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Byron 134TH YEAR ROCHESTER, N. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1966 10 CENTS If it Liberals to Run Own State Ticket Living bers would ask for recommendations from the Market Rises; 573 is needed for nomination. An Associated Press tally, however, shows that O'Connor now has 508 publicly pledged votes, with Samuels of Canan-daigua second with 158 pledged delegates. Harrington said the nine-member committee would try to arrive at a consensus on its candidate before the next meeting of the party's policy committee, set for Sept. 1.

He said the committee mem- committee meeting, that a "committee of nine" would be set up to choose candidates for governor and other statewide positions. Harrington said his party has already determined from polls and other means that there is considerable support within the party for Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and Howard J. Samuels, both candidates for the Democratic nomination.

He said the candidate list could also include James Farmer, former head of the Congress of Racial Equality, Louis Broi-do, and Sol Linowitz of Rochester, a Xerox Corp. official. Meanwhile in Buffalo last night Erie County's 90 delegates to the state Democratic Convention voted unanimously to support O'Connor. A campaign spokesman for O'Connor said the Erie County announcement now gives O'Connor 534 pledged votes. A total of NEW YORK (AP) The Liberal party policy committee voted unanimously last night to have Liberals run an independent ticket in the gubernatorial election.

It said the party would support neither Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller nor the Democratic front runner, Frank D. O'Connor, in November. Liberal party state chairman Donald S.

Harrington also announced after a party policy party's district Frank and county or- O'Connor ganizations, its members, and from associates outside the party. Harrington estimated that the Liberals would roll up a vote of "anywhere between 300,000 and 500,000," and were "not worried about running fourth behind the Conservative party." Slumps Again 1-4 V4 i Dow-Jones Off 12 July Up A P.C. I si rs 1 If U.S. Quits, It's War III, Rusk Warns New York Times News Service ft.A "A JsaAX. Full Story, Page ID NEW YORK (UPD Stock prices dropped WASHINGTON (UPD Led by increases in transportation fares and other essentials like home mortgages and medical fees, the cost of living shot up another four-tenths of 1 per cent sharply along a broad front yesterday, and by the end of the session widely-watched Dow last month, the government re- Jones Industrial Average had ported yesterday.

NEW YORK Secretary of retreated more than 12. State Dean Rusk warned yesterday that a premature Amer Trading was active. Continued nervousness over ican pullout from South Viet Nam would "surely" lead to the rising cost of money and the tightening supply of loan funds took a major share of the World War III. In r'; 1 i i tf i '-JLi ilis 1 ri1 ir v'- I il Xi The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said the consumer price index through July stood at 113.3, representing a 2.8 per cent increase in the past year. The index is based on prices about 8 years ago, meaning it now costs $11.33 for the same goods and services that $10 bought then.

The new living cost figures added additional stress to the He said any withdrawal complete victory over blame for the decline, but brokers also noted that some selling could have been touched off by penetration of the 800 Communist aggression would be level in the Dow Jones Indus as fatal as were attempts to appease the Axis powers in the 1930's. He spoke to the annual convention of the Veterans of trial Average around noon. The drop might have prodded some traders who use the indicator as a basis for their decisions Johnson administration's efforts to sell. The Dow Jones average dropped 12.59 to 792.03 the lowest level since it touched to hold the line against inflation. The big July rise in consumer prices further eroded the buying power of the factory worker's paycheck at a time when the administration is trying to pre 788.71 Feb.

10, 1964. The United Press Interna tional stock market Indicator What Did Airline Pact Really Cost? By ROBERT W. LUCAS Gannett News Service WASHINGTON Spokesmen for the Johnson administration are apparently determined to soften the psychological impact of the settlement that brought the 43-day airline strike to an end. And this is leaving some members of the House and Senate politically vulnerable to labor's ire. W.

Willard Wirtz said the new contract between the International Association of Machinists and the five major airlines "hurt very much the stabilization principle but it didn't hurt nearly as much as the increase in the price of steel." Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, described the contract as "excessive," but said the airlines' "high productivity" should mean a "continued downward trend in fares." Wirtz said that the settlement amounted to an estimated 4.9 per cent a year in showed a loss of 1.79 per cent of the 1,448 issues traded. There TO THE BRINK Police grab two teen-age girls from a after they threatened to jump unless they could see the 21st floor setback of American Hotel in New York City Beatles, staying in Warwick Hotel, right background. (AP) Beatle Fans 'Suicide Foiled Foreign Wars. Rusk implied that had the late President Kennedy lived, American combat troops would be as heavily committed in Viet Nam as they are under President Johnson. He recalled that Kennedy said, two months before he was assassinated, "We are not there (in Viet Nam) to see a war lost." But historian Arthur M.

Schlesinger said in his book, "A Thousand Days," that Kennedy never regarded Viet Nam a top priority problem. Rusk went on to laud Pres were 1,147 losers and 130 gain ers. The New York Stock Exchange index showed a loss equal to 78 cents in the average share price. Trading swelled to 8,690,000 shares from 7,070,000 shares Friday. Prices were mixed at the but soon headed into the minus column.

