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1 IV II II (02 Theo50 Kokua Line mm HOME EDITION 10c Vol. 56, No. 54 HONOLULU, HAWAII, Thursday, February 23, 1967 PHONE 567-222 fa Hi ffi CAMKODIA Heat is on for accord in Slate Senate hurls 45 000 into huge assault in Vietnam Well answer questions, cut red tape, solve problems. TELEPHONE a.in.-S p.nt. weekdays or WRITE: Kokua Line, Box 3080, Honolulu, Hawaii 96802.

DIAL 567-477 Please tell us about the small blue fluorescent objects that wash in with the water at night along Ala Moana Beach? A None ot the Ala Moana Park workers that we were able to contact had seen such objects lately so we can take only an educated guess. They were Portuguese man-of-war their brother They float in on the water and several times a year are a menace at many Hawaii beaches. They usually visit YVaiki-ki during Kona at her. Dont go i with them. You may suffer a painful sting.

barely three miles from Cambodia. The lightning assaults of paratroops, helicopter-borne infantry and foot soldiers had most units in their assigned areas within a matter of hours. The clear skies over the wide combat zone were criss-crossed with helicopters, transports, jet fighters and observation planes, operating in what one officer called fantastic coordination. On the heels of the paratroops, helicopter-lifted soldiers fanned out in, landing zones on the flanks, creating WAR ZONE Vietnam AP) United States forces, have unleashed the greatest ground-air assault of the Vietnam war. They hurled some 45,000 men into a vast encirclement of the Viet Cong's national headquarters and main base near the Cambodian border.

The drive, ranging 50 to 75 miles northwest of Saigon, began yesterday with the first American combat parachute jump of the war, a drop of about 750 paratroopers into blocking positions behind the enemy lines and there were no casualties. Some assault units reported a 'handful of casualties from snipers. Continuous jet air strikes plastered the jungles ahead of advancing U.S. troops. From the air, the vast area was a fantastic scene of criss-crossing aircraft, billowing smoke from the ground, lush jungles dotted with colored parachutes and assault companies in olive drab uniforms hacking forward on the ground.

Weather conditions for the assault were nearly perfect There was almost no wind as the paratroopers came down and the only reported mishap was a paratrooper caught for seven hours in a towering tree 120 feet high, before he managed to get down safely. The target for the opera: tion code named Junction Turn to Page A-1A, Col. a bristling arc of U.S. firepower on the northern part of War Zone in Tay Ninh Province, northwest of Saigon. Powerful columns of tanks, armored personnel carriers and infantry moved up from the south and around the flanks to complete a loose encirclement of the area where U.S.

forces hoped to trap the political leadership of the Viet Cong. Initial reports from the battlefield indicated Viet Cong resistance to the first assault was confined to sniper fire, booby traps and mines. The new drive, though launched Wednesday, was not officially disclosed until late Thursday for security reasons. Three U.S. tank-bulldozers moving into the jungle had their tracks blown off by mines but U.S.

officers said Arrow points to War Zone scene of big U.S. assault. Tourist raped, robbed in Waikiki Dream turns toni ghtm are The State Senate went into continuous session at 10 this morning, prepared to stay in session until the Democrats have solved their organizational dispute. The move for continuous session came at the insistence of Republican Hebden Porteus, who demanded that the, entire Senate remain in the Palace pending a settlement of the issues among Democratic factions. Three more nominations for.

the Senate presidency came the floor before the Senate went into recess until 2 p.m. Porteus was nominated by Republicans for the Senate presidency. Democratic factions nominated John J. Hulten of Windward Oahu, representing the faction headed by Nadao Yoshinaga; and Nelson K. Doi of Hilo, representing the faction which is headed by the Big Islander.

Spokesmen for the Doi and Yoshinaga factions were expected to. resume, negotiations this morning and to report to the full Senate on progress at 2 p.m. No roll-call vote on the nominations was expected for that hour. All three candidates had been nominated in previous attempts at a settlement and none had drawn a majority vote in roll calls. Porteus has polled all 10 Republican votes and on two occasions has drawn a Democratic vote, that of Senator William E.

Fernandes of Kauai. Doi has drawn eight votes in three separate roll-calls and Hulten has polled six. Senator George R. Ari-yoshi, a neutral who stands alone between the two Democratic factions, could still emerge form the power struggle as president of the Senate. There is increasing speculation that Republicans, What should I do when I see housewives using State cars marked "For Official Use Only?" I frequently see such cars with women and children in them going back and forth across the Pali.

A Don't jump to conclusions every time you see a woman in a State car as female employees such as nurses use the vehicles on official business. However, don't Ignore a situation in which it is quite obvious that a State car is being used for family shopping or pleasure. If you feel the use of a certain car is questionable, please call the State Department of Accounting and General Services which is headed by Val Marciel. Be sure it is a State car, that you have the license number and can furnish a few details about where it was at a certain time, then, the car can be traced and appropriate action taken. Casualties soar in Vietnam war through the window for the doorknob.

