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') 1 ors:1) 4 A ( ss-- Little Hope Reid '"If they are out there in that water with parachutes on I don't imagine we will get too many of them alive" said Highway Patrol Sgt R L Schell One of the survivors rtobert Coy of Springfield said "I was shocked and flabbergasted to see that I was over the lake We assumed we were over the field" "As soon as I broke out of the clouds knew something was wrong" said Coy a veteran parachutist with 262 jumps "All 1 saw was water" Coy said his parachute opened about 3500 or 3000 feet "The waves were over my head and water swisMng into my mouth" he said : The other survivor Bernard "Bud" Johnson 30 of West Richfield said "The plane was in the wrong place" Johnson had made 266 previous jumps Jettisoned Equipment Johnson and Coy said they concentrat- ed on getting all their equipment off including jump boots - Johnson said when he hit the water was more fortunate My 'chute canopy Stayed inflated acting like a life preserv- O : "They (the other divers) were concen(rating on trying to get to shore" John t!e trAITSge k lard loarvreti ti tpT it 1 r c 144 i - - 1' ' 1) - I'kk:- Lightning Not Too Serious Regional Coordinator J C Robertson of the US Forest Service's northern di vision headquarters in Missoula Mont Talks 1e dmrigIvnectt Us V rnit rot rANI t9 ict raids on North to i'lr'Ne'''t'' son added "I was concentrating on getting my equipment off" Coy said each diver was carrying 50 pounds of gear lie said all the jumpers were veterans some with more than 500 ' ' - Com! e Je :I e1 1441-01014- A Chief - of State Nguyen - I fxttir said none of the showers fell in the areas of the major fires "The main thing" he said "is the lightning is not nearly as intense as we expected" The favorable weather caused the Forest Service to cancel its previously broadcast "Red Alert" a warning to the 11 national forests in the northern region that fire danger would be extreme At least a dozen major fires still burned uncontrolled Sunday night in north Idaho Montana Wazhington and British Columbia but the forecast for Monday was for cooler temperatures as a weak front passed eastward After that however the five day forecast called for temperatures five to 10 degrees above normal 41 )11100060 it 1 Nto)" c r north Idaho With three new fires reported Sunday in Idaho and western Montana officials said the main problems in combating the current blazes were the large number of fires and the logistics involved in fighting them ' 4 o - lo z k i - A'-4- ee 7''':' "14: I - :::4 J - A '- 4 ' P itS'":44 d ! ' f : ' 't v '' I 11 - 1- r "11 A ''0 ri r 1 AA: ''c I I - - t )A s a $ ) - - e 4- i t ) tfy 1 1 - - 1 1 4 ) ')- olf 69- Pui : t 41 Ix 41 4 cu 44 - '1 4 r ' -- 1- itiorrA! rc rl ' 11 r Itit 44somiaomitiotamo MON PmulonommosilVtimeCRIgig )r43 L14A —Assoc 101W Prop Wimplhato Helicopters raise dust storm that nearly obscures as they ferry troops into landing zone In ( operation Coehise near Da Nang South Vietnam Choppers tame in waves keeping dust from settling So tons Attack Viet Aid Control Thankful LIU Applaud Breaking Cargo Jam Spends Quiet Washington Post Service WASHING'rON — Dramatic progress in breaking cargo bottlenecks in Saigon harbor was reported Sunday by a congressional committee which nonetheless criticized American and Vietnamese officials for continued misadministration of economic aid Unless the Saigon government shapes up the House Committee on Government Operations warned United States involvement in Vietnam may have to be reappraised In particular the the committee chided Agency for International Develop(AID) for permitting illegal kickto Vietnamese importers ment backs Cited Complaints It complained that American been slow —Have to officials: suspend shady importers —Have permitted the South Vietnam to dollars and government to hang military payment certificates confiscated from illegal moneychangers —Have falleeto halt or reduce the huge outflow of foreign exchange dollars held by the Vietnamese to foreign counon tries hurt —Have industries imports by - c '' temin Chi-Se- Forest Service spokesmen estimated that the rampaging flames have destroyed more than 112000 acres since then Conditions have been compared to 1910 when a holocaust burned most of ' ' ' 4-- ' Ilf The army lieutenant general said he would assume responsibility for the safety for any representative of the liberation front if and when it cares to send one to sit at a conference table "now or Over 112000 Acres Destroyed ' - : Guarantees Safe Passage was lightning that set off the epl- demie of blazes in the tinder dry forests two weeks ago 4 - te:1( 1 - arks---- It 4t"'''''''111 000100044momimotoovh40oV fozy ---' see him e Asked about the poor turnout one 2 5 Column Page tato if"v 1) iik