Portsmouth Times (Newspaper) - March 27, 1968, Portsmouth, Ohio mitt to Official VOLUME 117 No 4 i For Years A Dependable Portsmouth Institution Home Edition X Catering Southern And Northern Kentucky PORTSMOUTH WEDNESDAY MARCH On By GEORGE ESPER SAIGON American infantrymen supported by tanks artillery and planes bat tied the Viet Cong today for con- trol of a tiny northwest of Saigon in the fourth straight heavy fighting in the area Men of the U.S Infantry Division called in artillery and strikes only 50 to yards ahead of them as they ad- the hamlet of Ap Long Muc miles west of Saigon near the district town of Trang Bang U.S and South Vietnamese Abrams Qn Surprise dP 1 rri Irap Visit May Be Prelude To Naming -As Viel Commander By BOB HORTON AP Military Writer WASHINGTON AP tive secrecy surrounds Gen Creighton ton visit generally considered a prelude to an announcement he will succeed -Gen William C Westmoreland in Vietnam The old Abrams moreland's top d e p u ar- rived unannounced his presence went until a man spotted him in a Pentagon hallway Although Depart didn't ly Abrams had just returned from a White House lunch with President Johnson Confirming his presence later the Pentagon said the four-star Army general was in ton to report on plans to strengthen arid modernize the South Vietnamese army Abrams has been mentioned prominently as the officer who will fill Westmoreland's shoes by July 2 when the present nam commander becomes Army chief of staff additional light later in ing that Abrams saw the dent along with unnamed ior advisers and would Washington a day or two It was learned at the Penta- gon conferred with new Secretary of M Clifford Chairman Earle G Wheeler of the of Staff and Some administration officials speculated that who often has displayed a chant for secretly whisked Abrams to Washington for a surprise announcement of the new command change As one administration man put If the President decides Abe's the guy and the time he may bring him out forces have reported killing 396 enemy in the Trang Bang area since Sunday Allied casualties were described as light Al Chang an Associate Press photographer who was wounded slightly by shrapnel as U.S tanks and armored person nel up on Ap Long Cong were well entrenched in the hamlet arid greeted the ing infantrymen with heavy ma fife and a barrage rocket-propelled grenades With the least eight enemy dead were re- ported Meanwhile U.S headquarters said in another fight in the Trang Bang sector sion units killed 17 enemy after making a helicopter assault Tuesday four miles northeast of the town As the American infantrymen hit the ground the Viet Cong were waiting for them From trenches and bunkers the my opened up with machine guns and rocket-propelled By today radic fighting was reported con- Headquarters did disclose U.S: casualties but said no Americans had been killed The action around Trang Bang is part of Operation to biggest allied offensive of the war More than 50 Americans and South Vietnamese battalions men are sweeping through five around Saigon The aim is to regain the offensive from the Viet Cong enemy troops within striking distance of the capital The U.S that so far allied troops have killed enemy and captured 293 prisoners and suspects Thang began March 11 Turn to ABRAMS Page 20 Head Center Resource Unit To 3 Counties Portsmouth city school C H Duduit who will retire July 31 has been recommended as the director of the newly established Tri- County Resource and Service Center Frank Taylor tary of the advisory board said late this morning that the an educator has been mended to head the center which is to serve 22 school dis- fricts in Pike Lawrence and Scioto counties The salary will be a year Suharto Named As A President For 5 Years JAKARTA Indonesia AP Congress named Gen Suharto tonight to serve as president of Indonesia for the five years The general has been acting president since March 11 1967 when President Sukarno ousted as an of- a Communist attempt to seize power in October of 1965 Turn to VIETNAM Page 20 Hits Aid To Enemy Ike Viet Dissent Hurts Peace Chance NEW YORK President Dwight D er accuses Vietnam war ters of giving aid and comfort to enemy arid says their behavior is probably making honorable negotiations ble In a copyrighted article in the April issue of Reader's Di- gest Eisenhower said It is improper and I think otic to voice dissent in such a that it encourages our en- emies to believe we have lost the capacity to make a national de- and Of he upcoming political campaign he will not personally support any candidate who ad- capitulation and the abandonment of South nam Eisenhower said that in all his ife he had never encountered situation more depressing than the present spectacle of the nation divided over the war Eisenhower commander of the allied armies in Europe ing World War II called for a end political de- bate over Vietnam Eisenhower said he was not objecting to honorable dissent and conceded that some people sincerely believe we have no business being in Vietnam He said these people are terribly and dangerously wrong but have the right to be heard However he wrote scornfully Turn to IKE Page 20 Whatever happened to what ship we 34 PAGES Silver Bridge Model To Be Used Safety Hearing MODEL of the collapsed Silver Bridge which spanned the Ohio River between Point Pleasant W Va arid will be used as an aid at a federal hearing in ton beginning May 7 A steering committee of Transportation Safety conduct into toe disaster which claimed 