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THE KANSAS CITY STAR 10c For Classified Ad Call 1 5S00 To Subscribe Call 421-1200 MAIN EDITION Attacking Troops Reach Quang Tri Marines on the eastern flank of the drive to recapture Quang Tri were reported within four miles of the city and officers said their men could be in Quang Tri tomorrow if ordered to go There were signs of stiffening North Vietnamese resistance around the town Field commanders reported encountering the first bunkers of what was believed to be a heavy line of fortifications Spokesmen in Saigon safd 93 North Vietnamese were killed in the fighting today 59 in clashes with the marines and 34 in a battle with the paratroopers Air strikes accounted for many of the dead enemy appears to be pulling back but encountering resistance from nearly every treeline every said an American adviser Capt Gail Furrow 32 of Urbana Ohio Saigon South Vietnamese paratroopers drove to the southwestern edge of Quang Tri City today in an assault against North Vietnamese troops manning defensive strongpoints military sources said Several hundred troops with US advisers made the attack killing at least 20 North Vietnamese and recapturing 12 artillery pieces lost in earlier fighting At nightfall the South Vietnamese were reported occupying positions about half a mile from the center of the provincial capital that the North Vietnamese captured May 1 Government spokesmen in Saigon claimed the recapture of two district headquarters: Mai Linh 12 miles southeast of Quang Tri and Hai Lang six miles southeast of the capital It was the first recapture of any of the 14 district towns lost to the North Vietnamese in their 3-month-old offensive far been relatively light I expected them to make a bigger stand but tough for them to fight out here in the open got air support they if they decided to put all their people in Quang Tri and stand and fight going to be The lead battalion of paratroopers fought its first sizable battle yesterday taking on an estimated North Vietnamese battalion in a bunker line at La Vang Furrow said the South Vietnamese killed 23 enemy captured eight trucks and recaptured one 105mm howitzer and two 155mm howitzers the North Vietnamese had been using US jets knocked out two 130mm artillery pieces and five trucks on the western flank of the advance Furrow said his troops had captured six North Vietnamese who reported their officers abandoned them after a large number erf B52 strikes said their officers just ran away back up said Furrow Behind the front lines officers said government troops had finished mopping up small groups of North Vietnamese soldiers who had been in the rapid South Vietnamese advance Hundreds of refugees from areas liberated by the South Vietnamese made their way south on Highway 1 They gathered at Phong Bien 20 miles north of Hue where busses and trucks picked them up and brought them to Hue Government spokesmen said forces also killed nearly 200 North Vietnamese in fighting south of Quang Tri City and west of Hue Hue 30 miles south of the See QUANG TRI onNext Pag rade which passed by the Harry Truman home on Delaware and ended at the front steps of the Truman Library The Independence Saddle Club brings up the rear in the fourth annual parade sponsored by the Independence Jaycees Several thousand persons viewed the pa Independence Salute Parade Tribute to Truman Asian About-Face Harmony Jolts Koreans and just a very few others rejoice the Good Lord has spared you to know this judgment during your Mrs Gray a member of the board of directors of the li-b a listed two the naming of a woman cabinet member and the library feverish days of I am still thrilled to recall the day in 1949 I was summoned to the White House are aware of course that you set a precedent for all other US treasurers appointed have been women Yes Mr President another Truman Mrs Gray said the library dedicated in 1958 was built for the ego of Harry Truman but as a prototype of similar repositories of presidential Mrs Gray said she and her husband Andrew Gray would visit Mr Truman at the hospital before departing for Topeka Mrs Gray is president of the Capital City State Bank and Trust Company in Topeka Her husband is chairman of the board At the ceremony was a group of about 20 travel writers from foreign newspapers They are guests of the Convention and Tourist Council of Greater Kan-See TRIBUTE on Next Page Mrs Gray gave the Fourth of July address in the form of a letter to Mr Truman She said she had sent the original of the 6-page letter of a with Mrs Bess Truman to the hospital Before the address Mrs Gray asked the 300 persons gathered at the front steps of the Truman Library to bow their heads and join her in a prayer for Mr Truman skip fancy one of your characteristics I might Mrs Gray read from the letter tell it as it is Your stature as a President of the United States ranks among the topmost of the Washington Jefferson Jackson Lincoln Undaunted by a heavy threat of rain thousands gathered on the parade route of the annual Fourth of July celebration in Independence today The program also included a speech by Mrs Georgia Neese Clark Gray Topeka who was treasurer of the US in the Truman administration and a band concert on the steps of the Truman Library The celebration sponsored by the Independence Jaycees was a tribute to former President Harry Truman and the parade route was directed by his home at 219 Delaware although he was not there He is still at Research Hospital for tests new accord provides for a telephone