Allied War Toll Soars Near Record SAIGON (AP) — the Allied Statistics Are Not Accurate for Son, but U.S
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Ask $12.1 Million for County Welfare Budget SEE STORY BELOW Weather HOME Partly cloudy through tomorrow. THEDAIIY High today 50-55, low tonight around 40. High tomorrow near FINAL SO. Saturday's outlook, partly -ga* cloudy and mild. MONMOUTH COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER FOK 89 YEARS DIAL 741-0010 VOL. 90, NO. 120 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1967 10c PER COPY PAGE ONE Week's Total: 194 Yanks, 308 South Viets, 21 Others Allied War Toll Soars Near Record SAIGON (AP) — The Allied Statistics are not accurate for Son, but U.S. officials have esti- one fight, 25 in another and 30 in In Saigon, Vice President Along the Cambodian border in Americans and wounded 12 at an remote areas became less fre- 1 commands in South Vietnam an- quent but more intense. The al-j such previous years as 1964 andmated the death toll there proba- another. Nguyen Cao Ky said the South the central highlands, high-alti- artillery position guarding Dak nounced casualty figures today lied commands said 595 of their' 1965, when the South Vietnamese bly was around 200. Associated Press correspon- Vietnamese government would tude B52 bombers laid down a To. •howing that last week was one men were killed last week — 380were sometimes losing whole bat- The war communiques today dent Robert Ohman reported soon announce one-day cease- saturation iraid about a mile from Throughout the night, Air Force of the costliest of the year for South Vietnamese, 194 Americans talions in bloody battles. How- reported more isolated, deadly troops of the Americal division fires for Christmas and New the frontier facing the American twin-engine Dragonships circled their forces. And civilian deaths and 21 Koreans and Australians. ever, last week's losses were cer- battiee with little apparent pat- were hotly engaged today on the Year's and a two-day truce dur- redoubt at Dak To, blasting at the jungle area, dropping strings attributed to the enemy were the South Vietnamese headquarters tainly among tlie highest since tern. There was fighting along coastal lowlands of Quang Tin ing Tet, the Vietnamese lunar North Vietnamese infiltrators of flares to illuminate any enemy highest ever recorded. said 1,818 Communist troops were that period, when the govern- the Cambodian frontier and in Province, in the north. About 30 new year at the end of January. threatening American encamp- attempt at surprise attack. During only one other week this killed last week, about the aver- ment's strength was at low ebb.the northern provinces below the Communist soldiers had been The Viet Cong announced Nov. ments in the vital region. year was the allied military age for the past several months. The military losses were paral- Demilitarized Zone, coupled with killed in the developing action, 18 that it would observe three- Only a few hours before the The new B52 raid some 280 death toll higher. But it was nearly double the to- leled by the highest recorded ci- isolated Viet Cong assaults, shell- Ohman said, and a battalion of day cease-fires at Christmas and bombers unloaded upward of miles northeast of Saigon was The statistics underlined the tal reported the week before. vilian toll of the war, 232 dead. ings and the sabotage of a bridge the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division New Year's and a seven-day 150,000 pounds of bombs on sus the fourth in a renewed effort to war's present pattern: The guer- The highest total of allied dead This included 114 Montagnard vil- on the Saigon-Dalat highway. was attempting an envelopment truce at Tet. Ky said the govern- pected Red trails southwest of hamper Red infiltration by satur- rilla war of attrition continuing this year was in one week of lagers slain in the Viet Cong Battle reports listed continuing with the aid of heavy air and ment announcement would come Dak To, Communist mortars tired ation bombing along the frontier. while isolated pitched battles in May, when 628 men were killed. massacre at the village- at Dak Communist losses, 30 killed in artillery support. "in a few days." 55 quick rounds, killing three (See VIETNAM, Pg. 2, Col. 8) \Rural to Urban Economyl King Comtantine Flees to Rome "hange Seen in MonmouthGreek Coup Try Fails OCEAN TOWNSHIP — The ture and work with other com- Monmouth County Municipal As- munity institutions to provide ATHENS (AP) - Greece's mil- conspirators have been ousted." with the king, but the only re- my Corps, based in the north, sociation was told last night that jobs. itary government appeared today He did not mention the king ported fighting on the mainland when he appealed to the nation the county must make a transi- Job for Business