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The Holland Evening Sentinel DtUVftY WfK DAf fVfMJMCS SEVENTY-FOURTH YEAR NO. 126 HOLLAND, MICHIGAN. 49423 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1969 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS Tax Bills In the Mail This Week Levy of $638,000 Covers County Taxes And Assessments Winter tax bills for city residents totaling 3638,570.37 will be in the mail this week, according to City Assessor Robert Nienhuis. These bills cover county taxes, special assessments, delinquent taxes and delinquent utility bills. Deadline without penalty is Feb.

14, 1970. The Ottawa county portion of the city has a total rate of $3.13 per $1,000 equalized valuation and the Allegan county portion has a total rate of $8.33. Some 25 city residents living in the Hamilton school district also will be billed for Hamilton school taxes at tie rate of $23.99 per $1,000. Taxes are payable in the city treasurer's office. Taxes are levied on a total equalized valuation of $97,026,615, listing $78,279,696 for Ottawa and $18,746,917 for Allegan.

This compares with $90,316,063 last year with $75,131,593 for Ottawa and $15,184,473 for AUegan. Taxes this year total $557,824.73 listing $401,374.85 for the Ottawa portion and $156,249.88 for the Allegan portion. The 1968 winter taxes totaled $495,650.59, listing $379,790.21 for Ottawa and $115,860.38 for Allegan. Tax bills list $80,745.64 in special assessments. $31,980.60 for Ottawa and $48,765.04 for Allegan.

The Ottawa county tax rate lists 4.50 mills for the county, J3 mill for intermediate school district and .5 mill for special education for a total of 5.13 mills. Th Allegan rate is 7.70 mills for the county, .13 for the intermediate school district and .5 for special education for a total of 8.33 mills. Penalty after Feb. 14 is 3 per cent After Feb. 28 a 1 per cent collection fee and per cent cent a month interest are added.

North Viets Try to Gain Allied Post SAIGON (UPD-Six hundred fresh North Vietnamese troops stormed out of Cambodia this morning and tried again and again to overrun an outnumbered Allied outpost without success. Military spokesmen said the 160 South Vietnamese defenders, with help from U.S. warplanes and artillery, threw back the four-hour assault, killing 108 of the attackers and capturing six machine guns. Six of the government troops were killed and 27 wounded in the 200-round mortar attack that preceded the battle and during the fight itself, most of it at close quarters, the announcement said. It was the biggest battle in three weeks.

It coincided with 58 shelling attacks against other Allied targets, the heaviest round of overnight salvos since Nov. 7. One American was killed and 16 were wounded. HAWAII BATTERED Residents of the North Shore of Oahu, 25 miles from Honolulu, flee an oncoming wave which raced across roadway about 100 feet from shore. Surf up to 50 feet pounded the islands for about 18 hours beginning Monday evening.

(UN telephoto) Subsiding Surf Leaves One Dead; 65Homes Gone HONOLULU (UPI) Huge waves driven by a distant storm thundered in from the Pacific today, battering the northern shores of the Hawaiian Island chain. The fury of the surf storm subsided after the midnight high tide and most of the nearly 600 persons who had fled their homes before the initial onslaught Monday night returned to begin mopping up. The surf attack, averaging 20 foot waves contrasted with 50 footers Monday the north shore night, struck of Oahu, 25 mites from here, but caused little damage. Initial reports persons a sailor and One man, Rovert V. Beadles, from other inhabited islands indicated some heavy waves but no serious damage.

The earlier surf rampage resulted in reports of two missing woman and a third man died of a heart attack after helping with nightlong rescue operations The Waikiki resort area and! downtown Honolulu, located on the opposite side of the island, were not affected by the surging waves. Shortly after midnight, the state Civil Defense agency announced it was disbanding its rescue center at city halL A spokesman said the waves were beginning to drop lower: "This is the worst surf since the tidal wave in 1960 killed 60 persons in H3o," said Fred C. Pugarelli, information officer for the state civil defense agency. Honolulu was not hit. The Red Cross estimated 65 homes destroyed on Oahu and 120 damaged.

48, operations manager of a television station, died of a heart attack after working throughout the night operating a searchlight in the area. Damage on Oahu was estimated at 5500,000 by City Engineer Albert Zane. On the Island of Hawaii, 200 miles to the south, Rites Held Here For Slain Coed Sermon Quotes Poem Victim Had Written In High School Days "I live for God, "I exist for a reason." Thus began the fourth stanza of a poem written during her Holland High School days by Betsy Aardsma, 22 year old! I graduate student who was fatally stabbed late Friday afternoon! in the library of Pennsylvania State University. The poem entitled "Why Do I Live?" served as the basis ifor the message of the Rev. Van Oostenburg at funeral i for Miss Aardsma this afternoon in Trinity Reformed Church, the coed's home church.

