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A-2 THE OAIIY SUN Te May 3. If 44 Shortage Reports; View From Viet Nam ders what the armament will be. "We have missed no missions because of any shortage. There may be some delays in getting ordnance off ships, but so far as I know there is no shortage of ordnance." An enlisted man who works with ordnance had this to say: Of course there's a bomb shortage. You can take one look at the bomb dumps and tell that.

They used to be stacked up so high you couldn't see over them. Now there's hardly any extra on hand. They want 750-pound bombs for up north and 500-pound and smaller for in-country. We're short of all of them and have been since time to time," said one Air Force officer. "But over all we have done a hell of a job in getting things where they should be in this country at this time." Among the military' men themselves, however, there are diffenert assessments of the situation.

At the big air base in Da Nang, 380 miles north of Saigon. Col. E. T. Burnett, operations officer of the 35th Tactical Fighter Wing, was one who would comment.

"If there's shortage. I don't know about it and it wouldn't be here," Burnett said. "We have a central target system that assigns us targets and a central ordnance control that or also point to the massive VS, buildup of the past year that has overtaxed the port, storage and transport facilities in Viet Nam. It is common knowledge that there has been a serious shipping bottleneck in the port of Saigon and in other places. Vast amounts of materiel have been unloaded over the beach.

After the ammunition and other stores are put ashore they must for the most part be transported inland by air. The only rail 1 i in the country is almost inoperative and few roads are considered safe because of Viet Cong control. "Sure, we've run into problems and there have been some shortages from German firm. This was enough to keep the issue steaming in Congress. On the scene in Viet Nam, the whole question is one that a lot of people talk about in private but refuse to talk up for the record.

After the recent controversy, word apparently went out to the field that the subject was not to be discussed. Normally articulate officers clammed up when the subject was mentioned. In private, some concede there hae been shortages of various types of ordnance or other supplies from time to time on a temporary basis. They add this has been true in all wars. They Tiie controversy over possible ord-nani shortages kicked up full force in Washington after reports early last month of curtailment of air activity because of a shortage of some bombs.

At the Pentagon. Arthur Sylvester, as-sitant secretary, confirmed there had been a temporary reduction in air strikes because of a "problem in distribution of Hi boss. Defense Secretary- Robert S. McNamara. came back a few days later with a denial that there was any hirtatic of bombs for the Viet Nam war.

It was learned, however, that the United States had bought back some bombs sold as surplus in 14 to a West Chinese Puzzle: What Happened to Mao? Dy EDWIN (J. WHITE SAIGON, South Viet Nam tAPi have met all operational requirements in the past and we expect meet operational requirements in the future." That is ofticial respure from the U.S. military command in Viet Nam when asked about reports if shortage of bombs ur other ordnance tor the war. Tut the same quotum to titliciils oi the U.S. mission and they will tell you that everything to be aid on the has been said or will be said in Washington.

Privately, some think Wellington already has said too much. if. liJrW- I TAKING COVER Soldiers of Big Red One (1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry) crouch in tall grass after jumping from departing 1 forts by Johnson administration leaders to redefine U.S. policy toward the Peking regime. Vice President Hubert H.

Humphrey. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and presumably President Johnson are known to believe that some day a new-generation of Red Chinese leaders might decide to ease relations i Washington, and Rusk and Humphrey have tried to indicate that Washington would be receptive. U.S. officials are confident that when Nao yields power the succesion will pass to a longtime close associate, Liu Shao-chi, 68, president of China, who will try to carry on the major lines of Chinese policy as Mao laid them down. Liu is already so old, however, that $365,110 Grant For S.B.

State Navy Jets Knock Out Missile Site in North his own direction of China's power structure will inevitably be limited and eventually he and the other men who have served Mao must give way to a new generation. So long as the war in Viet Nam goes on. U.S. officials rule out any probability of an easing of relations with Red China regardless of what happens to Mao. They do not, however, feel the same way "about the Sino Soviet split.

It could get worse if Mao relinquished power, or the post Mao leadership might decide for practical reasons to restore some measure of cooperation. The Soviets are still holding the door open for them, apparently being as puzzled as Washington officials about China's future course. Dr. Thomas said that the state college system qualified for federal assistance on the project because the building would be used only for instructional programs. Dyal said the federal funds come under the Higher Education Facilities Act.

