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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - July 15, 1968, Norwich, New York The evening Sun vol. 78, no. 74 monday july 15, 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10c per copy Saigon commanders Brief defense chief buoyed Rocky ponders Nixon As running mate in Vav York apr for a Man waging Tough Uphill fight gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller t ikes a highly optimistic View of i Quot c chances of winning the Republic in presidential Nomina Tio a even to the Point of talking privately about forging a Rocke Feller Nixon ticket. Rockefeller has startled a few confidantes in recent Days by speculating on the possibility that Richard m. Nixon his chief rival for the nomination might wind up instead As his running mate. In one such conversation the Over nor said a lot of people think a Rockefeller Nixon pair int would make the strongest ticket and that they think it will turn out that Way in the Convell Tion. The governor Points out during such discussions that there is a rather ambiguous provision in the . Constitution attempting to bar selection of a president and vice president from the same state. The solution he suggests is that either he or Nixon would have to move out of new York state and that Nixon would be the logical one to move. Rockefeller publicly has ruled out any Prospect that he would run for vice president. Privately he says he could not play second fiddle to Nixon or anyone else. In presuming however that Nixon would be willing to Settle for second place Rockefeller illustrates the attitude he brings to his quest for the presidency a that he is the Best the Republican party has to offer and that it just has to recognize this. In the nearly la weeks since he entered the Competition against Nixon Rockefeller has travelled More than 50,000 Miles to carry his message into 42 of so states. He makes it 43 today going into Indiana to begin a Midwest tour. He has enjoyed Large crowds partly at least because of Good planning by his expert Advance men and his audiences generally have responded Well to his bustling Campaign style. The governor and his strategists say they Are pleased with the Way that phase of the Campaign is going the object being to arouse popular support that will be reflected in Public opinion polls and influence Convell Tion delegates on offensive threat that payroll Check will be smaller now Washington apr the Federal government started Tak my a bigger tax bite out of americans paychecks today As the to per cent income surtax recommended by president Johnson to help pay for the Viet Nam War finally went into effect. All paychecks received from today on must reflect the sur charge through an increased deduction for Federal income tax. Is. The to per cent increase is on the Federal tax americans a1, ready have been paying not on their total wages. If $20 had been withheld from each weekly paycheck for Feder arbitration mulled As demo deadline nears Chicago apr the Illinois Bell Telephone co. Was studying today a proposal of the striking electrical workers to submit their Long and sometimes bitter dispute to binding arbitration. After a two hour meeting sunday called by Gilbert j. Seldin top Federal mediator the Utility agreed to consider the unions verbal proposal. A Union spokesman said an answer was expected by today a at the the 69-Day wage dispute be tween the International brother Hood of electrical workers sys terns Council t-4, and Illinois Bell threatens to move the dem. Socratic National convention from Chicago. Robert a. Nickey chairman of the Council told a news conference that Union Leader had presented company officials a plan to submit the prolonged dispute to binding arbitration. The company will a consider the proposal As expeditiously As possible a a Bell spokesman said. Union members could return to work during arbitration said Nickey if this procedure for set. Ting the strike is a mutually sat. Is factory to both sides. Such a step however a would have to be settled As a separate Back agreement a he added. Nickey said if Illinois Bell re. Jets arbitration the Union will have no recourse but to file a charge of a unfair bargaining practices under the Norb a. Tonal labor relations Board a the company has suggested that putting its current offer to a referendum of Union members would be safer for the Union than placing itself in the hands of a. A iterators. John m. Bailey National convention chairman has warned that if the strike is not settled by july 28, the convention May be moved from Chicago s inter National amphitheatre. Weather hot humid partly Cloudy skies through tuesday with a few widely scattered thundershowers during afternoon or evening hours. Low temperatures tonight near 70 highs tuesday in upper 80s or Low greased pole climbing Calls for inventiveness if you re to succeed. This fellow uses a shirt to wipe the pole and a spread legged technique to boost himself