Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - July 12, 1967, Zanesville, Ohio Good Sunbathing Is frequently Just a fry If ointment The Times Recorder Nothing Is More Feared Than Thunder On Vietnam Hill See Story On Page 104TH 151 PAGES OHIO 43701 WEDNESDAY JULY 12 1967 TEN CENTS Guerrillas Include Women Cong Attack Smashed By S Vietnam Force Muskingum County officials townships trustees volunteer fire department officers and village representatives met last night at the house to discuss the critical emergency bulance service gap in areas outside the c i t y Prosecutor Richard E Bridwell standing ex- plains the legal aspects of the problem Area Ambulance Service Discussed By 50 Officials About 50 county and township officials along with members from volunteer fire de- met last night at the Courthouse to discuss the ency ambulance service crisis in rural Muskingum County The meeting was called by County Commissioners to ex- ways that the gap in emergency service might be bridged particularly in the heavily densely populated areas on the fringe of Zanesville and along such heavily traveled highway's such as Interstate 70 The crisis dates back to July 1 when all Zanesville funeral homes discontinued such service because of the new federal wage and hour laws The rural funeral homes are continuing to provide gency service within the limits of their manpower and ment It was apparent last night that no overnight solution to the problem is likely because of several obstacles Another meeting was called for next Tuesday night It will be only for county com- missioners and township and village officials throughout the county Commissioner President Hutson J Barnes presided at last night's meeting PROSECUTOR Richard E Bridwell outlined the legalities involved He told the group that the county could not legally enter into contract with other agencies of private firms to provide such service He said that the recent law passed by the Ohio Legislature authorizes townships to enter into such contracts with either municipal or private emergency squads This law becomes Sept 20 Bridwell said there are three possible ways that emergency service can be 1 Through the volunteer fire departments in villages and-or townships There was a general con- sensus last night that this would be difficult if not impossible because of the manpower lems in such departments 2 The organization of gency squads as part of the sheriff's department operations Sheriff Fred B Uffner said such a plan would require an Nationals Win In Uth ANAHEIM CaW Twiy Perez Wt a home nm ta inning give the AH Stars win tne American in All Star Classic If was the tensest All-Star additional 14 men and a mum of two ambulances at a estimated cost of 3 Townships and villages contracting with a private firm for emergency service This would require an subsidy of a year for the city and an additional for the ty City Manager Sam Grey out- lined how the city met the crisis by the leasing of two manned by off-duty firemen He said that the squad f Coat en Cuban Pirates Quell Plan To Hijack Ship MIAMI BEACH UPI Cuban pirates believed bent on a mission against Communist Cuba hijacked a ship within sight of Miami Beach Tuesday but abandoned the vessel and fled in a lifeboat when their plan went awry While a stunned bartender looked on the six came storming ashore armed with rifles and sidearms promptly taxicab and disappeared into the pre-dawn darkness of this tourist mecca BOW the home of 150.000 Cuban refugees Since the hijacking occurred at sea it became a matter for federal rather than local authorities but FBI agents would not say whether they had any firm leads in the case We have collected some very interesting an FBI spokesman said He would not elaborate The cab in which the six escaped was described as a dark-colored vehicle a tion that would fit almost any taxi on the beach No taxis or cab drivers were reported missing Tuesday ing to speculation the cab was part of a prearranged escape plan Officers aboard the hijacked ship the SS Freight ter said the pirates came swarming out of a hold about a half hour after the ship left port bound for Guatemala with cargo of general goods and seven passengers five of them girls of college age The captain and most of ship's officers were surprised in the wheelhouse and were ordered at gunpoint to stand aside said Nat Hamrick one of passengers The raiders ordered all lights on the ship out and awaited a rendezvous with another We are going to wait here Ramon Carpio skipper of the Transporter quoted the pirates as saying They made me drop an anchor I think they were waiting for additional men This looked like a effort of some said Everybody on my ship behaved the captain said tried to be a hero and nobody got hurt Most of the crewmen aboard the SS Freight