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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - September 23, 1968, Norwich, New York The e veni g in vol. 78, no. 123 monday september 23, 1968 Norwich now York 13815 10c per copy Doz yields Sase 3 n of Knees n i pressing Campaign by the associated press the nations three top presidential contenders Are pressing their campaigns As the electioneering enters the final six weeks before the election. Hubert h. Humphreys Campaign is showing smoke if not fire. With his quest for the presidency in its second week the vice president Drew in Toledo what appeared to be the biggest crowds of his campaigns and he was As obviously delighted As a boy with a double dip ice Cream Cone. A thank you thank you very much a he said beam ugly pumping hands As a Hundred or More persons crowded around his car sunday outside an ice Cream parlor. Humphrey is behind and knows it. He started late and slow. Even the Money he says is in Short Supply thus his television advertising was late. He also feels the turbulence surrounding the Chicago convention Hurt him in the polls. But Humphrey the cheerful exponent of the politics of hop still manages to sound confident. Wait until the Middle of october he says then go out and cover All the Nixon Money available. A a we re going to win a he says. Richard m. Nixon confident but cautious is campaigning for the White House from a script which emphasizes television and devotes Little Public attention to his two presidential opponents. Nixon a Standard Campaign speech includes a set series of taunts at vice president Hubert h. Humphrey the democratic nominee. Nixon tells the crowds generally big ones that a nation in trouble should not turn for leadership to a member of the administration that got it there. George c. Wallace the third party candidate gets not a word from Nixon on the Campaign platform. The Republican nominee contends that would Only build up Wallace so he never mentions the Man. Nevertheless Wallace is a matter of real concern to Nixon a strategists. They believe Nixon can maintain his current Lead in the opinion polls and translate it into Victory Over Humphrey. But they share a fear that Wallace might win enough electoral votes to deny a majority to either of the major party candidates thus sending the election to the House of representatives. Robert Ellsworth Nixon san tonal political director charged in an interview that the democrats have a conscious strategy designed to do just that. A my Campaign a said a grinning George c. Wallace to an audience in Dallas the other Day a reminds me of the old joke that begins a they laughed when i sat Down to Well a he said to the Boom of applause and the scream of rebel yells a not Many democrats or republicans Are laughing Wallace Lias said that even he whose political antennae Are probably As sensitive As anybody a did not anticipate when he announced his third party candidacy in january the de Gree of Success it would achieve by late september. He says his Campaign Treasury is in Good condition. Padre Pio. By Sti Jimatis Dies r san Giovanni Rotondo Italy apr padre Pio the roman Catholic Monk who bore the stigmatic bloodstains recall tag the wounds of the crucified Christ died at his monastery Here today. He was 81. Last Friday gravely ill and confined to a wheelchair he eel berated the 50th anniversary of the first appearance of the stigma on his hands feet and the left Side of his Chest. The Vatican never gave an official pronouncement itself on the Case of padre Pio born Francesco Forgione son of a poor peasant in Southern Italy. He became a Monk in 1903 and was ordained a priest in 1910. He never left his monastery of St. Mary of mercy after the stigma appeared on sept. 20, red attack allies in pitch Battle kill 98 Ini ii ass protesters score a parading in protest with picket signs and All Are these children after a losing their football Over a neighbors Fence along West Midland drive demonstration top paid off when it brought City patrolman Ralph weeks to the scene lower left. He worked out solution with residents and retrieved Ball for the Young Grinders. Still holding sign but obviously pleased at the outcome is Stacey Youngs 2, right daughter of or. And mrs. Phillip Youngs of 32 w. Midland drive. Photos by Casey Jones Saigon apr . A. Tines Over the weekend found two heavily fortified Camps just below the North vietnamese Frontier. The bases evidently were intended to sustain the communist thrust through the Center of the demilitarized zone that intelligence reports Indi Cate is planned Iii the next six weeks. While the marines were uncovering hundreds of bunkers and huge stocks of munitions South vietnamese soldiers reported killing 98 North vietnamese in a pitched Battle on the Eastern flank of the Doz. Most of the significant action reported today occurred in the Northern provinces. Elsewhere another Lull in the War appeared to be lengthening with enemy forces avoiding Contact and making a few attacks. Upwards of 2,000 american marines were probing the wooded Foothills North of their Rock pile base sitting athwart the Central infiltration route from the 17th parallel. Inside the demilitarized zone above the Rock pile the marines on saturday found a Complex of 350 log bunkers some reinforced with steel beams and a huge stockpile of shells rockets three flyers Hurt grocery Burns i state Syracuse . Apr the attempted arrest of two youngsters who said they were celebrating a football Victory touched off a night of disturbances sunday that left a grocery store gutted by fire three policemen injured arid three arrested. Police said they attempted to pick up two youths in Kirk Park on the City a South Side when the trouble broke