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Marines Hope To Kill
Terror Drive On Cities
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPD—A Leather
neck charge drove Communist
troops in Hue back up against
the towering walls of the
imperial citadel today and
Marine tanks fired shell after
shell into the guerrillas trying
to flee the last suburban
Stronghold in South Vietnam.
UPI correspondent Richard V.
Oliver reported from the battle
on the banks of the Perfume Ri
ver that the Marines hoped their
drive would finally snuff out the
last major remnant of the
Communist legions that
swarmed into the nation’s cities
Jan. 31.
The U.S. Marines charged the
guerrillas who had burrowed
into and under the 12-foot thick
walls on the north bank of the
river and routed them out in
close combat, Oliver reported.
Communists Flee
Leatherneck tanks rumbled
up to the edge of the south bank
of the river that divides Hue,
400 miles north of here, and
pumped their shells into bands
of Communists fleeing toward
the water and away from the
charging Marines.
The Marines were firing
phosphorous shells which ex
plode and send out fiery clouds
that burn anything they touch,
Oliver reported.
The charge against the south
wall of the two-mile-square
citadel followed that Oliver
described as the greatest
combined air, land and sea
bombardment any South Viet
nam city has undergone. Allied
divebombers, American artille
ry and U.S. destroyers offshore
blasted the southern sector of
the citadel where the North
Vietnamese had been flying a
Viet Cong, flag the Leathernecks
vowed to bring, home as a
souvenir.
“Wave after wave of Navy F 8
Crusader jets first dropped
heavy bombs. Then they hit
with Zuni rockets and finally
splashed flaming napalm on the
Communist positions,” Oliver
said.
Huge orange balls of fire rose
above the walled city built a
century ago for Annamese kings
and until Jan. 31 the national
architectural treasure of South
Vietnam.
Report Reinforcements
South Vietnamese Black Pan
ther marines and government
rangers had joined in on the
attack. The assault followed
allied intelligence reports that
the North Vietnamese planned a
dramatic rescue of the 300 to
500 survivors of the 2,500-man
guerrilla force that had
swarmed into the citadel
grounds 16 nights ago.
U.S. radar screens picked up
evidence of Communist troop
truck convoys heading for Hue
and the three-story-high citadel
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walls. One column was marked
on the screens as coming from
the southwest and the other
from the northeast. American
artillery boomed in the ngiht.
No more was heard of the
reinforcements.
In other war developments,
ground fire Thursday shot down
the 800th American warplane
lost over North Vietnam, U.S.
officials said. They reported the
loss came as American jet
pilots flew 85 missions against
the north, pounding airfields
News
Houston Farmer
Found Innocent
PERRY, Ga. (UPD—Promi
nent Houston County farmer
Durwood Daye is free today,
found innocent of the 1966 blud
geoning death of his 43-year-old
wife.
An all - male jury deliberat
ed only a short time before Re
turning the verdict.
Daye, 46, in an unsworn state
ment Thursday, told the jury
his wife struck her head, then
fell down an attic staircase.
Throughout the three - day
trial, the prosecution maintained
Daye beat his wife to death with
an iron bar, then tossed her
body down the steps.
Negro Ministers
Plan Workshop
ATLANTA (UPD — Approxi
mately 150 Negro ministers
from among the nation’s larg
est cities are scheduled to at
tend a week-long workshop in
Miami next week.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
will lead the group which is
part of a Ford Foundation pro
gram, funded to train Negro
ministers from ghettoes in 15
major cities in community lead
ership.
Heading the training program
is Rev. T.Y. Rogers, an aide to
King.
The week of conferences will
be held at the Sheraton Four
Ambassadors Hotel.
Jimmy Stewart
Visits Dobbins
MARIETTA, Ga. (UPD—"l’m
proud to see that the unit I
served with is still In effective
business,” actor Jimmy Stewart
told members of the 700th
Squadron of the 445th Military
Airlift Wing Thursday.
