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Highlight M e a t Packages vote won’t be voted in Assembly — Story Page 17. VOL. 21. NO. 946 A D V A N C E sastEssasajsEBEzsay L O C A L , CO U N T Y , S T A T E , N A T IO N A L AND IN T E R N A T IO N A L N E W S R E P O R T E D IN D E P T H W e a t h e r Continued fair with little tens- pernlure change today and Monday. PUBLISHED IN OGDENSBURG, N.Y., SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1968 PRICE 25C k e l l y c o m i m e n t s . . . By CHARLES W. KELLY The controversy that has developed over t h e Waddington Pont Bill could have been avoided if the bill bad been given proper attention. The problems that sur rounded this bill could have been uncover ed two weeks, or two months ago had Assemblyman Keenan and Mayor Pember ton been doing their homework. Keenan should, have been lining lip his support for both the Ogdensburg and Waddington bills two a n d three weeks ago. The true fact is that the Democrats moved the Ogdensburg port b ill, but were unable to overcome the “in” fighting of th e Republican party when it came to the Waddington bill. It was tihe Democrats who informed Waddington that Senator Barclay h ad not introduced a com panion bill in the Republican State Senate. It was after receiving this information that Mayor Pemberton and Daniel Herzog, a Waddington Democrat, decided to go to Albany to investigate the matter personal ly. Why didn’t Mayor Pemberton know that there was not a companion bill in tbe Senate? Who asked Senator Barclay to introduce the Senate bill? Was he asked? We h ave not always agreed with Dr. DePue, or the Bridge and Port Authority, but we can't fault them in this case. Had the homework for this bill been done, Keenan and Pemberton would have met with Dr. DePue and members of the Bridge and Port Authority. Dr. DePue is being criticized in Waddington for not re sponding to the 11th hour call after being ignored for four months. Remember, the Legislature has been in session since January. No, it’s not Dr. DePue this time, the blame should be put in the hands of Assemblyman Iveenan and Mayor Pember ton tor not staying on top of the situation. Obviously there has been no dialogue of any kind on the Waddington Port bill between Keenan. Pemberton, Barclay and Henry S. Howard, chairman. St. Lawrence County Republican Committee, who is also the Waddington Village Attorney. Realiz ing (he embarrassing situation that they find themselves in, the individuals con cerned are looking to make Dr, DePue the “goat” . Dr DePue had not reviewed the bill, n o r does he he - p fhe authority to speak on behalf of the Authority. In our opinion Dr. DePue used good sound judg ment in not making a public statement before talking to EDA or the Bureau of the Budget in Albany. Complaints are being received, as in previous years, about the trash bloving all over Proctor Avenue. During the past week we discussed the matter with some people, and in their opinion, its not the tourist, but some city residents who are causing the problem. The trash cans have been placed on Proctor Avenue for tourists, not as private trash barrels. If city resi dents insist on using them to dispose of their personal trash the tourists’ trash is bound to end up on the street. >:< Last Sunday we remarked about the liberal pension program that the New York State Legislators have voted themselves. We mentioned that Senator Barclay had voted for it, but while in Albany Tuesday, we found out th a t he had voted “no”. We apologize to Senator Barclay for this error. Assemblyman Keenan did vote for the pension plan. * # * Traffic control signs should be placed near city play areas. It isn’t necessary to place the signs a ll the way around the park, but it is important that the signs be placed on the side of the park where the play area is located. For instance the 800 block of Greene Street and the 100 block of Rens selaer Avenue. Parking could also be limited to one side of the sheet, with the exception of Sunday morning. A child’s life m u st be worth something, * * # I was surprised to hear that Senator McCarthy’s supporters in the 31st Con gressional District were challenging peti tions of supporters of both Senator Ken nedy and Vice President Humphrey. The people should have the right to decide in the J u n e 18 primary. I thought that they wore supporting Senator