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TtmperohirM High yesterday, tow today flMI High and tow year 7W7 PrtctolUittoii thto imoth 4.11 Precipitation thfe jraar 11.11 Preeip. to date, year age M.M BEATRICE DAILY SUN Yev DMn't tae It In The twn It DMnt Happen" BEATRICE, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, ZIP CODE 68310 Weather Partly cloudy with chance of showers tonight, low mid 60s; partly cloudy and cooler tomorrow, high 80-85. 7c Per Copy VOL.84 NO. Torpedo boats bomber targets By ROBERT TUCKMAN SAIGON, South Viet Nam Navy planes pounced on two more North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin today, knocking out one and damaging the other, the U.S. command announced.

The attack ran up the score for the carrier-launched bombers to three PT boats destroyed and three damaged since Monday. Other U.S. pilots reported knocking out a surface- to-air missile site 40 miles north of Vinh and hitting another SAM site only five 9 miles west of Haiphong. In South Viet Nam, a weeklong lull in the war persisted. No significant action was reported by either the U.S.

military command or South Vietnamese headquarters. More Terrorism However government officials expected increased Viet Cong efforts to disrupt the Sept. 11 election of a constituent assembly. Informed sources said more than 100 Incidents had been reported throughout the nation. Policemen shot and killed Five killed in copters Investigate 'sniper' report in air tragedy LOS ANGELES (AP) Homicide detectives said today they are investigating a report that a sniper may have caused the collision of two helicopters Tuesday that killed five persons.

Report of Sniper Police Capt. Hugh Brown said an unidentified caller reported shortly after the 5:46 p.m. crash that a man had fired a rifle twice from the ground near Dodger Stadium. A rush-hour motorist who the collision over the empty stadium as he stopped for a red light, gave this description: "It happened as if it were in slow motion," said the motorist, Peter Lynch. "The parts started flying in every direction." "Then there was an explosion like a napalm bomb.

The big ball of flame fen toward the stadium like a comet." All five occupants of the helicopters died Tuesday in the collision which rained flaming wreckage to earth within 100 feet of the crowded Pasadena Freeway. Killed were two police offi eers on traffic patrol and two men and a woman in a helicopter used for traffic-information broadcasts on a commercial radio station. A witness said it appeared the pilots, flying about 500 feet above the ground, failed to see each other. No One Injured Police said no one was injured by the wreckage, part of which sliced through a roof at Cathedral Catholic High School. One helicopter was piloted by Max Schumacher, known as "Captain Max" to listernera of bis radio KMPC broadcasts.

With Schumacher were Buckley W. Newcomb, 40, San Gabriel, Calif. 39. Piloting die police helicopter was Alex E. Ilnicki, 46, of nearby Ingtewood, who had an observer, Larry D.

Amberg, 28 and his wife. suspected Communist agent who tried to flee when he was caught tearing down election posters in Saigon Tuesday night. The relentless air offensive against the North cost the Americans another plane A U.S. spokesman reported a Navy reconnaissance RF8 Cruseder went down eight miles southeast of Haiphong. The pilot bailed out and was rescued by a helicopter hi 22 minutes, the spokesman said.

It was the 348th U.S. plane reported lost over North Viet Nam. In heavy raids Tuesday, U.S. Air Force, Marine and Navy pilots flew 139 missions, striking at oil storage depots and transportation facilities in the Hanoi and Haiphong areas and hi the southern Panhandle just above the demilitarized zone. Pilots said over-all they damaged 11 oil depots, eight military camps and 28 storage areas.

They also reported they destroyed or damaged 47 cargo barges, S3 trucks and 32 bridges. OVer South Viet Nam, B52 bombers struck a suspected Princess Gra ce arrives Princess Grace of Monaco Rrasps her black rolled-rim hat as she leaves a jet airliner in New York's Kennedy International Airport as she arrived from Nice, France, to attend the funeral of a family friend in Philadelphia. She travelled alone wearing a tailored black suit set off by pearl earrings and a black and white scarf. (AP WJrtphoto) Claassen apparent high bidder oh missile site Viet Cong troop and storage area 30 miles northwest of coastal Qui Nhon today. A U.S.

spokesman said ground forces found 23 Viet Cong dead during a follow-up sweep of an area 40 miles southwest of Saigon hit by B52s Tuesday. They also took two prisoners and seized large amounts of rice. In the Navy Jet attacks on the North Vietnamese patrol boats, planes from the aircraft carrier Constellation spotted one 55 miles southeast of Haiohong and lit it up with flares before dawn. When the boat opened fire, the planes attacked with rockets and cannon. The pilots reported a direct rocket hit engulfed the torpedo boat in flames.

