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WEATHER Partial clearing, slowly diminishing winds, much colder tonight-Tartly cloudy, cold Saturday. Low tonight 5. High Saturday 12. Sunset 4:33. Sunrise 1: 49.

UPl Telenhoto and UF1 Wire News Service 1 Los Angeles TimesWashington Post News Service Central Minnesota Pictures Set It First In The Timtt 108th Year No. 156 ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA, 56301, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1968 28 Pages 10c Cents 35c Your Hwn WMk 1 Sub -Zero Cold 51 Killed; Airliner Hits Sea In Flames Due After Snow Fn Sw wmmm v. 'A' eeps Kegion i have been dropping since Thursday night from a high of 36. off an out of season thunderstorm which quickly turned to Fast falling snow, strong winds and cold reminiscent of 1965 hit central Minnesota during the night causing hazardous driving and near blizzard an ice storm.

At ll a.m. today a low of 9 had been reached. Thunder and lightning and even hail were reported in sev Between 10 and 11 p.m. Thurs day there was an 11 degree eral areas. The Etorm here was the edge The snow stopped at only a drop in temperature.

The snow little more than two inches, but of a blizzard that swept on appears to have stopped as the strom center moved on out of winds up to 40 miles an hour whipped drifts into driveways winds up to 60 miles an hour into parts of five northern plain Minnesota and Wisconsin. The wind which reached 40 states today. and scuttled them across icy highways. miles an hour at 4:12 a.m. and Hazardous driving conditions Conditions appeared to be at 7:26 a.m.

today will diminish created by a combination of their worst as area residents slowly. were leaving for work early on Partial claring with fair to this Friday -the 13th. Visibility partly cloudy skies is forecast was poor due to the falling and for today and Saturday. blowing snow. Many rural Total snow accumulation for icy roads and blowing snow were reported throughout the central Minnesota area.

Russell Matchinski, the Sher-" burne County highway engineer reported that all available equipment Is out on the county roads. Elk River streets were reported in extremely slip the storm was 2.2 inches. By KIM FUAD CARACAS (UPI) Rescue boats operating among swarms of sharks off the coast of Venezulea radioed today there were no survivors in the crash of a Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 jet which hit the sea in a ball of flames Thursday night with 51 persons aboard. The plane had left Kennedy International Airport in New York at 5:10 p.m. EST Thursday and plunged into the sea as it was approaching Caracas' Maiquetia International Airport on a nonstop flight.

The last word came from the pilot who radioed at 9:05 p.m. ne would need no maintenance in Caracas. The plane was reported to have exploded in flight and Venezuelan navy rescue officials said "there are no signs of life" at the scene, 16 miles off the coast. They found empty rubber rafts and fragments of wreckage floating on the sea. Crews of the rescue boats Said they had found 13 bodies-seven women, five men and two children and that some of the bodies had been molested by sharks.

They reported "swarms" of sharks at the scene of the crash. In Washington the National Transportation Safety Board said first information indicated the crash was within Venezue scnoois closed for the day. Cold will now hit the area. Ram fell intermittently throughout the day Thursday. Fast dropping temperatures early in the evening touched a low of -5 is expected tonight with a high of only 12 set for Saturday.

The temperatures BLOWING SNOW CREATES BLEAK SCENE IN CITY'S WEST END EARLY TODAY Icy roads, low visibility made driving hazardous. (Times Photo by Mark Hall) pery condition. Joseph Kotsmith, Benton Nixon Sees 700 RELATED DEATHS REPORTED IN U.S. County engineer said that while he knew of no blocked county roads, there was considerable blowing and drifting snow. Leaders on i Flu Neai reading, "The traffic can get through as the drifts are small and soft," he said.

Roads were bad enough however to cancel school in most of Benton County. Sauk Rapids rs emic Urban Plans By EUGENE V. RISHER NEW YORK (UPI)-Pres By CHARLES S. TAYLOR I spokesman said. He said the, maa! i iJ flu, but only a few cases have of workers out sick doubled this week.

schools remained open, but the public school in Sartell closed. ident Richard M- Nixon met with a top-level group of ATLANTA (UPD-About 700 'rr iitit i pean was expecieu in Officials in Chicago said teacher absenteeism is "worse by far" than in previous years. About 2,200 teachers are out deaths from flu and pneumonia In the Los Angeles area, the School was closed in baen been confirmed. "Everybody who has a bad cold thinks they have it," said one doctor. urban affairs experts today to discuss efforts by private Colorado, one of the Western county health department esti Valley.

