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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - September 27, 1968, Norwich, New York The e Ning in vol. 78. No. 127 Friday september 27, 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10c per cop cold War Summit support grows United nations . Apr support grew among lesser members of the United nations today for a big four Summit meeting proposed by Secretary general u Thant in an Effort to reduce East West tensions my Lessen the threat of nuclear War. But there was no immediate reaction from the big four the United states the soviet Union Britain and France to Thant a suggestion that their foreign ministers meet during the current . General Assembly to pave the Way for the top level talks. Thant in his annual report of the Assembly thursday night accused both the United states and the soviet Union of resorting to Strong Arm methods when they Felt their Security threat ened. Many of the smaller . Member countries agreed with these words by Thant a in reality the two super Powers hold the master key to peace in the world. Little wars or wars by Little states can lie contained so Long As the super Powers do not pose a threat of the big the nuclear the ultimate War. A in the final analysis there can be no solid foundation for peace in the world so Long As the super Powers insist on taking unilateral military action whenever they claim to see i threat to their Thant said the presence of . Secretary of St de Dean Rusk soviet foreign minister Andrei a. Gromyko British foreign Secretary Michael Stewart and French foreign minister Michel Debre at tile Assembly provided a Chance for them to discuss outstanding issues. All Are expected within to Days. The Secretary general offered to draw up a provisional Agenda for the ministers and added a hopefully a meeting of the foreign ministers could Lead to a meeting of the Heads of state an i governments of the four major Powers. I feel that some such initiative is needed at the present time to counteract the serious setback to the detente in East West relations that has resulted from recent events. A i believe that some such Spe Elal Effort May also prove useful in identifying some major issues with regard to which despite present Adverse circumstances big Power agreement May be Thant strongly criticized the soviet occupation of Al a and the . Intervention in the dominican Republic. He repeated his belief that a halt to the . Bombing of North Vietnam would Lead to meaningful peace talks and that the source of the Vietnam conflict is nationalism upward bound program now outward bound Washington apr up Ward bound widely regarded As one of the Bright successes in the War on poverty is outward bound. The program which takes potential school dropouts and helps them go on to College is being taken away from the anti poverty Agency by Congress and Given to the office of education next year. The House approved the move thursday. Final approval by the Senate is virtually certain Mak ing upward bound the first a. Jor program to be carved away from the often criticized office of economic Opportunity. A one senator told me they were trying to save the Good programs from an Agency that is about to sink Quot said or. Thomas a. Billings director of upward bound. In less than three years upward bound has sent More than 6,000 poor youngsters on to col Leges whose doors normally would have been closed to them because of their background and grades. The students have done Well in the College classroom. Their grades have paralleled the aver Ages for others. The first four students were graduated this year from Florida a amp a. Anether 500 will get degrees at col Leges across the country next june and the number is due to grow each year. Billings is not optimistic about the Transfer of upward bound to the office of education a move Long fought by the Antipoverty program. Quoting former Antipoverty director r. Sargent Shriver Billings said a Sarge used to say if it Ever got moved Over there it would be trampled to death by All those Little Satin slippers they Billings said a a it san old by. Reau Cracy and its workdays Are slow. It has never been responsive toward the the Transfer was written into the $7.3 billion higher education Bill at the urgings of Antipoverty program critic rep. Edith Green Dore. The House originally voted for an immediate move but the Senate changed the Date to july i 1969. The House accepted that Date As it approved by voice vote thursday the Compromise Bill shaped in a conference commit tee. Congress also is calling for studies on the possibility of moving head Start the popular pre school program for disadvantaged children and the Job corps out of the oko. Approval of the appointment of shrivel successor Bertrand m. Harding remains stalled in the Senate As congressional criticism of Leo grows. Upward bound is a a very simple idea Quot Billings said a give a kid a Little Hope and a Strong commitment and hell get himself out of poverty. Its not a big Deal. Its just a Little deals and it works very Humphrey pressing for televised debate Portland Ore. Apr Hubert h. Humphrey pressing harder than Ever for televised debates with Richard m. Nixon today promised continued Prosperity if he is elected president. He accused the republicans of a a econ Ini c mis the democratic vice president. In a Campaign speech prepared for the Portland City club said that a when americans vote on Prosperity i Arn confident they will give us a Clear Call for More of saying that there were three recessions during the eight years when non was Dwight d. Eisenhower a vice president Humphrey spoke of a the Dis Mal disheartening years of re Chrysler hoi is Back Price hike Detroit apr the Chrys Ler corp. Cut Back thursday on its Price increases for 1969 mod. Els bringing them into line with Ford motor co. And general motors boosts. Chrysler a increase of an a. Rage of $84 per car which was criticized by the White House when announced last week was reduced to $52. Fords increase averages $47 a car and pm s is $49. It was the third consecutive year that Chrysler announced its new car prices first then Cut them Back when Ford and pm came out with smaller in. Creases. American motors corp., will announce its prices for new models on monday when its of. Firings will be unveiled in show rooms. Weather variable cloudiness and Sunshine this afternoon with a Chance of a few isolated showers. Fair and Cool to night with lows in the up per 30s and 40s. Fair to partly Cloudy and pleasant saturday. Highs 65 to publican economic mis management in the 1950s.