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Humphrey-M hs kie Ticket Endorsed By Advance-News-Page 4 Highlight Ferrox P lan t Prepares for Opening Here. — Story Page 17; Football Results on P a g e 21. LOCAL, COUNTY, STATE, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEW S REPORTED IN DEPTH Weather Variable cloudiness with sunshine this afternoon and m ild. High in the 50s to low 60s. Pair to partly cloudy and cooler today. VOL. 21. NO. 969 PUBLISHED IN OGDENSBURG, N.Y., 13669, SUNDAY, NOV. 3, 1968 PRICE 25C t e e l l y , c o m m e n t s . . . By CHARLES W. KELLY The day of decision on t h e Ogdensburg City C h a rter is j u s t two d a y s away. N ever before h a s any com m u n ity effort h a d the w idespread support that th i s Charter has received. Public endorsem e n ts have come from all walks of life. Both political p a rties, and th e clergy o f the com m u n ity have endorsed it. The Charter should he given a m a n d a te by th e voters Tuesday. The Charter is im p o rtant today, but yet it is even m o r e im p o rtant for the fu tu r e of Ogdensburg, F u li time leadership is im portant today. The Charter Commission, and m em b ers of the Citizen’s Com m ittee have presented an excellent case. They presented the Charter when, an d w h e rever asked, and have proudly defended it every step of the way. Frank Murray, chairm an of the C h arter Commission, and th e mem b ers of the Commission, can be proud of their work. T h e Letters to the E d itor, published in both Journal and the Advance-News, are c e rtainly indications of how the people feel ab o u t the C h a rter, See letters on Page 15 of t h i s issue. The Charter Commission has done its job w ell, now its up to t h e people. Vote “YES” on the C ity C h a rter for Ogdens- burg’s future, In th i s issue of the Advance-News we have endorsed th e Humphrey-Muskie tic ket; P a u l _ O’Dwyer for U n ited States Sen ate; D a n Haley fo r Congress; Bernie Lam- mers fo r State Senate; S teve Ferency for State Assembly and J e r r y Reagan for County Coroner. See editorials on P a g e 4. * * * H istory was made in St. Lawrence County Court this past w eek when a cG.fon dant, facing fo u r 'xelony charges, chose to present his own defense. T h e jury found him g u ilty on all f o u r counts. C o u n ty Coroner will h e in position N u m b er 10 on th e ballot Tuesday. Al though t h i s position is near the end o f the ballot, it is nevertheless very im p o rtant in our county. W ith a v e r y high ra t e of accidental deaths it is im p o rtant th a t we keep qualified people In t h e office. Jerry Reagan, 10 B on the ballot is qualified. In our opinion h is opponent, Ronald Ma- rose, is not. A vote for Reagan is very im p o rtant in this race. P resident Johnson’s announcement Thursday night o f the bom b ing h a l t in Vietnam came as welcome news. Mr. John son, w o rking u n d e r severe pressure from all sides, both hom e and abroad, has done a rem arkable job handling this situation, and at t h e same tim e m anaging to keep it out of th e political arena. L e t ’s hope that this m o v e will r e s u lt in a p r o m p t end to the war. We hope th e r e will b e a big turnout for Pop W arner’s first annual football ban quet to b e held a t the Oddfellows H a ll on Tuesday, Nov. 12. It would b e nice if each boy w as accompanied by a t least one par ent, or friend. It is gratifying to see t h a t the R e p u b li can candidates hav e finally got to work hard to g e t elected in this area, The Demo crats h a v e come u p with an excellent slate of candidates and th e Republicans know it. In the past, the heavy enrollm ent in the Republican party has dictated the election of Republican candidates. I t would appear that th o s e days a r e gone. T h e Democrats may s till be in the minority, b u t the Repub licans can no longer take th e North Coun try for granted. T h is is the way it should be. A m a n should b e elected on his qualifi cations an d record, not on h is enrollment. The McEwen-Haley race seem s to have captured the attention this year. M uch to the surprise of m a n y , Haley has defeated McEwen in a num b e r of m o ck elections held in high schools and colleges in the area. Of course, com e Tuesday, the young will not b e voting. If Haley were to win it would be the upset of the century. Ogdensburg’s high school football teams finished th e i r Seasons with winning records. St. M ary’s won Saturday over Belleville to end th e ir first season in the St. Lawrence V alley eight-man football leagtie w ith an unblemished record of eight wins a n d no losses. OFA lost t o Gouvemeur Saturday, and finished th e ir first season under Coach Brian Wade w ith a 4-3 record. Heuvelton handed Lisbon its second loss of the season, 27-21, scoring the winning touchdown with o n ly 20 seconds left in the game a t Lisbon, H u m p h r e y C l o s e s G a p LOOKING AHEAD — Timmy