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Tuesday. March 18. 1969 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS afTOadsi' Councilman 10,000 GIs Has Viet Begi dieine For Railroads? Bitter tf '4 TV i N7 vV Offensive SAIGON (AP) More than 10,000 American troops began a massive counteroffensive northwest of Saigon today" to forestall any drive that the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese might try to make on the city. The drive, opened on the 24th day of the Viet Cong's spring offensive, was centered in an. area of jungles and rubber trees 40 miles northwest of Saigon.

US intelligence officers be-: Allied sources reported ra- lieve as rZS 7.500 troops dar SSST! of the North Vietnamese 7th vices had detected heavy trying to push By HUGH RUTLEDGE City Councilman William A. Leak, a pharmacist by trade, has prescribed some things for railroads operating Jrt Indianapolis which could turn out to be bitter medicine. In an angry statement at last night's City Council meeting, Leak said: "I'm getting sick and tired waiting for trains at crossings and I want something done about it." had complaints about trains stopping near Howe High. School for crew changes. In a final blast, Leak, a Republican, charged railroads are doing a "poor Job" keeping the street crossings repaired.

WORRY MORE ABOUT CHUCKHOLES Democrat Councilman Daniel Moriarty an employe of, tVia Dann Contra Railroad. ft 7 jtffcXi if i Jscsjt if Air Strike Followup south along the Saigon Rrver toward the capital. The U.S. command threw troops of the 1st and 25th Infantry Divisions, the 1st Air Cavalry Division and the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment into what field commanders called a "compression" at- tempt to pin down the strong enemy forces. 28 ENEMY TROOPS KILLED U.S.

reported at least 28 enemy soldiers killed by air and artillery strikes in the only significant contact so far, during a preliminary phase of the operation yesterday. American command said helicopter gun ships scouting the area drew heavy fire from the 'ground. Pilots estimated there were about 300 enemy troops in the area. U.S. fighter-bombers and artillery pounded the enemy for several hours.

No. U.S. casualties were reported. An operation earlier this month in the same area included repeated heavy raids by B52 bombers. Some officers said this may already have broken up enemy concentrations and plans for moving south.

But three other fights flared during the past 24 hours along the same approach corridor 26 to 40 miles north of Saigon. U.S. forces reported another 58 enemy soldiers killed. Only a few Amer icans were wounded. 60 PROOF IMPORTED" BV NATIONAL bombed hillside southwest of Da Nang following an hour-long air strike on enemy positions.

The Marines are inspecting enemy bunkers and foxholes. They found 1 1 Viet Cong bodies in the area. AP. SAIGON Two 7th Regiment- Marines move cautiously through the devastated underbrush of a Negroes Plan Trading Stamps SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Formation of a Negro-owned Black Brown Trading Stamp Corp. was announced Inheritance Tax Bill Returns To Court By JACK AVERITT The multimillion dollar case of a pocket-vetoed inheritance tax bill, resurrected by court action and subsequently repealed by the Legislature, will be back before the Indiana Appellate Court next week.

To be approved, rejected or repeal all 32 to the date of It will feature a picture of singer James Brown on eacn stamp Art Powell, former profes- sional football end, is president. He said the firm will begin stamp distribution April 1 and has signed about 40 merchants, both Negro and white, in the San Francisco area. CANADIAN WHISKY -A BLEND suggested the city should worry mure auuui muinuuica and keeping trucks off downtown streets. In other action last night, the council annexed a lot at 42nd and Mitthoeffer Road, which the city intends to purchase for the site of a new fire station. Among ordinances intro- I uutcu waa unc Liiat wuuiu increase 17 city license and per ices, miuuici in mit fees.

