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COUNTY WELFARE, MEDICAID COSTS: $ 3 , 4 8 4 , 1 4 1 . 2 6 Doctors: $1,041,266.06—Dentist & $ 5 8 7 ,879.69-Druggists: $500,289.72-M isc: $47,795.31 -Hospitals: $1,306,910.48 STORY ON PACES 1 2 & 1 3 H i g h l i g h t Two Girls Struck By Auto In Heuvelton; One Serious. Story, Page 17. A D V A N C E LOCAL, COUNTY, STATE, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS REPORTED IN DEPTH W e a t h e r Variable cloudiness and widely scattered showers to early today. Partial clearing this afternoon, with high in 40s to near 50. VOL. 21, NO. 971 SUNDAY, NO V. 24, 1 9 6 8 PRICE 25C k e l l y , c o m m e n t s . . . By CHARLES W. KELLY According to reports there is a move ment within the City Council to vote them selves a pay raise, effective Jan, 1. First, we would question the legality of such action, and secondly, I think it is ridiculous for the Mayor, or any member of tire Council to expect am increase at this time. The Mayor is now paid $3500 and each Alderman is paid $1,000 per year. It has been suggested that the Mayor be paid an additional $1,000, and each Alderman $500 for the next three years. On election day the voters of the city went to th e polls and ovei’whelmingly voted for a Charter that will enact the Council-Manager form of government, The Manager is to be appoint ed prior to Jan. 1, 1970, Why should the people be expected to pay a City Manager, and at the same time increase the salary of the Council? The new oharter eliminates the salary of the council effective Jan. 1, 1972. The Council should give this matter very serious thought before attempting to enact such legislation. * * * The Welfare and Medicaid figures for 1968 released by Commissioner Kitchin Saturday will make interesting Sunday reading. The report on the expeditures for the first ten months of 1968 appear on pages 12 and 13 of this issue. After looking them over, one would wonder if anything actually gets to the recipient. We talk about how much the recipients receive from welfare ,<auI it wodid seem that th-o Hon share yoes to those sei v-ing the i jeipi- e-nts. * * * To implement the new city oharter properly the mayor, city council and key city department heads will have to spend considerable time making specific arrange ments for the changeover. The Mayor might consider appointing a Citizens’ Committee to assist the Council in this transition period. For instance a citizens’ committee, made up of the best talent available in the community, could be used to interview possible candi dates for City Manager. The committee could then recommend a list o f three or five and the council could appoint from that list. The City Manager should come from outside Ogdensburg and St. Lawrence Co. Not because we don’t have men of the required ability, but because he wouldn’t be given half a chance if he were a local man. The Council has the duty and respon sibility of appointing the best qualified man available and this is going to take some extra effort on their part. * # * The St. Lawrence County Community Development Committee lias received 28 preliminary applications for the position of Executive Director. The amazing thing is that 85% of the applicants come from other areas of the state and a great many from out of State. The position has been vacant since Elizabeth Buck resigned. « * * The St. Lawrence County United Fund campaign in Ogdensburg is bad at best, to date. An editorial which appears on Page 4 of this issue reviews th e situation. If we are to expect the services that are supported by the United Fund, we must give. The cost of these services goes up each year and therefore our gifts must go up. In many cases I think the volunteers are more to blame than the givers, because of lack of effort in making their calls. Please read the editorial on Page 4 and give this matter serious consideration. « * * A special effort is being made to get the Teen Center opened for the winter months. The Recreation Commission meets Tuesday and shortly after, a special meeting with the Teen Center Advisory Board and a number of interested persons in the community w ill be held. In this column last week, w e suggested that a special effort should be made to g et a number of deplorable sites in our busi ness section cleaned up. During the past week steps were taken that should bring about the cleaning up of these sites. One store owner told m e that she would wel come a display in h e r window. If the city administration stays on top of the situation these eyesores will be removed. The build ing across from the Trust Company on Ford Street was cleaned up Saturday. Mrs. Joseph Gray, the owner, would welcome a community, or public service window dis play. We hope other store owners will respond as promptly as Mrs. Gray did. deGaulle