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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - July 19, 1968, Norwich, New York Former Norwich couples daughter found slain Iii no special to the evening Sun Midland Park . A the daughter a former Norwich couple was found strangled thursday in a swampy wooded area a few blocks from her Ber. Gen county Home Here. Thirteen year old Jackie Harp a , Brown eyed Junior High school student had been choked with a leather Sling used to support a Flag staff. The dead girl had been a Flag bearer in a Fife and drum corps. She was the daughter or. And mrs. Leroy Harp 150 Birch St., Midland Park. Mrs. Harp the former Myra Craw. Ley Norwich. Or. Harp also lived in Norwich and the couple were married in the Chenango county Community. The dead girls maternal grandparents Are or. And mrs. Stanley a. Craw Ley 17 Miller St., Norwich. Mrs. Harp attended Norwich schools. The dead girl father a Nephew mrs. George Harp to Baldwin Street and her late husband. He attended schools in Greene and the son mrs. Frederick Mary Harp Greene. His father dead. A Cousin Donald Harp lives on Columbus Road new Berlin. The new Jersey Man held various jobs when he and his wife lived on Miller Street in Norwich. These include Montgomery wards where his wife also id worked and a Driver for Arrow laundry and Norwich dry cleaners. Or. Harp in his mid thirties and his wife moved to new Jersey approximately seven years ago according to relatives in Norwich detectives have no suspects in the death l3yearold school girl killed she went Home from a wednesday night drum and Bugle practice session at her school. The girl body was found thursday sprawled in a wooded Ravine after her Mother reported her missing. According to police there were no signs sexual assault but her face had apparently been beaten. The Sling was bound around her Throat. An autopsy report had not been completed thursday. Police questioned More than 50 friends and associates the popular teen Ager who had three older Sisters capt. Robert Vander clock . A but we have Little to go on so he added. The body was found at g45 . By a Man walking his dog in the swampy Ravine id the end Morrow re. Shortly after Midland Park radio patrolman Richard Mower also arrived on the scene. She was the youngest ,.f five daughters. Two a married and two Are single. Jackie whose formal name Jacqueline w,.s rarely used was a eighth grader at Midland Park Junior High school. Her Mother to i finally reported her miss a Hon . Thursday w reported tinier sedate in and being comforted by the family minist r at the Cape cod Type Home n Birch St. Or. Harp maim or a Small Midland Park supermarket known your Miler store was in Toledo Ohio Quot King i six week training course Lien ins Daugh ter was found slain. Jackie a 5 font 2, 100-Pound. Or left her Home at 7 . W cd mesday for a practice session the Midland Imperial knights Fife and drum corps at the municipal recreation Field on diary St., about three quarters a mile from her Home. She had joined the corps a year ago. The group competes with other organizations. Police chief John Molenstra it was possible she had taken a Short Cut through the swampy area which Midway Between the recreation Field and her Home. She was last seen alive by her close Friend Cindy Neill la 196 Hillside ave. Wyckoff . At 930 . Wednesday. Cindy had also been at the practice session and her Mother had pick Ixl her up to drive her Home. they drove Down Glen ave., they saw Jackie walking Home alone it was explained later that the reason they had not Given her a lift was that mrs Neill had to Rush Home to take an ailing member the family to the Hospital. Bergen county prosecutor Guy Calissi confirmed thai the girl had been strangled with her own leather Flag staff Sling. The body was found by l. Courtier in a Clearing in the Woods. The rear courtier Home at to Morrow re. Faces the spot where the body was found about to feet away. About too feet to the other Side the factory Montabert co., silk weavers. The factory operates on a basis. The e vol. 78, no. 78 Chenango River fish kill probe begins by state by Jerry Weaver death thousands Fisli in the Chenango River in Tho Vicinity Oxford was to be investigated today by a representative the state health departments regional office at Utica. Cause the fish kill has not been determined and James Luz Junior Engineer with the state health in apartment a a Utica office a report would probably be available by monday. Presence dead fish some washed up on the Banks and others floating belly up in the River was reported monday afternoon to the state conservation department. Samples the River a water were taken by Robert Rogers a conservation official from the Binghamton area. He estimated the number fish to be in tile thousands. They included Bass Pike Rock Bass and suckers. More samples were taken tuesday by a pollution test ing unit and samples taken by a conservation department chemist were sent to Hie state pollution laboratories at Scottsville. The kill was also investigated by Marlin White a conservation officer with the division Law enforcement. He today that a similar