Greenfield Recorder Gazette and Courier (Newspaper) - May 26, 1967, Greenfield, Massachusetts 124 Americans Severely Cut Up By Red A company oi about 150 American soldiers was badly cut up today fighting off an by North Vietnamese soldiers flashy red berets and Communist snipers lashed in U.S. Command in Saigon said five of the American Wre railed Imd 46 but a report from the battlefield said about half of the was killed or The U.S. Command 71 Vietnamese were the 4tii Division infantrymen for three hours in the thick jungle oi the U.S. Marines battled for a hm in the southern part of the Other action was reported in the muddy Mekong Delta and near where three helicopters were shot dowi and eight more riddled by bullets while evacuating a South Division Hit AP Correspondent John Wheeler reported from the central highlands that the 4th Division company was hit while the jungle for two Red The company commander was cut down in the volley of sniper and mortar attacked a few hours after daybreak in an area the 4th Division men have fought six stiff in past just over three mUes the Cambodian border on the western border of assault was made by about 50 North wearing camouflaged and red who was with the company that was the Reds were beaten off by defenses hastily organized by the company's most of the shot Jungle The thick jungle made it difficult initially to bring in accurate supporting air and artillery Communist were lashed tn the dense foliage and their fire caused many of the American the one platoon from a nearby company managed to fight its way through to jodri the embattled their ground the a perimeter and what cover could the raking fire of Red mortars and the guns carried by the North Vietnamese time the North Vietnamese tried a stand-up through they were thrown broke off when and gunships laid a blanket on robin found and during are fed with by youngest member of the Frederic Davis whose is a temporary haven for lovers the reported yesterday's storm caused serious problems for birds unable to find food under snow by Results Still President told Lester B. Pearson he may propose a Big Four summit if the United Nations fails to cool off the Middle East Canadian government informant said informant said Johnson broached idea to tiie an leader their luncheon conference at Pearson's lakeside summer residence 20 miles from leaders expressed the informant that U.N. Secretary-General U T h a n t would a result of his meeting in this week with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel on 12) dood back this and ait in thie wake Approve Second Sign Greenfield selectmen today ' granted another advertising sign hearing a long discussion about its responsibilities in permitting the by 2-0 voted to issue a permit to Joseph E. R. plans to erect a five by eight foot sign for Bill's of which he is on Auclair - owned land On Mohawk Trail east of Long ' View Gerald I. Levitch E. and Thomas W. Merrigan favored the Levitch stated he to become a part of Mohawk Trail into a honky-tonk week the board granted the first sign permit in several allowing the Howard Johnson Restaurant owner to erect a sign along 91. In 10 Auto Pages Page 20 18 14 15 12 16 22 Ads 23 clearing near 40; considerable 1 it 11 e the discussion a week Town Counsel Felix J. Cerrato said Greenfield's sign bylaw no This leaves the responsibility of giving permits to the Town meeting could adopt stronger he while seconding motion for approval on Page 12) GERANIUMS Millers Falls Falls 863-2510 863-2104 Johnson No Comment On U.S. Johnson pronounced himself and by Expo 67 but he was silent about U.S. | Johnson 75 at the at on a suddenly announced visit thie border 30 he visited the 20-story plastic and geodesic dome - The dome itself has been heralded widely as striking and contents have been tabbed from marvelous to onie of hds 1968 election Gov. George emphatically criticized the contents wasn't any Reporters Johnson on a swift tour tossed a couple of about how he liked he hear or chose to But could he have known on Page were to assess the damage to where heavy snapped and took t over of the as as but at leaist one large fiorn Corp. was to discuss the 3.12 inches of Ml jn than an snow was heme but up to inches was logged a and were rapidly at ito flood and on the ground in and outlying areas this as rain mixed with sleet today that the River was stM rising and that 40,000 feet per second was recorded this ait 9:30 a.m. as 20,000 yesterday alt this have been removed a spokesman and of the crest at Tumers was noit determined before The wM depend on how much rain fell in a Western on Page 12) Storm Knocks Out Power In Boston The severe Northeast storm knocked out power in numerous communities in the Boston area early today as weU as in parts of the city itself for periods of tip to were alsb of reports of telephone lines down due to high winds the storm struck Uie New north of there were several of fires due to flooded cold accompanied the storm which hit the area and up to eight inches of sniow fell in the Cape Cod coast winds of up to 75 miles an hour were High tides along coastal areas early today were on Page To Arraign Greenman On a Chapman St. factory worker who attended schools in Orange and was scheduled for arraignment in Superior Court today at 2 p.m. on a murder Franklin i County Grand jury last week returned a secret indictment against the 24-year old charging him with the Nov. 7 murder of 10-year old Anna Marie Free After Action Termed Suzanne 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wiiliams is free in D. C. - being 12 by authorities an arising from a peace at who was dn a locked ward at General Hosptal because she refused food and was released yesterday when a U. S. Attorney told Judge Oren Lewis in federal court at the ment not desire to go forward with this petty The immediately the chaise against Miss Williams and four other demonstrators who were jailed with other of the group at the were given suspended sentences on charges of at the when they appeared before a U.S. last Miss Williams and her four companions refused to waive