Won’t Devalue Franc; Officials Stunned H u s b a n d o f O g d e n s b u r g G ir l A b o a r d A ir c r a f t H ijack e d k ‘ lo L u b a Satu r d a v N iffht m 6fc#*eeee48Ssid*s§%<[...:, ’ ’ 1 m \ FLORAL TRIBUTE — Mrs. Evelyn Lincoln, who served as personal secretary to the late John F. Kennedy when he was president, places a floral tribute at h is grave in Arlington National Cemetery. Mrs. Lincoln joined others in visiting the grave site on fifth anniversary of Ken nedy’s assassination in Dallas, Tex. (AP Wirephoto) Reds Announce Capture C j 1st Pil&t le North Since Nov. 2 Bomb Halt By RICHARD H. PYLE Associated Press Writer SAIGON (API - While U.S. Command spokesman played up enemy activity in the demilitar ized zone, Radio Hanoi an nounced the capture Saturday of the first American pilot to be downed in North Vietnam since the Nov. 1 bombing halt. A Phantom RF4C reconnais sance plane was felled by an tiaircraft gunners over Quang Binh, 40 miles north of the DMZ, and the pilot parachuted into North Vietnamese hands, the broadcast said. U.S. authorities confirmed loss of the plane, a two-seater, and said efforts were still under way to rescue the crewmen. Neither the pilot nor his com panion was identified. North Vietnamese news me dia had reported previously the destruction of five pilotless re connaissance craft in what they called “more than 190 spy flight violations” of North Vietnam this month. While ending the bombing and shelling of North Vietnam under President Johnson’s orders to promote enlargement of the Paris peace talks, the U.S. Com mand is keeping watch through the aerail scouting on enemy op- eratios in the North. Juiie, David To IVSarry In New York On Dec. 2 2 By LOUISE COOJ Associated Press Writer NEW YOK (AP) - Juiie Nixon and David Eisenhower, who met in the White House and courted on the campaign trail, will be married Eunday, Dec. 22, at Manhattan’s Marble Col legiate Church in wliat they hope to keep a private, rather than state, occasion. Mrs. Gerry Van der Heuvel, newly named press secretary for Mrs. ichard M. Nixon, an nounced at a news conference Saturday the wedding plans of the daughter of the president-e lect and the grandson of the for mer president, both 20. It will be an afternoon cere mony—4 p.m.-Mrs. Van der Heuvel said, performed by the ev. Dr. Norman Vincent Pe’ale, author of “The Power of Mrs. Van der Heuvel said Ju lie had attended Marble Collegi ate regularly since she moved to New York City in 1963. The marriage in the 114-year- oid 1,200-seat Dutch reformed church will be followed by a re ception for 450 or 500 “close Mends and members of the family” in the grand ballroom of the Plaza Hotel, Mrs. Van der Heuvel said. Invitations already have been sent out. Asked if President and Mrs. Johnson would be invited, Mrs. Van dei’ Heuvel, smiling, said, “If they’re close personal Mends.” Neither Julie nor David were at the news conference in the Hotel Pierre, Mrs. Van der Heuvel said David was at Am herst College in Massachusetts where he is a junior und Julie was somewhere in New York City. Asked if the couple would ex change rings, she said, “I think it’s going to be a double-ring ceremony, but I didn’t ask.” MIAMI, Fla. (AP) - Four armed men seized control of an Easter Airlines jet with 90 per sons aboard and forced T to fly to Havana Saturday night. Dr. Bernard Tarr, an orthopedic surgeon, hus band o f Patricia Bisneau, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Bisneau of Og densburg, was a passenger on the hijacked plane. Dr. Tarr, who was hi Chicago on business, was enroute to his home in Miami, Fla. Mrs. Tarr, told her par- Ground observers as well keep tab on the DMZ, the six- mile-wide buffer zone on the frontier between the two Viet- nams which Johnson warned Hanoi Oct. 31 must not be abused. North Vietnam insists the bombing halt was uncondi tional. The U.S. Command said Sat urday that 22 North Vietnamese violations of the zone it had cit ed since Nov, 1 represented only about one-tenth of the incidents that have occurred. In reply to questions, a spokesman said there had been 210 indications of enemy activi ty in the zone this month. But the 22 made public by al lied military authorities through Friday were the only ones con sidered “significant enough” to repo'll;, he added. The total of 210 includes one unconfirmed incident—the shell ing of allied positions below the DMZ by enemy batteries Nov. 12. It has never been deter mined whether the enemy guns were within the southern half of the DMZ, as originally reported, or just south of it. The activity has included the firing of guns, troop and supply movements and the building or use of bunkers, WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi dent Johnson disclosed today that he was considering going to the hospital for