Levelland Daily Sun-News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 17, 1968 Page: 1 of 12
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VOLUME 28. NO. 13
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL (UP) WIRE
LEVELLAND, TEXAS
THURSDAY OCTOBER 17, 196B PAGES 12
FIVE CENTS
LBJ Makes New
Offer To Stop
Bombing North
Battles Lull, Casualties Down This Week
Spring
administration may he more
easy to negotiate with than Me
successor’s.
According to the official
sources hi Washington, toe nest
major decision was uptoHanoL
They saidjoknson had offered
Hanoi the bombii* halt in
return for three acts by North
Vietnam. To get the panes—
which Hanoi has'said is vital to
opening peace talks—Itorto
Vietnam would have to.
—Agree to include toe Santo
Vietnam government in penes
talks.
—Halt terror attacks against
South Vietnamese cities.
—W ithdraw her forces from
the Demilitarised zone (DMZ)
between North and South
Vietnam.
In Washfogton, the sources
said the hardest point for Hanoi
to swallow is accepting the
Saigon regime into the talks.
insisted their Viet Cm* Mm
SEE VIET PAGE 2
By WILLIAM SUNDERLAND
United Press international
Reports of a possible break*
through toward peace in Viet-
nam spread around the world
today. Attention centered an an
American offer to end bombard-
ment of North Vietnam.
UJS. officials announced there
had been no major break yet.
But officials reports of Ameri-
can-North Vietnamese diploma-
tic activity spurred talk that
progress may be imminent.
In Lexington, Ky., interior
Secretary Stewart L. Udall told
a political rally Wednesday
night a UJS. bombing halt "will
not surprise me. I have a hunch
it may occur very soon.’*
"Let us hope," said U.N.
Secretary General Thant at the
United Nations. U.N. sources
said Thant has been informed
the bombing halt may be
announced in the near future.
In London, diplomats said
Hanoi may have reluctantly
decided President Johnson’s
I COFFEE ,|
| AL GARDNER
IT TAKES A WHILE! Aunt
Jenny’s small niece, Dolly,
came back from her first day
at school.
Aunt Jenny said, "Well,dear,
what did you learn at school
today?”
The little girl pondered and
said: "Not much. I have to go
back tomorrow.”
By JACK WALSH
SAIGON CUP1)—Allied ar-
mor smashed a Communist
fortress just below the North
Vietnam border, military
spokesmen said today. UJS.
forces reported a relative
fighting lull and said casualties
last week were the lowest in
two months.
The South Vietnamese said
columns of their armored
personnel carriers crashed into
the Communist nest of bunkers
and buildings below the border
Demilitarized Zone(pMZ) Wed-
nesday and killed at least 75
North Vietnamese in a second
day of fighting there.
In Saigon UJS. spokesmen
opened their dally war commu-
nique by saying, “No major
ground actions were reported
yesterday that Involved UJS. or
free world (Australian, New
Zealand, Filipino, South Korean
or Thai) forces.”
Lull Significant
U.S. spokesmen gave no
reasons for the lull. Some
observers said it may be
significant the lack of
came as espsrts grew of a
HOW ABOUT that farmer who
was helping the doctor deliver
a baby for him by holdii^ the
lamp.
Unexpectedly, three babies
arrived on the scene and the
fanner ran out of the room
with the lantern.
"Bring that back” the doc-
tor ordered.
“Nope,” the farmer told him,
"It’s the light that’s attractin’
’em.”
Hurricane Gladys Hits
Florida, Texas Cold
“WHAT AM 1 supposed to do
with fids?” grumbled Ray Pier-
ce, accepting a receipt for a
traffic ticket from the police
rlaHf 9
CJRXs
“Keep it,” replied tM clerk.
tair* *«»«“**
RAYMOND DENNIS says:
Disposable income is called
“take home pay” because after
taxes and deductions you can’t
afford to go anywhere else with
it.
They said 177 Americans were
killed In combst last week with
another 1^71 being wounded—a
total 1,155 casualties, or the
lowest among GIs since the
week ending Aug. 24.
