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BSE May Avoid Primaries for Conmntion Fight By DAVID S. BRODER i The Washington Poet WASHINGTON There were strong hints Tuesday that Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey would bypass the presidential primaries in hopes that Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy could win enough of them to prevent a bandwagon for Sen.

Robert F. Kennedy. That would set the stage for a three-way fight at the Democratic convention in Chicago, in which Humphrey's southern and labor support and the behind-the-scenes backing of President Johnson his supporters count on receiving could be brought to bear. And in a showdown, Humphrey strategists believe McCarthy would swing his votes to his fetlow-Minnesotan rather than to Kennedy. The major development Tuesday from Humphrey's viewpoint was the action of the Texas Democratic Executive Committee in endorsing retiring Gov.

John B. Connally as the favorite- son candidate of the 104-vote delegation. Both liberal and conservative leaders in Mr. Johnson's home state interpreted the move as a holding action for Humphrey. There were indications that other southern and border states opposed to Kennedy's candidacy would follow the Texas example, using either Connally or some local political figure as their favorite-son.

The delaying tactic fit well with Humphrey's own reported decision to make no overt move toward taking on Kennedy and McCarthy until he had a chance to assess his chances of success. There were scattered endorsements for the potential rivals. Sen. Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland and Rep.

Frank Thompson of New Jersey came out for Kennedy. Reps. Roman Pucinski of Illinois and Clarence Long of Maryland countered for Humphrey. But. for the most part, key Democratic leaders were sitting tight and waiting for some pattern to emerge from the confusion created by President Johnson's surprise announcement Sunday night that he would not run again.

The Democratic National Committee, getting into the slow down spirit, postponed regional campaign conferences that had been scheduled for this weekend in Newark, N.J., and for April 28-27 in Portland, Ore. Humphrey, who returned late Monday night from a diplomatic mission to Mexico City, told staff members eager to have him enter the race that they should remember he is not a candi-, date yet. The vice president himself began phoning key Democratic leaders around the country to get their evaluation of the situation. An associate said Humphrey's inclination was to run only if he seemed likely to be able both to win the nomination and unite the party. Some Humphrey advisors question whether he can overtake the early lead they believe Kennedy has established in the race.

Others, however, think Humphrey could well emerge as the convention choice if McCarthy defeats Kennedy in one or more of the primaries coming up in the next two months. McCarthy and Kennedy are scheduled to clash in Indiana on May 7, Nebraska on May 14, Oregon on May 28 and California on June 4. Humphrey's name has hot been entered in any of those states. He could campaign in them, however, by seeking votes for Mr. Johnson's name, listed in Nebraska and Oregon, or for pro-administration stand-in candidates who have filed in Indiana and California.

But Humphrey aides said they thought it likely he would bypass the primaries entirely, even at the risk that a Kennedy sweep might propel the New Yorker into tne nomination. Recalling that Humphrey had lost to John Kennedy in the 1960 Wisconsin and West Virginia primaries, they speculated that he would not choose to travel that route again. Additionally, the Humphrey men noted that his support lies chiefly in the nonprimary states and among the so-called "power brokers" of the Democratic, party and organized labor. Tuesday's action in Texas was interpreted as a major boost to Humphrey from the President's home state and a possible augury of a Humphrey-Connally ticket. See Humphrey, Pg.

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Srrvri by: Attnciatcd Prci(, United Pri International, Th New York Timet and Loi Angelei Timet Washington Pott Newt Service! ONE HUNDRED THIRTEENTH YEAR LANSING EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1968 92 Pages Ho Ready to Talk With Hanoi Wants to Discuss Bombing Halt in North 7 yJ, A Mi 7r- 0 PRICE TEN CENTS nam to enter into negotiations to end the war. While there was no announcement that some North Vietnamese forces had been pulled back after President Johnson's latest peace bid, U.S. and South Vietnamese troops met no resistance in a drive to lift the North Vietnamese siege for the Marine base at Khe Sanh, according to the American command in Saigon. PLANE DOWNED As this drive, which kicked off Monday, was announced informed sources said that a Cambodian navy boat shot down a U.S. Navy plane on pa-' trol off the west coast of South Vietnam.

