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Average Daily Net Press Rnv F»r The Week Ended The Weather January 6, 1968 Clear tonight. tx>w in upper teens. Tomorrow sunny. High 15,534 ManrljPHtpr lEuptittin Ittpralb In 30s. Manche$ter— A City of Village Charm VOL. LXXXVII, NO. 106 (TWENTY PAGE8—TWO SECTIONS) MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1968 (Glaasifled AdveitklnK oa Page 17) PRICE SEVEN CENTS Whale of a ‘Tail’ LB J Proposes T ax LA JOLLA, Calif. (AP)— While taking photographs 70 feet below the ocean’s sur face, Rick Origg couldn’t re Report of Pueblo Agreement sist the Impulse to pat a 28- For U.S. Tourists f o o t migrating California gray whale. WASraNOTON tAP) —Presi- modest incomes or those of any dent Johnson’s administration income level who choose to The whale responded with proposed today to tax the travel modestly In this period." a flip of its tail that knocked spending the American tourists Fowler said the average low the airplpe from Origg’s outside t(he Western Hemisphere income traveler such as a stu mouth, pushed his face plate Unconfirmed in Washington above a $7-a-day level. dent or a foreign bom citizen to his shoulders and slashed his forehead. Secretary of the Treasury visiting relatives and friends Another diver helped Grlgg Henry H. Fowler made the pro abroad spend <m the average to the surface after the en posal to the House Ways and about $10 a day and thus his ex penditure tax would be 48 cents counter Saturday. Orlgg’s in Means Committee as a keystone juries were minor. of Johnston s’effort to reduce by a day. No Progress $800 million the net outflow of The expenditure tax would not dollars resulting from tourist be levied on his transportation »#*• travel. to and from this country al Is Reported The administration also pro though the exclEie tax would ap State News posed extending the 6 per cent ply there. excise tax now charged on air Congress' initial reaction By Bundy tickets within the United States seemed to be that the travel tax G>uple Die to foreign air traffic and to wa would be a second dose of bitter SEOUL (AP) — The news medicine after the still unswal ter transportation outside the paper Chosun nbo said the Unit Western Hemisphere. lowed proposal for an income In NeMdngton tax hike. ed States agreed today to apolo The cusbom-tfree bringing But Chairman Wilbur D. Mills back of purchases made abroad gize to North Korea and the of the House Ways and Means would also be sharply restrict House Fire North Koreans agreed to return ed. Committee, which has repeated the 83 crewmen of the seized in ly shelved the tax increase Fowler told the committee telligence ship Pueblo. This was while demanding more spending NEWINGTON (AP)—Two per this .particular method' was sons perished in a fire that denied In Washington. cuts, has shown himself more 4 “ We have no confirmation on odepted so that the tax would swept a home early today. "not fall heavily on those with (See Page Five) The victims were identified as that,” William P. Bundy, assist 5 Howell G. Rees, 86, and his wife ant secretary of state said. “ As Dorothy, 87. of this moment we cannot re The blaze broke out after 1 port any progress.” a.m. Bundy added that meetings Police said Mrs . Rees was between the United States and the North Koreans are conUij- pulled from the house by neigh Nixon and Romney ulng. bors but was dead on arrival Quoting an unidentified South at Hartford Hospital. Rees’ body Korean government source, was found in the wreckage. Chosun nbo aald the agreement Cause of the fire -was njot Itr • Press Campaigns was reached at the third secret mediately determined. meeting of U.S. and North Ko A report from a neighbor, who rean representatives held at Nixon said flames were shooting f jRi Panmunjom, where the Military Rom ney . through the roof, brought all Armistice Commission meets in four of the town’s volunteer fire MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — the demilitarized zone between companies to the 8-room ranch Richard M. Nixon moves Into Gov. George Romney said today North and South Korea. house at 143 Reservoir Rd. Wisconsin today, opening one of Richard M. Nixon realizes now The report said the United The roof and back, of the the most critical battles in his his opponent is no pushover in States agreed to a Communist house were wrecked. Mr. and fight to win the Republican the New Hamp^iire presidential demand that It sign a note of Mrs. Rees lived alone there. presidential nomination for a primary. And Romney renewed apology admitting that the One fireman was hurt when second time. his demand that the former ■vice Ftoeblo violated North