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2 Saturday. Feb. 24.1968
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OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES
Homeless
Flooding
Vietnam
CriMw Nat P—Me, AaSraaaaiw
Icarus Racing Toward Earth
r‘ REBUILDING OF CHOLON. devastated Chinese section of SaiRon. is dis« ussed
by South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Van Loe. venter in dark glasses, and oth-
£* er Vietnamese officials. Rubble already cleared by bulldozers is seen in the
' background. (AP Wlrephoto)
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Gilt Throne
Survives War
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South Vietnamese R»*gi-
Ifteni of Maj. Pham Van
Pinh and ;i flanking eom-
any of Black Panther
angers, all volunteers, led
? Salaries I
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^rned." Dr. Fitzgerald said
Idler.
said he was questioned
i^out higher education sala-
ries and what might happen
■sfcmld sanctions be invoked
fcjy state teachers.
*j3r. Fitzgerald said he cit-
?d statistics that show sala-
ries paid those in higher edu-
ction have not increased
anoportionallv with other
slfctos since 1962.
;*• We’ve actually lost
:^i>und." he said. “That is
^hat 1 told the committee.’
tOr. Fitzgerald
said he is
_able to predict effects of
ill sanctions in Oklahoma.
;fitate Sen. Al Terrill (D-
tjawton) was to appear bo-
Tnre the panel later in the
*y
^Irs. Gladys Nunn. Musko-
gee, president of the Oklaho-
ma Education Association,
also testified Saturday. Slat-
’d to follow her was Charles
E. Rogers. Moore, president
if the Oklahoma Classroom
Teachers Association.
GOP
(Continued From Page 1)
feOer to win the nomina-
tion.
the resolutions commit-
tee spent most of the
morning turning down
right-wing resolutions, in-
cluding proposals that Su-
preme Court .Justice Earl
Warren and President
Johnson be impeached.
The resolutions commit-
tee endorsed Bartlett's
state program and called
for statewide equalization
of taxes, adoption of the
governor's management
study recommendations,
unearmarking of state tax
revenues and a shortened
ballot.
The committee also pro-
posed Republicans circu-
late initiative petitions to
fofee placing of corpora-
tion commission employes
under the merit system
and to abolish the office of
county school superintend-
ent if the Democratic nom*
1 n a t e d state legislature
falls to pass the provisions.
Riot Report Slated
WASHINGTON (AP) -
The commission thnt has at-
tempted to pinpoint causes of
.trban riots and ways of pre-
venting 1hem Is expected to
iivulgo its findings next
weekend.
by Capt. Tran Ngoc Hue,
himself a native of Hue.
They seized a mixed bag
of Communist weapons
and ammunition, some dis-
carded American rifles
and a quantity of North
Vietnamese military odd-
ments. They also freed two
shaken and weak South
Vietnamese soldiers who
had hidden inside the pal-
ace for 25 days.
Their forces took the
imperial throne room from
two sides and swept by in
a matter of minutes.
Chandeliers Destroyed
The throne room cham-
ber — which sits upon a
nine-step platform denot-
ing the nine ranks of the
Mandarin hierarchy — was
covered with the mud and
grime of the continuing
shellfire that hit the gener-
al area since the battle be-
gan January 31.
There was a gaping shell
hole in the root and an un-
detonated. 105mm artillery
shell just 25 feet from the
fragile throne.
Two of the six delicate
Chinese chandeliers had
been shot away. The 56 red
and gilt pillars supporting
the arched roof were vir-
tually undamaged, howev-
er.
"A good dust cloth would
clean up most of the
mess,” an American ma-
rine said.
Towers Tottering
The throne room opens
on a paved courtyard lead-
ing across a lotus pool to
wreckage of the big
emperor's gate about 200
yards away. There were
shell holes in the courtyard
and the ornate balustrades
b i s e c t i n g it were shot
away. Two fierce stone
lions, however, were un-
damaged.
The two Oriental towers
at each end of the 100-foot
gate were tottering preca-
riously, their bright red
supports almost shot away.
