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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - March 21, 1968, Norwich, New York Weather Cloudy with some rain through Friday. High temperatures today in mid 40s to Low 50s. Lows tonight in upper 30s and Low 40s and highs Friday in the 40s. The veni no Chenango county s daily newspaper in vol. 78, no. 4thursday, Morch 21, 1968 Norwich . 13815 8c per copy Sun spots area dentists receive recognition Page 9. Local stores to be open monday nights Page 3. Old time school Library undergoes change Page 5.israeli forces invade Jordan again today 4 round the state 4 round the nation around the world Dirksen takes aim Washington apr Senate Republican Leader Everett m. Dirksen who helped defeat a plan to make senators publicly Bare All their financial affairs has taken aim at a far Milder financial disclosure proposal. The Senate following sometimes heated debate voted 44 to 40 wednesday against the plan sponsored by Sens. Joseph s. Clark d-pa., and Clifford p. Case . Among those voting for the plan was sen. Thomas a Dodd d-conn., censured by the Senate last year for alleged financial misconduct. Senate leaders Saidt Atwith the controversial Clark Case proposal disposed sen. Everett of they hoped for faster action today on other Dirksen amendments to the financial disclosure plan drafted by the Senate ethics committee. Ask new proposals Philadelphia a. Apr the striking Glass workers Union has asked the Glass Industry to offer new proposals to end the eight week old strike that has crippled the Glass Container Industry across the nation. A spokesman for the Federal mediation and conciliation service said wednesday that Industry representatives would consider the request of Lee w. Minton president of the Glass bottle blowers association Al Cio and would a make some disposition today. Some 50.000 Glass workers at 102 plants walked off the Job in february asking for increased wages and benefits. The workers have turned Down two proposals from the manufacturers. Workers presently earn $2.87 an hour. Cut Bank rate London apr the British government Cut the Bank rate today from 8 per cent to 71/? per cent in the Wake of Britain a toughest peacetime budget since the 1930s. The move by prime minister Harold Wilson a labor government is designed to make Money More available for Export pro duet on and investment in new plants and machinery. The Bank rate governs interest rates throughout the Sterling bloc. It has been 8 per cent since last nov. 19, when it was hoisted from 71/2 per cent in an increase associated with devaluation of the Pound. Thieu orders More men to service Saigon apr president Nguyen Van Thieu said today South Vietnam a allies Are increasing their military and economic commitment Here to his country and to share the sacrifice he has ordered 135,000 men be added to the South vietnamese armed forces. In a major policy speech Thieu also itemized government plans to crack Down on corruption which he labelled a a shame for the whole nation and population a he announced the creation of new agencies for National planning and administrative Reform. A your allies in the free world will give us More military and economic assistance a the president said. A but for our part i think that we must make greater efforts and accept More sacrifices because As i have said Many times this is our country the existence of our nation is at stake and this is mainly a vietnamese will obey order new York apr the head of the longshoremen a Union has said he would instruct his men to obey a judges order to end their work stoppage that has crippled most of the port of new York since monday. But Thomas w. Gleason president of the Al Cio International longshoremen a association Ila said he Learned of the order too late to get the entire work Force Back on the docks at the regular starting time today. The Back to work order was issued wednesday by Justice Arthur Markewich of the state supreme court new Yorkus third highest tribunal. Dam collapses Taunton mass. Apr the Center Section of a 70-year-old wooden dam across the flood swollen Mill River collapsed today and officials feared a dam further Down Stream might also give Way. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries but officials said the heaviest damage might occur As the River crested. A 36-foot Section of the 125-foot-wide Whittenton Mill Damn about two Miles North of the business District gave Way with a Roar As tons of water cascaded Down Stream. An official at the scene quoted . Army engineers As saying there were some 50.000 tons of water pressure against the old dam. Soviets move into Indian Ocean Washington a �?. Naval strategists Are expressing concern that an impending visit by soviet warships to Indian ports May be a first move toward a soviet penetration of the vital Indian Ocean area. The United states keeps no Navy vessels in the Indian Ocean and . Admirals and diplomats fear the planned British pull out East of Suez will leave a vacuum into which the soviets May step. Naval strategists say this would be a further Extension of soviet naval Power which Moscow has been sending far and wide in the last few years. A 19,000-ton