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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - June 14, 1968, Norwich, New York In lab rules Norwich pharma Eal company Quot Lookout left Dalby Jerry Weaver a Norwich pharma Eal company spokesman said this morning that the firm had been informed by the regional office of the National labor relations Board in Buffalo that it has dismissed the unfair labor practice charge brought against the company by local 251, International chemical workers Union. The Union had contended that the company a action in closing the Plant on Jan. 22 was an a illegal lockout and filed unfair labor practice charges demanding Back pay for the entire period from Jan. 22 through May 5. These charges have now been dismissed according to Peter m. Groeschel company attorney. He said that after reviewing the company a activities the Nijib regional office had found them to a be within the scope of activity permitted by the labor in the opinion of the Board the Union s charges accusing the company of illegal activities a have been found to be without it was the company a Contention that the contract Between the drug firm and the Union expired at Midnight on Jan. 21. In Light of there being no contract the company notified Union workers that they were not to report to work monday Jan. 21 a for thereafter until workers reporting to their jobs monday morning were unable to enter the Plant. The Union had contended that the contract did not terminate until Jan. 22 and charged an a illegal lockout which led to filing the unfair labor practice charges. Or. Groeschel said that the boards ruling meant that the some 588 Union workers would not be reimbursed by the company for the time they were out. The attorney declined to quote a figure but said it would be a a sizeable sum in asked this morning whether the Union would Appeal the boards decision Harry Pike president of local 251, said he would have no comment until he had official word regarding the decision from the . He said he had been informed of the boards ruling by a company official and a was somewhat county s daily newspaper Sun vol 78, no. 64friday, june 14, 1968 a Norwich new York 13815 10c per copy Tracy Minn. Apr a tor do roared through Tracy with ath and destruction thursday ening killing at least to Perns and wrecking up to 300 Mes. More than a dozen persons ire missing and More than 20 me hospitalized. Seven bodies were recovered the dark hours following the Wuerful twister and three were covered this morning Asna Mal guardsmen and civil dense workers began search and Wanup operations. The bodies found after Day eak included that of a Man and near town in an open old near his car and two perms in another vehicle tragedy slowed Campaign a Mccarthy for president Campaign in Chenango county has officially started. Two College students John Strauss of Burlington wise., and Les Ferguson of Detroit mich., volunteers from the state Headquarters arrived in Norwich thursday to begin work in an attempt to get delegates pledged to sen. Eugene Mccarthy elected on primary Day this tuesday. They said Sample ballots have been mailed out to democratic voters in the county and a door to door Campaign with Aid of area volunteers will Start this afternoon. Tile pair who were in California last week for that states primary said the assassination of sen. Robert Kennedy has slowed campaigning. A you can to intrude upon people As much now a or. Strauss said. A they wont stand for it a a therefore we re not As Active As we used to he said campaigning Hasni to changed. A i done to think we have any tactics a he explained a a it a a envoys pc rocket raids could wreck Paris talks grass roots movement a a most people Are fed up with tile Overall attitude of politics they done to want to be run by a machine. A with Mccarthy they be found tile real meaning of politics in participation. In be never seen As much dedicated the volunteers will be in Norwich until tuesday when they Hope to have the local movement organized. A store front Headquarters has been set up at 42 East main St. And is being manned by interested local participants. Paris apr a sustained Viet Cong rocket offensive against the heart of Saigon could wreck the Paris peace talks in Short order Western diplomats believe. For that reason they think the communists May not bombard the City As they have threatened to do. . Officials said they hoped the North vietnamese would give careful consideration to the warning issued by . Ambassador a Averell Harriman to ambassador Xuan Thuy of North Vietnam. Harriman declared at the wednesday session of the Paris w a loll earing 250,000 Washington apr total . Vietnam casualties mount no relentlessly during the Paris talks could top a Quarter of a million by year s end unless there is a truce or peace. American combat deaths and wounds serious enough to require Hospital treatment could surge beyond the korean War toll. These trends Are indicated by an analysis of statistics which underscore the Impact of the Viet Cong North vietnamese offensives and Hanoi a fight and talk strategy. . And South vietnamese Battle casualties so far this year Are running at about double last years rate. The latest figures show too that the United states sustained 13,371 Battle casualties in the first four weeks after .