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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - May 1, 1968, Norwich, New York The f. Vol. 78, no. 33 state nation world Sec. Fowler Rocky ahead in primary Boston apr gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller of new York who Wasny to a candidate when the polls opened emerged As the apparent Winner today on write in votes in the Republican presidential race in the Massachusetts primary. The Rockefeller Victory would give him the 34 votes of the Massachusetts delegates on the first ballot at the Republican National convention. Sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy whose name was the Only one printed on the democratic ballot made his expected showing capturing a majority of the democratic votes. He was assured the 72 votes of the states democratic convention delegation on the first ballot. Mccarthy also made a Strong showing in Republican write in votes. Rockefeller running ahead of Richard m. Nixon gov. Ronald Reagan and Sens. Robert f. Kennedy and my earthy As write ins in the Republican balloting also Drew ahead of gov. John a. Volpe. Volpes name was the Only one on the ballot in the Republican race. The latest returns gave Republican 1.675 of 1,734 precincts Volpe 29,182, Nixon 25,705. Rockefeller 30,514. Reagan 1,813, Kennedy 1.378. Mccarthy 9,393. Democratic 1.675 of 1,734 precincts Mccarthy 114,183, Johnson 6,409, Kennedy 62,172, Humphrey 40.779. With less than too precincts out of 1,734 precincts left to report. Rockefeller held a Lead of More than 1,000 votes Over Volpe. Nixon ran third. Tax hike Okay expected Washington apr the behind the scenes mane vering Over higher taxes and spend ing cuts is at that critical stage where or a breakthrough a or another bust a could come any time. Key adminis it a traction leaders Are confident Congress will approve higher taxes in this election year although there Are indications they might have to backtrack further on spending before any agreement of the lines of communication Between y \ j the administration and Congress Are v j open wide and both sides Are talking and listening. One source said both sides agree taxes should be raised and spending should be Cut. The Only % problem now he added is to draft m. The Type of package that can win acceptance from both liberals and conservatives. Secretary of the Treasury Henry h. Fowler has continued his j private meetings with chairman Wilbur d. Mills d ark., of the tax writing House ways and Means committee. The latest was tuesday. Committee chairman George h. Mahon d tex., said no agreement on spending cuts has yet been reached but a a in a of the opinion Well find a he indicated this might take several weeks. He described the $6 billion in spending cuts already voted by the Senate As a Sun attain Able and unacceptable and said the slashes proposed by Mills Are a deeper than the committee on appropriations w ill Mills reportedly wants a $5 billion Cut and the administration is insisting $4 billion is the maximum it can accept. Czech vows stalinist purge Prague a Czechoslovakia a Interior minister promised tuesday that his department and the police would be purged of old line stalinist. He also announced that wire tapping equipment is now outlawed. A three or four Deputy ministers together with other top officials will be replaced a Interior minister Josef Pavel told the czech news Agency ctr. He added that personnel changes would go a Down to the ground Pavel pledged a careful investigation of All officials who took part in the stalinist purges of the 1950s and said All a defaulters will have to answer to the Law or will be dismissed from the police tile shake up in the police department came to Light on april 12, when Pavel disclosed that he was separating the secret police from the regular civilian police services. This move was recommended in the action program of party chief Alexander Dubcek helmsman of the new Liberal course. At that time Pavel also said he was trying to remove from the Force a people who violated the slum insurance Fate unsure Albany y. A the narrow passage of an Assembly Bill that would guarantee liability insurance for ghetto residents supported Little Hope today that the measure would be accepted in the Republican controlled Senate. The Bill was passed tuesday by a Bare majority of 76 31 in the democratic dominated 150 seat Assembly. It w As one of the major Bills passed in a Day in which the Assembly and the Senate worked through thick legislative calendars but acted on Only relatively minor legislation. Hie leaders conferred in attempts to find a Compromise to Settle political disagreements Over the states budget. The insurance Bill is seen by its sponsors As a companion to a measure that gov. Rockefeller signed april 8 establishing a fire insurance Pool for ghetto residents otherwise unable to buy such insurance. Ike suffered mild attack March air Force base Calif a former president Dwight a Eisenhower is expected to be hospitalized Here several weeks following a heart attack that an aide describes As mild. The 77 year old Soldier statesman suffered a a myocardial infarction a a blood clot in a heart artery the March air Force base Hospital said. It was his third