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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - July 23, 1968, Norwich, New York The e its in vol. 78, no. 80 tuesday july 23, 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10r per copy. I a. Farruto Vii firm i $6 million Mercer proposed merger of general laboratories associates the Norwich areas second largest employer into Simmonds precision products inc. Of Tarrytown was announced monday. In a joint statement Geoffrey r. Simmonds president of Simmonds and William j. Carry chairman of Glass Board said that the directors of both companies had agreed in principle to the action. The merger would be effected after a vote of stockholders of the two firms at special meetings to be called in september. The action will involve an Exchange of three Gla shares for two shares of Simmonds precision common Stock w Ith the total value of the transaction approximating $6,625,000. The Simmonds precision Board took action on the proposal monday afternoon at a meeting at the company a offices in new York City according to Harrison f. Edwards president of Gla who prior to joining the area company had been executive vice president of Simmonds precision. He said that Gla will continue to operate under its present management. Hie area firm is a designer and manufacturer of Gas Turbine accessories such of electronic ignition Audma Lometric systems used in aerospace and Industrial applications. Annual sales Are about $9.5 million. The company a engine accessory systems Are used on the entire families of Boeing and Douglas commercial aircraft and on most military aircraft including the f-111 and a-7a. Current production programs include equipment for a Broad Range of Pratt amp Whitney Avo Aire search Allison and general electric engines. Simmonds precision is an International designer and manufacturer of measurement display and control instrument systems for aerospace and Industrial markets. Or. Edwards said that the Tarrytown company employs about 3,000 and its annual sales run about $55 million. The Gla president said that the merger would enhance area employment in the Long run and provide greater Opportunity for the some 600 persons already employed by Gia. He said that the Structure of Gla financially and Manageri ally had not been geared to meet the rapid growth of the Norwich firm and that the merger will provide the company which probably will be known As a division of Simmonds precision with that Structure. The depth and resources under the proposed setup will permit Gla a to grow More rapidly a a he said. He said that the proposal will Anble Gla to avoid a situation of a couple of years ago where the company could not meet the growth of orders and deadlines. The merger a will give Gla the financial and resource Structure a necessary for growth that it was not capable of Point on its own or. Edwards said. He foresaw no immediate increase in employ -ait.it, Bai lifted that the company had to subcontract some of its work because skilled positions could not be filled. In the Long run he could see greater area employment resulting from the proposed merger. He said that the transaction will also permit tile company to get More products on an engine widening its Market. Citing the rapid growth Gla already has experienced he said that in a few years sales have gone from $4 to a million and then $6 to $8 million with current years sales anticipated at about $9.6 million. Governors of both parties fearful of Wallace a Impact Cincinnati Ohio apr governors of both major Par ties some of them openly Disen chanted with their prospective presidential nominees Are fearful that Alabama a George c. Wallace May succeed in stale mating the race for the White House. And there is a growing move ment to support a Republican democratic agreement to Settle any deadlock without dealing with third party candidate Wallace. One Republican planned to propose that such an Accord be written into both the gop and the democratic party platforms next month. Two democrats one from the South one from the North agreed that if either party entered Post election negotiations with Wallace bartering policy concessions for electoral sup. Port it would destroy that party politically. Republican gov. John h. Chafee of Rhode Island sought backing of the 60th National governors conference today for a plan which would have tile re publicans and democratic nominees agree in Advance to support whichever Man receives the most popular votes in the nov. 4 election if there is no majority Victory in the electoral College. Should tile re be no electoral majority the Constitution would Send the presidential decision to the House of representatives with each state to cast one vote. A states electors normally vote for tile candidate who wins the most ballots in that state. Chafee proposed that the gop and democratic nominees agree that the National popular vote loser would a exert his influence among electors pledged to his candidacy to guarantee weather mostly fair weather with seasonable temperatures and moderate humidity tonight and wednesday. Low temperatures tonight in the 50s and Low 60s highs on wed Neslav in the 80s. Belectora1 