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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - September 30, 1968, Norwich, New York Four area school districts launch new Mercer study see Page five the e vening in vol. 78, no. 128 monday september 30, 1968 a Norwich new York 13815 10c per copy battleship pounds enemy in Doz nation facing extremist peril Humphrey asserts Salt Lake City apr Hubert k. Humphrey pictured the nation today As facing potential destruction from extremists of left and right and declared a no democracy can or should stand for the democratic presidential candidate who flew Here sunday after two noisy confrontations with organized hecklers in the Pacific Northwest made it Clear that his denunciation of extremism applied not Only to in 1x011 now spelling out plans key Biscayne Fla. Apr Richard m. Nixon has entered a new phase of his presidential Campaign spelling out the details of his programs for the first time and intensifying the attack on his foes. The Republican nominee announced sunday his crime fight ing proposals calling for Crea tier. Of a National Academy of Law enforcement to train local police and a High level National crime fighting Council. The Day before he dealt with the problems of the aged pledging Cost of living increases in social tiry pensions in both statements Nixon hit hard at his democratic opponent vice president Hubert h. Humphrey. And he is now Deal ing openly in speeches with his other foe George c. Wallace the american Independent party candidate. A we Are picking up in both fire and substance a said an aide. A we Are now filling out the programs. You la also notice the Tempo of the attack picking in the future he said Nixon will be announcing the details of his proposals on taxes inflation veterans problems and other issues. On Vietnam the aide said Nixon a plans a depend on what happens in the Nixon has criticized the con. Duct of the War but has declined to propose specific alternatives because he said it would Hurt the peace talks in Paris. The aide said Nixon con. Corned about the dangers of a a peaking his political Campaign too Early had talked Pur. Pos Ely in general terms since he was nominated. A if you look at any Campaign its foolish to Lay out All your programs in the first week a the aide said. Nixon will continue his new approach in a Campaign trip be ginning today. It will take him into Michigan Pennsylvania and new York. These Are among the seven populous Northern states Nixon says he must carry to win the election. It will also take him deep into the South territory where his aides say Wallace is running i. Tiler slightly ahead or even with the gop nominee. Nixon will be questioned by a panel of southerners selected by his staff on a regional telecast in Atlanta ga., thursday night then make a speech in Spartanburg . Nixon aides said the Lack of a Strong grassroots gop organi. Nation in both states is helping Wallace. Humphrey they said is running third. But in South Carolina they Are counting heavily on the per Sonal popularity of Republican sen. Strom Thurmond to carry the state for Nixon. Nixon disclosed his ant crime program in a radio speech on she Mutual network sunday the final Day of a two Day vacation a this resort near Miami. Weather fair and Cool tonight with Low temperatures mainly in the 40s. Tuesday mostly Sun. By and a Little warmer highs 165 to 75. Them but to the forces of third party candidate George c. Wallace and to negro revolutionaries. Humphrey faced with speech disrupting shouts from some 200 Young Antiwar activists in Seattle saturday night tried to quiet them by letting one of their leaders address the clearly pro Humphrey audience. The tactic failed and in the end the demonstrators were ejected from the packed civic Center Arena seating 5,000. More than a dozen resisted police who steered them out with a Brief but violent uproar ensuing. Having experienced a noisy walkout by about 400 protesters at a similar party rally in Portland ore., the night before Humphrey came Here still searching for a Way to Deal with tile demonstrators who have been plaguing him from coast to coast. In a speech prepared for delivery at the mormon Tabernacle Here the vice president criticized both ends of the political spectrum. A there Are people today who made their Bast Appeal to the baser instincts to fear to racial prejudice to escapism to the Darker Side of the human character. They Are these Are the words he has used repeatedly to describe tile Wallace Campaign though he did not name the former Alabama governor in his text. Then Humphrey went on to decry youths a who Are preaching the same doctrine of disorder and anarchy and using the same totalitarian tactics of the Street that brought Adolf Hitler to and finally he dealt with those a who would destroy Homes businesses and lives in their supposed Zeal to Correct injustices the negroes who seem to believe that rioting and burning will help solve racial these factions said Humphrey a fall share a Basic disdain for the democratic processes. No democracy can or should stand for he said the presidential Campaign a will decide whether