Quot heart attack since 1955. Hie bulletin issued late tuesday was the first official word of his illness. It said a a a general prognosis cannot be made at this although the bulletin did not specify when the attack occurred it was assumed the retired five Star general was stricken monday after playing Golf in the morning. May Day talks rap . The Vietnam War loomed Large in May Day Demontra. Tons around the world today. Communist speakers attacked the United states. South vietnamese leaders attacked the communists. The United states generally ignored the work Erst traditional Holiday since it celebrates labor Day in september. Soviet defense minister Andrei a. Grechko in his annual order of the Day told russian troops the soviet Union supports the vietnamese communists a to the he called the struggle against the United states and its allies in Vietnam a a sacred War and denounced the americans As South Vietnam s president Nguyen Van Thieu told a labor rally in Danang that South Vietnam will never negotiate with the Viet Cong and will not cede a even one i anti meter of land to North Vietnam. Around the world grades and rallies were held to celebrate labors traditional be Nib Chenango county a newspaper in Wendi n y �?T38 8c per copy 575 re ids die in Battle Saigon apr fighting raged today for the third successive Day in the Northeast Corner of South Vietnam where Allied forces reported killing at least 575 North vietnamese soldiers this week. Military spokesmen said 27 americans and six South vietnamese had been killed tuesday and 219 americans wounded bringing total Allied casualties in the sector this week to 44 killed and 277 wounded. Military spokesmen said units of the . 3rd Marine division and South Viet a ii men regained e noon with a is. Abl namese Force Mea divisions head tia a. . Fighter artillery were porn my positions. It appeared thai nist command Mig pressure to Sou Northeast Corner Thwe Stern Section . Marine cot Klie Sanh was unde Days earlier this it marines Ltd i a in i Avern ment it haitian to v of Ley in lilt a it swept the St to take pres Allied b ases just below militarize i it ton in and off rid suppl y Lim Highway Allied forces a ire operate tin a Mil e of each other hit i fit Miles below the flank of i of. Large Ltd Las of a monday in and i King i a. The Al a Ces four or in it ii nearly t tues North and Dong h i Anc i other a1 lied troops drove off an enemy attack near Quang Tri City eight Miles farther South. South vietnamese forces reported killing too North vietnamese tuesday near Dona a in the same Battle area where Allied units claimed 130 enemy dead the previous Day. In another dash near the Vil Iago where the . 3rd Marine division is headquartered units of the division reported killing 92 of an estimated 400 enemy soldiers fighting from fortified bunkers. The . Command maintained its Security blackout on news of operation Delaware in the a Shau Valley Southwest of Hue but said . B52 bombers attacked North vietnamese truck Parks and gun positions today in the Valley. Iii Danang about 50 Miles South of Hue South vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu told a May Day labor rally a the government is determined to take care of the people living in the Northern provinces the area of hardest Thieu reiterated that his government never will negotiate with the Viet Cong and said it will not cede a even one centimetre a of land to North Vietnam. Vice president Nguyen can Tkv spoke to about 6,000 workers in a Saigon stadium my lasted foreign critics apparently to the United states never set foot on have never tenders in ins of this count i a who have a soil and i til Prebilla its Pelt it e rican Zatio ii of Viet should end Rocky says Philadelphia apr gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller in the major foreign policy address promised in his presidential candidly announcement tuesday today called for a Rev. Ersal of the americanization Quot of the Vietnam War Effort and the convening of a Council of asian nations to work for eco Nom in Progress and political stability in the area. The new York governor said a the Saigon government should be encouraged to mobilize and develop its Best manpower As part of a four Point program to strengthen chances for successful negotiation of a creative political solution to the Vietnam crisis. A your strategy must reflect the fact that the essential Issue is the Security of the population a rather than control of territory a he said. A to this purpose military escalation in tile North is no he also called for building and protecting local governments and broadening of the South vietnamese National government in his speech Lefoi the world affairs Council o. Philadelphia. His remarks were preparer for delivery. Rockefeller praised president Johnson for a this initiative in seeking a just peace and declared a we have nothing to fear and All to gain from the careful and responsible quest for a negotiated the governor listed a a threes Sencial bases for our position in this negotiation a a we will not accept As we shall not try to imposed any solution dictated by Force. A a we should accept in South Vietnam a political life any group that seeks its objectives through the political process rather