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H i g h l i g h t OFA, SMA .Win, Page 21. College Scores On Page 22. A D V A N C E * — ........- ........ ^ — — M s w L O C A L , C O U N T Y , S T A T E , N A T IO N A L AN D 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 Weather Fair to partly cloudy and continued cool today. Highs in the 40s, Winds west to northwest, 10-20. VO L . 21, NO. 968 PU B L ISH E D IN OG D E N SBURG, N.Y., 1 3669, SU N D A Y , OCT. 27, 1968 P R IC E 25C S o v i e t s L a u n c h M a n n e d S p a c e S h i p B y CHARLES W. KELLY I hope that the voters of this country give serious consideration to the statement by Senator Ted Kennedy, Thursday, in which he blasted George Wallace, and his third party effort to split the country. It would he a tragedy for the American voters to throw their precious vote away by casting it for Mm. Kennedy is actively supporting Vice President Humphrey for the presidency. Both Humphrey, and his running mate, Senator Muskie, are well qualified to serve in the White House. The polls show Humphrey closing the gap be tween Mm and Mr. Nixon. Mr. Humphrey’s domestic record in the Senate and since his election as Vice President four years ago, is one to he proud of. The Vice P resi dent deserves the vote of the American people. * * * The Ogdensburg City Charter is gain ing support from all corners of the com munity and rightfully so. Both political parties have endorsed it and in addition to this many individuals and organizations have done so. Probably the finest endorse ment the Charter has received to date came from the fourteen clergymen repre senting all faiths of the community. Tradi tionally clergymen stand on the sidelines, and look on, but take no active public stand as a group in community activities, such as rewriting the city charter. But in this case, the clergymen feel so strong about the situation that they have taken a public stand, They are to be commended for it. * * + The Ogdensburg Pop Warner Football league closed out its first season Saturday night with a doubleheader at Jeff Park. Pop Warner went over big in its first sea son here. Mike Fennessy, the president, the officers, and coaches have done an excellent job with this program. * * * The hospitality was great at the lunch eon f r Senator Javits, Friday. It was un fortunate, but the Senator’s plane was unable to land because of weather condi tions. John Livingston, chairman, City Re publican Committee, and Mary Langford, president of the Ogdensburg Women’s Re publican Club, both invited me to attend. Being one who believes in extending all possible courtesies to national figure such as Senator Javits, I went. The food was great! Frank Augsbury, serving as toast master, made sure that I got a warm recep tion from my Republican friends, * * * After much fuss and confusion the St. Mary’s-Lisbon football game was played * in Lisbon Saturday afternoon. The game was scheduled to be played in Ogdensburg, but because of a breakdown in communi cations, the game was rescheduled Friday night for Lisbon because of “wet” grounds. I ’ve heard of baseball games being called because of wet grounds, but never before a football game. It’s too bad that the game wasn’t played under the lights at Jeff Park as we suggested last week, but accord ing to reports, Lisbon, who was also un defeated until Saturday felt that they would be playing at a disadvantage. SM A won, 33-0. The decision that St, M a ry’s couldn’t play at Jeff Park Saturday was made by the Softball Association Friday t evening. This decision was changed later that evening. But, at this point it was too late, because plans had been made to play in Lisbon. Pop Warner played at Jeff Park Saturday night. I hope that this situation serves as a lesson to all concerned for future consideration. # # * Four of our eight city couneilmen have now publicly acknowledged their support for the Ogdensburg City Charter. Support ing the Charter are Aldermen Curtis F. Kennedy, Wallace Herzog, Fred Erwin and \William Shoen, Supervisors Harold Mitch ell and John B. Leonard have also publicly stated their support. Judge Leonard has written a letter which appears on Page 17 of this issue. The letter clarifies a very 'important point. * * # According to Saturday’s report, the St. Lawrence County United Fund has only reached 6-2% of its goal, or $200,578.76. Ogdensburg seems to be way off the pace with only $7,080.89 raised of the $27,000 goal. The hulk of the operating budget for the Boys Club, Girl Scouts, Ogdensburg Rescue Squad, etc., comes from the United Fund, If the United Fund falls short, so will these organizations. Its as simple as that, * * * Assemblyman Keenan, and his oppo nent, Steve Ferency, should have an op portunity to discuss the issues face to face on television, The