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THE MMME JOURNAL TIME VOL, 112,, NO. 34 RACINE, WIS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 9, 1968 34 PAGES 10 CENTS Dial 634 3322 Astooattd Prt Moses Never Thought of Thai, ml Between the Lines By Tex Reynolds Subject to Change; Youthful Suicides; Worrisome Wallace PHOENIX, Ariz. UrV- Belva Jean Belcher, 22, forgot the right phrase but answered anyway Thursday when i he-appeared in Maricopa County Superior Court. The state's star witness at, a trial charging a man with Intimidating a witness, Miss Belcher told the judge: "I'm not going to testify, I take the 10th Kite Dim AMERICAN MOTORS has just announced a first quarter profit of $4,483 million, meaning that black ink has replaced red on the company's books for the "'jiim 'i wnn wn mm. ynnjWjg jf" North Viet Threat first time in more than a year.

AM union negotiators have asked for a meeting with top United Auto Workers officials to get approval for a strike vote if their demands are not met. to Da Nang Grows 4 and in Hue. Another 170 Ameri would set up his headquarters in SAIGON (AP) Helicopters cans were wounded. Phu Bal, north of Da Nang. landed U.S.

troops on Saigon's No major enemy activity was Troops from the U.S. 199th racetrack today to help rout out THAT would do it! I mean it wouldn't take a very long strike to turn the black ink into red diehard Viet Cong forces as the North Vietnamese increased reported today In the Khe Sanh area, where U.S. commanders expeqt the biggest North Viet- Light Infantry Brigade were landed In the center of the Saigon racetrack and quickly took up positions to bolster South pressure against Da Nang and again. more Communist tanks were re TWO youthful suicides in the namese push of the war in an attempt to seize South Vietnam's two northernmost prov ported sighted near Khe Sanh. Vietnamese forces having slow going blasting the Reds out news are enough to make you Heavy fighting was reported inces.

But the U.S. Command in of Cholon, the Chinese quarter across soutn Vietnam nortn- and adjoining areas on the delayed report told of the ern sector, with 321 Communists I i A 1 ft 'III i KSF v-v S3 tVf i -r I I 'K 4 if I v- Is i 1t.l'--, 1 "ft '2 "4 I southwest side of Saigon. sighting Thursday of more and 67 U.S. troops killed Thurs dav. most of them in battles Block Burned Down North Vietnamese tanks, which made their first appearance in around Khe Sanh and Da Nang Thursday night the Viet Cong burned down a block of homes mad and sad at the same time.

You wonder what kind of parents they were who ordered their 21-year-old daughter, an Arizona coed, to shoot her pet dog as punishment for an indiscretion. You'd hate to be In their shoes and live with their memory of how the daughter, handed the gun by her father, turned it on herself. (Turn to Page 2A, Col. 6) just south of the track. The re gion had been declared pacified N.

Viet Officials Racine May Get two days ago, but the Viet Cong either surfaced from hiding or slipped back into the city. A 10 Below Tonight Viet Cong battalion is reported to control 20 blocks east and A new cold front Is expected Issue Peace Bid, Talk War south of the race course. to drop temperatures to about 10 Then there's the case of the chubbv hi eh school boy in It was the third time Ameri AP Wlrephoto Miss Helen Bowen, 25, Information attache of the British embassy in Saigon, is back In the city after six days and nights of terror spent hiding under a bed in Hue during the Viet Cong attack. She was on holiday with a Buddhist friend and visiting a private family. When the Viet Cong attacked she was hid with family servants beneath a bed.

Continuous fighting forced her to remain there until U.S. and S. Vietnamese troops took Over. below zero in Racine tonight. can troops have been used in Massachusetts who hanged him Forecasters said Saturday will the battle of Saigon that began be mostly sunny with a high of self because he couldn't stand the ridicule of schoolmates who called him such things as around 15 and a low near zero TOKYO (AP) North Viet last Wednesday.

Paratroops of the 101st Airborne Division were nam offered the United States predicted for Saturday night "Fearless Flab" and "Fatso, helicoptered onto the roof of the The subzero weather, if it comes, will be the first in Ra the sword and the olive bracnh Thursday on the 11th day of the U.S. Embassy when Red com' Here you have to wonder why his father, or some other adult, mandos invaded the embassy cine in more than a month. biggest Communist offensive of grounds Jan. 31. Two days later the Vietnam war AP Wirepholo an armored column of the 25th hadn't recognized the boy's problem and given him the benefit of intelligent advice, rea The peace bid was made by Infantry Division helped clear Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh, who said Hanoi would eo out Viet Cong forces from the 3 Negro Students i -f 0- FIGHT FOR TINY LIVES New York Fire Lt.