The boat made for a nearby island where it was left beached and burning, die pilots said. Another Damaged Soon after in the same area, other Navy pilots were firtrl on by another PT boat and report, ed damaging die craft. Over South Viet Nam, American pilots flew 396 sorties Tuesday and claimed destroying or damaging more than 300 enemy structures, entrenchments and sampans. South Vietnamese pilots flew 248 sorties Tuesday. School attendance at Lewiston 267 LEWISTON Present enrollment figures show that a total of 267 students are attending the Lewiston Consolidated Schools.

This ta one more than Figures from last year's com- enrollment of grades kindergarten through 12. Total enrollment from kindergarten through grade 12 is 157 for this term, compared with 153 last year. Enrollment the high school is 110, three ess than last year. Paul Claassen Is the apparent high bidder for the old Atlas missile site west of Beatrice. His offer was $4,602.

Claassen said he bid on the property, about 30 acres, principally "to get my piece of ground back together again." Salvaged For Crops About half of the 30 acres can be farmed, he said, and with some work a little more could be salvaged for crops. There is quite a bit of surface concrete work, which, he indicated, could be removed at excessive expense. The site (No. 8) is about in the center of Section 13, Lincoln Township, which is on Highway 136 north of the Odell underpass. Claassen owns all but the northwest quarter of that section.

About 25 1 acres of his land went in the site, the other five coming from the northwest quarter. Before bids are officially accepted they must be processed through the General Services Administration. Other apparent high bids, on sites in what was the Lincoln AFB missile complex, include: No. 6 near Tecumseh, Fred W. Probst, Cook, No.

7 near Cortland, James Neff, Great Bend, Kan. $3,207 (Neff also was apparent low bidder on sites near Eagle and Brainard); No. 9 near Wilber, Rudolph R. Homolka, Swanton, $4,267.50. Ten Offered Of the 12 sites, ten were offered for bids.

They are equipped with well and water sys- Cool nights, worm days still on tap Partly cloudy skies and con. tinued cool nights and warm days are on the Nebraska weather agenda through Thursday at least. The Weather Bureau also said there was a possibility of some scattered shower or thundershowers north and in the western Panhandle. terns, water treatment houses, fencing. Each has a permanently sealed, empty missile silo.

All quonset buildings on the sites have been allocated to the Forestry Service. Salvage rights on some $61 million worth of equipment in the silos earlier was sold to Aaron F. Ferer and Sons Omaha, for $122,640. Lowered Gage County levy fails to stop climbing taxes Increased valuation makes difference The Gage County Board of Supervisors this morning set 1966 property tax levies for the County and the various political within the county, based on the County budget and the other budgets submitted to them. For many property owners the total levy this year will be somewhat less than last year, but the tax bill will be much higher because of the valuation increases ordered by the State Board of Equalization.

Because of these increases, comparison of the new levies with last year's is rather meaning-9 less. For example, the total of al levies on Beatrice property as set for 1966 is $92.94 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, compared to $93.11 last year. Bui a home that was assessed al $5,000 last year and paid $465.55 in taxes will be assessed, because of the blanket increase, at $5,800 this year and will pay $539.05. Valuation times the levy equals the tax. County Assessor E.

Lloyd Jones said the 1966 tangible valuation in Gage County is $76,127,390, compared to $63,715,650 last year. A part of the increase is due to new property on the tax rolls, but most of it comes from the across the board valuation increases for certain classes of property Gage Increases Gage County increases ordered by the State Board of Equalization are 23 per cent on agricultural land, 32 per cent on suburban property (residentiaf Deadline to hold your reserved seats Beatrice High School Principal Arlington Tyser wishes to remind those people who have received notice to reserve seats for the school's home football games that they have until Tuesday, Sept. 6 to get their tickets. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on that date. Those who have formerly reserved seats can pick up their tickets in the high school office or mail their checks ($4.00 for season tickets or $1.25 for individual reserve seats) to the high school.

