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Serving Allegany, Potter Counties 8 7th Year Eighty-seventh Year WELLSVILLE, NEW YORK, Friday Afternoon, September 1, 1967 Ten Cenls Per Copy GM Expected To Be Target Of Walkout DETROIT (AP) Chrysler Corp. broke the auto industry silence today with a carefully worded statement inferring it would not lock out United Auto Workers Union members if the union struck some other company. The development reinforced speculation that UAW President Walter Reuther has left himself little alternative but to challenge General Motors Corp. in search of a new contract. Chrysler's statement came in response to a UAW query on whether each of the companies would like a contract extension if no agreement is reached by the 11:59 p.m.

Wednesday expiration date of current three- Producer Ups Cost Of Steel NEW YORK (AP) Bethlehem Steel Corp. today became (he third major steel producer to reject an administration plea for price restraint and raised the price of its steel bars. Bethlehem said that effective Sept. 7 the base price of its hot- rolled carbon and alloy steel bars would increase $3 a ton. Earlier, this week U.S.

Steel Corp. and Republic Steel Corp. announced increases on bar products. Just hours after Gardner Aok- ley, the President's top economic advisor, sent telegrams Thursday to steel producers asking them to hold off on further price boosts, U. S.

Steel raised the price of its bar products 1.8 per cent. The firm is the nation's top steel producer. The increase, effective next Thursday, was identical to one announced Wednesday by Republic Steel the No. 3 producer. The increases, covering 16 per cent of industry-wide shipments, amount to $3 and $4 a ton on various bar products.

Steel bars are used in a variety of end products, ranging from induct rial fasteners to railroad car axles. Other major steel producers had no comment on Ackley's telegram, but said they were studying the new price hikes. But if the industry's price pattern holds, it can be expected to follow suit within the week. This week's increase marks the first time in a year that big steei came face-to-face with the administration over prices. The White House and the Council of Economic Advisors called a price increase last August "inflationary." Ackley avoided the word inflationary this time but called the price boosts distressing.

He said the addition of steel bars to products which have gone up in price since November rules out the possibility that the increases were selective and in some cases justified. "They must be viewed as a consistent pattern that has resulted in higher prices for nearly half the steel tonnage produced In this country," Ackley said. The industry, in the past month alone, has raised prices on steel plate, canmaking steels and bars which accounts for a third of shipments. U.S. Steel said it gave "very thoughtful attention to Mr.

Ackley's comments" before raising prices. "We are also very mindful of inflationary pressures, having been on the receiving end of many of them," the company said. "But after the long period of relative price stability in steel, these modest price changes cannot be consdered either unwarranted or inflation-inducing." U.S. Steel and Republic both cited rising labor and material costs and declining profits. Second quarter profits in the steel industry skidded 36 per cent this year.

year contracts. It was the first of the automakers to reply. Chrysler's letter said the firm, smallest member of the Big Three automakers, was "interested in the continuity of operations of Chrysler Corp. plants beyond the terminal dates of the current agreement. "We will continue to operate all plants of Chrysler Corp.

after Sept. 6, 1067 the termination date if it is possible to do so," Chrysler's letter said. Reuther has said that if no agreement is reached with the Big Three GM, Ford and Chrysler "there will be a strike in the auto industry." Today's development indicated, however, that if the UAW strikes GM or Ford, Chrysler production of automobiles will continue without interruption. Such a development would make a strike pinch harder on GM or Ford because Chrysler 1968 models would be flowing into showrooms around the nation while production would cease at the company struck by the union. Rut Reuther says the walkout would be against only one company, not the industrywide strike he accused the big three of conspiring to push his union towards Thursday.

On this, his 6i)th birthday, Reuther said he will name a target company at which the union traditionally drives for a contract to be used as a pattern for settlement with the other two. He set a news conference for 5:30 p.m. Retither termed General Motors "the chief architect" Thursday of what he said was "a collusive conspiracy" to thwart "free and independent collective bargaining." The companies said it wasn't so. He also expressed concern of a possible industry lockout following a strike call, such as occurred earlier this year when the Teamsters Union attempted to strike scattered preselecetd targets in the trucking industry. Insisting a complete shutdown of General Motors would close the entire industry, Reuther said if a strike were called against GM it would be a selective one.

