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FULL LEASED WIRE Service of the Associated Press THIRTY-FOUR PAGES FAIR Fair, cool tonight, sunny, pleasant Thursday; low 44-52, high 80s. VOLUME LIX, NUMBER 235 SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT WAUSAU, WISCONSIN WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1967 FOUR SECTIONS TEN CENTS Wausau Daily Record-Heral Zoning Changes Ford, UAW Resume Talks Alert Deals Defense Cong Strike Is Seen But ant Bloody SAIGON (AP) About 2,500 guerrillas tried to storm the provincial capital of Tam Ky for three hours before dawn today but were beaten off with the loss of All-Time Chrysler May Call tiv dead, including three company commanders, and a mass of weapons. Behind barrages of mortars, rockets and hand gren ades, the Viet Cong assaulted eight positions in and DETROIT (AP) Negotiations between the Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers Union resumed today in the face of an apparently inevitable strike by Jl iou.uuu ora worxers across xne nation at mianigm tonight. "An exercise in futility" was the way UAW Presi dent Walter Reuther described the last day of negotia mi.

i mmw in vi-wse. mmu AP Photofax A COVERED BRIDGE COMES DOWN Observers: Vote Honest WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. observers of the Vietnam presidential election, returning to report to President Johnson today, said they found the balloting to substantially fair and honest. The 22 man team of observers picked by the President talked with newsmen on their arrival at nearby Andrews Air Force Base and supported the favorable reports they had given earlier in Saigon. "As far as we could ascertain the elections were conducted on the local level in a completely free manner," reported newspaper publisher John S.

Knight "The election was reasonably reasonably fair and about all one could expect from a developing country." New Jersey Gov. Richard J. Hughes and former U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, among others, discounted complaints of some of the losing candidates that the elections had been rigged. 'The only way that the election could be rigged was at the point of a gun, and the security was too good for that," said Lodge, who headed the delegation of observers.

"So I don't think there was any substanial rigging." Hughes said he found nothing to support the charges of fraud. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, was a bit more cautious on that score. Publisher Knight took issue with a recent statement by Republican Gov.

George Romney of Michigan that Romney had been brainwashed by the military and diplomatic officials in Vietnam. "Unlike Mr. Romney, I don't think I'm brainwashed," Knight said, and added he was impressed with the caliber of the military men and of the briefings. "I have been a reporter long enough to sort out attempts at brainwashing," Knight said. failed to thread through the early American structure.

The bridge was one of the few remaining in Pennsylvania. The Gen. Henry Knox covered bridge in the historic Valley Forge, park was smashed early today when a truck loaded with steel Milwaukee Marathon Marches i i Wavers, Lockout tions before the strike dead line as he closeted himself with bargainers for Ford. "Both parties are obligat ed to sit at that table and do everything possible to avert a strike," Reuther said, adding he expected bargaining would go right to the last minute. It was noti mmediately clear whether the UAW contract with Chrysler would be extended past the deadline.

The union has requested such an agreement extension, and Chrysler has said there will be no lockout. Today, however, Chrysler advised the union it would answer the question of a contract extension later in the afternoon, according to Doug Frazer, chief UAW negotiator at Chrysler. Reuther told newsmen at Ford the lirst order of business today would be discussion of how to continue work on any defense items the nation's second largest auto producer might be working on. Reuther said the only chance of avoiding a strike would be a change in attitude on the part of Ford, adding that he has seen no indication of any such change. Malcolm L.

Denise, Ford's top negotiator, said Tuesday he anticipated no new offer by the second largest automaker. Reuther said Tuesday, however, that UAW members would remain on their jobs at GM and Chrysler, if the companies let them, even without an extension of the agreements. This is traditional in the auto industry, and the companies always have paid wages and ben efits under the expired con tracts. The arrangement also adds to the damage Ford, second larg est producer ki the highly competitive industry, would suffer if a strike knocked it out of pro duction while GM and Chrysler continued to roll their '68 mod els onto the market. xAt usual selling rates, buyers would consume Ford's current inventory of cars 85,000 new models and 175,000 1967s in a month, The UAW opened talks July 10 at GM, July 11 at Ford and July 12 at Chrysler, presenting each similar packages that Reuther called "the longest and most ambitious list of demands in UAW history." The companies estimate the demands would cost them more than $3 billion over three years in wage and benefit increases.

