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each Post Stock Market Closed Wednesday raim SERVING THE HUB OF FLORIDA'S FABULOUS GROWTH AREA VOL. LX, NO. 213 WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1968 76 TEN CENTS American Force Severely Mauled As Reds Stage Trap Near Saigon THUMBNAIL EDITORIAL Another day, another hijacking, another good reason for cleaning out a pirate's nest. Tlh The Communists withdrew in midaf-ternoon.

spokesmen said, but contact was renewed late Wednesday and continued past dark. Communist losses in the action were unknown, the U.S. command said. In another engagement early Wednesday. 1st Air Cavalry troopers came under a barrage of 82mm and small arms fire in an area 56 miles northwest of Saigon.

At least 18 Americans were wounded in this action but tactical air strikes and supporting artillery left 18 Communist dead in the battle area, U.S. military spokesmen said. U.S. spokesmen reported that two U.S. Army UH1 helicopters were downed Monday and Tuesday in Phuoc Long The biggest and most successful of the Communist ground attacks began Tuesday when hundreds of North Vietnamese regular troops attacked about 160 men of the U.S.

1st Air Cavalry Division in jungles about 70 miles north of Saigon near Phuoc Binh, military spokesmen said. The North Vietnamese waited in well-camouflaged positions until the Americans were within easy striking distance, then opened up with a barrage of fire from small arms and automatic weapons, rocket grenades and 82mm mortars. The Communists mounted repeated ground assaults on the U.S. positions despite a pounding from American jet fighter-bombers, helicopter gunships and artillery. Province, about 55 miles northeast of Saigon.

Five Americans aboard the two aircraft were wounded but no one was killed, spokesmen said. 'The new downings brought U.S. helicopter losses to 946 in South Vietnam, according to unofficial figures. The Navy said the Communists touched off hand-detonated mines in abortive attempts to sink an allied tanker and two freighters moving 6 to 15 miles southeast of Saigon in the main shipping channel to the capital. A Navy spokesman said shrapnel sprayed the deck of the tanker SS Tara.

but no one was injured. The other vessels involved were the freighters SS Gopher State and SS Comayagua. Neither was damaged and no casualties were reported in the blasts. SAIGON (UPII-Communist forces killed and wounded more than 100 Americans near Saigon in fierce ambush and mortar attacks that continued into Wednesday night. The Communists also downed two U.S.

helicopters in the same region and tried to sink three allied vessels below the capital. One group of U.S. air cavalrymen lost at least 25 killed and 65 wounded in the fighting highest casualties sustained by an American unit in at least two months. Far to the north, two unarmed U.S. Navy photo reconnaissance jets ran into surface-to-air (SAM) missile fire over North Vietnam.

One of the jets was shaken by the blast of the 32-foot SAMs but it and the other planes returned safely to their 7th Fleet carriers. ens israei LK Mil TTh MalU 7 If WASHINGTON (UPI) -The State Department, fearful of another Middle Eastern war, Wednesday night called on Israel and Jordan to stop violating their cease fire agreement. At the same time, the department spokesman said that the United States would like to see some "concrete evidence" that the Russians, who are backing the Arabs in their quarrel with Israel, are "exerting their influence towards peace in the Middle East." i GOING BACK UP Delray Beach's currently most-famous "football player" at Seacrest High School, a 10-ton sculpture, was righted Wednesday afternoon. Sculptor Don Seiler of Miami, who is repairing the figure which Was smashed last week, said Wednesday Newly Found Skeleton To BeExaminedToday Nixon: Warren Stays Through Term's End Grand Jury May Probe Riot Study CHICAGO (UPI)-A chief federal judge said Wednesday a special grand jury "might well look into the timing and motivation" behind a report that charged some police "rioted" during the violent disorders of Democratic National Convention week. William J.

Campbell, chief judge of U.S. District Court in Chicago, suggested the grand jurors might look into whether the release of the controversial "Walker Report" Sunday was designed to influence the grand jury's own exhaustive investigation of the riots. The judge also questioned the objectivity of the report, labeled it "just the report of one individual," and expressed doubt that Daniel Walker, head of the task force that prepared it, was qualified "in the field of criminal investigation." Walker, who submitted the report to the task force's parent National Commission on Violence, refused to comment on Campbell's statements immediately. Campbell, speaking at a news conference, said he was not directing the grand jury to investigate the release of the Walker Report but "I assume they will look into the matter." "The Walker Report, according to all I have read, is just the report of one individual, not of the commission," the judge said. "It covers only in part the matters the grand jury is going into fully.