Such occurred there in 1964 as the UAW drove to the contract that expires Wednesday. GM's automobile assembly lines were shut down in 1964, but plants making parts used by Ford, Chrysler, White Motors and International Harvester, among others, were left in operation. Whatever settlement the UAW and the automakers come up with will be used by the union as a pattern in striving for new contracts in the aerospace and agricultural implement industries and in hundreds of supplier plants. In all, the UAW claims a membership of 1.5 million. oviets Oust NEW OFFICERS Directors of (he New York State Oil Producers Association elected new officers yesterday at its annual meeting at the Country Club.

They are (seated 1 to r) William Hogan of Bolivar, secretary-treasurer; and William D. Barry of Olean, president; and (standing) Winston Davis and Frank Hungerford, both of Bolivar, vice presidents. (Reporter photo). Complete list of directors on inside page. Nasse And Rebuild Armies, Political Solution By DENNIS NEELI) KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) Gamal Abclel Nasser told the final working session of the Arab summit conference today it is essential to rebuild the war-shattered Arab armies while seeking a political solution to the Middle East's problems.

In a 90-minulc address, ths Egyptian President said Arabs may be compelled to resort to force to regain territories conquered by Israel in the June war if political means fail. He stressed a military buildup was necessary so that the Arabs should speak from a position of strength. Thus Egypt joined Jordan as a dove ihey lost most heavily in the war while Syria remains the most hawklike of tin Arab states, having boycotted the summit meeting. Syria lost only a sliver of land in the war. Sweden to 'Switch' In return for its stand, Egypt will benefit from a huge relief fund to be financed chiefly by the Arab oil states to help recover from the economic consequences of the war.

The conference Thursday night agreed to set up a $392- million emergency fund. Egypt will get $236 million, Jordan $122 million and Syria $11 million despite its boycott of the conference. Kuwait will give $154 million, Saudi Arabia $140 million, and Libya $84 million. Other Arab states will contribute a total of' $14 million. The Arab heads of state denounced any Israeli plan to incorporate the Gaza Strip and the west bank of the River Jordan permanently in its territory.

They heard a plea by (he Palestine iberalion Organization leader, Ahmed Shukairy, for support for guerrilla war in the urea. The conference is believed to have endorsed the Egyptian stand on the Suez Canal that it will remain closed until the Israelis withdraw from the east bank. The conference was reported to have dropped a plan proposed by Iraq to cut off Arab Oil to Britain, the United States and West Germany accused aiding Israel in the war and lo enforce a three-month embargo on shipments to the West. It was understood the question of embargoes will be left lo individual Arab nations. Also dropped was a proposal that Arab deposits be withdrawn from banks of those nations, aimed primarily at Britain.

The conference is expected to end tonight with a communique hostile to Israel. GIANT GAME OF BUMPERCAR? By DICK SODERLUNI) STOCKHOLM (AP) Silence will fall over the streets of this Swedish capital Saturday as motor traffic comes to a halt to herald H-Day. That is Sunday, when the nation of eight million drops its left-hand traffic system and switches to the right. The is for the Swedish word hocger, meaning right. The.

ban on traffic will last longest, in Stockholm, extending from 10 a.m. Saturday to 3 p.m. Sunday. Goeteborg and two other cities will have somewhat shorter bans. In the rest of the Priest Among 125 Jailed In Milwaukee Uprising Cold Again Tonight Regional Forecast Sunny and cool this afternoon, high in the 60s.

Clear and cold again tonight, low 40-45 but 3540 some valleys. Sunshine and a little wanner Saturday. Variable winds, 5-15, during the day and under 5 at night. High 61, Low 36 (Local Report) Wellsville residents shivered last night, as (he thermometer mercury slid clear to 36 at 3 a.m. It was still at 36 at 6 a.m., the Water and Light Plant noted, but finally crawled to 41 at 9 a.m., and hit 61 at noon, the high for the 24-hour period.

