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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - October 11, 1968, Norwich, New York N. Norwich taxpayers face $17 per thousand town hike i. J Story Page 5 the evening Sun vol. 78, no. 137friday, october la 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10c per copy Apollo 7 Trio thunders into orbit trip Lead to Moon launch by Casey Jones Chenango county taxpayers Are coming closer and closer to being hit with a tax increase of some $10 per thousand next year. The Board of supervisors budget committee meeting thursday found that Highway officials Are requesting a contribution from the general fund portion of the budget the amount raised by tax of $365,000. At the first meeting for preparation of the 1969 operating accounts the same supervisors heard requests from the welfare department for $434,767 in increases to operate next years social services programs. And the committee has also received requests from other departments for increases totalling some $35,000. But wait done to go away yet there a More. County officers committee still has to submit its recommendations for salaries for employees along with those covered under negotiations. The total figure Hasni to been computed but estimates for the 146 workers in the civil service employees association alone ran around $100,000. Some of the salaries such As those in the welfare department Are partially reimbursable along with the programs which Are administered supervisors note. Included in yesterdays budget insertions were a $9,076 increase for the cooperative Extension service. The one Agency which has been combined from three different authorized departments will receive a total of $77,509 under the proposal. Most of the hike is due to Sal Ary increases for the staff members. The committee included $1,600 increase for the county historical museum to Aid in its operating budget for the year $710 for radio equipment in the civil defense office and $600 for operation of sheriffs department patrol cars. Under the Highway budget an increase of $280,000 has been included under the county Road fund maintenance account bringing to total to $1,088,000. Apparently included in the figure is funds for finishing construction of the Lincklaen Pitcher Road and repaving the county Highway from Preston to East phar Salia. The Overall Highway budget is $1,631,515.04, an increase of $324,667 Over last year. A $394,200 appropriation is also requested in the Road machinery fund but authorities report the sums Are reimbursable. Students grab Campus buildings new York apr nearly too students at new York University protesting the dismissal of a negro educator who called vice president Hubert h. Humphrey and Richard m. Nixon a racist bastards a seized two Campus buildings today. Or. Lewis Hyde Provost of the 42,000-student school sum moved new York City police to the Edge of the Bronx Campus and announced a i intend to take whatever Steps necessary to see that the buildings Are available to students the seizure was reminiscent of the Campus disorders at co Lumbia University last Spring when student activists and revolutionaries crippled that Ivy league school. Weather fair to partly Cloudy to night and saturday fog Likely in valleys saturday morning. Low temperatures tonight in the 40s to Low 50s highs saturday in the 60s. Partly Cloudy saturday night sunday with Little temperature change and Chance of scattered showers in North Sim Day after noon. Give him a his sign fire prevention week Parade gave John Hall 4, and his brother Joseph 3, a Chance to see their fireman father strut his stuff in East main Street Norwich thursday night. Equipped with umbrellas rain did no to phase them a bit. They Are sons of or. And mrs. J. Robert Hall of 66 w. Main Street. Norwich fire men put on a demonstration after the March. Another photo by evening Sun photographer Casey Jones on Page 3. Lbs joins Humphrey offers to Campaign rips foes Tab for television debate Washington apr presi Dent Johnson has moved full Force into the political Campaign telling a nationwide Audi. Ence that a democratic ballot will be a vote for a triumphs of the speaking thursday night on Abc radio time purchased by the International ladies garment workers Union the president contrasted the record and prospects of the democratic ticket of Hubert h Hump Ivy and Edmund s. Muskie and the republicans Richard m. Nixon and Spiro t. Agnew. A from Hubert Humphreys past from so Many years of elected responsibility the direction his presidency will take is quite Clear a Johnson said. A it is toward that better educated better housed healthier and More prosperous America that we have begun to achieve a All of us during these past five years. A my fellow americans the gains America has made in these years were not won by the Republican party and they Are not going to be held and enlarged by the Republican party. Indeed by their words in this election Campaign Republican candidates for the presidency the vice presidency and the Congress have already promised to dismantle what you the a Mer i can people have built in these years. 