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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - May 3, 1968, Norwich, New York Ice panel to ask approval of pharmacy proposal by Casey Jones Harry Pike president of local 251 of the International chemical workers Union said today the Union negotiating committee is a hopeful that the membership will Back the committee in ratified Tion of the latest proposal by the Norwich Pha Macal company. A meeting of the 600-member local has been called for to . Saturday at the Norwich township Grange to vote on the proposal. Monday would Mark the 16th week of the dispute. A the committee feels it can recommend this package a or. Pike said. He along with other Union and manage ment officials declined to discuss terms of the latest offer until the membership is in formed of them. Reports indicate however that the company a week ago offered a 22 cents per hour increase Over the first 18 months of a contract and a five per cent increase during the second 18 months. It is also understood the Union then made a higher counter proposal which was negotiated to an agreement monday and tues Day of this week. The Means of voting on the new proposal will be determined by the membership or. Pike said. A we Hope someone will Call for a secret ballot a he said and added that a secret vote will probably be held. A majority vote is needed for ratification. If such a procedure is used in voting it will be the first time since the Start of the dispute in late january. It has not been determined when Union members would return to work if the con tract is approved the president of the local said. He explained that Union and management officials Are meeting today to discuss it. The company has said employees May a report As soon As possible a he added. Sources indicate Union employees would be asked to return monday if the proposal is approved. Asked if a recent statement made by area clergymen in regard to the work Stop Page May have helped to bring about a tent. Active agreement or. Pike indicated it had and said he is a very thankful to the clergy for the interest they have shown. A i believe the Community As a whole has also had something to do with it a he added. Opinions among Union members and spectators Are varied although most people a on the Street express Hope the dispute will be settled. This is the third week most of the Union members have received unemployment Bene fits. Reports indicate the company is getting ready to resume full scale production monday if Union members ratify the offer. Temporary workers who have been Man. Ning the production lines have been told not to return to work monday if the dispute is settled Over the weekend chronology Pogo 31 vol. 78, no. 35 today round the state around the nation around the world Kennedy Bobby explains incident Mclean a. Apr i regret to say a said sen Robert f. Kennedy a that one of my sons in the company of another boy got into trouble last saturday while my wife and i were away from the democratic presidential contender issued a statement while campaigning in Indiana thursday after police in this Washington suburb disclosed his 12 year old son David was apprehended last week after a Rock throwing incident on a Highway near the Ken Nedys Hickory Hill Home. David one of to Kennedy children and the other boy were brought to a police station after a Motorist complained they threw Rockas Athis car said police chief William l. Durrer of Fairfax county. No charges were brought against the boys and they were taken Home David by a governess and the other boy by his parents Durrer said. A we will follow the same procedures we use in All such incidents involving Young children without prior records and nope the parents of the boys will be Able to work things out a the chief added. Taxi explodes in Saigon Saigon apr a taxi loaded with explosives blew up next to the u. S. South vietnamese television compound in the heart of Saigon today killing three vietnamese and wounding 25 vietnamese and five americans. The explosion apparently was the work of Viet Cong terrorists. It heavily damaged a University building adjacent to the to compound and inflicted some damage to the vietnamese to station. It was the first major terrorist attack in Saigon since the lunar new year offensive in february. Police said on wednesday they had foiled a Viet Cong plan for a May Day terrorist raid on the National police head quarters in Sai gon. Indian crossover expected Indianapolis ind. Apr crossover voting May play an important role in Indiana a presidential primary which dictates that write in votes cannot be counted. Party crossover voting May prove a big asset to Indiana gov. Roger d. Branigin running As a favorite son candidate against Sens. Robert f. Kennedy and Eugene j. Mccarthy on the democratic ballot tuesday. Richard m. Nixon is unopposed on the Republican ballot. Crossing Over is not difficult in Indiana and because Nixon has no opposition and Branigin is personally popular with Many republicans the governor could get substantial gop support. A voter requests the ballot of the party of his Choice and is subject to Challenge Only by a poll watcher of that party. If challenged the voter must sign an affidavit that he voted for a majority of that party a candidates in the preceding general election and intends to do so again in the next general election. Since the general election ballot is secret there s no Way to prove or disprove his affidavit. Rays brother disappears Chicago apr Jerry Ray brother of the Man sought on a charge of murdering or. Martin Luther King jr., has quit his Job at a North suburban Golf club and disappeared the Chicago Tribune said today. Rays disappearance was reported a few hours after he appealed through an interview with another Chicago morning newspaper the Sun times for his brother James Earl Ray to surrender. The Tribune quoted an official at the sportsman country club near Northbrook As saying that Jerry Ray quit his Job at the club a Day after his photograph appeared in a National Magazine. Ray had used a Wheeling Post office address but lived in a room at the club. The paper said. A we done to know where he went a the club official was quo ted. In the Sun times interview Ray 32, expressed fears that his brother was dead and said other members of the family also doubted that he was alive. A if he is still alive a Ray said a i urge him to surrender himself to the Fri or to Contact someone in the family and ask them to make surrender fight on despite Celebration Tel Aviv a israeli troops patrolling the Negev desert while most of their countrymen celebrated the 20th anniversary of their Independence killed 12 Arab saboteurs in a clash thursday night the army announced. 