upward. Saigon apr . Defense Secretary Clark Clifford got a briefing from top . Commanders today on the latest enemy threats to Saigon and the Northern provinces As the capital City awaited a new offensive. South vietnamese police went on full Alert after an intelligence re flirt indicated possible attacks and terrorist activities beginning at noon. But the noon hour passed without incident and . Officials indicated the intelligence information came from a Low level source. The Lull in the ground War continued elsewhere also. Clifford who arrived sunday for his first visit since succeeding Robert s. Mcnamara conferred with leaders of the . Military and jail tical missions deep inside the sprawling Pentagon East . Military compound at Saigon Stan son mint air base. On his arrival Clifford said the United states would Speed a1 taxes for example $22 will be withheld beginning today. All paychecks must account for the increased withholding to cover the surcharge even if the Money was earned before this week. Only persons in the two lowest income tax brackets Are exempt. President Johnson originally submitted the surcharge to con. Gress last aug. 3 and asked for an oct. I effective Date for individuals. When Congress failed to act last year Johnson changed the effective Date for individuals to last april i a Date approved by Congress in the measure finally passed in june. Because of this retroactive feature the tax withheld from paychecks wont cover All the Money individuals will owe the government by the end of de. Ember. The extra 3 /2 months must be paid when Federal income tax returns Are filed by next april 15. This will mean smaller and fewer refunds next year and larger payments of additional tax. For Calendar 1968 As a whole the surcharge will represent an Over All increase in taxes of 7.5 per cent since it will be paid for Only nine months of the year. The surcharge is scheduled to expire next june 30 but at least one administration official in. De Secretary of Commerce Howard j. Samuels already has urged its Extension to help pay the nations social legislation costs. That decision will be up to the administration elected in november and to the new con Gress. The tax is intended to help meet the Cost of the Vietnam War now running More than $28 billion a year to Kee presi. Dent Johnson a great society programs rolling to Stem Infra. Tion and to reduce a budget def. Init which in the last fiscal year Rose to about $25 billion fourth largest in history. Coupled with the surcharge package is a congressional Man. Date to the administration to Cut spending by $6 billion. In addition to the surcharge on individuals and corporations the new Law also speeds up collections of corporate income taxes and extends the to per cent excise tax on Telephone service. Born to climb boys can to resist a greased pole contest. This one at the annual Everglades Jamboree in Monroe station fla., offers prizes of $5 and $10 to anyone who can retrieve paper plates nailed to top of pole. Since anything goes a boosting hand is considered Legal. Soviets delay pull out As red Liberal bloc meets Warsaw Poland apr the departure of russian troops from Czechoslovakia was de. Played again today As leaders of other soviet bloc nations met in Warsaw to discuss what to do about the Liberal movement in Prague. In Prague official news me. Dia said heavy weekend traffic caused the delay in the pullout of soviet troops. They an. Bounced the withdrawal would resume tonight or tuesday but the delay was considered a new pressure on the new leadership of the czechoslovak communist party. It was the second postpone ment of the troop withdrawal since saturday. Some 5,000 so Viet soldiers arrived in Czecho. Slovakia last month for two weeks of Warsaw pact Maneu vers that ended june 30. Their continued presence triggered a wave of jitters among Czecho. Slovaks who viewed it As an in. Plied threat to Prague a liberalized regime. The Prague government an. Bounced last week that 35 per cent of the russian troops had left. One soviet troop Convoy crossed into East Germany on saturday but after that the troop movement stopped. In Warsaw soviet communist party chief Leonid l Brezhnev and Premier Alexei Kosygin met for the second Day with top party leaders from Poland East Germany Hungary and Bulgaria. Czechoslovakia and Roma. Nia another member of the bloc were not represented. The polish and East German leaders have shown particular Rickover raps Academy product Washington apr vice adm. Hyman g. Rickover says the . Naval Academy is not producing the mature confident and Well educated officers the modern Navy needs. Rickover also says the de sense department a is too much influenced by an Industry View. Point in its dealings with defense contractors and their prof its a far from being too Low As claimed a May be too High. The Deputy commander of the Navy a nuclear propulsion pro Grams issued the broadsides at a closed House appropriations subcommittee hearing in May. His