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V.LATIIF.H TODAY ratr, Cold -h. 13; Low. 8 in! hi, 1 'i Yesterday High, 13; Low, 3 "Yhcre the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty" Cor. 3-7 VOL Go, NO. 214 FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 10G8 G33-1240 lOe rs I ri i 0 CfU 1 rM Ln Mfl imwiMmm 'wA 'T1 OJ 0 Cro) oosiers Face New Sub Zero Siege How To Be A Good Skate Rusk Refuses To Say Offer Is Propaganda Midwest Blasted By Deep-Freeze Winds And Snow 1 FROM AP AND UPI Washington Secretary of State Dean Rusk said yesterday the United States is trying to determine whether the new talk from North Vietnam raises possibilities for a peaceful settlement of the war.

Already numbed by plunging temperatures, Hoo-siers will continue to struggle today with bitter cold. The Weather Bureau said high temperatures in Indiana today will range from 10 to 18 degrees after last night's sub-zero temperatures. k- -3 5, 1 dfc-iL-- Hanoi, ready to talk peace, may have ulterior motives, says Michael Padev, Star's foreign editor Page 9. clear out. In other words they may refuse to negotiate a detailed settlement taking into account American and South Vietnamese as well as North Vietnamese considerations.

In Washington Rusk suggested too that Hanoi could Turn to Page 16, Column 1 grees about 9 p.m., the Weather Bureau said. It was as low as 2-below early yesterday in other parts of the state, including Lafayette and South Bend. Lows tonight were expected to range from near zero in the north to the low teens in the south, the Weather Bureau said. THE NUMBING temperatures were compounded by icy winds which had gusts of more than 20 miles an hour yesterday afternoon in Indianapolis. The high in the Hoosier capital yesterday was 15 tin.

.1 Retreating Reds Hammered By U.S. Guns, Jets Hoosiers could take some consolation in the fact that 10 snow or other precipitation was forecast for most of the State. THE WEATHER Bureau said snow flurries or possibly heavy snowfall may hit the northern part of Indiana near Lake Michigan. In Indianapolis yesterday the mercury dipped to 3 de- Hoosiers Hit Southern Cal With Flu Bus The Hoosiers may finally drop O. J.

Simpson and the University of Southern California football team with an Asian flu virus that traveled to Pasadena with the 20,000 fans who followed the Indiana University football team. Public health authorities report that the Asian flu virus, a major misery in the eastern half of the United States, had not reached the West Coast prior to the Rose Bowl, according to recent reports. BUT IT is almost a certainty that the virus was carried west by some of the Hoosiers who went to the Rose Bowl and mingled with the Cali-fornians. The Asian flu has become an epidemic in Indiana, according to the Indiana State Board of Health. Its most serious results, absenteeism, forced a Crown Point junior high school to close a week early for the Christmas vacation and has cut attendance by about one-third at Culver Military Academy classes.

NO SERIOUS cases of absenteeism have been reported locally, yet. The inevitable Asian flu epidemics occur in two-year cycles. The peak of this cycle is expected in February. Health authorities recommend flu immunizations only for the elderly and the chronically ill, particularly those with chronic heart and respiratory problems. The rest of us are advised to accept fate.

The William A. Simmons family at 38 South Hawthorne Lane have fashioned a skating rink in the back yard and feed it fresh coats of water from a hose hooked up in an inclosed back porch. Aiming the water through a "knothole" are Catherine Simmons, 12 years old, and her sister, Anna Marie, 5, while the family's 130-pound pet St. Bernard, "Brunhilda" eyes the spray (arrow). The family's budding figure skater, Germaine, 10, cuts a fancy figure during a practice session.

(Star Photos by William A. Oates) "I cannot tell you today whether there is a change or not" in Hanoi's previously tough line against peace negotiations," Rusk told a news conference. But he refused to rule out the possibility of a genuine peace feeler from the Reds, saying: "It would be premature for me to brush this aside as purely a propaganda play." Qualified diplomats in London said they were mystified by what appeared to be a sudden Hanoi peace offensive. They said both the timing of the feeler and its scope were puzzling and warned it might be a gimmick to embarrass the United States. The peace feelers conflict with the Communists' well known tough line policy stand and with an appeal from President Ho Chi Minh only a week ago for an intensified fight against the United States.

Unless the purported willingness of the Hanoi regime to start talks when American bombing is halted represents a major policy reversal by the Communists, the move could be a gimmick designed to cause considerable political embarrassment to the United States, the diplomats said. All. attempts to date to elicit clarification from Hanoi of its offer to talk have so far produced no response. Taken at its face value the diplomats said, the conditional offer to negotiate covers a multitude of possibilities. The Communists may mean business because they see no chance of ultimate success any longer in their current fight.

