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NASHUA, NEVf HAMPSHIRE TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1968

VOL. 100 NO. 22

Club Will Help Board Recruit City Teachers

The Nashua College Club has volunteered to work with the Board of Education toward the recruitment of hew teachers. Meeting last night, the school board endorsed this proposal. Superintendent of Schools Edmund M. Keefe will meet with Mrs. John Eresian, chairman of the school support committee of the club, to work out the details and implement the plan. Plan Career Day secondary school level, at a open : -The club indicated it was meeting for parents and friends in the High School cafeteria. willing to print a brochure about Meete Administrators . :the city and Nashua schools and The following night at 7, he will to implement a "career day." Seniors majoring in education meet with the school board, senior and junior high school adwill be invited to the Gale City and will spend the day learning ministrators, and the science faculty to discuss how Nashua about the system and visiting schools fit into the general science the schools. -The school calendar was sub- picture. There were 14 cases of contamitted and approved. Public schools will open Sept. 4 and will gious diseases in the.past month close June IS. As was the case reported by Dr. John Fontana, during the last term, three storm chairman of the health committee. They include: scarlet fever, , .days will be allowed which, if not used, will boost graduation to 1; contact of scarlet fever, 2; measles, S; chicken pox, 5; and June 13. Marco Sheer, head of the Na- strep throat, 1. Seven new teachers were added ihua High school science departbeginning in September. They are ment, submitted the schedule of a visiting scientist, Dr. Stephen David Cbleman.Therese R. Leon, S. Winter, a professor at the Uni- ard and Ann Marie Monahan, secondary level; Margaret A. Barversity of Buffalo, N. Y., who will rett, Janet Demers, and Donna be at the school April 1-3. Monday night at 7:30, Dr. Win- Jean Howe, elementary; and Wit ter will discuss trends in science merlee E. Kndlay, elementary education with emphasis on the music.

419 of Enemy Killed

U.S. Troops. - Halt i -, Big Red Attacks

By GEORGE ESPER

SAIGON (AP) About 1,000 North Vietnamese troops attacked a U.S. artillery base in the central highlands in human wave assaults today and overran one gun position in the heaviest fighting there in four months.
Driven Back The North Vietnamese, armed with flame throwers and rocket-propelled grenades, were driven back by (he 500 U.S. defenders after four hours of battle, the U.S. Command said. A spokesman said 135 North Vietnamese troops and 19 Americans were killed and 51 Americans wounded. Near Saigon, allied forces pushed through rice paddies, and hedgerows pursuing a battered Viet Cong force that broke off a sharp 24-hour battle shortly before dawn. The Viet Cong death toll was put at 284. The U.S. Command .said 10 U.S. soldiers were killed and 71 wounded in the fighting. South Vietnamese casualties were described as light. The attack in the central highlands was launched under the cover of darkness by two or three North Vietnamese. Sattalions against an artillery, support base of the U.S.H4th Infantry Division 19 miles west of Kontum City. Headquarters said the North Vietnamese troops, operating only 20 miles from their CamboAl II

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President Johnson tells a labor audi- litical election year." The President spoke ence that his administration has built at a legislative conference of the AFLmighty foundations for American soci- CIO building and construction trades deety "and we are not going to sit by and partment in a Washington hotel. let them be torn down in a partisan, po(AP Wirephoto) >