&Quot a now some say the republicans May learn from their past mistakes Quot he added. A there is not a shred of evidence either from the 1950s or the Republican voting record right up to Date that they have Learned Humphrey said Nixon a economic advisers sounded like the kind of men who would mount a a Aback to Mckinley in san Francisco thursday Humphrey dispatched a Telegram to Nixon after Reading published reports that the Republican presidential nominee had expressed a willingness to debate the vice president a key Ann of Humphreys. A i am designating my Campaign manager Larry of Brien to meet with your designated representative to work out the arrangements for what i hopi will be a series of debates Quot the Telegram said. A i Trust we can have our representatives meet within the next 48 there was no indication however that Early debates were Likely. Nixon has said he would debate Humphrey if Congress suspends the equal time provision of the Federal communications act As it did in 1960, but would reject inclusion of third party candidate George c. Wallace. He said wednesday in Denver a this is a two party country. Either or. Humphrey or i a one or the other is going to be elected president and for us to put a third party candidate on there and have a panel in Stead of a debate would be an abortion. In a not going to lend myself to it at Arthur j. Goldberg former supreme court Justice and . Ambassador signed on As co chairman of Humphrey s Campaign committee. Goldberg a successor at the United nations George w. Ball quit the Post to become in Humphrey s words a my chief foreign policy editor l Akes Ball s Post Asun envoy Washington apr pres Dent Johnson has named Washington Post editor j. R. Wiggins a Strong supporter of his Vietnam policies to fill in As . Ambassador to the United nations in the waning weeks of his administration. Wiggins replaces Veteran Diplomat George w. Ball who quit thursday to join the Campaign team of vice president Hubert h. Humphrey. Ball bowed out after Only five months at the . Wiggins is expected to serve Only the four months until a new president chooses his own envoy next Jan uary. Wiggins 64, who Rose from a Job on a country weekly in Minnesota to guide the Washington Post As managing editor and editor the last two decades is largely an unknown Quantity in world affairs without pre Vious experience in foreign Cli Plo Macy. But Johnson praised his judgment his understanding and his human compassion. Wiggins was described by his newspaper today As a a staunch supporter of the administration a position on the Vietnam War Quot he retired As editor immediately upon accepting the . Appointment. The new ambassador flew to Washington from his summer Home in Maine to meet with Johnson at tile White House thursday night. Wiggins said a i had a presidential commission once before in the United states army air corps. In Mac. Hepting this one in the same Johnson stressed that Ball was resigning because of Domestic politics not because of any break Over foreign policy. Ball told a state department news conference the next presi Dent must have a settled principles and Clear he said Humphrey is such a Man and Republican nominee Richard m. Nixon is not. Arthur Goldberg tile first Man Johnson had named to the United nations acknowledged differences Over Vietnam when he stepped Down last april. Goldberg also joined the Humphrey team thursday. He will be co chairman of the National citizens committee for hum. Prey Muskie while Ball will serve As the democratic no i needs foreign affairs adviser. Ball who was undersecretary of state from 1961 to 1966 in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations denied suggestions he might be moving into position to succeed Dean Rusk in the Cabinet if Humphrey wins. A after the november election i shall return promptly to Pri vate life Quot he said. Balls move came As a Surprise both Here and at the United nations which opened its 23rd session just two Days ago. Already awaiting Wiggins on the new . Agenda is the an Nual debate Over admission of red China. And the War in Vietnam although not a formal is sue before the world body is certain to continue to be the Center of off stage controversy. Pm hmm Green berets kill 276 reds in Paddy fit uht grow oui of style antique armchairs Are not what they seem tube for they Are made of glazed pottery not Wood. Derek and Dianne Smithson use tile seats which were found by Robert Mcguffie when he moved into his country House at Whitrigg England. Until he cleared tile Breeds which covered them he thought they were wooden. Each chair carries the Date 9 and magi Iffla is trying to Trace their origin. Avoid third party kick Nixon tells southerners Chattanooga Tenn. Apr Richard m. Nixon is trying to convince Southern voters they should a not go off on a third party kick Quot Iii support of a Man he said can to be elected