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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - June 19, 1968, Norwich, New York Concerned by Casey Jones candidates endorsed by the committee of concerned republicans won 16 out of 24 contested posts on the Chenango county Republican committee tuesday at the same time bumping out the City and town of Norwich chairmen. Concerned candidates were Defeated by substantial margins Only in North Norwich where supervisor Donald Stanton came in last and mrs. Use Kaufman third and in Coventry where former supervisor Roger Ives was third out of three candidates. Concerned organization losses in other districts were by slim margins. In the City a third Ward Richard Stott and incumbent Grace Hendricks each Defeated Cit chairman Phillip Penfold by a 2 to i margin. In the towns District i town chairman Hugh Rice came in last among four candidates. A spokesman for the concerned republicans said the wins will definitely mean there will be a Choice for chairman at the annual committee meeting there has been no Choice for too he said this does not necessarily mean there will be a contest. A it will depend on what the other Side does he said indicating the candidate brought Forth by the present leadership headed by county chairman William j. Gordon will be the deciding Factor. He said it would i Tore to say Quot the or a votes to take Over of the county comr in a it is obvious hut committeemen who fitted Are going he said however tee feels the result Days election will feet on other part where there Wen committee posts. A we achieved n 16 of 24 committee races a a Prema and Are going to work during the has enough next few months and years tory ridership and improve on our position be cause this seems to be what the Many gof voters re Unco in or. Gordon said this morning study the a the enthusiastic response of the voters of both parties in he commit spite of the understandable con s of rut fusion As to issues was impressive an it the com. A hopefully this grass roots Battles for participation will continue and spread. °�?~1 a fall age groups have much to inn tei ofter the party As Republican voters were Quick to recognize. A i offer my sincere congratulations to the committeemen and women who will guide the destinies of the Republican party in Chenango county for the nest two years. A the primaries Are Over a now we must All work together with a heightened sense of social responsibility to achieve a Republican Victor in november which will transcend All Intra party unofficial results of the contests with concerned organize Tion candidates noted by care Coventry Henry Schloer 79, Carlton l. Wrench 77, Roger a. Ives c 41. North Norwich i Reginald w. Hover 120, Helen i. Seeley lid use Kaufmann c 71, and Donald i. Stanton c67. Continued Page 3 the e vol. 78, no. 67 Gene overpowers opponents takes along of Dwyer Albany . Apr . Sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy jolted the Humphrey and Kennedy forces today by overpowering them in the scramble for new York s democratic presidential delegates and apparently providing Cattail strength for Paul of dwyers Surprise seizure of the . Senate nomination. Mccarthy scooped of 51 of the 123 convention delegates at stake in partial returns slowed by hand counting of paper ballots. Delegates pledged to the philosophy of the late Robert f. Kennedy won 17, while backers of vice president Hubert h. Humphrey managed Only one. Uncommitted delegates took 16 seats. While the Minnesota senators feat impressed political observers of dwyers Triumph was even More startling. The former new York councilman was sex. Petted to finish last in a three Way race but running As a my earthy adherent managed to Edge out the favored Eugene a. Nickerson a Kennedy adherent. Al Nickerson conceded defeat at 3 12 ., As of Dwyer led by 18,500 votes. . Rep. Joseph y. Resnick who campaigned As a defender of the administration trailed in the three Way race. The latest tabulation of unofficial returns from 7,100 of the states 13,408 election districts gave of Dwyer 264,479 votes Nickerson 248,092 and Resnick 214,270. In the Republican column supporters of Richard m. Nixon won two convention delegates in Queens and one in the Buffalo area but Rockefeller men rebuffed a Nixon Backer in Buffalo and two in the Rochester area. The congressional phase of the primary saw All challenged incumbents win renomination among them Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Ceiler the 80-year-old Dean of the . House. The controversial Adam Clayton Powell who was ousted from the House last year also won the democratic