The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 30

"nr S(f Nr -Hj gp' -jg-oaiag A 30 THE COURIERJOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18, 1968 North Vietnamese Tell Details of Peace Offer Rate-Power Law Sought By Sewer Unit halted or not and equally clear whether Hanoi had opened talks or was stalling. The North Vietnamese also provided the first amplification of their previous statement that the talks could be con-cerned with "all relevant questions." Asked specifically If this would include problems of South Vietnamese security dBr I Stiff Photo by Lirr Spltur Sellersburg, Ind. interchange early yesterday. Four other truck drivers were killed in the pileup.

THE DRIVER OF THIS TRUCK died in an 18-vehicle collision on Interstate 65 at the Five Die iii Multiple Crash Continued From Page One in the near future to pay for the construction. The legislative package has received endorsement of the water, sewers and drainage committee of the Louisville Area Chamber of Commerce. The committee report discussed the proposed rate-change provision in comparison with the Louisville Water Company's present freedom to set its own rates without aldermanic approval. "It is politically impractical to expect an elected body to approve rate increases for fear of political reprisal, especially in view of the frequency of local elections," the committee report said. "Authority of the Board of Aldermen to approve or not approve proposed rate changes is inconsistent with the intent of the independent operation of MSD," the report continued.

Not Granted Full Increase Forman said MSD requested a 60 per cent increase in sewer rates in 1959, but the aldermen permitted only a 40 per cent rise. MSD's rates are generally considered rather low for a city the size of Louisville, and both MSD and state officials say the rates are totally inadequate to construct the sewer improvements essential to prevent water and soil pollution in the county. Other provisions in the legislative request would: Permit MSD to build sewers in or through fifth- and sixth-class cities without their consent. Permit MSD to include fifth- and sixth-class cities in construction subdis-tricts a legal entity which can tax property owners for sewer costs without their consent. Permit MSD to assess property on "any equitable basis" other than the square-foot method now allowed.

Prohibit the formation of new sanitation districts in the county, thus keeping sewer construction the exclusive province of MSD. Sanitation District No. 1, in St. Matthews, the only such district in Jefferson County, would remain. Permit MSD to assess property owners to build sewers in areas not included in either the metropolitan district or any of its construction subdistricts.

All of the proposed changes apply to the law permitting establishment of metropolitan sewer districts in counties with first-class cities. In practice, the law applies only to Jefferson County and the MSD here, but future population growth will bring other counties under the provisions of the law. this was not ruled out. They said that aim me Viet guemuas, mey said after issues directly concerning Hanoi and Washington had been negotiated, South Vietnam could be considered; but they emphasized that in their view the problems of South Vietnam must be settled by the Americans and South Vietnamese. In the past, Hanoi has publicly ruled out any discussion of the Viet Cong.

The remarks yesterday, therefore, appeared designed to make their offer more attractive to Washington as well as to world opinion. Republicans Hit LBJ's Speech As Political Talk Continued From Page One made the state of the union sound like the state of the campaign." Missing from the GOP news conference was Senate minority leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, who was ill, On Vietnam, Ford said most Republicans generally agreed with. Johnson's mate of the situation. The coolest response during the President's speech came when he repeated his request for the tax increase.

Neither side showed any enthusiasm." a And Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means vh blocked the President's tax last year, said, "I'm not saying anything." Mills Not Present at Speech He said he was saving his comment until Monday when his committee opens hearings on the tax issue with top administration officials on hand. 1 Mills was not present to hear the address in person although he got a filMn on it in Sen. John mented: G.

Tower, corn- "If there is to be any tax increase the President will have to place much more emphasis in the coming months on reduction of federal deficit expenditures than he did in this message." Sen. Russell B. Long, said he remains opposed to the President's tax re quest. "We are not going to act on it in my committee unless the House passes it," said Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. the traffic jam were lined up for a mile or more in each direction on 1-65.

All lanes of 1-65 were cleared and opened to traffic ahout midnight, state police said. The impact of the collisions was so great that a state highway loader and a crane were needed to assist wreckers in pulling vehicles apart. In all, 13 trucks and five cars were involved. The office of motor carrier safety of the U.S. Department, of Transportation began an investigation to determine the causes of the tragedy.

The investigation will try to determine if there were any mechanical defects among the. vehicles involved. The injured accounted for at Clark County Memorial Hospital, Jeffersonville were: George Blakemore and his wife, Mrs. Senthea Blakemore, Brownstown, both critically injured and transferred from the Clark County Memorial Hospital at Jeffersonville to St. Joseph Infirmary, Louisville.

Homer E. Hostettler, 66, Henryville, attorney, whose condition last night at the Clark County hospital was described as "fair." He suffered head and back injuries. Hostettler's grandchildren, David Hogue, 18, and Betty Hogue, 19, Henryville. The boy was treated and released; on 1-65 the girl admitted to the hospital with neck injuries. Roger Boyd, 25, Beaver Dam, who suffered a back injury and was "reported in "satisfactory" condition last night.

State Trooper William Schroeder, 27, Henryville, who was from smoke, inhalation. He was held at the hospital for observation. Mrs. Merriman, 72, Jackson, Mich. Calvin A.

