Page 1 of May 20 1968 Issue of Norwich Evening Sun in Norwich, New York

Norwich Evening Sun May 20, 1968 Page 1 old newspaper archives

Want a high-quality poster of this page? Add to Cart

Read an issue on 20 May 1968 in Norwich, New York and find what was happening, who was there, and other important and exciting news from the times. You can also check out other issues in The Norwich Evening Sun.

Browse Norwich Evening Sun

How to Find What You Are Looking for on This Page

We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to make the text on a newspaper image searchable. Below is the OCR data for 20 May 1968 Norwich Evening Sun in Norwich, New York. Because of the nature of the OCR technology, sometimes the language can appear to be nonsensical. The best way to see what’s on the page is to view the newspaper page.

Show OCR

Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - May 20, 1968, Norwich, New York The evening s Chenango county a daily newspaper in vol. 78, no. 46 monday May 20, 168 Norwich new York 13815 10c per copy Degaulle ponders French crisis As shutdowns spread Pompidou makes some from this. Paris looked like this when Charles Degaulle was swept into Power in 1958. Prior to that France was besieged by strikes and demonstrations. Paris apr strikes Snow balled rapidly across France in a wave of social ferment today and the nation approached total paralysis. Paris was at a virtual standstill with not a bus sub. Way or train moving. Housewives rushed to Stock up on food. Joining the walkouts amid Calls for the resignation of pres ident Charles de Gaulle were workers in Coal mines Automo bile factories ports and air ports. Even War widows and War veterans joined the move intent with demands for higher pensions. De Gaulle conferred with top ministers sunday but took no immediate action. The number of workers off their jobs ballooned into the Mil. Lions. Hundreds of business concerns were closed Down either by worker walkouts or because of the paralysis of transport and other services. Garbage piled in the streets of Paris. There have been no collections since saturday because of a strike of garbage men and Street cleaners. Thousands of workers occupied the big Peugeot Auto factory at so Chaux in Eastern France near the Swiss Border. All of the government owned Renault Auto plants have been occupied since Friday. The 22,000 workers of the Michelin tire factory at Clermont Ferrand in Central France went on strike and occupied the premises. Striking Marseille dockworkers ran red flags to the tops of masts of All French ships. The 3,000 dockers of neighbouring clo tat were also on strike. About two thirds of the 65,00c workers at various citroen aute plants around the country were unable to work. In Paris lines formed in front of some Banks even before open ing time. Rank employees got strike triers saturday. The Bank of France delayed the opening of the foreign Exchange Market. Electricity workers in Paris continued to provide Power although the1, have occupied the factories since saturday night. Food supplies reached ie.-, Hailes Paris big Central Market. We he truck Drivers remained at their jobs. Most miners were out the a too Coal miners of the North Basin joined the strike of their comrades in Lorraine. Tin 10.000 men of the a ism e Potash mines and the 7,000 men of the mines in the lanky a sin Central France were also out. The 1,700 men of a French Oil refinery at Ellavre and the 2,000 of a Shell refinery near Marseille put Down their tools reports of other stoppages poured in from outside Paris 2,700 it the French Plant of lit emotional Harvester at St. Dicker nearly 10,000 in the Sud aviation Plant at the port of Rochefort and an unlimited strike voted by the same firm s factory it Marignani near Marseille. Roads leading into Paris were clogged by huge traffic jams. Gasoline stations Uncertain of their supplies a re limiting the quantities sold to each customer. French Channel ferries to Britain remained in port. Orly the big Paris International Airport was almost Dost red As airlines switched their flights to Brussels Belgium Aud dispatched Pas augers to Paris on chartered buses. Pompidou facing a vote tit censure in the National Assembly wednesday has granted some concessions to the students and since then the student situation has quieted a bit. To this in of via in Paris is crippled by demonstrations instigated in students but now More widespread and streets resemble these scenes from pre Degaulle a s. Rod a. I round the state around the nation round the world by the associated press Rocky does no to Rule out Reagan Biafra rebels a to fight on Lagos Nigeria the Leader of Biafra a rebel forces vowed sunday tonight on after nigerian Federal forces reported capture of port Harcourt the last major secessionist City. A we shall make it impossible for the vandals to enjoy the amenity of our Homes a declared it. Col c. Odimegwu Ojukwu in a defiant broadcast. A we shall torment and harass them every time arid Chase them at every a