College Choice of the candidate who Ivins the Over All ballot count. He sought conference approval of a Resolution urging that plan upon the two major parties and indicated he would like it to be part of their platforms. A variation of that plan would have the parties agree to sup. Port the popular vote Winner Hanes says Ray. Sneyd. The same Memphis. Penn. Apr James Earl Ray charged with murdering or. Martin Luther King the same Man arrested in London under the name of Ramon George Sneyd his attorney admitted monday. Arthur hones made the statement to reporters after Ray 40, had pleaded innocent to a charge of murdering King. Ray will be tried nov. 12 on a charge of murder a trial which could last up to six weeks. Hanes had never referred to his client As Ray until he met with newsmen after mondays arraignment. And Ray himself had used the name Sneyd As recently As a week ago. On july 19, while Ray was awaiting extradition from London Hanes refused to Tell the name of his client. A that is up to the prosecution to say a re. Plied Hanes a former mayor of Birmingham Ala. A they made the charges and the allegations and they will have to establish his Ray who has been identified As a Missouri prison Escapee was arrested at a London Airport june 8�?two months and four Days after King was shot to death on the Balcony of a Memphis Motel. Ray was arraigned monday under extraordinary Security and after the 12-minute hearing was returned immediately to an air conditioned four cell suite on the third floor of Shelby county jail. Without regard to political affiliation should the decision go to the House. Chafee said there is a a Clear arid present danger that there will be no electoral College majority because of the third party Wallace race. Some form of major party agreement to break a possible deadlock also had the endorsement of Republican George Romney of Michigan and demo Erat Philip h. Hoff of Vermont. Hoff said a Wallace produced stalemate a could cause a major disruption in the United states and abroad. Without endorsing the idea gov. John j. Mckeithen of Loui Siana forecast some such plan would be adopted. He said Wallace currently has enough sup port to deny an electoral College majority to both major Canell dates in a close race. A a it a a matter of fact and reality that this is going to Hap. Pen a he said of major party pact aimed against the Wallace bid for bargaining Power in the White House race. Gov. Albert p. Brewer of Ala Bama said he believes Wallace could carry 12 states. He said he would support an agreement to give the White House to the can. Dilate obtaining a popular vote plurality and argued that this would give Wallace a Chance of winning the presidency. Soviets yield on czech talk site but Kremlin reportedly h ants Border Force Prague apr the soviet Union conceded to czech Oslo a Al a a leaders on the site for i meeting to discuss the form i satellites new Liberal Corn a and pulled the last of its troops out of Czechoslovakia monday but there were ominous report that Moscow is demanding a strengthening of Czecho Slov i Kiaus Frontier with West Ger by red Many presumably army Force. The Kremlin backed Down from us demand for top be i talks on soviet soil and agreed to Send its communist party politburo to Czechoslovakia or a conference with the Czecho Slu Vak party presidium. The Date and place of the meeting were not announced but there was speculation it might begin wednesday or thursday in Bratislava or to sice. Agreement on the talks was reached after the last of some 18,500 russian troops were reported to have withdrawn through the soviet slovak Lair Der town of Kresov. The soviet forces had remained in Czechoslovakia after Warsaw pact Maneu vers ended three weeks ago raising a scare that Moscow might try to reverse the country a liberalization drive by armed Force. Despite the withdrawal reliable sources in Warsaw said soviet army combat equipment. Including rocket launchers has been sighted a few Miles from Poland a Southern Border with Czechoslovakia. The sources estimated the equipment was backed up by several thousand men. Informed sources in Prague said soviet leaders had sent a new note to the czechoslovakian government contending that the czechoslovak army is incapable of defending the country a Western Frontier with Germany and demanding a a solution to this West German foreign minister Willy Brandt told his Cabinet in May that soviet bloc nations were pressing for 10,000to 12,000 non czechoslovak communist troops to be stationed permanently in Czechoslovakia. With this report West German the United states my France were reported to hive changed plans to hold Maneu vers in sept Ember three Miles from West Germany a Border with Czechoslovakia. West German officials predicted the exercises would be held Well away from the Border or at a later Date so As not to give the soviets any pretext for intervention in Czechoslovakia. Pravda the soviet communist party newspaper said today that the Western allies change of plans changed nothing. I plane loss i since bomb halt drops Washington apr . Aircraft losses Over North Vietnam have dropped dramatically since president Johnson limited bombing raids to the country a