State college projects under application seek $10 million in aid for buildings on the state college campuses of the state. The San Bernardino branch is holding dedication ceremonies at the campus tomorrow. So far there are three buildings in use and two under construction. Revenues Up "It could have been anticipated that with the withdrawal of 4,000 employes, based on a U.S. Chamber of Commerce formula, we might have experienced a $14 million decrease in retail sales.

"As it is, we experienced only a $3 million decrease, which speaks highly for the dynamic trade area we enjoy in San Bernardino. "With the stimulus of the Inland Shopping Center, together with the new area shopping centers now under construction, we can look forward to retaining our position as the major retail center in the San Bernardino Riverside Ontario standard metropolitan area. "We should experience major growth in retail sales over the ensuing years." City of San Bernardino taxable retail sales for the years 1961 through 1965 were respectively: $155 million, $174 million, $191 million. $207 million and $204 million. Here is a comparison of revenues for San Bernardino and Riverside counties and cities, as provided by the state Board of Equalization, for 1959-1965.

San Bernardino figures are first, with Riverside figures following: 1959 $5,213.000 $3,192,000 1960 $5,578.000 $3,416,000 1961 $5,670,000 $3,713,000 1962 $5.827.000 $3,819,000 1963 $6.564,000 $4,358,000 1964 $7.333.000 $4,934,000 1965 $8.603.000 $6,056,000 A quick poll of the council determined it is made up of three Catholics, a Christian Scientist, a Mormon and a Protestant. The supervisor's request for the "publisher to retract certain statements and clarify the literary license" taken by the writer was initiated by Daniel Mikesell. "It is quite apparent," Mikesell said, "that the county has been seriously impaired by some of the comments in this article, and it is also quite evident that all of our fine citizens have been maligned against as a result of these derogatory writings." Supervisor Nancy E. Smith suggested that the Post be invited to send a "responsible writer to see the fine and positive developments that are occurring here." Supervisor S. Wesley Break agreed with Mrs.

Smith. Her suggestion is to be included in the resolution which will be sent the magazine. noteworthy aspect of Peking's big May Day celebration. Illness, U.S. experts now believe, provides the only rational explanation for Mao's prolonged "invisibility" and the secrecy with which other officials have surrounded his whereabouts.

The experts assume that he is still alive because they see no logical need for the other Chinese leaders to prolong the mystery when he dies. No one here is making any bets that the Chinese Communist chieftain will not suddenly show up in some public way in the immediate future. Leadership changes which would result from Mao's departure from active direction of Chinese Communist affairs give special significance to recent ef- Sun-Teleqram photo mrs. morris j. Mcdonald "What's your decision?" boy patrol, supervised by adults, be set up in the meantime.

Mrs. Smith, referring lo the placards carried by the women, said the board didn't need the "visual attractions because they only detract The board doesn't react to pressure." She said the women had done their school a disservice by keeping the children out because the attendance money is needed. "I think you could have found ways to keep your children in school," Mrs. Smith said. Asked how, she said, "You could take them." During the exchange, someone in the crowd said, "Rather be stupid than dead." Fair Housing i Continued From A 1) with Dirksen.

The proposal, he said, is "absolutely constitutional" and could be based broadly on at least three amendments. Cellcr conceded the measure would be difficult lo pass, "and will cost some elbow grease, but 1 think we can gel it through." Other provisions would end discrimination in the selection of state and federal juries, provide more protection from violence for Negroes and civil rights workers, and permit the Justice Department to initiate school and public facility desegregation suits. The fair housing portion, sure to arouse widespread controversy because of its potential effect on the North as well as the South, was based on the interstate commerce clause in four respects. They arc: Movement of building materials and home furnishings from one state to another. Transfer of funds used to support the housing industry across slate lines.

Movement of the individual buyer across state lines. F'or example, a buyer who is transferred by his firm from one stale to another and is house hunting would be in interstate commerce. Disputes and disturbances that result from segregated housing such as in the Watts area of Los Angeles, The Hints had the effect of stopping doods riots had the effect of stopping goods commerce. Bv JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (AP) Experts on China suggested yesterday that Mao Tze tung undoubtedly has been ill for several months and may be near the end of his long reign.