"This poem was found among Betsy's effects after her death and was dated in 1965," Rev. Van Oostenburg said. The first two stanza's of seven lines each, written in free verse, spoke of living for one's sett and the latter two about living for God." The poem which appeared in a student publication concluded: "I am living in preparation for I live for will And increase in the face of is my is my beginning." Rev. Van Oostenburg chose his text from I Corinthians death, where is thy sting? grave, where is thy victory? Thanks be to God which giveth us the Helicopter Crew Released by Reds At Panmunjom Will Fly Home Thursday authorities evacuated 75 resi-1 victory through our Lord Jesus dents of the fishing village of Milolii. The missing sailor was identified as Robert Groves, 21.

Two companions said he was swept out to sea at Waimea Beach. The missing woman was not identified. A man said he saw her walking on a North Shore beach when a wave suddenly crashed along the beach. When it receded, the woman had disappeared. Jet's Scheduled Flight Changes Course to Cuba PHILADELPHIA (UPI)--A, were scheduled to hold a news 'Apology' to Obtain Release Repudiated As in Pueblo Case ASCOM CITY, South Korea (UPI)--Three U.S.

Army heli- copter crewmen shot down over North Korea last August i freed today at the Panmunjom i trace village when the United i States apologized for their ''criminal'" intrusion into the I Communist nation. The United States immediate- CARRIED FROM HELICOPTER--Army Spec. 4 Herman E. Hofstatter of Low Point, one of the three U.S. helicopter crewmen released by North Korea, is carried to an ambulance after arrival at the 121st Army Hospital at Ascom City, South Korea today.

(UPI radiophoto) Trans World Airlines jet, hijacked to Cuba by a knife- wielding Negro on a flight from San Francisco to Philadelphia, landed in Philadelphia early today. conference after the interrogation. The jetliner was near Omaha, at the time of the hijacking, about 6:30 p.m. EST Tuesday. Nixon radioed the Los The Boeing 707, TWA's Flight Angeles air control tower: 'Td 54, landed at Philadelphia International Airport -at 5:30 a.m.

after a stop in Miami for Weather Mostly cloudy, windy and colder tonight with occasional snow flurries. Lows 20-25. Partly cloudy Thursday and cold with a chance of snow flurries. ffighs 25-30. Friday outlook: fair and warmer.

The sun sets tonight at 5:14 p.m. and rises tomorrow at 7:57 a.m. The temperature at 11 a.m. today was 29. Overnight snowfall was 1.5 inches.

For the 24 hours ending 5 p.m. yesterday the instruments recorded the following: Local Report Maximum, 43. Minimum. 28. Precipitation, none.

One Year Ago Yesterday Maximum, 42. Minimum, 23. Precipitation, trace. PAUL'S JEWELRY Open Nightly 'til 9 P.M. Until Christmas Adv.

MONOGRAMM1NG Mister Guy Adv. GIFTS GALORE AT Your Christmas Store Fris Downtown Holland Adv. PRESIDENT'S State football coach Woody Hayes (shown in 1968 photo) was ly asked by President Nixon to become U.S. Selective" Service Director, according to a Scripps- Howard newspaper report today. The White House denied today that Hayes was among those under consideration for the draft post, but did not comment whether he had been asked.

(UPI telephoto) Plans to Retire WASHINGTON (UPI) Lt. Gen. Benjamin 0. Davis 56, the highest ranking Negro customs clearance. It carried 20 passngers and a crew of seven.

A passenger, R. Kallman. 42, of Palo Alto, said the hijacker left the plane when it landed in Havana. The hijacker was identified only as B. Hamilton.

only thing I saw him do on the plane was force the stewardess up the aisle at a good clip," Kallman said. "The captain handled the incident magnificently." A TWA spokesman said Hamilton put a knife to the throat of hostess Barbara Smithdeal, who sustained small cuts on her hand, to force his way into the cockpit. A Florida Air National Guard F102 jet, which scrambled In the air to escort the flight to Cuba, caught fire and crashed near Jacksonville, Fla. The pilot, CapL H. L.

Deweese. 32, of Jacksonville, ejected from his F102 Starfighter and landed and Havana headed for like the Miami weather. I'm Havana." The airliner landed in Havana at 9:20 p.m. and took off at 11:38 a.m. today, a layover of more than four hours.