Another measure introduced calls for an emer- aDDrODriation of 000 for the city to hire private contractors to remove condemned buildings. Also approved was a resolution urging Mayor Richard G. Lugar to meet with officials of the State Fair Board and Butler University in an attempt to provide the Indianapolis Pacers basketball team with a place to play the Ampriran Rnckpthnlt Accnria. tion, playoff games, Cannons Boom Across Suez Sy UnIM Pmi Inttrmtioittl Israeli tanks shelled the Egyptian cities of Port Twefic and Suez today during a two-hour cannon duel with Egyptian troops across the Suez Canal, Cairo radio said. tarTsSeartr broad- cast said there were no Egyptian casualties.

Fires erupted in Suez but were quickly extinguished, it added. The broadcast claimed Egyptian forces "destroyed Israeli equipment and killed their personnel who opened fire." It did not give further details. Less than three hours earlier, an Egyptian military spokesman said Israeli tanks and long-range artillery shelled Egyptian units across the canal for 40 minutes south of the Bitter Lakes. In Jerusalem, military spokesmen reported an early morning exchange of rifle fire across the canal. No casualties were announced.

In Cairo, King Hussein of Jordan disclosed that Arab troops in Syria, Iraq and Jordan are under a new unified command to oppose Israel. Hussein, in Cairo for talks with President Gamal Abdel Nasser, told the authoritative Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram the command had significantly tightened anti-Israeli forces along the eastern front. 1 Kfc, XVAS u. -W" north- the northwest and the north east. The movements indicated the Viet Cong may be trying to find a way through the mass of U.S.

and South Vietnamese bases protecting Saigon. U.S. military analysts saia Saigon is still the ultimate goal xu. nMir'd enrintr nffon. of the enemy spring onen-sive.

Although a captured document indicated an attack on the city between Thursday and next one analyst said: "We don't feel that during March, an attack will materialize on Saigon. We feel the objective is Saigon ultimately." Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, said on a visit to Manila the enemy spring offensive has been contained.

He warned that the Viet Cong's heavy losses "may not be enough" to dissuade the enemy from further attacks. Ghost Stories Because he has received so many original ghost stories from fans, Edward Mulhare, starring as the ghostly Capt. Gregg in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir," is compiling the tales for his forthcoming book, "Ghosts I Have Known." PERFECTION 1200 Colon THE STOKE DIV. TIFFANY SUPPLY 940 E.

MICHIGAN DISTILLERS PRODUCTS NEW YORK VERY REMARKABLY PRICED A99 He said most of the complaints he gets from taxpayers concern delays caused by long trains blocking streets for long periods, especially on the East and West sides of the city. As a result of Leak's charges, the council agreed to ask the city legal department to study the feasibility of banning the operation of trains in the city during the 7 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. rush hours. "Maybe we should start arresting some conductors," Leak suggested.

The blocked crossings also are dangerous for children because they climb between the cars, he said. In addition, he suggested councilmen consider passage of an ordinance that would limit the number of cars on a single train. Council President Thomas Hasbrook also suggested the tujr r------- ty of limiting the areas where trains can stop, Hasbrook reported he has MORE ABOUT Grandma Continued from Page I that maybe one of the other "eirls" in the Grandmothers Club here, of which Mrs. Lyon was a founder, might have entered her name, but that, too, has been ruled out "I haven't said anything to them about it," she said. She hasn't shown any of the girls her bathing suit picture yet either, she admitted, and isn't likely to.

It would probably cause gossip. A spokesman for the Chicago public relations firm running the contest said the glamour grandma "will be much more than pretty looking women." He pointed out some of the entries are real dazzlers, though, including a 65-year-old Ohio grandma whose vital statistics are 38-24-36. Such qualities as these notwithst anding, special talents, including anything from being able to give a dramatic reading to rug making, will be considered, the public relations man assured. The many-talented Mrs. Lyon has won scores of prizes and ribbons with her farm product exhibits at fairs and farm shows.