Civil Service Officials Now Pressured To Donate to Democratic Party Dinner

Niw York Times NIWI ttrvici WASHINGTON - High Civil Service officials are b e i n g asked, in some cases with more pressure than usual even in an election year, to contribute sizable sums to a Democratic party dinner here early next month. The war in Vietnam is complicating the response of many individuals, apart from the fact that some have always found abhorrent the tradition of contributing in election years to the party in power. The pressure to. contribute, varies markedly from agency to agency. But a large number of civil servants of grade 15 or higher, whose salaries ranged from $18,400 up, have received invitations to the party dinner on April 4, either in the mail or through their agency superiors. The dinner costs $250 a plate. Join In Purchase In at least one agency, the Maritime Administration, a special meeting on the subject was held last week, at which it was indicated to the 70-odd high officials present that a contribution of $50 would be appropriate, possibly through the device of five officials joining to purchase one plate at the dinner. Versions o! the meeting differ. One participant insists that the acting administrator of t h e agency, James W. Gulick, said the senior civil servants present should consider the usefulness of keeping a "clean file," or record. Gulick vigorously denies this, saying the primary purpose of the meeting was to inform the officials of their rights. Another participant said..Gulick spoke of a "quota" for the Maritime Administration and, by implication, for the Commerce Department as a whole. Gulick also denies this. However, a senior member of another section of the Commerce Department reports that the word "quota" was used to him and that $50 was suggested as an appropriate contribution. In another agency, a top civil servant was given his invitation to the dinner with a suggestion that a contribution might help the agency's relations with Congress. In still another case, the man in question supports the war in Vietnam but his wife does not. They decided to make a contribution when they agreed that it would support the Democratic party, not President Johnson. "So far," said a subagency chief with a long career in government, "the pressure is no worse than usual in an election year, though I fear it may get worse. But three quarters of my people oppose the war. What they will decide to do, I don't know." The dinner, to take place at the Washington Hilton 'Hotel, js sponsored by the Senate and House, Democratic Campaign Committees. President :John' son, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and the Congressional Democratic leaders are to be honored guests. The official hosts are Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Ohio and Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, chairmen of the House and. Senate Campaign Committees. Invitations Sent About 12,000 invitations have been sent, an unknown number of them to senior civil servants. No.t ail top civil servants were included, for there are some 26,000 in the government of grade 15 or above, or the equivalent in specialized pay systems such as the Foreign Service and the Post Office Department. In some agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health, there has apparently been no pressure to contribute. In the Agriculture Department, as far as could be learned, the issue has been left entirely up to the individual. One high official said he had thrown his invitation in the wastebasket. But another, an active parly member, plans to attend the dinner. A similar situation apparently prevails at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, with no pressure thus far. In agencies where an amount of contribution has been suggested by high appointed officials, the Commerce Department's $50 appears to be the top. In another agency, $25 was mentioned, and in yet another it was suggested that 25 officials might want to join at $10 apiece to buy a plate. According to one report of the Maritime Administration meetIng last week, the word was conveyed that Secretary of Commerce C. R. Smith had suggested, through Robert E. Lee, assistant to the Secretary f o r Public Affairs, that $250 wai Page] crva SERVICE

dian border sanctuary, stormed the 500 American defenders and drove through a portion of the perimeter. ]' Restore Defense Four hours later, headquarters said, U.S.. infantrymen had pushed.the enemy troops back and restored their^defense line. The North Vietnamese began withdrawing toward Cambodia as dawrt broke and American reinforcements poured in. Air cavalrymen made a helicopter assault into the battle zone in an attempt to block the enemy's withdrawal. ,. , . Tactical fighter-bomfcefs and 155mm howitzers pounded 'the North Vietnamese. ' ' . It was the heaviest fighting in the central highlands since last November's 21-day battle for Dak To, 25 miles north; rif Kontum. Kontum City was hard hit bv enemy troops during the Viet Cong lunar offensive Jan. 30. U.S. 4th Division infantrymen

went into the city to'clear it out. According to intelligence reports, four North Vietnamese regimentsabout 12,000 troops threaten the Kontum City-Dak To area. The heavy /fighting near Saigon was touched off before dawn Monday when the Viet Cong attacked two South Vietnamese outposts 28 miles northwest of the capital and infiltrated the marketplace of a district town called Trang Bang and a neauby hamlet. One outpost protecting the district town was overrun. The second held. The Viet Cong also tried to block allied relief forces from two sides, attacking U.S. armored columns to the northwest and the northeast en route to reinforce the beleagured town and its sutposts. Trang Bang is the biggest district town between Saigon and U. S. TROOPS Page I