Precipitation: none, as of 8 a.m. today (probably fortunate: it might have been Barometer: 30.46 inches and rising, at noon today. The temperatures: Yesterday noon 52, 3 p.m. 56, 6 p.m. 59, 9 p.m.

47, midnight 39. Today 3 a.m. 36, 6 a.m. 9 a.m. 41, noon 61.

MILWAUKEK, Wi.s. ((AP) Police engulfed a line of 400 civil rights marchers Thursday night backing a 30-iiay ban on street demonstrations. At icast 125 persons were arrested including a while Roman Catholic priest, the Rov. James Groppi. Two persons were injured.

There were indications that another march might be staged tonight. "They can never get all ol us," said one Negro nearly in tears after police scattered the marchers. "Let's fill up the whole jail," said another. It was the second straight night in which police cracked down on an attempted demonstration by the Milwaukee Youth Council of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Fifty-eight persons were arrested Wednesday night.

A police car was burned and its windshield smashed soon after the dispersal of Thursday night's march. Also among those arrested was Mrs. Vel Phillips, Milwaukee's only Negro member of the Milwaukee Common Council. Virtually ail those arrested were charged with violating Henry Maier's edict against street demonstrations. The ban was imposed Wednesday in an emergency proclamation prompted by open housing marches by (he youth council into the predominantly Polish South Side.

Father Groppi was also charged with resisting arrest i'lid battery. lie was released in $1.000 bond. The priest said another march might be attempted tonight after a rally at St. Boniface church where he is assistant pastor. Commies Hip On Hippies Ky KERNIE IIURWIT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -Charlie Brown Artman, a veteran hippie and a "communicant with outer beings," thinks the Soviet government newspaper Izveslia hit the nail on the head with its analysis of hippies.

Heading a story from Moscow quoting S. Konclrashov, correspondent in New York, Artman said. "It was better than 1 could define or analyze it." The article called hippie philosophy basically a i "They know what lo run away from but not in which direction to iun," it said. "That's true 1 said I ho bearded, long-haired Artman, "but it's not true of me and my friends and it's gradually chanu'ing for others. We're finding directions, but it's taking time.

We're dropping the drop-out syndrome, substituting the positive 'turn on. tune in' outlook." country, it lasts five hours, 1-0 a.m. Sunday. During these periods only emergency or specially approved vehicles may move. Sweden is the last country on the European mainland to make the change to right-hand driving for its (iO.OOO miles of highways and streets.

Thousands of policemen, road workers, soldiers, school children and voluntary workers have had the job of making every person aware of the change and helping him through the ordeal "No one living or staying in this country will get a chance to escape the fact that Sweden goes even a prison escapee on the run, 1 should think," promises the general," Larsk Skiold. Skiold, 44, heads the 5(i-member Right-hand Traffic Commission, which has put four years of work Into preparations for this shift, by a highly industrialized country that has one car for every four highest rate in Europe. During the general ban on driving, thousands of new road signs, shrouded in black or hidden by peel-off covers will be unveiled. At, 4:50 a.m. Sunday oven vehicles with special permits will have to stop.

Then, at 5 a.m.. they will move over to the right side of the road and keep going to the right at reduced speeds with their headlights on. Polls and research indicate that pedestrians, particularly women and the elderly, arc likely to be a major headache because by habit they will tend to look the wrong way when stepping into streets, Americans who have visited England know of this hazard. A climbing traffic accident rate, plus the troubles caused when Swedes drive into neighboring countries or foreigners visit Sweden, led Swedish legislators to vole the change in Tvlay 1963. MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet government today ordered the expulsion of the U.S.

Embassy press attache and refused to alo- low the agricultural attache to return to his assignment h'jre. The Embassy "Neither of these men has done anything wrong." Americans suggested unofficially that the expulsion was in retaliation for the recent cancellation of visas for two Soviet diplomats in the United States in connection with a spy case. The Soviet Foreign Ministry sent a note by messenger to the U.S. Embassy which gave notice of the action. It was the first, expulsion of an American diplomat since Second Secretary Donald R.

