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WEATHER Fair to partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 28. High Thursday 55, Sunset 7:14. Sunrise 5:15. UPI felepnotu and UPI Wire News Service Los Angeles Times Washington Post News Service Central Minnesota Pictures Sea It First In Tht Times 107th Year No.

268 ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA, 56301, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1968 44 Pages IOC UCntS vour' 35C We Ptr ceie ic ic it F111A Runs 286 Cong Suspects Rounded Up i-s i Si By JACK WALSH Some passed as close as lOed killing 56 Communists in a where large Communist troop concentrations were reported. SAIGON (UPD-The U.S. Air yards to the hidden Americans, daylong fight. Force today temporarily can See Page 2 No.

2 possibly preparing for another large-scale attack on Saigon. the spokesmen said. Just before dawn the troops celed all combat missions of its crash-plagued F111A jets. On Spokesmen said a total of 111 sprung their trap. Communists were killed in the the ground, allied troops round They closed in and sealed off U.S.

Steps ed up scores of prisoners in a the village. They searched fighting, including 95 slain in the three Mekong Delta provin series of battles near Saigon, about 75 houses and seized military spokesmen said. ces Tuesday. about six tons of rice from them. In Binh Duong province about The Air Force decision to pull the FlllAs out of combat came Up Push on 25 miles north of Saigon, U.S.

1st Infantry Division troops The spokesmen said they rounded up 272 persons and all after the loss of the third of the Swing wing fighter bombers sealed off an entire village believed filled with Viet Cong Monday. but four were held for further interrogation by Vietnamese nanoi ror soldiers and held 268 suspects Hanoi Radio today claimed North Vietnamese antiaircraft defenses have shot down all for questioning. The spokesmen said the infantrymen set up an ambush near the village of Chanh Luu three of the jets lost in a month Talks Site of "combat testing." national police stationed at; nearby Phu Cuong. The biggest of the delta battles erupted in Dinh Tuong province Tuesday, about 50 miles southwest of Saigon. U.S.

9th Infantry Division troops and South Vietnamese troops report- The heaviest ground fighting reported by spokesmen today Monday night and watched 200 Communist soldiers march past their positions and into the By STEWART HENSLEY WASHINGTON (UPI) The was in three Mekong Delta provinces south of the capital, village. United States today was press ing Hanoi again for some PUDDLE-ICING AIR NIPS CITY RESCUE WORKERS CARRY OUT VICTIM OF TORNADO IN WHEELERSBURG, OHIO decision on a place to hold preliminary peace talks in an effort to determine whether North Vietnam was sincere or Twister ripped 125-mile path in Ohio River Valley. (UPI Telephotos) merely indulging in propaganda. President Johnson disclosed Tuesday night that American Jordan to Seek U.N. Parade Ban The normals for this date are highs of 59 and lows of 36.

One year ago the temperatures wero, also below normal as a high of 45 was recorded and the low was 29. Records on this date were set in 1962 when the St. Cloud area had 87-degree weather and 1956 when the temp was only 18. Adding to the chill in Central Minnesota today are winds from the north gusting from 15-30 miles per hour which are exnected to diminish tonight. April rainfall, heaviest for the month since 1954, stood at 4.45 inches today after 1.22 24-hour fall Tuesday.

The 1954 total was 5.31 inches. Puddle-freezing weather hit the area overnight with a plunge to 27 degrees crusting water still standing after more than an inch of rain. The Weather Bureau says more freezing air is due for a return engagement tonight. Pools in streets were coated with ice when the work-day started here but slightly warmer temperatures by 11 a.m. had melted most of the icing.

At 11 the thermometers read 38 with today's expected high not to exceed 47. Overnight the temperature should again drop to 28 before the morning hours, with a slightly warmer 55 expected Thursday. officials had been in touch with North Vietnamese representatives, presumably in Vietaine, Laos, on Monday and Tuesday and would meet with them again today in an effort to nail down a location for initial "peace contacts." The Chief Executive told newsmen at a White House reception for foreign diplomats that he was trying to find out whether Hanoi's agreement almost three weeks ago to begin 'A uh- s' 41 1 x4 ifi; -i ci ly- fx By BRUCE W. MUNN UNITED NATIONS (UPD-Jordan instructed its U.N. Ambassador Dr.

Mohammed El talks at some "mutually suitable" site represented a sincere rarra today to ask tor an emergency meeting of the Security Council to prevent the desire to end the conflict or was PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARY EASY holding of an Israeli indepen simply a trick. dence day parade in The President reported no progress Tuesday on possible McCarthy Vote Exceeds Goal The call from Amman came as the General Assembly site selection. The State Depart prepared to resume its recessed ment said it maintained "hope fulness" for early agreement appeared headed for 'a With 9,270 of the state's 9,460 with Hanoi. 1967-68 session late today to hear further debate on the Middle East and on the treaty vote mark. precincts reported, the vote was State Department press offi McCarthy's supporters inter Clark 423,345 and Dent 373,234.