than by wrecking it by Force or subversion. A a we must seek a settlement whose Aims and guarantees safeguard tin Freedom and Security of All Southeast speaking of the presidents peace initiative Rockefeller said a i do not believe that this time of renewed Hope is a time to stand in silence a an apparent reference to the Vietnam stand of Richard m. Nixon lits Only major rival for the Republican nomination. Regarding the asian nations Rockefeller said a a lasting peace must embrace the lives of All the hundreds of millions living inthe great Crescent from Japan throughout India to he urged a your calling of a conference of ill governments to discuss and to define joint efforts for fostering eco Nom in Progress and political stability throughout the the governor declared a we should encourage Contact and communications for the Good of us both with communist China saying the United states gains nothing by a aiding or encourag-1 ing tile self isolation of so great a with respect to the european Powers he said a we have a right to ask and expect of them less hand wringing and More work sharing. For they too have a serious stake Iii the economic health and political order of Southeast Columbia closed meeting called new York apr Columbia remained a University without classes today As the administration of the strife torn Ivy league school called upon faculty and students to meet for discussions of the Campus crisis. The administration acted in keeping with a Resolution by a group of 500 senior faculty members asking for a a Day of reason arid the University said the school would be open but there would be no Reg. Ular classes. About 125 members of an and hoc faculty group voted tuesday to a a respect a student strike. There were indications however that the faculty of about 4,000 was substantially split Over whether to Back the strike. The senior faculty meeting did not endorse the strike. A student strike was announced by j. Michael Nichols executive vice president of the undergraduate student Council a few hours after 1,000 City to Beemen moved onto the Campus during the night tuesday and stormed five University buildings that had been occupied and barricaded by students. A Hundred youths and 15 policemen were reported injured none seriously in the club swinging fist fighting pushing hauling and kneeling As the embattled demonstrators wer routed from their strongholds. Police said some of their men were bitten by girl students. A total of 720 persons wer arrested on trespassing and other charges of the total there were 628 arrests in the actual routing of the demonstrators and 92 on the Edge of the Melee. Nichols said a the strike we Are calling for has a widespread basis of support. Consequently it will not be necessary to seize any buildings. We May picket. But that Lias not been decided undergraduate militant s sought tuesday to promote a general strike by students and faculty. Their principal target was or. Grayson Kirk president of the 25,381-.student University who had called in the jx>1 in to break lip the disruption caused by the 600 to 700 students whose sit ins to protest some University i it Oll. Des began april 23. A Kirk must go Kirk must go a groups roaming the littered Uptown Manhattan Cam pus shouted. Kirk who had said he called in the police because the univer sity was a a paralysed by the Hie. Gal acts of a minority of its Stu. Dents aided and abetted by an unknown number of outsiders�?T1 declared he had no intention of resigning i i s. 11 Umphre Iii for surgery Washington apr mrs Hubert h. Humphrey is ii Bethesda naval medical centi.-. For what is described a a routine Pelvic surgery to Correct a non malignant disorder. Cape Walter m. Longergan chief of obstetrics and gynaecology is to operate on the vie presidents wife thursday morning. Mrs. Humphrey 56, enters the Hospital tuesday night an is expected to remain there Sev eral Days after surgery. L olt la s Huckler is it p Ridge prot Tion that St it ble that a mar-a1 is a propose Rve today a around the around the around the Telephone walkout near end Washington apr negotiators in the 2-week-old nationwide Telephone strike reportedly have virtually wrapped up a wage settlement and Are close to an Over All contract agreement that could come As Early As today. A we see the Light now and i am hopeful we will soon be at the Point where a total package is worked out a said president Joseph a. Beirne of the striking a Al Cio communications workers of America. A we Are now seeing Eye to Eye on wage Levels that the Union can live with a the Cwa chief added. Beirne said negotiators for some 200,000 workers involved in the strike resumed formal bargaining tuesday with Bell Telephone system representatives for the first time since the walkout. Any contract settlement is expected to set a pattern for All the approximately 600,000 workers in the Bell system. But president Gordon Freeman of the Al Cio International Union it Electr Cal workers said the Luw. A set a some 88,000 Telephone Quot Ltd Quot a be bound by the results of what he called a a secret company negotiations with the communications workers. Before the strike the communications workers rejected a wage increase offer estimated by the company As Worth 5.6 per