The number of Communists
reported killed last week
dropped to 1,527, lowest since
the week ending Aug. 3 when
1,461 were reported killed.
South Vietnamese spokesmen
said 176 of their troops were
killed last week and another 690
wounded. It was the lowest
government weekly casualty toll
since mid-July.
Despite a lull in UJS. ground
action, American pilots flew 109
missions against North Viet-
nam’s southern panhandle sup-
ply lines Wednesday, spokes-
men said. Despite rainy mon-
soon weather, pilots said they
hit at least 18 trucks, 5 bridges,
17 boats and 2 warehouses.
The battleship New Jersey,
fresh from pounding North
Vietnamese panhandle shore
positions, Wednesday went to
work on Communist bastions in
» the DMZ area. UJS. spokesmen
:j;| said her 16-inch guns destroyed
*! at least 31 Communist butld-
ings.
?: Just below the New Jersey's
% targets, the South Vietnamese
& armor struck the North Vietns-
mese invaders’ fort.
£: The North Vietnamese, dug
into bunkers, fired B40 end B41
I antitank rockets at the charging
armored personnel carriers
’ SEE BATTLE PAGE 2
Sunshine State with Ugh winds
and torrents of rain. SEE HURRICANE P. 2
On the mainland, a slow sold
front divided m**1""" warmth in Af *
the eastern half of the natfon ^OVCTtlOCT
from cooler weather In the
West. The front caused scab- All m w '
tered rain, showers or thunder- J± llOWflblP
showers from the upper Missis-
sippi Valley to the Southern
Rain fell in the southeastern WWOUflCCd
states and along the Washington
coast near the central Rockies. AUSTIN (UPD— The Tans
Snow flurries foil in the Railroad Commlsatoa Mgr sat
Wyoming and Colorado mom- toe state all allowable for de-
tains. vember at 4LS per cm* of pn-
Indlan sisnmer lived on in foe tentiai, the ism aa toe dnw
East, but freezing drill spread able for foe past two mAi
through the intormountaln re- Estimate production m6mr
gion of the West and frost the allowable is 2,906,456 bar-
glazed the northern puts of rols daily in November.
New Mexico and Arizona. Maxinuan production noted
Gladys battered the lower be 3^46,026 barrels ddly.
Florida Keys last Wednesday. Railroad Commission stodr-
The hurricane, which soaked man Jim Lsngdon said-fee d-
the Miami area with almost lowakle was be!i« left wt-
three Inches of rain in two changed “due to toe entrant
hours, threatened Florida's position of Texas cutes tel
multtmllliondoUu citrus belt, stocks,” which are 5J —«m*—
where the crop is ready for barrels less than a you mk
harvest. Sees Excess Crwie
Hurricane warnings were Spokesawn for toraa at|gr
displayed from Marathon, Fla^ purchasers sted tony wote*
westward to Dry Tortugms, sari have excess crude In Nowu
from Cape Sable northward to SEE NOVEMBER P. 2
Clearwater. Gale warnings and
a hurricane watch were in
effect north of Clearwater to
Cedar Kay and east te
Marathon to Key Largo.
Early morning temperatures
ranged from 26 at Price, Utah,
to 80 at Veto Beach, Fla.
Heavy rain, registering almost
VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES—Roy Reid falls prey to his two day from 6 to 8 pjn. at I evelland High School Cafeteria. All
aggressors Bob Thomman and BobWhitte all in flin and prepara- proceeds will go to worthy projects the Lions Carry out each
don for the annual Lions Club Pancake Supper, tonight, Ttiurs- year. (Staff Photo)
SCROOGE got Ms feelings
hurt the other day. “My dog,”
he said, “is just like one of the
family.”
“Oh, yeah?” the Snip said,
“wMch one?”
LBJ, Humphrey, Nixon Exchange
Witticisms At New York Dinner
dest-working President we have
had in this century.” And of
himself and Humphrey, Nixon
said “regardless of what others
call us, he is the son of a
druggist and I’m the son of a
grocer.”