The first home football game will be against Crete on Sept. 9. Jefferson CROP drive Goal: enough grain, cash for 3 carloads milo FAKRBURY (Special) The 1968 Jefferson County CROP (Christian Rural Overseas Program) campaign "kicked off" Monday night at a meeting of canvassers in the Ftrst Christian Church. The goal is enough gram and cash to fill three carloads of milo. The Rev.

Bryce Hecht, campaign chairman, urges people of Fairbury to leave their contributions at the church, or at either of the Fairbury banks. Unfortunately there are no canvassers in Fairbury, he said. In the rest of the county, solicitors will be making their rounds this week. CROP is an arm of Church World Service, major Protestant overseas relief agency. Rev.

Hecht said it is estimated that hhere are 2 billion malnourished people in the world, including seven out of ten of the pre-school age children in developing countries. "CROP IB your way to respond if you want to do something about the many faces of hunger which make up two- thirds of the tion." world's popula- One bird, lots of leaves Latest battle in antistarling Washington WASHINGTON (AP) Persistence is a congressman with a 12-gauge shotgun shooting into his maple tree. It's Rep. John H. Buchanan armed with birdshot for a foray on the patio.

"We're going to get them this time!" Buchanan has waged war on hundreds of starlings he says mess up his yard. He's tried shining lights in their faces, banging garbage can lids, yelling and noise makers. 'Me Or Them' "They pay no attention," he says. "But this time, it's me or them! My wife and children went to Birmingham to escape. They're coming home Monday.

"The birds will be gone by then or I'll know the reason why." So Tuesday night, dretsed in a business suit, armed with a friend's shotgun, 6-foot-4 Buchanan waited in his backyard at dusk for "the arrivals." By dark, the trees were settled with screaming starlings. Buchanan whose only hunting score to date has been one rabbit fired into trees in the front yard and one in the backyard. Birds fluttered aloft. He bagged lots of leaves and one bird. No One Squealed It's against the law to shoot firearms in the suburban Westmoreland, area and police told him last week to stop.

Buchanan then wrote 300 letters to neighbors outlining hia battle plan and asked them not to squeal on him. Apparently they didn't- No police showed up. Buchanan's battle is the latest antistarling action around Washington. Tens of thousands of the birds live in the city in he winter, migrating to suburbia for summer. "This summer," Buchanan vows," is the last one they're spending at my house even if have trees!" to cut down all my First worship services in new Holy Cross Church tf MM acrtp jut Crew Lutheran Church.

The church will Italy he ratdy ftr I wtoy. Mete) Holy Cross Lutheran Church wiH hold its first worship serv ices and Sunday School classes In its brand new church at the comer of 19th and Summit Streets this coming Sunday. The Rev. Paul C. Wenske will also administer Holy Communion.

Actual dedication ceremonies of the church will not be conducted until some time in October when the work on the cburob to completely finished, gins at 10:30. Finishing touches and installation of new pews should be done by this time. The Holy Cross congregation held its first service on Oct. 10, 1965, and has been worshiping in the Lincoln School for almost a year. There are now about 140 baptized members and 60 to 70 Sunday School members.

Worship service at the new church will begin at 9:30 Sunday morning. Sunday School he- property not in an incorporated town or village); and 16 per cent on urban land and improvements that are not industrial or commercial. There is no change in valuation on rural buildings and improvements, nor on urban industrial and commercial property. Among the levies set today (with last year's levies in parentheses): City of Beatrice $23.81 per $1,000 of assessed valuation City of Wy more $19.50 School District 15 (Beatrice) $46.41 School District 1114 (Wymore) $50.67 County Bite is $9.59 The new County levy is $9.59, compared to $8.20 last year. Besides City, School District and County levies, Beatrice property will be paying a State general levy of $10.67 per $1, 000; State institutional levy of and an Educational Service Unit levy of 18 cents per thousand.

