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Bonanza to Report on Puzzle Jackpot in Saturday Courant II mm a Start Every Day Right Final Edition Weather Forecast PARTLY CLOUDY AND VERY MILD Temp, range 45-55 Complete Weather, Tide! On Page ESTABLISHED 1764, VOL. CXXVLTI No. 365 HARTFORD, CONN. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1365-30 PAGES 7 CENTS Making Big Po -at -h 7 r-1 To End War in Yiet Nam vr ar yy rwm'-rxrr- i I 1' I I sir 17 "yr, xi i 3 Marines Executed By Reds 8 Viet Soldiers Also Shot Down SAIGON (UPI) Three U.S. President 'Anxious For Peace' Neutral Viet Urged by Rusk AUSTIN, Tex.

(UPI) -The Viatel' Sr2 Ill JBMIEF Transit Union Ends Bargaining NEW YORK The Tran 1 ft f- 'I ft j-: i 5 i '1 VT) sit Workers Union walked out Thursday cn negotiations aimed at averting a subway and bus strike set for 5 a.m. New Year's Marines and eight Vietnamese soldiers were executed and morning. It would affect a metropolitan area of 15 million people. mutilated by North Vietnamese regular troops after being taken prisoner during a recent Texas White House disclosed Thursday President Johnson is pushing a peace offensive to convince world leaders "we are genuinely willing to cooperate with anyone who shares our desire for peace" In Viet Nam. Michael J.

Quill, president of battle a U.S. military spokesman disclosed Thursday. the AFL-CIO Transport Workers Union, demanded the personal Late Thursday, Viet Cong The White House said Pres presence at the negotiations of Mayor-elect John V. Lindsay. guerrillas launched a major attack on government outposts in the same area.

ident Johnson hopes that "we can resolve the problems of -L TV Vi- K' The disclosure of the atrocity for Will Airlift Oil WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Southeast Asia around the conference table rather than sip United States said Thursday it would fly 6,000 tons of killings came as the moratorium on U.S. air attacks against North Viet Nam went into its seventh day and U.S. diploma etroleum products to Zambia tic efforts to get the Commu in January and February. The 't airlift will start n' vre-k. nists to the negotiating table continued in world capitals.

School Bias Probe Shortly after the disclosure, a small band of Viet CHICAGO (AP) Secretary vention; Raymond E. Baldwin, former Governor and retired Chief Justice who was the chairman of the Constitutional Convention; and Secretary of the State Ella Grasso, Democratic floor leader of" the Constitutional Convention (Courant Photo by Annan G. Hatsian). EENY, MEENEY, RHNEY, MO: Gov. John N.

Dempsey' momentarily pauses over which souvenir pen to use next while signing a proclamation that put the state's new Constitution into effect Thursday. Looking on and also receiving pens are (left to right) Atty. Meade Alcorn, who was Republican floor leader of the Constitutional Con Cong eluded guards at an enlisted men's billet at Dalat early Friday and set off tro bombs of Welfare John W. Gardner served notice Thursday he will send investigators to Chicago to see if there is racial discrimination in the public schools. v.

-1i--in'it-TTrn i im kaUTtVU that killed one American and wounded 10 other Americans, a U.S. military spokesman report His action reopened a contro ed. Three of the 10 Americans versy that blazed up in October, when a five-day withholding of federal funds brought protests THE VIETNAMESE STOMP: Vietnamese popular force militiaman kicks Viet Cong prisoner in the head at interrogation point in Viet Cong controlled valley near Binh Khe, some 260 miles northeast of Saigon. Prisoner was captured by troops of U.S. First Cavalry Division (AP Wirephoto).

wounded were reported in seri- History Is Made As Governor Proclaims New Constitution ou- condition. One American from public officials of both ma was missing. A Vietnamese also was wounded. jor arties, including Mayor Richard J. Daley, the state's top Democrat, and Sen.

Everett M. The 11 American and Vietna the battlefield." (Analysis on Page 2) "I not want to raise unjustified hopes, nor do I want to indicate anything except that President Johnson is anxious to be reasonable on the of Southeast Asia," White House Press Secretary Bill 1). Moyers said. Clarifies Recent Moves Moyers made his comments in explanation of recent diplo matic moves which have included roving Ambassador W. Averell Harriman's trip to Communist Poland and Yugoslavia and United Nations Ambassador Arthur J.