The patrol boat was looking for gun-running Viet Cong trawlers in the Gulf of Siam. Its 10-man crew was missing. The lack of resistance on the road to Khe Sanh and three" dajs of inactivity elsewhere pu2zled U.S.. officers, who pointed out this had happened before. One senior U.S.

officer said it was too early to tell whether the enemy was de-escalating in response to President Johnson's order curtailing the bombing of North Vietnam. In the advance on Khe Sanh, U.S. 1st Cavalry Division troopers were cooperating with Marines and South Vietnamese troops. In all, 8,000 troops were engaged in the drive. The advance is west over National Highway 9 from Ca Lu to Khe Sanh, and the relief force has covered about one-third of the distance, the report said.

Antiaircraft guns on the Cambodian ship brought down the four-engine turboprop P3B Orion Monday, the sources said. The plane was reported over an area of the Gulf of Siam where the territorial waters- of South Vietnam and Cambodia are not clearly defined, and some South Vietnamese islands are just off the Cambodian coast. The missing plane appar- See HO, Page A-4, CoL 1 Woman Victim Of Polio WASHINGTON (A P) North Vietnam said today in a broadcast monitored here it is ready to send representatives to meet with U.S. representatives to decide about an unconditional halt of the bombing of the North so that peace talks could begin. A State Department spokesman had no immediate comment on the Hanoi announcement and it was not immediately clear whether the United States would regard the North Vietnamese statement as responding to President Johnson's newest offer.

The radio broadcast came only a short time after the American command reported that GIs and S. Vietnamese encountered no resistance in a drive to lift the siege of the Marine base at Khe Sanh. not seek or accept by running ahead in two Milwaukee districts, both bulwarks of organized labor strength. His slice of victory was in districts including the predominantly Negro sections of the state's biggest city. McCarthy won a third district including some Milwaukee suburbs and carried the other 71 counties in the state.

Johnson's Sunday decision to Sen. Eugene McCarthy Victory Spurs McCarthy Drive The radio broadcast, in the Vietnamese language, said as translated here: "It is clear that the U.S. government has not correctly and fully responded to the just demand of DRV North Vietnamese government, of U.S. progressive opinion, and of world opinion. "However, on its part, the DRV government declares its readiness to send its representatives to make contact with U.S.

representatives to decide with the U.S. side the unconditional cessation of bombing and all other war acts against the DRV so that talks could begin." Johnson said Sunday night he had ordered air and naval attacks on North Vietnam stopped "except in the area north of the Demilitarized stand aside and retire from the White House turned the Wisconsin campaign into a million dollar exercise with no real contests. Presumably, Johnson could later ask the delegates he won to support an active candidate, possibly Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, who is considered a possible successor to administration candidacy. "Even though there may be Although the starting salary figure is normally used to describe a new pay plan, the salary proposal also includes procedure for annual increases and steps at several levels of education and background.

The outcome of collective bargaining which began in mid-January is expected to affect the school board's request for an operating millage in By WALTER R. MEARS MILWAUKEE. Wis. (AP) Democrat Eugene J. McCarthy, triumphant with 57 per cent of the vote in Wisconsin's prelude to battle, turned today toward Uie arenas which pose the real test of his claim that he can win the White House.

And Richard M. Nixon added His Backers in Milwaukee Johnson got 35 per cent of the vote, but he isn't running anyhow. "As you know, this is only a preliminary victor the Minnesota senator said. "We have to go on to primaries in other stales some of them perhaps more difficult than this one." For in those other states, McCarthy will be nal Revenue Service that their principal places of business are their districts, rather than Lansing. That, some members felt, would permit them to deduct Ixtnsing living expenses from their federal income tax a practice challenged in some lawmakers' cases by the IRS.

Lansing Income Tax Draws Balk in House City Teacher Pact Gets Tentative OK Zone where the continuing enemy build-up directly threat-tens allied forward positions and where movements of mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm A new record for New York Stock Exchange volume during a 60-minute period was set during the first hour of trading when 6,320,000 shares changed hands. The previous record was set Monday when first-hour volume reached 6,060,000. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 9.27 at 1:35 p.m. with the average reaching 873.23. troops and supplies are clearly related to that threat." Johnson said he had ordered the cutback in the bombing as a unilateral act by the United States to induce North Viet- a few more late entries," McCarthy said, "I don't think it will make a difference.

