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16 Oneonta, N. 13820 Friday, July UPagm TM Clifford to Vietnam for battlefield talks Rewarding a real pal Ronnie Saleh, 2, of a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas, and his hero dog, Ringo, seal their friendship pact with an ice cream cone. The dog saved Ronnie's life in April by running furiously at automobiles until they stopped just before topping a hill where little Ronnie had toddled out onto the highway. One motorist investigated and found the youngster hidden from view of oncoming cars. The dog will get a "distinguished dog heroism" award from a dog food company.

(AP wirephoto) Defense leaders for ban and missile defense system i I WASHINGTON (AP) Jj defense leaders backed the nuclear inonproliferation treaty Thursday but opposed abandoning a U.S. missile defense system just because of prospective missile-curb talks with the Soviets. Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Foreign Relations committee the Joint Chiefs support' the treaty's aims--to outlaw the spread of atomic arms--and view the pact as "not inimical to security interests." Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul H.

Nitze called the treaty "an important step forward toward new forms of security." He added its negotiation by the United States and the Soviet Union leads to cautious encour- agement that the two superpowers may reach further disarmament agreements. Few objections were heard as the committee under acting Chairman John J. Sparkman, moved through its second day of hearings on the treaty which President Johnson wants ratified by the Senate before its Aug. 3 adjournment target date. Friday's major listed witness is Glenn T.

Seaborg, Atomic Energy Commission chairman. Besides barring the nuclear powers from giving atomic weapons to nonnuclsar nations and the have-not slates from acquiring such arms, the treaty calls also for good-faith negotia tions soon on restraining the nuclear race and on general disarmament. The News in Brief Heavy'damage from flood LONDON (AP) Savage Police patrolled some towns in The senators showed special interest in this provision because they have voted to begin' a multibillion-dollar antiballistic missile defense system. Sen. Stuart Symington, onetime secretary of the Air Force, led those arguing against starting a U.S.

ABM system now. He noted former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara once had vigorously opposed the ABM idea as costly and fruitless. With the new drive on for agreements with the Soviets on curbing the expensive missile competition, Symington said, "it seems to me directly contrary to the spirit if not the letter of detente (easing relations)" to launch a U.S. antimissile system at this time.

But Nitze maintained "it would be a mistake to hold up the development of the ABM." there is an agreement with the he said, America should not "suspend taking actions in its own defense." WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of Defense Clark M. Clifford is going to-Vietnam Saturday for battlefield talks in advance of an expected new enemy offensive. It will be his first trip to the war area as defense chief. Clifford said Thursday Gen. Earle G.

Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other high officials will accompany him for a war appraisal from the new commander, Gen. Creighton W. Abrams. Clifford told a news conference that intelligence reports the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong have built up their strength to eight divisions or more, just below the Demilitarized Zone, as well as increased Peace talks bogged i PARK (AP) The Paris peace talks, deadlocked for two months, have now begun to bog down completely in endless arguments alwut de-escalating the war in Vietnam. An opportunity appears to be opening up for secret diplomacy.

A change of policy by either President Johnson in Washington or President Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi could start the negotiations moving again on short notice. Ambassadors W. Averell Harriman and Xuan Thuy have a basis for quick action by developing their personal relations through private, informal But the policies which govern negotiating positions seem immovable for the moment. In line with tactics of maximum contact, Harriman has kept Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin informed as well as top diplomats of Britain, France, Yugoslavia, India, Canada and others in Paris. Thuy has been reported keeping close contacts with Communist diplomats.

North Vietnamese authorities are in frequent touch with the French Foreign Office. The Soviet Union and France have been mentioned most often by American diplomats as possible go-be- tweens. So far French and Soviet authorities a a have judged that the time for intervention was not ripe. The difficulty for the diplomats is that the military operations in Vietnam are still the decisive field. North Vietnam has been striving for a victory that would give it the upper hand in Paris.

