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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - September 10, 1968, Norwich, New York Supervisors air ski too pay package Iii sorrel the e vening in vol. 78, no. 114 tuesday september to 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10c per cop county oks $500,000 for medicaid welfare Prober proposed. Pm. 3 by Casey Jones Chenango county surplus funds dipped to the lowest level of recent years monday forecasting a bad year in 1969 for taxpayers As the Board of supervisors was forced to appropriate Over a half million dollars in supplemental funds to carry the welfare program through december. Welfare commissioner Clarence Munyan said he hoped the $536, 200 appropriation would be enough. The total he explained is to provide additional funds in three accounts $500,000 in medicaid $35,000 in Foster care and $1,200 in administration. A these Are the big ones under financed account there May be smaller ones left to come a he told a meeting of the social services committee of the Board. This is the second year in a Row that supervisors have two major War planks helping peace talks huh los Angeles apr Hubert h. Humphrey says chances for a negotiated Vietnam peace have been helped by his and Richard m. Nixon a nomination because the North vietnamese now know they will have Little Chance of winning a unusual concessions from the next president. A neither of us gives any More than they Are Able to get in the Paris negotiations a Humphrey said monday night aboard his Campaign plane in a news conference. It was called to clarify re mfr Senate seat goes to Goodell Albany n. Y. Apr gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller today appointed . Rep. Charles e. Goodell a fellow Republican to fill the Senate seat of the slain Robert f. Kennedy a Democrat. Most political signs pointed toward rep. Charles e. Goodell. A Republican for the Post held by the new York Democrat. Rockefeller refused to confirm or deny monday published reports that the 42 year old Goodell had been selected for Kennedy a seat. Rockefeller singled Goodell out for Praise during the Republican National convention applauding Goodells work in drafting the party a 1968 platform. Goodell of Jamestown ., is a nine year Veteran of the House of representatives. He was one of five new York state republicans mentioned prominently As a potential successor to Kennedy. Goodell was born March 16. 1926, the youngest of six children of a Jamestown surgeon. He attended Jamestown High school got a a degree from Williams College and a Law degree from Yale. He is married to the former Joan Rice of Buffalo. They have five children. Others mentioned prominently in connection with the Senate posts included John w. Gardner former . Secretary of health education and welfare rep. Ogden r. Reid of Westchester Republican state chairman Charles a. Schoeneck of Syracuse and court of appeals judge Kenneth b. Keating of Rochester. New York election Law allows the governor to pick a successor to fill out the term of a sen Ator whose seat becomes vacant. Kennedy a term ran to 1971. The Law has been challenged in Federal court on grounds that an election should be held in november to fill the seat. The court has not yet handed Down its decision. It was indicated at a recent hearing however that the court might let the appointment stand pending a special election next year. Under Law Rockefeller could have named an interim senator at any time following the fatal shooting of Kennedy in june. Weather Cloudy and Rainy most of the time tonight through wednesday. Low temperatures tonight in Low or Middle 60s and highs wednesday 65 to 70. Had to appropriate a Large sum to carry the welfare program through the year. Last year supervisors appropriated $250,000 in two successive months primarily for medicaid. Although die county Only pays about 30 percent of the total As its share the remainder is financed by state and Federal governments the local contribution has created a Large Dent in the county surplus account which in former years has amounted to around $7 million. The local share of yesterdays appropriation amounts to some $150,000, to be derived from surplus. The unexpended balance in the surplus account before the meeting was $384,180.04, authorities said. The welfare appropriation along with another $42,000 which is to be used toward a $100,000 Sand Bank Purchase recently approved by the supreme court cuts the surplus to $192,180.04. In recent years the supervisors have taken a few Hundred thousand dollars from the account and applied it toward the next years budget to Lessen the amount to be raised by tax. Last year the amount applied was $200,000 now More than the amount on hand. Yesterdays Resolution for the supplemental appropriation was forewarned earlier in the Day in the monthly report of finances by budget officer Clyde Hitchcock. According to the treasurers report and his computations die welfare accounts could be Short some $760,000 at the end of the year. His estimates were based on spending for the first eight months of the year compared with the appropriation for the account. Regarding the surplus he warned if it gets Down too Low die county May have to borrow Money expel rally if die same thing occurs next year. In Otsego county the Board of supervisors voted last week to borrow some $180,000 to carry them Hirough die remainder of the year. It was the second successive