Daily Republican Register (Newspaper) - May 2, 1968, Mount Carmel, Illinois REPUBLICAN - 68 NUMBER AND EDWARDS COUNTIES AND PARTS OF KNOX AND GIBSON COUNTIES VOLUME 68, NUMBER 163__MOUNT MAY 2, 1968 2 10,000 SWEEP CONS Troops Win A Shau weather forecast for the Mt. Carmel area calls for partly cloudy skies tonight and along with cutting off major 10,000 allied troops have won battle of the A Shau driving North Vietnamese ces from their sanctuary of showers or The low temperature tonight will be between Tomorrow and the rest cf the weekend will be river has dropped other 0.50 and the depth reading now stands at 5.30 high temperature was 85 and the overnight low was 56. No precipitation was recorded in the last 24 A year ago today the high temperature was recorded at 54 and the low was 38. also captured 102 North It was the largest single catch of Hanoi troops at the spokesmen UPI correspondents reported more underway on the coast near Hue U.S. reported that last week 302 Americans were killed in action Military sources aUo said the and 2,458 drive 25 killed 1,792 Communists in Uie valley swept up same spokesmen routes into South U.S. military spokesmen said Russian weapons never before used by the communists in the Vietnam war including 122mm of the casualties came In and near A V U.S. Air cavalry helicopters were battered by North 2 Newt 2 2 3 4 Churches 6 Radio and 6 7 7 1b-4b and transistorized mine fire when spearheaded the into the seizure of A a valley April 19. But tiie bastion the North Vietnamese spokesmen said Red resistance two years up in a grew less each day as more jungle of tigers and more allied troops poured intc snapped Uie key the communist stronghold that lifeline to Red forces runs from the Laos border to allied intelligence said was within striking distance ot threatening Hue and other bases It marked first allied with a second invasion in three entry into the valley in two Thousands of spokesmen said that the entrenched North Vietnamese first 11 days of be valley hurriedly They left campaign killed 377 behind the largest and most at a cost of 63 sophisticated assortment of in the Hue u.S. weapons ever seized in tiie South Vietnamese troops the spokesmen ing killing 581 communists since Equally u.S. and of them South Vietnamese troops day when American blocked off the major Ag. Dept. Hosts Judging communists built wit i bulldozers and used for tw t years to funnel men and arm i into South Vietnam's operation j South Vietnamese and U.S. Army Airborne troops did most of the They 377 casualties totaled 6l men killed and 307 the Most of the wounded were me i of the U.S. Army 1st Division led Ui i helicopter assault April 19. spokesmen said at leu 40 U.S. helicopters were down or damaged in But once the allies had a tte estimated by intelligence at 10,000, were not to be Apparently they fled into In some ois steaming food in Red ional * VALLEY Lankford Mrs. Ida Crotta fi. C. Vocational Agricultural Department of Mt. Carmel School acted as host to all 14 departments in ure Farmers of America ion 23 for its annual livestock Judging school on 26th. local FFA chapter gave the approximately 500 visiting students an opportunity to judge four kinds of livestock judged of and The beef and swine judging was held at the while the dairy and sheep judging was held at the Irvin Tennis farm with Eugene Berberich providing the official judges for the school were Louis Tennis for Ken farm ex. tension adviser from Edwards and tension adviser from White nty for At the rm Sam Thompson of the First National Bank of Allendale ' ced the beef and Hugh Extension adviser for ce County placed the Gen. Robert Ef commander of forces in northern gave details of the A campaign which earlier werf withheld for security sitting right on their supply line for everybody south of Marine base Just below the Vietnam he main route fbr northern three and maybe all of I corps five northern correspondent Nat son reported GIs in the valley galloping around huge pUes of a commercial type radio truck and said the victorious GIs donned painted the names of their home states on captured trucks and wheeled them up and communist 8UH>ly to the one pictured have been erected at the four main entrances to Mt Carmel by the Wabash Valley The besides behig attractive by are partially fluorescent so that they show up well They are in place at Route 1 north and Route 15 and on the Princeton It is part of a continuing program to make area residents conscious of Valley College and its Present Junior Class of Mt. Carmel High School honors the Seniors with a Prom on Friday May S at 8:30 