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H i g h l i g h t Lisbon Defeats Heuvelton; O FA And SM A W in — Stories O n Page 18. VOL. 21, NO. 9 7 4 ' A D V A N C E - / LOCAL, COUNTY, ST A T E , NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL 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 Cloudy and much colder to day with occasional snow or flurries lik e ly , Highs today in the upper teens and lo w 20s. PUBL ISHED IN OGDENSBURG, N.Y., 13669, SUNDAY, DEC, 1 5 , 1968 P R IC E 25C tte e lly c o m i n e i i t s . . By C H A R L E S W . K E L L Y T h e Ogdensburg United F u n d Cam paign jumped 12% d u rin g the p a s t week from 72% to 84%, w ith a to tal o f $22,- 610.69 having been pledged to d a te. This is up $3,000 o v e r the previous w e e k . The goal for the Ogdensburg area is $27,000. The picture looks much brighter th is week. I would lik e to p u b licly refute th e state m e n t by the C S E A th a t I have publicly ridiculed the Ogdensburg Public Em ployes fo r th e ir lack o f giving. A personal dona tion o r .pledge is confidential a n d right fu lly so. A t no tim e h a v e we published any donations w thout the personal consent o f th e giver, sudh as th e $100, o r more pledges that have been published during th e past two weeks, I have not publicly ridiculed the Og densburg P u b lic Em p loyes as I h a v e been so graciously accused in a statem ent by the C S E A . All D ivision reports have been pub lish e d weekly as a m a tter of U F policy for a period of almost ten years, A t no time have we questioned a personal pledge. W e have been concerned about c e r ta in areas o f th e campaign such as the P u b lic Em p lo y e s because of a decrease in total giv ing. The dem and for services h a s gone up e v e r y year. A fter ta lk in g to a number o f city em p lo y e s Friday and Saturday, I am con v in c e d that th e m a jority of the employes don’t think I have, e ith e r. I am taking the lib e r t y of forw a rding a copy o f th e letter I sen t to the M ayor and Common Council on D e c, 4 to th e President of th e CSEA fo r th e Board’s consideration. T h e r e is a sm a ll group of city em ployes w h o consider them selves “ u n touchables” who a re upset, but th is was expected. W hen considering a pledge to the U n ite d Fund, w e should be big enough to set aside any dislike fo r a volunteer, and w e ig h the cause on its merits. T h e United F u n d should not be judged on t h e basis of th e volunteer, but on the sendees it dis penses. It should be judged on th e merits o f th e Retarded C h ildren’s program , the . R e s c u e Squad, the B o y s ’ Club, th e United H e lp e rs, Catholic Charities, Salvation A r m y , Boy and Girl Scouts and th e many o th e r fine organizations that axe funded b y it in this com m unity. The 1969 proposed allocation for Retarded Children has been doubled over the 1968 allocation. Almost $9,000 of the $15,000 going in to the Re tard e d C h ild ren’s program in 1969 w ill com e into Ogdensburg. In conclusion, I w o u ld ask t h a t officers and directors of the Ogdensburg Unit of th e C S E A actively jo in the leadership o f th e United Fu n d campaign in Ogdensburg in a joint e ffo rt to p u t the d r iv e over. I urge any person, w h e ther em p loyed pub lic ly , or p rivately, who has not y e t pledged h is support to the U n ited Fund, to do so to d a y . Set aside any personal anim osities, and think firs t of th e retarded children, and the many other w o rthy program s that this fund supports. H o w about $.10, $.25, o r $.50 a w e e k ? A prom inent Ogdensburg citizen, while discussing the possibility of U rb a n Re n e w a l for Ogdensburg Friday, m a d e a sug gestion to me that m a k es good sense. He suggested th a t we approach U rb a n Re n e w a l in a w a y that both b e n e fits the shopper, and the com m unity itself. He cited as an example th e relocation of all e a r dealerships and accessory stores in th e same general area of the com m unity, in s tead of having them stuck a ll over the city. New cars can be sold in th e Second o r Fourth W a rd , they don’t have to be in th e heart of th e business section. A move is already underway to take th e S t . Law rence Seaw ay Headquarters out o f Massena. A Nixon hopeful announced la s t week that h e -would accept th