McCarthy be cause they felt he was tire best man. Why not let the people decide who is the best man? * * * The Boy Scouts are certainly running an excellent weekend Camporee program. George Dillingham, and his Camporee com mittee, have done an outstanding job. * * * The passing of the Ogdensburg Port Bill in hotli housing of tlie State legislature could be the beginning of a new era for Ogdensburg, and St. Lawernce County. Regardless of what some of our Republican friends have to say, State Democratic Chairman John J. Burns and County Chair man Walter Basmajian played the key roles in getting the bill through the As sembly. Senator Barclay guided the bill through the State Senate. A bill of this nature should be above party politics and the Democrats treated it as such. Jim Mc- Guinness and I got into see Speaker Tra via, b u t it was Basmajian and Burns that made the arrangements, C o m m u n i s t s R e n e w S t r i k e O n T h r e e M a By LEWIS M. SIMONS Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) — Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces struck on th r e e major fronts of tbe war in South Vietnam Satur day—probing anew on Saigon's fringes, attacking three U.S. outposts in the central highlands and blowing up an American fuel dump with a 100-pound ar tillery attack below the demili tarized zone. Re-fugees poured into the cen ter of Saigon by the hundreds to escape fighting in a northeas tern suburb where Viet Cong guerrillas took over civilian homes apparently while at tempting to penetrate the city. With flares and tracer bullets lighting the night sky, a South Vietnamese armored column blocked the way to Saigon and U.S. Army helicopter gunships blasted the enemy pockets with rocket fire. On the southern fringe of the capital, Iroops of the U.S. 9th Infantry Division battled it out with another Viet Cong unit near Y Bridge, where enemy troops seized a residential block in the May 5 offensive against Saigon. The infantrymen and national police reported killing 14 Viet Cong. One American was killed and five were wounded. The po lice reported no casualties in their ranks. At the same time other enemy forces laid in 300 mortar rounds at the district capita! of Ben Cal, 25 miles north ot Saigon, wounding one American soldier and 12 Vietnamese—eight of them civilians. The attacks on Saigon's fringes came amid reports from South Vietnam's national police that the Viet Cong were building up for another thrust on the na tion's capital—possibiy to be timed for ihe resumption Mon day ot preliminary peace talks in Pans. Same homes in the area wne •-to aiire and iiupe columns of black smoke curled up over the area shortly after the fighting began. The action continued into the night hy the light of flares dropped by U.S. helicopters. Senator K e n n e d y Is W o rried A b o u t T u e s d a y ’s Oregon Humphrey In St Louis Visits ferry S. Truman By WALTER R. MEARS Associated Press Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -E n igmatic Oregon has Sen. Robert F. Kennedy worried as he and Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy wage their campaigns toward* Tues day’s presidential primary. The rival campaigners were both at work Saturday, hunting votes in a race which Kennedy has termed vital to his hope of becoming the Democratic nomi nee for the White House. And on a bank of telephones, political forces of organized la bor solicited support for Presi dent Johnson—with Vice Presi dent Hubert H. Humphrey the intended beneficiary. Kennedy has won two primar ies over McCarthy now. has three to go for the sweep he wants, and has said he may have problems in this one. The New York senator was said to hold an edge in public opinion polls taken by his organ ization, but by margins so slen der as to be inconclusive. Republican Richard M. Nixon was on the Oregon circuit, too, wooing GOP voters at a leisure ly pace, saying he expects to get ahjut 55 per cent of the Tuesuay vote. Television and a deluge of campaign advertising were the prime weapons of a rival GOP campaign in behalf of California Gov. Ronald Reagan. He is on the ballot with Nixon—has not come to Oregon to campaign, says he is not running for the nomination—but acts like a man who wants assignment. Another absentee is New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, a declared candidate but, like Democrat Humphrey, not