Stewart, a former member of
and supply lines and striking
within six miles of the heavily
defended major port of Hai
phong. U.S. spokesmen reported
guerrilla shelling attacks
against the U.S. bases at Cam
Tho and Binh Thuy in the
Mekong Delta below Saigon and
the American regional military
headquarters at Nha Trang, up
the coast from the capital. They
reported sporadic fighting
flared along the allied defense
line under the North-South
Vietnam border.
the squadron during World War
II when it was a heavy bom
bardment group, paid a brief
visit to the unit which was re
cently activated by presidential
order.
Squadron members presented
Stewart a green and white
baseball hat—the type normal
ly worn by flight crews.
Stewart is presently a brigadier
in the Air Force Reserve.
Stewart spoke briefly to about
400 officers and men from atop
a flatbed truck inside a hanger
at Dobbins Air Force Base
here. He is touring air bases
throughout this country.
More Georgians
Killed In Viet
WASHINGTON (UPD —Four
more U. S. servicemen from
Georgia have been killed in
combat in Vietnam, the De
fense Department announced
Thursday.
The Pentagon identified the
dead as Army Pfc. Franklin
Clovis, husband of Mrs. Dianne
C. Clovis, 2827 Harris St., East
Point; Pfc. William F. Joiner,
husband of Mrs. Brenda A.
Joiner, 188 W. Broad St., Fair
burn; Sgt. I.C. Bernard S. Ry
an, husband of Mrs. Eleanore
U. Ryan, 5053 Eton Dr., Colum
bus; and Spec. 5 Allen C. Hard
ison, son of Mrs. Marie C.
Hardison, 3509 Flamingo Dr.,
Macon, Ga.
The Defense Department said
Ryan and Hardison had pre
viously been classified as miss
ing in action.
SAVING JAPANESE
TOKYO (UPD—The Japan
ese squirrel away money like
it was going out of style. A re
cent university conducted re
search survey showed that Ja
panese save 18.4 per cent of
their disposable income, com
pared with a 5.6 per cent rate
in the United States.
The study also indicated that
a staggering 95 per cent of all
Japanese families have saving
accounts.
POPULAR AGAIN
AUBURN, Ala. (UPD —
Americans are buying horses
in greater numbers every year,
creating a boom in the horse
industry, an Auburn veterinari
an said recently.
Dr. Worth Lanier explained
that by 1976, more than 82 mil
lion persons will be riding at
least once a year. He said the
current horse population of 6
million has doubled since 1960.
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DAR Anniversary
Pulaski Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, held their 75th anniver
sary meeting Thursday afternoon at Women’s Memorial Clubhouse. Past regents
were invited to attend the meeting. Former regents present were (1-r), Mrs. J. B.
Manley, Mrs. E. Park McKibben, Mrs. D. G. McKaughan and Mrs. Homer Gosset.
Other former regents are Mrs. Ben Brown, Mrs. Everett Beal, Mrs. J. R. Cumming
and Mrs. Frank Pittman. Mrs. McKibben is the present regent. She cut the 75th
anniversary cake which weighed 12 pounds.
House Panel Cuts
$29.8 Million
By DON PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPI) — House
leaders have exacted their pre
dicted pound of flesh from Gov.
Lester Maddox’s budget, whit
tling the proposal by $29.8 mil
lion.
Jordan-Israel
Cease-Fire
Ends Shooting
By ELIAV SIMON
JERUSALEM (UPI) — A
cease-fire went into effect today
along the Israeli-Jordanian bor
der. The Israeli chief of staff
said his forces have ‘‘still more
drastic ways to deal with the
situation.”
The two nations’ troops fought
an air and artillery battle most
of Thursday along the entire
Jordan River front.
Israel said one civilian and
two soldiers were injured. At
Amman, a Jordanian military
communique said seven soldiers
and 16 civilians were killed and
27 soldiers and 32 civilians
wounded.
Maj. Gen. Haim Bar-lev, the
chief of staff, said Jordan asked
for the cease-fire after the
Israel air force and artillery
men answered Jordanian artille
ry against settlements in the
Beisan Valley. He said Israeli
agreed to the cease-fire and the
shooting stopped at 11 p.m.
“We hope that the measures
we took today will yield results
and if not, we’ll have still more
drastic ways to deal with the
situation.” Bar-lev said without
elaborating.