Thunder and lightning have been reported in the United States recently and officials at the National Com- states, has suffered a border-to- mated that 282,500 persons, businesses to help the urban from work suffering from flulike illnesses, officials said. accompanied the rain late Thursday before the snow Large numbers of Christmas poor. border outbreak of the virus, NCDC said. 100,000 school-age children and 182,500 adults are suffering municable Disease Center Spot checks showed normal at shoppers and travelers are The president-elect met for an lan jurisdiction and would be investigated by Venezuelan authorities. Otherwise a team of came.

At least two car accidents tendance by students, however, (NCDC) said today the nation is from flu-like illnesses. helping to spread the bug, the The 700 deaths occurred in 122 cities and the NCDC said "this Several hundred students at on the threshold of an epidemic In Atlanta, doctors said they were reported in that area. A NCDC deputy director indicat safety board investigators would hour and a half with the steering committee of the Urban including David Rockefeller, who is chair excess mortality is demonstrat Wheaton, College showed were flooded with calls from of the Hong Kong flu. ed: car driven by Andy Arnold take charge. Investigator Pat ed in the west north central, symptoms of flu and the col patients concerned about the The A2 Hong Kong 68 "Rooms where the ventilation Grimes flew to Caracas today.

east north central, mountain lege closed several days early influenza strain has actually Eden Valley, slid off Highway 22 four miles north of the village, and one driven by isn't too good increases the for the Christmas holidays. reached epidemic proportions in No Hong Kong chances of persons getting the and middle Atlantic divisions." The highest attack rate, is in groups or institutions according only one area the western Mark Ruhn slid off Highway He will be assisted by advisers from the Federal Aviation Administration, Pan American, Boeing, Pratt and Whitney and the Air Line Pilots Ursuline College in Ohio cancelled classes because of a flu," said Bagby. "Riding 55. No injuries were reported crowded elevators or buses mountain states but is closejo the epidemic level elsewhere, Flu Outbreak Reported Here in either accident. gives you the opportunity to get to Dr.

John R. TJagby, deputy director of the NCDC. The flu outbreak and General Motors, the largest private the NCDC spokesman said. At Association. Princeton schools are open to man of the Chase Manhattan Bank; Whitney Young Urban League; Mayor John V.

Lindsay of New-VorkCityr John W. Gardner, former Health, Education and Welfare secretary and chairman of the Urban Coalition; and Andrew Heiskell chairman of the board of Time, and cochairman of the coalition; I. W. Abel, steelwork- the virus." employer in the Cleveland area, "There was a great explosion least 33 states have experienced some degree of flu illness. Dr.

Carl Opaskar, health said absenteeism at its five and only fragments of the plane services director for Cleveland, day but busses were running as much as a half an hour late because of the slippery roads and blowing snow. attack rate is 10 to 15 per cent for the nation in general, but is running as high as 40 per cent in schools, industries, stores and other institutions. plants ranged from 25 to 50 per It appears we're at the remain, said a naval officer. Ohio, said that affluency cent above normal this week. beginning of a national epidemic not at the peak of it," the Residents of a housing project behind the airport also reported Ford Motor Co.

said the number Despite the blowing snow cut apparently breeds influenza. "Everything I've observed seems to back this up," he said. "People in more affluent areas ers union president: Arthur seeing a shower of fiery fragments falling into the sea at ting visibility, traffic in Princeton was reported moving on Highway 169 and Highway 95 Flemming, president of Mac alester College; Arthur Nafta- have wider social contacts and more of them travel." early today. lih, mayor of Minneapolis, and Bayard Rustin, civil rights In Eagle Bend real blizzard Hanoi Team Gets Allied Proposal for Paris Talks The hardest-hit areas of Cleveland are the suburbs, seats advocate. conditions prevailed with blowing, drifting snow, cold tem The group met briefly with of relative affluence.

peratures and closed schools. Bagby said he did not newsmen following theii session and said they found Nixon Rain with thunder and light recommend that people forego ning were reported in that area keenly interested in their theaters, sporting events or organization and objectives. and North Vietnam. to envisage two By GEORGE SIBERA other such gatherings to avoid Thursday night leaving everything coated with ice. American officials said the The Urban Coalition, born out i semicircular tables to avoid PARIS (UPD American and the flu.

To be completely certain, he indicated, you would Hail was reported in Avon of the 1967 riots, seeks to funnel Hong Kong flu, spreading across the U.S., apparently has not developed any major level in St. Cloud, a sample survey indicated today. Despite reports of bad colds and flu-like illnesses, schools and industries reported no significant rise in absenteeism because of the disease. Spokesmen at Technical and Cathedral High Schools said there have been no reported cases of the flu and school attendance is still normal. The City Health Department reported no cases that would lead to epidemic levels.

