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The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 7

Publication:
The Tennesseani
Location:
Nashville, Tennessee
Issue Date:
Page:
7
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THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN, Monday. Oct. 14. 1968 Heavy Fighting Reported in Biafra A federal side of needlessly burn UMUAHIA, Biafra (AP) Amyoa feeding center when the raid on a second villags, plane attacked on Saturday. Amamba, but several housei There were no casualties in the were burned down.

Biafran war communique re ing down homes in the Okigwi sector, after looting them first, ported yesterday "very heavy fighting" in Onitsha, Iyienu and apparently in anger at succes-Abagana where Nigerian federative counterattacks by tha seces- troops were said to have sionists launched their heaviest attacks Biafran officials in Umuahi of the last three months. said that the death toll in Satur-i day's bombing of Uzuakoli, the: Federal troops also "attacked The Donelson Plaza Merchants Associa tion, Presents America's Most Beautiful Unusual Educational exhibit ME Straughan's 1900 Year Old REDWOOD LOG HOUSE 10 Ft. In Diameter 40 Ft. Long massively" in the Owerri sector but were repulsed, the com Ik Biafran leper colony town, has risen to 47, with 102 seriously wounded. REPORTS reaching Uzuakoli munique added.

New Mail Class Hinted At Dedication By REGGIE STUART A priority mail class which could eliminate air mail charges may be requested by the U.S. Post Office Department next year, a post office official said in Nashville this weekend. Percy Coleman, director, Memphis region, U.S. Post Office, principal speaker at dedication ceremonies Saturday of the Belle Meade branch of the Nashville U.S. Post Office, said: "WITH THE rapid improvements currently being made in our postal operations, our postmaster general, Marvin Watson, expects to be able to ask Congress to authorize a single class of priority mail next year.

"We hope that with the improvements being made in services and operations that Congress will vote elimination of the air mail rate," to make way for the priority mail class and special rate. The present air mail rate is 10c an ounce. WHEN FEDERAL troops were stopped along the Aba-Owerri road, they turned their attention to the surrounding said 21 persons were killed and more than 50 others wounded when a Nigerian jet bomber attacked the village of Amuda. A witness said hundreds of children were being fed at the, villages and bombarded them indiscriminately," it said. The Biafrans are accusing the Photo by John Stroitor Jr.

Symbol of America for Belle Meade Rep. Richard Fulton presents a U.S. flag to Nashville Postmaster Lewis Moore at dedication ceremonies of the Belle Meade Station. The flag was raised to mark the opening of the new facility. ttft'i' Now On National Tour and ON DISPLAY AT DONELSON PLAZA Shopping Center OCTOBER 14-19 10 A.M.

TIL 9 P.M. EACH DAY located on Highway 100 at the State Mormons Set Speaking to approximately 150 residents, city and postal officials, Coleman said approxi fork of the dual Memphis high CLEANING TIME mately 75 of the country's first class mail is delivered to unices tor Mempnis MEMPHIS (AP)-The Church1 of Jesus Christ of Latter Day; Saints announced yesterday it Trust your area rugs and wall to wall carpet cleaning to "old Reliable" its destination city overnight. COLEMAN SAID many im way routes in West Nashville. It consists of 7,000 square feet of building space and 12,000 square feet of loading and parking ramps. Moore said the new postal station was established under the land-lease program, whereby the post office leases the property from the city governments for a number of years, provements had been made in has decided to locate its Ten mail services under the John son-Humphrey administration 919 MAIN nessee headquarters in the PHONE Memphis area.

and noted that "the station here is only one-tenth of of the Church officials said a at mc- rmism 262-0447 School Classes Civic Croups and Church Organizations are especially invited. annual program under way." He said about 1,000 rost of iLnniii 000 building to house the headquarters will be in the Frayser-Raleigh area of Shelby County. thus making the property eligi- 2S Discount on Cash and Carry fices are now being built an Wallace Vote Aids HHH: Kuykendall DYERSBURG (AP) Rep. Dan Kuykendall, told a Dyersburg audience Saturday evening that "a vote for Wallace is a vote for Humphrey." He indicated he views Wallace as a candidate who can take Republican votes, therefore giving Democrats a bigger presidential vote than they would receive if Wallace was out of the election. The Memphis congressman cut a ribbon marking the opening the Nixon-Agnew headquarters in Dyer County.

Kuykendall also was critical of the present administration. "Every time the Democrats have been in office in this century we have been in the middle of a war and the Vietnam war has created a false prosperity," he said. Kuykendall said the Nov. 5 election will be the first time the South has had a significant part in electing a president. Dle for taxation by local governments.

Linus Goodson is superintendent of the Belle Meade station and Owen A. Bianconi is his assistant. The dedication ceremonies were planned by the Belle Meade Civitan Club. nually. He said the innovation of overnight mail services by supplemental air carriers and truck mail carriers have helped mail movements tremendously.

"Credit for getting this postal station located in this area, if mm given to anyone," Coleman said, "should go to your Congressman Richard Fulton, who has been asking for this one for a long time." NASHVILLE Postmaster I-ewis Moore said the facility will handle approximately pieces of mail daily and will employ 38 postal workers. The Belle Meade station is India Protest Kills 5 CALCUTTA, India (AP)-Five persons were killed and 10 wounded when police fired on a mob who attacked them at Motipur Village, about 300 miles northwest of Calcutta, official reports said yesterday. The mob was protesting the demolition of a small dam. ill mi tiaiMiii The ii Wn-a-Week's back! Groceries is j)nmin0 Sugar is giving away more than 2000 trg -ft we're going plates jx. WIIHllllim)llllll ll.llll liJWW'lIMt-'g-''" i Jrf: jpSS- -rww a i www.

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