McEwen-Haley debate is scheduled for Tuesday night on Channel 7. Mr, Keenan should be asked to account for his stewardship in the same fashion. He ”%as gone through the motions of telling us what a nice guy he is, but has managed to avoid any confrontations on the issues during the entire campaign. “COMING THROUGH THE R Y E ” is one of Frederic Remington’s best-known sculptures and has been ad mired by many hundreds of visitors to the Remington Art Memorial museum. This sculpture, sometimes call ed, “Off the Range” was bequeathed to the Memorial museum by Mrs. Remington, whose death occurred Nov. 3, 1918. Sculptured by Remington and copyrighted Oct. 8, 1902, the bronze group depicts four cowboys on running horses, men shooting pistols and shouting, all four men whooping it up following a probable encounter with a bottle of rye. It was cast in the cire perdue (lost waxi process bv the Roman Bronze Works of New York City. 32 Dead After Plane Crash Airliner Strikes Mountain HANOVER, N.H. (AP) - Workers today began removing the bodies of 32 persons killed Friday night in the crash of a Northeast Airlines plane on 2,700-foot Moose Mountain. The plane carried 39 passen gers and a crew of three. Ten survived. The t w o -e n g i n e propjet crashed in fog about 60 feet from the top of the mountain and then burned. The injured walked or were carried from the scene Friday night. The first bodies removed to day were taken out by a Coast Guard helicopter and indica tions were that all bodies would be taken from the site that way. An attempt to have bulldozers clear a path to the scene was abandoned. Heavy woods and ledge made the slope extremely difficult to traverse by foot. From the air today, only the tail section of the craft could be seen in the still smouldering area. The dead included the pilot, Capt. John A. Rapsis, 52, of Na shua, N.H., who had been with the line 14 years. The airline said he had made the trip \hundreds of times” and the last radio contact with the plane was a half hour after its scheduled landing time, but it did not say why the plane was then still in the air. The only crew member to sur vive was M iss Betty J. Frail, 21, of Berkeley Heights, N.J., and Winthrop, Mass., who suffered a broken leg but was credited with saving lives by opening a rear cargo door to let passen gers out. Survivors also included Rob- Johnson Pressing For Bombing Halt; Hanoi Denies Beals Have Been blade B y JOHN M. HIGHTOWER AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (P) - Despite an angry denial from Hanoi of any bombing-halt deal, Presi dent Johnson was reported to day to be pressing ahead with secret negotiations for an agree ment with North Vietnam to de- escalate the war. WMle the Hanoi blast could be read as a rejection of Johnson’s still secret proposals, authori ties chose to interpret it as a propaganda attack which did not necessariy reflect the final decision of North Vietnamese leaders. The broadcast by Hanoi radio Friday, however, was receiving careful study. As reported in press dispatch es from Hong Kong, it said: “Statements by U.S. propa gandists that Hanoi has accept ed U.S. conditions in return for bombing hal t are nothing but deliberate lies.” Washington authorities took the position that there was still at least an even chance, proba bly better, for reaching some understanding on scaling down the war and advancing the Par is peace talks which would en- Nixon Still Is Leading But HHH On The Move By BRIA SULLIVAN Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - As the. 1968 presidential campaign moves into the home stretch, the public opinion polls still fa vor Richard M. Nixon over Hu bert H. Humphrye but there is increasing uncertainty about it all. The two most widely pub- lished reports, Harris and Gal lup, both show Nixon ahead and both show Humphrey gaining, But there are several complicat ing factors: Both of the latest Harris and Gallup polls to be reported were taken in early October and do not reflect the effects, if any, of intensified campaigning and re cent events. Both Harris and Gallup polls have a built-in possibility of sta tistical error of about 3 to 4 per cent. Unknown factors might even increase the possibility of error. The presence of George C. Wallace in the race—he gets 18 to 20 per cent of the vote in the Harris and Gallup polls— com plicates the job of translating popular votes into electoral votes. Harris himself has said that if Humphrey gains two or three points the election might be come too closs to call. Gallup says a 3 or 4 point gain by Hum phrey in the East alone could throw the election into the House of Representatives. able Johnson to end the bomb ing in ttie near future. This esti mate presumably figured in a statement made Friday by Re publican president car didate Richard M. Nixon in