Analyzing the latest. May Day episode in the deepening mystery about the Red China's top leader, authorities here said the Peking regime could be approaching power shifts of great importance for the whole world. The boss of the Chiniese Communist party and master of China's teeming millions since 1949 has been missing from public view for five months. Late last week, he failed to show up for an important public ceremony, the reception of Premier Mehmet Shaehu of Albania. Sunday his absence was the most Mothers Win School Battle (Continued From A 1) said Young had done all he could as an individual in the time at his disposal.

Pudinski and Mrs. McDonald were in the midst of a discussion on accident statistics when Young announced that he would use money from his special road fund to provide the guard. "It's a little money I have to fix people's alleys and other things when I have a real emergency," Y'oung said. County officials said the fund is made up of unspent money from a road bond issue passed in about 1905. Supervisors decided some time ago to use the money for special road projects.

Dana said he has a "couple hundred dollars" left in his fund, but Break said he had no money left. "This is not proper," Break said. "This is pressure 1 don't like it. 1 don't have the extra money. This is wonderful for Mr.

Young, but it makes it bad lor the rest of us." Break said he'd been trying for nearly a year to get a crossing guard in his district. Break also took a crack at Fontana school officials for revising school boundaries in mid year, a decision that required the children to cross San Bernardino Avenue. "They did this," Break said. "They should have gotten in and taken care of it." Dr. Denzil E.

Widel, superintendent of the Fontana Unified School District, said population growth had forced the district to add extra classrooms at Live Oak School. He said he'd written a letter on Jan. 12 to county officials advising them that a crossing guard would be needed about March 1. Requests for crossing guards are processed by the county traffic committee, an organization which includes county, state and CI IP representatives. A set of requirements (called warrants) have been established to determine whether guards are merited.

The traffic count and pedestrian traffic are key factors in the determinations. Salaries of guards are paid by the slate which bills the county for guards in unincorporated areas. J. G. Galanis a traffic committee member, said it's committee policy not lo begin crossing guard studies until the children begin using the crossing.

He said the Live Oak request is to he restudied by tiie committee and has not been rejected. Pudinski indicated, however, that the school now meets about 80 per cent of the standards for a crossing guard. He said it probably would meet the full standards during the next school year. Pudinski recommended that a school- Truck Drivers as ceremony through the San Bernardino Chamber of Commerce and the Highway Patrol. The certificate, bearing the official CUP seal, is given for "bravery and service to community and fellow human beings The act of saving two people from possible death at the risk of your own life showed you to be a citizen aware of and willing to accept your humanitarian and civic responsibilities." The awards are signed by Bradford Crittenden, commissioner of the California Highway Patrol.

A federal grant of $365,110 for construction of a $1 million physical education building for California Stale College at San Bernardino was announced yesterday by Rep. Ken W. Dyal of San Bernardino. Dr. Joseph K.

Thomas, executive dean at the college, said the project was approved last week by the state Public Works Board and will be ready to go out to bid in a week or 10 days. Plans call for construction to begin by June and for the facility to be ready for use by June 1967. In addition to the building, there will be an olympic-size swimming pool estimated to cost $227,000. County Sides Tax (Continued from A 1) three years 34 per cent but dollar-wise, San Bernardino County is running more than $2l2 million ahead of its neighbor. For 1965, San Bernardino County and cities have $8,603,000 sales tax revenue, as compared with $6,056,000 for Riverside County.

An 8 per cent increase is forecast for Riverside County in the next year, but Nevins said: "Local officials should be alert to factors that may increase or reduce this revenue forecast. New shopping centers will increase the revenue while shopping centers just outside the local jurisdiction may reduce the revenue." Burnett, speaking for the San Bernar-tdino Chamber of Commerce, said: "In analyzing the state Board of Equalization's report on taxable retail sales for the City of San Bernardino, we are very encouraged with the economic growth profit profile, which shows an increase over the last five years of $49,509,000 in our total taxable retail sales, or a 31 per cent gain. "Although there has been a decrease of $3 million in total retail sales from our 1964 position, which is a decrease of l'i per cent, we should be extremely pleased that we did not experience a greater decrease due to the withdrawal of approximately 4,000 employes from Norton Air Force Base AP Wirephoto helicopter for attack last week on Viet Cong supply bases near Cambodian border. Eighty copters landed the battalion. Cong.

