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The Weather TODAY--Fair and moderately cool, high in upper 60s to middle 70s, low tonight in 40s and 60s. VOL. 74. NO. 64 The The Good Morning Newspaper Of Otsego and Delaware Counties N.Y., 13820 Wednesday, September 2, 1964 20 Pages Ten Cents Kennedy Wins, Jabs at Keating Stratton Asks Demo By ROBERT VAN FLEET Chief, Ottaway News Service NEW YORK CITY Rep.

Samuel S. Stratton, after losing the nomination for United States Senator to U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, mounted the platform of the New York State Democratic convention, giving a brief call for party unity, waved to the crowd and left, saying he was returning to run for another terra, in the upstate 35th district. Stratton, whose speech was almost devoid of mention of the men who defeated him by a vote of 968-153 said he fought for principles "and I still do believe in these principles." Delegations from Otsego and Delaware counties held firm for the Congressman even when it was clear that he could not get even the 200-250 votes he predicted and far short of the 565 needed for the nomination. Oneonla Supervisor Jack Ranieri, who was heading the Otsego delegation, cast the.

County's Bystanders Watch Ohio Woman Drown SUSPECTS BOTTLED UP These men were taken into custody by police after three Molotov cocktails were thrown toward a nearby tenement housing Negroes. The incident occurred during strife between neighborhood Porto Ricans and Negroes in New York City. (UPI Photo) DAYTON, Ohio (A'P)--A woman who could not swim drowned Tuesday in the Great Miami River as her pleas for help fell on deaf ears. The victim, Josephine Johnson, 52, of Dayton, found herself in the river after her car plunged down a 25-foot embankment. At least a dozen bystanders watched as the woman, standing on top of -the vehicle's trunk, creamed: "I can't swim!" As the 1963 model convertible started slowly sinking, she made an attempt to reach shore, some 15 yards distant.

A witness said she "kicked around a little" before disappearing under the murky waters. Authorities said Mrs. Johnson, a widow, was on her way 'to work. Police said her vehicle apparently hit an oil-slick, veered out of control, spun across the road and down the embankment. The car landed in about 20 feet of water, police said.

One witness. Gene Snook, said toe was one of the first persons Pro-Reds Whitewash Charged GOP Resurrects Gamin Bobby Baker Deals Chile WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. John J. Williams, has accused Philadelphia contractor Matthew H. McCloskey Jr.

-former ambassador and Demo- ratic party fund raiser of making an illegal $25,000 contribution to the 1960 Kennedy- Johnson campaign fund. In a Senate speech Tuesday, Williams charged the money was funneled 'through Bobby Baker, resigned former secre- U.S. Flier Flees Red Prison Camp WASHINGTON (AP) The White House said Tuesday that Navy Lt. Charles F. Klusmann, shot down on a reconnaissance flight over the Plaines des Jarres in Laos on June 6, has escaped from a Pathet Lao prison and is safe in Thailand.

Presidential press secretary George Reedy said Klusmann, 30, is at Udorn airfield in Thailand. He said Klusmann was picked up Tuesday after escaping from the Communists. Reedy said no details were available on his escape. Klusmann was shot down while on a reconnaissance mission in an unarmed jet from the carrier USS Kitty Hawk. He had been listed as missing in action.

Reedy said the Navy flier had waved off helicopters when they tried to pick him up after he was shot down, and, when last seen, he had been surrounded by Palhet Lao soldiers. Mrs. Klusmann received the Distinguished Flying Cross for her husband June 30 in ceremo- ies at the Pentagon. They live in San Diego, with their 7-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter. Klusmann's parents are Mr.

and Mrs. Fred L. Klusmann of Arcadia, Calif. Reedy said Klusmann "appears to be in relatively good heslth." Red Rice Gift BRAZZAVILE, Congo, Republic (AP) Communist China has made a gift of 1.000 Ions of rice for refugees expelled from the Congo. tary to the Senate's Democratic majority.

