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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - November 20, 1968, Norwich, New York The Ever ung Sun vol. 78, no. 165wednesday, november 20, 1968 a Norwich new York 13815 Lotf per copy Snow. Who needs it As smooth As plastic ski enthusiasts worry about Snow or the Lack of it but at it. Baldy an hour s drive from los Angeles has facilities for skiing on a special mixture of flax Straw and two jumps covered with plastic. Last year More than 4,000 Young steers were trained at the California site. One was 10-year-old Lance Little who someday May be an olympic skier if present indications hold True. Here he does his stuff on 30-meter Hill. On Windy Days however lightweights Are not allowed to jump. Red China lbs indirectly challenges in move is Defeated Nixon to top rights record United nations . A advocates of . Membership for red China suf. Fred their worst defeat in four years tuesday. By a vote of 58-with 23 abstentions the general Assembly rejected a Resolution to expel nationalist China and seat the chinese communists. A similar Resolution was de treated last year by a vote of 58-45 with 17 abstentions. The pro. Peking forces came closest to Victory in 1965 when the vote was a 47-47 tie. This years Resolution was sponsored by 15 nations headed by Albania peking a Mouth piece in the United nations. Only two other communist nations Cuba and Romania joined in sponsoring the draft. The soviet Union locked in an ideological dispute with the chinese reds voted for the proposal after giving it Only perfunctory support. The Assembly adhered to its previous policy of requiring a two thirds vote. Britain and France which have extended diplomatic recon. Nation to peking voted again to kick the nationalists out. Family is slain As he Hunts reds Seoul apr a South korean Reserve officer returned Home from a night of searching for North korean guerrillas to. Day and found his parents wife and two daughters massacred apparently by the North koreans the defense ministry reported. The North koreans have been the object of a massive search since about 60 of them landed on South koreans East coast Early this month. have been killed and two captured. Weather variable cloudiness and some Sunshine Windy and cold this afternoon with occasional Snow flurries and Chance of a few Brief heavy Snow squalls. High in 30s. Partly Cloudy and cold tonight and thursday with scattered Snow flurries. Low tonight 18 to 25. New York a presi Den Johnson in an indirect Challenge to his Republican sue Cessor says Many civil rights gains have been made in the last five years a but we Are nowhere in sight of where we must be before we can addressing the National Urban league Here tuesday night Johnson called on government business and labor As Well As the news Media and schools to give All americans what he called a the right to opportune. he said a we can expand our Economy and resist those voices who Call for a Little More Unzem. Ploy ment As Medicine for inflation a an indirect criticism of some economic advisers to president elect Richard m. Nix. Pm who have said an increase in unemployment would help fight inflation. A i Promise you one thing a Johnson said. A for As Long As i live i shall remain joined with you in fighting for that right to Johnson made his remarks which were relatively Short and valedictory in tone in an address at the new York Hilton hotel to the 12th annual equal Opportunity Days awards Din. Ner of the Urban league an organization devoted to the pro motion of civil rights. Whitney m. Young executive director of the league announced at the meeting the establishment of a $100,000 Lyn Don Baines Johnson scholarship fund at the University of Texas to annually Aid a a deserving Black youngsters studying pub. Lie affairs. In his speech Johnson recounted the strides and some of the setbacks negro bad made during the past five years Panther probe is asked san Francisco a mayor Joseph l. Alioto called for a grand jury investigation of the Black panthers following a gun Battle in which three police men were wounded two critic. Cally. Eight negroes were arrested. The shooting tuesday erupted within too Yards of a police Sta. Tion after two cruising patrol men stopped a panel truck min utes after a service station hold up. Police said sgt. Robert Flynn 51, was shot in the Groin while questioning the Driver of the Van which had a Black Panther a Black Community news serv. Ice a painted on the Side. A the had the Driver with his hands on the Side of the truck when someone inside the front i of finance men Convene on crisis of his administration. He noted that incomes for negroes had risen and the infant mortality rate among negroes had declined. But he also noted that income of