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UP)- from fcifoa, -m Viet JOoog guenillM overraa * pirw- 3adal capital wher* a U4S. dvfl- *1M development team is operat* Jog, hoisted their Communist flag and heW the town In terror \lor three hours Monday before vanishing in the bush near Cam* Jbodia's border. ,_ /'A heavy initial mortar bom- bardment, aimed chiefly at the U.S. civilian-military com* Jpound c .J by jr fuerrfflas stormed through Americans and wounded 15 oth- ers, both civilian and military. Fourteen South Vietnamese were killed and 26 wounded in addition to moderate casualties of -fObeta 4miles east of CamtwHa, and U&Jtow their flag from a central building. It was shot down in a sharp .firelight r ,--- .&:*&? \A*rr , The attack followed by two : days the overrunning of the vll- lage of Tan Uyea. six miles l_Jrom lhe big U^-South Yfet- * Siamese base at Bi«i Hoa and z? mites north *f~Saigdit. —rr-rr* in that attack a mixed force Viet Cong and Nort Viet- namese regulars blew up a new market place and burned down 11 homes. Fourteen South Viet- on Khlem Qiong. capital o* Hatt ^Nghia Province northwest p Saigon, began shortly before S A barrage of rounds of mortars fell first my #%•:.£***: * a maiaforce and local JIM*.-^Aaiaric— MBad rilU Viet Coo*. ~ ~—,--~—i» tt» fy Following the mortar attack, |tfeoi and Reraluttaaty the spokesman said, the Viet ^ofMneat Support-cafled Cong '-were in the streets.** ^lioat ,<rf .the : J5 AmerkauM ^^^-*y,^^.A.5 can : v-* COUNTY EDITION VOL. 74—NO. 124 Flomburgh, N. Y. ( 12901, TtKtsdoy Morning, January 9, 1968 10c 16 PAOC \%• - (3FF TO CLASSES—Miss Julia Umbrunner. a PSUC senior, dressed appropriately for the long walks between classes. Temperatures during the day Monday ranger from 16 to IS degrees below zero and more of the same is forcast for to* day. . _••-*•.-*--. Another aide quitsjohnson S VN AXTON1O (API - Presi- dent Johnson announced Mon- day night the resignation of Budget Director Charles L. Schulue — his chief of staff in developing 'the financial pro- gram of the government which Winter r ariip&ge> N . w --T-VV 1? - goes ->• - *• . ^3 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS glazed streets and highways. Numbing cold hung on j A number of major highways through the northeastern sec- j in Southern New Mexico were non of the nation Monday while jmade impassable by heavy heavy snow and sleet closed \ snow with depths up to 6 inches many highways and caused atop 5 inches already on the traffic pileups in areas of theground. Southwest. • The severe\ weather \sent tefJf- peratures below the freezing level early Monday in 47 of the 48 contiguous states. Only Flori- da, where low readings were in the upper 30s in the northern section, escaped the freeze. Numerous deaths were attrib- Included were Interstate 10 between Las Cruces, ?STM./and El Paso, Tex.; U.S. 54 from Ala- mogordo. N.M. to El Paso, and U.S. 62-180 between Carlsbad, N.M., and El Paso. In central New Mexico, roads were snowpacked and slick east of the Rio Grande Valley, in- uted to the weather. j eluding U.S. 66 east of Albuqu- In the Southwest, snow and! erque. freezing rain spread northward \ The new snow came as ranch- from Texas Plains. . to the Central year. To replace Schultze, Johnson tapped Assistant Director Oarlcs ,T Zwick whom Schultze succeeded as budget director. The switch in the Budget Bu- reau post came at a time when Johnson is attempting to com- plete the budget for the 1969 fis- cal year—a new look budget ffiaf may \rurilo more~lhSfr?T80 billion. In the 10 days Johnson has boon at his Texas rafted.-Schu- Travel warnings were in ers were about finished with clearing roads blocked by storms that isolated hundreds of NO STOPPING HEM-Kids seem to ignore the plunging temperatures if it means a few more boors of play in the snow. Timothy Pawne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Pavone, didn't have school Monday due to the severe cold so be and his brother Glenn spent the afternoon sliding near Pittsburgh High School. effect from southeastern New j bead of cattle last month. Mexico eastward to Louisiana; Freezing rain gave Texas an and northward to Oklahoma as j icy cover to the Gulf of Mexico. the result of a mixture of freez- j Schools and some freeways ing rain, drizzle and sleet that! were closed as a result of the storm that crippled traffic and caused hundreds of accidents. • The temperature dropped to 28 degrees in normally warm Corpus Christi early Monday, rain or drizzle came from as far south us Beaumont, Port Ar- thur, Houston, Victoria and San Antonio. In Dattas, hundreds * householders reported broken water pipes after the tempera- ture dropped to 13 degrees, a record for lhe date. ~ ~ The large high pressure sys- tem responsible for tbe cold weather in the eastern two thirds of the nation the last few days was moving eastward Monday. ... * . But the biting cold continued in tbe Northeast and East where op to 10 inches of fresh snow fell Sunday. v Temperature extremes Mon- day afternoon ranged from -SO near Massena, NY., to 77 at Key West, FUL Israel gets [Transplant patient iFire drives Schuiue is the second top eco- nomic adviser to President Johnson to resign within the past week. La?t ueok, Johnson an- nounced the resignation of Gardner Ackley, chairman of the Council of Economic Advis- ers and named him ambassador to Italy. i SchuJtze plans to join the' Brookings Institution, a private research group with headquar- ters m Washington, as a senior fellow, a new post. Brookmes is headed by Kerrrut