Goldberg's visit to the Vatican to discuss Viet Nam wita Pope Paul VI and then to Paris to meet DeGauile another surprise. At the same time Moyers said Johnson had dispatched McGeorge Bundy, his special assistant for national security affairs, to Ottawa Wednesday night to talk to Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. And Johnson set up a phone call of his own to Pearson Thursday. Canada and Poland are members of the three-nation International Control Commission for Viet Nam.

India is the third member, and it was reported that the President would try to contact that Half Dollars Going mese servicemen were mem Dirksen, Republican leauer in tthat i public proclamation was By JACK ZAIMAN bers of a mixed patrol sent out the Senate. people of the State of Connecticut, formed by members of a Constitutional Convention at held for a new state Constitu-i Airt'd a scene filled with the Dec. 16 in search of the North Fights for Life Vietnamese Army's 18th Regiment near the U.S. Special The Way of Dobbin? glorws of Connecticut's past, a new state Constitution was proclaimed Thursday. tion.

In 1818, Gov. Oliver Wol-cott 'ssued a constitutional proclamation in New Haven, the state second capitol at that By BARBARA CARLSON HOLLYWOOD (UPI) The surviving member of Siamese twins born and separated on Christmas Day still battled Thursday for life, hours after surgery failed to save her Hartford and published as provided by law, has been duly approved and ratified and is henceforth to be observed by all persons whom it does or may concern as the supreme law of this state." Just before he proclaimed the Gov. Dempsey proclaimed the Constitution of 1965 into effect at 12:16 p.m., replacing the Constitution of 1818. The cere time, putting the 1818 Constitution into effect, but there was no 'public ceremony. Why? "I think a lot of the old half dollars are going into coffee pots," said Herbsrt E.

Welch, a vice pre-ident in the operations division of the Hart new Constitution, the Governor praised the members of the The setting was dramatic for Thursday's event. The tattered battle flags, the broken wheels of old howitzers, the imposing statue of Gov. Buckingham gave a sense of history to the oc- rasion Th hiffpst nampe in mony took place in the Hall of Flags at the State Capitol, where the battle flags of state troops in wars of the past are exhibited. A fiuge statue of the state's great Civil War Governor, Will Half dollars have been clanking from the mints at a great pace during 1965 but they're still seen about as often as whooping cranes. Hartford banks, along with banks in the rest of the country get supplies of the Kennedy half dollars, distribute them, and then never see them again.

The Kennedy 50-cent piece Constitutional Convention for Forces camp at Ba To, about 310 miles north of Saigon. The patrol ran into an estimated 400 North Vietnamese regulars and their positions were overrun within an hour. Only 13 members of the patrol survived. A search party found the bodies of the Marines, assigned to a U.S. Army Special Forces unit, and their Vietnamese comrades on Dec.

20 buried in shallow graves on the battlefield. They had been shot many times in the face," a spokesman said. "They had powder burns on their faces. One man's ford National Bank Trust Co. Welch suspects people are hoarding the old halves because they expect the coins will in time be worth more than 50 sister.

"We did everything we could," a spokesman for Cedars of Lebanon Hospital said when Lisa Marie Mantonya died following emergency intestinal surgery. Marcos Inaugurated MANILA (UPI) War hero their work. Cites Baldwin He gave high praise to Baldwin, Uie only man in the state's history to be governor, U.S. senator, chief justice and chair 'cents. A coin-collector himself (who has curtailed his collecting dur was first minted in January, 1964, and it went out of circu iam A.

Buckingham, dominated the scene as Gov. Dempsey, with five pens, signed the proc-lamaiion that put the new Constitution into effect "as the supreme law of this state." The pens were given to the leaders of the Constitutional state government and politics were there for the proclamation, and schoolchildren on vacation fought for vantage points. The Proclamation Then came Gov. Dempsey's proclamation: "I do hereby proclaim that a maiorifv nf plpHnrs nrownt Ferdinand E. Marcos was inaugurated as sixth president man of a Constitutional Convention.