hotline between the two cities to prevent accidental war Seoul South and North Korea announced to their surprised citizens today they have agreed in high-level secret meetings to set up machinery to work for unification of thd long-divided peninsula Simultaneous announcements in Seoul the South Korean capital and Pyongyang capital of Communist North Korea said a The Weather Mostly cloudy tonight with northeast winds and a slight chance for showers is the National Weather Service forecast Low tonight in the upper 50s Partly sunny and cool tomorrow with high in the 70s Rain probability 20 per cent tonight and 10 per cent tomorrow US Birthday Invitation by Nixon from a prepared He spoke text logue In the past we had confrontation without He said Seoul proposed the talks after concluding that North Korea was set for a military invasion The United States and Japan issued statements saying Seoul had informed them of the developments and they approved of them Charles Bray State Department press officer said in Washington the agreement was The Japanese foreign ministry spokesman praised courage and leadership of the two Korean and expressed hope they will settle their dfferences Koreans accustomed to hearing their governments denounce each other were surprised Some said they were shocked now at a loss how to deal with communism and a young secretary said have been told to hate First friendly contact between the two began last September when Red Cross officials of South and North Korea opened talks to arrange commu-unications between divided families involving an estimated 10 million persons The governments agreed to co-operate in bringing these talks to an early and successful conclusion Lee told newsmen South Korea will have to amend its laws harshly punishing collaborating with sympathizing with prais-See KOREANS on Next Page the ages and at fostering habits of trust and patterns of This he said was a major aim of his trips earlier this year to China and the Soviet Union Nixon said he would send formal invitations to foreign governments a welcome to the people of those nations to visit the United States as laws and circum have worked in this new country of ours Come and let us say thank you Come and join in our celebration of a proud past Come and share our dreams of a brighter Nixon said that as the bicentennial approaches Americans a feeling of healthy impatience for a determination to make this good land even stances permit during the bicentennial and especially during the year He termed the action unprecedented Noting that America has been peopled by immigrants from many lands the President said it is time to say to the nations: helped to make us what we are Come and see what wonders your countrymen San Clemente Calif (AP) President Nixon issued a broadcast invitation to the world today to visit the United States on its 200th birthday in 1976 America be known throughout the world as the of the open Nixon said in a live 10-minute July 4th holiday radio broadcast from the Western White House TEMPERATURES Midnight 69 7 a 1 a 68 8 a 2 a 65 9 a 3 a 64 10 I 4 a 64 11 a in 5 a 64 Noon 6 a 43 1 Unofficial Relative humidity 6 am 81 per cent Barometer reading 6 am 3030 inhes River stage today 77 feet no change Nixon expressed hope that upon millions of would help celebrate the US bicentennial He said one of the best ways to enhance the quality of peace through people-to-people contacts contacts aimed at reducing the fear and the ignorance which have divided mankind down through and for a joint political committee to open exchanges in many fields and to promote unification of North and South through peaceful means without outside interference The two governments also agreed to refrain from armed provocations and from slandering or defaming each other and to avoid accidental military incidents The agreements were reached at meetings in Pyongyang May 2-5 and Seoul May 29-June 1 The leaders President Chung Hee Park of South Korea and Premier Kim II Sung of North Korea participated in the talks in their respective capitals the announcement said It was the first such contact reported between North and South Korea since before the 1950-53 Korean War that took 2 million lives including 54-246 Americans The 3-year conflict ended in an armistice July 28 1953 and the two Koreas are still officially at war with even mail exchange cut off Korea a Japanese colony from 1910 through World War II was divided into US and Soviet occupation zones after the defeat of Japan The zones became separate republics in 1948 The South Korean negotiator in the talks was Lee Hu-rak director of the central intelligence agency In Pyongyang he met with Kim Young-joo director of the North Korean organization and guidance department and younger brother of Premier Kim North second deputy premier Park Sung-chul came to Seoul for the talks here Lee and Kim Yung-joo are to be co-c a i of the new -North Co-ordinating that will start negotiations for peaceful unification and promote exchanges in various fields The date of its first meeting was not announced Lee told newsmen: is only the beginning we now enter confrontation with dia Surprise Soviet Move in Chess Standoff Reykjavik Iceland after a week of complications the Russian champi- for match staged a tion from glum-faced walkout on The opening game of the world chess championship was postponed again today after Russian Boris Spassky protested Bobby behavior and walked out of a meeting with the organizers Representatives of the American grandmaster later conferred