Williams demanded an investigation of Baker's out ide busi- tigation of Baker's outside busi- mediately. He made it clear he would oppose deferring action until after the November elections. Citing what he called new evidence from Don B. Reynolds, a local insurance agent, Williams said that on the eve of the 1964 presidential election campaign: "I am hereby asking the President and the leadership of the United States Senate to join me in demanding that this investigation be reopened and pursued to its ultimate end regardless of who may be involved. "The choice lies between full disclosure or political whitewash." McCloskey, at one time finance chairman for the Democratic National Commitee and recently resigned as ambassador to Ireland, built the mil-' lion District of Columbia Stadium.

Williams claimed Tuesday that McCloskey made an extra $35,000 "payoff" on the performance bond involved. He said of this was a payment to Reynolds who was the insurance man in handling bond, and was "an illegal method of making a political contribution and of charging it to the cost of a government contract." Williams said he has received a statement from Reynolds saying the $25,000 was turned over to Bobby Baker "to be used as a contribution to the Johnson-Kennedy campaign fund of 1960." The senator said two federal laws had been violated: one making it a crime for a corporation to give a political contribution; the other requiring a fine of up to and imprisonment up to five years for a political contribution of more than $5,000 in behalf of a candidate for federal office. Williams also said the arrangement permitted McCloskey to charge the contribution off on his books as a business expense in effect passing the cost on to the taxpayers, "In light of this evidence," he said, "I feel the U.S. Senate has no alternative but to reopen the Bobby Baker investigation and call as its first witnesses Mr. Matthew McCloskey, Mr.

Bobby Baker, and Mr. Don Reynolds." Williams said Reynolds wants to testify. HAVANA (AP) Government circles predicted Tuesday that Communist-supported Salvador Allende will win the presidency of Chile Friday and insist only a coup or election fraud can stop him. Political circles said openly the election is a crucial test of whether pro-Marxist forces can get and hold power through legal means or have to resort to force. Cubans declared pri- vately that should Allende be beaten, that will mean the.

end to any remaining possibility of social change in Latin America through peaceful means. Allende, 56, who admires Prime Minister Fidel Castro's regime, is opposed by Sen. Eduardo Frei, a moderate leftist who is pro-Western in his views. If Allende, candidate of the Popular Action Front (FRAP), wins, he would be the first Marxist to win power by popular election in Latin America. Today's Chuckle Some of us don't know what we want, but feel sure we don't have it.

at the scene after he saw the car go over the embankment. "I don't know how she got out, but she was on top of the trunk, yelling for help," Snook said. "She stood on it until it sank, then kicked around a little and went down. I can't swim. I tried to get someone to go in after her but they wouldn't." Rescue workers pulled her car from (lie river about an hour later and recovered the body about two hours after the accident.

Mrs. Johnson is survived by a 30-year-old son. Titan 3A Plunges Into Sea CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) The Titan 3A military space rocket scored many objectives on its maiden test flight Tuesday, but failed by about three seconds to achieve a major goal of orbiting its third stage as a flying launch platform. Instead of circling the earth, the third stage assembly plunged into the South Atlantic Ocean.

A second Titan 3A test launching is scheduled in November. Whether it will hold that timetable will depend on analysis of Tuesday's flight. Air Force Brig Gen. Joseph S. Bleymaier told newsmen the rocket achieved a 95 per cent success.

Bleymaier is program director for the rocket, which is to play a major role in U. S. plans to achieve military superiority in space. Other sources felt Bleymaier's percentage was slightly high, that a better estimate would be 80 lo 85 per cent because of the orbit failure. The third stage a versatile new rocket engine called a tran- slage was to have orbited 115 miles above the earth.

At the end of one 100-minute orbit it was to have kicked a satellite into a separate orbit. Because the flight was a lest, the intended satellile was a chunk of melal with no scientific inslrumenls. The flight ended 13 minutes after Ihe 10 a.m. blastoff from Cape Kennedy. The rocket was progressing smoothly when suddenly a tracking station on the West Indies island of Antigua lost radio contact with the Iran- slage.

Astronauts End 2 Weeks in VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (AP) Man can be even more valuable in space lhan engineers have supposed, officials said Tuesday as two astronaul candidates emerged from a two- week stay in a simulated space cabin. Air Force Capts. Albert R. Crews, 34, and Richard E.

