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Mostly tunny and continued cold Friday. (Sponsored by James way 90TH YEAR NO. 27,143 20 PAGES Sector 20 PAGES 2 Sections FRANKLIN AND OIL CITY, PA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 4, 1968 ssdad by I few v'W- i Bo wes Appointed U.S. Negotiator With Cambodia End of Bombing Made Condition Of Negotiations SAIGON (UPI) There were mounting indications today the U.

S. bombing of Communist North Vietnam might be driving Hanoi to the negotiating table. But prospects for peace were clouded by vague conditions imposed by Hanoi. Diplomatic sources in Saigon said North Vietnam has sent fresh word it would open peace talks with the United States as soon as American bombing of the Communist nation is halted. All other sources said Hanoi WASHINGTON (UPI) selected Chester W.

Bowles, U. S. ambassador to India, for the delicate task of discussing with Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk the problem of Communist Viet namese sanctuaries in his Formal announcement Texas White House. The timetable for the talks, saying only that Bowles would ROMXEY RETURNS Followed by group of boosters. Gov.

George Romney gets latest home news from wife, Lenore, left, and daughter, Lynn, after arrival at Detroit's Metropolitan Airport following his 13-nation world tour. Auto Insurance Bill in Conference Humphrey's Motorcade In Congo Stoned KINSHASHA, The Congo (UPI) Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey flew in today from Ghana and was greeted by anti Vietnam students who threw stones at his motorcade and shouted, "Murderer, go home!" They milled around his car in the first anti-American demon stration of Humphrey's African goodwill tour. Security officers said the 150 students involved would not have been able to get close to the car -but for the fact it slowed almost to a halt when the French-speaking driver ap parently became confused on the way from Kinshasa airport to meet President Joseph Mobutu. Humphrey's car, a convertible with the top closed, drove away unscathed but the following press and official cars were hit by stones and thumped by the demonstrators with their fists.

African security sources said American officials were tipped a week ago of the possibility of an airport demonstration by pro-Communist student ele ments but Humphrey turned down a suggestion by officials that they suppress any such show in advance. Humphrey drove to the Organization of African Unity village on Mount Stanley for an hour and 15 minute meeting with Mobutu at his home overlooking the Congo River rapids. Also on his schedule was a tour of the Lamba Village project speftored by U.S. aid, a with local Americans and a banquet given by Mobutu for 200 guests in the dining hall of the village built last year to house the heads of state at an OAU summit meeting. In a prepared arrival statement Humphrey said the United States had been able "to support the dedicated efforts of the Congo in the task of independent nation building." Before leaving Accra, Hum phrey signed a $12.1 million food loan to Ghana.

Bandit Scared Off by Screams PITTSBURGH (UPI) A masked bandit politely knocked at the door of a pre-fabricated classroom of kindergarten children Wednesday, but the screams of a young woman teacher sent him fleeing empty handed. The would-be robber came to call at the "demountable" classroom unit erected on the playground of the A. Leon Weil School in the city's Soho district. When one of the class 15 pre school toddlers answered the door, the bandit burst into the room and held the teacher, Marilyn Albert, at knifepoint, demanding her purse. Miss Albert's screams brought the principal, Dr.

Hy-man Haffner. The bandit "scooted out just before I got here," Haffner told police. 10c a Copy. also demanded the United States end "other acts of war" against "the North. In Paris, well-informed sources said North Vietnam had indicated to the French government it is ready and willing to talk peace with Washington as soon as the bombing of North Vietnam is stopped.

The sources said France told the United States new policy statements by North Vietnam might be the "sign" Hanoi was ready to talk. The Saigon sources said Hanoi delivered the message through its envoy to Indonesia, Pham Binh, several weeks ago. In Jakarta, Indonesian Foreign Office sources Confirmed that North Vietnam had asked Indonesia to mediate in the Vietnam war. But the Jakarta sources said Indonesia had not taken the request seriously since Indonesia had not been approached by other involved parties including the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong, and by the South Vietnamese government. Started Last Week A change in Hanoi's igid attitude appeared to develop last week when the North Vietnamese foreign minister said Hanoi "will" talk if the bombings were halted.

Previously all official Hanoi statements said North Vietnam "might" talk. Since then apparent clarifications of Hanoi's positions have snowballed in Washington, in Paris, in London and in other world capitals. In most cases, however, Hanoi coupled the end to bombing with an end to "other acts of war." There still was no word from Washington on the flurry of apparent peace feelers but Secretary of state Dean Rusk was holding a news conference at 3 p.m. EST oday in Washington. In the past Rusk has insisted that Hanoi must give some positive sign it is willing to talk peace.