tile extremists will succeed whether the voices of hate or prejudice and division will drive out the forces of Opportunity Progress and he concluded that a America shall he barely mentioned his Republican opponent Richard m. Nixon in his text. Tonight Humphrey will deliver his first nationally televised speech of the Campaign. Wallace m Eves into Daley City Chicago apr George c. Wallace pointed his presidential Campaign at the North this week aiming at Industrial states and democratic and Republican voters. Advancement for the american Independent party candidate arranged a noon hour motorcade today in this Democrat. In stronghold and an evening speech in Cicero an All White working class suburb where he is popular. The route for the procession was one mile of state Street Chicago a main shopping area. The time and the downtown District Long have been favored by visiting politicians because thousands of lunch hour workers and shoppers Are on the streets anyway. Richard m. Nixon the Republican presidential nominee was seen by 400,000 persons by police estimate in the downtown area Early this month. Wallace former governor of Alabama planned to make a speech at Albright Field in Cicero a southwestern suburb of 71 too. Vessel destroys win Sites Road Aerial a attack or. And mrs. Donald Agni h 142 South Broad Street not with watch Norwich Mohawk football game from beneath Large umbrella As Sprinkle of rain showers tile Field. Although the Clouds passed and Hie Sun came out Norwich spectators were still dampened by a 20 to 13 loss. Story More photos Page c. Sun staff photo some Bolt As by schools open new York apr most of new York City a 1.1 Mullion Public school children returned to classes today after a tin be week teacher strike and Many of them were Happy about it. But in the Ocean Hill Browns Ville Section of Brooklyn Center of the Community control con. Troverso which touched off the strike some students who had gone to their schools walked out As controversial teachers Carne in under police escort. The Brooklyn districts schools had operated during the strike with teachers hired by the District governing Board. A number of negro team piers walked out with students today As the hour for classes approached. Later some students said they had been asked by teachers to walk out. Police had set up Bari Cades a Good distance from schools to keep All but students arid teach ers from approaching the building. The return to classes came after the teachers a Union and the Board of education agreed on a plan to end the dispute. The agreement was announced sunday afternoon after a 16-hour negotiating session at mayor John v. Lindsay a Resi. Dence. It was approved by the leadership of the 55,000-member Al Cio United federation of teachers. A rank and file vote sunday night was 5,828 in favor of calling off the walkout and 592 against. Lindsay said the written agreement a should allow our City schools to open today. The plan Calls for sending to teachers opposed by the governing Board of Brooklyn a Ocean schools Back to their classes in the pre dominantly negro and puerto rican District. It also provides for observers named by the Board of education and the pre. Dominantly White aft to be stationed in the districts eight schools to see that the teachers Are not molested or threatened. Uniformed and plainclothes policemen also were to be on hand. Rhody Mccoy administrator of the experimental District was asked Early today if he would allow observers in the districts schools. He replied a How would i Stop them a and added a we done to want them we done to need after a strike at the beginning of the fall term and a subsequent agreement the 110 teachers returned to Ocean Hill Brownsville on sept. La to be met by cursing jeering spec tutors. Police escorted the teachers inside but the educators said they were not allowed to teach. Other instructors had been hired in their place. The strike then resumed sept. 13. The Union struck Ocean Hill Brownsville last Spring when the local Board dismissed 19 teachers and too others walked out in sympathy. Nine of the dismissed teachers subsequently accepted different assign meats. The aft in demanding that the 110 teachers be returned to their original assignments says the whole principle of Job Secu. Rity is involved. The Ocean Hill Brownsville Board contends that the Union is using the Situa. T Ion to further its opposition to school decentralization which is scheduled to go into effect for All City schools next year. To make up partly for the school Days lost the aft Board of education agreement Calls for six extra Days to be added to the school year election Day Lincoln a birthday the Friday after thanksgiving March 31 and april i before easter and easter monday. The teachers Are to be paid time and a half for the additional school Days partially making up for wages lost due to the strike. Saigon aide airs postwar plan Saigon apr foreign min ister Tran Chanh Thanh proposed today that North Aud South Vietnam engage in cultural and economic exchanges to unite the two nations after peace is restored. But he said that peace is con. Tingent on the