Tucson Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • 1

VOL 96 NO 64 TUCSON ARIZONA THURSDAY MARCH 14 1968 60 10 CENTS s-r Heavy Air Raids Hit Some Markets Close Hanoi Area (r on IQ) 151 Casualty Toll For Week 509 Q) in mj xy xy a) fn SAIGON (UPI) American jets struck North Vietnam Wednesday the heaviest blow in more than a month bombing 10 major targets in the Hanoi Haiphong area alone US spokesmen said today At the same time they said 509 American servicemen were killed in action last week making the past month the costliest of the war for the United Sates in terms of lives lost The figures showed the number of US combat deaths in Vietnam has passed 20000 0 xy Action Urged To Stem Tide im Mayor Unveils Plan LONDON (UPI) The record rush to buy gold on the world markets reached panic proportions today in a growing attack on the dollar The US Treasury Secretary called for a (12 lillion tax hike to meet the threat and treasury officials once again denied the dollar would be devalued The spokesmen said American pilots flew 94 missions against North Vietnam Wednesday with one raid striking inside the city limits of the port of Haiphong Hanoi Radio broadcasting a threat said Valley of Death for US-Puppets The Khe Sanh front will become a burial ground for the US puppets the days of Khe Sanh are was one reaction For City Annexation Shower Chances Said Fading By BILL KIMMEY Citizen Staff Writer Mountain Park boundary on the Some dealers in ma-or markets were forced to close their doors to stem the uncontrolled flood of orders which continued despite Ur "efforts to restore confidence in the dol-ar Prices in London and Paris soared with investors hoping to make a killing if the dollar was devalued foothills Corbett said this includes Casa Adobes area Sky line Country Club Estates Tucson Country Club Estates Indian Ridge and Catalina Foothills Estates He was less sure of how far the city would try to go south except to say Tucson International Airport would be brought in Mayor James Corbett Jr has revealed plans for a major annexation program in all directions and said today he will bring opponents screaming and into the city if necessary 'There was Tio sign" however that the expected big push by the two North Vietnamese divisions at Khe Sanh had begun Last toll of 509 Americans killed was the third week US forces have suffered at least 500 men killed since the Communists opened their Tet offensive Jan 30 an unprecedented three-week toll Lots of sun For us today Ideal weather For Injuns to play A1 Van Bright What started out to be a soggy spring for baseball in Tucson will take a turn for the better at least today and tomorrow Some of these areas fought tooth and nail to defeat previous annexation attempts in In a backlash to the gold sales the British pound sterling fell to an alltime low of $23896 but moved back to $23900 at noon Its normal price is $240 Significantly the plan foresees annexation of most of the plush large-lot subdivisions in he Last Lineup For Groceries? Continued Page 7 The mayor who hopes to expand population by some 50000 added however he hoped the proposed annexation could be brought off ANTI-ANNEXATION Tucson employes of Magma Copper Co lined up this morning at United Steelworkers strike headquarters to sign their weekly grocery chits for food Almost immediately afterward they headed for San Manuel to vote on ratification of a contract offer which may send them back to work and into grocery stores with cash instead (Citizen Photo by Bill Hopkins) Administration sources Washington expressed belief that renewed confidence in the dollar would dampen the golc rush as soon as government actions to strengthen the dollar some enacted and some pending take effect The target areas have not been delineated but they include subdivisions which previously have shown hardcore resistance to city expansion Homeowners Plan Take-Over Battle Pact At Magma The weatherman promises what should be pretty fair baseball conditions: Variable cloudiness with little chance of rain today and even less chance tomorrow low is expected to be somewhere around the 38 to 43 degree range The overnight low was a brisk 43 The high tomorrow is predicted at 67 to 72 The noon downtown temperature was 63 and 35 per cent humidity Full wwthw- rtcort pige 431 The mayor said 'the thinking now is to go to Harrison Road on the east north as far as Skyline Drive and Calle Concordia and to the Tucson By CECIL JAMES Citizen Staff Writer Called Best Ever it from declared Parker Perry Jr president of Skyline Bel Air Estates property owners group One would be to remove the 25 per cent gold cover of treasury notes freeing $105 billion in gold for sales There were reports the Federal Reserve would increase the discount its basic lending rate from 4 1-2 per cent to as high as 6 per cent to tighten the money market Fears of tight money triggered a widespread decline on the New York Stock Exchange today Battle lines were being formed today by irate residents on the proposed annexation program for large areas around the city By JAY HALL Citizen Staff Writer against the striking copper unions in bargaining with have been idle for eight months will be back at their jobs tomorrow at San Manuel and Dow Jones Averages US spokesmen said that since records began