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Jest For Today Bargain counter: Where shoppers save by buying a lot of things they don't need. 175th -NO. 150. CITY Enemy Rains Shells On 37 Bases, Towns SAIGON (AP)--The series of mortar and rocket Thursday night and Friday halt in North Vietnam. With full-fledged peace talks about to open in Paris, the shellings appeared to be a response to the Viet Cong command's orders to launch a new wave of attacks and terrorism while negotiations drag on.

COORDINATED SHELLING In what seemed to be a wellcoordinated operation, the enemy sent up to 400 mortar and rocket rounds into 37 a allied bases and South Vietnamese cities and towns. Military spokesman said the targets included five provincial capitals in an arc around Saigon and five district towns. They reported 16 South Vietnamese were killed and 82 wounded in all the shellings. Eleven additional persons were killed and 22 wounded when enemy troops rampaged through a hamlet 60 miles north of Saigon near the heavily defended provincial of An Loc. The attackers burned 25 houses before with- drawing.

CAPITALS SHELLED Provincial capitals shelled were Tay Ninh, northwest of Saigon, Xuan Loc to the northeast, Vinh Long and My Tho to the southwest in the Mekong Delta and. Moc Hoa, west of the capital. Five rocket and mortar attacks were launched at a U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division bivouac, South Vietnamese infantry positions and a district headquarters all within four miles of An Loc. About 25 rounds of mortar fire struck the U.S.

Army support area in Bien Hoa air base miles north of Saigon. More than 100 mortar rounds struck in and around Tay Ninh, 55 miles northwest of Saigon. Targets hit outside the city were two district headquarters and a landing zone held by U.S. and South Vietnamese troops. LIGHT CASUALTIES U.S.

headquarters said the shellings of its installations caused light casualties and little damage. Artillery and helicopter gunships blasted at enemy firing positions with unknown results. When President Johnson ended all attacks on North Vietnam Nov. 1 it was understood the enemy would cease shelling cities and towns and cause no incidents in the demilitarized zone dividing the North and South. North Vietnam, however, said the halt was unconditional.

The South Vietnamese government said the latest attacks brought to 115 the number of shellings of provincial capitals and towns since the bombing halt. In these attacks, 56 civilians have been killed and 498 wounded, the government reported. enemy launched the sharpest attacks in South Vietnam since the Nov. 1 bombing Intelligencer EDITION Tobacco Wanes As Crop Here Production Off 4 Million Pounds A Year Since '62 By JACK POLLARD Intell Farm Editor Cigar tobacco production in Lancaster County is declining at the rate of four million pounds a year. In 1962, county farmers grew 60 million pounds of type 41 cigar filler tobacco.

This year production is estimated at about 36 million, a drop of 24 million pounds. LOOK ELSEWHERE The situation has reached such proportions that if production continues to sag so sharply behind use, experts see the tobacco industry seeking other sources as a replacement for Lancaster tobacco. "Dealers are using up their inventories warns Mark Hess, manager of the Agway Tobacco marketing division, Dillerville Road. "We can't go on producing 36 million pounds a year when the need calls for 50 million pounds," said Hess. SMALLER IN 1969 On the heels of these fore- casts, current indications point to an even smaller tobacco crop in 1969 than this year, regardless of what the selling price might be.

The average selling price of tobacco last year was about 28 cents a pound. Some brought as high as 30 and 31 cents. This contrasts with an average 25 cents a pound paid in 1966; 24 in 1965; 27 cents in 1964; 21 cents in 1963; and More TOBACCO Page 6 NRA Is Target Of FBI Probe WASHINGTON (AP) The FBI confirmed Friday it is investigating the National Rifle Association, an influential group that never has registered with Congress as a lobby. The NRA, which has fought fiercely against gun-control legislation, contends it is an educational organization and does not engage in lobbying. An NRA official said, "FBI agents came in here and said they were instigating an investigation at the behest of a member of Congress who was not VISITED HEADQUARTERS He said FBI agents visited the NRA headquarters in downtown Washington last month to inquire about NRA activities.

The FBI said the Justice Department asked for the inquiry. Asst. Atty. Gen. Fred Vinson the top criminal division official who reportedly made the request, refused to answer questions about the investigation.

Federal law requires all lobbying groups to register with the clerk of the House of Representatives. The NRA, which dates back to 1871, never has done so, contending it is not covered by this requirement. EDUCATIONAL UNIT A spokesman for the association said its officials testify at congressional hearings only by invitation. He said the NRA is defined under tax laws as an educational organization. The NRA vigorously opposed gun registration and licensing during the battle for stiffer firearms control in the wake of the assassinations of the Rev.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The NRA executive board is to meet this weekend and could take action on the lobby.

ing issue, an official said. Two congressmen are on the board, and 28 others are NRA members. Richard M. Nixon will be the sixth president who has belonged to the Violation of the federal group. law is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison and a $5,000 fine.

