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Fair to Partly Christmas Shoppers Cloudy Tonight Shop The And Tuesday Classified Section Force of _ _ M300^M——«_¦_—¦_ _ _ _ _ _ _ — WO— _ _ _ __ —_,—«—«—_— —Seen_ _ — » . ^ McNamara Warns Viet War Will Be Stepped UD SAIGON, South Viet Nam step up air attacks on the North whirlwind tour. met some of the men (AP ) who fought — Secretary of Defense Vietnamese jungle supply Before heading back to Wash- the Communists in the bitter Ia Robert S. McNamara ended his routes. ington, McNamara made a Drang Valley battle two weeks visit to Viet Nam today by de- These were believed to be the quick trip to U.S. 1st Cavalry, ago and flew over the battla Wreckage of claring that the United States minimum requests of U.S. mili- Airmobile Division headquar- scene. would throw in as many fight- tary commanders during their ters, in the central highlands McNamara received first- ing men as needed to wage the talks with McNamara during his 260 miles north of Saigon. He hand briefings on the Ia Drang war against the Communists. fighting, praised the division's Minnesota McNamara told newsmen at achievements and said: "With- Saigon airport after his 1%-day out question there will be other THEY WERE ON OUR SIDE . The when Viet Cong overran a Vietnamese bat- fact-finding tour that his most air cavalry divisions formed." eyes of a Vietnamese litter bearer tell a sad talion and a regimental headquarters with dramatic impression is that "we The air cavalry's 16,000 men have stopped losing tale as he walks down road crowded with human wave attacks. The Rangers, who re- Plane Found the war." rely on the division's more than He added that the increased corpses of American and Vietnamese soldiers covered more than a hundred bodies, wore SALT LAKE CITY, . Utah 450 helicopters for speedy trans- (AP) ferocity of Viet Cong and North port into combat. at Michelin Rubber Plantation. A Ranger kerchiefs to cut down the stench. (AP Photo- — Investigatiors raked Vietnamese attacks in recent battalion retook the ground through the wreckage of a DC3 No significant ground action , 45 miles north- fax via radio from Saigon) , weeks indicated "a clear deci- was reported today, west of Saigon but U.S. Air , that had been lost Saturday a search party was to recover sion by Hanoi to escalate infil- Force and Navy planes ham- bodies and search planes circled tration and raise the level of the mered Communist targets from conflict." snow-capped mountains today in the tip of South Viet Nam to north of Hanoi. A the wake of airplane disasters He said these acts must be spokesman said they knocked out railroads that have claimed 61 lives in countered, adding: "The South Vietnamese government will and supply installations. Traffic Deaths Set Utah in 16 days. further increase its military A Communist regiment that Civil Aeronautics Board in- strength." wiped out a South Vietnamese vestigators probed the wreck- regiment on an abandoned rub- On the eve of McNamara' age of a twin-engine DCS that s ar- ber plantation Saturday 45 miles rival, four Viet Cong battalions northwest of Saigon apparently crashed minutes after takeoff with North Vietnamese support from Salt Lake Airport Satur- disappeared without a trace. Thanksgiving Record troops handed the South Viet- Searching Vietnamese and day, killing all 13 persons namese one of their worst set- By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS times, might go higher. aboard. American troops failed to make Although most of the traffic backs of the war. In an attack contact with the The nation's Thanksgiving Forty traffic deaths were re- deaths were single fatalities It was the second commercial Communist , on troops holding an abandoned force Sunday or today. weekend traffic toll reached 602 ported in New York State, 39 in scattered multiple-death acci- airliner tragedy in the state this rubber plantation 45 miles today, the highest death tally California and 36 in Texas. Ohio dents helped boost the final month; On Nov. 11, a United Air northwest of Saigon, the Com- Radio Cambodia reported that lor the period in eight years of counted 33 deaths. count. Lines 727 trijet crashlanded and munists knocked out an entire two American prisoners held record-keeping. Traffic death tolls have been A collision Sunday resulted in burst into flames at the airport, government