New levies for other high school districts include Odell 31.49; Holmesville 49.35; Barneston 38.79. Lewiston High School district, partially in Gage County, has a levy of 3500. Not available as yet are levies for the or for other pally in other counties such as Tri-County, Norris and Dilter. (In a later edition, The Sun will publish the full list of levies for all towns, townships, school districts, rural fire districts and conservancy districts.) Adams district, districts princi- Student insurance brochures sent Beatrice Public School students are taking home brochures on die student accident policy, offered through the schools, for their parents to study. The policy covers all accidents during school, while going to or returning from school, and all accidents, including those off of school property and outside school hours, if connected with a school activity, with the exception of 10th, llth, and 12th grade football.

All other school athletics, whether inter-school or intra-mural, are covered. Purchase of the policy is optional with parents. For 12- month coverage the cost is $2.50 per year for grades kindergarten through and $3.50 for grades 9 through 12. Parents electing to purchase the insurance should do so immediately and return to the building principal's office the insurance form included in the brochure. There is a separate policy offered to cover Senior High football.

Students taking part in that activity have already been briefed on that policy. Two hospitalized following accident FAIRBURY (Special) Two separate traffic accidents near Fairbury resulted in severe property damage but no apparent serious injury to persons Involved. Remaining in a local Fairbury lospital for further examination are the driver of a car in volved in a two-car accident three miles east of Fairbury on the PWS Highway, and one of ler children. Injured was Mrs. Darlene Nespor of Endicott.

Six other children also riding in the car were taken to the hospital for treatment and released. Driver of the vehicle in col- ision with the Nespor car, left totally wrecked was Mrs. Betty "larcia of Odell. In one-car accident that occurred about 1 a.m. this morn- ng, Mrs.

Sharon Kapke Wolters oat control of her vehicle, which eft the road, traveled over an embankment, and landed on a lock Island railroad track. A reight train had to stop to avoid Best seller Texan G. E. Glassford, a produce grower, shipper and broker from Laredo, showed up in Pekin, 111., with some free advertising. Texas law permits the use of six letters on license plates, so Glassford uses the space to plug his best (NEA photo) Last swim unscheduled 'All the wrong kind of firsts' for Navy pilot MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.

(AP) "Went for unscheduled swim. All A-OK. Your son, Rick." That was how Lt. (j.g.) Robert F. (Rick) Adams wired his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Allan W. Adams of suburban Edina, that he'd been shot down over North Viet Nam the first time. Direct Missile Hit When he plunged into the Gulf of Tonkin last Oct. 5, Adams, 25, became the first pilot to survive a direct hit to his plane by a Soviet-built surface-to-air missile.

Adams bailed out and was picked up shortly afterward by a helicopter from a carrier in the area. The second time he was shot down, the Navy pilot was flying fighter support for a mission during raids on oil storage depots in the Hanoi-Haiphong area on July 12. A helicopter rescued him. "I'm famous for being the most shot-down pilot in the war," said Adams, his face smeared with his mother's lipstick after he arrived in Minneapolis Tuesday. "All the wrong kind of firsts." Apparently the Navy did not agree.

The pilot was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds suffered in the first bail-out, and later received the Distinguished Flying Cross. Burning Bad When hit the second time, by ground fire, Adams said, "I was burning pretty good." His F8 Crusader was "a big ball of names. I had lost control of it but was headed in the right direction." Adams bailed out Just before the plane crashed. He landed in a tree on a mountainside. But he "dropped everything and started running" up the mountain to get away from a village.

A U.S. aircraft picked up the signals from his survival radio ind Adams was rescued by a helicopter. 100 PER CENT BOYCOTT School integration kept from reality NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) Five today white Negro boys enrolled in a previously all- school in Plaquemines Parish, but a 100 per cent boycott by white pupils kept court- ordered integration from becoming a reality immediately. Taking judicial note of the boycott, U.S.

Dist. Judge Herbert W. Christenberry threatened Plaquemines officials, including Leander Perez, with an FBI investigation if pressure is brought to have white parents remove their children from public schools. Warning Christenberry's warning came as he turned down a motion by parish officials for a new trial of the desegregation suit. Christenberry had ordered six grades desegregated effective Wednesday.

