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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - October 24, 1968, Norwich, New York County planners against fair site Sale a at this time Story on Page 5 the ing s in vol. 78, no. 146 thursday october 24, 1968 Norwich new York 13815 Iota per copy a a a Vic Hanges make it hard for �?T48 repeat los Angeles a vice president Hubert h. Humphrey said today he favors an end to the missile race Between the United states and the soviet in. Ion and a supervised reduction in military expenditures throughout the world. Campaigning in a state where peace is a major Issue the democratic presidential candidate also said the War in Viet Nam must be ended and called peace a the Paramount concern of All our people a his remarks were prepared for a meeting with a group of Southern California clergymen. A we cannot live forever in a world where our safety and Security depend on a precarious balance of terror a Humphrey said Humphrey said he would seek an end to the race in defense missile systems As Well As in offensive missiles a each extra unneeded missile Only brings us nearer the Day when we will be unable to Stop the plunge into nuclear Humphrey who trails Republican Richard m. Nixon in the polls in California was Given a boost As he started a two Day Campaign tour of the state by Jesse Unruh speaker of the Cal. Fornia Assembly and one of the states most powerful democrats. Unruh made plans to ride in a motorcade with Humphrey and issued a statement saying Humphrey is the candidate who could Best reunite and reconcile a divided nation. Unruh had previously endorsed Humphrey but two weeks ago he bitingly criticized the Johnson administrations Domestic policy As a almost As Complete a failure As its foreign policy. Humphrey campaigning hard with the election less than two weeks off and the polls showing him still behind arrived in Cali fornia sounding the theme that he and the democratic party offer the nations poor and i. Jority groups their Best Hopes for the future. Before a sea of faces in a san Antonio High school in a Sun drenched Plaza before the Ala. To in the sweaty heat of a hangar in Harlingen tex., and in Watts the los Angeles negro Section torn by riots three years ago he Drew enthusiastic responses with speeches on the subject. George m. Grandchild singing 4over there9 new York apr half a Century ago George m. Cohan encouraged performers to enter Tain american servicemen a Over today in a different War in a different place his granddaughter Michaels has been doing just that. Miss Cohan who was 25 wednesday returned earlier this month from 13 months in Vietnam where she was an army service club director. Unlike her famous Grandfather the attractive Brown haired girl did not sing or dance. A i done to have the Talent a she weather Cloudy and Cool this afternoon. Chance of a few showers by late afternoon or evening. Highs in the 30s. Cloudy tonight with rain Likely and warmer. Lows 43 to 30. Friday considerable cloudiness and Cool with show ers. Highs in upper 40s and 50s. Said. Instead miss Cohan explained her Job was a sort of like being a stage manager a arranging for Uso shows and making sure the service clubs ran smoothly. Miss Cohan said she preferred not to discuss the political aspects of the War. In answer to a question however she said a i done to think patriotic sentiments Are old her grandfathers patriotic of. Forts with songs like a a in a a Yankee Doodle Dandy and a it s a grand old Flag a won recognition from president Franklin d. Roosevelt who pre. Seated the composer with the congressional medal for ills a outstanding contributions to the american miss Cohan said she never knew her Grandfather. A the died the year before i was born a she said but added a a in be heard his songs since the time i was born. I love his toll takes drop 7 is planes lost. Yanks kill 112 by Jack Bell Washington a in spite of Many similarities be. Tween the presidential campaigns of 1968 and 1948, changed voting patterns Are Likely to make it difficult for Hubert h. Humphrey to duplicate Harry s. Truman a stunning upset Victory. The National opinion polls show Republican Richard m. Nixon running substantially ahead Novas gov. Thomas e. Dewey was believed to be in 1948. Democrats Hope that Candi. Dates for governor and Congress will pull vice president hum. Prey to a plurality in closely contested states As some of them aided Truman in critical areas in 1948. One Factor is the possibility some development might give Humphrey a last minute surge perhaps a Vietnam bombing halt that could Promise some real Progress toward peace. Without this Humphrey counts heavily on some local democratic candidates to pro vide him with the kind of coat Tail help that Adlai e. Stevenson running for governor and Paul Douglas running for the Senate gave Truman in Illinois in 1948. But times and voting patterns have changed in Illinois and perhaps even More importantly elsewhere. The eight states Truman car ried in the South 20 years ago gave him 99 electoral votes pro. Viding the margin of his 303-189 win Over Dewey. The then dem. Socratic gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina collected 39 As a Dixie rat candidate. Thurmond now a Republican senator is leading the Nixon forces in the