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ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE NANA A I 0 The NMAMPOLI WEATHER TODAY Partly Cloudy, Cold High, 25; Low, 15 Yesterday High, 21; Low, 15 VOL. 66, NO. 193 TAB. 1240 "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty" 11 ifr ft 4r i I SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1968 nnnnnnnn rn YTnnrzi urz irjn Attacks New Red DMZ Positions WHITE HOUSE WINTER SCENE In Johnsons Mail Final Yule Cards N. Viets Ambush 6 Navy Gunboats On River Patrol Hoosier Officials Determined On 'Honest System' By GEORGE LINDBERG Officials administering Indiana's new vehicle inspection law say they are determined to choke off expected cheating efforts both by drivers and inspectors.

Saigon (Sunday) (UPI) American war planes and artillery struck three times into the demilitarized zone (DMZ) against North Vietnamese soldiers in newly built bunkers and fighting positions, military spokesmen said today. s- i 30 CENTS 25c Dtllnrtf costs the inspection station owner 50 cents. So he nets $2 on each inspection. Walls' staff has figured the inspection should average 20 minutes. Three inspections an hour at $2 each will produce $6.

Most Indiana garages and repair stations operate on a flat-rate sched- Turn to Page 17, Column 3 Pueblo Crew Release Seen By Dec. 31 Seoul (UPI) A South Korean newspaper said yesterday North Korea would release the 82 crewmen of the USS Pueblo by the end of the year. The Dong-a Ilbo, a daily paper, said the United States charge d'affaires in Seoul, Wade L. Lathram, had met with the South Korean vice-foreign minister, Chin Pil-Shik earlier yesterday to inform him of the "rapid progress" of negotiations over the release. THERE WAS no confir mation of the report in Washington or elsewhere.

The Pueblo, a U.S. Navy intelligence gathering vessel, was captured by North Korea last Jan. 23. The Communists said the ship had violated North Korean waters. Numerous efforts by the United States to secure the release and return of the crew have been unsuccessful.

Dong-a Ilbo, the country's largest newspaper, without quoting its sources, said Hathram had Indicated to Chin that the crew probably would be released by Dec. 31. The paper said Lathram Turn to Page 21, Column 1 Cor. 3-17 633 Ok (AP Wirephoto) Lugar said the nature of university politics well might persuade many talented faculty members and administrative staff to stay as close to Bloomington and West Lafayette as possible. Lugar described this as "reasonable conduct," but said the net result for Indianapolis will Turn to Page 18, Column 1 The Weather Joe Crow Says: Once upon a time the Post Office Department designed a Chr i a stamp that every body liked.

Indianapolis Fair to partly cloudy and a little warmer today and tonight. Tomorrow, mostly sunny and warmer. Indiana Partly cloudy and cold today with snow flurries diminishing. Additional inch or two accumulation possible near Lake Michigan. Highs today in upper teens.

Clearing and cold tonight. a JOHNSON'S LAST WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS CARD Water-Color Sketch Depicts Winter Scene From South Lawn Let I.U., Purdue In City Form University: Lugar In the south near Saigon, Communist troops firing from ambush bombarded six United States Navy gunboats with rocket and machinegun fire in an apparent attempt to break an American blockade of a river infiltration route. The series of attacks along three rivers west and northwest of the capital killed two U.S. sailors and wounded 14 others, spokesmen said. Around the capital, curfew restrictions were tightened for U.S.

troops as authorities kept in effect an alert for a possible new Communist offensive. The attacks in the buffer zone that divides North and South Vietnam were directed against Communist positions in the southern half of the six-mile-wide strip near the U. S. Marine base at Con Thien. The spokesmen, who estimated 63 North Vietnamese soldiers manned the positions, said the bombs and artillery shells smashed 20 bunkers and damaged 15 others and triggered three secondary explosions that Indicated direct hits on either ammunition stores or fuel supplies.

The Communist movements and the American strikes marked the latest in a series of incidents inside the DMZ since the beginning of the U.S. bombing halt over North Vietnam Nov. 1. The bombing and artillery strikes were made after U.S. spotter pilots reported seeing Communist troops with backpacks and rifles in the area, the spokesmen said.

AUTHORITIES TODAY also disclosed the start of two The officials' suspicions are matched by Hoosier car, truck and motorcycle owners, many of whom unconvinced the operation can be done legally or honestly will keep an eye on the inspector. The mechanics doing the inspecting, warned that drivers will try to slip faulty vehicles past them, will be extra alert. Willard L. Walls, administrator of the program for the Vehicle Inspection Board created by a 1967 law, assures that the program itself is legal and that the staff will be doing its best to keep it honest. Walls, a retired Indiana State Police captain, besides learning vall about vehicle safety and safe driving, learned there are cheats for just about any law passed.