"To release the report at this time, when the grand jury has not completed its investigation, and without first submitting the report or seeking its (the grand jury's) approval might give rise to a question as to the motivation and timing of its release." Campbell said there were indications the report was in the hands of a national magazine last week. But he said the first he knew of its imminent release was when Walker, president of the Chicago Crime Commission and a vice president of Montgomery Ward telephoned him at his home Saturday afternoon. "But then it was already in the hands of the press," Campbell said. "The timing seems inopportune. I think any investigation of the timing by my grand jury might be appropriate.

I assume they will look into the matter." If it appeared there was motivation to influence the grand jury investigation, the judge said, "That could be the subject of further grand jury investigation." Asked if Walker could be held in contempt of court, Campbell said: "I will take action in that field only if it is requested by the grand jury." Campbell joined a growing list of prominent Chicago officials who have questioned the Walker report. By JACK OWEN Bureau Chief MANAPALAN A skeleton, believed to be that of a man, found Wednesday in seagrape bushes on the east side of A-l-A. about half a mile north of Boynton Inlet, is due for thorough examination today. Dr. Kenneth Fulton, Palm Beach County medical examiner for the south county, will conduct a series of tests on the bones at Bethesda Memorial Hospital.

"I saw the skeleton at the scene, and will give it amorethorough examination for evidence to lead toward establishing an identification." Fulton said Wednesday. "I can determine sex. approximate age group, height and weight, and possibly cause of death. I should be able to get reasonably close to determining the date of death." The Palm Beach County Sheriff Department has been handling the investigation since discovery of the skeleton was reported at Wednesday. Dragline operator Donald Neely discovered the body while he operated equipment for Russell Grubbs West Palm Beach.

Neely was clearing undergrowth from the beach front of a new home being constructed on the Lake Worth side of A-l-A. Manapalan police were contacted, and sheriff's deputies called to the scene. A mobile crime laboratory was dispatched to the area, and detectives cleared more brush out of the way before sifting through dirt for remains. The skeleton was gradually recovered, and placed on an plastic sheet in approximately the same position in which it was discovered. The skeleton was clothed in a pair of yellow leather workman's boots, dark blue cord-type trousers, and dark blue zippered jacked with red trim.

the U.S. officials who gave the ambassadors an all out presentation of the heightened American fears. The talk with Rabin began at 4 p.m. and lasted about 40 minutes. The conference with Sharaf was much longer, it began at 5:30 p.m.

and ended at 6:30 p.m. The new expression of mounting American concern came against a background of ominous developments which have troubled high officials here increasingly in recent days. The developments concerning officials included: An Israeli air attack on Jordan Wednesday which followed four days of intensive border pressures along the line from the Sea of Galilee south to the Dead Sea. A continued buildup of the Soviet fleet in the Mediterranean, accompanied by Soviet expressions of intent to increase Russian influence in the area and reports of new shipments by Moscow of military equipment to the Arabs, including late model jet fighters. A Tuesday editorial in Pravda, the Soviet Communist party newspaper, labeling Israel an aggressor and declaring that Russia "will not permit a new dangerous flareup in that area, which directly adjoins our southern borders." State Department press officer Rocrt J.

McCloskey, when asked to comment on the Pravda article, declined to say whether the United States considered it "ominous or not." He said: "What we are looking for is concrete evidence that the Soviets are exerting their influence towards peace in the Middle East. Peace in the Middle East is in everybody's interests. We want to see more evidence." Reporting on the sessions with the Israeli and Jordanian ambassadors, McCloskey said: "We expressed our concern over the situation in the Middle East at present. Violations of the ceasefire line by either or both sides serve only to heighten tensions in the area and hinder the efforts of the (Gunnar) Jarring mission in seeking a peaceful solution." Gunnar Jarring is the United Nations mediator in the Middle East who has just gone back to that area in an effort to get the two sides to calm down and consider a peaceful political solution. McCloskey said that "violations of the ceasefire by both sides in the past few days are matters of serioys concern to us.

