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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - October 30, 1968, Norwich, New York The evening Sun vol. 78, no. 150wednesday, october 30, 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10c per copy state plans work on area i major route by Casey Jones state transportation department is making plans for construction of 3.5 Miles of county Road Between East Guilford and Guilford Center at a Cost in excess of $1 million As the first of three phases Between routes Sand 12, Nie evening Sun Learned today. The first phase of the project which could begin As Early As next year is presently expected to follow the same route As county Road 25, except near the Hamlet of East Guilford where an entirely new route would be designed. The state department will notify residents this week that persons May request a Public hearing on the project or its effects by making a written request to the District Engineer state department of transportation 71 Frederick Street Binghamton on or before nov. 12. The hearing if requested would allow persons to express views concerning economic or social effects of the proposed project its Impact upon the environment and its consistency with local planning objectives. Information concerning the project is also expected to be available at the District engineers office or the office of the resident Engineer at Oxford within the next few Days. Cost of construction will be borne equally Between the state and Federal governments under the Federal Aid plan for state secondary Road improvements. The county however will have to appropriate funds for rights of Way along the route. A rights of Way committee has also requested $102,500 for inclusion in next years budget for financing of the project. The first phase which is actually described As the third phase would extend from East Guilford to a Point just East of the Robinson Road town Road 18about two Miles South of Guilford Center. It is assumed that it is being proposed first since it is tile More widely travelled route from Norwich. A Hie Norwich Guilford Center Road was completed by the county Only a few years ago. The second phase presently being planned is located Between Robinson Road through Guilford to the intersection of the county Road and the former of amp we Railroad rail bed. Tile third phase would be to route 220 at the East and of the Village of Oxford. The present preliminary construction plans for the first part Call for elimination of some to buildings. According to plans a new Section of Road would be constructed from East Guilford Over a Hill owned by Eugene Bettiol returning to the Vicinity of the present roadbed where die property line ends. The distance would be about a third of a mile. This would eliminate a Sharp curve presently in the Road near the cemetery. Other curves would be eliminated bringing the degree Down to a maximum of four percent which authorities indicate continued on Page 5 sen. Mccarthy still Waves revolt Flag by Jack Bell Washington a be Hind the a vote Humphrey sign he has hoisted belatedly sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy still Waves the Banner of revolt against the democratic party. In announcing his preference for Democrat Hubert h. Hum. Prey Over Republican Richard m. Nixon Mccarthy made it Clear he expects the a a children a crusade of the Spring primary Campaign to continue beyond tuesdays presidential election. Many of those from colleges and High schools who did Volun Teer work for Mccarthy in the primaries still Are too Young to vote. But the Minnesota senator of. Piously believes As time goes on they will continue to look at him As a Leader who offers youth a voice in future National Deci. Sions. With this in mind Mccarthy seems to have cleared the Way for an Effort at a Reform of the political process within the democratic party by announce. Ing that he will not be a Candi. Date of that party for re election to the Senate in 1970 or for its 1972 presidential nomination. This har the double political Benefit of presenting himself As something of a crusader to his followers and of muting critic bomb Hall talk called political Paris apr the chief North vietnamese Delegate to the Vietnam peace talks charged today that . Propos. Als for a bombing halt a Are meant for the presidential elec. Tion he called again for an unconditional halt in the bombing of his country. Ambassador Xuan Thuy spoke to newsmen following the 28th sessions of the Paris talks a 90. Minute meeting that was the shortest since the talks began May 13. Weather fair and cold tonight with mow temperatures in 20s and Flocos. Mostly sunny and Milder thursday with High temp Yale natures 55 to 60. Raids continue amid halt talk