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S. With New Bombing Of North charged today the Uaited recover pilots of unarmed" re- war are in'violatfon'ot Tho Vf tcd stalcs has claimtX i spokesman asserted the Stales wants carried out new bombing wnaiwancc planes shot down sovereienlv and civnriu- nf. 1,1 to send "es, under Americans attacked Thursday A'ielnampw i ks deep in i(s: tfrrit over Ihe North. DemoS cscort Nort! 5 and the action was in no PARIS CAP) today the Slates carried out new bombing attacks deep in its territory Thursday and demanded an end of what it said "were acts of war." In Washington, a State Department spokesman said he was unawre of any U.S. bombing of North Vietnam.

But he repeated earlier statements the united States will use supprcs- recover pilots of unarmed" reconnaissance planes shot down over the North. Reports from Saigon hav carried no mention bombina attacks north of the demilitai- ized zone dividing North and South Vietnam. A spokesman for Hanoi's delegation at the Paris peace talks asserted the American bombings had occurred for the third straight day Thursday. of the armed escort, over Xorth Vic-t- of nam for reconnaissance. It also The spokesman charged that three F4 jets of the U.S.

Air Force dropped explosives snd fragmentation bombs on four Milages and hamlets in the Province of Quang Binh. One of (has warned the North namert that U.S. authorities will not hesitate to defend Americans imperiled by hosli'e actions or to go to the rescue of the crews of downed aircraft. The Xorth Vietnamese hare fhefi -11 i7 i IW rtunn Vietnamese nave the villages attacked, he said, ts! disputed these claimed Ame-i- than 40 mites north of the can rights. Regardless of that dispute, demilitarized zone.

in no wav opera- spokesman said in a statement; American issued by the Xorth Vietnamese delegation to the Peace talks. The virt Cong's National Lib- sents nobodv rcprc- man said the 8 saying. the early Centrolio-Cheriolis. Woshington Dock Blaze Kills 1 SEATTLE (API is unquestionably the toughest fire that ever has been fought in the history- of Seattle." That was how Seattle Fire Chief Gordon Vickery described a stubborn shipyard fire that caused over $250,000 damage here Thanksgiving Day before it was brought under control by some 300 weary firemen early Friday. One Ffreman Oeai The fire, bslieved to have started from a short circuit in a cable under a pier at Todd Shipyards, left one fireman dead and at least 28 others injured.

Henry C. Gronnerud, 41, a 12- year veteran fireman, was killed early Friday when he stepped onto a high voltage wire at the scene. Most of the injuries were from smoke inhalation. Twenty-six boats helped battle the flames, which broke out on tie underside of the dock about I p. m.

PST Thursday. Fire crews cut holes in the dock and used row boats to get near the fire. Dock Area Damaged Tne damage was to the dock area. Quick work by shipyard officials may have saved three vessels from heavy- damage as tugs towed the three a tanker, a Liberty ship and a Navy vessel away from their moorings soon after the fire broke out. A small blaze on the tanker was extinguished quickly.

Heavy-creosoted pilings aflame sent clouds of smoke high into the air over the Puget Sound area, and tie smoke was smelled as far as 15 miles away. It was the second major fire at Todd Shipyards since Aug. 13. 12 Nabbed For Speed Twelve motorists have besn arrested on charges of speeding since Wednesday when Ccn- fralia Mayor Don NaismHh announced a crackdown on traffic violators. The a i a Police Department announced the arrest tally Friday, and said emphasis on traffic violators would continue.

Naismith also said officers would be watchful for motorists who fail lo yield right-of-way lo pedestrians, but as of Friday, no arrests had yet been recorded on the charge. Radar la being used 24 hours a day, and, starting Sunday, a special officer will devote full time to the traffic crackdown. Chronicle vthicfe into the median strip. Trailer, containing paper Staff Twin Cities Bus Service May End Local bus service in the Twin Cities operating at a deficit may be suspended unless changes are made ia financing, the owner of the bus firm saic Friday. Jack L.

Carr, Olympia, owner of Twin City Transit said it costs his firm S45 a day to operate in the Twin Cities. On Wednesday, he said, revenue from operations amounted to $21.60. Unless I can get a guarantee on patronage, or make some other financial adjustment, it appears I will have to suspend service, Carr said. He did not say when this decision would be made. Twin City Transit operates one bus which makes runs through the Twin Cities every bour through the day.

