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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - March 11, 1968, Norwich, New York Weather Clearing and becoming Gen. Really fair this afternoon and tonight. Much colder tonight lows to to 18. Partly Cloudy tuesday with High temperatures in the 30s. The e evening Sun Chenango county s daily newspaper Sun spots extended area service explained at Sherburne meeting Page 5 congressman Pike to accompany Stratton to Victory dinner Page 3 status of agriculture Page 6 vol. 77, no. 252 monday March la 1968 Norwich . 13815 8c per copy pc gunners blow up ammunition today i round the state around the nation around the world Nixon in final sprint Manchester . Apr Richard m. Nixon staged a final sprint seeking to turn out the Republican vote while Democrat Eugene j. Mccarthy stuck to his Standard Low key style in Windup campaigning for tuesdays season opening new Hampshire presidential primary. Nixon a i final Campaign stand today featured a series of Brief visits to his Headquarters in five i i ties. He set the tone at a Nashua reception sunday night urging republicans to vote tues Day telling them a a we re going to win. We re going to win in March and we re going to win in november. Its going to be a new Day for Richard m. Nixon Gold Rush subsides London apr the Gold Rush subsided on the London Market today following the announcement by the seven nation Gold Pool that it would keep the Price at $35 an ounce. But on the Zurich Market the initial demand appeared to be Only slightly below that on Friday. One Zurich banker said the Gold pools announcement a does not seem to have had the de sired effect As far As we can judge at this the Pound jumped to $2.3980 on the London foreign Exchange Market after closing Friday at $2.39225, its lowest level. At the daily Gold fixing in London at which representatives of the major dealers balance the demand for Gold against the Supply and set the Price turnover of less than to tons was anticipated. Deficiency exists Albany . Apr Snow and water accumulations in new York state this Winter Are generally Normal except in the upper Hudson and Susquehanna River basins a Federal Survey shows. Survey coordinator Joseph w. Dailey reported sunday that a Lack of Snow had caused an equivalent water deficiency of 120 billion Gallons in the upper Hudson Valley and 110 billion Gallons in the Susquehanna Valley. He noted however that the deficiencies were not of a alarming proportions and could be overcome by heavier than Normal precipitation Between now and the Spring thaw. The upper Hudson Valley runs North from the Albany Troy area and the Susquehanna Valley North from the Binghamton area. Rocky to decide new York apr More than 20 top republicans summoned to a strategy meeting with gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller at his fifth Avenue apartment have urged him strongly to become a an announced and Active candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. A spokesman for the group that included seven governors three . Senators five congressmen and mayor John v. Lindsay of new York said Rockefeller would decide about plunging into the race after consulting with other party leaders in the next few Days. Rockefeller who has maintained he would not be a candidate unless there was a draft had no comment following sundays two hour closed door strategy session. Nelson Rockefeller deep slash expected Albany . Apr the Republican plan for a deep $302-million slash in medicaid benefits was headed for Assembly approval today unless gop leaders themselves stepped in. The Only Democrat who might be Able to Block the move said he would not lift a Finger to prevent the republicans from taking action More drastic than he believed they Ever intended. A if the republicans want to destroy medicaid let them take the blame a speaker Anthony j. Travia told the associated press. Lbs a a popularity is shrinking Amherst mass. Apr president Johnson a popular Ity is shrinking and opposition t o the Vietnam War is growing among University of Massachusetts students according to a sampling poll taken by graduate political sciences Stu. Dents. More than 50 per cent of the 350 students questioned in the random sampling said they would prefer some other democratic presidential candidate than Johnson. The results indicated a drop of 20 per cent in support for the Vietnam War As compared to results in a similar sampling last year. Sen. Robert f. Kennedy of new York was the most prefer red candidate in a list from both parties. Kennedy led with 25 per cent of the poll votes. Johnson was second with 19.5 per cent Rockefeller followed with 18.6, Romney 11.6 and Nixon 10.7. The Survey released sunday was directed by prof. John Felton. Two More africans hanged Salisbury Rhodesia apr Rhodesia a White minority government today hanged two More Black africans convicted of murder but reprieved nine Blacks who had been sentenced to die before prime minister Ian Smith declared Independence in late 1965. Four other Blacks had been scheduled to be hanged today but the government said clemency for them was still under consideration. The execution last week of three Blacks convicted of murder set off a worldwide storm of protests. The governments action today indicated it might be setting a pattern of death for persons convicted of murder and clemency for persons convicted of nonfatal terrorist crimes for which the death sentence is mandatory. Rusk meets critic marines pounded at Khe Sanh Washington apr Secre tary of state Dean Rusk publicly confronts some of the administrations most vociferous Vietnam policy critics at a Senate foreign relations committee session expected to focus on . Troop Levels. Today shearing comes amid reports president Johnson is considering boosting . Military manpower by up to 200,000 More men above the 525,000 already authorized. Those reports