v - ^ = \ / , ' ; ^ r "■ .J ; * « n . " ■ •’ !J ■* ,'; McCarthy Suggests Mansfield as Replacement for Rusk From Our Newt Wires WASHINGTON Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy says Secretary of State Dean Rusk should be fired and says one acceptable replacement would be Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. The Democratic presidential candidate also said yesterday that Director J. I Edgar Hoover controls the FBI as a “kind of fief’’ and should be retired. Turning to Republican Presidential candidate Richard M. Nixoil, McCarthy said it was the “old Nixon” who accused Democrats of dishonesty by promising massive and immediat^programs to aid the poor. “About the time you would like to think that Mr. Nixon has come around to speaking rather straight, you know, and using the language as he should,” the Minnesota Democrat said, “he then goes back to words like 'dishonest.' ” ’ 1 ★ ★ a . Nixon Saturday had called promises of massive anti-poverty spending a “dishonest and cruel delusion.” STILL NOT CONVINCED Despite a leading national poll which shows Nixon running ahead of all comers for the presidency, some top Republicans are still not convinced he’s a winner and are urging local party leaders to “stay loose” for Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. Nixon was in Montana today; a weekend Gallop Poll showed him beating ; all the possible Democratic nominees. The poll showed him leading both Sens, Robert F. Kennedy and Eugene J. McCarthy by 3 percentage points and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, still unannounced, by .9 points. •k k k • Despite this, Sen. Thruston B. Morton, R-Ky.^ and Wifiiahi E. Miller, both former national chairmen, have started a swing through the Midwest drumming up support for Rockefeller. Vice President Humphrey is quoted by Newsweek magazine, meanwhile, as saying Nixon will be harder to beat this year than in 1960 but that “if I get the nomination, I’ll beat him.” Humphrey is expected to announce Saturday that he wJjll seek t h e Democratic presidential nomination. Texas Gov. John B. Connally, mentioned as a potential Humphrey running mate, had high praise on NBC’s “Meet the Press” for Humphrey but said he hasn’t decided whom to support for the presidential nomination. McCarthy flew to St. Paul, Minn., after taping the television interview i n Washington and said he expects to have more than 25 per cent of the delegates at the Democratic National Convention. OTHER DEVELOPMENTS In other political developments: • Backers claim Democratic county conventions in Iowa over the weekend gave Kennedy control of a majority of state convention delegates who will select Iowa's delegates to the national nominating convention. * ★ * • Sen. George D. Aiken, R-Vt., says Kennedy., Lis, the only Democratic presidential candidate Nixon might be able to beat — but says he thinks Rockefeller could defeat any of them. \ . -k k k ■ ', • Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-fil., says he could accept the GOP vice presidential nomination if it were offered. He said the decision whether to accept would “depend on conditions” and on whom the Rep u b 1 i c a n s nominate for president. k k k • The Maine Democratic State Committee yesterday unanimously endorsed Sen. Edmund S. Mpskie as a favorite-son candidate to the Democrafic National Convention in Chicago. The Weather U.S. WMttMT Bureau Forecast Increasing Cloudiness (Dftails Pi«() THE PONTIAC PRESS SS VOL. 128 — NO. 65 * * * * PONTIAC, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, APRIL 22. 1968 —48 PAGES unitud^prem^ International 10c War Role to Level Off' NEW YORK (AP) — Secretary of Defense Clark M. Clifford said today South Vietnam’s increased fighting effectiveness will permiiih leveling off of U. S. efforts in the war and “in due time” permit graduaPtroop reduction. Clifford said his assessment was based on results of a comprehensive review of American policies and programs in Vietnam, ordered by the President after the setbacks’ of the Communists’ Tet offensive. “The results were clear and the results were encouraging,” Clifford de- clared. “They disclosed that Hanoi could not bend Sodth Vietnam to its will by military force. “We concluded that Americans will not need always to do more and more, but rather that the increased effectiveness of the South Vietnamese government