Lebanon Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • Page 11

American Troops Crush Cong Force; Capture Fortress (C IOM) from tht Mekong Delta. U.S. troops suffered two men killed and seven wounded. The spokesmen said the Communists were falling back into heavy jungle, using snipers against the infantrymen pursuing them. The guerrillas shot down one of the UH1 helicopters making the assault.

Terrorists Strike Saigon South Vietnamese spokesmen laid Viet Cong terrorists set off an explosion outside a Saigon police station, wounding one officer and four civilians. Another terror blast killed two civilians and wounded four on a train 145 miles northeast of Saigon. In other action, Communist ground fire shot down a second UH1 helicopter Sunday near the coastal city of Tarn Ky, 350 miles north of Saigon. The United States has had 80 choppers shot down in the war Sunday the Communists als downed a two-engine spotte plane in the Central Highlands No Americans were killed in any of the aircraft downings. U.S.

jet fighter-bombers Sun day flew 100 missions agains the supply lines of Nort! Vietnam's southern panhandle hitting 49 supply boats, eigh trucks, 11 warehouses, bridges and fortress bun kers, plus roads, bridges am ferries. U.S. spokesmen said planes were lost. In South Vietnam, B52 Strato COMBINED WAR EFFORT A team of 850 U.S. and South Vietnamese foot soldiers invaded the Minh called the "Forest of in the first U.S.-South Vietnamese combined operation of the war in this dense jungle region deep in the Mekong Delta, 140 miles southwest of Saigon.

First reports from the battlefront UPl-Doily NEWS Facsimile. Sunday said the allied force had killed 28 Viet Cong in the first hours of fighting through mangrove swamps with chest-deep warters and swarms of cobras, bamboo vipers, leeches and huge stinging ants. The invasion was preceded by a saturation bombing of the area by U.S. Air Force B52's. About 300 enemy troops are presumed to be in the target area.

A COMPLETE MINTING SERVICE i Lebanon Daily News 8th Poplar Sis. 272-5611 OFFSET COLOR POWtlFUl PLUNGER CLEARS CLOGGED TOILETS fortresses flew 11 missions late Sunday and today. They struck Communist buildup areas in the troubled northern provinces and the Central Highlands. They also pounded the "forest of darkness" in the Mekong Delta before some 850 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops for the first time invaded that decade-old guerrilla sanctuary famed for its huge biting ants, bamboo vipers and cobras.

In the Minh forest, its local name, 140 miles south of Saigon, the allies killed 28 guerrillas in the opening hours of the drive. It began Sunday. Its target: 2,500 guerrillas reported in the Everglades Swamp-like terrain and Viet Cong base camps. Two-hundred-fifty parents and team members attended the Lebanon High School Football Team Parents Association's picnic at Pine Acres on Sunday. Ray (Chick) Rodgers served as master of ceremonies at the NEVER AGAIN that lick whtn your teilil overflows TOILAFLEX Toilet Plunger Unlike ordinary plungers, ToiUflez deei not permit compressed air or meisy water to splash back or escape.

Toilaflex the full pressure plows through the clogging mass and swishes it down. SUCTION-RIM STOPS SPLASH-BACK CENTERS ITSELF. CAN'T SKID AROUND TAPERED TAIL GIVES AIR-TIGHT FIT Oft trw Gwuiim ToilaflM' AT HARDWARE STORES Midair Collision Of Plane, Airliner Kills 3 Persons From Pitt shaken by what the collision had done. There was "a jar and a thud," said Pamela Pavlowich, 19, Manitowoc. "I was real scared, real scared.

I prayed a lot." Federal Aviation Administra tion investigators and North Central officials began what they said would be a long investigation. They said it was not certain whether the planes collided head-on, or whether the larger plane overtook the smaller. The Weather Bureau said visibility was three to six miles in haze and smoke. The airliner was flying by instrument flight rules, meaning radar would advise it of traffic in its path. PHBLA.

MAN JAILED James S. Davis, 26, Philadelphia, was committed to the Dauphin County jail Saturday night after Justice of the Peace Eoy B. Brightbill, Bummels- town, charged him with disorderly conduct. Davis was found by Mr. and Mrs, John Keitz, 405 Chocolate Hershey, in their yard Saturday night.

Believing Davis was injured, at ambulance was summoned and took Davis to the Hershey Hospital, where it was discovered he was intoxicated. Hospital authorities notified police, who transported Davis to the office of the justice of the peace. Football Team Parents Hold Picnic For 250 Want $3500? Come to where the money is! Set mow money at Ben- tficial. Call up or come to where the money is now. You'll be surprised how much more you can get at your vacation and all your summer expenses.

Why set- tte for less money than you really want? Call. Beneficial. Real Estate Tax Rates Are From 41 To 53.8 Mills (CmtlnuM Frtm Put CM) the one with the largest gain, that of $940,000. Jackson Township is listed as having had the largest proportional increase, 8.1 per cent. The report states that since 1963 the property values in the county have risen $25.4 million, a gain of over 16 per cent On the subject of taxes the report notes that the county's government added two-tenths ol one mill to its real estate tax rate, raising the total to 11 mills for 1968.

