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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - May 9, 1968, Norwich, New York The vening Chenango county s daily newspaper in vol. 78, no. 39 thursday May 9, 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10�r per copy is smash 3-pronged Saigon raid state nation world m16 prices to be checked Washington a a special House armed services sub committee that investigated the Mig Rifle a year ago will reconvene to examine what its chairman Calls a unrealistically High prices in two new procurement contracts. Hep. Richard la. Ichord d mo., said wednesday his subcommittee also plans to ask the army Why it rejected the bid of an arms manufacturer w Hose Price was $20 million below that of one successful bidder general motors. A i believe the Public is entitled to a full explanation of the matter and we intend to examine the whole matter i detail a Ichord said. The subcommittee which charged in its report last october that the Mig program had been a grossly mismanaged a will reopen hearings next tuesday. Czechs speaking out Campus crime Bill doomed Albany . A a quiet Assembly burial appeared today to be the probable future this year for a Senate approved Bill to strip state Aid from students who commit on Campus crimes. Senate democrats looked confidently to Assembly speaker Anthony j. Travia to kill in committee the Republican measure passed in the Senate wednesday. It was introduced by Republican majority Leader Earl w. Brydges in reaction to the recent student disorder that paralysed Columbia University and damaged University property. Travia made it Clear Over the weekend that he deplores what happened at Columbia. But he made it equally Clear that he regarded Brydges proposal As a a pretty far out Bill too broadly punitive. Travia said he a completely disapproves of the measure. In the Senate wednesday the legislation gained approval by a vote of 41 14 after a two hour debate. It would deny Regent scholarships and scholar incentive funds to a student convicted of committing a felony or specified misdemeanours on any College Campus. The scholarship program provides from $250 to $1,000 a year for scholarships and $100 to $500 a year for undergraduates and $200 to $800 a year for graduate students under the scholar incentive plan. Another Fina crashes Las vegas ave. A a seventh phia fighter bomber the $5 million swing Wing Jet developed from the controversial tfx program has crashed. Both pilots parachuted safely As the camouflaged plane carrying secret combat gear ploughed into the desert wednesday and was demolished the air Force described the flight As a routine training Mission and released no details of the crash go Miles North of Las vegas. The plane was similar to three lost recently in Vietnam. It was the eighth plane lost of two types developed from the tfx the tactical fighter experimental program pushed by Robert s. Mcnamara when he was Secretary of the defense. Mcnamara said he aimed at incorporating a common Basic design for both the air Force and Navy. In 1967 a Navy version of the plane designated ii in crashed during a test program at Long Island ., filing two civilian test pilots. Three i a air Force versions carrying top secret bombing and navigational equipment on Vietnam combat missions out of Takli Thailand were lost shortly after the first arrived in Southeast Asia last March. . Health woes aired Washington a government health officials have pictured the nation As beset with burgeoning problems of alcoholism mental illness venereal disease and drug use. On top of that the officials said health care costs Are skyrocketing in testimony before a House subcommittee they reported there Are up to 6.5 million alcoholics in the land and their numbers grows by 200,000 annually. A growing percentage Are married Middle aged women of the Middle and upper classes. In a typical Community of 150,000 population where 3,000 children Are born annually one of five will require some form of mental health service and 240 will be patients in mental hospitals in their lifetime. Gonorrhoea is out of control with a 12 per cent increase in reported cases in each of the last few years. In some population groups one of three have this venereal disease and done to know it. All economic groups and All age groups Are involved in taking the mind expanding drug Ltd but its falling off in colleges and High schools because of the publicity about its danger. Saigon apr the enemy struck hard at Saigon from three sides today but a . Spokesman said american forces had smashed a Viet Cong drive to push into the capital from the South and East. On the eve of Paris peace talks however the enemy drove closer to the Center of Sal gon than at any time since the new offensive was launched sunday. . Military spokesmen said 2,000 american infantrymen from the 9th division armoured personnel carriers helicopter gunships and dive bombers had broken up at least for the time being the drive from the South and East. Helicopter gunships also wrecked two launching pads liquor tax medicaid Bill opposed Albany . Apr re publican opposition seemed Likely today to prevent a state liquor tax increase hinged to restoration of medicaid benefits. But the Legislatures leading Republican said the question was under consideration. This was one of several Sticky problems confronting the legis. Lature As the leaders aimed at May 18 As the adjournment Date for the 1968 session. The Date was announced after a Compro Mise providing for boosts in the taxes on gasoline cigarettes and net income of $17,000 or More. Democratic