Viet Cong Hits Da Nang Fuel Dump
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The Preliminary information indi- driven planes operating from the commandos opened their attack miles from positions held by sev-scribed as moderate. two nights ago after a report Vietnamese losses were described village garrison fired back and cates a Viet Cong attack on an big Da Nang base comes in by about 1 a.m., inflicting heavy eral hundred U.S. Marines. The A military source at the was received that the Viet Cong as light. U.S. warships shelled suspected aviation fuel dump near the Daocean-going tanker and is trans- casualties with mortar fire on Leathernecks were not sent to scene said the U.S. Air Force was readying an attack on the An estimated 50-150 Viet Cong Red positions and evacuated cas- Nang Air Base will have no seri- ferred to the hart>or-side storage a government outpost protect- aid the post, which lies outside helicopters were called on to Esso facility. attacked the Suoi Cao outpost ualties. No VS. land forces were ous effect on U.S. air strikes, complex operated by Esso Stan- ing the storage complex. their defense zone. But U.S. Ma-drop chemicals on the burning Scattered Viet Cong^ attacks about 35 miles northwest of Sai-involved. an American military spokesman dard East (ESE). It is stored Tanks Afire rine artillery and gunfire from fuel tanks to keep the fires from over a wide area of South Viet gon. Flare and fighter planes Reliable sources said the Viet said today. there until railroad cars trans- Overrunning the outpost, the an American destroyer off Da touching off other tanks. Nam were, reported today. U.S. were called in, and government Cong appears to be stepping up Military authorities said the fer it to the base 10 miles to guerrillas,blasted through the Nang harbor were called on to Bold Attack spokesmen gave this account; casualties were described as terrorist activities in the Saigon v hit-and-run guerrillas destroyed the southwest. main gate of the dump and set shell suspected Viet Cong po- It was the boldest attack in The Communist made three light. area. In the past two weeks gre- two of the nine storage tanks Large fuel dumps are located the tanks afire with plastic sitions, military sources said. the Da Nang area since Commu- strikes in Chuong Thien province, A delayed report said Viet nades have been thrown at In the complex early today and at the air base, however. charges and phosphorous rocket An informant said fire from nist squads hit the base itself in the Mekong Delta about 115 Cong 60mm mortars opened fire two police jeeps and an Aus- heavily damaged two others with The spokesman said it was be shells. •(-•••••'• one destroyer fell short and hit little more than a month ago miles southwest of Saigon. Mor- yesterday on the village of Hamtralian officer's quarters in the T»*n-estimated toss of one million lieved they contain enough to There'was no report of Viet a Vietnamese force sent to help and destroyed three planes. tar attacks were made against Ninh, on an island about 60 city, killing a child and injuring fpgallons of fuel. fulfill immediate fuel needs. Cong casualties. the beleaguered post. Vietnamese U.S. warships shelled the hills government installations at VI miles ofi the Vietnamese coast 23 persons. See Expressway in Use by 1968 ASBURY PARK — Construe announced that rapid growth in New Jersey Conference of May-do. It won't come easily, but for building and come up with tion of a Trenton — Seashore Monmouth and Ocean Counties ors as a service to Monmouth it will come. a plan which can then be dis- Expressway will get started next mads tie road an urgent need County members, heard Mr. "Then we will' begin to study cussed." year and will be in operation by now. Tonti plead for resistance at this alignment. We can no longer ap- Pointing to a record with the 1968, a meeting of mayors from Task Force Set Up proach such matters in the town Highway Authority of never hav- stage of development of all pro- Monmouth County Municipalities He immediately created the meeting style. Our society has ing undertaken any significant was told here last night. task force headed by Paul L. posals dealing with alignment. become too big for that. It is change without first discussing D. Louis Tonti, a member of a Troast, first chairman of the "First," he said, "we have to necessary to sit down with the it with all interested local of- special task force named to de- New Jersey Turnpike Authority, ind the money. That we will engineers who will be responsible (See EXPRESSWAY, Pago 2) velop a building and financing and including Highway Commis plan, said Gov. Richard J. sioner Dwight R. G. Palmer, Hughes has set the time table chief highway engineer James and is determined to see It fol- Schuyler, and the chairmen and lowed. executive directors of the state A formular to obtain the Turnpike and Highway Authori needed J50 million — give or ties. ake $10 million, he said — Mr. Tonti, the executive of the still is undetermined. But the Highway Authority which oper- committee has been directed to ates the Garden State Parkway, MUSEUM WITH A VIEW — The Garden State Parkway has agreed to sell a construc- ender its report by Aug. 16 told the mayors at a meeting at tion site in Telegraph Hill Park, Holmdel, to the Monmouth Museum. D. Louis Tonti, and a funding plan will be in- :he Berkeley-Carteret Hotel that left, exetutivs director of the N. J. Highway Authority which operates the parkway, cluded, Mr. Tonti assured. the task force will continue even After rejecting Monmouth after making its report. U showing the hilltop location to Charles B. Harding, president of the museum trustees. County official pleas for a new "It has to," he said, "because Monmouth Museum will be allowed to pick its own three-acre site from the area in cross state road for several the membership represents the which the two men are standing. years, the governor last month only agjncies which have the wherewithal to get the job done." The meeting, called by the Proposed Museum Welcomed Smith Asks Increase In To Telegraph Hill Center Site Task Force EYEING POTENTIAL EXPRESSWAY — In ipecting map wMoh outflow proposed »att- FREEHOLD -"The Monrfic-utfc available for a wildlife sanctuary Charles B. Harding, president than museum purposes, the deed ASBURY PARK - Monmouth Muaeum ,wat welcomed wjilMjpen and nature trails". of the museum trustees, saw thewould revert to the, partway. County Freeholder Charles I. weit cross-state expressway, between Trenton and th* Monmoirtn County iewhora ; Smith proposed last night thai arrHS'; $*i!*Klay'to the Garden Details of the agreement were museum as an independent, but Museum officials, after confer- area last night at Asbury Park, were, lift to right, Mayor Frank H. Rowfarrd, A»bury State Arts Center to be built announced at a joint news con' closely co-operating part of the ring with the architect, will be Gov. Richard J. Hughes' special by the Garden State Parkway Terence here yesterday. Garden State Arts Center. allowed to pick its three acres, task force studing a new eras. Park; D. Louis Tonti, executive director o.f.thi New Jersey Highway Authority, Free*- . in Telegraph Hill Park, Holm- D. Louis Tonti, executive di- According to the agreement as long as it stays within the state expressway be increased holder Director Joseph C. Irwin. Asbur/ Park wai host to Monmou-td mayors to hear by appointment of representatives del. rector of the New Jersey High- signed by both men, the museum general area agreed upon. Mr. Tonti discuss expressway plant. ' ' . , of officials of Monmouth, Ocean ill* itew home of the museum way Authority which operates the will pay a price not to exceed That area will be an easy walk and Mercer counties. will be a half million-dollar build- parkway and will operate the $9,000 before Jan. 1, 1968, for to the amphitheater, playhouse, ing on three acres to be pur- cultural center, promised as three acres in the Holland Rd. and other facilities of t&e center. D. Louis Tonti, executive di chased from the parkway. An- much co-operation as possible, section of the park. If the parcel The public will be able to drive rector of the New Highway Au- other 40 to 55 acres will be made short of interference. ever should be used for other to the museum from Holland Rd. thority and a task force member, without entering the pariway, and tn whom the suggestion was Coleman Slate Wins can visit the rest of the center on made, said it was excellent and foot.