They say it would nearly double the average $4.70 workers now earn hourly in wages and benefits. Counterproposals from the Big Three offered general wage hikes of 13 cents an hour immediately, plus 2.8 per cent boosts in the last two years of a three-year agreement. Will Continue, Group Says Argued Against Value Boosts The recent zoning changes are being pointed to by propertyhold-ers in seeking adjustments in property assessments before the Board of Review, meeting in the City Hall. A number of other residents are protesting higher valuations placed on corner lots, claiming they have no greater value. A number of clerical errors in the assessor's office were adjusted by the board.

It was pointed out Friday is the deadline for filing protests against new valuations. The board this morning wiped out what was referred to as a assessment made against Carl Schacht, 1110 Franklin St. When workers from the assessor's office visited the Schacht home in June they failed to present identification cards, according to Schacht, and his wife refused them entry to her home and asked that they return at noon when her husband would be at home. They didn't return. The assessor increased the valuation on the home by $2,900.

Assessor W. W. Luedtke admitted he made the assessment from his office without inspecting the premises. He said it was necessary to take such action so there would be no wholesale refusals. He said the rumor gets around that one home owner refuses entry and others fall in line.

He said his men have identification cards and show mem when asked. The board members indicated their wives might also refuse entry to strangers and intimated the cards should be shown without being asked for. They wiped the $2,900 off the books, but let an $800 increase in land values remain. A number of residents indicated they didn't think corner lots should be increased in valuation. One of them, Joseph Hertzog, 201 Sixth pointed out his lot Is at Sixth Street and Augusta Avenue and that he had to pay for curb and gutter, paving, sew er and water on both sides of his house.

"I get no use from the sewer and water and I think when I pay for these improvements I have paid enough for the corner lot," he said. "I don't think I should have to pay year after year." Others pointed out they must pay on the added frontage in maintaining sidewalks. They also noted that their chores of sidewalk shoveling in winter is doubled over the mid-block residents. See BOARD, Page 6, Column 1 The car was badly damaged, but Aldrich escaped with minor hurts. Thomas Schoeneman, 14, 701 Henrietta suffered leg and head injuries about 6:20 p.m.

when his bicycle was struck by a car driven by Roger Ray, 35, 1118 S. Sixth at and Forest Streets. He was tak en to St. Mary's Hospital. Roger Merwin, 18, 124V4 Scott suffered minor injuries when he rode his motorcycle into barricades in the 500 block of Scott Street at 8:50 p.m.

Tuesday. (Asks Review Of Evidence in Kramer Case WAUKESHA (AP) The at-torney for Robert D. Kramer, 27, Milwaukee, who is charged with murdering two young Waukesha County women last April, asked Waukesha Circuit Judge Claire Voss Tuesday to review evidence used against Kramer at is preliminary hearing. Kramer was brought here for Tuesday's hearing from the Central State Prison at Waupun, where he is serving a term of up to 27 years after being convicted of the abduction and knife attack on a young Sussex woman in June of 1966. Tuesday's hearing dealt with the deaths of Miss Sharon Ma-lone, 25, of Monches, and Miss Cheryl Ann Packard, 23, of Defeat I around the city of about 12,000.

They got into the streets, burned houses and unsuccessfully attempted to empty the city jail The attack force was made up of the hard-core 70th and 72nd battalions, crack Red provincial units, heavily reinforced by less stalwart lo cal force guerrillas. South Vietnamese officers said at least 130 enemy weapons were captured and the defending forces suffered only light casualties. Tam Ky, 30 miles south of Da Nang, is the capital of Quang Tin Province in the northern 1st Corps area. The Viet Cong made another unsuccessful attempt to raid it Saturday, before the weekend presidential election. The assault today followed the battle Monday and Tuesday 14 miles northwest of the city in which U.S.