e position o f Seaway A d m inistrator if the headquar ters were m o ved to another location . Con gressman M cEw en, 'an d other k e y North C o u n try Republicans, should sta y on top o f this,, and oppose a n y attempt to move an y federal jobs out of this area. The Sea w a y Headquarters in Massena m eans em ploym ent fo r th is County. # # * M rs. Thom as (Joan) Dalton, director, and Ted M adore, a W adham s H a ll student, have done an outstanding job th is year w ith the Ogdensburg B o y s ’ Club C h o ir. The- ch o ir sang before R o ta ry Thursday, and w ill b e at the United Helpers, K iw a n is and L io n s this w eek. The choir w ill also join S a n ta Claus in bringing good c h e e r to the Bo y s Club Christm as party on December 23. * * # President-elect N ixon, who o n c e asked G o vernor Rockefeller where St. Lawrence C o u n ty was, found his w a y north to pick a n a tiv e son fo r the top Cabinet post. W il liam P, Rogers, a native of N o rfo lk, and a 1930 graduate of Canton H ig h School, m ig h t better acquaint Mr, N ix o n with N o rthern N e w York and its u n iq u e prob lem s. U .S . A s k e d T o T a k e S tro n g e r R o le New Grants Urged For Inner City B y JACK M IL L E R WASHINGTON (A P ) - A fter an exhaustive two-year study of domestic difficulties, President Johnson’s National Commission on Urban Problems urged Sat urday a new system of m asive federal block grants to states and cities. But the grants, which would cost the government an estim at ed $6 billion extra each year, would supplement— not replace — existing programs of federal aid for specific purposes. In a report distributed to newsmen in shopping bags be cause of its bulk, the commis sion also called for a vast ex pansion of federal low-income housing programs to pay off on a commitment Congress m ade in 1949 to provide a decent home for every American. But if the existing approach of channeling f e d e r a l funds through local agencies and groups doesn’t work, the com mission said, “ then, reluctantly, we advocate that ihe Federal Government become the builder of last resort.” The commission, headed b y former Democratic Sen. Paul H . Douglas of Illinois, rejected the concept often suggested by R e publican President-elect Nixon of offering tax incentives to in dustry to help solve the prob lems. “ Our studies indicate th a t such an approach would be inef ficient and ineffective,” the commission said “ It is frequent ly forgotten that tax incentives may cause a drain on the Treas ury as great o r greater than direct subsidies.” Douglas told newsmen that the recommendation had been decided upon well before the No vember election and was not aimed at the Nixon Administra tion. 0 On the racial issue, the com mission said “ Perhaps the. m ost potentially explosive problem we face in our cities is the fact that the increase of nonwhites in central cities is accompanied by just as big a movement of whites from the center city to the suburbs. The result is an a l most unyielding pattern o f segregatioon.” To open the suburbs to the Negores and the poor, the com mission called for rigorous en forcement of the 1968 open hous ing law . And it urged federal and state requirements that lo- calites agree to build low-in come housing if they want to re ceive other urban aid such as the popular water-and-sewer grants. The commission also recom mended that states give cities the authority to lease housing for low - income fam ilies throughout their metropolitan areas, “ especially in suburban areas that have opportunities for blue-collar workers.” Wave Of Arctic Air Stings West By T H E ASSO C IATED P R E S S A wave of arctic cold stung the Midwest today, driving tem peratures to their lowest levels of the season and freezing a treacherous slick od ice onto higtways on the snow • topped northern edge of the nation. The week of autumn that re mained on the calendar was no consolation to residents of the Plains and Midwest, where the mercury climbed to record D e cember highs in the 50s and 60s at midweek, then plummeted to zero and below9 Temperatures from 10 to 20 below numbed the Northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley. Detroit Lakes, M inn., registered 23 below in a pre dawn reading. Temperatures of 10 to 15 above extended south across Kansas and east through Missouri