New York. “I am told,” Nixon said, ’’that top officials in the administra tion have been driving very hard for an agreement on a a bombing halt are nothing but sibly by a cease-fire, in the immediate future. I have since learned these reports are true.” Another Hanoi broadcast re corded by U.S. radio monitors and made available in Washing ton, spotlighted in Norih Viet namese terms the two issues widely reported as being at the heart of die negotiations for the past several weeks. Johnson’s principal conditions for a bombing halt have been reported to be that North Viet nam agree to scale down its military activities or at least to freeze the present lull in the fighting, and agree to start a second phase of the Paris peace talks in which the South Viet namese government would par ticipate. Besides demanding a halt in the bombing without any such agrtements, North Vietnam has maintained the public position for several years that the Na tional Liberation Front must speak for the people of South Vietnam in any peace negotia tions. These are believed to have been the principal sticking points in the negotiations under way the past several weeks on a bombing halt. They have been complicated by Johnson’s need to carry M s allies in the Viet nam war along with him. Cosmonaut Rendezvous With An Unmanned Ship By M ICHAEL JOHNSON Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet Union launched its first manned spacecraft in 18 months Satur day, and the pilot reported that he “successfully accomplished” a rendezvous maneuver with an unmanned sister ship that had been put up a day earlier. Cosmonaut Col. Georgy Bere govoy, the lone man aboard, took overmanual control of his Soyuz 3 craft, Tass news agency said, after it moved automati cally to within 650 feet of the un manned Soyuz 2. “I have successfully accom plished the manuever and ap proached the spaceship Soyuz 2,” the pilot radioed. “I am in high spirits.” There was no mention of a linkup and Beregovoy did not say how close he came to the sister ship, prompting specula tion that a planned hookup failed. But Soviet leaders congratu lated the cosmonaut on “the ful fillment of the assignemnt to maneuver and bring closer the spaceships.” He made his rendezvous at tempt on the first orbit. His flight continued and Tass said he was “fulfilled all operations called for by the program.\ The 47-year-old cosmonaut “feels well,” Tass added. Soyuz 3 has transmitted pic tures to earth, but they were not immediately made public. Soviet television and the peo ple of Moscow were joyous about the flight, aware that the Soviet Union has had no fully successful manned shot since March 1965. The only attempted manned experiment since then ended in tragedy, when Col. Vladimir Ko marov crashed to earth and was killed in Soyuz 1 in April 1967. Crowds on Red Square Satur day danced and cheered, car rying a huge portrait of Berego voy and a banner proclaiming: “Glory to our hero of the cos mos.” The flight came just four days after the splashdown of the 11- day U.S. Apollo 7 mission and five weeks after the return of the unmanned Soviet Zond round the moon maneuver. Beregovoy’s ship was orbiting the earth in a near-circular pat tern, reaching a high point of 139 miles and a low point of 127 miles. Beregovoy, a career air force officer, is the 12th Soviet cosmo naut to be put into orbit. He was born in a village in the Ukraine. He is married und has two children. His wife teaches history and both chil dren are students. H H H P r e d i c t i n g C l o s e r R a c e F o r The W hite House ert Kimball, 45, assistant dean of Tuck Business School at Dartmouth College, and Dr. Richard L. Veech of Oxford, England. All the survivors were taken to Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, which said today that none was in critical condition. The Weather Bureau said fog in the area at the time would have obscuced about the top 700 feet of the mountain. “Thert was a terrible crash and the plane burst into flames,” said a witness, Parmly R. Wills, 39, of Lebanon. Wills said he was returning to his car after hunting deer with bow and arrow when he heard the plane overhead. “I couldn’t see it because of the fog above me,” he said, “but all at once these bright landing lights started to shine in the fog. They were sm close to the mountain then that I knew they were going to hit it... I never expected there would be any survivors.” The Fairchild-Hiller FH227 propjet left Boston at 4:55 p.m. with 17 passengers for Lebanon, N.H., and 22 for Montpelier, Vt. an hour and a half after the plane’s scheduled 5:30 p.m. ar rival at Lebanon, Northeast an nounced it was overdue. Almost simultaneously, a fire that lit the sky was spotted high on Moose Mountain and fire fighters and volunteers began the tortuous climb. A fire fighter who