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No. 224 Copyiight 1967 Minnropolii Slor and Tnbun Company MINNEAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1,967 Slnglt Copy I f. Lowor Prie for Pric I Crrir Delivery eactionn of Reels Heller Urges Midyear Tax Rise i 'ii mil' in i nil MiiMniimii iMnnimiiiiiiMitiii i iiiininmuMi win iiiiiManiiMH imi i A Xli.X't..., Dims Oimoo Talks on Vietna Britain's New Year's Vietnam peace move appeared From the Tribune Wire Services LONDON, England doomed Monday in the face and the Soviet Union. The official North Vietnamese newspaper, Nhan itiative as a deception, while the Soviet Communist party newspaper, Pravda, scorned it as a maneuver aimed at placating public opinion in Britain. of critical reaction from talks between the United war.

South Vietnam announced Neither Hanoi nor Moscow has replied officially to the proposal for the meeting. 1 A "modest" tax increase should be levied about the middle of the year to ease the tight money situation and provide funds for "great so- i pro grams, according to Walter W. Heller, for- I mer White IX r- I House eco- nomics advis-Heller er Heller, professor of economics at the University of Minnesota, made the statement in a looking-ahead bulletin released by the National City Bank of Minneapolis, of which he is a director. In the bulletin, Heller weighed favorable economic factors against unfavorable ones and did some fiscal crystal -ball gazing. The first step necessary this year, he said, is an ease on monetary restraints, even at the risk of upsetting the nation's balance of payments abroad.

THE SUGGESTED tax in-increase, which Heller referred to as a "modest surtax" or supplementary tax, should be delayed until July 1 in order to give an easy money policy a chance to take effect. Taxpayers should not be burdened with an additional tax at all, if the soft economic conditions persist, he said. These measures, Heller Heller Continued on Page Seven lo! Associated Press U.S. PHANTOM JETS, SUCH AS THESE, SHOT DOWN SEVEN COMMUNIST MIGS The Phantoms, Air Force F4Cs, were being refueled over Vietnam U.S. Jets Down 7 MIG21s in War's Biggest Air Battle Purdue Tops USC, 74-73 Boilers Win on First Rose Bowl Trip 'Bama Crushes Nebraska, 34-7 SUGAR BOWL VICTORY IS 17TH STRAIGHT (Details in Sports Section) A southeast of Hanoi.

HE'S THE 32ND The spokesman said it was a record one-day kill for American pilots in the Vietnam war. He reported no American planes were lost as Air Force F4C Phantom jets made sweeps over the Red River Valley near Hanoi and Haiphong. A Hanoi broadcast said two U.S. planes were shot down near Hanoi and a third was downed off the coast SAIGON, South Vietnam UP) Dealing a heavy blow to the North Vietnamese air force, U.S. warplanes shot down seven MIG21S Monday in the biggest air battle of the war, the U.S.

command said today. U.S. B52 Stratofortresses kept pressure on the Communists early today with a raid near Hue on the northern coast of South Vietnam. The attack was near where 1,000 Communist troops were spotted infiltrating Marine positions Saturday during the New Year's truce period, a U.S. spokesman said.

All seven MIG21S were downed by air-to-air missiles in combat that raged "relatively close" to Hanoi, the spokesman said. He estimated dogfights took place from 30 to 40 miles north and northwest of the Communist capital. LeVander Takes Governors Oath By DAVE MONA Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer ftte tolls) He Waisted Away fo a Boxlike Figure Brown's weekend appeal for Vietnam aimed at ending the In Saigon yesterday, Johnson's lead in accepting South Vietnamese Foreign i Secretary Tran Van Do said, Our policy has always been the same never to refuse discussions in order to put an end to the war. Diplomatic observers said preliminary press reaction from the Communist capitals made it virtually certain that the latest British peace move supported yesterday by Pope Paul would fail. BRITISH officials still held out hope, although they were not encouraged.