have generated renewed criticism in the Senate of Johnson a War policies along with demands that Congress be consulted before any further escalation of american troop Levels in Vietnam. The committee chairman sen. J. W. Fulbright d-ark., is perhaps the most outspoken Vietnam War policy critic in Congress and a majority of the panel members have opposed administration War policies. Rusks appearance also has potential political implications. Aides to sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy a committee member who is campaigning for the democratic presidential nomination on a platform of opposition to Johnson a War policies said the Minnesota Democrat planned to be on hand to join in the questioning of Rusk. As late As sunday night Mccarthy was expressing opt mis in at his chances of winning tuesdays presidential primary in new Hampshire where a write in Campaign is being waged for the president. The National broadcasting co. Planned live National television and radio coverage of at least part of the hearing. Rusks formal Mission was to ask committee support for John songs new foreign Aid budget of nearly $3 billion. The committee had tried for the past several months to have Rusk appear in Public on the War but he had refused on the stated ground that he could not be sufficiently candid in an open session. The committee wrote to Johnson on feb. 7 and asked him to direct Rusk to appear. The president has not replied. But the White House reportedly hoped rusks appearance on foreign Aid with the understanding he was open to Vietnam questions would satisfy the committees demands for a Public session on the War. This could close out the matter without the necessity of Johnson overruling Rusk or re buffing the committee. The Secretary last appeared before the committee in a Public session specifically on Vietnam More than two years ago. He also answered War policy questions in 1966 and 1967 appearances on the Aid Bill. Convicts win change in command Salem Ore. Apr a cleanup and rebuilding Job is under Way at the Oregon state Penitentiary after rioting convicts won a change in the command of the prison by burning most of it Down. The inmates released four guards sunday after holding them hostage in the prison Yard overnight. They had won almost everything they asked including a Promise that they would not be prosecuted for their orgy of fire window breaking and smashing everything in sight. Prison officials estimated damage at $6 million. George w. Randall state director of corrections agreed to the demands presented by six convicts representing the prison population of 1,156. The demands were presented shortly after Midnight sunday. Randall walked into the Pris on Yard with several reporters to talk the prisoners into releasing their hostages. He told the prisoners there would be no reprisals. A a in be never lied to a prisoner and in a too old to Start lying now. We wont harm anyone a he said. Randall agreed to fire Warden c. T. Gladden 73, who had served 15 years. Gladden ill for six weeks was not on duty during the riot. Iwu and but differences Between the administration and the committee Over Vietnam and other foreign policies have grown sharply in the past year. Senators within and outside the committee have become Are hampering needed Domestic programs. And while those Senate critics protest that the military Effort is being pressed on too grand a scale others Are calling for a step up in troops and bombing . Casualties Are Light More vocal in asserting that the. 111 response to the recent Viet financial demands of the War Cong offensives. Saigon apr South Viet namese infantrymen reported killing 102 enemy troops in a Northern Frontier Battle sunday but enemy gunners blew up tons of ammunition at a . Navy base just below the Eastern end of the demilitarized zone. A spokesman said South vietnamese casualties were Light in the eight hour fight with an estimated 600 communist soldiers the eighth major encounter since feb. 29 for government troops below the Doz. He said the South vietnamese captured seven suspects and 25 weapons and that their casualties were Only three killed and 37 wounded. As the men of the 2nd South vietnamese infantry regiment battled five Miles North of Dong a North vietnamese gunners blasted the american naval Supply and repair base at the crash sends one person to Hospital Columbus a one person was hospitalized As a result of a one car Accident Friday night in the South Edmeston Columbus Road one mile East of Here and the operator of the vehicle was arrested on a charge of driving at imprudent Speed. Hospitalized with a fractured right leg injuries to the right and head and the loss of six Teeth is John Cummings 17, of re 2 West Edmeston. He was in satisfactory condition this morning at Chenango memorial hos Pital Norwich. He was treated by or. George Manley. Allen r. Williams 18 of re 3 Norwich owner and operator of the car was uninjured but was taken to the Hospital for Check up and was released. He was Given a summons but Deputy Wesley Aylesworth Anc arraigned before Justice of the peace Raymond Nelson town of Columbus pleaded guilty and was fined $10. According to Deputy Ayles Worth Williams said he was driving East on county Road 25, and As he approached a curve was blinded by the headlights of an oncoming car. Aylesworth said Williams told him the rear of his car caught the soft shoulder on the Side of the Road and he lost control of the car. H e said he tried to right the Carbut could not before it glanced off three Trees missed the fourth tree and struck a fifth tree which was 264 feet from the Point where he lost control. The car was totally demolished. Both the injured youth and the operator were taken to the bos Pital by the new Berlin emergency squad. In one person was injured in this crash on county Road 25 near Columbus on Norton Hill. Car was total wreck. Top picture