Can- said the bus provides transportation for 100 lo 150 people Late News Bulletins SAN ANTONIO, Ten. (AP) Budget Director Charles J. Zwictc reported fscfay federal turbacki by have been more thin met for the first quarter cf fiscal 19(9 and will mean butfgef saving of million. SEATTLE (AP) The Legislative Municipal Code Commftfee recommended Friday Ihe irate levy an annual fee of S9W against pinball machines. The fte vroufd aboil three times amount now received by state from each pinball machine.

CHILLY A few showers end partial clearing tonight and Saturday. High 45-50, low 32. Complete weittitr on page 9. per day. Carr also owns Olympia Tansit Co.

and provides charter bus service 1 He said be is shutting down the Olympia the Transportation Committee service by the end of the year unless he gets some Gnancia help. In Olympia, Carr has what he calls "an old age pensioner's pass." Through a patronage guarantee persons 65 years of age and older pay $1 a month for bus transportation. Speaking of Twin City vices, Carr said: "I can't take money out of my own pocket to keep buses going for people." He observed that local bus service is being suspended next month in Vancouver, and he is "one of three outfits the state operating independently." In the Twin Cities, Carr said he must find some way fo subsidize service e'ither from the cities or businessmen or he is going to have to halt operations. Carr operates the service agreements with the and Centralia City Commissions. i city receives a license fee from him.

Ben Salewsky, chairman of of the Centralia Chamber Commerce, said his committee and Centralia city officials hat several meetings with Car early this year. "My commilte made recommendations to the city, and the city provided the bus stops Carr wanted. wan to do everything possible to see that who need tran sportation by bus receive it." The current bus charge per is 25 cents for transportation within each city, ant 35 cents one way for bus travel between the Twin Cities. Carr operated bus service in Ihe Twin Cities from lJ4f. to 1955, sold the service, and then ook it back in 1959 and has seen operating it since.

i i a complaints on scheduling and other factors made it appear unlikely that either city would consider a subsidy. Carr said he is within $10 lo $15 per day of breaking -ven. Carr said he planned to talk city officials in the near uture. Nixon To Send Scronton On Middle East Mission NEW YORK (AP) President-elect Richard M. Nixon an nounced today he will send former Pennsylvania Gov.

William W. Scranton on a nine-day fact- finding mission next week to Israel and five other Middle East nations. The announcement was mad', Ihrough spokesman Ron Ziegler, said Scranton would leave New York Monday and would meet with chiefs of state, heads of government and top officials Iran, Lebanon, the United Arab Republic, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel. Strikers Leave Tree PORT AXGELES (AP) A fallen tree spread the effects of the strike of city employes over a area early Friday. Wind blew a tree across power lines in the western part of Port Angeles.

City Light Department em- ployes, members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, took emergency measures (o make ceitain no one would be in danger of electrocution from tte fallen lines but they would go no further than that, and the tree was left where it fell. City officials equipped the Community Center with cots blankets and food to care for residents without power. It was TOW many pcup'e were affected. Through diplomatic channels, Nixon wired heads of all the governments involved asking Park Site Talk Slated Prospective sites for parks on newly formed Da vis son Late Dam behind ftuti will be i here Wednesday during the combined Deccmber meeting of the Lcwis Counly Park and Recreation Board. The meeting, scheduled for 8 p.m.

at Mossyrock High School, will consider primarily a site two miles east of Mossyrock suggested to the park board earlier by a Mossyrock citizens them to receive Scranton "anj give him a full and frank exposition of your views- of the situation in your country and the region as a whole." Ziegler said the Scranton mission "will be reportorial in nature" and that the former governor would report promptly to Mxon upon returning to Xew York Dec. 11. In his wire to government leaders, Nixon said the trip was being made "in preparation for my administration." Inasmuch as Scranlon made a similar journey to Western Europe at Xixon's behest durir.g group. According to Kevin King, assistant county planner, a search for other possible part sites also will be conducted. In addition, said King, further discussion centering on the recommendations of a special committee concerned with the sroposed development of Mayfield Lake State Park on Mayfield Lake will take place.

