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~r. T 1 »», V MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1967 VAOa TWBNIY-FOyR iRanrliieater Ew^ttittg Herald Hia Weak Bated Tbe Weather Dteanber t, 1N7 Clearing tonight. Low tS to 15,563 iManrI|?5t^r lEumttig ll^raUi 40. Tomorrow fair. fOgh in S0*a.- Manehe»ter— A City of Viliage Charm VOL. LXXXVn, NO. 61 (THIRTY.TWO PAGES—TWO SECTIONS) MANCHESTER, CONN., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1967 (OlaaaUled Ateerttelag «a Fage W) PRICE SEVEN CENTS C elebrates Percy, Wife Escape W0^C6HT® New H ead FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — U^th the roar of cannon and the Mortar Fire in Viet peal of church bells, more than 260 banda and floats began ^ SAIGON (AP) — Sen. Charles V6 OPEH OMW four-hour parade today as Ken Percy, his wife and seven other tucky prepared to inaugurate its Americans escaped Injury today first Republican governor in 24 when C om m u n ist gunners years. opened up with mortars and 9 WH-'® ? J* A crowd of as many as 40,000 small arms during a spur-of- had been expected, and city po the-moment, unescorted 'visit lice said the eariy morning in the Illinois Republican made to flux of vlsttora to the capital the devastated 'village of Dok- was larger than they had ex son. pected. Some of the five mortar Actually, Louie B. Nunn took rounds crashed within 16 to 20 the oath of office at 6:04^.p.m. feet of the 48-year-oId senator, Monday in a brief, quiet cere who Is a potential Republican mony in Uie Capitol. presidential candidate, and four At midnight he became the men Inspecting the village with 4Sth man to serve as chief exec him, but no one was hit. ’The utive in the state’s history. group took cover, and Percy got The early oath-taking is tradi some small scratches on his tional in Kentucky and isn’t ex arms as he crawled behind pected to make much difference some wood huts. *! to the Uiousands who are brav Mrs. Percy had remained In ing the threat of a driszle today the grmq>'s helicopter 76 yards to watch the ceremonies and away with the pilot arid two pomp as outgoing Gov. Edward crewmen. They flew her to a T. Breathitt hands over the nearby town and returned with reins. an eacort of suined Army chop- A large wooden {datform has pen to rescue the senator and been erected in front of the Cap hla companiona. itol fdr the afternoon swearing- ’”Thla ia closer to action than I in ceremonies. got In three years of Worid War Nunn, a ' 4S-year-old' Glasgow n," Percy, a U.S. Navy veter Take Up To 3 Years To Payl lawyer was elected last month an, told a news conference after over former Highway Commis he returned to Saigon. sioner Henry Ward. He lost to Meanwhile, the U.S. Com Breathitt by a narrow margin mand announced that 471 Viet four years ago. Cong and North Vietnamese Nunn’s DempcraUc lieutenant regulars—the , equivalent of a governor, Wendell Ford, also battle-ready battalion—were i^i Oven Rang! was sworn Ut Monday night, but UUed In a six-day battle that 4 ^ at a private ceremony at the ended Mcmday along the narrow a: VTankfort home of a friend. coaatal planes near the pivotal ’Today’s events include a pa town of Bong Son. rade, official ceremonies, public Allied casualties were 82 reception at the Capitol and four Americans and SO South Viet inaugural balls. namese soldlera killed, and 147 On ^ last day In office, Americana and 71 South Viet- Breathitt commuted the death nameae wounded. sentences for six men convicted The battle erupted when two of murder. ’Two of the men were oompairies of the helicopter- granted four-year stays for fur borne U.S. let Air Cavalry Dlvl- ther investigation of'thelr cases, alon began a sweep of the scrub /- three had sentences commuted land along the coast about SOO to life imprisonment without pa miles ncxrtb-nortbeast of Balgan. role and one was given a three- JuM to the north a hsttAe** year stay for psychiatric e'valu- from the South Vietnamese 40th ti-£ Automatle aUon. Infantry Regiment waa pushing Brisathltt pledged-four yaerr- Stokely Carmichael, left, walks from plane at Kennedy Airport in New Yorii south. Sen. Qiaiies Percy, R-BL, rube hie eye as he Mis neweinen in Snlfoa today PORTABLE DISHWASHER 6-E Front-Loading G-E Front Load, S-Cgela ago, "No one will die in the today as he returns to the United States after a five-month trip abroad. He is Both allied groups ran Into how his party escaped Communist mortar and small arms fiire earlier in witfi 3-Woy Wash Systtm electric chair while I am gover accompany by Dale Smith, a traveling companion. (AP Photofax) fortifloprilona manned by the day during a spur-of-^»-moment unescorted visit to devastkted 'village of DISHWASHER DISHWASHER nor.’