TN YEAR No. 231 FOUR SECTIONS 34 PAGES REDWOOP CITY, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1968 365-3111 19c Copy 12.00 Month Reds NGo for Broket signs than now appear in Saigon that its end would lessen terrorism and aggression. Sniping persisted in Saigon streets after nightfall. Shots were fired at a U.S. billet called the Five Oceans.
South Vietnamese marines were reported battling an enemy force of undetermined size north of the Tan Son Nhut airbase. Major U.S. infantry and tank units hunted for enemy elements. Reporting on operations elsewhere, the U.S. Command an their current drive against key cities with their biggest offensive of the war, a drive in the northern provinces below the demilitarized zone.
U.S. Marines form the main allied shield there against four or five divisions of Hanoi regulars perhaps up to 50,000 men. The commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, in calling the enemys present operation a go for broke proposition, told a conference: It was all or nothing. He has put forth his maxi nounced helicopter-borne troops of the 1st Cavalry Division secured Quang Tri City, capital of South Vietnam's northernmost province.
Gunships helped thwart the 800 or so Communist troops who had driven into that city, 19 miles below the demilitarized zone. Three companies of U.S. Marines, a platoon of Army tanks and two battalions of South Vietnamese troops more than 2,000 men in all battled to clear an enemy force estimated By ROBERT TUCKMAN Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) U.S. armed forces struck with major infan-, try and armored units at Communist forces in Saigon and several other menaced cities today, ccmbatting a Red offensive that Gen. William C.
Westmoreland called a go for broke proposition. Meanwhile in Washington, President Johnson pledged that bombing of North Vietnam will go on until, there are better 2 Announce: Mommeimit ODeadDn im lace For Council Redwood City Property acquisition along Mid-dlefield Road has begun as the first step in the projected $500,000 improvement of the street from Charter to Chestnut streets. Page 2. Peninsula Western Greyhound Lines proposal to eliminate commute fares will come up for hearing before the California PUC beginning Feb. 7.
Page 13. Life of a bail bondsman means helping people who are in trouble but it also means very little sleep at night. Page 20. San lTamisco Representatives of all San Francisco labor unions were called to a meeting to unite behind the San Francisco newspaper strike. Page 14.
State Gov. Reagans budget for next year will allocate about $295 million for the University of California and approximately $240 million for state colleges. Page 16. Most Democrats concede Assembly Speaker Jesse M. Unruh would be a formidable candidate for the U.S.
Senate but some, including former Gov. Edmund G. Brown, expressed skepticism over whether Unruh is serious. Page 19. National Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield says President Johnson may havp to reassess U.S.
troop commitments in Vietnam and seek more money to beef up U.S. forces in the Korean area. Page 8. The federal minimum wage rose to $1.60 an hour for 33 million workers and to $1.15 for another 8.5 million job-holders. Page 13.
Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller says he wants all bodies exhumed from an Arkansas field where three skeletons were found and he's urging investigations be restricted to the one already started by the state police. Page 18. International South Korean President Chung Hee Park warned Communist North Korea "there is a limit to our patience." The warning followed arrest of 32 men and women charged with spying for North Korea. Page 14.
Sports Veterans Bob Rosburg and Bill Collins fired five-under-par 67s to tie for the first round lead of the Bob Hope Desert Golf Classic. Page 9. Boxing expert Nat Fleischer insists the 10-ounce gloves that will be used for the Thad Spencer-Jerry Quarry elimination fight are too heavy. Page 9. Family Texans have a reputation for doing everything in a big way.
When the first otter pelt auction since 1911 took place in Seattle, the other day, a Dallas department store owner paid plenty to get the furs he wanted. Page 4. Index The field of persons eyeing seats on the Redwood City Council rose to eight this morning. By noon today two candidates had filed, and six others were circulating their nominating petitions, said City Clerk Helen C. Moore.
The latest to publicly announce their intentions were Dixon Arnett, community relations director of Stanford University, and Charles R. Moody, a management consultant. Moody and schoolteacher William C. Rhodes have both filed. Those who took out papers yesterday were Claude E.