Franklin Manufacturing Veterans' Hospital and the Great Northern Car Shops in Wait Park all said their crew levels were normal and there have been no cases of the flu reported among their employes. The St. Cloud Hospital has not admitted any cases of the flu strain but officials there said visiting regulations are being strictly enforced to help ward off any outbreak. North Vietnamese negotiators plan was designed to end the wrangling over conference room the time of the crash. Naval patrol boats brought in the bodies of a boy, 3, and a woman in her 20s to the port of La Guaira early today.

Crewmen said at least four other bodies had been found. Rescuers S'id they found two rubber liferafts from the plane. Both were inflated but empty. The control tower at Maiquetia said it lost contact with the Pan Am jet at 8:59 p.m. EST minutes before it was due to land.

The jet was approaching at 1,000 feet when tragedj struck. Pan American spokesmen in New York said the plane, Flight 217, sent no message that it was in trouble. Among the passengers, mostly Venezuelans, were Mrs. have to avoid people and get flu Thursday night at about 5:15 p.m. The hail the size of peas private business activities into ghetto areas, to heir solve met today in secret to discuss a giving recognition of the Viet Cong as would be implied by putting its delegation at a square table.

arrangements that has been shots. new allied compromise proposal changed to sleet andt hen snow. social and economic problems stalling the opening of the talks "The flu in the normally for getting the expanded Viet It also is very active in pushing since Nov. 6. Both the United States and nam conference underway.

Blowing and drifting snow and slick highways are reported from that area today: legislation to relieve the plight healthy person is mild and of short duration," he said, indicating it is generally serious Cyrus Vance, deputy. chief of They, said the plan, centered of the city poor. the American met the South Vietnamese government refuse to recognize the Viet Cong as a separate body. on how the delegates would sit, All roads in Stearns County Nixon met with the group with his Hanoi counterpart, Col. only among the ederly, chronically ill and infants.

an issue based on communist are open today, according to shortly before a luncheon Ha Van Lau, shortly after As the meeting got underway demands spurned by Washing session with his personal envoy, These "high risk" groups are Mme. Nguyen Tlu Binh, the p.m. (10 u.m. EST). Site of the ton and Saigon that the Viet former Pennsylvania Gov.

Wil conference was not disclosed sharp-tongued representative of given priority for the limited amount of flu vaccine currently liam W. Scranton, who returned Wednesday from a six-nation the National Liberation front available to doctors about five Cong. be recognized as a full partner in the talks and not just as part of the Hanoi delegation. U.S. delegation officials said Antonetti, Luis Beltran Gonza the political branch of the Viet Cong, accused Washington and Procedural disputes over the seating of the four delegations have delayed start of the talks.

Hanoi was reported demand million doses. tour in the troubled Middle East. Also sitting in on the The flu has reached epidemic Lewis (Luke) Ahles, highway engineer, but travel was ad-vised at reduced speed with caution because of iced road conditions, he said. Some roads are drifted, he said, but none are impassable, while all are "pretty icy." Ahles said county road crews sanded until midnight Thursday but heavy rains wiped out any See Page 2, No 4 Saigon of "deliberately sabotag meeting was Dr. Henry A.

lez, president of a Venezuelan advertising agency, and two Cubsn citizens, Mr and Mrs. proportions some areas they would get in touch with the Hanoi delegation to set up a ing a square table with a side Kissinger, Nixon's national se ing the comerence Dy intensifying their "war of aggression." Philadelphia has reported nine each for the North Vietnamese. Frank Toscano of Fairlawn, curity advisor, William meeting to present the proposal, flu-related deaths' and New the Viet Cong, the United States N.J. "They do not want to end tneir aggression in South Vietnam York City has had a near- Rogers, who will be secretary of state, and columnist Walter and Saigon. The new plan was When news of the crash Se Page 2.

fto. 3 Mme. Binh told a luncheon of lappman. diplomatic correspondents. Gardner said his group Fortune in Egg discussed with Nixon areas in North Hit Hard, Duluth spread to the waiting room at Maiquetia, panic gripped those waiting for the flight to arrive.

A doctor treated several persons who fainted at the report. Five naval vessels along with which, effective action to "They do not wish to bring peace to Vietnam." Her statement coincided with reports in Saigon the Commu Money Burned eliminate troubles in the ghetto MELBOURNE, Australia could be pursued. He said they talked specifically about hous Gets 14-Inch Snowfall nists were massing for possible new attacks on Saigon and other (UPD Every night for more private yachts and planes continued to search a wide area than 40 years Albert Schroeder cities. Lau attended the luncheon but off the coast on the possibility went out to his chicken coop snow stacked drifts up even and stashed his egg money in ing, and that Nixon snowed a great interest in the coalition which "has a very live grassroots network" of 3 9 separate coalitions. See Page 2, No.