Nhan Dan, quoted by an official Hanoi broadcast, said Brown's proposal amounted to a "demand." It said the proposal "was nothing new compared with the United State's terms for unconditional discussions," previously rejected by Hanoi. THE HANOI broadcast accused Brown of "shamefully trying to cover the aggression of the United States" by proposing the talks. Pravda said Britain made the initiative because it had been driven to it by criticism of American bombing of North Vietnam. "The British public doubts the sincerity of this proposal because it does not contain the basic requirement a condemnation of United States intervention in Vietnam and a demand that it cease," Pravda said. Pope Paul, in a message to Prime Minister Harold Wil son, said he was praying that the British effort to get peace talks going would succeed.

REPLYING to a message from Wilson, he said the pro posal for a meeting was "a human and discerning gesture." In an interview with the West German magazine, Der Spiegel, published yesterday, North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh said his people would fight on. "We shall win," he said, adding, "We deeply love peace, genuine peace in independence and freedom." He said peace could be established immediately if the United States would stop bombing and pull all its troops and those of what he called its satellites out of South Vietnam without A U.S. spokesman said the losses of the advanced model MIG21s a Delta-wing 'inter ceptor capable of 1,500 m.p.h. were a serious blow to the North Vietnamese air force. "They only have about 75 MIGs, so if we got seven of them, we got almost 10 per cent or their air strength, he said.

The Air Force planes which took on the. MIGs are equip pea witn biaewinaer and Sparrow missiles. B52 bombers also struck late yesterday night, hitting at a Communist headquarters in Quang Tin Province in the northern part of South Viet nam. Earlier in the day, B52s pounded the demilitarized zone in two raids. In other air action yester day, U.S.

Navy planes from three aircraft carrirs in the Fighting Continued on Page Seven She's Only Kidding Herself Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1967 3rd day, 362 fa as thii var Sunrit 7:52 a.m.; sunstt 4:44 p.m. After more than her share of spills down a relatively easy ski slope at Vail, an Upper Midwest 14-year-old was heard to mutter, "Gee, I wish I had started this when I was a kid." On this date in 1870, con struction began on the Brook lyn Bridge, which has been offered for sale lo tourists for many years. tor Communist North Vietnam Dan, branded the British in Foreign Secretary George States and North and South it was following President to the He also ad mitted that the early oath- taking would prevent his DFL predecessor, Karl F. Rol-vaag, from making any more late appointments.

LeVander arrived at exactly 9 a.m. yesterday, accompanied by his wife and children, Harold and Jean. Another daughter, Diana, was on a ski trip. Four minutes later he swore on his father's 70-year- LeVander Continued on Page Eight Conservatives Create Metro Problems Unit By FRANK PREMACK Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer Ruling Conservatives in the Minnesota Senate agreed Monday to create a Metropolitan Prob lems Committee headed by Harmon -dahl of Minne- a 1 i and dominated by Twin Cities area lawmakers. The decision a departure ugaam from senate tradition was made by a 16-member Conservative steering committee and approved yesterday after noon at a meeting of the ma jority caucus in Hotel St.

Paul. Formal ratification of the makeup of senate commit tees will take place this after noon on the opening day of the 1967 legislature. Republican aligned Conservatives will have no difficulty in having their choices established, since they con trol the senate by a 45-22 margin over the Democratic-Farmer Laborites. IN PAST sessions, Conservatives consistently have declined to create a special committee to deal with such metropolitan problems as sewage disposal, air and water pollution and mass transit. Instead, bills dealing with these bl usually wound up in a Civil Administration subcommittee headed by Sen.

Gordon Rosen-meier, influential Conservative from Little Falls. But Twin Cities Conserva- Senate Continued on Page 1 Harold LeVander became Minnesota's 32nd governor at 9:04 a.m. Monday when he took the oath of office from Chief Justice Oscar R. Knut son of the Minnesota Su preme Court. Immediately after taking the oath Le Vander kissed his smiling wife, Iantha.

LeVander, 56, will take the oath again Wednesday in the more formal, traditional cere mony prior to delivering his inaugural address to a joint session of the State Legislature. That session, which convenes at noon today, will mark the first time in 14 years that a Republican governor will serve when both houses of the legislature are controlled by Conservatives. Yesterday LeVander took the oath on the first day allowed by the State Constitution. THE TERM of the new governor begins on the first Monday of January, but in the past, some governors-elect have waited until the inaugural ceremonies to take office. LeVander started his four- year-term Monday saying, "I wanted to make an orderly transition from one governor ill Jiitil The children got on my nerves," said this father of five.

