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Vietnam buildup ordered; surtax requested WASHINGTON Pres. Ident Johnson ordered today an buildup of U.S. fore. In Vietnam and called on Con. ffress to adopt a 10 per cent surcharge on Individual and cor.

porate Income taxes to help pay for It. The President, In a budget and tax message to Congress, said American troop strength In Vietnam will be Increased by 45,000 men, raising the total by the end of the current fiscal year next June 30 to 525,000. In a briefing outside the mes. safe Itself he made the Increase figure 45,000 to 50,000. Itts figure on forces was high.

er than the sum of the latest county from plus the Increment of 45,000 to 50,000. But Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara has said 480,000 are authorized, a figure that would account for son's total. Thus, the actual buildup by the end of the year would be above 60,000. Johnson said the surcharge on individual Incomes would mean that "a family of four with In.

come of $10,000, now ordinarily paying a tax of $1,100, will pay at most an added tax of $9.25 a He said the three out or rour American families with less than $10,000 annual income will pay a lesser Increase. "Extending these excise tax. es would provide additional rev. enues of $300 million for fiscal 1968 and more than $2 billion for fiscal 1969." Johnson said. Johnson safe! the proposed 10 per cent surcharges on corporation and individual Incomes would yield $6.3 billion in reve.

nues for fiscal 1968 and some more In 1969. "The 16 million taxpayers in the lowest Income brackets would be completely exempt from the surcharge," Johnson said. "For example, a married couple with two children, with an Income of less than $5,000 a year, would pay no surcharge." "The nation now faces these hard and Inescapable facts for 1968" Johnson said and gave this listing: "Expenditures are likely to be between January budget figures of $135 billion and $143.5 House group OKs foreign aid bill WASHINGTON The House Foreign Affairs Commit, tee overwhelmingly approved to. day a controversial two-year version of the foreign aid authorization bill. The vote was 277.

The committee completed work on the bill Wednesday and met behind closed doors today to vote on the finished product. It would provide $3,158,919,. 000 for the global military and assistance program in the year which started July 1, a net cut of about $219 mil. lion below President Johnson's request. The bill also would authorize nearly $3.5 billion for the 1969 fiscal" year beginning July 1, billion as much as $8.5 billion higher depending upon the determination and ability of the Congress and the executive to control are now estlmat.

ed from $7 blUlon lower than In January, even with a six per cent tax surcharge." changes In the Jan. uary budget estimates would suit in a deficit of $23.6 billion." a tax increase and tight expenditure control, the deflclty could exceed $28 billion. And that does not Include an estimated $700 million higher cost of Interest on the pub. lie debt that such a deficit would Involve." deficit of that size poses a clear and present danger to America's security and economic health." ort AiiQclcs Eucnmo Nexus Casualties lower in Vietnam fighting Thursday, August 3, 1967 100th Issue of 52nd Year 12 Pages 10 Cents Member Associated Press By GEORGE ESPER SAIGON U.S. combat casualties in the Vietnam war dropped to their lowest level in six months last week with 114 Americans killed, 89 wounded and five missing, the U.S.

Com. mand announced today. The command said 164 were killed and 1,442 wounded the week before. But the sharpest decline last week was in the number of South Vietnamese troops reported killed in 76 com. paredwlth 183 the week before.

The number of Communists killed dropped to 1,399, the low. est since the week that ended June 10, the U.S. Command said. But U.S. headquarters said the kill ratio of 6.8 to 1 for the allies last week was the highest this year and possibly one of the highest of the war.

The low casualty figures re. fleeted another relative lull in the ground war and did not Include the casualties in the dlsas- trous fire aboard the carrier Forrestal Saturday. A U.S. spokesman explained that it was not known yet whether these would be classified as combat or operational casualties since the fire and explosions began with an accident as the SNCC teaching hatred, police chief claims WASHINGTON (APW-A Nash. police captain testl.

fled today that the Student Non, violent Coordinating Committee Is teaching Negro children "pure, unadulaterated hatred of the white race," In a summer school subsidized by the fed. eral government. The captain, JohnSarace, said the subsidy is a $7,700 grant is from the Office of Economic Opportunity. And he charged that militant Negroes who took part In Nash. ville's racial rioting last April are among the teachers at the school.

"SNCC In Nashville Is now the recipient of an OEO grant and this Is a real problem," Sarace told the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is looking in. to the recent waves of riots In American cities. He said the grant did not go to the organization directly, but to a man named Fred Brooks, who he identified as SNCC chair. man In Nashville. carrier was preparing to launch strikes against North Vietnam.

