Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 78, No. 303, Ed. 3 Wednesday, February 7, 1968 Page: 1 of 12
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PERMANENT AUTO TAG colors of green and white,
official Oklahoma colors, are being sought in a bill intro-
duced at the capitol Wednesday by State Sen. John Gar-
rett (D-Del City). With Garrett is his secretary, Mrs.
Need help? Write to Oklahoma City Times, P. O
Box 25125, Oklahoma City 73125 or telephone CE 2-3311
between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday.
There is a bunch of large dogs running loose in the
1100 block SW 55. The dog pound people come by, but
they have not solved our problem. L. D. R.
We reported this to Poundmaster Royal Burris and
five large dogs were picked up in this block within 48
hours. If this does not solve your problem, call us again.
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frontier, which Gen. William his son, Edmund H. Fuchs
C. Westmoreland has pre- of El Reno totes a camera
dieted will be the biggest at Bien Hoa air base. Pic-
enemy push of the war, ex- ture was taken before Com-
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The stop sign at NW 50 and Tulsa was knocked down
in an automobile accident. We reported it, but nothing
has been done to replace it. Mrs. V. W.
This was reported to the office of traffic control and
the sign has now been replaced.
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My husband is in the service and we have two insur-
ance policies with a Nebraska company which we pay
through a service allotment Recently I received overdue
notices from the company for the October payments. I
sent them to my husband who checked with his disburs-
ing officer and found the allotment had been discontinued
when they cleared their books. He immediately renewed
the allotment and wrote the company explaining what
had happened. Now, I have received two more reminders
for overdue payments. Can you help me? Mrs. S. J.
We asked Tim Turnbull, service officer for American
Legion Post No. 35, to help you and he called the insur-
ance company. The firm told him all the problems have
now been resolved.
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Special Forces camp in the
northwest corner of South
Pike Is Proposed
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) —
Construction of a turnpike
from Kansas City in north-
east Kansas to a point near
the Kansas, Missouri and
Oklahoma borders has been
called for in one of 48 bills
introduced in the Kansas leg-
islature. . .
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Firemen Only 6 Blocks Away,
But Storehouse Burns Quickly
An electrician from the
SEOUL (AP)
Norris Price, who recently was commissioned to paint all
of the state emblems for display at the capitol. From her
display came the idea for the new tags which would set-
tle the argument over changing tag colors each year.
2nd Division spokesman
said.
A few students actually
crossed the well-guarded
bridge but were headed off
by U. S. troops and South
Korean police.
Even had all the stu-
Police spotted the blaze at
the Quality Wrecking and
Salvage Co., 1308 NE 4,
shortly after 5 a.m. Assistant
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navy about 18 months ago.
There was no word as to
how young Hodges died.
Mrs. Marion Hodges of Eu-
gene, Hodges’ sister-in-law,
said from the family home in
Creswell that Mr. and Mrs.
Jess Hodges, the parents,
were notified Wednesday
morning.
Hodges was a letterman in
four sports.
The family said he was as-
signed to the Pueblo as a fire
control specialist.
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past eight days reached 22,-
748 by midnight Tuesday. It
said 1,768 allied troops have
been killed, including 614
Americans and 1,130 South
Vietnamese.
Flamethrowers Used
Military spokesmen said
the North Vietnamese began
pounding the Lang Vei camp
with artillery at dusk Tues-
day, then launched the
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34 PAGES—OKLAHOMA CITY, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1968
filled with fire. We got two
lines on it and were trying to
hook the master streams
when it fell in.
“There was a big, red glow
until it fell in, then flames
shot up 50 to 75 feet.”
At 7 a.m., relief crews be-
gan arriving to take over the
operation of dousing the
smoldering timbers and
sheet metal.
Newberry said he had to
pull his trucks back from the
Picture, Page 21
burning building after it col-
lapsed because of the intense
heat and a snapped electri-
cal wire that sent sparks
flying into the air.
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The U. S. Command said
Oklahoma Gas & Electric the enemy death toll in the
Vietnam.
Reports from Da Nang
said a Special Forces ser-
geant had radioed that only
five of the 25 Americans in
the Lang Vei camp were still
alive — he and four others in
the headquarters bunker. He
reported a knocked-out tank
was on top of the bunker.
