stanford Calif. Apr Mike Kasperak his transplanted heart still functioning Well remained in critical condition today after removal of his Gall bladder sunday in an emergency operation at Stanford University medical Center. The one hour operation was performed by a team headed by or. Norman e. Shumway. The surgeon led the group which re. Moved the greatly enlarged heart of the 54-year-old Steelworker Jan. 6 and replaced it with one from a 43.year-old Santa Clara housewife who had just died of a massive brain Haemorrhage. A doctors said Kasperak a bile duct was blocked and his Gall bladder enlarged. They re. Moved the Gall bladder and cleared the common duct Lead ing from the liver to the Small intestine. A this transplanted heart continues to beat normally a doctors said. Meanwhile doubts were heard in Johannesburg South Africa and in Washington d. C., As to whether the heart transplant is yet actually a Success. In South Africa or. Chris Titan n. Barnard the surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant said a i done to think we be succeeded in transplantation of a human heart yet. A to succeed one must be Able to discharge your patient so that he can go Home and live a fairly Normal life. We Haven to shown that we can do this Barnard said he was taking intensive precautions against infection in his second transplant Case or. Philip Blaiberg when he goes Home perhaps two weeks hence. Blaiberg received a transplanted heart Jan. 2. The first Case Louis Rashkansky died of pneumonia 18 Days after the operation. In Washington or. Charles a. Hufnagel of Georgetown University a surgical research Labora tory said he Felt that not enough is known about patient reaction to justify heart transplant operations at this time. In a copyright interview with u. S. News amp world report Hufnagel said a we feel that the evidence for Long term acceptance of a transplanted human heart is not Good enough yet to justify the county to the Rescue there was a Scurry to obtain emergency Power equipment Friday morning when a twin engine plane crashed ripping out electric Power lines along route 12 across from Warren e. Eaton Airport. As the Craft made a southerly approach to the Airport the right motor quit causing the plane to drop and veer to the right. It flew Over flite line trailer court at Mead a Pond the right Wing striking branches in a tree top and cutting an 8,000 Volt main High tension line. The plane hit a Guardrail and zoomed backward across route 12, breaking off a Utility pole in front of the state police sub station. A 20-foot Section of the pole ended up Between the Wing of the Craft and the upper front Side of the sub station. Twenty two trailer Homes at f lifeline keep their water pipes from freezing by electric tapes. With the electric Power gone the pipes were in danger of freezing in the sub Zero temperatures. A Call was made to l. O. Anderson Norwich chief of staff for the Chenango county civil defense Center for an emergency Generator. An output of at least 1,500 Watts was needed. But the cd had no Generator powerful enough so Anderson contacted Walter Weishaupt county superintendent of highways. Weishaupt came up with a unit with a 2,500 Watt output capability which was taken to the trailer Park and plugged into tile system keeping the water pipes from freezing. The state police sub station also without Power put its own emergency Generator into service enabling the trooper Headquarters to remain in service throughout the emergency. A similar unit supplied Power to the Airport until .s.e.& g. Repair Crews could make the necessary replacements. Repair Crews of the Utility firm were on the scene soon after the crash Clearing away the tangled electric lines and replacing the pole ripped out in front of the sub station. The Crews were working in sub Zero cold scant feet away from the burning air plane. Power in the area was restored within a few hours. Two arrested for do face arraignment two men were arrested by sheriffs deputies Over the weekend on charges of driving while intoxicated. Both were committed to the county jail for further arraignment. Francis w. Manwarren 47, of South Plymouth was arrested in the town of phar Salia on sunday and charged with driving a motor vehicle on a Public Highway of .s. While intoxicated. He was committed to jail by phar Salia Justice George Ortiz where he is being held in lieu of $100 Cash bail. He is scheduled for further arraignment on Jan. 23. Delmar b. Franklin 36, of Oxford was similarly charged when deputies arrested him in Oxford on saturday. He was committed to jail by Justice Lyle Walsh and later released on pay pent of $100 Cash bail. He is also scheduled for further arraignment. Lee a. Kuhn 24, of . 2 new Berlin suffered head lacerations and Chest bruises in a two car Accident Early saturday morning state police Here have reported. Troopers said the mishap occurred at about 3 10 On a town of North Norwich Road about a mile East of route 12. Kuhn was eastbound police said and went off the left Side of the Road striking a parked vehicle owned by Raymond Barber of . 2 Oxford. The parked car was driven into a tree by the Kulm Auto which travelled Back across the Road and struck a Snowbank on the right Side. Both cars were badly damaged police said. Kuhn was issued a summons for driving at a Speed riot reasonable or prudent and is to appear before North Norwich Justice Joseph hover. Charged by state police with driving while intoxicated Delmar b. Franklin 36, of Oxford is to appear before Justice Lyle Walsh of Oxford tuesday. Troopers said Franklin was also charged with driving while his License was revoked. Bail was set at $100. Bruce o. Williams of Oxford was charged with permitting an unlicensed operator to drive in connection with the Franklin Case police said. Bail was set at $50 for his appearance tuesday night. A 21 year old Richfield Springs woman was taken to Chenango memorial Hospital after a three car Accident at 2 45 . Sunday on route 12, about two Miles South of Sherburne troopers reported. She is Marjorie j. Brewer who suffered a laceration of the head and leg injuries police said. Troopers said the Brewer car was southbound and a vehicle operated by Lewis Wbrown 71, of Yorkville was travelling North followed by an Auto driven by Kevin d. Shea 18, of Montclair . The front of the Brewer and Brown vehicles collided police reported. The Brown car went off the West Side of the Highway and the approaching Shea car struck the Brewer vehicle nearly Headon troopers said investigation of the mishap is continuing it was reported

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