* The legislature rejected seasowHl 22nd tuglm tat of ttte Dakson. (AP Photofax) ______________________________________ Portable now, buUt-ln his request that the death penal North Vietnamese 3rd Division. OivcB flpotlflMly ctoan 3-Level Thoro-Wash with later! 2-Li0V(eil Thoax>-Wlash ty be renftved from law. Over the next six days the al soft food waste disposer. Breathitt also put into effect a lied troopa pushed forward, then (UBhes wUhout hand rins with Soft Food Waste tougher strip mining regulation. Carmichael’s Passport Speaks at Coltege Dedication 2 Cycles. Dally Loads, pulled (lack while planes, artU- ing or scraping. tMepoaer. No hand-rinatng It prohibits strip mining on or scraping. Rinse and Hold. leiy and helicapter giirahlpa any slope steeper than 28 de pounded the enemy over a five- grees. Breathitt said he slgrned mile stretch of the coast. it on an emergency basis on Taken at N,Y. Airport The Communlata made a final LBJ Urges More Progress G-E e -E grounds that stacking spoil stand in the fortltied village of ConvarHM* material on steep slopes would NEW YORK (AP) — Black nigh border on treason,” he He said Oarmicbael’s trip had ’Truong Lam, which was over KILI^lEN, Tex. (AP) — Pros- would stop off at their conven- more than It dauatod the Mt> Automarie . endanger ciUsens, especially Power militant Stokely Chrml- said. S -C y e k "dramatized the fact that this run Monday. In It the cavalry ident Johnson said today, in tion. On the Texas leg of today’s Uers of yesterday who sought a BuUt-ln during winter rains and snow- chael 'waa back in the United "It would be most anamalous country is pretty defenseless to men found about 60 new graves dedicating a new Junior college, presidential tour, a sp e a k ^ newer worid." Dithwashors Dishwashur faU. States today, his passport In the if a great country like the Unit protect itself’’ against activities In which the Reds had hastily that "the time has come for time of 6:86 p.m. EST before Johnson flew to hie raneh flbt- hands of federal officials and ed States did not protect itself of this nature. tried to conceal some of their these Americans who beUeve in the labor body In Florida waa urday after the White Houte ModelJ-7»7 his presence stirring Congress against flagrant violators of A Supreme Court decisloR on dead. progress to convince ttie doubt- announced. wedding of hla daughter Lynda M odtii4Hr passport laws by desperadoes to consider penalties for U.S. passports earUer this year left Many more of the veteran era.” The AFLrCIO gave dieering Bird and Marine Oapt Cbul«s State News citizens who travel to forbidden like Carmichael," Celler said. the State Department without 0>mmunist troops s'vldently Johnson said the quest for ed- support Mondiy to Johnscn’a S. Robb. Mrs. JohssOD JabMA nations. Sen. Karl E. Mundt, R-SiD., a the power to seek criminal pen Vietnam ptriiolea. him there Mbnday and plaanad OamnJcheiel, whose five-month member of the Foreign Rela sllpped away to the south. ucational exceUence, abolition TwQ"Qven Americana 'R ange _ alties for unauthorized 'visits to The battle on the Bong Son of poverty, better health, eco- At the dedication, the Presi to stay longer. , CJonvertjs to a trip Included cedis In Commu tions Committee to which the countries to which travel had dent noted ttte expansion of edu 2-Level Thoro- 30-lneh Custom nist Cuba and North Vletneun, administration bill was re plain was the latest in a series nomlc stat^ty and world peace bulUrin. New Wash, easy load now has a picture window even on'' been restricted. of stand-and-fight engagements will succeed—"if we stay mt the cational faculties and oppoctuni- aerated soft- Chaplain flew Into Kennedy airport Mon ferred, said he favored legisla ttea. "Yet attU," he said, "there ing, swing-down P-7(T) Self-Cleaning Master Ovenl tion of that kind. (See Page Sixteen) provoked in recent days by course.” wash for deli- door, sliding Automatic Ronge day emd waa met by a cheering American and South ’i^et- IBs remarks were prepared are those who oppose this kind oalte china and racks, Ug load group of his admirers emd by nameae sweep operations. Oth- for ceremonies at (Mntral Texas of growth . 'niere are some Antipoverty crystal. Cher- capacity. No pre- A t Y ale U.S. memsheds. who teU us that it la too expen rywood top. In U.S. Atty. Joseph P. Hoey of erwlse, the Communist troops College. copper or avo rinBing or scrap With See-Thru Window have stuck mainly to hlt-and- The President, who flew to sive; that it is too dangerousi ing.