Independent Record (Newspaper) - June 1, 1965, Helena, Montana U.S Planes Hammer North Vietnamese Targets By Q While Saigon South Vici Air Force and Navy planes hammered the Hoi An tion depot roads ferries patrol boats and bridges in six separate raids on North Viet Nam today Two Navy Fa Crusader jets were lost The pilot of one crashed to death The other was rescued at sea South of the border a Viet Cong hand ambushed a ment convoy in the central lands and two U.S Army advisors were reported killed and a third wounded Red guerrillas struck the convoy on the Thanh Koad 220 miles north of Saigon and about 100 miles southwest of the Quang Ngai Province area where an estimated 600 Viel Cong and more than 500 government troops were casualties in heavy fighting last weekend Two a captain and a sergeant had been killed in that fighting In a swampy jungle area 50 miles northeast of Saigon nearly U.S paratroopers of the Airborne Brigade pressed a hunt fov elusive guerrillas Helicopters landed a second talion of riflemen and some mortar crows to augment a battalion that opened the search operation Monday The ers drew heavy sniper fire but no casualties were reported Ar- tillery shelling was used in an effort to drive the Viet Cong ward the paratroopers None was trapped Today's losses increased the roll of American combat dead in Viet Nam to 390 A military spokesman said at least six were wounded in scattered ground and aiv actions during the past two days One of the Navy Crusaders was shot down by antiaircraft fire during a attack on the railroad yard at about 100 miles south of Hanoi The pilot bailed out over the sea a spokesman said and was picked up in good condition about 10 minutes later by a rescue plane The fatal crash occurred while four Navy Crusaders flying with four Skyhawk jets were attacking the Dong Thuong way bridge 70 miles south of Hanoi U.S officials here said the bridge which had been attacked unsuccessfully on a number of previous raids finally was de- with one span dropped into the river The Navy jets poured bombs rockets and non fire inlo the bridge for 10 minutes Rut flak described as generally light hit the Crusader and the pilot did not have lime to bail out For seven hours 30 Navy planes from the carriers Bon Homme Richard and Midway hammered almost continuously at seven North Vietnamese patrol boats heavily camouflaged in the of the Quang Khc naval base on the Song True Diver 230 miles of Hanoi Pilots reported that three boats were sunk and four heavily aged by the 14 tons ol bombs and rockets used The Navy pilots said they dropped two tons of bombs on a railroad yard at Vinh about 160 miles south of Hanoi but were unable to assess the damage They said they caused moderate damage to three boxcars near Quang Phong about 125 miles south of Hanoi and bombed Route 15 just north of Vinh ing the road impassable at thai point Vol 170 Helena Montana Tuesday June 1 1965 16 Pages Price Ten Centt Highway Traffic Toll Sets Record STRAIGHTENS always attracts sters as long as they don't have to work themselves Here they gather to watch Roy use a jack to straighten a street sign on Last Chance Gulch that was bent over by a car that ran into it Staff photo by Kim Larsen Friday Saturday GOP Campaign Leader to Hold Session Here at Convention A leading GOP campaigner Raymond V Humphreys will pre- sent a program on political during a reorganization meeting of the Montana lican Party here Friday and Billed as America's top lican involved in training party workers Humphreys will speak Friday as director of education and raining for GOP national committee lie will speak on a program of mobilization of Re- publican enterprises a project he originated Humphreys has managed eral successful campaigns and he conducts schools in practical throughout the nation He is a former West Virginia legislator He left a career as a newspaper editor and publisher to affiliate with the Republican national com- As a Baptist layman participated in Christian Youth Education work Durin World War II he served two of his four army years as general staff officer to Gen Douglas Arthur The session will be conducted in the Civic Center GOP Leaders Working on Party Policy By Jack Bell Washington lican policymakers among them former President Dwight D and three men who ran for the White House sought day to work out a declaration on civil rights At the same time the lican Policy Co-ordinating Com- was expected to speak out on President Johnson's handling of foreign affairs Eisenhower Barry Richard M Nixon and Thomas E Dewey were among the 23 GOP leaders who conferred be- hind closed doors j The committee was not ex- to issue any declaration on Johnson's call for federal that would repeal stale aws which ban the union shop n 19 slates A task force on job was reported to lave disagreed on the issue Meanwhile Ray C Bliss nan of the co-ordinating group and GOP national chairman has the National ee will meet in Washington June With former GOP presidential nominees scheduled to sit in on the sessions the co-ordinating committee will sift the of task forces on relationships human job opportunities fiscal natters and the conduct of for eign relations It will be the first session at ended by Dwight D Eisenhower Conner nominees Thomas E Dewcy Richard M Nixon and Barry M Goldwater are expect ed to be on hand Only former Gov Alf M Landon of Kansas he couldn't come Members of the committee from the House arc expected to press for a declaration calling for linking a reduction in federa spending with a proposed cut ol aboul 55 billion in excise laxes Whitehall Man Dies in Car Crash G Alevy 25 Whitehall was killed when his car hit the end of a railroad overpass on U.S Highway 10 about four miles a Nebraska