en tered in the primaries. A Rockefeller campaign, de signed to promote write-in votes, was turned on late in the game, and produced the New York governor's most direct in tervention to date in a presiden tial primary. Eighteen Republican nominat ing votes will be awarded to the Tuesday victory, and that is vir tually certain to be Nixon. His rivals are battling to cut into the GOP vote in hopes of show ing ballot box appeal which could slow the Nixon march to ward the nomination. Thirty-five Democratic Con vention votes go to that party’s winner. But much more is at stake for Kennedy, whose forces feel a sweep of the primaries is needed to propel their man for the confrontation they expect will in the end match him against Humphrey. Kennedy’s Oregon theme has heen to campaign past Mc Carthy, to focus his fire on the vice president. “My opponent— the vice president—calls this the politics of joy and the politics of happiness.” he told campaign crowds. “I’d like to see it the politics of reality and the poli tics of hope.” He seldom mentioned Mc Carthy’s name. “This is a real horse race,” said Lawrence F. O’Brien, the former postmaster general now at work in the Kennedy cam paign. O’Brien said he was worried about the outcome. O’Brien said the talk of con cern in Oregon was genuine, not like gamesmanship of the Ken nedy forces in Indiana and Nebraska, where they down graded their prospects in an ef fort to enhance the impact of expected victories. In Nebraska, on May 14, Ken nedy got 51 per cent of the vote, McCarthy 31 per cent. Kennedy men insisted they would be satisfied' with victory by any margin in Oregon. “We’d only have to live with it for a week,” a spokesman said, forecasting a substantial Kenne dy victory in California’s pri mary on June 4. McCarthy has not been pred icting victory in Oregon, has de liberately downgraded the im pact of the primaries. He said that defeat, even if followed by a California loss, would not nec essarily knock him out nf presi dential contention. He said the blame for Oregon loss would have to be assigned to the candidate, not to his or ganization. But Oregon politicians neutral in the Democratic race were less enthusiastic. One political technician said McCarthy had missed a chance in forge ahead in Oregon. This man said such an opportunity appeared open about 10 days prior to the pri mary. He suggested that a shortage of campaign funds might have prewnted a late McCarthy blitz which could have claimed Ihe favorite's role. Neither McCarthy nor Kenne dy has disclosed the sums being spent on the Oregon Democratic campaigns. Labor unions waged the Hum phrey-Johnson campaign On the ballot, that ranking is re versed. although the Pre-idem has ruled himselt of the race and Humphrey has entered it The ballot was closed nine day ■-. before Johnson stepped a-ale So Johnson is listed as a pre.v dentia! candidate. Humphrej a- a candidate for vice president. By HARRY KELLY Associated Press Writer ST. LOUIS i AP) - Nice Fres- idi/il Hilbert H. Humphrey glimpsed a little political sun shine Saturday but he also found that it never rains bill it flours. The vice president started the day with a une-huur visit to for mer President Harry S Truman at the Truman home in Inde pendence. Humphrey briefed his lnmoran campaign chairman on how mam delegates he is picking up in his hattto with Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy for the Democratic presidential nomination. I . INDIAN TEPEE — Troop 42, from Rus sell, N.Y. is busy erecting their tepee on the grounds of the Boy Scout of America Camporee. The “Wild, Wild West” Cam poree was held this weekend near the Og densburg International Bridge. 1500 Boy Scouts from U.S. and Canada attended the fun-filled weekend which began Friday afternoon and will end today. Three troops from Canada attended the aetivties on Situday. They were Iroquois, Smith Falls and Athens. (Jack Wood Photo) H o ffa’s S u c c e s s o r N o t R e a d y T o Q u it By NEIL GILBRIDE AP Labor Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Frank E. Fitzsimmons, sitting in as Teamsters Union president for the imprisoned James R. Hoffa, hints he intends to keep control of the world’s biggest union un til he can run for election to suc ceed Hoffa. Denying a published report that he plans to retire before the next convention of the 1.9 mil lion-member Teamsters