negroes is still Only 60 per cent of Whites incomes one be. Gro family in three still lives in poverty millions of negroes Are still relegated to menial jobs. Seat shot him a said John pal. Of a fireman at a station directly across the Street. It. Dermott Creedon 49, was shot in the Chest As he stepped out of the patrol car revolver in hand police said. Alioto called tuesday night for a grand jury investigation a into any organization which advocates shooting of policemen and to which any of the defend ants Creedon and Flynn remained in critical condition today. Three officers were in a car which answered an emergency Call from Creedon. It. Michael of Mahoney said a i saw three men pour out of the Van and i ordered them to halt but they fired at me and ran into an Are away next to a London apr the leading finance ministers of the Western world hurried to Bonn today to try to halt the second major crisis in the International monetary system this year. Most Western Money markets were shut to Check speculators attacks on major Western currencies. With the Money exchanges closed the speculators switched to Gold and sent its Price soaring. Many financial experts in London considered the present emergency even More serious than the March Gold crisis be cause three of the worlds Prin. Cipal trading currencies the French franc the Pound Sterling and the Dollar a were Simula. Pc push rocket attackers Saigon apr communist gunners stepped up their rocket and mortar attacks tuesday night giving Danang its head. Test pounding in three months and hitting two american Man try units five District towns and one provincial capital. Casualties and damage Gener ally were Light. But one of the mortar attacks on a night by. Avouac of . 1st division infantrymen 24 Miles North of Saigon was followed by a ground attack by 15 e n e in y soldiers hurling grenades and blazing away with machine guns. Artillery and gunships drove the attackers off at Daybreak ii tar three Murs of fighting. . Headquarters said the Bod ies of 12 of the enemy were found just outside the american lines and 14 weapons were captured. One american was killed and 12 were wound. Military spokesmen said in the other attacks one american and nine South vietnamese were killed and nine americans and 13 South vietnamese were wounded. Sixty five rockets and mortar rounds hit . And South Viet namese military installations in Danang South Vietnam a Sec. Ond largest City and the biggest military Complex North of Sal. Gen. Several shells slammed into a . Navy Hospital area but Ini tial reports said they caused no damage or casualties. No new incidents were reported inside the Doz. In the Mekong Delta Viet Cong shells hit a base Camp of the . 9th infantry division in Dong tam 35 Miles Southwest of Saigon. Light damage and casualties were reported. The South vietnamese spokes Man said there now have been 74 rocket and mortar attacks on population centers since presi. Dent Johnson halted the bombing of North Vietnam nov. I. He said 33 civilians have been killed and 192 wounded in the attacks. South Vietnam repeated charges that the communist command was violating an agreement to Stop shelling prov. Uncial capitals and District towns in return for the bombing halt. Hanoi has denied making such an agreement claiming the bombing halt was unconditional. The . Command reported continuing ground activity South of Danang where More than 600 Viet Cong and North Viet namese have been reported killed in the past three Days. Neoushy under attack by the speculators. The crisis was sparked by be. Lief that a devaluation of the franc and a revaluation upward of the West German Deutscher Mark the worlds strongest currency were imminent. Speculators rushed to change francs for Marks and the fever soon spread to include both the Pound and the Dollar. But the franc was hardest hit. In an attempt to Check the flight to the Mark the West German government announced that it would not revalue the currency but instead was making tax changes to reduce tile Large foreign Trade surplus responsible for the expectation of revaluation. In what London a financial times called a a backdoor Revai nation a the Bonn government said it would reduce its tax on imports and the tax rebate it pays on exports. This should reduce the flow of West German exports and increase imports resulting in a reduction of the surplus Trade balance. To strengthen Confidence in the franc the French National Assembly approved Premier Maurice Couve de mural Llew a proposal to reduce 1969 budget expenditures $400 million which he said would Cut the deficit for the year to $1.88 billion. The Premier called the Cut a a first legs but gave no indication what spending programs would suffer. To give the governments a breathing space while