Gordon, lUe has been a frequent com- muter—and he hds agreed to re- main on until the job is finished on the new spending program. Schuiue, besides going to the Brookings Institution, is also re- joining the Universiity of Man- land faculty for part-time teach- ing An effective date for his re- signation has not been set. The budget bureau director said in Washington he talked about leaving office as early as last June but agreed to stay on untri the new budget is pre- pared. Israeli jets hit Arab guns TEL AVIV. Israel ^AP) — Is- rael sent jet fighters over Jor- dan Monday to knock out Jor- Penlagon admit- missile failnre W ASHIN G70N~7 AP ~ ~-~~Tbe\ superfast. short-range ir»iercep- tor designed as a Key compo- nent :a inc nation's antiballistic .issite .defense has failed a jr.ber of t-mes in test iarocb- , 2K PtT4C0£ rii danian gun positions and end a sharp artillery duel across the River Jordan, an army spokes- man announced here Jordan claimed—and Israel denied—that one plane was downed by antiaircraft fire Israel said there was an ex- change 6t T^e toe IMsntev rugh: around the sesiement of Vardena but that no one was in- jured and there was DO Carriage In New York. Israeli Ambas- sador Gtdeoc Rafael s»d J* K2S ynrfmg a JCtlET XJl in arms kid I STONEWALL, Tex. iAP\ —• President Johnson and Prime Minister Levi Eshkol of Israel ended overtime talks at the LBJ Ranch Monday and said that I Johnson had agreed to active, sympathetic review of Israel's \military defense capability.\ No offer of U S. arms aid was • announced. j Johnson and Eshkol also 'Res- tated their dedication to the es- tablishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East/' in the spirit of a United Nations resolution of Nov. 22. - Peace in that uneasy area of ( the world had been billed as the prime topic of discussions be- tween the President and prime minister—talks which began Sunday, continued Monday, and ran three hours past the trae set fo~^ at precarious mage j STANFORD, CaUf. (AP) — Mike Kasperak's condition be- came critical Monday—the sec- ond day after his failing heart was replaced by another—but doctors managed to halt inter- nal bleeding that threatened his life. They said his new heart ap- peared to be functioning \very weiL\ Doctors at Palo Alto-Stanford Medical Center said Kasperak was conscious. The bleeding from stomach and intestines two days after the operation Weather Fair followed by increas- ing dondinets witfc moderat- ing Semperatnres. Highs generally zero to 19 above. Temperatures remaining be* low zero in a few of tbe nor- eolder spots. Mostly with *DOW Hkelv_t»- _ knto Wed- Freezing rain and icing condi- tions compelled Eshkol u> leave by car rather than plane for Bcrxstroc: Ar Farce Base at aigbt nesday moraittg. Not as cold tomfht but taming cokler again Bedoesday. Winds p&n: lo me IN J back to New York. tr 4:41. T.S. \stemmed from liver disease, they said. They said the many complica- tions suffered by the 54-year-old steel worker were \severe but soluble.\ He had been reported in satisfactory condition earlier 1 in the day despite expected dif- ficulty in breathing. Kasperak f s condition became 'critical when the bleeding be- gan. Fresh blood transfusions and other measures apparently stopped the bleeding, attending physicians said in a midafter- noon bulletin. Dr. Norman E. Shumway and a team of Stanford Medical School performed the transplan- tation Saturday night. They gave Kasperak the heart of a 43-year-old housewife. The housewife, Mrs. Virginia White, had died about 24 hours after suffering a massive brain herryorrhaee. a stroke. In their bulletin, the physi- cians aid Kasperak's proth- rombin time, another index of blood dotting ability, was km. They sakl his lrver funcboo was poor tjecasiSe UT TTIP UCTTZ COO£5OD wtucfc ied to tie heart transplant Today's News Rational, International • v into streets PHILADELPHIA (AP) —A fierce, crackling fire raced with explosive force through a hotel j for the aged Monday just after : 350 men and women—some nak- ed, some in thin pajamas and nearly all requiring help—barely escaped to 10-degree tempera- tures outside. * 4 It's the most miraculous thing that everyone got out of there,\ said Fire commissioner James McCarry. There were 39 persons hospi- talized, including 10 policemen and ten firemen. Others with slight cuts were treated at tbe scene. Train kills off-duty Ohio railroadman, Page 2 ... Mo- hawk Valley dty desieged by blazes, Page 2 ... Asia flu outbreak now nationwide. Page 2 ... Pope accepts resigna- tion ultraconservative Cardinal, Page 2 ... Bishop Sheen ministers to state seoatcrs, Page 2. Community King speech story, Page 3 ... Local weather stoiy, Page 3 ... Teen-ager to face grand jury action in narco- tics case, Page 3. Opinion, Comment Industry asked to take a hand in upgrading city life, Page 4 ... Letters to the editor. Page 4 . m . Overcommitted Americans, by Art Bucbwald, Page 4 ... Moves underway to curb Supreme Court, Scott-ADen Report, Page 4. Sports PSUC gymntfts display talent, Page 11 r. .NCAA ready to challenge AAU, Page 10 ... Bobby Hull reaches another milestone, Page 10 . . . Rangers Frauds fined an additional 1200, Page 10. Date Calendar « Stocks 14 Miners 12 CrosswofTl ,,,»,, TV log •7 1* If t • •*• I^rXJ^li^^L Cambodian prince cool lo Bowles ****** 2£5\&Ti PHNOM PENT. cherished posses- (AP) — Ambassador Chester Cambodia 1 Sihanouk told newsmen SOD- ior President j,to &SCO9S tbe use of Ca late in a small room they shared with another. 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