year in which they have been forced to borrow. As in Chenango that legislative body under financed the medicaid appropriation expecting state cutbacks to decrease the needed funds by some 15 percent. In this county the Board lopped some $470,000 off the figure which or. Munyan requested for medicaid in anticipation of cutbacks. The Overall savings apparently proved unfounded however reportedly due to new programs which the state government has enacted since that time. Continued on Pogo 3 Marks he made earlier in Philadelphia and Denver on the possibility of . Troop withdrawals and on his stand on the bombing of North Vietnam. The Vietnam issues and vocal Antiwar demonstrators dogged Humphreys Trail in the 15-hour, coast to coast opener of his presidential Campaign. In Philadelphia. Denver and los Angeles sparse crowds offering Light applause were drowned out by placard waving chanting demonstrators. A we want the Humphrey of yesterday not the huh of today a read one sign in Denver and shouts of a hell no we wont go and the nazi a Sieg Heil dominated the greeting As a Union band attempted to whip up enthusiasm. Less than 200 persons met Humphrey in los Angeles. Of them about 50 were demonstrators. Many of the youths were supporters of sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy Defeated democratic presidential candidate and they waved signs Reading a remember Humphrey began to shake hands with supporters but one youth leaped a Fence As the vice president approached Iii in. The youth was quickly hustled away by secret service agents. Humphrey was then driven to his hotel by police. He made no Public statements during his arrival at the Airport or hotel. Through it All Humphrey appeared cheerful. The vice president tapes a television interview and Speaks to aerospace workers in nearby Redondo Beach today before heading on to Houston. The news conference on the plane resulted in some elaboration of Humphreys statement that a we could Start to remove some of the american forces from Vietnam in Early 1969 or late 1968.�?� he revised an earlier statement that he a would have had no trouble in accepting a minority Vietnam Plank at the democratic National convention calling for an unconditional bombing halt Over North Viet Nam. The prediction of troop withdrawals he said was based on briefings from Secretary of defense Clark m. Clifford and Gen. William c. Westmoreland. Army chief of staff. A i done to know if there will be Large numbers a he said adding that both predicted a some modest i did no to say modest troop he said he favors a a cessation of the bombing when there is some restraint shown a the position taken by president Johnson. In Denver Humphrey said in response to a question about the minority Vietnam Plank that a the minority plan was so mildly different from the majority Plank i would have had no problem in accepting it Humphrey was asked about his Philadelphia statement that substantive an opposed to procedural Vietnam peace talks a May very Well Start before i become he said he thinks this will happen but declined to give any reason. In response to another question he said a i think that the nomination of or. Nixon and myself and the two plat forms Are helpful in the search for Pieace because they support the Johnson administration stand. Top czech Iii Moscow with economic aides they also serve. Anxious faces of three vietnamese youngsters who Are watching a medical corpsman treat one of their buddies at a clinic set up near Danang. Hundreds of patients Are treated weekly by Navy personnel serving with marines during regular medical civic action patrols. Marines smash red Force find ammunition supplies Saigon apr . A. Tines killed 34 North Viet namese troops in two clashes monday just below the demilitarized zone and uncovered a Large Cache of ammunition and supplies. Five marines were killed and 23 wounded in the two Battles within two Miles of East other just North of the Marine outpost known As the Rock pile . Headquarters reported. I a sweep through a Bunker Complex six Miles West South West of the Rock pile the marines uncovered More thin 500 mortar and rocket rounds 2,200 pounds of Rice medical supplies and cloth of soviet czechoslovak and French origin apparently for uniforms. The flare up of fighting around the Rock pile was the Only Sig. If cant fighting reported. Troops of the . 196th Light Hifa try brigade operating 150 Miles farther South below Danang found another weapons Cache that included 37 carbines and rifles to rocket grenade launchers seven machine guns and nine flame throwers Viet Cong and North Viet namese shelling killed one american and nine vietnamese and wounded 24 vietnamese in five attacks from the Northern provinces to the Mekong Delta. The american Serviceman was killed in Kontrin in the Central Highlands when 17 rounds of 100-Pound russian rockets landed around the air Field a government military Headquarters and a area. Another target Prague apr Premier Oldrich Cernik flew to Moscow today and signed an agreement on the delivery of natural Gas to Czechoslovakia and a protocol a on other economic issues a a the news Agency ctr reported. The agreement was signed by Cernik and soviet Premier Alexis n. Kosygin the Agency added. There was no detail on the economic protocol but ctr said the russians agreed to delivery of natural Gas to Czechoslovakia a for Many years a and to a cooperation in the construction of a Gas pipeline on soviet