It was the 30th hijacking or the year in the United States and came 32 days after Raffaele Minichiello of Seattle, commandeered a Los Angeles to San Francisco TWA flight to Rome in the longest hijacking on record. Christ." He chose the theme after talking with one of Betsy's close friends, a senior at the University of Michigan, who requested an Easter theme if anything should happen to her in Ann Arbor where several coeds had been murdered. Burial was in Pilgrim Home cemetery in Holland. Meanwhile, authorities in Pen- sylvania sifted through clues in the hunt for the kffler. State police in University Park, said they had received more than 75 phone calls from persons volunteering information about the death of Miss Aardsma but added it was ''difficult to tell at this time" whether the calls contained pertinent information.

Some of those who called had been in the huge Pattee Library last Friday whr the coed was stabbed in the cnesL, Lt. Wfl- liam Kimmel said. She cried once for help and died within minutes. Kimmel said police had no clues to the identity of the slayer or a motive. He declined to say if the death weapon had in the U.S.

military service, in a swamp. He suffered a will retire from the Air Force Feb. 1 after 35 years' service, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. Davis' retirement w21 leave Army Brig. Gen.

Frederic E. Davidson as the highest and only Negro General in U.S. military service. sprained ankle. FBI agents began questioning the crew and passengers who were aboard the Boeing 707 after it landed at Philadelphia.

The pflot, Capt. C. Clyde! Two unidentified men seen near the student while she lay wounded "have not come Kimmel said. The two men spoke with an unidentified girl student who answered the victim's call for help and then they quickly left the scene. "They seemed to be in a hurry to get away from the area." Kimmel said.

The slaying took place between Mrs. Dykman Undergoes Amputation of Leg Mrs. Miner Dvkman, 48, un- i ven book shelves on ,1 the second level of six-level derwent amputation of her right leg above the knee in Blodgett Memorial Hospital, Grand Rapids, Tuesday. Her daughter. Mrs.

Myra Jordan, was admitted to Blodgett today, where she will have her jaw wired in three places. Both were injured in an accident on Blue Star Highway near 64th St. on Thanksgiving Day and were taken to Holland Has- thing is fine." pital. Mrs. Dykraan also suffered chest injuries and stacks in a wing of the library which was '-almost deserted," police said.

It was thought about 90 were scattered throughout the sprawling bufld- ing at the time of the murder. Miss Aardsma, a graduate of the University of Michigan, was Btudying English and art at Penn State. She had talted with her family here on ing Day, the day before she was killed, and told them "every- RELEASE CREWMEN--Copt. David H. Crawford (right) of Pooler, and Warrant Officer Malcolm V.

Loepke (left) of Richmond, two of three U.S. helicopter crewmen released by North Korea, arrive at 121st Army Hospital at Astom City, South Korea, 20 miles west of Seoul today (UPI radiophoto) Bell Telephone Expansion Set Michigan Bell Telephone Co. $150.000,000 debenture issue, announced today that it in the company's his-! spend S420.000 next year to ex- tory. Directors of Michigan Bell Adams, Ri's American counter- pand and improve telephone ser-1 already have authorized the part, told newsmen later the vice in Holland- sale and. if all regulatory ap-; GIs "were very rational They Kenneth J.

Whalen, Michigan i provals are obtained, bids are had complete control of their Bell president, said in Detroit i expected to be opened next jly repudiated the apology as it in the Pueblo spyship case i and the men were flown to the 121st Army evacuation hospital where an Army doctor pronounced them in good I physical condition and able to ifly home Thursday for Christmas with their families. The three men were Spec. 4 Herman Hofstatter. 21. of Lowpoint, 111., who was on crutches when he stepped across the truce line; Cant David.

H. Crawford. 27. of Pooler. Ga who was limping, and WO Malcolm V.

Loepke, 35 of Richmond. who appeared in good health "In general, all three men are in good physical condition," said Col Paul E. commander of the hospital. "Their psychological outlook also is Sheffler said all three men had bullet wounds but he did not know whether they recen ed them at the time the helicopter was shot down the Han River estuary Aug. 17.

a few miles north of Seoul and half a mile inside North Korea. He said Crawford had only limited use of his right shoulder because of a wound received there. He said Hofstatter had a knee wound with open drainage I but that two other wounds had healed. Loepke suffered a I gunshot wound in the right shoulder but Sheffler said it was ''completely healed." Asked what treatment was planned for the three men he said, ''a lot of tender loving He they already had telephoned their families soon after they crossed into South Korea. They were shaved, had fresh haircuts and had been provided overcoats against the 20- degree weather at this border truce village.

Maj. Gen. Hi Chun Sun, the chief North Korean delegate at the Korean Armistice Commission, immediately announced through a spokesman that the three had "confessed unanimously." He said their flight had been a United States attempt to start a war. Marine Maj. Gen.