kill occurred a year ago at about this time but the cause was not determined. He that the area covered with the fish extended from approximately a mile and a half above the Village Oxford to about a mile South. There appeared to be no concentration the dead fish in any one spot along the two and a half mile Section. It was explained by Archie Petty with the conservation departments division fish and game Cortland that hot Days and hot nights for a prolonged period sometimes knocks Down the Waters oxygen Content. But or. Rogers that tests showed the a oxygen Content fair. A two possibilities Are being checked out by the investigators. One that a toxic pollutant Spray some Type May lie tile cause or that a Poison some kind was dumped into the Waters the River by an individual a not by a commercial firm. Czechs air defense against soviet plans Prague Czechoslovakia apr czechoslovak conium nit party leaders discussed defense their liberalization program against the soviet threat today while the russian party pledged help to a 30,000 Man people militia Here that has sided with the old guard. Pravda the soviet communist party newspaper named the armed militia made up workers who backed Antonin Novotny the ousted stalinist in Ler a leading foe the liberalization drive. The militia reportedly in Contact with the soviets has been a target czechoslovak liberals who demand it be scrapped. This new soviet offensive against the reformers came the to members the czechoslovak party scentral commit tee were expected to give their overwhelming support to party chief Alexander Dubcek who told the czechoslovak people thursday that liberalization will continue but a your Road will not be the session the 110-member committee also was attended by some 50 newly elected delegates to an extraordinary party con Gress scheduled for september to remove stalinist hard liners remaining in High party positions. In Moscow pravda kept up the War words against the czechoslovak liberals repeating the charge that a counter revolt vening Friday july 19, 1968 Norwich new York 13815 weather Clearing cooler and less hum d later tonight lows mainly in the 60s. Saturday not so warm and less humid with most sunny skies High temperatures mostly in the 803. Dusti ski kit Dik biafran children in these photos mat already have succumbed to starvation and malnutrition because a political standoff. Frustrated workers top. Stand in their Mission surrounded by Relief supplies which they Are prevented from distributing because the nigerian Federal government insists emergency Relief for secessionist Biafra be channelled through Nigeria but the Hoatran government will accept supplies Only Down directly to Biafra. Meanwhile thousands await death in the african nation. Big Arctic Oil discovery Aid alaskans woes May tonary Quot forces in . Kia a threaten the. Foundations the socialist system a the soviet communist party newspaper in a Long front Page editorial promised a All necessary help for czechoslovak hard liners. The soviet press has made no mention Decla rations support for the new Prague government from other communist parties. It also ignored Dubcek speech in which he declared a the people will not permit a return to the he referred to the re. Gime stalinist Antonin Novotny whom he displaced communist party chief at the Start the year. Pravda also there were reports in Prague a journalistic circles a that czechoslovak Security police had discovered u. Weapons hidden on czech soil near the West German Border. Pravda the weapons were pistols machine guns and sub Marchine guns a suitable rebel it they a a obviously have been smuggled in from West Ger Many Quot for anticommunist. Observers in Moscow noted a similarity Between the pravda article and soviet charges Dur my the 1956 hungarian uprising that caches u. Weapons were discovered in Hungary. Pravda also charged that the u. Central intelligence Agency and the Pentagon Are trying to subvert a unstable elements Quot in Czechoslovakia. Dubcek spoke on television after his regime had prepared a statement rejecting the demand the soviet Union and four orthodox communist allies for reversal the liberalization drive. Jun a Alaska apr gov. Walter j. Nickel sees the discovery Oil in alaskans Arctic Region a key unlocking the states vast potential and a Sta Blaizer its Economy. A ifs tremendous a a the Gover nor kept saying thursday after sales tax draws fire at hearing South Otselic Only 19 persons attended the fourth in tile series five Public hearings on i proposed two per cent sales tax held Here thursday night but the majority were opposed to a sales tax. South Otselic it was pointed out has a population which made up Many people on limited income. It was estimated that at least three quarters the population either retired or on limited income. It was Felt also Many borderline welfare cases would land on the welfare Rolls such a tax was imposed. Speaking in favor the sales tax with one per cent the tax to be allocated for schools was Richard Legoe principal the South Otselic school. George Mclean Greene the citizens committee which opposing the tax and which it circulating petitions