The Forrestal casualties Increased to 131 dead today with the death of two injured men. Three are missing and 62 others were Injured. The U.S. Command an. nounced three new operations of battalion size but reported significant contact in only one of them.

U. S. pilots flew 161 missions against North Vietnam Wednes. day, their biggest day since July 13, when 170 miss Ions we re flown, and a Viet Cong bom. bardment wounded 27 Americans nine of them seriously and set some fuel stores on fire at the U.S.

Navy base and petroleum storage area at Nha Be, 10 miles southeast of Saigon. One U.S. jet attacking the Red gun positions crashed due to mechanical trouble but the pilot was rescued. MORE MORE MORE MORE Communist guerrillas also ambushed a U.S. Marine minesweeping unit on a dirt road 21 miles west of Da Nang Wednes.

day, killing 15 Leathernecks and wounding one. A U. S. spokesman said two Communists were known killed. Viet Cong mortar and 82mm shells and 40mm antitank rock, ets rained down for 20 minutes on the Nha Be fuel dump and the base from which the Navy directs river boats In attacks against guerrillas.

Mortar fire hit a stack of 55- gallon gasoline drums at the Shell Oil Co. fuel farm and about 5,000 of the drums went up In flames, but the shells missed the 40-foot storage tanks that dot the area. A Na.vy spokesman pair! an F100 Super Sabre jet fighter. bomber "flamed out" and crashed. Other U.

S. and South Vietnamese planes and hellcop. ters attacking the Viet Cong gunners came under heavy fire. The spokesman said damage was light to waterfront build, ings, piers and river patrol boats and mlnesweeperswhich pulled away from the piers quickly. About 30 patrol boats and more than 10 minesweeprrs operate from the base on the Long Tao River, the main shipping channel to Saig-on.

New filings assure city primary A primary election will be held Sept. 19 for three City Council positions as more than two persons have filed for two positions. Wednesday, C. Vernon Da- som of 1233 E. 2nd retired manager of theFibreboard Mill, filed for position No.

1, and Duane W. Almaden of 539 E. Whtdby Retail Clerks Union Agent, filed for position No. 3. Filed so far for position No.

1, now held by Mayor Charles R. Wlllson, are Mrs. Nancy Doerr, George Gallant and Basom. Filed for position No. 2 are incumbent Joseph W.

Wolfe and Grace Donahue. Filed for position No. 3 now held by Councilman Donald D. Cornell were Robert (Bud) Johnson, Milton E. (Mickey) Ranta and Almaden.

HOSEO DOWN A 15-year old employe of Sandbcrg Logging Co, was treated and released from Olympic Memorial Hospital Wednesday after receiving burns in a fire at the company building, located in an alley off First Street near Cherry St. Randy Richardson, 15, son of 0. H. Sandberg of Rt. 2, was injured while pouring liquid into a steam cleaning machine, which caught fire.

The blaze caused on estimated $100 damage to the building and undetermined damage to a pickup truck. Here, fireman Ed Ryan hoses down the area OFF TO VICTORIA Candidates for Clallam County Fair Queen waved a hearty goodbye to the earner" aman as they left this morning for Fictoria. The girls appeared on the "Noon Show on CHEK TV Channel 6 as a part of the trip to publicize the fair and Clallam County. The girls are from left to right front row, Robyn Johnson, Alexis Dignam, Kathe Pruss, back row, Charlena Doran, Lynn Marie Denney and Karen Sandau. (Evening News Photo) Clallqm County moves up in timber rank Washington state's total tim- City Clerk's office is 5 p.m.

Friday. Persons who are not registered to vote may do so at city hall by Aug. 18. Saturday, the 19th, Is the last day to register and residents may register at either the police or fire station because city hall is closed. Firemen point out grass fire clanger Warm, dry weather over the past month has added to the hazard of weed and brush fires, the Port Angeles Fire Department warns.

Sixteen of the 45 i'ire calls answered by firemen during July involved such fires. Battalion Chief Ken Nichols says a number of the brush fires were set by children play- Ing with matches, or by discarded cigarettes. He asks for care in disposal of cigarettes and extra precaution by parents in keeping children and matches far apart. Tass says China near civil war The deadline for filing at the ber harvest dropped by almost eight per cent in 1966 as compared with the previous year's totals. State Land Commissioner Bert L.

Cole reported today 6,075,394,000 board feet were harvested from private, municipal, county, state and federal forest lands In 1966. The total reflected a 7.8 per cent decrease as compared with the 1965 record harvest of 6,547,654,000 board feet. The 1966 timber harvest was Soleduck area shutdown by fire danger The Soleduck (Forks) District and Quinault Indian Reservation ware added Wednesday afternoon to the list of lands shut down to logging operations because of fire danger. Already shut down on the Olympic Peninsula were all lands in the Olympic National Forest and territory in southwest Washington. State land in the Port Angeles District was still open tills morning, but there is a possibility that it may also be closed.