K e ly, 6, and his sister, Maureen, 5, wish they could vote come Tuesday, eteecially on the new City charter, which would get their Yes votes. F o r th e ir future here, when they finally grow up, depends on what kind of a city O g d ensburg becomes. For the sake of all the children here, whose future de pends on a progressive, up-to-date city, m a k ing the m o st of its opportunities, it is expected many progressive citizens will cast Y e s votes fo r the new charter when they go to the polls, Tuesday. Timmy and M aureen are th e two older of three chil dren o f Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Kelly, 818 Greene St. (Jack W ood Photo) Xuan Thuy Hail Bombing Halt Great Victory For Vietnamese PARIS (AP) - North Viet nam said today that the halt of U.S. attacks on North Vietnam “ costitutes a great victory of the Vietnamese people in both zones.” Xuan Thuy, chief North Viet namese negotiator at the Paris talks with the United States, said this was Hanoi’s answer to the decision by President John son to stop the attacks. Thuy told a news conference the Paris talks the past six months have been concerned only with an agreement to halt the attacks on North Vietnam. “ The representatives of the United States in Paris advised us that the President of the United States, Lyndon Johnson, has fulfilled this demand (for a h a lt to the attacks on the North, which was supported by the American people, world opinion and numerous governments,” Thuy said. The envoy said the next step w as an expanded conference to include South Vietnam and the Viet Cong’s National Liberation Front “to discuss a peaceful so lution to the Vietnamese prob lem.” Thuy noted that Johnson had agreed that “this meeting will take place in Paris on Nov. 6.” He was asked to comment on a statement President Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon th a t South Vietnam would send no delega tion then because it refuses to recognize the front. Thuy said the United States had proposed the presence of South Vietnam at the expanded conferece and the Americans had assured him that all their proposals would be carried out. “We accepted this in good faith,” Thuy said. “As forSai- gon’s attitude, this is an affair for the United States and Saigon to settle.” Thuy said he and the Ameri cans had agreed that the four parties of the expanded confer ence would be “independent Record 73 Million Voters Will Go To Polls Tuesday By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) - A record outpouring of nearly 73 million voters is expected in Tuesday’s presidential election, but the turnout may drop below 1964 levels in a dozen usually Democratic states. The previous record was set in 1964, when just under 71 mil lion Americans cast ballots in the election which saw Presi dent Johnson rout his Republi can opponent, B a rry Goldwater. As it did four years ago, Cali fornia is expected to cast the heaviest vote, an estimated 7,040,000, while New York is ex pected to rank a close second with 7 million. Both totals would be lower than four years ago. According to an Associated Press survey of official registra tion records and estimates by elections officials, a total of 90,141,438 of the 121.5 million Americans of voting’ age are registered to vote. The actual turnout is estimated at 72,987,527; or 81 p e r cent. Some states do not require re gistration, so estimated vote to tals were used. Other totals do not include some latecomers. Besides California and New York, lower turnouts than 1964 are expected in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Washington, New Mexico, Mich igan, Kentucky, Oregon, Wyo ming and the District of Colum bia. All other states expect larger turnouts, with the largest in creases turning up in Florida, 300,000; Ohio and Virginia, 200,000; and Mississippi, New Jersey and Maryland, 150,900, Many southern states have sharply increased registrations due to the influx of Negro voters since passage of the voting rights act of 1965. And in Utah, a 100,000-vote gain, some 25 per cent, is ex pected because of a hot state wide fight over legalizing liquor by the drink. McEwen Will Camoaian By f i n The \Bob McEwen Get Out the Vote Bus” will travel ar ound St, Lawrence County Mon day in a windup of Congress m an Bob McEwen’s campaign for re-election as a Republican member of the House of Repre sentatives. Aboard th bus will be the congressman, Mrs. McEwen and daughters Mancy and Mary who have been campaigning ac ross the 9,000-square-mile 31st Congressional District with the congressman this past week. On Monday the bus will stop a t villages, towns and shopping centers with residents having a chance to ask Congressman Mc Ewen questions personally. HHH Calls Nixon Cold War Warrior’ In Eastern Swing delegations having the right to speak for themselves.” He said that while Johnson had suggested next Wednesday for the first meeting of the four, he