European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 05, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday october 5, 1967 &8ss3388reject us. Offer for soft Day s night beatles N.Y.nay $1 million for 2 shows London a the beatles Are just not interested in an offer of $1 million for one Day s work in the United states a spokesman said reason it would mean appear ing personally at the 55,000-seat she stadium in new York. We will definitely not accept the offer said the spokesman. The Money does t is simply impossible to put across in any stadium or Hall the kind of music the beatles Are playing these until some Way is found of presenting visually their Avant Garde mystical pop style the lads from Liverpool Are keeping out of the Lime Light. The million Dollar bait was dangled by american promoter Sidney Bern Stein now visiting London. He told re porters he believed he could fill the huge stadium for each of two beatles concerts in one Day. Bernstein promoted the first beatles tour of the United states in 1m4. More than a year ago the beatles quietly abandoned the frantic one night stands around the world that drove teenagers to hysteria and made the mop tops multimillionaire since then they have concentrated on producing records making movie Sand television films and spreading the views of a bearded Indian s offer Drew this comment from Abiy Barrow a spokesman forthe quartet i suppose they com go on Stag with the drams and three guitars stuff but that s the music of two or Fere years ago. They have not yet devised a Way of presenting their today music in a single stage show. That will be the time to be doing live new violence boils in steel truck strike Pittsburgh a arsonists gunmen and vandals challenged state militia wednesday during the struggle to take All steel trucks off the scorched four gasoline drenched rigs in police counted 18 trucks damaged by Drivers in Indiana Ohio and Pennsylvania said they were shot at. No injuries were re ported. Fourteen hours afer he ordered National guardsmen to assemble in Western Pennsylvania Armor ies gov. Raymond p. Shafer let them go Home but he said the will be recalled immediately if they Are needed. There was no end in sight tothe seven week old strike by 10, 000 to 20,000 owner operators try ing to prod the teamsters Union into getting them a better con tract. No new negotiations have Bee scheduled since the truckers turned Down a weekend proposal for a truce. Steel Mill Ware houses Are piling up with finished steel that cannot be moved. More than half of America s steel i ordinarily carried by trucks. Computer failure delays Saturn test Cape Kennedy up acomputer1 failure tuesday forced another 24-hour delay in the important rehearsal countdown for the late october launching of the first Saturn 5 Moon rocket. The 83-hour test was halted at4 ., nine hours and 30 minutes before the Moc Blastoff when trouble developed in one of two master computer used in the final launching sequence. Engineers postpone the test and rescheduled it for an 8 Windup space Agency spokesman said the problem was no considered serious. But each delay in the completion of the exercise further delays the Maiden launching for the 363-Footrocket. Yanks crack continued from Page von the War s one Semi stabilized front followed american Aeria attacks on North Vietnam tues Day As close As 10 Miles to communist China. The raiders hit two Bridges that the Pentagon previously had held off limits. In All . Air Force an Navy squadrons flew 106 mis Sions Over the North. The spokes Man announced that one plane was shot North vietnamese who had claimed that they downed even planes tuesday broadcast a declaration that they felled five wednesday. There was no immediate american comment. Although the communist freon con Thien slackened appreciably and Aerial reconnaissance showed some groups pulling Back . Authorities said there was no sign 6i a general withdrawal of the 35,000 North Viet namese troops estimated to be massed in and hear the demilitarized zone. Westmoreland cautioned in a interview with the associated press that he expects renewed assaults against the Marine to Don t think the enemy has Given up his aggressive Campaign the general said. Dien Bien Phu in the Hills 180 pies West of Handl is the lit of France s final defeat in the indochinese War in 1954. Big to the Heights by to Chi Minh s communist led troops battered the remnants of the French army into submission. The communists attack onion Thien at times surpassing 1,000 rounds a Day was their most massive artillery operation since Dien Bien Pluit was one of the most not Able Allied victories of the War because it blocked a direct in Vasion across the Border by35,000 to 40,000 North Vietnam Ese regulars intent on capturing Rush helps pick targets Conti Mied from Page 1 terminated and with that the War could t possibly last very Long. Lacking that Complete termination the More you can do to inhibit and prevent the important distribution of supplies and equipment in my opinion the Shorter the War will sen. Stuart Symington d-mo.,former Secretary of the air Force and Long an advocate Ofair Power told Mcconnell that . U. S. G. Sharp Pacific commander in chief testified earlier that there was no planto win the War. Did t we have plans when the real War started in 1965, to win Symington of Mcconnell s reply was deleted by Pentagon censors Buthe obviously referred to the restrictions on bombing civilian and population centers in North Vietnam in the following Exchange two of grateful dead held on drugs charge san Francisco a police officers said they arrested four men and five Young women monday in a narcotics raid on the Hippi Eville Headquarters of the grateful dead a popular singing Mckernan 22, and Rob Ert Weir 19, two members of the group and Danny Rifkin 24, their business