nomination handily in his Harlem District. Election returns were delayed because of the unusually Large number of contests for a wide variety of offices including seats in both houses of the state legislature As Well As Congress and the presidential Dele Gates. Of Dwyer Nickerson and Resnick provided the first test of the states direct primary Law replacing the old convention method of choosing candidates for statewide office. They vied for the right to oppose . Sen. Jacob k. Javits who had no contest for the gop nomination and easily repelled labor lawyer Murray Barons Challenge for the Liberal party endorsement. Democrats chose three per District and republicans two per District. Later the demo cratic state committee will name an additional 67 Dele Gates at Large and the gop will appoint to at Large. Kennedy had been in firm control of his party a committee and had been expected to snare the bulk of the at Large contingent. Rifles by mail ban gains Speed Washington apr with opposition melting under Public pressure a Bill to ban the mail order Sale of rifles and shotguns has been sent to the Senate judiciary committee for years a graveyard of S.C. legislation. The committee meeting to Day on the Bill rejected it originally 10-6 just a few hours be. Fore the april 4 sniper slaying of or. Martin Luther King or. But against a backdrop of the sen. Robert f. Kennedy assassination and a mounting Public House of lords abolition asked London apr More than 50 labovites in the House of commons signed motions today calling for abolition of the House of lords after conserva Tives in the upper chamber mustered a smal majority to reject the labor governments order for a total Trade Boycott against Rhodesia. Prime minister Harold Wilson was expected to indicate thurs Day whether the government would support the Campaign. The chief question was whether Wilson would Jettison All party negotiations which have been under Way to make the largely hereditary upper chamber More of a Senate of elected and or a. Pointed elders. Some political commentators believed the talks would be abandoned and the labovites would push through legislation to create an elected Senate. Weather partial Clearing to night Low temperatures in upper 40s and lower 50s. Thursday variable cloudiness and a Little cooler with Chance of a few widely scattered Light showers High temperatures in 60s. Din a Clear majority now favors the Bill and its chances Are rated excellent not Only to reach the floor but perhaps for Quick passage too. The judiciary subcommittee on Juviler delinquency gave Quick approval to the measure tuesday. Republican Leader Everett m. Dirksen of Illinois ranking minority member of the Parent committee said he foresaw no objection to reporting the Mea sure favourably to the Senate. Under committee rules How. Ever a single member could re. Quest that action be put off for a week. Sen. Strom Thurmond r-s.c., a foe of the Bill told a reporter he Hadnot decided whether to in Voke the Rule but wanted to be sure the measure receives Thor Ough consideration. The subcommittees vote revealed switches in position by Sens. Roman l. Hruska r. Neb., Philip a. Hart a Miclon and Birch Bayh a ind. Dirksen also shifted on the Bill submitted to Congress by presi Dent Johnson after the Kennedy shooting june 5. A if there is a demand for it Why should i resist it Dirksen asked when questioned at a news conference about his change of position. Most surprising was Hruskac a statement that he would support the administration Bill although he said he hoped to win Approv-a1 of some amendments. During debate on the crime control Bill recently passed by Congress Hruska led the fight against an amendment by sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., to prohibit sales of shotguns and rifles by mail order and to persons under 18. Hruska in a statement on his change of position said that a in the past week Public opinion has crystallized. Ven Imp wednesday june 19, 1968 a Norwich new York 13815 splashing Iii season Here a a common scene these Days at most any swimming Pool where with Only half Days of school youngsters Cool off from the classroom Lins Young a depth charge is Welburn Wood of Evansville ind. Largest poor people s demonstration growing Washington apr thousands of americans began pouring into Washington today to show their support for the poor Peoples Campaign and its demands that the government do More to abolish poverty. The organizers of a Solidarity Day predicted 40,000 persons would gather around the tall Marble spire of the Washington Monument making today a demonstration by far the largest in