and Illinois. Cold wave warnings: 4tt graf. C A B IN E T M E M B E R S O F N E W A D M IN IST R A T IO N — President-elect R ich a rd Nixon poses in W ashington w ith members of his cabinet. From left, front row: David K e n nedy, Treasury; M e lvin Laird , Defense; Vice President elect Spiro Agnew; Nixon; John A . Volpe, Transporta tion; Robert Mayo, Budget D irector; Robert Finch, W e l fare. Second ro w : W illiam Rogers, Secretary o f State; W inton Blount, postm aster general; Jo h n M itchell, At torney General; M aurice Stans, Commerce; George Rom- ney, Housing; C lifford H a rdin, A g riculture; George Shultz, Labor, and W a lter Hickel, In terio r. (A P W ire photo) U.S. Command Puts U.S. Troops On Curfew, Expecting lied Attack B y R O B E R T D. OHMAN Associated Press writer SA IG O N (A P ) - The U.S. Command imposed a night time curfew on American servicemen in Saigon Saturday following warnings that the enemy was preparing to launch a winter of fensive. The curfew bars U.S. troops from Saigon streets between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m ., a command spokesman said. I t will rem ain in force for the . 5.000 Am erican troops in the capital through Monday morning. U.S. m ilitary billets and clubs were sealed up at 7 p.m. V isi tors were advised to return *o their own quarters im m ediately. Despite the curfew, the a lert status remain on “ condition white” for most U .S. troops. This is a low-grade alert and in dicated the command did not LBJ Dedicates Housing Project For The Poor; Calls It A Beginning DOUGLAS B . C O R N E L L Associated Press W riter A U S T IN , Tex., (A P ) - Preei- dent Johnson dedicated a pio neering housing project for poorer people Saturday and said “ This is the beginning of 26 m il lion homes in 10 years.” Johnson spoke in a sort of courtyard among 10 spanking new houses, all different, that hold out hopes to the nation’s low-income fam ilies of being able to buy sim ilar homes for maybe $500 down and $25 or $30 a month. This would be done under tbe latest housing act which the President called one of the 10 most important in the nation’s 183-year history— an act under which he said “ we will spend $1 trillion in the next 10 years.” A ll of this w ill be repaid with interest, he said, if the form ula can be found for building a house that does cost too much for the average American buy. So far, the President said, we have failed. “ Because we have failed,” he added, we have all the restless ness and the disorder in the cit ies, because people who cannot eat in a decent place, cannot sleep in a decent place and can not grow up in a decent place are just not going to be decent citizens . . Accomoanied by Mrs. John son, the President flew in from the L B J ranch to a grassy spot on the bank of L a k e Austin near the place where the new homes have beeen erected on land that was open fields about eight weeks ago. The phot homes were rushed to completion—and will be occu pied by Christmas in a cooper ative project of the University of Texas at Austin and the U.S. Department of Housing and U r ban Development. H U D provided a $360,000 grant. The cost of the houses, land excluded, ran from $4,975 to $7,000 for a total of $64,400. In the next few months, uni versity experts w ill be doing re search on how the unusual de signs and m aterials, the floor plans and equipment, are work ing out. The bulk of the federal grant w ill go for this. The builders were picked from over the country by the Federal Housing Adm inistra tion. Some of their houses are prefabricated or basically mo bile homes. Some were built from scratch. The cheapest one, which brought exclamations of delight from M rs. Johnson and approv al from her husband has w a lls made of sacks of concrete stacked on a cement slab, rein forced by metal rods stuck down through them and soaked with water. The wails are sprayed inside and out with a finish that gives a sort of adobe appearance. F ive Negro workers, trained on the job, put the houss up in a few days. The Johnson were told insur ance on the adobe-type house w ill cost only $15.33 a year’ in- ciuddngwindstorm. HHH Expected To Accept Dual Professorship WASHINGTON (A P ) - V ice President Hubert H. Humphrey w ill accept a position of profes sor at the University of Minne sota and at Macales-ter College, a