Educational Unrest Seen; Queen City Talks Bogged

MANCHESTER, N. H. (AP)- wage scale of 15,600 to $8,600 a Negotiations between the Man- year- and insisting upon a $5,600 chester School Board and the to 58,900 schedule. Manchester Teachers Associathe NBA said it did offer to tion which represents public accept a wage offer of $5,600 to school teachers have collapsed 8,601) with $250 increments plus with both sides blaming each an agreement to negotiate an increase schedule for 1969-1970. other. Claiming no action was taken The educational unrest in New on this proposal by the board's Hampshire's largest city took a turn for the worst at a three- finance-committee, the teachers hour meeting Monday night with /have returned to their original proposal. both sides hurling charges. . Evidence of the complete colWant Guarantee lapse in the mediation talks Eleven members of the school was the NEA's statement toboard in a statement claimed it day that the board should conwill be impossible to negotiate sider the possibility of schools further until there is some guarantee that progress made over not opening next September. The present pay scale is $5,B period of months will not be repudiated out of hand by Ro- 200 to $7,700. The teachers staged a one - day walkout rebert Chanin, chief legal counsel lor the National Education As- cently, calling it "professional day." sociation, for what the School Board says was no apparent Since that time, they have im-, reason. posed professional sanctions with the support of both the The board charged Chanin New Hampshire and National with rejecting a previously agreed to minimum maximum Education 'Associations.

Nashua Widow, 73, Bilked Of $1,800 in 'Fiim-Flam'

A 73-year-old. Nashua widow lost $1,800 in savings ,'to a "fjimflam" artist,! Police Chief Paul J. Tracy said today. The chief said the .woman received a phone call-from a man who said his bank was investigating one of its employes and he * I PII I

Chinese Hospitals rilled With Wounded Soldiers

HONG KONG (AP) - Red Chinese hospitals in the border province of Kwangsi are so packed with wounded North Vietnamese soldiers they are refusing to accept Chinese patients, a Hong Kong Chinese just back from Kwangsi said today. In Fusui, where he visited, he said a Chinese boy died after being temporarily refused entry to the Fusui hospital and a mob of angry residents attacked the hospital and staff members. He said several were hurt in the fight.

wanted the woman to withdrew her money. Speaks Softly After the woman had withdrawn the money, a neat, softspoken man came to her homo an() asked that the money be turned over to him for further action. The woman w~as cautioned not to say anything to'anyone for at least five days. i
The inspectors' division is working on the description of the man. "We've warned residents and bank employes here time and time again," Chief Tracy said, "but apparently some persons still ignore the warning." . He said bank employes should always make note of any large withdrawal made by an elderly p'erson and report it to bank officials or police. Similarly, elderly persons should check the same way when they receive a request of this type, he said.