soviet Cruiser of the Sverdlov class and two guided missile destroyers Are due to drop Anchor at Madras and Bombay late this month and Early in april. Pres. Thieu strike caught Arab guerrillas by Surprise iceman cometh rising Saginaw Bay water Levels and Bay at Bay City Michigan causing con 35 mile an hour wind dashes these Sid Erable damage huge ice floes into three Homes on the Viet con Quot suffer losses Saigon apr despite intelligence reports that Many of the Viet Cong menacing Saigon have pulled Back toward the cambodian Border Allied forces reported killing 167 Viet Cong close to the capital wednesday and 15 enemy shells landed on Saigon s tan son Nhut Airport. The Viet Cong were slain in the 50,000-Man operation Quyet thang the biggest Allied Offen Sive of the War. In a one sided fight 15 Miles Northwest of Sai gon 142 guerrillas were reported killed against Only one american and seven South vietnamese dead. Four Miles Southwest of the City South vietnamese rangers reported killing 25 Viet Cong at the Cost of four wounded troops. These actions increased enemy casualties in operation Quyet thang to More than 1,000 killed since the sweep began March la. Ninety six other enemy troops were reported killed in five Battles ranging North to the demilitarized zone wednesday. One i died in these clashes and 15 were wounded while South vietnamese losses were seven dead and 20 wounded. Little damage was done to tan son Nhut one of the worlds busiest airports in the 15-round barrage from enemy recoilless rifles. The 75mm weapons were fired from within 1,000 Yards of the Field and ac47 dragon ships were dispatched to Hunt them. Spokes men said results of the dragon ship counterattack were not known. It was the first shelling of tan son Nhut in three weeks. The recent slowdown in the fighting after the furious com Bat of the communist lunar new year offensive in february was reflected in the weekly casualty report announced today. American South vietnamese and enemy casualties last week were All considerably less than they had been the week before. Casualties announced for last week were american a 336 killed 1,916 wounded South vietnamese a 267 killed 962 wounded 181 missing Viet Cong and North vietnamese a 3,070 killed. The figures the week before were american a 509 killed 2,766 wounded South Viet namese a 411 killed 1,199 wounded 98 missing enemy a 5,168 killed. For the first time in months the . Command also reduced its estimate of enemy troops in South Vietnam cutting it by 16.000 to 26,000 troops. The command said it estimates enemy military strength in the country As of mid february at 207,000 to 222,000 men. The previous estimate had been 223.000 to 248,000. The announcement said the revision reflected losses during the february offensive but this had been partially offset by a recent major unit infiltration into South the command added that the estimate was a preliminary assessment subject to revision. In Saigon president Nguyen Van Thieu announced he would take a a urgent Steps to increase the South vietnamese armed forces 135,000 men bringing the government s total fighting Force to 924,000 men. Highlighting the air War covers of air Force and Navy jets roared Down on seven truck convoys in North Vietnam wednesday and reported destroying or damaging 95. Letters seen As new bid for . Apology to n. Korea Tel Aviv apr israeli and jordanian troops battled fiercely on the East Side of the Jordan River today As Israel invaded Jordan for the first time since the 1967 War to attack Arab guerrilla bases. Jordan a chief of military intelligence estimated up to 15,000 israeli troops crossed the River cease fire line including three armoured brigades and their tanks. Helicopters dropped paratroopers behind the jordanian lines to strike at the bases from which the guerrillas have been making sabotage and terror raids into the territory on the West Bank occupied by Israel last june. King Hussein of Jordan issued an urgent Appeal to the other Arab chiefs of state to meet to discuss the israeli attack on his kingdom. An israeli spokesman in Tel Aviv said about eight hours after the initial assault that the invaders captured several jordanian outposts and killed a several score Arab guerrillas. He said 11 israeli soldiers had been killed and 50 wounded in the most Savage fighting since the War nine months ago. The israelis denied a jordanian army claim that its forces had killed or wounded 200 of the invaders destroyed 25 tanks and armoured cars and shot Down three israeli planes. A no israeli planes have been lost so far and our casualties Are surprisingly Low for an engagement of this size a a spokes mail said. Israeli military sources said israeli jets were in action along the Border and that the strikes were a quite a jordanian communique said israeli planes bombed Forward jordanian positions and jordanian antiaircraft guns responded. The jordanians said a Savage fighting was still raging All along the a correspondent Roy essay an reported from the jordanian Side of the River that the Jordan Valley presented a dramatic scene at mid morning with israeli planes swooping Low Over the West Bank and puffs of sex Washington apr . Officials say letters