reliable source said Saturday. Humphrey is expected to fly from here to Minneapolis Sun day morning and appear later in the day at Macalester College in St. Pau l to accept the joint of fer. The two schools announced earlier that Humphrey had been offered the teaching posts, but the vice president issued a statement Frid a y saying only that he would consider it seri ously along with other sim ilar offers. However, a source said Satur day Humphrey w ill lake the dual teaching positions. It w as reported the vice president would receive $30,000a ye a r from the two schools. The source said’ however, terms of salary were indefinite. believe an attack was immi nent. One U .S. source said the cur few was ordered “ to keep har mony w ith and show our sup port p i the Vietnamese govern ment;; * lu c re was no change, how:e' er, in the midnight to 6 a.m. curfew for Vietnamese and for eign civilians, Vietnamese m ilitary staffs and police in Saigon have been on 100 p e r cent alert for several days in response to reports that, the V iet Cong was making ma jor efforts to infiltrate terrorists and political agents into the capital. The U .S. Command earlier Saturday ordered to priority for high altitude B52 bombing strikes along the invasion routes leading toward Saigon in re sponse to reports that North Vietnamese troops are massing to the north for a possible strike south against the capital. The Stratofortresses mounted 10 new missions Frid a y night and Saturday morning, dumping 1,800 tons of bombs on suspected enemy positions along the Sai gon invasion corridors north and northwest of th e capital. Alm ost 5,000 tons of explo sives have been showered on these enemy positions since Wednesday in the largest B52 operation since the middle of October. In the only significant ground action reported Saturday by the U.S. Command, soldiers of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division killed 22 Viet Congin a seven- hour battle F r id a y 30 miles northwest of Saigon. American losses were six killed and 14 wounded. Saigon police, who have ar rested nearlz 350 suspected Viet Cong agents in Saigon in ihe past month, said Satucday cap tured enemy documents called for the establishment of “ armed, financial cells” in Sai gon. 0 Police said the ceil leaders have been told they must help finance the guerrilla movement by robbing banks, robbing indi viduals, kidnaping wealthy per sons for ransom, collective tax es from local and foreign firm s, and selling ’’liberation bonds” that would be paid back when peace is restored. Hope & Troupe Leave For Tour Of Battle Front LOS A N V E L E S (A P ) - Co median Bob Hope and a troupe of performers departed Satur day fo r Vietnam, where they will entertain servicemen over the holidays, They include the Gold'diggers, a 12-girl singing and dancing group, actress Amn-Margret, singer Linda Bennett, the new “Miss World,” Penelope Plum mer of Australia, and former Los Angeles Rams football p lay er Rosie Greer. Astronauts Told Ship Is All Set B y HOWARD BEN E D IC T A P Aerospace Writer IA P E K E N N 'ED Y , Fla. (A P ) - ’ 11.11 a v*eek*Yi go before blastoff on the greatest space adventure yet—a Christmas Eve orbit around the moon—the Apollo 8 astronauts were told Saturday the space ship is ready to go. Air Force Col. Frank Borman, Navy Capt. Jam es A. Lovell and A ir Force M a j. William A . Anders started the day with a medical briefing and then climbed into a spacecraft simu lator for several hours to re hearse critical phases of the ambitious mission. Rounding out the schedule, they huddled with project offi cials to review the readinees of all systems in the Apollo 8 ship. All received the green light. The astronauts planned to re lax in their \ready room” quar ters here Sunday. Meanwhile, the launch team prepared to start the lengthy Uvdlo 8 countdown Sunday night, aiming for a liftoff of the Saturn 5 booster rocket at 7:51 a.m. EST , next Saturday on what the astronauts call the ris kiest space flight yet. The so-called pre-countdown is to begin at 7 p.m. Sunday When the clock w ill read 103 hours. Launch Director Rocco A. Petrone has scheduled eight “ holds\ in the count, some Of long duration, for launch crew rest and to handle any problems that might crop up. During these periods, the countdown clock does not move so the countdown