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The Dally Nowe printers have called 14 work stoppages ranging up to four hours - since contracts between 10 un some and Øve of the city's ma- for newspapers etpard Thursday midnight
The 13th shutdown of opera tions in the composing room for
from midnight to 2 a.m. today Edportal employes mald the Late editions of the morning peuxpaper were published ad schewhile The main effect of the stopyige was to limit the am- ount of changes made to krep they saidi
Another work stoppal meer Ing was called for today
The announced purpose of the roccoUno la to keep the printers based on the progress of Dego-
Chief mediator Thrudore W Khurd said Monday that a "very Lense situation ' had developed [rum the work stoppages In the Dady News composing room. At the chapel meetings, Ber- trạm A. Pouvez, propdent ol Locul 6 of the Printera Union, bas criticard the publishers in
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scheral and the Daily News W particular. Powers contenda that the publishers have refused to listen to the proposal by the printers for a study of the el lects of automation.
In addition to the Dally Nowa, the newspapers involved in the 10-union negotiations tuje the New York Times, World Journal (Coupurd on Page Eighteen)
House Plans New Probe Of Red Espionage
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government bas givea up trying to forde the Commu nist party lo register as & Soviel agent, A House committee sayı It will launch & new probe of Communist captonagr
Monday's deadline passed without the government fling notice of Intention to appeal a March 3 Appellate Court decl. ulon which reversed the Com munist party's conviction on a charge of violating the Internal Security Act
A Justice Department spokes. man Indicated it was fell there 's no prospect of further sup- cosaful litigation from the gov- emment's standpoint
The court ruled that registra- ton provisions of the 1950 Me- Carran Act are "hopelemaly at odda" with constitutional guar. antens of protection against self-
An Appellate Court previously threw out & atmilar conviction of the Communist party. rubiog that the government and filled to show that a "willing volus- toçe" was sollable to register for the purty
The House Committee on Un American Activities said Mod. day alght it would begin hear- Ings on Communist espionage DeKI Thursday
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U. S. War Cost At 500 Planes, Up To 390 Fliers Dead Or Missing
Heaviest Raids In Five Months
SAIGON (AP) - U.S. WILT plates hammered North Vlet- nam Monday with the heaviest raids In five months u spokesman dlaclosed the loss of the 500th American pinne over the Communist North In two years and two months of bomb Ing.
Air Force, Navy and Marine aircraft, fying under the best weather conditions In weeks blasted storage areas, bridges, trucks and cargo bargen in 147 mimoo. It ww the heaviest attack since Nov. 4, when 155 missions were flown
The 500th plane Jost over North Vletnam www downed Sunday and the pilot won liard is missing In action. So far, about 390 American flere have been killed, captured or are missing over North Vietnam
A U.S spokesman reported that most of Monday's raids were In the southern end of North Vietnam, with some Atr Force and Navy aircraft alash Ing at targets in the Red River drita.
The aerial onslaught was sup ported by Ove 7th Fleet war ships that humuneird coastal targets In North Vietnam, pas Continued on Page Eighteen)
Berkshire Gas Wage Hike In New Contract
A { per cent wage Increase highlighted a contract accepted by 81 Berkshire Gas Co. EmT muyew yesterday at a unlon lo- cal meeting In Pittsfield
An early morning temperature reading of 18 degrees was re. Local 12325 members of the borted In the meadows, Lodge Velled Mine Workers voted w "Petroleum Corp reading# [ 1] to accept the new con tra lo nav on that
And from a lon of 3 and #
+ 61 detrova prior to a
muurment ci heme heating ccate, dropped behind those of last year Today 8,553 dogrve days was computed Ms com pared with 6,601
RožJus were is abundance and other birds were florking to feed on the lowlands, which were cov ored with surince water from the spring snow runoff
In Northampton, a Good con- trol program went into effect over the weekend and rising waters there were blamed on melting lor and so.w In the northem regions of New Eng tand. The muation was not termed critical and was torpect ed to suhside with cooler tem peratures and windy weather WMEC reported po damage to utility lines from last night
Melted precipitation in the Rs- corder gage was 3.32 and 23 local members can expect Inches of snow was recorded during March
Clear and cold weather was forecast for tonight with pussib). Trust or freezing temperatures
Wind-Whipped Brush Fire Doused In R.I.