Alternatively, they may want to drag the United States to the conference table, after having secured a halt to the fighting, to present Washington with terms for its speedy withdrawal altogether from Vietnam, the informants said. DIPLOMATS frankly feared that behind the offer may hide a plan to get Americans first to end their military activities and then tell them at the conference table they must The Weather Joe Crow Says: Those young Swedes who pelted an official U.S. delegation with garbage must be a bunch of rotten eggs. Indiana Generally fair today with snow flurries ending early near Lake Michigan. Highs 10 to 18.

Lows in the morning from 4 to 10 below north and 5 below to 15 above south. Not so cold tonight. Indianapolis Fair and cold today. Variable cloudiness and not as cold tonight. Chance of snow flurries and turning colder again tomorrow.

TV-Radio 21, 37 Uncle Ray Weather Women's Pages 28 21 6-8 Sports Results. Want Ads 633-1200 633-1212 Scuttling Of 30 Street Jobs Proposed In Big Shakeup (AP Wlrephoto) DEAN RUSK Holds Press Conference ground assaults that in some cases carried them through American perimeters for close-quarter fighting. A prisoner told his interrogators that about 1,000 men of the 21st Regiment moved from the mountains early in the week into positions for the attacks. That would have been Turn to Page 24, Column 1 Facelifting For Indiana Avenue Seen By MICHAEL J. QUINN Plans are being formed to rejuvenate businesses and homes on Indiana Avenue with the possibility of creating a "Bourbon Street" type entertainment and shop section, it was learned yesterday.

Representatives of business, government and civic organizations met yesterday for the first time to discuss the project, "Operation Avenue," which was proposed by officials of the Marion County Extension Service. MRS. JEAN P. SPEARS, home economics specialist with the extension service, said all businessmen on Indiana Avenue will be asked to attend a second meeting Jan. 12.

Mrs. Spears said the extension service hopes to turn development of the project over to the businessmen and residents but will co-operate with them. "Everything depends on the businessmen," She said, adding "if they don't want it then that's it." THE GROUP at yesterday's meeting, which included James Morris, projects director for Mayor Richard G. Lugar, voiced enthusiasm for the undertaking. Several methods of upgrad ing the area were discussed at the "idea session" including the formation of block clubs by the Indianapolis Citizens Forum.

Elmo G. Coney, a representative of that award-winning agency attended the gathering and pledged support for the project. The objectives of the opera-Turn to Page 16, Column 2 Star State ltvport Pag fit 12, IT, 25, 26, and 37 Although temperatures were miserable yesterday, at least Hoosiers enjoyed generally safe driving conditions. This was not the case in the upper Midwest where heavy, drifting snows blocked roads in western Great Lakes snowbelt communities and the mercury plunged to as low as 46-below. Warroad, on the northern Minnesota border, had a -46 reading.

Twelve-mile-an-hour winds managed to give the community's 1,300 residents the same effect as 79-below. THAT FIGURE was compiled from a United States Army wind-chill chart. The Army system utilizes temperatures and the loss of body heat resulting from winds of varying velocities. For example in the Twin Cities it was 19 degrees below zero about 9 a.m. yesterday.

With 21 mile an hour northwest winds, Minneapolis-St. Paul residents were put in a "deep freeze" equivalent to 68 degrees below zero. The frozen bodies of two men were found near roads in sparsely settled rural areas in northwestern Minnesota. THE FROZEN body of a man also was found in North Dakota where temperatures dropped as low as 41 -below. Despite the severe cold, most schools remained open, most work continued and a good many weather wise motorists got started with the help of motor-warming devices.

But tow operators faced an avalanche of calls for help. Schools were forced to close in upper Michigan's "Copper Country" after a strike by Turn to Page 24, Columns being sent into the field during those hours. It is made up of policemen working hours in addition to their regular duty periods. 3 Six additional detectives will be riding in cars with the uniform division to beef up investigative procedures. The changes were viewed as Veza's opening salvo in his campaign to retain the chief's job in view of a public statement by Mayor Richard G.

Lugar that he would keep Veza if the chief decreased crime in the city. VEZA SAID he was striving for "more direct supervision" of men in the field and more co-operation between uniform and detective divisions. Deputy Chief Orville K. Gleich of the Inspection and Training Division, Deputy Chief Raymond A. Koers of Saigon (AP) United States artillery, mortars and bombers hammered yesterday at scattered elements of two North Vietnamese regiments in the rice-rich Que Son Valley to cap a victory won in part by advance knowledge of the enemy's battle plan.