testimony was released to Dav. A naval Academy midshipmen generally Lack poise self Confidence and maturity a Rickover said. A they give the appearance of having these qualities but it is a superficial appearance with Little he said the most prevalent deficiencies he finds in interviews each year of Many naval Academy and naval Reserve officer training midshipmen fall into the categories of insufficient academic preparation and immaturity. Academy officials could not be reached for comment. Rickover said he had been told by one member of the class of 1967 that grades Are the in plane ticket to Moscow anyone new York apr at 4 30 p. In. Edt today an Ilyushin 62 Jet passenger plane is scheduled to land at Kennedy International Airport marking the end of the first direct flight from mos cow to new York and the beginning of regular air service Between the two world capitals. After More than seven years of negotiations interrupted by such cold War flare As the building of the Berlin Wall the United states and the soviet Union reached agreement earlier this year on a weekly plane service. Under the agreement the gov eminent a owned soviet airline Aeroflot a which Calls itself the a a world a biggest and busiest airline a will Fly from Moscow and will return on wednesday. Pan american world airways a which Calls itself the a a world a most experienced airlines will schedule a flight from new York monday evening and flying via Copenhagen will arrived in mos. Cow on tuesday Moscow time returning the same Day. The four engine in 62, which will have a seating capacity of 20 first and 102 Economy class passengers will have a Crew of la for its inaugural flight. All speak English. The five Steward esses will Wear dark Blue uni forms. The pan am Boeing 707-300 fan Jet scheduled to depart at 8 15 . Edt today has a capacity of 16 first and 127 Economy class passengers. It will have a Crew of to including six stewardesses in Light Blue uni forms. Some will speak russian. The Captain for the inaugural up deliveries of modern Mio rifles to South vietnamese forces a even at the expense of our own he expressed Hope that South Vietnam one Day might begin to take Over the War Burden from the americans but declined to speculate on whim . Troops could be withdrawn. The defense Secretary is to present his findings to president Johnson in Advance it of the presidents Honolulu meeting with South vietnamese president Nguyen Van then next weekend. . Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker gave Clifford a general assessment of the political and economic situation with aides filling in details. Robert w. Komer chief of pacification and civilian Relief operations in Vietnam also briefed him Gen. Creighton Vav. Abrams . Military com minder in Vietnam had the afternoon to fill Clifford in on the latest military situation especially the reportedly growing threat of a third major enemy offensive against Saigon and another threat to the Northern Frontier. South vietnamese intelligence sources said there were indications of an enemy buildup along the cambodian Border and in Hail Nghia province to it oth to the West of Saigon. Intelligence sources con firmed that two North Vietnam be regiments the 32nd and the 33rd, had reached the cambodian Border after evading . B52 bombers on a 250-mile March from the Central Highlands. The units were reported massing in Tay Ninh province a two or three Days March from the capital. Elements of four enemy divisions Are said to be within strik ing distance of Saigon lying Low at present while refitting retraining and stocking up with arms and equipment. Allied attempts to flush them with saturation bombing. Saigon ring by 4 enemy forces shows weaknesses concern about the course the new Prague regime is taking because both Poland and East Germany have had antigovernment outbreaks since the death of Stalin. Wladyslaw Gomulka of Poland and Walter Ulbricht of East Germany fear that the Fer ment in Czechoslovakia will spread to their people and they also Are upset about the improved prospects for diplomatic and Trade relations Between West Germany and czech Oslo. Varia. An ominous note was sounded in Advance of the meeting by the polish communist party newspaper Tribuna Ludu which called for a a firm rebuffs against a reactionary forces and a imperialist Maneu verse in Czechoslovakia. Saigon apr the communist commands ability to mass elements of four divisions around Saigon underlines once again the weakness of Allied tactical intelligence and the enduring strength of guerrilla War fart tactics. Despite massive firepower helicopter mobility numerical superiority and computers the Allied command has been forced toward the medieval strategy of pulling Back to defend the City s Gates. The allies have the equivalent of some nine divisions in the Saigon Region and along the major infiltration routes leading to the capital. But they have not been Able to find and destroy a significant enemy formation either on the Way to Saigon