The largest part vent wage contract demands from getting out of hand in the wake of the airlines strike set tlement. The July increase in the index was attributed to almost across-the-board rises in services. These cover a wide variety of things from bus, subway, train and other transportation fares to haircuts, doctor bills, hospital costs, laundry costs and also entertainment items such as movies. Transportation costs showed the greatest increase in 18 years. The government statisticians reported that food prices subject of considerable attention recently as a result of increases in the cost of such staples as bread and milk were fairly stable of the decline came during the ident Johnson as "one of the most resolute presidents this noon hour.

their legs dangling over 54th Street. One of the policemen finally got on his knees and begged, the women said. One of the teen-age girls, with tears in her eyes, crawled under the railing and onto the roof. The girl said something to her friend, then helped her from the ledge. their 21st-floor room, which overlooked the roof of a setback.

A steel railing runs around the roof, about 2 feet from the ledge. Billie Stewart and Mrs. Warren L. Moody said police tried for 30 minutes to talk the girls into leaving the ledge, where they sat with The girls then started combing their hair and checking their makup as policemen rushed to grab them. AH this time the British rock 'n' roll group was in the Hotel Warwick, about a block away.

They will perform in Shea Stadium tonight. Two women from Atlanta, watched the episode from NEW YORK (AP) Two girls threatened to jump from the 21st floor of the Americana Hotel for 30 minutes yesterday "unless we get to see the Beatles." A policeman got on his knees and persuaded them to come away. One girl broke into tears and helped the other away from the ledge, witnesses said. Airlines started higher but by the close showed some of the country ever had. Rusk also spoke with U.N Secretary General Thant yes largest losses of any group Electronics met demand toward the final bell and some deficits terday and told him the U.S.

wants "de-escalation" in Viet were replaced by gains. Nam and a strengthening of the border watch in Cambodia. Rusk said "we didn't get into Several oils, drugs, metals, aircrafts and rails had losses of a point or more. Several blue chips were also jolted. details" on Thant's three-point plan for peace in Viet Nam which calls for stopping the in July.

bombing of North Viet warn, scaling down the fighting in South Viet Nam and a willing Air Force Chief Removed In Bonn Crisis New York Times News Service ness of all to negotiate with Lindsay, RFK Clash On US. Aid to N.Y. New York Times News Service WASHINGTON Mayor John V. Lindsay said yesterday that it would take an additional $50 billion in federal funds in the next decade to transform New York City into "a thoroughly livable and exciting place in which to live." Big 3 Automakers Refuse Wage Reopening Request those actually fighting includ ing the Viet Cong. Cong Mine Blamed for Ship Blast BONN The commanding general of the West German air force, Lt.

Gen. Werner Panitzki, That, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York said impatiently, is "totally unrealistic." DETROIT (AP) The auto industry's Big Three General Motors, Ford and Chrysler yesterday flatly turned down a request from the United Auto New York City's present budget, the first of the Lindsay administration and highest in 1 Production workers in the UAW's largest local, Ford 600, in fact, already had asked the union to include them in any reopening. The UAW had demanded an was temporarily relieved of his command yesterday as a result of his demand last week for reor Negro Church Explodes, 11 Safe, 1 Sought PLAINVIEW, Tex.

(DPD A Negro church exploded during a revival last night, and nearly a dozen persons were trapped by the collapsing building. Sgt Thurman Keefer of the Texas Highway Patrol said 11 persons, all unconscious, were taken from the shattered church, the Church of God in Christ. Witnesses said as many as 200 persons were in the structure. "There was an explosion of some kind," he said. "But we don't know what kind.

building collapsed," Keefer said. "They are still looking for one more person in there." The blast shook the entire residential area. "We're having a traffic problem now at the Plainview Hospital, where all the injured were taken." I the city's 300-year history, totals Workers that labor contracts be ganization of the SAIGON (Tuesday) (UPD-An explosion possibly touched off by a Viet Cong mine blew a hole in the side of a ship under reopened to negotiate pay raises answer yesterday to its proposed reopening to give skilled tradesmen an immediate raise $4,615,286,712. But how much of that represents federal aid remained a mystery by hearing's end, despite insistent probing by Ken The deral government "i not about to increase its aid to New York City at that rate," Kennedy said. The sparring between the Re-p ublican mayor and the Demo-c a tic senator for skilled workers.

All three firms said, in effect, they will not consider any extra of at least 50 cents an hour, ueiense Ministry. The resulting litical crusis will inevitably weaken Chancel far A contract to the U.S. Navy to day, killing seven men, Amer ican sDokesmen reported. Tradesmen complained skilled whichever is greater, plus a spe cial bonus provided for in tha final year of current contracts. The industry estimated these would raise pay from 11 to 15.3 cents hourly, plus any cost-of-living hike.

Also due Sept. 5 are additional hospital-medical benefits which GM estimated would raise its fringe costs to $1.20 hourly. None would estimate the im mediate added costs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics figures the current average hourly wage for the automotive industry as a whole is $3.22, including the unskilled and tha skilled. Malcolm L.

