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1 I IV llll VV M J IV 11 w VI W UIIV/V III 1 VHIVIIII/VIiuviv waft »W1f Miv I IVI IIIIUIILehman’s Kittanning MR 10 surgery Monday for an ah- the living room while Lehman’s Che incident. Dist. Atty. H. A.home late Sunday night. No dominal wound, and sons were wounded outside after Heilman Jr. entered a formalcharges have as yet been filed James Lehman's wife, Vandy they tried to escape. Mrs. plea of not guilty on behalf ofin the shooting of these four j I^ee, 22, in satisfactory condition i Thompson was dead on arrivalothers: I with a wound in the area of the at the hospital here cf a headthe accused who has not yet retained legal counsel.a i iwi i i w « • ■home.The shootings are being investigated by State TrooperArthur E. Minarcin and Coroner Jack R. Kennedy.SAIGON (UP1)—U.S. Marines.the 672nd U.S. plane shot downstriding into a valley of rice over North Vietnam.paddies near Da Nang killed 160Blunted OffenseViet Cong in a bloody battle for strategic Hill 63 Monday and drove forward with tanks today against the fleeing enemy, some of whom hid beneath waterbuffaloes to escape detection.The battle, which cost the Marines 54 dead and 84 wounded, was one of a series that flared from the Demilita-In Saigon, Lt. Gen. William B.iRosson, commander of the U.S. Army’s I Field Force, said the U.S. 4th Infantry Division had■shattered a Communist attempt to launch a major offensive into the Central Highlands. He said the offense was planned for June but the Americans killed 470 North Vietnamese regularsin cinno hlnntAH thf*officer of the 1st Marine Battalion, said the battle began when a Marine company came under attack from enemy troops who crept to within hand grenade range under cover of darkness.Col. Stan Davis of Carlsbad, Calif., and Niagara Falls, N.Y.,the regimental commander, said the first Communist fire was silenced almost immediately with the help of artillery and Air Force C47 “Dragonships”bombardment turned the knob Infantry Division were killed into a mass of bomb and shell and 33 wounded. Enemy losses craters with trees and shrubs were not known.torn and broken into piles. For South Vietnamese battled the 20 hours the Marines fought for Viet Cong along the centralthe hill before the Communists coast and killed 57 whilebroke and ran.suffering light casualties. Smal-• “They just beat them off the ier actions flared as far south hill,” Cheatham said. “They as the Mekong Delta, went up there on top and -—-----pushed them off.”Tried To HideCorpora said aerial observers reported some of the southwardArea Sparedflnninrt\n ftFatalitiesCALVIN LEHMAN, 50, of Kittanning MR10, listens as arraignment proceedings are explained. Lehman was charqed with murder in the rifleslaying of his mother-in-law,lt;L*adi»r-Ttme« photo!M rs. Lillian Grace Thompson, 64. Listeningare State Trooper Arthur Minarcin, the investigating officer, and CpI. Joseph Sasa-la (right). Other kin were wounded.
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Kittanning Leader Times
Kittanning, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Sep 05, 1967
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