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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - March 6, 1968, Norwich, New York Weather becoming generally fair and cold tonight and thursday. Low temperatures tonight 8 to 15 and highs on thursday in the upper teens and 20s. The evening s Chenango county s daily newspaper in Sun spots the Academy Page to conservation notes Page 5 Duryea enjoys Victory Page 3 vol. 77, no. 249 wednesday March 6, 1968 Norwich . 13815 8� per copy Saigon government is corrupt bulletin local 297 of the International molders and Allied workers Union ended a to Day old strike late this morning against Ben Nett. Ireland. Some too members accepted the company a latest proposal at a special meeting in the Norwich township Grange Hall lasting just Over a half hour. Howard Thayer corresponding representative of the Union said work would resume in All depart ments of the Plant thursday morning except in flex screen and weaving where inventories Are not completed. Workers in those departments will go Back monday. The vote along with terms of the proposal were not imme. Diatel disclosed. Today around the state around the nation around the world advisor says . Must take initiative he gave gladly. By Casey Jones a 21-year-old Norwich Marine who believed strongly in a motto that a i Only have one life to give but if i had two i would gladly give them for my country a was Given full military rites wednesday. The body of Cpl. Donald Brant the first Vietnam fatality from the City was borne to it. Hope cemetery by a group of fellow marines several of them who had also served in the Southeast asian country. The Marine patrol Leader son of or. And mrs. Francis Brant of 20 state Street was killed in action near Danang on feb. 20 when he sustained gunshot wounds to the body during hostile Rifle fire. Yesterday children in pass ing school bus became silent when the body was carried Down the Steps of the Fahy funeral Home to a waiting Hearse follow ing the services. One Small girl watching the procession through a Dusty window wept. The funeral procession then moved Down Broad Street through a corridor of curbside flags waving in tribute in the Central business District and wound its Way through the Stone pillars at the cemetery Entrance toward the committal site. Rigid bearers along with members of an Honor guard fro in local veterans organizations stood at attention As the Rev. J. Harold Davies pastor of the Broad Street methodist Church conducted the committal service. A Marine Rifle squad fired three volleys in Salute Ana a 63 feared killed in crash Pointer a Petre g u a d a Loupe apr Airport authorities today feared that All 63 persons aboard an air France Boeing 707 were killed when the big jetliner crashed and burned on a Guadeloupe Mountainside tuesday night. The airline said the plane carried 49 passengers and a Crew of 14. Mrs. William Zeckendorf sr., wife of the new York real estate Man was believed to have been aboard the plane. Zeckendorf Secretary in new York said she was to have taken the flight and a list of 21 of the passengers released by air France in Paris included a mrs. W. Zeckendorf United states in route to new she had boarded the plane in Lima Peru. Also on the list was a Joseph Rosenbluth presumed to be american a who had boarded in Caracas Venezuela. Rescue Crews were making heir Way up the slope of the 3,937-f o o t volcanic Mountain near the Village of Sainte Claude. The plane crashed on this French West indies Island As it was coming in for a Landing at Pointe a Pitre. Bugler from the Norwich senior High school band sounded taps. The Honor guard then folded the Flag which had been placed Over the casket and it. Col. . Baker jr., presented it to mrs. Brant. And in that Way the Man who his Mother described As a a devoted Marine was returned to his native City for the last time. He would not go to dental school As he had hoped to do when he completed his tour of duty in Vietnam. There were Only 80 More Days to go in his initial tour when he was killed. He was scheduled to return Home on leave in May the first he had received since Christmas 1906, but he was going Back for an additional six months. A the thought he was doing the right thing a his parents said. A the was Over there defending his country and that was what he wanted to it did no to help the morale of the troops any when draft cards were burned and demonstrators marched through the streets of . Cities protesting the War he once wrote Home. And on that letter As was written on the top and Bottom of All those he sent Home were the words a i Only have one life to give but if i had two i would gladly give them for my