withdrawal by North Vietnam of All its regular troops As Well As its a auxiliary forces from the South. Thanh spoke with newsmen after releasing South Vietnam a ninth annual White paper on the Vietnam War. Entitled a the War in Vietnam liberation or aggression a the 52.Page Docu. Ment presents evidence of what it says Are North Vietnam Sov. Ert and Covert operations to of. Arthrow the Saigon government arid install a communist re. Gillie. A White paper is a govern. Ment document considered to have greater than usual import. Tance. Thanh said the White paper also shows that his government a is ready to meet North Viet Nam wit i a View to discussing the cessation of hostilities Hie respect for the demarcation line along the 17th parallel peaceful coexistence and cultural As Well As economic exchanges be. Tween the two zones once peace is a it is up to the North and the South together in meetings to Settle these Points a Thanh said a including where when and How to organize general elections in North and South Viet Nam to work out Thanh reiterated that a any settlement Between North and South Vietnam and any outside party without South Vietnam a explicit agreement is nullified in the View of South Thanh said the United states must continue the bombing of North Vietnam a until North Vietnam stops All its aggressive activities a which tie said included the use of regular troops and acts of terrorism and Sabo. Tage by guerrilla forces. Although Thanh sup it sorted general elections he said the one Man one vote concept would not apply in South Viet Nam to members of Hie Viet congas National liberation front. A the Elf is not a Legal political party a lie said. A any citizen who wants to enjoy the right of voting should first show his Good will by accepting the Constitution anti Laws of the co in. the Constitution prohibits the participation of communists Saigon apr the new Jersey the first american battleship to see action since the korean War entered the Vietnam conflict today by bombarding North vietnamese positions in the Northern half of the demilitarized zone. The 56, vessel three times As Long As a football Field turned her 16-Inch guns on enemy gun positions and bunkers seven Miles Hurt ii Northwest of the . Outpost of con Thien. The battleship hurl a her 2,. 700.Pound missiles into the enemy positions from its Battle station in the Tonkin Gulf. During her first Mission in Aerial spotter reported that four automatic weapons Sites that were firing at his aircraft were destroyed. Thirty Yards of Tren choline were Coll aphid and a Road was Cut in two places As the huge projectiles which can penetrate 30 feet of reinforced Concrete slammed into the positions. A Navy spokesman said that on her second Mission of the Day the new Jersey destroyed an enemy artillery position and three bunkers and scattered supplies. Apparently the new jerseys chief Mission will be to try to Knock out heavily fortified North vietnamese gun emplacements along the demilitarized zone that have withstood counter fire from the. Allium id Aerial attacks. These emplacements some dug deep into hillsides contain big soviet built artillery pieces which have been harassing Allied Camps along the Frontier in eluding con Thlen Glo Lynh my Dong a Headquarters of the . 3rd Marine division and a vital operational base for the Doz. The Doz is 37 Miles Long but most of the enemy a artillery emplacements fail within the 23-mile Range of the new Jersey s nine 16-Lnch guns. Within minutes the new Jer soy can Lay Down a nine gun broadside Rougley equivalent to half the bomb Load of a b52 bomber. On her first Day in action the new Jersey fired 29 rounds of 2,700-Pound shells from her 16-Inch guns and 45 rounds of smaller shells from her 5-Inch guns into targets eight Miles Inland. The Navy declined to disclose How far out at sea she was at the time the new Jersey whose Home port is Long Beach calif., Carroll a Crew of 80 officers and 1,556 enlisted men. The skipper is for to 8 chances now called nil Washington apr Abe Fortas bruised and battered nomination to be chief Justice is being Given Little Chance for Senate confirmation even by some supporters. Sen. Joseph Tydings said sum Day an attempt to kill a filibuster against Fortas appointment will fail when it comes up tuesday. Albert Jenner a Chicago at Torney who Heads the american bar associations committee that endorsed Fortas said sunday that a nothing relevant has come Forth requiring reconsideration of the endorsement. He was responding to Aba president William Gossett sear. Lier statement that the committee acted without knowing All the facts particularly some brought out in Senate judiciary committee hearings. />ro/9 students disagree Over hippie role Kansas City to. Apr the Young people and the pro Fessor disagree about the hip pies. He says they re dirty shift less sponges. The Young folks defend them As Needles of american society. A a they re practitioners of tile worst sort of hypocrisy a said the Rev. Or. Robert e. Fitch of san Francisco who called them Lazy immature irresponsible immoral and smelly. A i question this hard name calling a said Peggy Liggett