TIVERTON, R.J. (AP) - A wind , whipped brush fire Pached within 100 feet of about Dve houses and the pcer Tiver Lon Junlor Sealer High School today before Bremen woo & 12 bour batile to control it The fire blackened about 400 4cTil of brush and amal um ber, and cificials are keeping a patrol out to watch several smouldering patches
None at the 50 fretheo who aparat the night containing the brush btr was ljund
not mascusted as life trudo stood gwad usur their pruper ty. As the Cure tame within reach of the pumpers, officials wid they were braten back. No ettorta were made to attack the source of the Atre during the night because too many med w ukl hite boca endangered, ثمت وفى OT١٠
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erett a withdrawal from the dia- trict la how otflcla), Mra War ner and Cole reported on the progresa of a special vocational survey committee, and the next meeting date was not for May bave educational specifications Approved by officials In Boston. Also mentioned briefly wta the possibility of a techajoel Institute for 3,000 students be- ing discumed for the Springfield Armory and the Impaci, U any, on projected enrollments of the voca Lomid school bere
Members again discussed with some impatience a bew vo- cslocal survey beaded Greenfield School Supt WWIIJam by R. Wright which is delaying the committee's plans to move abcod with the proposed French King Vocational School
Prosecution Calls Speck Witnesses
PEORIA, ILL (AP) - The prosecution has called two wit nesset who placed Richard Speck in the Chicago brighbor- bood where eight tuntes were murdered last, July
WILLms Martin, the trust ant state's attorney Drom Cook County, Monday reditrd the state's version of the night when an intruder bound and gagged ofght girls, thea led them off at Intervals to be slaughtered
Martin s statement was based on the story of 1Om Corazon Amurzo, 2, the exchange nurse from the Philippines who hid under a bed and was overkulted by the Xãer
Gerald Getty, Cook County public defender representing Spod, attached Mu Amura's Identification of Speck and by beled three fingerprints which the state How are Speck , us
'The theory of the defense a that Speck Is not the perpetrator of this crime," Getty, 53, said tn hus opezing statement
Getty sald that Speck rented a toom July 13 al a anaman's ino two miles from the moườm uế the murdera, and slept in the roomn the night of the slayinga (Ounonued on Page Enychloen)
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120 To 140 Reported Captives
By ROBERT TUCKMAN MIGON (AP) - After twu years and two months of alr war against North Vietnam, Lu com to the United States stood today af 500 planet lot and up to 390 flers killed, captured or missing-an Investmical of al Sonst $1 blibon
Official Ogure's place the con firmed number of ahmed th Communist captivity between 129 and 140. The number rnlan Ing Ls between 200 and 250 Many of these must be prr sumed dead
The cost of training and equipping 300 Qlers rung to more than $300 million The ay crage fler In Vietnam, nerord Ing to Alr Farve statistics, har eight years of Dying experience with 1.600 bours In the alr The cost to train and equip each one ngures out at $773,000
Added to thepe colts, the U.S. str offensive bas expeoded an aVerage of 50,000 tons of bomba mckrts and minables each month. To's la chose to the rate of alrbomne ammunition expend ed in World War If and three toDes the rote of the Kortan War. One Pentagon estimate places the cost of munitions at $2,000 m minute, around the
fitter Argument
Bitter argument rages In the United States and many other places over wheltur to Inervaur the bombings or call a halt En recent works, the bombings have been intensified-with the approval, U not on the direct order of President Johnunion
U.S. fighter bombers bave lately begun stilding at North Vietnam's industrial heartland around Hapol, pounding such previously immune targets Ml