presi. Dent George c. Wallace. In Louisville ky., thursday night Nixon broke his self imposed ruled against even mentioning Wallace a name and was expected to step up his drive against the threat that the presi. Dental Choice will be thrown into the House. If the voters want a change Nixon said in a statement then he is a Candi Date who will give it to them. He said that from the standpoint of being elected the for Mer Alabama governors Candi Dacy is a not serious at a the has no Chance at All Quot Nixon said. A the question is whether or not he will get enough votes in the electoral College to deny a majority to Rue or to or. Nixon said he thinks the voters should choose Between him and vice president Hubert h. Humphrey the democratic nominee. It is vitally important Nixon Portugal gels new chief Lisbon apr Portugal a new Premier made few changes in Antonio Salazar a government today and the politically apathetic portuguese showed no initial excitement at the re placement of the dictator who had ruled them for 40 years. After a week of anticipation president Americo thorny announced thursday night lie lad appointed Marcello Gaetano 62-year-old Law professor and longtime associated of Salazar to replace the prime minister who has been in a coma since a stroke on sept. 16. Caetano already had Given Thomaz the go ahead to reappoint All of Salazar a Cabinet except four ministers and two under secretaries. The few changes gave observers no clue to any changes in policy the new prime minister might have in mind. In the memory of most portuguese Salazar has always kept a tight rein on politics and a 50-year-old civil servant seemed to sum up the attitude of Many a if president Thomaz decided this Way it is because it was the Only Way to decide. I accept it and i Hope it turns out for the a 45-year-old tire factory worker expressed another widespread reaction a if Caetano Means More Money More bread less work and less sacrifice Okay i Welcome a 19-year-old Lisbon University student opposed to tin Salazar regime said a they changed the name but the forces running the country Are the same. For me Caetano was simply the lesser of about live said a that we have a two party system in the South and its vitally important that the whole South not go off on a third party kick and not affect the future in the decision made this year. A i personally think Quot lie continued a that when you look at the South from the voters stand Point in this part of the country. A vote for Wallace is actually a vote for Humphrey because one tiling is for sure Humphrey cannot win these states. Nixon said that he is campaigning hard in states like Kentucky Tennessee and Vir. Ginia and others to be sure that he has a majority of those states electoral votes and that for a Lack of them the election is not put into Hie House. Sen. Thruster b. Morton of Kentucky who joined the three Jet Nixon Campaign entourage in Louisville gave the Gap Nom. Inee a gloomy picture of the in roads Wallace is making into republicans strength in the Border states. He noted that sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee expected to join tile Nixon tour had said that Tennessee is up for grabs with the race Between Nixon Ai. I Wallace. Morton said in an interview that Wallace votes in Hie Border areas Are coining out of Nixon a political hide. Nixon Hom Seif does not dispute this. A when i speak of a stirring respect for Law and order i mean it in the very Best sense every american wants Quot Nixon said in Louisville. Blind pianist gets helping hand new York Cap a three Little girls from California raid. De their Piggy Bank to help. A Knoxville Tenn., woman sent $1 and said she was sorry it Wasny to More. A Wall Street business Man contributed $250. These people along with about too others from All parts of the country offered their sympathy and their financial help to Joel Shulman a Blind jazz pianist whose guide dog Bessie was struck and killed by a subway train aug. 27. Shulman 45, has spent the last three weeks at guiding eyes a school in Yorktown Heights ., where Blind peo ple and guide dogs Are trained to work together. He is coming Home to his Manhattan apart intent tonight. He will bring with him a new dog like Bessie a Black Labrador retriever. He has named her Verdi after the italian composer. But the letters from people who read newspaper accounts of the tragedy Are still a trickling in Quot according to Shulman s wife Joan. She said the contributions about $600 in ally were being forwarded to the guiding eyes school. A fall of the letters Are expressing dismay that nobody helped Quot said mrs. Shulman re Ferring to her husband s cries for help As he stood on the plat form and Felt tile Leash slipping from his fingers. No one answered. Among the letters was one from pain sem and mini mul. Ford age to 8 and a of los Alamitos calif., which mrs. Shulman said she received two Days ago. A your local pay it or recently car ried an article concerning your recent tragedy a a wrote pain on behalf of tile three girls. A my Mother read it to me and my two Sisters and told us never to Saigon apr enemy forces swarmed out of flooded Rice lands close to the cambodian Border today and lost at least 276 of their men in almost suicidal assaults on two Well de. Fended South vietnamese Frontier Camps. The two attacking forces totalled about 900 men and in addition to nearly a third of their men they left Large numbers of rifles machine guns grenade launchers radios anti other equipment on the Fields of Battle. The defenders reported 11 South vietnamese Killi gtd and too wounds. Four american Green Beret men in one of the Camps were wounded. Coinciding with the fierce ground assaults on the Camps at Thien ngon and Phuoc tan West