James Hubert, followed by Fireman Richard Kurtz, who was applying mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, rushed out of a Bronlc 'lwme-crrynng "bothr sixth-floor flat Thursday. Efforts to revive the children failed. acatrack. area. Elsewhere below the northern the United States has proved provinces, the big Communist soning and comfort.

Incidentally, though there are many reducing facilities and clubs for adults, how many parents who use them have youngsters with the offensive against the cities launched 10 days ago appeared tapering off. But the U.S. Ma Schedule Acceleration Die in S.C. Riot ORANGEBURG, S. C.

(AP) Gov. Robert McNalr declared a state of emergency in Orangeburg today where three Negro students were killed In an exchange of gunfire with police Thursday night. McNair also ordered a curfew over the city beginning at 5 p.m. rines and South Vietnamese forces were still battling same problem but don't pay anv attention to it? I don't doggedly in Hue, the old impe of S. Vief Mobilization rial capital in the north, and fighting drew closer to Da Nang, South Vietnam's second largest city and the nerve cen ORANGEBURG, S.

C. (AP) that it has really stopped unconditionally the bombings and all other acts of war" against North Vietnam. The promise of more fighting was held out by Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, North Vietnam's defense minister and the victor of the 1954 battle against the French at Dien Bien Phu. Speaking at a reception in Hanoi marking the 20th anniversary of the North Korean army, Giap vowed to "fight on until we have won final victory." Trinh's peace proposal which said the 1954 Geneva armistice agreements could be the subject of the talks was made in an interview with a French (Turn to Page 2A, Col.

1) tion decree sooner than original SAIGON (AP) President said the Ministry of Defense Three Negro students were killed in a brief but bloody exchange of gunfire with police Thursday night in the fourth would carry out ahead of sched ly scheduled. Nguyen Van Thieu announced plans today for increased mobi iknow I just raise the question. A WOMAN NOTES that her city tax statement says, "Make checks payable to city treasurer." Then she argues that there really ISN'T any city treasurer, since Collette Blessinger retired from that position; that what the city now has is a finance director. Hence, she reasons, her check made out to the city treasurer wouldn't be cashable, and so, maybe, she could get out of paying hectax entirely. "The following programs also lization to meet heavy Commu back onto campus to douse fires they had started The crack of gunfire or fireworks could be heard throughout the night from the grounds of South Carolina State College and Clafflin College, both predominately Negro institutions, but this morning all was quiet.

Began Monday The outbursts began Monday night of violence on two adjoin ing college campuses. will be carried out: 1. Ail offi cials under 45 will be given mill nist attacks in South Vietnam. ter for Allied operations in the northern provinces. General Sent An indication of the gravity with which the U.S.

Command viewed the situation in the north was a decision to send Gen. Creighton D. Abrams, deputy U.S. commander in Vietnam, to take personal charge. Informed sources saidAbrams He decreed a freeze on military i niny-seven otner persons tary training and will be armed discharges, the recall of veter were injured in the outburst, ule a partial mobilization decree announced several months ago.

He said: "We will carry out the following measures: 1. Stop the granting of discharges except for reasons of health; 2. Recall service; 3. Call up youths made eligible by the partial mobiliza- When notified, they may be ans and the drafting of 18 and which started when state troop formed into popular defense ers and National Guardsmen at 19-year-olds ahead of schedule. Speaking-tO-a joint tempted- to push.the- students night with a rock-throwing 2.

All students- over-17 will be given military training while in school." demonstration against the All- the nation's House and Senate on his 101st day in office, Thieu Star Bowling Lanes, a privately Drafting Youths, 19 Under the partial mobiliza owned alley operated by Harry K. Floyd on a segregated basis. Romney's Racine Talks Charge Johnson 'Snow Job' on Vietnam tion decree, 19-year-olds were to become eligible for the Students from the two colleges, have been trying for months to integrate the facility. draft July 1 and 18-year-olds on Lindsay Rejects Bid to End Garbage Strike Thirteen persons were injured But much as I hate to dash a lady's hopes, (even though they weren't very serious), It must be reported that the City Council took care of this very thing just the other night. For the purpose of endorsing checks and signing other documents, Finance Director Jerome Mailer was officially named city treasurer, but he and his assistants also handle functions of the former comptroller, as well as the city payroll.

in flare-ups earlier this week. Chief J. P. Strom of the State and only 8 minutes late good i nent, former Vice President trols of the streets, and vacant Sept. 1.

Now they may begin to be called almost immediately. It was the president's first address to the legislature since the nationwide Communist attacks began Jan. 30. Thieu said the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese would continue their broad offensive through 1968 be lots were used as public burning NEW YORK (AP) Mayor John V. Lindsay rejected early today the recommendations of Gov.