7 found guilty in draft Case Baltimore my. Apr seven men and two women All roman catholics have been convicted of burning draft Board records with homemade napalm. A jury deliberated one hour and 20 minutes thursday in . District court and after the Foreman read the guilty verdict to a hushed crowded courtroom a Spectator shouted a members of the jury you have just found Jesus Christ judge Roszel c. Thomsen ordered the courtroom cleared. Spectators moved into the Halls where they began singing a we shall outside the building they continued singing and held lighted candles As Sev eral dozen helmeted policemen looked on. New York apr Hubert h. Humphrey said today that he and his runing mate sen. Edmund g. Muskie will guarantee the Cost of television debates with Richard m. Nixon and gov. George Wallace. Humphrey made the proposal a Day after Senate republicans blocked legislation to permit free time for television debates this year debates Humphrey has counted on to catch up with the front running Nixon his Republican opponent for the presidency. A we have commenced negotiations with one of the networks this morning for an hour of prime time on sunday night oct. 20, with a debate among or. Nixon gov. Wallace and myself a Humphrey said. Humphrey expressed Hope that Nixon and Wallace would share the debate costs. But if they do not Humphrey added a we Are prepared to the entire Cost with the help of those americans who want to see and hear discussion of the vital issues of the soviets air pullout time uni led nations . Apr the soviet Union has promised czechoslovak officials that All but to per cent of the Warsaw pact occupation forces will leave their country before its 50th anniversary of Independence oct. 28, diplomatic sources informants said soviet officials made the Promise in Moscow thursday during negotiations on a treaty for Tempo Rary stationing of forces in Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovak Community party leaders have promised to sign such a treaty legalizing the occupation that began aug. 20. By some current estimates the withdrawal Over the next two weeks would leave 50,000 or fewer troops All soviet except for command detachments from Poland East Germany Hungary and Bulgaria the sources said. At Moscow a insistence the Prague government has abandoned press Freedom and other key features of the liberalization program it began in january. Prague radio said thursday there is evidence that the soviet Union is satisfied with Prague a latest commitments for a swing Back to orthodox communism. But there was evidence of Public dissatisfaction in Czechoslovakia with the concessions made to the Kremlin. In a Resolution addressed to communist party leaders 1,549 employees of the Prague radio communications research Institute declared a we reject categorically any legalization of the stay of foreign armies on our territory. Do not permit it at any the Resolution urged the leaders to stick to their Reform policies despite soviet pressure. Nixon so far has not accepted any Humphrey invitations for debate. Humphrey proposed that Nixon and Wallace appear with him on two debates and that sen. Muskie appear with the opponents running mates gov. Spiro Agnew and retired Gen. Curtis Lemay in a third debate. Earlier Humphrey said he favored an even More Active presidency in the years ahead because a there is so much that needs to be the democratic presidential nominee spoke with unusual passion and vehemence thursday night in two speeches one to a fund raising meeting of a Al Industry leaders the second to the annual dinner of the Queens county democratic committee. In speaking to the clothing manufacturers Humphrey emphasized the importance of the president As the sole nationally elected Leader and asserted his belief that a one Man can make a a i say what is needed a he went on a it is not less action by the presidency but even More if that is possible dedicated action not just action for actions Sake because there is so much that needs to be then he went to the Queens county dinner at which mrs. Humphrey had been the Cater id speaker and said a you give me new Yorkus 43 electoral votes and Well go out and get the others. Cape Kennedy flu. A a space Veteran and two rookies Rode the worlds largest manned spacecraft into orbit today on an 11-Day adventure that could place America firmly on the path to the Moon. Navy