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a- i 4SSOCMTED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE NANA 4 WfAEPHOTO WEATHER TODAY The Indianapolis Star i Showers, Cooler High, 58; Low, 45 Yesterday High, 67; Low, 40 'Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty" II Cor. 3-17 VOL. 65, No. 349 -k SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1968 633-1240 25 Cents i Rockets Rip Saigon On Mo 's Birthday He's 'King Of The Hill9 Teammate Hill Grabs 2d Spot With Blistering 171.208 MPH Roiv By Row By DAVE OVERPECK American Joe Leonard and Englishman Graham Hill yesterday grabbed the first two starting spots for the 52d 500-Mile Race for the STP-Lotus turbine team with 171 -plus qualifying runs. ROW POS.

DRIVER CAR NAME FIRST 1. 2. 3. Bobby Unser, No. 3 Rislone SECOND ROW Mario Andretti, No.

2 Overseas Natl Airways MPH 171.539 171.208 169.507 167.691 167.613 167.069 1 -w-l ci 2 4. 5. 6. THIRD 7. 8.

9. A. J. Foyt, No. 1 Gordon Johncock, No.

4 Sheraton-Thompson Gilmore Broadcasting 166.773 FOURTH ROW Dan Gurney, No. 48 Olsonite 166.512 Art Pollard, No. 20 STP-Thermo King 166.297 Wally Dallenbach, No. 54 Valvoline 165.548 FIFTH ROW Jim McElreath, No. 82 Jim Greer 165.327 Jim Malloy, No.

27 Jim Robbing 165.032 Jerry Grant, No. 78 Bardahl 164.782 10. 11. 12. 13.

14. 15. SPEEDWAY ATTENDANCE RISES Traffic 'Tie-Up' Records Broken car averaging 171.559 miles an hour. Congratulating him is Parnelli Jones, who withdrew from another turbine car and the race earlier this month. Joe Leonard, who used to be a motorcycle champion, now is king of all qualification records for the 500-Mile Race.

Yesterday he drove the No. 60 STP Oil Treatment turbine-powered U.S. Demands Hanoi's Admission It Has Troops In South Vietnam ROW Club and the National Corvette Club were admitted through one of the 16th Street gates to drive around the Speedway. The club members were invited to attend the qualifications to celebrate their fifth anniversaries. About 1,000 of the club members put up camping tents in a field across from the Speedway and spent Friday night there.

Konkle said the auto club traffic did delay movement of vehicles, but "that's one of those things that must be worked out." All 204,000 seats in the Speedway were filled by 10:40 a.m. Quinn said. KONKLE SAID he thought the crowd was well-behaved. About 50 persons were taken into custody by Marion County Sheriff's deputies on charges of disorderly conduct. Turn to Page 13, Column 1 4 it i mi: ALERT Call any unlawful or suspicious activity to the attention of police through the Crime Alert number 633-2811.

Growth 166.976 166.821 Fires Rage In Heart Of Capital Saigon (Sunday) (AP) tnemy rockets and mor tars blasted downtown Saigon early today, the 78th birthday of North Viet nam's President Ho Chi Minn. Fires broke out, raising great clouds of smoke over the capital. One rocket landed near In dependence Palace, seat of South Vietnam's government, and another near the new United States Embassy. Nei ther building was reported damaged. One big fire burned out a square block of homes and shops.

The U.S. Command said no Americans were killed and only "a very small number" were wounded. Early reports put Vietnamese casualties at seven killed, 40 wounded. Three of the dead were policemen. One was an Infant girl.

Besides Saigon, enemy shells hit four other places across the country. MOST OF THE shells slammed into Saigon between 1 and 2 a.m. Six hours later, another blast rocked the dock area. Another shelling shortly after 8 a.m. dropped three more rounds into the heart of the capital.

One hit near the premier's office, wounding one civilian. Rockets landed in or near three U.S. enlisted men's billets, an American military police motor pool compound and a psychological warfare operations compound. Also hit were a Vietnamese newspaper office, a primary school, the Vietnamese Senate office, the main building of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the old U.S.

Embassy, which is used as an office building. Viet Cong gunners also bom barded a Vietnamese military post two miles east of the capital, inflicting heavy casualties on a platoon of popular force troops. THE SAIGON attack was not unexpected. The South Vietnamese Joint General Staff had reported receiving information that the enemy would salute Ho's birthday with widespread attacks on Saigon and other cities and military bases. Thousands of Saigon residents, awakened by the exploding rockets, gathered on terraces and roofs to watch the flames.

