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Yanks shoot steel darts to repel waves of Red guerrillas

SAIGON UPI — U.S. troops killed 348 attacking Communists with almost point blank barrages of tiny steel darts today in a Cambodian border battle that closed out the bloodiest truce of the Vietnam war. military spokesmen said. Moments after the pause ended, American jets resumed bombing North Vietnam. UPI correspondent Robert Kaylor reported from Dau Tieng. 60 miles northwest of Saigon, that about 1,500 Viet Cong smashed into a U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division artillery fortress before dawn in the final hours of a 36-hour New Year's Eve truce. Fighting against being overrun, the Americans lowered their artillery barrels and boomed round after round of “beehive” shells into the human waves of guerrillas. Each “beehive” shell exploded into hundreds of half-inch darts that shredded the Viet Cong ranks, Kaylor said. The defense of Dau Tieng cost the Americans 23 men killed and 153 wounded, U.S. spokesmen said. During the New Year’s truce 27 Americans were killed Two flee State Farm State police reported Saturday morning that two inmates of the Indiana State Farm escaped from the Putnamville Institution Friday night. The escapees were identified as David Lee Tarpey, 30, Columbus, and James Woody Garland, 25, also of Columbus. Tarpey was serving a term for theft and Garland for second degree burglary. They were first reported missing at 9:30 Friday night

and 205 wounded in all, they said. South Vietnamese troops suffered 44 men killed and 132 wounded. The Communists lost 546 men killed and nine captured as they violated the peace 177 times, Allied spokesmen said. They said never before had so many Communists been killed in so many violations in a short truce. In the air, American spokesmen reported "normal” strikes under way once more against North Vietnam. “Toothless” scouting flights during the truce showed the Communists using the pause, as expected, to flood their supply lines with war materiel before the American planes came again, the spokesmen said. When the truce ended, U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine jets went promptly to work on the railroads, bridges, roads, supply dumps and water traffic of North Vietnam, the spokesmen said. The resumption of bombing squelched speculation the United States would prolong the pause in hopes the North Vietnamese would respond with a willingness to talk peace. During the truce in South Vietnam, the Communists spoke only out of the ends of their guns. The greatest fight roared for 10 hours as legions of the Viet Cong’s 271st and 272nd regiments — units battered by U.S. forces the past tw r o months on the Cambodian border — stormed out of the jungle seven miles south of Cambodia. They used mortars and recoilless rifles In hopes of destroying the 25 th Division artillery base that threatened their longtime guerrilla stronghold area. The guerrillas then launched the human wave assaults.

Famed surgeon performs second heart transplant

CAFE TOWN, South Africa UPI — H*art doctor, Christiaan Barnard, today attempted his second cardiac transplant, fellow surgeons said. It was the third such operation ever performed, the second by Barnard, and the first between persons of different races. The 30-member medical team headed by Barnard worked to place the heart of a young colored man in the chest of a 58-year-old white dentist, Groote Schuur Hospital sources said. Barnard’s first transplant operation Dec. 3 took seven hours and the heart functioned until 18 days later when grocer Louis Washkansky died of pneumonia. A heart transplant operation In New York to save a baby failed six hours after surgery last month. The patient today was stocky Philip Blaiberg, reported critically ill with a deteriorating heart condition. The transplant organ came from the body of Clive Haupt, 24. Sources close to his family said he died of a brain hem-

orrhage. Earlier reports said Haupt w-as a traffic accident victim. They said Haupt collapsed while swimming at a beach Monday and was taken to a hospital where doctors diagnosed a brain hemorrhage. Hospital sources said tests on Haupt were begun immediately and showed his blood and body tissues would match well with those of Blaiberg. The tests took seven hours and were conducted before Haupt died, they said. Pleads not guilty Mrs. Phyllis Stodgell, 31, Indianapolis, pleaded not guilty when arraigned Friday in the Putnam Circuit Court to conspiracy to commit a felony. She is charged with attempting to send a large package of cannabif, a m r» cotics drug, to her husband, Mike Sto tgell, a prisoner at the State Farm. Judge Francis N. Hamilton set her trial for February 5 and fixed her bond at $2,000.