politically splintered area that once was the solid democratic South. There Are Clear signs that third party candidate George c. Wallace wont Stop where thur mend did 20 years ago. Thur mond won Only Alabama Louisiana Mississippi and South Carolina. Wallace is strongly in the run Ning with Nixon for the South. Pm states that Truman carried including Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky North Caro Lina Tennessee Texas and Vir Ginia. Outside the South Wallace a vote could Cut into Humphreys strength As Thurmond a support did not do in Truman Scase. However Henry a. Wallace running on the progressive ticket Cost Truman new Yorkus 47 electoral votes 20 years ago. Dewey topped Truman by Only about 61,000 in the popular count while Wallace was polling 509,000, of which a substantial number probably would have gone to the democratic Nomi. Nee. The major parties discount George Wallace a Appeal in new York state. The Wallace vote could also make the difference in other key states. The Republican Assumption is that he will take Blue Collar votes that otherwise might have gone to Humphrey. The democratic Contention is that he will take away some of the ant administration protest vote from Nixon. Because he had a relatively Strong Southern base Truman won in 1948 by carrying Only five of the nine largest Indus trial states California Illinois Ohio Texas and Massachusetts. Without a secure Dixie base with Little Hope for Illinois where Nixon counts himself strongest and facing a stiff Challenge in Texas Humphrey can hardly afford to duplicate Truman a losses in new York Pennsylvania Michigan and new Jersey. With Dewey a experience in mind however Republican strategists have been concerned recently with reports that dem. Of crafts Are Likely to be elected in sufficient numbers to retain control of the House and Senate. Twenty years ago the democrats took nine Senate seats away from the republicans without losing any of their own gaining operating control of that body. They took Over the House with a startling gain of 74 seats giving them 263 at the a Start of the 81 St Congress. Saigon a the . Command today reported the lowest weekly american death toll in More than 14 months hard fighting in the Demilita. Sized zone in which at least 112 North vietnamese were killed and the loss of seven . Air. Craft in South Vietnam in the past two Days. The total of South vietnamese and enemy casualties also dropped last week and tie re. Duet ions resulted from the Lull in ground action which has pre. Failed for three and a half weeks. . Spokesmen said despite the fighting along the Northern Frontier and the aircraft losses it was too Early to say whether the Lull was ending. They said the fighting in the Doz was the result of Allied operations not the enemy a initiative. The seven aircraft lost to ene my ground fire included a fighter bomber three Light observation planes and three helicopters. Five men were killed and five were wounded. Although there was still no word that Washington and a not had agreed on a halt in the bombing of North Vietnam so As to Advance the Paris peace talks the South vietnamese government appeared to be making a gesture toward getting the talks moving. It announced it would release 140 prisoners of War before the end of the month the largest pow release of the War. The total of american combat dead last week was the lowest since the week of aug. 6-12, 1967, when 82 americans were killed in action. And the total of 589 americans who the . Command said were wounded in combat last week was the Low est since the week of dec. 24-30, 1967, when the total was 437. South vietnamese and enemy casualties last week also were the lowest reported in Many months. South vietnamese head Quad. Ters reported 132 government troops killed the smallest num. Ber since the week of get. 15-21, 1967. The . Command said 1,243 Viet Cong and North vietnamese were killed last week the lowest number since sept. 24-30, 1967. South vietnamese infantrymen and . Marine tanks moved into the demilitarized zone behind a strike by . B52 bombers wednesday blasted about 200 North vietnamese troops from their bunkers and sent them fleeing after 2 j hours of fighting. It was the heaviest fighting along South Vietnam a Northern Frontier in six weeks. Elsewhere in South Vietnam the 3v2 week old Lull in the ground fighting continued and a . Spokesman said the flare up in tile Doz did not mean the enemy had broken the Lull. He pointed out that the fighting re. Suited from a . And Smith vietnamese sweep into the area not from a North vietnamese initiative. Jet fighter bombers and artillery pounded the North vietnamese after the ground forces drove them out and a sweep of the Battlefield produced 95 ene. My bodies . Spokesmen said. Seventeen More enemy dead were found in craters opened up by 180 tons of High explosives dropped by six b52 bombers just before the ground Force moved in. Allied losses were three South vietnamese soldiers killed 27 wounded and three . Marines wounded spokesmen said. The fighting was in coastal Marshlands in the Southern half of the Doz four Miles above Glo Lynh the Eastern Anchor of a string of Allied bases along the Northern Frontier. The . Command said the joint task Force pulled out of the Doz at dusk wednesday. But . Marines and