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OM THE SLY A WHILE ASO, AKIP HE'S aiVINS COLD EYE BECAUSE. SHES SIVIUS HIM AWAY BEeaiWS FDR 6RAMRVW Redlands Daily Facts 10 Tuesday, July 18, 1967 Senator shares bread with S.F. hippie SAN FRANCISCO (UPD- What happens when a millionaire senator who could some day be president meets one of San Francisco's flower children? They share a piece of bread together. Republican Charles H. Percy addressed the final session of the National Conference of Lieutenant Governors over the weekend.

But first he took an anonymous stroll down Haight Street heart of San Francisco's hip- He said he walked through the area because "the understanding of culture is part of a politician's life. "This young man offered me a piece of bread," Percy said later, "and I was happy to share it with Jim. Sharing bread is his way of finding ap- piness." Percy said Hippies were anxious to tell him why they want to "rebel agamst conformity. "This generation is against a society that has the power to destroy itself and situations like Vietnam, where innocent people on both sides are hurt," he said. Each generation has its own way of manifesting itself to differentiate from the past.

Mine had panty raids and swallowed goldfish." Percy also said he was impressed by the fact that those he talked to seemd to have a good IQ. "I said to them 'If you feel this way, why don't you take your feelings out into society mstead of living They couldn't quite answer that except to say they found more comfort among themselves." When he arrived at tlie conference, Percy carried two hippie newspapers, printed in their vivid psychedelic his arm. He said he would take them home to his family. The Haight-Ashbury newspapers are outspoken in tlie position that marijuana should be legalized and Percy at least went along with them in indicating he felt marijuana legal penalties were now too harsh. He said of imprisonment for illegal use of the drug that "this possibly might be somewhat excessive.

I understand it is not addictive. It doesn't create violence you have to temper punishment." In his speech to the black tie dinner audience, Percy said President Johnson's plan to quadruple the grants-in-aid program was "disturbing, dangerous and degrading" because money from the national Treasury comes "conditioned upon compliance with federal dictates on what is to be done and how it is to be done. He said the government should help states collecting taxes but ought to give them freedom in spending the revenue. "I see no reason why we shouldn't try to have both the efficiencies of centralized taxation and the advantages of decentralized expenditures." The senator also proposed "an alliance for progress here at home between the public and private sector," saymg such a partnership could "revolutionize problem-solving in this country." Newsmen spent most of their time with the senator asking Long tvfisting 45-mile channel to Saigon harbor By ROBERT C. MILLER SAIGON (UPI)-The slow boats to China are now carrying war supplies to Saigon.

And each of the free world freighters has to run a 45-mile long gantlet of dangerous, twisting channel through the Communist saturated delta that separates Saigon from the sea. The assembly point for the Saigon convoys is off the Cape St. Jacques light, once the Riveria of French Indochina. Here in the Bay of Ganh Rai anchor the glossy tankers, the rusting Victory hulls, the gray Navy transports, down to then: plimsoll lines in war cargoes. They may lie off the beautiful cape with its red-tiled summer homes for hours, days or even weeks, depending upon the priority of the cargo, the congestion of the port at Saigon, or, more important, the fluctuating menace of the Viet Cong mine, mortar and rocket the vuhjerable freighters as they twist and turn up the channel.

Vour trip to Saigon begins under a leaden monsoon sky when river pilot T.T. Khuong swings aboard the freighter to guide it upstream. Khuong is one of 19 river pilots who have spent then: lives learning the river; his English is limited to the directions he issues the helmsman, but his knowledge of his job is thorough. Two U.S. Army security guards also come aboard.

One, James Dougherty of (183 Seabreeze Way) Keansburg, N.J., explains that they are mostly to protect against sniper fire but that "things have been boring lately." A low-lymg tanker flying the French flag slides by and moves into position ahead of us. Her wheel room is sandbagged for sniper protection. Pilot Khuong explains that she travels the Mekong River ports where sandbagged wheelhouses are one of the essentials of Vietnamese river navigation. By the time the convoy begins its trip upstream, the sun has broken through to give depth and color to the previously drab tidal flats that comprise the delta. Off to the left the town of Can Gio comes into view with its French-style buildings and California Mission church.

Two miles behind the town a cloud of white smoke mushrooms upwards, apparently an artillery burst fired from a distant gun. There are two blasts from ship's whistle and the freighter C.C.N.Y. Victory moves in ahead of us in the convoy. Three Navy Swifts P.T. boats up, and will be our escort through the more dangerous sections.

The miniature PTs buzz around like mosquitos, and ride shotgun close to the tidal flats that form the banks of the channel. The waters turn from green to light brown as the channel eats deeper and deeper into the delta. Both sides are barren of any greenery and the air takes on a peculiar chemical odor. "Defoliation" explains Khuong. The Air Force has defoliated both sides of the channel to wipe out ambush sites and sniper cover for the Cong.