another Story Page 3 Sun staff photos Marine bearers stand at attention As they hold the american Flag Over casket of Cpl. Donald Brant. His parents or. And mrs. Francis Brant Are Between the two sergeants at right. In Bottom picture it. Col. . Baker jr., presents folded Flag to mrs. Brant As miss Minnie Sapp a great aunt of the Veteran watches. Pc Shell Allied bases airfields for third Day Saigon apr . Forces killed 110 enemy soldiers in three Sharp clashes in the past 24 hours . Spokesmen reported today As the Viet Cong shelled provincial capitals and military posts for the third straight Day. The shelling caused Little damage the . Command said. About 75 Miles North of Saigon paratroopers of the . 101st airborne division ran into 150 Viet Cong holding a Village. The communists opened up with automatic weapons and bazookas and pulled in about 250 reinforcements. Supported by artillery and rocket firing helicopters the americans killed 56 of the enemy Force spokesmen said while five americans were killed and 26 wounded. Along the coastal lowlands below Danang men of the . Army s americal division reported killing 64 enemy soldiers in two clashes. Artillery and air strikes accounted for Many of the dead among the enemy forces who were entrenched in Concrete bunkers. Two americans were killed and 23 wounded. Other scattered clashes brought total american casualties for the Day to 13 killed and 54 wounded . Headquarters reported. Fighting was reported continuing two Miles Southwest of Ca Mau with South vietnamese troops pursuing guerrillas they drove out of the provincial Capi Tai at the Southern tip of the country. The communists invaded the town tuesday and the Allied commands said government troops killed 275 of them in 15 hours of fighting before the remnants of the enemy were chased from the town. The government said the Viet Cong killed 20 civilians and wounded 50 when it seized the provincial Hospital. It reported to government soldiers killed and 43 wounded and said More than 1,000 houses and huts were destroy. The Viet Cong shelled Ca Mau again today destroying a building in the Hospital compound. Allied spokesmen said other targets of the enemy bombardment today were three other provincial capitals five Allied airfields a . Special forces Camp and six american base Camps including the Headquarters of the 1st and 25th infantry divisions. Us. Headquarters described the shellings As harassment. It said casualties and damage were Light at All locations and the communists did not follow up with ground attacks. About four Miles Northeast of the . Marine outpost at con Thien a Marine air observer directed artillery fire on what he reported to be tracked vehicles in the Northern part of the demilitarized zone. Washington apr a top . Civilian adviser says the United states must boldly take the initiative to Root out corruption in South Vietnam a govern ment because he insists there Arentt enough honest vietnamese officials to do the Job. A corruption is permeating All echelons of government and society corroding the vitality of this nation eroding the Frame work of government and unnecessarily prolonging the War a the adviser said in private reports from Vietnam. The reports were made Avail Able to the associated press on the condition that the adviser chief of a 22.Man team in Viet Nam not be identified. Saving the United states a must take the initiative in this remedial action and once having started must continue it a the adviser declared a vietnamese officials Are so involved that very few have hands sufficiently clean that they can make an immediate major Independent one report which outlined a specific plan of action was submitted last nov. 29 to the Agency for International development in Saigon. It went to aids then new a Public administration and hoc committee on corruption in an Aid spokesman in a Washington told a reporter tuesday a the committee never really got started. And ifs possible it wont get along. A when you get into the Busi Ness of trying to make another government clean under International Law you get into the ques Tion of Sovereign the . Adviser sent a copy of the report to his superiors in Washington along with another complaining that he had pre. Piously proposed Stern Meas ures against graft Only to encounter opposition from a hearts and minds purists in the . Mission. It is time he said to Stop a treating corruption As a Deli Cate unmentionable to Clamp Down on the situation his report to Aid recommended that the United states a create an ant corruption of fice within the . Mission invite the South vietnamese to set up a corresponding office and of. Fer rewards to vietnamese citizens for solid