The United States has been trying to defeat this strategy while seeking an agreement here that would reduce the level of the war. gales whipped the eastern coast Thursday as southwest and central England, deluged by the worst rainstorms in memory, were hit by swirling floods.and worst rainstorms in memory, tral England, deluged by the colossal damage. Winds of up to 70 miles per the coastline, hammering holiday resorts, ships and gas dnll- hour shrieked along 200 miles of Ing rigs in the North Sea. In otter parts of the country, rescue workers battled receding floodwaters with boats, helicopters pnd army amphibious vehicles. rubber dinghies.

Six persons were feared dead from the floods that began Wednesday night. The eastern gales caused only minor damage but in the officials reported the floods were the worst in 20 years. "The damage is colossal," said the Royal Automobile Club. Communications were so badly disrupted the government could not immediately assess the damage, Housing Minister Anthony Greenwood told the House of Commons. Humor now part of campaigning Britain bolsters NATO force LONDON (AP) Britain switched its main defense effort Thursday to Hie North Atlantic Treaty Organization and boasted it is emerging as the strongest military power in Western Europe.

An defense policy statement listed plans which by 1972 will increase the number of British men assigned to NATO by nearly 30,000 or 60 per cent more than the present level. These plans will be fulfilled as the withdrawal of British forces from Southeast Asian and Persian Gulf bases takes place. Terminal date of that withdrawal program is 1971. An exception is Hong Kong. Reagan denies he'll announce SACRAMENTO, Calif.

(AP) Gov. Ronald Reagan denied through an aide Thursday a report he plans to announce his candidacy, for president a nationwide television broad- cast July 21. "It's phony," said Lyn Nofzi- gcr, the Republican governor's communications jhjecfor and chief political adviser on the Reagan staff. Clark says appointment legal WASHINGTON (AP) Atty. Gen.

Ramsey Clark told several doubting senators Thursday President Johnson has both law and precedent on his side in tho Fdrtas-for-Warrcn switch at the Supremo Court. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the nation's top law officer said scores of new federal judges have been nominated while the judges they were to replace were still sit- NEW YORK (AP) A funny thing happened on the way to the White House. In fact, several funny things happened as candidates tried to inject a little humor into the campaign for the nation's most serious job. Gov. Nelson A.

Rockefeller of New York perhaps best summed up the significance of jokes when he told a college audience: "For a long lime I've been convinced that the way to know what people are really concerned about is to pay close attention to what they are joking about." Then Rockefeller in an obvious reference to the antidraft movement quipped about the college senior who told his father he wanted an apartment in Montreal for a graduation present. Some candidates have learned to laugh at themselves in efforts to smooth over any rough spots in their images. Thus Richard M. Nixon likes to tell about the teen-ager who asked for an autographed picture and said: "That's a wonderful picture of you, Mr. Nixon.

It doesn't loolc like you at all!" Former Minnesota GOT. Harold Stassen, who appeared on the campaign trail this, year wearing a toupee, put down those who jested about his per- ennial candidacy and his new look by telling of a farmer who said: "Mr. Stassen, I'm gonna vote for you, just like I voted for your father." Rockefeller frequently refers to the fact that he and Nixon live in the same apartment building and are getting along well. "He's offered me his makeup man," said the governor, "and I offered him my plan for solving the garbage strike." Similarly, Sen. Eugene J.

McCarthy of Minnesota, onco said of his rival for the Democratic nomination, Vice Presit dent Hubert H. Humphrey: "He said he would not neglect his duties as vice president while he is running for president. How a vice president neglects his duties I just do not know." Gov. Ronald Reagan, of.Cali- fornia, who likes to jab at campus rebels and hippiedom, defined a hippie as someone who wears a button declaring 'Make love, not but doesn't look capable of either." i is former Alabama Gov. George Wallace who has had the last laugh on hippies.