Transporter were Cubans and they said they gathered from the conversation of the pirates that they were bent on a mission against the Communist island of Premier Fidel Castro When the rendezvous ship failed to put in an appearance Hamrick said the pirates grew nervous and decided to take one of the ship's lifeboats Before departing the six smashed the ship's radio to prevent officers from sounding an alarm but the radioman managed to repair the set sufficiently to get off one brief morse code message Egyptian Jet Shot By Israel JERUSALEM UPI antiaircraft guns shot down a Egyptian supersonic jet fighter and put another to flight Tuesday in a major new cease-fire incident along the Suez Canal an Israeli military spokesman announced The new clash was disclosed after Israel agreed to the stationing of truce observers along the Suez Canal but rejected a General Assembly demand that it withdraw from Old lem Informed sources in lem said Israel is expected to hedge its truce observer ment with conditions that might still kill the project An Israeli army spokesman said a fighter was downed and a second driven off Tuesday afternoon when the two tian air force jets swooped low over Israeli troops in the Sinai Desert east of El The Egyptian plane was seen to fall into salt marshes that border the Suez Canal in that area but the pilot was not seen parachuting the Israeli an- added Only last Saturday an tian was shot down in the same area Another tian MIG was claimed shot down by the Israelis a week earlier over the Suez Canal zone News photographers in the area reported they clearly saw the Egyptian jet crash in the marshes on the side of the canal Tuesday's incident occurred only a few miles from Port Said where a number of Soviet warships including missile cruisers currently are visiting Royal ballet stars Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn both in a file photo were among 17 persons arrested by San Francisco police at a drug party in the Haight Ashbury hippie district The couple was charged with visiting a place where narcotics were used and disturbing the peace Ballet Dancers Freed In Hippie Party Raid SAX FRANCISCO International ballet stars got Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev were swept off to jail Tuesday from a raided party that investigators later decided was an innocent caper in A decision not to prosecute the world's premier dancers was announced by an assistant district attorney following a investigation and a The World This Morning Global KINSHASA An can mercy flight to rescue foreign hostages from Kisangani airfield is called off because rebellious mercenaries fail to guarantee the safety of the evacuation plane Page B HONG KONG Riot police use sawed off and tear gas against Chinese mobs on a rampage of violence and destruction in de- fiance of a government im- posed curfew Page ft-B The COLUMBIA soldiers from Vietnam arrived 10 attend the funerals of their William C moreland the U.S commander in Vietnam and a young ed man who caught a rife home the general Page WASHINGTON The ment to make food able to the poor for token payment as Congress hears testimony about widespread starvation among Negro dren in rural Mississippi Page Around Ohio COSHOCTON Another report of vandalism in the form of wrenches being fed into chinery and holes drilled in the roof crop up Tuesday at the Indianapolis Glove Co plant here Page State Finance Director Richard Krabach before House Taxation Committee says county ments need the permissive tax package before the House to meet their responsibilities Page CLEVELAND The Cleveland Browns head into another long pro football season Saturday I Hi f when 31 rookies report for tryouts at Hiram College Page HOYLAKE England Jack enhances his role as British Open favorite by shooting a 71 in final practice round for four-day tournament Page 2-D The Weather FORECAST Clearing and cooler and less humid today Fair and cool tonight and Thursday Details on Page In tide The TR Page Sec Births B Bridge C Classified Ads D Pages B Funerals C Editorial Page A Markets 3 D News A Sports C minute with the ing officer and narcotics squad members The decision cancelled a municipal court arraignment previously scheduled for for the stars and their 16 companions on charges of being in a place where marijuana was used or kept and of disturbing the peace We feel there is insufficient evidence to charge any lar individual with a nor or a said Frederick J Whisman an assistant in the district attorney's office His announcement came shortly after an attorney for the British consul general reported the rase is closed Whisman had conferred by telephone with the attorney Richtor had not talked to the ballet stars A marijuana cigarettes were found at the party but Whisman said the evidence does