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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - July 1, 1968, Norwich, New York The e vening Oun vol. 78, no. 65 monday july i 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10c per copy Johnson at treaty reports ., soviet missile meeting slated celebrates students a was a we a Airliner will 214 yanks Mccarthy statement criticized Washington apr Eugene j. Mccarthy s statement that he could conceivably support Nelson a. Rockefeller for president has brought criticism from democratic leaders with Many saying the Minnesota senators own presidential Campaign has been Hurt. A this surely will be a Good Nail in the Mccarthy coffin if tie still wants the democratic nomination a said Kansas gov. Robert Docking a Backer of vice president Hubert h. Humphrey Mccarthy a opponent for the democratic nomination. Another democratic governor and Backer of Humphrey Hulett Smith >1 Vest Virginia said a what eed today Are people who will land up for their party and their beliefs. I see nothing wrong with being a Democrat and supporting my a i think Mccarthy will have to Start making his arrangements a added Arkansas demo it Ratic chairman Leon Catlett a Bel Ause i think Humphrey has. It the nomination suspect i funded in ii is v violence Meridian miss. Apr a Young Alabama fugitive Wield ing a sub machine gun and a Pis. Tol was seriously injured and his woman companion was killed sunday by police staked out at the Home of a prominent jewish businessman to guard against Nightrider. Police chief c. L. A Troy a Gunn said he believed that la recent acts of violence in mend Ian live been solved with the arrest of 22-year.old Thomas Al. Bert Tarrants i of Mobile Ala. He said Tarrants also has been sought in connection with other bombing incidents in mis. Sis Sippi. Weather Chance of showers or thundershowers continuing into tonight Low mainly in the 60s. Partly Cloudy less humid and More seasonal temperatures tues Day highs in 70s to around 80s. I Aris landslide Degaulle irked Washington apr an Airliner carrying Ali Servicemen to Vietnam is being held today on a soviet Island in the Pacific Ocean after being forced to land by Mig fighters. The chartered dc-8 was on its Way to Vietnam from Mcchord air base in Seattle wash., sunday when the Government said it strayed off course and was forced to Laud on Hump Island a part of the Kuril Chain in Northern Pacific. The state department immediately contacted the so Viet embassy in Washington and urged the Quick release of the plane its passengers and the 17 crewmen. A japanese air Force radar station said it began tracking the plane at 730 . Edt Sun Paris apr with Automo bile horns blaring and flags flying frenchmen poured into the streets of Paris sunday night to celebrate president Charles de Gaulle a massive election Victory. Flag decked cars packed with cheering frenchmen surged through the champs Elysee and other parts of Paris. Many of the flags bore the Cross of Lorraine which de Gaulle chose As the Symbol of his free French forces in world War in but not All parisians celebrated. Iii the latin Quarter Home of the sorbonne University Stu. Dents blocked the Victory parades with improvised barricades and stoned the cars. They Tore off the French Tri colors and marched off waving the red portions of the flags. It was the students of the uni verify of Paris whose rebellion unleashed the May crisis which caused de Gaulle to dissolve the National Assembly and Call the elections. A even the communists must have voted for the gaullist a said one youth outside the medi. Cal school which is still occupied by the students. Late into the night the in. Prompt Victory Parade moved through the streets with horns beating out the staccato rhythm of political slogans. Some sounded three Short and two Long blasts for world War is a a a for the voters in the final round sunday of the nation. A1 Assembly elections gave the gaullist and their allies a a. Jority of More than 200 seats in the 487-seat legislature. There has been no such landslide in French parliamentary history since the 1919 Victory of a nationalist coalition. It was also a crushing setback to the communists and other opposition forces. Premier Georges Pompidou said the election results showed a defensive reaction of the peo pie a against the Campaign talk of gaullist of a totalitarian communism a coming after the great student and labor upheaval in May brought an overwhelming response from the Middle class. But Pompidou warned that the government still faces a difficulties which Are going to be enormous difficulties that arise from the crisis and which we must now try to Charles de Gaulle Airliner hijacked Pilot held Miami Fla. Apr the wife of cuban born Pilot George Prellezo pleaded to visit him in a Havana jail today As South East airlines prepared to re. Trieve its hijacked Airliner. Airline president Irvin l. Jones jr., who said the cuban government had promised the Safe return of the planets other occupants told newsmen a substitute Pilot would be flown to Havana today. The Airliner i. Jacked Over the Florida keys saturday by one of its 15 Pas. Sengers was to be flown to key West this afternoon. The