He expects to find them in vehicle inspections. "WE LIKE to think that the tough qualifications we set for both mechanics and station owners kept the cheats and con men out," Walls said. "But we're prepared for the possibility that a few of them may have slipped past us and the background checks state police made." He won't be surprised if some show up in the program. But he hopes they're found out during January or February, while the program is in the voluntary stages, before the rush starts. Walls and his top aide, Walter W.

Cornett, have checked the experiences in 32 other states that have mandatory vehicle inspection. They think they have covered all the leaks in the laws the other states have discovered. The state-set fee is $2.50. Pennsylvania alone has a higher fee, starting at $2.50 and going up to $4 for some vehicles. Even with the fee at $2.50, Walls and his staff fear there may be some cheating.

EACH OF the stickers All new military operations just south of the DMZ one by American Marines to clear out Communist forces 14 miles south of Can Lo and the sec-Turn to Page 18, Column 3 Big Spending Urged In U.S. Cities Washington (UPI) A government commission called yesterday for changes In local governments and for massive doses of Federal funds to cure the nation's housing and urban ills. Die National Commission on Urban Problems made the recommendations in an eight-pound study which took a a year and a half to complete at a cost of $14 million. Top item on the list of recommendations from the 16 panel members was a call for construction of 500,000 units of low-income housing annually for the next 10 years, either by local governments or, as a last resort, by Federal programs. COMMISSION chairman Paul H.

Douglas said the total cost to the Federal government if all the recommendations were followed would run $7 billion a year. The former Illinois senator said the costs would include $6 billion for construction, Turn to Page 17, Column 1 by a woman employe while the men were in the house. She also was beaten, police said. THE COUPLE and their children were all ill with the flu but the wife got out of bed when she heard a noise at the back door and neighborhood dogs barking about 1:15 a.m., she said. Washington (UPI) President and Mrs.

Johnson mailed out their farewell White House Christmas card this weekend. It was a watercolor sketch depicting the scene of the White House in winter as viewed from the south lawn. The card, being sent to some 1,500 heads of state, embassies abroad, government officials, governors, foreign ambassadors, members of Congress and the Supreme Court, carries the message: "Season's greetings and best wishes for the New Year." IN ADDITION to the official card, the Johnsons also commissioned a different 1968 Christmas print in water color showing the White House grounds from the south portico in springtime which will be sent to special friends and officials as a memento of the final days of the Johnson administration. This is the first time the Johnsons deviated by having separate prints of their official card and their larger print which is usually framed by the recipients and is of historical value. THE PRINT, 13 by 17Vi Inches, shows one of the First Lady's favorite views.

There is a flower garden in the foreground, the Washington Monument on the left and the Jefferson Memorial in the background. It was painted by Robert H. Laessig, water-color artist of Cleveland, who has done all of the Christmas prints for the Johnsons dating back to 1964. IN THE LOWER right-hand corner of the print are the signatures of the President and Mrs. Johnson with the following inscription: i ur appreciation, warmest wishes, and the hope that all the years ahead will be filled with the joys of Christmas." Included in a folder embossed with the presidential seal along with the print is a parchment scroll which reads: "We have loved sharing the history and beauty of the White House these last five years The men opened the door by reaching through a hole, she said, and then demanded a coin collection from her husband.

When he replied he didn't have a coin collection, one: of the men grabbed the wife and took her to an upstairs bedroom while his companion held the husband in another bedroom. WHEN THE men left shortly after 2:15 a.m., they ordered the couple to wait 30 minutes before calling police on threat of killing one of the children. They obeyed the command. Both the housewife and the employe were treated in Marion County General Hospital and released. ALSO ABOUT 1 a.m., a Turn to Page 18, Column 3 CRIME ALEUT I 633-2011 Call any unlawful or suspicious activity to the I attention of police through the Crime Alert number i 633-2811.

I TODAY'S CHUCKLE The woman who henpecks her husband Is likely to find him listening to some chick. Armed Man Beats, Molests Young Mother 111 With Flu Mayor Richard G. Lugar last night urged reorganization and consolidation of Indianapolis facilities of Indiana and Purdue universities for the establishment of a new state university here. Lugar said a bill will be introduced in the 1969 General Assembly to create a separate State University of Indianapolis, independent of the other four state-supported universities. The mayor's special message, is expected to stir controversy and much discussion in gov ernment, education and political circles.