Marines killed 180 Communist troops while losing 54 dead and 104 wounded. The flareup in the north, coupled with lesser but often sharp fighting elsewhere in the country, ended a two-month lull in the ground war that preceded South Vietnam's presidential election Sunday. The Communists have lost almost 600 dead in major actions in the past few days, while about 70 Americans have been killed. The air offensive against North Vietnam was slowed by heavy thundershowers over much of the country. U.S.

headquarters reported 119 missions flown Tuesday, with none into the Hanoi-Haiphong area. The coordinated assault on Tam Ky and posts on the perimeter of the city followed the pattern of such previous attacks as the pre-election assault on Quang Ngai City in which guerrillas freed nearly 1,000 prisoners from the provincial jail. In Tam Ky, however, the attack was met by stiff resis tance. Within minutes of the first assaults, American flare- ships were overhead, lighting up the city with a steady stream of parachute flares and zooming down to spray the assaulting See REDS, Page 6, Column among the businesses affected by the outage. Police said an automobile driven by Dan Aldrich, 18, 705 Lem-ke struck the pole about 11:14 p.m., knocking it off at its base.

The accident happened on the curve of 17th Place. ISM LESTER P. VOIGT Resource Secretary the job for national applications. He said Tuesday, however, he was changing his position to avoid putting the new secretary in "an awkward position." Employment Peak Hit WASHINGTON (AP) Th nation's total employment hit an all-time August high of 76.1 mil lion, the Labor Department said today, and a spokesman called it evidence of "a moderate and orderly resumption of economic expansion." At the same time, the nation's unemployment rate edged down to 3.8 per cent of the civilian labor force, a de cline of one-tenth of one per cent from July. "After the soft period in the economy the first half of the year, the economic expansion has begun to resume in an orderly way," said Commissioner Arthur M.

Ross of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The record August figure for total employment followed July's all-time high job figure for any month of 76.2 million, and Ross said the two-month figures showed employment rising in most segments of the economy. He said the rate of growth was such that skilled manpower shortages that caused production bottlenecks in late 1965 and early 1966 can probably be avoided. "It was necessary to cool off the economy in 1966 because of the flationary pressures," Ross said. "The expansion was too great," he added.

He said the moderate rate of growth in recent months waa necessary to avoid "excessive price increases and oversized wage increases" that occur when rapid expansion boosts employment and causes shortages of workers. "We want to continue it," he said of the present economic growth, "but not at such a rapid pace." The bureau said the unemployment rate for Negroes showed substantial improvement since May, dropping from 7.8 to 6.9 per cent. But the Negro jobless rate is still double that for white workers. Jest a Minute The experienced gardener knows that anything that grows like a weed is. Jet Service for Area conversation is possible, even on takeoff.

There is a complete absence of vibration, either on the ground or in the air. The DC9's rapid rate of climb is felt on take-off, but it brings you to a smooth cruising altitude in scant min utes. The new DC9 will carry 99 passengers in contrast to 48 in the airline's Convair 440 and Con-vair 580 prop-jet aircraft North Central has taken delivery on two DC9's, has eight more on order, and an option to purchase five more. Two Pratt and Whitney rear-mounted fan jet engines each provide 14,000 pounds of thrust, pushing the DC9 to 10,000 feet in four minutes with a maximum cruising speed of about 560 miles an hour. Convair 580's, meanwhile, cruise at about 350 mph.

and the Convair 440 's cruise at 250 mph. The DC9 is a big aircraft as Central Wisconsin will soon observe. It is 119.3 feet long and has a wingspan of 93.4 feet Its distinctive T-shaped tail stands 27.6 feet off the ground. DC9 Flights between Stevens Point and Chicago will vary from 71 to 101 minutes, accord- See NEW, Page 6, Column 4 De Gaulle in Poland WARSAW (AP) President Charles de Gaulle of France arrived today for a six-day state visit to Poland. Warsaw's streets were decked with the French Tricolor and banners assailing the United States and West Germany.