and its fighting forces will now permit us to level off our effort—and in due time to begin the gradual process of reduction.” ★ ★ ★ Clifford offered no timetable on possible American troops withdrawals but top military officials including Gen. William C. Westmoreland, U. S. commander in Vietnam, and Gen. Harold K. Johnson, Army chief of staff, have raised the possibility this could begin in 1969. / UNDER WAY Reports from Saigon indicate plans already are under way to place more South Vietnamese tropps along the demilitarized zone. / Clifford’s speech" echoed the theme he raised at his first Pentagon news conference AprilLll—that the administration goal is gradually to turn over the bulk of the fighting to the South Vietnamese. Under this plan American troops might be withdrawn to certain unspecified reserve areas while South Vietnam’s mettle was tested. There are now 522,000 U. S. troops in Vietnam and the administration has set a ceiling of about 550,000 to be reached this year. Clifford said that as U. S. manpower contributions level off, military aid—including thousands of lightweight, rapid-firing M16 rifles—to South Vietnam is rising. fipierican Courier Survives Plane Crash; Gems Missing From Our News Wires WINDHOEK, South-West Africa — “My God, how could I have been so lucky?” American diplomatic courier Thomas Taylor asked rescuers who found him beside the Wreckage of a plane crash that killed 116 persons. Taylor, 36, of Tahlequah, (Mela., and five other persona survived when a South African Airways Boeing 707 smash into the arid. Southwest African yefid soon after taking off from Windhoek Airport Saturday nigtyt. The 116 other persons aboard the big aircraft died when it broke into four parts and burned. The U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, confirmed today that the American diplomatic pouch Taylor took aboard in Johannesburg was recovered Intact Sunday. Authorities still were searching for a $700,000 shipment of diamonds missing in the wreckage. The big jet had just taken off from Windhoek when it wobbled and plummeted out of sight. Pontiac Prat, Photo DEMOCRATIC DIALOGUE - U.S. Sen. Philip A. Hart (left) and George Googasian, chairman of the Oakland County Democratic committee, chat prior to a dinner in Hart's honor Saturday at Oakland University. Significantly, the men are standing in front of a painting entitled “That Political Fertility Act.” Some 000 guests paid tribute to Hart for his 11 years as a Michigan senator. Wins Bond; seball C BAGS BOND - Mrs. Contest winner's award of a brand. Her prediction of to top American League his average of .519. Elders Are Defended at OU Oakland University graduates were forewarned Saturday that they might find the older generation has done better than the younger generation has been willing to admit. OU Chancellor Durward B. Varner told this to the graduates in what he termed .a “tradition-abandoning” address. / “LCt me urge you — as new graduates — to avoid the temptation to go wading off into this exciting world through a sea of self-pity,” Varner commented. “You are inheriting not a sorry and decadent state of affairs, but an exciting and * challenging opportunity to find permanent solutions to problems which have perplexed mankind forever.” ★ * ★ The chancellor said he would make “no apologies." for his generation which the graduating generation has had an “obsession” to criticize. He said he hoped the new generation can do just as well. ‘TRADEMARKS OF TIMES’ “You say that we have permitted pockets of poverty to exist in an affluent society,” he noted. “The charge is unfortunately true and it should not be so. “Yet when I sat in your chair — those 2$ years ago—there was no concern with ‘pockets of poverty.’ The entire landscape was one of poverty . . . Bankruptcy, hunger, unemployment, hopelessness — those were the trademarks of the times.” Varner admitted his generation leaves a “depressing international scene” but that his generation was left with a bleak picture — a totalitarian regime had taken firm control of Germany, small nations were being overrun, Jews massacred, France was tottering and England threatened. ★ k k . “You say that we hand you a nation so tom with racial strife that he may 1ft-terally explode in your face," he noted. “Alas, the charge is true. ‘FOUND COURAGE’ “Permit me to point out that it was the generation which has preceded yours which found the courage to indentify the problem, to label it as a problem, to focus public attention on a topic which had been ignored for almost 100 years.” The chancellor welcomed the student to the ranks of the adult world where (Continued on Page A-2, Col. 3) 600 Hear Hart Praise Johnson BY JIM LONG President Johnson's withdrawal1 from the presidential race will be recorded by historians as “magnificent In motive and magnificent in results,” U. S. Sen. Philip A. Hart told Oakland County Democrats Saturday. k k k The praise for Johnson pame at a dinner honoring Hart, a former Oakland County resident, for his II years of service in Washington. Hart told the 400 guests that he had no doubt that the intentions of Johnson were good. The dinner was held in the Vandenberg Hall at Oakland University. Hart criticized those who now question the President’s motives and still, term him a “two-bit provincial politician or a paranoid politician.” NO QUARREL RAISED “There is and should be no quarrel about those who have raised responsible questions about Vietnam,” added Hart. “I have had my doubts but there reaches a point that It loses Its effectiveness.” Hart said that it was never rational to believe that Johnson enjoyed the position of overshadowing the Vietnam war. k k k' Highlights of the dinner were receded speeches taped by presidential candidates Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., and Eugene McCarthy, D-Mlnn , and Vice President Hubert Humphrey. . (Continued on Page A-2, Col. 4) Forecast Is Warm of Oxford receives The Press Baseball savings bond from staffer Howard Hclden-the'seven who picked the Twins' Bob Allison the contest ended Saturday, was closest to Though bikini weather isn’t on the weatherman's agenda for the next five day8, 'he is predicting temperatures will average from three' to five degrees above the normal highs of 58 to 64 degrees. The balmy temperatures will be punctuated by April showers. PACKED GRADUATION—More than 2,400 people attended Oakland. University's annual graduation Saturday. Degrees were given to 232 bachelor of arts and science and six master Precipitation probabilities in per cent are today 20, tonight 90 and tomorrow 50. The low thermometer reading in downtown Pontiac prior to 8 a.m. was 45. ’ By 2 p.m. the mercury reached 87. of arts graduates. A film on the late Mrs. Alfred G. Wilson's Meadow Brook Hall home was shown in place oif a'commence-ment address. HELDENBRAND Lightning/ struck the Oxford home of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kennedy — but the flash parked a bond instead of a bolt. The bond represented the $500 award In Today's Press Product of Year Pontiac Twp. firm’s amphibious vehicle is Chosen for M-Week competition ^ PAGE A-4. Olympics South Africa is on verge of expulsion — PAGE C-l. Britain Tory right-winger fired from “shadow cabinet” for “racialist speech” - PAGE A-18. Area News .. ......./.... A-4 Astrology ............. C-18 Bridge ............. ..... C-10 , Crossword Puzzle D-ll Comics ................ C-18 Editorials ... ...........A-8 Markets ............... D-2 Obituaries ..............B 10 Sports ............... C-l—C-4 Theaters ................ C-8 TV and Radio Programs ..D-ll Wilson, Earl ..........'..C-8 Women’s Pages ......B-l—B-5 to the winner of The Press Annual Baseball contest, which was won by Mrs. Kennedy with an assist by her husband. The 32-year-oM mother of seven Son by picking Bob Allison, Minnesota Twins outfielder, to lead the American League in batting at the' close of the contest Saturday. Because only seven contestants had picked Allison to set the pace, there was considerable disparity between his actual average of .519 and the winner’s prediction of .543. k k k But since the next closest trailed Allison’s average by 42 points, Mrs. Kennedy qualified as our Peerless Seeress, Baseball Division, for 1968. UNUSUAL To find a winner backed by/Ho few entrants is unusual. In past years, the en-tries lave bunched up on the lively and actual batting leaders—such as Tony Oliva, Frank Robinson and A1 Kaline — with the result that the winner’s average .is blanketed like London in a fog. Mrs. Kennedy modestly disclaims’any occult powers in picking her contest entry- But our Clairvoyant of Clout is firmly committed on %ne aspect of her winnings — what she’ll do with them. And that is