narrow Southern Panhandle an associated press Check of daily military communiques shows 30 . Planes listed As shot Down Over North Vietnam since the presidents bombing restrictions went into effect March 31. By contrast the United states lost 133 planes during the same time period last year when raids were conducted against Rort a Orth Vietnam. The Sharp Cut in losses is even More dramatic when it is noted that missions against the North have increased substantially since last year. . Pilots Are now flying at the rate of 130 missions per Day Over the North compared with 103 per Day in 1967 and 65 in 1966. The following breakdown shows monthly Mission totals for 1968 since the bombing curb began with 1967 Mission totals in parenthesis april 3,412 2,925may 3,593 3,237june 3,792 3,607 and july first three weeks 2,7 a 3,819. In addition to the savings in manpower the lower incidence in lost planes has resulted in financial Benefit. Assuming the United stat would have lost too More planes had countrywide raids continued As in 1967, the savings in aircraft alone amounts to t least $200 million. Already Pentagon official Are scaling Down fighter prod tie. Tion from an originally planned too planes per month to 72 in co dance with the reduced loses. Top defense officials maintain the bombing program is not it a More effective than it was eve it though enemy infiltration int South Vietnam has increased. Secretary of defense Clarks. Clifford told newsmen july la that concentration of the attack on enemy Supply lines below North Vietnam a 20th parallel probably has a produced More dividends and rewards than i the bombing were spread Over a larger Clifford said the enemy is sex. Petted to infiltrate 20,000 men southward in each of the summer months but a they will pay an increasingly higher Cost for that As they go through the Panhandle South of the 20th hijacked israeli jetliner lands in Algeria arabs demand hostages to l Aviv apr an israeli jetliner with 48 persons Al it Oard was hijacked to Algeria today and an Arab guerrilla organization asked the algerian government to hold the israelis among its passengers and Crew members As hostages for Arab commandos held prisoner in Israel. Israel asked . Secretary Getral u Thant to help obtain the release of the plane its 38 passengers and to Crew members. The Boeing 707 Jet of Al Al is Raele a National airline was hijacked Over the Mediterranean an hour after it left Rome on a flight to Tel Aviv. Aboard were a Crew of to israelis and 38 passengers including an american woman mrs. Rena Tsuriel 27. Of Brooklyn. The popular front for the liberation of Palestine one of several aral guerrilla groups which sends commando squads on sabotage missions in Israel claimed in a communique issued in Beirut that one of its units took control of the plane and forced the Pilot to land in Algiers. An Al Al spokesman said the Pilot radioed Mediterranean passenger was change course. From Over the that an armed forcing him to but a source in Algiers said two armed palestinians broke into the captains compartment and took Over the plane. The commando group said it was asking the algerian government to hold th1 plane also. The israeli embassy in Rome said there were eight israelis among the passengers. All the to Crew members were israelis also. Th1 commando groups Nom two princes Ai playtime like All dads Prince Claus von Amsberg tries to coax a smile out of his son Prince Willem Alexander 14 months during a picture taking session. Von Amsberg a former West German Diplomat is married to Crown Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands. Foe baps report on Fortas Washington apr an opponent of president Johnson a supreme court nominations has labelled As propaganda a Justice department report favourable to chief Justice designate Abe for. Tas. The comment was made monday to the Senate judiciary committee by sen. Sam j. Ervin jr., d-n.c., whose request that Justice department repro sedatives be called to explain the report at today s committee session was granted by chairman James o. Eastland a miss. The unexpected development came after the committee apparently had wound up its hearings into Fortas nomination to succeed Earl Warren and at least temporarily into the Nom. Nation of Homer Thornberry to be an associate Justice. The Justice departments 27. Page memorandum on the a judicial performance of or. Justice Fortas a was put in the record last saturday by sen. Philip a. Hart a much. Hart said he had requested it to provide a More balanced record after the critical questioning of Fortas by Ervin and sen. Strom Thurmond . The memorandum comment. My on decisions in which Fortas politics not Hyannis port topic Hyannis port mass. Apr what the future holds for sen. Edward m. Kennedy the last surviving brother of the Kennedy clan is one of the major political questions of the hour. The question grows As the time draws near for the democratic National convention. There has been speculation whether he will become a candidate for vice president or even whether he will remain in the Senate. A meeting monday at the Kennedy compound overlooking Nantucket s Gether some ures in the minist ration Hind brought of the leading