2 hurried away for his meeting By United Prett International Up to a foot of snowfall in old paint cans. with Vance, Hanoi sources said. there were survivors. It was the first crash of a plane making an approach to Set Page 2. No I The Americans do not confirm "We thought Albert went out sub-zero weather, whipped by winds as high as 57 miles per such meetings until, after they to take care of the hens," his sister Violet said today.

hour, marked the biggest storm higher and closed some highways. Late Thursday, winds tore chunks of ice from Lake Mille Lacs and piled them up to 20 feet along U. S. 169, blocking traffic for several hours. About are over.

Schroeder died at 84 a few INSIDE TODAY'S TIMES of the season, which rolled into the north central states Thurs The North Vietnam delegation said it had been invited by weeks ago and his three sisters hired men to burn the chicken day night. American diplomats to study the U.S.-South Vietnamese plan The Twin Cities Weather yard this morning. The sisters College Students Urged To Reconstruct Society Bureau station said blizzard 100 ice-fishing houses on the lake were shattered by the Page 4 later today. and the workmen frantically tried to douse the flames when conditions in the north and central portions of Minnesota winds and pieces were dumped burning banknotes began to go on shore. The Hanoi delegation said it would attend.

But they said they would reject any plan that gave the Viet Cong less should gradually end by Friday up with the smoke. Only emergency travel was recommended by Highway De evening, but the winds would They salvaged $11. Police said persist and temperatures would ashes in the cans showed partment district offices in conference room status than the United States, South Vietnam drop to 15 below in the north. Schroeder had put thousands of dollars in the cans. There was 14 inches of snow the Crookston, Bemidjl, Detroit Lakes, Brainerd, Morris, St.

on the ground at Duluth, a foot Cloud, Virginia and Marhsall i at Detroit Lakes, and a foot or more at Walker, but blowing Bull in Backseat Is Dead Giveaway 9 SHOPPING DAYS LEFT regions. Maintenance crews were out but were badly hampered by the blowing snow, which limite-ed visibility in many cases. Forecasts called for north Please Call Him ROME, Ga. (UPI)-Three City News, Pictures on Pages 3-4-6-S Tech, CHS Win on Mat Page 18 Upset-Minded Tech Battles Washburn Tonight 18 Cathedral Meets Albany 19 Superstitions Won't Bother Rapids at Foley 19 Complete Sports on Pages 18-19 I Sec by Times Page 6 Women's Pages 15-16-17 Deaths Page 8 Classified Pages 20-21-22 Court Record Page 8 Stock Markets Page 23 Regional Page 10 Comics Page 24 Opinion Page 14 Timesword Page 24 The Entertainment Times With This Issue men were arrested on theft charges Thursday night when LONDON (UPD-Actor Peter erly winds ranging from 25 to Sellers inserted the following 1 1 I- police found a 400-pound bull the back scat of their slowly 55 miles per nour to siowiy advertisement in the personal diminish by tonight in Minne column of the Tunes today: 1 moving car. Officers said they spotted the "Peter Sellers will not be writing letters to anyone this car moving very slowly down CHRISTMAS SEALS light TB and other RESPIRATORY DISEASES the street and stopped it to year and takes this opportunity to wish all friends, relatives and investigate.

The three men were sota as the snow subsided to flurries. However, temperatures ol zero to 15 below in the north, and 8 below to 8 above in the south, were forecast tonight with Saturday's highs expeclcxj to range from 5-15 above in th north, 12-25 above in th touth. RIDING HIGH Lynda Bird Robb and her husband, Marine Maj. Charles S. Robb, ride an elephant during a tour of Tim Land Park in Bangkok, Thailand, here today.

Later they strolled hand-in-hand through two of Bangkok's oldest Buddhist temples, taking pictures of one another and asking questions of their guides. The President's daughter and her husband on a five-day rest and recreation leave from Vietnam went to the Marble Temple and to Wat Vo, oldest pagoda in the city. (UPI Radiophoto) in the front seat and the bull creditors a happy Christmas and best wishes for the New was in the back. ft Ml The three men were jailed It i Year. "Please call us, we certainly won't call you." 2 I and the bull was placed in a pen 196S CHRISTMAS SRF.ETIKSJ Mfit to await claiming by its owner Km 1.