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113. NO. 62 Merged 1938 Fremont News Founded 1887 Fremont Messenger Founded 1856 TEN CENTS FREMONT, OHIO, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1968 14 PAGES SAGON UNDER WRAPS Yanks. Brace For Attacks As Viet War Makes History men sweeping the outer edges of the rocket belt reported killing 12 enemy soldiers and capturing seven weapons nine miles northwest of the capital. No U.S.

casualties were reported. Some 535,000 American troops now are fighting in Vietnam. The U.S. Command has pulled thousands of American infantrymen in from outlying provinces, military sources said today, in an effort to block key enemy infiltration routes and cut down enemy shellings that have terrorized Saigon's 3 million people. A senior U.S.

officer declined to say how many troops were being moved closer to the capital, but it was learned that perhaps a brigade of infantrymen 3,000 men had been moved to the city's outer limits. One troop move paid off Friday. U.S. headquarters said paratroopers of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division killed 35 ene By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) The Vietnam war becomes the longest war in American history today -with thousands of U.S.

troops set up in new positions to protect South Vietnam's capital against a threatened third enemy offensive. At midnight in Saigon noon EDT the war will be six years, six months and one day old. measured from the death on Dec. 22, 1961, of Spec. 4 James Thomas Davis of Livingston, the first of more than 25,000 Americans who have been killed in Vietnam.

The longest war involving American fighting men had been the War of Independence six years and six months, from the April 19, 1775, skirmish at Lexington, to the Oct. 19, 1781, surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. U.S. 25th Division infantry my soldiers in a daylong fight northwest of Saigon after moving from northeast of the city. The move put the paratroopers along some of the most heavily used enemy infiltration corridors between Cambodia and Saigon in Hau Nghia Province.

One American was killed and 36 were wounded in the clash, in which the paratroopers were supported by artillery, air strikes and helicopter gunships. Also in Hau Nghia Province. 15 miles northwest of Saigon Saigon, South Vietnamese infan trymen reported killing 60 ene my soldiers, while suffering onl light casualties of their own. Informed government sources say prisoner interrogations and captured enemy documents indicate the Viet Cong plans a third offensive on Saigon in July as a followup to the lunar new year offensive last February and the "peace talks" offensive Mav 5. The second wave of attacks came the day before U.S.-North Vietnamese negotiations opened in Paris.

U.S. officials say the enemy is trying to influence the talks with a show of military strength. The government sources said the Viet Cong is increasing its' number of divisions around Saigon from three to five, with the two new divisions composed of local guerrillas and North Vietnamese regulars. U.S. counter moves include saturation bombing near the capital by eight-engine B52s.

Thestratofortresses, credited with helping thwart mass enemy assaults on Con Thien and Khe Sanhalong the demilitarized zone, struck six times in the last 24 hours in Hau Nghia and neighboring Binh Duong Province. The targets, ranging from 21 to 37 miles west and northwest of Saigon, included suspected staging areas, troop con centrations, storage areas and infiltration routes. The B52s have flown 66 missions within a 50-mile radius of the capital in the last nine davs. Nine shells landed on Saigon's southeastern tip today, with one hitting a British merchant ship, and indications were that the rounds came from U.S. or South Vietnamese artillery.

The round which hit the British ship London Statesman on the Saigon River caused some damage to the main cargo lifting gear and a Vietnamese civilian in a nearby junk was reported killed by flying shrapnel. A U.S. Command spokesman said four other rounds landed in the river, three hit in a swamp and a ninth round was a dud. It was identified as being from a 105mm howitzer, which only the Americans and South Vietnamese are known to have in the Saigon area. IN KOREAN WATERS to evacuate the bodies of part of a relief force that arrived on the hill to evacuate the bodies of 19 of their comrades, found the flag on one of the dead.

The flag was flown during the evacuation operation. (AP Wirephoto RAISING THE GRAND OLD FLAG A U. S. Marine erects a makeshift flagstaff with the Stars and Stripes on it as his comrades watch on a hill some six miles south of the Khe Sanh combat base. The Marines, part of a relief force that arrived on the hill 1 ,000 ARRESTED Three Die As Brazil Student Riots Grow Pentagon Questions 'Spy Ship' Sinking 'NOT IN AMERICAN TRADITION' i Vi Three GOP Senators To Oppose Johnson Naming Chief Justice i years has had anti-American overtones.