-North vietnamese negotiations opened in Paris on May to. According to an updated count . Combat casualties reached 177,716 As of june 8. This covers a nearly 7/2-year period that started Jan. I 1961, when the United states had Only a few Hundred advisers in South Vietnam. Now there Are about 533,000 americans there. This cumulative total Breaks Down into 24,744 killed 80,541 wounded who needed Hospital care and 72,431 who suffered lesser wounds and did t have to be hospitalized. The number of . Dead and wounded averaged out to 2,692 a week Over the first 23 weeks this year twice the 1,372 weekly average in 1967. Assuming the 2,692 weekly average or something close to it prevails Over the rest of the year the Over ail War total could hit 255,769 casualties by the end of 1968. The count of americans killed in combat Lias averaged 379 a week this year dropping As Low As 184 at the Start and soaring As High As 562 in Early May. Projecting the 379 a week average Over the entire year would boost Battle deaths in the Vietnam War to 35,730�?More than 2,000 above the korean wars 33,629 killed in combat. The Cost in hospitalized wounded has averaged out to 1,198 . Servicemen a week so far this year. Extending this Over the full year As in the Case of the combat dead would bring the War total of such wounded to 115,284. That would be 12,000 More than the 103,284 in the korean War. The Pentagon contends it is misleading to try to compare total Vietnam casualties with those reported in other wars. Weather generally fair and cooler tonight lows in the mid 40s to Low 50s. Saturday clouding up with showers or thundershowers in the afternoon and at night High temperatures in 70s to Low 80s. Talks with Thuy that terror attacks on Saigon a could have the most serious consequences for these . Officials declined to spell out exactly what Harriman meant because Only president Johnson could decide to make a major change in . Military diplomatic strategy. But knowledgeable diplomats familiar with the . View of the situation said Many More rocket assaults like those earlier this week when explosives rained on the Center of the City would Force Johnson to consider retaliatory action against the North and suspension of the talks. Expanded bombing of the North by itself could provoke a North vietnamese decision to suspend the talks. American officials were reported Uncertain about what action to expect from the North vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in South Vietnam. Their heavy bombardment of the City Early this week was not immediately followed by More massive blows but the Clandestine communist radio in South Vietnam threatened that a 100-Day bombardment would be started monday. . Officials in Saigon doubted that the communists could maintain a heavy bombardment of the City Over Many Days. But in the War scarred City of three million people thousands were packing sandbags to give themselves some Protection. In Washington South vietnamese ambassador bul diem said the communists have been trying to shake the Confidence of the Saig onese in their government. To Well informed diplomats Here it appeared they have been trying to win some spectacular Victory military or political which would reinforce their bargaining position with the United states in Paris. Accused Assassin shot at target hours before los Angeles a twelve hours before sen. Robert f. Kennedy a assassination witnesses say the accused Man was rapid firing the death weapon on a target Range. Other witnesses say three bul lets hit Kennedy not two As previously reported and that the killer stepped from beside a smiling shapely mystery girl and fired his revolver with a a very sick looking smile on his these were highlights of testimony made Public thursday by the county grand jury which last Friday indicted Strhan Bis Hara Sirhan a 24-year-old jordanian immigrant for the murder. The transcript�?258doublespaced typewritten pages became Public when filed with the county clerk. Twenty two witnesses Strhan not among them pictured the slaying scene of terror and hysteria and its aftermath the Kitchen area of the ambassador hotel jammed Early june 5 with jubilant supporters escorting the new York senator and celebrating his Victory in californians democratic presidential primary. Fight .22-caliber bullets exploding in a a deliberate. Bang bang cadence like fire crackers or popping toy balloons. K e n n e d y falling fatally wounded rearing Back sharply. A both hands went up. He was just about to shake hands.�?�. Five bystanders falling wounded. The crowds stunned screaming reaction a the suspect turned. And was trying to escape. People were trying a were hitting him and cursing at him and it was utter confusion. I mean everyone was trying to kill testimony from hotel employees police and medical men gave this picture a half hour before the shooting Sirhan had been waiting in the hotel Kitchen asking a Porter three or four times if the senator was expected to pass through. From the embassy room stage where he had proclaimed Victory Kennedy was led by the hand by a hotel employee to the place where Sirhan was standing. The employee an assistant maitre do said the Kitchen passage was due to a last minute change of mind that earlier Kennedy had been expected to go downstairs to address a group unable to get into the main ballroom. The employee did not Teay Why the plan was changed. Henry Adrian Carreon an elementary school playground director and police science major at East los Angeles College testified he and a Friend David Montellano were target shooting about noon june 4 on the san Gabriel Valley gun clubs pistol Range. A a to the left of us there was an Sirhan Sirhan individual around five feet away shooting very rapidly on the Range with a revolver a said Carreon. A on the Range you Are supposed to shoot and pause. Usually the Range officer goes up to the individual shooting in this manner and he will inform them that its not supposed to la done. A Carreon identified the individual from photos As Sirhan. Asked twice Sirhan identified his revolver As an Iver Johnson Carreon said. Carreon said Montellano noticed that Sirhan had one Box of bullets set aside from his others and asked Sirhan a is no to that a special Type of Bullet a the Bullet said Carreon is called a the mini magnum and this Type of Bullet when it Pene trains on an object usually tears and splits out into different directions where the regular Bullet of a .22 Caliper goes in a Hole and. It will come out the same Carreon said Sirhan was non committal about the bullets. Shown a gun while before the grand jury Carreon identified it As the one he saw on the practice Range. Or. Thomas t. Noguchi chief medical examiner who performed a six hour autopsy on Kennedy a body told newsmen just after the postmortem that he found two bullets arid two wounds. But the transcript quoted him As telling the grand jury he found three wounds and two bullets indicating Kennedy was hit three times. Noguchi said the fatal Bullet entered the