Lesh was ordered lo leave the country last Sept. 14. The Soviet, government, apparently acted in retaliation for the forced departure from the United Stales of two Soviet diplomats earlier this summer. They were Nikolai F. Popov, first secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, and Anotoliy Ti- khorovich Kiroyov, a member of the Russian mission to the United Nations.

The diplomats were accused ol conspiring with Sgs. Leonard .1. Safford of Chillum, and Sgt. Ullysses L. Harris of Neptune, N.J., to obtain official secrets.

The latter two were charged with spying. Meeker. 43, has served three years in Moscow. He gained wide respect in the diplomatic community for his knowledge of agricultural conditions in the Soviet Union. lie was 'given the assignment after a tour with the Department of Agriculture in Washington.

Chapman, 38, spent a year at the embassy hnre after preparation at the Army School of Russian studies in Germany. Before that he had been cultural attache in Afghanistan. Embassy sources said the Foreign Ministry was not expected to clarify its accusation. They also said no time limit for leaving the country had been set. Meeker has been on home leave in the United States.

He was denied a visa to re-enter this country. One of his daughters was with him. Another daughter and Mrs. Meeker remained in Moscow and will rn- join the rest of the family. Chapman, who has a wife and four children, is in Moscow.

Nurse Assaulted, Crowd Observes SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) Miss Ann Marie Davenport, 20, a red-haired practical nurse, was walking home from St. Francis Xavier Cabrini Hospital when it happened. She was only a block from her home. Half a dozen people were close by and conn'less of motorists were passing, despite the midnight hour.

Then there was I his young, muscular-looking youth, about 20, she explained Thursday. "He was walking unusually close to the side of the build the side my purse was on He walked past me. Then I heard foodsteps behind me. "He knocked me over the curb and I fell in teh street with my purse underneath me. "I screamed.

The people all turned around But they just stood there looking. "He screamed: 'Gimme the purse! You better gimme the I'lirsr'' "He kicked me in the side and then in the stomach, trying to wrest the purse away from me. I kept yelling I didn't have any money, hoping he would give up. "Even aftpr ho ran away, the people just stood there and watched. They didn't do anything.

They didn't even ask me if I was hurt. They just turned and walked away. "They were like so many animals walchmj: ihe survival of the fittest. If you don't make it, it's just too bad. "1 went home, and called the police.

The police just shrugged their shoulders when I told them. They said. 'You can't expect people to help you Anyway, Miss Davenport still had her purse. own By GEORGE IV1CARTHUR SAIGON (AP) The Communist terror campaign mounted sharply today. Meanwhile, the U.S.

Command reported Ihrse more U.S. planes shot clown over North Vietnam, raising losses in the North to 22 in the past li days. The major Red campaign to terrorize voters before Sunday's presidential and senatorial elections was taking place in the politically sensitive five northern provinces. Fragmentary reports said guerrillas kidnaped no less than 200 people there in the past few 65 of them early today. A strong band of guerrillas entered Kim Nam hamlet a few miles from Da Nang, awakened (he villagers and herded off most of the males including the village chief.

South Vietnamese authorities reported it likely that the kid- naped villagers were being held as hostages to ensure that, their relatives boycotted the election according to Viet Cong instructions. Similar kidnapings have been reported in at least three other northern villages, and authorities fear that more are unreported. Communist gunners inside and above the demilitarized zone dividing Vietnam were harassing U.S. Marine positions with repeated mortar and artillery attacks evidently designed to emphasize Red strength during election time. At least four Americans were killed and 57 were wounded.

The Americans countered with radar-directed fire on Red gun positions, jet assaults on positions that were spotted and B52 strikes Thursday night and this morning on suspected enemy strongholds. Other Communist attacks dotted the nation, particularly in the populous Mekong delta. Three villages were hit by mortars early today, and the guerrillas were reportedly deploying numerous small units to disrupt traffic on Highway 4, the main road from Saigon south into the delta. U.S. Command reported the guerrillas early today tried to trick a U.S.