The judge told Perez, the parish council president, who believes desegregation would be a catastrophe, that he had been told "reprisals already have been taken against one witness in this hearing." 1290 enrollment in Fairbury schools FAIRBURY (Special) Preliminary reports on school opening in Fairbury show a first- day enrollment of 1290 pupils. Elementary school (kindergarten through 4th enrollments were: East 119. West 97, Central 144, and Park 49. Fifth and 6th grade enrollment was 165. In Junior High (7th and 8th grade) were 168.

Senior High (9th through 12th) had 556. Largest class is the sophomore with 147. SALISBURY, TOO County Supervisors L. C. Salisbury and Charles Mack voted against the $27,050 budget for the Gage County Noxious Weed Control District.

In a story Tuesday, only Mack was mentioned as voting against. FARMER'S CANNON People another story for booming scarecrow lilting the vehicle. There were no turn serious in- MILLINGTON, N.J. (AP) A funny-looking scarecrow that boom every 15 minutes of the day and night does a pretty good job scaring birds and deer but people, they're another story. Residents of this town have had about enough of a two-foot- long cannon used by farmer Philip Bardy to chase wild life from his fields.

The dogs bark all night," one said, "the children cry and some people lie awake waiting for the damn thing to go boom just like waiting for the other shoe to drop." And go boom it does. The cannon is timed to boom automatically every 15 minutes. In the daytime, the cannon is located near a cornfield to scare away blackbirds. At night, it's moved to a tomato and melon patch to frighten bards of deer that had fed there regularly until April 13 the day it was installed. The Passaic Township Committee has issued Bardy a warning to "cease the operation of your noise-making device" but he has ignored it so far.

The farmer says he was given permission by the New Jersey Division of Wild Fish and Game to use the cannon after an inspector visited his field, shook his head and said, "You've got problems." Bardy told of experiments in the past with strawman scarecrows, noisemakers that clap together and strings of flapping multicolored flags. He aaid none worked. Then he hit on the cannon. The cannon is operated with carbonated water and minerals which build up pressure and fire off tte device periodically, After he left court, Perez saSd "We are prohibited from discussing with our own people what is good for their children. What we are going to do depends on the courage and the resourcefulness of our people." The five Negro boys passed quietly by white pickets to enroll in Woodlawn School, a consolidated 12-grade school on the east bank of the Mississippi River below New Orleans.

The pickets carried signs which contained the single word "Don't" in big red letters. The Negroes were accompanied by their parents. "We didn't come for trouble, just came to enroll our children in school," said Mrs. Clarence Ben. Her three boys, Michael, Tyrone.

12, and Lawrence, 16, were with'her. The other two boys, Henry, 17, and Ernest 14, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Griffin, walked in behind the Bens. Pickets March About 20 pickets marched outside the red brick school.

Their signs, stenciled In big red tet- ters, were identical to placards carried by other adults at the Belle Chasee School. No Negroes appeared at the parish's other public schools as the first day of classes opened. EXHIBITORS GET SET FOR STATE FAIR State Fair hopefuls from Gage County 4-H and FFA clubs will start moving their livestock. demonstrations and exhibits to the State Fair Grounds in Lincoln on Thursday. County Extension Agent Elton Perry reports there will 36 junior livestock entrants in the Fair from Gage County.

This includes 20 in market beef, foitr in beef breeding, two in market beef carcass (to be judged on the dressing percentage and grade of the carcass itself), two in sheep breeding, and eight in dairy calves. There will be six FFA shop exhibits including one rope display and five electrical display boards. In the Home divisions, 79 are entered in exhibits, three in dress revue, seven in demonstrations. There are also two song groups and three judging teams entered. The exhibits will be already iudged and placed for viewing on Saturday, Sept.

3. Song groups will be competing Saturday morning as will three of the demonstrators. Activities on Labor Day include the team foods, clothing and home living judg- ng as well as the remainder of the demonstrations. Next Wednesday is the day of the dress revue, the decorating 'or which was done by Gage County 4-H junior leaders. A beef sale will get underway Thursday, Sept.

8. Market beef, beef breeding, carcass competi- ton will be held Monday, Sept. 5 and Tuesday, Sept. 6. Dairy alves will be shown Friday, Sept.

2, and sheep breeding, Sunday, Sept. 4..