plancy atiacier) a surlarr lo- aar misalle site and other way ... within the and Atx miles of Etal phong, North Vietnam's princ1 pal part, which In protected by a 10-mile rwdbrus in which targeta may not be hit cxorgt with ap proval from Washington
With flying wrother due to improve this month, the rakis are expected to be Intensifled, and the cost In men and money
May Go After
There is talk that U.S. pilota soon may go After the so far untouched MIG alrfields clust pred ground Hanol and ty lo wipe out North Vietnam's small air force of about 100 MER inter
Secretary of Defense Rabril S. McNamara Monday ruled out U.S. attacks on the MIG alı Held for the present tunr af least but kald this polley could changr
Only last week. a U.S Schale subcommittee arged the John son administration lo luft self tmpumed bombing runculoos and to attack what one memtxt called ' more meaningful tar geta
The subcommittee, headed by Sen. Jota Stennhi, D-Mus, al the cost has been heavy for the Mirruled gains achieved
The air ralds over North Vietnam," the subcommittee said, "buve made it more comliy for the North Vietnamnet 00 war aggression, bol if hss been through the auertdor df many American lives and alr Craft fomes extending toto bal- Loom of dollars "
A day parler. Setm. Edward M Komedy, W-Magt, and Jor scph $ Clark. D.PL., called lor a trial bakt so the bombach. Other senatora have urged i permanent halt In the air raida Ag set forth by President Johnson the objectives of the bombings are to cut the flow of meb and supplies from North Vietnam to Communial forces In South Vietnam and lo preMure (Coobrud on Page Eighteen)
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Fair, cool toalghi, low ta the W's: Wednesday talr
d strike of mall- 2% has been side m war so sign ofשה today in ballonal ia. Involving Tram- arnadcast hrwsmco lo the turbulent na+ For *ovar was a threat Wwpapr, Ytakı in New here policy and iJemen ate ismand ne teller
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Je Monday aff ron in Chica to that a anion spokesman sald ramal any strike Ihrrat In the near future
U.S. Dist, Judge Richard B Auslin, who Last Friday issued a temporary restraining order burring & strike, approved the pact
Robert Sanford. the union spolummap, said the railroads agreed to continue paying #23 4 month per employe to Travelera Insuraber Co. for beneta San lord wald the unlon would with draw Ils strike authorteation and both parties will ask Judge
wide walkout by some of their 150,000 workers, broke off nego- UnUlosa Monday to attend a fu neral In Chicago today for John T O'Brien, A Birat vice presi dept of the onion
Talks were expected to re- summe Wedne day, with no strike call before then - athough the Teamsters membership (Continued on Poste Eighteen)
Sunday morning on the on traci. . anion spokraman ported
Effective yesterday employts of the ras company odflock to Greenfield, Pittsfield and North Adams will receive in addition to the wage increase 4 rodur- Bon cf 50 nents # werk ln in surance patry and an Increase frem $20 to $25 a day on dally hospitalization costs.
Undoa members will also re octve 70 days of coverage 'n Instead of 31 and time-and-a-half pay fer werking a pald hollday Servicemen will receive an adjustment of three cents an beur, Improvements In emer gency call pay and nutomatie advancement. A Job security clause has been added for all employes
Effective April 1, 1968, . the another 4 per cent wage in crease, an Increase la Wie In summnor and a four-tek voci- Lon after 20 year
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British Foreigh See bergs Brown Jobingty tells Hobert H. Humphrey don't pick her up by her ears" Là the vice president greb Mr. Brown a pri deg Jenale ta Landon. The Inridrott took plare le the mes left Carlton s Garden after aleading . working lunch. Bandage on Humphrey . right arm bo for a broken wrhd Metteted buat meats Las fal ta his Washington heme. -A Wrepbote
RISING RIVER WATER fill in Sfohawk Meadows lowlands and pushes towards high land of first fairway Ly foreground, AHe h & balt mlle wert of Deerfield River's confluence with the Cooperticut. - Recorder Photo by Dalgle.