In Paris, French Information Minister George Gorse indicated France is convinced Hanoi will start peace talks with Washington as soon as the American bombing of the North stops. Met With De Gaulle Gorse told newsmen the cabinet met ith President Charles de Gaulle to discuss the Saturday statement by North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh that Hanoi would be willing tart immediate talks if bombing and "all other acts of war" were stopped. Gorse said foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville "emphasized last Saturday's statement" and added that these remarks "added additional precision to the already known Hanoi position." Gorse had no comment on widespread reports in Paris today the Hanoi position represents the "sign" Washington is waiting for. 72 4g RK UNION WAS 'CHARTERED BVAFOFL XOORS NATIONAL. PROTECTIVE Comics 16 Editorial 4 Financial 17 Grove City 10 Hospital 20 Oil City 11 Obituaries 20 Sports 1413 Television 17 Women's News 8-9 iSTACTORS T4WITADV i I McCarthy Says LBJ Follows Policy of GOP WASHINGTON (UPI)-Sen.

Eugene J. McCarthy, broadened his attacks against President Johnson's foreign policies today and also took issue with administration econ omic programs in explaining his decision to enter the New Hampshire presidential prima ry. He accused the administration of pursuing "a kind of Republican foreign policy in Asia" like that of the late former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. And he called Johnson's newly announced program to reduce the balance of payments deficit "strictly defensive." McCarthy's comments at news conference apparently were aimed at bolstering his image as a serious presidential contender not confined to just anti-Vietnam opposition. Many New Hampshire voters are said to hold generally strong "hawk" views on the war.

"The administration position has been one of punting on first down," McCarthy said of efforts to stabilize the dollar. I don think they'll accomplish what they want. Calling again for an imme diate halt in U.S. bombing of North Vietnam to induce peace talks, he said if the deficit from the war were eliminated the dollar "would begin to grow so strong Europe would be worried." McCarthy's entry into the nation's first presidential primary, on March 12, pits him against Johnson, who has the full support of the state's Democratic hierarchy, and Sen. Robert F.

Kenedy, whose unauthorized backers continue to boost him for president. Only last week, McCarthy was downgrading the impor tance of the New Hampshire primary, terming it "not very significant" in his drive to bring to the voters his view of the dangers of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. But McCarthy said Wednesday that his decision was determined largely by a ruling of the New Hampshire attorney general that no campaign funds could be spent on a write-in candidate without tne candidate's written consent. Johnson has refused to declare whether he will be a candidate for re-election, al though it is generally assumed he will be.

McCarthy thus apparently figures that supporters will, be at an added disadvantage with limited financial resources against a declared primary candidate like himself. French Aid PARIS (UPI)-A French oil company today agreed to provide free gasoline for British drivers in the famed Monte Carlo race next month. British currency export restrictions do not allow enough money for the drivers to buy their own. industries, possibly indicating the "onset of an influenza" outbreak. Mrs.

Mary Jones, nursing supervisor for Oklahoma City schools, said absenteeism was up to about 30 per cent of total enrollment. Authorities in Allegheny (Pittsburgh) County, said absenteeism was running 10 to 15 per cent, a higher than usual rate. Absenteeism was up about 50 per cent above normal in Pinellas (St. Petersburg) County, schools. In Missouri visitors were banned at hospitals in Lebanon, Lamar and Aurora because of flu outbreaks.

Three Pittsburgh hospitals restricted visitors to members of the immediate families of patients and the Marion (HI.) Memorial Hospital limited pa tieots to only one visitor a day. President Johnson today country. of the choice came from the brief statement specified no U. S. Envoy Hit by Eggs In Sweden STOCKHOLM (UPI)-About 60 youths hurled rotten eggs and snowballs today at an American diplomatic delegation in Stockholm, police reported.

It was the first such incident since four U.S. Navy deserters arrived in the Swedish capital last week seeking political asylum. Philip H. Trezise, the U.S. ambassador in Stockholm, and other Americans were struck by some of 'ie foul smelling eggs thrown by the youths.

No injuries were reported. Trezise, his suit splattered, said later he was "astonished" by the incident. "We came here for friendly consultations with a friendly government and we did not expect this," he said. Police said the delegation had just arnved in embassy limou sines outside the ministry of finance to explain President Johnson's plans for cutting the U.S. balance of payments deficit.

The youths, shouting anti-american slogans, pelted them with about 20 eggs and as many snowballs as they stepped from the cars, officers reported. Swedish officials pushed the demonstrators to one side so the Americans could enter the building. Police said the demonstrators carried banners reading "USA imperialism the enemy of all peoples." The four sailors arrived last week from Moscow and asked that they be granted political asylum. A government advisory committee recommended that the asylum be granted but a final decision has not been cade. Strike at Hospital NEW CASTLE, Pa.

