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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1968
Page
10
Marines dismounted from the convoy and opened fire with tanks artillery and helicopter gunships across the eastern edge to the northern and western front. U S headquarters reported light damage to Marine vehicles.
Fighting stretched nearly five hours before North Vietnamese forces pulled back. Tate Saturday Headquarters reported ten enemy bodies in initial battlefield sweeps. New Zealand troops in their first major Vietnam skirmish killed 11 Viet Cong and captured 14 weapons. Rescuers faced northeast monsoons hindering Marine helicopter search for four men aboard a downed craft on a mountainside near the DMZ. An Air Force B-52 patrol resumed on the northern frontier after a three day pause.
In Phu My district, Do Van Tan 22 a draftee from Dalat smothered a grenade shielding four US advisers in a bunker. His actions enabled continued air and artillery support and the defense held. Tan likely to receive the Distinguished Service Cross as colleagues praise his bravery and service. The four Americans were Lt. Thomas Morris S Sgt Robert Harcum S Sgt George Deady and Sfc Ray Robson.
A severe thaw and ongoing blizzards cripple Europe with avalanches in Swiss resorts and flooded roads in Britain. Italy reports four deaths, two auto accidents, and ambulances trapped by snow. A Cumbria patrol car crash claims British life as Bavaria warns of floods. Damages in Syria reach about one million dollars.
Montana Senator Mansfield says militarily unsustained goals and morally calamitous outcomes require negotiation. He previously supported halting bombing above the 17th parallel and Ho Chi Minh trail areas, while acknowledging administration efforts to reach a settlement and recent talks with Cambodia.
In Stamford Connecticut the mother of a 26 year old shooting victim refused to allow doctors to use her son as a heart donor for a transplant at Maimonides Hospital New York. Stamford Hospital physicians had sought permission to transport Eugene Wright a truck driver to Maimonides where two patients await heart transplants and a third awaits a donor.
California doctors report Mike Kasperak, America’s only surviving heart transplant patient, underwent gall bladder removal in Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital to address a failing liver. Heart remains in excellent condition but liver damage and post operative recovery will determine his prognosis in the coming days.
Columbus Miss AP dispatch, Sergeant John Wolfe, supervisor of scentry dog handlers at Columbus AFB, will depart Feb 25 for Phu Cat South Vietnam. He has received hundreds of offers from 31 states to care for his five children, but will stay with relatives and keep the family together. The oldest three have gone to Springs Meadows Children’s Home in Middletown, Kentucky, while two preschoolers remain with Wolfe’s mother in Valley Station, Kentucky. The Air Force may grant a hardship discharge, but Wolfe intends to continue his military career.
Bandits hijacked four tractor trailers containing 2 400 cases of cigarettes valued at 250 000 from Mason and Dixon Truck Line in Secaucus New Jersey. They bound the night watchman Burton Stehn 50 then released him. Police were notified after cleaning crews found the incident.
The article recounts Maj. John B. Jones directing a 40 day trek from Caprock to Ranger Lake with six Ranger companies. It covers the frontier era, couriers, and the Rangers’ role in enforcing discipline, arrests, and court duties along the Texas frontier, noting decline after 1900 and a lingering frontier legacy.
Congress debates a near 200 billion federal budget with 77 billion for defense and a renewed call for a 10 percent income tax. Ethics committees work on conduct codes after Dodd and Powell cases while civil rights obstruction and troop movement bills loom. Leaders target a late summer adjournment with August recess before November elections.
Police report nine break ins across Lubbock County with losses including a $650 record player and 15 albums at Vera Naylor’s home, a $584.95 sewing machine center break in, and various items such as a TV, a rifle, a shotgun, guns, cash, and clothes stolen from residences and a college apartment complex.
Miami's police crackdown gains limited backing among merchants and residents in Negro districts. A white grocer reports gun ownership and private security, while church leader Rev. Johnson benefits from heightened protection. Civil liberties groups plan court action against Headley's tough approach despite broad endorsements.
A Chicago student aged 18 died at Texas College Herr dormitory after a friend warned him not to play with a .22 pistol. Justice of the peace Joe C. Allen ruled the death accidental after the youth allegedly held the pistol to his temple and it discharged.
A Dallas gunman entered a drive in store this weekend asked for pistol ammo. The clerk reduced the shells to fit the customer’s pistol after he demonstrated it. The bandit then declared the act a stickup and fled as Dallas police seek him.
Services for Susan Clara Lindley 72 who died Saturday at a Littlefield hospital will be at 10 a m today at First Baptist Church. Burial in Anton Cemetery under Hammons Funeral Home direction. Services for Alvin Williams who died Saturday at his home in Andrews are pending with Singleton Funeral Home. Williams was a member of the drilling crew that brought in the oil well in Andrews County, a Midland native.
Dr Barnard warns animal hearts cannot yet be used for human transplants due to immediate rejection. In Washington Dr Hufnagel echoes caution, saying long term acceptance is unproven and infection risks mirror rejection risks in this fledgling field.
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