13115 raised the total number of Arab infiltrators reported killed this week to 30 and made it the most successful week in the army a anti guerrilla Campaign since the Arab israeli War last june. Hie army said about 125 guerrillas have been killed since last september when Arab commando activities accelerated. Two israelis were wounded one seriously in the fight thursday night near the settlement of not Haki Kar on the Border with Jordan. An army spokesman said mines soviet machine guns hand grenades and explosives were found near the bodies of the saboteurs. Vening Chenango county s daily newspaper in Friday May 3, 1968 Norwich . 13815 8<f per copy Hanoi oks Paris As site Washington apr the United states and North Viet Nam agreed today to open preliminary peace talks in Paris next Friday or a few Days thereafter. President Johnson announced at a to . News conference he had sent word to Hanoi that he accepts the time and place Hanoi had announced to the world two hours earlier. Johnson said he was informed of the North vietnamese agree ment at i . Today. He then conferred with Secretary of defense Clark m. Clifford Secretary of state Dean Rusk and other High officials and made his decision. Hanoi announced its purpose in the talks would be a to decide with the . Side the unconditional cessation by the United states of its bombing and All other acts of War against the democratic Republic of Vietnam North Vietnam and later to talk about other matters re lated to the two Johnson ordered March 31 a partial halt in bombing of the North and called for peace talks. He offered to Stop the rest of the bombing if Han a would show a a restraint in it military operations. But . Officials report Hanoi since Early March has greatly increased infiltration of men and weapons into South Vietnam. Asked about this today Johnson said a we have been quite concerned a scout the North vietnamese Etc pending infiltration. The president warned the Paris talks would be Only the a first step toward bringing the Long and bloody War in Southeast Asia to Ai dose. It was exactly a month ago today that North a Vietnam and the United states Public ally declared their readiness for such talks thus serial inf a potential breakthrough Jan the Long Effort to begin peace is cushions. The Forth caring discussions Are expel ted to it be Only preliminary to what could be much drawn out regulations. For the preliminary contacts Lyndon b. Johnson the United states had proposed 15 asian and european capitals for possible meeting places while North Vietnam had suggested phenom penh or Warsaw. The indonesians meanwhile offered to Send a Cruiser to Tonkin Gulf As a meeting place. The North vietnamese broadcast today indicated an end to the stalemate. As received by . Monitors Hanoi radio said a the democratic Republic of Vietnam North Vietnam gov emment is of the opinion that formal talks Between Hanoi and Washington should be undertaken immediately. A it decides to Send minister Xueyan Thuy As its representative to hold formal talks with a representative of the . Government to decide with the . Side the unconditional cessation by the United states of its bombing and All other acts of War against the democratic re Public of Vietnam and later to talk about other matters related to the two sides. A the democratic Republic of Vietnam government welcomes the fact that the French government is willing to let Paris be the site Between the democratic Republic of Vietnam and the United states As declared by French a foreign minister Couve de Murville on 18 april i 968. A the dry government is of the opinion that Paris just As phenom penh and Warsaw is an appropriate venue for the for Mal and bilateral talks. On a these formal talks will begin to May or a few Days the . Ambassador to Laos William la. Sullivan went to the North vietnamese embassy in Vientiane today for the first time since sunday but stayed Only five minutes. Sullivan and the North vietnamese ambassador in Laos Are the Channel through which Hanoi and Washington communicate but there was no indication of what passed Between them today. New heart transplant performed Houston Tex. Apr a team at St. Luke a episcopal Hospital performed the worlds ninth heart transplant today. At a late hour Hospital spokesmen said the transplanted heart was performing As expected. The patient is Everett Clair Thomas 47, a Phoenix ari/., accountant. The Hospital said the donor was a 23-year-old woman brought to the Hospital with a self inflicted gunshot wound in the brain. Her name was not woman was brought to the Hospital about 6 . Thursday. Shortly before Midnight Thomas was taken to the operating room and his Chest opened. The heart was found to Jive Calcium deposits on one heart valve extending into the Walls Between two heart Chambers and into the openings where blood vessels enter the heart. The Young woman was in an operating room next door and her heart was moved to the operating room. A statement from the Hospital said minor tailoring of the donor heart permitted it to be trans planted to Thomas. The medical team from Bay Lor University College of Medicine included or. Benton Cooley Robert e. Bloodwell and or. Grady l. Hallman or. The lower part of Thomas heart was removed and the two lower Chambers of the donors sewn into place. Thruway Speed increase okd Albany . A a proposal to raise the Speed limit on the state thruway got a Green Light from the Senate wednesday but still faces a possible Assembly Roadblock. The Senate after a Brief debate voted to raise the Speed limit on the superhighway