(UPI)-A strike of X-ray technicians a Jameson and St. Francis Hospitals for union recognition entered its third day today. Strikers still picketed the hospitals where administrators said the walkout would have no affect. The technicians seek recognition of the American Federation of Technical Engineers as their collective bargaining agent. 170 Wounded 26 Per SAIGON (UPI) The price of war in Vietnam in 1967 was an average of approximately 26 Americans killed and 170 wounded every single day of the year.

U.S. officials said today as of Dec. 30 a total of 9,353 Americans were killed and 62.004 wounded in 1967. The spokesman said 185 Americans were killed, 437 wounded and 878 missing in action last week, compared with 166 killed, 1,397 wounded and 866 missing in the previous week. Figures were not available for Dec.

31, which fell on Sunday, the beginning of the next casualty week. U.S. and Allied countries said Republicans lined up solidly behind the Senate changes, which provided for exceptions favorable to the insurance in dustry. But the GOP had three members absent and fell three votes short of clearing the amendments. The final tally was 99-87, but 102 votes are needed for concurrence.

Rep. John S. Renninger, Bucks, cited the amount of work which went into the measure and said the Senate changes would not harm it He said the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO as well as the insurance industry favored the changes. "This is the most stringent bill of its type in the country," Renninger said. But Rep.

Eugene Gelfand, argued that the Senate created a loophole whereby in surance firms could refuse to renew policies for various reasons. Renninger argued that the policyholder could appeal any refusal to renew and request the state insurance commissioner to hold a hearing. He also pointed out that the Senate did not touch the section of the bill which bans refusal to renew and lists the discriminatory grounds. Gold Price Drops LONDON (UPI)-The price of gold fell heavily for the third successive day in the London market today but there was no big selloff. The price was set at the fine ounce.

Gold now has nosedived by 5 cents since President Johnson launched his program to protect the dollar by restoring the U.S. balance of payments. arrive in Penh "within the next few days. In Phnom Penh, a spokesman for Sihanouk said the prince had approved Bowles' selection and, like the White House announce ment, said Bowles was expected in the Cambodian capital within a few days. Washington officials said the veteran diplomat was picked because of his longtime interest in Southeast Asia and the fact that he already had discussed the sanctuary problem with Indian officials.

India is chairman of the three-nation Interna tional Control Commission (ICC), set up to work out political questions in the Southeast Asia area. Secretary of State Dean Rusk was to expand on the matter in a news conference at 3 pirn EST today. Sihanouk opened the way for talks on the sanctuary problem in an interview with the Washington Post last week and a subsequent radio broadcast to his people Sunday. He made clear he would not order military counteraction if U.S. forces crossed Cambodia's remote jungle borders in pursuit of fleeing Vietnamese Communists, but he warned that his nation would resist any attempt to build up a per manent American force within its boundaries.

At the same time Sihanouk moved to ease relations with the United States with the announcement he would welcome an emissary from John son to discuss the sanctuary problem. 1 U.S. field commanders have long complained about the Johnson administration's policy of restraining them from following and finishing off North Vietnamese and Viet Cong military units that head for asylum in Cambodia after taking a beating from allied forces. Stocks Decline; Trading Hectic NEW YORK (UPI) Stock prices retreated in hectic trading today but declines were not particularly steep. Shortly before noon, the United Press International stock market indicator had lost 0.32 per cent with 1,359 issues crossing the tape.

There were 667 declines and 453 advances. The Dow Jones industrial average also dropped into the minus column. Steels and motors turned narrowly mixed. Du Pont fell 2 in the easier chemicals. Dow gave up 1, Union Carbide Oils were irregular.

Standard and California Standard eased. Atlantic Richfield paced the winners, tacking on a point. Occidental Petroleum rose slightly. Electronics moved mostly lower but many prices were above their early levels. IBM, which had a delayed opening, paced the losers, giving up 4V4.

Honeywell lost ZV. Control Data jumped 3V6. Rails backed off. Chicago North Western declined 2 and its proposed merger partner, Chicago Great Western, tumbled 3. Airlines turned mixed after recent losses in reaction to the proposal to limit overseas travel.

One o'clock quotations from Laidlaw Borg-Warner 29; C.P.T. 41; Continental Can 50V4; Johns-Manville 57 V4; Joy 32; Koppers Penn-zoil 116H; Quaker State 26V; Witco 34, Crush Force Of 1000 Reds SAIGON (UPI) American spokesmen said today that U. S. troops 365 miles northeast of Saigon crushed a force of about 1.000 North Vietnamese who had slipped into the country dur ing the Christmas-New Year's truce pauses. A captured North Vietnamese reported the Communist plans for ravaging the Que Son valley in the northern coastal region, U.S.

officials said. Men of the newly formed U.S. American Division prepared for them. The Communists, identified as units of the North Vietnamese 2nd came Wednesday They hurled 122mm rockets their biggest and recoilless rifle shells at three U.S. bases.