not indicate who had possession of the contraband Whisman told newsmen the decision against pressing formal charges has nothing do the identity of any of the persons arrested For the stars of Britain's royal the decision came after an early morning sion into Dame Margot wearing a length mink coat tried to flee from officers who raided the party but was discovered hiding on a rooftop Rudi also was found prone on another lop Then they were taken in a paddy wagon to a police station and transferred to cily jail where they were fingerprinted and photographed Roth spent some time behind bars befort bail was posted 140 Communists Die In Bitter Fighting SAIGON UPI A force of 200 South Vietnamese troops and four American military advisers Tuesday smashed a human wave assault by guerrillas whose ranks included women firing from the hip The Viet Cong struck back early Wednesday pounding the nearby provincial capital of An Loc with 30 mortar shells in a barrage that wounded at least six Vietnamese civilians and damaged some homes The fighting early Tuesday raged for three hours five miles from An Loc at a South Vietnamese base camp 60 miles north of Saigon along the Cambodian border The camp defenders although heavily outnumbered killed 140 guerrillas in hand-to-hand com- bat supported by American artillery and air strikes A spokesman for the U.S military command said the attackers were trying to strate to Defense Secretary Robert S McNamara that South Vietnamese troops were afraid to fight The battle disproved that theory In other combat Tuesday big guns of the U.S 9th Infantry Division opened up on Viet Cong concentrations in the Mekong River Delta 30 miles south of Saigon and field commanders reported 50 guerrillas killed Nearby elements of the 9th Division fought a series of running battles with Viet Cong forces in the delta 17 miles south of Saigon The U.S command said 20 guerrillas were killed in fighting that cost the life of one American and wounded 24 others In the air war U.S Navy pilots swept deep into North Vietnam Tuesday and raided oil storage targets in the southern panhandle and antiaircraft sites near the port of Haiphong The U.S command made no ion of aircraft losses in the Tuesday raids Radio Hanoi claimed Tuesday that North Vietnamese gunners have shot down four American planes and two helicopters this week It said one plane was shot down Tuesday over Hai Duong province Elsewhere North Vietnamese troops sneaking into the Central Highlands from Sanctuaries in Cambodia and Laos ambushed and severely mauled an can paratroop unit It was the same jungle area where 80 paratroopers from the same unit were killed in an ambush one month ago An American headquarters spokesman said 26 men from the Airborne Brigade were killed and 49 wounded before the Communists broke off the attack leaving six bodies on the battlefield It was 60 miles north of Saigon just a few miles inside the Cambodian border where two Viet Cong battalions tried to overrun a camp where government troops and can advisers guarded development workers The Viet Cong were trying to show Secretary McNamara that the ARVN South Vietnamese Army could not hold its own said Maj Gen John H Hay commander of the U.S Army's 1st Infantry Division But they proved they were an effective fighting force by littering the battlefield with Viet Cong bodies Artillery batteries under command helped drive back the Viet Cong attack McNamara Promises Needed War Troops SAIGON UPI Robert S finished a five-day Vietnam visit Tuesday and flew back to in tell President Johnson how much more men money and material must be pumped into be war Before leaving he said there be no in the air war over North Vietnam declared that American com- will got all the troops necessary and it may he difficult justify commitments above the 470.000 Americans now authorized for battlefront duty tions and evaluation of the Vietnam situation are expected to play an important role in administration policy during next few months Gen William C land was behoved to for bet ween and additional Sources McNamara part of the problem be wived by more effectively troops now in Vietnam He urged a crash program to streamline support units ing more men available for tha fighting front At present only about Americans are considered front line fighters The rest are in support said American warplanes attacking North nam are doing job they o do bombing operations over North Vietnam are achieving their objective he said he objective hat boen misunderstood have never stated and we don't believe today that the bombing of lines of infiltration North Vietnam can the flow of men and supplies from the North to men and supplies which are serving as the foundation of the insurgency effort of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese
