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Ottawa County's Only Daily Newspaper 102nd Year No. 187 14 PAGES PORT CLINTON OAK HARBOR, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1968 10 Cents Per Copy PHONE 734-3141 IT Would No Resistance Met inge DA WS 1 mmgmmmmM On Bom alt First In E(he Sanh Drive WASHINGTON (AP) North Vietnam responded to President Johnson's new offer today by announcing its readiness for talks about a complete U.S. bombing halt so that peace negotiations can begin. The response, an apparent shift in Hanoi's position, got top priority attention in Washing- SAIGON (AP) U.S. and South Vietnamese troops have opened drive to lift the North Vietnamese siege of the Marine base at Khe Sanh and have met no resistance, the American command said today.

The relief froce was expected to push through soon to the battered fortress in the northwest, where 6,000 Marines and 1,000 South Vietnamese have been encircled since January by from 16,000 to 20,000 North Vietnamese regulars. As this drive, which kicked off JL llku flosses They Headed South Every spring warm weather calls college students to Miami Beach during the pre- Easter vacation, and already there is a traffic jam on this famed beach. -S Schools Discuss Dropping Baccalaureate ton. However, U.S. strategists were unwilling to say immediately whether this meant the breakthrough in long-stalled efforts to get peace discussions underway.

Hanoi's announcement came in a Vietnamese language radio broadcast which was picked up by U.S. monitors, translated and rushed to the White House, State Department and other key agencies. It followed up Johnson's Sunday order to curtail U.S. bombing of the North as an inducement to the Reds to come to the conference table. The announcement as translated said: "It is clear that the U.S.

government has not correctly and fully responded to the just demand of the DRV (North Vietnamese) government, of U.S. progressive opinion and of world opinion. "However, on its part, the DRV government declares its readiness to send its representatives to make contact with U.S. representatives to decide with the U.S. side the unconditional cessation of bombing and all other war acts against the DRV so that talks could begin." The White House had' no immediate comment.

Presidential press secretary George Christian said "we do not as yet have a full text" of the Hanoi broadcast and there would be "no comment until we have time to read and consider the text." The two representatives that President Johnson said in his Sunday broadcast would be standing by to join in any peace talks Ambassadors A 1 1 Harriman and Llewellyn E. Thompson were in Washington. Hanoi's response was regarded by U.S. authorities as at least a step forward from North Vietnam's earlier refusal to talk at all. House Speaker John W.

Mc-Cormack, said the Hanoi announcement "represents a step forward." Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, a leading critic of the administration's Vietnam policy, called it "the first hopeful development to come out of Vietnam in years." Monday, was announced, informed sources said that a Cambodian navy boat shot down a U.S. Navy plane on patrol off the west coast of South Vietnam. The patrol plane was looking for gun-running Viet Cong trawlers in the Gulf of Siam. Its 10-man crew was missing.

In the advance on Khe Sanh, U.S. 1st Cavalry Division troopers were cooperating with Marines and South Vietnamese troops. In all, 8,000 troops were engaged in the drive. The advance is west over National Highway 9 from Ca Lu to Khe Sanh, and the relief force has covered about one- third of the distance, the report said. "We want to open a road and defeat any enemy we encounter," said Maj.

Gen. John J. Tollson of New Bern, N.C., commander of the cavalry division who has assumed control of the operation called Pegasus. "There should be enough here to keep us busy." It was too soon to tell if a major battle would erupt when the relief force strikes the main North Vietnamese positions. Informed sources reported that it was presumed a big air and sea search was under way for the patrol plane in the Gulf of Siam.

Antiaircraft guns on the Cambodian ship brought down the four-engine turboprop P3B Orion Monday, the sources said. The plane was reported over an area of the Gulf of Siam where the territorial waters of South Vietnam and Cambodia are not clearly defined, and some South Vietnamese islands are just off the Cambodian coast. The plane apparently was the first American aircraft brought down by Cambodian guns. The U.S. Command refused to discuss the plane's fate, presumably because of the ticklish situation between Cambodia and the United States.

'kJC School Issue GENOA Genoa Area School District voters who rejected a $905,000 school bond issue in November by a narrow margin approved it by a big majority Tuesday at a special election. The bond issue had been resubmitted at the increased amount of $968,000. Voters in nine precincts of Allen and Clay townships yesterday cast a total of 1,202 votes, with 725 for the levy and 477 against the levy. In November, voters cast 1,903 votes and rejected the issue 979 against and 924 favoring. The 2.9 mill' levy runs 22 years, and provides for additions to existing school buildings, and for furnishing and equipping them.

Higher amount of the resubmitted levy was caused by rising prices in construction after it had been originally planned, school officials said. Board of Elections completed its official count of the ballot last nighW director Lee Bracken said The? vote; "went as; follows according to precincts: Allen 1, for 116, against 60; Allen 2, for 33, against 20; Allen 3, for 91, against 58; Allen 4, 37 for, 37 against. Clay 1, 75 for, 37 against; Caly. 2, 77 for, 44 against; Clay ,3, 112 for, 66 against; Clay 4, 57 for, 45 against, and Clay 5, 127 for, 110 against. Only one precinct tied and that was Allen Township number 4 where the for votes had 37 and the against votes had 37.

There were no precincts that lost where were a greater number of against votes than for votes. .1. r- it i 1 W'' "a ass fcj 9 By SUE SCOTT OERUCKI DailyNews Staff Writer Holding baccalaureate services for the forthcoming graduating class at Oak Harbor High Schol was questioned last night by the Benton- Carroll-Salem school Supt. Robert Craft said quite a few schools are dropping the service. Craft and board member Dr.

Robert Minick were in favor of dropping the service with each church holding its own." The board decided to find out if the present senior class desires a baccalaureate sermon, and the subject wil be brought before the next session. Supt. Craft informed the board last night that a drainage problem exists in the R.C. Waters Elementary Schol parking It. Mrs.

Lila Stevens, who resides next to the school, informed the board that water was draining from the lot onto her property. Clerk Eldon Leow told the board, "Our blacktop is going to pieces in this area from water standing on it." Craft advised a sidewalk next v. i Wife YtfvMtvt. BEHIND BUNKER Sanh Fortress tit Council Okays Street Project Bonding Award Port Clinton City Council met in special session last night for the first time this year to pass a resolution providing for the awarding of two street improvement bond issues. The total amount of the bond was listed at $239,800 and were awarded to McDonald and Company of Cleveland.

McDonald and. Company submitted the lowest interest rate of all bids opened and were officially' giveii the bonds at yesterday's session of council. It was hoped a second special session could be called to act on a zoning request by William Richards, developer of Portage Park. Council President Lockwood Zeis said there were only six members of council at the special meeting yesterday and that it would have taken all seven members to waive the rules of notification to have a second special session. Zeis said the proposal will come before council at their next regular session April 9.

Councilman John E. Macko, fourth ward, was the only councilman not in attendance at the special meeting. at the University of Virginia. He did so after first declaring that while it's much more likely the strange radio signals are coming from uninhabited starlike objects, the alternative possibility that they may represent signals from intelligent beings has not yet been definitely ruled out. The discussion concerned recently discovered "pulsars" four celestial objects of some kind that have been detected by 's.

'k. mm SEN. UG MCCARTHY Sen. McCarthy Captures 57 In Wisconsin MILWAUKEE (AP) Democrat Eugene J. McCarthy, triumphant vith 57 per cent of the vote in Wisconsin's prelude to battle, turned today toward the arenas which pose the real test of his claim that he can win the White" House." And Richard M.

Nixon added another trophy in his march toward the Republican presidential nomination. "We have demonstrated here in Wisconsin the ability to win in November," McCarthy told his corps of youthful volunteers after he trounced retiring President Johnson Tuesday in the season's second presidential primary. Johnson got 35 per cent of the vote, but had announced Sunday he is not a candidate. "As you know, this is only a preliminary victory," the Minnesota senator said. "We have to go on to primaries in other states some of them perhaps more difficult than this one." For in those other states, will be matched against New York Sen.