46 lives Members of the board look at which has been set up in Washington The model is long Sets WASHINGTON AP The House Ways and Means Com- approved today a mini- mum tax program designed to reduce U.S tourist spending abroad but postponed action on President Johnson's major in this field The committee sent to the House a calling for a 5 per cent tax on airplane tickets to destinations outside the ed States and for a reduction in the amount of goods returning tourists may bring in duty free It however on the expenditure tax that was to provide the balance of payments savings in son's program will be postponed until the administration comes up with recommendations on special import or other international trade measures to correct the im- balance in international ments i Undersecretary ury Joseph Barr told reporters after the committee session he does not know when the trade recommendation may be coming or even for sure er there will be any Intensive negotiations in progress he said with the major U.S trading partners in Europe trying to work out freer access for VS goods Barr estimated thai the ed approved today would re- sult balance of payments improvement oh the order of million a year The original Johnson package including a tax up to 30 per cent on of U.S ers abroad above a minimum Protection Ta Or Not Firemen Douse Flames At Mob's Behest HIGH RIDGE Mo AP The volunteer High Ridge fire forced angry crowd armed with guns and clubs to put out a day an assistant fire chief said Robert Ellison assistant chief said his men had no chance determine the house exhibited the required fire protection tag He mated 75 persons in the crowd We'll throw you right flames if you don't put it he was told me and the hose out of my he said The burning home was five houses away from residence the firemen to burn March 18 because it was un- tagged They are not permitted to fight a a home without unless human life is at stake Ellison explained He said the state highway trol and Jefferson County officers were called when the mob gathered High Ridge is a community of about 260 sons 35 miles southwest of St Louis The police stood by while the firemen fought the fire There was no violence Earlier Tuesday firemen put out a blaze in an unprotected home because a woman and child were in danger The child was smoke and the mother What surprises me is that all guys in the department haven't turned in their badges because not one single dime is made by any of these lison said Damage to in the Tuesday night fire was sive he said There were no in- juries Support For Others Scant In Survey By BRIAN SULLIVAN NEW YORK AP A survey of the nation's Democratic showed scant support day for either Sen Robert F Kennedy or Sen Eugene J McCarthy An Associated Press survey found li cf crats occupying statehouse chairs express support for ident Johnson for renomination Only H Hoff of unequivocally for Kennedy One E Hughes of be ing toward Kennedy or Six of the governors appear uncommitted Two others stand apart from the party Hoff stands alone among the Democratic governors in his break with President Johnson I have Hoff said last Friday that the only way in which our potentially trous national course can be ar- rested is through a change in our national leadership Hoff said he welcomed Carthy's candidacy but that Kennedy offers the most realistic possibility for the people of America are to achieve the national tion that is so desperately ed Hughes a close friend of the President and chairman of the Democratic governors said he Turn to 20 Column Minford Schools Name Winners Of Swelling Bees Two spelling bee winners have won the right to represent schools in the County by walking off with titles in their respective schools At Minford Junior High School Luanda Lauderback a veteran at winning spelling bees will represent that school She is 13 an eighth grader and a er of Mr and Mrs Warren Lauderback of Rt 4 School was Paul Bradford 12 seventh grade a son of Mr and Mrs Fred ford of Minford Rt 2 At Minford James a sixth er was the winner He is a son of Mr and Mrs James Hicks of Minford Rt 2 That school's was Phillip Nelson 10 fourth grade a son of Mr and Mrs Walter Nelson of Rt 1 The man who guided the for- tunes of the local antipoverty agency last two years has resigned as tor of the Community Action Organization of Sciolo County Inc Vernon Jt said today thai he plans to attend graduate school at Ohio University and study for a de- in government Flannery who has been the CAO since its in 1966 has been succeeded by Robert Schwable At the same time Clinton Piatt staff representative of the ed Steelworkers of America was elected president of the He succeeds Summers Dean who resigned upon his transfer to Ky as staff representative of the ers Dean helped organize the group The organization employes 48 Schwable has been with the local antipoverty agency since PRACTICES Actress Sophia Loren hugs her niece dra Mussolini 5 who practices making a face for the rapher in Rome Alessandra is the granddaughter of World War II leader Benito Mussolini the daughter of son Romano who married Miss Loren's Maria In DSC Deal Eaton 19 Million For Stock ByL W BURNS Industry And Editor American Export Industries Inc entered the Portsmouth area industrial picture afternoon when it purchased about 13 per cent of the com- mon stock of Detroit Steel Corp Cyrus S Eaton and William R Daley Cleveland who played important roles in development of the DSC steel center sold their shares Both announced resignations