A LE LEADER-TRIBUNE 1 8 -37 The Lively Leader In North Central Indiana Vol. 79, No. 3 MARION INDIANA, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1968 2 News Sections, 20 Pages; TV. Radio Section, 12 Pages PRICE TEN CENTS Reveal fighters inte intercepted Russ bombers 1' WASHINGTON (AP) Soviet military planes have flown near the North American mainland of Canada and along Alaska's north coast in recent days, officials disclosed Friday. Friday morning U.S.
and Caradian officials said that on Feb. 9 five Soviet bombers in two flights flew above the Atlantic within 70 miles of the. mainland. In response to, questions, the Pentagon early Friday night said on Feb. 12 and 13 a flight of three Russian reconnaissance.
bombers flew along the Alaskan coast about 80 miles offshore at an altitude of about 30,000 feet. The Pentagon said American jet fighters intercepted the bombers off Canada and the Soviet aircraft later left area of their own accord. Officials. said of the aircraft off Alaska: "after flying the full length of the northern, they departed the area toward -the Union." Pentagon "identified "the planes off Alaska as: Bison bombers, a long-range maritime' reconnaissance aircraft. Defense Department officials apparently attached little significance to the incidents.
The Pentagon said U.S. Air Force F102s flew near enough to visually Identify two of the Soviet planes over North Atlantic waters. "The Soviet aircraft evidenced no hostile intentions and the interception was made solely for the purpose of identification," a Defense Department statement said. "The aircraft flew parallel to the" coast of Newfoundland for approximately one hour. "At no time did they enter the air space of the North American continent.
They turned away of their own accord and were joined by three other aircraft on their way out of the area." The Pentagon clearly sought to minimize the 'incident, although 'one officer said "we don't want to make it sound too routine." He said there have been similar Soviet flights over North Atlantic waters in the past but "this -is the nearest PAPOOSE CABOOSE A runaway caboose landed in this position, on top of a locomotive after. a collision Friday on the Baltimore Ohio tracks at Kensington, Md. The unmanned caboose, trailed by three freight cars, started to roll out of control three miles north of the crash site. The: locomotive, a work engine, was moving -cars when the accident happened. (AP Wirephoto).
Hearing set in damage A suit naming city, mayor A By LEE AMOS prosecution of civil action was Leader-Tribune Staff Writer against Moore and Hearing on actions filed by the city' by Virgel Carson, 1336 attorneys for the City of Marion Jeffras a defendant in' and Mayor Moore in a a $550,000 damage suit filed: by $1 million damage suit against the city. city" and the mayor was Carson, along with six others, set for 2 p.m. next Friday in was named in an alleged Grant Circuit Court. spiracy" against the sale of The complaint for malicious $5.3 million in revenue bonds. simultaneous attacks Enemy tanks spotted on northern frontier SAIGON (AP) Enemy tanks, were spotted near- South Vietnam's northern.
frontier. Friday for the second time in the war. To the southeast, Communist troops clung for. the 18th day to part of Hue's old Citadel, but U.S. officers said the- back of the resistance was broken.
A U.S. spokesman said three Red tanks were seen maneuvering in the zone north of the Marine combat base at Con Thien. He said observers called in fire from Mar rine tanks and artillery and the enemy tanks withdrew without. firing. back.
The first appearance by Communist tanks was before the enemy attack on Lang Vei Special Forces camp, near Khe Sanh in South Vietnam's. northwest cor-. ner. Six of nine Soviet-made light tanks were destroyed before the outpost was overrun: Feb. 7.
U.S. pilots reported disabling two more the next day. The appearance of Communist tanks along the eastern end of the DMZ. above Con Thien seemed to support speculation they've come in a long time." Secretary of Defense Robert S. told newsmen he doesn't feel-the Russian planes were testing U.S.
defenses. He characterized them as training flights such as have been ried out before in that area. Other Pentagon spokesmen to also emphasized they do not fiew the flights as threatening actions. The Department. de-.
scribed the planes as Soviet Bear-type aircraft. This would be the Soviet TU20, code-named by NATO as the Bear, which is a turbo-prop plane. capable of flying 500 miles an hour and ranging 9,000 miles with a ceiling of 45,000 feet. In addition to McNamara's officials speculated the Soviets training-flight a suggestion, other may have ordered the latest Bear sweeps for either of two reasons: -For reconnaissance purposes, -To probe possible weaknesses in the radar detection system operated by the United States' and Canada. In Halifax, a Canadian officer said radar stations in Newfoundland tracked the Soviet flights.
