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-,r? DAY 1ST. Tht eom- of .11 th« \.- • right n»w ..._^ 00R n Engine, ht adjust- ictor. Rt- NT p«in4, or p efectnc IZES! . t )\ rMENT PERS Country's E DISPLAY PATTEXNS CLINTON COUNTY EDITION Press-Re 1 *»¥*«*•#„. >< Vww-J^ V*.^-^J0^A^ can TK< Hometown Newspaper of Clinton, Essex* Franklin Counties VOt. 73—NO. 278 Nottsfcirfh, N. Y., 12901, Monday Mormisf, Jury 10, 1*67 MM: 10c Marine^ No. Vietnamese in SAIGON (AD •- IS Marines tought ling range arttl- 4ery -duel* -with tommtmbt forces along the demilitarized zone on Sundiix. tine my shells foil into Marine position.* from North Vietnam where new So- \iet~buth 152mm self-propelled guns are emplaeed, capable of lobbing 10S-poui# shells 17 niiles. Leatherneck casualties in weekend ground and artillery clashes ran to about 200—most ot them men who -suffered wounds—around the Marine out : post cf Con Thien, just below the zone whicfc divides Vietnam. Secretary* of Defense Robert S. McNamara, on his ninth in- ; spection visit to South Vietnam, ! watched the action from a heli- copter a few wiles away. C.S. officers tuld him the newly in- troduced l&.'s are the basest and potentially most dangerous weapons the Marines now fac: in the area. . • At the same time, it became .known that I .S. Aran 175mm guns, which have * ran^e of Is ' miles; have been pulled out ul Gio Linh v six miles east of ton Thien, to.new. .secret pcs4tkms A -U.S. headquarter ' spokes- man at Dong Ha said the guns , had been moved to a site where they could be equally effective. ; Batteries of j 105mm guns re- mained m the (Iio Linh area. • Other 175s remained in positions at Dong Ha and Camp Carroll.* both abiut eight miles south of 4he zone, f In other actioa tit the war, C.S jot> bombed the big Loi I Dong fuel dump tour miles from ! | the North Vietnamese porr of \ Haiphong en Sunday. The l\S. . ' Command reported no I S. | plane losses but a Hanoi broad- cast said six C.S. planes were shot down and \a number of i American pilots were wipxi out or captured\ in Haiphcng .and the provinces of Nam Ha and ; Dai Duong. - i - In Saigon, terrorists set off a-J Uaimt^e-typj^jttine outside a ; big C.S military billet Sunday ( ;night, killing four Vietnamese; and wounding 10 American mili-i and wounding 18 others, tary personnel and 14 Vietnam* • • • • ese civilians J j Battle reports oi actio* tear A Viet Cong mine blew up a: the ame Saturday slid the South Vietnamese bus is miles | Marines were engaged in three j northeast of Jlue on Sunday j stiff fights near Con Thien just morning, killing 15 passengers few miles below th$ zone. McNamara studies foe s new weapon DA NANG. South Vietnam ZAP)—Secretary ry uf I Nanwa w unleashed its biggest and poten* Defence j tially most dangerous known Robert S. McNatntfra was told' offensive weapon against U.S. during a tour of a battie zone j Marines. l % is a Soviet 152 mm * south of the demilitarized zone self propelled gun capable of Sunday that North Vietnam has hurling a lift-pound high-explo- \\ — ; sive shvll 17 miles </ ? • -.. [ McNamara may have seen its' '*' ? » . shells exploding while watching ' . / /from a helicopter as Marines* land North Vietnamese dueled ^ .; with lonc-rancc artillery near •••'.'' .the battered leatherneck out . ;i post at Con Thien. f ' ' V K Marines had reported earlier ! a handful of 152mm rounds in ! the zone fighting but there was ] | no indication they came from | the mobile Lung Toms. ; :\• The, field version of the ! 