5 Tanks Hit
The U. S. Command said
Lang Vei’s defenders de-
stroyed five of the nine Rus-
sian T-34 tanks sent against
them.
The massive assault on
Lang Vei, four miles west of
Khe Sanh, could be the kick-
off of the long anticipated of-
fensive along the northern
on South Vietnamese cities
and towns last week.
A senior member of West-
moreland’s staff, however,
suggested this remained to
be determined. He said: “I
wouldn’t go that far.”
High Toll Claimed
About 800 North Viet-
namese troops were reported
committed to the attack
along with the tanks.
The campaign against the
EL RENO — When Ed
H. Fuchs hopped a Viet-
nam-bound transport to
visit his boy, he hadn't
counted on getting into the
thick of the fight.
But when the enemy
launched its massive offen-
sive in the pre-dawn hours
last Tuesday, the 59-
year-old El Reno barber
found himself sporting a
.45 pistol and helping load
rockets on helicopter gun-
ships.
Fuchs was visiting his
son, at Bien Hoa airbase
when “they busted loose
with rockets and mortars
at 3 o’clock in the morn-
ing.”
Fuchs’ son is Maj. Ed-
mund L. Fuchs, 35-year-old
career soldier and the
maintenance officer of the
145th Aviation Battalion at
Bien Hoa.
When the Viet Cong at-
tacked Bien Hoa, simulta-
neous with attacks in Sai-
gon and other points, the
Fuchses raced upstairs in
the billet to a window as-
‘Raid’
ered the live wire.
The storehouse, formerly a
cottonseed mill, had a su-
per-structure of large wood-
en beams and was enclosed
with sheet metal, Newberry
said.
He said the building con-
t a i n e d plumbing fixtures,
furniture and old lumber col-
lected from houses torn
down in the urban renewal
area.
State: Partly cloudy and
cool through Wednesday
night, a little warmer
Thursday. Overnight lows
20 northeast to 32 south-
west. Highs Thursday in
50s. (Details, Page 27.)
HOURLY TEMPERATURE
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SAIGON (Reuters) —
Military experts had pre-
dicted that the special
forces camp L a n g -V e i
would be the first target in
any all-out Communist as-
sault on Khe Sanh, where
5,000 American marines
wait for an expected at-
tack from North Viet,
namese troops massed in
the area.
Surviving Green Berets
and Montagnard tribesmen
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I ordered some pictures from a firm in White Plains,
N. Y., and it said satisfaction was guaranteed. I didn’t
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“It was really dangerous still fought stubbornly in Sai-
here for a while,” he said.
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He said the heat was so in- tensive so far, has died down
tense, it blistered one of the
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Pentagon Wednesday
identified the dead crewman
of the USS Pueblo, the intel-
ligence ship captured by the
North Koreans, as Duane D.
Hodges, a fireman from
Creswell, Ore.
It also gave the names of
three injured crewmen:
Fireman Apprentice Ste-
ven E. Woelk, described as
seriously injured.
Radioman 3.C. Charles H.
Crandell and Marine Sgt.
Robert J. Chicca, both de-
scribed as slightly injured.
The Pentagon gave the
home town of Hodges only. It
said no further identification
will be provided for the other
three men under standard
Pentagon policy applying to
all missing or captured mili-
tary prsonnel.
At Creswell, Ore., relatives
ground attack about two
hours later. The nine Rus-
sian tanks rumbled east
along Highway Nine, leading
the infantrymen through the
camp's minefields and three
lines of barbed wire.
The camp’s garrison —
300-400 South Vietnamese
and Montagnard irregulars
and their American advisers
— took cover in their bunk-
ers, and North Vietnamese
sprayed the bunkers with
flamethrowers to drive the
defenders back from rifle
and machine-gun ports.
Contact Maintained
U. S. headquarters said ra-
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United States and North
Korea held a fourth secret
meeting at Panmunjom
Wednesday as U. S. troops
halted 400 South Korean
students trying to march
on the site to protest the
negotiations.
South Korean sources
said the secret meeting
preceded an open session
and asserted the United
States handed over an
apology to the Commu-
nists. A U. S. military
spokesman denied this.
