Port Angeles Evening News (Newspaper) - January 14, 1969, Port Angeles, Washington January 1969 241st Issue of 53rd Year 12 10 Marines storm Vietnam beach area BATANGAN Vietnam Two battalions of Marines stormed ashore here in the biggest seaborne sault since the Korean They were the first units of an man allied force ordered to smash a longtime enemy spokesmen an The Marines landed Monday 340 miles northeast of Saigon at the scene of the first major battle of the Vietnam borne it left 15 necks dead and 150 wounded against 560 enemy spokesmen said the two battalions were pushing inland today toward a Army tallon and a South Vietnamese The three groups hope to surround an area of about eight square miles believed to hold up to 800 North Vietnamese regulars and an unknown num ber of The operation was not an until today for security Spokesmen said the ad troops so far have en countered only light sniper fire and they speculated It might be some time before the cordon Is closed tight enough to force the enemy to fight or The Batangan Peninsula Is only 11 miles from the Armys American Division headquarters at Chu It has been a major enemy storage area and base camp since the war with the and minor probes of Its defenses have al most always resulted In fierce This time the allies have come to stay and the areas to population will be put into the government pa elf 1 cation spokes men They added nearly all peninsula residents either ac or passively support the Viet Cong and pacification ef forts are expected to be bloody and Military officials said the cor don will not be pushed too The area Is combed on higher ground with tunnel some three lay ers Strategists speculate It will take time for guerrillas In these tunnels to run out of food and fresh and the allies dont want them popping up be hind them with automatic The commander of the Armys task force on the Inland side of the cordon Is Howard Cooksey of He said the cape is the home base for two main force North Vietnamese battalions of Perhaps 800 The landing was timed to coincide with the monsoon sea son In hopes that many of the tunnels would be flooded and of no use to the But spokesmen said the water and heavy rains also hampered the Many Army and Ma troopers had to Jump from hovering helicopters into chest deep water and march for miles through Officials said troops will spend the first 36 hours of the operation closing the trap and pouring millions of words of propaganda into the village areas by leaflets and airborne The message any now walk toward the allied lines will not be But you are surrounded and If you fight you will be Amount of levy to be set soon NEW SCHOOL is the president of the newly organized Citizens Advisory Albert is the newly appointed member of the school News Pearson Four perish when jet renamed to crashes into ocean state board School board awards fuel oil contracts UGN LOS ANGELES Scandanavian Airlines jet splashed into the Pa while attempting a landing at International Airport Monday Of the 45 there were 30 known survivors and 4 known SAS listed 9 of the re maining 11 as the oth ers as unaccounted Santa Monica near the reported treating 24 persons and said all were In good As dawn broke over the wreckage of the big DCS still was 12 hours after it came down Into twofoot swells eight miles off In a scene of passengers and crew members scrambled Into rubber boats or atop the wings and Some tumbled into the An armada of small Coast Guard life guard and a volunteer fleet of private yachts and motor boats a search and res cue operation that lasted for Rescue boats plucked survi vors from the waves or the sped them ashore to am that took them to the During the divers deter mined that no bodies were In side the The on a flight across the North Pole from gen via hit the water with no passen gers Schol directors of District 21 of Francis approved a home building proj formerly of Port awarded a fuel oil and approved the appointment of slate proposed Johnsons address to be broad outline United Good Neighbors of Clal lam County to be presented at the annual UGN meeting 24 are Carleton president Robert vice presi dent Harvey sec and Larry The nominees were chosen by the UGN nominating committee headed by and In eluding Elmer Ba William Gellor and Charles Board members to be ed for the first time or reelect ed for another three year term have been nominated as follows Robert 435 Park Harold 1415 Merle dar Park First Arthur 228 Fogarty Mike Phil 311 Jones James Phil 1320 Cherry 408 Jones the Richard 1014 and George 222 Public Maynard 1230 Second 540 Park Bennett 600 Park William Gel 1127 Ninth Star route Box Forks Harry 1033 Homestead Richard 306 209 Board members whose terms have not yet expired are Labor David Duane Richard An Gerald Elmer Felix El bert John Uphouse and Norman Business Larry Henry Bruno Jon John Robert John Donald Bruce Tony Donald Merrill Fred Ralph John Charles Willson and Joseph Public Vernon Ar thur Allen Paul James Floyd ing Harvey Harvey Everett John yf Wayne stev Ned Bpyd Turner and Floyd WASHINGTON AP Presi dent Johnson Is expected to out line his analysis of the State of the Union In broad terms to night and defer tions for specific legislation to his Close associates of the going President say the only ex ception in his farewell address to a joint session of and to the nation via television and will be to recommend that the 10 per cent Income tax surcharge be By doing so he can Include the billion annual revenue pro by the surcharge In his budget for fiscal and thus show a small surplus when he sends his last breakdown on government spending to gress Johnson and Presidentelect Nixon have been maneuvering for two weeks over the issue of extending