152 fuvs-ah SS4o 90^x>und pnv \ jectilc s to 10 miles and thus is : less lethal than the 140mm n>ck-' ets tised with such devastating J effect by the Communists. ^ ;.* Identification nf _ the new • ; wea|ion in the demilitarized ; zone area may have been a fac- j i.t(»r m the decision to ptT.l.back | C.S. 175mm MM\! propel led artil-1 | lery frtmt less than a mile from i \ the zone to a morj. protected 'tear area » ^ McNamara'received news, of • i the new 'weapon before taking! ; i?ff for his view of the fishung. j . He is m-\>7tnam to consider tb£ I C.S. rommands re<tuest for j i more troops, pvviibly 100,000 to; 1 14t).000 more than -t-he prt^ent\; 1 4fi*>.W>0 in the battle zone • McNamara\^ helicopter Hew i less than \five miles trom lire j fight between the Marines and .1 N«>rth Vietnamese Aniliery • 1 shells and those from a U.S. i Navy destroyer could he seen a v well as explosions from U.S. bomb-. ••;.. AFTKR THIS, THK l>KLltiK-Ham washed out the Ptattsburgh Soap Box Derby on Broad St. Sunday. A derision to that ellect was made by Jaycees and Santa Chevrolet sponsors mo- U.S. sends 0?«M%« *y >!»« KrUfcl menu before the exent was scheduled to start. But it was later rescheduled for next Sunday afternoon. Stonr'iwi Page 3, \.. es lor Congo regime UN seeks Mhldle Kast airrceineiits STEADY. IXMN T11ERK!—Held aloft by com pan ion*. Air Force ROTC cadet secures top of teepee-like shelter during survival training near Taylor Paod. Town of Black -6n»ok. Cadets learn technique of shelter construction, using half of parachute and birch pole*, as part of training. They're sta- tioned atTtallsburgh Air Force Dase this summer. .More Malt Kelsh pictures on Page 2t. • '•' \. ... \*.' ••'.'.*•* '.. .' . ' City-bred Air Force cadets learn to survive in Adirondack forests . By FORREST CLKLANC tDlTOR'S NOTE: This w tbe first #f a series of three article* on t^-day surxival trainiac is tbe Ta> W Pond area of Black Brook. InMrur- t»oa K given there lo Aw ;F«TIT ROTC cadets sUrtM- ed at Hattsbar^h Air Force Base this, ssmmer B^n before of Tfce Br^nx. a Kaftha?K4n Co^ege jtmicv\. has met \3^ Nonfccn; Nnt York w^drrrv^s i^e-trvfare The merits tis the fir^t for bech. «nd attitmgh the **4- demess remaaied esseatiailr unmarWed. Ecn wi3' nr^^r Mzazfi be cn3rtr 4he *»me For ciump\ is mrvitabie wbm a cay bov mi» -arvcr f^d* jTuidf saw a mwooprcuer™!^' exom « * cfBpk rf *o ^ie\»o** aotidrnK fame that tW nr b\ his tramrae Sun^tval \* one phase of a iuur-week field training pro- pram offthe-Air Force Re- serve Off^ers Training Corps mOTC» stationed at Platt*- burrh Air For<e Ba^e tms summer ' Som* 4^1 ROTr cadets .p;!ed from truck* at Ibe *7)d id tiv\ Taylor Pond mad we^t of Black Brook onr afterr>K»n fcrsf wee*f «od settrnp heaT\ p*c*s «n the eround. irr^rned- sawy he^ran stappinc at mo^ tputtes and b*ack flies 5ev«r4il jpftttd mub ioiT- sa^t polled cans, tit jn**ct re- peiied «?pr^y frf-m their parks and siuirmf * *j^h their vmn- len^wrarv relaff fnwx UK ~1XJZZM*£ v&&$ A Pres^RepUbi*a* i^r^tcr look adwjrUJge «tf s \r*& per- lid & «i-Ctmir t^'avt qmt^ «f tt^cadr^ a* a pbn. ftr *cetie «aecvd ttie to F«rce ROTC .years tfs an officer soflnds hke a good deal, too.