with Spassky and his aides in search of a compromise to what the organizers termed caused by Fischer was on orders Max Euwe president of the International Chess Federation hoped the match could be saved The new starting date for the 24-game series is Thursday It was to have begun Sunday Spassky lodged a formal protest charging that Fischer the eration postponed the first game 48 hours and told Fischer he had to be in Reykjavik by noon today or forfeit the match A stewardess said Fischer appeared calm during the flight of 4 hours and 40 minutes from New York but slept for only few minutes at a time Another passenger Benjamin Rauschkolb of Long Beach NY angrily reported his wife was told at the last minute she board the plane and that he learned later she was bumped to make room for Fischer causing an awful lot of trouble Rauschkolb said tions are applied to the dispatch said It was filed to Moscow from Reykjavik and distributed in the international service The 29-year-old American challenger flew from New York after accepting the offer of London banker James Slater to match the $125000 purse put up by the Icelandic Chess Federation Now the winner of the 24-game match will get $156250 and the loser $93750 Each also will get 30 per cent of the $250000 paid for television and movie rights to the match or $75000 each The match which could last two months had been scheduled to start Sunday but Fischer stayed in New York demanding 30 per cent of the gate receipts The International Chess Fed Spassky was asked if there was a chance for a game today He said is not Speaking to newsmen after the walkout Euwe was much more forthright Asked whether the Russian move threatened to wreck the whole match he replied Euwe said the Russians gave no indication what action would satisfy them they had it would be he said know what they want Perhaps they want an Sent to find out were second the Rev William Lombardy and his attorney Paul Marshal They went to hotel to get clarifica- Because of the protest and walkout there was no drawing to decide which player would play the white pieces and have the first move of the match A Tass dispatch said Spassky had refused to play Fischer until the American punished by the International Chess is of the opinion that Fischer insulted him personally and the Chess Federation of the USSR by failing to appear at the ceremony opening the match on July the official Soviet news agency said jeopardized his moral right to play in the match will return to the question of the possibility of holding the match after sanc Bill Vaughan Says: Tass news agency said American challenger vio-Spassky accused Fischer of vio- lated the rules of the by lating rules and wanted him failing to appear for its sched- uled start Sunday The world champion told Max Euwe president of the World Chess Federation that decision to allow a postponement in favor was unacceptable Then Spassky and his aides who were present to draw lots punished Less than two hours before the match was to begin Spassky and his second Yefin Geller drove to the Soviet embassy presumably to consult with authorities in Moscow This supported the sentiment that blasted protest Cousin act of lighting the firecracker with the cigar was the hit of the picnic with the big finish late in the evening when he threw away the wrong one Phone Sunday Want Ads in 11 am Sat Adv Holiday Picnic Kept Kansans From Tornado's Wrath By Kerry Hibbs A Member of Th Star's Staff Washington There is little left in this small the Washington County to indicate a twister ripped through it 40 years ago today causing death and destruction The damage has long since been repaired and out of the approximately 1500 persons living here then only about a half a dozen are left to talk about it Out of the files of the Years column comes a story most people remember On July 4 1932 two one coming from the southwest and one from the joined just west of town to form one powerful twister When it was gone four people were dead and business district and many homes lay in ruins The stores on the north and east side of the courthouse square were hit particularly hard most of them being leveled The courthouse itself was badly damaged and later a new one was built If ill fate sent the tornado to Washington 50 miles northwest of Manhattan the town was also blessed with some good luck If it had been any other day Washington would probably have lost far more than four of its citizens But on July 4 many of the residents were enjoying a picnic in the city park several blocks south of the business district Hie baseball game and other activities drew more than 2000 people from the area to the park that day This picnic is credited with saving many lives because if more people had been downtown or in their homes they might have died Farel Lobaugh is one of the few persons still living in the town who survived the tornado He was 34 years old then and the county attorney He had an office in one comer of the courthouse which was wrecked that evening His memory of the tornado is still good was home with my 2 Me -year-old daughter when the storm came he said must have been baby-sit- See PICNIC on Next Page Farel Lobaugh 74 it one of the survivors still around to talk about the twister that hit the small town of Washington Kan 40 years ago today Lobaugh was the county attorney then A tornado that struck 40 years ago today Scalped Courthouse Twister Survivor I The Washington County Courthouse was left in shambles by the McGiUey Memorial Chapels Antioch Chapel Lin wood a Main -Adv.