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Weather MINNESOTA: Warmer NORTH DAKOTA: Warmer SOUTH DAKOTA: Warmer WISCONSIN: Warmer IOWA: Warmer Vol. C-No. 264 Minneapolis Copyright 1967 Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company Coach Van Brocklin Resigns; Vikings Accept VIKING NEWS IN SPORTS PEACH VAN BROCKLIN Vetoed Tarkenton Trade VIKINGS Are Surprised and Shocked by Coach's Resignation ference at the Holiday Inn. However in a press release announcing his resignation, Van Brocklin was quoted as saying: "Under existing onditions I feel the general interest of the Minnesota Vikings as well as those of my family and myself are best served at this MINNEAPOLIS, SUNDAY; FEBRUARY Tribune peace of mind and general interests of my family in mind in arriving at this decision. They are of paramount importance to me.

"It is hope that the many followers of the Vikings will continue their outstanding support of the team. It has, in its personnel and leadership, all the elements of ultimate success." Van Brocklin quit 24 hours after star quarterback Fran Tarkenton had announced his resignation. In a letter to Finks, Van Brocklin and the five own- Full- Scale Fighting Ends Truce SAIGON, South Vietnamfamiliar rumble of war was heard in South Vietpour today lunar at the New end of Year a (Tet) truce marked by 168 American casualties. Ground operations were resumed and warplanes pounded targets in South Vietnam. A U.S.

spokesman said "full military activity" was resumed and within minutes the sound of artillery could be heard in Saigon. The explosions rattled windows in the capital. The U.S. command declined to say whether the resumption of war meant that air strikes were again being carried out against targets in North Vietnam. IN WASHINGTON, D.C., administration sources indicated there would be a temporary pause before resumption of the bombing.

Whether this was for technical or political reasons was not explained. The Washington Post said it had learned the United States is holding open its option on whether or not to resume air strikes against North Vietnam. The Post said that by avoiding any commitment now on whether bombing will will be resumed, the United States apparently left a door open for Hanoi to signal a desire to talk or to reduce the level of fighting. JUST AFTER the ceasefire ended, B52 bombers hit what was said to be a suspected enemy headquarters area in a coastal area near Bong Son about 300 miles north of Saigon, the U.S. command said.

Following the artillery explosions audible in Saigon, the sounds of aerial bombardment were heard a few miles north of the city. From the roofs of tall buildings, planes could be seen dropping their bombs, apparently to prepare for or support a ground operation. The truce, proclaimed by South Vietnam and joined by its Allies, ended at 7 a.m. Saigon time as scheduled, despite a Viet Cong declaration that the Communists would Vietnam Continued on Page 14A IN TODAY'S TRIBUNE Around and About the News: CHINA'S UPHEAVAL may rank with the "Great Leap Forward" of 1958 as one of the major "surges" of the country's Communist history, reports Ronald Ross. The Tribune's Far East correspondent's analysis appears on Page 5A.

A STRONGER SYSTEM of Western Hemisphere cooperation will be the goal when foreign ministers of members of the Organization of American States meet Wednesday in Buenos Aires, Argentina. David Mazie, the Tribune's South American correspondent, reports on Page 1C. Among the Features: "PEOPLE I LIKE" abound in Duluth, George Grim finds. His report, with pictures, appears on Page 1B. HOW TO BE 4 years old, as told to Staff Writer Catherine Watson by Christopher Robert Mockenhaupt, a practicing preschooler, appears on Page One, Women and Society Section.

Among the Old Friends: Ann Landers Mr. Fixit ........7 Home Ent. Will Jones ........2 Ent. Books .....10, 11 Ent. Bridge .15 Home Pages 2C-4C Travel News 14B-15B Minnesota Polls-10B and 3C TV for the Week-7 Entertainment 12, 1967 SUNDAY PRICE 25c for me.

Norm's action does not change that one bit." He added that he wanted to continue to play pro football and he didn't care where. "I just would like for the Vikings to make the most advantageous de al 1 for themselves," he said. "I have no preference on where I may play next year." He said no other team had contacted him since Van Brocklin Continued on Page 14A ers Friday, Tarkenton said, "Because of the events of the past few months, and my feelings toward a number of things, it is impossible for me to return to the Vikings with a clear and open mind." At his home in Atlanta, Tarkenton said: "It comes as a great surprise to me that Norm has decided to resign, but in no way does it affect my decision. "The reason I left the team was that I sincerely thought it was the best thing for the Vikings and NORM VAN BROCKLIN His job is open Teamsters Local Accepts Honeywell Offer, Ends Strike By MARK WYMAN Minneapolis Tribune Staff 'Writer Members of Teamsters Local 1145 voted 2,579 to 2,291 Saturday to accept a company offer and end their 11-day strike at Honeywell Inc. Company officials said workers will resume work with their third shift at 11 p.m.

tonight. Acceptance of the offer only slightly different from a company proposal rejected Jan, 31 indicated that the deciding issue was a plan permitting employes in bottom labor grades to transfer to jobs in other Honeywell plants. The change was the only major difference from the rejected offer setting off the strike at Honeywell, Minnesota's largest private employer. Some 10,500 employes in the firm's 12 Twin Cities manufacturing plants are members of Local 1145. State and federal officials had shown concern over the strike because of the firm's contracts for U.S.

defense and space work. In fiscal 1966 Honeywell's contracts with the U.S. Defense Department totaled $250 million. Stephen F. Keating, Honeywell president, said the strike -the union's first at Honeywell since the early 1940s- "was an unfortunate sign of the times.