in 1971, Fitzsimmons, 60, said, “I will be at this business for years to come.” Fitzsimmons’ statement, publ ished in the Teamsters' maga zine, appeared to confirm other reports that most top union offi cials discount the possibility of Hoffa getting freed in time for a convention bid to return to pow er. “I hope to return,” Hoffa said 14 months ago when he was carted off to the Lewisburg, Pa., federal penitentiary to serve an eight-year iury-tam- pering sentence. But while Hoffa still retains the title of president, without the $100.000-a-year salary, his firm control of the union is gone. Hoffa still is fighting a five- year federal fraud sentence in connection with the use of union pension funds. This is separate from the jury-tampering convic tion. Most Teamsters leaders be lieve if Hoffa is paroled, it won’t be until after the June 1971 con vention, when his five-year term as president runs out. But Fitzsimmons, personally chosen by Hoffa to serve as act ing president, isn’t expected to have clear sailing to win the Teamsters’ presidency in his own right. Much of the power under Hof fa’s firm central control of the union has slipped back to 12 re gional vice presidents, who operate with a minimum ot con sultation with Fitzsimmons Several vice presidents—in- cluding Harold Gibbons of St. Louis, Murray Miller of Dallas and Ray Schoessling of Chicago --are expected to surface with presidential ambitions of their own by convention time. With the convention three years away, informed sources are already predicting a wide open convention fight to replace Hoffa as president. But the fight isn't likely to be gin before then. Hoffa, at the 1966 convention eight months before going to prison, directed the rewriting of the Teimsters constitution to block any power play for the presidency unless both lie and Fitzsimmons re sign. There appears no possibility that either of them will and so the Teamsters vice presidents, virtually powerless to move be fore the v-onvenlion, are biding their time. Humphrey presumably was optimistic—at least ab\Ul Mis souri— for he expected to leave tbe slate holding the support, his aides believe, of .hnust all <U the state's Hi) delegates to the nominating eun\ enlion. But dial was about the only n ■.<! bright spot of the day The Humplirej campaign plane had to circle for about 30 minutes 1 1 fore it could land in St Louis' soiipv weal her and Humphrey and Ills party climbed oil the plane in a <lrh ing ram. Hnmplirev spoke at the dedi cation ot the Gatewii'' AuTi. u great span which Humph; V called “a soaring ciir> ■ in the sk\ that links the rich heritage ot yesterday with die relxr lie tore of tomorrow Bui the planned nuMour cere mony had to he ,me , d imrtt r Sround to whur r- me.v used us an utidoonnni bin is planned m hi a museum shortly hcb>tv H.unphrcv spoke. '•'•Iii!i oi ci'oiary ol the In terior ’sn-e.iri L. L'oah van spoHkinL, a \nung Ni -in stood U|i ami began shouting alimit die ri.-i’d air Negro men to Iruc loht,. .■, mar, m a \otcr-m s cap pi ing whird him, l.i, u.-l.cd da- N. \io down and police i-'oiicdi- ai '•!}■ enn ied mm Hit Jn his speech, lb ■ rh> > called the arch, ‘the renewal nf a commitment \ That commitment. Humphrm said, \is tn conserve end enrich in the new America v.c art- creating—in the citn.\. i n the .suburban areas, in dm rural areas—that quality ol lift which characterized our past, Humphrey was a characterizing our part. Tran Van Huong Takes Office As New Premier By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH Associated Press W riter SAIGON i AP ’ - Former school teacher Tran Van Huong formally took oft ice as South Vietnam's premier Saturday al the head uf a new civilian cabi net. He called for the nation's quarreling factions to come to gether. “The nation is in danger,\ he said. “The water has come up to our feet. If we fail tc cooper ate now the swift current may swallow us.\ Huong, 64, unsuccessful presi dential candidate last year, pre sented his 18 “national unity\ ministers to Prcsidenr Nguyen Van Thieu in a hriet i eremony at the presidential palace. “The life and death of this country depends on this govern ment,\ Huong said. \We will do all we can to safeguard it.” He said Thieu called on him at a “historic turning point,” and he accepted the call be cause “when the country is in danger there is no time lo stay at home reading and planting flowers.