There was no specific ev-
idence that the Commu-
nists had occupied the
throne room itself.
They did, however, use
the vaulted arches of the
emperor's gate ns an am-
munition storehouse. The
three vaulted passageways
were littered with stacks of
ammunition for Chinese-
made AK47 assault rifles.
SAIGON (AP) — From
seven to 14 percent of South
Vietnam's people are home-
less Saturday and the gov-
ernment, in the midst of a
costly war, faces a stagger
ing refugee problem.
Just how staggering a
problem it is can be imag-
ined if. for example, from 15
to 30 million people were
homeless in the United
States.
For Saigon itself, the refu-
gee situation became an
acute problem after the
Communist Tet offensive.
For the rest of the country
the problem has been a
chronic one growing con-
stantly with the intensifica-
tion of the war.
Exact Number Unknown
Nobody knows precisely
how many refugees there are
in the nation of 14 million
people. The Vietnamese gov-
I eminent puts the figure at
642,795 homeless throughout
1 the country.
But U. S. sources say the
figure must easily be a mil-
lion and perhaps as much as
2 million. That is one person
in every 14, or perhaps one!
in every seven.
Nobody can say just how
many refugees tlr-re are in
side the capital itself. Ofli-
ets and mortars February |cjaUy ,h(, homole„ jn Sai-j
gon are not even classed a-
refugees. The areas into
Red
s
(Contilined From I’age 1)
ed and returned to duty.
The shelling Friday was
the heaviest since the Com-
munists fired in 1.500
rounds of artillery, rock-
Wallace
On Ticket
Just before the shelling,
a small patrol of South
Vietnamese Rangers spot-
ted North Vietnamese sol-
diers about 200 to 4(M> yards
from the base perimeter.
The Rangers opened fire
and the Communist force
turned out to be 250 to 350
strong.
The patrol pulled back
and U. S. artillery opened
up on the enemy troops,
who appeared to ho dig-
ging in southeast of the
Khe Sanh airstrip, possibly
in preparation for the ex-
pected major assault on
the base, military sources
said. Khe Sanh is guarded
by 5.000 U. S. marines and
5<k> Vietnamese Rangers,
hut an estimated 40.000
Communist troops are
around the area.
Bombs Showered
A I* correspondent Lewis
M. Simons reported anoth-
er North Vietnamese shell-
ing of the base Saturday,
lie described it as fairly
heavy.
The Americans replied
w ith raids on the suspecied
Communist positions by
eight-engine B-52s. which
dropped perhaps one mil-
lion pounds of bombs, and
air force, navy and marine
fighter-bombers.
The smaller planes flew
353 sorties around Khe
Sanh Friday and dropped
perhaps three-quarters of
a million pounds of explo-
sives.
The shelling of Tan Son
Nhut airport Saturday was
the second concentrated
barrage there in less than
a week.
4 Killed Under Beds
One of the 20 Russian-
designed 122mm rockets
that hit the base loro
through a wooden bar-
racks, killing four U. S. Air
Force sergeants who had
taken cover under their
beds.
Two other men in the
barracks and 33 men else-
where on the base were
wounded.
Six rockets landed in a
crowded section of Viet-
namese homes and shops
just outside the base’s
main gate. A government
spokesman said 11 civil-
ians were killed and five or
six wounded.
The base commander
said slight damage to one
of the airport’s twro run-
ways was repaired and
both runways remained op-
erational.
which they are jammed are
called, on official maps,
"food distribution centers ."
Many Agsorbcd
To be classed as a refugee
a person must be receiving a
stipend from the govern-
ment. The idea of this in the
past had been to discourage
the flood of h o m e 1 e s s I
streaming into what once!
was the safety of the capital
from a war-wracked coun-
tryside.
Many of the refugees in
ihe capital have been ab-
sorbed into its mainstream.
Officially, the South Viet-
n a m e s e government says I
there are 144.481 homeless in
the city and 76,088 more in
the small encircling Gia
Dlnh Province.