spoke out against the tax. George Tucker local store owner posed the question will the Board spend More Money the tax imposed knowing it has that income he the Board in his opinion acted very unwisely in the expenditure i too for a Sand Bank. It was brought out in the Dis. Cushion that the proposed tax becomes effective it would tie on the same items the pre. Sent two per cent state sales tax covers. Nearing that reserves estimated by Oil expert at 5 to to billion barrels had been Foan i in the Prudhoe Bay area alone alaskans Arctic coast. The Arctic slope i an sex pan be endless Tundra inhabit Ell Only by Caribou wop., and an occasional Tov i ii 1 band Eskimo Hunters the area. Some Joo Miles North Fairbanks. a Region Long eyed with anted put on by Petroleum eulogist. The u. Navy a Petroleum Reserve no. 4 lies to the St the Atlantic Richfield Humble discovery. In an a it a j re the temperature Neteh to with the freezing Point even during the Long Sumter Davs Lien the Arctic Sun never gets i Ria the horizon. Degolyer and Mac naught on a Dallas Oil consulting firm the new discovery a the potential developing into one the worlds largest Field located on a 90,000 a Ere Block federally leased land the new discovery apparently informs what Petroleum geologists have Long thought thai the Arctic Slop a vast storehouse Oil and Gas. Gov. Hick Al feds the Oil in in 10c per copy yank patrol boat seized in Mekong by Cambodia Navy com from the huge Federal holdings on the North slope could b a him a to met native de in ands for 500 million to drop claims blocking the state efforts to select the 103 million acres promised by the state to xxx act. He also sees it possibly leading in the elimination stat income taxes which brought in ski million Iii the last fiscal year. Alaska which ranks 10th among the 32 Oil producing states received direct income from Oil and a production taxes lease bonuses royalties and rentals Over 40 million for the fiscal year ending june to the states general fund budget for the year a 104 million. The governor listed his first priority the Extension the federally owned Alaska rail Road from its Northern term Nus at Fairbanks the remaining 400 Miles to the North coast. Besides relieving the Oil Industry the immediate need building a >400 million pipeline to get the Oil to in free ter the Railroad a a mid provide a a two Way haul to open up thousands Square Miles unexplored wilderness. Saigon apr the Ca mho Dlan Navy was reported today to have seized an am rican patrol boat in the Mekong Delta and arrested 11 americans my one South vietnamese Alliard u. M Litany authorities in Saigon confirmed that a Navy Landing Craft was m using in the Delta but it had to americans aboard. There was no mention any South vietnamese passenger. It was assumed to be the to it oat which a newspaper in phenom penh the cambodian capital was seized a Mil inside cambodian Riv a Waters american authorities the missing Landing Craft left Dong tam a base near the Delta City my Tho on july 15 and head cd up River for Binh Thuy in other base just up River from can thoth Delta largest City. The trip up the Mekong and Barsac Rivers and across a major canal should have taken two Days but the boat did not arrive on the night july 17. U. Headquarters a search for the past two Days had tailed to produce any Trace the boat. It was assume that the unit Ltd a states would Send Cambodia a request for return the Ixia and its Crew using the austra ban embassy in phenom penh the Channel Australia his represented u. Interests in Cambodia since Prince Noro Dom Sihanouk c Arnexx liar a chief stat broke relations with Washington in 1965. In the course the Vietnam War. Several Small american Craft hav been Seiz a by Tho cambodians after straying across the Border in the Delta All the or have been re turned although the Canso Diane have reportedly be Jet one Small Landing boat. Border troubles Between the cambodian government and th-u. And South vietnamese forces in South Vietnam Are fre Quern because the Frontier at Many paints until irk in dispute or poorly defined and because Prince i h a Bouk strongly opposes both the Sal Goti govern in tit and the u. Military support it. U. Officials charge that Cambodia provides transit routes for North vietnamese troops and supplies Condo Down through Laos to reinforce the Viet Cong. I he u. Com main also charges that the Viet Cong my the North vietnamese take Refuge Iii Cam Oklia when Pursuit by u. Forces heroin text hot for them. Sihanouk has repeatedly de hied these charges although cambodian officials concede privately that their . too Small and lacks facilities to patrol the Long Frontier Between Cambodia and South Vietnam u. Mil South vietnamese planes have made t number attacks on came Milan Border villages with several cambo plans killed or w minded Iii most the attacks. The u. Com Mand says such attacks have been against Viet Cong who had taken Refuge in the villages that Allied forces or planes were being fired on from the villages and that the filers did not know the villages were cambodian because the Toner was not Well defined or because a Avtgis tonal error. Ray