Before, she could scream or move, the rapist was at the bedside, pushed her down onto her back pressed a pillow over her. face and whispered "don't scream." She, was quickly subdued after a brief struggle and assaulted. Before leaving the apartment, the rapist demanded and took her wallet and $300. It was 6 a.m. Police have found no traces of the rapist-robber.

The woman plans on staying in Hawaii "a couple more Vierra said. i on Ohua Avenue, she was raped and robbed of $300. "She is badly shaken," said Detective Robert Vierra, who handled the police investigation yes- "She kept asking 'Why me? Why did it have. to happen to Vierra aid that he apologized to the woman "for some of the animals we have here" and she said she realized that the incident might have happened in any large city. She arrived in Hawaii shortly before 10 p.m., Tuesday for a few days stopover en route to the Far East.

She caught a cab at the airport for the trip to Waikiki where her travel By WES YOUNG It was her first visit to Hawaii. She had looked forward to a stopover here on the way to a reunion with her husband in Hong Kong. The 39tyear-old Canadian woman had read the glowing-travel folders before she left home. She had asked a travel agent help her plan her visit here. But what neither she nor the travel agent knew was this.

It's not always safe to rent a first-floor apartment in an area of Waikiki known as "the jungle." Eight hours after she arrived in Honolulu and moved into a small ground-floor apartment agent had reserved the Ohua Avenue apartment because of the lack of available hotel rooms. She arrived at the apartment at 10:30 p.m., changed clothes and strolled to a Kalakaua Avenue restaurant for a cup of coffee. Within an hour's time she was back at the apartment, closed the drapes and locked the door and retired for the night. It was 11:35 p.m. At about 5:55 a.m., yesterday, less than, eight hours after her arrival, she was awakened by a "scratching noise" at the window screen.

-She sat up, half-awake, to see a man's hand reaching SAIGON (AP) More American and Communist troops were killed in battle in Vietnam last week than in any week since the bloody battle of the la Drang Valley in November, 1965, the U.S. Military Command disclosed today. U.S. headquarters said 172 Americans were' killed and 802 were wounded, compared with 107 killed and 1,015 wounded the week before. A total of 2,029 of the enemy were reported killed, nearly twice the 1,085 reported the previous week.

The largest number of American and Communist dead in the war so far was reported in the week of November 14-20, 1965. There were 240 Americans killed and 2,262 Communists, most of them in the bloody valley in the central highlands. The South Vietnamese Command reported 110 of its men were killed last week and 33 were missing, compared with 193 killed and 53 missing the week before. Casualties of other allied forces also jumped, to 40 dead and 76 wounded. The week before nine dead and The Island death rate in Vietnam.

Story on Page A-13 33 wounded had been reported. The casualty report raised the number of Americans killed in combat in the war to 7,525 by unofficial tabulation and the wounded to 43,536. msmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmiimism Could I send a bag of poi to Vietnam and be sure that it got there before turning sour? Many of the Hawaii boys who are serving there have asked for it. A We talked to a poi manufacturer about this and were told that a bag of poi stays tasty for only about a week. You know that it ferments a little each day.

The answer to your question rests with how speedy the serviceman you are talking about receives his packages. You may be taking quite a chance 1 to get poi speedily to a serviceman who is stationed out in the boondocks or who is on frequent patrols. Why not include some cans or well-packed jars of poi in your next parcel to him and not worry so much about the time element. Home delivery for milk drops when it becomes obvious that Democrats will not be Torn to Page A-1A, Col. 4 Food price index here I Tax researchers 7b II, By SHUREI HIROZAWA Business and Labor Editor Picketing of the Meadow Gold and Foremost plants continued today, as the companies reported that their recent price increases have resulted in the loss of more than 2,000 home-delivery customers.

Foremost said it will seek an injunction against the mmmmmmmmm Recombined milk-what it tastes like. Page 1-A hit spending Now that the Federal government has charged Richard with filing fraudulent tax returns, will the State of Hawaii do likewise? A "We'll wait until the Federal case is settled before making: a decision on that," said Edward J. Burns, State tax director. The U.S. government's case against Kageyama still is in progress in Federal Court.

up slightly Retail food, prices in Honolulu moved upward only one-tenth of 1 percent between December and January. This put the Honolulu food index at 108.1, according to Max D. Kos-soris, Western Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The ndex indicates that food costs were 1.8 percent above tht.

January, 1966, figure. The slight movement upward, headed by cereals and bakery products particularly, was offset slightly by a drop in the cost of fruit and which is negotiating for the farmers. Meadow Gold is receiving milk from its own farm in Kawailoa. Both companies said they will have sufficient supplies through tomorrow all customers. After that, if they still don't get milk from the farmers, they plan to distribute recombined milk.

Both dairies raised the price of milk by two cents a quart February 6, in order to pay the farmers a higher return. But they have not been able to agree on the size of the higher payments. The price increase has cost more than 1,000 home-delivery customers to each processor. "The loss of the home-delivery customers has jeopardized our whole retail system," a Foremost executive said. The milk producers association is basing its demand for higher returns on a study made by University of Hawaii dairy specialists.