a student at Texas Christian uni. Varsity. A Rahier than name calling we ought to try to rectify conditions in society that cause them to withdraw from the youngsters and or. Pitch who teaches Christian ethics at the Pacific school of religion tangled on the subject sunday night at the general Assembly of the Christian Church disc pies of Christ. A the hippies Are trying to Tell us something about the society we re living in a said Frederick w. Smith of Minneapolis chair Man of the youth panel a in a sense they re a product of society. We need to ask what they re saying about a society on which they be turned their commented or. Fitch a a they re trying to Tell us they done to want to grow up and be re. Spon sible about 10,000 Churchi people in Kansas City a municipal auditorium applauded Points scored by the contenders most often for or. Fitch a View a it looks As if there major Ity Over the age of 3o this audience a observed Smith. A a done to talk to me about being Over 30,�?� said or. Fitch. A my grandchildren would consider this youth panel a Bunch of old men and women and i communicate with negro delegates formed a Black caucus sunday night to plan strategies on proposals of particular concern to negroes at the seven Day convention which runs through wednesday. The group is led by Hie Rev. Or. Raymond e. Brown of Reidsville no. The Deomina Hon of about 1.4 million and 6.000 congregations has about 90.000 negro members in 500 of the congregations. Delegates voted saturday to approve a new charter to make their Loose federation of Church. Is a represent actively organized denomination. The new Church is to be formally constituted tuesday night. The on stage argument came after or. Fitch assailed hippies As phonies who regard them selves As nonconformists but who Are such conformists in dress ski Cecii conduct and odor that they remind one of a a flock of capt. J. Edward Snyder jr., 43, a native of grand Frosk . In other action military spokesmen reports All was quiet today at a Remote Green Beret Camp to which 500 North vietnamese troops Laid siege to Over the weekend. About Soo South vietnamese defender reinforced sunday by 200 airborne commando troops Are holding the Thuong due special fro forces Camp and officials said 500-600 North vietnamese troops remain in the area. At one Point the fighting was so Sharp that a military spokesman reported the defenders can throw rocks and hit the North vietnamese a that show close they the Camp is 30 Miles Southwest of Danang. Greeks Back government in Flection Athens apr the army imposed regime of strongman Premier George Papadopoulos won approval of a new greek Constitution by a 94 per cent majority and claimed today the vote represented a unreserved support of the government and the the claim was made by the governments chief spokesman Byron Stamatopoulos at a Post Midnight news conference. The Constitution which be conies effective immediately drastically reduces the Power of Seif exiled King Constantine and establishes a Strong executive. It also sets up unprecedented measures to curb political corruption which the Papadopoulos regime contends was rampant under elected greek govern. Merits of the past. Adoption of a jew Constitution is just a first step toward return to a parliamentary system such As the one swept out of office by a bloodless army coup april 21, 1967. The next step would be general elections but no Date has been set. Martial Law and press control continue in the country and about 2,100 leftists remain in. Prisoner on two Aegean sea is lands. At least 12 former deputies or politicians also Are still under House arrest or in exile in Rural areas. Stamatopoulos called the huge yes vote for the Constitution in the sunday referendum a a Triumph for the government. A it is certain a he said a that the overwhelming majority of the greek Jie Opie support the government its efforts for peace and quiet and for the de. Fens of the country against subversive with returns tabulated from All but 844 of 8,108 polling Sta. Tons the vote was 4,004,954 for approval of the Constitution and 14,855 against or 94 per cent in favor. Nearly 23 per cent of the Reg. 1st a red voters did not vote de. Spite a Law making it obligatory. However Stamatopoulos said that 590,000 of those Regis. Tired had emigrated from Greece and that the actual percentage of absenteeism was nor. Mal for a greek election. He said that Only those who wilfully absented themselves would be prosecuted and that this number probably would not be Large. Many voters could not get Home to vote because of huge transportation snarls. King Constantine who has been living in Rome since he fled Greece after an abortive counter coup last december appeared no closer to return As a result of the referendum. Presumably he May be recalled when and if parliamentary elections Are held but whether he will return is another question. One immediate effect of the new National charter is to de. Prive Queen Mother Frederika of her $100,000 annual pension. Today s chuckle female conversation usually consists of who when and Wear

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