Students contend that an agreement between the U.S. Agency for International Development and Brazil's Ministry of Higher Education to overhaul the Brazilian education system is a form of colonialism. They say the United States is trying to control education in Brazil. From the embassy, the battle moved downtown. Police dropped tear gas canisters from speeding cars and then began firing with pistols to disperse the students.

The students improvised barricades from construction materials and threw rocks at the police. Mounted police finally managed to break up the 1 i- I', RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -Students demanding more mon ey for Brazilian education clashed with police for the third straight day Friday and the melee of tear gas. gunfire and rock throwing killed a policeman and two students. There was an unconfirmed report of one more student killed. More than a hundred persons were reported injured and police said more than a thousand were arrested.

The student demonstrators smashed windows in the U.S. Embassy. Authorities ordered the arrest of several student leaders in an effort to prevent further violence. One of the demonstrators' first targets was the U.S. Embassy, where they fought with police who tried to disperse them.

Three girl demonstrators were reported wounded by gunfire. Two were treated at a hospital and released. No embassy personnel were reported hurt. Two floors of the embassy were evacuated after tear gas seeped through some of the 23 broken windows. Nearly every student demonstration here in the past two Korean Peoples Army (KRA) sank an enemy spy boat which intruded into the vicinity of Pukpo Harbor." the radio said.

"U.S. imperialist troops commit sustained provocative acts on land and sea and in the air and have again perpetrated a burglarous provocative act by infiltrating a spy ship into the vicinity of Pukpo Harbor at around 0100 hours today, with its mother spy ship anchored in the vicinity of Yompyong Island in the western sea. "Naval patrol vessels of our KRA promptly responded and sank the intruding spy ship together with its entire crew." The name of the alleged spy ship was not given, nor was the name of the mother vessel. The reported sinking came nearly six months after the U.S. Navy's intelligence ship Pueblo and her crew of 83 were captured by four North Korean patrol boats and taken to the port of Wonsan.

The North Koreans charged that the Pueblo was "carrying out hostile activities" in North Korean territorial waters. The United States said the Pueblo was outside the 12-mile limit claimed by North Korea. The ship and crew still are in North Korean custody. The Japanese Kyodo news agency which also monitored the North Korean report in Tokyo said the vessel was identified as a "U.S. imperialism forces spy ship." Kyodo said it was not clear whether this referred to an American or a South Korean ship.

Kyodo said the report claimed the crew was thrown into the water but did not specify whether they had been picked up. WASHINGTON (AP) Three Republican senators say they will oppose any effort by President Johnson to name a new chief justice of the Supreme Court after Earl Warren steps down. "For a 'lame duck' president to designate the leadership of the Supreme Court for many years in the future would break faith with our system and would be an affront to the American people," Sen. Robert P. Griffin.

told the Senate. "With the court in adjournment and the American people about to pick a new administration which may considerably reorient the philosophy of our national government, it would be a major mistake to presume today to fill such an important post." said Sen. John G. Tower, R-Tex. Sen.

Strom Thurmond, agreed with both of them, adding he was "delighted to hear Chief Justice Earl Warren will be retiring from the Supreme Court. I have long favored such a move." All three commented Friday in the wake of authoritative reports that Warren had written Johnson of his intention to bow out after 15 controversial years that saw the barriers of school segregation tumble and guarantees of the rights of individuals vastly expanded. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman James O. Eastland, said he believes the elevation of an associate justice to chief justice needs Senate confirmation, as was done in 1941 when Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Harlan Fiske Stone to succeed Charles Evans Hughes.

The Constitution says nothing about that specific point, spelling out only the need for Senate confirmation of a justice. Both Johnson and Warren, however, surely are mindful that it was the Senate that spearheaded in recent weeks the attack on the court that resulted in the omnibus crime control bill Johnson signed into law the past week. Some provisions of the bill are intended to overturn court decisions that restricted the admissibility of confessions as evidence and eyewitness identifications made in police lineups. Despite the comments in the Senate, there was praise for Warren Friday. Arthur J.