other Crew members identified by the airlines Only As stewardess a. Kimball and Copi. Lot Dave Martin of Miami Are to be returned with the Passen. Gers and the plane. Jones statement included no mention of mrs. Prellezo in plans to retrieve the plane. A i have requested to be on that flight to Cuba 33.year-old Olga Prellezo said sunday. Her husband naturalized As a Citizen last year was accused by the cuban government of being a deserter. A since they Are leaving my husband there i see no reason for him to be there alone. I want to be there to plead for him to do any necessary thing to get him Back a mrs. Prellezo said. A i beg and demand of the Government to be allowed to travel to Cuba so i can be near my husband a she said. Prellezo 36, arrived in Miami june 27, i960, As the Pilot of a regularly scheduled cargo plane from Cuba his wife said. A the chose to stay Here and that is no crime. The plane was flown Back to Cuba a said mrs. Prellezo a puerto rican Borri american. The Prellezo have five Childr in ranging in age from 5 to 14. All Are naturalized or Citizens. Prellezo radioed the federation aviation Agency at key West saturday that one of the passengers was holding a a gun at my head and had ordered him to Fly to Cuba. In Havana Copilot Dave mar tin said the gunman entered the Cabin As tile plane neared key West. Mrs. Prellezo flanked by her children told a news conference in Miami sunday that her bus band was very proud of his Citizenship. A i never thought that i would see the Day i would have to feel ashamed of being an american citizen. It Only gets you Iii Trou. Hie All Over the world a she said. The state department Hose affairs in Havana Are handled by the Swiss embassy tile said Prellezo was assured All of the protections guaranteed any Citizen. Stock transaction Cost probed Washington apr the securities and Exchange com. Mission in one of its rare open hearings is investigating the Cost of buying and Selling stocks in the United states. In a series of hearings open ing today the Sec expects to question staff experts from the new York Stock Exchange on the minimum fee Structure under which the major exc flanges set the Cost of buying and sell ing Stock. The Sec which has held Public hearings Only once or twice Over the last 20 years also will Check into the practice of fee splitting among major broker age houses. Just last week in an apparent attempt to strengthen their planned defense of minimum commissions the new York and american exchanges voted to eliminate fee splitting and Grant a discount on fees for Large transactions. The Sec said the initial phase of its hearings will run through july and will be devoted to gathering facts on minimum rates. In August the Sec will turn its attention to economic and in Gal aspects. Included in the first phase will be an examination into who pays the fees and commissions How they Are computed and to w they Are distributed and shared. The Justice department has challenged the entire system of minimum fees and contends they should be set by Cor Peti torn if anything a maximum fee is needed to protect investors from excessive costs the Day and warned tile Pilot he was on a course thai would Cross the Island. The Pilot replied a we cannot alter our course a japanese sources said indicating the plane already was under Mig escort. The sources said the plane was tracked another five min. Utes before it disappeared from radar screens at a position about 30 Miles South of Sturup Island. . Ambassador Llewellyn e. Thompson said in Moscow he was told by soviet Premier Al oxen Kosygin and first Deputy foreign minister Vasily v. Kuznetsov the incident is under investigation. The Pentagon said the Pilot of the chartered airlines Jet Joseph to Olini talked by radio with another american aircraft during the in. Cadent. According to the pet in in the Pilot of the Seaboard plane reported about 7 20 . That Mig fighters had intercepted him and was forcing him to land at what appeared to be a Mig base on an Island. At 739 ., the Pentagon said the Seaboard plane a. Died that it had landed without injury to anyone on thiard and without damage to the plane. The last transmission was at 7 42 . When the Pilot reported he had shut off his engines the Pentagon said. Rile plane also carried several in flight checkers and Steward esses. B52s raid North Vietnam nests alter 2-I\Lonth Lull Saigon apr american b52 bombers raided North Vietnam today for tile first time in nearly two months and also dropped thousands of tons of sex. Plosives on secret Viet Cong bases in the provinces around Saigon. of Hie Air forces b i g g e s t bombers streaked Over tile Northern half of the demilitarized zone and the southernmost part of North Vietnam to bomb coastal artillery Sites which have been shelling Destroyers and cruisers operating off the coast. File key strike inside Ortli Vietnam was around Cape Lay la Miles above the Allied base at Glo Linh. The to 2s last attacked inside Ortli Vietnam on May in. Die big bombers also kept on pounding enemy concentrations outside Saigon As part of the Campaign against a major new attack expected on the capital. Police sources said they had fresh intelligence reports that the