American planes dropped flares over the city's outskirts in efforts to pinpoint the attackers. South Vietnam's armed Turn to Page 8, Column 5 Tran Van Huong, who may be more receptive to Paris peace talks, appointed premier of South Vietnam. Page 6, Section 1 The Weather Joe Crow Says: In all the Speedway noise it had to be a couple of whispers that were the fastest race cars. Indianapolis Considerable cloudiness and cooler today and tonight with chance of showers. Variable cloudiness and a little cooler tomorrow.

Indiana Mostly cloudy and cooler with chance of showers today and tonight. Variable cloudiness and a little cooler tomorrow. Highs today from 52 north to 63 south. Leonard won the pole with a 171.559 miles an hour av erage for his 10-mile race against the clock. Hill, the 1966 race winner, held the pole for about 4 hours until teammate Leonard knocked him off.

Hill's four-lap average of 171.208 was 7.491 mph faster than he qualified a year ago. THE THIRD position in the first row went to Bobby Unser in the Rislone Eagle turbo-charged Offenhauser with a 169.507 run. All told, 15 cars made the tentative starting field with Jerry Grant's 164.782 in the Bardahl Eagle turbocharged Ford the slowest. All three occupants of the first row broke Mario An- De Gaulle Returns To Face Crisis Paris (AP) President Charles de Gaulle cut short a state visit to Romania last night and returned to a France seething with the gravest social and industrial crisis of his 10 years in office. Paralyzing strikes and social upheaval gripped railroads, air and bus transport, postal and telecommunications, nearly every branch of private and state-owned industry and the intellectual elite of the nation.

One big union called for a bank strike and police were pressing for more money. Caught up in the revolutionary ferment, some of the 77-year-old general's political followers showed signs of deserting him. De Gaulle rushed back from Bucharest 14 hours ahead of schedule and was greeted at Orly airport, where a strike had heavily curtailed opera tions, by Premier Georges Pompidou. The general, smiling and tanned, made no statement on how he intended to deal with the crisis. Pompidou had been holding repeated meetings in De Gaulle's absence with the defense and interior ministers and other security chiefs.

Earlier yesterday, some students and veterans opposed to the leftist character of the protest move ment marched up the Champs Turn to Page 8, Column 3 apolis without the usual corresponding tax burden," Lugar said. The airport authority is paying for the expansion almost entirely from airport income, Lugar said. Completion of the second phase, a $3 million administration building, is expected at the end of 1969, Airport Authority board member Fred W. Sommer said. The third phase, an international wing, will come three years later, Sommer added.

A SPECIAL helicopter which flew the mayor's party to the ceremonies was de layed when Sheriff Lee R. Eads diverted it to the In dianapolis Motor Speedway to rush a 56-year-old heart at tack victim, Donald Trescott Turn to Page 8, Column 1 dretti's 1967 one and four-lap records of 169.779 and Leonard's new one-lap record is 171.953, set on his second of four trips around the 2'-mile oval. On his first lap he matched Hill's record of 171.887. Ironically, Hill's record also came on his first lap. LEONARD AND Hill are the second set of teammates in Speedway history to capture both the first and second starting spots.

The first to do it were Duke Nalon and Rex Mays in the immortal Novis in 1949. STP boss Andy Granatelli later owned and campaigned the Novis. Leonard passed up an attempt to qualify at noon al though his last warmup lap was clocked at 170.7. "I was working a little too hard to get that speed," he said, "and I wanted to go for the pole." "I had intended to wait until 5:30, but it looked like rain so I decided to go when I did." That was about 3:20. And when he decided to go, Pelican Joe went.

His last two warmup laps were clocked at 172 and 173 mph. When he took the green flag, Leonard slowed down but not much. His first lap stopped the clock at :52.36 to tie Hill's record of 171.877. Then came the showstopper :52.34 and 171.953. The last two slowed a bit to (171.103 mph) and :52.54 (171.298).

But they were good enough to make Joe the fastest driver in Speedway history. An enormous throng esti- Turn to Page 10, Column I SPECIAL SPEEDWAY StTDSCHIPTIOX To send your friends and relatives The Star's Special Speedway Subscription May 16th to June 1st, see the ad appearing on Page 4, Section 2 of today's Star. NAVY'S BLUE ANGELS Four F-ll-F Jets Exhibit Wf of Paris (UPI) The United States demanded yesterday that Hanoi admit it has troops fighting in South Vietnam if it wants the Americans to stop all bombing of North Vietnam. But the Communists refused to do so and denounced the U.S. as "obstinate and perfidious." In the longest and bitterest session of the Paris talks so far, Hanoi told the U.S.

bluntly it must halt all bombing of North Vietnam immediately and unconditionally if it wants real peace talks. U.S. chief negotiator W. Averell Harriman told Hanoi representatives in a sharp exchange that North Vietnam The records for traffic tie-ups and attendance were broken yesterday as an estimated 265,000 race fans jammed the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the first day of qualifications. Joseph L.