Richard m. Nixon lets students sing first Nixon favors red peace role cism that he Only wants to re. Form the nominating process in order to make it easier for him to grab off the prize four years from now. He noted in the formal state ment endorsing Humphrey that he had urged the Young people and others who supported his unsuccessful bid for the Prest dental nomination this year a to test the established political processes of the democratic but he added that a i will not make that request of them again unless those processes have clearly been was this a third party threat Mccarthy say. But his Promise to work to. Ward party Reform and to a icon. Tine to discuss the substantive issues of american politics seemed to imply that if he can to get satisfaction within the party he May apply elsewhere. While he declined to comment on Humphreys chances of elec Tion Mccarthy displayed mini Mal optimism on that score. He would say Only he thinks the nominees chances have in. Proved. The nature of Mccarthy endorsement Given despite the senators analysis that hum. Prey a a position on major issues a Falls far Short of what i think it should Syracuse . A Richard m. Nixon faced a group of student protesters praised them for their orderliness and said he would seek a negotiated settlement of the Vietnam War a with the soviet Union sitting at the conference table. Nixon altered his Campaign style tuesday night prompted by nearly 1,000 Syracuse uni. Varsity students in the audience of the packed 8, Onon. Daga county War memorial a. Dit orium. Nixon said the students a have properly presented their Case As they it was a new style protest in which the students got a permit to Parade to the Hall announced in Advance they would serenade the Republican presidential candidate then sat in silence and listened to his speech. Nixon forewarned by a news release the students distributed at his hotel faced the demonstrators after being introduced and announced a the floor is then the students Sang a the sounds of silence by the sing ing composing duo of Simon and Garfunkel. Nixon partisans nominee who had retired to his seat for the serenade by the self styled Nixon reception committee returned to the Ros. Trum and said a let Mem they went on without interrupt. Tion. When Nixon reclaimed the floor he applauded the singers As a a very unusual group be. Cause of their announced willingness to let him have his say without the disruptive chants associated with Youthful protest ers. He termed it a the very proper role of Nixon said he wanted to re. Spond directly to questions posed by the students in the news release. One of those questions dealt with Vietnam and Nixon went beyond previous pronounce ments to assert a the soviet Union must be brought to that conference to. Hie. Other interested nations in Asia have to be brought there because by broadening the num. Ber of nations and the issues we will be Able to have a negotiated a Nixon spokesman Ron Ziegler said later the candidate was discussing negotiations in a veneral sense and was not specifically advocating that the russians be brought into the current peace talks in Peris. Leaders of the protest said they were pleased Nixon had responded to them. But they area delegates Story Page 8 still argued he had not been Spe. Civic enough on major issues and had failed to state his Posi. Tion on the question of televised debates with his democratic i. Val Hubert h. Humphrey. Saigon apr american kept up their heavy raids across North Viet names Southern Panhandle today amid growing speculation that president Johnson a peace of. Pensive is approaching some sort of Climax. Unconfirmed reports circular. De that . Ambassador Ells Worth Bunker and president Nguyen Van Thieu were prepare. Ing a joint statement in which the South vietnamese govern ment would at least accept a halt in the bombing of North Vietnam. Despite the reports and specs. Lation senior . Officers said they had no indication that an immediate bombing halt might be in the works. One knowledge. Able military source said a was far As we re concerned we re planning air strikes Way up ahead but that does no to say we can to Cut out the bomb no to. Morrow. They were sure charge. Ing out today. Ifs business As while . Jets were striking North vietnamese Supply routes Thieu told newsmen in Saigon that Hanoi so far has proved unbending in its re. Spouse to president Johnson a new peace offensive. He said North Vietnam continues to de. Maud an unconditional Cessa. Tion of the bombing and at the same time fails to show Good will or signs of a de escalation of the War. A no Good will no bombing halt a said Thieu. North Vietnam a communist party newspaper nhan Dan implied the Johnson and a Nistra. Tion is encouraging reports