When one young man with shoulder-length hair tried to interrupt hiS speech, Wallace said politely: "Would you repeat tho question, ma'm." enemy activity around Saigon. "So I believe we must anticipate the possibility of a new offensive on the part of enemy forces in July or possibly August and Gen. Wheeler and I will wish to talk this out in great detail with Gen. Abrams and his chief commanders in the field," he said. Clifford said the level of combat has dropped some in the past few weeks and, "Some would look at this as possibly a hopeful sign." Clifford said he believes "we must face the reality" of stepped-up enemy activity and the potential for new attacks.

He was less optimistic than South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu, who said Wednes- day it might be possible to withdraw some U.S. troops from Vietnam late next year. "In the absence of some development in Paris that would affect the presence or withdrawal of Americans in South Vietnam, I would be unwilling at this time to predict the withdrawal of any American troops in 1969," Clifford said. believe we must proceed on the assumption that if the enemy chooses to fight that we must remain there." After spending "a certain time" in Saigon and South Vietnam, the Clifford team will go to Honolulu for President Johnson's scheduled conference with Thieu. The Clifford group will in- clude William Bundy, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs; Paul Wanike, assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs and others.

Clifford disclosed he has authorized initial work on a new "super high speed" nuclear submarine to bolster U.S. capabilities for tracking and destroying enemy underwater vessels. At the same tune, Clifford suggested Vice Adm. Hyman G. Rickover spend more time on submarine work and less on "engaging in personal criticism" of Dr.

John S. Foster, the Pentagon's chief scientist and Dr. Alain C. Enthoven, his systems analyst. Rickover criticized Foster and Enthoven in recent Senate testimony on the U.S.

lubmarint program. Clifford also rapped a tion by Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, Democratic presidential hopeful, that the United States halt work on new offensive and defensive strategic missile systems to help get an arms limitation agreement with the Soviet Union. Clifford said that until an agreement is reached at forthcoming U.S.-Soviet talks he favors proceeding with the Sentinel antimissile defense system and with deploying new land- based Minuteman and submarine-carried Poseiden nuclear missiles.

Sniper with rifle kills 3 in Bronx A Dove for Rocky Gov. Nelson' Rockefeller sports a dove on his shoulder following rededication of the Thousand Islands Bridge Watertwn, yesterday. Thirty of the birds were released near the end of the festivities and one landed on his shoulder. (AP wirephoto) U. S.

bombing cuts arms flow to enemy Sank robbed 'Bonnie and Clyde' style NEW YORK (AP) Three persons were shot to death in the Bronx Thursday night, and police laid siege to a tenement building where a sniper with an automatic rifle had been seen firing from a window. A fourth person was slightly wounded. A heavy force of police marksmen ringed the building but drew no fire. As darkness fell, they concluded the gunman had escaped, a a through a basement that connects all the buildings in the block. "The guy took somebody out of action that was walking in front of the house," was the way a witness described one phase of the shootings.

The time was p.m. One police official said the shooting apparently began on the street and that the sniper then ran into the building and resumed fire from a window. Large crowds gathered at the scene in' an apparently festive mood even though the body of one of the victims lay sprawled for a time on the sidewalk where he had fallen. Police were unable to get to him immediately because of his exposed position. A police spokesman said the search for the gunman was complicated "by the enormous crowd on the streets and people looking out their windows." SAIGON (AP) Heavy U.S.

bombing raids on supply routes and storage areas in southern North Vietnam have reduced significantly the flow of arms and supplies for the enemy in South Vietnam, the U.S. Command reported Friday. American pilots reported sinking or damaging 115 North Vietnamese barges and boats and knocking out 23 trucks on Wednesday. Thursday's bag was reported at only four barges and 19 trucks. The intensity of the air strikes apparently drew North Vietnam's limited force of MG jet interceptors down from sanctuaries in the far North.

But the U.S. Command said that after losing two MIGs in dogfights Tuesday and Wednesday, the North's Air Force stayed of sight Thursday. Only one brief ground action was reported outside Saigon, where the allies are sweeping to forestall an expected enemy assault on the city by an estimated three enemy divisions. On the northern frontier, U.S. Marines reported killing 22 North Vietnamese troops three miles north of the Con Thien combat base during a large scale allied sweep.