We urged on the ambassadors scrupulous adherence to the ceasefire by theircountries." It was understood that U.S. representatives at the U.N. were delivering similar expressions of concern to Israeli and Jordanian ambassadors there. McCloskey earlier Wednesday denied reports that the United States. had offered a new seven-point peace plan on the Middle East.

He said there was "no blueprint" submitted by the United States other than that contained in President Johnson's June, 1967. Continued Cool Fair through Friday, continued cool today. Northwesterly winds 10 to 18 m.p.h. Small craft warnings are in et-fect. Predicted low this morning at PBIA 45.

high this afternoon 63, low tonight 40. Temperatures recorded for 24 hours ending at midnight Wednesday at Palm Beach International Airport, high 72. low 52. Precipitation .01 inches Humidity 49 percent Barometer 30.08 inches rising Wind: High 29; Low 5 Prevailing Wind Northwest Sunrise today 6:55 a.m.; Sol 5:27 Moonrisetodav 5:39 St 7 m. in INLET TIDES TODAY High 9:23 pin Low 3:48 in OCEAN TIDES TXHUY High 7:54 a in 7 4Sp Low 1 :36 a in 2 Oo Staff Photo By Paul Prlct that the repair work "probably" would be completed and the figure "good as new" within a week.

The figure is to be the Class of '69 present to the school. Seiler donated the concrete and steel sculpture to the senior class. There was no obvious evidence of violence. The skeleton was found at 1820 S. County approximately 30 feet from A-l-A and almost 100 feet from the sea.

The area is midway between Boynton Cont. un Page A-2, Col I Hijacked Plane Travelers Get Back To Miami MIAMI (AP) Twenty-six travelers stranded in Cuba when their airliner was hijacked returned to Miami aboard a charter flight Wednesday, 24 hours after a gunman seized control of their National Airlines Jet. The passengers were detained in Cuba Tuesday night when the seven-member crew plus a nonworking stewardess riding on a pass flew back to Miami after spending about three hours at the Havana airport. Remaining behind in Cuba was the hijacker, a nervous, perspiring man who held the crew at gunpoint during an 81-minute refueling stop at Key West. An airline spokesman said the passenger left in Cuba had given his name as Castell" when he boarded the jet.

For the others on the airliner, the hijacking provided a diversion that turned into a festive holiday. Airlift International, which operates the daily shuttles between Cuba and Miami for refugees coming to the United States, sent a DC7 to Varadero a resort area 85 miles from Havana Wednesday afternoon to pick up the stranded passengers. Tuesday: "I am writing you in need of desperate advice." Mrs. T. and her four children left their northern home this fall because one of the children, sick with bronchial asthma, needed the warm Florida climate.

With her husband dead and four lively children to keep track of, Mrs. T. cannot work more than several hours a week and recently has decided to do small sewing jobs at home. The money she manages to earn and save does not buy extras, let alone Christmas presents. Because she is so new to the area, no store will give her credit.

She wrote that her 14-year-old son wants very much to take up a paper route, but has no bicycle. Before they came to Florida, her son, using bits of metal and parts of discarded bicycles, constructed seven bikes of his own, six of which were stolen. The seventh and last is in storage along with some of the family's furniture and other Israeli Ambassador Yutzhak Rabin and Jordanian Ambassador Abdul Harm Sharaf were summoned to the State Department for separate conferences. They were lectured on the possible consequences of the continuing warfare along the border and elsewhere. Parker T.

Hart, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, and Joseph Sisco. assistant secretary for United Nations affairs, were CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN avoid serious disruption of the work of the court, that the effective date should not be until the end of the term of the court in June. "The chief justice agreed and said he would be glad to continue until that time. The president-elect, therefore, will nominate a successor who will assume the office after the completion of the present term of the court." Ziegler said he does not know when Nixon will submit the nomination to the Senate. Nixon appointed Dr.

Paul W. McCracken, a University of Michigan professor, to be chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers. Ziegler also reported that Nixon has contacted the South Vietnamese government to urge that it participate in meaningful fashion in the Paris peace negotiations. "He has communicated through diplomatic channels what he has said publicly, that he encouraged representation at the peace table in Paris," Zieglersaid. Nixon appointed Roy L.