DeMoss, 33, an Insurance agent who lives at 1142 Chesterton and Maurice J. Donovan, 62, a restaurant owner who resides at 256 RC Pay Rules Under Study at half their number from Hue, the old imperial capital 400 miles north of Saigon. Riflemen of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division flew into Dalat, a mountain resort 140 miles northeast of Saigon, to help Vietnamese forces drive out infiltrated Viet Cong platoons. The guerrillas had seized the center of Dalat, a market place and a U.S.
military police barracks. Gen. Westmoreland predicted the Communists will follow up f. It. X.
AP Photofax Called pervisors for approval. Until yesterday, it had been in the hands of the county manager for revision and review. In my opinion this would appear to be confilct of interest," Mrs. Fassler said. If it isn't, then there are certainly some moral and ethical problems involved.
Mrs. Fassler said she wanted (See Lab, Pg. 2, Col. 4) possible destructive effects on our trade surplus of strikes or the threat of strikes in key industries. I urge business and labor to cooperate with the Secretaries of Labor and Commerce in dealing with this danger to our export surplus." The President also announced establishment of a Cabinet Committee on Price Stability directed to develop means of fostering price and wage stability.
Among other devices the committee will try to draft a formula for voluntary restraint in wage and price decisions. The panel will not intervene in specific current wage or price matters," Johnson said. But he indicated it will seek mum effort. He will be very badly hurt. It will take him many, many weeks to recover, and in some areas many months.
The Communists were paying a heavy price in their current offensive. Westmoreland said 5,800 enemy troops had been killed across the country, more than the toll usually reported (See Battle, Pg. 3, Col. 1) King St. Arnett obtained his papers today.
The three who had earlier announced their candidacy are business executive Richard P. Adams, Vice-Mayor 'Robert H. Bury and Councilman Herbert G. Petersen. Four seats are open In the city election, to be held April 9.
Councilman Floyd D. Granger has declared he won't run again, while Mayor Sidney D. Herkner has not yet announced his plans. Terms of the other three council members expire In 1970. Arnett, 29, has been community relations director and assistant director of university relations at Stanford since 1966.
He is at present a member of (See Field, Page 2, Col. 5) cific ordinance code provisions authorizing travel, conference and meeting expenses." The two who said that they (See RC Council, Pg. 2, Col. 8) Hes Now Candidate Dick Nixon NEW YORK (AP) Richard M. Nixon announced today in an open letter to the citizens of New Hampshire that he would be a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
The former vice president told the people of the state the choices we face are larger than any differences among Republicans or among Democrats, larger even than the differences between the parties. They are beyond politics. Nixon told the voters that he learned the awesome nature of the great decisions a President faces" during his 14 years in Washington, and said he had had a chance to reflect on the lessons of public office and measure the nation's tasks and problems during the past eight years. I have sought to apply (See Nixon, Pg. 14, Col.
6) Deputies Check Shooting Report The San Mateo County Sheriffs Office this afternoon was in-vetigating a report of one driver shooting as another shortly before one of the cars crashed into a redwood tree on La Honda Road at 9:45 a.m. today. The driver, Kimo A. Salmi, 15, of 560 Everett Palo Alto, was taken to Sequoia Hospital with undetermined injuries. Attendants' said a doctor was still working with the youth at noon.
The accident occurred half a mile east of Skyline Boulevard. Viet Cong Officer Executed aces at the impact of the fatal bullet. Carrying a pistol and wearing civilian clothes, the Viet Cong guerrilla was captured near An Quang Pagoda, identified as an officer and taken to the police chief. The moment that South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig. Gen.
Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a single pistol shot in the head is pictured by Associated Press Photographer Eddie Adams in Saigon today. The Viet Cong officer grim- Supervisors Shocked: Lab Stock Probe trict attorney." Another member of the board, Mrs. Jean Fassler, said she was pleased to learn that the controversial contract had been shelved. Quite frankly, I think this is what should happen to it," she declared. The laboratory contract issue had never been formally brought before the Board of Su complete operation of the hospital laboratory and would have employed all of the lab's present civil service personnel for a maximum trial period of 60 days.