Winter Roars Back
Wednesday was expected to be Lair and Warmner
Rowe brooks, roaring yaller day when the temperature was high, slowed down to normal during the night when the temn perature dipped to 20
Today, the temperature had reached 30 by 9 m.m The strong wind of yesterday had dijop- prared and It was a calm sun ny day Bauchbirds have returned to the bousrs herr, earlier than they Ad laat yrer, it was reported
14 Inds he wied around Frank Jin County last night, atupping InDW savagely acrom mocdowil and hills. A whlte covering presed early fiets this morn ing with a warning that spring Like weather had takeo a back
The Chanveticut Rher hai ruched freshest stage at 61,000 "zbic feet per second af Turner s Falls dar According to West .n Masa Electric Co. Detlocals the waters would probably crest Today as cold weather moved alo the región
State May Not Approve Graduate Voke Program
Graduate programa In the 13th and 16th war will phubob- ly not be approved for future vocational school programs, a the advised French King Regional Vacation. al Schoul Con nitter last i cht Rolland Duval of the state Department of Education said port high school programs lead ng to associate degrees wil un doubledly be Incorporated In the curriculums of state com musity colleges. There probably be areas where pont high school programs may be offered that are col designed for degree work and are more general than the college level programs
Vocatomi schools for in- stanre, may have data proces aing courses for boys and girls looking for jobs in automatico but for those Interested in be- coming a systems analyst they would take a two-year college course, Duval sald. He noted the state has not established policy la this ten, bơi guió thừa has been the philosophy in re- Viewing the role of the com munity colleges
During reorganizatin of the French King Committee, Mrs. Mary E. Warner of Sunderland was reelected chairman and James L. Hanley of Greenfield and Alvin Cole of Athol were elected first and second vice chairmen, respectively. John Schutz of Shelburne was re elected secretary-treasurer La other business last olgbt Supt. Paul Wilbur reported Lev-
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Siroskey Leaving Leverett Board After Nine Years
LEVERETT Selectman John Siroskey announced today he will not be a candidate for reelection as selectmen next month when his term expires. After serving nine years on the board, five years as chairman, he said, he would like someone else to get the experience.
"I've enjoyed the post very much," Siroskey commented, "but I feel that because of in- creased pressure and demands of my job; I'd like a little more time for relaxing .... a lit- tle more time for projects at home. There are some things I started nine years ago that I'd like to finish up."
"Selectman is a very time consuming job-and I feel ob- ligated to be on call 24-hours-a- day. My wife, Celia has been very patient with me .... some of the time I am attending meetings on town businesses un -: til 11 or 12 p.m. on nights that she might have liked doing something too."
"I've lived here 40 years," the selectman said. "I like the town and I am interested in the town. I feel the time I've giv- en, I've owed to the town. But it is now time to get someone new, someone else who is in- terested in the town to take a whack at the job!"
Siroskey lives on Number Six Road in East Leverett. He has two daughters at home and one in San Francisco.
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O'Brien Has An Idea
Postal Change Proposed
By JOHN W. BEXXLEE
WASHINGTON (AP) - Post master General Laurence F O"Brien wants ble job abolished and the trouble-ridden postal system placed under a nonprofit government corporation
O'Brien, who said last month the Post Office Department was In @ race with catastrophe, would like to turn his track ahora over to a professional ex- ecutive heading a corporate- like government agency
The plan, disclosed Monday at n meeting of the Magazine Pub- Ushers Association, caught Con- gre and the portal employe organizations by surprise Only cautious comments were forth coming.
Nice Picture
"He s chown us a nice picture of o house, but before we make A down payment I want to see the blueprints," said E. C. Hall beck, head of the United Fed eration of Postal Clerks
O'Brien gave few details In hts tall and department officers were Just as skimpy with them but it appeared he bad some- thing like the Tennessee Valley Authority in mind for the postnl operation A board of directorl appoloted by the President and confirmed by the Senate would select a management expert to rua the system
Where that would leave Con great, which sow acts as the board of directors, was pol clear It Is certain to take a tong, hard look of the proposal The Post Office Department luu been operating In pretty much the same way since An- drew Jackson's administration In. 129. A traction that old La hard to change
However, O'Brien, a confi- dent, capable Irishman used to succCM, sectns determined In revamp the department. Even 11 hir public corporation plan falls through, be has a major mod , eralzation program under way and Is studying several plans that call for voluntary euforia by business and lodividunis to case the mallman's load.