She even once won a hog calling contest. She's also a budding amateur photographer and writes a folksy monthly column for the Farm Bureau Co-op's newspaper, The Farm News of Martin County. SHE HAS 33 GRANDCHILDREN Her grandma statistics are 8-33-20; that's children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, in that order. She spent her adult married life on a farm just down the gravel road from the Mt. Calvary Methodist Church in which she now lives comfortably.

The small church she attended closed in 1962 because its dwindling congregation could no longer support a minister. The property stood idle two years and weeds took over the church yard and the cemetery. In the fall of 1964, just a few months after her husband passed away, Mrs. Lyon began negotiations to buy the cemetery so she could keep it up. She said church officials told her she couldn't buy the cemetery without buying the church, too.

So she bought them both and she now must certainly rank among the nation's most unusual grandmother landlords. Crop Acreage To Be Same As 1968 WASHINGTON (AP) In- oiana farmers plan to plant about the same acreage in major crops this year as in 1968. The Agriculture Department said a March 1 survey indicated Hoosier farmers would plant 5,041,000 acres in corn, or 99 per cent of last year's acreage; 3,155,000 acres in soybeans, 103 per cent of the soybean acres in 1968; 431,000 acres in oats, 95 per cent, and 5,800 in tobacco, 100 per cent, enactment, ana gov. cagar v. Whitcomb signed the repealers.

Neff, in a Feb. 28 request for an order to make the state pay the MTA its share, contended the repealers were of no effect. Starting the court action with Neff was Indianapolis attorney Richard a member of the 1967 Legls- Assault Case Verdict Due A Criminal Court I jury is expected to return a verdict bv tonieht in the trial of a 29-year -old man charged with robbery and criminal assault against a 69-year old newspaper vendor. Harold Scott, 1177 W. 27th, is accused of attacking and beating the elderly woman at the rear of the StariNews building, 307 N.

Pennsylvania, shortly after 1 a.m., April 27. The victim testified she was waiting to be picked up by her daughter, when she was attacked. The daughter said she surprised the attacker when she went looking for her mother Scott was apprehended later. The victim and her daughter identified Scott. Conviction of robbery carries a 10 to 25-year prison term, and assault and battery with intent to rape carries a 1 to 10-year term.

Gasoline Blast Burns Father, f-r I Ififllv WINDSOR (5 Canadian tfe lature and now a state Supreme Court judge. He didn participate in the. court's action Their negotiated fee with the MTA in the case was 10 per cent of the first year's MTA revenue, if the MTA actually received the new money. It has been estimated at $500,000 to $700,000, based on possible new revenue of $5 million to $7 million. Neff also filed notice of attorney fees that would be due.

Exhibits attached to the reauested order indicate the county turned over more than $14.8 million to the state the last two years as the state's 92 per cent share under the older law. The State Budget Agency has estimated the state would lose $32 million in revenue in 1967-69 if it had to abide by the pocket-vetoed inheritance tax bill and possibly another $6 million if other pocket- vetoed measures were revived! Gov. Whitcomb asked for but didn't get a special $38 million reserve in the event of an adverse court ruling grow ing out of the pocket veto decisions. If the state eventually required to pay the money, the governor may have to recon sider the possibility of special session of the Legis lature. Britain Ready For Invasion Of Anguilla LONDON (UPI) Britain mobilized 240 paratroops and policemen in full combat gear today for what diplomatic sources said might be an in vasion of Anguilla in the Caribbean to restore colonial rule, A British diplomat returned from the former island colony last week saying it was under lums from the United States, Army trucks carrying 200 red-bereted paratroopers and 40 policemen, all in combat gear, rumbled into the Royal Air Force base at Lyneham, 70 miles west of London, late yesterday.

Two troop-carrying turboprop transports stood by, On the rebellious island, self-proclaimed President Ron aid Webster and a 250-man de fense force vowed to "fight to the death" with a dozen 200' year-old cannons, 13 carbines and two machine guns, the London Daily Express re ported. further studied is a request by John F. Neff, special attorney for the Mass Transportation Authority, for an order directing the state to account for and pay the MTA 90 per cent of what the state has been collecting in inheritance taxes in the county the last two years. Chief Justice John Pfaff said during a court conference next week, but gave no hint as to when a decision might be expected. Counties, under older law, keep 8 per cent of the state inheritance taxes they collect and turn over the other 92 per cent to the state.

