Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light (Newspaper) - November 3, 1969, Corsicana, Texas 84 ALL PHONE 8722551 TEXAS 1969 Reds Attacking Highlands Dawson Crash Hearing Opens AP A federal court jury was to begin hearing witnesses today before Judge Sarah Hughes to determine liability in the crash of a Braniff International Airways The flight crashed May near the small town of about 60 miles south of Dallas and some 15 miles from A total of 85 all died when the plane hit the ground burning and ended its flight in a aban farms cow The called the worst in Texas aviation occurred as thun swept the Central Texas Six damage asking more than million and filed by 21 will be heard simultaneously by Judge No damages will be Such if must await individual litigation after liability is Enemy Successful Against Bases SAIGON AP North Vietnamese forces launched new attacks in South Vietnams Central Highlands today after driving allied troops from three artillery bases at the opposite end of the American Special Forces of said the loss of the bases was a major success for the While and South Vietnamese troops along the Cambodian border in the southern part of the highlands braced for renewed North Vietnamese the enemy struck nearly 200 miles to the along the coastal region of the northern Central Some 200 North Vietnamese in and commando launched coordinated assaults on two artillery bases of the 173rd Airborne Brigade north of the provincial capital of Bong Firing rocket machine guns and the attackers pushed their way to the barbed wire perimeters of the two bases before American artillery Arab Guerrillas Damage Pipeline BEIRUT AP Arab guerrillas blew up an American pipeline in southern Lebanon early half an hour after a ceasefire between the guerrilla high command and the Lebanese army went into The charge that blew out two feet of from Saudi Arabia to the south Lebanese Readings Chilly By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Skies over Texas dawned mostly clear today and were expected to stay that way while temperatures Clouds still hung along the Coastal Plains and light rain was falling in the Brownsville area during early morning but clearing was forecast for those areas later in the The mercury fell lower and lower as clear skies allowed ground heat to The temperature at Marfa dropped to 16 Alpine reported 21 and Dalhart Lubbock reported Amarillo 30 and Wink Some representative temperatures at 7 were Abilene 34 Austin Arthur Browns ville Dallas Galveston Houston Laredo 50 and San Antonio Cold air settled in on the Lone Star State over the bringing showers to numerous Measured failed to reach the one inch mark Lubbock came closest with of an inch Childress was next with Snow combined with the rain over the Panhandle Sunday but was not sufficient to stick to the forecasts call for little or no rain during the week and continued port of Sidon apparently was set before the ceasefire became effective at Ten hours no violations had been reported from eastern border with the focus of the past two weeks of fighting between guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Lebanese Repair work on the pipeline started and a company spokesman said oil should be flowing again by It was the second time this year the line has been sabo Agreement to a ceasefire effective at midnight Sunday was reached in Cairo by guerrilla chief Yasir Arafat and Emile commander in chief of the Lebanese They also agreed to continue talking in an effort to agree on the conditions under which the guerrillas will operate against Israel from bases in Southern Lebanese army units and the guerrilla forces facing them apparently were maintaining the positions they held The only clash reported Sunday was a 30minute exchange of mortar and tank fire outside The village com mands the supply route the guerrillas are trying to establish from Syria to the camps they hold in southern The Lebanese press welcomed the ceasefire although no agreement has yet been worked out to resolve the basic conflict between the army and the degree of freedom of action and movement the guerrillas would enjoy in More than 100 persons are believed to have been killed and many more wounded in the battling over the use of Lebanon as a base for guerrilla strikes against The guerrillas have demanded a free but the government tried to restrict their activities for fear of Israeli One of the the abandoned village of was south of the Sea of Galilee just east of the Jordan The other two were south of the Dead drove them The Command said at least two enemy soldiers penetrated the perimeter of one base but were killed or The bodies of others were found in the barbed wire around the second base Headquarters said 26 North Viet were killed in the two casualties were one killed and eight the command Light rocket and mortar attacks were launched against other allied bases in the including the ters of a brigade of the 4th Infantry Division at An 260 miles north American officers in the field told Associated Press correspondent Peter Arnett they believe the series of attacks in the Highlands presage a large military campaign in the probably focused on the two important Special Forces camps of Bu Prang and Due near the Cambodian border and at the southwest corner of the An uneasy quiet fell over the two frontier camps 110 and 135 miles north east of Saigon after a North Vietnamese onslaught that forced abandonment of the three artillery bases in the Bu Prang The retreating garrisons regrouped in a Green Beret camp that American sources said could be attacked at any time by North Vietnamese forces massed along the At least 11 Americans were killed and 40 wounded in a series of North Viet helicopters were three destroyed and several trucks shot Initial reports put South Vietnamese losses at one 17 wounded and two Fortyfour North Vietnamese were reported Informed sources said they believe the North Vietnamese are trying for a p victory and that the weekends activity is part of the The sources said they anticipate in creased fighting throughout this month in the Central Highlands as the monsoon rains end and the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese begin their The three artillery bases were abandoned after two of them under North Vietnamese artillery and ground About 600 Americans and South Vietnamese threatened with being overrun fled to the nearby Bu Prang Special Forces camp about 120 miles northeast of Bu Prang itself was