Goldberg, who left a position on the court to become U. S. ambassador at the United Nations, called him "one of the greatest chief justices in the history of the United States." Warren served for 11 years as Republican governor of California, but that state's Democratic House Speaker. Jesse M. Unruh, said Warren's "contribution to the nation and the ideals for which it stands are incalculable.

He is a great Californian, a great American and a great chief California Gov. Ronald Reagan's immediate reaction was "I wish he had waited until January so his successor could be appointed by a Republican president." Warren himself plans to return to California Tuesday for a summer vacation. In the court tradition, he has been silent on the whole matter of retirement, as have his aides. Speculation on why the 77-year-old Warren chose this particular time to step down centered on the belief he wished to ensure the liberal tradition of his court, which President Johnson has mostly supported. Another, but related theory, was offered by Fred Rodell, Yale University law professor and authority on the Supreme Court, who said Warren may be stepping out for fear Richard M.

Nixon, as president, might appoint his successor. Rodell said ill feeling between Nixon and Warren goes back to 1952 when, Rodell said, Warren expressed an interest in the presidency. Probable Johnson selections could be fairly accurately measured by the two high court appointments he has made Abe Fortas and Thurgood Marshall. Fortas has fit easily into the From Air To Chair COLUMBUS. Ohio (AP) -Brig.

Gen. Lyle Castle of Cincinnati, national board chairman of the Civil Air Patrol, was named Friday by Gov. James A. Rhodes to succeed the late Fred Hoffman as a Hamilton County Common Pleas Court judge. WASHINGTON (AP) A North Korean radio report that a U.

S. "spy ship" had been sunk off the west coast of Korea was tentatively described today by U. S. authorities as incorrect. "It would appear that this initial report is erroneous," a Pentagon spokesman said.

He emphasized that this comment was based on a hurried check of the situation. Asked if this meant the sinking involved a ship of some other nation, the spokesman said, "There are a lot of possibilities on this. All we can say at the moment is that it appears this report is incorrect." The sinking was claimed in a North Korean Radio broadcast, monitored in London, which said the ship was attacked by North Korean patrol vessels and sunk with its entire crew. "Naval. 2nd graf 119 Delete insert 119 "In Washington he said." "Naval patrol vessels of our Ohioan Injured In Pike Mishap A 29-year-old Niles, Ohio, man was listed in guarded condition in Fremont Memorial hospital Saturday after he was struck by a car on the Ohio Turnpike.

Clee 1 1 a 29, has abrasions, head, back and arm injuries. Kellar was a passenger in a car driven by Noah L. Burnett, 42, Toledo. The Burnett car struck the rear of a car driven by John J. Richards, 35, Oak-lawn Illinois, at 1:50 a.m.

at the Sandusky river crossing. It was a minor accident, according to the Turnpike Patrol, but the Niles man gof out to flag traffic. He was standing in the passing lane when struck by a car driven by Pauline A. Goodman, Creave Coeur, Illinois. Kellar was knocked about 40 feet from the point of impact.

He was rushed to Fremont hospital by Roosen's ambulance. Burnett was cited for no assured clear distance as a result of the initial accident. The woman was not cited. There was minor damage to both vehicles in the collision. -7r3 ft 7 Ta A POSSIBILITY TO SUCCEED WARREN Associate Justice Abe Fortas of the U.

S. Supreme Court has been considered a leading possibility to succeed Earl Warren if President Johnson is able to name the next Chief Justice before the Chief Executive leaves office next January. (AP Wirephoto) Bagging Of Six Traffic Lights Causes Problems Problems continue to plague the city since it announced the bagging of six traffic lights in the city Thursday. Safety Service Director A. T.

McCachren said Saturday that the bag has been taken off the light at the west State street and Dickinson street intersection. The light on the Justice and State street intersection which was turned on flashing Thursday has been restored to normal operation. It was reported that when factories finished their working day yesterday near the Dickinson street intersection traffic was backed up for several blocks. Complaints had been received from numerous citizens that it was virtually impossible to cross State street at the Justice intersection because of the constant flow of traffic. Officials had bagged the light at the Park and Birchard avenues intersection, also.