The 1967 Legislature passed a bill allowing counties to keep their 8 per cent and also retain 90 per cent of what the state has been getting a total of about 91 per cent for counties. In Marion County, the extra money would have gone to the MTA. Former Gov. Roger D. Brah-igin pocket-vetoed the bill by not acting on it.

The Appellate Court last Dec. 31 ruled governors have no constitutional authority to pocket-veto bills passed by the Legislature, and held that the measure was law after all. By implication it resurrected 31 other pocket-vetoed bills. The Indiana Supreme Court split, 2-2, on a possible transfer, an action that left the Appellate Court decision in tact. The Legislature last month passed bills seeking to money in two paper bags to the first alley east of the pharmacy on English.

There, the gunman told Bryan to keep walking for about 30 minutes, Bryan said, and fled. About 90 minutes later Richard E. McDivitt, 26, manager at the Beneficial Finance Corp. offices at 2839 Lafayette Road, reported that a man carrying a double-barrelled shotgun forced him to hand over an undetermined Z4, "of 30W hope, told investigators he was $zoo in casn. Crimes investigated by Indianapolis police during the 24-hour period ending at 6 a.m.

today were: Burglaries 24 Larcenies 42 Robberies 5 Shooting 1 Stolen vehicles 18 Waitress Beaten, Robbed At Hotel Cn Im RncAmAnf control of "gangster-type ele-JOn in Dasemenr ments," possibly Mafia hood- Tonight serve Windsor Canadian: the remarkable, sippin'-smooth Canadian that's already changing thousands of Americans' ideas on the whisky to serve. A 55-year-old waitress at the Sheraton-Lincoln Hotel was beaten and robbed yesterday in a room at the hotel. Hotel spokesmen said Miss Maurine Wingate was found at 6:20 p.m., lying on the floor of Room 324, which is reserved for waitresses to change their clothes. Miss Wingate, who was taken to Methodist Hospital for treatment of head and face injuries, told police a man A 28-year-old Eastside man and his 3-year-old son were treated at Community Hospital and released last night after they were burned in a gasoline explosion in their home. Firemen said Wendell Bryan, 208 N.

Hendricks Place, and his son, Patrick, were in the basement of their home at 7:20 p.m. where Bryan was cleaning some tools with gasoline. Investigators concluded that the fumes were ignited by a pilot light in a water heater. 7b .7,: of cash. The man, ni Eb0Ut McDivi" said' him a At vm w-v brown PaPer ba and rdered ay.Cton: him to fill it with money, rad Bryan, 43, a pharmacist at a i i.

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Only Windsor Canadian is born of icy mountain glacial water drawn pure ft 4n Mrs. Helen Barfield, 51 at in bJockuof North gunpoint while he emptied the Pennsylvan.ia when three worn-cash drawer of an undeter- took walIet containing unce you do, you 11 never settle for less or pay more. That's tradition for youl LOOK OUT! HERE SHE COMES AGAIN LONDON, Ohio (AP) An airplane speed check set up by the Ohio Highway Patrol on U.S. 40 clocked Mrs. M.

A. Conavey, 43, driving 86 miles hour, polide said. The same afternoon, he said, the speed check was moved to the southbound lane of 1-70, where Mrs. Conavey was clocked at 98 miles an hour. She was cited for speeding both times and must appear in London Municipal Court mined amount of money.

Bryan said the man then went to the prescription counter and forced him to hand over an undetermined amount of a variety of narcotics, which the gunman asked for by name. With the gan, a revolver, Bryan said, the man made him tarry the drugs and ldilii)lM.