European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and Striks March 6worst blizzard in history blows out icon tinted Paton it the City had ii consecutive hours of Zero some 1m persons remained stranded aboard a Northern Pacific passenger train at eagles 50 Miles West of 305 persons aboard two other stalled Northern Pacific Passen Ger Trant were removed to Jamestown and new a in car Milwaukee Road freight train remained All but burled in drifted Snow near me airliners which finally made it into Bismarck saturday were believed to be the first planes to land in North Dakota since the blizzard picture by states North 35 at least 445 travellers three High school basketball coaches were res cued from their stalled car saturday 38 Miles South of Mandan where they had been stranded since Charles who mobilized the National guard and declared the state a disaster ordered All motorists to stay off roads and the air Force sent six helicopters to Aid in Rescue two Young farm girls were lost in the Carla of was found Frozen to death in a Field saturday by her a relative of bandleader Law rence disappeared in the blinding blizzard thursday night while out with her Brothers do ing Betty went out to close the door to the Chicken House at the family farm Northwest of Jamestown and did not with 3d to mile winds fire destroyed tour business places in bitter fighting continues allies kill reds in death trap cont mad Tram ii hiding bunkers and trenches where the communists were holed in pulled the Back slightly marines to let Artiery and air strikes Rake areas in rent of them who High explosive bombs and warplanes smashed one Village in the path of the sri 1st which moved Down gentle slopes into the in trying to break out of the death toe Hanoi originally numbering More than used a withering barrage of mortar and Small arms but the marines held their ground and quickly were reinforced by two leather neck companies flown into the area by of Fon sides the with South vietnamese Ranger and air borne pressed in on the communists from four the reds literally Back to Back in the Small rectangular shaped at about Dawn a Marine spokesman said the marines Mil were taking heavy machine gun and Small arms fire and were in solid Contact with at least to communist Compa the Leatherneck unit that bore the Brunt of the fighting throughout the night was the 2nd 4th which had taken up positions on the East Side of the go tale Ina Lei the 101st air borne 1st Bri Gade operating 11 Miles South of toy Aba launched an attack Friday of later identified As a reinforced North Viet namese they reportedly killed ids of the enemy and captured m weapons including our machine hit machine the 1st inf div went into the Jungles and rubber plantations Arpod Ben 30 Miles saturday and a Back the word and a urn rushed the infantry Viet captured our and found a the North of found Viet Saigon s Etc big i insurgents finally broke an army helicopter and an air Force Jet were hit by ground fire while supporting the infantry both the air Force Pilot elected the mounting action was accompanied streaming by into new forces the american military there Are now troops committed the army totals the Marine corps the air Force 000 and the Navy and coast guard there Are about men involved in the 7th Fleet Cruiser and de Stroyer operations off More Good weather air Force and Carrier Crews took advantage Friday of the second straight Day of excellent weather Over both North Viet Nam and South Viet Nam for the biggest Effort since the air War started a Little More than a year the air Force flew 27 mis Sions against intense antlauv1 Craft blasting the red River Delta communications lines and knocking out one missile the Navy sent out 34 missions from the Ranger and Hancock and hit the Khena Dong by 3 Miles Southwest of destroying an antiaircraft site 42 Miles Southeast of Vonh and assaulting roads and ferry All planes returned the spokesman one phantom f4b was shot Down near can Tho in the the Crew ejected and was picked up for All the air there were no search Andrescu mis Sions on the plotting the air Force spokesman that a really Good Day when you can say b52 bombers were employed in saturday assaulting a Vietig troop concentration and an enemy about the same three squadrons of Jet fighter bombers caught Viet Cong in the open about 100 Miles Northeast of Saigon and mowed Down 744 of a second South vietnamese airborne battalion was flown in to Theuang Gal Battle Satur Day and joined up with the 1st airborne battalion in a task the task Force began pushing eastward toward the key North South Highway which my would like to control in or Der to halt movement of Allied troop and marines 153 North vietnamese the and the South vietnamese troops said they killed marines estimated they killed another 160 while government troops claimed 200 searchers recover last bodies from 707 crash site in Japan March a res Cue teams trudged Down Snow covered Fuji carry ing the bodies of the two pilots who died when their Boac Boe ing 707 Jet crashed into the Moun Tain the filers were reported to have been found sitting in the with the