cent a year. Bell spokesmen said the Union was demanding 7.8 per cent. Telephone installers who set the pattern for wage hikes in the Industry averaged $3.27 per hour before the strike. The installers employed by the Bell subsidiary Western electric co., Are striking in about 40 states. Approximately 145,000 Bell system workers Are striking in 16 states and thousands of others Are refusing to Cross install Erst picket lines in All 40 states. These workers average $2.79 per hour. Despite the Industry a first nationwide strike in 21 years most Telephone service has been Little disrupted. Saigon arrests Polit Ira i foe Saigon apr the runner up in South Vietnam a presidential election Truong Dinh Dzu was arrested and removed from a Saigon Hospital today for advocating a coalition government with the Viet congas National liberation front. A i wonder Why Robert Kennedy is not arrested in the United states since he advocated a coalition government too a said Dzus wife. Dzus family said he was arrested despite signed state ments from three doctors two of them from the National police a that he was suffering from heart trouble and should not be moved for several weeks. Dzu polled 17 per cent of the votes in last Falls presidential election half As Many As presi Dent Nguyen Van Thieu. Dzu has been in and out of jail several times since the september election. He was released april 14 after seven weeks of a protective Cus Tody and shortly after reportedly told several newsmen that the Only possible settlement to the Vietnam War was a coalition government that included the National liberation front. President Thieu and the Interior ministry then announced that Dzu would be arrested for investigation for making the state ment. Weather becoming fair to partly Cloudy and continued Cool tonight and thursday Low temperatures tonight 30 to 35 with scattered Frost and highs thursday in upper 40s and mid 50s. Brulee of time sprint Stream Highway Roadway area ret troll hav and its to Sun and to gets Combine to cast shadows on of White store Bridge Arch. Town of Norwich department personnel have task of widening Bridge Rig Beauty of Stone Arch which nearly 200 years old. Stories in being Able to hold up the Bridge another Century. Lestroy claim is it Paranee of for at least Strong open housing Bill gets Milwaukee of Milwaukee win. Apr Milwaukee a racial demonstrators who endured stones Luis and the Rigours of Wisconsin a Winter during 200 nights of marches have reached their goal. City Hall has granted a Strong open housing ordinance. A we feel it is a significant Victory a said the Rev. James e. Groppi. The White roman Catholic priest helped Lead marches by the Milwaukee youth Council of the National association for the advancement of coloured people. Father Groppi was in the City a common Council Chambers with his Young followers tuesday when the Council voted 15-4 in favor of a code outlawing discrimination in the Sale or rental of All but two categories of Milwaukee housing. Exempted under the measure which was stronger than that recommended by mayor Henry Maier Are single family houses and owner occupied duplexes the exemptions apply Prima Rily to private sales transactions not those through brokers. Alderman Orville e. Pitts one of two negro members of a Council revamped by election estimated the Law applies to 95 per cent of the City a housing sales. A fall that a left is one last chunk a he said. He predicted that too would soon be outlawed. The Council was expected to go no further limn making provisions of a newly enacted fed eral Law operative at once As contract \ Ole set a membership meeting of Faical 251, International chemical workers Union has been called tor p . Saturday May 4 at the v. . Hall East main Street. According to Harry Pike local president the Coin Nitte Ewill submit the company s Norwich Pha Macal proposal to the membership for ratification. Neither company or Union officials would elaborate. It contract negotiations Between the Union and company have been in Progress this week in City Hail rooms. The mayor had asked. The Federal Law which bans discrimination in All but owner occupied dwellings of four units or less will not take full effect until 1970. But instead the Council voted 10-9 to reduce the exempted property to o w n e a occupied dwellings of two units or less. The amendment carried when William Drew a White freshman Alderman suddenly and without explanation changed his vote. The ended ordinance which provides for fines up to $200, carried 15-4. Maier praised the Council for its action and promised to sign the ordinance without delay. Maier who captured 86 per cent of the vote in the mayoralty election april 2, had held out for National or metropolitan open housing. He argued that an ordinance adopted in Milwaukee alone would trigger a White exodus to the suburbs and Worsen the racial crisis in the City. But since the Start of the open housing marches last August More than a dozen Milwaukee suburbs have enacted open housing codes. Laboratory v in spare j is seen ii n this a s c concept of How Nas. Is Saturn a i \ to rocket \ will Al pet in after it is conver ted into a two St try expert rental Lai Aerator y. 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