Federal spokesman conceded that guerrilla resistance might last nine months. Ojukwu made Only one Concession to the peace talks scheduled to Start thursday in Kampala Uganda. He said he would agree to a plebiscite in areas populated by tribesmen other than ibos to determine whether they want to remain with Biafra. The ibos Are the dominant tribe in Eastern Nigeria. Nigerian foreign Secretary Yokoi Arikpo called Ojukwu a offer a ridiculous a he said Federal troops already have occupied non ibo portions of the Eastern Region. The biafran after striking deep into Federal territory at the outset of the civil War last summer Are now considered in a precarious state. The nigerian army said its 3rd Marine commando division crushed the defences at port Harcourt Over the weekend and moved into the nearly deserted City. Maryland Force bolstered Salisbury my about 800 National guardsmen and 300 state troopers have been sent to Salisbury a town on Maryland a Eastern Shore following violence touched off by Hie killing of a negro deaf mute by a White policeman in a burglary investigation. Damage caused by some 1,000 negroes saturday was relatively Light but gov. Spiro t. Agnew moved to guard against a recurrence. On sunday the governor proclaimed a state of emergency for the town of 18,000, installed a 7 . To 7 . Curfew and then activated the 6,000 Mem National guard a a in such numbers As shall be there was no trouble in Salisbury when the activation order was issued at 5 . Sunday but Agnew said he Felt the Security of the area required the availability and presence of troops. It was left to maj. Gen. George m. Gelston the state adjutant general to decide How Many troops were needed. As the first guardsmen were being deployed at major intersections and in negro areas sunday a sniper reportedly fired two shots at a state police car. Aided by the curfew and a heavy thunderstorm streets were virtually deserted. About 20 persons were picked up As curfew violators and sent to the Poplar Hill correctional Camp about 12 Miles West of Salisbury. Big family helped says miss Usa Fla. A the new miss Usa says she Usa today if she were an Only child she entered her first Beauty contest to extra Money for her College education. Miami Beach would not be miss but As one of nine scratch up a Little a fall tile kids have some kind of a Job a said Dorothy a did in Ansted of Kirkland Wash. A so i thought i would enter a Beauty contest and one led to another. But i still can to believe it. I wih i could cry or something but i done to often cry a said the Brunette who remained dry eyed a Hen she was crowned saturday night As miss Usa 1968. Collapse of talks held so m Paris apr knowledge Able american and French diplomats believe that a Compromise Way will be found in the Paris talks to end the . Bombing of North Vietnam reduce North vietnamese infiltration into the South and move to full scale peace negotiations. But the possibility that the differences Between the americans and the North vietnamese will persist and that the talks will eventually collapse cannot be ruled out. The expectation of a Compromise agreement rests on the be Lief that the final purpose of both sides is to make peace. That remains to be proved. One Man purpose of the United states and North Vietnam in the talks to Date has been to find out what the others real expectation is. A second obviously is to make propaganda and presumably a third is to put bargaining positions on the table. Ambassadors and Xuan Thuy began their second week of a official conversations today with no meeting scheduled until wednesday. Meanwhile the exchanges continue at Long Range. North Vietnam s Deputy foreign minister Hoang Van Loi said in Damascus a Strong and deadly blows must be dealt to american troops in Vietnam to Force United states negotiators to listen to reason in Paris. Without More military victories against the americans on the Battlefield the Paris peace talks Are doomed to . Officials said their evidence is that those words realistically reflect North vietnamese policy. They said North vietnamese officers captured in South Vietnam recently reported they were getting orders for attacks which served no tactical military purpose and must have been politically motivated. Kosygin fears being fuelled Quot Prague Czechoslovakia apr one of Czechoslovakia a Liberal communist leaders says talks with soviet Premier Alexei n. Kosygin Are a gradually succeeding in overcoming fears and reservations about the Prague regimes liberalization and the Dew trend will continue. But a not everything is satisfactory a said parliament pres ident Josef Smrkovsky who talked with Kosygin saturday. Smrkovsky a remarks were published in the communist party newspaper rude Provo. He described the talks As Friendly and said the soviets were concerned a whether the developments in Czechoslovakia could not reach a Point when they would threaten the socialist order itself and violate the Alii. Ance of the Warsaw Smrkovsky said the new re Gime does not intend to abandon