Reports of Terrorist Attacks after the election" Premie Thieu's running mate Nguyen Cao Ky and the 10 civilian candidates were campaigning in Da Nang the coastal city about 375 miles northeast of Saigon Thieu said the pressure of his work in the capital kept him home Thieu's comments on peace were made to newsmen in Vietnamese and translated later to English He had gone to Cho Ion at the invitation of the local chamber of commerce But only 150 of the several thousand members of the ChoIon financial community turned out to it 43 4 Learning to 'See' Kindness scholarship Chien was abandoned by her family after she was made sightless and was left to die in her war torn country But a village priest found her and brought the girl to the Saigon School for Blind Girls only one of its kind in Vietnam where she spent the next seven years The men of the Coast Guard command in Vietnam adopted the school about a year agg When Chien became Its first graduate they decided to pay her way to the United States where she could continue her studies According to a Coast Guard spokesman Chien hopes to return and teach other blind persons in Vietnam f1 tI it' nization "If the NLF sends a man to me" Thieu said "I will be willing to discuss anything Up to now no one has come" yen t-- t tt - two 4 - AIttgtt14-A'L- '' Aociated Press Wnter Blind Viet Girl Thi Chien a Vietnamese girl blinded since childhood by disease arrived in Boston Sunday to begin three years of study at the Perkins School for the Blind courtesy of the US Coast Guard and a school i441- tQ nientiton The 14rth eleg-tio- n the Nam I I As he spoke reports flowed into Saiof coordinated Viet Cong mortar and gon Jumps terrorist attacks throughout the country Bucked High R Inds between midnight and dawn Sunday that The sky divers bucked a wind estikilled or wounded 300 persons mostly cimated at 58 miles an hour by the Coast vilians The attacks apparently were part Guard when they Jumped frorp the B25 of the Viet Cong's effort to disrupt the tlitchell owned by the pilot Robert balloting for president Shells fell on a Karns of Vermilion hospital in Can Tho largest city in the Coy and Johnson said' the jumpmastMekong Delta where many women aid er Larry Hartman gave the Jump signal children were wounded and the 18 divers left the plane almost siOfficials in Saigon expressed belief multaneously from four exits They said the attacks are the beginning of a Viet the plane was flying by radar Cong attempt to show the South Vietnamese that their own government and US forces are unable to provide security and that it would be dangerous for them to vote The officials said the Communists apparently plan to pull no punches in their campaign to demoralize voters The dominant issue in the campaign for next Sunday's balloting is peace Thieu said "We all want peace" (AP)--Ngu- 't ''''''111 Sp' Van Thieu military candidate hi South Vietnam's presidential election said Sunday he is willing to talk peace any place any tinie" with the Viet Corgi National Liberation Front—NLF Ilia remarks to reporters during a visit to Saigon's Chinese sister city of Otolon appeared to go beyond what he has said before about talks with the Communist enemy Up to now he has said he would talk with the Communists only as individuals and not as members of the NLF the Viet 03ng political orga- Vwevhorto to tbe Ckgranutast anakell rday tare n By Kelly Smith SAIGON— In a at- azi fliers &Ivo Ait (ism: S 115 riunttrn tiles pbtuvi arkil aktr radar wte rorla Li t rorc? 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A Moll (I trlarvi Anrn flr Slight Rain Stirs Hope of Weary Firefighters : Widely scattered rain and the arrival of "somewhat favorable weather" in the Pacific Northwest raised the hopes of thousands of weary firefighters Sunda) night as they continued their battle against more than a dozen uncontrolled forest fires Previously forecast lightning storms apparently failed to hit the region as hard as expected though rain fell at scattered points according to the US Weather Bureau tert 4 to livalvagril eti ( pgrot ottakiNt Forests Still Blaze By Associated Press 1::stis eircre1 otki:00-- 1 En' InKmist 'ant rail Ital Nal -t - i: l' 4: flolf17:17:!11Ver'$:f611::1 BosToN peruct I let Leader Offers Peace I41 146 k i!111 )11 11 S kl)(04i 141:7kn 1C--est 8 trrtee buuth (4 Vie ita tbe‘rn dernilitartzel pito ttxtro Martlirs ere killed and tint inn4:411d In s 30 tnnu!e dasn otkel atlatit that also tIlt a tlJri dump at the etImpound tio Sky Dive Over Lake Erie Kills 244 StilDlissinY - Lti t 1 At D4111 Vietnam Man "las taken by a trol part of TaAk Force Oregon HURON OHIO (AP)—Fourteen of 'IS sky divers who parachuted 20000 feet from a converted World War II bomber were missing Sunday night after plunging into Lake Erie Two were known