from Cap Tive Pueblo crewmen to their families at Home appear a new North korean bid to wrest an apology from president Johnson. Some relatives of crewmen in telling wednesday of receiving such letters expressed suspicions they were written under North korean supervision. Catherine of Bannon wife of Michael of Bannon 21, a fireman on the intelligence vessel when it was captured Jan. 23 off North koreans coast said the letter she received repeatedly urged her to Tell . Authorities the Pueblo violated the communist nations territorial Waters. Mrs. Warren Hayes of Columbus Ohio said the letter apparently written by her son radioman 2.c. Lee Hayes described the Pueblo As an espionage ship spying in North korean Waters asked the United states to admit this and apologize and added a i ask you As my parents to do the officials in Washington noted such requests closely paralleled those in a letter purportedly signed by All 82 surviving Pueblo crewmen which North Korea made Public earlier this month. That letter addressed to president Johnson urged him to a frankly admit the alleged violation and apologize. The administration has de dined to disclose what action might be taken in response to that Appeal. Top administration officials including Secretary of state Dean Rusk and former Secre tary of defense Robert s. Mcnamara have maintained that to the Best of their knowledge the Pueblo did not penetrate North korean Waters. At the same time they have conceded that since the ship was operating under radio silence for about 8 to to Days be fore its capture there might have been a territorial violation of which they weren to aware. Several relatives of crewmen reported turning the letters Over to the government and officials were reported studying them. They noted it was obvious the letters could not have been sent by the captive crewmen if the North korean government Hadnot wanted them sent. Some of the letters bore Paris and Marseille postmarks which . Officials said indicated they May have been sent to France through North korean or other diplomatic channels. Dofos must be confined a City ordinance prohibiting dogs running at Large went into effect March i City police said today. Dogs must be confined to the owners premises or on a Leash. Police said that Many complaints have been received at Headquarters regarding dogs running at Large annoying people and causing damage to property. There is also the problem of female dogs in season running at Large police said. These violations of the dog ordinance Are being investigated by police who said that violators will be summoned to the City court where they face possible fines. Insurance plan seen headed for oblivion Albany . Apr gov. Rockefeller a new compulsory health insurance plan was headed today for oblivion in the current legislative session a High level Senate source reported. A there Are too Many questions unanswered and too much other business remaining to give the governors Bill much of a Chance this year the Republican source said. 1 the Bill unveiled wednesday by the Republican governor bore a Strong resemblance to the one he advanced last year Only to see it languish in committee. The negative currents of 1967 were triggered by business which saw the measure As too Liberal and labor which viewed it As inadequate. Rockefeller a new proposal differs in at least one substantial Way from the plan of last year but still would require All employers in this state to provide Basic health insurance for their workers and members of their workers families. It was coupled with a plan designed to curb the soaring Cost of Hospital care. The new provision would have the state step in with financial help when the combined employer employee contribution exceeds 4 per cent of the employers annual payroll. Rockefeller a fiscal specialists estimate that this would Cost the state $2 million in the next fiscal year and $25 million the following year. The plan would become effective april i 1969. The Cost to employers of providing a full years benefits was estimated at $224 million. Employers of the state now voluntarily provide health insurance benefits costing $569 million a year. Rockefeller took the wraps off his new proposal late in a Busy Day at the Capitol that produced these other developments busing a majority democrats United to beat Down a Republican Man Euver in the Assembly to Force a vote on legislation aimed at ending busing of school children for racial integration purposes. The measure was focused on the busing program drawn by state education commissioner James e. Allenjr. It is designed to help wipe out racial imbalance in the Public schools by transporting negro children into schools with a heavily White enrolment and White children into Predzin intently negro schools. In contrast to the Sharp debates of recent years on similar Bills the discussion wednesday was relatively Brief a 30 minutes and generally free of rancor. The Only negro to speak against it was Assembly education committee chairman Bertram Baker who took the position that the will of the committee should prevail. The will of the education committee has been to keep the Bill in committee. Budget a financial technicians of