leaders propose to restore some medicaid benefits Cut in an Economy move earlier this year. The lawmakers also will have to decide whether to create More judges Clamp strict con. Trois on the Sale of rifles and shotguns and authorize a program to Foster development of nuclear powered electric generating plants. But legislative leaders of both parties seemed confident that the Senate and Assembly could dispose of these and other prob lems if they worked at them steadily from next monday through saturday. As the democratic controlled Assembly wound up this work week wednesday speaker an. Thony j. Travia advised his members to be prepared to spend All of next week on the Job driving for adjournment. In the sen ate majority Leader Earl w. Brydges issued a similar dictum. A bring shirts a chirped Senate finance chairman Warren m. Anderson amid general laugh ter. Rank and file members of both houses cheerfully caught the spirit of the adjournment push after the grueling tuesday. Wednesday session that culminated in solution of the prolonged budget problem. After much haggling they agreed to support Rockefeller s $5-billion-plus budget by approving about $150 million in tax in creases a higher income taxes on upper bracket taxpayers a 2 cent a pack increase in the cigarette tax and a Penny a gallon boost in the gasoline tax. Gov. Rockefeller who had demanded More tax Revenue still was hoping that the legislature would Honor his request for a to a cent a a fifth boost in the liquor tax. But Travia refused to consider raising the liquor tax unless republicans agreed to restore out. Patient Hospital benefits for medicaid recipients in the 21-65 age bracket. $6 billion Cut tied to tax hike Washington apr Senate House conferees have agreed to president Johnson Sio per cent income tax surcharge but tied it to a $6 billion spending Cut he has said is against the National interest. The conferees said wednesday they had accepted these two key Points which the Senate approved More than a month ago. Rep. Wilbur d. Mills d-ark., chairman of the conferees As Well As of the House ways and Means committee voiced Hope the group could Complete work on Many other amendments to the Bill at a final session today. The income tax increase s the to per cent surcharge proposal applying to both individuals and corporations which the administration has been pushing since last August. Loaded with rockets less than a mile from the City. A third enemy drive rolled up Northwest of Saigon sweeping aside two . Companies in the big push which officials believe is designed to bolster North Vietnam s hand at Paris. The 9th division infantrymen known As the a old reliable a reported killing 131 enemy in a Day Long Battle that was still going on at Nightfall. A for the third consecutive Day the enemy was repulsed trying to enter Saigon from the South Quot an officer said. A More than 456 enemy have been killed in the last three ninth division casualties were said to be seven killed in the la. Test fighting with several More wounded. The . Command announced 2,540 enemy soldiers had been killed by Allied forces in fighting around Saigon since the communist command s new offensive began. Against this . Casualties were put at 53 killed and 487 wounded. South vietnamese casualties were reported As 202 killed and 719 wounded. The heavy fighting drove countless thousands of fear stricken civilians streaming across two Bridges into the Cen ter of the City and swelled the ranks of the homeless to More than 50,000. Some did no to make it As the toll of civilian dead and wounded mounted to More than 2,000. President Nguyen Van Thieu went on nationwide television in efforts to Calm the populace. He urged South Vietnam a people not to be misled by what he termed communist propaganda and not to participate in nationwide demonstrations he said the communists were planning. He warned that the National police were under orders to fire into crowds if com Muni St directed demonstrations threatened government installations. President to Chi Minh called on the Viet Cong to step up the fight against . A aggression Quot said radio Hanoi. An atmosphere of Hope in Washington was tempered by the recollection that it took two years of Tough bargaining with the communists to end the korean War. No one cared to predict How Long the Paris talks would last. But the big question in american minds was whether the communists really want a peace settlement or planned to use the talks Only to press for a bombing halt and other advantages for their military Campaign in South Vietnam. W. Averell Harriman president Johnson s envoy and his chief aides were scheduled to arrive tonight from Washington. Xuan rim the chief North vietnamese negotiator came by Way of peking Aud Moscow. The first meeting Between Harriman and Thuy was scheduled Friday in the former Majestic hotel near the arc Detriomphe. . Officials expressed interest in French foreign minister turmoil on Campus militant protests continue on . College campuses with police breaking up demonstrations at three midwestern universities wednesday resembling these recent scenes of violence at Columbia University. Campus violence began after student activism became big time at the University of California at Berkeley in 1964. Police crush protests on 3 Midwest campuses student demonstrations at three midwestern universities have been broken up by police As militant protests continue to disturb the Calm of academic life on a number of . Cam. Uses. Police were called in wednes Day night at Marquette univer sity in Milwaukee Roosevelt University in Chicago and Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. There was a peaceful ending however to a sit in at Stanford University in califor Nia when about 400 youths walked out of the old student Union they had held since monday. The end came after the Aca Demic Council the top faculty body voted to recommend that Stanford president Wallace Ster. Ling set aside the proposed sus pensions of seven students who demonstrated against Cia re. Cruisers last fall. In Chicago police arrested 24 student demonstrators at Roos Evelt University after they refused to leave a corridor outside the office of president Rolf a. Wil. The students protesting Weill a veto of the full time Hir ing of controversial history instructor Staughton Lynd sub. Fitted peacefully to arrest after being threatened with expulsion if they did not leave. Police said they were charged with trespassing and held on $250 Bond each. Weil termed the weather Cloudy and mild tonight with scattered showers Likely. Variable cloudiness Friday with Little temperature change and a few showers Over Mountain areas. Low temperatures tonight 45 to 55 highs Friday mainly in the 60s. Students wilful Law Breakers and said they had left the administrative Council no Choice but to Call in police. Lynd former Yale professor defied a state department ban in 1965 to travel to communist China and North Vietnam. University Security officials joined City and state police in Carbondale to Clear a Small group of students who briefly held the office of University president Delyte w. Morris. Two students were arrested and two others were treated for minor injuries. Six windows were smashed and a door was broken in the House which serves As the president s office. The demonstration followed two Days of general unrest at the 19,000-student University. It was apparently in protest against the University s decision not to sponsor a speaking engagement by Black Power advocate Stokley Carmichael. In Milwaukee two students registration Row looms Maurice Couve de Murville s speculation that the . And North vietnamese negotiators might move on to Broad talks on ending the War As Well As the scheduled preliminary discussions on the question of halting . Bombing of the North. American officials said they did not know whether Hanoi had asked the French government to convey this View of the talks to the West. . Authorities have made Plain that Harriman would seek a military restraint by North Vietnam in return for what a not lists As its priority topic a the unconditional cessation of the . Bombing raids and All other acts of War against the democratic Republic of Lawless society rapped by Nixon new York apr Richard m. Nixon saying the United states has become a a flawless society Quot has endorsed legislative proposals that would authorize some forms of wiretapping in major crime and National Security cases. The former vice president charged wednesday that the Johnson administration had been a flame and ineffectual Quot in dealing with a a staggering 88 per cent Quot Rise in crime Over the past seven years. Nixon a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination also charged that the supreme court is a seriously Ham stringing the peace forces in our society and strengthening the criminal he said in a 6,000-word statement issued by his new York office that a if the present rate of new crime continues the number of rapes and robberies and assaults and thefts in the United states today will double by tile end of 1972. A this is a Prospect America cannot accept. If we allow it to happen then the City Jungle will cease to be a metaphor. Mis nation will then be what it is fast becoming an armed Camp of 200 million americans living in Nixon said his remarks were not meant to apply to City riots which lie termed a a special he said poverty played a heavy role in causing crime but that its importance had been a grossly exaggerated Quot by the Johnson administration. He said doubling the conviction rate now roughly one conviction for eight arrests a would do More to eliminate crime in the future than a quadrupling of the funds for any governmental War on poverty to facilitate More convictions he urged congressional approval of title ii of the omnibus crime Bill now pending before the sen ate. He said it would a Correct the imbalance Quot resulting from supreme court decisions on tile use of confessions. The pending legislation would permit cases to come to trial and allow the judge and jury to decide whether a confession was voluntary and valid. New anti Job Bias l Arctic threatened were arrested but later released when police broke up a demonstration by about too Stu dents attempting to prevent guests from leaving a Campus dinner at Marquette University. The sit in was sponsored by a group called a concerned Black students to protest the University a alleged Lack of concern for the a plight of the Black they demanded a meeting with the Rev. John p. Raynore president of the 12,000-student University scholarships for too negroes inclusion of american negro history in the curriculum and dismissal of the head of the Campus police. In Minneapolis Ford foundation president Mcgeorge Bundy was greeted by about 20 to 30 White and negro protesters at the University of Minnesota when he arrived to speak on the current unrest of the nations campuses. Washington apr a computer Era privacy Battle looms in the supreme court Over new York states Sale of Auto registration data to the highest commercial bidder. Author Corliss Lamont a wealthy new yorker wants the practice stopped and the state Law that authorizes it declared an