communist command has ordered Viet Cong and North vietnamese regulars to regroup at secret bases in Hie area Justice department maintains. In scheduling the hearings tile Sec opened the entire minimum rate schedule for scrutiny and suggested an interim reduction of fees by the new York Exchange to take effect sept. 15. As an option the Exchange could eliminate minimum fees on transactions exceeding $50,000 and open the Way for cuts through negotiation be. Tween the parties. The interim schedule pro posed by the commission could a sock it to me Gramps a one year old Patrick Lyndon Nugent gets a helping hand from his Grandfather president Johnson. The toddler is the son of lbs younger daughter Luck and her husband Pat Nugent. Some As far As 75 Miles away from tile capital to prepare for a full scale attack this month. Ten of the bombers attacked some of the enemy a largest base Camps in Tay Nln i a longtime Viet Cong stronghold along tile cambodian Border 47 Miles Northwest of Saigon. Military strategists consider Tay Nonh a potential springboard for the third offensive against Sal gon. Fifteen b52s pounded other Camps in Hau Nghia and Binh Duong provinces which form a Border Triangle with Tay Ninh Northwest of the City. Another 15 bombers Ham. Mered enemy troop concentrations in Long Khanh province reportedly tile Headquarters of the North vietnamese 5th Devi. Sion 57 Miles from Saigon. The new intelligence reports said enemy forces attacking Saigon would consist of Man. Try men sappers and an Artil Lery regiment equipped with rockets recoilless rifles and mortars. These would be or dered to seize sensitive govern ment installations. Catholics asked to keep beliefs Vatican City apr Pope Paul i expressing disquiet Over the a passion for change and Novelty in the roman Catholic Church has appealed to believers to abide by Church Dogma on issues ranging from papal infallibility to original sin. In his most comprehensive pronouncement on Faith Delly ered before a Large throng in us Peter s Square sunday the porn Tiff noted unrest in a certain modern quarters of the Church. To the priests of the world Many of whom a feel that they have been thrust aside by mod. Pm social developments a he reaffirmed the importance of clerical celibacy and the priests role among Young peo. Pie Aud workers. Today a chuckle you can to Tell. Maybe a fish goes Home and lies about the size of the bait he stole. In i Washington apr pres. Ident Johnson announced today that the United Stites and the soviet Union have agreed to Start talks a in the nearest fun. Turey on limiting offensive and defensive nuclear missiles systems. Johnson chose the occasion of the signing of the historic nuclear nonproliferation treaty at the White House to make his announcement. White House officials reported 51 nations were joining the pact to ban the spread of atomic weapons. Signing ceremonies were con ducted also in London and Moscow. Hours before president Johnson spoke soviet Premier Alexei n. Kosygin announced Iii Moscow that the soviet Union wants to hold International talks on disarmament including a halt in the manufacture of nuclear weapons and reduction of nuclear weapon stockpiles. Kosygin also proposed discussions on limitation and reduction of a Means of delivery of strategic the Premier attacked the United states. He said the need to eliminate foreign military bases one of the russian proposals a is convincingly proved by tile continued aggressive War of the .a. In in London prime minister Harold Wilson presiding at the signing ceremony there called the treaty a the most important measure of arms control Aud disarmament on which agreement has yet teen Wilson pledged that Britain would continue a a with renewed Confidence and renewed Hope to work for further advances in Johnson in his remarks referred to the Long Effort to Start discussions on cutting Back the costly nuclear arms race. Moscow had indicated last thursday that the soviets were finally ready for such talks. A at this moment of achievement and Hope a the president said a i am gratified to be Able to report and announce to the world a significant agreement an agreement i have actively sought and worked since january 1964. A agreement has been reached Between the governments of the Union of soviet socialist republics and the United states to enter in the nearest future into discussions on the limitation and reduction of both offensive strategic nuclear weapons delivery systems and systems of defense against ballistic missiles. Administration authorities said tin exact time and place for the opening of .-soviet talks on curbing their missile and anti ballistic missile Competition has not been set nor has the composition of the respective negotiating delegations been decided Force Down hold in in _. A of Vav six a. I us t is Imp i a Quot Quot a so Down for i he count Bryan Scott of Watertown catches a few winks on the Sherburne gymnasium floor while waiting for his brother to compete in finals of the Sherburne wrestling saturday night. Three Sherburne wrestlers captured first place Iio nors in the contests. Story More photos Page to. Photo by Casey Jones a a x.,

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