of a breakthrough toward peace to help vice president Hubert h. Humphrey win the presidency. Nhan Dan said the . Propaganda Campaign about a so. Called breakthrough in Paris will end in a . Pilots flew 134 missions against North Vietnam tuesday making their Way through a steadily worsening weather Over the Panhandle. But the number of missions was Only five less than the total of 139 monday and that was the most in nearly a month. The pilots reported damaging or destroying 16 trucks and three Bridges but a much of the bomb damage assessment was hampered by morning ground fog and later Cloud cover a the . Command said. It added that 35 fires and 23 secondary explosions were also reported indicating hits on fuel and am munition stores. Pilots from the carriers in. Tepid and America reported leaving three Oil storage areas in flames South of Vinh. . Headquarters said an air Force f4 photo reconnaissance plane failed to return from a Mission Over the Panhandle monday and is a presumed Down to enemy the two crewmen Are missing. It was the 914th american warplane reported Down in combat Over the North. The air forces big b52 bombers dropped More than 700 tons of explosives on base Camps and staging areas along the Jungle invasion routes be. Tween Cambodia and Saigon. Two More flights of the eight Jet Strat fortresses unleashed another 360 tons on storage areas bunkers and Trench complexes in the Central Highlands 40 Miles West of Korntum and a mile from the cambodian Bor. Der. While enemy ground forces generally continued to lie Low a task Force of . Boats and South vietnamese planes raided Viet Cong positions along the 32 Miles of a River Complex near the southernmost tip of the country. A . Navy spokes Man said 242 enemy samoans and other water Craft were smashed and 167 bunkers and other structures were de. St toyed. At the other end of tile country tuesday the battleship new Jersey bombarded targets in the Northern half of the Demili. Taried zone and destroyed or damaged about to bunkers Mil. Itary spokesmen said. The Navy also reported that North vietnamese Shore batteries opened up on the destroyer Davis three times monday night and tuesday morning but missed. The Lull in the ground War now in its fifth week continued. But Viet Cong and North vietnamese gunners slammed More than 150 rounds of mortar and recoilless Rifle shells into four american bases in tile Central Highlands. Roaming slovaks shouting boost Bratislava czechoslovak. Kia apr slovaks in Bratislav. A emulated Prague a czechs tuesday night and roamed their City a streets shouting a rus sians go Home and a Brezhnev boo boo the anti soviet demonstrations erupted after 10,000 cheer ing chanting slovaks broke through police lines in a wild greeting for the nations Liberal communist leaders visiting the capital of Slovakia for the local Celebration of Czechoslovakia a 50th anniversary. A similar demonstration in Prague monday night against tile soviet occupation brought a warning from Deputy Interior minister Jan Mayer that the police were determined to a main Tain Public but police and militiamen failed to Stop the marching so. Vaks shouting anti soviet slogans. Led by a Man carrying a sign with the French word a lib Erie a the column moved through Bratislava singing the National Anthem and lighting candles As memorials at half a dozen places where slovaks were killed during the soviet in Vasion last August. Earlier tens of thousands of slovaks wildly applauded the arrival of president Ludvik Svoboda and communist party chief Alexander Dubcek tile lat ter a slovak. The crowd mobbed the Railroad station As their train pulled in forcing an Honor guard and a band to Retreat without playing a note. Lined 40 or 50 deep on each Side of the Street slovaks chanted a Long live Dubcek and a Long live Svoboda As a to. Orcade took the leaders to the slovak National Council build ing. Today Svoboda Premier old Rich Cernik and National As. Sembly president Josef Smrkov. Sky signed new Charters creat. Ing autonomous czech and so. Vak states joined in a federa. Tion. The Law goes into effect Jan. I. Is sex i move is Hanoi a Humphrey Philadelphia a vice president Hubert h. Hum. Prey says there is a a new level of diplomatic activity taking place Over the Vietnam War and a the next move is up to a. the democratic presidential candidates cautiously worded remarks came As Gen. Creigh ton w. Abrams . Commander in Vietnam flew to washing ton tuesday for a secret meet. Ing with president Johnson and his top advisers. But if Humphrey knew More than his questioners about the meeting or the latest possible moves toward peace he did not let on. Asked in a Philadelphia television interview whether a peace move might take place before tuesdays election he