the six weeks of the poor Peoples Encampment in the nation a capital. Mrs. Martin Luther King jr., widow of the slain civil rights Leader who conceived the Campaign said tuesday her Hus band thought of it As a a american a last Chance to solve our problems King delivered his famous a i have a dream speech from the Lincoln memorial during the 1963 civil rights March. That speech served As the inspiration for today a demonstration. Despite promises from Campaign Leader the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy that there would be no civil disobedience and marchers would conduct themselves in a the finest nonviolent tradition a Law enforce ment officials took no chances. About 4,300 police and National guardsmen were on hand most of them deployed along the line of March from the Monument past resurrection City to the Lincoln memorial. About 5,000 police and army troops were used in 1963 when 200,000 marchers demonstrating for racial desegregation and equal Opportunity walked the same route and nearly filled the space Between the two Monu meats. Washington Public safety director Patrick v. Murphy said some army units also will be on a High alerts close Toth Capitol even though there is a no reason to expect anything other than a peaceful March. A i done to think ifs necessary a said Abernathy of the Security precautions. Demonstrators were scheduled to gather until noon then leave the Broad lawns around the Washington Monument along three lines of March Down Independence Avenue or through West Capitol Park on either Side of the Lincoln memorials reflecting Pool. Following the March the demonstrators were to hear speeches by United Auto workers president Walter Reuther the Senate a Only negro member Edward r. Brooke of Massachusetts civil rights leaders Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young Skippers wife remember in Lic Blo san Diego apr Are member the Pueblo a that a the Battle cry of mrs. Rose Bucher wife of the skipper of the captured . Intelligence vessel which has been in communist North korean hands for nearly six months. Mrs Bucher believes that her husband cmdr. Lloyd Bucher and the 81 other american crewmen will be freed but she vigorously protests the slow Pace of diplomatic Effort to win their release. A the Navy really does no to have anything the do about it. The state department is responsible. If our military leaders had been in control wed have the ship Back. Mrs. Bucher who has two teen age sons is critical of the defense department for refusing to give her a list of Crew menus families. But she has managed to Contact about in 10c per copy . Unopposed to eventual peaceful Vietnam unification three fourths of the families a i feel an obligation As the commanding officers wife to give words of encouragement. We give each other encourage Merit. Its our son our husband or our loved one. A the department of defense said it was a matter of policy and would be invading Peoples privacy. In a sure some Long to want their name and address released. But others say its Okay. I guess they thought i was a rabble rouser who would descend on Washington. Have we become so inhuman that Peoples feelings and human live mean nothing a a the state department ii asked not Only me but other families As Well to a minimize the reason they say is we make noise and we make it More difficult on our husband or son. Paris apr . Ambas Sador w. Averell Harriman declared today that the United states wants to re establish peace Iii Vietnam a on the basis of the 1954 Geneva accords and does not object to the eventual unification of the country provided neither Side uses Force. Going into his ninth session with ambassador Xuan Tiluy of North Vietnam Harriman said he would concentrate today on the Geneva agreements which ended French Rule of Vietnam and divided the country 14 years Agone linked this immediately with the current conference deadlock Over scaling Down the War by saying that the first stage of action under the Geneva agreements is to re establish peace. Harriman also told newsmen that it was Quot too Early to judge Why the Viet Cong had not car Riel out its threat to bombard Saigon with barrages of iou rockets a Day beginning last monday. . And South vietnamese officials in Saigon generally Felt the threat was a Bluff. At the session today Harriman said a a we re planning to explain the 1954 accords and their application a we want to re establish peace on the basis of. Tile accords a he continued. A you know several stages were contemplated at that time. The first one is peace and that requires the withdraw -1 of forces Back of the 17th parallel