shows a part of the Chrome trim of the car Sun staff photos embedded in one of the three Trees which the car sideswiped before it finally came to rest against a fifth tree. The car missed the fourth tree in a line of five. Peace talks break Down Jerusalem apr Diplo Mats say . Envoy Gunnar jarring a efforts to set up Middle East peace talks appear to have broken Down. Egypt and Israel accused each other of blocking a settlement. Jarring told israeli foreign minister Abba Eban sunday that president Gamal Abdel Nasser a government had refused to meet with israeli officials directly or indirectly. Diplomatic informants in Jerusalem said Egypt had reverted to the hard line of no peace talks until after Israel pulls out of Arab lands it occupied in the june War. Government circles Here said Israel is ready to comply with any attempt by jarring to bring the two sides together but will not give any Advance pledge to give up the occupied territories. Various sources reported late in february that jarring was on the verge of obtaining egyptian and jordanian agreement to hold indirect negotiations with Israel. Then on feb. 29 the israeli government announced that the West Bank of the Jordan River which Israel seized from Jordan in june was no longer considered enemy territory. Cairo took this As an indication that the israelis would not give up the occupied territories and the egyptian line hardened again. Israeli officials denied the implications which Cairo had drawn but conceded their governments timing was bad. The sem official egyptian newspaper Al Abram said sunday that Egypt rejected the proposed talks because Israel insisted that the Middle East Reso Lution passed by the . Security Council last november was a merely an Agenda for negotiations with the the paper said the Resolution was one of a definite measures to be taken beginning with israeli withdrawal from territory of Egypt Jordan and Syria. Al ashram said foreign minis try officials had explained Egypt a position to the ambassadors of the soviet Union Britain France Spain India Italy and Pakistan. Mouth of the Cua Viet River 15 Miles South of the Doz. . Spokesmen said casualties at the naval Complex were Light but they reported numerous fires and secondary explosions in stockpiles of ammunition and other War Materiel. More artillery rounds about 200 of them landed on a South vietnamese outpost la Miles below the Doz and nearly 40 shells hit a nearby base Camp of the . 3rd Marine division. No casualties or serious damage was reported at the Marine Camp and one Soldier was killed at the government outpost. For the third straight Day the marines at besieged Khe Sanh received More than 250 rounds of rocket artillery and mortar fire sunday. . Headquarters said american casualties were Light. The americans countered with fighter bomber raids against North vietnamese gun positions inside the Doz and b52 saturation bombing attacks on suspected positions of enemy troops menacing Khe Sanh and Hue. The b52s also struck at enemy positions 12 Miles Northwest of Dak to near the Carn Bodian Border and 25 Miles Northeast of Saigon. . Spokesmen for the first time reported a communist truck Convoy in the Vicinity of Hue. They said american gunship helicopters sighted eight camouflaged trucks 15 Miles Southwest of Hue last Friday and destroyed All eight with rocket and machine gun fire. Seven of the trucks were two and a half tonnes and one was three quarters of a ton the spokesmen said. Gen. William c. Westmoreland activated the new military command for South Vietnam a northernmost provinces where the communist forces along the Frontier had grown to five divisions or about 50, too troops. A their forces Are formidable a Westmoreland said. A we intend to confront the communist leadership considers thua Thien and Quang Tri provinces part of North Vietnam. I anticipate More very heavy Khe Sanh the isolated Marine base in Khe Sanho a Northwest Corner is in Quang Tri and Hue where the communists held out for nearly a month of fierce fighting during the february lunar new year offensive is in thua Thien. Until the february offensive Khe Sanh had been considered the likeliest target for a big red drive but recently one of the top . Officers in Vietnam said he now thought Hue would be the next objective. This idea was echoed today by it. Gen. Robert e. Cushman commander of the . Marines in Vietnam and vice president Nguyen Cao by. Company to meet tuesday work stoppage by some 600 members of local 251, inter National chemical workers Union at Norwich Pha Macal company today entered the eighth week. There was no indication today that a settlement in the contract dispute Between the Union and the drug firm was in the offing As members of the local continued to picket the company plants a meeting of the Union and company negotiating teams has been scheduled for to . Tuesday it was reported today by a. Charles Clark personnel Dir Ector at the Pha Macal company or. Clark said that a no significant developments came out of an All Day meeting of the two negotiating groups a week ago tuesday. He did say however that last tuesdays talks were improved Over previous ses Sions. Today s chuckle the internal Revenue peo pie know what to give a Man who has everything. An audit. Lucky five persons escaped serious injury about 220 . Sunday when car in foreground operated by Harold Harris 24, of port Crane re i slammed into two parked cars in Greene Street Oxford. Police chief Gene Johnson said southbound vehicle hit a parked 1965 Ford Sedan owned by Eli Zabeth Tefft of Oxford in the rear drive. Sun staff photo ing it some 40 feet Forward and into a Small tree. The moving car then hit a second vehicle a 1967 Ford Mustang owned by George Genung of Oxford which was also parked. Or. Harris was charged with imprudent Speed and will be arraigned at a later Date

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