capt Walter m. Schirra jr., air Force maj. Bonn f. Al sole and civilian astronaut Walter Cunningham dressed for the Moon in the new Bubble topped lunar suits hurtled into orbit aboard the 69,000-Pound Apollo 7. If the flight goes Well rends aft injuries fatal to area i Gary l. Kenyon 20, son of or. And mrs. Sanford Kenyon of Star route Norwich died this morning at Binghamton general Hospital of injuries received in a one car Accident Friday night near new Milford pa., on route 81. The Soldier was a passenger in a car operated by Anthony j. Wells of Binghamton who died in the mishap As a result of a fractured Skull according to state police. Troopers said the two soldiers were Enro Ute to Binghamton from Ute or fort Dix army station. Police said the car ran off the East shoulder of the Highway climbed an embankment overturned More than once and landed on its top. Or. Kenyon received head injuries and had been in the intensive care unit at Binghamton general. A Complete obituary will be announced monday by the Robert j. Fahy funeral Home. Enemy skirts trap Laid by americans Saigon apr american infantrymen blocking the northwesterly invasion Coni Dors to Saigon tried to trap some 300 enemy troops today but the bulk of them apparently slipped away. A heavy bombardment on their positions by Jet fighter bombers helicopter gunships and artillery killed 26 of Therene my Force before they got away. . Casualties were put at six men killed and 16 wounded. The fighting swirled through Rice paddies and thick hedge rows 27 Miles Northwest of Saigon a mile from where american ground and air forces killed 147 North vietnamese soldiers monday and tuesday. It is a familiar Battleground Long dominated by the Veteran North vietnamese 101st regi Merit and the Viet Cong cd Chi regiment. The fighting broke out thurs Day morning when about 400 in Gantry men Drew heavy fire from troops dug in along the hedgerows surrounding a Hamlet near the District town of Trang bang. Then 600 reinforcements rushed in and the americans attempted to put a cordon around the enemy Force. Ell Days and 41/ million Miles of flight through space. Thousands of people lined Atlantic benches As the Saturn in rocket the most powerful Booster Ever used for a . Manned flight slugged the spacecraft into orbit rifling a Tail of fire the length of a football Field. The eight first stage engines generating 1.6 million pounds of thrust More Power than too Jet fighter planes ignited at 11 03 a. In. Edt roared into the Crystal Blue sky and curved downrange. Schirra said shortly after ignition that the ride a was a Little bumpy a but six minutes later he said it was a Riding like a Eisele reported the guidance and navigation system was Mission control Center said the mighty Booster rocket performed flawlessly during its to minutes of powered flight accelerating the spacecraft to 17,500 Milos an hour and drilling it into orbit. Success of the Apollo 7 flight May open the door for another Apollo Crew to orbit the Moon in december a vital step toward Landing men on the Moon next year. The spacecraft was to remain mated to the Booster second stage called the s4b, for about three hours just As it will be on a Moon flight. After two orbits the Apollo command and service module which i holds the Crew will Inch Forward and separate from the s4b. The Crew then flies in forma Tion with the spent Booster for a time before moving 83 Miles out in front to get into position for a rendezvous late saturday. While attached to the s4b, the spacecraft is 113 feet 3 inches Long and weighs 69,034 pounds. At separation from the s4b, the 16,000-Pound Apollo command and service module will still be larger by two tons than any flown by tile russians and 12 tons larger than the two Man gemini spacecraft. Among those watching the first manned flight in nearly two years was Cunningham a wife to Ella. She and their two children Brian 8, and Kimberly 5, watched from a boat floating on a River near Cape Kennedy. The families of Schirra and Eisele watched on television at their Homes near the manned spacecraft in Houston Tex. The countdown to launch of the Marathon flight was near flawless. A Brief hold was called at 6 15 to permit proper chill Down of the second stage rocket engines but the problem was quickly corrected. Schirra 45, the oldest Man to Fly into space and the first tick eted for a third trip Eisele and Cunningham essentially Coin plated their training several Days ago and have been relaxing for the most part As launch teams prepared their rocket and spacecraft for americans first Man in space flight in 23 months their Job will be to Circle the Earth 163 times in to Days 20 hours and 9 minutes to Check out the Complex systems in the Apollo Craft. It has nearly two million