Jan 1 1961 and through Saturday a total of 19760 Americans were reported killed in combat With casualties suffered so far this week the number of American war dead in Vietnam has reached the 20000 figure according to analysis of battle loss reports In the air war a break in the monsoon weather aided the massive American bombing assault on North Vietnam Wednesday In South Vietnam Communist forces ambushed two US Army truck convoys Today nine miles northeast of Saigon guerrillas killed one GI and wounded three in an attack on 11 military and 19 civilian vehicles which suffered damage spokesmen said But in the Central Highlands late Wednesday a North Vietnamese ambush on Highway 14 between the allied bastions of Pleiku and Kontum caught 30 trucks at the end of a 140-ve-hide American supply convoy personally will oppose it with every bit of energy I added Ivan Culbertson president of the Casas Adobes Community Club This group also hotly opposed the annexation program in 1964 Pulitzer Firm Purchases KVOA-TV Magma Copper contract terms on which striking miners are voting today includes the biggest wage offer since the start of the 244-day nationwide copper strike And most were undaunted by Mayor James Corbett avowal to bring unwilling persons into the city even if screaming and NEW YORK (AP) Dow Jones 3 pm stock averages: 30 Industrials 82998 Off 1225 20 Rails 21730 Off 245 15 Utilities 12264 Off 217 65 Stocks 29134 Off 410 Volume 10550000 Rank-and-file union members began pouring into the Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting hall in Superior at noon to vote on an agreement reached yesterday by management and union It seeks to block the unions from and refusing to bargain collectively in good faith with the company by insisting on an economic package common to all bargaining units and upon a common expiration date for all the collective bargaining will fight like hell to keep The contract calls for a wage increase of 555 cents an hour over a 39-month contract period the Tucson Daily Citizen learned todav- The United States is trying to keep the price of gold at $35 an ounce but in London the market opened at $3519 with dealers demanding $3525 In Paris the US embassy which figures a for an ounce of gold said the rate was $35 90-up a staggering 31 cents compared with a parity of $3526 on Feb 28 Ratification was expected by union bosses to be Board members of Tucson Country Club Estates Association already alerted to plan met recently and agreed to strongly oppose it Warren Wentink vice president of Catalina Foothills Association said he felt per of the residents in his area would oppose the program Sicilian Court Places Joe Bonanno OnT rial Those two points have been viewed as the main stumbling block to all negotiations among the big four Sale of Tucson television station KVOA (Channel 4) to a newly-formed subsidiary of the Pulitzer Publishing Co of St Louis subject to federal approval was revealed today The price involved in the transaction was not disclosed but was a multi-million dollar one When KVOA-TV changed hands in 1962 the reported price was $35 million The entire package offer embracing a wide range of fringe benefits is reported to add up to a figure between $107 and $113 an hour San Manuel workers were to cast their ballots at 5 pm at the San Manuel High School He said the city afford the expense of providing sewer lines to the area and that proper police coverage could not be afforded PALERMO Sicily (UPI) -Joseph (Joe Bananas) Bonanno of Tucson Ariz and 16 other men went on trial here today on charges of running a Mafia-backed narcotics racket that extended from Sicily to the United States That is the same range being discussed in Washington by the big four Anaconda Phelps Dodge American Smelting Refining and Kennecott Talk increased today that two other independent mining enterprises on strike in Arizona may reach a settlement soon These are Inspiration Consolidated and Miami Copper Co both in the Miami-Globe area One phase of the White House-directed negotiations apparently broke down late yesterday when Kennecott said there was no hope of settling the strike until unions abandon attempts to force uniform wage and fringe benefit increases on the company Some ground is being gained toward joint settlement otherwise spokesmen said ported to be in New York Scimone in Boston and Priziola and Quarasona in Michigan The US Federal Narcotics Bureau Interpol and various Italian police agencies prepared the case against the 17 But the man most responsible for bringing them to trial was Palermo Judge Aldo Vigneri who gathered the evidence in an 8000-page dossier that led to the Wentink admitted that the city probably could provide better fire protection than the area now is receiving The new sale was by WGAL Television Inc headquartered in Lancaster Pa to KVOA Television Inc a new Arizona corporation formed earlier this week The London Evening Standard said world is facing its most critical financial crisis since the and that the world is looking for something more positive than assurances gold would be held at $35 It warned that without speedy action would see the whole financial structure crumble under the assasult of the gold In Paris speculators gambled frankly on the theory that the US dollar will fall