troops from the . Army a 5th mechanized division were still sweeping the Southern half of the Doz farther West. About 75 Miles to the South below Hue North vietnamese troops ambushed a unit of american paratroopers spacemen discuss Onassis flies to Athens teachers reject new lunar trip As experts dispute Cushing Board bid Jill new York a str Cape Kennedy Fla. Apr the Apollo 7 astronauts Back from la Days in orbit continue meetings with project officials Here today and Confer with three other spacemen who May Fly around the Moon in december. Discussions Between technical experts and Apollo 7 pilots Walter m. Schirra jr., Donn f. Eisele and Walter Cunningham will have a bearing on whether the Apollo 8 astronauts get a go ahead to rocket Moon Ward or make another Earth Orbital voyage. The Apollo 8 pilots air Force col. Frank Borman Navy capt. James a. Lovell or. And air Force maj. William a. Anders rehearsed wednesday How to escape from launch pad emergencies. Navy capt. Schirra Eisele who was promoted to an air Force lieutenant colonel by president Johnson and civilian astronaut Cunningham were d scribed in a generally excellent health after completing a physical examination wednesday. Students hurl bricks at cops Berkeley Calif. A five bus loads of police and state Highway patrolmen from the surrounding san Francisco Bay area moved onto the University of California Campus to Day where student protestors had barricaded themselves in a building overnight. Rocks and bricks were thrown at the officers from a crowd of 250 demonstrators outside the building. One Highway patrol Many a Mouth was Cut. An estimated 150 persons had barricaded Moses Hall wednesday night. Athens a Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis bridegroom of four Days left her for the first time today interrupting their honeymoon to Fly to Athens on business. While shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis worked at his downtown Athens office his Bride remained on his palatial yacht Christina moored at scor Pios his private Island in the to. Nian sea 300 Miles Northwest of Athens Onassis was expected to Fly Back to scorpios tonight to re join his Bride. At present Onassis is Nego. Hating a $360 million contract with the greek government for an Industrial Complex consisting of an Oil refinery aluminium Plant and related installations. At the Vatican meanwhile experts on Homan Catholic Canon Law said no matter what Richard Cardinal Cushing says the roman Church considers that the new mrs. Onassis is Liv ing with another woman a Lins band Cardinal Cushing the roman Catholic archbishop of Boston and a close Friend of the Kenne. By family said tuesday it was a a lot of nonsense to say that president Kennedy a widow had excommunicated herself by her marriage to Aristotle Socrates Onassis a divorced member of the greek orthodox Church. It is technically Correct that she is not excommunicated Canon lawyers and marriage sex. Perts at the Vatican said but they explained that her Church regards the new mrs. Onassis As a a Public sinners and As such she is barred from recely. Ing the sacraments such As confession communion and sex. Tyerne unction. She May still attend mass however. These sources said tin Church does not consider the former first lady married to Onassis be. Cause it does not recognize his divorce and still considers him married to his first wife the former Tina Llanos. The first mrs. Onassis is now married to the marquess of Blandford a briton. Canon lawyers said there Are two courses open to the former mrs. Kennedy if she wants to get Back in the Good graces of her Church leave Onassis and receive absolution or get a ruling from the Church courts that his first marriage is invalid and marry him in Hie roman Church. Bullion loaded ship located Dublin apr the remains of the Santa Maria de la Rosa a ship of the Spanish Armada sunk in 1588, have been found but Hopes of recovering her reputed treasure must wait until next summer. When it. Cmdr. John Grattan 33, of Britain a Royal Navy surfaced in the Middle of Bias. Ket sound with the cry a a we be found her a it ended a four month search in which 15 divers covered 3,000 acres. The Santa Maria de la Rosa was one of 24 ships of the Armada which Sank off Hie Irish coast in september 1588 after Philip of Spain a abortive attempt to invade elizabethan England. Sydney Wignall 45-year-old Welsh businessman and chief sponsor of the search said a a you la get some idea of the difficulty if i say that we were like in Batman flying Over a town of 40,000 population peering into a backyard to find a toy Basket sound at the tip of the Dingle Peninsula is pounded by Atlantic combers. Power Ful currents Stream Between three Barren uninhabited is. Lands. Its no place for Amateur . Everybody knew the Santa Maria Lay in the sound. Fisher men who speak Only the ancient gaelic language knew it because their fathers told them a legend handed Down through the generations. In Spain there Are documents describing exactly How the ship Sank. In London Are accounts of How she Sank with Only a single survivor of the 233 soldiers and 64 sailors on Board. The divers Are silent about any discovery of treasure. Doc. Zuments in London dated 1588, say the Galleon carried 50,Ock Gold ducats and 50,000 Silver coins. Today