"He added new laurels to a distiguished career in pub lation immediately, But the old Een Franklin half dollar, first country in the current campaign even before India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri visits Washington Feb. of The Philippines Thursday lic service," Dempsey said. and immediately pledged to minted in 1943, has also disap head was chopped open with a reinstate the supremacy of law Convention that drafted the new peared. sharp I Baldwin, with his grandson, Raymond E. Baldwin III, sit 1 a 1 1-2.

In Washington, Secretary of and order in the island nation. ting on his knee and his wife, State Dean Rusk said Thursday aim vuiuig ai wwn meetings in the 169 towns of Connecticut, have approved the proposals Edith, by his side, nodded ap the Umted States would accept a "non-aliped" South Viet Nam presented to them by the Con Huge New York Policy Seen Headed for Aetna Constitution Convention Chairman Raymond E. Baldwin of Glastonbury, Vice Chairman Patrick B. O'Suliivan of Orange, and floor leaders Ella Grasso of Windsor Locks and Meade Alcorn of Suffield. The Governor kept one of the pens for himself.

It was the first time in history provided it could be kept safe preciatively. His eyes were damp with emotion. Dempsey praised O'Suliivan, Alcorn, Mrs. Grasso, Mrs. Helen Case Foster of West Corn- from Communist aggression.

stitutional Convention, and that the same is valid as the Constitution of this state. "I do further proclaim that On the subject of a neutral ing the coin shortage), Welch thinks people would be better off putting their half dollars in a savings bank to accrue interest. It makes sense, Welch feels, for a collector to keep one or two half dollars of a certain date that are in particularly fine condition. But to hoard the halves, he says, "is foolish." Despite the present scarcity of halves, bankers feel the new year will see an easing of the shortage. For one thing, the mint at Denver Thursday began pressing new half dollars that are 40 per cent silver.

(The present ones are 90 per cent silver). It's believed people won't be so South Viet Nam Rusk declared: The insurance on close to one Triborough Bridge, the revised Constitution for the See Constitution, Page 8, Col. 6 "We're not out looking for more allies. We have quite Agreement Seen In Ammunition Plant Strike WASHINGTON," Dec. 30 The government announced a tentative agreement that would end the 30-day gunpowder strike that threatened to in-terrup ammunition supplies to Viet Nam.

The agreement will be voted on by members of the three striking unions Saturday and Sunday, and production of gunpowder could then resume billion dollars of New York state university construction projects apparently will be awarded to Aetna Casualty State Toll Up 20 and state Fower Authority. SUCF general manager, Lt. Gen. David W. Traub announced Thursday that, because of complaints from other insurance companies, the SUCF trustees will review its decision to place the package with the Aetna.

392 Met Death on Highways cle inspections and the periodic Gruber, "there is less and less'J eager to hide the new ones in Meanwhile, he said, project contracts will be re eye re-examinations for the their mattresses. Surety of Hartford. Aetna expects to sign the new "wrap-up" policy to cover workmen's compensation and general liability insurance with the New York State University Construction Fund (SUCF). Now, individual contractors purchase their own coverage and include these costs in their drivers." In reviewing the rest of the These new coins, incidentally, vised to eliminate the contractors' insurance costs. The enough, thank you, for the moment.

We have over 40. They can be non-aligned. The problem is, can they be safe from aggression?" The impression was growing that the United States was making a concerted effort to achieve a Viet Nam peace to avoid ordering a major escalation of the Viet Nam war effort In Paris, for instance, the mass circulation newspaper France-Soir carried the headline: "Viet Nam: Last-Chance Peace "If it fails, the Americans will hit North Viet Nam even harder," the newspaper said. Before leaving Warsaw for Belgrade Thursday Harrimaa will be dated 1965. Until this Monday, said chief federal mediator William E.

Simkin. year, coins were dated the year they were minted. All this year's coins have been marked construction contracts. 1964; in 1966 they'll be 1965 it seems a bttle haywire. But, says Thomas S.

Mont SUCF, an agency to finance and direct the $1.5 million expansion program, announced Dec. 21 that it would cover liability and compensation insurance for contractors and subcontractors. This action by the SUCF was taken before it received state approval of the Aetna package and before it had signed any contracts with the Aetna. Gen. Traub said that although there had been no bidding, J.

William Campo of Queens had contacted about seven stock insurance companies with the package proposal and that about gomery, assistant manager of the currency and coin division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, probably in a year or two coins will catch up with Inside Story Living costs are rising at a faster pace. Page 2. Chairman Pinney sees GOP year if all work together. Page 3. Airlines strong as market resumes advance.