the liberalization measures they have taken. At the same time he said Czechoslovakia needs to have Good relations with the soviet Union. Weather f air and Cool tonight Low temperatures 40 to 45, fair and Cool tuesday High temperatures in the 60s. Or. Spooks draft trial underway an observer at the Paris talks Between . And North vietnamese delegates will be Bui diem South Vietnam s ambassador to the United state. Diem will not participate in the talks but will be briefed by . Officials. Rockefeller fakes drive into South new Orleans apr gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller begins campaigning in the deep South today bidding for support in essentially conservative country in his drive to win the re pub. Can nomination for president. In new Orleans Rockefeller spent the night in the same hotel where gov. Ronald Reagan of California was staying. The potential rivals for the Gap nomination did not meet during the night however. Rockefeller came to new Orleans to Confer with the Republican state chairmen of la Southern states. Reagan talked with them on sunday. Richard m. Nixon considers the front runner for the nomination also has been invited to meet with the group in Atlanta on May 31. The la states have a total of 312 votes at the gop National convention nearly half the total necessary to win the nomination. It was Rockefeller a first political foray into the South since 1959. At that time he made a swing through a number of states but found republicans there solidly behind Nixon for the nomination. A ifs different now a said Robert r. Snow. Grass former Georgia National committeeman. A the South has changed and there a much More support for Rockefeller than any body yet traditionally conservative Dixie nonetheless is not considered to be Rockefeller country. Several Hundred shouting Pla. Card carrying people mainly Young people All but mobbed the governor at new Orleans in. Ter National Airport a Hen his plane landed shortly before Midnight. Thanking them from the s cps of the bus that took him into the City Rockefeller said in an Impromptu statement a with the help of Young people like you i am completely confident that we can solve the problems of our country. Lets look at them realistically and lets get Rockefeller a schedule Calls for a luncheon meeting with Florida go. Claude Kirk and Republican leaders in Tallahass. See. Boston apr. Benja min spook and four others go on trial today in . District court on charges of conspiring to counsel Young men to evade the draft. The defendants in addition to Spock Are William Sloan coffin jr., 13, Yale University chaplain Michael berber 23, graduate student at Harvard University Mitchell Goodman la new York author and teacher and Marcus Raskin 33, co director of the Institute for political studies in Washington. At go spook the noted baby doctor As Well As the other defendants could face up to five years in prison and a $10,000 Fine. They were indicted Jan. 7. The indictment lists la acts which the government said were part of a nationwide program of resistance to the operations of the . Selective service system. The government charged that the acts were a violation of the Universal military training and service act a pre world War i Law. A defense spokesman said last week that the defense will main Tain a position that what the government Calls illegal act were within the scope of legitimate protest protected under the first amendment of thee on sit it Ion. Stit ution. Two of the tits listed by tie government include a meeting ii Bostons Arlington Street Church last let to and a demonstration four Days i Lier out Side the Pentagon Iii washing ton. At pretrial proceedings spoil s attorney Leonard Bon Din said a the Core of the indictment is the i Liming in it Belee Tiv service card ii the Arling Ontl Street Church t nil Anan universalist Iii Boston my the turning in of these cards to tin . Instil e depart meat. A eth quest Ion i win that r it is a crime to take draft cards and to turn la in Iii to tin . Attorney Gene ii As a form of protest a that s what tins Case comes Down to a l Ite defense Rio Ksinan said later a Vve will maim in there is no c rim inn in i no it Pir Acy no Effort in the Deb use originally tried to make tin Case into 1 f in aching test of in legality of the w in my the const ii ii of la nations draft v let a in i Iona lit y Laws. However judge f Ford who ii 87 i it Don s senior Jurist rowed a Issue there would la no Gane is j. W. Lie of the a. Greatly Par by saying test of the Drill Laws Al the trial. 11 la Aid it lured a a tin legality of tin Vietnam War is not t relevant to Faa in flus it Spock ii is become intern of Iii ally known is i leading Antiwar uni ill aft a Lemons i it or. Major poor Quot protests loom Washington a lager volunteers working late into the night helped the poor Peoples Campaign More than double the size of its a resurrection City .A.�?