dead and two others were rescued safely The Coast Guard launched a massive search for the missing jumpers but held little hope of finding them alive in the chilly murky waters Officials first reported that 15 persons vere missing but Huron police said it was discovered in checking the manifest that three persons who sired for the flight did not go A tolgrof 23 persons were scheduled for the flight but only 20 made the jump r Etip-sa- autaiTk--1 -- attends to Viet Cones arm near Due rho South medic lary Ith M:Pary alaranwn 64111 Witt at !most l'ar4 tn 04 bar tta::tg rok arts t )1a:t:e toL:ltain Le::Itry babe 40114 Nart on )1AtaY and In al !5an t!e cariatt44 014 hr!kovtera art tey'lyors tar ti!oll ! u'h kirtralfti ri 114111 arml (21wrnuflot eArs hi gltn1 elrt t!A IrreSrtILAI :2 an r:1 V g make( sttstis tin a Now orar tIn Nit: cul a 11:te lk I Ha itti Mgri:o taw aeortt NILogbes tmiret! I S Codiutar4 64'4 75 ultunta t!e bite-s- t attak moon t!AP toelmil Lehr ter ntete the n ntAle tLe 14 titti ell Mitt ate CA lattett abril rl tne arA Arbenal rvat Mart-- i were hJi -- ' ti p tr( — i f k-- US ''' a br14r1 4 1 Vi tuleati"1 iO47:0'-- li Ihwrnitir SA1( '4 6 11 rki PT rei 1:thett ) tio)6 t go 1 I ' 4 41k - IrAVIII 0 tiit A r IA1 4 a Gett t Alb ( A Py 7 51 Ilkc 4ktilkor - rit 1 ff t( 1 i f lk'1 '1'144144i Iv s:t) I ' leg - LiA 4 - A cip7R ri t - 44 - ' lb f ts ft: 6'1011 NO tP 1 1 1 Reds Shell illarine Corps Units n D c ctue Kills 7 Wounds 79 '- - Black domestic permitting Vietnamese excessive Market Cut found that black market Saigon has been substantially reduced hut is still widespread The charges are contained in three separate committee reports on the commercial import program for Vietnam illicit practices hurting US economic assistance there and the port situation in The report activity in Saigon They are vestigation the result of a follow-uby Rep— John E chairman of the foreign p in- Moss oper- ations and government information subcommittee who spent four days in Vietnam in early July With him were three subcommittee staffers and Rep Jeffery of the foreign opera Cohelan bons subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee A spokesman for AID said that "some of the unfinished business cited by the reports is among the many subjects of current negotiations between the two governments In these continuing actions as in the past we will take into account the constructive recommendations of Chairman Moss's subcommittee on foreign operations" 59th Birthday WASHING'rON (UPI) — President Johnson quietly celebrated his 59th birthday at the White House Sunday thankful for his health and confident of the future The White House said the President spent a ''quiet day with his family" a day that also included "some of his reg- ular work" Mrs Johnson who this week stood in for the President at several Texas eere- moniedreturned On the Inside Page Classified Comics Editorials Foreign Health National Obituaries 29-3- Page 20 Society Sports 16 Star Gazer 7 8-- 9 17 6-- 7 28 29 1315 23-2- 7 20 Television Theaters Valentine Washington to Washington late Sat- urday night to be with the President on his birthday The Johnson's eldest daughter Lynda also spent the day at the 22 10-1- 1 19 2-- 3 White House The President's youngest daughter Luci remained in Texas with her family She sent her birthday greetings by telephone The White House would not reveal any specific plans for a birthday celebratiob It was known hotvever that a birthday cake had been baked by the White House kitchen Treasury Secretary Lauds Plan For Solid Monetary Reserves New Yolk Times Service LONDON — US Secretary of the Treasury Henry H Fowler said here Sunday that planned deliberate growth of the world's monetary reserves instead of haphazard increases would result from a new plan agreed on Saturday by ministers of 10 nations The plan "provides the means for steady secular accretion to the world's reserves that will facilitate lubricate irrigate trade and development" Fowler said International Monetary Fund Reserves are what governments hold to pay deficits that occur when countries spend abroad more than they earn Most countries hold as reserves gold dollars and pounds The United States counts as reserves its gold its holdings of foreign currencies and the automaiic part of its right to borrow from the Inter- national Monetary Fund Reaffirms Determination "The world's needs: fOr reserves cannot be satisfied by these tfaditional forms" Fowler declared The supply of newly mined godls insufficient be said :4 As for the dollar and the pound otl)er nations have grown tired of accepting them in payment although Fowler !lid not put it quite that way He did reafDrtn determination to bring- Washington's America's international payments into See Page 8 Colatmo ever-growin- g |