out. The area was hit by sporadic disturbances two weeks ago. A grocery store which also housed an elderly couple was destroyed by a fire that a started by a gasoline bomb police said. The couple not immediately identified escaped with the help of firemen. They were not injured. Three other stores were damaged but Little merchandise was taken As scores of teen agers some of them As Young As 13, roamed the streets in that rain. Three policemen were struck by stones about the size of bricks police said but were not seriously injured. Police arrested Gerry l. Boyer 19, Robert Elliot 19, and Simon Jefferson 36, All of Syracuse. They were charged with obstructing governmental procedures. A Misdemeanour and released in their own recognizance pending court action. The youths dispersed quietly before Midnight. Lunar trip puts reds in front Moscow apr the rus sians forged ahead in the space race again Over the weekend by recovering an unmanned space ship that splashed Down in Indian Ocean after circling Moon. Sir Bernard Lovell Britain Stop space expert predicted that the soviets within months will make a maimed shot around the Moon. Janies e. Webb outgoing head of the . program said the latest russian a shows a capability that Cut change the Basic Structure balance of Tower in the world the spaceship Zond i uric lied on sept. 14. It went into a holding orbit around the Earth then took off for Moon. It circled the Moon wednesday landed in the Dian Ocean saturday night the the feat hid and was the on in. And re. Was picked up by a russian cover ship sunday. Tass the official soviet news Agency said scientific instr. Ments aboard the space ship had been recovered with a a vast body of scientific Lovell director of Britain a Jodrell Bank Observatory and an authority on the soviet space program called the soviet shot a a considerable achievement. It probably Means that a manned round the Moon flight will occur in the coming months As a direct Challenge to amen. Ca s Apollo Webb who a week ago predicted the United states would remain second in the space race for years because of heavy cuts in its space budget said the Zond 5 flight demonstrated that the russians have a an Able bodied rocket bigger than any up rational . Rocket. Webb said the flight was a the most significant demonstration of its time a comparable to sputnik i the first satellite to orbit the Earth. He also predicted that the next soviet feat would be a manned flight around the Moon. West Germany a bochum Institute for satellites and space exploration predicted that such a flight would be accomplished with a spacecraft a this year or at latest in the first Quarter of 1969.�?� a with his fantastic Success the .s.r. Is on the w y to being the Victor and being the first to reach the Moon a said the institutes director Hein Kaminsky. Western sources speculated that the scientific equipment aboard Zond 5 included cameras and that pictures were Iliad of the Moon s surface. If so it would be the first time film v. S used to take pictures of the Moon at such a close distance. Sacii pictures should be of bet ter Quality than the picture transmitted from space by a. Or soviet noon Craft. Other valuable information from the flight included tests of control equipment and of tem. Pesature and air pressure con trois needed for later manned flights. Tass said Friday that flight information on the work. Ing of this equipment was Fie Quentlyn radioed puck to Earth. Girl kidnapped from Homo Rochester . A a 15.year-old girl flus been kidnapped from a county run deters Tion Home by a Voun Man who police said threatened a night watchman with a knife. Police said Sandra Hubbell was forced to leave the society for the prevention it cruelty to r children shelter Early sunday a after a double locked door was t opened to a Young Man Lien he i asked to use a Telephone to Call t for help to repair a Flat tire. They said an alarm was issued for Thomas Ferguson of described As the girls former i boy Friend. Ferguson id Rifle and machine gun ammunition mines anti grenades and Rice. On sunday men of the 26th Marine regiment a few Miles to the South located a second tin de ground fortress of some 300 bunkers along with 1,200 inor tar shells and other Ammuel Tion. Each Camp could have supported and sheltered an enemy regiment of about 2,500 men. Officers at Marine Headquarters said results of the do operation have already exceeded intelligence estimates and More is expected. In the past three weeks the leathernecks have rounded up about 35 tons of supplies including 16,000 rocket and mortar shells. Two prison Camps figured in the War news Over the weekend. South vietnamese Headquarters said the Viet Cong overran a prisoner of War Camp at Binh son 325 Miles North of Saigon and killed 20 of the prisoners who refused to let their a res. Cues a take them away. In the Delta province of an Xuyen the southernmost in the nation a battalion of South Viet namese troops swooped Down on a marshy Paddy land area this morning. C colombian airliners hijacked to Havana Havana apr two Coloni. Blan airliners that took off two hours apart from the same air port in Colombia were hijacked sunday and flown to Cuba with 139 persons aboard. A Boeing 727 Jet with 72 Pas. Sengers and a Crew of six landed in Cania Guey 300 Miles Southeast of Havana shortly after noon. No one was injured and the plane was released Sun. Day night and returned to Barranquilla Colombia. The other plane a dc4 with 57 passengers and a Crew of four la rid Hij in Santiago de Cuba. The Swiss embassy which handles colombian of. Fairs in Cuba said All aboard were Safe and the plane and those aboard would return to Colombia today. Cuban officials would not say and colombian officials had not determined yet