U. S. Barter Nets Nothing For Something WASHINGTON (AP) In a complicated trade to acquire $24 million of uranium it didn't need, the U.S. government swapped surplus foods for $27 million worth of industrial diamonds it didn't need either, the comptroller general has told Cjngress. In a report on the dealing, Elmer B.

Staats disagreed with the claim of executive-branch agencies that the transactions helped ease the dollar drain. He argued it bad the opposite effect. Figuring in varying degrees in the arrangements in late 1965 were the balance-of-payments issue, foreign policy, the national stockpile of strategic materials, agricultural surpluses. South African uranium, diamond smuggling in the Congo, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Agriculture, State, Treasury, Justice and Defense departments. "Just a simple business deal," a spokesman for the comptroller general commented Tuesday in providing additional details.

It began when the government, concerned about the dollar drain stemming from a long-term contract to purchase uranium from South Africa, decided to shift to a barter arrangement. In such transactions, a government agency purchases surplus foods from the Commodity Credit Corporation. Private con-, tractors sell the foods abroad. The foreign exchange realized is then used to finance U.S. purchases without spending of dollars, thus easing the drain on U.S.

gold supplies. The United States agreed in See BUREAUCRATIC, P. 6, C. 1 Report Nixon Holds Edge BOSTON (AP) Richard M. Nixon holds a decided lead for the Republican presidential nomination, and it will take "an impressive showing in the primaries" for Michigan Gov.

George Romney to overtake him, the Christian Science Monitor reports. A state-by-state survey shows the former vice president is preferred by political leaders in 28 states with 628 convention delegate votes, the Monitor said Tuesday in a copyright dispatch by Washington correspondent Godfrey Sperling Jr. By himself, Romney is the preference of Republican leaders in nine states with 254 delegates, the article said, and "only 16 states, that will have 488 delegate votes, are leaning toward the Romney-New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller camp, when combined." The survey added that should Nixon and California Gov.

Ronald Reagan, the choice of three states with a potential total of 152 delegates, "combine their forces, there may be no stopping them." The Monitor said that, despite the Nixon lead, "It is the opinion of political leaders and GOP professionals in several states that a convention deadlock will ensue." The article said Sen. Charles E. Percy of Illinois is the most frequently mentioned "dark horse" candidate, closely followed by Reagan. Driver Escapes With Cuts Auto Knocks Out Power Here Electrical power west of 17th Avenue and north of Stewart Avenue was out for about an hour Tuesday night when a power pole was knocked down by an automobile. The Holiday Inn and Employers Insurance complex were MILWAUKEE (AP) Negro demonstrators pushed their marathon marching past the 100 -mile mark early today and promised to keep on walking until the city delivers an open housing code.

After marching until 1:30 o'clock this morning, the marchers disbanded but promised to regroup within hours for a daytime demonstration in the business district. For the second straight day, demonstration leader, The Rev. James E. Groppi and Negro comedian Dick Gregory, sug gested that Negro youths join the march instead of going to school. Milwaukee school attendance on opening day Tuesday was 2, 350 students below the number in school on the first day of school last year.

The decline was particularly sharp in schools in the Inner Core where most of Milwaukee's 86,000 Ne groes live. "We just walked from Mil- Mom Drives Auto Over Tot, He Dies MILWAUKEE (AP) A 17-month-old suburban Brookfield boy died Tuesday after being run over on the driveway of his home by a car driven by his mother. The victim, Robert Schliepp, son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor H.

Schliepp, died at a hospital of head injuries. Mrs. Schliepp said she was backing the family car out of the garage and was unaware the boy was playing in the driveway. tiation sessions between Wausau Motor Parts Co. and striking machinists was offered.

Mediators began talks with company and union officials this morning. BIBLE TEXT And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of every- thing and may provide in abundance for every good work. Cor. 9:8. open.

"Whitey ain't no good," a companion said. "There ain't any of them worth a damn." "I want to testify what the white man done to me," sang the congregation at St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church during a rally preceding the march. The chant "Black Power" resounded through the old church where for years the priestly intonations of "Kyrie Eleison" have been heard. A painting of the "Lamb of God," a Catholic symbol for Christ, looked down from the church's vaulted ceil ing.