returned Iii Memphis jail Memphis Tenti apr James Earl rav handcuffed and wearing what appeared to be a Bullet proof Vest was whisked into the Shelby county jail before Dawn today to trial on a charge murdering or. Martin Luther King or. Ray was placed Iii his cell at the jail at 4 34 . Cot 46 minutes after he arrived Al the nearby Memphis naval air Sta tem aboard a u. Air Force Boeing Jet transport from Lon Don. Ii had left London about midnight�?6 p in. Cut so thai the ensure trip took about io1 hours. I rom the Navy base a Blue and White prison Van surrounded by a half dozen police cars and an equal number motor cycles roared into the parking lot behind the ail building at 429 . Cut. No newsman allowed to see Ray but sheriff William Mort distributed photographs the prisoner showing him dressed in what the sheriff told a new conference a protective Ile appeared to be dressed in a Bullet proof Vest and he was handcuffed to a heavy leather Belt. A we took custody or. R in at 54h . Aboard a Boeing 707 a Millington Quot the sheriff referring to the Navy base at suburban Millington. A the it a Rived at the jail at 4 29 . And was in his cell at 4 34.&Quot the sheriff criminal court judge w. Preston Battle has been chosen to hear the direct pc talks Hawaii topic Honolulu a Dent joins u and names president Thieu formal talk a pres auth Viet Ayen Van apparently will embrace possible direct Saigon Viet Cong negotiations and a total bombing halt in the North. In Advance to Dave a first for Mal meeting at the Hilltop head quarters the u. Pacific command Secretary defense Clark Clifford he avoided those two topics luring his Bai gon visit earlier in the we order to leave that up to Thieu and president Clifford talked to news run thursday at Hickam Field he waited nth Johnson to Greet Thieu a Chart re Airliner join Sori Iii be South vietnamese Leader. Iou cited on the peace search under was in Paris arum offered these words reassurance to his visitor a emr. President our pledge to help your people defeat Aggro Sion stands firm against All obstacles and against any beep Thieu dwarfed by the u. Chief executive respond i by saying he looked Forward to discussions a hts Well problem that lie be fort he Aid ll1 to j in. J tor a Steps toward p act and tree Dom tor Vietnam and Southeast Only a few score uniform m Litany personnel a id wants plus a Small costumed delegation from Honolulu a Viet names Colony were allowed to witness the arrival ceremony. Authorities obviously had taken min to avoid any Antiwar Dent oust rat Ion. Both Johnson and Thieu were doing most their travelling around the Island Oahu by helicopter. The american president was quartered at a luxury Seaside hoi., a built by the a a Industry Allsy Henry j. A r it a sealed off from la Thieu was staying at the Royal hawaiian hotel on Waikiki Beach. After Johnson a arrival Iii Hawaii thursday afternoon White House officials Learned about a published report from Saigon tha. Clifford while tiler had Persuad d Thieu to make two major a a concessions a to go along with a total bombing halt Iii the North and to agree to direct talks Voth Viet Cong apr Seii natives at broadened a a negotiations to i proposed at sum Point in the future murder trial but a no courtroom has been selected for the trial he added that no Date for arraignment on the murder indictment has been set. There was speculation that Ray May be tried in a basement courtroom at the jail courthouse building be that he would never have to leave the jail. Judge Battle already has sued his first order in the Case the sheriff . This forbids cameras tape recorders or nth or Tolar devices from the courthouse jail building its grounds or sidewalk surrounding the Structure and forbids anyone connected with the Case from giving interviews or otherwise discussing the Case outside the courthouse or with anyone but lawyers connected with the Case. photographers took Morris picture during the news Confer Nencet die sheriff went on to explain that Hie a no publicity order would go into Ell t immediately after the new conference. The Van carrying Ray to the jail was preceded by another police car loaded with officers who immediately jumped out my joined a Security guard deput in who had taken up stations Cross tile parking lot driveway la minutes before the prisoner arrived. One other car carrying criminal court judge John Coulton had driven into the parking lot a Short time earlier. There was no indication wily Coalton came to the jail. Ray departure from London Wandsworth jail was shrouded in secrecy was his arrival Iii Memphis. It could not be determined where he boarded tile Jet in England nor who accompanied him. Throughout the night in Memphis deputies and City police men had guarded tile jail and court Complex. Then at 415 ., a Large bus was backed across a driveway blocking the View tile jail Entrance. Three minutes later to Sher. Iffy a deputies carrying riot guns marched out Tim Bufi Din and blocked the Entrance. Today chuckle valor to Fra it non Ocean liner without tipping. Discretion Means to come Back on a different ship. Jackie Harp

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