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Daily News from New York, New York • 306

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i. 1 si -v TCV- v- 4 sat i i-'-r iV 1 4 I i 1 i YlI- i i vv I iff NEWS. SATURDAY, JUNE 7 A-rA ft 23 SlfldOO Joanne Ilarrell and Mona Lisa of Roekaway snuggle right will 4Vw jntQ jnj3 1909 Brush roadster with room up top. Ed Eisenberg cranks it at Belle Harbor workout of Brooklyn Antique Auto Associa- tion. Bobby Boland peeks into 1914 Ford and listens to Tom Savino.

NEWS fir QUEENS largest Circulation in the Borough $43 Million Bids Win Vast Exp'wy Contracts DAILY The complex task of rebuilding the Long Island-Brook Chara lyn-Queens Expressway interchange at Laurel Hill, along with the job of replacing and improving Kosciuszko Bridge roadways in Brooklyn and Queens, inched nearer realization j-esterday. Youth. Slashed Cop' Wish Jsiggedl Piece.bff A 19-year-old St. Albans youth was accused yesterday of slashing a detective with a long, jagged piece of glass which the teen-ager was said to carry around in hi Laurel Hill which runs below the elevated expressway. Pedestrian Bridge Detailed interchang plans call for rebuilidng the Long Island Expressway from Van Dam Long Island City, to 46th Laurel Hill.

The project includes construction of a pedestrian bridee over the heavily-used artery. The Koscimzko bridge work runs from Oakland in the Greenpoint area of Brooklyn, to the expresway interchange in Laurel Hill. Existing 32-foot roadways will be widened to 34 feet. Yule Bags For Viet GIs The N'orth' Shore and Central Queens chapters of the American Red Cross in Greater New York, need volunteers to make gift bags which will hoid Christmas presents for all the servicemen. Once the sewing is completed, the Red Cross will begin "Operation Shop Early," which means filling up the ba-s with gifts.

3, 1967 15 Would Raise GI Insurance Americans have fought four wars since 1917, but the maximum life insurance on each serviceman remains at $10,000. It should be raised to $25,000, iya State Sen. Murray Schwarts (D-Queens). "Financial burden of th9 whose loved ones are lost in service of their country has certainty increased twofold since the First World War," he said. "I think all ranks deserve the same maximum protection ani this should be two and one-half times what it is now.

PFC Floyd Herbert 'Irjss -J A. 4 Bui for both jobs, totaling $13,033,031. were opened by the state Department of Public Works at Albany. The low bid for building the three-level Interchange $.55.979,900 wis submitted by Slatterv Associates of Maspeth. July 2S.

1970 is the completion date. $7 Million Bridge Job Kosciuszko Bridjre improvement are to be made by the Karl Koch Erecting of the Bronx, which submitted a low bid of $7,173,175, and completed by Jan. 15, 19C9. Would End Congestion Supt. J.

Burch McMorran said the two jobs represent one phase of an estimated $57 million program aimed at ending the expressway interchange congestion. Two other phases of the overall project call for widening the elevated section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to six lanes between 47th and 58th Woodiide, and improving the Long Island Expressway to 65th St. The elevated section runs between sections of Calvary Cemetery. The widening job also involves improving street level Wife Loses Legs in, KMT A Coney Island housewife who complained to her husband earlier in the day that ently fainted and fell to the she wasn't feeling well appar-t racks of a BMT subway station yesterday. Both her legs were cut off below the knee by a train entering the station.

Mrs. Frances Gelbgras, 55, of 3126 Coney Island was standing on the Manhattan-bound platform of the Dekalb Ave. station at 9:45 A.M. when she "blacked out," she later told police who pulled her from under the train. She is in critical condition at Long Island College Hospital.

Cinderella9 At School Magic wands will be waving and children changing into players in the operetta. "Cinderella." at the St. John's Lutheran School, 22d Ave. and College Point, todav at 7:30 P.M. Students from all grades will perform, with kindergarten children acting as birds and mice, and third graders as flowers and elves.

Court on a juvenile delinquency charge. Judge Manuel Gomez held Carter in $2,000 bail in Queens Criminal Court for hearing June 12. Carter has served time for burglary and has been arrested for other offenses. of Bayside, New York, has once with the Communists nades an mortar fire. We got the word for all lisVtening posts to return to our perimeter, so we ran for it.

"We were coming in on the right side." Herbert recalled and got caught in crossfire between th Communists and our guys. We sweated out that one but finally made it back." Teel Helpless' Later that night when the firing had ebbed. Herbert went out again on listening post. "The shooting started up fresh and you guessed it we were in th middle of it all again. Bullets from both sides were whizzing over, our heads.

That crossfire can be real mean. Fortunately we svanagei tv get ouUef titer' without being hit. belt, like a knife. George Carter, of 141-11 184th the alleged wielder of the odd weapon, had been brought to the Jamaica police station, after he was found Thursday night lugging a stolen set, the cops said. Detective Thomas Farrell was questioning him when the suspect drew the stiletto-like piece of glass from his belt, cut Farrell's face and ripped his jacket, according to police.

The detective was treated at Queens General Hospital and released. Boy, 13, Nabbed Too Carter was charged with felonious assault, Sullivan Law violation and criminally receiving the stolen TV set and two pieces of jewelry which police said they found in his pockets. Arrested with him was a 13-year-old boy, who was taken to Children's By JOSEPH FRIED i Viet Cong were letting us have it when all of a sudden our own position back in the defense perimeter started returning fire. The three of us were caught in the middle." Ambush Patrol Herbert jumped into a nearby ditch as the two-way fire raged around him and his two buddies. "The whole thing lasted about three minutes but it seemed like three years." said Herbert.

Herbert had his doubleheader fright on a mission as part of a seven-man ambush patrol and listening post. "We had gotten some sniper fire before shoving off, so we they were out there," Herbert said. "It wasn't long before the Viet Cong started up with rifle icre- Cong or Yanks, He's Always Being Shot At Cu Chi, South Vietnam, June 2 Pfc. Floyd Herbert had four close calls in his two months in the Vietnam War and thtvf timp with Ampriran fir nnw a trriM thmip-ht. hincr stuck out there and thinking you may get it from your own side, said Herbert, 22.

an infantryman with the U.S. 25th Division here. Two of the close ones followed each other by a day, the other pair happened the same night, tlerbert was moving up the side of a canal with his unit, when the Communists opened up. -Enemy bullets struck so close they kicked dirt and bits of rock in his face. Listening Post The next day, he and two buddies moved out of the unit's rectangular defensive perimeter to set up a listening pyt.

"It wasn't long before the Communists let loose with machine-gun fire," Herbsrt recalled. "We hit the grounl real fast. The.

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