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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - July 16, 1968, Norwich, New York Hening Jun vol. 78. No. 75 tuesday july 16, 1968 a , new York 13815 i of per copy educators mourn death of schools top administrator obituary Page 5 editorial Page 2 because of the death of Agatino j. Natoli City school superintendent the Board of education monday night adjourned its regular meeting shortly after they convener. The session is now scheduled for monday july 22. Or. H. Lynn Wilson a Board member moved that a out of respect for Agatino Natoli who served this school District for 30 years the Board adjourn this meeting to july 22.�?o members of the Board plan to attend funeral services for the late superintendent in a group thursday morning. At the beginning of the meeting Board president Cyrus m. Higley said he was sure a we All realize the great loss suffered in the death of or. Natolis and asked Board members to stand for a moment of silent prayer. Or. Lawrence Cumings a Board member said he would prepare a Resolution expressing the boards sorrow in the death of the educator a copy of which would be presented to the family. Or. Cumings also indicated that an educational fund of some kind would be initiated in memory of or. Natoli. Other educators have expressed a feeling of loss in the untimely death of or. Natoli Frank Kopko president of the Chenango county school boards association said that or. Natoli a was a great Man in the Field of Edu cation. I feel that the school system has pro Gressed a great Deal in the past few years and a lot of it was due to or. Natolis Ernest Youmans of the Board of cooperative educational services in Chenango county said a a it a a great loss to education in Chenango county. He was a great school Man and he always worked very Well with us boxes. Lyman o. Anderson Junior High school principal and former teacher Here said he had a worked with a about 20 years. We taught classes right across the Hall from each other. He was a tremendous educator and dedicated to his students. An outstanding teacher. Professionally he certainly had integrity in his office and dedicated every minute of his time As a teacher and As an John Winsor president of the educators association said that the a faculty feel a great sense of loss for the school system and themselves personally. Or. Natoli always stressed to the teachers the importance of his ultimate goal a the Best possible education of All our students. A improvements that were made during the past school year to be implemented in the future a said or. Winsor a would never have been possible without his understanding his cooperation his insight and his True desire to make the Best educational system in the state. These improvements will help All educators and students from now Reagan goes South to offset Wallace by the associated press California gov. Ronald Reagan says his swing through the South beginning this week will be aimed against what some republicans consider a growing threat from former Alabama gov. George c. Wallace. Third party presidential candidate Wallace has been showing increasing strength in Public opinion polls and Reagan said monday that Alabama republicans in particular were concerned about speculation Wallace a might eat into Republican Howard Hughes wins acc hound new York apr Howard Hughes has won another round in his Battle to buy 43 per cent of the Stock in the american broadcasting companies inc. But the outcome of the transaction remains in doubt. The . Circuit court of appeals refused monday to enjoin the Sale of two million shares of Abc Stock to Hughes. It upheld an earlier ruling by a District court judge. The financier offered two weeks ago through his wholly owned Hughes tool co., to buy the Stock then Selling at $58.87 a share for $74.25 a share. He set a deadline of 3 . Monday on the tender offer telling holders of Abc Stock in effect that if they wanted to accept his offer to buy they had to do it before then. The ruling came less than two hours before the deadline. It was not known How much of the Stock Hughes obtained. However sources close to the multimillionaire said the Stock had been coming in a pretty his agents said monday afternoon that no decision had been reached on whether to extend the deadline. No matter How much of the Stock Hughes got he will have no control Over the company for the time being. Weather hot and humid with generally fair weather through wednesday except for variable cloudiness with Chance of scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. Low temperatures tonight around 70 highs wednesday 85 to 95. Votes. A very Reagan said in Sacramento a the republicans asked me because of the strength of gov. Wallace. He is going to change the balance the South also is considered Reagan a greatest source of presidential strength outside California. The governor says he is not a presidential contender but As a favorite son candidate could become one at the gop National convention next month in Miami Beach. Reagan leaves thursday for gop fund raising appearances in Texas Arkansas Virginia North Carolina and Alabama. The Harris Survey released monday showed Wallace favored by 15 per cent of the voters and taking twice As Many votes from Republican Candi dates As from democrats. Pollster Louis Harris said in a copyright Washington Post Story half Wallace a strength is in the South. The Gallup poll reported sunday that Wallace shows 16 per cent voter support and said that was nearly twice the strength he showed in april. New York gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller announced gop contender said meanwhile his nationwide poll to indicate whether he or Richard m. Nixon would be the strongest Republican candidate will be conducted july 22-26. Rockefeller