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SAIGON Communist
gunners shelled a U.S. naval
dock area at Dan Nang Thurs
day night, setting off a string of
ammunition explosions. Naval
sources said 40 to 60 persons
had been in the area and casual
ties were expected to run high.
The shelling by one or more
rockets destroyed a 118-foot util
ity landing craft—LTU—and
ripped apart a 126-foot harbor
utility craft—YFU—moored
next to it. Associated Press cor
respondent Edwin Q. White re
ported from Da Nang.
In"' SalgoHT Itir "atttefr ~com
mands reported Friday more
than 30 overnight mortar and
rocket attacks against military
and civilian targets as the Com
munists' spring offensive en
tered its sixth day.
Over-all casualties and dam
age in those shellings were light
and there were no significant
ground attacks, the allies said.
White reported that Da Nang,
South Vietnam's second largest
city, came under fire attack for
at least the fourth time since
the offensive began last Sunday.
He said one round crashed
into a Vietnamese army com
pound, causing minor damage.
Almost simultaneously, explo
sions erupted at the dock load
ing area by the vital river
bridge that links the two parts
of the city.
The force of the blast tore the
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typical of the skilled medical
professionals who staff the
second ship—which was unload
ing ammunition—into three
huge chunks, hurling one of
them across a busy road that
runs past the dock area, White
said.
While the vital northern port
city recovered from the 'Shell
ing, allied forces
Vietnam braced
and more violenf *WeV ene
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The opening phase has proved
almost as bloody as the enemy's
big drive a year ago. Allied
-sources said Thursday that 5.300
"flfortb , Vietnamese and Viet
Cong soldiers have been killed
'in the offensive kicked off Sun
day and 321 have surrendered
or defected.
the sources repAt&i at least
300 Americans havsjftwn killed.
A government sponman re
portal 487 South fjjjs|gmese
troops killed, l,7O7.wqW«jod and
6? missing. tXsaSWX;
Some of the heaviest losses
were inflicted on the enemy out
side the big U.S. air base at
Bien Hoa, 15 miles north of Sai
gon. After the enemy retreated
early Thursday under a batter
ing by allied infantrymen, tanks
and planes, 234 North Viet
namese and Viet Cong bodies
were counted on the battlefield,
the allies reported.
Another 80 enemy soldiers
were captured, including a dep
uy battalion commander and a
company commander. South
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nationwide network of centers
where the aim is t6 overcome
physical and mental disabili
ties caused by defective pre
natal development.
Vietnamese troops, who bore
the burden of the fighting, lost
14 killed and 79 wounded. Amer
ican losses were one killed and
10 wounded.
I Bien Hoa was the high water
'mark of the North Vietnamese-
Viet Cong drive, but the allies
kept watch to see whether the
enemy would return to the at
tack. The busy air base at Bien
Hoa is considered a prime ob
jective of the new offensive.
Some U. S. intelligence offi
cers are convinced the main
target is Saigon. Elements of
three North Vietnamese' divi
sions have been maneuvering
around the capital, field reports
indicated.
U.S. Ist Air Cavalry Division
soldiers looking for the enemy
reported killing 46 Wednesday
35 miles north of Saigon.
In one of the few new enemy
actions, the base city of Da
Nang to the north was hit by
two rockets Thursday night.
One set fire to supplies at a U.S.
Navy cargo ramp. Flames
soared 100 feet into the air and
set off a small amount of am
munition. Several persons were
wounded.
The second rocket exploded
near a Vietnamese army com
pound, breaking windows.
This was the fourth time Da
Nang, the second largest city in
American Airlines
Closed by Strike
WASHINGTON -A
coast -to - coast Transportation
Workers Union strike shut down
American Airlines Thursday,
forcing an estimated 50,000 air
travelers to hunt seats on other
planes.
Most American passengers
caught by the walkout of some
13,000 TWU members exper
ienced relatively little delay or
inconvenience as other carriers
brought in extra help and
equipment to handle them.
The strike began at midnight
at the end of a SO-day cooling
off period, ordered under the
National Railway Labor Act,
when the TWU rejected an offer
of arbitration in the talks that
bad been going on since last
May.
Spokesmen at the National
Mediation Board said contract
talks ended when the strike
began.
American, which serves 4-1
American cities and flies into
Canada and Mexico, ranks
second is passenger volume for
U. S. carriers behind United Air
Lines. American says it carries
50,000 passengers on an average
day.