This kind of thing has been happening around the country." Andy Jones, Local 1145's secretary treasurer, agreed that acceptance showed that the problem of transfers within the bottom labor grades had been the major issue in rejection of the earlier offer. THE EARLIER proposal -carrying a $24 million price tag had been unanimously recommended by the union's 50-member negotiating committee. Yesterday's proposal carried majority support from the negotiators. Presentation of the offer at an afternoon meeting of Local 1145 in the Minneapolis Armory revealed lingering hard-core opposition to the proposal and to union officers. Harold J.

Gibbons, St. Louis, a Teamsters inHoneywell Continued on Page 14A Police, Firemen to Vote on New Contract Offer Minneapolis police and firemen will vote today on a new contract offer made Saturday during, a bargaining session in the Pick-Nicollet Hotel. The joint council of the firemen and police officers will recommend acceptance of the contract, said Charles Benzinger, president of Firefighters Local 82. He said the proposal included a slight upward adjustment of salaries from the previous offer of a per cent raise. He said the joint council "felt it was the best that we can get at this time." Unofficially, it was reported that the new salary offer calls for a per cent raise, far below the original 20 per cent raise demanded.

Some of those who will A By BOB FOWLER Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer Norman Mack Van Brocklin, the stormy and outspoken head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, quit Saturday. It was his second resignation in the last 16 months. The 40-year-old Van Brocklin, who has been the Vikings' head coach since the team was organized in 1961, submitted resignation verbally to General Manager Jim Finks and two of the team's owners, B. H. Ridder Jr.

and H. P. Skoglund. Club President Max Winter was contacted by telephone in Hawaii, E. Boyer was informed by telephone in Abbott Hospital and Ole Haugsrud was called at his home in Duluth, Minn.

The five owners: agreed unanimously to accept Van Brocklin's resignation. Why did Van Brocklin quit again? Unlike the first time he resigned (Nov. 15, 1965) when he conducted the press conference, Van Brocklin was not present at yesterday's press con- time by my resignation as head coach. "I wish to emphasize that this is not a hasty decision on my part, but one that I have given serious consideration to over a period of several months. It is, obviously, not an easy decision to make.

"However, I do have the Army Takes Over in Peking; China Alerts Border Forces Orders Are Posted in Mao's Name TOKYO, Japan (AP) Japanese dispatches reported that the Red Chinese army took control of Peking Saturl day while orders posted i in the name of Mao Tse-tung alerted military commands on the frontiers to watch for moves against China by forces of imperialism and revisionism Chinese terms for the United States and the Soviet Union. A dispatch from the Peking correspondent of the Tokyo newspaper Nihon Keizai said the Public Security Ministry and the People's Liberation Army garrison command issued a decree revealing that the command has taken over duties of the police and set up a "military control committee." Red Guards posted orders in Mao's name around Peking, another Japanese dispatch said. (FOR FOREIGNERS in China, Life Goes on Amid Upheaval-Page 5A.) THE EMPHASIS in the orders was on the Soviet-Chinese border in the west and Sinkiang province, where Red China has its nuclear testing ground at Lop Nor, the Japanese account reported. It added that there also is some concern in Peking for mainland areas facing the Nationalist Chinese island of Formosa. The orders noted a sharp increase in aircraft and troop movements along the SovietSinkiang border but did not say whether they were Chinese or Russian.

A Peking dispatch of the Kyodo news service said that the orders quoted Mao as telling military commanders and Communist party leaders they need not pursue his purge of internal foes simultaneously with the alert. He also acknowledged that this turn of events would delay the purge, Kyodo said. KYODO SAID the orders were contained in mimeographed bulletins posted in the Chinese capital as 000 persons demonstrated outside the Soviet Embassy. Earlier Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi assailed the Soviet leadership at a mass rally. Chou and Chen, as well as China Continued on Page! 14A PROTESTERS HECKLED REAGAN AT CAPITOL IN Closed eyes and pursed lips were an answer to Teachers, Students Shout Down Reagan SACRAMENTO, Calif.