p.m. With The is the theme chosen this to see the lovely setting of Tara's Plantation may The northwest gym door will be open at 7:80 p.m. Admission Is 50c to spectators over 6 years of Please be seated only on the upper located on the west side of the Primary Jolts Celebrates 20tli Senior the United of thousand of today was making a some chanting is attempt to have the world body demonstrated today discipline Israel for defying a against flie parade Security Council ban against through the Holy independence day parade Displaying military might through the Arab sector of crushed Arab armies in three Jerusalem tile parade Soviet Ambassador Jacob A. Israel's 20th anniversary as a Malik said Moscow is willing to state went oft without join in any sanctions in md. when he agencies have begun acting independently of and named the Federal Bureau of the central Agency and Selective ignored On Tax were no Incidents as the parade wound through Arab East But in thousands of Arab men and women took to streets amid chants of is A group of about 50 Any such council action would need U.S. it was that would informed sources said Jordan was making a last and desperate bid to save the thus far fruitless mission in Beirut staged U.N. Middle East peace envoy an silent Gunnar Egypt's foreign Some wore miniskirts and minister declared the mission a carried placards reading tary parades don't Personal Peace and is a Holy IQ the sources said In the Syrian King Hussein ap. Federation of Women gathered pealed to Egyptian president for a protest In Jordan Gamal Abdel Nasser not to PROCEEDS FROM THE UONS AUCTION this year will go towards furnishing the new city park north of the municipal golf course with playground equipment such av that shown In addition and fireplaces for cooking out and wiU be The auction this year starts on- May 13th and goes through the It can be heard over Radio from 4 to 8 and on Saturday from 2 to 8. Saudi newspapers carried strong editorial attacks against Israel for staging the parade in defiance of the u.N. Security officials in Cairo a generally heavy turnout today in a nationwide vote of confidence President Gamal Abdel Nasser's of domestic policy Secretary General Thant protested the mile parade going through the sullen Arab sector captured In the six day war of June 1967. Arab governments Israel swept aside the Ahead went the biggest peacetime display of military power by a small nation of 2.5 million with the and best army in the Middle East Hie bands played and tile troops marched in the Arab half of the Holy City that Israel claims is now hers despite u.N. and Arab Guard on rooftops stood ready to foil any Arab attempt to break up tlw show that includes captured Russian of Israelis ered for parade after the sound of gunfire died away Wednesday night along the tense Wednesday's tank and artillery fire was the fifth border incident in a It lasted three No casualties were proudly flexed its the muscles of a David in a land of at birth by its Arab neighbors and still a nation under Israel was in no mood for unilateral Rebuffed in its tempts to make peace with its main dan and by El Fatah guerrillas and violent incidents timed to discourage powerful emotional forces in Israel tempered the jubilation of the United Press international Robert F. presidential with the New York senator the lessens of a Jolting said each week of delay in Massachusetts primary fresh in getting preliminary talks concentrated today on the ed with North Vietnam crucial balloting coming tiie lives of hundreds of men up vice President hopes for domestic ard M. Nixon flew in for a last Earlier he called for an minute round of campaigning in increase in social the uncontested benefits of nearly iSO per and all three Eugene J. cratic Minnesota senator drew loud gene J. McCarthy and Robert F. and Gov. Roger up full Nixon and suffered setbacks cf a sort in though neither camp would concede national director of tiie Nixon for president New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's surprise write-in victory over Nixon and Gov. John A. Nixon organization respected the favorite son candidacy of GOV. volpe and engaged in no campaign activity in Only Volpe was listed on the GOP Rockefeller did not campaign of who got slightly over half the Democratic put out a statement hailing his victory in winning the state's 72 tion it glossed over the margin of was substantially below expectations due to for Kennedy and Vice President Hubert H. m other Hubert H. his image told a Chamber of commerce convention he had changed for the better in his 20 years in suppose you are surprised