All shutdowns are In effect through midnight tonight with a possibility because of the present weather conditions that the period may be extended, accord, ing to the Department of Nat- uralResources. The present forest shutdown bans power saws after 11 a.m. daily and all other operations after 1 p.m. State adds two more to fatal count By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two more names were added to Washington State's truffle toll for the year late Wednesday, raising the grim list to 449, five more than at the same time last year. The victims were Joseph H.

Lentz, 14, Corpus and Joseph J. Bethejewskl, 22, Muskegon Heights, Mich. The Lentz boy was killed a car left a rural road about eight miles west of Addy. Bethejewskl died when the car supporters and antt.Maoists and he was driving went off a curve also among servicemen," Tass just outside Vancouver, said, adding there was strong plunged off a 90.foot embank, opposition to Mao within the ment and landed on railroad army. tracks.

Child Guidance Center under new division The State child guidance center program has been placed under the Division of Juvenile Rehabilitation in the Department of Institutions Instead of the Division of Community Services, Donald P. Kaperick, director of the Port Angeles center, told members of the local advisory board at a meeting Tuesday. Kaperick said lie was unable to say just what effect this move will have on the Child Guidance Center's program. He said he believed it would re. suit in more emphasis on Juvenile delinquency prevention.

The advisory board recommended that the Port Angeles center continue its broad-based program rather than limit its services. The board is looking for new quarters for the local center also less than the 1964 total of 6,361,419,000 board feet. The number of acres logged also decreased to 342,238 acres in 1966 compared witli 353,403 acres in 1965. One of the primary factors for the decrease in the timber harvest can be attributed to the slow-down In the building construction industry during 1966, Commissioner Cole said. The drop in timber harvest totals was reflected In both eastern and western Washington totals.

In western Washington, the harvest dropped by 8 7per cent In volume. In eastern Washington, there was a 3.4 per cent decrease. Logging by private Industry topped all ownership categories during 1966. The timber bar- vest from private lands was 3.5 billion board foot, Inr- vested from U. S.

P'oiest Serv- Warning ice lands was second with 1.6 billion board feet. The harvest from state- owned lands, primarily managed by the Department of Natural Resources, totaled 538,446,000 board feet. County retained its first place position among counties for timber harvested. Tlie county harvested 768,941,000 board feet during 1966. The previous year, Lewis County was also fir.st In the state with 825,800,000 board feet.

Grays Harbor County moved up to second place with a bar- vest total of 541,076,000 hoard feet. The previous year, Grays Harbor was third with 631,873,000 board feet. CowliU County slipped to third place in the 196C totals with 532.377,000 board feet. The y. it In wcond place with 718,517,000 board feet.

The top ten timber harvest counties in the siate and their comparative totals were: 1905 I960 COUNTY HARVEST HARVEST BF BF 768,941,000 825,800,000 540,076,000 631,873,000 532,877,000 718,517,000 441,443,000 Lewis Grays Harb. Cow- Pac. Skamania 421,208,000 381,125,000 Jefferson 376,921,000 Pierce 370,170,000 272,589,000 Clallam 283,694,000 King 277,350,000 337,904,000 Snohom- Lsh 229,480,000 343,099,000 Major changes in the t-n top i producing counties' rankings during 1905 and 1906 included: Jefferson County moving up from eight to sixth; Pierce County advancing from tenth to seventh; Claliarn tv rising from ninth to eighth; King County dropping from seventi: to ninth; and Snohomish County falling from sixth place to tenth in 1966. MOSCOW Tass said today China is nearlng civil war. The Soviet news agency at.

tributed the report to unnamed witnesses. The dispatch was written here. "Witnesses arriving from Chi. na," Tass said, "report that the situation in central and south China increasingly resembles a civil war." It added there were armed clashes involving Red Guards, workers, students and soldiers in several areas. 'mere are inousanas KIU.

supporters and anti- Maoists and ed and wounded. Helicopters are dropping leaflets urging a stop to the went on. Tass said some provinces are suffering from famine and "hungry peasants are looting food stores." "Continued clashes are reported between Mao Tse-rung's The large run of humpies in the Dungeness River lias created a number of parking problems along roads near the river. County Sheriff R. H.

Bishop said Ills office received a number of complaints about cars being parked Illegally since the large run of humpies started. Wednesday, both sheriff's deputies and state patrolmen started writing parking tickets to vehicles parked illegally. Bishop said Ills deputies wrote 29 tickets Wednesday and would continue to issue citations as long as illegal parking continues near the river. Several residents of the Dun. yen ess River area say fishermen are leaving' fish scattered around the river when they leave.

