Tucson Daily Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • Page 17

A I I I NO MAIL FOR DAYS' VJ, Besieged Berets In Tough Spot: 'We're Out Of Beer' JL THUONG DUG, i a could not get worse for the U.S. Green at Thuoag Due. Lt. Bill Glendening glanced around today, flickered a brief amite after four sleepless nights declared the situation critical. "We are out of beer," be announced.

"Not only that," said Spec. 5 John Roden of Halifax, N.S., "I haven't had any mail for days." An estimated 7,000 North Vietnamese soldiers holding the camp siege is thfc reason why. Hour after hour, Communist shells batter, this star-shaped camp from "Charlie Ridge" overlooking it. Four days have GROSSLY INADEQUATE Williams Calls For Welfare Grant Study Gov. Jack Williams today called for a careful examination of the state's present system of welfare grants to see that they are made on the basis of need.

The Republican candidate for re-election told the Pima County Republican Club at the Santa Rita Hotel that some present welfare'allowances are "grossly inadequate." "I intend to.ask the next session of the legislature to carefully the present welfare system of grants, and to correct any existing deficiencies by increasing those which are now below a subsistence level," said Williams. He said every effort should be made to give those on welfare the opportunity to become self. supporting. Earlier today in Phoenix, he said that statements by. his opponent, Sam Goddard, "have always been more rancorous than reasonable," "It is apparent that Sam God-, dard does not approve of the action of the 28th legislature, which gavb $67 million additional funds to the elementary and high school districts to help reduce the burden of school taxes," Wiliams said.

"This action, plus the. tax equalization program whichj.was ordered by the commenced in 1963, has reduced the burden of taxes on the homeowner." Goddard last week said his campaign is directed at the "whole abysmal tax mess." "If he is opposed to this governor said, "he Rajac Inc. To Be Sold To Omega Richard B. Taylor, executive president of Rajac Industries says agreemenl was reached today to sell the Tucson-based firm for $9.1 million to Omega Equities Corp. of Los Angeles and New York.

Omega, like Rajae, is a conglomerate, and with the merger "Omega will become even more diversified and we will achieve broader financial support," Taylor said. Rajac's current projects include the building of a huge tram to cany 400 people an hour from the rim to the floor of Glenn Canyon. Taylor said the company, which employs nine people here, has no projects in the Tucson area, but he anticipates there will be some in-the future. Services Set Thursday For Mrs. Clark Services will be held Thursday for Mrs.

Rilda Clark, 91, who, died Monday at the home of a daughter in Palm Desert, Calif, Dr. Glenn C. McGee of Trinity Presbyterian Church will conduct the 3 p.m. service at the Arizona Mortuary Chapel, 7 E. 3rd St.

Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. Mrs. Clark was born in Chanton County, March 10, 1877. She came to Arizona with her husband, Louis C. Clark, in 1904.

They lived in Bisbee and Nogales until moving to Tucson in 1919. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Arthur Schendel, Tucson, and Mrs. Walter Chenoweth, Palm Desert; sons Carrol! Clark, Palm Desert, and Louis Clark, Claremont, five grandchildren and 10 great- grandchildren. owes it to the people of Arizona to explain why taxes should not have been reduced and what he would do in this regard if he were governor.

Instead of rev a 1 i why he is opposed and. what he would recommend to the next legislature, he chooses the easy escape route and wants to debate with me." Williams has on more than one occasion refused.to debate Goddard, saying it would be pointless. Sterilization Urged To Cut Air Abuses DOVER, Del. (UPI)-Sterilization of mothers who are on welfare and have had two illegitimate children was Monday in a special state Senate committee's report on welfare abuses in Delaware. In addition, the report suggested that children from longtime welfare families be placed in state institutions training and education, and adoption of a welfare system fully supported by the state and free of local regulations.

The Senate committee drew up its tough document after holding dozens of closed meetings since March. counted 1,000 shells. Fresh graves line the now-abandoned airstrip. It is a waiting game for the approximately 25! U.S. Special Forces and the Vietnamese civilians they pay to help defend the camp.

Each shell takes its toll--on the nerves, with casualties. "They are chewing us up bit by bit, 1 said: Maj. Christopher Silva of San Diego, Calif. He watches one -mortar explosion kill two Vietnamese. "If Charlie wanted to take this place, he could do it with the number of men out there," said Glendening of Caracas, Venezuela.

"He's going to lose an awful lot of men but he can still take us," The constant U.S. bombing of North Vietnamese gun positions on "Charlie Ridge" has done little to lift the siege. "The North Vietnamese have carved their gun positions out of solid rock. We just cannot knock them out of there," Silva said. Thuong Due lies at the gateway to the An Hoa Valley, guarding Communist infiltration approaches to the U.S.

military bastion at Da Nang 30 miles to the northeast. "They want this camp very badly. We are a thorn in their side. If we weren't here, Da Nang would be wide open," Glendening said. A handful of reinforcements broke through in hand-to-hand combat Sunday.

They had to come through one of five villages around' Thuong Due held under the red and blue North Vietnamese More than 20,000 villagers have left their homes. U.S. planes bombed the villages. Cpl. George Leber of Boston, one of the few Marines in the camp, called the predicament a "miniature Khe Sanh siege," Staff Sgt.