Commodore Noel Cogdon, chief of staff for operations of Canadian radar stations in foundland, said: "We knew there were two groups of bombers coming down approaching the Newfoundland coast. Shortly after 11 o'clock (a.m., Feb. 9). radar stations in (See BOMBERS on Page 2 Deferments 7 for graduate study not permitted WASHINGTON (AP) The Johnson administration refused Friday to permit draft deferments for graduate study in any. fields but those; prescribed' by law medicine and the ministry.
At the same time, it kicked some of the props from under occupational deferments by sus- Teacher supply threat? pending the official list of essential activities and critical occupations used as a guideline by draft. boards. From now. on, each local board decides on its own, in each individual case, what constitutes an essential or critical activity and what doesn't. Acting on the advice of the Na- Educators say rule to cripple schools NEW YORK (AP) Several educators declared Friday the abolishment by the Selective Service System of draft defer-' ments for most advanced students could cripple or wreck many university graduate schools.
Some administrators' said The Inside Story Secretary of Commerce Alexander "Trowbridge resigns and a successor is Wam appointed. Page 15. ja captured U.S. fliers are -released to the custody of three civilians. Page 15.
Area 13 Deaths Movies 10 Classified Editorials Society Comics 16 Markets Sports 1-11 The Outside Story Windy and colder with snow flurries. High near 22, low tonight about 5. Friday's high 44, low 23. Additional weather. on Page 5 1 Twelve killed after bucket of gasoline MOBERLY, Mo.
(AP) man: flung a bucket of gasoline into a crowded tavern, touching off holocaust that killed 12 persons. Friday afternoon in downtown Moberly. The bodies were stacked like cordwood at. the rear door through which the eight men and four women tried frantically to f1. men; a woman and, a child got out through the front.
door. Police arrested Bill Coleman, 37,, of Moberly, an ex-convict who has been in trouble with the law since' his teenage Clifford Falzone St -1 sharp faculty cuts would be voidable. Others voiced alarm at the threat to the future supply of teachers. 1 They expressed their views in answer to newsmen's queries shortly after the Selective Service System in Washington ruled out deferments on the basis of graduate studies in fields other than medicine and the ministry. The ruling does not affect graduate students already in their second or subsequent year of graduate study.
An official of the Office of Education estimated that 150,000 or more prospective graduate students might be drafted who pre- 1- viously would have had deferments. A few universities, having guessed that such a ruling was in the works, already were preparing to refill the ranks by taking in more girl students. "This means that our graduate schools in the future will be increasingly populated -by WOmen, older persons, those who have physical disabilities and, ironically enough, foreign students," said Dr. Maurice Mitchell, chancellor of the University of Denver. S.
draft boards are turning over educational facilities in this country to foreign students while our boys go off to fight. This seems to me to be foreign aid paid for in blood," Dr. Mitchell said. will have quite an impact," said Mrs. Patricia Bonelli, executive secretary of the Boston College law school.
don't know what it will do to the student body. It's a very, very serious "The long range effects may be fairly bad," said Dean George Winchester Stone of the New York University Graduate School of Arts. and Sciences. "If they are drafted the ques- A tion is will they want to come back." "The limitations of this ruling and other policies is that they may very shortly to a shortage of trained people in diverse fields, especially teaching," said Dean Colin S. Pittendrigh of the Princeton University graduate school.
"The Defense Department may be dissatisfied with its new group of recruits. They're going to have a group of older men, primarily intellectuals, who are. the most useful kind of troops." -Dr. Arthur Brown, vice president of" academic affairs for Fordham University, expressed hope that the new draft policy would be short-lived. tional Security Council, Lt.
Gen. n- Lewis B. Hershey, national director of 'the Selective Service System, issued. the decisions i in a telegram to state directors. A panel of educators had testified a week ago before a House.
subcommittee that failure broaden the range of graduate study deferments could wipe out as much as 65 per cent of the expected enrollment new, graduate students. and could cripple teacher-training. The subcommittee agreed and asked President Johnson to broaden. the graduate-student exemp. tions.
