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SAIGON TJPI—In the biggest battle of 1968. Gen. William C. Westmoreland sent U.S. land, sea and air forces smashing against North Vietnamese troops driving against South Veitnam’s northern border. Unofficial battlefield reports said at least 450 North Vietnamese have been killed since units of three northern divisions drove against the Marines’ McNamara line Friday and began a weekend of battle. U.S. losses were reported at 17 men killed and 82 wounded seriously enough to need evacuation to base hospitals. Into the struggle today went the largest weapon in the hands of U.S. Commander Westmoreland, eight-engine Air Force B52 Stratofortresses which dropped tons of bombs in saturation strikes. Smaller jet dive bombers struck North Vietnamese positions threatening Khe Sanh, Gio Linh, Camp Carroll, Con Thien and other U.S. outposts on the defensive line below the border Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). U.S. Navy warships pulled close to shore and bombarded North Vietnamese

positions. The massive effort appeared to be having an effect. U.S. spokesmen reported a marked slackening today in Communist offensive punch along the McNamara line, a stretch of fire lanes and forts set up by allied forces last year to better defend the border zone. The battle area stretched from the coast to South Vietnam’s northwestern comer where Khe Sanh formed the farther and the most attacked bastion. The spokesman said only light action flared near Khe Sanh todav with only two mortar shells slamming down from the cloud-shrouded mountains ringing the fortress. According to battle reports, about 1,500 North Vietnamese moved against Khe Sanh from the north and another 500 from the south. The Marine defenders hurled them back Sunday from the bastion the North Vietnamese have been seeking to capture since May. U.S. intelligence Officers had predicted a major Communist offensive in the works, with the North Vietnamese using the Christmas and New Year’s truces to position men and arms. The big battle was the payoff.

Five university professors starting sabbatical leaves

Five DePauw University professors will commence second semester sabbatical leaves and two will return to the classroom when classes resume next week. To engage In study, research or work on publications during the spring semester are Professors John Baughman, history; John Ricketts, chemistry; Herman Berg, music; Robert Eccles, philosophyreligion and John Reiling, sociology. Professors Mary Lou Miller, physical education, and Garrett Boone, art, return to the teaching faculty after first semester leaves of absence. Dr. Baughan, head of the history department, plans to continue research and writing in France on his biography of King Louis Philippe. Dr. Eccles will do research at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, working with Professors Johannes Pedersen

and Eduard Nielson on the subject, “The Self-Consciousness of Jesus Against the Background of the Biblical concept of the Person.” The completion of a manuscript dealing with war is the project Dr. Reiling plans to work on during the semester in conjunction with an associate at Indiana University. Dr. Ricketts, who also is director of graduate studies, is on leave to write a textbook for a terminal non-calculus course in physical chemistry and to do advanced study in the field of irreversible thermodynamics. He is pursuing his work at Arizona State University in Tempe. Professor Eugene Schwartz will be acting director of graduate studies in his absence. Professor Berg will spend March and April in Europe in connection with his sabbatical leave.

Full coverage for Macmillan visit

The largest press and radio-tv corps in 10 years is expected to converge on Greencastle, beginning Tuesday morning when former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan swings into the Hoosier portion of his cross country trip. Not since Macmillan visited DePauw in 1958 to deliver the commencement address to a national audience via NBC-TV have so many representatives of the news media made plans to report on the scene from Greencastle. Macmillan will be met this evening at 6 in Indianapolis by the first round of newsmen when he lands at Weir Cook airport and plunges into a press conference. That press conference will be carried live back to Greencastle by DePauw’s WGRE-FM, beginning about 5:50 p.m. An ABC television crew from Chicago tentatively is scheduled to arrive Tuesday evening to tape and film portions of Macmillan’s 8:30 p.m. public address before an anticipated crowd of 1.500-2.000 in Bowman Gymnasium. Other electronic media on hand will be Indianapolis stations WFBM-TV (6), WLWI-TV (13). and WISH-TV (8), plus Terre Haute’s WTHI-TV and WTWOTV. WTHI-TV already has announced its plans to put together a 30-minute documentary of the highlights of Macmillan’s visit to Indiana. This will be shown Friday, Jan. 26 at 7 p.m. Other stations plan similar though shorter programs for Monday and Tuesday news shows. No TV stations, however, plan live telecasts. Both of Greencastle's radio stations—W'GRE and W^XTA—plan live broadcasts of the Macmillan speech tomorrow night, directly from Bowman Gymnasium. Each will go on the air approximately 5-10 minutes before the address. Newspapermen will follow Macmillan through his 45-hour visit to Hoosierland starting with this evening’s press conference in Indianapolis. Chicago newspapers who have assigned reporters to be at Macmillan’s side as he visits Indianapolis, Greencastle and Spencer include The Chicago Tribune and The Chicago Daily News. The Indianapolis Star and The Indianapolis News plus the Indianapolis office of The Associated Press all plan similar coverage, including the transmission of several wire photos of all Greencastle and Spencer events from the university photo labs to their central offices. A sizeable contingent of representatives of the regional press from Bloomington, Spencer, TerreHaute, Crawfordsville and Greencastle also are anticipated.