had agreed to his date but was going to meet with the Americans later today or Sun day to fix a date and time. The North Vietnamese said the first question to be dis cussed would be that of proce dure. He m ade it clear that the issue of a cease-fire would have to wait until an agenda had been fixed. Thuy read a statement that was the same as one broadcast earlier today by Radio Hanoi. “The fact that the United States has h a d to cease uncondi tionally the bombing of the en tire territory of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam after having accumulated for four years monstrous crimes against the population of North Vietnam, and after having blocked for five months the Par is talks, m a rks a great victory for the Vietnamese people of both zones,” the statement said. “It is thus a great victory of the socialist camp, the national liberation movement and the peace movement, and a great victory of the peoples of the en tire world including the progres sive people of the United States.\ By Jossph E. Mohbat Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Vice President Hubert H. Hum phrey brought down the curtain on his arduous Eastern cam paign Saturday with a series of crowd-drawing rallies in New York. Across the suburbs of Long Is land and into noisy slum areas in Harlem and Brooklyn, the Democratic presidential candi date bid for the 43 electoral votes of a state that is crucial to his election hopes. At his side, he proudly dis played one of the latest and most welcome supporters of the Humphrey cause, Democratic Senate candidate Paul O’Dwyer A peace candidate who had sup ported Sen. Eugene J. Mc Carthy for the Democratic pres idential nomination, O’Dwyer gave the Humphrey cause a boost Friday by endorsing the vice president after President Johnson had ordered the bomb ing halt in North Vietnam. Introducing O’Dwyer at an airport rally at MacArthur Field, Humphrey described him as “an old friend,” and said, “I’m ve- pleased that he’s here.” Humphrey takes off Sunday for Texas and California, where his long presidential campaign will come to a close with a Mon day night telethon. By the end of the week, he had sandwiched into six days strenuous campaigning all of the E a stern and Midwestern states wielding the most elctor- al votes. He had drawn large and enthusiastic crowds in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and New Jersey. Humphrey continued U> focus his campaign oratory Saturday on his Republican rival, Rich ard M. Nixon. Humphrey called Nixon a “cold war warrior” and accused Mm of talking about a security gap which doesn’t exist. He said Nixon disqualified himself as a great leader when he called the nuclear test ban treaty a cruel hoax. “This man is not dedicated to the cause of peace,” Humphrey said at the airport rally. He urged the crowd to work for him like they worked for John F. Kennedy in i960 and Robert F. Kennedy a few years later. “If you work for me in the next three days,” he said, “we’re going to rout the enemy and win the election. We’re pull ing our country together. We’re not going to listen to the dema gogues.” He charged in a statement that Nixon “has once again put his vain hopes for political gain before our national interest with his false charge that the united States is second in space.” Churging that the Russians had surged ahead in the space race during the Ei\enbower- Nixon Administration, Hum phrey said the succeeding Dem ocratic administrations “not only closed the dangerous Re publican space gap, but moved America decisively into the lead.” He said the Democrats “have tried to avoid making space an other battlefield, but have tried instead to u se it as a laboratory for peace. Now Mr. Nixon would reverse this effort and turn our peace program into yet another costly pawn in his escalation of the nuclear arm s race . . .” LBi Presents Medals To Three Astronauts; Webb Receives Award By PAUL RECER AP Aerospace Writer JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (AP) — President Johnson honored the Apollo 7 astronauts Satur day, saying they have proved that America leads in space. And veteran spaceman Walter M. Schirra Jr. used the occasion to apologize for his “feisty atti tude in orbit.” Navy Capt. Schirra and his Apollo 7 teammates, Air Force Lt. Col. Donn F, Eisele and ci vilian Walter Cunningham re ceived from the President the Exceptional Service Medal, the National aeronautics and Space Administration’s second highest award. The ceremonies were held in a converted aircraft hangar at Johnson’s LBJ ranch near here. The President also presented NASA’s highest award, the Dis tinguished Service Medal, to James E. Webb, NASA adminis trator who resigned last month. Johnson said Webb “more than any other individual de serves credit for United States success in space and for helping the United States reach out to the stars.” The President told the Apollo Dan Haley Wins School Vote At M~W Friday Waddington—In a mock elec tion held at the Madrid-Wad- dington Central School on Fri day afternoon, K. Daniel Haley received 290 votes for Congress man from the 31st District wMle the incumbent, Robert C. McEwen of Ogdensburg polled 120. 