Onn Poudbility
One possibility would be to have secretaries in some areas pick up the office mall on their way to work
Other studies are looking at possibility of requiring
standardized envelope sizes and qaing chartered cargo planes exclusively for mail
The search for a better way lo deliver the mall Is something new for the Post Office which has generally tried to solve Its problemas with more money and more people Now employment La up to 700,000 abd the budget to $6.3 blibon while the prob lems ate worse than ever
But if the department onn be faulted for Its inettention to the passing times, its major prob- lems are tardly of Its own mak Ing It has responsibility for running n vast, complex bust Dres without any control over the volume it handles, the reve- Que it gets or the wages it pays It Is bedged in by legal restrie- tions that control Its use of man power and transportation faell Itles
Transportation Syidem It's 10te trying to run thọ world's bleret transportation system with one hand Led be- sind your back," says William J Hartigan, a former airline cargo specialist whose Job Es fitting Into the modern era a mall transportation system geared to the railroads
In the last 20 years, while mall volume has doubled, the number of mall-carrying trains has dwindjed from 10,000 to 800 But most domestic mal sti moves by rall and Hartigan says laws favoring the rafroads deny him the flexibility needed lo fashion a more efficient, cheaper system
Use of the mails bas reached staggering proportions in the United States. An estimated 80 milijon phou will course through the system this year, more than Is handled by the rest of the world's post offices com hined. Four of Ove pleces are business mall.
Critics luce to point 10 Lbe quicker mail service avallable In most other countries, but the enoriaity of the U.S. volume and the distances It has to be deils ered make comparisons invalld. In Great Britain, a total volume last year was 11 billion pieces; In France, 9 billion, In Japan, 6.6 billion. Four U.S. cities - New York, Chicago, Los An- geles And Washington - match the total British volume Nearly every other country
At The State House
Hard Of Hearing School In This Area Proposed
BOSTON (AP) - The parents of a deaf youngster la Chicopee have made a plea for a proposal . to bulid = school for hard of / "hearing children in Western Mas-
A 30 minute speech course Is not rublolent," Armand Guertin of Chicoper told the legislative Education Committee Monday. · My son needs more than that
"What we are looking for La education 60 that these young aters who suffer from hearing logs will be given the opportuni ty to get a start in life,“
Muis Anita Nourge, executive director of the Springfield Hear Ing and Sprech Center, said. "The program for deaf childres In Springfield Is very Inadequate
These children need to be taught to speak for a full day every day and not just ø hall boul A week
The Testim my' was on a bill by Rep John P OBren, D. Springfield, to bave the Educa tion Department set up the cơn ter.
Sep. Mary Lo Fonseca, D-Fall River, committee chairman, sold similar billa bave been reported Lavorably in the past, "but they have become lost In the branches of the legislature."
Seo. Kevin B. Harrington, D. Salem, urged the committee to approve his bill to set up a cen ter In Boston for speech and bring duorders, but asked to have it held up anti several changos can be draft
He said the center would la clude an elementary school to replace "the physically outmod ed Horace Mann acbool for the doal.
Saken Tax Exetuptions BOSTON (API -- Farm group have angru the legislative Tax stop Commettre to approve a tuil defining agtir ultura) produc bon under the ques tax law There & much confusion 55 to what is tud and what we tot Nurth Brookfekl, speaking for the Massachuletts Farm Su
Crou contraded the cranberry toitustry s puzzled wtry the pumps il needs for Turation Me extrupt from the sales tax bụt the papai through which the water homa are taxed.
Kab Lowe Stoughton mtak €18 4h the state alt at # cont disadvantage with farmen of ofrer stalay because of the tax at feed.
BOSTON IAP Aute Audit or Thaddeus Buch has soured operaty At the Incume Tax Bureau in the Department of Ing it has failed to culket 42
IT Guy J Rizz tto Mud Buczko auti report curred the )nur ended wur Sopl 21, and dat nút rudeet changes since bxa. Buczko contesded x'me em
playura hive" not transmitted withheld taxes aince the start of withholding in 1958, and that one firm owes $14,415
Rizzotto said the $14.415 was owe by a company that went bankrupt, and the state has sub- mitted its proof of share in the assets, but must await court ec. too to get the money. He said It was part of $500,000 owed the state but tled up in bankruptcy proceedings
The commissioner sald also that since the report, $1.2 mll- Hon owed has been collected. and the Appellate Tex Board ruled that $1.5 million was wrongly a cesed against a com- pany the merged with another
Senate Hours
BOSTON (AP) - The state Senate will extend its bours to handle a food of bills coming out of committee for action. Beginning next week the Sen- ale will meet at 1 p.m. Instead of 1 p.m. Monday through Wednesdays.
combines its postal service with telephone and telegraph service In a communications ministry. making up the nearly universal postal losses with profits from the other operations. O'Brien looked at the European systems last fall and may have gotten the Idea for a public corporation trom England, which Im In the process of setting up something similar
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