Orders strict enforcement of City parking meter ordinance

Strict enforcement of violating overtime parking in downtown Greencastle will start Tuesday, Police Chief John Stevens announced today. According to Stevens, one of the main parking problems in the business district, is that too many cars remain parked in spaces designated for twohour parking. Today’s announcement In The Daily Banner is to give publicity as well as a way of warning motorists of the action by the police department starting tomorrow. The officers will enforce City Ordinance No. 8 (1964) by issuing tickets to all overtime parking violators. Violators will first receive a yellow 25 cent ticket when they fail to put money in the meters. Red $1 tickets will be given for parking more than two hours at a 2-hour meter. Owners will also be in danger of having their vehicles towed aw r ay at the expense of the owner. As Chief Stevens pointed out, courtesy boxes can be found on certain meters for payment of fines.

PRR to continue overnight trains PHILADELPHIA—The Pennsylvania Railroad announced today that it will continue to operate both its overnight trains between New York and St. Louis pending hearings to be held by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The railroad last month applied for permission to consolidate the “Spirit of St. Louis” and Penn Texas trains effective Sunday, January 21. The ICC indicated earlier that it would investigate the application and hold hearings at a later date, leaving to the railroad decision as to whether to consolidate the trains meanwhile. “The railroad has decided that in fairness to all parties involved, it will continue to operate the trains pending the ICC investigation,” said Allen J. Greenough, PRR president.

Failure to pay parking meter fines in the future will result in violators being summoned into City Court. In making this announcement, Chief

Stevens said he hoped to have the cooperation of everyone in relieving and solving Greencastle’s downtown parking problem.

Pledge full support for Hanoi, Viet Cong

PHNOM PENH UPI — Prince Norodom Sihanouk and President Josip Tito of Yugoslavia today issued a joint communique pledging “full support for Hanoi and the Viet Cong in the Vietnam war.” They issued the conununique at the end of the state visit by the Yugoslav Communist leader. Tito and Sihanouk, chief of state of Cambodia which borders South Vietnam, signed the document saying their views of international problems were “identical or close.”

The joint communique called for “immediate evacuation of foreign occupation troops” from arable lands. It offered “full support” for the Viet Cong’s National Liberation Front (NLF) and the North Vietnamese government in their “fight for independence and territorial Integrity." Before leaving for New' Delhi and the end of an Asian tour, Tito promised in a separate announcement his “unreserved support” to Cambodia to keep the war from spilling out of Vietnam and into Sihanouk's territory.

Tito “condenmed all attacks against Cambodia, designed by annexationists and directed against Cambodia in a project to extend the war.” A major problem between South Vietnam and its allies and Cambodia is "hot pursuit” into Cambodia of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops by the allies. President Johnson sent Chester Bowles, the U.S. ambassador to India, to Phnom Penh earlier this month to discuss the problem with Sihanouk. They agreed that the allies would not enter Cambodian territory and that the

International Control Commission charged with implementing the 1964 Geneva accords would be strengthened to patrol the area to make sure the Communists were not using Cambodia as a sanctuary. Sihanouk charged within days that Washington had broken faith. Only Sunday informed Cambodian sources said that 15 soldiers from a mixed American-South Vietnamese unit had been killed on Cambodian territory last Thursday. Cambodia had charged that Americans had entered its territory last Friday and killed three Cambodian soldiers.