regiment as an ef- since November 1963 by the Viet Until this year, the highest recorded for the four-day the death of three members of a killing 43 of the 91 persons fective fighting force. American Cong arrived at the Cambodian count was 554 in 1964. With Thanksgiving weekend period Norman, Okla., family and a aboard. advisers also perished. frontier Sunday and were grant- ed transit visas to the United some states still to verify final since 1958. teen-age girl riding in their auto In sooth-central Utah, a It was feared the casualties, ' The Associated Press tally States. The Viet Cong an- figures, it appeared this year s as they drove to church. Three ground party was to bring down when finally totaled, might be record for the 102-hour period started at 6 p.m. (local time) persons were seriously injured the highest of the war to date. nounced over the weekend that the bodies of four Minneapolis , ¦ -^-^— 11 " ¦ **~^^^mmmmmmmmmmmmmw ^i3oauw/HvK 'Ar^ff-*smffi& i .v ***\,'-rtissv¥tj aaff ^i»>t-:'y-j..f. iv^- ¦• ¦: . -.•.W.V.V.V.VJWHWSW*! the two men — Sgt. George E. which ended at midnight, local Wednesday, in the mishap. residents who perished when McNamara declined to spec- MCNAMARA SEES CHINESE RIFLES ... U.S. Secre- Smith of Chester, W.Va., and A collision Saturday near their light plane crashed near ulate on the total U.S. forces tary of Defense Robert McNamara bends to pick up captured Spec. 5 Claude E. McClure of Radcliff, Ky., killed two broth- the peak of 11,139-foot Mt. Bel- that will be required but his Chattanooga, Term., Chinese rifle today during a had been ers and their sister on their way nap. comments heightened specula- vitft to headquarters of the freed. 'Oppose the War to the funeral of a relative. The Minnesota plane disap- tion that he will advise Presi- First Air Cavalry (airmobile) division at An Khe in South The Communists captured . Three persons lost their lives peared in a snowstorm Nov. 14. dent Johnson to increase Ameri- Viet Nam. The rWe wa_t among considerable North Viet another American Sunday, the Thanksgiving night near Punta The same night a private plane can ground forces in Viet Nam Nam army equipment taken by the Tint Cavalry lp,the pilot of a Navy F8 Crusader Gorda, Fla., in a head-on colli- piloted by a Phoenix, Ariz., from 165,000 to 300,000 men and bitter la Drang valley battle two weeks ago. (AP Pnotofax) shot down over North Viet Nam sion. The same day near Day- minister disappeared. He was about 15 miles north of Thanh Leaflet Arouses ton, Tex., five persons were found dead In the wreckage tbe Hoa on an armed reconnais- killed in a crash. next day. sance mission. The pilot ejected Civil Air Patrol planes were and was seen landing in an open Snow made driving conditions still searching the mountains of Give Congress Facts for field near a small village. Da Nang Seabee hazardous in some parts of the eastern Utah today for a small Search-and-rescue aircraft nation over the weekend. plane that vanished with an Air failed to find him, and he was presumed to have been cap- DA NANG, South Viet Nam of Brooklyn, N.Y,. read the leaf- Traffic fatalities over a four- Force sergeant on a flight from day Thanksgiving weekend have to Denver. tured. Another Crusader was (AP) — "That's really bad let he didn't laugh. Salt Lake City War Decision ranged from a low of 442 in I960 , Laird Urges shot down in the same area ear- when you have to fight an ene- "It made me mad," Fuscello to this year's high. The plane which crashed Sat- lier Sunday. But the pilot was said. "We got to stop commu- WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. question about whether we are an interview that Johnson has my behind your back," said Le- For comparative purposes, urday was operated by Edde Melvin R. Laird, R-Wis., rescued. nism here. People that write On sug- involved in a war situation at escalated the U.S. commitment An Air Force F4C went down Roy Hensley, a Seabee in Viet The Associated Press conducted Airlines, a charter service. gested today that President the present time, stuff like that don't know what passengers and " Laird said. in Viet Nam "to the point where near Plelku, in South Viet Nam who received an "Oppose a survey of traffic fatalities for board were nine Johnson give to Congress all the "If we are not fighting a war they are talking about. Maybe four crew members.