to hear a Democrat say we can no longer tolerate unbelievably high he we D. taking Ms Democratic favorite son candidacy to eastern areas of the said he would not turn down the to be the postpones our own presidential running mate or would be like renouncing an inheritance in a he A. governor toU a news conference his defeat as a Republican favorite son in Tuesday's primary did not weaken his chances for the vice presidential are not any different today than they were yesterday or the day he ident Johnson's long-sought tax inched along by a spending cut may be by Republicans who say they were left In the dark on his plans to get the tax through Wednesday proposed a spending reduction formula which was quickly passed by tile House Appropriations voting its Republican leaders The approved by the appropriations panel one 20*0 vote with no Republicans also calls for billion in cuts in appropriations now being considered by Congress and a freeze on billion la previously but outlined the proposed strategy at an off-the-record White House session with Democratic leaders Tuesday Secretary Henry that the Johnson get his 10 per cent income Fowler carried the spending tax surcharge was reduction plan to the and the tions committee and said it sal did not help chances for could save billion over the approval of tiie tax He defended John W. budget as prudent and said the nature of designed to do America's the proposal muddled the work but approval of ledged a of S wanted big is the senior on a don't see how we're any ence committee which scheduled closer to a tax another meeting today on particularly in light of the Johnson's tax and spending cut partisan nature of the committee's plan calls for said House GOP Leader billion in spending cuts from a Gerald R. Ford also called the fiscal 1969 budget of Volunteers Peace Site Kennedy Hopes To Win in The U.S. position was that the U.S. acceptance of an communist sian ship in neutral waters as a phnom and suitable site for preliminary would be with North Vietnam because there are no shifted some of the propaganda established American to the America side tic posts and communications in those here felt there was the United States a strong chance Hanoi would had little choice in accepting reject the proposed Indonesia's Jakarta was by Indonesian Foreign one of the 15 sites Minister Adam Malik in diplomats proposed for Hanoi has rejected all THE UONS LADIES NIGHT the entertainment was provided by twelve fourth from North They nag several numbers and by Marria The ladles who are an 3f the beard for that event which takes place the week of May at 1 p.m. May 4 at Bob requests that all members its own quick the United States stood to neutralize some of the advantage Hanoi has enjoyed in the four weeks sinpe both sides expressed willingness to meet once a site was agreed point Hanoi Radio has missed no opportunity to point out the united States long stressed its to any any tt rejected as unsuitable Oe sites proposed by Vietnam in the last Malik's tiie talks would be held on either a civilian or military Indonesian ship in neutral waters acceptable to both the Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam and communist of the sticking points so National far as Hanoi is concerned is the would run as vice recent era of poor relations with either of his primary Indonesia since a would be like oriented Communist coup aU Inheritance In a tempt occurred Portland in the 1966. This was part of suppressed by Indonesia's McCarthy rode in a torchlight tary at on md. Although the time is Sen. Robert Kennedy's campaign advisers are showing rising ' hopes be can win his first presidential test in Indiana next they say they wish the New Yorker had more time in the race against favorite son candidate Gov. Roger and Sen. Eugene M. McCarthy of this year's mover and shaker of the Democratic party has won primaries in Massachusetts lind New who has been telling Hoosiers to him So Indiana can have more influence at the Democratic River in southern He ate ham and beans with factory workers at the Cummins Engine Co. and said the were crime in the streets and bow Indiana can get more influence at the national returned to state business in his office at Indianapolis today but the two other candidates kept on the Kennedy's schedule kept him in Indianapolis part of the day before a swing to tiw edge of the state at South and McCarthy was moving north from to on the shore of Lake Vice President Richard M. was returning to Indiana today For we are for Christian mothers who the unique ot motherhood and who seek daUy to do Thy tto Uvea M their