PLTNAM COUNTY CHAMPS—Cloverdale took their second straight Putnam victory along with coach A1 Tucker, cheerleaders, and student managers. For the County Basketball Tournament Championship Saturday night by defeating Russell- complete tourney wrap-up turn to the sports page of today's issue, ville in the final game. The happy Clovers are pictured above moments after the

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Sheriff reports weekend occupants at county jail

Thomas Harrison, 46, was returned to Greencastle Saturday by Sheriff Bob Albright and lodged in the Putnam County jail after a trip to Vanceburg, Kentucky. Harrison is charged with deceptive issuance of checks in this city last Au-

gust.

The original affidavit against Harrison was signed by Justice of the Peace Frank Pierce.

Captured terrorist relates raid plans

SEOUL UPI—A North Korean army lieutenant who infiltrated Seoul with 30 other Communists said today the group had planned to assassinate South Korean President Park Chung Hee and his top aides. Their unsuccessful raid was the first on Seoul since the end of the Korean war. The lieutenant, Kim Shim-jo, 27, told newsmen his group’s primary mission was to blow up the Blue House, the presidential mansion, and to kill Park and his aides. The plot failed when the infiltrators were intercepted by South Korean police. Communist submachine bullets killed a police superintendent and five civilians. The police shot to death five terrorists and captured two. “We came to the South well aware that we may be killed,” Kim said. He said the group sneaked into the South Korean capital from the north via the Demilitarized Zone on Jan. 16 and that they reached Bibong Mountain just outside Seoul on Jan. 20. “I regret nothing,” Kim said of the mission. South Korean Maj. Gen Yoon Philyong, chief of the army counter-intel-ligence corps, said the Communists were composed of six squads, each with separate targets of destruction. He said one squad was assigned to attack the motorpool in the Blue House and secure cars so the infiltrators could flee to Munsan, 30 miles north of Seoul, and cross the Injin River back to the North. If this plan failed they were to retrace their steps across the DMZ.

Strong voiced

SALT LAKE CITY TTPI — Utahns are the top telephone talkers in the nation. Mountain States Telephone Co. reports Utahns averaged 1,000 8 telephone compared with a national average of conversations per peison during 1967 §48.

Harrison waived extradition, Albright

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Two runaway girls also landed in tha local jail at 10:45 Saturday night. Deputy Sheriff Tom Brown picked up Nancy Young, 14, Caseyville, HI., and Vickie Lemmons, 17, Collinsville, HI., on U.S. 40 after their automobile broke down. They were held here and then turned over to their parents. Ralph R. Lopossa, 18, and Steven E. Trump, 21, Stllesville, were jailed early Sunday morning by Officer* James Baugh and Alva Hubble. Lopossa was charged with being a minor in possession of alcohol. Trump was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Ronald Smock, 21, Greencastle, Route 5. was jailed at 1:50 Sunday afternoon by •Trooper Don Collins and booked ior public intoxication.

Historic theater has been restored

WASHINGTON UPI—Ford’a Theater once again lives in the elegance it had on that night 103 yean ago when President Lincoln was assassinated. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey led about 500 invited guests Sunday in dedicating the restored theater to the arts and to the nation as a shrine to Lincoln's memory. The restoration took three years and nearly S3 million. The footlights dimmed for more than a century when John Wilkes Booth mortally wounded Lincoln while he was watching a performance of “Our American Cousin” April 14, 1865. John Ford tried to reopen the theater after the assassination but abandoned his plans because of public indignation. It since had been a government office building, warehouse and museum. Now the interior gleams in the plush red, white and gold decor which Lincoln saw on his eight visits to the theater. The presidential box overlooking the stage is festooned with a cluster of flags, draperies and lace curtains. But it, unlike the rest of the theater, will never be used again. It will remain as it was the night Lincoln was shot. The walnut rocker in which Lincoln sat has been reproduced and the original crimson sofa has been installed next to it. Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-Ill., substituting for Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, R111., and Sen. Milton R. Young, R-N.D., who first introduced legislation to restore Ford’s, joined Humphrey in the dedication. Actress Helen Hayes will be the first performer on the Fords’ Theater stage since the assassination when she leads off an all-star cast before an invitation•nly audience Jan. 31.

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