\ he said '• A third recently married, was interested m ^he higher salary of an otikrer wtoie tul- iilkni: his miktar>- obligation * Do you mtend to remain in the Air FiCjue** '\ tfeey mere •as^ed J il give it a tftance.\ <w>e cade: said *I dor.': know what it s kke >••: -49 it - a b:t eariy ir> sa> whether \ ]i <^ay in.\ ±*>d an- tuber •'\**. Bid m most instance*, they re^jrd m die negative sa>ing they piarmed on canerrs m Kber tieid^ The %a*Tmg per Kid ended and «br £ v**-^a:ured chatacr parted underbrush and step- ped rnto the wood- soon fol- lowed by the rest of fcrs crew. The} were rapidly tost to sight, and in a-little whiie. the sound of their voices, too, faded At five-nunote intervals* the »Uier crrws stepped from the < learing m:o the heavy under- grow-th una! a!t had d sap- peared Tactx ai • taei» «f *err Ma j. Ed Kraus «POTI arrrved m a fo«r-wbe€4-dn>e truei to trar*>* pan trammg aHicer Lt^Coi; Wiifeam Wtgtrt and tir tw> fVess-RepubLjcan staff mem- bers tt> the pOfHrt wtierc the cadets *ere to emerge fran the woods - Fur la minutrs XJbt tnxt -Soviet jets seen rivalinii Jw^t in W est Mt>S(' % 0>V fAF'i — Sevr*v.nc.W type< of Soviet supersonic jet ; fighter- flashed through an air show* Sunday, including vertical. j takeoff and swing-wing pJanrs. •that looked a.^ * good a^ the ^West's best \ ' \ Four new twin-ufl fighter- ..'bombers with -claimed speeds three times the speed of sound appeared in the fir-t Soviet air show in six \year< But only one example wa> seen of each of the other six new types. This suggested to expert ofo-. servers that the Soviet air force migh? have been difplaymg mostly experimental models • j rather than planer .already m \ mass productwn and- serving ^with cwnbat unit- Past air '. shows here have done th^. The ab^^nce of anv big new bombers suggested that the air forc^ « concentraUng on f»ght- ; er^ for aerial defense and sfrort- jrartf^ attack while leavir^r long ' rang«» striking p<wer lo surface- :'launci>ed jntrrt-«ntjn€ntai nrus- istie* But an article in Pravda <m Sunday i>y the msr torce tiw- mander m ctuvt, A;r Marshal H KoRstantm A Ver^unm daimrd the aur fc^oe is huBl around ioog-rangf places capa- • hie of carr>»f air iaanctn-d missives mnywhm* vt the world .WASHINGTON (AD - The United States H;*s drspfitohed three big military . .transport planes \o the Vt>n£<) -in. >upp<*rt of the central £<»vernmewVs >t<*nd «^;<nv^ '.nfrTcenane* re- ponViily oonuniHed tn~ f^TrS/r rremier Mc\i>e TxhonU^r it wa.s diNcfoscd Sjir»d.i\. : . The limited I . S Jntrrven^MHi was decided ua hv President Johnson follow\m£. y j\\|4H*st ii.»r help inwi roTiijolt-Ne -TTesident. ioseph!\l). -Mobutu!. * 4 ;Tr>-e* aircraft vviil pn^ide i^atus. r . : L'MTED NATIONS. .XV. :The L'nrtu?d States ,has. .eon-1 «APv_UN diplomats searched sistently supported the terrrtnn--.; Sunday for ways to keep the a! intecniy and unity of the i guns silent along the Israeli- Congo'V - Kgvptian <-ease-fire line on the \•••'• - .. \ . Su ^^ Canal\ *•• . 