Robert F. Kennedy. Nixon built a towerinf .50 per cent of the Republican vote lo match his showing in New Hampshire's opening primary three weeks ago. He had no real opposition in either race. The former vice president said his showing proved that Wisconsin will be in the Republican column when the White House votes are counted next Nov.

5. With 3,112 of 3,291 precincts counted, this was the Democratic picture: McCarthy 390,204 votes for 57 per cent of the party turnout; Johnson 241,866 or 35 per cent. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, the rival McCarthy will have to overcome if he is to be nominated, drew 6 per cent of the votes.

But those were write-in votes, for his name was not on the ballot. And Kennedy had urged that people who favor him vote for McCarthy in Wisconsin. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. i(AP) A government space scientist says it's remotely possible newly detected mysterious signals from outer space may represent "galactic navigational beacons" being employed by an advanced civilization to guide their manned spaceships along the Milky Way. Another admittedly far-out possibility, says Dr.

Kenneth KeUermann, is that the radio Life to the curb on Ottawa Street should be installed to provide more space for parents to unload students. The board authorized Craft to take care of the existing problems. Also on the agenda last night was the future possibility of a study of Benton-Carroll-Salem's educational facility needs to be provided by the School of Educating Ohio State University. The problem seemed to be, "Is the system ready for such a study?" Dr. Minick and teacher representative Charles Smith agreed the teachers should give practical ideas about the needs of the schools.

The study would provide detailed evaluations and recommendations for improved facilities. Deadline date for accepting the study is Jan. 1, 1969. Smith provided each bo a member with a copy of a joint statement of understanding for professional negotiations between the board of education and the Oak Harbor Area Educational Association last night. He informed the board that the teachers would like to have it read before the next meeting when Mrs.

Sue Robinson, Ron Obee and Mrs. Billie Day will be present to answer questions and discuss the policy. The board advised Smith they were not qualified to accept or reject the policy and would require professional representation. The main topics of joint statement were headed: principles, recognition, o-cedures, board of review, state superintendent and costs. Mrs.

Carolyn Neintz and Mrs. Billie Day were granted permission last night to go to Vermilion on April 17 to observe the music department, elementary central library and team teaching in schools there. Thomas Gibbs was granted permission to attend a coordination conference the afternoon of April 25 at Bowling Green State University. Craft notified the board the non-certified employees have organized a chapter of the Ohio Association of Public School Employees. The following officers were elected: president, James Mackey; vice- president, Robert Sommer; secretary, Lucille Bar-tell; treasurer, Donald Hillman.

(Continued on Pag 2) United States and abroad including himself believe the signals are probably coming from "neutron states." The latter are previously postulated celestial objects presumed to be a form of wreckage from supernovae of exploding stars. Some other scientists, he indicated, believe the signals may be coming from other types of dying stars known as "white dwarfs." Jp" i' x. I' aass, iiS MARINE MEDICS CARE FOR WOUNDED Injured Men Await Evacuation From Khe i iff "i oSely Possible' Space pulsating radio waves they are emitting. British radio astronomers discovered them last summer but didn't report their findings to the scientific world until late in February. Since then, American scientists have also detected them.

Declaring the discovery has astounded astronmers through out the world, Kellermann said most radio in the wave signals may represent communications signals between four inhabited planets, as well as attempts by each to contact still other planets such as the earth. Kellermann, of the government's National Radio Astron-my Observatory at Green Bank, W.Va., described the concepts in an interview Tuesday while attending a meeting of the American Astronomical Society Killer9 In flew Home Lupa, largest whale in captivity, is lowered into the New York City Aquarium's "Polar Bay" after a flight from Seattle. The killer whale was suspended in the sling-like stretcher for the trip, and cold water was sprayed over it during the flight. li iiMuiljuiJ.