Few other taxing jurisdictions followed suit, it is noted. Only three communities, Cornwall, Jonestown and Mt a Boroughs, Increased rates for municipal purposes adding 2.0, 1.5, and 1.0 mills, respectively. The sole school district to effect rate change was pal- myra Area, which encompasses Palmyra Borough and North and South Londonderry Townships. It added three mills. The report notes that for the first time the earned income tax in 1968 made its debut in Lebanon County.

It calls for the imposition of a one per cent tax that is equally shared by the municipality and school district. All of the county's 26 municipalities and six school dis tricts have levied the tax. Also instituted for the first time this year is a $10 occupation privilege tax levied by the City of Lebanon on all persons employed within the city'i corporate limits, regardless of place of residence. The report notes that with the addition of a $10 per capita tax in Mt. Gretna, all county residents 21 years of age and older are now subject to per capita taxes of at least $10.

The maximum allowable of $15 ($20 in Lebanon city) remains in effect in all but seven municipalities. Occupation taxes, it is noted, continue to be levied at the rates of 11, 10 and 9 mills respectively, by Myerstown and Palmyra Boroughs and Mill creek Township. All are for municipal purposes. It Is further noted, that the transfer of real estate in Lebanon County continues to be subjected to a tax of one per cent in each of the county's six school districts. The combined, tax rate (mills) on real estate for the various political subdivisions are: Cold Spring, 41; North Londonderry, 42; North Corn wall and South Londonderry 42.6; Jackson and West Corn wall, 43; Heidelberg and Union 44; South Lebanon, 45; Eas Hanover, 45.4 West Lebanon 45.8 Bethel, Mt.

Gretna and Richland, 46. Millcreek, North Lebanon, South Annville and Swatara, 47; Cornwall Borough, 48: North Annville, 48.8; Palmyra, 49; Cleona, 49.6; Myerstown, 50; Jonestown, 50.5; AnnviHe, 52.6; Lebanon City, 53.8. irogram. Coach Frank Reich poke on the football schedule. Harry Weaver, president of he association, spoke briefly on he year's program.

Adults and children participat in games. The team members their fathers to vol ey ball. The fathers accepted tie challenge and won two ou three games. Music was provided by The Illusions. Plans for a banquet to be in December were discussed.

Fnnco Declires Stilt Of Alert In Province MADRID (UPD-flwertfesi- mo Francisco Franco today declared a of alert" in the Basque province of Guipuz- where a tocai secret police chief assassinated Friday. It was the second killing of a policeman in the troubled province in two months. The order, issued in the official state bulletin, suspended for three months three sections of Spanish law governing civil rights relating to arrest, house search and freedom of movement. Supporters of separating the Basque people from Spanish government control have been Warned for the poKce killings." Secret Police Chief Meliton Manzanas Gonzales, 58, of Sam Sebastian was killed Friday "at the door of his second story apartment in Irun, just below the French border. His wife said a youth wearing eyeglasses pumped five bullets into the secret police official and fled.

On June 7 a policeman in San Sebastian was shot to death. Police accused two young members of the Basque separatist group E.T.A. of the killing One of the young men was killed in a gun battle with police and the other was tried, convicted and sentenced to die. Franco commuted the death sentence to 30 years in prison- reportedly under pressure from the Vatican. Palmyra Woman Hospitalized As Result Of Crash atter vehicle was $250.

The Hughes car had approximately $525 damage. Hershey escaped injury, but Hughes suffered a laceration of the forehead, contusions of the giraffe's small cousin, the okapi, was almost unknown to science before 1900. Since then, this shy native of dense African forests has become familiar sight in zoos. Ltbinon Diily Ktwt, Ltbtfion, Pi, Monday, Attgurt 1968 Ptgtll eft knee and a cut of the nose, to had eight sutures applied at he hospital. Also injured was passenger in the Hughes' car, David Lin- vllle, II.

also of Harritburg. Jonestown House Fire Fatal To 5-Year-Old Boy (CtntlniNrt Ptti and Hershey Wagner, assistant fire marshal. Damage Is $15,000 Damage to the house, which is owned by Kenneth Boltz, 125 E. Market Jonestown, amounted to $15,000, according to officials. Harry Bender, chief of the Jonestown Fire Company, and Franklin Bachman, assistant, were in charge of the fighting.

The Ono and Lickdale Fire Companies along with military police from Indiantown Gap and Jonestown police assisted the Jonestown firemen. Air packs were furnished by the West Lebanon, Rural Security and Glenn Lebanon fire companies. The victim's father, Sp-5 Richard A. Thornton, is in the U.S. Army, stationed in Korea.

The motto of state Hawaii is Ua Mau Ke Ea 0 Ka Aina I Ka Pono (The life of the land is preserved by righteous ness.) Linville injured his left forMra. The three were to tht hospital the Palmyra imbalance. Daub said the crash about 2:16 p.m. BACK-TO-SCHOOL HEADQUARTERS! Everything The Student Needs CEDAR BODE and CARD SHOP 37 South 8th St. Daily A.M.

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