Up ahead, he points out where the freighter Baton Rouge Victory was hit and beached by a Communist mine. She was salvaged and sent to Singapore for repairs, A spotter plane circles the m.ornuig sky off to the left of Cau Lac Bo village, then suddenly drops down and skims the area to investigate something suspicious. A signal flare pops up farther out, and the spotter heads over to answer the call. A few minutes later two jets sw6ep in from the north, and for the next five minutes you have a bleacher seat to the distant bombing. But there is no reaction from the river people.

Khuong keeps his eyes on the channel and paces back and forth on the bridge watching the banks, the traffic and the currents. In between his "Left three degrees," i two" and "steady on course" comes the far-off thump of the bombs and the war. Every few miles you pass mud-walled "forts" flying the him about his White House prospects and Percy politely evaded such questions with the comment "I am pleased to be considered a candidate but I have obligations to the people of Illinois. "It's much too early. We have several Republican candidates and many are non-declared." He was also asked about the chances of another handsome young political newcomer, Calif.

Gov. Ronald Reagan. He said if Reagan can survive California's many problems this year in strong style he is liable to emerge as a top 1968 GOP presidential hopeful. He said any 1968 Republican nominee would have "a hard job to beat an incumbent president." Fuller objects to smog bills in legislature LOS (UPI) Two smog control laws currently before the California Legislature "have no more teeth than a duck" according to Los Angeles County Smog Control Officer Louis J. Fuller.

Fuller charged Jlonday that neither of the bills provides penalties for persons who violate anti-smog laws nor do they make it possible to charge people with a violation. "They don't set emniission standards, so that there can be no provision for control of smoke stacks, and they don't provide for a permit system, wliich is the best means ever found for preventing air pollution problems," Fuller said. The major premise of the bills, originally supported by Fuller, is to provide a strong central smog authority for the entire state. However, Fuller claimed the bills have smce been weakened by "special interests." He did not name the interests. "On the face of it they look good," said Fuller, "but they're really illusions." red-striped yellow flag of the South Vietnamese.

Each has a spindly-legged watch tower, barbed wire, a few guns. The soldiers wave at you. Khuong warns that the next half hour's passage is tlie most dangerous and all the freighter's crew moves inside and below decks to avoid sniper fire. The Swifts move closer out in the middle of the channel, and their crews man the machine guns and scrutinize the mangrove swamps that fringe both banks. Canals open up on both sides and lead into the swampy interior which has been a Viet Cong stronghold for years.

There's no trouble today, and by noon the convoy has reached the oil port of Nah Be where the tankers unload and where the rusty, old freighters unload their ammunition. The river is jammed with traffic, and ashore the swamps have been replaced by rice paddies, dikes and farmers plowing behind water buffalo. It is peaceful deceptive. For these areas outside Saigon are the supply points for the Viet Cong and as unsafe after dark as a den of rattlesnakes. Khuong slows the ship down to half speed at Nah Be and begins the toughest part of the trip for him, picking his way past anchored vessels and the boats and barges around them.

Khuong skillfully manuevers through the traffic, blasting away with the ship's whistle when passage gets tight. He then eases the freighter into her berth at the new port just above Saigon, disdaining the use of a tug. He picks up his overnight bag, looks at his watch and says goodbye. He has another ship to take downstream in an hour. Indian Land Only Indians left in New York state, with the exception of a few hundred on Long Island, are the Iroquois, which own about 77,000 acres of land in the state.

The Iroquois were allowed to keep about 18 million acres of New York land after the Revolutionary War. Mexican group to form coalition RIVERSIDE (UPI) Members of the California Mexican- American Political Association ended a two-day state convention Sunday by votmg to expand into a national organization. The action followed a decision 'Saturday to join with representatives of New York City's Puerto Rican community in forming a coalition that could creae a strong voting bloc in next year's elections. The expansion into a national organization will be accomplished by chartering of associations in other states. MAPA President Bert Corona, Oakland, was directed to appoint an interstate chartering committee.

In other action, the delegates passed resolutions calling for President Johnson to end the war in Vietnam through negotiations, condemning the Los Angeles police-community relations program as "evasive and in fact deceptive in its apprach and intent." and opposing a tuition charge by the University of California. The delegates also adopted a resolution callmg for M.APA to work for nomination of Corona, a Democrat, for U.S. senator next year. Corona said he was "flattered" by the proposal but has no intention of becoming a SHORT RIBS By FRANK O'NEAL V8J FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS WAX DO YOU If: "GilEUE, VlE'VE BEEM mm PWMs By MERRILL BLOSSER CAPTAIN EASY By LESLIE TURNER SOt BA2i FOR JUPeiN' BY CAMP FLEP. HORSEBACKi TOO PEN'LV TO TAKB POTTEKy HE'P A HERPER SAW HIM RIPE THAT UNCLE PAST AT IN IRAl THEY PIP SHIRT.

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