Marines south of Da Nang have killed 69 Viet Cong and captured six plus 223 suspects in an operation now in its 12th day. The U.S. 25th Division ended Operation Longfellow in the central highlands with little result. A spokesman said the "Tropic Lightning" Division killed six Viet Cong and seized 66 suspects in the 15-day campaign. The missiles site destroyed was 34 miles northeast of Vinh in the southern panhandle near the Gulf of Tonkin.

Sky-hawks and Crusaders from the carrier Hancock unloaded rockets and 500-and 1 bombs on the surface-to-air missile site. They reported the site was saturated and two missile launchers were destroyed. In all, Amercan planes flew more than 300 sorties in keeping up the aerial hammering. The 1552 strike close to Cambodia followed up Sunday's bomber attack on suspected Viet Cong troop concentrations in the same area in Tay Ninh Province 70 miles from the Cambodian frontier. U.S.

1st Infantry Division troops and two regiments of South Vietnamese troops are on a sweep-and -destroy operation here and have traded shots with Viet Cong who sought refuge in Cambodia. Hair-Kaisers Rescue Recovery Group helicopters came to his aid. The California had landed at the base of a cliff, howver, and the helicopters told him to move about a mile down the mountains. There a helicopter waited but Communist gunners opened fire from the jungle, driving it off. Ingalls ran to the west, where in the afternoon a helicopter was driven off again when it tried to pick him tip.

A flurcship was called for after dark, but Ingalls radioed that he would prefer to stay on the ground and be picked up in the morning rather than have his position pinpointed by the flares. Ingalls was constantly on the move during the night on the mountains, surrounded by Communists, but he escaped them. CUP Commends (Continued From A li ter M. Pudinski of the San Bernardino office of the CTIP. A similar ceremony is planned in San Antonio where a representative of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce will present the second certificate to Martinez.

Martinez has been transferred from Laurel Hospital in San Bernardino where he was taken for treatment following the accident. Arrangements were made for the Tex SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) Flying in bad weather, U.S. Navy fighter-bombers reported they knocked out a missile site in North Viet Nam yesterday destroying two rocket launchers. High flying B52 bombers from Guam plastered Viet Cong positions near the Cambodian border. For the second day in a row, no Communist MIGs rose to challenge the U.S.

planes over North Viet Navn. But ground fire knocked down two American planes. The pilots were brought out in hazardous rescues. Aground, the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese regulars avoided combat as the fighting lull extended to a third week. Wonder was growing as to the whereabouts of these forces.

U.S. troops have made successive sweeps of wide areas of South Viet Nam without finding many Viet Cong. They have met no North Vietnamese, who American commanders say are infiltrating South at the rate of 5.500 a month. U.S. Marines completed a four day search-and-destroy operation north of Da Nang and reported killing five Viet Pilots Rescued in (Continued From A li the lieutenant dangling below.

Out over the South China Sea the helicopter was joined by another whose hoist was working. The first chopper let Mansfield down into the water and the second 1 picked him up and took him to the U.S. destroyer England. Ingalls parachuted Sunday night into the mountains of North Viet Nam after Skyraider was shot down near the 'Laos North Viet Nam border. He made immediate radio contact with a Skyrai-'.

der and two Air Force 3rd Aerospace fourth ar.d strrel Prune TU San Bernatdinc, California 9U0I Vol. LXXI May 1966 No. 206 Published daily e.eot iunddy and New Year's 'Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July. Labor Day, 2 Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day in com-r binalion with The SunTetegrarn covering all of San Bernardino County with Its population of 450,570, San Berneirdino City population 107,160. The Sun Company ot San Bernardino, California, publishers.

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Member of The Associated Press. The Associated Press it exclusively entitled to use for republication all news dispatches credited to It or not other- wise credited In this paper and also the local newt published here. Council, Supervisors Rap Post i Continued from A li ing only the first paragraph. Said Henley, "I would like to see us sue this doggone outfit for a public retraction." Prince said that he had not read the article. He was directed by the council to read it and to return with an opinion.

"I think real strong pressure should be put on the magazine," Supervisor Paul J. Young said. "I think they know better. They should either made a retraction or that article should be the obituary for the Saturday Evening Post in this county." Written by Joan Didion, the article referred to the Valley as a "harsher California devastated by hot dry Santa Ana winds that come down through the passes at 100 miles an hour." The article also said it was "possible to live and die without ever meeting a Catholic or Jew" in the area. i.