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OFA Hoppsters Win Sixth Straight, t— Page 26. Weather Partly cloudy and cold, with snow flurries today. Highs in upper teens and low 20s. LOCAL, COUNTY, STATE,, MVTIOIW- AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS REPORTED IN DEPTH VOL. 2.1, NO. 978 feelly oomments 'PUBLISHED IN OGDENSBURG, N.Y., 1 3669, SUNDAY, JAN. 12, 1969 PRICE 25C eeiings By CHARLES W. KELLY Mayor Byrnes should veto the local law which would allow an alderman to be paid whether he attends a meeting or not. A' change might be in order to take care of sickness, but that's all. The new charter calls for no pay for the mayor or alder- men starting in 1972, so why all the con- cern about being docked a few bucks for missing meetings. Don't miss and you won't •be docked. * * * President Johnson is, starting 'his final full week as President of the United States today. Mr. Johnson has been a good President. Mis domestic record' will be one tough to match for years to coime. His one weakness seemed to be $ie Vietnam war. Johnson lost contact with the people on the Vietnam issue, but history could well prove him right. He has worked hard to bring peace, but thus far, i t has eluded him. Mr. Johnson' has served his nation well, and can now look forward to a much earned rest: * * * The appointment of Wesley Bourdette as executive director of the St. Lawrence County Community Development Program, should give this program the great shot in the arm it' needs. Bourdette has outstand- ing credentials and an excellent back- ground with valuable experience gained in Wayne County. It has been my privilege to serve on the County Board of CDP' for the past 10 months. Rev. Jack Wells, Board Chairman since last March, has made great strides forward with this pro- gram. Mr. Wells and Mr. Bourdette should prove to be a most able team in heading up this most important program. * * # It was»reported tbh past vteeki that Mayor Anderson of Potsdam may step dawn this spring as mayor and make ap- plication for the position of village admin- istrator which has been vacant for several months. * * * Why isn't the City's sidewalk shoveling ordinance enforced? Do we have one? * * * City Recreation Skating Rinks at the Filtration Plant on Ogden Street and across from the old St. Peter's on Greene Street will be open today. Super- vision will be on the rink this afternoon , and evening. The Commission is also in the process of opening a rink at Winter Park, but it won't be ready far a couple of days. There will not be a skating shack at Winter Park this season. * * * I predict that Baltimore will win to- day's Super Bowl by 21 points. The al- ready highly publicized championship game has received additional publicity over remarks attributed to New York's Broadway quarterback, Joe Namath. Na- math may find that the Baltimore defense is more than he can handle without taking on Baltimore's Earl Morrall. I will be sur- prised if the game doesn't become a one- sided affair. Everyone else, is trying their hand at predicting the outcome, so I see no reason why I shouldn't go out on the ( limb and pick Baltimore by a 28-7 score. I see it as a Don Shula Day. * * * The City Planning Board's Urban Re- newal hearing Wednesday night went off very nicely. J. Howard Brown, chairman, did a- very able job conducting the hearing. I think the Urban Renewal plan is an ex- cellent one, but I also feel that everyone would benefit if the Agency were able to locate a large retail-wholesale type store in the project area. The retailers already doing business in the downtown, section would welcome such a .store. Additional rsteps required to. make Urban Renewal a reality for Ogdensburg should be taken as promptly as the law allows. * * *' Congratulations to Mayor White of Massena on being- named; 1968's Mayor of the Year by his colleagues in the St, Law- rence County Mayors' Association. Mayor White was presented a plaque b y .Congress- . man McEwen at, the Mayors? dinner held at the Towne House in Waddington Friday night. Mr. MeEweii- was a guest at the dinner. \* * * * t The OFA Blue Devils,'off to their best start in the Northern Basketball League in years, have a long way to'go yet.i'In fact, with six straight wins, they are only in sec- . ond place. Coach Hqllembaek's cagerS won a big one Friday, defeating, Ttipper Lake at Tupper, but the boys must play Ae games one at a time, and not start looking ahead to Gouverheur, who has also won seven straight, The Blue Devils have done a great job SO' far, but let's not anticipate. On any given flight any team c&h be beat in the Northern League, MAYOR OF THE YEAH — G. Laurence White, Mayor of Massena, above right, receives plaque as 19681s Mayor of the Year from Congressman RoberLC. MoEwen who was a guest at the.Mayor's'-dinrter held at the Towne House in Waddingtqp Friday nigbrt. Mayor Wihite, a Democrat, was voted 1968 Mayor of the Year by his colleagues. The announcement was made last month, Mayor Bruce Pem- berton of Waddington, left, president of the Association, was Mayor of Year in 1967. (0huck Kelly Photo) CoJdWIadOfPoIitl Threatens To Upset T stility • a • By JAG KBELL AP Staff Wirte r WASHINGTON (AP) - A cold wind of political hostility is : threatening to disrupt the out- wardy cordial and cooperative presidential changeover from the Democrats to the Republi- cans. Some of President Johnson's advisers feel President - elect Nixon is dynamiting their ef- forts to avoid Motion. These advisers say Nixon seems to be acting as Franklin D. Roosevelt did when he de- clined in the waning days of Herbert Hoover's White House tenure-early in 1933 to support the outgoing president's call for joint action in the national fi- nancial crisis. Now, 36 years later, there is ano/her financial headache, al- though less critical. This in- volves the rising danger of infla- tion and 1 how it is to be met in the new budget Johnson is re- quired to submit before he leaves office Jan. 20. Simply stated, Johnson cannot come close to balancing this new budget without a continua- tion in some form of the 10 per cent incooe surtax. There are various gimmicks the outgoing chief executive could employ 'to achieve a paper balance without continuance of the tax. He could call for spend- ing cuts that he knows Congress would not or could not make. s Popularity ith South Vietnamese B V U General Manager Of A.P. Honored Arizona By RICHARD H. PYLE Associated Press Writer Saigon (AP) — The number of South Vietnamese living under direct control of the Viet 'Cong hit-record low of 12.3 per cent at the end of 1868, the U.S. Com- mand said Saturday. As of Dec! 31, slightly fewe than 2 million of the country's 17 million ,.eopie were recorded as living in areas that were nei- ther secured nor contested by government forces. The monthly report .on,pro- gress in pacification — the so- called \other war\ in which tlie Saigon .government seeks to wrest control of the countryside from the enemy forces — said 76.3 per cent of the people lived in areas that were relatively se- cure and 11.4 per cent in con- tested afeas. All ipf these figures represent- ed 'high-water marks of pro- gress under the complicated and oft-criticized Hamlet Evalu- ation System used by American advisers to the government's pacification program. i In rural areas alone, the re- port said, 65 per cent of the peo- ple .live in relatively secure areas, art .inorease of 4.3 per cent over November. Under the formula, rural areas include ev- erything outside self-governing . cities which by themselves have some 3,3 million people. Thus the \rural\ figure in- cludes many people who live in cities that while not autono- mous, are actually urban areas broken up into villages and hamlets, Top U,S, officials admitted se- vere setbacks to pacification from the \ Communist com- mand's Tet offensive last Feb- ruary. 'But they said the pro- gram- began a gradual recovery immediately after that offensive •was. crashed and surpassed the pre-Tet highs sometime ai\nmd September. Thus each new fig- ure since has represented record. The number of people living under relative degrees of gov- ernment -protection is 9.1 per cent higher than at the end of January 1968 and 16,5.per cent higher than the after-Tel low of 5S.8 per cent, the repoiit'said, Pope Sees Mope Tor Peace In Mddle East VATICAN CITY (APHPope Paul Vi sounded a cautious note of optimism on world peace to- day, saying he, saw a glimmer of hope for the Middle East plus hopes for the end of the. Viet- nam and Nigerian wars through negotiations. Tlie pontiff .spoke in his an- nual! mooting to exchange New \STear*;greetings with members of tile diplomatic coos accredited to the Vatican. In contrast to his,Christmas speech to the world, the Pope's weirds reflected a strong tone of optimism. Speaking in French, he told the diplomats the battle for peace must be waged every day •without letup \for the demon of discord will never be completely exorcised,\ TUCSON, Ariz. (AP)—\Every emotional news era in our histo- ry has brought out criticism of the press,\ Wes Gallagher, gen- eral manager of The Associated- Press, said Saturday in pointing out such criticism is not new. On accepting the University of Arizona's John Peter Zenger Freedom of the Press Award, Gallagher said: \The task of the journalist is to hold a magnifying mirror be- fore our society to show warts and ajl. The world today is mostly warts: Vietnam, racial rioting, student demonstrations, decaying cities, urban crisis ... the list is endless. \As the problems have multi- plied! so have the means of com- municating news. Newspapers, television, radio and magazines jam these problems into an al- ready irritated public con' science and the bearer of un- comfortable news is never loved, \The more emotional the time, the greater the rise in tlie attacks upon the press, or the news media in general. Another maxim governing public reac- tion is, that attacks upon the news media will rise in direct proportion to the intensity of public frustration in .meeting tlie problems of the day.\ Gallagher's remarks were . prepared for delivery, by tele- phone, to an audience in Tuc- son, Because of a strike against the Associated Press by mem- bers of the American Newspa- per Guilds Gallagher remained in New York, \, ,. i But at the White House the feeling is that Johnson — who keeps one eye trained on what history is going to say about his presidency — wants to submit what his associates call an \honest budget,\ It would for- cast at least a small surplus for his successor's first fiscal year. An incoming president must depend largely on the budget decisions of his predecessor, made in the month leading up to the actual transition. But Nixon, who has-more than a mite of experience in politics, has not been cooperative in making any comitment that would help Johnson off the hook by recommending continuance of the surcharge. Tlie Nixon camp seems to be saying to Johnson, \That's your baby. When we inherit the prob- lem, we'll do whatever is neces- sary about it. And we'l take our time about deciding.\ Jan. 11 fmoreland 'Inspects Army In Germany BERLIN (AP)-U. S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. William C. Westmoreland flew unan- nounced into Wester Berlin to- day to inspect the American garrison and visit the U. S. com- mandant in the city surrounded by Communist East Germany, -Officials did not disclose Westmoreland's 24-hour visit Until he arived because of fears that the city's left-wing students might stage a demonstration against the former U, S, com- mander in Vietnam. Westmoreland came from, •Bonn, the West German capital, whore he had met with U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and West Germap defense chief Gerhard Sdhroeder. An Army source said West- moreland was Lodge's over- night guest, and it presumably gave Lodge an opportunity to get Westmoreland's views on the Vietnam situation. Lodge, the former U, S, am- bassador in Saigon, is Presi- dent-elect Nixon's choice as top negotiator in the stalled Paris peace talks. LONDON (AP)—Europeans ance, he says.\ are adopting a wait-and-see atti- tude toward Richard M. Nixon. Some sections of the European press have expressed cautious enthusiasm for the in-comin-°' ad- ministration, but often enthu- siasm is tinctured with skepti- cism. A survey by Associated Press bureaus in Europe found that government spokesmen are not willing to be identified with the views they express, but the Eu- ropean press is more forthright. Speaking of the Nixon Cabi- net, for example, Le Monde of Paris observes: \Scarcely mod- eled to elicit enthusiasm.\ Sew- den's Dagens Nyheter mentions \people whose capacity hadly excels that of his vice president, Spiro Agnew.\ Here, in brief, are some of the views in European capitals: PARIS—French officials hope Nixon will be more amenable to the Gaullist grand design for Europe. They hope, too, he will be more flexible on the key Gaullist issue bf a higher price for gold than the Johnson ad- ministration showed itself. While 'Le Monde was not en- thusiastic about the men Nixon piofcd for his Cabinet, it noted •the \confirmed qualities\ of his White House advisers. \It is by relying on these men'that the Mature president, if he wants to, can jdve'liis policies the impul- sion and dynamism which we see with difficulty coming from the ministers of title,\ Le Monde said. At the Paris peace talks both North and South Vietnamese spokesmen avoided public com- ment, hut privately both sides hoped the coming of Nixon •would bring change. Tttie Saigon government hopes for a more sympathetic hearing for its views on the importance of de- nying \face\ to the National Liberation Front. The North Vietnamese look for what they call \a new sense of realism\ which would inorease pressure on Saigon. BONN—Many West Germans seem to tfoin-k, along with Fi- nance Minister Josef Strauss, that the free world has gained a good leader in Nixon. They are convinced he will stand up for them in Berlin.' Adolf von Thadden, chairman of the right wing National Dem- ocratic party, has noted: \For the German population it is meaningful that Richard Nixon was the only candidate wlho very precisely spoke out for the reunification of Germany.