Most of North Vietnam's 75 or so MIGs were based in Red China to escape the wrath of U.S. A look State Water Resources Commission hold hearing at Delhi on study of Delaware River Basin. Page 3. City stunned by unexpected death of Police Chief Robert J. Simmons, 58.

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Johnson on March 31 declared most of North Vietnam off limits to bombers. One U.S. source said there has been "an increase in the number of Communist MIGs deployed in North Vietnam." There have been previous reports that some of the MIGS had been flown to bases around Hanoi, the capital and Haiphong, the principal port, since Johnson issued his order. Now apparently some of the North Vietnamese planes have been flown to bases south of Hanoi to meet the U.S. planes blasting away at North Vietnam's men, weapons and supplies moving southward into South Vietnam.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP)-A "Bonnie and Clyde" style gang of gun toting bandits held up a bank Thursday and fled with $151,000 in a getaway car driven by a woman. Three bandits, two of whom wore goatees, scooped the money into a pillow case and then raced from the Heynes Branch of the National Newark Essex Bank to their green sedan parked outside with the woman waiting behind the wheel, Police said witnesses reported the woman may have worn a red wig. State financing of schools urged NEW YORK (AP) Dr. James E.

Allen New York commissioner of education, expressed at least partial support Thursday of a proposal to eliminate local school taxes and substitute statewide financing. Discussing the proposal, made by the former Harvard Univer: sity president, Dr. James Conant, Allen said he was not prepared to advocate a change at this time. He did say, however, that the plan deserved serious study and had numerous advantages. Allen noted that expenditure levels for pupils range from $470 per child to $1,600 in New York State school districts.

In the districts with the lower expenditure, hesaid, "local control becomes merely control of unduly limited opportunities and restricted choices." The commissioner also said that rather than diminishing local control, the Conant proposal would Increase It. The plan, he said, "would greatly help to free local school authorities for dealing with education itself and enable them to make decisions solely on tho ba- sis of educational merit." He noted that local school boards now have to spend time worrying about financing, bond issues and salaries. Allen also said that with state-; wide financing, teachers' salaries could be fixed on a statewide basis and would discourage teachers from transferring to wealthier suburban communities simply for the higher salaries. The commissioner addressed about 60 school administrators at a Columbia University Teachers College Institute on 'the Relationship Between School Decentralization and Racial Integration. He said Conant "proposed (hat all authority to levy taxes for schools at the local level be eliminated and that the local share of school financing bo transferred to tho state." Today's chuckle A henpecked husband describes his wife: "She's such a formidable woman that when she enters a room, the mice get on chairs." Some of the curious tha street mounted autos to get a better view of the activities.

The shootings took place 'on East 138th Street, in the heavily Puerto Rican and Negro section of the South Bronx. The condition of the wounded man was described at a hospital as not serious. Backless gown ont MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -Miss South Africa's psychedelic evening gown took a trip Thursday-right out of the Miss Universe Pageant. A top pageant official said the gown's revelations were extreme.

i The audience of 2,100 at evening gown judging: Wednesday night gasped wheii 18-year-old Monica Fairall pirouetted at the head of the runway. The back of her sequined gown was cut as far below the waist as the law allows, even lower than her backless bathing suit. With advice from the reigning Miss Universe and strong persuasion from pageant officials, the 135-pound Miss South.Africa decided her brand new gown must go. Monica wept when she came off stage after her gown's debut. The stunning dress which reached from chin to floor in front had arrived by mail only hours before from South Africa, where a dressmaker handfilted worth of material to her 35-34-35 curves.

"When everybody roared when I turned about, I thought either they liked it or they must be shocked," she said Thursday. "I guessed it was a little of both but I don't think it would be a good idea to wear it again. I didn't have any idea people would react like that. Tlw down that mn ntei at the Miss.