Cernik was believed to have gone to Moscow to seek help to offset the economic setback re suiting from the soviet bloc invasion of Czechoslovakia. Cernik was accompanied by two economic experts Deputy Premier Frantisek Hamouz and foreign Trade minister Vaclav Vales. Prague radio said the three men went for economic talks. The economic nature of the talks was underlined by the makeup of the soviet delegation at the first session today in the Kremlin. Tass the soviet news Agency said the soviet government was represented by pre Mier Alexei Kosygin Deputy Premier Nikolai Baiba Kov foreign minister Andre Gromyko first Deputy foreign Trade minister Mikhail Kuzmin and a Ages caused by the invasion. The czechoslovak communist party newspaper rude Bravo said monday that tile a arrival of foreign troops paralysed pro duct Ion in heavy it estimated production losses during the first week of the occupation at More than $227 million. Rude Bravo complained that the soviet Union and some of its hard line allies did not meet their obligation to Supply cer Tain raw materials to Czechoslovakia. Zdenek Mlynar a Central committee Secretary sought to allay fears that Czechoslovakia May a Turu to police state conditions. He wrote in rude Bravo tint he wanted a to declare publicly and responsibly that unless Czechoslovakia pursues a policy of legality proclaimed by the reformist leadership he would resign. Meanwhile soviet Deputy foreign minister Vasily Kuznet Sov returned to Prague after a visit to Bratislava the capital of Slovakia. A report that his talks with slovak communist party chief Gustav Husak had been a a cordial raised the Prospect that Moscow has bigger things in mind for Husak. The report by the official news Agency ctr gave no de tails but the term a a cordial indicated Kuznetsov and Husak found common ground. This contrasted with Hie official description of a Frank and comradery a a meaning disagree meat used for Kuznetsova stalks with Ondrej Klokoc chairman of the slovak National Council and earlier with president Ludvik Svoboda Premier Cernik and National communist party chief Alexander Dubcek. Kuznetsov came to Czechoslovakia Friday amid complaints in the soviet press that Liberal czechoslovak leaders were not moving swiftly enough to con form to Moscow a demands Nixon eyes negro vote in file South housing was my Tho tile chief City in the Delta where four civilians were killed member of the state planning committee Nikolai Inozemtseva. And 18 wounded. La the air , . Pilots flew i 16 missions against North Viet names Southern Panhandle monday. The czechoslovak for some time have sought a big loan from the soviet Union Aud the russians have also half promised compensation for All dam Chicago probe ordered Chicago apr a Federal grand jury investigation of demonstrations police action Aud news coverage during the democratic National convention has been ordered by chief judge William j. Campbell of . District court. Judge Campbell on monday ordered the september grand jury to investigate alleged violations of Federal statutes during the convention. Thomas a. Foran . District attorney already had started an investigation and judge Campbell ordered him to turn Over to the grand jury All information he Lias accumulated thus far. A Only the Federal grand jury has the total under our Constitution to hold such a probe a judge Campbell told the jurors. A purely on the information i have read in the press i find that various people Are accused of interstate conspiracy to promote a riot in violation of Federal he said. A a second category of charges has been made whereby police officers a accused of violating civil rights of demonstrators in performing duties in quelling riots and returning or Der a Campbell added. Hot said the investigation also would look into possible Viola Tion of the Federal communications statute by some television networks which to said were accused of engaging in interstate conspiracy to unduly influence the convention by television. The jury also was directed to investigate charges that a television network neg bugged a closed hearing of the democratic convention platform commit t be. In another development May or Richard j. Daley announced that a one hour television show prepared to present what in termed a a balance portrayal of events during the convention will be shown at 9 . Sept. 15. New York apr Richard m. Nixon a Southern strategy Calls for him to try to win negro votes while cutting Down support for George c. Wallace. A we have to try and get our share of tile Black vote while minimizing Wallace a Quot said an adviser to the Republican presidential candidate. Nixon a strategists talked of the Soutsi As die former vice president prepared to leave wednesday on a no tiler coast to coast trip that will take him into North Carolina Louisiana the Midwest and California. Nixon scheduled a private meeting today with his business advisory group before having dinner with gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller of new York who opposed him for the presidential nomination but who now sup ports him. They meet at the governors Poe ant Leo Hills estate. Afterwards Nixon will speak to a rally in suburban White Plains Nixon a strategists say that Wallace the american inde pendent party candidate will attract votes in Southern areas that supported Republican Barry Coldwater for president in 1964. As evidence of How important Nixon aides consider the Wallace