Nelson A. Rockefeller's sites. Law Enforcement Division said Cleveland Sellers, 25, South Carolina coordinator of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), was arrested after the incident Thursday night on charges of inciting to By SEAN DEVLIN Journal-Times Staff Michigan Gov. George Rom-ney stepped up his criticism of President Johnson's Vietnam policies during a two-hour visit to Racine today. Romney arrived at his first Racine stop, the Clayton House, appearing morning-brisk, fresh time for any presidential campaigner.

Termed Political War The Young Republicans Clayton House coffee hour was the place Romney chose to tee off full scale on the policies of President Johnson and the proposals of Romney's main oppo- A health emergency was declared. Officials feared an ex Richard Nixon. Citing crime, the problems of the cities, inflation, and Vietnam as the major crises faced by the United States, Romney told the 220 persons attending the coffee that the Republican Party has the opportunity to provide the leadership necessary to resolve special panel for ending the 8- plosion of the rat population and day-old sanitation men strike. GEORGE WALLACE, governor nf Alahama bv proxy, with his an accompanying typhoid dan cause they are seeking military (Turn to Page 2A, Col. 2) riot.

He was taken to the South Hours later, Rockefeller ger. Carolina Penitentiary at Colum turned down Lindsay's renewed bia and held under $50,000 bond. call for National Guard help in Authorities at the hospital said removing the tons of festering garbage. this morning all 37 injured, in cluding D. J.

Shealy, patrolman, The striking sanitation union were released after emergency room treatment. had agreed to the special panel's the Vietnam problem. "We need effective programs to deal with the conflict," he said, "and a positive program for peace." No one "familiar with a political guerrilla conflict thinks we can win militarily, he said, adding that in a political contest the west must win the people. Claims "Snow Job" offer of a $425 annual pay ro -C- 1 i Kr ft wife actually holding the title, has announced himself as a third party candidate for president. He won't' get elected, of -course.

He won't even come close. But with the mood of the country being what It Is today, he'll get a lot of votes. And leaders of the two major parties are already tossing fitfully in their sleep, trying to figure out from whom he'll take most of those votes. crease, only $25 above a state mediator's proposal made be fore the strike. The city had also rejected the $400 settlement offer.

Governor Hopeful The governor said he was very hopeful" that Lindsay would change his mind about MANY contributions to the Good Fellers in memory of Larry "This is the real essence of the conflict," Romney contended. He accused the South Vietnamese government of "ruling by clique," and having no base of support among the people. "The Viet Cong has a broad base of support among the people, and until the South Viet the formula offered by the spe cial Lowe, who was laid to rest Mon dav. have been received by Mrs Shop stewards for the strikers Lowe and this department. This voted unanimously to accept the Racine Area WEATHER Fair and very cold tonight with a low around 10 below.

Saturday mostly sunny and continued cold with a high around 15 above. Winds dimin--ishing tonight becoming westerly 6 to 12 Saturday." Precipi-" tation probabilities: 5 per cent tonight and 10 per cent Saturday. Outlook for Sunday: Increasing cloudiness, a little warmer with a low near zero and high around 20. elsewhere: in state Fair tonight and- very cold. Lows tonight 15 to 25 below zero north" and 10 to 20 below zero south.

Partly sunny Saturday and warmer northwest: Highs Saturday zero to 12 above north and 10 to 18 above' south. recommended settlement, which would have raised their pay $425 namese government begins to a year retroactive to July 1. (Turn to Page 6A, Col. 1) Grim and haggard at a pre iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiinii dawn news conference, Lindsay declared: "I said yesterday the India city would not pay blackmail in order to conclude this strike (Turn to Page 2A, Col. 8) What's Where Business News Page 8B Comics 16A County News Page 15A Editorial 18A Local News Page 4A Sports Page IB Television-Radio 8B Theater 4B The proposed settlement, in my that one of its air force planes is missing in the Himalayas with 98 persons aboard.

Mean view, asks the city to pay a lit Journal-Times Photo tle blackmail." 10,000 tons a Day while, a Brazilian air force seaplane-with -27 aboard is also missing over the Amazon Garbage was piling up in the Campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination, carried his search for Wisconsin's 30 delegate votes to Racine today, stopping at the Clayton House where, accompanied by Wilbur Renk, right, chairman of the Wisconsin for Romney for President Committee, the former American Motors executive shook hands and signed autographs. city's 6,000 miles of streets at jungles. Story on page 19A the rate of 10,000 tons a day I IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMII1IIIIIIIIIIII Fire engines began regular pa: The iiin ros 6:57 a.m. and will set at 5:15 p.m. Temperatures on pajge 5A.

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