� Over the weekend setting the stage for possible major demonstrations Early this week. With More than half the projected 3,000 residents now housed in their West Potomac Park quarters the Southern Christian leadership Confer ence has for the first time a sizeable nucleus of demonstrators on which to draw. The Rev. Ralph David Abernathy so do president is to huddle with his staff today for a strategy meeting that could Well last until Nightfall. Exactly when and where to de Moi Strate is one of the topics of their Agenda. Only sudden rain squalls prevented organization of t previously announced March around Tim Capitol sunday afternoon said the Rev. Andrew Young executive vice president of so do. The 36-year-old minister told newsmen he Felt Hie week old Campaign in doing a extremely Well so far a Stirl ing the con pickup sidelined science of a Meriea. A Mer a is talking about poverty ver negro and White volunteers had pushed construction of tin tent shaped plywood huts that make up most of that try about half Way Down the mile Long stretch from the Lincoln memorial to the Washington Monti Merit by sunday night. Neither i sparingly hot morn ing Sun nor tin afternoons blustery rams kept busloads at new arrivals from pouring into the slog their was through thick Shant y Cit y Villi their battered mud left by i series Quot to liter suitcases Bedroll and Hoket. Noon Lowi pours. But hic High most had been part of twit Large groups the 1,000 turn midwestern caravan which in Rived saturday nigh id was housed run Dis riot of Columbia coliseum my la h 7-Man northeastern car wan housed for two Days in suburban Maryland Bur bes. Spirits i to i Linda Maged. Rile lust major contingent due until thursday too per ohs who left miss Sippi two week ago arrived late sunday night id settled Down in the Apitai a Northern Virginia a burbs to a in lit space in a a resurrect Ion Many campaigner had in City enemy shells damage ammo dump Saigon Gmo a North vietnamese troops made three ground places on . Marines along South Vietnam a Northern Frontier sunday my sent big rockets smashing into fuel my ammunition store s at the i id quarters of the . 1st air cavalry division. The . Command said the marines repulsed the places near Khe such and cot Thien killing it North vietnamese soldiers and capturing 78 Wear. Ohs. Twelve marines were reported killed and 19 wounded. But the enemy a 100-Pound rockets did a a heavy damage loth unman Hion store at it up Northern sector Man tor Man in i i most a he is. Evans the Cost ail a head oui mural believes that Bough quarters 16 Miles Northwest of Allied troops we on hand of Hun. Hue is Well As a a Light damage to file material id i i a a int is. A i ii it per Simm to Otic a ills i wets reported. Heavy damage to the Lii Jun Iii Iii me is than so much of it w i Blo up t hut tile Kimii p. I la a Ca Imp i / Jii Lii not i out mile their Ini Mon until their apply was replenished i. Oil its St live div loll of Allied my North vietnamese forces Faro each other in the do anything in enemy May try in the five provinces below Hie de fillip in Zed zone. Today it chuckle a for in r Ball Pla Al was filling m in Bijj fit a no tor a Jot. After a a j e Mon for leaving for in r lob in Volt i Ita no Urce Ball a emf. Nango county sheriffs c pm. Darrell Lawson inspects pickup truck which flipped onto its Side off the Back River Road just South of route to at Sherburne # Riv sunday morning. The operator William Smith 17, of Sherburne escaped with Only minor cuts my bruises. Deputies said he was northbound i bout 12 47 i.in., i up Lect brakes to slow for a Stop went Oft the left Side of the Road in a skid travelled some 118 feet in a ditch my flipped out of the ditch onto its Side. New York a new York gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller says a Rockefeller Reagan ticket would have a great strength a but that he feels right now California gov. Ronald Reagan is after the top spot. Rockefeller announced Republican president Ial candidate said sunday he thinks Reagan a course will be influenced by the vote the californian draws in die May 28 Oregon and june 4 California primaries. Rockefeller planned to meet today Witti Southern gof leaders in new Orleans where Reagan spoke Sun. Day. The two governors scheduled visits to Florida later in the Day with Reagan making stops at Washington d.c., and Cramotte . The new yorker comments on Reagan were made on abcs a issues arid a a he a getting increasingly Active a lot of to work around the country a Rocke Feller said a and i think that he is pretty Well set for the top asked if head be Happy with a Rockefeller Reagan ticket the new York governor replied head be Nappy to get the gop nomination a and after that in a open minded

Want a high-quality poster of this page? Add to Cart

Search All Newspapers in Norwich, New York

Advanced Search

Search the Norwich Evening Sun Today with a Free Trial

We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.

Start for Free

Not Finding What You Were Looking for on This Page of The Norwich Evening Sun?

People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!

Advanced Search