Lawyer, 31, both graduates and now staff members of the aerospace research pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base, spent two weeks in a cylindrical cabin about 9 feet across and 7Vj feet tall, as cut off from the world as if they really were in space. The space station, in a huge vacuum tank and healed by electric lights focused as an artificial sun, rested firmly on earth, inside a tall, box-like laboratory building of the General Electric Co. missile and space division about 20 miles from Philadelphia. The men inside, breathing a i artificial at- mosphere, eating liquid or freeze-dried rations, knowing where they were and what was happening to them only through instrument readings and the fade-in, fade-out voice contacls wilh radio "ground slalions" as Ihey "passed might as well have been in orbit. One of the key results of the test, said Richard A.

Passman, manager of GE's manned space operations, was proof that properly trained astronauts can perform in space better than anybody thought they could. Present space projects, such as the two-man Gemini orbital flight, were designed, as they must be, around the best available estimates of the human factor just how much a man can be expected to do dunng an extended space flight. The two-week test just ondi'4 here raised the standards and required the two-man crew to do more than before. vole after presenting a court order to gain recognition from the credentials committee, Ranieri, casting the vote in the absence of Dr. Alexander F.

Carson, county chairman, said the votes were recorded for Slralton despite requests from parly leaders of Ihe area to switch to Kennedy. Others from the Otsego contingent were Mrs. Lulu Shad- CIOCK, William Nagle, and Margaret Jenson. Delaware three votes were also recorded for Stratton. They were cast by County Chairman Francis Paternoster, Mrs.

Janet Stoesser of Downsville and Allen R. Joshn, Supervisor from Andes. The Kennedy victory came after a day in which the Slralton forces, led by Rep. Otis Pike of Suffolk Counly, tried twice to stop the Kennedy bandwagon. The first attempt came during the morning session of the 330-member stale committee when a resolution was passed authorizing Kennedy to be the party's nominee.

The resolution was necessary because the attorney general, who has just taken up residence in New York Slate, has not been here long enough to become a member of the slate Democratic party. Strallon lost by Ihe lop-heavy vole of 232-49. Al Ihe committee session Delaware County voted against Stratton. Otsego's vote was ijplit one for and one against. Ranieri said he cast in favor of the resolution on the grounds that a convention should be open lo give all a chance.

The eimn- ly's second vole was againsl Ihe resolulion despite the absence of Mrs. Stewarl Wesl of Burlington Flals, Ihe Slale Committeewoman. Wilh his defeat, Stratton returned to campaigning in the 8 counties of his district. The effect of his campaign for the senalorial nominalion on his congressional candidacy is undetermined. Stratton's opponent, former Assemblyman Robert Quigley of Phelps attended Ihe Republican nominaling meeting here Monday.

He said it was possible that Slrallon may get some "sympathy" from voters because of his treatment by downstate Democratic leaders and the powerful force thai pulled him behind Ihe Attorney General as a candidate. In returning to the Congress floor, Straiten has given up any idea ot further conlesling Ihe Kennedy campaign in the courts. George Palmer of Schenec- lady, Ihe Slrallon lieulenant, has been preparing lo make a court test of Kennedy on his New York Stale residency. Bul Slrallon said yesterday that he would ask Palmer to discontinue the legal aclion so lhat "Democrats could fight Republicans and not a against Democrats." Kennedy was nominated by Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New York City, selling off a demonslration of delegates carrying placards saying "Let's put Bob Kennedy to work for New York." Several Strallon supporters joined Ihe crowd milling around 71st Regimental Armory.

One sign said "Boston needs Bobby." Slrallon was nominated by Pike who had also supported him in defeat at the start of Ihe committee meeling in Ihe morning. Wagner said Kennedy is a man who "knows legislature, who knows juslice, who knows power, who knows foreign policy." The seconding speech was by former Gov. Averell Harriman, a delegate from Orange County. Mratton was described as a New York Democrat who has shown a habit of winning -and winning his normally up- stale Republican territory- One of his seconders, Assemblyman Daniel M. Kelly of Manhattan said Strallon "is 10 feel lall in his specially of defeating Republicans." Pike hit at Kennedy wilh the same ammunition used 24 hours earlier by Thomas A.