Nashuans Linked to Man with Ties in Cosa Nostra

George T. Kattar, a Massachusetts financier with friends .in the Cosa Nostra, has been Identified by a Boston newspaper as president and treasurer, of North American Enterprises, Iric.i.a Nashua company: '. North American Enterprises has no office in the city and is not listed in the telephone directory. It was described yesterday as a real estate investment firm by Richard W. Leonard, a Nashua lawyer. Leonard is counsel for Leo (Buddy) Dowd Jr., 66 Concord St., who was prominently mentioned in the Boston HeraldTraveler story as an insurance broker and real estate finder for Kattar. . . .. Dowd's wife, 'Margaret, was reported In the Boston story to be a director of North American Enterprises. The Boston story, reportedly the result of, three months of investigative work, detailed the business biography of the 49year old Kattar, Including a chronology of his deals and business ventures in New Hampnhire. Included In the details of a Kattar business, deal in Maine was another Nashuan, George S. Pappagianis, New Hampshire attorney general. Pappagianis was treasurer of the D and D Holding, Inc., which controlled D and D Enterprises, a corporation founded by Dowd and a man identified as M. Frank Douglas. At the time (1962), Psppagianis was in private practice in Nashua. He did not become attorney general until February, 1966. Dowd and Douglas created D and D Enterprises when they purchased a resort hotel near Augusta, Me. The Boston newspaper reported that an Augusta lawyer, pressing a civil suit gainst Dowd and his father, Leo B. Dowd Sr., also of Nashua, and others, said he found out "that three fire insurance policies, each for triple the value of the lodge, had been placed by the senior Dowd."
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whether Kattar had a financial interest in the company. Harkaway once represented M. Frank Douglas in a civil suit brought against Douglas by one of Kattar's several finance companies. Douglas lost the suit involving $88,000. The judgment came through last December, but Kattar and Douglas had dissolved their business association long before that. One of Kattar's -Cosa Nostra connections is Michael A. Nazzaro of Revere, Mass., who is presently under indictment with Henry Tameleo, a lieutenant of Raymond Patriarca, New England Cosa Nostra boss.' Patriarca was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday in Boston after being convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. He's out on bail pending an appeal. Dowd Comments Dowd, who Is now involved In construction of a Cape Cod motel, said yesterday w h e n called at his Boston office that the "whole thing (the Boston story) is preposterous and ridiculous." He said he was considering court action against the newspaper. He also said he was in touch with his Nashua lawyer, Leonard. Leonard said y e s t e r d a y , "We've got the article under study for possible suit. A lot of facts were stretched and - much of the report is wrong. In one instance, the a r t i c l e mentions business between Kattar and Dowd in early 1961. They did not know each other at the time." Kattar's New Hampshire connections also'include, according to the Boston story, Public Safety Commissioner Robert Rhodes

of Meredith, who, the story said, "dabbles in real estate and acted as broker in the sale of a $200,000 lakeside property" last fall. Pursuit of the newspaper's investigation into "The T w o Worlds of George Kattar" led the Boston reporter to the office of Attorney General Pappagianis in Concord. After a brief exchange about a file on Kattar, which allegedly was in the attorney general's office and now reported missing, Pappagi.anis reportedly told the newsman, "Sir you are. not going to ask me anything," this ending the interview. Withholds Comment Pappagianis said last night he Page 2 NASHUANS

No Confirmation There was no way to confirm the report. . 'j Fusui is a small city on the main rail and road toute between the North V.*th?taese

capital of Hanoi and the Kwangsi provincial capital of Nanning. "Every day," the Hong Kong construction worker said, "several trains go through Fusui loaded with weapons and supplies for the North Vietnamese army. "They come back with wounded North Vietnamese. Every hospital in Kwangsi Province is filled with wounded North Vietnamese. "At first, the people (of Kwangsi) seemed to approve it as part of China's policy of helping North Vietnam in the war against America. "But when the hospitals-started turning back Chinesfc residents of. their own areas', there was opposition and bitterness and eventually bltatW against hospital autlipriUes

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Group to Aid Drug-Users Fight Habit

Hope for the drug-abuser will be the theme of the first meeting of the newly organized Dings Anonymous group in Deny Monday night at the Beaver Lake, Lodge. The session, to be held weekly at the same time and place, will begin at 8:30 and last until 10. The meeting is open to all drug users and anyone- with a drug problem. It will be a discussion session conducted by two Nashua teen-agers who have used'narcotics and will explain the dangers of over-abuse. The purpose of Drugs Anonymous is rehabilitation and education of the drug abuser. It is the first group of Us kind in this area.

Tax Inventories Rise to 13,314

A total of 13,314 property and stock-in-trade inventory sheets was mailed today by the Nashua Board ot Assessors, an increase of 562 above last year.

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Observe Greek Independence Day

A special flag-raising ceremony was held on the City Hall grounds Monday as those of Greek descent here observed that nation's independence from Turkey in 1821. Left to right: Diamond Pappathan, cantor, Church of the Annunciation; the Rev. George D. Tsoukalmj, pastor; Mayor Dennis J. Sullivan; Kathy Fokas; Cynthia Loulakis; William Fokas; George J. Pappademas, president, An.nunciation Church; Christopher Fokas; and William Polychronopoulos, .president, St. Nicholas Church. (Telegraphoto-Palmer);