"You know, they say a fat person is a jolly one. But it's really a veneer." Lorenz began his weight gain when he was 12. Then he went to a private high school and had to eat in the school cafeteria. "THERE NEVER seemed to be enough food, so I would fill up on bread. My main problem all along is too hearty an appetite." When Lorenz was 14, he was 5 feet tall and weighed 135 pounds.

Since then he added 11 inches to his height, more than doubled his weight and developed high blood pressure. He needed hard-to-find size 52 suits. "Whenever I had a problem, maybe my boss was a little rough on me, I would head for the refrigerator." Lorenz munched all evening long. It was nothing for him to take a package of six or eight sweet rolls, top them with plenty of peanut butter and devour them all before he went to bed. A typical breakfast under his old regimen was three or four eggs, a half pound of bacon and four to eight slices of toast.

"WHEN I got home from work at night, I'd eat one or two sandwiches and then fall asleep until dinner time," he confessed. Lorenz has been on sev- Editorial .6 Business .12, 13 Women's Area Ski Page 25 U.S. Expected to Intensify War in 1967 By RONALD ROSS Minneapolis Tribune Far East Correspondent SAIGON, South Vietnam-United States military planners are digging in for their own "protracted war" in Southeast Asia. Plans for 1967 indicate that the war against the Communist insurgency will be greatly intensified wherever it is being fought South Vietnam, North Viet nam and in Laos and Thai land. But few Americans here hold out any hope that their efforts will bring a quick end to the turmoil that has torn this western edge of the Pacific for decades.

According to sources in Saigon close to the American high command the long range plan upon which Oen. William C. Westmoreland is basing the continuing buildup of allied forces stretches into at least 1972. THE NUMBER of U.S. troops that are programmed probably will exceed 800,000, these sources said.

Currently the number of men of all nations in opposition to the Communists in South Vietnam exceeds 1.3 million. Of these nearly are Americans. This latter figure does not include 50,000 to 70,000 Americans with the 7th Fleet and other units not in the country, such as the crews of B52 bombers operating out of Guam. (The balance of Free World forces is made up of some 55,000 South Koreans and Australians, and 600,000 South Vietnamese regulars, regional and local militia and national police.) TOTAL COMMUNIST forces in South Vietnam South Vietnamese and sol diers from the North are estimated to be fewer than 300,000, of whom about one third are professional, full-time troops. In South Vietnam plans for the coming year call lor a major effort to open the country's badly mauled trans nortation system, its roads especially.

Sources here say this will require a greatly enlarged fleet of helicopters which, in Plans Continued on Page 11 4 Second of a series By MARY HART Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer Built just like a box and with about as much energy. That's the way Duane Lorenz, 34, 8924 Sunset Road Spring Lake Park, describes the man he was a year ago. At 294 pounds, Lorenz's measurements were almost straight up and down 52 chest, 51 waist and 54 hips. "Everytime I sat down, I would fall asleep," he said. "I was self-conscious didn't like to go to dances.

LORENZ BEFORE At 294 pounds Snow Flurries, Clouds Forecast Cloudy skies and snow flurries were forecast for the Twin Cities today by the Weather Bureau. The high today was expected to be 25 and low tonight 20. There was a 5 per cent chance of precipitation today, increasing to 10 per cent night. About 2 inches of snow fell over most of Minnesota Monday, and parts of the Twin Cities had as much as 4 inches. The rest of Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin also were expected to get cloudy skies and snow.

Predicted regional highs: Minnesota, 15 to 28; South Dakota, 26 to 36; North Dakota, 18 to 28; Wisconsin, 15 to 30. HE LOST 92 POUNDS Waist shrank inches eral diets. About eight years ago he went on one of his own and lost about 70 pounds in two years. "Then I quit smoking, TOPS Continued on Page 10 Comics .20, 21 Sports 23-26 Theaters 32 eporfs 1 Radio and Television. .39 Telephones Tribune Circulation News, General Want Ads 372-4242 i Minneapolis Tribune Photo by Dwight Miller Le VANDER USED HIS FATHER'S BIBLE TO TAKE OATH Governor was sworn inby Chief Justice Oscar Knulson 1 "W-.