Humphrey said he was
“pleased that my friend Dick
Nixon is here on the same
platform-almost within camera
range of me.”
The vice president said
By United Press International
With Richard M. Nixon on his
left and Hubert H. Humphrey
on his right, the Chief
Executive told it like it is;
“This could be my last press
conference. You won’t have
Lyndon Johnson to kick around
any more.”
This was the unexpected
scene Wednesday evening in
New York as the paths of the
two presidential candidates
crossed for the first time in the
campaign. Johnson materializ-
ed as a sort of referee.
It was a lighthearted dinner
for charity in honor of the late
Alfred E. Smith, one-time
governor of New York. Johnson
and the candidates outdid
themselves with benevolence.
Nixon, who spoke first,
praised Johnson as “the har-
C aliforma gubeniatorial elec-
tion.
In reference to Nixon’s
political comeback, Johnson
quipped, “We already have
some reports that he’s going to
rename Washington Resurrec-
tion City.”
Third party candidate George
Wallace was not invited to the
affair because he had m*
addressed it previously.
In their serious campaigning
Wednesday, Humphrey said he
would make a nationwide
appeal for funds to help him
match Nixon’s television cam-
paigning.
Questions Debating Skill
Speaking in SL Louis, he
again hammered on the debate
issue. ‘It you can’t take it an
television, you can’t take it in
the White House,” he said,
directing his remarks atNixon.
“If you can’t debate me you
couldn’t debate Mr. Kosygin."
In a nationwide radio address
SEE LBJ, HHH, NIXON P. 2
Archbishop Terence Booke of
New York, sponsor of the affair,
had wrought “what the televi-
sion networks, the United States
Congress and my telegrams
could not accomplish—bringing
Nixon to the same speakers’
platform.”
Johnson led the applause at
the introduction of both candi-
dates, and joshed Nixon on Ms
famous farewell to the press
after defeat in the 1962
Hockley County Grand Jury
Return 11 Indictments
Schedule Set
destruction of property; Marie
Hill for destruction of proper-
The Hockley County Grand
Jury returned II indictments
from 18 cases under investi-
gation in bearings that start-
ed Monday and ended Wednes-
day sf noon.
The following indictments
were completed: Jerry Jordan,
check law violation; Thomas
Camacho, assault with a pro-
Mtrited weapon; Larry Chris
McClure, destruction of per-
sonal property; Wanda Lamb-
right, check law violation; Del-
bert Hood, driving while intox-
icated, 2nd offense; James Mor-
ris Mathis, attempted burglary;
Fkmntlno Corelies, destruct-
ion of property; Lupe Castillo,
theft; Edward Castro,burglary;
Cosine Munlt, subsequent; WU-
Ue Lee Johnson, false report
at firs.
There were no Indictments
on the following cases; Jimmy
In Civil Court action the fol-
lowing disposition was made In
the case of C.B. Alexander vs.
Travelers Insurance Cot, set-
tled out of court by mutual
agreement.
Higher Parcel Rates
Expected Saturday
Postmaster Judson Burnett will be a 15-ceut Mke on most
reminded postal customers to- paresis now charged between
day that higher per eel post art $1.10 art and a 20-cent
catalog rates will go Into effect Increase on paresis now charg-
Saturday (October 19). Thereto ad over $4. Parcel post rales
increase will average 10.5 per are besed on the weight of the
cm* art la moat eases win package art dm distance it Is
mean an i fen —u« mailed,
postage par parcel. The higher Higher rates for Urn delivery
rates were wrowd by foe In- of packages and are
ferstate Commerce Comnrise- reqrired to bring revenue from
Spacemen Co
Acf, On Home
By AL ROSSJTE* JR.
UPI Space Writer
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPO-JWifo Apollo 7 boosting
chances for a Christmas moon
flight with each swfeg around
earth, its three ptfeta staged
another act of their orbiting
road show today and showed
television viewers how they
move effortlessly around to
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