said he is convinced delegates want to nominate a winning candidate and said the poll results will be announced As soon As possible before the gop convention which begins aug. 5. Shrill shells cause marines to cover their ears As they fire an 81mm mortar at the enemy in Vietnam. Mortars and rocket launchers have emerged As prime weapons in the Southeast asian conflict. Soviets again delay pull out Prague Czechoslovakia apr the soviet Union has again delayed withdrawal of its troops from Czechoslovakia and along with four East european allies has sent a letter to the new Liberal regime in Prague. Contents of the letter were not disclosed but it was the product of a conference in Warsaw of nations which already have expressed fear that the czechoslovak liberalization drive was getting out of hand. Communist party leaders from Bulgaria Hungary East Germany Poland and the soviet Union including pary chief Leonid i. Brezhnev and Premier a Alexei n. Kosygin met at Warsaw sunday and monday. A communique on the conference said they exchanged information a on the situations in their countries and the development of events in one communist source said the letter May contain a joint request for removal of the most Liberal elements in the czechoslovak leadership. Newspapers in the orthodox communist countries have been warning that anti socialist elements were trying to use Czechoslovakia a democratization Campaign for their own ends. Many Czeh slovaks saw a threat of soviet military intervention in the continued presence in their country of soviet troops who came for training exercises that ended More than two weeks ago. Maj. Gen. Vaclav Prchlik a top czechoslovak defense official. Announced monday night that a Large contingent of soviet troops is delaying its departure six More Days Prchlik said the troops would leave the country next sunday rather than today As they had promised. He told the television audience the soviet troops definitely were leaving and urged czechoslovak not to succumb to a War of nerves. Aim to 5,000 russian troops participated in the Warsaw pact Maneu vers and an estimated 3,000 remained in Czechoslovakia afterwards. Alter negotiations last week the Prague government announced that these would begin leaving saturday. Some went but the movement halted Sun Day. Czechoslovak news Media said heavy weekend traffic caused the delay and the withdrawal resumed monday. At a news conference mo1 a night Prchlik also demanded a revision of the Warsaw pact to give the soviet unions partners an equal voice in running the organizations affairs. He also said members should be prevented from forming blocs within the Alliance. Prchlik said the calling of the Warsaw conference was a a regrettable the Prague leadership had been invited to meet with its East european allies but responded by inviting representatives of the communist nations to come separately to Prague to discuss its liberalization moves. Humphrey gets another 33 Delegate votes Washington apr the republicans finished Manning their 1968 convention during the past week and the democrats left themselves Only 162 More votes to allot for their own presidential nominating session. The biggest change in the standing of candidates in terms of first ballot votes committed on the record one Way or another was a pick up of 331 i votes for democratic vice president Hubert h. Humphrey to 711. His opponent. Sen. Eugene j. My earthy made a gain of i1 to 415v2. The count covers those bound by primary results pledged at the time of election or stating a stand in a Xiii by the associated press. On those terms the democratic situation remained extremely fluid with 1,312 required to nominate in the convention scheduled to open in Chicago aug. 26, and a bit More than that number either declining to commit themselves in Public or backing favorite sons. The republicans completed their roster by Means of Utah s state convention in which former vice president Richard m. Nixon picked up 2 for a total of 507. Rockefeller stood still. Saigon fighting picks up As red troops pull Back Saigon a the ground War picked up South of Saigon monday and today with 192 of the enemy reported killed. But a senior . Officer said Large enemy units had moved Westward from the Saigon area and the next big Viet Cong offensive against the South vietnamese capital is not Likely before late july or Early August. The american source warned that despite the enemy withdrawals the Viet Cong still plans to attack Saigon. Danang and Hue die two major cities in the Northern part of the coun try also were considered Likely targets for a general communist offensive. Big Aid it might Hurt talks dark Washington apr Secretary of defense Clark m. Clifford has told the chairman of the House foreign affairs committee that drastic curtailment of foreign Aid could affect the Paris peace negotiations. The warning from Clifford now on an inspection trip to Vietnam was contained in a letter to rep. Thomas e. Morgan d-pa., who released it on the eve of today a opening debate on the always controversial foreign Aid Bill. A the Impact of a drastic curtailment or a Complete moratorium in economic Ald on countries S.C. As Korea and Thailand would be immediate and calamitous a Clifford wrote. A discontinuation of Aid to South Vietnam and Laos could create internal situations which would prejudice the Paris peace negotiations and the a com pm is Tun int of our objectives in Southeast Asia a he added. Morgan sent copies of the letter to All House members. Following today a debate the Bill will be put aside until thursday so members attending the wednesday funeral of rep. Joe Pool a Tex. Can be on hand for the Battle Over amendments. Pool died sunday on a plane in Texas. Morgans committee slashed the administration s request for the fiscal year that began july i from $2.96 billion to $2.36 billion. The Bill squeaked by the House by Only eight votes last year when Congress authorized $2.67 billion for the program but thou appropriated Only $2.2 a series of cutting amendments Are in store along with an Effort to Clamp a one year moratorium on the program and probably an attempt to kill it outright. After a prolonged Lull in the ground War infantrymen from the . 