\ Houng placed fourth in Sep tember’s presidential election, polling 10 per cent of the vote. Thieu appointed him tn be premier May 18 to replace Nguyen Van Loc who had held office for six months. Loc had been widely criticized for his government's failure to respond forcefully to the Viet Cong’s two offensives this year. Under the South Vietnamese constitution, the president ap points the Premier and cabinet to carry out the president's poli cies. Joshua Stoddard, who invent ed the calliope, envisioned it as a replacement tor church bells. However, it found its true home in the excus, P.T. Barnum bought one nf the first and spent $10,000, he said, to mount it on a gaudy red and gold wagon pulled by eight matched horses. in the central highlands, North Vietnamese army regu lars bunched mortar and ground attacks on three U.S. Army outposts west of Kontum, 75 miles north of Saigon. All three attacks were turned back. \P correspondent T. Jeff Wil liams reported from Kontum that the North Vietnamese hurled more than 100 rounds of ;2mm mortar fire at two U.S. Amn tire support bases known a- Bunker Hill and Brillo Pad, about ifi miles west of Kontum. The shelling was followed up h\ ground probes that were promptly thrown back. No reports of casualties were as aiinble At the Poiei Klcng U.S. Spe cial Forces camp. IU miles west ot Kontum astride the main mute into the city, the Green Berets reported killing North Vietnamese attackers. Their own losses were reported as 11 eh) During the day, L s ground patrols around all three bases ran into sporadic, mmol' con tact American jets roared o\?r- tiead Spiurtlay night, keeping up hca\\ bombing strikes nn sus pected enemy troop ci>ncentra- I 11.1 ii ? The tmht.ng canie on the beets of continued saturation numbing :n the area by U.S. Air I ’oreo B52 Stratotortre-sses. The ec.tin -engine,I honibers ran tour m.'-'MP- since Friday against trono emverPratmns, weapons n.,-it or,.- and bunkers near Dak fo. eh-■■■ii 2o mde- northwest of Jh,-i]t i. ir In lev past. concentrated i ontonc-. i;,;. tin- B52s have lier- -o'icrl rumor ground oftensives, -o.-h ■ ’hose at the Khe Snnh .Mare ■ combat base and the luiw -it me- supply center in t’n, '. Shoo Vnl!e\. ’U r M?.Y CtlOGS?, rnry il § FAMINE AID G A B E R O N E S , Botswana i API — A botswana govern ment request to the World Food Program for famine relief has been granted. Emergency ra tions to feed 10,000 families for 10 months are expected to start arriving here soojt. P a FRED COLEMAN Associated Press Writer LONDON iAP< — A ware of speculation swept Europe Sntur- dav that President Charles de Gt.ulle may be nn his way out e\en if he vets a vot< of confi dence in next month'- referen dum. Editorial comment in newspa pers of widely diverse v iews in seuT.i) countries agreed that Do Gaulle's chances if getting a “ves\ ute in the June balloting are lower than in earlier refer- endtims One British n e w s p a p e r, stressing ihe renewe ! rioting after De Gaulle's direr: appeal to the nation for support Friday night, said the general maj he forced to resign before the vot ing. Sam White, a Pans corre spondent for 25 years who has often written favorably ol De Gaulle, said in the London Evening Standard: \Tlu big question now is not what the re sult ot the June referendum will be. but whether it will be held at all. In short. De Gaulle may be forced to quit before the date set for the referendum.” Other newspaper comment was more cautious, partly be cause of tire lack of a clear al ternative to De Gaulle tor re storing order in France. The London Times said: \No body doubts that the mass of Frenchmen would be nappy for a return to order Probably too, a majority think, ''a t the gener al is the only person who can ef fectively make that return.” In Copenhagen, the Danish Radical Liberal newspaper Poli- tiken said De Gaulle \may win time but not much more. The people have seen the impotence of his government and now' in his own position.” “He has threatened to resign before, i f the people let him down. But that wrns in wartime and during a national crisis. This time it is his last card in an economic and social world which is not his,” Canada’s 128-foot-high Kak- abeka Falls flow only on Sun days. On weekdays water from (lie “Niagara of the North” in western Ontario is diverted through a flume to generate hy droelectric power,
