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Newspaper
Oswego Palladium Times
Location
Oswego, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1969
Page
1
On Midway Island Nixon and South Vietnamese President Thieu meet to decide actions that could change the Vietnam War. The site’s strategic purpose, limited facilities, and brief schedule frame the talks with a post meeting departure planned for later the same day.
Special Agent wounded and a police lieutenant beaten as gangs roam Indianapolis during the second straight night of violence. More than 100 arrests, injuries include six people with gunshot wounds, and police seal off the area with riot gear and a helicopter spotlighting the scene.
Moscow reports rising tensions at the world Communist conference as delegates from Paraguay and Poland criticize Red China. Nicolae Ceausescu warns such attacks risk danger, while Wladyslaw Gomulka condemns Pekin for border provocations and slanderous campaigns. Ceausescu urges unity among Communist parties.
A 4-year-old boy named Robert Holmes died after being struck by an automobile while chasing a ball into the street in front of his home. The incident occurred on Hayward Avenue where his mother, Mrs. Sandra Holmes, resides at number 404.
The Associated Press reports three medical groups Niagara County Dental Society Erie County Pharmaceutical Association and Columbia County Dental Society voted to leave state Medicaid programs citing a 20 percent fee cut as a major reason for their action.
The body of 45 year old Frederick Pearson was found floating in the Chenango River near a downtown bridge in Binghamton. Police said he had been in the water a short time and an autopsy would be performed.
In Auburn New York production and maintenance workers at General Electric Co semiconductor facility walked out in a wage dispute. Local 967 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers represents the strikers. In New York the Civil Aeronautics Board faced a court order to reconsider its award of air routes after a higher court found substantial prejudice against Mohawk Airlines.
Eleven of the Milwaukee 14 were sentenced to two-year prison terms after being convicted of theft arson and burglary in the Sept 24 seizure and burning of draft records. Court outside supporters chanted as the sentences were handed down.
New York State Senator Norman Lent says the Joint Legislative Committee on Public Health will study Blue Cross to determine if it has outlived its usefulness as a special state entity. He cites the nonprofit’s recent rate increase requests of 38 to 83 percent as the final trigger for committee action.
Controversial Rutgers professor Dr Eugene D Genovese will become chairman of Rochester history department and hold full professor rank starting September with approval from the UK Board of Trustees after a storm over his Vietnam War comments at Rutgers four years ago.
Amherst College held its 148th commencement with nontraditional attire and protest. About 60 graduates wore red armbands to signal dissent while others dressed in dungarees sandals or bare feet. A rock band blared over speeches as 301 degrees were awarded.
A reader condemns a controversial column and compares it to hostile radio programs. The letter urges signatures and voices concern about anonymous attacks in public discourse.
Nixon and South Vietnam's Nguyen Van Thieu travel to Midway Island for a series of five hour working sessions on Viet Nam policy. They will discuss troop levels de Americanization and South Vietnamese military capability amid reports of possible U.S. troop withdrawals.
A second day of heavy fighting and artillery duels swept South Vietnam as about 1,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong were reported killed in 48 hours. U.S. casualties exceeded 60 dead and 200 wounded, with 107 government troops killed and 379 wounded per South Vietnamese sources. Aimed at influencing the Midway Island talks between Nixon and Thieu, the surge included night battles near Da Nang and shelling across bases, while a reconnaissance plane was hit by antiaircraft fire over the DMZ.
Rescue efforts continued through the night for a Strategic Air Command RC135 recon aircraft missing with 19 aboard after takeoff from Shemya. Planes and three ships joined the hunt amid rough seas as Japanese and Soviet vessels offered aid.
A federal appeals court voided Hershey guidance allowing draft boards to revoke deferments for illegal antiwar actions. The unanimous ruling bars reclassifications for protest activity like picketing draft boards or blocking recruiters, while not striking down deferments for certain offenses such as burning draft cards.
The Florida Legislature urges President Nixon and Congress to keep Cape Kennedy as the Space Center name while restoring Cape Canaveral as the cape name. It cites 93 percent in a local poll favoring the Cape Canaveral restoration and recalls the 1963 renaming after President Kennedy's assassination.
A plane that bombed Port au Prince began its mission in Miami and carried members of a group aiming to overthrow President Francois Duvalier, a raider source said. A bullet-riddled Constellation-like craft landed at a Grand Bahama missile tracking station, and 10 men were taken into custody.
In Rochester New York three city patrolmen faced indictments by a Monroe County grand jury on charges of third degree burglary and grand larceny for allegedly stealing $670 worth of stereo phonographs and records from a warehouse on May 21. Patrolmen Richard A. Fornataro Tony V Novello and Bruce A. Rizzo pleaded innocent and were released without bail awaiting trial.
Police intensified the search for the killer of a 12 year old girl, daughter of a Turkish immigrant couple. Detectives began a house to house probe after the body of Mayran Hacenliyan was found in her city apartment. Marks on her neck showed strangulation and clothing disruption suggested assault. Medical tests were ordered to confirm findings.
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