Rogers, 82, Tobacco Inspector And Merchant, Dies Special to Tht Courier-Journal BLOOMFIELD, Ky. Calvin A. Rogers. 82, a retired inspector for the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Associa- tion here, died Wednesday at Shelby- ville. He was a former partner in the old John Rogers Sons General Store at Wakefield and was a land owner in Nelson and Spencer counties.

Rogers was a retired elder of Big Spring Presbyterian and was 'secretary-treasurer for the Big Spring Cemetery Board. He was a 50-year Mason, a Shriner and a member of the Knights Templar. Survivors include his widow, the former Mabel Sullivan; two daughters, Mrs. Harold Hardesty, of Mt. Eden, and Mrs.

Brooks Penny III, of Louisville, and a son, John Veach Rogers, of Lexington. The body is at Spicer-McAfee Adam Funeral Home here. Continued From Page One there could be no question of a reciprocal "deescalation" by Hanoi in exchange for the bombing halt, North Vietnam would be willing to discuss once the talks had opened the American proposal that "no advantage be taken" as a result of the bombing cutback. (However, in his State of the Union ad- dress last nieht President Johnson indi cated that he was not yet satisfied that Hanoi had met his requirements for stopping the bombing and starting talks. More diplomatic exploration is necessary, he said, and "I will report at the earliest possible moment the results of these explorations." (Hardening his terms for entering talks with North Vietnam, Johnson also proposed that a "really true cease-fire" be the first order of business if talks could be arranged.

Thus he differed with the North Vietnamese suggestion- that the talks start with the setting of an agenda and the designation of an appropriate level for later discussions. (Johnson also insisted that if the United States halts its bombing, the "other side must not take advantage of our restraint as they have in the The North Vietnamese statements were offered yesterday as further clarifications of statements made late Tuesday by the leader of the mission here, Mai Van Bo, in an interview with the French television network. In the interview Bo said the talks could begin within "a suitable time" after a bombing halt. He also firmly ruled out any reciprocal gestures from Hanoi. Positive Points Stressed The clarifications yesterday appeared designed to accentuate all the positive aspects of the interview.

They were made in conversations with French newsman Georges Broussine, editor of a morning newsletter with a wide and influential circulation in France. Broussine made il- A. -1 1 1 i THnTri SZ JmX- X1U11VU HIV VU1 All J. A nut UVtWJ Wl The North Vietnamese said world opinion would be the guarantor of good faith by each side, if the -offer was accepted, pointing out that it would be perfectly obvious if the bombing was Damage Suit Says Employe Of Tavern Shot Two Men Daniel P. Millet 820 Brentwood, asked $22,500 damages, and William R.

Bell, 324 E. St. Catherine, asked $20,000 damages in a suit filed yesterday alleging they were shot by an employe at the Kum-On Inn, 408 E. Oak, last Christmas Eve. They sued the operator of the tavern, Robert Carroll Champion, and the em-' ploye, Owen Herod Nevil.

The suit was assigned to Jefferson Circuit Judge Thomas A. Ballantine Jr. (many weather) LB Expand War mDomelUs Continued From Page One last year, the President particularly urged Congress to complete action on his civil rights legislation, a higher education act, a juvenile delinquency program, highway beautification and several conservation measures. Johnson turned almost immediately to Vietnam, particularly to the question of whether the bombing of North Vietnam should be stopped in response to Hanoi's recent statements that such an action would be followed by peace talks. "Right now we are exploring the meaning of Hanoi's recent statement," the President said, but "there is no mystery about the questions which must be answered before the bombing is stopped." Any talks, he said, should follow "the San Antonio formula" which he stated last September.

However, the President last night stated that "formula" in tougher terms than he had used in San Antonio. He said the bombing would stop "if talks would take place promptly and with reasonable hopes they would be productive. And the other side must not take advantage of our restraint as they have in the past. This nation simply cannot accept anything less without Continued From Page One "and flares along the road were visible for only a short distance. It took more than an hour to get one tractor truck driver out of his cab, which was smashed against him.

A power saw from a Jeffersonville fire department truck and wreckers were used to free the driver, who died while rescue operations were under way. Visibility at the time of the accident was less than 50 feet, according to truck driver Jim Brown, of Middletown, Ohio. He was at the end of the pileup and managed to pull his truck off the highway in time to avoid the accident. "I was in that-Pennsylvania Turnpike mess in the fog two or three years ago and this is just as bad or worse," Brown said. Lt.

William Klein, commanding officer at the Charlestown state police post, called the pileup "the worst I've seen." At least 15 state troopers and officers from Floyd and Clark County sheriff, departments were called to the scene. It was the worst traffic accident in Indiana since six persons died 21 in the pileup of a school, bus, a moving van and an auto on U.S. 40 east of Indianapo-. lis. At one point during clearing operations traffic was rerouted at Scottsburg and at Clarksville.