Denise, Ford'l Gen. Panitzki wmovnbMSi The blast followed two Com hikes in wages for nearly skilled workers in their plants before current pacts ex lor Ludwig Erhard's govern munist terror attacks Monday John Lindsay ment, which is already under attack because of West Ger in which a woman and six pire Sept. 6, 1967. Reluctance of the nation's many's economic situation, workers elsewhere make considerably more than in the auto plants. The Big Three had pointed up over the weekend automatic increases becoming effective two weeks hence under current contracts that will boost wages by an estimated $186 million annually.

A new cost of living index re nedy. At another point, as Kennedy pressed for an answer to a question about the city's ills, Lindsay observed dryly: "I'm glad to see you're interested in New York City, Mr. Senator." Kennedy smiled wanly and stopped the questioning. However, the immediate issue three largest automakers was attributed in part to fears some is that of maintaining civilian control over the armed services. came as a Senate subcommittee opened a second week of hearings into what it calls "the crisis of the cities." Without more federal money, Lindsay said "the cities just can't make it." 600,000 unskilled and semiskilled production workers also would ask more pay if consessions ported by the Bureau of Labor were made to the skilled.

vice president for labor rela Statistics yesterday will add another two cents hourly. Automatic increases include 2.8 per cent or 7 cents hourly, tions, told a news conference, "as far as we're concerned, tha issue is now closed until next year." It's Tough Time for Harried Fathers Theirs Is House Divided Over Politics, Business children were killed in the Mekong Delta and five Americans were wounded in a grenade attack on a jeep in Saigon. The raids were the latest incidents in the Communist campaign to disrupt next month's national elections. Today's explosion ripped through the ship Baton Rouge Victory on the Long Tao shipping channel 23 miles southeast of Saigon. Contract ships are normally manned by a civilian crew with a small naval detachment aboard.

The nationality of the men killed was not immediately determined. Immediately after the blast, Navy patrol boats and helicopters rushed to the scene to provide protection against further attack. Government officials reported a total of 15 acts of terrorism in widely scattered areas yesterday, following 22 other such incidents during the weekend. The elections are scheduled Sept. 11 to name a constituent assembly to write a South Vietnamese constitution.

Buddhists, some Catholic leaders and several other groups have ordered their followers to boycott the elections. Inside ihe Murder in Their Minds Two young men with murder their minds meet In a small Kansas township. Their ruthless yet casual conversation is recorded in today's episode of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" on Page 8B. Where To Find It Rocky Pays Fan's Fine NEW YORK (AP) Gov. Nelson A.

Rockefeller, campaigning for re-election, asked for questions from an audience at a Queens shopping center yesterday. "I just want you to know that because I came to listen to you I got a traffic ticket called a woman with a baby in her arms. "That's the saddest thing I ever heard of," said the millionaire governor. "I appreciate your coming so I'll pay your fine He handed the woman, Mrs. Addle Scataglia, a $3 bffl and later autographed it for bar.

the father said. "It happens to a lot of parents with high school youngsters somewhat of a rebellion, not so much against authority, but against parents. I think this is generalthis resistance to parental authority." Robert traced the differences to frequent political discussions, a long-time family interest in politics, and his father's insistence that the son reach his own conclusions. "If I win the general election," Robert said, "it will be the only race where the better man has not won I have a lot of respect for my father, but I'll do everything possible to beat him." GLOVERSVILLE (3 Two young men publicly disagreed with their father yesterday by picketing the roofing company that he owns and for which they work. The Acme Roofing owned by Theron Blodgett, employs five workers, including Blodgett's sons, Ronald and Richard.

They and two other workers picketed outside the firm's office and said they would not return to work until their demands were met by the elder Blodgett. Their demands Include higher wages, paid vacations and holidays. As roofers, the men earn $2.50 an hour. lic office, "but Dad taught me to make up my own mind and stick with it." Robert insists that politics had nothing to do with his moving out of his parents' home during the primary cam-paign, in which both he and his father were opposed for the nominations. "I got married and moved out," he said.

Robert helped his father two years ago in an unsuccessful campaign for nomination to the legislature. "He's the only Republican I ever helped," Robert said. How did this political division come about? "I think It's his generation," WICHITA, Kan. Bruce Madden, 53, a Republican nominee for the Kansas House of Representatives, knows his opponent in the November election well. It's his son, Robert Madden, 22, the Democratic candidate.

"We're quite often on opposite sides in political discussions," said the elder Madden, who is employed at an aircraft plant. "In fact, I can't recall when we agreed on politics." "We've often not agreed on issues," said tall slender Robert Madden, who interrupted his college education to make his first race lor pub Red Smith ID Sports 1-5D Theaters 7B TV, Radio 8D Beeney 8B Bridge 5A Buchwald 8B Comics Crossword 7D 4C 5-12C jbl 4s wJS Vicinity Want Ads Woman's Pages Weather 5C 10A 1-3C 5A 7D SB Deaths Editorials Financial Health Jumble Landfill Your Town 40 4 Sections.