Fishermen are urged to take fish home and not dump them on public anil private property. LaPush dock facilities to be lighted by PUD The LaPush Boat Lias in Is scheduled for lighting as Clallam County PUD officials worked out a program for the Port of Port Angeles at Tuesday's meet- Ing. The Port approved the lighting last month if the cost was reasonable. Under the program, 17 mercury vapor lights, of 175 watts each, will be Installed on the floats. The district will furnish the lamps' maintenance and Install the wiring for $3 per light on a monthly basis.

The two parties are expected to enter a outage, were Water problem solved at LaPush since it will share facilities with the proposed Mental Health Clinic from the Olympic Mental Health Center in Bremerton later this year. Kaperick reported that in the past four months of Center operations, there were 21 new ferrals, consisting of 12 boys and nine girls. Referral sources were: Parents, juvenile court, school, Department of Public Assistance, Health Department, attorney, 1, and University of Washington Reading Center, 1. Kaperick also reported that he conducted 129 interviews while Frank Russell conducted 32. There were 20 group therapy sessions and 14 consultations with other agencies, the director said.

An agreement between several federal and local groups to work cooperatively for both an Immediate- and long.term solution to the water shortage problem plapulng I.a Push was Announced today by Congressman Lloyd Meeds. The U.S. Public Health Serv. ice dispatched a man Wednes. day to LaPush to make plans to Install an additional on rap and screen to take advantage of un.

used water. THE COAST GUAHD, which owns and operates the existing system, will distribute the additional water, IVteeds said. Bennett T. Gale, Olympic Ma- tional Park Superintendent, said today that he had just received authorization to share the costs of the new installation. Other agencies in the installation will be the Coast Guard, Bureau of Indian Affairs and the U.S.

Public Health Serv. Ice, alone; with the State Health Service. ANOTHER OPERATION OF the estimated $1,500 expense may be paid by businesses in LaPush that had earlier offered a reported contribution of up to $2500 to assist in finding a sol- utlon. The water shortage, which has left the LaPush area with inadequate water and pressure, es. pecially for fire emergencies, has become critical during recent weeks as the result of dry weather among increased tour.

ism and greater demand on the water system that was built la 1903 to serve a small Indian community and the Coast Guard station. DURING A VISIT TO NEAH Buy last Sunday, M-seds discussed rho problem with Olympic Health District Sanitarian aid Morrison. Morrlsiui pointed out that the problem was apparently solved Sunday when a filter was clean, ed. However, in a check the next day he found that "though there had been some increase in available water, the basic problem still exists." Congressman Meeds contacted all the federal agencies in. volved on Monday.

Tuesday a meeting of the agencies was held at Portland and the cooper, ative effort to solve the matter was hammered out. "THIS SHOULD RESULT IN action right now, 1 Meeds said. "There is still four or five weeks of peak use left. And hap. pily the cost of this approach to the problem is much less than the estimated 10,000 to federal and private groups of trucking water in.

The Congressman also reported that the consulting engineering firm of Co: nell, Howell, Hayes and Merryfield has been fired to make a study of La- Push. There report is due Dec. "From the report, a long range plan to assure sufficient water for all the residents and activities in the LaPush area should be worked out," Meeds commented. Till-: LIGHTING WILL aid fishermen as they come late at night and will keep down. Costs on repair a regulator and transtornier, damaged last month at the Tyee subsUi' tlon during an potted by acting Philip K.

Repair to tin- regulator will cost about $2,000 while the transformer will cost about $7,200. Repairs will be marie by the General Electric Apparatus Co. of Seattle. THK DAM ACL' WAS caused by a faulty Insulator and a result all the Insulators at the will be tested by Se- City Light so Lhe incident dues not repeat itself. In other business, tl.e Durtoj: tiun of Forks, will minor to the ks Repairs ude windov, sil itu-j Girls with sleeping bags headed for slumber party Father striding across river followed by little si? 1 who made it but little Vy just missed, went down before father noticed hauled him out seeing double doubles Sam Levinsoi! and Jack Paar Van- Crowd of women frui couver Island Honu'iuaker Clubs arriving for pichl local Homemakers tional win annual I Bayten :r.o:i'..'tl:.;; geles Salmon Uei'by ajij Days on Tao.nna TV Ed Hagerty fretting as qut-eJi candidates took their time arriving at ferry for day's trip to Victoria Chipmunk dashing across First Street near F.v ployes set fur gutne wlL.

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