King said the discussion will be a carry-over of talks on the subject which were slated lo place at 1 pjn. Friday at Mjssyrock High School between the park board and Ihe special committee. Chairman of the special com mittee ii Glen Aidridae, rock. speculation lhal Scran'-on misht eventually emerge as Xuso'Vs secretary of state or ambassador to the United Nations-jobs the Pennsylvanian has said he does not want. During the autumn campaign, Nixon stated he would favor the sale of Phantom jets to Israel were that necessary to maintain equilibrium in the troubled Middle East.

Trailer Overturns A large trailer loaded with paper products overturned it the median strip on the freewaj three miles south of at 5:05 a.m. Friday, stat troopers reported. The State Patrol said the driver accidently drove the rig into the median, and the trailer overturned. Officers said the semi-truck and trailer rig was operated Ralph E. Sewart, 33, Woodland who was uninjured.

The truri was undamaged. The trailer i an undetermined amount of damage, troopers said. A crane was used to righl the trailer. TTOO women were hurt in two-ear collision at 8:15 a.m. Thursday, six miles south Chehalls.

They were Mrs. Albert A. Hastings Puyallup and Linda L. Roberts, Portland. Drivers involved were Carl Roberts, a brother of one of the injured women, and Hastings, husband of the other a Vehicle damages otaled an estimated $500 to the 1966 model sedan of Hastings.

Che Roberts station wagon was demolished. Two other persons were hurt a one-car accident Wednesday two miles west of Vader They were Buster Maggard, fader, driver, who received broken ribs, and Tilden Johnson. Vader. who received a broken leg. Maggard was taken the St.

Helen Hospital for reatment and released. In another Thanksgiving Dsy accident, no one was injured when a semi-truck operated by Eugene Keith, Loagview, and automobile driven by John Crevis, Enumclaw, collided at a on the freeway -ear the Xewaukum River An estimated S400 damaee was caused It Creris 1 ar. The truck was undamaged. HHH Mulls School Job X-Y. (AP)-j: Hubert H.

Hum-! phrey says he 'is seriously considering "a very attractive offer" from the University of Minnesota involving part-time teaching after he leaves office in January. Humphrey said the job would not make heavy demands his schedule and would leave him time to work toward strengthening the Democratic party. He said he wanted to broaden its base and encourage young peo- p'e to participate. Humphrey, who lost the Xov 5 presidential election to Republican Richard M. Nixon, made the comments to reporters during a duck-hunting visit Wednesday at preserve ot James p.

Wiimot, millionaire Rochester real-estate developer. MANNIXGTO.V, w.va. (API Another "major explosion" npped through No. 9 today spewing smoke and flame from the mine's IJeivcllyn portal the area where 78 men nave been trapped nine days I TM blast, the 16th since the initial explosion Aov. 20, sent names and a column of white smoke spiraling above the entrance.

Evaluation Promised Officials directing efforts to rescue the entombed miners promised a "very, very comprehensive evaluation" "of the situation within the sprawline mine today. 6 Drillings made by boring through to the deep caverns below produced air samples show, mg high concentrations of dead ly carbon monoxide and danger ous methane gas. Peter P. Kerrctti, a vice president of Consolidation Coal Co said the latest testings Thurs day night were taken from an area where the men had been trained to go in case of disaster Area Said Critical He described the testing area as a "very critical place." Th carbon monoxide level was a times human capability while the methane concentration wa 26.4 per cent. He said there is danger of explosion when meth ane reaches a level of between 5 and 15 per cent.

100-Mile Winds Hit By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Violent winds up to 100 miles per hour raked Southeast Alaska and the central British Columbia Coast in a Thanksgiving Day itorm that tore roofs from homes, toppled three communications towers up to up to 100 feet ngn and briefly disrupted power three communities. Friday the moved southward and pelted northweH Vashington with heavy rain and vinds up to 65 miles per hour at Jellingham. Cooler air following he system was expected to ring heavy snowfall in the Cascade Mountains down to 2500 eet. No injuries have been reported in the storm. In Alaska Thursday, brief xwer outages were reported in, Cetchikan, at Petersburg and in! he Juneau area.