from the DSC board morning It was estimated American paid for the DSC shares and shares of Premium Iron Ores Ltd ed by Eaton and Daley Jakob Isbrandtsen president and Albert E Rising Jr vice president of American were elected to the board of DSC di- rectors succeeding Eaton and Daley American said It has no present plans to acquire the balance of DSC American paid apiece if or shares of DSC Eaton owned shares of DSC and associates o w n ed It the stock sale had full approval of both companies Isbrandtsen and Rising also replaced Eaton and Daley on the board of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co DSC owns about 24 per cent of the Cliffs stock Export is the Turn to Page 20 Column 1 Schwable New Leader its Scioto its founding first of Neighborhood Opportunity Service Center iVo 6 and later as director of the whole centers program he left the CAO hoping that in future year's more community support may be able with less dependency on Under his direction cy was given a grant for the neighborhood centers the first in the nation in which an urban concept was rural situation urban designed grams which have been funded in Scioto County are the legal aid services and family ning program Flannery who received his bachelor's degree from Ohio U in 1961 has earned 15 hours ward a master's degree in cation He explained that he has decided to drop that course however arid work toward a Turn Page 20 Provisions Of New Law Program Under Study By JOHN THOMAS Times Staff Writer Local control of community action agencies the price the Office of Economic ity paid to Southern tives for current fiscal year appears to be in the realm of possibility in Scioto County Scioto County commissioners have signed a form indicating they will take over the reins of the Community Action of Sciolo County Inc the county's antipoverty control cy under provisions of the Green amendment However the commissioners action is merely a tentative preliminary step Inside The Times Around Portsmouth Comics Death Notices Editorial Page Horoscope Markets Sports Television and Radio Women's News 4 33 23 6 7 23 27 22 the first in a series of nine which must be taken before the sible transfer of control to the three-man commission from the present governing board At the earliest at least under normal circumstances that the commissioners would take over the policy-making functions of the CAO would be November 1969 Regardless of whether the com- missioners eventually assume of the CAO the anti- ing board board of trustees will be reduced to 51 with the same one-third representation of various groups remaining the same Other provisions under the amended OEO rules would low local political subdivisions to drop out of the CAO moves which aren't likely The board ently is composed of 24 bers each from public come and special interest groups Under the revised Plan had been calculated to result in a million payments saving The administration had hoped for another by a combination of encouraging for- eign tourism in this country arid urging Americans traveling abroad to spend cautiously In addition to the five per cent tax all air transportation from this country to the main features of the limited approved today present duty-free ex- emption of a1 re- turning traveler him would be cut to The would rise to Oct for a gift mailed from abroad to someone in this try would be reduced to Dem Push Foir Party Gifts Told Maritime Agency Worker Charges Fund Pressure By JEAN HELLER WASHINGTON cran civil servant charged day that he and other high-level employes of the Maritime ministration were summoned to a meeting last week and pressured by their boss to contribute to a cratic party fund-raising dinner The employe told the ated was called by James W Gulick ing head for 79 his staff who had received tations to the dinner to be held April 4 v Gulick reportedly told those present that contributions were not being arm ing But the source said Gulick v If you want to make sure that you have a nice clean file can be sure that z file is you know what to do Gulick denied he made such a no no solicitation and whatever they wanted to do was in accordance with their own circumstances and their own positions he said I'm Inclined to think this is a small minority that wants to think this way I'm just at a loss to understand John J McCarthy general counsel for the Civil Service Commission said his of- fice was checking into the gation that contributions were solicited and that if the findings warrant it We will investigate up to the hilt The invitations to the dinner being given by Rep Michael Kirwan and Sen mund S Muskie for President Johnson went to 000 persons including ment personnel with a grade level of and above whose salaries range from 400 up -1 The meeting on the of contributions was called by Gulick for 11 last day in a conference room his office in the General counting Office building at with his general counsel Carl Turn to Page 16 Column 1 Turn to Page 20 Column 4 Secret Talks On Gold Held Free Market In London Discussed LONDON AP Urgent and secret talks were under way day among London's bullion dealers to devise a new plan for operating a free market in the world's largest gold trading ter The fate of the dollar may be at stake The market was closed two weeks ago at the height of the gold rush Its jor source of supply the tary reserves of the gold pool including the United Slates was cut off by the tral bankers meeting in ington March 17 The market iwas ordered to Turn to GOLD Page I
