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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - September 11, 1968, Norwich, New York The e Ven i in vol. 78, no. 115 wednesday september la 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10� per copy county impasse called Chenango county employees associations negotiating committee declared today that an impasse had been reached in current negotiations with the county. The panel is now in process of contacting the Public employees relations Board to re quest the services of a state mediator since the negotiating committees for both sides had been unable to reach an agreement on several items. This was reported this noon by Francis Martello Field representative for the civil service employees association bargaining agent for the employees. He said the county presented its last offer of five per cent across the Board increase based on present salaries. The county made the offer he said Only if it were decided to disregard negotiations on a retire ment plan. The county employees said they would agree to this but Only if the salary increase were to per cent. Or. Martello said a i seemed like talks were productive after the third session sept. 3 a a he said that at the fourth ses. Sion held the same Day the negotiations a started to fall apart very today was the fifth session. The employees received an eight per cent increase in pay at the beginning of this year. Jetliner crashes 95 aboard Nice France a an air France Caravelle Jet line flying from the Island of Corsica to France crashed into the Mediterranean sea today with about 95 persons aboard an air France spokesman reported. He said that wreckage and one body had been spotted 12 Miles off Cap do Antibes. A massive air and sea search was launched soon after the plane radioed it had fire aboard. The plane was bound from Ajaccio the corsican capital to Nice. Air France said it had begun its approach for a Landing at the Seaside Airport when the Pilot radioed that there was a fire aboard. Ask return storm City Anks repel raid former Bainbridge supervisor Rexford Thornton or. Emphasizes Point As he takes town Board to task tuesday night for state ment proponents of trailer ordinance made in newspaper article. He was one of some 400 persons who packed the meeting room to seek reconsideration of new Law enacted last month. Photo by Casey Jones 400 protest Bainbridge town trailer ordinance by Casey Jones a in by Rice some 400 persons packed the town Board meeting rooms Here tuesday night along with the hallways stairways my exterior sidewalk As they prepared to a fight City the legislators said they would reconsider action on the Issue in dispute a new trailer ordinance which went into effect last month. The townspeople some noisy some silent but All hot from being jammed together created such a human barricade at the Only exit leading from the second floor meeting room in the town Hall that Justice Douglas Smith also an assistant fire chief said later he was a really concerned about the fire the issues which appeared to head the list of grievances were sections contained within the ordinance providing that one trailer can to be located on a parcel of land without a permit and if two trailers Are set up constituting a trailer Park they must conform to sections regarding water and sewage services. Also at Issue was a Section saying that if a trailer should be destroyed by fire it May not be replaced without a permit. The new Law does not affect trailers which Are already set up on land. Supervisor Frank Curtis said the ordinance was designed to protect persons who build new Homes in the town preventing persons from erecting trailers next door. He said in most cases however permits would probably be issued to persons who wished to put a trailer on a parcel of land if it did not interfere with the surrounding neighbourhood. He indicated this was also True for someone who lost his Mobile Home in a fire. Norwich attorney Thomas a. Vitanza representing a group of trailer owners presented petitions which he said contained 1,100 signatures of persons opposing the Law. He said a Large majority of the signers were Over the age of 21, therefore representing a majority of the some 1,700 voters in die town. A most of them the signers done to even own he said. He told the Board if the ordinance was not changed die matter would be a fought in every court available and if we lose there Well fight you at the a a we la fight this wherever we can a he declared. Or. Vitanza said the gathering was an a expression of democracy and was not intended to be anything like demonstrations being held elsewhere around the country. Continued on Page 5 Saigon a fighting raged Northwest of Saigon today As the Viet Cong and North vietnamese drove deep into the City of Tay Ninh and american forces killed 95 enemy troops in repelling a night attack on a unit of the 25th infantry division. Farther Northwest along the cambodian Border North vietnamese gunners shelled a dozen Allied Camps but casualties and darn be i were reported Light. . Intelligence officers foresaw no immediate attack on Saigon. Moville under cover of a heavy mortar attack enemy infantrymen charged the 25th division Camp 14 Miles Southeast of Tay Ninh. They were driven off after nearly three hours by a massive barrage from armoured personnel carriers helicopter gunships and artillery. Six americans were reported killed and 22 wounded. Meanwhile South vietnamese paratroopers and militiamen skirmishes with