evidence of corruption. A confront the government of South Vietnam with examples of corruption As they develop and a insist that Law enforcement and Revenue collecting officials go to jail and be publicly disgraced for involvement in graft and a a abandon our present Devo Tion to the fiction that corrupt. Tion is the special Field of lower and Middle Echelon government officials. Instead place the blame squarely where it belongs right at the a agree that a no attempt will be made to dig into past his tory of anyone who henceforth toes the line a a no weak kneed or Pussy footing measures will have the least effect a the adviser said. His reports told of corruption extending to the very top of the vietnamese customs collecting organization and said unknown millions of dollars in Revenue had been lost. He gave exam. Pies ranging from police shake Downs to opium smuggling. The reports have been kept private because some . Officials feared disclosure would Compromise the efforts of american advisers who rely on cooperation from vietnamese officials. But the final recommendation of the report to Aid was a above All done to make this a classified subject and thereby Bury sen. Ernest gruelling Dalaska chairman of the Senate subcommittee on foreign Aid expenditures and a longtime investigator of corruption in Vietnam told a reporter a your efforts Are not effective because some of our agencies Aren t concerned about a corruption Springs at you from Bottom to top and the american taxpayer is paying the Bill a said Gruening an opponent of . Policy in Viet Nam. Last week Gruening after seeing copies of the advisers reports told the Senate of a Gold and opium smuggling operation which he said a involved the highest South vietnamese government president Johnson speaking Friday in Beaumont tex., said a certainly they have corruption and we also have it in Boston in new York in Washington and in Johnson City. Somebody is stealing something in Beaumont right the . Adviser however told Aid that South vietnamese corruption when viewed across the Board a is appalling it is frightening enough to make one have grave doubts that there is any possibility of Ever achieving any reasonable degree of honesty and integrity in vietnamese an honestly run customs opera Tion a conceivably could produce Revenue equating the entire Aid program less commodity imports he said. That would be about $300 million. An aide to the chief adviser said a no statistics Are available and it is doubted Ever will be on the amount of taxes lost through granting of favors and concessions by officials in re turn for a Small wrangling continues Sofia Bulgaria apr leaders of the seven soviet bloc nations gathered in the bulgarian capital today for a Warsaw pact Summit meeting threatened with More wrangling Between the russians and the Maverick romanians. Bucharest s delegation walked out of the International meeting of communist parties in Budapest last week rather than sit still for criticism of romanian policy and red China. In what looked like an attempt to Patch things up soviet communist party chief Leonid i. Brezhnev stopped in Bucharest on his Way to Sofia and met with romanian party chief Nicolae Ceausescu. The soviet delegation arrived in Sofia today. It also included Premier Alexei n. Kosygin foreign minister Andrei a. Gromyko and defense minister Andrei a. Grechko. Senate leaders disagree on response to Pueblo letter Washington apr some Senate leaders disagree on How the United states should respond if an Appeal allegedly signed by captured crewmen of the Navy intelligence ship Pue. Blo proves to be genuine. The Appeal made in a letter via North korean officials is under study by president Johnson to determine whether it is authentic. Senate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said tuesday he had not been informed whether the White House considers valid the Appeal for a . Apology to North Korea to gain release of the 82 surviving Crew members or whether it is regarded As a fraud. A i would want to have every possible Assurance and guarantee that these men were freed or on the verge of being freed before we make any commitment in response to this letter a Mansfield said. He previously had said he would be willing to have the United states admit the ship intruded into North korean territorial Waters although he said this would be false a if that was the Price of getting her Crew re leased. Chairman Richard b. Russell d�?ga., of the Senate armed services committee said in a separate interview he wants to do everything possible to get the Crew released. But he said he would not concede As the North koreans demand that the ship was seized in North korean