unconstitutional invasion of privacy. Computers have become so efficient and so sophisticated he said recently in an Appeal a a terrifying array of personal in formation Quot becomes available at the push of a Button. If Sale of Auto registration data is permitted he said other Public records could readily find their Way to private hands. New yorkers like car owners everywhere have to Supply the state with certain information when registering a vehicle name address Date of birth sex and the like. The state then reproduces the registration applications on 35 min microfilm Rolls and Sells them with lists of car owners to the highest a responsible Quot bidder. The information Lamont said is then used for unsolicited mail and Telephone pitches especially in the Auto Trade. New York sold the list for $36,000 this year to r. L. Polk amp co., a Delaware corporation. Federal judge Marvin e. Frankel of new York City Dis missed la morn s suit last june. He said the information sold is not vital or intimate. Washington apr fed eral officials Are threatening to unleash a economic weapons contract cancellation to combat Job discrimination in companies that do $75 billion Worth of business a year with the government. President Johnson empowered Federal agencies nearly three years ago to terminate con tracts if recipient firms failed to hire promote and pay employees without regard to race. Officials admit that some companies have disregarded nondiscrimination pledges but concede no contracts have been cancelled. In the future however a some contracts Are going to be lost unless an awful lot of people suddenly reverse their Field a claimed Ward Mccready assistant director of the labor departments contract compliance office. Mccready said executives of a half dozen of the nations largest corporations will be called to informal hearings in new York this month As part of the government Effort to increase negro and puerto rican representation in Manhattan a 2.4 million White Collar labor Force. However he refused to name the firms or provide any details on the hearings. In Philadelphia the govern mentus insistence that More my. Jority workers be hired for fed. Eral construction projects has stalled nearly $20 million in work. And the contractor on the $30 million . Mint in Phila Delphia was told his contract a could be suspended or ter i. A ted unless he acted to integrate his work Force. Neither contract has been terminated however. Johnson a september 1965 sex. Ecu Tive order applies to All gov eminent contracts Over $10,000�?or All but $5 billion of $80 billion the government pays each year in contracts for goods arid services. The order not Only bans discrimination in hiring but requires a affirmative action programs to ensure up. Grading of minority workers. Companies covered by item. Ploy 25 million persons one. Third of the nations work Force. Mccready calculates that these firms have 3 million Job open. Lugs a year that could be filled from minority groups. The fact that businesses that disregard Nond scrim int Ion pledges have escaped contract cancellation was assailed by rep. William f. Ryan d-., As a an inexcusable Story of by. Rea cratic a what has emerged instead of effective enforcement is a totally ineffective pattern of Token ism and voluntary compliance a Ryan told the House recently. A voluntary compliance. Is an easy by out which tells i. Jority Job seekers and employ ers alike that the government is not Syracuse gels a #3 million tilt Syracuse n. Y. A Ernest Stevenson Bird of ans. Tin tex., who arrived on the Syracuse University Campus 56 years ago with $11 and worked his Way through College has Given his Alma mater $3 Mil. Lion. Chancellor William p. Tolley said today the Money would be used toward construction of an $11.4 million Library to be named for Bird. The University said the 71. Year old Bird who became a sales executive amassed his Fortune through a modest living Thrift and prudent the University said Bird Rita transferred his entire estate to the University under a deferred program providing that Bird and his wife will receive an in. Come for life. T Oday s chuckle there Snow a jewelry store in Hollywood where business has suddenly leaped ahead of All the Competition. It rents engagement rings. Today around the around the around the Prague Czechoslovakia apr Novotny is an idiot. It he were Here i would like to kick him a a Man in dark glasses shouts into a microphone. He is a former political prisoner. A Young student reads a 1924 essay by czech writer Karel Capek entitled a Why i am not a it condoms communism As a Power hungry movement for the Benefit of a few. The scene is Prague sold town Square where a crowd of 5,000 has assembled to air their beefs Over a Public address system Lent by the City. Not a policeman is in sight. A a three months ago the police would have charged in Here and thrown All of us in the Clink says a Young Man. This is Prague the capital of communist Czechoslovakia three months after the ouster of Antonin Novotny As the country a president and communist party chief. Nov Gen. Svoboda of nyx a successors party chief Alexander Dubcek Premier Oldrich Cernik and president Ludvik Svoboda have launched the country on a Liberal course unmatched in any other communist country. The new course is in evidence everywhere. Press censorship has been lifted. Every Day the newspapers Are filled with stories of mental and physical tortures in stalinist jails. People in the streets in cafes and in the aging streetcars discuss and criticize everything and anything

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