resident of Whitehall The victim's German shepherd dog also was killed in the dent A passing motorist spotted the wreckage and called the Highway aboul A man said McAlevy apparently dozed at the wheel while ing at high speed McAlevy who had resided al Whitehall for more than a year Survivors include his mother Mrs Hazel McAlevy Broken Bow Neb The accident brought Montana's 165 death toll lo 87 down 13 the 100 traffic fatalities recorded in the first 152 days of Boy Scouts Find Army Pistol At Battlefield Billings Three Billing Boy Scouts found a service revolver tba may have belonged lo one of Gen George troops Wayne Ware Burton Man and Reid Fisher found the weal! ered weapon under sagebrush 01 what is known as the Battlefield portion of National Battlefield Boat Operator Beaten MSU Students in Assault Case Ask for Hearing Montana Slate University students charged with second-degree assault of a Somers boat operator appeared in justice court today and asked for William Earl Grant 20 and dall Lawrence Stevenson 20 all of Great Falls and William ert Tronson Jr 20 Billings The judge said Zadick and preliminary hearings supplied bonds and were Judge freedom bond al each for the five set no dale for the preliminary hearing pending ther reports on the condition of Stan Young 52 operator of Boat Co near Somers on shore of Flathead Lake Were Jumping in Authorities said Young was beaten and kicked when he tried lo slop partying university dents from jumping on his dis- play of boats near the lake shore Sunday night identified five defendants as Bruce Lyle en 22 Richard Neil Zadick 22 At the preliminary hearing said he could either dismiss cases or bind them lo district court for ing Sheriff A A Coulter of Lake County and Cecil Combs of Flathead County said Young's son-in-law Capt Richard J McGinnis 26 also was beaten when the man came to Young's aid ASTRONAUTS minor trouble with their Gemini spacecrafts Astronauts Edward White left and Jomes McDevitt pose in their space suits as their doctor reported today both were in top physical condition for the four-day space flight scheduled to start Thursday morning AP Wirephoto Holiday Deaths For 3 Days Reaches 450 By The Associated Press Traffic deaths for a three-day Memorial Day holiday have pushed to a record high for the second year in a row and the Notional Safety Council said the blame rests ly on incompetent and irresponsible driving More and more must be done to improve the nation's driving said Howard Pyle council president Pyle said reports on highway traffic accidents throughout the weekend showed that mistakes in riving judgment posed the or problem Unsafe Drivers He said the record bears out he findings in a recent vide drivers test in which a very ligh percentage of the failed to qualify as safe Astronauts in Top Physical Shape for Four-Day Flight iy Charles Stafford Cape Kennedy James McDivitt and vard White their physical litions honed fine for their day space spectacular were en detailed examinations today y their doctor The doctor lias already said is in better shape than many football players and White a shade sharper than his partner The medical examinations right after breakfast and were lo continue into early after- noon They were necessary to provide data for comparison with hat gathered during and after the flight of the Gemini 4 The countdown begins day for a Thursday morning aunch of the two-man spacecraft on the nation's longest and most spectacular space journey yet Christopher C Kraft Project Gemini director planned an session with the astro- their doctor the people who have babied the spacecraft and its Titan 2 booster et weathermen guidance and range supervisors It's a mission review meeting to determine that everyone is ready and the countdown can be- a world vous mission in which they will maneuver craft close to an- other orbiting satellite their worn-out second-stage booster White connected to the craft by a tether will step into space while traveling miles per hour and move to within 20 feet of the tumbling booster He will remain out of the spacecraft for 10 to 12 minutes taking pictures The prime objective of their flight is to provide Dr Charles A Berry the space agency's chief of ical operations wilh information on the effects of prolonged ex- of man lo the weightless airless vacuum beyond the at- Written in Berry's appointment for the two Air Korce jors today were a three-hour medical examination and a session on the lilt table longed confinement dehydration fatigue and weightlessness The measurements are taken on a fable before and after the are tilled at an 80 degree angle The same thing will be done on the aircraft rier Wasp immediately after hey return from space Japanese Coal Mine Blast Entombs 146 Tokyo A gas explo- sion rocked the coal mine on Japan's southern island of Kyushu Nine hours laler more than 146 persons remained Several lents helped swell the national otal to the period from 6 p.m local time Friday to day midnight lii in 1061 The old record of 431 traffic was set in 1964 Three spectacular auto smash ups in the area of Needles Lom Pine and San Jose Calif out 16 lives A head-on collision on a highway near Needles Saturday killed six and left an girl the only survivor Five In One Crash An almost identical smashup In High Sierra foothills Sunday near Lone Pine took live lives leaving an girl as sur vivor Three men and two women diet Saturday in a collision on a free way north of San Jose For comparative purposes Th Press made a surve of highway fatalities for the three day weekend perio from 6 p.m Friday May 14 t midnight Monday May 17 Th death toil during the period wa 387 The toll for any three-day ol servance of Memorial Day wa lowest postwar 204 in 1948 The record