Half from Uhulon
Almost half of these, by of-
ficial account, lost their
homes and most of their be-
longings in the fighting
w hich created acres of smok-
ing rubble in the Cholon area
of Saigon.
That Communist offensive
erupted suddenly just as the
celebration of Tet, ushering
in the Year of the Monkey,
was getting under way.
A U. S. official says there
are 143 refugee stations scat-
tered around Saigon, a city
| already swollen to a popula-
tion of anything from 2 to 3'
million. The cumps are is-
lands of misery.
This is the biggest chal-
lenge yet for a government
which has not had much of a
record for meeting chal-
lenges," said one American
official.
"Those camps are sup-
posed to be temporary, and
that is where the challenge Is
— to prevent temporary
camps from becoming per-
manent."
The Americans reflect
worry that another offensive
with the force of the Viet
Cong's January 31 assault in
the Cholon area of Saigon
could generate a chaotic ref-
ugee situation.
Chicago Daily News
Service
LL)S ANGELES - A
chunk of ruck, less than a
mile wide, U racing to-
ward earth for a June 15
rendezvous but there is no
need to call on a defensive
missile to avert a collision.
Astronomer Samuel Her-
rick of the University of
California says there is no
chance of an encounter.
"Present calculation is
that Icarus will not come
, loser than 4.000,0(10 miles
to earth," he said Satur-
day.
Herrick, an expert in
celestial mechanics, has
been keeping an eye on Ic-
arus for many years. He
has computed the 1968 or-
bit by synthesizing pre-
vious passes and allowing
for gravity pull of planets.
A scare developed last
summer when an Austra-
lian physicist was quoted
as saying that a slight
veering of Icarus would
put it cm a collision course
with earth and produce the
effect of a major atomic
explosion.
He also is reported to
have said the United
States. Britain and Russia
were studying the possibili-
ty of using a nuclear rock-
et to drive Irarus away
from earth.
Herrick said only a body
large enough to have grav-
itational pul! would deflect
Icarus and there Is no such
body in its present orbit.
A few years ago, the late
Dandridge M. Cole sug-
gested to the American
! Astronautics Assn., that
an asteroid bomb could be
developed by using II-
hombs to divert Icarus
from its orbit. The energy
release, he said, would be
a 1,000 times greater than
u r b 11 about Ihe earth
w here it could be analyzed
for clues on the origin of
ihe earth.
Last fall, a scientist with
the U. S. Geological Sur-
vey suggested that aster-
oids be monitored more
closely so warning could
Ice given if one were about
to strike earth.
Photographs indicate
that large craters on the
moon have been created
by collision of the moon
with asteroids, said the
federal scientist, Harold
Masursky. He noted that
only 30 small astronomical
bodies are now being moni-
tored and many are coin-
ing "very, very close to
earth as astronomical dis-
tances go."
The June 15 visit of Iea-
rus will be the closest
since its discovery in 1949
by Walter Baade, who was
making observations from
Mt. Palomar observatory
near Los Angeles.
Its orbit was worked out
by Seth B. Nicholson and
Rich a r d S. Richardson,
who found it to be the
most eccentric of more
than 2,500 asteroids now
known.
Origin of the asteroids
remains a mystery. One
theory is that they are
fragments of a shattered
planet revolving between
Mars and Jupiter. Another <
is that they are the re-
mains of a collision be-
tween two planets or po«-
sibly a series of collisions ,
among several.
Icarus is named for a •
character of mythology
who made wings out of
feathers set in wax. But
when he flew too close to
the sun. Ihe wax melted
and he died.
I
Goal Revealed
By Defectors
Bad Day
For Heist
STOCKHOLM, S w e d e n, were being added a 1 m n s t
(AP) — A goal of 2,000 defee-jdaily. Requests for asylum
tors in Sweden was set Sat- are pending,
urday by a group of Ameri.l The deserters have sehed-
can army deserters protest-^uled a meeting Sunday to
ing the U. S. role in the Viet- organize an association
jnamesewar. ! which they said would work
They are entering Sweden with a similar federation of
at an average of one a day A in eric a n defectors in
and this rate will pick up. France,
said Richard Bailey. 19. ol There are at least 1(K) to
Jacksonville. Fla., one of the 150 army d e s e r lets in
four American sailors who! I1 ranee. Bailey said
quit the aircraft carrier In-
trepid in Japan last fall and
arrived here via Moscow De-
cember 29.