replied a i just done to know and in a not really in a position to Tell you if i a i think there has been some thing going on a Humphrey said As he wound up a Long Day of campaigning across Pennsylvania. A a there a been a new level of diplomatic activity. As i sense it i think it is up to Hanoi a he said. Hecklers Force Wallace to Cut Detroit speech Detroit a scuffling and heckling forced George c. Wallace to Cut Short a speech tuesday night in which he told a capacity crowd at Coho Arena a if we re slipping we re slip Ping right into the White As the crowd left the 11,200. Capacity Arena which had been filled police and several Hun. Dred anti Wallace Demontra. Tors engaged in a Melee in which one policeman received an Eye injury reported to have been caused by a Spray. He was admitted to Detroit general Hospital. They hooted and jeered and chanted obscene phrases beginning even before he appeared and while the audience was singing a god bless they continued without setup. The candidate came prepared to deliver a speech on the nations Economy but gave it up and made his Law and order speech cutting it by about 15 minutes when violence erupted in the audience. Abrams Johnson in secret Parley Washington a Gen. Creighton Vav. Abrams jr., . Commander in Vietnam has paid a super secret Call on tin White House in the midst of stepped efforts to de escalate the War. But a White House spokesman says the visit does not mean there has been break through toward peace. News Secretary George Chris Tian would not go beyond saying that Abramss session with p resident Johnson which Wasny to announced until after the general had left to return to Vietnam tuesday was a a Gen eral military however sources in Saigon said Abrams had been ordered to Washington to give the Prest Dent ills views on what effect a bombing halt of North Vietnam would have on the War situation. Abrams visit his first known return to the United states since just before he took command last March sparked immediate speculation of some new devel. Ozment in Johnson a current peace drive. Christian could not comment further than the military review statement and the word went out from tile White House to the Pentagon to say nothing. It was certain however that Johnson and Abrams talked about the Lull in the Vietnam fighting and its possible significance. . Military authorities have reported recent intelligence Sug. Gesting the enemy May be pre. Paring for another Winter offensive. According to professional military judgment Here the North vietnamese and Viet Cong at. Tempted and failed to mount major offensives in May and again in August and september. The . Military View is that the North vietnamese Viet Cong have lost the ability to sustain anything like last january s tet offensive which had a nearly disastrous Impact on the Al. Lied War Effort. Like other senior . Unix tary men Abrams has been opposed to any bombing halt unless there Are assurances the North vietnamese would not use a halt to achieve a Battlefield advantage Over american and South vietnamese forces. Christians remarks indicated that Abrams May have reached Washington monday. No sure solution to end War envoys Saigon a one agreement can officials in that no . A if there is among Ameri Vietnam it is president can few voting for nominee no you Arentt quickly or neatly win the War or gain a palatable peace. The Hawks made cautious by almost four years of War make no predictions of Victory dates. The doves mindful of koreans two year armistice talks fore. See Long and arduous Neotia. Tons at Best. Some see the possibility of a Token american troop reduction a perhaps an initial 5,000 men Early next year. But no one will name a Date when the army of South Vietnam might be Able to stand alone. Few officials give the impress. Sion that they Hope for much from Paris in the immediate fun. Ture. A bombing halt in the opinion of Many might actually stiffen Hanoi a attitudes. The . Commander in Viet Nam Gen. Creigh. Ton w. Abrams works on the Assumption that the communist command is now planning one red spacemen Back on ground Washington a citizens going to the polls next tuesday thinking they will be voting for Richard m. Nixon or Hubert ii. Humphrey or George c. Wallace will be wrong. Instead they actually will be voting for a group of people called presidential electors. The electors picked will decide who will be the next president unless for the third time in the nations history the Issue gets passed on to the . House of representatives. Its All because of the indirect system for election of a presi. Dent developed by the framers of the Constitution. Originally the state Legislatures picked the electors Lait that was soon changed to give die Job to the people. In fact the