x-ray checks of a long-standing intestinal disor der his physicians have de scribed as not serious or alarm ing. The time has not been set but the place will probably be the naval hospital in suburban Bethesda, Md. This is the only local hospita 1 the President ever has used. He dropped the word about going to the hospital again in the midst of a ceremony to say farewell to the secret service. He said one of his doctors had come up and asked about re ports he was going to dc this. Johnson said he asked wheth er the doctor heard this from presidential press secretary George Christian and was told no. it was fcom the secret serv ice. Christian told reporters it looked as if Johnson was not going tonight. ' “He is considering going to the hospital,” Christian said \to get the routine, normal x- rays he’s been having on this diverticulosis.” Christian said it was nothing serious and Johnson is having no trouble and is not on any particular diet. Rockland State Evacuates Over 300 Patients NEW YORK (AP) — A fourth state mental hospital is evacuat ing patients in anticipation of a spreading jurisdictional strike by ward attendants, who have already walked off the job at three other hospitals. Rockland State Hospital or dered Friday that 385 of its 4,100 patients be transfered by train to Gowanda State Hospital in Hetauth, N.Y. About 600 others were sent home earlier in the week. Two other state hospitals. Pil grim and Kings Park, in Suffolk County, Long Island, weie also planning emergency care for patients in case they are struck. District 50 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes, AFL-CIO called the strike five days ago because it wants to be recog nized as tiie bargaining agent for the attendants and other nonprofessiona! workers. ents by telephone Saturday night that she first learned of the hijacking when she went to the airport to meet her husband’s plane which was due to arrive at Miami at 8:20 p.m. Entering the cockpit while the Chicago-to-Miami flight was over Kentucky, the gunmen or dered pilot R. B. Silver of Mi ami to report only that the plane was being hijacked and to seek landing instructions for Havana. “The pilot said we could not ask him any questions,” said Fault Boatman, an administra tor for the Federal Aviation Ad ministration in Miami. Eastern saia there wer j -». en crewmen, 64 paid passengers and 19 pass-rktvrs aboard the jet. Silver reported the hijacking to the FAA in Indianapolis shortly after 7 p.m., about one hour after leaving Chicago. “The pilot simply told our controller that he was en route to Havana,” said James Brom ley. FAA flight supervisor in In- dianapols. “The pilot said there were four armed men on the plane. He then requested a flight plan to Havana,\ Bromley said. Silver has been an Eastern pi lot for 26 years. In Miami Eastern officials identified the other crew mem bers as Guy E. Blake, the first officer, and Andrew DE Felice, the second officer, both of Mi ami, and flight attendants Ju dith Lashmett, Margo Sunquist, Nancy Coreon and Carie Hering, all of Chicago. An Eastern spokesman said the plane landed in Havana at 8:41 p.m. EST. It was the 15th commercial airliner diverted to the Carib bean island this year. A Nation al Airlines jet with 57 aboard was seized Nov. 4 on a flight from New Orleans to Miami by a man who tok the ci •, he was a black nationalist \freedom tighter. The Eastern jet was a Boeing 727. In past hijackings involving jets of this size, Havana offi cials have refused to allow the passengers to return to the Uni ed States with the aircraft. Instead, the hijacked plane customarily has been released within a few hours and allowed to fly back to Miami with only the crew aboard. Passengers usually are taken by bus to Var- adera, Cuba, where they are al lowed to return to U.S. soil aboard propeller-driven air craft. 3 Colleges Close Doors After Racial Disorders By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Racial disorders have closed three of the nation's colleges at least until after the Thanksgiv ing holidays. Security forces guarded all approaches to Bluefield State College in West Virginia which was closed indefinitely after a bomb blast ripped part of the physical education building. No one was allowed on cam pus without a police pass. Class es were canceled and the school's 1,400 students sent home following the Thursday night explosion, the latest in a series of incidents including death threats and vandalism. Wendell Hardeay, the first white president of the formerly all-Negro college, said damaged from the blast was estimated at $80,000. Shortly before tbe violence in creased, Edgar James, a for- mre paratrooper who claims to speak for all the school’s 450 Negroes, demanded Tardway’s removal and presented a list of 35 grievances. The president of Oshkosh