Eight-engine B-52 Strato-fortresses loosed tons of ex plosives on a mountain range overlooking the valley, 350 miles northeast of Saigon, in an attempt to catch Red regulars either withdrawing from frustrated attacks on three base camps of the U.S. Amer-ical Division or moving in to try again. OFFICERS SAID American forces killed at least 281 of the enemy in repulsing a Red offensive launched early Wednesday against the camps Landing Zones Ross, Leslie and West in the valley, about 20 miles south of Da Nang. American losses were listed as 26 killed and 149 wounded. In the political field, South Vietnam's House of Representatives voted to oppose both recognition of the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front and any coalition government in which the Communists would be represented.

With 82 of the 136 members on hand, a resolution reflecting suspicion of U.S. policy was adopted unanimously. THE ACTION resulted from a suggestion of President Johnson in his television interview Dec. 19 that Saigon government officials meet informally with representatives of the liberation front. The resolution said the Vietnamese can decide their country's fate and the House opposes "any form of false peace." North Vietnamese gunners shot down five helicopters during the two-day action in the Que Son Valley, the heaviest in a series of engagements across the five northern provinces making up South Vietnam's 1st Corps area.

Officers said American troops were fully prepared for the enemy drive because the plans had been found on the body of a North Vietnamese regimental commander killed Dec. 8. HOWITZER muzzles were depressed to fire, like massive shotguns, at point-blank range. Perhaps unaware of the leak, the Red high command detailed Hanoi's 3d and 21st regiments for the drive. At full strength they might total 5,000 men.

The North Vietnamese attacked with rockets and mortars, then followed up with City Engineering Department, is designed to prevent theft or misuse of city materials and equipment. Cook said he will conduct random, unannounced quality-control tests on street materials using the testing facilities of the engineering department's laboratory. The street department has not tested any material in the laboratory for more than two years, according to city engineering officials. Cook said he will reduce the number of street department employes from 442 to 412. This will leave the department with $50,000 in unspent salary funds which can be used elsewhere, Cook said.

Cook's plan calls for eliminating the post of concrete superintendent, which was held by Richard L. Stern father of former City Street Commissioner Richard L. Turn to Page 24, Column 6 Bigger Night Patrols Set For War On City Crime the Indianapolis Board of Public Works. He will present it to the board formally at its regular meeting next Thursday. The reorganization includes reclassification street department job categories and salary changes in many positions.

These changes will require City Council approval and Cook will work with Arthur H. Northrup, works board attorney, in preparing an ordinance. Thomas C. Hasbrook, City Council president, said yesterday he is in favor of the reorganization. Cook said a prime reason for the reorganization proposal is that many employes in the department are listed in job categories for which they are not qualified.

FOR EXAMPLE, one woman clerical employe and a laborer who doesn't have a chauffeur's license both are listed as truck drivers in departmental records, Cook said. Cook said he plans to institute a system of work orders which employes will have to fill out before they take out equipment and materials on a job. The system, which would be similar to one in use in the TODAY'S CHUCKLE Husband, watching television, to his wife: "Talk about old movies! In this picture Elizabeth Taylor likes horses!" By JOHN S. MASON Assistant Street Commissioner John A. Cook yesterday unveiled a City Street Department reorganization plan which calls for elimination of 30 jobs, wide-ranging administrative shifts and rigid controls over quality and use of street materials.

Cook outlined his plan to Investigation Division, Capt. Henry J. Wolff of the Vice Branch and Lt. Richard A. Jones of the Narcotics Bureau were the top brass shifted from inside, day jobs to night field duty.

Veza, himself, also started working the night shift last night. VEZA SAID tabulation by the Planning and Research branch shows 65 per cent of all Indianapolis crime occurs between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. Until now, the police force has been evenly divided, with only a third of the department working during the high crime hours. Veza also announced some smaller changes, including posting of pictures of 25 known burglars and larcenists in the roll-call room of headquarters and improve in the communications branch.

Inside Today's Star News Summary On Page 3 By THOMAS R. KEATING Sweeping changes in the police department in a move to concentrate manpower when most crime occurs at night were made yesterday by Police Chief Daniel T. Veza. Chief Veza announced the changes following a 2 '2 -hour meeting with top officers of the department on the third floor of police headquarters in the City-County Building. Major changes, to go into effect immediately, are: ITop officers are being taken out of headquarters duty and sent into the field as supervisors.

Their working hours also were changed from day hours to 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. shifts, the hours in which most crimes are committed. A special 25-man task force drawing overtime pay it Amusements Bridge Collins Comics Crossword 29 28 46 30 28 Editorials 22 Financial Pages 34, 35 Food 7 Sports 31-33 The Star's Telephone Numbers Main Office Circulation 633-1240 633-9211.