the Finan Elal Community evaluated these measures the French govern ment closed All financial markets today. West German markets were closed because the Day is a National Holiday and the British government ordered the London foreign Exchange Market closed. West German economics minister Karl Schiller called an emergency meeting in Bonn today of the a group of to a the Al Nance ministers of Belgium Britain Canada France West Germany the Netherlands Italy Japan Sweden and the United states. . Treasury Secretary Henry h. Fowler already was there. Mine explosion traps 70, fire hampering rescuers Mannington . Apr explosions rumbled through a slope Shaft Coal mine today triggering a fire that May have trapped As Many As 70 miners. Marion county sheriff Robert Tennant said reports indicated seven to nine men made it to the surface safely. A Contact has been made with eight men at the Bottom of the modes run Shaft a Tennant said. A a they re going to Send a bucket the mine is the Mountaineer Coal company a no. 9 and is located in the Rich North Central Coal area of West Virginia about 35 Miles South of the Pennsylvania state line. Mannington is about 11 Miles West of Fairmont and the mine is located just West of Mannington. Wives and children of the men at work rushed to the mine s entrances where smoke billowed from the shafts. The explosion virtually destroyed the Llewelyn Entrance a new entryway to the Long mine Tunnel As smoke obscured vision and prevented any Entrance. Rescue efforts entered at the Farmington Portal about one mile from the Llewelyn Shaft. Tennant said the first explosion was just before 6 . Est but he added there were a at least two More explosions around 8 30 . Most of the men were due off their shift at 7 30 . The mine normally employs about 360 czech situation delays Nixon Rule key Biscayne Fla. Apr president elect Richard m. Nixon intends to reassess the International situation particularly that in Czechoslovakia before deciding when he wants the United states to proceed with the treaty to control the spread of nuclear weapons. A source close to Nixon out. Lined that position today As the president elect neared the end of a five Day vacation in Florida and the Bahamas. This left unclear the timing the Nev. Administration will seek on the nuclear nonproliferation treaty which Nixon has endorsed and promised to simple. Ment. He has maintained How. Ever that ratification by the United states should await a normalization of the situation in Czechoslovakia Republican Nixon took that position As a candidate after the soviet invasion last aug. 20. A Nixon source said that re. Mains his View that he has set no timetable for . Ratification and that he will not announce a judgment until the matter is once again before the Senate which has yet to a. Prove the treaty. That probably will be shortly after Congress reconvenes on Jan. 3. Nixon takes office on Jan. 20. Indications Are that president Johnson would like to see . Action on the treaty completed before he leaves office. But Washington sources indicate they do not believe such Swift action would be possible without Nixon a concurrence and full support. In a series of Campaign position statements Nixon said that a at a later Point when the situation May be More normalized a the United states should act on the treaty. On oct. 26, Nixon said Senate approval and ratification of the treaty had been properly delayed a because of the sudden brutal soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. A in january the Senate will undoubtedly reassess soviet intentions in Central and Western Europe i am hopeful that we can then proceed with this important Nixon who returned tuesday from two Days of seclusion on grand Cay in the Bahamas planned to Confer today with two of his top advisers it. Gov. Robert Finch of California and John n. Mitchell a partner in his Law firm and his presidential Campaign manager. He was to leave key Biscayne late in the Day to Fly to new York. But he is expected to return to the Florida resort soon perhaps for the thanksgiving Holiday. Administration rapped on truth late presidents personal doctor says Jar did no to want wife to know about injury new York a pres Dent John f. Kennedy a person-a1 physician says Kennedy with an injured Back and a deficiency of the adrenals told her not knocked Down a Rumor that Kennedy had Addison a disease in a report he asked her to write for him a year before the 1960 democratic convention in los to discuss his physical problems Angeles. With his wife. The physician or. Janet c. Travell writes in the current Mccall a Magazine that Kennedy then 38 and 12 years older than mrs. Kennedy said a i done to want her to think she mar. Ried either an old Man or a Crip. or. Travell wrote How she at