Page 20. state's accident record, a 14 per cent increase was shown in pedestrian fatalities. This year there were 87 killed compared to 73 last year. There were 53 adult pedestrians and 29 child pedestrians killed compared to last year's figures of 51 and 23 respectively. In addition 204 drivers died, a jump of 47 over the 157 who died last year, while passengers killed this year totaled 101 compared to last year's 89.

One adult was killed riding a bicycle this year. Last year there were none. Six children on bikes were killed last year. This As the final hours of 1965 tick away Connecticut will be recording the worst highway fatality record in 24 years. Through Thursday the State Safety Commission recorded 392 killed in 343 fatal accidents, the worst year since 1941 when 415 were killed.

This year's figures are also 20 per cent higher than the 326 killed last year in 292 fatal accidents. The Safety Commission's executive director William H. Gru-ber Thursday said it was to have so many killed in a year which saw so much accomplished in stepped-up law enforcement, improved traffic engineering and increased public education hi highway safety. "Connecticut still has the best organized safety program in the said Gruber, "but this year's experience indicates a huge increase in the amount of motorists on the road and a massive disregard for the importance of minor traffic violations. "Because of the continuing increase in traffic density," said a cnance of getting away witn minor violations.

These minor violations are causing minor accidents that are getting more and more dangerous," he said. Sudden Increase The sudden increase in traffic deaths this year has caused the Safety Commission to look into ways it can upgrade the activity in local community safety councils. "The commission next year will give first priority," said Gruber, "to finding ways it can increase the effectiveness of existing community safety councils and to encouraging more communities to start their own councils. "Local community councils can and should be very effective," said Gruber. "They act as persuasive liaisons "between a local council's safety interests and the other local agencies in the community and the public.

"The commission is also interested," said Gruber, "in reviewing the need for improved legislation in the areas of better The SUCF, in announcing the new policy, said it expects to save at least 7 million by using the "wrap-up" policy instead of the usual system. Aetna assistant vice president of underwriting, L. F. Sen-ger, said in Hartford Thursday that his firm estimates that it will receive about $21 million in premiums from the new job over a five-year period. Other insurance companies have objected to the fact that Aetr.a received the nod without open bidding.

It was reported from Albany that the insurance will be placed through Campo Roberts Ter Bush Powell Inc. of New York City. This agency is adviser of the State Insurance Fund and has arranged similar "wrap up" policies for the (Worlifs Fair New York the year again. The matter of melting down old half dollars to make money the silver doesn't strike Montgomery or other bankers as the reas 1 shortage. It wouldn't be worthwhile, says Montgomery, unless it were done on a very large scale.

And, he adds, could be a federal offense to do this. Montgomery believes that the chief reason for the disappearance of the Kennedy half dollar is the "tremendous hold Ken outlined American peace hopes to Polish Communist Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka in a secret two-hour meeting. On Wednesday Harriman conferred with Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki after a surprise flight from Washington. At the time he left Warsaw for Belgrade, there were unconfirmed reports that Harriman also would visit Hungary, which has been reported ready to take part in Viet Nam peace efforts. On his arrival in Belgrade -Harriman said he would see' Tito today at the town of Brdo in Slovenia, four had submitted plans.

The I Aetna, he said, came up with the I- west price. The size of jthe contract, said the general, 'precluded contacting all but the year there were four. Page Amuse. 4, 5 Ann Landers 7 Bridge 24 Churches 15 City News 13 Classified 24-29 Comics 22 Crossword 10 Devotions 11 Dining with Jacqueline 7 Dr. Brady 11 Editorials 14 Page Fern.

Topics 16 Financial 20, 21 Haskin 10 Later Years 16 Legals 24 Obituaries 8 Society 10 Sports 17-19 Star Gazer 24 Town News 12 TV Radio 24 West Htfd. 6 Women's Pg. 11 Todays Chuckle Two reasons why women don't wear last year's dresses: They don't want to and they can't. ana we complexity ot tne pacK-age ruled out conventional bidding. Mutual insurance companies, it was said, may also complain nedy still has on people in this See HALF, Page 8, Col.

7 SUCF about being excluded. and more frequent motor vehi ,4 i.