But he did not deny a se-
cret meeting was held.
About five miles south of
Panmunjom, U. S. Army
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chief Nim Newberry said
units from a station just six
blocks away was there
“right away.”
“By the time we got here,
though,” Newberry said,
“the whole building was
relief of the Green Berets
but informed military
sources said it almost cer-
tainly was.
Russian-built tanks used
in the assault were not the
main threat.
The real menace was
posed by flamethrowers
used by the Reds. Military
sources said the flame-
thrower was the only real-
ly effective weapon against
strong concrete bankers.
But there was no
immediate information on
how successfully the Com-
munists used the flame-
throwers, which can in-
c i n e r a t e everything in
their path and suck the ox-
ygen from a bunker in a
split second.
troops clashed with demon-
strating South Korean col-
lege students who tried to
march across Freedom
Bridge.
South Korean police said
the soldiers fired 20 warn-
ing shots, then used rifle
butts to halt the students in
a two-hour melee. They re-
ported at least 24 students
were injured, nine serious-
ly. A statement from the
2nd U. S. Infantry Divi-
sion, whose unit was in-
volved, said no one was in-
jured.
Most of the students
were rounded up by South
Korean national police, a
northeast Oklahoma City storehouse and nearby fields,
wrecking and salvage com-
pany’s storehouse within six
minutes early Wednesday.
Firemena were hard-
pressed to keep the flames
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fought for their lives from
the concrete bunkers of the
camp attacked Wednes-
day.
Communists bombarded
Khe Sanh prior to the as-
sault on the Lang-Vie camp
and launched a probing at-
tack against a marine unit
on Hill 861.
A military spokesman
would not say if a relief
force was ordered to I he
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signed as Maj. Fuchs’
emergency post in case of
attack.
The elder Fuchs, a re-
tired army warrant offi-
cer, grabbed his son’s .45
and the major laid a car-
bine on the window sill as
they waited for Viet Cong.
"We didn't see a thing,”
Fuchs said. "But there
were helicopters all over
the area and explosions
over on the airfield.
"The next morning, he
and I got in a jeep and
went out to help keep the
choppers in the air, trying
to keep as many gunships
flying as we could," Fuchs
said.
"They were fighting
right down at the end of
the runway. We could see
the battle.
"The choppers were put-
tin’ it to 'em with rockets
and miniguns. They killed
200 right down from where
we were.”
Fuchs said his son
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cotic laws "fragmented.”
asked congress Wednesday
to create "a new and power,
ful Bureau of Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs.”
He also called for an anti-
riot law that would make it a
felony to cross state lines to
incite or take part in riots.
In a message to congress,
Johnson said hallucinogenic
drugs such as marijuana
and LSD present “an insidi-
ous and growing threat to
our nation's health, particu-
larly the health of young peo-
ple.”
He called for transferring
the Treasury Department’s
Bureau of Narcotics and the
Department of Health, Edu-
cation and Welfare's drug
abuse control powers to the
Justice Department to create
the new bureau to clamp
down on drugs.
Johnson also called for:
Top priority to battle or-
ganized crime through the
Justice Department’s series
of strike forces “in cities be-
set by racketeering.”
New laws to make it a fed-
eral crime to engage in gam-
bling “as a substantial busi-
(See NARCOTIC^—Page 21
Building
At Airport
VANCOUVER, B. C. (AP)
— A Canadian Pacific Air-
lines 707 ran off the runway
and crashed into an office
building after landing at the
Vancouver International Air-
port in heavy fog Wednes-
day. At least one person was
reported killed.
An official said the casual-
ty was believed to have been
a department of transport
employe in or near the build-
ing.
More than a dozen of the
52 passengers and seven
crew members on the flight
from Honolulu were reported
injured.
The Boeing jetliner appar-
ently smashed over four
small planes and a parked
car before hitting the De-
partment of Transport ramp
office. The building and
plane caught fire.
As the 707 slewed crazily
across the runway, one of its
wings dipped a standing
DC-8 jet airliner.
The 707 plowed nose first
Into the two-story building.
The nose of the plane was
planted wing-deep into the
building and passengers and
crew made their escape
through emergency exits.
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