said he was one of the first to reach the wreckage, Jean St. Hilaire, 45, said he drovt up in a jeep about a mile and a half, then hiked a mile to the scene. “It was still burning, but there was nothing left of the plane. The front of it was all smashed. The injured were hud dled together and a doctor who was a passenger on the plane was trying to help. B u t he didn’t have the equipment he needed. Most of the survivors were in shock.” Another fireman, Steve Mack, 20, said a male passenger told him he was apparently thrown from the plane in his seat and hurled down the mountain into a tree. Mack did not know the man’s name. “He told me he must have been thrown a good 390 feet down the mountain and found himself hanging upside down in a tree, still in his seat. He said he released his seat hell and dropped to the ground. Fortu nately, he was close to the ground and wasn’t hurt.\ By JOHN BECKLER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -As he enters the final week of his campaign for the presidency, Vice President Hubert H. Hum phrey says he is leading or has a 50-50 chance in states with a total of 251 electoral votes, and is gaining strength. It takes 270 electoral votes to win and Humphrey says there are seven additional states with a total of 98 electoral votes in which victory is possible. Humphrey assessed his race against Republican Richard M. Nixon and third party candidate George C. Wallace as he flew home from California to pre pare for his final campaign ef fort. Although his own account shows he is 19 electoral votes short of victory, Humphrey said the timing of his campaign is “just about right.” He said voter support is swinging to the Democrats after a slow start, and he indicated he is counting on the increasing pressure of a closer campaign to have an effect on Nixon. \I expect to see Mr. Nixon be come a little more irascible, a little more erratic,” he said. “I expect to see him hit out and I expect to enjoy it.” Humphrey counts his elector al strength mainly in the North east and middle Atlantic states. He lists 18 states and the Dis trict of Columbia as either his or a tossup. The list includes New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Texas, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Is land, Delaware, Maryland, Tennessee, Nevada, New Mexi co and Hawaii. The major state in the doubt ful, or possible, category by Humphrey’s assessment is Cali fornia. The state’s 40 electoral votes would be more than enough to give him victory if his other predictions hold up. He said he had made some gains in California, buf still trailed Nixon. \I intend to make one hell of a fight for California, I want you to know,” he said. “I think we have a chance to pull it out.’ Other states where he thinks he now is trailing, but where he could still finish on top, are Kentucky, Washington, Virgin ia, North Carolina, West Virgin ia and Oklahoma. Humphrey sees himself in much the same position as the late John F. Kennedy in 1969. “I think we’re doing better in Michigan and Ohio than he did,” Humphrey said, “and we’re not as well off in Illinois and, possibly, California.” Cushing Will Resign; Cites Publicity BOSTON (AP) — Richard Cardinal Cushing said Friday he will resign as archbishop of Bos ton at the end of the yeair, citing publicity he received after his defense of Jacqueline Kennedy’s marriage to Aristotle Onassis. Cardinal Cushing, obviously angered, said he had received “many letters condemning me for asking charity for Jacque line Kennedy.” He said some were “in the language of the gutter.” The cardinal on Tuesday urged a more tolerant attitude toward the remarriage and said it was nonsense to say the for mer First Lady was excommu nicated from the Roman Catho lic Church because she married a divorced man. “Now I propose after the pub licity I have received in recent days, in my own native city, which publicity has been going all over the world, to offer my resignation to His Holiness, Pope Paul VI, at the end of this year,” he said Friday on radio station WEEI. The cardinal, a friend of the Kennedy family for years, said in early 1967 he would retire in August 1970 on his 75th birth day, when he would have com pleted 50 years as a priest. The cardinal, who officiated at the marriage of the late Pres ident John F . Kennedy to Jacqueline Bouvia’, said he had promised Kennedy he would look out for Jacqueline and their children if anything happened to him. “He seemed to foresee that something was going to happen to him,” the prelate said. “I have fulfilled it evdft though my contacts with Jacqueline were for the most part in times of sorrow,” he said. “Time advanced. She wanted to get married. She selected her own partner in marriage some months ago. She came to me after others had advised her against her marriage.
