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Tucson Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • 16

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Tucson Citizeni
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Tucson, Arizona
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vr i yM nfiwr--- 4 PAGE 16 TUCSON DAILY CITIZEN FRIDAY EVENING JUNE 22 1962 JL W7 SOME TUCSONIANS ALARMED Vietnamese Troops Clash A With Large Red Units 3 Sirens Sound Off Exercise At D-M Combat Base tackers who fled leaving five behind the same province on 9 the communique said members of a Communist battalion killed eight civil Government wounded included three wives of and 11 men Rangers intercepted the guerrillas in their withdraw and in a half hour battle 18 the communique machine guns in the Kien Long district The government claimed at least 22 Reds were killed and placed its own casualties at six killed and two missing A strong guerrilla attack in the southwestern province of An Giang on June 14 included 300 peasants pressed into service by the Communists the communique added The government said its forces were waiting in ambush and fought off the dead In June 300 guards guards al killed sounded The base was closed to civilian visitors and normal business traffic and D-M personnel ran to air raid shelters or assigned combat centers The exercise will test ability to withstand nuclear attack and to man combat aircraft under simulated combat conditions Teams of officers and airmen umpires declared some buildings destroyed others heavily damaged and at least 800 D-M personnel were tagged as maimed or wounded" Hospital corpsmen from the 803rd Medical Group picked up took some to the hospital for treatment and Despite advance notice at least a dozen Tucsonians were alarmed this morning when air raid sirens wailed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base signaling the start of a combat exercise Operation Spruce Up a 12-hour simulated nuclear attack on the base started at 7:40 am and was scheduled to end this evening Officials said some Tucsonians telephoned the base alarmed when the sirens blasted for five minutes signifying that planes were on their way All nonessential traffic stopped when the yellow alert SAIGON South Viet iAS Government troops jrlashed with unusually large "Communist guerrilla units of bout 300 men each in three battle areas it was announced loday If 'A communique also claimed 333 guerrillas were killed in two-month mopping up operation in Ba Xuyen province Sthe southernmost part of country Encounters with 300-man guerrilla units were reported in the southern provinces where the hardest fighting of recent Weeks has taken place The communique credited two government platoons which normally would total about 60 men with fighting off a night attack by 300 guerrillas in Chuong Thien province yesterday The battle began at 8:15 am as the Communists opened up with mortars a machine gun and at least 10 sub College Student Jailed In Shooting Of Coed UPb-A University of Massachusetts junior was held today for the fatal shooting of a pretty coed whom he had known since grammar school days Police said the collegian Walter A Schillemat 20 told them was afraid she love me as much as I loved WORLDWIDE NEWS Compiled From The Daily Wire Services Here is one way to that the military might intervene unless the politicians reconciled their differences SOUTH VIETNAMESE forces killed 18 Communist guerrillas in operations in three coastal provinces June 15-20 the government announced today The government said its forces destroyed 252 enemy houses including a food depot and captured a large store of arms and foot traps GIANT Imperial Chemical Industries reported today it has developed a drug that controls the concentration in the blood of such fatty substances as cholesterol The announcement said the drug was a major advance in the treatment of arteriosclerosis STATE FORMER SHAREHOLDERS in the defunct Arizona Savings Loan Assn are going to get some more money back Superior Court Judge Henry Stevens has authorized distribution of $207353473 at the request of co-receiver Albert Colby Colby said the distribution amounts to 5 per cent of the investment by shareholders on the date Arizona Savings was closed by the state evacuated others to shelters All nonessential base facilities were closed during the 12-hour exercise Dependent families were told to remain in their homes all day Recovery teams moved into action rehearsing conditions existing after a near miss by an nuclear bomb