that would be Worth around $2 million. John p. King Dublin lawyer who acts for the diving team says a we have been granted a License by the Spanish government to Salvage Armada wrecks. We deposited a Bond of $3,000 in return for which we May retain All objects of historical interest and 80 per cent of All Coin or other treasure the Spanish government retaining the remaining 20 per the treasure Hunt starts again next summer with underwater Metal detectors. Scores of is Ai men axed lint Lynd Abird a Friend gets top Job Washington a War. Rte Lynn Smith a close Friend of president Johnson a oldest daughter is being sent to Chile As a . Information Agency officer even As scores of Usia officers Are being recalled from overseas. Miss Smith a frequent guest at the White House was maid of Honor when Lynda Bird Johnson married Marine capt. Charles Robb Las december. She and mrs. Robb earlier had been Roo. Mates at the University of Texas. Her appointment As a foreign service Reserve officer came last february less than a month after president Johnson ordered a reduction in government employment overseas in a move to reduce the . Balance of payments deficit. Since then a Usia spokesman said the Agency a 2,100-Man officer corps has been reduced by 89. Sixty Usia officers have been transferred Back to we Ashington from foreign posts he said and further cuts Are planned. In his january directive the president also ordered All de. Apartment and Agency Heads to a reduce official travel outside the United states to the mini mum consistent with orderly conduct of the governments the Usia confirmed in response to an inquiry that miss Smith was being assigned As As. Distant cultural affairs officer in Santiago and disclosed she will visit four capitals in route to Chile. She will leave Washington nov. 4. There Are three categories of foreign service officers in the Usia 1. Foreign service officer. He gets his appointment Only after passing a rigorous competitive examination. 2. Foreign service staff Occi cer. He too must pass a for. Eign service Entrance examination prior to appointment. 3. Foreign service Reserve officer. No competitive exam is required. The applicant fills out the necessary papers goes be. Fore a panel of foreign service officers and takes a language aptitude test. There have been Only six appointments including that of Reserve officers receive the same pay and allowances As foreign service officers. Miss Smith in the third cat ego. By since Jan. I. The other five All had extensive experience and entered the service at grades paying up to $25,000 a year. In a government Booklet entitled a the foreign service of the United states a Reserve officers Are described As a persons with highly specialized skills not readily available in the foreign service who serve for limited a with rare exceptions a it adds a a candidate for a foreign service Reserve appointment must have passed his 31st birth Day a new York a striking teachers have rejected a new peace proposal from the Ocean Hill Brownsville local school District aimed at ending the Par Al zing Toeup of the 1.1 million Pupil Public school system. Albert Shanker president of the 55, Al Cio United federation of teachers denounced the proposal wednesday As a a Public relations gimmicks and Drew flt kit stomping cheers from 3,500 Union delegates. Elsewhere in the City a municipal labor picture the firemen and police patrolmen main tallied work slowdowns designed to Force the City to reopen con tract negotiations. Firemen continued to fight fires and police to fight crime although the slowdowns were putting a Strain on both departments. Efforts to resolve All of the City a labor crises appeared stalled for the moment. The most pressing dispute re. Main of the teachers strike which has caused most of the City a 900 schools to be closed for 20 of the first 32 Days of the term and has been marked by rising racial tensions. In its peace offer the suspended local governing Board of the predominantly negro and puerto rican Ocean Hill District reversed policy and offered to reinstate 79 ousted White teachers to classroom duties. At the delegates meeting Shanker charged that the offer had not been made in Good Faith and added that the Union Nego. Viates with the Board of education rather than local boards under its contract. Nixon leading by polls say new York a two voter surveys sponsored by republicans and a newspaper Straw poll All show gop presidential candidate Richard m. Nixon leading vice president Hubert h. Humphrey in new York state. The surveys differ however on the apparent trend in the contest for the state s 43 elector. A1 votes. One Survey taken by the re publican state Campaign com. Uni tree indicates Nixon will carry the state a by a plurality of upwards of 375,000 votes a with 47 per cent of the vote to Humphreys 42 per cent. But a poll taken by Cam. Bridge opinion studies sponsored by Republican auspices Independent of the Nixon Cam. Pain finds Humphrey gaining rapidly within the last two weeks to within two percentage of lots of Nixon. Today s chuckle one husband recently com. Planned the it his wife is Lead. Ing a double life his and hers. Vice president Humphrey a the picture has changed. A Humphrey favors rocket race end

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