high fo any three-day holiday period wa gin McDivitt and White will at- McGinnis wife Joyce Young's I daughter drove the attackers off with a rifle the authorities said They told the sheriff today 1 would have killed them which I would Mrs McGinnis ol a newsman Mrs McGinnis said there wer too many people to shoot but sh succeeded in driving the youn men off by threatening them of wilh a rifle The ones lhat worked on my husband used their fists the ones that were on my father used their she added Injured Young was under heavy tion Monday suffering damage to one eye the loss of teeth and bite on the chest Several stitches wore needed to close a wound McGinnis was less seriously injured Mrs McGinnis said her father had left their private driveway open lo allow persons at a Continucrl an 14 State National Weather Forecast Helena and Partly cloudy through day Scattered showers this ning Low tonight 44 High Wed 70 The official Helena ture at 1 p.m was entombed Uie 1955 Japanese news reports said bodies had been recovered this year's Memoria lice the not yet Day holiday period 35 person i lives in boaling ace dents and 87 drowned an official death count The mine company revised an earlier report of about 120 wants to measure the trapped after it learned there j els of prolonged 552 men working in the pit beVetl feels on the cardiovascular when the explosion the heart and blood vessels By comparing the astronauts blood pressures blood volumes pulse rales and be- fore and after the flight he can shortly noon occurred Chicago While deaths across the nation set The police agency said two record for a three-day miners were killed 21 were in- of Memorial Day seven slates r jured including five seriously no such fatalities They ar and 180 escaped unhurt Alaska Delaware Maine Hawai evaluate the changes lhat The blast occurred about New Hampshire Nevada an caused by heat stress feel from pit entrance Rhode island Widow of JFK's Assassin Plans to Marry Dallas chief f police of suburban Richardson aid today Marina Oswald widow f accused presidential assassin ee Harvey Oswald told him that he and a Richardson man plan o be married The police chief J W n said Mrs Oswald and neth Porter came by my office and said they had decided to get married today in Oklahoma There was no official ion of an actual ceremony in Oklahoma Porter is an employe of Texas an electronics firm Last week Porter lold a Dallas rimes Herald newsman that he Mrs Oswald and that they verc neighbors He denied at hat time however that they had marriage plans A worker in Porter's nent at Texas Instrument said Porter was not at work Tuesday and that he did not know when he would be back The Richardson police chief said he became acquainted wilh Airs Oswald because of her need for identification and other ters in the past Texas has a three-day marriage waiting period for blood tests Oklahoma has no waiting period and many Texans go to Oklahoma to marry Mrs Oswald a native of sia married Lee Harvey Oswald while Oswald was living in Russia She has two children by wald Troy Will Mark Birthday On July Fourth Troy This logging town in northwestern Montana will celebrate ils golden sary year The official celebration will he held the Fourth of July weekend The town now having more than citizens was formally on 15 1015 During Holiday Girl Drowns Montana Has Five Traffic Deaths II Belgrade G8 74 Butle 65 Cut Dank 64 Dillon 66 66 Glasgow 70 Great Falls 70 Havre 12 10 61 67 Livingston 64 Miles City 75 57 National I H 46 Bismarck 76 48 50 11 47 Denver 37 Las 45 Los 63 42 74 54 New Orleans 45 N York Clly 74 41 06 Ore 63 40 at Louis 69 H Salt Lake 18 43 San Fran 54 58 Seattle 41 Spokane 67 35 79 Slate 01 32 Butle 05 Cut Bank race trace Helena trace Kalispell Livingston trace Miles Clly 02 West Yellowstone 03 National 66 Calgary 17 Los trace Mln Paul The Associated Press Montana contributed five way deaths to the nation's ord three-day Memorial weekend loll In addition one person d Three others lost lives n various The deaths kept alive a Memorial weekend record of being one of most deadly of Montana's holiday Four of the traffic deaths were in a crash Saturday night near Superior A Superior woman her two married laughters and a were killed They were lo graves for Memorial Day They were Mrs Bella Winston Mrs Juno Alexander and Mr and Mrs George Lynch Three sons survived the crash old Tammy Alexander a ter of Mrs Alexander Charles Winslon a son of Mrs Winston and Dick Howard Falls Wash driver of oilier car Another traffic was E 47 Great Palls The pickup truck he was driving plunged inlo born River in northern Lewis and Clark County The five deaths brought I h e state road toll for the year lo 86 compared with 100 one year ago including two ers from failed day to find body of n tana Slate College coed who inlo he Boulder River about 25 miles south of Big ber Sheriff's officers Aus 21 ter of Mr and Airs Aus of Cut Bank Miss Aus was ried I o w n high Natural Bridge Falls j Montana also recorded violent deaths none included in the official Memorial weekend toll Tina Maria Miller daughter of Mr and Mrs Morris J Miller Greal falls was fatally injured Monday She was struck Ihc family car at a authorities said M Drum 49 Popular was struck by a Great Northern freight train near Wolf Point Authorities said he apparently had been sleeping on the tracks Lee Thomas 85 area rancher died of injuries received prior to the holiday period The pickup truck lie was driving went off the highway near A boal capsized in t h e Missouri River Saturday ing a Lewistown optometrist and his family into the river But a ferry operator pulled them all lo safely The occupants were identified as Dr William C Shaver his wife their daughter and a friend all of