Korean This is the second leg in Nix president face him in campaign an ambulance, moving into the waters. area, caught a hose being as on’s drive. debate, saying the voters won’t U.S. officials in Seoul said sembled by firemen. The fire He finished three days of in settle for “ hide-and-seek” tac they could neither confirm nor tensive campaigning in New tics. man was spun around and ^ f m deny the report. tossed against a hrueik. He was Hampshire today and one of his “ I think he realizes he’s in a Earlier South Korean sources taken to Hartford Hospital, aides, commenting on the recep contest," the underdog Romney had reported the meeting at where he was released after an tions to his appearances, said said of Nixon. But Romney said Panmunjom today and said the examination. He returned to the “ It was all and more than we his program haa forced Nixon to North Koreans offered to re scene to continue fighting the expected.” change Now Hampshire strate lease the body of one dead blaze. New Hampshire holds the na gy. American and “several" In tion’s first presidential primary "Whoever was responsible for jured if the United States would F election on March 12, followed the early strategy thought it Long Hair Defended admit the Pueblo was trespass by the Wisconsin primary April was pretty'much of a'pushov NORWAL K(AP)—A Ovll Lib ing. 2. er,” Romney said. He said the erties Union lawyer is to ap A Seoul radio station said Nixon is counting heavily on Nixon forces realize now that is pear in court today to challenge (AP Pholofax) three helicopters were waiting, destroying his "loser image" by not the case. the suspensions because of long Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara during discussion of Far East events on ‘Meet the Press’ last night. at the conference building at winning decisively in six pri Nixon originally planned no hair of four Brien McMahon Panmunjom in expectation of maries—and especially the first more than six days of New High School students. two. Hampshire campaigning, but The lawyer. Burton Weinstein (See Page Nineteen) His lieutenants see New plans now to put in more time in of the Fairfield chapter of the Hampshire as ultra important the state, Romney said. Connecticut Civil Liberties E Police Make Marines Repel Over 2 0 0 VC, (See Page Three) (See Page Three) (See Page Nineteen) Herald Begins New Service In Robberies Rushed Hill Near Khe Sanh starting today the Los An SAIGON, (AP) — U.S. Ma other positions at Khe Sanh, northern sector to back up gels Times/Washington Post Further investigation by rines beat off 200 to 300 North was the start of the expected 40,000 Marines already there. News Services will provide Manchester and State Po Vietnamese troops attacking a North Vlenamese offensive Intelligence officers estimate at The Herald with a compre lice has resulted in another hill overlooking the northwest along the northern frontier. But least 38,000 North Vietnamese hensive, daily news report fortress at Khe Sanh today. The the U.S. Command disclosed it troops are massed in the fron from key centers, both do arrest connected with the mestic and abroad. Jan. 20 looting of a Man Viet Cong opened a fresh heavy had moved 3,600 paratroopers tier regrion. attack in Saigon while fighting from the 101st Airborne Division The North Vietnamese at This news service, the first chester Sears - Roebuck continued in Hue and other tarr to the northern sector “ to be tacked a Marine company hold in the field since World War store and the robbery of a gets of the Communist offensive prepared for any contingency.” ing Hill 861A with Bangalore I, combines the editorial ef Caldor Department store in against South Vietnamese ciUes. Since the first of the year, the torpedoes, explosive charges forts of The Times, the larg Brookfield in December Police reported about 400 Viet U.S. Command haa shifted and bazooka-type rockets. The est and most influential 1966. Cong overran a police substa about 18,000 Army troops to the hill is a bald patch of scarred newspaper in the West, and Leslie W. Feldman, 32, of tion in Saigon after nightfall and earth that dominates the north The Post, the leading news Jamaica, N. Y,, was arraigned launched a heavy assault on a western approach to the Khe paper In the nation’s capital. in East Hairtford Circuit Court main police precinct in the city. Sanh Marine base three miles Since its inception in 1962, the 12 today on charges of receiv away. Times/Post Service has been l^i- The attacks came after allied ing stolen goods and larceny in officials reported the Commu Bulletin AP correspondent John T.

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