Waters. A my heart goes out to these men who have been he said. A but i do not think we can base our policies on the fact that they Are suf. Fering indignities and humiliations As the letter allegedly signed by the Crew members said they had been treated humanely. Chair Man . Fulbright d�?ark., of the Senate foreign relations committee said he does no to know whether the letter represents the views of the Pueblo sailors. A if it is a genuine letter it seems to me that it is offering us a Way out of a bad situation a he said. Today a chuckle some of us Are like a Fence. We run around a lot without getting anywhere. Blaiberg to be discharged new York apr or. Christiaan Barnard says he plans to discharge or. Philip Blaiberg the worlds Only living heart transplant recipient from the Hospital when he returns to South Africa next week. And when or. Blaiberg is sent Home or. Barnard says he plans to perform a third heart transplant a soon pretty or. Barnard who performed the first human heart transplant discussed his plans after reporting on his two transplants to doctors and students at Cornell University medical College tuesday night. Although he has no specific chistian candidate for a third operation or. Barnard Jar said he Hopes to do another operation soon Barnard a because i think ill be Able to Send this patient Home pretty soon. I Hope to discharge him when i get or. Barnard is scheduled to return to Capetown next wednesday. L3j not on primary ballot Boston apr some prominent Massachusetts democrats including . House speaker John w. Mccormack say they will resign As candidates for the state delegation to the democratic National convention rather than be forced to cast first ballot votes for sen. Eugene Mccarthy of Minnesota. President Johnson sent word tuesday that he would neither enter the april 31 state presidential primary nor allow a stand in to run for him leaving Mccarthy the Lone candidate for the democratic ballot when the filing deadline passed at 5 . Looks for support Atlanta a. Apr or. Martin Luther King jr., says he is confident he will get Strong support for his plan to raise an of the poor to Camp in Washington. A i am convinced we will have greater response to this than anything we be Ever undertaken a King said after a recent trip to Mississippi and Alabama where he met mixed reactions. King disclosed that he intends to Camp with his poor Peoples for at least two months in the nations capital begin Ning about april 21, demanding action by Congress to provide jobs or income for the poor. His initial search for support took him first. To Mississippi for a session with negro Lead Luther King ers and then to Alabama where he began his civil rights career 13 years ago by leading a negro Boycott of Segre gated City buses in Montgomery. Trouble continues Tel Aviv apr the israeli said today its troops blew up five Arab houses tuesday in far ram Mun Village in occupied jordanian territory. Two of the houses belonged to Village headmen who the said admitted providing Arab commandos with food and shelter. A garage in beit Hanin Village North of Jerusalem also was dynamited after troops uncovered a Large Cache there the said. The action came after the announced it had rounded up 18 Arab saboteurs Over the weekend including two commanders of the Al Fatah terrorist organization. Israel Security forces reported seizing two Large caches in the occupied Gaza strip Between Israel and Egypt where a curfew was still in effect in several villages because two israelis were killed by a mine. Sources said the caches held a Bazooka automatic weapons and 10,000 rounds of ammunition. Fencing continues Washington apr negotiators for 26 striking unions and four Copper companies continue fencing Over bargaining procedure under a Loose Mantle of White House surveillance. A it looks very much As if this is a Low key Effort by the White House a said one source of president Johnson a efforts to revive negotiations in the 236-Day strike shutting Down most . Copper production. Market report at 11 10 a.m., Continental Telephone corp. Was 24% open and Low 25% High 25 last . Fishman 13 High Low and last . Grant 31% open and Low 31% High and last Montgomery Ward 24% open and Low 24% High 24% last general instruments corp. 43 open 423/4 Low 43% High and last Norwich Pha Macal co., no sales 4i-411/2 quoted. Over the counter general Laboratory associates 11% bid 13 asked mid states raceway 7% bid 8 asked Raymond corp. 27 bid 29 asked Victory markets 9%bid 10% asked Gladding corp. 14% bid 14% asked National Bank and Trust co. Of Norwich 54 bid Chenango co. National Bank of Norwich 300 bid

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