Ash, president of Litton Industries to lead an effort to improve government management and efficiency. Ziegler said that assignment will be carried on during the period of government transition. McCracken, who was present for the conference with Mills, served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers during the administration of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. "I would describe him as a centrist, a man who is a pragmatist, who will not operate in a doctrinaire way," Nixon said.

In foreign policy, Nixon arranged to meet Thursday with W. Averell Harri-man, now chief U.S. negotiator at the Paris peace talks. Robert D. Murphy, Nixon's representative at the State Department, and Henry A.

Kissinger, his assistant for national security affairs, also are to attend that conference. II CD NEW YORK (AP) Richard M. Nixon announced Wednesday that Chief Justice EarlWarren has agreed to the president-elect's request to preside over the Supreme Court through the end of its current term next June. Nixon said he will choose a successor to the retiring, 77-year-old chief justice to take office after the completion of the term. Ronald L.

Ziegler, Nixon's spokesman, relayed this to newsmen and said that by Warren's choice his retirement from the court will be effective at the pleasure of the President. The president-elect and the chief justice who have disagreed on court decisions regarding the rights of criminal suspects talked for about 15 minutes. Warren submitted his retirement to President Johnson some five months ago, effective when a successor was approved by the Senate. But Johnson's choice of Justice Abe Fortas to succeed Warren touched off long and bitter Senate debate. Ultimately, the nomination was withdrawn at Fortas' request.

Nixon discussed taxes with Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Mills said they agreed that, hopefully, government economies might make possible some tax reduction next year. Nixon worked also to shape his administration's negotiating team for the Vietnam peace talks in Paris.

He disclosed there has been discussion, but no decision, of the possibility that Henry Cabot Lodge, now U.S. ambassador to West Germany, may be chosen chief negotiator. In his telephone call to Warren, Ziegler said, Nixon told the chief justice "he thought it most important, in order to POS1 WHY ARE PEOPLE SO RUDE? has happened to ordinary courtesy In this country? And, because it's in the context of service that the most abrasive kinds of discourtesy seem to occur, what has happened to service? A number of authorities present Interesting Insights into society today and its effects on behavior in Parade Magazine, distributed with the Sunday Post-Times. PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S final budget ii expected to call for pay incrers es for his successor and other top officials Page B6 Bridge Column D7 Classified Ads G4-9 Comics D7 Crossword Puzzle D7 Editorials, Columnists A6 Horoscope D7 News Of Record C7 Obituaries C7 People Speak A6 Sports Dl-4 Theaters B7 Today's Activities C6 TV Clock D6 Weather Map, Table C7 Women's News Cl-3 Contributions Reported Mounting For Yule 'Empty Stocking Fund' The Post-Times Empty Stocking Fund has helped thousands of needy p'Xjple during its 44-year existence. Once again, the annual fund drive is seeking to brighten Christmas for more and more underprivileged families in Palm Beach County.

The Christmas spirit has apparently come early to county residents this year. Reports are that contributions are pouring in.daily, and the count today far exceeds last year's total for the same date. Today the Empty Stocking has a $3,124.50 bulge in it, enough to fill the toe.of the empty stocking. Last year on this date, the fund total had reached only $2,235. The money so far provided will help the Salvation Army buy food, clothing and toys for several hundred persons.

But much more is needed. Additional donations can help the T. family recently moved here from a northern city. Mrs. T.

wrote this letter, received Mrs. T. cannot afford to get her belongings out of storage because the bill is $600, although right now it seems like $1 million. She closes her letter with, "I cannot go back home because of my sick child. The children are very depressed because of our living conditions.

"Please help me as soon as possible." And you can, if you send your contribution now to the Empty Stocking Fund. Dissolve some of the desperation this family is suffering. Although we can't solve all of their problems, there is some relief and there is the added gift of hope that will get this family through these tough times. Remember them this Christmas. Remember them today.

Mail your check today to the Empty Stocking Fund, Palm Beach Post-Times, 2751 S. Dixie, West Palm Beach, 33405. Cunt, on Page A-2, Col. 4.