to buy a canoe. * * $ Since the Kennedys purposefully moved put of Detroit^ four years ago to experience more fully Oakland County’s recreational advantages, it pretty well reflects their ability to paddle their own canoe. A—8 Koreans, American Killed The Communist side ignored a request for an observers’ meeting today, a U.N. THE PONTIAC PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1968 3 North SEOUL {0 — Three North Koreans and eoe American were killed yesterday in the second major dash in eight days in the U.S. sector of the Korean front. Each side accused the other of starting the battle in which three Americans were wounded. The U.N. Command demanded an investigation by a joint team of observers, as provided by the 1953 Korean armistice. spokesman said. Hie spokesman said a group of at least eight North Korean soldiers opened fire on a U.N., patrol in the 2nd US. Infantry Division area of the demilitarized zone. The patrol returned the fire and intermittent shooting went on for two hours, the spokesman said. Three of the Communist.soldiers who had crossed the military demarcation line were\ killed, but their bodies were apparently dragged back because they could not be found today, he added. A North Korean broadcast said the American force was made up of “over 50 fully armed bandits” who slipped across die demilitarized zone and attacked a Communist guard post near Daiduksan. The broadcast said “several armed bandits” were killed in the “fierce fire.” it made no mention of North Korean casualties. ★ ★ *• On Eastef Sunday south of the Pan-munjom armistice conference area, Communist ambush killed two American and two South Korean soldiers and wounded two other Americans. in Baffle Another American wais wounded Saturday while on patrol duty in the buffer zone, the U.N. Command said.'Later Saturday, a U.N. observation team investigating the shooting was fired on. ★ ★ ★ ' Five Americans have been killed and 18 wounded since Jan. 31, when a North Korean commando group invaded Seoul in an attempt to assassinate President Chung Hee Park. Telephone Strikers Defy 'Work' Orders From Our News Wires WASHINGTON - The AFL-CIO Communications Workers defied back-to-work court orders today in two state in the fifth day of the nationwide telephone strike, and said the injunctions blocked chances for an early settlement. “All hopes for a quick solution have faded,” said CWA President Joseph A. Beirne, who denounced the court orders obtained by Southern Bell Telephone Co. in Alabama and Kentucky as “preposterous” and “antiunion.” Beirne said the injunctions indicated the Bell Telephone System, and its parent American Telephone and Telegraph Co., want “to go on fighting” the strike of nearly 200,000 union members in some 40 states, instead of settling the wage dispute at the bargaining table. AT&T President Ben Gilmer reported meanwhile that telephone service in most areas was bfing maintained without undue trouble despite the first nationwide strike in 31 years. “Management people who are filling in at the switchboard are gaining experience, and customer cooperation has been most gratifying,” Gilmer said. Pickets at Bell Office Limited Circuit Court Judge William J. Beer Issued a temporary restraining order today, limiting the number of pickets at the Southfield office of Michigan Bell Telephone Co. Beer’s order set the number of pickets at 10 persons per entrance and banned picketing on telephone company property. The restrictions were requested by Michigan Bell against Local 4010, Communications Workers of America. The Southfield office had been the site of mass picketing almost since the beginning of the telephone strike last week. Beer set a show-cause hearing on the temporary injunction at 9 a.m. Friday. — UAo?* SEZ WHO? asked readers if they thought that criminals were getting off too easily. Here’s how SEZ WHO? readers voted: 71.3 per cent: Courts are too easy on criminals. 22.2 per cent: Courts deal about right with criminals. M per cent: Courts are too harsh. ★ * * TODAY’S BALLOT: Should taxpayers be taxed an additional $20 billion 1 for Negro job benefits and other programs? SHOULD TAXPAYERS BE TAXED ADDITIONALLY FOR NEGRO JOB BENEFITS? Circle only one choice: 1. No more spending Cut programs.__ ___ __________________ 1 2. Go along with present programs. 3. 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