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2--Fairbanks Daily Newi-Miner, Tuwday, October 21, 1968 Texas' Connally Joins Humphrey FORT WORTH, Ten. (AP) Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, in tight nee with Republican Richard M. Nixon for Texts' electoral votes, welcomed Gov. John Connally to his presidential campaign today and predicted he would win the state In November.

Connally, who sat out an earlier Humphrey campaign tour, has since joined Sen. Ralph Yarborough, leader of a liberal WEATHER ANCHORAGE (AP) Occasionally moderate rain drenched parts of the Panhandle early Tuesday with Ketchikan reporting the most ninfaU-a little over an inch during a 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. Anchorage, cloudy 32 27 trace Ketchikan, rain 52 421.06 Barrow, clear 08-07 Barter Island, snow IS 01 trace Bethel, cloudy 31 13 Cordova, clear 4 29 .07 Fairbanks, snow 16 12 .01 Gulkana, cloudy 2E 20 Homer, clear 37 24 Juneau, rain 45 41 .35 Kenai, clear 35 25 trace King Salmon, clear 23 04 Kodiak, clear 42 24 Kotzebue, cloudy 18 14 McGrath, clear 15 -M trace Nome, cloudy 33 22 .06 Sitka, rain 50 45 .52 Shemya, cloudy 34 30 .01 Yakutat, rain 46 38 .61 69 56 68 44 57 41 68 28 73 45 65 44 16 12 82 61 53 35 89 74 68 46 81 62 45 41 High Albany, cloudy Albuquerque, clear Atlanta, clear Bismarck, clear Boise, cloudy Boston, cloudy Buffalo, cloudy Chicago, cloudy Cincinnati, cloudy Cleveland, clear Denver, clear Des Moines, cloudy Detroit, cloudy Fairbanks, snow Fort Worth, cloudy Helena, cloudy Honolulu, cloudy Indianapolis, cloudy Jacksonville, cloudy Juneau, rain Kansas City, clear Los Angeles, cloudy 80 58 Louisville, clear 70 46 Memphis, clear 78 55 Miami, clear 82 76 Milwaukee, rain 67 54 cloudy 70 47 New Orleans, clear 78 54 New York, cloudy Okla. City, cloudy Omaha, clear Philadelphia, clear Phoenix, clear Pittsburgh, cloudy Ptlnd, cloudy Ptlnd, rain Rapid City, Richmond, clear St. Louis, clear Salt Lk.

City, clear San Diego, cloudy San clear Seattle, cloudy Tampa, cloudy Washington, clear Winnipeg, clear Low Pr. 65 38 75 48 77 50 49 30 .01 57 41 GO 48 57 41 .01 .35 81 471.50 .34 64 49 81 50 .11 69 42 65 40 88 51 59 37 54 42 58 49 60 27 73 41 77 58 57 32 78 53 68 54 52 49 83 71 68 45 51 31 Democratic party wing long at odds with Connally, in support of Humphrey. "When you've got John Connally and Ralph Yarborough on your side how can you lose?" said Humphrey in remarks prepared for an airport rally at Fort Worth. Polls taken by the Democrats show Humphrey leading Nixon by two to four percentage points and widening his lead. But the Republicans have polls showing Nixon ahead and most observers rate the state a toss-up.

Third party candidate George C. Wallace is also running strong in Texas with polls giving him 20 to 25 per cent of the vote. Humphrey criticized Wallace, saying "dishes out some mighty tough talk about law and order and claims to be the friend of the working man. If it weren't so serious, it would be ridiculous." Humphrey said that when Wallace was governor of Alabama the state had the highest murder rate in the country and the third lowest wages for its working people. "He was a union-busting governor, and you know it," Humphrey said.

Humphrey, who campaigned Monday in New York City on a rising note of optimism, shrugged off the latest national opinion sampling which showed Nixon still with a commanding lead over his Democratic rival although by a slightly smaller margin than a few weeks earlier. At a fund-raising dinner in the Waldorf-Astoria Humphrey said he could sense a victory surge in what he called his painful uphill struggle since he was nominated. "I have a lot of experience," he said. "I know the smell of victory and the odious odor of defeat. Let me tell you, as surely as I stand before you, that the scent of victory is in the ah-." Humphrey addressed the dinner after a busy day of campaigning mostly in Jewish sections of Brooklyn in an effort to keep Democratic voters in the area from defecting because of the law and order issue.

The dinner brought an estimated $748,000 in Humphrey's campaign fund. Nixon Takes Direct Shots At Humphrey in Cincinnati TANKER BURNS IN ENGLISH CHANNEL Smoke billows from the stern sections of the Norwegian tanker Sitakund as it second gold medal in the Mexico City Olympic Games by easily winning her heat in the women's Eastbourne Bay in Susses, England. The fire started when two explosions rocked the vessel. Its crew of 34 was removed yesterday. Airline Mechanics Asking Whopping 40 Per Cent Hike in New Contract CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) The Republican presidential Richard M.