hundreds of enemy soldiers who invaded Tay Ninh a key provincial capital 45 Miles Northwest of Saigon. A correspondent John t. Wheeler reported from the . Combat Center in Tay Ninh that a communist defector told interrogators there were three regiments about 7,000 in and around the City. Wheeler said that by late afternoon firefights were raging on tin Northwest Southern and Southeastern fringes of the City. Casualties on both sides were mounting but tile main Battle for the City of 200,000 still apr ared yet to though some . Units out Tae the City were in blocking positions and . Advisers were with the South vietnamese troops the ground action was being fought almost entirely by South vietnamese paratroopers militiamen and police forces. The heaviest Battle was on the Northwestern Edge of tile City where an enemy battalion held stubbornly to the Hamlet of Thanh an despite South vietnamese counterattacks supported by armoured cars and air strikes. Wheeler said some North vietnamese troops coming into the City asked directions from local residents particularly to tile big Church which is the Headquarters of the Cao Dai religious sect. Some enemy troops entered the Cathedral where hundreds of local people had taken Refuge earlier and a thin string of gov. Of refugees huh defends withdrawal tack Prague apr Czechoslovakia a government leaders assured their people tuesday night that due process of Law will be observed despite the soviet occupation and appealed for the return of refugees from abroad. There have been rumours of arrests since the soviet bloc troops invaded aug. 20, but the leaders proclamation said a we reiterate that we shall never allow deformations of violations of our Legal code such As we were witness this apparently referred to the nations 20 years of Rule which ended in january when Alexander Dubcek became the communist party chief. Dubcek and other top leaders proclaimed tuesday night a personal immunity is Guaran teed. No one can be taken into custody except in cases foreseen by Law and following the decision of the court or the the proclamation also appealed to czechoslovak so including Many intellectuals who have sought political Asylum in Austria Switzerland and other West european countries in the last three weeks. A staying abroad a it said a multiplies distrust and foreign propaganda and makes impossible first hand information on the state of affairs at Home. It increases helplessness and contusion. Weather considerable cloudiness and Cool with occasional showers tonight Low tempera Tures in upper 40s and 50s. Thursday partly Cloudy and Cool. Houston apr Hubert h. Humphrey answering a questioner a assertion president Johnson had contradicted his prediction of Early . Troop withdrawals from Vietnam waved a newspaper at a Texas audience and said a it verifies what i but the article reporting de parture of a Marine regiment also said the unit had been on temporary duty had been re placed by another and that a the move was not part of a general a one of the Marine divisions is on its Way Home a Humphrey said tuesday night in response to the question about Johnson a statement to the american legion convention in new Orleans that no one could foretell when withdrawals might take place. And he added a i was just Tell. Ing my staff they were a Bunch of doubting a i have 20 staff members standing around Here a the vice president said asking that one fetch the newspaper. Within minutes a member of his secret service detail produced the newspaper tuesdays Houston Post and Humphrey read the headline a Marine regiment Heads Home from Viet w a withdrawal is first for .�?� a i think it verifies what i said i hoped would happen a he said. The incident took place at the Start of a question period As the vice president kicked off his Texas Campaign portraying himself As a the Best alter a. Five to Richard m. Nixon and George c. Wallace and Appeal ing for party Unity despite snubs from the states top leaders. Neither democratic gov. John Connally reported Busy at the state Capitol in Austin with paper work nor sen. Ralph Yarborough d.-tex., was on hand to Greet the vice president when he landed Here after a vis it to los Angeles snubbed by mayor Samuel f. Yorty and As. Sembly speaker Jesse m. In run. Humphrey told an audience of several Hundred at the rally that a the greatest Story of ally in this Campaign will be the Unity of the Texas democratic party. House speaker Ben Barnes and state chairman will Davis of the top party Hierarchy met the vice president Here. He Drew applause answering a University of Houston student Rex Erickson 23, who asked what supporters of sen. Eugene break in poring logjam due Washington a the Senate judiciary committee May finally be moving toward breaking the log Jam on president Johnson s selection of Abe Fortas to be chief Justice of the United states. Members both supporters and opponents of elevating Fortas from associate Justice to succeed retiring Earl Warren Are reported anxious to Settle the matter. But still to be decided is whether the committee which meets today should reopen testimony on the appointment. Related to that decision is whether Fortas will agree to an invite. Tion to reappear for questioning. If the hearings Are reopened for testimony the members were discussing limiting them to a couple of Days and then voting on whether to recommend to tile Senate that Fortas be confirmed. After a Day of wrangling monday sen. Hugh Scott r-pa., said a the feeling did develop that the committee should