that time she wrote that Kennedy had never had either of the a readily visible signs of the disease bluish discoloration of the mucous membranes of the Mouth and deep pigment. Tion of the skin. The Addison a disease Rumor cropped up just before the con Robert f. Kennedy Campaign manager for his brother denied John had the disease or had taken cortisone for it. Or. Travell said Sargent Shriver telephoned her after Robert Kennedy a remarks and she told him a Well that a right. Jack Hasni to taken cortisone in years. Of course he does take some relatives of cortisone but in Way he uses them in physiology. Cal doses they re not drugs. Bobby can say that those Hor mention says or. Travell and Monos Are natural constituents of the body and they re Given pro. Phy tactically to make up for some deficiency of his adrenals when he a under stress. A Jack feels so Well that his doctors Are not inclined to Stop them soon after the 1960 election she said Kennedy remarked to her that every president elected in a year divisible by 20 had died in office. Another time she said Ken. Nedy told her a Why should i worry about a second term my wife will have a pension and my children will be Well cared or. Travell relates that she once was driving with Kennedy when looking out the car win. Dow he saw someone in another Auto pointing something at him. A i could see him tense a or. Travell wrote adding that she told him a ifs Only a child with a movie a the took a deep breath and said As he resumed Reading a i will not live in fear. What will be must a Atlanta a. A the Johnson administration was characterized by a a reckless handling of the truth a according to a report by Sigma Delta chips Freedom of information committee. Johnson a is leaving office with perhaps the worst record for credibility of any president in our history a said the report which was to be presented today at the journalism society san tonal convention. During the last year it said a the president continued to have an obsession for secrecy and did his utmost to maintain a monopolistic control of the news until he was ready to announce the document was critical of the american bar association s Reardon report which restricts press coverage of criminal trials. Men who work in three shifts. State mines director Elmer Workman rushed to the scene to direct Rescue efforts. The Mannington mine produced More than two million tons of Coal last year. The Shaft has a 98.inch Coal seam which is an abnormally Large seam and the mines production indicates its Richness. Dull production averages 9,434 tons. A slope mine is a Shaft burrowed into the Side of a Mountain at a Low Angle and the Coal is pulled from the mine on cars Riding a narrow gauge track. The West Virginia depart ment of mines said there were no fatal accidents at the mine last year but there have been 18 nonfatal incidents this year. Blast rips plane but lands safely Denver Colo. A an explosion and fire endangered a Continental airlines 707 jetliner As it approached Denver tuesday carrying seven crewmen and 63 passengers in Liuding sen. Clifford Hansen a Wyo. The fire was put out and who the plane descended from 18,000 feet and landed safely on a foam covered runway he agents arrested one passenger Lawrence b. Havelock 47, of Lake George Colo. A it was like a sonic Boom a said Helga Wood 31, a hostess. A like the whole tall was blowing a the smoke got so bad i Felt like kicking out a window a said Hansen who was bound tor a speaking engagement in Lan. Der Wyo. A we done to know what caused it a the senator said a although there was speculation saboteurs were Havelock was arraigned before a . Commissioner in Denver on charges of violating the Federal aircraft destruction statute and was held in lieu of $10,000 bail. He sobbed during the hearing and said he was tired and a a Little mrs. Havelock said her furs band had undergone follow up surgery about three weeks ago in connection with earlier removal of a tumor from beneath his Skull. Officials at the Denver veterans administration Hospital said Havelock was discharged oct. 23. The Fri said smoke started pouring into the passenger cab. In and a concussion was Felt just 12 minutes before the plane was to have touched Down. Mrs. Wood said a lavatory door was blown off with a Rush of flames and smoke. She said she ran to the cockpit shouted to the Pilot Ken legs Little ton Colo., a a there a a fire Back there a and grabbed a fire extinguisher. By the time she got Back an other hostess Gunnel Eriksen 31, was calmly spraying the fire with another extinguisher. A she was the hero a said mrs. Wood who is from Augsburg Germany. Today a chuckle never contradict your wife. Its Only your word against thousands of hers

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