the Republican run Senate and the democratic ruled Assembly pressed on in Hopes of a Compromise on economies in Rockefeller a pro posed $5.5-billion state budget. The focus continued to be on ways of shrinking the governors proposed 20 per cent increase in state income taxes to a lower percentage at least 15 and perhaps As Low Asio per cent. In the delicate negotiations however neither Side was willing to say for publication what the outcome might be. Rockefeller a compulsory health insurance proposal emerged As the biggest in a legislative perspective during a hectic Day of governmental and political activity Here. As outlined in the governors Bill his program would apply to All Lull time workers including domestics and farm workers. Full time is defined As working today s chuckle a real executive is a Man who can hand Back a letter for a third retyping to a red headed stenographer. At least 30 hours a week. The Only major exceptions would be Federal employees and ordained religious personnel such As priests nuns ministers and Rah Bis. The governor reflected his continuing distress Over the recent $300 million cutback in medicaid when he said in a message to the legislature a the recently enacted cutback in medicaid highlights the compelling necessity for assuring our people the Protection of Universal health he said the legislation would assure Basic Hospital benefits to 15.7 million new yorkers virtually the entire population under age 65. In addition he said the plan would establish an effective Hospital Cost control the governor noted that most employees in new York state carry some kind of Hospital insurance. A yet a he said a the bulk of the 630,000 workers not covered Are in the lower income ranges where the need for it Section is most compelling. Plosives clearly visible from a Hilltop 15 Miles East of the front. A column of camouflaged jordanian tanks moved toward the River the Southern portion of which was shrouded in smoke. Most of the action appeared entered around the former refugee Camp at Sarameh three Miles East of the River. The Camp was evacuated after the israeli attack on feb. 15. East of Sarameh the normally quiet villages nestled in Green oases were thronged with Farmers clustered around transistor radios. Military traffic moved Down the two main roads from Amman to the River Jordan. Army checkpoints were thrown around Amman and most civilian traffic was stopped on the outskirts of this capital less than 25 Miles from the latest fighting. Amman radio reported the army in neighbouring Syria had been put on Alert from the Early hours of this morning. Irregular militia units were also on alerts in Syria it said. There have been no reports so far of any activity on the vulnerable syrian cease fire line with Israel. Israeli spokesman said israeli units were going into action in the Dusty Low lying Jordan Valley and across the Southern land Border South of the dead sea a was they Are the attack apparently was on a Large scale but its exact strength was not known. Kol Israel the government radio said the israeli Force would withdraw when their Mission was completed. But there was no indication when this would happen. The israeli forces reported they had taken control of Sarameh the chief guerrilla Headquarters to Miles South of the Tamiya Bridge and about three Miles beyond the East Bank of the biblical River. Price support does not include butter Washington apr butter is the Only major Dairy product not sharing in the Over All milk Price support Rise ordered by the agriculture department for the year starting april i. This is because of the weak demand for butter. But the government in raising support prices for manufacturing milk by 28 cents to $4.28 per Hundred pounds assured higher prices for milk producers by boosting the Price it will pay for nonfat dry milk and cheese. Under the new schedule the commodity credit corp. Will buy Cheddar cheese for 47 cents a Pound up 3.25 cents and non fat dry milk for 23 cents up 3.5 cents per Pound. The govern ment Purchase Price for butter remains at the 1967 average of about 66 cents a Pound. Milk production in the past three years has dropped from a record 127 billion pounds in 1964 to 119 billion pounds in 1967. The Price support Rise to $4 per too pounds in 1966 and emergency fluid milk Price in. Creases in 1966-67 helped to slow the decline in output but failed to reverse it during a period of declining milk consumption per person and higher costs for dairymen. The government expects the Price support increase coupled with continuation of the 20 cents per 100-Pound differential for drinking milk to Stem the drop in output and give the Farmer More Money for his Effort. Vote sales fax in Cayuga co. Auburn . Apr the Cayuga county Board of super visors has voted to impose a three per cent county sales tax to offset rising costs of govern ment. The tax approved by super. Visors tuesday takes effect june i. The supervisors said the tax was needed to prevent an in crease in the property tax rate. Nearly two dozen other counties in the state also have adopted the use of a sales tax with the Cost of medicaid Given As a Rea son

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