Foremost asked the C.P.A. firm of Peat, Marwick and Mitchell to check the study. The CPA. firm said the study was not properly done. Adwel year," said the foundation in a report on the capital outlay program.

The report says the State "should have a fixed policy for providing for current revenues to pay for part of the cost of every project for which funds are to be borrowed, similar to the down payment of installment buying." "Closer coordination capital improvement programs and budgets between the State and counties" is called for. The Tax Foundation of Hawaii is alarmed by the size of legislative appropriations and proposals for further spending. The foundation today called for a $134 million reduction in "the present authorized-unissued appropriations amounting to $164 million andor, the proposed $91 million of new 1 authorizations the two totaling $255 million." "While this might seem a formidable assignment, i would be easier to do now than next year or a later Help! I have been trying to contact the State Tax Office tax-information ex-' tension 231" or 232, 'for the past two weeks. The lines always are busy. Friends have had to be excused from their jobs to make personal trips to the office to ask their tax questions.

Couldn't the State add some more extensions during this busy tax time? wmmmmmmmmm farmers, which would order them to comply with contracts to deliver milk to its plant. And the sign-toting pickets marched to lolani Palace and talked about bringing a tank truck to dump its load on the palace grounds. The flow of milk to both plants has been sharply curtailed, but not cut off. Foremost is receiving milk from, Campos Dairy under police escort. Campos is not a member of the Oahu Milk Producers Association, mmmmmmmmmi 1 PALACE DEMONSTRATION Milk producers on the second day of their strike toted their signs to lolani Palace today.

Photo by Terry Luke. Summer jobs The problem of summer jobs for teen-agers -our Young Ideas panelists get some helpful hints from the State Employment Service's Mrs. Ha-tsune C-2 White House panel bcicks CIA S3t5L' v- ri; zxr je-vje. 1L4 Adding an extension phone givesHth I curity I i 1 in 1952 through 1954." "The support provided by the Central Intelligence Agency! enabled many far-sighted and courageous Americans to serve their country in times of challenge and danger to the United John W. Gardner, Secretary of a I Education and Welfare.

C.I.A.'s role was defended on two grounds: "It did not act on its own initiative, but in accordance with national policies established by the National Se- -l States and the free world." Katzenbach told Johnson he expects a final report, to include recommendations, will be ready early next month. His letter indicates the study which he is heading, at Turn to Page A-1A, Col. 5 'fTrVv; X. -V The University of Wisconsin vows to "go through a Berkeley" to keep its campus open to-everyone following a protest demonstration against job interviews by a firm making napalm. A-5 Frustrated drivers may have to wait a few more years before they can breeze along uninterrupted from Waialae to Barber's Point.

A highway building timetable. St. Louis and Punahou take easy wins in an unexciting I.L.H. round robin basketball doubleheader. Joan Baez claims CIA 'shadow' here WASHINGTON (AP) A White House study panel indorses the Central Intelligence Agency's much-criticized subsidizing of various private organizations, and resident Johnson agrees with the group's At Johnson's direction, the White House made public today a preliminary report-on a review of this controversial facet of C.I.A.

operations. Press Secretary George Christian a-sized that Johnson agrees with the interim conclusions. The report, submitted in letter form and dated yesterday, came from Undersecretary of State Nicholas Kat-zenbach, who is conducting the review along with C.I.A. Director Richard Helms, and Mrs. Sekimura Jim Becker D-12 Bridge A-8 Business- C-6-8 Stock List C-6 Classified D-5-11 Pulse D-4 D-l-4 Theatre C-4-5 TV-Radio A-14 Comics Crossword Editorials- Family Obituaries D-5 A-9 A-10 B-3-8 D-4 First, you you plenty to cheer about.

followed constantly in Honolulu by a man at the conclusion of her Japan tour. She said the man disappeared only after she said out loud in a Honolulu restaurant, "I'm so famous, I'm followed by the C.I.A." She said remarks she made in Japan were falsely translated by an interpreter interpreter later said he had been pressured into making false translations, possibly by the C.I.A. Folk singer Joan Baez said yesterday she was tailed in Honolulu by the Central Intelligence Agency. The C.I.A. office here had "no comment" today.

1 Miss Baez is now at her Carmel Valley, California, home following a concert tour of Japan. i She told the Associated Press she was double your telephone convenience. And, second, the monthly charge for an extension is only $1.35. Call our Business Office at. 577-111 for more information.

HAWAIIAN TELEPHONE Modern Homs Hve Several Phones Honolulu weather Mostly fair today and Friday. A few showers night and morning hours. Trades 15 to 20 miles an hour and gusty. High today 82, low tonight 68. Total rainfall at Honolulu Airport between 2 a.m.

yesterday and 2 a.m. today; trace. Yesterday's high 81. Overnight low 70. Sunset tonight 6:34 p.m.

Sunrise tomorrow 6:56 a.m..