By LLOYD R. ROCHELLE PITTSBURGH (UPI) Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy showed impressive vote-getting power in Tuesday's Pennsylvania pres banning the spread of nuclear cer Robert J. Mcuositey There was no organized vote described the situation this preted his showing as evidence he should be considered his weapons.

drive for anyone except Mc-I Jordanian Premier Bahidat way: Carthy the presidential phase Talhouni said Jordan called for The united states stui nas party's "front runner" for the presidency. idential primary, exceeding the expectations of h's supporters. of the primary. Michael received no formal answer through diplomatic channels to insert mccarthy the Security Council session to prevent the parade through Israeli occupied Arab Jerusa Former vice president Richard With 6,849 of the state's 9,460 Malin. McCarthy's state chairman, said the Minnesotan's showing indicated he "is a far M.

Nixon outdistanced the other lem on May 2 to mark the 20th precincts counted in the Democratic primary, McCarthy had Republican write-ins. more serious candidate than anniversary of Israeli iy: yji its April 12 proposal to meet in India, Burma, Laos or Indonesia. Nor has it had an answer to its April 18 note suggesting four more Asian sites and six in Europe. Hanoi's radio rejection 290,984 votes, Sen. Robert F.

anybody thought." Before the primary, Mc Kennedy of New York 32,166, "The point that he is not a Secretary General Thant also Vice President Hubert H. serious candidate is dispelled. asked Israel to call off the Humphrey 24,787, President Malin said. "It is clear that Carthy's backers said they would be more than satisfied if the Minnesota Democrat polled 200,009 votes as the lone entry on the ballot. But McCarthy parade as a violation of the of these proposals is not regarded as a formal answer.

Senator McCarthy is a key vote cease-fire agreement, but the Johnson 8,892 and former Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama 5,517. getter in an industrial state like He has seen "no evidence Israeli newsDaoer Maariv re that French President Charles jAtT mv Pennsylvania." oorted in Tel Aviv Israeli Renublicans gave Nixon 89,124 officials angrily sent the com Quake Reported in votes, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller plaint back.

de Gaulle or any other third party is actively engaged in trying to get the adversaries together for initial contacts. of New York 27,358. Gov. Hope Voiced on Aegean Isle Area The first item of business was Ronald Reagan of California ATHENS (UPD-The Athens to accept the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, fabled home Peace Site Soon 4,496, Gov. Raymond P.

Shafer The continued inability ot vA i Observatory today reported a of the extinct dodo, as the 124th strong earth tremor in the area the two sides to agree on a location three weeks after both expressed willingness to confer LONDON Under member of the world body of Ayios Efstratios, the Aegean island hit by an earthquake in secretary of State Nicholas deB of Pennsylvania 810 and Sen. Charles Percy of Illinois 159. In the only major statewide contest, U.S. Sen. Joseph S.

Clark of Philadelphia won renomination to a third six-year Mauritius won independence from Britain six weeks ago and Katzenbach said today no February. at a "mutually suitable" sue has spawned a variety of theories in official Washington was unanimously recommended by the Security Council for I r- H.is-L yyTr- rv-! The observatory said the agreement has been reached on the time or place of preliminary talks with North Vietnam. But he said the U.S. term despite unexpectedly i -VstiSio MAiiiraliUrVtaiit.T tremor had an intensity of 5.75 membership. on the Richter scale.

Foreign Minister Corneliu Manescu of Romania, elected OHIOAN SEARCHES RUBBLE AFTER HOUSE WAS DESTROYED Hundreds are homeless in two states. There were no immediate strong resistance from U.S. Rep. John H. Dent of Jeannette in the Democratic primary.

government is hopeful agree reports of damage or injury. Sm Page No. 1 ment will be reached soon. Katzenbach, here for a two' 10 TOWNS HIT IN OHIO VALLEY day meeting of ministers of the Central Treaty Organization 2-State Tornado Toll Reaches 13 (CENTO), told a news confer ence he did not know the basis of U.N. Secretary General as to Hanoi's motives.

One of the most widely held theories is that Johnson's March 31 order restricting bombing of the North and proposing "contacts" caught Hanoi off balance because it was planning its own "peace offensive" to be launched about the middle of May and accompanied by a new military drive to increase political pressure on Johnson for concessions. This theory is supported by captured enemy documents which told of a "winter-spring" military offensive to be followed by talks in which Hanoi would insist on a coalition government in South Vietnam with a major role for the Viet Cong. year-old woman died when a tornado tossed her trailer home Thant's statement Tuesday in Paris that the talks would begin woman's body in Minerva. Authorities in both states feared the toll would climb. Hospitals and state police in the air and turned it over By ROBERT WESTON FALMOUTH, Ky.

(UPD-Volunteers using bulldozers, shovels and bare hands searched through rubble and debris-filled basements today several times. A 13-year-old boy was killed. estimated the number of injured at nearly 200. Hundreds were his skull crushed, when a tornado slammed into his home soon, possibly this week. "I have no information that the talks will be held in Paris nor that they will begin this week," he said.