of Tay mull City enemy gunners Laid a Savage barrage of rocket and mortar fire on the special forces Camp at Datum Corth of the provincial capital which was the target of an attack wednesday in which 135 of the enemy were killed. The attacks in Tay Ninh province and intelligence reports of other enemy forces mane vering in the area brought massive b52 strikes. Of to raids by the big bombers in the past 24 hours nine went into Tay Ninh province and some 800 tons of bombs fell on the principal infiltration route toward Saigon 70 Miles to the Southeast. While Fay Ninh province was the scene of the heaviest action . Headquarters reported More fighting in the Northern provinces and three helicopters and a . Marine Jet were shot Down there. Four of the helicopter crewmen and two Markle fliers were killed and two helicopter crewmen were wounded. The loss of the three helicopters brought toll the number of choppers shot Down in the past week in South Vietnam. Refuse to help anyone in need. We Felt real badly. And we have decided to try arid help out in a Small Way. A we have been saving our Money for a Long time to buy a horse. Every extra Penny we get goes into our ii orse Bank and is never to be used for anything else unless it is very important. We have broken that Rule Only once and that was to give some Money to our minister so he could have a vacation. This is the second time and we have de. Cited to share what we have with you to help replace your beloved enclosed was a Check for $11. The Marine Jet and two of the choppers were downed thursday in support of . Merical division troops who along with fighter bombers gunships and artillery killed 388 North vietnamese regulars in a three Day running Battle on the coastal lowlands of Quang tin province. Since the end of a two month Lull in the fighting in August almost All significant combat has been in the Northern provinces around Saigon and in the infiltration corridor Northwest of the capital. The frontal assaults on fortified Camps along the in it order May be an enemy attempt to draw South vietnamese and american forces away from Tay Ninh City and Saigon. South vietnamese Headquarters estimated that about 600 men hit the Thien ngon special forces Camp which was defended by South vietnamese irregulars my about 12 american Green Ben advisers and that another 300 hit the Phuoc tan Camp which was garrisoned by local militiamen and an airborne unit that had recently moved in. The Camp at Phuoc tan withstood similar ground and rocket attacks last thursday mid Friday in which 173 of the enemy and 14 defenders were killed. Attacking again today in pre Dawn darkness after heavy rocket and mortar attacks the two enemy forces charged the Camps repeatedly. Asti a res i is illuminated the Battles helicopter gunships spewed fire from their min guns. Allied intelligence officers were puzzled by the enemy tac tics. Even allowing for possible exaggeration in casualty claims enemy losses were far out of proportion to the damage inflict id. At Datum Thien ngon and Phuoc tan the enemy has lost almost 600 men in five As. Saults. Dirksen stand further dims Fortes chances Washington apr a nut Jor blow to Abe Fortas chances for confirmation As chief Justice was struck today when Senate Gap Leader Everett m. Dirk sen left open whether he would support him. Dirksen said he will riot Voce to Cut off debate on a motion t o take up Fortas nomination and told newsmen he might or Ini Glit not vote for confirmation. Dirksen was initially an outspoken supporter of president Johnson s nomination of forties to succeed chief Justice Earl Warren. And although Dirksen void with the majority of the Senate judiciary committee in approving the nomination he said there was a a a strict understanding in the committee that tile vote did not bind word that Dirksen will not vote to put the Senate a debate limiting cloture Rule into effect brought from majority Leader Mike Mansfield d-mont., tile reaction that a it sure As hell will Quot make it More difficult co break a filibuster by opponent. Dirksen told a news Man that the filing of a petition to Chole off the filibuster against the nomination will be delayed fro n today until saturday although it already has the required 16 Sig. Natures. Filing then of the petition to invoke cloture will mean an a automatic vote tuesday a vote which Dirksen predicts will be so overwhelmingly against shut Ting off debate that further at tempts would be pointless. Dirksen who supports presi. Dent Johnson a nomination of Fortas to succeed Earl Warren commented thursday after the second Day of prolonged debate. Ari opponent of the nomination on resumption of debate today called for president Johnson to withdraw the nomination Aud for Fortas to resign from his present position As associate Justice on the High court which he has held since 1965. A the stature of the court has been demeaned already by the monumentally poor judgment displayed by the president of the United states and by Justice Fortas since his ascension to a seat on the supreme court Quot sen. Clifford p. Hansen r. Wyo., said in a prepared speech. A i Call upon the president of the United states to withdraw the nomination of Abe Fortas to the chief Justice ship of die us. Preme court Quot Hansen said a and i Call upon or. Abe Fortas to resign his seat on the us. Preme court Fortas sided with the major i. To in several technical rulings that reversed lower court findings that some films were obscene. Exponents have made his votes a major Issue and have held viewings of the films in their bid to gather support. Today a chuckle civilization is a state of affairs where nothing can be done without first being financed

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