act within a fixed sen. John l. Mcclellan d-ark., who moved to reopen the hearings and invite Fortas to testify again said that a nobody is trying to prevent a vote As far As i other members of the committee in which the controversial nomination has been stalled for Over two months also re. Ported a disposition to act without extended delay. But breaking the committee logjam would still leave Fortas arsonists hit Syracuse Syracuse . A arsonists touched off three fires in rain swept Syracuse tuesday night and Early today. Three More arrests were made As the City underwent its third night of disturbances in pre dominantly negro sections. Fire officials blamed agonists for three fires two in empty houses and a third at a grocery store. Three youths were arrested from a band of some 40 persons who clashed with three Syracuse University students in a Brief scuffle on the City s East Side. The arrested youths were aged 15 and 16. Officers said 40 youngsters were dispersed. There eminent militiamen took up positions around the big building. The Viet Cong and North Viet namese began pushing into the City about 1 30 . Under cover of a 200-round mortar barrage. Militia units put up Only Light resistance or none at All. Immediately after the first at tacks South vietnamese airborne troops were dispatched and lie Gan reaching Tay Ninh in mid morning some by helicopter and some by Convoy up route 22, the main Road connecting Tay Ninh and Saigon. The Viet Cong mined the Road in unsuccessful efforts to keep reinforce ments from reaching the City. American air strikes and South vietnamese artillery fire in the opening phases were restricted to two villages on the City a Northwestern and South Western fringes. In the Village of Thanh an on the Northwestern fringe an enemy battalion was digging in just beyond the . Advisory Camp and the adjoining philippine Civie action group Headquarters. Little Street fighting was reported so far and first reports indicated that casualties inside and immediately around the City had been Light considering the Numier of troops on hand. A photographer Horst Faas reported that a heavy rainstorm hit the City in mid afternoon and the enemy troops used it As cover to regroup in some areas. Maj. Charles Gray of Morrilton ark., who was caught in tile Southeast part of the City during tile morning told Faas a fall through the morning i could look out and see Viet Cong in the Middle of the streets surrounded by people. A the people told me they were told to Clear the area for a few Days because the . Were going to use it to attack the province and District nomination threatened by fill. Buster in the Senate itself. Fortas was named to be chief Justice june 26. At the same time Johnson nominated Federal circuit court judge Homer Thornberry to be an associate Justice. The committee has yet to act on Thornberry a appointment which also has been under fire. Johnson Renews Tough stand on Europe peace Washington apr pres Dent Johnson urging Moscow for the second time in two weeks not to a unleash the dogs of War a says the Only Way to peace in Europe is through no holds barred negotiations. While urging tile soviet Union to accept earlier proposals for High level talks on arms and troop reductions in Europe Johnson warned that the United states never will tolerate the use or threat of Force in areas of a common responsibility like a the use of Force generates fears and passions whose consequences no Man can predict or control a the chief executive told a session of the by Nai b Ruth National convention tuesday night. A was i said the other Day in san Antonio a let i one unleash the dogs of War Europe has suffered enough in this Century a he added. Johnson a san Antonio speech aug 30 was the strongest he has aimed at Moscow in months and seemed to represent part of a carefully orchestrated . Response to the soviet led invasion of Czechoslovakia to Days ear Lier. The Public part of that re. Spouse has included cancellation of some features of the cultural Exchange program with Russia orders that work proceed on missile development and de Nixon seeks tighter new York Alliance j. Mccarthy should do now. A i think i offer you the Best alter native of what you have Avail Able a Humphrey said. In California earlier he said he remains a a confident of win Ning Mccarthy a backing. A it is inconceivable to me that we be together when the Choice is or. Wallace or. Nix. On and myself a he said in a television interview. Were no serious injuries in the scuffle. Despite the rain police kept up heavy patrols in the Southern Section of the City. Officers used tear Gas sunday to disperse a crowd of Rowdy youths and groups of Young negroes threw rocks and rattles monday night in a seven hour series of incidents. The youths arrested tuesday evening were charged with criminal mischief and unlawful Assembly. Police chief John f. Of Connor had instituted an a overwhelming police presence in the City tuesday night after the previous two nights of trouble. New York apr Richard m. Nixon cheered by a Friendly reception in Nelson Rockefeller a Home county is working to tighten his Alliance with the new York republicans who Lead the party a Liberal Wing. The Republican presidential candidate meets today with the new York governor and with mayor John v. Lindsay and sen. Jacob k. Javits to announce plans for the gop Cam. Pain in the crucial state Holder of the nations biggest bloc of presidential electors. Both javits and Lindsay had backed Rockefeller s bid for the Republican