New officers installed by local Masonic orders

York Rite Masons in the Greencastle community installed officers for 1968 at a joint meeting Friday evening, Dec. 29, at the Masonic Temple here. With Frank F. Dicks as installing officer and Harry B. Eggers as marshal, Greencastle Commandery No. 11 installed the following officers: Frank F. Dicks. Eminent Commander Maynard O. Tuttle, Generalissimo Willard E. Silvey, Captain General John W. Schmitt, Senior Warden Clinton B. Gass, Junior Warden Frank T. McKeehan. Recorder Ralph Bee. Treasurer William A. McNeff. Prelate Marvin D. Steele, Standard Bearer Harold R. Pierson, Sword Bearer Harry B. Eggers, Warder William R. Alexander, Sr., Sentinel John W. Schmitt was Grand High Priest and Estill Meek was Grand Captain of the Host as Greencastle Chapter No. 22. Royal Arch Masons installed officers for 1968 as follows: Local traffic accident City police reported this morning that a property damage accident occurred Monday at 2:15 p.m. at Washington and Locust Streets. Vehicles involved were a 1967 Chevrolet driven by Ronald G. Spencer, 20, and a 1957 Chevrolet driven by Jonathan D. York, 17. Officer John Pursell estimated the damage at $200 to the York car anu flOQ to the Spencer auto.

Maynard O. Tuttle, Excellent High Priest Harry B. Eggers. King Frank F. Dicks, Scribe Harold R. Pierson, Captain of the host Marvin D. Steele, Principal Sojourner Willard E. Silvey, Secretary Howard L. Williams, Treasurer Charles A. Lyon, Royal Arch Captain Ralph P. Crousore, Master of the Third Veil Ralph Bee, Master of the Second Veil William J. Knauer, Master of the First Veil Frank T. McKeehan, Chaplain William R. Alexander, Sr., Guard Death in the family prevented Ralph P. Crousore from being present to be installed Illustrious Master of Greencastle Council No. 107, Royal and Select Masters. His installation ceremony will be performed at the Stated Assembly Jan. 10. Other officers for the Council included: Charles A. Lyon, Deputy Master Maynard O. Tuttle. Principal Conductor of the Work Estill Meek, Recorder Frank T. McKeehan, Treasurer Murray R. Lewis, Captain of the Guard Harry B. Eggers, Conductor of Council John W. Schmitt, Steward William R. Alexander, Sentinel Frank F. Dicks, Chaplain Frank T. McKeehan was installing officer and Willard E. Silvey was marshal for the Council installation.

MR. 1968 HERE—Mrs. Donald Hoskins proudly poses with son, Bryan, the first baby born in 1968 at the Putnam County Hospital, in the picture above. The Hoskins reside near Putnamville.

Deep concern expressed by Pope over Viet war

VATICAN CITY UPI — Pope Paul VI has expressed concern that the Vietnam war will spill into Cambodia, Thailand and Laos and wreck progress toward peace, Vatican sources said today. The sources said the Pope referred to the possibility of war in Vietnam’s neighboring countries when he said in a New Year’s address that “terrible obstacles arise to complicate” the search lor peace. Three fire alarms City firemen were called to the E. O. King home, 1147 Avenue E, at 9:30 Sunday night. They reported an overheated oil stove but no damage. At 8:35 Monday morning, they made a run to the Lulu Johnson residence, 103 Olive Street. There was no fire but vapor from steam resulted in the firemen being called. A third holiday run was made at 11 p.m. Monday to the Paul Bickford home, 815 Stadium Drive. An overheated fireplace caused $100 damage, according to the report.

Not long after the papal address a leading Roman Catholic cardinal said in Bologna, Italy, that the church must ignore criticism and demand that the United States stop bombing North Vietnam. In Paris, President Charles de Gaulle praised Pope Paul as an “apostle of peace in a universe stained with blood and scandalized by absurd conflicts.” The 70-year-old pontiff said Monday he felt the way was still open for a negotiated peace in Vietnam but he added there was a feeling of frustration over “difficulties which oppose the securing of peace.” He added that he “would wish to ward off the tremendous disaster of a spreading war, an endless war . . .” He did not mention Cambodia. Thailand or Laos by name but sources said he had them in mind and there were indications papal diplomats in Southeast Asia were working to keep the war from spreading. Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, the archbishop of Bologna who has been considered a candidate for the papacy in the past, said in a Monday sermon that the church must insist on an end to the bombing of North Vietnam “even though this may displease some people.”