manager were booked at City prison on suspicion of possessing narcotics. Mcconnell our objectives Are different. We had no inhibition at All in destroying Symington have we Fol Lowed the original plan Mcconnell we did t have any original plans any solid original plans for Northr an South . Moorer described the restricted bombing of targets in Van Dyke. Continued from Page i on How to adapt the Book to the screen or whether it is even do Able Salinger said. As far As Dick Van Dyke goes i Haven teen him for two a spokesman for sen. Robertf. Kennedy d-n.y., in washing ton characterized Van Dyke statement As absolutely false we know nothing about spokesman for mrs. Jacque line Kennedy said she had never been approached about casting and had not Given approval of Van Dyke or anyone up re ported. Voice for goofy Dies Hollywood up Vance Pinto Colvig the voice of Walt Disney s goofy and Pluto cartoon characters the original Bozo the Clown and the co writer of who s afraid of the big bad Wolf died tuesday atthe age of 75 in the motion Pic Ture Industry s Hospital in nearby Woodland Hills. Main Chute malfunctions skydiver survives 12,500-foot fall san Diego calif., a Anavy skydiver survived a 12,500 foot fall tuesday when his main Parachute malfunctioned and he hit the ground at about 85 Milesian hour. Boatswain s mate . Josephe. Thrift 34, was reported in Good condition with what the hos Pital called very minor Frac Ture of the , a member of an under water demolition team belongs to a team of volunteers who demonstrate jumped from a helicopter at 12,500 feet and executed a free fall of 10,000 feet. Then his main Chute opened Only partially Les than half of Normal. Thrift sprung his emergency Chute but it tangled with support lines of the main Chute and also opened Only part Way. Thrift who landed in a Hay Field said i did t think i was going to get Hurt too badly. Thought the breath would be knocked out of me that i would get up and walk North Vietnam As military forces previously have not been required Tobe so precise in the application of military Power As in the pres ent Campaign he said. Per haps the Best example of this Isth requirement to destroy specific Bridges and Power Plant with almost surgical precisions within what heretofore Wouldhave been a military target com the Admiral said closing of the important Haiphong port chief Supply Center for North Viet Nam has often been discussed but this had not been authorized. We have had plans to mine the Harbor for some time he said. We have the capability Tomine the the balance of his comment was deleted. School bus truck collide Jacksonville Fla. A a school bus carrying Handi capped children collided today with a loaded dump truck and both vehicles overturned sever ing the right leg of a woman on the bus and injuring several children. Mrs. Olivia Seabrook 65,underwent surgery in Duval medical Center where doctor said she lost one leg and might lose the other. Thirty two Chil Dren were hospitalized and one was reported seriously Hurt. The truck Driver identified a Frank c. Daniels 35, said a car pulled out in front of him forc ing him to swerve and collide with the bus. The truck was loaded with dirt. Mrs. Seabrook was a Tempo Rary attendant to the children. Hans is biggest cheese Sugarcreek Ohio a Hans Yorg is Ohio s Champion Swiss cheese maker. The owner of Farmerstown cheese co. In Holmes county won the title i judging at the annual Swiss festival. The no Ethel h provi vices of South Vietnam. The Dost was heavy More than 300 marines dead anymore than 3,000 wounded. Con Thien is one of the ugliest landscapes in the world a red mud Hill that rises 500 feet above the vietnamese coastal Plain. The main base is two Miles Southof the Doz and about 10 Miles Inland but it dominates the in Vasion route South supported by Marine bases nearby. / the siege began in mid jul with intense mortar and artillery barrages which forced the leathernecks into a world War i Type of Trench warfare and gave Viet Nam the first front of the War. Life was miserable. One Day 10marines were drowned in their bunkers by a Flash flood fro the Ben Hai River which splits the Doz. The marines replied to the Dally barrages with thousands of artillery rounds of their own.b52s from Guam and from neigh Boring Thailand hit the enemy positions with what Westmore land called the heaviest concentration 6t bombing in history. . And australian ships hit the communists from the sea. Early in the week Westmore land announced that the Ameri can counter fire appeared to have badly crippled the enemy. Wednesday a spokesman announced that the North Vietnam Ese had abandoned gun emplacements below the Ben Hai River. Broke. Back it looks As if we broke Thierback this time a military source said. The communists had hit the marines with an average of 500 rounds daily with their artillery and mortars. In one 24 hour period last week they fired1,000 rounds at the marines but this appeared wednesday to have been a last gasp Effort before re treat just using up their remaining shells. Tuesday Only 17 rounds fell into the american lines wounding one marines were comforted in the Battle by the fact that .planes were delivering heavier bombing attacks than those on London and Berlin in world War . Gen. Robert Cushman com Mander of the marines stressed the importance of the Battle the problem is one of a de sense against an invading army and not necessarily the defens of one Knoll of land or he estimated the invasion Force at three or four divisions 35,000 to 40,000 crack North vietnamese army regulars. The Cost of the Battle to the communists majr never be artillery and air attacks certainly killed hundreds of would be invaders but More important was the fact that the armies were sent fleeing Back to the North dragging their Artil Lery or what was left of it with them