9th division protecting tile Southern approaches to Saigon tangled with an enemy Force monday 16 Miles South Southeast of the capital. The Battle raged until just before Dawn today and the american command sent in dive bombers artillery and helicopter gun. Ships to Pound the enemy. . Headquarters said 76 Viet Cong troops were slain and 12 weapons captured including six mortars. . Losses were seven killed and 21 wounded. Forty Miles farther South . And South vietnamese ground naval and air forces caught sizable Viet Cong units pressing in on a provincial capital in the Mekong Delta and reported killing 116 of the enemy in an All Day Battle monday. Seventeen americans and two South vietnamese were wounded spokesmen said. As Many As 1,000 infantrymen of the . 9th division plus More than 1,000 South vietnamese troops boxed the enemy in near Phu Vinh. . Air Force dive bombers and army helicopter gunships pounded the guerrillas and South vietnamese troops said they counted 61 enemy soldiers killed by the air strikes alone. Government Headquarters also reported that a Large arms Cache was seized including 35 boxes of ammunition for automatic weapons 16 rounds of mortars 17 rounds of recoilless Rifle shells 22 rounds of Bazooka Type rockets 67 grenades and 50 mines. The month Long absence of sustained Battle was reflected in a casualty report for last week issued by South vietnamese Headquarters. The government said Allied forces killed 836 North vietnamese and Viet Cong troops the lowest weekly toll of the enemy claimed since the first week of 1967, when 626 were reported killed. The number of South vietnamese reported killed�?157�? was the lowest in four and a half months. American casualties for last week will be reported on thursday. The Viet Cong attack on Saigon had been expected this week with the main punch coming from tile West. The american source said regimental and larger sized enemy units to the West of the capital have pulled Back but he added that a Moun Tain of intelligence information clearly showed the enemy still plans to attack. Possible explanations were that the enemy troops had with drawn to More secure positions to wait for reinforcements or were fainting to Lull the allies into believing the threat was Over. Despite the enemy withdrawal Allied troops were ordered to remain Alert for possible Small attacks to Mark the 14th anniversary saturday of the signing of the Geneva agreements that partitioned Vietnam. One or two fresh enemy regi ments were reported infiltrating Northwest of Saigon to join the already Large enemy Force around the capital. . B52 bombers flew four raids about to Miles Northwest of Saigon monday in efforts to Stop them. Elsewhere in South Vietnam government troops reported running into an unknown number of enemy troops just South of the demilitarized zone near the Glo Binh combat base and killing 24 of them. The Viet Cong set 300 houses afire in a terror raid on an Duong Village 300 Miles Northeast of Saigon wounding at least four civilians and shelled two Allied targets. Three civilians and five sol Diers were wounded by a barrage that hit the capital of Vinh Long province 75 Miles Southwest of Saigon and a nearby government training Center. A shelling at the Headquarters of the . 1st army division at Bai Khe 29 Miles Northwest of Saigon did not cause any Amar lean casualties or damage to the base tile . Command said. Revolt against Mao radio asks Hong Kong a a mystery c chinese radio station calling itself a voice of the Peoples liberation army has called upon Pla commanders and troops throughout red China to prepare for a a True communist revolt against party chairman Mao tse Tibig defense minister tan plan and Mao a wife Chiang Clung. Violently denouncing the three for a usurping communist Power lying to the masses and cheating the Pla a the almost nightly broadcasts accuse Mao of initiating and bin and Chiang Ching of helping carry out the a anarchism that has paralysed and is destroying our bin is Mao a heir apparent. Attempts to pinpoint the location of the station s transmitter have not been successful Atleas tso far As is known Here and there is considerable doubt As to whether it really is a Clandestine army station operating on the communist Mainland. It would appear from some direction finding equipment to be somewhere North of Kiangtung province perhaps m the Region of Changsha capital of Hunan province or in he Pei a Wuhan area the latter a hot lied of anti maoist activities for More than a year. Sophisticated equipment exists which can a a Bend radio Waves and there Are some Here who believe the transmitter May tie located on Formosa. Professional China analysts Here tend to Lelieve Itiat the station is transmitting from Mainland China. They say areas of China Are in S.C. chaos because of Mao a cultural revolution purge that is would be possible to operate a Clandestine transmitter in China. Senate brass delays quizzing of Fortas Washington apr the Senate session was cancelled for today in a leadership move to Blunt opponents delaying tac tics and insure uninterrupted questioning by the judiciary committee of chief Abe Fortas. But president Johnson a Nom Nee still faced Long and close scrutiny at today s committee hearing put off from last week particularly on High court Deci Sions he has participated in since becoming an associate private talks loosen lip Paris apr the United states and North Vietnam apparently