"Let them burn in hell," Father Groppi, garbed in a wind- See MILWAUKEE, Page 6, Col. 2 Swift DC9 Inaugurated By DEWEY PFISTER Record-Herald Staff STEVENS POINT Chicago in as short a time as 71 minutes becomes jet age reality Friday, when North Central Air lines introduces DC9 fan jet pas senger service to Central Wis consin. The smooth, silent flight of the DC9 was demonstrated here this morning for city, county and chamber of commerce officials of central Wisconsin, newsmen and members of the Central Wisconsin Regional Airport committee. North Central service with four DC9 flights daily will begin Friday at Stevens Point Municipal Airport. The airline will provide a total of 10 fights daily here and nine flights daily at Wausau Municipal Airport- All North Central service to the two communities will be consolidated when the Central Wis consin Regional Airport near Mosinee is hopefully ready for use late next year.

Speed is the most exciting thing about the DC9. Less than eight minutes after off-off here this morning, debut flight passengers were over Wausau at 18,500 feet, traveling 540 i 1 per hour. Seeing the entire Wausau area from that altitude, without moving your eyes, is exciting, but glancing away and looking up to see Merrill seconds later is a sensation. Rear mounted engines and plush cabin interior muffles what little noise there is. Normal waukee to Chicago," said Prentice McKinney, one of the young leaders or 'commandoes' of the Milwaukee Youth Council of the Advancement of Colored People, the organization behind the marches.

"We want to go to California, baby." The marches, which turned into virtually protests Saturday the day Gregory began participating in the demonstrations are de- designed to wear down resist ance to a city code that would bar discrimination In the sale or rental of housing. Four times in the past, the Common Council has rejected such an ordinance. Each time the vote was 18-1 with Vel Phillips, the only Negro council member, casting the only affirmative vote. The council refused to reconsider the proposal Tuesday despite a march on City Hall led by Father Groppi, a white Roman Catholic priest. The marchers seemed increasingly antagonistic to whites Tuesday night -as they streamed into the main business district downtown.

A horn-honk ing motorcade that added traf- fice snarls to police problems accompanied the noisy parade of about 600 Negro youths. One Negro ran from the line and struck a white man in the face. Two white men were as saulted by Negroes who also left the line. Negroes riding in the motorcade taunted policemen with shouts of "Boy." "Wouldn't it be something to throw a hand grenade now," a Negro standing outside a tavern commented as a van filled with police passed by, its back door It was also reported that talks would continue in prospect of resuming bargaining between Murray Machinery Inc. and Molders Local 408 but there was no indication negotiations will resume between Machinists Local 1438 and the Murray firm.

Machinists and Molders Locals struck Murray Machinery on Aug. 3 after contracts with the company expired. 'The strike against Wausau Motor Parts was called a week later on Aug. 10. Voigt Permanent Resource Secretary Unions, 2 Struck City Firms, May Resume Talks WISCONSIN RAPIDS (AP) Former Wisconsin Conservation Director Lester P.

Voigt was unanimously chosen permanent secretary of the Department of Natural Resources Tuesday by the Natural Resources Board. The board also voted to set his salary at $25,000 or whatever maximum is established for the position. Voigt had been serving as acting secretary since Aug. 1 when the former conservation and Resource Development depart- ments were merged under the Kellett government reorganza- tion bill. The old Resource de- I partment had been running the war on water pollution.

Voigt's appointment ended an open struggle between members of the two former agencies. John Potter of Wisconsin Rapids, a member of the old water board, signaled the victory of the conservation forces, which had backed Voigt for the secretary's job. Potter had been opposed to prompt naming of a new secretary and held out for opening Talks resumed here this morn ing aimed at settling strikes which have idled about 600 production workers at two Wausau area industries for the past month. State and federal mediators met Tuesday with representatives of Machinists Local 1438, Molders Local 408 and management of Murray Machinery Inc. and Wausau Motor Parts Co.

in separate talks at Marathon County Courthouse. Some hope of resuming nego.