bombarded Sunday by enemy artillery said to be firing from inside Ground probes were launched against the camps A largescale North Vietnamese assault had been an and American dropped tons of bombs outside the camp to discourage the ene my from massing for an The three artillery bases and the Special Forces camp formed a diamond with Bu Prang at the The bases were set up a few months ago to provide an artillery blanket in the frontier region for allied forces checking North Viet infiltration into South sources said there was a large enemy buildup along the Cambodian border and the bases had been under heavy pressure all but the coor attacks came as a LIONS TO SELL LIGHT York right projects chairman for the Corsicana Lions and David chairman of the light bulb sales show some of the many bulbs they will sell Tuesday evening beginning at 5 in neigh Daily Sun Staff Photo CUBAN TREATMENT BLAMED Air Hijackers Back AP Contemptuous treatment by the Cuban government was cited today as a probable reason why six Americans elected to come home and risk the death penalty on charges of separate hijackings of airplanes to Im sure hell tell us there was no Utopia at the other said George Bohle of Michigan father of Ronald one of the men who gave themselves up at the Canadian border I think he was incarcerated quite said James Boynton of who told newsmen disenchantment with the onetime Pearl of the Antilles had been ex pressed in letters from his one of the The younger Boynton had stuck it out for longer than any of the over 20 The State Department said all six returned of their own volition and not as the result of any negotiations with the Fidel Castro All were jailed in lieu of bail ranging from to under the federal air piracy which provides a maximum penalty of Each faces trial in the area where he seized a Clues Sought Vofer Reaction Watched Tuesday Concern over law and President Nixons political clout and New York Mayor John Lindsays driving effort for reelection are adding up to one of the nations most important off year elec Much attention in Tuesdays voting falls on The onetime Republican glamour boy was considered a cinch loser four months ago but has re bounded to become oddson favorite to retain what is often described as the difficult elected office in the Beyond the New York political observers are looking to gubernatorial fights in New Jersey and Virginia and mayoral elections in Pittsburgh and Buf falo for indications on voter The balloting in New Jersey and Virginia is of particular interest because President Nixon has injected himself in both races in his first domestic political campaigning since his own election a year The New York City race has been a study in frustration for most political Lindsay was all but counted out last spring when he lost the Republi can nomination to a conservative and senator from Staten John Forced to run on the tickets of the small Liberal and Independent he fell far behind in the early stages of the race as Democrat Mario Procaccino seemed to pick up support from the heavily populated boroughs of Brooklyn and The has put together a Carl Stokes running for reelection in the Ohio city and Wayne County Auditor Richard Austin seeking a first term running the Michigan first black mayor of a major polished and expensive campaign that is challenged by Republican appears to have overcome strategy and his attacks on the mayor as a Limousine Liberal who plunged the city into its worst racial The fights for the other city halls are seen as tests of a current thesis that middleclass America is in revolt over and the aspirations of urgan Detroit and Cleveland have Negro candidates for with Democrat Ralph Perk with the race rated a virtual The key issue has been over control of the police force with the racial angle simmering below the The Detroit race also is seen as too close to call with a very high undecided voter element seen as the key in Austins effort against Roman Wayne County who has made crime control his major campaign One of Thomas George Washington of was ac companied by his 4yearold who flew with him to Cuba last She had a joyful reunion with her Mommy Mommy the youngster cried as she ran to meet her The two later returned to the mothers home in Boynton said his who has a Nixon Silent On Talk WASHINGTON AP President Nixon takes his Vietnam case to the nation tonight amid fresh speculation over the possibility of a sizeable stepup in troop In advance of Nixons much heralded EST House Republican Leader Gerald Ford of Michigan said It is perfectly possible that all American combat forces can be withdrawn from Vietnam by July In Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky was quoted as saying that next year the South Vietnamese armed forces will be able to replace about Ky predicted nothing new out of Nixons speech while addressing a declined to specu late further on Nixon so far has an troop pullbacks totaling about by a with which would reduce the strength figure in Vietnam to The President himself maintained tight silence about the forthcoming speech and prolonged his weekend stay in seclusion at his Camp mountain retreat while working on Originally slated to return to the White House Nixon put off his helicopter flight back to Washington until masters degree in had to do kinds of work he wasnt used common There have been about 90 airplane hijackings from the United States to Cuba since Many of the hijackers were but one State Department estimate puts the number of Americans still in that country after forcing flights to Havana at nearly The six who came back Sunday sailed from Cuba 24 in the Cuban freighter Luis Arces They arrived in Montreal Saturday night and Canadian authorities took them to the where they were turned over to a was charged with commandeering an Eastern Airlines flight near on after flashing a He told newsmen in Cuba later he wanted to save my daughter from some of the hatred and viciousness that is perpetrated in the United JURY DISMISSED A jury summoned for District Court at 10 Tuesday has been dismissed by Judge James Cases to come before the Jury have been disposed and the jury panel need not WEATHER Weather Bureau in formation for the 24hour period ending at 7 today high Sunday 68 overnight low and 7 reading High temperature this date last year 61 low last year A trace of Total rainfall to date this year Total rainfall to this date last year NORTH CENTRAL Partly cloudy to clear tonight and A little warmer Low tonight 35 to