7 crewmen they proved they “were flying the world’s most advanced and most versatile manned space vehicle.” “You proved that the United States today leads in space ac complishments,” the President said. Schirra and his crew flew an engineering check-out mission of the U.S. spacecraft which will ferry men to an orbit around the moon. Space officials called the mission a p erfect flight. With Johnson sitting in a rock er before them and their fami lies watching from one side, the three Apollo 7 astronauts flashed the wit they showed dur ing their flight while taking a large crowd of newsmen on “a world tour from space.” This was done with films taken dur ing their mission which lasted nearly 11 days. During a question-and-answer session, Schirra said many of the angry remarks he made from space during his flight were the result of a severe head cold and the extremely crowded schedule of the crew. Some of the remarks came when he ov erruled instructions from the ground. “I do apologize to everyone for some of m y remarks as they were phrased, but not for my decisions,” said the 45-year-ola mission chief. Schirra, who narrated the film, said th a t working in the weightlessness of space “is a delight. It’s a very easy envi ronment for man to get used to.” In addition to scenes inside the cabin, the films included also pictures taken of Florida, California, the Suez Canal and other points on earth* including Johnson’s ranch, Schirra prom, ised the P resident a copy of that picture. i , * v Nixon Holds Slight Laid By CARL P. LEUBSDORF Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - H bert H. Humphrey is making in roads into Richard M. Nixon’s lead, but a state-by-state survey shows the Republican nominee still in the lead. The election may wind up in the house. Some 85 House candidates with a good chance of winning have indicated they would vote for the popular vote winner, re gardless of party. The survey showed that if the current indi cated leaders are elected to the House, Nixon would have sup port from 17 states, Humphrey 12, Wallace 1 with the other 20 up in the air. Because of the three-way race, and the usual flock of mi nor party candidates, most states appear likely to be won with well under 50 per cent of the vote. The exceptions are a few of the thinly populated Western states. Of the seven most populous states, the survey puts three— California, Illinois and OMo— into Nixon’s column with the others even. In Illinois, Humphrey has re duced Nixon’s margin in the cChicago Sun-Times poll from 16 per cent to 8 per cent. In OH where Democrats claim to be neek-and-neck, a statewide poll by the Cleveland Plain-Dealer 10 days ago showed Nixon head ed for a landslide victory. The most recent Detroit News poll in Michigan put Nixon ahead by one point. But in New York, the Daily News straw poll, which started last week with a four-point Nix on lead, now shows Humphrey two points ahead after going more than four ahead earlier in the week. The latest Texas polls show Humphrey and Nixon within a point or two of each other. Hum phrey returns for a last visit Sunday. Republican polls in Pennsyl vania put Nixon ahead, but Democrats say they expect to win. As he did in 1960, Nixon ap pears well on his way toward a virtual sweep between the Mis sissippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Only Minnesota, Mis souri, Arkansas, New Mexico, Texas and Washington are not listed in his column and they are rated toss-ups. In trying to put together the same coalition of large indus trial and key southern states which elected John F. Kennedy in 1960, Humphrey is having his troubles. In the South, hq finds the white vote runnihg heavily against him. But the rapid growth of Negro registration gives him a hot a t a number of states. His success depends on a large turout of Negroes, who are considered overwhelmingly for him; one of every five white votes; and a close division of the remaining whites between Nixon and Wallace, continuing problem, the survey shows, is the impact Wallace’s campaivn among unionized blue collar workers in such industrial states as Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Mrs. McDowell Injured In Fall At Waddington Waddington — Mrs. Anna C. McDowell fell oh the town steps Thursday night after having at tended the Firemen’s Hallow een party. She reportedly sustained a deep laceration on the back of her head and was taken by the Rescue Squad to Dr, Russell Stoner’s offices where X-rays were taken. Mrs. McDowell, the former Anna C. Corcoran of Ogdens* burg, was expecting her daugh ter, Mrs. Harold Ceilings of Schenectady to stay with her for a while.