Then they charged in human waves at two strategic airfields, codenamed Ross and Leslie. Battlefield reports said scores of Communists screamed over barbed wire defense and into Leslie. Formations of North Vietnamese pushed against the defense perimeter around Ross, four miles away. The Communists fled as U.S. strike planes whirled in.

American troops of the newly formed cavalry-infantry division chased them into the hills horderine the valley's rice Daddies. Inside the barbed wire around Leslie, GIs reported counting 40 Communist bodies. Another 58 dead North Vietnamese lay outside the wire. At Ross, bulldozers began scraping out graves for another 143 Commu nists. In fights later in the day, a little farther north, 40 more Communists were killed by American troops leapfrogging by helicopter and armored vehicle.

It marked the second day this week the Communists have lost more than 300 men killed in human wave attacks in a single battle region, American spokesmen said. It helped raise to more than 1,300 the number of Communists slain in the first three days of 1968. In the Que Son valley fighting, American forces suffered 17 men killed and 135 wounded spokesmen said. In the air war, American spokesmen reported U.S. pilots flew a total of 106 missions against North Vietnam Wednes day when they hit for the first time this year the industrial complex near Hanoi.

through last week of 116,617 since 1961, including 15,997 killed, 99,742 wounded, of which 52,972 required hospitalization, and 878 missing. Casualties since Dec. 30 sent the dead figure past 16,000. Official figures showed that U.S. military strength in Vietnam soared to an all-time high of 486,000, 8,000 higher than in the previous week and 14,000 higher than at any time in the Korean war.

Australia, South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand and New Zealand, had 60,000 men in Vietnam, unchanged from last week. U.S. officials estimated Communist strength in South Vietnam between 298,000 and 333,000. HARRISfiURG (UPI) Leg islation designed to forbid arbitrary cancellation or refusal to renew auto insurance policies today" appeared headed toward a House Senate conference committee. The House Wednesday night declined to go along with Senate changes in the bill, which would bar insurance companies from discriminating on grounds of age, residence, race, color, creed, occupation, national origin or ancestry.

Sale of Story Angers Doctor By NEIL J. SMITH CAPE TOWN, South Africa (UPI) Doctors today pronounced Philip Blaiberg and his transplanted heart in very good condition." But the chief snreeon is angry over the $50,000 sale of their story rights by the patient's family to a U.S. broadcasting company, colleagues, said. An official bulletin issued by Groote Schuur Hospital, where the five-hour transplant operation was performed Tuesday by Dr. Christian Barnard and his 30-member team, said: "Blaiberg's condition is very good.

He is making satisfactory progress. He is fully conscious and able to talk to doctors. He has had no solid foods yet and seems in very good spirits." Doctors said tubes leading into the dentist's body might be removed today. But they said he will be kept in an oxygen tent for at least the next two or three days. He is allowed no visitors for fear of germs.

His wife, staving in a hospital room ner hear husband's, has not seen him since the operation. Barnard was reported angry because the Blaiberg family sold exclusive rights to film and still photographs and interviews before, during and after the operation to the National Broadcasting Co. (NBC). When Barnard heard about the television deal with the family, he refused to allow NBC cameramen into the operating room during the Tuesday surgery. A colleague reported an angered Barnard said there would be no "horseplay" in the operating room.

Hospital sources said post operative care for Blaiberg was concentrating on avoiding infec tion. Torch En Route BRIVE, France (UPI)-The torch bound for the Grenoble winter Olympics was being carried from Brive to Bordeaux today amid heavy rainstorms that have plagued the area for days. Atlanta Schools Closed by Flu Day Killed in Viet ATLANTA (UPI) Schools were closed and hospital visitors banned or severely restricted today in some parts of the nation gripped by Asian flu. The worst hit areas appeared to be Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. Schools in at least nine Louisiana parishes (counties) were closed because of flu outbreaks and many other schools reported high absenteeism among students.

In St. Charles Parish, one school reported 11 of 18 teachers sick. Student absenteeism also was high in upstate New York. Dr. John Lyons of the Albany County Health Commission said a spot check Wedneday showed a "rather amount of -absentees in schools and they killed 623 Communists last week, well below the 977 reported for the previous week.

The allies suffered 37 killed and 47 wounded last week. The figures released today did not include South Vietnamese casualties nor Communist dead accounted for by government troops. Ground fighting dropped off somewhat during the week, apparently because of the impending truces announced by both sides. Heaviest fighting for the Americans was along South Vietnam's northern coast and in U.S. Marine territory in the north of South Vietnam.

The bloody battlefields of 1967 accounted for well over half of the total American casualties,.