\ Heinz- Barth, Washington cor- respondent of the nationally cir- culated Die Welt, wrote: \Washington's European en- gagement will never again be- come as intense as it was in the Eiswhower era. For many years to come, the United States will be preoccupied with its own problems, The allies cannot ex- pect it .to show more solidarity than they themselves are will- ing to display.\ Bild Zettung, with a circula- tion of nearly 4% million, s-w the new American Cabinet as made up \not of super geniuses and Ideologists but of solid, suc- cessful and confidence-inw'rinjj men from the world of science, politics and economy.\ As elsewhere, there was some surprise, at Nixon's selection of William P, Rogers—\the former Eisenhower attorney general long forgotten here\—as secre- tary of state. The only appointment which aroused more than routine in- terest in Germany was that of German-born Henry A. Kissin- ger as. adviser on National secu- rity affairs. \As an American, he cannot absolve the United States of the guilt of having contributed sub- S'taotially to the erosion of the Atlantic Alliance,\ wrote the Frankfurter Allgemeine. \Kis- sihger.„ls fair. He points to. the possibility of a reappraisal of the American strategic concept.', In some forrti the Americans would have to abandon their nu- clear weapons monopoly and. share It With the Europeans, of else the political force of nil. clear weapons sould lead to tho breakup of tlie ^tlanitic 4JM 4 LONDON — Some observers think Nixon may adopt a tough- er line on Vietnam. His appoint- ment of Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker to continue in Saigon and of Henry Cabot Lodge to the Paris talks are cited as evi- dence of this. But, as the Finan- cial Times puts it, \the question is to what purpose such a hard policy is aimed: Toward victory or toward acceptable peace?\ The influential in r,o 'r--''ent weekly economist saw the ap- pointmnt of Lodge as \causing rejoicing in Saigon and pertur- bation elsewhere.\ ROME—Many Italians see the new president as a numerate unlikely to stir any controver- sies like Presidents K . iy and Johnson. Some politicians have shown disappointment at his election, his choice of Cabi- net and his policy so far as it is known. MASSENA,, }JJ-'. .(AF)-The St. Regis iwohawk Indians say thev will send a delegation of tribesmen to the United Nations to try to get representatives of uncommitted nations to help out in the Mohawks' fight with Can- ada. The Mohawks of the St. Regis reservation near Massena in northern New York have been conducting a fight to try to make Canada lift the customs duties on Indians who travel into Canada with, goods bought in the United States. The protest—which has in- cluded a bridge-blocking demon- stration by Mohawks in which 47 parsons -were arrested—has centered on the International Bridge at Cornwall, Ont. The protest is over the Jay Treaty, signed in 17,94 by the United States and England. The treaty guaranteed the Indians the right of f-ree passage across the bor- der. Canada contends it is not bound by the treaty, since it was never ratified by a Cana- dian government. The St, Regis Mohawks num- ber about 6,000, with about half living on the U.S. side of the border, the others in Canada. \It will be more strategic now to inform the smaller nations -of the world of Canada's refusal to allow North American Indians to bring ordinary goods into the country free of duty, than, to have further demonstrations,\ the Mohawks said in a state- ment. The schism with Canada also has split the Mohawks into those seeking redress of grivances through negotiations and the militants who .believe mass demonstrations -and pressure will bring Canada to a new poli- cy. Archdiocese Says Retirement Age Will Now Be 75 NEW YORK ;(AP)—The Ro- man Catholic Archdiocese of New York has established a new policv making retirement for pastors mandatory at age 75 and optional at 70, Archdiocese officials estimat- ed that about a score pi priests •will be affected during the cur- rent y6al\ Previously there was no age limitation. The Rev. John E. Byrne chairman of the Senate hi Priests in New- York, s-Ma Ffi- rky that (he new i>olicy was \just a starter' 1 that could soon lead to an. even ••earlier, retire- ment ago for both, pastors and bishops. The atohdioeese iias about 400 -parishes. s!