Cap fall clutching the still they were the last two bodies the teams recovered from the 707 and another a Cana related photo on Page 23 Dian Pacific which crashed at Tokyo Airport 10 hours sixty four persons died in the which smashed into a Wall near a runway Friday night As it landed in fog after a flight from Hong there were eight the 707 burst into flames High above Fuji minutes after taking off from Tokyo for Hong All 124 persons aboard died when it plunged into the Moun this brought the number of kilted in crashes in and around Tokyo in the last month to an Al Nippon Boeing 727 plunged into Tokyo Bay 4 two empty pistols found in wreckage March empty pistols were found sunday in the wreckage of the Boac 707 Jet that went Down with 124 people the Shizuoka prefecture who said recovery workers had found the sw22 and Browning 25 burled in volcanic Ash near the planes said they believed there was no connection Between the pistols and the they said the weapons were badly but there was no evidence they had been your Ana found a base the taking off from Tokyo for Hong evidence they had been Nephew innocent it throughout the seven week wore a wide Grin As pm he we very pm Sid the he add if he had had any doubt about the he re plied you cant be you never stale attorney Richard Ger the prosecutor who greeted the murder ease against the two said is the american system of we did the very Best could with the evidence we both defendants were obviously nervous As the jury was summoned to the the jury filed into their seats a Typo of to the verdict came from one juror who flashed a smile at the he was Jesse a hotel Bellhop and one of three negroes on the Foreman James a restaurant and Rooming House handed the written ver dict to court Stark Robert who passed it of to the the almost deserted an hour was without Schulz handed the written verdict Back to the door first read the verdict that freed Powers Snook his took a deep and then expelled the air with an audible wheel the clerk then read the verdict on she took it with a slight smile and then broke in to tears As she embraced her woman Schulz summoned both defend ants before the Powers still wore a smile but Moss lera sobs were increasing in in you Are hereby the judge told while coming in to killing 133 the cause of the 707 crash is a most experts talk of the notoriously turbulent air cur rents Over theorizing the plane May have been shaken apart by the air Over the Mountain is noted or its violent winds but officials said that no ban had been placed on the use of the Fuji suggestions of sabotage or a bomb were although the plane was there was no sign it had saturday and threatened two damage to the printing leather goods store Supply and shops w was automotive expected to be several Hundred thousand South three at least in fifty families cued by National guardsmen1 from heartless Homes at Fleer to were housed in an Telephone communication win the Pierre state capital i a Power failure extended from Pierre in Central Soots Dakota northward to a near Power were reported at Hills Sug and and Haven for 104 a country store and station at Brooks was a Haven for 104 stranded some 240 Basket lad fans were stranded at a station and two Farn North of two i forecasters were rescued Day after being stranded Days at the rapid c weather watched helplessly while fanned by 50mile winds stroked the City office two taverns and a ii store at in Minnesota Duluth theater was opened families whose Homes h International reported 38 inches of Snow the dozens of were reported stuck in drifts outside Duluth and blizzard left a foot of mow the Northwest Comer of site and activity at was virtually at a numerous Power and failures were 25 persons Start seventeen persons were cued saturday from cars near blacked Between Crawford Harrison and Between and phone communications to and White remained Cut elsewhere in the forced cancellation or of 250 airline flights from York Oneado Nehalem Rains were reported at or and isolated radar station nearly out of Supply set from Pagi to ailed with 15foothtgh the howling winds and heavy Snow in the big blizzard which struck Minnesota and the Dako tas three Days ago blocked the Road the station has been isolated for three la Jack the issued an Emer Radlo Appeal saturday for Snow equipment from the outside to begin trying to Cut its Way through the which lies much of the Way in a a he said the stations snore Moval equipment has been in use around the clock since the Road was snowed but that it is inadequate for the Tho station has its own Power generating run on diesel station has Telephone the communications to the and nearby Duluth air base has a helicopter Ita by in Case emergency Calls come from of Lolani High winds have made Ter travel the Only vehicle which ten out the past three Days other than the nearing age of Shadeck Sal next biggest worry is ight of fire to the mender adding of the stations f equipment is buried drifts of asked How deep the the Mountain Peak j deck replied i you exact its deep enough that the living in Homes Are Coli their attic men in the Barracks the second floor fire