and re establishment of the demilitarized zone. A of course in the Long run we be never objected to the unification of Vietnam which i think Bot i North and South want to do at some time. But it must be done by the free expression of both sides without tile use of Force on either the ninth session of the talks which opened five Aud a half weeks ago came As North vietnamese helicopters Wen reported in operation along their Bor. Der Vith South Vietnam. If this is confirmed by the . Military command in Sai goo it undoubtedly would be regarded by american policy Nak ers As a fresh Rebuff to their proposals for a scaling Down of military operations especially in the Border area. . Military spokesmen in Saigon reported radar contacts Over the weekend and monday night Iii the neighbourhood of the demilitarized zone which the spokesmen said appeared to be enemy helicopters. Harriman has proposed several times to Thuy that the United states Aud North Vietnam agree to restore the demilitarized character of the Buffer zone be Frk aides numb yet front Shock Washington apr in suite 3327 of the new Senate of fice building the stacks of neatly labelled Cartons Are growing higher. Someday All the papers and books will be packed. Then the people who work there will have to leave. But they done to like to think about that Day. Ezor members of Robert f. Kennedy a Senate staff ties with the past Are still too Strong to permit intrusion by thoughts of the future. Melody Miller is a receptionist in suite 3327. She had worked for Kennedy since ins election in 1964. A your lives were always Predi. Rated on his needs a she said. A a we re not ready to Start think ing about pounding the pave ment looking for jobs. We re not even ready to accept the reality that Well have to go to work somewhere since Robert Kennedy died from an assassins Bullet on june 6�?two weeks ago thursday More than too offers of employment for his staff have been received at the Senate office. In addition Many Mem hers of Congress have offered jobs to individual staff mein. Hers. So far none of the offers has been accepted. A i worked for a Man in whom i believed totally a said Hugh Mcdonald an assistant press aide. A now there a this void. I feel so empty. I just go to work for anybody else there has been speculation this week that Kennedy a chief press aide Frank Mankiewicz would oppose mayor Sam Yorty of los Angeles in that City s 1970 election. Mankiewicz said in an interview that a a friends had suggested it to him. A i find it very flattering a he said. A but i Haven t begun to think about that sort of thing. I certainly done to turn it do Ai out of hand but ifs much too Early to make any administrative assistant Joe Dolan and legislative assistant Peter Ejdelman Arentt thinking about the future yet nor is speech writer Adam Walinsky a i worked for Bob Kennedy a Zalipsky said. A it was intensely personal. I do it for anyone else. I done to think it could Ever be the same with anyone else. I just done to know hat ill Kennedy a personal Secretary of 11 years Angie Novelle spends most of her Days going through books and papers. Tween the two Vietnam. Harriman proposed at the last meeting that la it the sides Stop making propaganda statements for publication and move the discussions into what he called a new phase. Aides said his Pur. Pose was to open serious infer Mal discussions on a whole Range of de escalation issues. Thuy agreed to consider the proposal. Harriman hoped to get an Early response. Thuy previously turned Down Harriman s proposals to restore the Border Buffer zone. He also scorned companion proposals that both sides agree to respect the neutrality of Laos and Cain podia. Tile three . Propositions were aimed at ending North vietnamese infiltration of troops and supplies into South Vietnam. Harriman has tied the in. Filtration problem to North Vietnam a demand that the United states unconditionally Stop All attacks on its territory. In spite of to Niyo a rejection this is the Complex of issues on which Harriman is seeking Active discussion. U. N. Secretary general u Thant told a luncheon audience in new York tuesday that the Paris peace talks a will be dead locked for a Long time to come because both the United states and the Viet Cong Are intensifying the War. Thant said that while the United states has stopped bombing part of North Vietnam it increased its bombing of the remaining target area to a record number of strikes in May. He also said that the Viet Cong a Are escalating their raids. Yanks base kill 128 i. Vietnamese a i want to make sure that everything is All sorted out right so that if anything