Campaign and of the late or Dent John f. Kennedy and in the Brief Campaign of sen Rob Ert f. Kennedy which ended with an Assassin s Bullet june 5. Gathering to discuss creation of a memorial to Robert Kennedy were such men As Robert s. Mcnamara Arthur m. jr., Theodore c. Sorensen and Kenneth p. O Donnell. There were about a dozen others for the meeting on the me and until it of Vard mortal plans. Mcnamara was secret a defense in the Kennedy Joltn son administrations his appointment As preside the world Bank. Schlesinger former h u historian and now at City College of new York was a Whit House staff member. Sorensen was a White House aide to president Kennedy aril had been on his Washington staff when Kennedy was a senator. Of Donnell has been a Kennedy and a1 campaigner for years if was in the White House. Also at the meeting was Frank Mankiewicz who was on Robert Kennedy a staff. He said on his return to Washington that the meeting was the second of a series to plan a a a living memo rial to the senator. Sen. Kennedy 36, Back from a week sailing off the Maine coast on a chartered Sailboat with family members and some friends was on hand. He has made no comment on his Politi Cal plans. Participated concluded this Way a notwithstanding the quibbles about particular votes and decisions the verdict of the american bar. Is that Justice Fortas has performed remarkably Well in three years fulfilling the Promise that one of the nation s greatest lawyers should become one of its greatest Ervin called the Justice department document an attempt a to propagandize the committee and said he intended to answer it and wanted to question the lawyers who drafted it. If the department did no to make them available Ervin said he wanted atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark or his Deputy called to testify about the document. The memorandum reportedly was written in the office of Deputy atty. Gen. Warren Christo plier. Eastland told newsmen he had no idea when the committee might act on Fortas nomination even More Uncertain is when it will act on Thornberry a nomination. If Thornberry is recalled it is not Likely before september since there seems to be no pros. Ped of Senate action on Fortas nomination until after an expected congressional recess for next months National party con. Vent ions. Munique said non israeli passengers would be allowed to leave Algeria. Algerian officials would say nothing about th1 plane for More than to hours after it landed at Maison Blanche the Algiers Airport. Then the algerian government confirmed that the plane was at the Airport under guard and that the passengers also were being kept at the Airport. Algerian officials told nine italians among the passengers including seven roman Catholic priests on a pilgrimage to the holy land that they could leave Algeria. The Boeing 707 was the first israeli Airliner Ever hijacked mid it was the first Tim an israeli commercial plane had been forced to land in an Arab country. It appeared that negotiations for release of the plane and its israeli passengers would be a complicated process. Algeria declared a state of War with Israel during last years six Day Arab israeli War and Algeria Lias been one of israelis most vociferous opponents though its military contribution to the Arab cause was nonexistent. The stat of War is still in Force and Israel has no relations with any Arab government. Nor does any other government represent its interests in Algeria. The Arab commando group s said the algerian government had no Advance knowledge of the hijacking. Las storage l Ank blast shakes Lily Pensacola Fla. Apr a gasoline storage tank exploded a like an atom bomb today hurled residents of nearby Homes out of their Beds and shot flames 300 feet High Over the Pensacola waterfront. Seven hours after the first of three explosions the 200,000-gallon tank still burned furiously blanketing the area with oily smoke. The fire threatened other tanks loaded with gasoline and kerosene. Or. And mrs. Jim Hicks were knocked out of their Beds by the first blast which blew gasoline and Sparks through the windows starting several Small fires in the House. Both suffered Burns As they beat out the fires before fleeing the Home. Barrancas Avenue running past the storage held was barricaded and residents of several Homes were evacuated. A it looked like an atom bomb explosion a said sheriffs Deputy Edward Mayo. A every available Pensacola fireman joined the Navy and coast guard in battling the Blaze said sheriffs sgt. De Brown. Two Navy firefighting tugs poured chemical foam and tons of water on the blazing tanks. Jim louder in ilk manager of the Phillips 66 distrusting com. Pany said the fire started when a Crew was pumping Gas from a Barge into a tank. He said he did no to know what sparked the fire. Today s chuckle it you think politics Isnit a difficult game just try straddling a Fence and keeping both ears to the ground. It Iii of Norwich. Norwich firm employs some Coo persons and also has plants in the City of Norwich. Sign of growth of general laboratories associates is evident in the company a new modern Plant on route 12, South of

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