from 65 to 70 Miles per hour. A companion Bill however appears Likely to die in commit tee in the Assembly meaning that the state thruway authority probably will not obtain authorization to raise the Speed maximum this year. Renew bombing some Tell lbs in Thiel of drive governor Rockefeller is meeting crowds like this one at Albany in his push for gop nomination. Thursday he campaigned in Iowa where he said he spent one of his most exhilarating Days. His Campaign today was called a the iceberg strategy nuking appearances and offering solutions As an alternative to Richard m. Nixon. Washington a an in tra administration argument appears brewing Over whether and when president Johnson should resume wider . Bombing of North Vietnam. Behind the disagreement Are reports of heavy movement of men and materials from North Vietnam into South Vietnam to bolster enemy forces and the continued stalemate Over be Lei Tion of a site for initial talks on peace. The latest offer of a negotiation site came from Indonesia which said it would Send a Cruiser to the Gulf of Tonkin As a meeting place for . And North vietnamese envoys. But a North vietnamese embassy spokesman in Vientiane Laos rejected this offer. The White House said it has not received formal word from Hanoi of such a rejection. The United states has accepted in Donesia a offer. Clifford spoke with newsmen tuesday after testifying on Capitol Hill. He said a i do not be Lieve that there is any step up in the War from our standpoint Derler Day exposes Hopes fears Only in horses Aren t worried on eve of track Lassie Louisville a Jimmny Conway is hoping in Cieus hat will make satiny another very special May /. Henry Forrest is wonder if a certain Post will Block Ward pass Way to the Kenty Derby winners Circle. And 12 other trainers Arel led with their private is and fears As they await the h running of americans fore t horse race. May Day for Conway fall on the first Day of 2 month but on the fourth. J last time Conway trained a by horse was the last tint was run on May 4, in 1963 saddled Chateaugay the a Ner. A i Hope this May 4 is a i Day for me a Conway i thursday after making f a Cieus hat owned by Al lip Saddle Rock farm an off part of the 14-horse Field ent4 in the i1 mile classic. The Post Forrest is Wor about is Post position 13. A we weren to very Lucky ii draw a said the Trainer for mrs. Gene Markeya a Calumet farm. In Forward pass five Victo ties this year four of them in stakes he started from the no. I through no. 4 Post positions. In his three losses he broke from the no. 5, 7 and to slots. The Post position did not keep Forward pass from being made the Early 8-5 favorite for the race which will go off at 4 38 ., Edt. It will be televised from 45 And carried on radio from 4 20-4 50 By lbs. If All 14 Start the Derby will have a Gross value of $165,100, with $122,600 to the Winner. Jockey Ismael Valenzuela will be looking to get Forward pass a Good break while Howard weather considerable cloudiness tonight and saturday with occasional showers or thundershowers Likely. Low temperatures tonight in upper 30s and 40s highs saturday 55 to 60. Grant will be trying to help Franciess hat touch off con ways May Day Celebration. The second Early favorite is Peter fullers dancer s image who will be Ridden by Bobby us Sery and the third Choice is mrs. Montgomery Fishers proper proof to be Ridden by Johnny Sellers. October House farms Iron ruler and Cain Hoy stables captains gig Drew the fourth shortest Odds in the Early bet Ting line. Iron ruler will Start from the no. I position a a it a the shortest Way Home a said Trainer Eddie Yowell and will be Ridden by Braulio Baeza. Manny Ycaza will be aboard captains gig. The other 3-year-oldcolts, and their jockeys in the Field Are . Commercial from Mil lard daid Heimz a twi Nazon farms Howard Grant Charles i Iglehard s Jig time Ray Broussard mrs. Joe w. Browne a Kentucky Sherry Jim Combes Allred Hunt and Richard Scaife s trouble brewing. D. Brumfield Welcome to Norwich lady Bowles of the eagles Early favorite since Johnson ordered bombing stopped North of the 20th parallel. Under questioning Clifford said a the level of the traffic in North Vietnam had increased some weeks before Johnson limited the bombing and added a that increased level has continued on through the presidents 31st speech Down to the present time. A so i Arn not conscious of any increase in the level of traffic following our cutback to the 20th the state department and Pentagon say it takes months for experts to recheck statistics on infiltration rates gathered by Aerial observation and Intel ii gence sources and come up with solid totals. But some reports from Saigon have said truckloads of men and supplies moved from North to South during april approximated 10,000. Some highly placed officials Here said that figure representing an increase Over previous monthly totals was about right. At least some intelligence reports Are said to have advised officials that an increased rate of infiltration continued beyond March 31 and that the april level would probably be higher than that in March when All possible information could be checked out. The concern that North Viet Nam is using the limitation in . Bombing of the North to beef up enemy forces below the Border is authoritatively said to be Felt in the White House and state department As Well As by military leaders. Other officials say it would be extremely difficult for the pres ident to reverse his limitation on bombing and they maintain that in any Case air strikes against infiltration routes in the Southern area of South Vietnam Are exacting a severe toll. Some difference of emphasis on the infiltration Issue has even appeared in comments made by Secretary of state Dean Rusk and Secretary of defense Clark m. C Lifford indicating they May have different approaches to the problem. Rusk left no doubt he meant infiltration has continued to increase since Johnson Cut Back the bombing. I outlay s Burkler j another measure of Civill nation a a Progress is the Way that the Cost of relaxing continues to go up and up

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