and that the price of gold will be free to surge up to higher levels The highest wage offer made by these four leaders to date reportedly has been a 54-cent per hour wage increase over a 40-month period This was Phelps best wage attempt Bonanno and six other defendants are in the United States and are being tried in absentia All 17 additionally were charged with smuggling money tobacco and immigrants into the United States from 1957 to 1965 The governmenl yesterday focused heavily on Sources close to the talk said had begun serious bargaining for the first time since the talks were called to the White House March 4 Donald Holm assistant to the president of the Tucson Mountain Association said his organization discussed the possibility of annexation I would be against it at the present But the big four Phelps Dodge Anaconda Kennecott and American Smelting Refining still were bogged down in Cabinet-level attempts in Washington to bring to an end the nationwide copper industry strike It has idled 60-000 -workers and set multi-million dollar losses to companies workers and the federal and state tax coffers KVOA Television Inc is a subsidiary to the Pulitzer Publishing Company publisher of the St Louis Post-Dispatch and owner of St Louis radio and television stations KSD Precise terms of offer remained undisclosed to the public today The miners themselves were not to be informed officially of the terms until they appeared at meeting sites to cast ratification votes According to the dossier the Mafia and its American branch resumed their contacts after World War II when the United States deported Lucky Luciano to Italy Some observers contend that Luciano was spared punishment in America and deported as payment for getting the Mafia to simplify the American invastion of Sicily The six others in the United States are Gaspare Magaddino 60 Franco Scimone 57 Santo Sorge 65 John Priziola 75 Camillo Galante 58 and Raffaele Quarasano 58 Bonanno and Galante were re This would mean a major victory for President Charles de Gaulle who repeatedly has denounced die roles of the dollar and the pound as reserve Having failed to make appreciable progress with Phelps Dodge and Kennecott the government now apparently hopes to work out a pattern-setting contract with observers said He added that some members might be in favor if the game refuge protection in the area is dropped by the State Game and Fish Department The residents fear firearms hunting in the area would endanger them Officers of the subsidiary are Joseph Pulitzer Jr president Charles Hentschell first vice president and general manager and Dell Stafford secretary and treasurer Magma Copper Co began warming up its smelters today with the expectation that its more than 2600 workers who In Salt Lake City yesterday the National Labor Relations Board petitioned the US District Court for an injunction Game Of Politics May Be Braining Talent recently said privately about life under the new regime By CHARLES TURBYVILLE Citizen Staff Writer One of the disenchanted saw things differently Assured of anonymity he made some nine years with the City of TuC-son I could no longer get the job done the way I felt it should be done according to civil service he said With some exceptions the men themselves the only ones able to provide the whole truth have chosen to maintain a public silence must say I sympathize with the politicians They are the ones who have to run for office every four years the ones who get irate telephone calls at 4 am Why have more than half the City of top administrators resigned their posts in the last two years? with problems he feels fall within his responsibility is too much direction from the top" he said going to be held responsible for carrying out a project I want to be in on planning it Others wise it may be impossible to do and get the And he added be feels dee- Democrats hesitate to contact people far down in the city said another administrator is no doubt that some of these guys (the administrators) resent it very much But some of them really swing with levels of government and one that unknown here before Dec 6 1965' when Democrats took control of the city council There seem to be any question however that the Democrats are much more likely to insist that things be done their way than their Re- publican predecessors was a whole new ball one of the departed thing that really sticks in my craw is the way professionals have been publicly abused by politicians playing up to the he said One of the exceptions is former personnel director £)avid Fitzgerald who said last Oc- tober he left of the activities of the Democratic of the city council It seems clear that others faced similar conflicts between their professional judgment and the desires of mayor and city council who as politicians have different perspectives other words it is they who have to answer for what the city does or do And I don't see anything wrong with them trying to protect them- Was it the pull of a better job offered elsewhere? Was it the push of dissatisfaction with their bosses the city was It some other entirely per- onal reason? He spoke of feeling Ineffective and circumvented In dealing This particular official Is one of the latter He added: it found after spending This is an old problem at all.