Arthur H. emotions" Newsmen that the expenditure is part of i February. the company's record Carl J. Marcus, Michigan Bell' ear construction program for manager here, said next year's i Adams but were were happy, not allowed said Crawford had 1970. It tops this year's by some total expenditure for Holland oeen hospitalized 80 days with a and marks the first be alloted as follows: Out- wound in the shoulder" Hofstat- time the company-wide outlay S1( i an facilities, S125.000; ier sbll had an open wound in suf- Frve more full-time men bave wffl exceed the quarter-billion- telephone equioment in homes his ri knee and that Loepke a i been assigned to the case which! dollar figure.

an offices $125 000 and cen- had been wounded in the left was bnn tbe total to fan-time "The size of next years con- a office eq Dme nt S170 000. shoulder. I brings the total to 23 full-time "The size of next year's conj investigators on campus. Many struction program reflects 1- .1 Nixon, 47, of Los Altos Hffls, at the local hospital and others are working on fragmen- only the company's confidence Calif, and other crew members i is now in a walkin cast tar leads off camus. in the future of Michian but tary leads off campus.

'More Understanding' on Drug Abuse: Nixon WASHINGTON (UPI) --Pres- were not the answer because scale lose their (problem and how to cope with Ideni. Nixon told state governors jthey ere brought into use only spirit," XLx-- IJ today that when "the damage is already' down. They in the future of Michigan, but also our determination to provide the amount and quality of office equipment, $170,000. 1970 program' A spokesman for the U.S. start of two new' i 61161 31 sa 'd the Communists 17 large building had draw the bufldings a lo a11 ln one sentence.

Nixon said. "They go it- Whalen said. "We have been able to main- becompleted. I 1 ram Adams of the US Armv ambulances took n- Bells largest single the men to a nearbv Aiu more rather than harsher punishment is the key. to curbing drug abuse in America.

In a 10-minute off-the-cuff done." are destroyed. "When the spirit of a people "The answer is not more! is destroyed it is almost penalties," he said. "Tha impossible to restore that answer is more information, 1 more understanding." Thirty nine governors i speech opening a White House! Nixon noted that one-third of! states and territories, and two conference for governors on the the nation's college students new state governors-elect, were drug problem, the President' and 16 per cent of the high on hand for the opening of the said: "All of us must go school students either had used I day-long meeting. Nixon spoke to our communities and wage a campaign, a campaign of education and information that will reach aH the people of our states." He said criminal penalties WE WRAP AND MAIL Russell Stover Candies Anywhere Desired Model Drug Store Adv. or were using marijuana.

But, he said, the drug problem was not confined to a particular segment of society, having begun to reach the upper middle classes. Civilizations i have turned to drug use on a broad HEAR BILLY Channel 13 7:30 P.M. Adv. to them in the State Department auditorium. The President then stayed for a while to listen, along with the governors, to other top government leaders discuss the drug CHRISTMAS VESPERS Hope College Sunday, 4 and 8:30 P.M.

Dimnent Memorial Chapel Adv Besides drugs and narcotics, the governors were getting foreign policy briefings later today at the State Department I from administration officials. Because of the high incidence of use of marijuana and other drugs among young people, Nixon specifically asked the governors to bring along their teen-age children and wives. The youngsters sat with their parents during the Nixon speech and subsequent briefings by federal officials concerned with drug abuse. i we nave oeen aoie 10 main- mcn a near tain good service and keep oace building project in History, the ca from with the sharply rising Billion corporate headquar-, fle them to a mands on our he I ters building now being erected i Ascom atv said. "But recently we have had i downtown Detroit.

The l'-' Seou If GRAND OPENING Confines thru Sat. At Mister Guy Adv. to raise our sights to make sure i our construction plans are in line with changing customer in 200,000 telephones next Whalen disclosed that part of and anticipates serving scheduled to flown to Ba se near Washington, D.C., Michigan Bell expects to add Thursday to be reunited with the 1970 program vnll be financed through the sale of a 45 million telephones by the end of 1970. The company expects to handle more than 5 families, about. The tactic that won their release was a carbon copy of the one used by the United States to gain the freedom for billion local and long distance i 82 crewmen of the spy shio rwvvt rj calls next year.

To handle the new orders for phone service and to fill increased requests for better grade of service such as private lines, the company plans to install about 13 billion conductor feet exchange cable. Pueblo last Dec. 23. Adams handed over apology to Ri before the release was demanded. 1EWSP4PERS HAPPINESS IS A Christmas Gift From Mister Guy -IWSPAPFR! Adv..