Dewey al the Republican eonvenlion lhat named Kenneth A. Keating. Referring lo Kennedy's idcn- lificalion with Massachusetts. Pike said "There is no reason on earlh why Massachusetts should be elevated lo Ihree senators while New York is reduced lo just one." Pike said that Stratton had bei-n an underdog eight times his campaign from councilman Scheneclady lo the House nf Representatives and "eight times he has won." SAMUEL S. STRATTON 'Call for Unity' AFL-CIO Backing Johnson WASHINGTON (AP) Leaders of the AFL-CIO told President Johnson on Tuesday they are unanimously endorsing him for election over Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwaler.

Johnson thanked the more lhan 100 members of Ihe giant labor federation's General Board, gathered al Ihe White House, and said he will cafry their endorsement "proudly during the campaign." The board had met in closed session for about an hour with most of its 166 members present before going lo give Johnson the expected news. The action means the union's leaders are urging their 12 million members to vote for Johnson in the November general election. Johnson told the group he would remember the support "fondly in January as we begin four more exciting years of progress." He said Ihe nalion's prosperity is not an accident and not good luck, bul Ihe result of tested policies, adding: "It is the result of the hard work and cooperation of business and labor. It is the result of the unmatched vitality of our free enterprise system the envoy of world. "Today again men of faulty vision ciy, have done all we can "And today again the American people will rejecl these fear-filled slogans.

"We are on the edge of an abundance lhal can lower over all Ihe gains of the past," Johnson said. 'Cow Pasture' Incident Hit WASHINGTON (AP) The Republican Nalional Committee reported Tuesday it is receiving complaints a whal GOP Chairman Dean Burch called Ihe "cow pasture" incident. In Johnson City, on Sunday while touring the LBJ Ranch with President Johnson, Sen. Hubert II. Humphrey, Democratic nominee for vice president, made a misstep in a pasture and exclaimed: "I've just stepped on the Republican platform." Burch said the GOP national headquarters is receiving numerous telephoned prote.sis and "mosl of Ihe callers were indig- nanl about the display of vulgarity and said such attempts at humor did not fit the office of the presidency." Defeats Stratton 968-153 NEW YORK (AP) Ally.

Gen. Robert F. Kennedy overwhelmingly won on Tuesday the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator from New York. He promised, if elected, to carry on the work of his late brother, President John F.

Kennedy. After a huge ovation when he appeared on the platform with his wife and seven of his eight children, Kennedy launched his campaign with jibes at his Republican opponent, incumbent Sen. Kenneth B. Keating. Keating, 64, who has refused to endorse Sen.

Barry Goldwater for president but says he won't vote for President Johnson either, was rcnoniinatcd by the state Republicans on Monday. A third candidate, nominated by the Conservative party, is a political unknown, Henry Paolucci, a history professor. Kennedy defeated his only opv- poncnt, Rep. Samuel S. Stratton of Amsterdam by 968 votes to 153.

Slralton said he accepted defeat "as a good Democrat," bul did not move to make Kennedy's nomination unanimous. In his acceptance speech, Kennedy drew the most applause with an attack on Keating. "I know where I stand," the 38-year-old Kennedy said. "I am for Lyndon Johnson. I am against Barry Goldwater.

No other candidate for the Senate fom New York is willing to make either statement." Turning to the "carpetbagger" issue, which Both Keating and Stratton used against him, Kennedy declared: "I am aware of the difficulties I face in seeking this office. Although I grew up in New York and my family has had a home here for 40 years, my work has been in Washington and I have ties to Massachusetts." Kennedy Rests On Nomination NEW YORK (AP)--While the Democrats argued over whether to nominate Robert F. Kennedy for the Senate, the subject of discussion took a nap and seven of his eight children got acquainted with the sidewalks of New York. And when the convention delegates actually started voting to nominate Kennedy, he was just stepping out of a shower. The Kennedy kids beat him lo the convention hall by an hour, scrambling up a fire escape to reach a balcony box set aside for the nominee's family.