functioning parts com pared to about 2,000 for an automobile. I gets Back to unit after fleeing reds ban me Thuot Vietnam apr a . Army sergeant missing for 15 Days made his Way Back to Allied and told of escaping from North Viet namese in a 10-Day flight through Cambodia and South Vietnam scentral Highlands military sources reported today. They said sgt. Buddy Wright of Wellston Ohio stumbled into a South vietnamese army Camp last sunday pointing to his stomach and saying a chop chop chop chop a which Means food to the vietnamese. The sources said Wright gave this account of his capture and escape he became separated from his platoon sept. 22 and North vietnamese seized him South West of the due Lap special forces Camp near the cambo Dian Border 125 Miles North of Saigon. He said the North vietnamese troops marched him West for two Days so he thought he was in Cambodia. They did not mis. Treat him but took his Wallet identity tag and boots to prevent him from escaping. North vietnamese interrogators asked him the name of his unit which is the 1st battalion 22nd infantry 4th division. But Wright told him he did not know. The interrogators asked him what kind of a noncommissioned officer did no to even know his unit. He said he was a very stupid no. The North vietnamese had an ak47 assault Rifle pointed at him during the interrogation. At night a guard came by every 30 minutes and pointed a Light at him. During his fifth night of Cap. Ivity Wright escaped. He ran All night and All the next Day. The North vietnamese chased him. A when i saw the North Viet namese my first thought is a i am dead a a Wright later told other american soldiers. A when they did no to kill me my will to survive came pretty Strong and i decided i will try hard to is. Cape. When i first escaped i Felt i could make it. A i thought i was directly West of due Lap and had to run East. After two Days i became weak and i was not quite sure where i was. I thought i was losing my Way and i was on the second Day of his is. Cape he could see North Viet namese troops still looking for him. He hid eight hours then struck out again when a heavy rain began to fall. On the night of oct 5, he saw a fire and figured it was in a South vietnamese Camp. He was not sure so he decided to wait until Daybreak. At first Light he saw a Soldier with an Mig Rifle the Standard Allied weapon. Wright walked toward him. The Soldier carried Wright to a Hill the South vietnamese troops were occupying. Arneri can advisers called a helicopter which took Wright to due Lap then to the 2nd brigade of the 4th infantry division at ban me Thuot. Capt. Daniel in Trachtenberg of Philadelphia pa., a physician who examined Wright at ban me Thuot said a sgt. Wright was in amazing Good condition. Apollo liftoff lbs gets strongest gun Bill Washington apr the strongest gun control Bill Ever to pass Congress is awaiting the signature of president Johnson who id sought an even tougher measure. The Bill before the president Compromise product of a House Senate conference com Mittie bans the mail order Sale of rifles shotguns and ammunition. Although it lacks provisions for registration of owners and licensing of firearms which Johnson plead for he is expected to sign it. It is not certain when. Congressional action on the Bill that was Given life by the deaths of or. Martin Luther King or. And sen. Robert f. Kennedy was completed thursday by tile House. Besides making it illegal to buy through the mail outside the state in Wlinich you live the Bill bans sales of firearms or ammunition to juveniles fugitives mental incompetents drug addicts or persons under criminal indictment. It forbids Over the counter sales of pistols to anyone under 21 and rifles and shotguns to those under 18. Similar age limits would apply to the Sale of ammunition. There was Little real opposition to the Compromise although the relatively narrow margin for Passge-160 to 129 reflects a last ditch Effort by opponents to sidetrack the Bill until next year. Some members objected to two provisions in the Compromise that changed the measure from the Way it originally passed the House. Rep. Clark Macgregor r-minn., objected to the bans on All ammunition. He had successfully sponsored an amendment to exclude ammunition for rifles shotguns Ami 22.caliber tar it let pistols. He said the measure As it now stands would subject sportsmen and Hunters to harassment and inconvenience. The Compromise Givs a judge discretion to suspend or Grant probation for a first of. Fender who uses or carries a gun while committing a Federal felony or to give a l-to-10.year sentence. Today s chuckle sometimes an after dinner speech is like a wheel the longer the spoke the greater the tire

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