bursting above ground level Fallout was a hazard as the base attempted to keep its planes flying and continue efficient operation Lt Col Byars base commander said results of the exercise will be evaluated and announced sometime next week ARMY ENGINEERS will open bids July 24 for construction of a seismological observatory in the Payson area Rep Morris Udall D-Ariz announced the $600-000 construction project United Electrodynamics Inc will operate the observatory which will be located in the center of about 20000 acres of Tonto National Forest A JURY TO HEAR the Sam Resnick murder case was expected to be selected at Phoenix today Resnick a 61-year-old retired jeweler who formerly lived in Albany was strangled last Mar 1 Five young Phoenix-area Negroes are accused in his slaying They claim he hired them to kill him because he suffered from incurable cancer The defendants are John Henry Lewis Jones 21 brothers Clemmie 19 and Jackson 21 Ernest Spurlock 20 and Jessie Tillis 19 DEATHS MRS PARMALEE PRENTICE 91 last surviving child of John Rockefeller died in New York yesterday following an illness of several months She became the last of the generation when a brother John Rockefeller Jr father of Gov Nelson A Rockefelleer died in Tucson in I960 Europe well below the American rate Sweden Denmark and Norway also developed more slowly than the United States The figures were based on the percentage increase of total domestic output in West Europe and North America during the decade ending in 1959 Because of the West German currency reform in 1949 the West German figures excluded that year and covered only nine years But commission officials said the average year-by-year compound growth rate calculated from the over-all increase would -be even greater for Josephine Anne (Joy) Ian-nello 19 who had just completed her second year at Framington State College was shot twice in the chest yesterday in her home Schillemat was held on suspicion of murder for arraignment later today Police said the sandy-haired student of dairy farming told them he had harbored a desire to kilL- since reading and two years ago In that novel the central character kills an old woman without remorse Police Capt John Pettiti said Schillemat told him he had planned to poison Joy and took a vial of oxalic acid to her second floor apartment in mid-afternoon But Joy was lying down after hunting a summer job and Schillemat returned to his own home two blocks away Pettiti said Schillemat returned at 4:30 with a 38 caliber pistol owned bv his father He and the girl chatted for 15 minutes then Schillemat asked for a glass of water Pettiti said that when she returned Schillemat shot her once in the chest She fell into his arms whispered "You have done it and slumped to the floor The second shot was fired because she seemed to be in nain the captain said Cltlan PM IS THIS IT? A light blue blanket kite was found dangling in front of a local business establishment this morning as Tucson suddenly found itself After reading the heart-rending classified ad in the Citizen placed by Linus Van Pelt who had lost a kite of similar description Tucson businessman Ben Wallis contacted the paper Pieces of blue blankets also were forwarded to the Citizen by two young readers of the popular PEANUTS comic strip Tommy Wasser 2 of 1262 Smoot Place sent a corner of his own blue blanket hoping that will take some of the pain while little Barbara Meinel 6741 Tivani Drive mailed a portion of the blanket which she found Tommy signed his letter as a of Blanket Lovers of America Local No INCREASE HIE VALUE OF YOUR HOME A fresh coat of Sherwin-Williams House Paint will add many dollars to the value of your home at relatively low cost We will be glad to inspect your home and show you how Sherwin-Williams House Paint can add to its value by preserving and beautifying the surface for years to come The Sherwin-Williams Co 2401 Broadway 825 Ft Lowell Rd C31 22nd St and at your Nearby Sherwin-WQHams Dealer NATIONAL THE ONLY TAXICAB for Negroes in Lake City was destroyed by a bomb yesterday The explosion also shattered windows in the home of Negro cab driver Al bert Jenkins and damaged an adjoining store operated by his wife The couple and their 3-year-old grandson asleep in the house were not hurt A CHARGE against Shane a son of the late play wright Eugene was reduced yesterday from pos session of narcotics to pos session of barbiturates 43 and another man Victor Ortiz 36 were arrested June 6 as they emerged from an unoccupied loft building Initially they were seized on