Quinn, Speedway safety director, and Robert K. Konkle, State Police traffic co-ordinator, agreed it was the largest crowd ever to attend the first day of qualifi cations for the 500-Mile Race. And the fans know it was one of the worst traffic jams. The Speedway gates were open to traffic at 6 a.m. and by 9:30 a.m., Quinn said, all infield parking and parking facilities outside the Speedway were filled.

Handling traffic was impaired because of the early morning fog. A closed-circuit television system, used for rerouting traffic when jams occur, was knocked out of order due to wet cables. Parking outside of the Speedway was limited to an extent, because of ordinance which requires persons who own more than seven-eighths an acre of land to have rest- room facilities for parking patrons. THE TRAFFIC problem was compounded in the morning when nearly 1,600 members of the National Mustang Auto Hotel Majestique near the Arc de Triomphe. "There was no progress at all," U.S.

delegation spokesman William J. Jorden said after the meeting. At Harriman's request, the next meeting was put off until Wednesday morning. Jorden said yesterday's meeting "just did not produce enough to build on for another meeting sooner." The U.S. spokesman said that Harriman declined to hold the next meeting Tuesday, because of another appointment although he would not confirm this.

Informed sources said the reference was to a scheduled meeting between Harriman and French President Charles de Gaulle. Jorden said that despite pressure from Harriman, the North Vietnamese delegation refused to admit the presence of North Vietnamese troops in the South. He quoted Thuy Turn to Page 8, Column I Miss Washington State Wins Miss USA Crown now has 85,000 military per sonnel in South Vietnam, some 15,000 of them serving in supposedly Viet Cong units. HE SAID THAT during the attack on Saigon earlier this month. North Vietnam had four of its army regiments in action around the capital.

He said units of at least two of these regiments fought within 8 miles of Saigon itself. Harriman dueled with North Vietnam's chief negotiator, Xuan Thuy, in their third formal session that lasted for more than four hours, and wound up the first week of preliminary talks in the old Landry (37-24-37) of Las Vegas. Third runner-up was Miss Louisiana, Kathy Hebert, 19, of Franklin. Her dimensions are 37-24-36. Fourth runner-up was blonde Bonnie Tafoya of Las Cruces, N.

18 and 37-23-35. MISS WASHING I UN was crowned by the outgoing Miss USA, Cheryl Patton of North Miami, Fla. The reigning Miss Universe, Sylvia Hitchcock of Florida and Alabama, watched the coronation on stage in Miami Beach's auditorium next door to the site of this year's national Republican convention. Sports Results. 633-1200 Wont Ads 633-1212 A erial Ballet Salutes Weir Cook Miami Beach (UPI) Miss Washington, brown -haired Dorothy (Didi) Anstett, won the Miss USA beauty title last night, edging out 14 other semi-finalists in the competition for a $5,000 cash award and a $5,000 personal appearance contract.

The 20-year-old Kirkland (Wash.) beauty with a 40-25-36 figure now goes on to represent the United States in the Miss Universe contest here in July against the world's loveliest. MISS MARYLAND, Paul-ette Reck, 19, and 37-24-36 of Baltimore, was first runner-up. Second runner-up was Miss Nevada, 22-year-old Kathy IP A swooping aerial ballet by the Navy's famed Blue Angels, on hand for Armed Forces Week activities, climaxed dedication ceremonies yester day for two new passenger loading wings at Weir Cook Municipal Airport. Thousands of spectators, many of them children, watched in awe as the six royal-blue jets wove intricate patterns of loops, climbs and power dives. INDIANAPOLIS Mayor Richard G.

Lugar cut the ribbon on the $6 million addition, the first of three scheduled expansion phases at the airport. Lugar praised the "prudent management of resources" by the Indianapolis Airport Au thority in financing the pro gram. "This entire program increases the wealth of Indian Inside Today's Star Summary Of News And Index Of Features On Page 2, Section 1 The Star's Telephone Numbers Main Office Circulation 633-1240 633-9211 (Sur poto TAKE TO THE SKY IN SHOW AT WEIR COOK Precision Take-Off For Thousands Of Spectators 1.