have reached a Point in the Paris peace talks where they can sound each other out secretly on possible arrangements to de escalate the War in Vietnam. Both now agree publicly that their delegation leaders have touched on a a serious issues in their private conversations during the Coffee Breaks in their formal sessions. In addition the diplomatic channels used for communications Between Washington and Hanoi in past peace probing Are obviously still open and presumably in use. The formal exchanges be tween ambassadors w. Averell Harriman and Xuan Thuy in their regular wednesday meetings continue deadlocked and repetitious mainly serving the propaganda purposes of both sides. But their informal contacts have gone beyond that rigid pattern allowing a More flex Ible exploration of peace possibilities. There is also some indication that leaders in Washington and Hanoi Are engaged in policy reviews. Ambassador Cyrus r. Vance is flying to Washington today for consultations with president Johnson before Johnson goes to Honolulu to Confer with president Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam. On the North vietnamese Side be due Tho special counsellor to Thuy has been in a. Noi for about two weeks. He is a member of the North vietnamese communist party a policy making politburo. The deadlock Over de escalating the War arises from Hanoi a demand that the United states Stop All bombing of its territory and Washington a demand that North Vietnam show some military a a restraint to justify ending the bombing. North Vietnam has said since before the talks started on May 13 that until the bombing is stopped no other Issue of vietnamese peacemaking can be discussed. Exactly what president Johnson would consider a minimum adequate show of a a restraint on North Vietnam a part has not been spelled out. Harriman has proposed to Thuy a restoration of the demilitarized zone Between North and South Vietnam and has also called for a reduction in infiltration from North to South. Evidently either action would be acceptable to Johnson As a basis for ending the rest of the bombing of the North. I it it ourself thicken Flavol brew Beer strike taxes Canadian ingenuity by Ray Hill Buffalo evening news Niagara Falls ont. Apr this is a Frothy Story which in the end May prov that no matter How Humble there a nothing like foam Ezen if its Chicken Flavoured. It Isnit particularly funny to our Canadian cousins in ont Ario who have been deeply immersed in a Beer strike for 25 Days. For Tommil is the second time in to years that or a ight has turned to drought. A and though the tid 1 of Nego tii dons seems to be flowing toward a settlement canadians Are a pragmatic lot. They know their cups do not run Neth Over and they know the truth of the old saying about there be of Many a slip Between the cup and he lip especially in management labor relations. A a it a difficult a said one Beer Drinker a to Kep a stiff upper lip Whan there a nothing to put your lip the threat of a Long hot summer has taxed Canadian ingenuity to its fullest measure. The Mare ingenious have been driven to Bath tub brew and one drug store Here has found that its a full time Job keeping up with orders for do it yourself Beer kits. A Home brew has a distinctive flavor and Many people Are add ing their own ingredients to suit their tastes a said the store owner. A one Man i know looks two Chicken legs and wraps them in cloth Ani puts them in the vat with the fermenting Beer a he said a some people Are throwing in everything from armed cherries to blueberries and apricots a he noted. Tim kit includes a can of malt extract which retails for $1.85, 144 Caps which Cost 69 cents and 25-cents Worth of yeast. Just what percentage of drinkers will return to the Quot pubs when the strike is Over remains to be seen. But in the meantime de spite what visions Are conjured by the name Niagara Falls grit. Is a pretty dry City. Justice Iii 1965. The hewing last week was postponed when sen. Sam j. Ervin jr., d-n.c., asked for More time to review those decisions. Ervin also was the chief sponsor of a Section of the omnibus crime control Bill intended to overturn decisions protecting the rights of criminals rulings in which Fortas sided with the majority. Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield and Republican Leader Everett m. Dirksen both supporters of tile nomination of Fortas and of Homer Thornberry to replace him As an associate Justice announced cancelling of today a Senate session. Cutting out today a session prevents sen. Strom Thurmond r-s.c., from carrying out his threat to keep tile committee from sitting while Hie Senate is in session. The move followed two other developments another Senate democratic Leader announced opposition to the nomination and the body s Leader of Republic. Can opponents claimed he had More than enough support to prevent shutting off a filibuster. Questioning of Fortas could delay Thornberry a appearance scheduled for wednesday. Johnson submitted the Nom nations of Fortas and Thornberry both old friends and confidants after Warren submitted his retirement effective at the presidents pleasure. Warren has said that if Fortas is not confirmed by the Senate he will feel obliged in the interest of the continuity of the courts work to stay on As chief Justice. A sen. Robert p. Griffin of Michigan spearheading the re publican opposition said Mon. Day he doubts the committee will report to the Senate until a week before aug. 3, target Date for adjournment of Congress. Griffin claimed More than enough votes to prevent a Senate filibuster against Confirma. Ton from being shut off. Today a chuckle modern mathematics the number of blasts that come from Auto horns in a traffic Jam is equal to the sum of the squares at the wheels

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