To help handle the overflow
from American, other airlines
reinforced clerk and reserva
tions help around the nation and
readied extra planes.
Harnett Planning
Water System
LILLINGTON - The Harnett
County Planning Board, at a
meeting with county com
missioners Wednesday night, un
folded plans for a 16.5 million
project to provide water for
Vietnam, had been hit by rock
ets since Sunday.
Sharp fighting broke out south
of Da Nang Wednesday. U.S.
Marines reported killing 84 ene
my soldiers near An Hoa, 20
miles southwest of Da Nang.
Marine casualties were given as
six killed and 29 wounded.
| Government troops fighting
1 off an attack on Quang Ngai, a
provincial capital 80 miles south
of Da Nang, said they killed 37
enemy troops while taking light
casualties.
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Even while a guy is relaxing at "the best time of the day," we at Duke Power are
working to make it an electric world.
Electricity keeps helping to inspire new and better ways to get things done, to
give people time to take it easy. It's one of the best values people get.
In fact, today the average Piedmont Carolina family gets about twice as much
electricity for a dollar as it did thirty years ago.
That's value particularly when you think about how the price of almost
everything else has gone way up.
Duke Power
A spokesman for the TWU,
which represents mechanics,
inspectors, fleet service, ground
service, stores and communica
tions workers in 52 cities, said
there were quite a few
"hangups" to be settled in the>
negotiations, "and they're very,
very tricky ones."
He said major disagreements
were over scheduling at Ameri
can's huge Tulsa, Okla., over
haul station where 4,000 mecha
nics work. He added there were
"quite a few economic issues
pensions, wages, of course, and
the length of the contract."
While the TWU spokesman
declined to talk about specific
wage demands, he said the
union was seeking a 5 cent-an
hour premium for all workers
required to have government
licenses to work on American's!
fleet of 220 planes.
These licenses include power l
plant and airframe certification:
by the Federal Aviation Admi-i
nistration and second - class
licenses from the Federal
Communications Commission
for American's communications
workers.
Under the present TWU
contract with American, a
mechanic at any airport except
Tulsa —known in the trade as a
"line station" —gets $4.16 an
hour. The Tulsa workers get a
nickel less.
every section of the county.
The plan will be presented to
the mayors and governing
boards of the various towns at a
later meeting.
Assistant Civil Defense Direc
tor Frank Lewis said the plan
would provide an adequate and
economical water supply to ap
proximately 75 to 80 per cent of
all citizens of the county who
reside in a 10-mile corridor.
Under the proposal, the county
would purchase existing water
plants from each town and
would then sell water to each
town at a low bulk rate, enabling
the towns to resell the water at
a profit comparable to that now
being earned.
A 15-cent property tax is
estimated to be needed to
finance the project until it
becomes self-sustaining.
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CHAPEL HILLIAN IN SIAGON
(Saigon. February, 1969)
SP/4 James Jacobs, 2095
Trendy Blvd., South Gate, Cali
fornia, checks written contest
form with American Bed Cross
Field! Director Lucille Caldwell,
111 Caldwell St., Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, at the Third
Field Hospital in Saigon. Bed
Cross professional staff pro
vide welfare and recreation
services for hospitalized U. S.
servicemen at 18 hospitals and
2 hospital ships in Southeast
Asia.
(American Bed Cross Photo by-
James Caccavo)
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164 Gls Die
Last Week
SAIGON -U.S. head
quarters announced Thursday
that 164 Americans were killed
in Vietnam fighting last week,
lowest figure in six weeks. The
toll reflected a slackening in
combat during celebration of
the Lunar New Year (Tet).
Communist forces launched a
general offensive last Sunday,
and American casualties this
week are expected to be the
highest in months. >'•
Reports Thursday said about
250 Americans have been killed
| and more than 1,000 wounded
i since the first shots were fired
I in the new offensive.
American losses for the week
j ended last Saturday inc'udd
1.103 wounded. The overall total
j of 1,267 men killed and wounded
was the lowest since the week
ended Jan. 11 when 151
Americans were killed and 1,398
wounded.
South Vietnamese losses last
week were placed at 104 men
killed and 524 wounded, lowest
since the week ended Oct. 26,
1968, when 103 were killed and
573 were wounded.
Allied forces reported killin?
2.980 Communists last week,
about the same number as
other weeks this year.
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