We now know what the contest is." He did not mention Kennedy's name, but that is the rivalry he meant. McCarthy's late entry remark was aimed not only at Humphrey, but at Kennedy, who stepped into the presiden- See MCCARTHY, Pg. A-4, Col. 4 crease to be submitted to voters May 9. APRIL 11 DEADLINE The board has until April 11 to determine the exact amount of the millage request to be listed on the May 9 ballot.

School board members and administrators discussed the See TENTATIVE, Pg. A-4, Col. 3 members from St. Casimlr, Foster, Lewton, Maple Hill and Maplewood Elementary Schools, Walter French Junior High School and Sexton High School. Attendance passed the 8,000 figure by late Tuesday evening.

Evening visitors have the opportunity to view "Talent In Action," a program reintroduced to the exhibit this year which features students from Walter French Junior High School and Everett High School demonstrating the various techniques of sculpturing. Supervising the students is Mr. Leonard Fuller, art instructor at Walter French. Schools who plan to attend the exhibit are asked to contact the Youth Talent office for special arrangements. This program is sponsored annually as a public service by The State Journal, Olds-mobile Division, and the City of Lansing Parks and Recreation Department.

at Victory Ctlebration matched against New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Nixon built a towering 80 per cent of the Republican vote to match his showing in New Hampshire's opening primary three weeks ago. He had no real opposition in either race.

The former vice president said his showing proved that Wisconsin will be in the Republican column when the White House votes are counted next Nov. 5. With 3,112 of 3,291 precincts counted, this was the Democratic picture: McCarthy 390.204 votes for 57 per cent of the party turnout; Johnson 241,866 or 35 per cent. Sen. Robert F.

Kennedy, the rival McCarthy will have to overcome if he is to be nominated, drew 6 per cent of the votes. But those were write-in votes, for his name was not on the ballot. And Kennedy had urged that people who favor him vote for McCarthy in Wisconsin. Nixon's Republican landslide read this way. with 3,094 precincts counted: Nixon 371.432, or 80 per cent: California Gov.

Ronald Reagan 48,968, for 11 per cent, habitual candidate Harold E. Stassen 27,281, or per cent. CAPTURES 30 VOTES With that victory, Nixon captured 30 Wisconsin votes at the Republican national convention. McCarthy won 17 Democratic votes with his state-wide victory, and another 32 by carrying eight congressional districts. Johnson won eight votes for the nomination he said he will Rain Due Tonight, Thursday Chances of rain in the Lansing area are 80 per cent tonight and 70 per cent Thursday, the U.S.

Wea(her Bureau reported. Weather forecasters said Lansing's low temperature tonight will be about 48 degrees and Thursday's high will be about 55. Fair and cooler weather is forecast for Friday. Lansing's low temperature this morning was 28 degrees and Tuesday's high was 61. Acknowledge Cheers From another trophy in his march toward the Republican presidential nomination.

"We have demonstrated here in Wisconsin the ability to win in November," McCarthy told his corps of youthful volunteers after he trounced retiring President Johnson Tuesday in the season's second presiden-. tial primary. Rep. Philip Pittenger, R-Lansing, would be the only House member yielding the capital city any revenue. As a resident of the city, he would pay a one per cent tax on his $12,500 legislative salary.

Should the bill pass the Senate. Sen. Harold W. Hunger-ford, R-Lansing, also would remain liable to pay the Lansing income tax. Another effect would be that lawmakers who do not live in cities levying income taxes would pay no city income tax at all on their salaries.

Those living in taxing cities would pay the full one per cent at home. A hoped-for but uncertain effect would be to help lawmakers convince the federal Inter Financial New E-7, E-S Mid-Michigan News A-14, A-15 Onlooker D-l People in the News A-S Senior Forum C-4 Sports to E-ft Sylvia Porter E-7 The Doctor Says C- Theater A-12 TV Listings A-13 Weather A-l, A-10 Stale Journal Capitol Bureau The Michigan House of Representatives has balked at the idea of paying Lansing's proposed city income tax. The House Tuesday approved, 84-7, and gave immediate effect to a bill providing that a legislator would pay no city income tax on his legislative salary unless he were a resident of the taxing city. The bill does not involve the new state income levy. One effect of the bill, which went to the Senate, would be that if the Lansing income tax already approved by city council withstands a referendum next month, lawmakers would not have to pay the one-half per cent nonresident levy.