the approved for one year by Congress as a check on an overheated econo my and due to expire June The reported to be lieve that the tax was still need ed to combat tried to get Nixon to join him In a public statement advocating who had criticized the tax surcharge during the cam Aides of said In New York that he would make a statement Immediately Johnsons State of the and Indicated he would endorse the Presidents There was no Indica that he would give the surcharge the whole hearted support that Johnson Union to the State Utility and Transportation a third term was announced today by Daniel new term expires His salary will be Pearson was first named to the commission in He serv ed as commission chairman from 1957 to Since first Joining the Pear son has served as president of the Mountain Pacific States Con ference of Public Service Com now the Western and as first vice president of the National As of Regulatory Com He has also served on vari ous Including the executive of the old National Association of Rail road and Utility A native of Pearson served 20 years in the State legislature from the 24th 10 years in each He has been active in community affairs both where he now and in Port He Is married and has one Harris named by Democrats WASHINGTON AP Fred Harris of Oklahoma was unanimously elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee He succeeds Lawrence who guided the cam of three Democratic presidential candidates prior to his resignation last week OBrien gave this advice to the members of the national committee before the election of Harris Look to the Thats where many of the Dem have three new teachers during their meeting here Monday Upon the recommendation of an advisory committee made up of members of the building the board approved the request of McCorkle to build a frame house at 1319 In the opinion of the advisory the McCorkle project of the most instructional value for the high school car pentry Over the past 40 the class has built a home or worked on some other carpen try project each school One other project application was submitted to the Phillips Petroleum and the City Fuel Company were the successful bidders for the school districts fuel oil Phillips bid 12 cents per gal lon on the PS 200 oil and City Fuels figure for PS 300 oil was cents per Prices for the same products last year were cents for PS 200 and for PS Cost of city projects totals million School directors of District 21 hold an Informative work session with a teachers group and members of the Citizens Advisory Steering Committee here tonight before setting the amount of the next levy In a meeting Thursday Tonights meeting Is a closed session with each of the three groups prepared to present their Ideas on the amount of the levy and how the money should be THE FORMAT OF THE slon was decided In a discuss Ion between the three groups dur ing the school boards regular Arraignment of Forks man delayed Ronnie Lee Sego of who Is charged with first de gree murder In the shooting death of his wife Betty Ann last Tuesday night In made his first appearance In Clallam County Superior Court Sego was scheduled to be ar on the murder charge and a second charge of In connection with the holdup of the HangUp but Judge Joseph Johnston delayed the arraignment until Sego could talk to a attor Richard local was appointed by the court after Sego testified he had no Personal property or funds to hire a Sego was transferred Mon day from the city Jail to the county Jail without ball on the first de gree murder New county commissioners take office tackle road problem This year will see the com of nine city projects costing nearly City Manager Donald Herrman reported Monday at a Port An geles Chamber of Commerce Herrman listed the projects as follows Main feeder line to elec trie a job now being creat ing a KVA loop to isolate out Construction of at 16th and E costing to serve the west end of the Installation of an under ground electrical feeder line costing as a first step toward ultimate bury ing of all electric lines in the downtown Creation of another lake of three costing at Lincoln Its filled now and will be stocked with trout for young A new sewage treatment plant and interceptor sewer sys costing now nearly completed and being test The new Boulevard costing expected to be completed in late The new approach street to Peninsula College from Race to be finished by The Lincoln Heights local Improvement district to be completed by Its the citys largest LID and one of the largest In the covering 60 More downtown in which the city and the Downtown Parking Association are sharing the Nearly ready to this project initially will cost about for creating three new parking lots and re vising Herrman added hat 10 more camping spots will be ready this summer at Lincoln but did not put a cost figure on Answering a Herr man said the city last year re In interest on investments of various including pen light and water ment as compared with in The city manager was Intro by George program John vice was in charge of the at In the ab sence of President Joseph Dai Two new Clallam County Com missioners were sworn into flee Monday by Judge Joseph Johnston in ceremonies In Su Court and Immediately went to work on several Prob lems facing the Harry and John were sworn Into defeated for the second dis post and beat out Harvey Eacrett in the primary for district one and then ed William In the eral Also given the oath of office was James who was reelected PUD from the first ALBERT MANGAN appeared before the commis to discuss a road he built which connects the Bagley Creek and Deer Park Mangan said about one year ago the commissioners en him to build the road which Would connect two He said he had