or in their pre attack positions. Some 15 enemy battalions Are reported within 15 Miles of Saigon. One highly placed vietnamese source says some 1,000 enemy troops have infiltrated the City itself despite the ring of defending troops and hundreds of Pollee checkpoints. The establishment of a vastly beefed up capital military District command is a tacit admission that the Viet Cong cannot be stopped before they reach Saigon. During the two previous defensive this year so no 4,000 troops managed to penetrate the City in february and Alioth 1,200 Iii May and june. The Allied command was caught Flat footed in february but Hail ample warning of the May offensive. Mountains of intelligence on tin expected a third wave of tack is in Allied hands but the vital details of just where individual enemy units Are holed up Are not part of it. One . Source said lagging intelligence has resulted in b52 strikes As much As a Day behind enemy movement toward the capital. The Strat fortresses Are supposed to destroy the enemy regiments before they can get into position for an attack. Most tactical intelligence apparently comes from electronic and photographic devices and the like most of them carried by plane. Due to past demonstrations that . And govern ment troops cannot prevent Erie Mey regiments from moving through the Countryside reports on enemy movements from Vil rant thing at the Academy and that a the instructors done to care too much if a midshipman learns the theory As Long As he can pass the the Admiral a 1922 graduate of the Academy said he believes the general Lack of poise conf Donee and maturity a Are caused by the idealistic but impractical attempts by the naval Academy to include Broad coverage of military training professional and academic education sports �?�ic., without giving anything Rickover a criticism of the naval Academy is not new. In recent years he accused the school of spending too much time on frills. Flight is scheduled to be Arthur j. Dugan of Garden City n.y., a former . Navy Pilot who has been with the airline since 1939. The Moscow to new York flight via Aeroflot is scheduled to take 12 hours and 40 minutes with the return trip estimated at la hours and 30 minutes. Pan am will take la hours and 45 minutes to Fly from Moscow to new York and to hours and 35 minutes for the reverse trip. Fares on both airlines will be the same. Three faces of Holly Schmidt to who has been named 1%8 National poster child of the muscular dystrophy associations of America. Holly daughter of or. And mrs. Theodore Schmidt Saginaw Mich poses in swimsuit makes like a Glamor girl with a pet Kitten and beats out a tune on a xylophone. Lagers has Dirini up significant. By one source reported. The villagers face multiple problems of they help. Allied troops May attack their Village causing widespread damage. Or the helpful villagers May be be. Travel and executed along with All their fannies Viet Cong punishment for informers is Swift brutal arid final. Thus the old communist strut egy of swimming their fish through the Waters of the people remains As fundamentally sound As Ever. That 1,000 of these fish can swim undetected Iii Saigon itself shows that the strategy works As Well in the cities As Iii the Countryside. Allied ground units Are also severely hampered by new restrictions on the use of artillery and air Power around Saigon even to defend themselves some . Officers feel. The sex. Tent of the restrictions is a Rulli tary secret. But the . And South vietnamese reportedly feel these Are necessary to pre. Vent wide spread devastation in and around the City that would alienate the people i e Mon Stratous police hash on Pastille Day Paris apr Small sporadic clashes Between police and Young demonstrators punctuated Bastille Day celebrations sunday night in the latin Quarter where crowds of tourists had massed tor an evening of merrymaking. Small groups of students jeered the several thousand helmeted police massed along Boulevard St. Michel on the watch for leftist disturbances. The police hurled tear Gas grenades at the hecklers and launched several Baton charges. A number cd persons were injured. There were few disturbances in the capital during the Day when thousands turned out in drenching rain to watch the an. Nual Parade reviewed by Prest Dent Charles de Gaulle in his brigadier generals uniform. With de Gaulle were Premier Maurice Couve de Murville and other members of the new Cabi net. After reviewing the troops at the arc Detriomphe de Gaulle Rode Down the champs Elysee in an open car despite the rain. cheers of the crowd. Later the president stood in a covered stand and watched units from All branches of the French armed forces March past. Today s chuckle the cashier in a restaurant was looking terribly downhearted and the Boss asked her what was worrying her. A i must be losing ail the Glamor i once had a she replied a the men customers Are beginning to count their

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