A representative of the U.S. Office of Education said more than 150,000 prospective graduate-school students probably would be drafted, and that figure might be too low. The drought" of deferments has" been worrying graduate schools and students for almost eight months, since President Johnson signed the 1967 Selective Service Act. The act' provides for deferments only for graduate students in "medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, osteopathy or optometry, or in such other subjects necessary to: the health, safety, or interest as are identified by the Director of Selective Service upon the advice of the National. Security.
Council." Graduate students for the ministry are exempted without regard to the council's views. The community, wondering what to do about graduate enrollments for next September, had pinned its hopes on the naming of additional fields of study by the council. Those hopes were dashed by: the council; Also rejected were pleas that -the present system of calling oldest eligible draft registrants first be changed to take some of the pressure off incoming graduate students. "The sequence of selection in filling calls will remain unchanged," Hershey said." Stu-; (See DRAFT, on Page 2) Ex-Marion man dies in Vietnam A 19-year-old Marion native was killed in Marine combat action near Saigon, South Vietnam, Feb. 1.
Marine Pvt. Jackie Lee Mel. ton was born in Marion and attended Washington school before moving with his family to Winterhaven, nine years ago. He' had been in the Marines asince last October and was assigned to duty in Vietnam about six weeks ago. He was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Melton. Funeral services and burial were conducted Friday in Winterhaven. Relatives living in Marion include two uncles, Charles ton, and John Melton, 1516-E. 37th and an aunt, Mrs.
Everett McHenry, .413 Vickery Lane. Also surviving are his parents and a younger- brother and sister, all of A He is the Grant County native killed in the Vietnam war. for the municipal water expansion program. 'Both suits were' filed in -August. Other defendants in the suit by Ian, the Francis city are Barnes, Harold McMilVarner, Orval' Vice, Dale John-.
son and Daniel Walls. 'The city's suit claimed the seven men were a part of an "unlawful combination" tempting to halt the lawful sale of water expansion bonds. Demurrers were filed Tuesday: in Grant: Circuit Court by Morris: Hall, attorney. for Mayor Moore, and City' Attorney Lloyd Cochran. Both actions claim Carson has no basis for 'a damage suit while the suit against him still is pending in Grant Superior Court 1.
Judge: Arthur Osburn of Grant Superior Court 1,, set Feb. 26 for filing answers by all fendants except Varner. (See on 'Page 2) i. A by. some U.S.
commanders that the long-expected on 'the encircled Khe Sanh base. would be supported by simultaneous attacks on other outposts to block movement of American reinforcements. The Khe: Sanh base manned by. 5,000 U.S. Marines and: 350 government.
rangers is perched on a plateau overlooking a narrow valley that the U.S. Command has predicted would be the route of a major invasion by elements of. 20,000 North Vietnamese troops: massed in the" area. North Vietnamese were probing for weak "along Marine defenses over on the eastern coastal. shelf.
below the DMZ. Over North Vietnam, the U.S. Command reported- strikes on three targets in the Hanoi area Hoar Lac. airfield 20 miles west of the. capital, a barracks miles southwest.
and a missile; site 22 "west. Monsoon weather limited other strikes to the southern panhandle, A thrown said he will file charges of first degree murder against Coleman by noon Saturday. The Randolph tavern, adjacent to the three-story, 30-room Randolph Hotel, was burned out and six rooms on the second third floors of the hotel were damaged extensively. Firemen put out the blaze in. about.15 minutes.
'A police spokesman, said the victims apparently piled up against the rear door, which opened inward, and were unable to get, out. Virgil 46, one of those who. said he had just walked into the bar with a into. bar friend, Charles "Buckler, in his 70s, "A guy walked in," Hill "stood just inside the front door threw a bucket of stuff and took off. There was a big, blast with power behind it, a big blaze and a lot of smoke going toward the back." "I was knocked off my stool.
I was on the second stool, next to a woman with a young child. I pushed them and my friend, Buckler, but the front. door. Then the front of the place blew "I've seen but nothing like this," he said. -rate.