the right of trail before a judge and were returned to jail at that Williams said this called her yesterday and said she was She was fed intravenously in the hospital and at the jail while on the protest ACss Williams has no indications of Suzanne's after she THANT FROM CAIRO TALKS United Nations Secretary-General U leaves airliner at New Kennedy Airport on arrival from Thant report to the U.N. Security Council on laiks he had with Egyptian President Gamal Nasser on the Middle East in photo hot Wants To Know What iid U. war Minister Abba oi Israel hopes Johnson will the United States intends to do to the Gulf of Aqaba to shipping if efforts fail to a Egyptian conferred in the Canadian woods Thursday with Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson but the two gave no hint they had reached any on how to achieve a peaceful in the President returned later Thursday and hoped to him arrived wilth French President Charles de Gaulle and British Prime Minister Harold He immediately went into conferences with Secretary otf State Dean Rusk and other State said the of his urgent visit to the Western capitals was explore what the governments intend to do to open the President Abdel Nasser Israeli vessels would be prevented from moving through the narrow Strait of linking the Gulf of and the Red and that ships oi other be denied they were carrying strategic cargoes for United States and Britain rejected Egypt's position that the southern route port of Elath uses Egyptian They asserted the route is an international waterway with which no nation has the right to Minister of State George Thomson two days oi with Rusk and other officials and left Thursday night for Thomson said he had held on Page Order A Hot or Turkey 863^-2774 _ P. To Be Held Tomorrow Morning At The Elks Club Has Been 1967 cherry sheets were scanned this morning Franklin assessors but they admitted frankly it wiH take a thorough study to determine their impact on tax initial look at the sheeTts from and Orange for taxpayers as high as cn the tax BIG FROM DEL FRIDAY NITE 8 - I SATURDAY 8-12 And Operated By Frank EVERYONE SOUTH WEEK'S Impala 4-Door RAMBLER Station Wagon OLDS Standard Impala 2-Door Hardtop 1962 CHEVROLET Bel Air 4-Door ' SPECIAL COMPLETE CHECK IN OUR NEW SAFETY LANE Complete Automobile ONLY By Appointment Only CaU 773-3696 HARTWIN'S SERVICE Beacon BILL'S Please Apply In state and assessors there are so many connected with both ithe cherry and cither factors used ui determining the no one wanted to make any firm predictions sheets tail county and state exchanges of funds as estimated iby the state of be used in the tax and Springfield court suite have delayed release otf the figures nearly three initial indication from the four towns thait had received their sheets Ijy indicating the state is on Page May Have Flown Over The Defense Department announced today a Navy plane have inadvertently the Chinese Communist border on a against military targets in terse said the to its carrier in Gulf otf Navy the was in the of site of an MIG air 37 miles of THE ASSOCIATED has achieved its objectives against an Israeli attack on Syria and blocking Israeli shipping in the Gulf of Aqaba and if there is to be war Israel will have to start semiofficial newspaper A1 Egyptian antiaircraft guns apparently fire on but miss two Israeli jet fighters headed toward Egyptian Planes return to base at the Israeli port of Elath at the head of the Gulf of After talks with Soviet British Foreign Secretary Brown says the Soviet Union has gent desire to the Middle East American families hurriedly s leave tense Middle East First group departs Tel Aviv for Rome and U.S. there will start leaving tonight for Foreign Minister Aibba Eban says he hopes President Johnson will him what the United States intends to do .to open the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping if diplomatic efforts Flee Middle ROY Associated Press Lebanon - Egypt has achieved its objectives in its military with Israel and if be war Israel wiU newspaper Al of Cairo said full-page written by Mohamed who reflects the political thinking of President Gamal Abdel said had frustrated attack Syria and had accomplished a blockade of Israeli the Gulf of finds itself compelled at this stage to stop at what it has so even if this means that we wait to receive a blow froni Heikal Israel This will be followed by a second blow on our side which will be the death - the same Associated Press Hanns reported from the port Aqaba at the ' head of tho gulf that Egyptian guns fired on two Mirage jet fighters from Egypt's side of the But the apparently undamaged at the Israeli port two miles across the bay from explosions reverberated around the rim of the gulf shortly before noon and the Mirages returned to Elath from the direction of the Egyptian In in the week Egyptian shore guns fired on an Israeli torpedo it to return to a related Foreign Secretary of Britain wound up talks Soviet leaders and Moscow and said he found the Russians had desire to defuse the in the Middle He left for London with Premier 41exai N. President Nikolai V. Podgorny and Foreign Minister Andrei A. said the leaders had been only Thursday night of the French proposal icr a peace effort by the Soviet the United and sand it was too early to expect a lit was by other Westerners in the Russians want seek a The Kremlin hias lent moral to the Damascus saiid Syria had rejected ihe French Arabs longer accept guardianship of the Middle East by President Nasser was reported Thursday to have reacted favorably to the American and other began hurrying of the Middle East. Wives and children of U.S. diplomats in Israel started to wait out the In U.S. embassy reported 140 of the 433 ( ROSE Charlemont DINE And DANCE EVERY FRIDAY The Music His Starlighters 9 P.M. to 1 A.M. Featuring Fried Is Total Home Corsiglia Oil Co. Ad Page 22 MEMORIAL DAY PLANTS and Tonite Until Closed Saturday Bernardston CLINIC MAY 27. 1-5 P.M. Franklin County 6 Months or Older COST $ FOR FLATING First Shift 7 AM. to 3 P.M. 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