Contacted by a Tribune reporter, Supervisors Chairman James V. Fitzgerald said: This is the first Ive heard it. I certainly want to look into this. I want a full report from the dis By MICHAEL PALMER Tribune Staff Writer Redwood City councilmen today began studying the tough recommendations on expense account policies laid down yesterday by Dist. Atty.
Keith C. Sorenson. And two of the council members indicated they were not surprised by Sorensons stern language. The district attorney yesterday, at the end of a two-month investigation, said city officiaLs might be risking serve re legal penalties under current policies governing reimbursem*nt. At present, he noted, city ordinances require receipts only for transportation expenses exceeding $10, and not for such expense claims as hotel bills.
Sorenson further declared that city hall accountants do not even ask for the vouchers specified in the ordinance. In the conclusion of a report he sent to city Police Chief William L. Faulstich yesterday, the district attorney declared that was sure" councilmen would wish to adopt more spe- some guidelines device to replace the virtually defunct wage-price guideposts promulgated under President John F. Kennedy. The Presidents Council of Economic Advisers whose new chairman, Arthur M.
Okun, will head the Cabinet committee-said in its own report, transmitted to Congress along with Johnson's, that a series of conferences will be started shortly with representatives of labor, business and the public. The aim, said the council, will be "to attempt to reach some consensus on appropriate general standards to guide private price and wage decisions. (See Johnson, Pg. 12, Col. 7) Comics 25 Classified advertising 21-24 Editorials-Columns 6 and 7 Entertainment 15 Family 4 and 5 Obituaries 2 and 12 Sports 9, 10 and 11 Stocks 12 Teen Ups 26 TV-Radio 14 Vital Statistics 24 Weather details 12 LBJ Warns: Economy Too Hot By GEORGE NEWMAN Tribune Staff Writer Shocked county supervisors responded today to a disclosure that three key officials at San Mateo County General Hospital owned stock in a company seeking a lucrative contract there by calling for a full investigation of the matter.
While some supervisors were openly critical of the officials involved, others supported the view that there are many questions that remain to be answered. All expressed surprise. At the same time. County Manager E. R.
Stallings said that while the county was now exploring alternatives to the proposed $700,090 a year contract, he could not see where the public has suffered as a result. Reaction came after Dist. Keith C. Sorenson announced yesterday that the three officials held stock in the company, Biochemical Procedures Inc. of Los Angeles, at the same time that they were involved in bid negotiations with the firm.
The three men named were Harry Altman, assistant director of the hospital; Dr. Arthur Lack, director of the hospital's laboratory; and William Benedict, chief clinical laboratory technologist. Under terms of the proposed contract, Biochemical Procedures would have taken over production gain of $61 billion he said. That would bring 1968 output to a record $846 billion. "Damage already has been done to interest rates, to our trade surplus, and to the level of prices by the failure of Congress to act last fall, Johnson said, and added: But it is still not too late to avoid far more serious problems if action is.
taken in the next few weeks. Be endorsed a voluntary moratorium on strikes in major industries to keep American goods available and competitive in world markets and prevent further balance-of-payments trouble. We must," Johnson warned, exert every effort to avoid the 1 By STERLING F. GREEN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson called today for a temporary no-strike truce between industry and labor, a tax increase in the next few weeks" and a study of possible new wage-price guideposts. In his annual Economic Report, Johnson warned Congress the business advance is running too fast for safety." The nation must choose quickly, he aid, whether it wants to avoid a feverish boom" leading to a possible financial crisis, and perhaps ultimately a recession." The expansion can be moderated by prompt enactment of his proposed 10 per cent tax surcharge to a high but healthy IVca liter TODAY: Noon Temperature, 52; wind.
Northwest 2 m.p.h.; sky, cloudy. Overnight low, 36. YESTERDAY: High, 56; wind, Southeast 3 m.p.h.; sky, partly cloudy. Relative humidity, 91 per cent. FORECAST: Rain likely at times tonight and early Friday.
Then clearing. Warmer tonight, low tonight 45. High Friday 60. Small Craft warnings for south to southeast winds 20 to 30 m.p.h. Weather details page 12..