The four sailors are among
the 13 who have been grant-
ed asylum by the Swedish
government.
The Swedish aliens com-
mission said it had a list of
at least 30 Americans who
had defected and
"You don't hear too much
about them. They aren't ac-
cepted as they arc here.
They have to work through
the underground."
Bailey said he was meet-
ing another defector at the
airport Saturday, but he de-
clined to give the soldier s
name.
NEW YORK (AP) — A f
man strode past a long line
of waiting bank customers
Friday and handed a note to
a teller which read: "This is
a stiekup. l’lease cooperate.
Hand over your big bills." j
What the man didn’t notice
was about a dozen police-
men. in plain clothes, wait-
ing in the line to cash their
paychecks.
As the man (Ic'd with S4.30f)
from the Drydoek Savings
Bank branch on Second Ave-
nue. manager James De-
Marco told Patrolmen Peter
! Vitale and Thomas Mcrlino
j w hat happened.
The officers gave chase,
! fired throe warning shots,
and captured the man, iden«
tified as Ramsey Snow. 21, of
(>maha. Neb.
a multi-megatom bomb.
Several scientists have
suggested "capturing" an
asteroid by nudging it into
He* is from West Germany,
others and "my job is to see that he
----- ' gets with the right kind of
Durant Student family." Bailey added.
Defecting servicemen are
killed ill (]ratdl working through two groups
— the* moderate Stockholm
DENISON. Texas — A conference on Vietnam.
21-year-old student from headed by the prominent
HIT'S SPRING!!
immi II THE 10*1 SMW
"Winn. Cozy. Comfortoble”
Don't M!ss It At The
Fairgrounds
Feb. 21 thru Feb. 2S
Sun Makes
Run at It
! Southeastern State College.
Durant, was killed Shortly
| after midnight Saturday in a
| one-car accident just outside*
! Denison. The victim was
Swedish pacifist Gunnar
Mvrdal. and the militant,
left-wing National Liberation
Front, FNL.
The U. S. servicemen who
Lots of sunshine and
warmer weather through
Sunday was forecast Satur-
day for most of snow weary
Oklahoma.
The weatherman said state
skies will be clear to partly
cloudy with southerly winds
pushing the temperature into
the 60's by Sunday.
Radar Saturday afternoon
showed the last traces of
show activity in the state
covering 20 percent of an
area between Bartlesville
and Shawnee.
Northeast Oklahoma is ex-
pected to receive light snow
flurries through Saturday
night.
Overnight lows are expect-
ed to be from 25 in eastern
portions to 35 west. Highs
Sunday w ill be from 55 to 65
identified as Robert Vernon have found refuge in Sweden
1 Ashley, have split Into two camps
Officers said Ashley's ear but most of them, according
overturned several times be- to Bailey, are solidly behind
fore he was thrown out and the planned defectors' organ-
pinned beneath the vehicle. \ization._
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Bulletin Big Seller
NEW YORK (AP) —
"Your Rights If Arrested," a
legal bulletin published by
the state attorney general's
office has become a runnway
best seller with 10,000 re-
quests for it in the last week.
Lake Sites Offered
TULSA (AP) — Bids on 32
cottage sites on Fort Gibson
Reservoir and 59 cottage
sites on Tenkiller Ferry Res-
ervoir have been invited by
the corps of engineers. Each
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American Independent party
has been certified to run can-
didates in the stute's general
election In November.
The party filed a copy of
Its articles and incorporation
In Montgomery Friday.
"Stand up for America,"
the same slogan used by the
former Alabama governor in
his presidential campaign, Is
the now party's registered
motto.
Officers were listed ns
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