John Conrad of Detroit wasn't thinking in such historical terms. "Why worry?" he said. "We cannot do anything now but wait. I'm not particularly worried about the North Vietnamese. But I'm awfully tired." Steelworkers Endorse 11, All Demos PHOENIX (UPI) Eleven Democratic candidates for state and national offices received the endorsement, of the United Steelworkers of America Monday.

John chairman of the union's Arizona legislative and education committee, said the endorsements were unanimously approved. The union endorsed Hubert Humphrey for president; Roy Elson for the U.S. Senate, and Robert Miller, Morris Udall and Ralph Watkins Jr. for the congressional seats. Also endorsed were Sam Goddard for governor; Wesley Bollin, secretary of state; John Ahearn, attorney general; Jewel Jordan, state auditor-; Rudy Valenzuela, state Bernard Duskin, tax commissioner T.

commissioner. TUESDAY, OCTOBER '1968 LAST-MINUTE CHANGE Pima Bus Kim Be Dropped Tomorrow The Pima Street route, to have been dropped as of tomorrow by Tucson Transit will keep running at least through the end of this week. And it may be continued longer if permission to drop i is not granted' by the Arizona Corporation Commission. A'last-minute, change 'of plans oh keeping the service going was announced this morning by Harry Helterbran, TT.C general manager. 'Plans the route had been blamed by the general manager on a shortage of help" and -a 'Shortage of passengers.

The Pima bus, he said, carried only about 30 passengers a day. The bus firm, struck by union drivers a months ago, had sent notification of the discontinuance of route yesterday to the ACC. Evo J. 1 head of the ACC office in Tucson, explained that a notice is required before there can be any. discontinuance of service and this must be approved by the commission before any action is taken.

a commissioners are studying another request by TTC one to go out of business completely. When informed of the plans to. drop the Number 5 route tomorrow, Mayor James N. Corbet Jr. termed the action "another, pressure get a.

management contract with the city. The Pima Street route runs from downtown, up N. 6th Ave. to E. Speedway, to Tucson then to Elm St.

which leads into Pima and from there to Craycroft Road. IF LAWLESSNESS GROWS Judge Warns Of Vigilante Force If something is not done about lawlessness, the Vigilantes will ride again, says Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Jack D. H. Hays. "Dr.

Spock's babies have come of age," said the candidate for the State Supreme Cuban Woman Gets Square Deal MIAMI, Fla. (AP) The woman manager of a government store in Cuba has been tried in a public square before 30,000 persons and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for increasing prices for personal benefit, Radio Havana said Monday night. broadcast said Mercedes Mena Linareas, manager of a nationalized clothing store in Cardenas, in the northern part of Matanzas Province, was sentenced to serve at a government farm camp. Her husband, Gilberto Malens Calvo, was given a similar term as an accomplice. Court, claiming the riots in the United States today are the "fruit of seeds that have been planted in the past few years.

Hays, speaker at the noon meeting of the Tucson Optimist Club at toe Executive Inn, said there is an alternative to vigilante force to meet the growing challenge of lawlessness. "We can support the system we presently have. We can support it not with just lip service Scriptwriters' Strike Delayed NEW YORK (AP) Negotiators trying to avert a strike against the three major broadcast networks by news and freelance script writers worked today, past the writers' contract expiration then recessed talks. A spokesman for the networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, said the negotiations would resume in the afternoon. A union spokesman said the union would not call a strike before then.

or half-hearted cheer, but give it our all-out support." If this support does not grow, he said, there will be vigilante law with all its injustices and weaknesses, "for if given a choice we will choose the masked rider over a rule of crime and violence." Appeals Court Affirms Sentence PHOENIX (AP) The Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction -of Walter W. Meek, Arizona Republic reporter, of contempt of court for refusing to leave a preliminary court hearing. It said other courts would have to rule whether the law is constitutional. Meek refused to leave the courtroom at the instructions of the newspaper to test the constitutionality of closed hearings. After the incident, the Supreme Court barred such closed hearings, but Meek was convicted in Superior Count under existing law.

Probe Begins KILLED IN CRASH Into Steiger's Use Of Mails PHOENIX (UPI) U.S.. postal inspectors are investigating a charge that Rep. Sam Steiger, violated free mailing privilege by sending out campaign material. The probe was requested by Steiger and his opponent for the Third District, congressional seat, Ralph Watkins Jr. The charge resulted from a claim by Max Rapier, Democratic county assessor of Greenlee County, that he received a request to help find locations for Steiger campaign signs in an envelope which did not bear a stamp, but Steiger's congressional mailing notation.

Steiger said if the violation did occur, it was an isolated mistake by a campaign worker. LBJ Attends Funeral Of Yuma Navy Pilot ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -President Johnson and his family attended the funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for Navy Lt. j. g.

Leroy Bates, 22, killed in a plane crash near Yuma, Ariz. Bates, a close friend of Luci Johnson' Nugent, married Melinda Venable of Nogales, in a ceremony in which Luci was a bridesmaid at Washington in June 1966. The- yoang naval officer was an usher at the wedding of Luci and Patrick Nugent two years ago. The President and the First Lady kissed the 22-year-old wid- ow, who is expecting a She also received the flag from her husband's coffia j. after the military ceremony.

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