Navy patrol boat into firing on a friendly village. The guerrillas opened up on the boat from within the village and then fled. The Navy boat did not return the fire, authorities said. North of Saigon, guerrillas blew up several small bridges on one of the larger roads about 20 miles above the City. U.S.

engineers immediately started repairs and hoped to have traffic restored before Sunday. Saigon police reported four terrorist strikes in the capital in the past 24 hours. One Red agent, was shot and killed by a policeman he had just wounded with a pistol shot. Two Vietnamese were wounded by grenades. The terrorism did not hinder election preparations in Saigon.

Thousands turned out for a rally in the middle of the city at which the presidential candidates made their last joint, appearance. The three planes lost over North Vietnam a brought to (iiifl the total of American combat planes officially reported lost in the air war against the Communist North that began nearly 32 months ago. All three were U.S. Navy Sky- hawk bombers, and the U.S. Command said the three fliers were missing.

North Vietnam claimed eight American planes and a rescue helicopter were shot down and "a number" of U.S. pilots were captured. U.S. spokesmen said 140 missions wore Thur.sd-iy and the raids penetrated deep into the heavily defended Hanoi- Haiphong complex. A missile site only three miles from Hai- phong was reported heavily damaged, while other missions hit bridges, rail lines, truck convoys and storage depots.

U.S. Command said two attacks on rail yards 15 miles northwest of Haiphong and 15 miles south of Hanoi were particularly rewarding. Air Force pilots also reported destroying a bridge connecting Hanoi with the industrial complex of Thai Nguyen about 40 miles above the capital. The intensified strikes on the Hanoi-Haiphong area have been exceptionally costly in fliers. Since Aug.

21, when the sharp upturn in plane losses began, 28 pilots have been lost and only four picked up by helicopter rescues. Despite these losses, the men directing the air war say it is inflicting heavier damage on the North Vietnamese supply system. With onto; about two more months of good" weather remaining before the monsoon changes, American airmen are determined to keep up the pressure. Small Crowd At Last Rally For Hopefuls By BARRY KRAMER SAIGON (AP) South Vietnam's presidential candidates held their final joint campaign rally here today, but it appeared to generate only scant public interest with the voting just two days away. It was estimated the crowd reached 3,000 persons its peak.

The numbers were hard to judge because of the normal dinner hour traffic moving around the main traffic circle at the site in front of the U.S. Joint Public Affairs Office downtown Saigon. The turnout seemed small for the capital city, with a population of about 2.5 million. Neither Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, the leading presidential candidate, nor his running mate. Premier Nguyen Cao Ivy, showed up.

Their military ticket is generally expected to win over the 10 civilian slates. Their representatives told the crowd' official business prevented Thieu and Ky from being on hand. Some members of President Johnson's observer team watched the rally from the terrace of the Rex Hotel, a U.S. officers billet just across the street. As candidate spoke, an Engliih translation was carried over a loud-speaker to the roof- lop terrace of the billet for the benefit of the American observers.

However, all the Americans left long before the rally ended for other engagements, including a reception given by U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. The Viet Cong grenade-throwing incidents occurred in the outskirts of Saigon tonight, part of a mounting wave of terror aimed at sabotaging the election. A primary school that is to be used as a polling place was one target. A Vietnamese policeman and two civilians were wounded.

Another grenade exploded at an electric transmission station, wounding three civilians. The terrorists escaped. A burst of shooting erupted In downtown Saigon and police seized a man near the U.S. Joint Public Affairs Office and whisked him away. One account said he had been carrying a grenade: another said he had been trying to steal a bicycle.

In the previous 24 hours, four small-scale terrorist attacks had wounded three Vietnamese and a Viet. Cong gunman was killed. Other Red harassments dotted the nation, but the 4 major campaign to terrorize the voters was taking place in the politically shaky five northern provinces. MERGER PLAN M1DDLEBROUGH, England (AP) British Methodists have overwhelmingly defeated attempts to delay further talks on unity with the Church of England. The way is now cleared for a definite vote on merger proposals before next year's conference in.