Dunreith burns after freight trains collide

DUNREITH, Ind. UPI—A giant fire triggered by the collision of two freight trains burned out of control early today on a cargo of gasoline, crude oil and deadly chemicals, forcing the 236 residents of Dunreith to flee their homes into near zero temperatures. The threat of additional explosions and the danger of deadly chemical fumes left firemen helpless in the face of the holocaust, which destroyed nearly half of the town. They could do nothing but withdraw and watch the town burn. “We are just letting it bum now,” said State Police Sgt. James Klieman. Officials ordered firefighters and police out of the town when it became apparent there was danger that two 12,-000-gallon ammonia tanks would rupture, releasing their contents into an atmosphere already heavy with highly flammable chemicals. Roalroad officials said of the chemicals being carried in seven other cars the most deadly was acetone cynanhydrin, which would kill immediately upon inhalation. The others were methlyn methacrylate, etheylyn oside, and vinyl chloride. 12 below zero here It was bitter cold in Greencastle and Putnam County Monday in the first subzero wave to hit the community so far this winter. The Daily Banner thermometer registered a low of 12 degrees below zero at 8 o’clock Monday morning. Residents in rural areas reported that their thermometers registered as low as 16 below. The mercury began rising later in the morning and recorded a maximum of a chilly 16 above at 4 p.m. This morning’s low was 12 above.

As result of a traffic accident at 1014 South College Avenue at 5:50 p.m. Saurday, Anthony Baynard, 18. city, was arrested by Officer Larry Rogers for failure to have an operator’s licenses. Police said Baynard was driving a 1956 Ford owned by Raymond Churchill and hit a parked 1967 Chevrolet belonging to James D. Hilburn, Moore’s Court. Damage was estimated at $350 to Hilburn's auto and $200 to the Churchill car. Also arrested Saturday at 8:25 p.m. was Jackie L. Eiler, 25, Greencastle, Route. Eiler was booked at the Putnam County Jail by Officer John Pursell for driving while under the influence of intoxicants and public intoxication.

Miraculously there were few injurlei and most of them were minor. An explosion when the trains collided Monday night was spectacular but caused no loss of life. The residents of Dunreith fled to safety. The explosion and ball of flame that “lit up the whole town like daylight” was seen or felt as far away as Indianapolis, 40 miles to the west. The fire burned half of the building* in the town, including its only industry, a canning factory and fertilizer complex. Firemen said it would be only a matter of time before the rest of the town was

gone.

Residents in the rural area north of Dunreith were warned to be ready for immediate evacuation if it became apparent they were in danger of being swept by lethel clouds of smoke. The residents were told by state police to watch for smoke. They were told that “any time a mass of smoke gathers, get out—quick.” Many residents immediately packed up and left the danger area to stay with relatives or friends further

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A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Railroad said the two freights were passing each other at about 9 p.m., EST Monday when one of the trains bumped into the other. He said one Pennsylvania freight had been made up in Columbus and was headed for Indianapolis. The second was from Indianapolis bound for New York. The freights, passing within inches of each other, slammed together and the tank cars exploded. At least 28 cars were derailed, spilling over and across U.S. 40, a main transcontinental highway which runs through the center of Dunreith. The railroad said the derailment apparently stemmed from a brok-

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Two local men were arrested at 12:07 Monday morning and jailed by State Trooper Gary Hood. William H. Irwin, 39, was charged with drunken driving and public intoxication. Floyd Sears, 39, was slated for public intoxication. The fifth arrest during the long holiday weekend was at 7:05 Monday evening when Gerald E. Miethe, 27, Roachdale, was jailed by Joe Rollings, Roachdale Town Marshal. Miethe was booked for driving while under the Influence of intoxicants and public intoxication.

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GREENCASTLE OFFICIALS TAKE OATH—Greencastle city officials took the oath of office Monday in City Hall with a full house of viewers. Some of the officials are pictured above as they take the oath of office from County Clerk John Mas ten (rightj. They are (left to right). City Attorney Jerry Calbert, Counoimen

Ernest Collins, Keith Monnett, Robert Poor, Ezra McMains, City Clerk-Treasurer Jane Harlan, and Mayor Norman Peabody. Others involved were Police Chief John Stevens, Fire Chief Cassell Balay, and Street Commissioner Howard Frederick. City Councilman Royce Cavin was not present for the picture.