Katzenbach said efforts still are being made by the United States to reach agreement with Hanoi. left homeless. "It will take two or three at Goshen, Ohio, and a young girl was critically injured when her home collapsed at days for us to find all the victims," said Ohio Deputy Sheriff Elwood Wooten. "There have to be some back in there Tornado damage also was for more victims of killer tornadoes that ravaged 10 Kentucky and Ohio communities. Thirteen persons eight in Ohio and five in Kentucky were known dead from twisters which swirled out of the Southwest Tuesday and ripped a 126-mile-long path of destruction through the Ohio River Valley.

The Kentucky death toll rose with the discovery today of a that we don't know about yet." reported in southern Kentucky VU- Ji (fi v-kfPi I it -4 I 'C I -s 1 Homes, bams, cars, trailers, at Nicholasvuie. The u.h. trees and utility poles were Weather Bureau reported twis scattered about like sets of ters also touched down in Big Rapids and Frontier, and childrens' toys dumped from a box. Volunteers, some of whom Smithville, Tenn. Curt Elliott.

68, was sleeping worked through the night finding emergency sleeping in his home in the southern quarters for the homeless, began clearing the debris residential section of Falmouth when the twister struck. "I Signs of Rift Mar Red Talks shortly after dawn. didn't know what hit me, Elliott said. "I looked up and Falmouth, nearby Dover, the roof was gone." BUDAPEST (UPD-The pre paratory meeting for a world Communist summit conterence He was treated for eye injuries and face cuts, then spent the night in the high and Wheelersburg, Ohio, appeared to be the hardest hit, although damage or deaths were reported in at least seven other communities near the Ohio River which forms the YOUTHS SURGE AROUND SEN. MCCARTHY'S CAR IN NEWARK, N.J.

Incident erupted on visit to riot area. (UPI Telephoto) McCarthy's Car Attacked in Newark began here today amid signs of deepening rifts within the Communist camD and the INSIDE TODAY'S TIMES Quality Vital to Goals, Honor Students Told Page 4 Massman Challenges Zwach Policy Stands Page 5 Youth Summer Job Needs Told Businessmen Here Page 6 Business News Page 10 Teen Times Pages 10-22 City iews, Pictures on Pages t-56-S-10-22 Saatzer Leads Times Play Page 35 Nelson Will Defend Titles in Drake Relays Page 36 City Softball Set Up Page 37 Complete Sports on Pages Deaths, Court Page 8 Women's Pages 23-21 I See by Times Page Classified Pages Regional News Pages 16-17 Stock Markets Page 42 Opinion Page 18 Comics, TV, Radio Page 1.1 school auditorium. "It onlv last two minutes. reported Donald Cregger, who iborder between the two states possibility of a Czech walkout. lives on one of the two hardest Twisters were sighted in six The conference is in prcpara tense moments before the other Ohio communities.

car. "Get them out of the way before they get hurt!" tion for a summit meeting to be held in Moscow in November or hit streets in Wheelersburg. His home escaped heavy damage but the house of his neighbor, Falmouth Mayor May Gold berg estimated about one fourth December. Another preparatory The incident came on a day when McCarthy delivered his most fervent speeches yet on meeting was held here in of the city's population of 2,550 driver pulled away from the crowd. A supporter of the Minnesota Democrat said McCarthy seemed more concerned about possible injury to the youths surrounding the car than he was about himself.

Mrs. Mary Atkins, 63, was blown off its foundations and into a vacant house. CregRer nulled her body from the February when independent minded Romania walked out. The delegation from CzechO' NEWARK. N.J.

(UPD-Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy emerged shaken but unhurt Tuesday night from an encounter with several shouting, jeering Negro youths who kicked, rocked and pounded his limousine in Newark's riot-scarred Central Ward, Several other persons were trapped in the car with McCarthyincluding Paul O'D- the nation's racial situation. It was the only unfriendly moment during an otherwise warm and rubble. enthusiastic reception for the were without homen.

Four bodies, including a girl and a young bay, were recovered Tuesday night. Hospitals treated 91 persons, including children cut by flying glass when the twister hit an elementary school. Six bodies were recovered In Slovakia headed by former Premier Josef Lennart indicated it would defend its r.cwly UPI reporter Richard said the twister apparently senator. came up the valley, bounced off chosen liberal line against "He shouted out of the car window, 'get the children out of the way'!" said Douglas Ireland, coordinator of the New Earlier, in New York City, he urged a creative political attack on the "moral monstrosity" of a high ridge in neighboring nossible attacks from other wver. a contender for the "Socialist countries." Political Kentucky, then slammed Into the northeastern ridge which Jersey Volunteers for Mc Democratic senatorial nomina Wheelersburg on Tuesday night observers said this could lead to racism in the cities in response to the "cry from the ghettos." Carthy, who was riding in the tion in New York for a few forms part of Wheelersburg, while at Ripley, Ohio, an 83 a Romanian-type walkout..