of the twin i. Jacking were coincidental or part of a plot. Both hijackers apparently were colombians and both presumably were Given Asylum in Cuba. Colombian defense minister Gerardo Ayerbe Chaux said he believed the double piracy was a Ca troite plot directed from Havana. He said it seemed improbable that the two incidents could have been a coincidence. But the Pilot of the jetliner said he thought his Hijacker might have been a smuggler Iii trouble with the government which is crack ing Down on illegal imports. The planes both owned by Vianca airlines had taken off from Barrant Willu the coun try a main port on the Caribbean for hops to other towns in Colombia. Capt. Alfonso Lopez of the 727 Jet said a Short Man in his 30s, armed with a knife and Gre. Nude entered the Cabin of his plane and a said we had to go to the airline said All the passengers were colombians sex. Cent Roy Haag and Peter us. A whose nationality was not known. The dc4 took off from Barranquilla two hours and la nun. Utes after the Jet. Its Pilot Al Fredo Crisman said a youth of 18 or 20 knocked on the Dixer to the cockpit entered holding a pistol and spoke just one word the airline said All the passengers on that plane were colombians except Marty Bowman whose nationality also could not be Learned immediately soviet scientist Leonid Sedov told Tass that Zond 5 had a Spe. Elal heat shield that its Speed was slowed Down on re entry by a air resistance and that a at a comparatively Small height it was further slowed by Parachute. No mention was made of Retro rockets being fired to Brake its descent. 200 walk out during Cardinal of Boyle plea away till her during the summer police said. They said miss Hubbell was was committed to the detention area for juveniles in need of supervision by tier parents after that incident. John Heieck the night watch Man told police the Man knocked at the door and asked to use tin Telephone. He said the Man g rubbed him by the Throat and demanded to see miss Hubbell when the door is opened. One of to o female attendants stationed in the dormitory told t miss Hubbell said a i run done to want to Washington apr the bitter dispute within the Washington roman Catholic Arch diocese has intensified in the Wake of an unprecedented walk out protest against Patrick car. Dinal of Boyle archbishop of the diocese. About 200 persons walked out of St. Matthews Cathedral Dur ing masses sunday As the Cardi. Nal Rose to urge obedience to Pope Paul via a latest edict ban. Fling use of artificial birth con. Trois. The Cardinal who has been challenged on his interpretation of the Popes encyclical by 44 area priests had ordered a pastoral letter criticizing the Dis. Senters read in All roman Cath. Die churches in his jurisdiction. Cardinal of Boyle himself read a switch hip pies at Suburbia new York apr tired of being gawked at by came run tot. Ing tourists from tile wilds of Suburbia a group of hippies from the lower East Side turned the tables sunday. They took their own tour and stared at the suburbanites. About 50 hippies Clad in their Best beads and Bells paid >5 each then boarded a bus at St. Marks place in the heart of the East Village and set off for a Day in Queens a predominantly Middle class Borough of new York City. The tour was the brainchild if Joe Skaggs 23, an artist to described the expedition As a a of Middle class values. A sort of cultural the turned on tourists got glimpses of such no hippie strongholds As housing developments Bowling alleys neatly manicured lawns and other Middle class symbols which Many of the hippies left behind Hen they fled to the Village. Included in the tour were sew eral stops. During one of them a at a restaurant for ice Cream eight a a straight patrons fled through a Side door when the Lupine walked in. Other Queens residents greeted the expedition with a mixture of Surprise scepticism and amusement. A a we re being invaded a cried one housewife As the hippies de bused near her House. A it must be some kind of under ground movie stunt a added her husband during a Stop in Jamaica estates the hippies wandered around snapping pictures of suburbanites watering their lawns and Reading the sunday papers. A they what do you do at night around Here a one of the tour group asked a woman. A not much a she said. A we go to sleep the tour ended with a happen ing in the nirvana head shop a touch of hippie Dom in Hillside Queens where four men and three women danced nude while an artist painted their bodies. The letter at three masses at St. Matthews and watched without apparent emotion As the people walked from the crowded Cathe dial. Most returned after he finished Reading the message. It was estimated that at least another 200 persons left other churches when the letter was read. The protest had been urged by two Lay organizations supporting the dissident priests. The Cardinal said after the services that it was the first time he had encountered such a protest in his 20 years As Arch. Bishop of Washington. A it is a very emotional matter a he said. Other Church officials said it was probably the first time parishioners had taken such action in any Catholic Church. In the 800 word letter which was to be read a without com. Merit or discussion a Cardinal of Boyle told dissidents that con. Tinted disobedience of the birth control teaching might result in their being struck by a curse mentioned in the Book of Deu. Teron Orny. The curse mentioned in l eur. Ter Onomy 29 18-20 says a the Wrath and the jealousy of the lord would fall on a Man who follows his conscience Over divine Law. Today a chuckle after the government takes enough to balance the budget the taxpayer has the Job of budgeting the balance

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