activity ac tually covers considerably m ore than 103 hours. FYrst item in the pre-count w il be loading of wa ter aboard Apollo 8. The final countdown will start Thursday night, w ith the clock at “ T ” minus 28 hours. The Saturn 5, mightiest rocket ever built, is to hurl the astro nauts into an in itial orbit 119 miles above the earth with the third stage still attached. Three to four hours later, aft er making certain everything is in perfect working order, m is sion control is to signal fhe res tart of the third stage engine. This five-minute burst w ill in crease Apollo 8’s speed from 17,433 to 24,196 m iles an hour, sufficient tn escaoe the influ ence of earth’s gravity. For 66 hours, Boroan, Lovell and Anders will coast outward, making necessary course cor rections to zero in on the moon, 220,074 m iles from earth. Dayan Says Soviets Are Influential B y BR IA N SU L L IV A N AssociatedPress Writer NEW YO R K (A P ) - Israeli Defense Minister M oshe Dayan agreed Saturday w ith William W. Scranton’s appeal for a stronger U.S. role in the Arab world i f only to blunt Soviet in fluence in the M iddle East. The famed Isra e li warrior, cornered by newsmen in a Hotel Pierre corridor a fte r he met with President-elect Nixon, said: “I personally would have liked to see more U .S . influence the A rabs in the six-day war of ed: “ Y o u don’t have to pay in Israeli coin.” Dayan, who led the Israeli forces to stunning victory over the Arabe in the six-day war of June, 1967, said better relations betweer America and Arabs would counter Soviet influence in the volatile region. “I w ish you had better rela tionships with the Arabs,” he said, “ but not on o u r account.” An Is r a e li reporter explained that D a y a n ’s use of the phrase “ on our account” w a s a literal translation from th e Hebrew phrase “ al hes hbon. ’ which also translates idiom atically as “ at our expense.” Dayan thus said essentially what’form e r Pennsylvania Gov. * Scranton said during P’s 10-day mission to the M iddle East and .» F r id a y after reporting to tbe president-elect, In Is ra e l, and a fte r visiting Arab nations on b e h a lf of Nixon, Scranton said: “A m e rica would do w ell to have a more even- handed policy in that area.” Scranton repeated this view Friday, telling newsmen that this country should “ mend our fences” in the area. Dayan conceded that Scran ton’s statement in Israel had shaken many Jew ish leaders, who feared it signaled a coming change in American foreign pol icy tow ard Israel after Nixon takes office. “Our people didn’t exactly like it.” he said w ryly. Asked if he fe a rs such a change, he replied: “ 1 haven’t got such fears, certainly not a ft er this morning’s ta lk s .” Nixon. Dayan said , has the Middle Ea s t ‘“very m uch on his mind” and intended \to do whatever he can to bring peace to the area.” The general also said he did not expect another w a r to start in the M iddle East a t this point. Dayan mentioned Egypt, Iraq and S y r ia as three A rab nations he would like to see linked clos er to th is country. Nixon spent the d a y working with M s aides in M s 39th floor offices at the P ierre, except for a brief visit to the New York University Medical Center. Nix on went ‘ to see h is icng-time friend and personal business manager, Vincent Andrews, Who is seriously ill. Ind u strial Unions ... In d u s trial unions, some times called vertica l unions, include a ll w o rkers in the in dustry, regardless of the part icular kind of work they might do. The United M ine W o rkers is an example of an industrial union. , King Officially Stripped Of His Title In Greece A T H E N S (AL) — A decree stripping King Constantine of control over Greece’s armed forces w a s issued today, a year to the day after h e fled the country' after failure of his coup to oust the military regime, The decree establishes the post o f commander in chief of the three armed forces with the rigt to participate in the su preme national defense council. Under the constitution, the king remains titular head of the aimed forces but w ith no rights over them . The supreme defense council is expected to m e e t soon to name th e commander in chief, expected to be Lt, Gen, Odys seus Angelis, chief o f the nation al defense general staff and a dose frien d of strong man P re mier George Papadopoupos.