Vehicles caught in jeopardizing the lives of bur men and our allies." When Johnson originally stated the "San Antonio formula" in that city last Sept. 29, he said only that "we, of course, assume that while discussions proceed, North Vietnam would not take advantage of the bombing cessation or limitation." Thus, his words last night that "the other side must not take advantage of our restraint" made explicit this requirement in a manner that the original formula did not. The President also said that if on the basis of that formula "peace talks can be established," the United States would try to make "a complete cessation of hostilities a really true cease-fire" the first order of business. Says Peace Still His Goal Administration officials said that the phrase "reasonable hopes" for productive talks was meant to suggest that the United States is interested in serious talks with North Vietnam but would not demand some "automatic answer in advance" on the question of whether the talks would be Johnson cited several "marks of prog- The Supreme Court will hear the case this spring. The church council said in its brief yesterday that the lower court's rulings "provide an open door for enclaves in our American society of vast quasi-municipalities built on the exploitation of racism and discrimination for profit." Paddock Woods, according to the council, was planned as a community of 2,700 families and, while it is privately owned, it is run as a town, as though it had been chartered by the state of Missouri The Catholic brief contends that the 1866 law is in fact a national fair housing act, and argues further: "There is a constitutional right to purchase a home without discrimination on account of race, such right being grounded not social convenience but upon antecedent moral rights deriv-' Ing from the very nature of man." "Badges of Slavery Hit 'i Regarding the 13th Amendment, the brief contends that not only is slavery unlawful, but so too.

are the "badges of slavery," particularly affecting the right freely to purchase property. The National Council of Churches describes itself as the cooperative agency of 34 Protestant and Orthodox religious denominations with an aggragate membership of 42 million throughout the United States. The National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, founded in 1960, serves 150 Catholic human relations and urban organizations, including 29 in the South. The brief was prepared by William Ball, a Harrisburg, attorney in consultation with theologians. It then wag joined by the 24 bishops.

Church Group Files Brief In Open-Housing Case ress" in Vietnam in the past year, but noted that "the enemy continues to pour men and material across frontiers and into battle, despite his very heavy losses. He continues tq hope that America's will to persevere can be broken." Speaking emphatically, and invoking applause, the President said: "He is wrong. America will persevere. Our patience and our perseverance will match our power. Aggression will never prevail." Nevertheless, he said, his goal remained "peace at the earliest possible moment." In general, Johnson skimmed the international scene lightly, barely mentioning the Middle East, Latin America, international development and such con-tinuing trouble spots as Cyprus.

He again invoked applause, however, when he said that a draft treaty to halt the spread of nuclear weapons might soon be accepted by the United States and the Soviet Union at the Geneva disarmament conference. Johnson said he hoped to be able to present such a treaty to the Senate in the coming year. On domestic affairs, the President said there was "a certain restlessness a questioning in the nation that he attributed to the fact that "our ship is moving through new waters, toward new shores." The real question, he said, is no longer how to achieve abundance but "how can all share in our abundance?" One necessity, he said, is to reach "those who are last In line the hardcore unemployed." He estimated that there were 500,000 of these living in the major cities, and. set an objective of placing them all "in private industry jobs within the next three years." This program, he said, would absorb most of the manpower pro. gram he proposed a 25 per cent increase over what is being spent in the current year.

Gives Few Details on Housing Johnson gave few details of the program but administration officials have said it would permit the federal government to finance 'intensive and broad-'scale training programs to be conducted by private industry. The President gave even fewer details of the proposed huge housing program. However, he said that he hoped to start building 300,000 housing units for low and middle-income families this year. That would be three times as many as in the current year. Hii plan to build (J million such housing units in the next decade would compare with 533,000 federally-subsidized units built in the last 10 years.

Despite the sweep of these and other domestic programs, Johnson's discussion of the budget which he will formally submit to Congress later this month -made it plain that fiscal 1969 would be a year of relative austerity. He warned that if Congress failed to enact his proposed surtax, which officials estimate will produce $1.4 billion of revenue, there would be "an accelerating spiral of price increases, a slump in home building and a continuing erosion of the American dollar." If such inflation occurred, he said, it would be "tragedy for every American family." Then, wielding the threat of political reprisal none too subtly, he added: "And I predict that if it happens they will all let us know about it." Continued From Page One Council for Interracial Justice joined with the two cardinals and the bishops, who come from most sections of the country, in signing the brief to be filed today. Signing the Catholic brief were Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle of Washington and Lawrence Cardinal Shchan of Baltimore. Other signers included Bishops Joseph A. Durick of Nashville, Raymond J.

Gallagher of Lafayette, George J. Gottwald of St. Louis and Fulton J. Sheen of Rochester, N.Y. The Catholic conference said it is rare for a group of bishops to join in a lawsuit on nonchurch matters.

Subdivision Developers Sued Accepted by the high court last month, the case could lead to a decision proclaiming the kind of open housing law that Congress has been unwilling to enact despite the urgings of the Johnson administration. The Joneses sued the developers of Paddock Woods subdivision near St. Louis for refusing on racial grounds to sell them a house and lot. The federal District Court in St. Louis and the U.S.

8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that there is no remedy against the developer under existing federal law. With some expressed reluctance, the U.S. Appeals Court in St. Louis ruled in June that neither the U.S. Constitution nor the 1866 civil rights law cited by the couple strikes at discrimination in private housing transactions.

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