is Ever done with them be in order a she said. She too has Given very Little thought to another Job. In Kennedy a private office there is a Box of papers on the tan leather Couch labelled a trek Handwritten Misc notes. Lady Harlech a funeral. Christening of the John e. Kennedy. Letters to and Frome red Dutton �?T65- 68. Letters to and from j. K. Galbraith�?Tg5-�?T68. Let ters to and from White a few specks of dust have gathered on the big leather covered desk. Pictures of the Kennedy family still hang on All the Walls. Against a closet door rests a child a drawing of a yacht. Saigon apr . Marines artillery and aircraft pursued a Force of North vietnamese regulars All Day tuesday through bomb scarred valleys South of Khe Sanh and killed 128 of the enemy the . Command reported today. Moving in at 3 Under cover of a mortar barrage the North vietnamese probed for a weak spot in the defences around a Marine position nine Miles South of the combat base Iii the Northwest Corner of South Vietnam in. Unable to penetrate the leathernecks lines the enemy withdrew and the marines went on tie attack. With artillery Aud air strikes Clearing an explosive path before them the ground troops maintained Contact until nearly dusk. Then the North vietnamese broke away. A . Spokesman said ii marines were killed and 30 wounded. It was the second big Battle in the Khe Sanh area in four Days. On saturday North vietnamese troops tried unsuccessfully to overrun another Marine Field position. The marines said 219 of the enemy and 16 marines were killed. Since withstanding a 77-Day enemy siege of the Khe Sanh combat base earlier this year the marines have been sweeping far afield and have clashed repeatedly Witti units of the North vietnamese 304th division. The enemy has been trying to Cut Highway 9, the Only Overland Supply route to Khe Sanh. Saigon came under a feeble Viet Cong shelling with two mortar rounds falling in a Dock area but causing no casualties or damage a government spokesman said. They were the first shells to hit the capital since sunday despite a Viet Cong threat to rain too shells daily on the capital for too consecutive Days beginning last monday. The rocket threat still Hung Over Saigon but troops of the . 2 5th infantry division removed some of it tuesday when they found 32 warheads for 122mm rockets. Tie warheads wrapped in Brown paper and covered by Bushes were spotted by sgt. James n. Brown of Mansfield Ohio beside a canal eight Miles North of Saigon. The infantrymen searched along the canal and also found nine mortar tubes 80 mortar rounds 26 cases of mortar fuses and charges ii rifles and 13,680 rounds of Rifle ammunition. Viet Cong resistance continued to crumble in the Northern suburb of Cia Dinh today and 28 More enemy soldiers surren dered. This brought to 178 the number of Viet Cong and North vietnamese troops who have Given up since tuesday morning in the greatest mass surrender of the War. Out of food Short of ammunition and exhausted from weeks of steady fighting they began surrendering when government marines encircled them and broadcast appeals for them to give up. A vietnamese military spokesman said that while 150 of the holdouts were surrendering tuesday another 77 were killed in three skirmishes with the marines. The latter suffered Light casualties the spokesman said. With these pockets of Viet Cong resistance crumbling it appeared that the May 5 a second wave offensive against the capital might finally be at an end. About Loo Miles East of Saigon South vietnamese troops and a unit of the . 173rd airborne brigade reported killing 14 enemy troops tuesday two Miles North of Phan thief a provincial capital on the coast. . Headquarters said there were no american casualties and South vietnamese casualties were Light. Mobilization Liy \ Petriam set j Hue Vietnam a presi Dent Nguyen Van Thieu signed the general mobilization Law to Day and said his government will not ask for More . And other Allied troops. A the vietnamese government intends to take Over More responsibility a Thieu told newsmen lifter ceremonies marking armed forces Day. A we do not intend to ask the United states and the other allies for More in the past Thieu has said More troops were needed above the Allied contribution of 596,000 men to insure an accelerated Victory. Thieu said the general mobilization should add 125,000 men to the regular and militia forces of South Vietnam bringing their number to almost 875,000 by the end of next year. Today a buckle if it wears stretch pants and has Long hair its a cinch its either a boy or a girl

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