Nixon to starting to -candidate, stopping here overtake oft the gloves in his battle night before putting hfe campaign on nils with an Ohio whistlestop tour today, termed his Cincinnati stopover "the critical turning point 1 in his vote quest Nixon told a crowd of more than 15,000 in Cincinnati Gardens Monday night that "we're going to pour it on" in the final two weeks of the campaign. Then he recalled a Humphrey statement of two years ago--at a time of widespread racial vto- lence-that if Humphrey had. lived in slum conditions he could "lead a mighty good revolt" himself. Nixon said: "That is adult delinquency and not worthy of the vice president of the United States." In an accompanying formal statement, Nixon said a vote for Humphrey would be "a vote to continue a lackadaisical, do- nothing attitude toward the crime crisis in America." "The peace and security of the American people demand with Hubert H. Humphrey, accusing his Democratic rival of "adult delinquency" and term- Ing him "the do-nothing candidate of law and order." Indonesia's Chinese Hit By Violence WASHINGTON (AP) Airline mechanics, whose big contract raises helped squash President Johnson's economic guidelines two years ago, are going for even bigger increases--a whopping 40 per cent--in new negotiations.

Talks between the Machinists union and seven major airlines, five of which were struck for six-weeks in 1966, start next month. The union asked for 30 per cent raise over three years last time out and wound up with a wage and benefit package the government estimated at 15 per cent and the union set at about 18 per cent Either way, the contract shattered the administration's 3.2 per cent a year guideline, and by the end of the year Johnson had abandoned the guideline for a more flexible approach. Settlements of 5 per cent or better in the electrical industry, rails, trucking and autos followed the airline pact. The two sides are starting out with what the union calls "separate but coordinated bargaining" in hopes of avoiding government pressures stirred up during the 1966 negotiations. "We don't want compulsory arbitration," said a union spokesman.

"We don't want Congress involved in this." President Johnson temporarily blocked a strike in 1966 by invoking the Railway Labor Act's 60-day cooling-off period' in April and creating an emergency board headed by Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore. The union rejected the 3.5 per cent raise recommended by the Morse panel and walked out in July. When the strike ended the House was considering a Senate-passed resolution ordering the strikers back to work for 30 days and giving President Johnson authority to order them back for another 150 days. Despite this separate bargaining, all seven contracts Church in Tight Struggle To Keep Idaho Senate Seat .20 .21 .09 BOISE, Idaho (AP) An Idaho Democrat generally classified among the doves on Vietnam is in a tight fight to retain his seat in the U.S.

Senate. But Sen. Frank Church, at age 44 seeking his third six-year term, is seen as the likely winner over his Republican challenger, Rep. George V. Hansen.

Hansen, 38, gave up what most political observers regarded as certain re-election to Congress to challenge Church. In contrast to Church's dovish Apollo Brings Home Seven Space Records SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Apollo 7 brings home these space records today: Most man hours in space by one crew; 780 hours 27 minutes. Old record: 661 hours 10 minutes by Gemini 7 in 1965. -Total time for ail U.S. manned space flights rose to 2,774 hours 10 minutes, compared to 534 hours 1 minute for the Soviet Union.

Most powerful engine ever fired by a man-in-space crew: 20,500 pounds on the Apollo 7 en- 'gine. Old record: 16,000 pounds by several Gemini crews. First man to fly three times in space: Navy Capt. Walter M. Schirra Jr.

First U.S. -m a spaceship. The Soviet's Voskhod 1 also had three men. First live television from a U.S. spaceship.

The Russians have had live television on several flights. Second longest man-in- space flight: 260 hours 9 minutes. Record is 330 hours 35 minutes by Gemini 7. The Soviet Union's longest was 113 hours 6 minutes by Vostok 6. label, Hansen generally is rated a hawk on Vietnam.

However, both Church and Hansen say it was a mistake to send American troops to Vietnam in the first place. Hansen criticizes conduct of the war now, asserting that this nation has set up sanctuaries which threaten the security of American troops in Vietnam. He says military commanders should be free to use all the facilities they have against whatever targets they wish. Church says his concern over foreign policy goes beyond Vietnam. "I do not propose swinging the pendulum back to ostrich- like isolationism," he says.

"Rather, we should seek out the rational middle ground, where the limits of our interven- tion abroad correspond more closely with the limits of our resources, and where we reserve direct military measures for those occasions that clearly pose an actual threat to the security of the American people." Church was elected to the Senate at age 32. He was the first Democratic senator in Idaho's history to win re-election to a second term. He is an attorney and practiced law in Boise prior to his election to the Senate. Hansen has served two terms in the House. He was in the insurance business in Pocatello prior to his election.