to have crushed — with almost and it was not generally known was at Elefsis air force base to rebel. Athens Radio said to- tion from a rural to an urban Business has a responsibility to no fighting — a counter coup in Athens this morning that the southwest of Athens. Two army day the commander of the corps, economy in less than 20 years. assist the communities in train- led by 27-year-old King Constan- monarch had fled. captains attempting to board a Gen. George Peridis, was among "You must do. it without letting ing unemployed and underem- tine, and to be in confident con- Less than 24 hours after Con- plane there for northern Greece three army generals arrested by your communities decay, your fa- ployed adults for jobs requiring trol of the country. stantine .called .Wednesday on his were reported shot by troops loy- the junta. cilities erode, and your people some skills, he said, to stop the The king, stripped of his pow-people to revolt against the rul- al to the government, and Widespread arrests of right- give up hope," said Guy Accet- spiral that begins with jobless- ers and replaced by a regent, ing colonels in Athens, troops clashes between air force and wing politlcans also were report- tura, vice president and general ness and ends with riots. Lt. Gen. George Zeitakis, fled to and armored carriers that had army units followed. Two build- ed in Athens. manager of Bell Telephone Lab- Mr. Accettura said the finest Rome with his family. He made ringed the junta headquarters in ings caught fire in the fighting. The capital was calm today, oratories. pools of educated manpower in no immediate comment. the Parliament building, were Fighting also was reported on and people hurried to work as "You must attract new indus- the county have been brought to- Col. George Papadopoulos, removed. However, armed the Greek island of Crete, scene usual. But the government or- try, but not the kind that can gether here and he urged the strongman of the military dicta- guards continued to stand out- of the only armed resistance to dered all banks and the stock bring unwholesome conditions. communities to use them in torship and the new premier, side defense headquarters on the the junta's takeover eight exchange closed to avert finan- You must build the equivalent of search for solutions to its in- said in an early morning broad- outskirts of the capital. months ago. cial panic. another Monmouth. County with- cipient problems. cast that "the antinationalist con- Military units in northern Reports said the king was Reports from northern Greece out driving the tax rate beyond Bell Labs came to Monmouth spiracy has been crushed. The Greece had been reported siding with the 3rd Armored Ar- (See COUP, Pg. 2, Col. 1) endurance." County in 1929 on something of Bell Labs stands ready to help, a te.mporary visit to study short- he continued. "We must help. We wave radio transmission, ie said. williielp." Mr. Accettura said that the "Well, that visit just never end- proper kind of jobs and education ed. We're in Monmouth County to Asks Rumson Board Scrap must be provided for county res- stay. And we're getting bigger." idents to insure generations of re- By 1970 the labs expect to have sponsible taxpayers and good cit- more than 5,000 employes, he not- izens. ed. The vice president's topic to The company ranks almost 200 in the list of the top 500 indus- Grade School Building Plan the group meeting at Paul Sam- trial firms, he said. In sales, it THE BELL STORY — Guy Accetrura, vice president and ranks 136, he added. RUMSON — Councilman Fran- ties until 1970 would be a trag- "The high school has also said "We should consider having cis E. P. McCarter has asked edy," he said, adding: "But in this burden shared," he said. "A general manager of Bell Telephone Laboratories, left, the county. More than 15,200 employes are that if ninth grade were removed working for Bell, he said, with that the Board of Education scrap the interest of over-all planning, to a junior high school, its present junior high built on Ridge Road its proposal to build a seventh- we should be willing to accept gives New Shrewsbury Mayor John E. Lemon, presi- The county has realized that it more than 4,000 of them at Holm- facility would accommodate on the Fair Haven side would eighth grade school on Ridge this in favor of a better long be a more equitable solution." dant of the Monmouth County Municipal Association, del. Three thousand live in the Rumson's maximum population." county, he said. Road and thoroughly investigate range plan for the borough." Dr. John F, Kinney Jr., super- an explanation of Bell's latest product, the Picture- he said! construction of a regional junior To operate the labs costs about i Major Points Financial strain faces Rum- intendent of the Rumson-Fair Ha- phone, a see-while-you talk telephone.