electors soon be. Came rubber Stamps reflecting the result of the popular vote. This year however because of the uncertainty caused by a three Way presidential race there is More Chance that the electors will act independently. In order to be elected a can. Dilate must receive the votes of at least 270 of the 538 electors. But with three major candidates this year it is possible that none will win in enough states to be assured 270 elector. A1 votes. Each state has a number of electors equal to its senators and congressmen. For example Maryland with eight House members and two in the Senate has to electoral votes. The District of Columbia with no congressional representation was Given three electoral votes by the 23rd amendment. In each state voters selecting among the various presidential candidates Are actually picking from slates of electors. In some they vote for a whole slate in others for individual electors. Whichever candidate gets the most votes in the state his electors win. It does no to matter if he gets 90 per cent or receives one More vote than each of his opponents. On dec. 16, the electors selected in the general election meet in their respective state capitals to cast their votes for president and vice president. With rare exceptions electors have generally followed the in. St auctions of their states voters. But they done to have to. Only 17 states have any kind of Legal in. Striction for electors and Only three provide penalties for those who fail to follow their Man. Date. Thus Between the time they Are elected and the time they vote the electors a could decide to vote for someone other than the candidate they represented on election Day. Wallace whose candidacy is the chief reason for a possibly inconclusive outcome next tues. Flay has said that he will at. Tempt to Deal with one of the other two candidates if he ends up with the balance of Power. Even if their candidate gives them instructions most of the electors would be entirely free to vote dec. 16 for whomever they want including someone other than Humphrey Nixon or Wallace. Most however Are Veteran party functionaries made elec. Tors As a Reward for Long serv. Ice Likely to stay Loyal to their party and its candidate. Balloting would continue until one candidate got the necessary 26 votes. It took 36 ballots in 1800 for Thomas Jefferson to win out Over Aaron Burr. The Only other time the House decided the presidency was in 1824 when John Quincy Adams was selected Over Andrew Jack son. Moscow a cosmonaut Georgy Bergovoy and the so. Viet space ship soyuz 3 returned to Earth today after nearly four Days in orbit during which they set no records and apparently scored no breakthroughs for the soviet space program. Tass said the spaceship made a soft Landing where it was sup. Posed to in the soviet Union but did not give the exact location. Bergovoy a feels Well a said the soviet news Agency and was met by a friends and correspondents in the area where he the 47-year-old cosmonauts flight was the Firsth manned flight in 18 months for the soviet Union but it set no records and no technical breakthrough was announced. More big offensive in weeks or a few months. A i just Hope that Washington does no to lose its nerve a said one civilian official who has worked in Vietnam for three years. A ranking general added a we came Over Here to do a Job and we re spending a tremendous amount of our country a wealth. My biggest concern is whether we have the patience and the perseverance to get the Job done. I believe we a civilian official who has never reflected Washington a frequently Rosy optimism Points out that All the old problems nepotism corruption inefficiency bribery desertions Are still Here. At the same time he feels that enemy strength is at Low ebb and fewer than 15 per cent of the South vietnamese now actively support the Viet Cong. Adding up these pluses and minuses is the name of the game in Vietnam. Nowhere do they give a Clear picture. But the most favourable balance Sheet appears right now to be on tile Battlefield. From the Jungle Hills of the 17th parallel to the swamps of the Ca Mau Peninsula Allied a. Mies Are sweeping and patrol Ling As never before and the enemy refuses Battle. High Alt tude b32 bombers rain More than three million pounds of bombs daily on enemy Sanctuary. Ies Ani staging routes. Jets Hel copters and artillery give Allied forces a Battlefield punch unmatched in history. Since the first of this year . Figures claim time 166,200 enemy have died on the Battle. Timu against losses of 13,000 american dead and 13,600 South vietnamese killed today a chuckle inflation is defined As that Quality that makes balloons larger and Candy bars smaller

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