Church was the object of a short-lived recall movement In 1967. There has been no mention of it in the election campaign. expire on the same date, Dec. 31, less than a month before the inauguration. The AFL-CIO International Association of Machinists, which bargains for about 50,000 airline mechanics, is seeking a package which would raise top pay to $6 an hour in 1971.

Men at the top of the wage scale are now earning $4.14 per hour, plus a 5-cent hourly bonus to flight- line mechanics and up to 10 cents an hour extra in longevity pay. The airlines complained recently that the cost of switching to king-size planes is squeezing their profits. But the union says airline profits are and the workers deserve share of the increase. In addition to the big wage increases, the union is demanding major improvements in vacations, holidays, health insurance, pensions, overtime pay, extra money for certain work shifts and severance pay. Bargaining is scheduled to start with United Air Lines, probably on Nov.

14. A complicating factor in this case is an attempt by an independent un- Space Scorecard SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) With the flight of Apollo 7, the United States-Soviet man-in-space boxscore now reads: U.S. Russians Manned flights 17 9 Multiman flights 11 2 Manned hours in space 2,774 534 Men in space 29 12 Space walks 9 1 Time outside capsule 12 hrs. 19 mins; 10 mins. Rendezvous in space 11 0 Maneuverable spacecraft 11 0 Space linkups 7 0 We hove resource development on the TO KEEP IT MOVING RE-ELECT TURY F.

ANDERSON UPUUICAN of M. Adv. by Tury 130 Andrn fair FROM FAIRBANKS TO ANCHORAGE $21.00 TOK JUNCTION $12.35 DELTA JUNCTION $5.90 ion, the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association, to oust the Machinists as bargaining agent Results of an election between the two unions is expected to be announced Nov. 14. Involved with United in the 1966 strike were Trans World, Eastern, Northwest and National.

Two other airlines that settled without a strike last time, Branlff and Continental, are also involved in the negotiations. Live Whale isays f-, rij Goes riving a SEATTLE (AF)-A live killer whale weighing between 1 and tons was flown from Seattle Monday night to Ft. Worth, for a boat show. During the week long show, the 13-foot animal, which is about two old, will be in a special tank. At the end of the show it's to be flown to an aquarium in Galveston, Tex.

The whale is one of a pod netted by Ted Griffin, operator of the Seattle Marine Aquarium, in Puget Sound. Tuesday, the Air Force planned to fly two others from Griffin's "herd" from McChord Air Force Base, near Tacoma, to the Marine Bio Science Facility at Pt. Magu, Calif. Those two weigh a total of 9,300 pounds. They'll be shipped in hammocks aboard an Air Force Cargo Plane.

JAKARTA, Indonesia Two thousand Indonesian marines and students rampaged through the Chinese quarter of Surabaja, burning and smashing shops and houses for five hours Monday before army troops evicted them, western diplomats reported today. Military authorities imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on the tense capital of East Java. There was no official casualty report, but one newspaper said many Chinese were injured. The Surabaja outbreak followed two days of violent demonstrations in Jakarta, protesting the hanging of two Indonesian marines in Singapore. Because Singapore's population is largely Chinese, the mobs vented their anger on Indonesian Chinese.

In Jakarta, troops moved back into the Chinese quarters of Glodok and Pasar Bam to prevent similar demonstrations there. The hanged marines, now national heroes, were convicted of planting a bomb in downtown Singapore three years ago during Indonesia's war against Singapore and Malaysia. Some political leaders have demanded that Indonesia sever diplomatic relations with Singapore, but Foreign Minister Adam Malik told Parliament today this will not be done. Malik stressed it is "imperative the government maintain good international relations." He denounced the violence in Surabaja, saying: "If we want another confrontation with Singapore, we are well on the way to it We must check our emotions to insure the people will not suffer because of our actions, to show the world we are not a barbarous nation." the defeat of Hubert Humphrey in November," he added. Thtte statements added up to Nixon's strongest dMet assaults to date against the Democratic candidate.

About his own plans for deal- Ing with crime, Nixon said: "I win take personal charge of this battle and we win make wre that the wave of crime is not the wave of the future in America." Nixon then accused Humphrey of misstatements and distortions during the campaign, said he had not responded to "personal charges," and declared that the office of the presidency--even where candidates are concemedHs too important to permit anyone to "engage in personalities." He said his talk would be to cite the record. Starting from Cincinnati, Nixon's whistlestop route takes him to nine Ohio cities for public appearances before midnight. LAST DAY Thi picture that proves there is life after marriage 20TH CENTURY-FOX presents WALTER MATTHAU ANNE JACKSON PATRICK O'NEAL uam AM utoos "THE SECRET LIFE OF AN AMERICAN WIFE EDY WILLIAMS wrltltn. pieduetd. by GEORGE AXELROD color by 5:30 p.m.

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