vote one adviser said a in every Southern District the combined Nixon vote and Wallace vote is going to be Over half a of the votes cast. The Nixon Camp views North Carolina one of th1 states on this weeks tour with optimism. Advisers cite figures they say show the Gap has been making steady gains Over the past few years. But in Louisiana they say it will be difficult for Nixon to duplicate the feat of Dwight d. Eisenhower who carried the heavily democratic state in 1956, and Coldwater who did it eight years later. Nixon a Midwest stops will include Indianapolis id. Des Moines Iowa Cleveland. Ohio. And then Santa Barbara calif., on saturday before travelling eastward students charged Griffin asks new Fortas airing Washington a the Senate judiciary committee has been asked to reopen hearings into the nomination of Abe Fortas As chief Justice to take a fresh look at tasks he performed for the president Wilile on the High court. The new hearings were called for monday by sen. Robert p. Griffin r-mich., Leader of a Senate bloc opposed to president Johnson a nomination of Fortas to succeed . Griffin sent memorandums to committee members in Advance of a new attempt today to Muster a quorum for some action on the nomination that has been locked in committee since june. Floor sessions of the Senate were cancelled for the Day depriving opponents of Fortas of one parliamentary weapon to delay action. Under Senate rules a com Mittee can met when the main body is in session Only by unanimous consent. The committee failed to Muster a quorum last wednesday when All the Meliers opposed to Fortas stayed away. Grifiin urged committee members to reopen the hearings to determine a the full extent of or. Fortas involvement in tin operations of the executive Branch while sitting As a Justice of tile supreme Griffin cited specifically Magazine article which said that after Richard Goodwin then a White House aide worked on Johnson a 1966 state of the Union speech it was turned Over to Fortas and Clark m. Clifford a who began chopping it Griffin suggested the committee Call Goodwin and Clifford now Secretary of defense. He also suggested members of the Senate a prop Ria tons committee might be question i on a report that Fortas helped draft an amendment to a Bill provid ing secret service Protection for All presidential candidates. Fortas acknowledged during his own testimony before committee in july that he participated in White House conferences on Vietnam and on the 1967 riots in Detroit. He said however that his role was limited to summarizing the statements of others for the president. Mansfield arguing that committee owes Johnson Courtesy of a Vot on i , said the matters raised by Griffin a would i get Well brought up on the in a related development an associated press Survey of the Senate stowed 46 members say the had the the my they would Vot for Fortas confirmation if it were brought to the floor now 26 saying they were opposed and 23 uncommitted. Four senators could not to reached. One of those listed against in tile a Survey is Virginia Democrat Harry f. Byrdjr. Who told the Senate in a speech monday that if he were to vote for Fortas a i would a placing my stamp of approval on the extreme leftist trend of the Warren court a trend to which or. Justice Fortas apparently has dedicated a majority of the too members is necessary to confirm. But a two thirds vote would by needed to shut off die filibuster threatened by opponents. President Johnson said last week that he believed 60 to 70 senators favor Fortas. Urbana 111. Apr police arrested More than Joo negro students at the University of Illinois today after the students smashed furniture Iii Ullin Union lounges and refused to leave until officials discussed housing demands with them. Those arrested were charged with criminal or pass for refusal to vacate the South addition of Tim student Union after the Midnight closing time. University Chancellor . Peltason said representatives of his office attempted in a meeting monday night with tile students to dissuade them. When it became Clear that the climate of the meeting was such that the demands could not be discussed in a reasonable Man. Are Peltason said in a state Merit Early today he reluctantly agreed to order police to move in and a with the minimum Force necessary arrest those Refus. Ing to leave. An estimated 120 police from Urbana Champaign the univer sity Champaign county and the state combined to make the arrests which totalled 321 by unofficial estimate. No one was injured in the pos Midnight disturbance and except for two minor altercations All the arrests were orderly police spokesmen said. All those arrested had come to the University last week As the first enrollees under the University a project 500, a program set up last Spring to provide scholarships to disadvantaged youths. The students met in the Union monday night to protest what they claimed were irregularities Iii housing and in University pol icy on student Loans. A University spokesman said the project students became embittered this week when they were told they would have to vacate rooms Given them Only for last week because the rooms had been contracted for by other students some months ago. Most of the other students be. Gan arriving on Campus sunday and monday. Today a chuckle sign at a school crossing a watch out for school children especially if they Are driving

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