HE SAID there "was no special reason" why he selected last night for his surprise move, but indicated it had been in the works for several months. Lugar said Dr. Elvis J. Stahr had visited with him in April, before Stahr resigned as I.U. president, and "opened an excellent discussion of possible reorganization of Indiana University" and the ramifications for an almost autonomous university in Indianapolis.

The Indianapolis mayor said: "I have come to wonder why a university located in CIUJCIAL TEACHING Butler By HOWARD SMULEVITZ Butler University's College of Education has completed a laboratory that is moving the school into the thin ranks of leaders in the training of teachers of reading. Dr. Stuart L. Silvers, 37-year-old founding director of Butler's Reading Center, is attacking one of the most difficult and crucial areas of preparing reading teachers: Getting them used to diagnosing problems and figuring out individualized remedial programs for use in the classroom. RELATIVELY FEW colleges have begun to train teachers In a broad enough way to relieve the pressure of overwhelming numbers of children with reading deficiencies.

Among 33 Indiana colleges and universities whose teacher graduates get automatic licensing by the State Department of Public Instruction, only six have programs to prepare reading specialists. These are Butler, Indiana, Ball State and Indiana State Reading Laboratory A 31-ycar-old mother, sick with the flu, was beaten and raped by an armed man while another gunman held her husband captive in bed in their far-Eastside home early yesterday, police said. They fled an hour later after stealing $450, the day's receipts from a restaurant the husband owns. The receipts were delivered RICHARD G. LUGAR Bloomington (I.U.) or one located in West Lafayette (Purdue) must attempt to manage facilities all over Indianapolis and the state of Indiana when the funds allocated for university use in Indianapolis by the legislature could be most simply and directly administered here at the University of Indianapolis under the guidance of a Board of Trustees composed of local citizens who have an excellent idea of our needs and aspirations." LUGAR SAID the new state university should have a president of "comparable stature" to President Joseph L.

Sutton, Stahr's successor at I.U., or Dr. Frederick L. Hovde, president at Purdue. PltORLEM ATTACKED Creates Universities, the University of Evansville and St. Francis College at Fort Wayne.

Dr. Silvers is assisting Valparaiso University's efforts to join the group. Butler has been graduating 20 reading specialists a year. But the strength of the laboratory started in 1963 lies in preparing undergraduates to work with troubled readers in far greater numbers than advanced teachers will be available in the public schools. BUTLER MOVED to its current level of reading instruction from the 3 credit-hour general course in elementary school reading, still standard minimum at most teacher colleges and teacher-training liberal arts schools.

The current course, a ft-hour clinical program, is about to be supplemented by a second semester for graduate students, giving them a chance to supervise undergraduates working with children from the local schools. The laboratory features a classroom separated from a seminar and testing room by a one-way observation win The Star Again To Publish List Of 50-Year Old Firms An honor roll of companies 50 years old and older will be featured in a special Year-End Section to be published by The Indianapolis Star. A review of business this year and predictions on 19698 'trends will be Included In the section. Over the years The Star has compiled a list of 50-year firms. There also may be companies which have reached the half-century mark during 1968.

These firms are Invited to telephone The Indianapolis Star, 633-9052, before 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, to give the name of the company, date of founding and present officers. Deadline to assure listing is next Friday. dow. Turning the lights out in cither room enables students to see into the other room and observe the work being done with a child, who sees only a mirror on his side.

Sound also is one-way. Also available are six smalt rooms for one-to-one testing and teaching and a materials library stocked with great variety in reading materials. Individual study booths for Butler students line one wall in the library. THE LABORATORY currently is used by Butler students working with 86 youngsters, 70 of them from nearby School 86, 200 West 49th Street. This Is the Turn to Page 21, Column 1 Today's Prayer Eternal spirit of God, at this altar of prayer give to me the assurance that behind the failures and the frustrations that mark many of my endeavors standeth Thy spirit ever striving to hold me true to purposes and generous ways.

Amen. Inside Today's Star Summary Of News And Index Of Features On Page 3, Section 1 The Star's Telephone Numbers AAoln Office 633-1240 Want Ads 633-1212 Circulation 633-9211 Sports Results. 633-1200 SCREENING FOR READING PROBLEM Butler Student Miss Judy Barnes, Victor Silvers, 4 it.