Science Fair Evokes Favorable Reaction By MARCIA VAN NESS Journal Education Writer A tentative salary agreement affecting 1,600 local teachers was reported today between negotiators for the Lansing Schools Education As-s i a i and the Lansing School District Board of Education. A spokesman for the two groups said the current proposal, subject to formal acceptance by both organizations, provides a $6,825 starting salary for first-year teachers with B.A. degrees. Initially, the LSEA negotiators asked a $7,200 "base" salary. The school board's negotiating team submitted an initial counteroffer of $6,475.

Teachers here have been working under a three-year contract, providing a $6,100 salary, which has one year to run. Economic issues within the contract, however, are open to annual review and reconsideration. FAR-REACHING Any change in the "base" or first-year salary results in changes for all teachers tied to the pay schedule keyed to first-year figure. tentative agreement came during an all-night negotiating session which began Monday evening behind closed doors at the Lansing Public Library. Both sides worked under guidelines established by their governing groups the Lansing School District Board of Education and the board of directors of the Lansing Schools Education Association.

Inside The State Journal 55 MORE EMPLOYES Private secretaries for House members get approval. Page A-9. BETTER MOTHERHOOD GOAL Women seek re-. vival of breast feeding. Page D-2.

FLINT FLASH World record holder spruces prep relays. Page E-l. MOST STANDING FAST Only O'Brien may leave Johnson cabinet. Page E-16. Two Days Left for Registering Citv Clerk Theo Fulton today said 50.295 voters were registered for the May 9 city income tax referendum with two left before the registration rolls are closed.

Registration deadline for the special election is 8 p.m. Friday, she said. The voter total is slightly under the 51.048 registered last December before the clerk removed the names of about 1.800 voters from the lists because they had not voted in two years. Registrations jumped from 48,674 on Jan. 29 to 50.023 on March 29, an increase of 1,149 in the one-month period.

Miss Fulton said voters have been registering at a rate of about 75 to 80 a day this week. The clerk's office will accept registrations from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and stay open an extra three hours Friday evening for last-minute registrations. The record registration in Lansing was 39.100 for the 1960 presidential election.

A CHARLOTTE The Eaton County Health Department reported today polio caused the death of a young mother who died Friday in an Eaton Rapids hospital. All persons in the Tri-County area who have not received polio vaccine were urged to obtain this protection as soon as possible. The polio victim was a Springport resident, Mrs. Patricia Shepardson, 26, who worked in Eaton Rapids. Dr.

B. P. Brown, director of the health department, said a pathology department report confirmed that her death was due to polio. The department is attempt-' ing to locate all persons she had been in contact with. Even contacts who have had polio vaccine were urged to get a booster.

Vaccine is available at the health department clinic in Eaton Rapids. Mrs. Fred Towns, trator of the Tri-County March of Dimes, strongly urged air persons in the three counties who have not had polio vaccine to contact their county health See POLIO, Page A-4, CoL 1 Adult and student interest is running high in the Main Auditorium of Lansing's Civic Center this week. Young-s can be seen taking i ft ram-Mi "VSjS bulbs explode at irregular in SCMMCti tervals and if you listen closely you can FAM hear hushed conversations in almost any direction you turn. All this is part of the daily activity to be found at the 21st Annual Central Michigan Youth Talent Exhibit and Science Fair.

The show, now in its fourth day, is open to the public without admission charge and will continue through next Sunday. Viewing hours are: today through Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, noon to 9 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. Hosts and hostesses Tuesday were PTA Ann Landers D-5 Bridge Column B-2 Capitol Affairs A-9 Classified E-9 to E-1S Comics C- Crossword Puzzle C-4 Deaths A-11 East Lansing. MSU A-2 Editorials, Features A-7 Family Living D-2 to D-8 Farm News B-6, B-7.