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307-4135-Adv. Weather (U.S. Weather Bureau) TE VIRTUE Metropolitan Lancaster 1960 U.S. Census 278,359 LANCASTER, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, Professor At Lincoln Richard Twyman, 18 Accused of Murder Home at Lincoln where Dr. A.

O. Grubb Snow May Fall In Area Today The U.S. Weather Bureau i in Harrisburg said Friday night there is a chance that snow could develop in this area late today. The weatherman said a possible snow maker was forming in the southwest and might follow a track which could bring some snow into the Lancaster area by tonight. The forecast called for increasing cloudiness here today with a high of around 42 degrees.

Tonight, the weatherman said it will be cloudy and cold with a chance of snow developing. University was found Dr. Armstead O. Grubb Slain Lincoln U. Professor slain (arrow) in basement.

City Monument May Be Moved A plan to solve the problem by moving the sailors monument into a ceived the endorsement engineer. Traffic Engineer David Humphreys said the proposal is one "any traffic engineer would like to see" for helping to solve such a problem as exists at the square. He said proposal, made by a group of downtown busi- Inside the Intell would not have wrestled had the new rules been in effect. Page 14. MANHEIM new Middle School is discussed this morning in the last of 3 artieles by Joy Owens describing how the fastest growing school district in the county is handing its problems.

Page 5. THE SHAPE of the negotiating table is stalling Paris peace talks with North Viet- WILLIAM D. ECKERT resigned unexpectedly Friday as commissioner of baseball. The 59-year-old retired Air Force general denied he had been fired, but his contract with the major league owners still had more than four years to run. For details please turn to page 14.

NEW RULES for high nam demanding a square school wrestling will limit to table insure independent status for the National LiberLancaster County to only one ation Front. Page 3. representative in each weight THE ARMY has put plans in class in the district tournamotion to free 20,000 reservment next Spring. Two wres- ists but the decision may tiers were permitted in pre- mean higher draft quotas to vious years and last year's maintain readiness. Page state heavyweight champion 3.

Index (24 PAGES) Church Comics Editorials 10 Farm 6, 7 Financial 17, 18 Obituaries 2 Sports 14, 15, 16 Theaters 16 TV Radio Women's Page 11 Cloudy, Snow. (Details On Page 24) Price 10c Home Delivered 50c A Week Slain A. O. Grubb Dead, 2 Boys Arrested By DAVE HENNIGAN Intell Staff Writer OXFORD An elderly college Armstead O. Grubb, 65, beloved by associates, was found murdered the basement of a vacant house on Lincoln University.

State police Friday at noon took to custody; Friday night they murder, robbery, burglary, and weapon. The boys were identified as: GARY BUTCHER, 15, Box 55, sity, a student at Oxford Area High RICHARD TWYMAN, 18, Box versity, unemployed. Police are holding another youth, identified as FRANKIE TWYMAN, 16, brother of Richard, as a material witness. All three are in the Chester County Prison. The body of Dr.

Grubb, a widower, was found about 8:25 a.m. by a neighbor, Mrs. Marjorie Cole accompanied by friend of the dead man, Mrs. Katherine Wilson, 225 Locust Oxford. CALLS UNANSWERED The women, along with Mrs.

Cole's husband, Prof. William Cole, had been hunting for Dr. Grubb about 45 minutes because repeated phone calls to his house, Thursday evening and Friday morning, were not answered. Dr. Grubb had been beaten about the head and shoulders, although state police at the Avondale substation, who are conducting the investigation along with Chester County detectives, said that "no determination can be made as to the weapon used to assault the doctor until after" a post-mortem today.

Dr. Grubb's death shocked both the university and the town here. "He was a warm and quiet, retiring sort of man," Dr. Marvin Wachman, president of the university said. "He was a helluva nice guy," said an Oxford police- man.

SEEN AT 7:30 P.M. Dr. Grubb was last seen alive by Mrs. Wilson, whom he had been visiting, about 7:30 her housersday, to his twop.m. when he left story bungalow campus, located between the Coles and the vacant house.

After he returned home Dr. Grubb called Mrs. Wilson about 8 p.m. Mrs. Wilson, according to police, tried to call Dr.

Grubb at 11 p.m. but got no answer, and continued to call several times. Friday morning Mrs. Cole and her husband started hunting for Dr. Grubb.

He had suffered a heart attack in June and they feared he could have had another. They searched the vacant house, next to Dr. Grubb's home, formerly occupied by Dr. and Mrs. Paul Kuehner, but did not go into the basement at the time.

Then Mrs. Cole went outside, looked through the meadow in back of Dr. Grubb's house, and searched several small buildings. Cole, who is chairman of the physics department at Lincoln, went the university to see if he More LINCOLN Page 6 professor, Dr. his students and Friday morning in the campus of two youths incharged them with pointing a deadly Lincoln UniverSchool.