However, following an accident and reports of people running a stop sign at the intersection the bag was taken off i 7 If i vy 1 ,4 Names Of Four Ohio Servicemen Added To Casualty List WASHINGTON (AP) -The names of four Army men from Ohio were on Friday's Defense Department list of the latest Vietnam War dead. Pfc. Ronald L. Best of Dayton and Pfc. Norman Jones Jr.

of Elyria were listed as killed in action. Cpl. Carl W. Holler of Rt. 2, Utica, and Cpl.

William T. Wedgeworth of Cleveland were changed from the list of missing to dead of hostile causes. liberal majority on the bench. And Marshall, the court's first Negro, had devoted the whole of his long legal career to civil rights advocacy. Leading the list of potential chief justices, in talk at least, is Fortas, a long-time friend, confidant and adviser to the President.

Election To Decide Fate Of DeGaulle PARIS (AP) Frenchmen with fresh memories of a ruinous national strike are being asked Sunday to renew their confidence in President Charles de Gaulle in the election of deputies to the National Assembly. The two-week campaign has been the shortest and one of the quietest in history. There have been no sharp clashes between leading political personalities. Candidates and voters insist there is no apathy, but there is a certain lassitude after seven weeks of student riots and strikes that idled an estimated 8 to 10 million workers. The election will be conducted in two stages.

Any candidate getting a majority in Sunday's vote will be elected. Where there is no majority a second vote will be held June 30 with the high man getting the seat. Family Increases By Four Within 92 Minute Span By MARTY ANDERSON Associated Press Writer LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Allan Irvine, whose family swelled from two to six in less than two hours, says "it's still going to take some adjustment" even though the quadruplets were expected. Irvine's 26-year-old wife.

Francis, gave birth to four boys Friday in Home Hospital here. Dr. Paul A. Williams said the mother and the babies are doing well. The Irvines live in the north-western Indiana community of Wheatfield where they were married five years ago.

Irvine. 27. commutes to East Chicago where he works at Inland Steel Co. The quads, born in a span of 92 minutes, weighed from 2 pounds 13 ounces to 3 pounds 4 ounces. Irvine said he and his wife were told two months ago there would be triplets but it wasn't until Wednesday night they learned that rays showed a fourth infant.

"They're really going to fill up our five-room frame home." the father said. "And there are still a lot of things I have to get." He said the hospital hasn't given him any hint yet how soon he might take his family home. The infants were placed in incubators and given oxygen and special diets. Dr. Williams said the next three to four days would be the critical period.

The quads began their lives with the hospital designations of babies and Irvine didn't say whether that had any influence on the names he and his wife picked-Allan Scott. Bryon Williams, Corev James and Dale Walter. County Delays Permissive Tax Vote f. 9 IS If i 1 li -i i fe" Ji i a small fee would be added to the $5 for collection. Therefor, all of the money collected would be returned to the county and municipalities.

This would mean more than $80,000 for the county and over $55,000 for the City of Fremont. Other villages would receive tax money from licenses sold in their jurisdiction. All of the county commissioners appeared to be in favor of the tax when it was originally proposed. However, since that time Democrat James Martin, the one who made the motion to initiate action to pass the tax, has said he will vote against it. Martin says he doesn't like the principle of the way the tax idea was handed to the counties.

Commissioners have another week in which to take action. After that time the right to implement the tax reverts to cities and municipalities. The county would never be able to take advantage of the permissive tax on vehicle licenses once a city exercises its rights. No action was taken on the proposed $5 permissive license tax Saturday when Sandusky county commissioners met in regular session. The commissioners have held two hearings on the county-wide tax but a vote was delayed until more information was received on the cost of administration.

The State Attorney General's office ruled recently that the state will absorb the cost of collection. The only fee would be for de'puty registrars in the county, and it is expected, that 1 I AW, THAT'S MUSHY When Joey Beck gets older, he may like having pretty girls kiss him. but at age 4 a peck on the cheek from Lois Smith. 5. strains his courage.

They were named Mr. and Miss Tadpole in a Lexington. recreation department contest. (AP Wirephoto) tf..