to buy other property owners In to connect the Mangan said he did this With the assumption that the would accept the W A PUBLIC HEARING LATE in the road was not ac when one of the rest dents on the road opposed the Mangan said he talked with postal who said it would be advantageous to have the two roads Commissioner he had talked with of of the Fairview School District and they werent sure whether the road would make any difference In their school bus Another public hearing may be held in the THREE COUNTY OFFICIALS Robert Alice auditor and talked with the commissioners about the movement to make the city municipal court part of the county district court AU three were In favor of the with one that the two courts not be combined Into In the new council chambers facility being built in the old telephone building on Front CLARK SAID IT WOULD NOT be to the best interest of the citizens to move the court away from the He pointed out that many people going through district have to conduct other business in the courthouse In connection with the district court Commissioner Thomas Mansfield agreed with Clark on this SHERIFF BISHOP SAID MOV Ing the court would a hard ship on his He com that all ball re turns on civil and criminal pa pers have to be given to the court In He saW deputies make two or three trips a day up to district court for this The sher iff said now all they have to do is walk upstairs and can be back in the office In a few The sheriff also brought up the problem of transporting pris and guarding He said on Monday when the criminal calendar is held In Superior Court there are often cases In In this case one deputy can be used to watch prisoners in both H the court was moved this would take two In other business approved the final plat of Freshwater Bay Hideaway The commissioners did not sign the Plat because a Per bond on road work has not yet been Legislators outline road projects AND PUD COMMISSIONER SWORN IN Closest to John Kirner and James News photo I State Senator Gordon Sandl son and State Representatives Paul and Charles Savage DShelton said today the State Highway Department proposes a budget ects in the 24th Legislative Dls in the 196972 They said the largest request is in Clallam for paving and traffic services on miles of 10 from Fairview Road to Sequim Av In Jefferson a quest was made for to pave 25 miles of highway from Queets to the Hoh In Mason the depart ment asks for for Ing miles between the junc tion of Drive to the junction ot State Highway The budget also calls for million to continue projects now under An addition al is sought for projects authorized by the 1967 ture but not yet work on 101 from Lee Creek to Deer Park Road has a budget Item of Urban Arterial Program funds in the amount of lion are requested for construe tlon of four miles of 101 from Shelton to Cole Road In Mason Other fund requests include SR from the boundary of the Makah Reservation to SR Queets to Hoh SR Amanda Park Sentencing SPOKANE AP Albert will be sentenced In a week or two on his conviction In the shooting death of Daniel R last 18 In a downtown Spokane Superior Court Judge Willard Roe heard the second degree murder trial and announced plans for sentencing on fined SEATTLE national door to door magazine sales Readers cease operations in Washington and pay a fine for violating a Superior Court a state official said January meeting at the Cen tral Services Building Monday Members of the board are scheduled to meet again with representatives from the Port Angeles Education Association on Wednesday On Thursday the di rectors expect to announce the amount of money they will ask In the 25 special levy elec This meeting Is an public session as required by THE DIRECTORS MUST SET the levy amount by noon Friday to meet the time requirements of the levy The board was Informed in letter from Clallam County Au ditor Alice Teeny Thome that voters In the school dis cast ballots In the last general That means 40 per or of those voters must vote in the special election to vali date Of that 60 per cent must approve the levy for It to IN ANOTHER this one from Peter Ident of the the tors learned the organization asked The Washington Educa tion Association to apply sane against the The the parent organ ization of the local teachers is supposed to make a decision on the sanctions re quest Another communication to the directors was a report from the Port Angeles Chamber of Com merce Education The report previously appeared In the Evening STILL ANOTHER LETTER to the board came from Gael Stuart of the Port Town send School who Is leading a move throughout the western part of the state to regain forest funds which have been lost to the state apportionment In formed the directors that money to support the civil court action is coming In Stuart wrote the letter 2 and at that time expected the suit to be filed In Federal Dis Court He added the districts attorneys felt they have a good chance to win the District 21 George Ellis told the directors the dis has not spent a penny on the case so far although the directors have authorized spending up to to support the Conner files to restore forest funds State Representative Paul Conner Sequim has filed a In the Legislature to de lete forest fund money from the State school sors of the are Charles Shelton Joe Okanogan and Elmer Lewis Under the the State now subtracts 85 per cent of forest money received by a school district from money due the district from the state in school Neighbor cat learning ily cats trick for gaining en trance to home Lots of pedestrians leaving cars at home and cautiously treading way to work on Icy sidewalks Janies trying to learn right way of volley ball Ray sore muscles out alter long