the narcotics charge THE AMERICAN Baptist Assn elected Dr Watson of Aubumdale Fla as president as its 1962 conference ended yesterday The American Baptist Assn claims 700000 members in churches in most of the 50 states Some 3000 delegates attended the convention POLICE JAILED a 22-year-old man oh charges xf stealing a sports car and burning it three hours later at Mobile Ala The man Wisenhant told officers he stole the car for a joy ride then burned it to get rid of his fingerprints FOREIGN PRINCE EMANUEL of Saxony grandson of the last reigning king of Saxony -was married at Vevey Switzerland in a civil ceremony today to Princess Anastasia Luise of Anhalt He is 36 She is 21 The civil marriage obligatory under Swiss law was the prelude to a Roman Catholic religious ceremony tomorrow uniting two of ancient princely houses FORMER PRESIDENT Is- met Inonu agreed last night to try again to form a government and end three-week-old political crisis The 78-year-old decision came after mounting -signs SANDY BOWLING Bowling Runs For Seat In Legislature Sandy Bowling an employe of Hughes Aircraft Co and past president of Local 933 of the International Association of Machinists yesterday filed as a Democratic primary candidate for the Arizona Legislature from District 17 A native of Portsmouth Ohio Bowling came to Tucson 10 years ago after serving with the Air Force during the Korean conflict In his capacity as an officer of the Machinists Local Bowling said he has become familiar with problems of the workingman -and- existing labor laws Bowling also served as president of the Arizona State Council of Machinists representing both union and nonunion workers throughout the state The prospective candidate also served as delegate for three years to the state AFL-CIO He lives with his wife Helen and two children at 5631 30th St Mrs Bowling is employed by Martin Air craft Co House Snubs Fallout Shelter Fund Request WASHINGTON DR A House Appropriations subcommittee has refused temporarily to consider an administration request for $460 million in new funds to launch a nationwide fallout shelter program The money was requested for use by the Defense Department during the fiscal year starting July 1 (faMtt? CARRYING CHARGE West German Economy Doubles Growth 30 $50 TJtvtcfrn GENEVA UP West German economy is growing twice as fast as that of the United States the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe said yesterday According to statistics compiled by the commission all countries now members of the European Common Market except Belgium developed more rapidly than the United States during the 1950s West Germany was far ahead of all West Europe followed by Italy and Austria Trailing at the opposite end of the scale Britain and Ireland showed by far the lowest growth rate in West West Germany if the 1949 figures were included The West German total increase from 1950 to 1959 was 90 per cent representing a compound annual growth rate of 74 per cent Compared with this the United States output increased 46 per cent from 1949 to 1959 a compound annual growth rate of 39 per cent Other percentage increase totals and annual compound growth rates for the 10-year Churchill Plans Monte Carlo Trip Sir Winston Churchill win leave for a two-week holiday in Monte Carlo next Tuesday according to his friends here They said the British statesman was feeling well and looking forward to the trip lkk Turn (or fast soothing relief of add indigestion heartburn or gas 3 roils 30 period included: Italy 80 (61) Austria 71 (57) Switzerland 65 (52) France 55 (45) Netherlands 54 (45) Canada 52 (43) Luxembourg 49 (41) Finland 1950-59 45 (42) Denmark 41 (35) Norway 40 (35) Sweden 39 (34) Belgium 35 (31) Britain 28 (25) Ireland 15 (14) The figures were worked out for an elaborate economic study of the 1950s to be published later this year Commission officials withheld all comment or analysis pending publication of the report ALL 1962 LARKS MUST BE SOLD To Make Room For Our 1963's ED COMITZ STUDEBAItER 50 Stone Avenue MAS-0455 $1490 ONE Single Vision Lenses White or tinted Kryptok Bifocal Lenses White or tinted jc Your Choice of ANY FRAME in our Large Selection of Styles and Colors b' 2 0 0 7 mmaMsis rti Oj A NO INTEREST NO THE COMEDy TEAM OF BIDDIE cvAfii mmm nMj I Our New Office 118 EAST CONGRESS Watch tor this rib tickling comic strip story of a retired couple beginning i Monday in the CITIZEN FLOWERLAND 200 Pluraer Near Broadway Open Sun MA 3-0509 Daily to 5:30 I i i i -i oiir.

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