7 Thr l>*lc nse I^rtmVftT 7aid\^^^ f)er ' ^ f the \hrJc . planes took off from, '. Poj^-e' \n^ Ycrr*- 1'ase in North - i arolma Zn ^aT^iday nictii t tw-q; of them neading directly f</f Africa and the third goiiig to \\v- A)ti\ Air Force B;*^e in florid* to pick up additional p**rvonnel {before i?tartutg f«»r Kinshasha/j the Cohirolese capital. the Security Council consulted on this before return ins the urgent session called Saturday on the nxjuest of b<tfh Kg^pt and !>raef after a;r -baRles and ar'tftlen' duels hreac^hed the Jup? 10 cea>e-fire for the second weekend in a rui*-, • :. .... A >»»w Soviet US. clash in the council, was expected Soviet- long-range logistic•suppirrt for j All the planes w^re reposed Ambassador Nikolai T. -JFe- the Congolese government in on a re>t. sto^ at Ascension J^ dorenko and C.Sy Ambassador mating j4*^—rnt>rce.nar\-led re-, land on Suhdav. with arnval in v Arthur J. (ioJdberg were listed belhan/* :-a brief State I>epart- KinNha>ha scheduifd Ux late to s^ak in that order, in the merft announcement said Suhdav ni^t . qr early this ; Sunday Mrs>ion • \They will be in noncombatant • morning. Ihprom3t»c informants said .•*- — -.,- —-—.-—— :—.— .—— •—. j India had ideas for a resolution fby* which the council not only* j would call on both sides to com- ply with lour standing cease-fire resolutions, but also would pro- vide machinery to discourage violations f i Some diplomats be!wed that :a meanv of discouraging viola- bons might be found in the , scheme Secre t wr\ -General V Thant had put up to them At the council s fir>t meeting on the two complaint* Saturday ! night Thant sajd he asked l%g\prtian Vice President Mab- moyd Fswn and Israeli Forejjm . Winr-trr Abba Khan here Tues- d*\ how their govei i*fiients «ou#d read lo the s^auormg of observers an to*h sides of the cwaJ so he could keep the council jaSonDflf of the slate of compiiance with the riviT-aicl gadget Newd mav ease traffic fIOM ^.\SH1\c,TDN -i-APr - (^iv emrnent researcher^ are r work- ing on devices that witr teH s motorist the right tune and aimed at solving some of the **H\oblems of an ever-increasmg traffic fkwr on the nation's high- wav« were outlined by the I> sptfik to enter, a freeway and partro^nt **l Transportation in also signal him when he has testimony made pubitc Sunday reached the exit he wants ' .Also under study is adapt*twa of Wtnam^devekioed lecl^ ricfues in u^ir*g Y* l*eopfler< Tor the hand: :r^ of traffic Ta^aato*-* oo oange^ted streets ar>d free- ways. bv a Hoose appropriations sub- committee These ~T**deral Htgnwav .Admmi^- tra:or Lowell K Bridwell, de- Mrnbing the 4e\*ce to guaie XTX^ tonsts onto a freeway likened x w an air e*ootroller teltag a pi- lot «i*e« he can im% tflo a project* landing patJenJ of the rVar^ mntTT the iramjng «di*f*r mailed *o ^rne is-trwr- irfe >tu»ips » I haie u to «a* ird ** a • a -Keep tkx laU oa vmm ngtrt a ££S^J# #.~ he. said awa the ^rr^L B#t rtrvm&r $L's thick - JP TbePe\s a os there % too r lr wmi ar ~Ke*o a or yaar irf!\ \•«'re t*z*i & thrrr* * a caor: xrczxrt d>hearf m After two rak* '*K to a' *op Iff a ckarm^ hrsadr the the ftrvsmec ste^ygd 6m fcar.or^r rohtang dbuwrc a» fcn«« bnaroed ac the xr? ~7\m m mt Littlejvhooper^getsji home SAV A.YIOHO Tex <APw: vicious pedt* bvfio^raadCYp. fed a %*£i*Z mat auiaat, U6*n m» Areeiar Frod Ssaric and his ^tsoie the 4^ very room. 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