He said Jordan shelled seven
settlements in the lower Jordan
and Beisn valleys and the heavy
bombardment spread as far as
Jericho. Bar-lev said Israeli
planes, artillery and tanks
quickly went into action.
At Amman, Jordan accused
Israel of dropping napalm on
villages and refugee camps and
said Israeli tank and artillery
fire damaged 20 villages.
A Jordanian military spokes
man claimed six Israeli Jets
were shot down, 12 tanks were
destroyed. He said the Israelis
suffered large loss of life.
Bar-lev denied the plane
losses.
Israel and Jordan filed
protests Thursday in the United
Nations, each accusing the
other of starting the hostilities.
But neither asked for an
emergency session of the
Security Council.
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The final figure arrived at In
the House Appropriations Com
mittee was $856,972,311.90. All
sides agreed the trimming was
enough to rule out any built-in
tax increase.
Gov. Maddox waged a bitter
battle against any cuts in his
proposed record budget of 874.5
milljon. But when the appro
priations committee sent the
measure to the House Thursday
afternoon, Maddox’s floor lead
er, Rep. Tom Murphy of Bre
men was prompted to say “I’m
completely pleased.”
Speaker George L. Smith said
the House will make every ef
fort to act on the budget Fri
day. The Senate Appropriations
Committee is scheduled to
study the House version of the
budget during next week’s leg
islative recess.
In the end, after much bitter
ness, the House Appropriations
Committee reached a harmon
ious settlement. Teachers will
get their promised $558 annual
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pay increase, but it will be de
layed three months—until Dec.
I—at a savings in the budget
of $8.3 million.
The $29.8 million cushion was
only slightly less than the S3O
million House leaders said
would be necessary to avoid a
tax increase.
In figuring the chshion Thurs
day, committee members took
another $12.5 million. This fig
ure, with $7.3 million in lapsed
funds and $lO million the gov
ernor cut from his own bud
get, made up the trimming.
In the final analysis, the com
mittee trimmed even more, but
gave major additions to several
agencies. Included was an extra
$856,369 to the game and fish
department for Improvements
in facilities—particularly at fish
hatcheries.
Another $145,000 extra was
given the State Parks Depart
ment, while $50,000 was tacked
on for education of exceptional
children.
Friday, February 16, 1968 Griffin Daily News
Newsman Bounced
Gov. Maddox Names
Realtor To Parole
By DON PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPD —An angry
Gov. Lester Maddox turned
bouncer Thursday afternoon,
giving the verbal and bodily
heave-ho to Capitol newsmen
when they questioned his rela
tionship to his new Georgia
Pardon and Parole Board ap
pointee, Joseph G. Maddox.
“You want to go or do you
want me to throw you out?”
the governor said to the United
Press International correspond
ent.
He grabbed the staffer’s arm
and led him out, then turned to
the remaining newsmen and
said “Okay, everybody out. The
press conference is over.”
When the similarity of names
and the possible relationship
between Gov. Maddox and at
torney Maddox was questioned,
the governor lost his compos
ure.
“I’m fed up with it!’ he
shouted. “Any member of the
press who comes in here and
asks these questions can get
out and stay out!”
That ended the news confer
ence, called earlier by Maddox
to announce the appointment of
the Atlanta attorney and real
estate dealer to the controver
sial pardon and parole board.
Maddox succeeds Moultrie
chiropractor William R. Dyer
on the board. Dyer served only
six days on the three-member
panel before quitting in a huff.
He claimed he and his family
had been embarrassed by the
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press.
Senators openly questioned
Dyer’s qualifications. They also
wondered aloud if his close po
litical alliance with Gov. Mad
dox had any effect on one of his
businesses—that of helping a
computer firm get state con
tracts.
Attorney Maddox’s qualifica
tions are not being questioned,
although he admitted he has
“known the governor for a good
long time.”
But the former Army lieuten
ant colonel has supervised pris
oners before. During World
War n he was a military court
judge with jurisdiction over 20,-
000 prisoners of war.
Gov. Maddox, prior to his out
burst, said he was sure his
newest appointee would receive
“100 per cent confirmation”
from the Senate. He said he
plans to submit the name of
Maddox to the Senate Feb. 26.
The three pardon and parole
board posts pay annual salaries
of $22,500.
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