State University in Wisconsin has suspended more than 80 per cent of the schools 111 Negro students following a demonstra tion that ended with the wreck ing of administration offices. President Roger E. Guiles took the action Friday against 92 Negro and four white stu dents as he ordered a prema ture start of the school’s Thanksgiving recess. More than half those suspended were still in jail. The white president of the 11,000-anember student body and the ranking Negro faculty mem ber both recommended alterna tives that might lessen the pos sibility that the school would be stripped of all but a few of its Negro students. David Frank of Milwaukee, the student body president, said the violence indicated a gap sx- ists between Negro students and the administration and added: “By suspending the students, the question of closing the gap has in effect been suspended.” Since October the demonstrat ing students ahd sought an ad ministration pledge to expand offerings for Negro curriculum, allocate space for a Negro stu dent center and recruit more Negro faculty members. The rampage in the offices began after Guiles rejected their de mands. Authorities at San Francisco State College halted regular classes again until Dec. 2 and planned a three-day convocation to discuss issues behind a stu dent strike led b y the Biack Stu dents Union. Hie campus had reopened Wednesday after being closed , six days following disturbances between police and students. After more minor disruptions Friday the faculty voted to hold the convocation instead of class- , es next week, San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto offered tte convocation plan saying, “there is admitted ly educational value in the is sues which are being presssed.” A main student demand which touched off the trouble is for reinstatement of Black Panther George Murray, a graduate stu dent and part-time instructor, who was suspended after re ports he urged Negro stadents to canry guns o n campus. FranceWill Dip Into Its Gold Supply By STEPHENS BROENING Associated Press Writer PARIS (AP) — Charles de Gaulle defied the onslaught of speculative pressure against the franc Saturday and declared he will not devalue the currency7 he strove in his presidency to make one of the world’s strongest. First among France’s allies was one of stark surprise. Italian government of ficials were stunned. West Ger man Finance Ministry officials expressed shock. “We didn't expect this,” said an Italian Treasury spokesman, “Everyone expected devalua tion.” The 78-year-old general, who last week dismh-rsd devaluation -■c “tbe worst of absurdities,” J-cided to fall back on France's S3 9 billion gold reserve, nd $2.9 billion of interna! L; ai sup port. pledged to dc-* nd the franc. But it appeared he would have to prepare a series of harsh aus terity measures to stop the hem orrhage of capital which has drained at least $3 billion from French reserves since May. The dramatic decision was conveyed to newsmen in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace by Press Secretary Pierre-Louis Blanc after an emergency meet ing of the Cabinet which lasted 3 hours and 35 minutes. The brief communique said: “ The president of the republic makes known that following the Cabinet meeting held Nov. 23, 1968, the following decision has been taken: The present parity of the French franc is main tained. “The president of the republic will make a radio address Nov. 24, at 2000.” This is 8 p.m., French time, and 2 p.m. EST. The franc is worth 20 cents. The best guesses of experts had been that De GauHe would de value by 10 per cent, bringing the franc down to 18 cents. De Gaulle’s radio address will almost certainly be an attempt to surmount the crisis ot confi dence touching government stewardship of the national economy. One prominent French bank er, reached by telephone at his country home, said De Gaulle’s bold decision simply meant that the crisis of the franc was being postponed. He forecast a continued run on the franc whenever exchange markets reopen. Closed last week in France, Britain and West Germany, they had been scheduled to reopen on Monday. He said De Gaulle’s decision to maintain the francs’s parity means he has not abandoned his aim of seeking a reform of the international monetary system by worldwide parity readjust ments within a return to the gold standard. Ex-Syracuse Ahlefes Will Face The Jury SYRACUSE, N.Y”. (AP) — A county grand jury has indicted two former athletes at Syracuse University in connection with several robberies at motels and restaurants in the Syracuse area. H ie indictments were return ed Friday against Oley O. Al len, 21, and Wayne Ward, 20, both of Syracuse. Allen, a halfhack for Syra cuse’s football team for two years, was indicted on charges of robbery and grand larceny.