Kennedy's wife, Ethel, who expects her ninth child in December, came to New York by plane at miday with seven of her own and three other children--two cousins and a friend. The youngest child, Christopher remained at II a i Port, Mass. They went to the Carlyle Hotel and Mrs. Kennedy stayed in the llth-floor suite. But the children came down almost immediately and started playing on the sidewalk.

When the children got back to the hotel and were preparing to leave for the convention, a tousle-haired figure poked his head out of the apartment door and called to a 10-year-old boy: "I know you are my namesake, and if someone at the convention yells out, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr," now you don't go up and make a speech!" ROBERT F. KENNEDY 'Democratic Mantle' Medicare Bill Goes To Bat WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate decided Tuesday to vote Wednesday on the politically touchy Social Security health care plan strongly supported by President Johnson and just as vigorously opposed by GOP presidential nominee Sen. Barry Goldwater, Before the Senate is a revised version of 'the King-Anderson proposal offered as an amendment to a House-passed bill providing for expansion of Social Security cash benefits. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, asked for and received unanimous consent for a Senate vote Wednesday.

The Senate session will begin at noon and there will be two hours of debate prior to the vote with the time divided equally between opponents and supporters of the health care plan. Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen ot Illinois said he had been in touch with Goldwater, who is in California, and that Goldwater planned to fly here if the vote was set for Wednesday. Teen Kills Two Kids MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) A handsome teen-age boy, described as a mathematics whiz and a regular church goer, told police Tuesday he killed two neighbor children and stuffed their bodies into a crawl space at his fashionable lakefront home.

Richard Dobeski, 16, who was on leave from a state mental hospital, signed a statement in which he detailed the slayings of the children of a Chicago advertising executive, Deputy Sheriff Robert Blake said. Leaii Into Death. MELUN, France (AP) Eugene Quantin, 85, leaned out a second-story window Tuesday to watch her daughter, Julienne, leave on an errand. She tumbled out and fell onto Julienne's back. Mrs.

Quantin was killed and Julienne was hospitalized with her injuries. You'll Want To SCHOOL ADDITION contracts let In Cooperstown. Page LABOR dispute points disclosed. Page 3 COMMON COUNCIL votes to pick up leaves. Page 5 DAVE ERBE makes grade in pro ball.

Page 14 Business 8 Women 12 Deaths 10 Sports 14,15 Negro Girl Breaks Barrier CARTHAGE, Miss. (AP)-A lone Negro girl registered at this central Mississippi town's whitt 1 elementary school Tuesday and a Ni'sro lawyer said threats and harassments scared others away. Court ordert'O desegregation at Ihe level b.yjii here as Negroes unexpectedly tried tn bn ich racial barriers at white schools in two other Mississippi lowns. The 6- ear-old Negro was whisked into the red-brick Carthago Elementary School at 10:10 a.m. The- school's 93 white Ix'Rinners h.i'1 been sent hume fur the iby 10 minutes earlier.

vn-rt- Tin incident as federal, state and local officers sealed off the school from newsmen and curiosity-seekers. While this birthplace of segregationist ex-Gov. Ross Barnett tensec' for classroom racial mixing. Negroes sought to enter whitp junior-senior high schools at Marks and Canton. Neither town is under court orders to desegregate.

Throe girls anl a boy were told by Supt. V. Craig at Marks their applications would be turned over to the school board for consideration. At Canton, six boys and a girl were met at the door by school Kurd Supt M. Allen, who tiiik their names, and parents' names Allen asked them to return Thursday when stu- dent transfers would be considered by the board.

This Deep South state plunged into its first desegretation below the college level Monday when 16 Negroes quietly enrolled at four white Biloxi schools. A 17th showed up Tuesday and an ISth made application Biloxi and Jackson were told to desegregate their first grades under the same federal court order that opened schools in Carthage and surounding Leake County to Negro first- graders. No Negroes applied when four rural Leake County white schools opened last week. Civil rights workers had said nine Negro pupils would register at the Carthago school..