right mastoid behind the right ear penetrating the brain and two others about two inches apart entered the right armpit. He said one of the latter was found in the neck and the other exited in the front of the Emht shoulder neither he said would have been fatal. Noguchi said the revolver muzzle was a no More than two or three inches from the Edge of the right Security men Jive Campaign grim look by the associated press hovering conspicuously wherever the candidates appear Security men have Given a new Grimmer look to the Chase for the presidential nominations. Country music was part of the come on in Atlanta thursday at a George Wallace rally but no one got into the auditorium without passing secret service agents and other Security men at the doors. And anyone carrying anything larger than an Ordinary sized purse was searched. In other parts of the country there were these other touches of the new look a a 27-Man Security detail blanketed sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy d-Minn., As he left a new York hotel. A secret service men were on each floor of the Tulsa okla., hotel for a gathering of most of the nations Republican governors. State troopers by the dozen also were on hand As were Tulsa policemen. A gov. Ronald Reagan of California was heavily shielded by police As he left a $100-a-plate dinner in Indianapolis. All of the auditoriums doors were locked during his address. Mccarthy campaigning for the first time since the Kennedy slaying urged the nation to look deep for the ills that need Healing. A americans in these Days Are concerned with the wave of violence of which the assassinations of political leaders is the most striking symptom a the said in a speech before the Fellowship of reconciliation in new York. With the death of Kennedy Mccarthy a Only rival for the democratic nomination is vice president Hubert h. Humphrey who has not yet resumed campaigning. In the Republican race gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller of new York was at the Tulsa governors meeting today looking for support. His aides said they would not press for Public commitments. Twenty of the nations 26 gop governors were at the gathering but Many were playing it close to the Chest when it came to speaking for either Rockefeller or his principal opponent former vice president Richard m. Nixon. Today a buckle in these Days of bikinis miniskirts and Low Cut gowns it takes real concentration for a Man to look a woman in the by Casey Jones new Berlin six members of a Sherburne family were injured four of them hospitalized late thursday afternoon when the c r in which they were Riding was broadside by the bed of a stake rack truck. The Accident happened in the rain along route 80 about a mile West of five Corners Here. Treated at Chenango memorial Hospital Norwich and released Are the operator mrs. Virginia Ray 31, suffering from cuts on the face and arms and bruises and one daughter Karen 8, a Cut foot. Other children in Good condition this morning at the Hospital Are Shirley la cuts and bruises to the face and treated for Glass in her Eye Diana also la Gash in head and injuries to right ankle Russell 9, cuts to face and hands and James 3, cuts to Back of head and Chest and abdominal pains. New Berlin police chief Wesley Aylesworth said the car a 1963 rambler Sedan was westbound in the Highway about 4 10 . The truck owned by Humphrey welding corp. Of Oneonta and driven to James Montgomery of Oneonta re i was westbound police said and As it rounded a Sharp turn went Over a double solid line. As the operator pulled it Back into the traffic Lane the truck skidded police said. The Driver applied brakes and the truck Slid broadside the left rear of the bed of the truck striking the left Side of the car smashing it in and shattering Glass authorities said. The passengers were hit by flying pieces of Windshield police reported. The injured were rushed to the Hospital by the new Berlin ambulance and the emergency truck. Or. Montgomery was charged with interfering with Safe operation of a motor vehicle and is scheduled for arraignment tonight before Columbus Justice Raymond Nelson. Killing Tornado Kips Minnesota 4 it six persons including five children were injured thursday afternoon near new Berlin when car in which they were Riding was hit in Side by the bed of a stake rack truck shattering Glass in windows. New Berlin emergency squad Man carries one of the children on a Stretcher. Sun staff photo 7 attend sales tax airing new Berlin Only seven persons none of them appearing to be Overly opposed appeared at the first Public hearing for a proposed county wide sales tax thursday night in the new Berlin Central school auditorium Here. New Berlin supervisor Merritt c. Meyers chairman of the Board of supervisors tax committee said today he was a a Little surprised at the Small number of people who besides the area residents Only City of Norwich supervisor Robert e. Mcneil and town of Norwich supervisor Albert Evans both members of the com Mittee and two reporters attended the hour Long meeting. An informal poll taken of the residents indicated that none of them were really opposed to tile tax. One woman said a a in a not very pleased with it but if we have to have it we have to have others indicated they would rather see a sales tax enacted than see higher property taxes because a a a sales tax is More they were assured by supervisors the Only Way a sales tax would b e approved would be with the stipulation it would be used Only to lower property taxes. Or. Meyers who introduced the tax Resolution last december also noted it could be voted out again if it proved det Rementar to the county a Economy. He said today he was also a very pleased there did no to seem to be much opposition to h e said however he a a can to anticipate what will happen at four other hearings to be held in other parts of the county. They Are june 27 at Bainbridge High school july la at Greene High school july 18, at South Otselic High school and july 25 in supervisors meeting room at county office building Norwich All starting at 8 . In area mishap 6 Hurt Jill

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