92, Lincoln Uni- PFC. JOHN K. MOSS John Moss Is Wounded In Vietnam An 18-year-old Lancaster Marine has been wounded by hostile rockeously in Quangtri Province, South Vietnam. John K. Moss, son of Dr.

and Mrs. Robert V. Moss 519 N. Pine sustained fragmentation wounds to both legs, chest and head on Wednesday, just one year after he entered the Marine Corps. His parents were first informed by the Marine Corps Friday that his condition and prognosis were both serious and he was receiving treatment at the third Medical Battalion.

Friday night, they received another telegram informing them that their son had been admitted to the U.S. Navy Hospital ship, USS Repose, for further treatment and his prognosis is fair. The youth was injured while his unit was in a defensive position. He entered the Marines on Dec. 4, 1967 and trained at Parris Island and Camp LeJeune.

He went to Vietnam from Camp Pendleton, on May 31 and was with and First Battalion, Ninth Marines, 18 Mortar Section, Third Marine Division. Pfc. Moss was near the Demilitarized Zone and had taken part in one operation in the DMZ. He received minor wounds in July and was awarded the Purple Heart. He also wore the Presidential Unit Citation for Operation Onbrook.

He attended McCaskey High School. His father is president of Lancaster Theological Seminary, Gift For Services City, Schools Get $500 From Church A $500 gift, to be shared by Lancaster City and the Lancaster School District, has been presented to the city by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, 31 South Duke St. Wallace E. Fisher, senior pastor and president of the official board of the church, explained the contribution in a letter to City Treasurer M. E.

Stephens. "Like most churchmen in America, the clerical and lay leaders the Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, appreciate and value the Constitutional guarantee on the separation between Church and State as institutions of society. APPRECIATE BENEFITS "At the same time, we appreciate the benefits provided to our institution by the institution of government. Con- Oxford Stunned By Murder Memorial Hospital. THOUGHT OF OTHERS OXFORD Dr.

Armstead O. Grubb, found murdered Friday morning in an empty house was a quiet, gentle man, those who knew him professionally and only casually said. "Really, he had no enemies," said Dr. Marvin Wachman, president of Lincoln University where Dr. Grubb had taught 31 years.

ENJOYED RESPECT "He was a "ery fine gentleman, a scholar, a teacher, and one of the most respectable people here," Dr. Wachman continued. "He devoted himself to Lincoln." Dr. Grubb worked with the students, and gladly would give them a second chance, the president said. "He never had a harsh word for anybody." He was a leader on the campus and in town.

For three years he served as acting president, and was on the Oxford Library Council, which is engaged in building a new library, and formerly was on the board of the Community city's Penn Square traffic 95-year-old soldiers and corner of the square reFriday of the city's traffic nessmen, presents "an excellent opportunity for cooperation" between persons interested in the traffic problem. Humphreys said the plan would enable making the intersection a part of traffic "grid system," and the flow through the square could be "integrated with the rest of the MALL DISCUSSED Although a possibility of making a pedestrian mall of the square was discussed in preparation of the pilot TOPICS traffic program to be implemented in the city, Humphreys said there was no decision involving such a mall. He said the businessmen's proposal would help in implementing the TOPICS program, no matter what scheme is finally developed. City officials heard the proposal's details at a meeting Thursday evening and said Friday that they liked the plan's "positive approach." Hopes for a major Penn Square beautification program were lost in February when the federal government turned down a city application for $1.3 million. The square beautification program was among projects to have been financed by the hoped-for federal grant.

The plan, unveiled in November of 1966, was to include pedestrian plazas, tree planting, and bench installation. The city then proceeded to plan a more moderate square More CITY Page 6 But to those who knew him well, Dr. Grubb was not a joiner, nor did he talk about his accomplishments. "If he ever received any awards, "Mrs. Marjorie Cole, who lives next door and found his body, said, "he would never tell you about them." "He was forgetful of himself in the interest of other people," she continued.

The town of Oxford was stunned by the murder, as was the campus of university, opened more than 100 years ago as the world's first school of higher learning for Negroes. In the town's restaurants, newsstand and drug store, the chief topic was Dr. Grubb's tragic death. Out of all the talk came one general characteristic of the dead man gentle. "He loved to work in his garden," Mrs.

Cole recalled Friday night in the living room of her home, and he was an avid reader. In his younger days he More OXFORD Page 6 sequently, and on unanimous action of our official board, we decided voluntarily to make a contribution to the public schools and the city for the services they provide. "As an untaxed institution, Trinity Church seeks diligently to witness to the Head of the Church, Jesus Christ. One strand in that witness, as we understand it, is to encourage critical and responsible citizenship among our members and to demonstrate that our institution is a responsible corporate citizen," the letter reads. GIFT APPRECIATED Safety Director Herbert Yost, commenting as acting mayor while Mayor Thomas J.

Monaghan is at a mayors' conference in New Orleans, said after expressing appreciation on behalf of the city that he hopes the contribution will start a trend. Gap Coatesville222 Quarryville 472 10 OXFORD.