(P) Gov. shouted into the disapproving roars of marchers Saturday that the people have a er education they provide for California The Republican governor's voice was the jeers and boos of teachers and students Light Snow, Cold Predicted Occasional light snow is Cities and low temperatures likely today ten the Twin will continue, the Weather Bureau The expected high is 15 and the low tonight 5. In Minnesota, the forecast is for cloudy skies and a chance of light snow in the east tonight. Highs today. were expected to be 8 to 20 in the west and south, 2 below to 10 above in the northeast.

Gasoline Going Up JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) The Indonesian government will raise the price of gasoline and other fuels by as much as 800 per cent to avoid economic collapse, Information Minister Muhamad Diah said Saturday. U.S.S.R. MONGOLIAN MANCHURIA REPUBLIC SINKIANG Lop Nor Peking CHINA KOREA: Shanghai TIBET Nanking? NEPAL BHUTAN Yangtze Foochow INDIA Canton FORMOSA BURMA Hong LAOS, Kong VIETNAM: Bay of Bengal PHILIPPINES THAILAND VIETNAM: 0 500 MILES DON'T LOOT THE COLLEGES TO BALANCE BUDGET 00 Associated Press SACRAMENTO jeers -AlmanacMan Over Machine? Not This Time Sunday, Feb. 12, 1967 Ronald Reagan thousands of protest voice in the highstudents. drowned out by as he closed his surprise five-minute appearance on the Capitol steps by pledging "to represent the people of this state." A ring of police surrounded Reagan, who was wearing a raincoat, as the crowd jammed around him.

AN ESTIMATED 7,500 in tuition. THIS WAS NEEDED, he marchers broke into a chant, "We are the people," as Reagan made his way back into the Capitol to start a delayed speaking trip to Oregon. The protest group, organized by the California Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, then listened to about two hours of talks militantly denouncing Reagan's proposal to cut college and university budgets and to charge tuition to California residents for the first time. Reagan would cut the requested budgets of the ninecampus university and the 19 state colleges by about 30 per cent and proposed that part of the gap be made up by imposing nearly $40 million said, because of a state financial crisis, but Reagan pledged to maintain educational quality. There were shouts of "Sieg heil" and "Tax the rich" and repeated taunting interruptions as Reagan addressed the throng, which had marched seven blocks up the Capitol mall for the noon rally.

All state college and university campuses were represented. Earlier, Dr. John Sperling of San Jose State College predicted that college faculty members of the teachers federation would strike if Reagan's proposals went through. Reagan delayed his departure for Oregon to make a Lincoln Day speech to appear March Continued on Page 14A 43rd day, 322 to qo this vear Sunrise 7:19 a.m.; sunset 5:37 p.m. A Minneapolis man walked into a firm to buy $6 worth of paper.

A clerk asked him to wait and went to a back room where another employe was attending a giant new computer. After a short con-1 sultation there, the clerk returned to the counter and shrugged his shoulders. "Sorry," he said. "But the computer won't let us sell orders that small. Perhaps you could come back tomorrow.

Right now there's no one in the office with enough authority to overrule the computer." Abraham Lincoln was born on this date in 1809 in Hardin County, now Larue County, Kentucky. Minneapolis Tribune Photo by Kent Kobersteen Governor's Daughter Wed Thomas and his bride, the former Jean LeVander, accepted congratulations and best wishes after their marriage Saturday night in Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, St. Paul. A reception line formed at the church, but the official reception was given by the bride's parents, Gov. and Mrs.

Harold LeVander, at the Governor's Mansion. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray W. King, 6216 Wyman Edina.

Manned Exploration of Planets Is Urged New York Times Service WASHINGTON, D.C. The President's science advisers Saturday urged a "vigorous" space program aimed toward manned exploration of the planets in the late 1970s. They said not enough was known now to select a single major goal such as a manned landing on Mars as a focal point for the program. But "the time is right now" to decide what must follow initial manner landings on the moon, they said. In 1961, President John Kennedy chose the lunar landings as a focal point for building a broad capability for space flight.

THE "VIGOROUS" new program seeks to balance manned flight, space science and space applications and to lay the biomedical and engineering groundwork for later planetary flights. It is proposed in a 99-page report of the President's Science Advisory Committee titled "The Space Program in the Post-Apollo Period." The report, prepared over the past year by the committee's science and space technology panels, was released yesterday with an troductory note by the President. "BECAUSE the ties in space are great but Space Continued on Page 14A vote today expressed dissatisfaction with the offer. A detective said the vote "depends on how tired they are of bannering." Four meetings were scheduled to allow policemen and firemen to vote during changes of shifts today. Votes will be taken at the Labor Temple, 117.

4th St. at 7:30 and 8:45 a.m. and 1 and 7 p.m. Benzinger said the talks yesterday were amicable and that "no voices were raised. The parties included the joint council, Vern Buck and John Pecchia, assistant state conciliators, and the City Council Ways and Means Committee.

Bannering of City Hall will continue until final settlement is reached, Benzinger said..

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