nomination. Later today he leaves for North Carolina. Tuesday night Rockefeller stood at Nixon a Side and gave him his personal blessings in front of a roaring enthusiastic crowd in a White Plains ., auditorium not far from the Rockefeller estate in Tarrytown. Recalling his Campaign for the cop nomination in which he promised a new leadership a Rockefeller said a for three months this summer i stumped tile country from coast to coast demanding new leadership. Well tonight i am Here to Welcome on behalf of All of us in Westchester county a Man who s going to provide that new this was the first time since the convention that Rockefeller who had once said Nixon give that leadership appeared with the candidate. He had however endorsed him As had javits and Lindsay. The Westchester county Center was packed with some 5,500 persons who ignored the heat of the Hall As they showered Nixon with confetti cheered him repeatedly and crowded around trying to shake hands with him and his wife Pat. Nixon said tie has had bigger crowds but none As enthusiastic. So eager were the people to see the candidate that a Good portion of the crowd waited outside after the rally for a final glimpse of him driving away. In his speech Nixon brought up a major theme of his campaigns that members of the american Middle class have become a the forgotten suburbanites he said form a Large part of this group. He said they done to engage in demonstrations except to a demonstrate by setting an example of citizen Nixon made a plea for Law and order. But As he has been doing in the past few Days lie mixed it with a Call for social Progress. A i know there Are those who say a give us More police have stronger Laws and that will solve All the problems a a Nixon said. A but my friends when people have no Hope they done to care. What we need is order with Nixon noted the presence of a few Young persons in front of the Hall protesting the Vietnam War. One youth pressed his face next to Nixon Sas the candidate walked into the Center and shouted a Stop the War a but Nixon said during his speech that tile democrats tried to end the War a and muffed and now a it is time for a new team a he said. Lense to improve any . Negotiating position Aud some Johnson comments at a news conference thai the United states re. Mains a very concerned Over soviet actions Iii Eastern Europe. The by Nai by Ritli speech his second of the Day to dwell on foreign policy Aud the ques for peace appeared to be More of that same rather than being prompted by any fresh soviet actions. But Johnson told his Enthus. Plastic audience the czech inva. Sion has Given Rise to a new Milt. Tary and political risks. Which demand even closer cooperation among Western attn ally vows to Lead urbane men Atlanta a. Apr the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy says he will Lead Atlanta a striking garbage men in major Dein ont rations despite a court in Junction ordering the men Back to work. Abernathy successor to the late or. Martin Luther King or. As head of the Southern Christian leadership conference said he May Call for support from across the country for the 1,000 garbage men in their bid for a $2.50.per-hour minimum pay. Abernathy and Union Leader Morton Shapiro negotiator for the american federation of state county and municipal employees Union were among the 80 persons arrested earlier in the Day in demonstrations involving the strike. Abernathy and Shapiro were released later on Bond. Busk quells Rumor of Pueblo release Washington apr Hopes for Quick release of the Pueblo feeding on widespread rumours for a week have been shattered by . Statements that North Korea is seeking More than just american apolo Gies. A it is my understanding a said Secretary of state Dean Rusk tuesday a they have asked for a Good Many things including commitments about further action that would involve the High seas in the sea of Rusk commented on leaving a closed session of the House foreign affairs committee. At about the same time the state department was releasing a carefully worded statement on the . Position. Both the Rusk comments and the statement Carne after a week of rumours Here and in Asia that North Korea might a Quot. Lease the captured . Intelli Genee ship and its 82 crewmen in connection with North koreans Celebration of its 20th anniversary As a communist state. North Korea has demanded three actions from the United states in return for the ship and its Crew seized Jan. 23. These have been an admission the vessel violated North Korea a 12-mile territorial limit an apology and a Promise there would be no violations in the fun. Ture. Rusk told the House commit tee that there is no Independent evidence whatsoever that the Pueblo violated its sailing or Dors which directed it to remail outside North koreans Terr Torta claims. North Korea Bias claimed tin Pueblo was within seven mile of its coastline when seized by gunboat. Secretary of defense Clark m Clifford also testifying Yehirn closed doors on Capitol Hill toll newsmen he had nothing to Indi Cate that the Pueblo release i imminent negotiations Between the United states and North kure have been going on sporadic Al at Panmunjom. A state department spokes Man said a we have an Obliga Tion to keep the negotiations Pri Vatet if they Are to prove sue c is slut. Today a chuckle one weary husband says he would like to get Back to the Days when his wife a meals were carefully thought out instead of carefully thawed out

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