HOLIDAY MEAL A Gt leaves (he chow line with his plate loaded with turkey, cranberry sauce and other trimmings as members of the Light Infantry Brigade look a break from the fighting Thursday at their base at Due Koa southwest of Saigon. U.S. military men throughout South Vietnam enjoyed Thanksgiv. ing meals delivered in some eases by helicopter. More than half a million pounds o( turkey were served to 534,000 men far from home on the holiday.

AP W1REPHOTO "Thanks' Hunger Protests Temper Holiday By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The traditional "thanks" ol Thanksgiving Day, a holiday uniquely American among nations of the world, was tempered this year by scattered protests over those in need in a of families land of plenty. While thousands sat down to turkey dinners with all the trimmings, 10 members of the War Resistors League asted outside a fashionable Beverly Hills, restaurant charging that "Americans are Buttons while millions 'Thanks For Nothing" During the annuai Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade "ia Manhattan, featuring eight giant helium-filled balloons of characters, welfare pro- estors handed out leaflets to nany of the 2.5 million specta- ors, at least half of them rcad- ng, for nothing." A spokesman said the protest thousands of poor children ia this city and country will face empty plates today." At Albany College, 10 students and an adviser ended a fourfay fast Thursday aimed at calling attention to hunger. But thousands of the "have- nots" also sat down to holiday dinners, thanks to social agencies and organizations such as the Salvation Army, which played host to 1,900 homelcii or needy at centers it operates in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island in New York City. Churches Serve Needy Two churches, in Harlem and Ihe Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, served needy or aged neighbors in church halts. Symbolizing the holiday scene around the nation was the fami- gathering on the Texas ranch 3f President and Mrs.

Johnson, celebrating with their i staged to show that "many ters, grandchildren and friends. Recount Of AG Votes Will Start On Monday In an offori lo re TM nt miles W1 iop the (Jessie attorney all OJ lv i iia.e auorney rarxe all etersburg where winds hit R) general votes in Lewis County, I Democrats IIJPS hnnr rt r.t--« rr. 4 j- in KvlV? in Ketchikan along wA job Monday. wo towers of Alaska" Com- Secretary er and Mrs. George of Centralia.

The are Mrs Jee Auditor Robert I. Venemon will i Chapman and LeR.jy TM untins on tfte Williams, both of Centralia anJ Mrj. Ernie Kuehcer and Mrs. Lud i Johnson, both, of of State mumcatrore System. One fishing Kramer ordered the recount ini Chehalis tesel was sunJr.

39 counties for Monday. I Cost of the recount will be lower lines were bloan down i a Slade Gorun about $560 Venemon morning at the Belling- finished 5,972 votes ahead based on S1.75 per hou-" for am airport and in adjacent Democrat John G. McCutcheon about a week that the recount ntia! areas. Power was'" 1 thclr li ht for i is expected to take an hour. attorney general but was votes short of avoiding automatic recount.

A state law introduced in 1963 requires Air Check I one-half oJ one per sheriffs total vote. Gorton re 60,933 votes to Me i deputies County Friday were vesligaling the report of possiHe downed plane in the Kiona Peak area between Handle and Packwood. Deputies said an atnnymous person called the sheriffs office Wednesday right and said that he saw a fireball in the sky and believed it to be a downed plane. The sheriffs officers checked civilian and military authorities on reports of missing aircraft Thus far, a sheriffs department spokesman said just before nonn Friday, there have been no reports downed aircraft. 1 recount in any statewide race' whcre the difference is less than; cent of the! received! McCutcheon's' 19 Venemon, president of the an; Washington State Associatioa of Auditors, plan? to that the state a i legislature reimburse counties work.

lead to miss a recount. In Lewis County. Gorton was defeated by McCutcheon by 9,813 to 7,537 vote count. Each counting board will have two Republicans and two Democrats. One board will count the absentee ballots and when they have completed that count ihey will assist the i board in tallying the regular! ballots.

i include Mri. VfiUaru Brown, Chehaiis, and Mrs. Folmcr Sogaaid, TROUBLE Read I'SANTA and the HIPPIES' It Begins Next Monday In The Daily Chronicle.