The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • 2

al coalition government In Dft cember 1966 It was the National first election test since they adopted a new platform calling for among other things withdrawal of foreign troops from German soil development of a national army and replacement of the North Atlantic Treaty organization with another security LOOK over Star Want Ada Manv oft ara wilt builds up extremism on the other said Filbinger whose duties are comparable to those of an American state governor West German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger had toured his home state for the Christian Democrats and Foreign Minister Willy Biandt for the Social Democrats in an attempt to stem the tide toward the right party has suffered consistent losses in state elections since it joined the Christian Democrats in a nation- United Methodists Argue on Drinkin 2 THE KANSAS CITY TIMES Monday April 29 1968 OUXmdiol (Continued From Page 1) ident of Baden Wuerttemberg said the National Democrats benefited from reaction to leftist student demonstrations in several West German cities over the Easter weekend on one side (Continued From Page 1) the northeast to the southeast for 25 miles commanders have said many of the North Vietnamese who had held Marines at Khe Sanh under siege for 77 days have moved into A Shau valley in enemy hands for two years In that time the North Vietnamese rebuilt highway 547 which leads from the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos through the valley toward Hue and the coast Supplies have been trucked in and staging areas built up To Destroy Staging Areas The command described Operation Delaware as a in This implied the allied troops would seek to smash the enemy staging areas and lines of supply and then pull out The headquarters communique said the operation was Eight-engine B-52 bombers of the Strategic Air command have hammered the jangled valley floor steadily since April 1 to soften the enemy up for the invasion But the North Vietnamese aircraft defenses were operative when D-Day came for the air cavalrymen The American crewmen reported taking fire from 23mm and 37-mm antiaircraft guns which can reach up to 10-000 feet as well as 50-caliber machine guns The 30 lost helicopters were downed or damaged in the first 24 hours of the invasion never lost that many in weeks and Maj Gen John Tolson air cavalry commander told correspondents in the valley far the hottest place ever gone into and the most losses were taken in a single day The old opponent gave us a bad Bomb Gun Centers But the threat from antiaircraft guns eased in the second day when fighter-bombers and helicopter gunships blasted enemy positions with rockets and bombs Enemy ground resistance lessened also American troops captured several Soviet-made bulldozers and trucks The bulldozers apparently were used to improve highway 548 The fighting to the northeast of A Shau in the Without was described as heavy The strip got its name from the French because of their many defeats there in the French-Indo-China war Elements of the 101st airborne division the smashed their way with armored personnel Carriers along the Song Bo river through heavy enemy fire toward a fortified village four miles northwest of Hue More than 200 North Vietnamese troops were reported holed up in the village No casualty figures were immediately available Lewis Simons Associated Press correspondent reporting on the action from the 101st headquarters at Camp Eagle said one American helicopter supporting the paratroopers had been shot down and an armored personnel carrier damaged Eight miles to the northwest other units of the 101st reported killing 44 North Vietnamese troops in a 10-hour battle Saturday casualties were one killed and six wounded The enemy soldiers were described as dressed in blue uniforms and armed with AK-47s a modern Russian-made assault rifle that is the standard field weapon of the North Vietnamese They fought the paratroopers from bunkers and heavy artillery was brought to bear on the enemy positions has said in earlier discussions published that the rigid stand is unrealistic and hampers the church in ministering toper-sons most in need of help in pastoral care to those with alcohol problems After pointing ont that studies show 61 per cent of adult Methodists occasionally drink he termed the policy one that to widespread sham nonenforcement (and undercuts) authenticity and the growth of a community Typical of the other side of the issue was the viewpoint of Bishop Everett Palmer of Seattle who said in a Christian advocate issue recently that is a that would be baited even by acceptance of moderate drinking Another interesting dilemma also might be shaping up here The Christian social concerns recommendations also endorsed Project Equality and urged through participation and financial support on the part of all United Methodist annual conferences local churches local or national institutions agencies and If the 1250 delegates go along with that the 40-mil-lion-dollar-a-year business the Methodist Publishing house may have to find a way around legal objections (Continued From Page 1) ences of the churches had dealt with the subject Healy Kas members sent in two asking that the church maintain at least for the next 4-year period requirements on tobacco and alcohol for ministers About 13 petitions from Healy Shields Kas and Wichita members also dealt with other qualifications for the ministry About 40 from Wichita dealt with promoting abstinence through radio and television Another five members from Healy and Scott City Kas asked the general conference to keep the present historic ban on alcohol for all members The Christian social concerns recommendation will be for a voluntary approach that will remove that ban but affirm the Christian reasons for a teetotaling personal position The social concerns board had sought the policy change because the old one is and inaccurate and produces hypocrisy and a loss of integrity in the corporate life of the church and in the lives of many ministers and For a Relaxing Among petitioners for relaxation was Dr Howard Cline-bell jr of the Claremont Calif school of theology who Interest you ADVERTISE MEN HO CHI MINH VOTES Tokyo A and Ho Chi Minh cast his ballot in Hanoi yesterday as elections were staged throughout North Vietnam for representatives to Councils Vietnam news agency reported Welfare March to Be Led by Mrs King Washington (AP) Mrs Martin Luther King widow of the slain civil rights leader will lead a welfare march here on day May 12 the Southern Christian Leadership conference announced yesterday Mrs Etta Horn of the National Welfare Rights council told a news conference that marches similar to the one Mrs King will lead in Washington are planned for 50 other cities in 30 states on that day PICKET TWO CHURCHES Chicago White pickets marched at two North Side churches during services yesterday in a protest against racism in white churches and to test antipicketing ordinance There were no arrests Dr King's Death as 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as grand dragon of the United Klans of America and enter a political race an informed source has reported fjHK: The source said Craig has been considering a bid for sheriff of Fulton County Sheriff -wt Ralph Grimes said recently he would retire throwing the job open in the fall elections have no said Craig 39 grand llfc dragon for the klan group in Georgia since 1961 The informed source said Craig was being jyBj urged to run public by his friends Craig a Democrat has made two unsuccessful political races in the last five years and has been very active in politics often behind the Cavn Cra scenes our cool comfortable blouson in your choice of natural Thai-Si or pure linen Says Crabb Still Lives London (AP) Cmdr Lionel Crabb the British frogman who disappeared near a Soviet warship during Nikita visit in 1956 is alive and serv-ing in the Soviet navy a book published yester-' day says fijgL jwgtpw It is written by Bernard Hutton a Czech-I FI born journalist now living in Britain who wrote a similar book in contending Crabb was captured by the Russians and brainwashed Crabb a British wartime underwater hero jm vanished at Portsmouth while diving near the i iT- Jmm Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze which brought Khrushchev and Marshal Nikolai Bulganin to Cmdr Lionel Britain on a good will visit Crabb Fourteen months later a headless body in a suit washed up on south coast and an inquest ruled that it was body navy pewdar all 6 stores open late tonight!.