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"r' wv -w-w cwwv-W I (De Hauforb Serttmcl 2 Friday, August 9, 1968 Skyhawks Get Trucks Missiles Miss Navy Jets planes were hit, military spokesmen said today. The SAMs were sighted by Navy pilots as American Airmen swooped in over the countrys southern panhandle to string lines of bombs and rockets along river and road traffic to bottlenecks. In the south, Communist gunners shot down a UHl Huey helicopter in flames over the A Shau Valley Thursday, killing all four crewmen aboard. It raised the number of helicopters downed in South Vietnam to 804. Navy A4 Skyhawks from the Bon Homme Richard riddled 26 trucks in a supply convoy nine miles north of Vinh in a series of predawn strikes.

Lt. Cmdr. Marvin I. Clark, 34, Los Angeles, first spotted the convoy. In the glow of a flare, he first thought he saw a row of trees.

But I remembered that there were not any trees there, he said. I dropped my bombs and then went in for a strafing run. When I pulled off there were three secondary explosions and fires. Clark scrambled other planes to the scene and acted as a forward air observer as they dived in for runs. When we got there I saw at least a dozen fires, said Lt.

John E. Goodman, 25, Sherman," one of the last pilots to hit the trucks. That was one of the largest groups of trucks we have caught in one place for a long time. 198 Contract SACRAMENTO A contract was awarded Thursday to John P. McGuire of San Jose for placing plain and reflective raised pavement markers on about 31.7 miles of Highway 198 between the Fresno-Kings county line and the junction with Highway 99 in Tulare County.

The markers will replace the present white painted lines. Nixons Plans Newsmen in Washington i SENATOR Eugene McCarthy (right) tells newsmen in Washington that the Republican Nixon-Agnew ticket will have some effect on the Democratic convention but will not change his cam McCarthy Meets paign strategy. McCarthy said if the Democratic nominee is Hubert Humphrey then the American people would not have any choice in November. Burglary at Cafe Officer Captures Suspect We will the following week initiate what I will now designate the bridge building ventures to win the major states across the nation within the Republican organization. We want to go into those states where there was great support for other candidates for the presidency and work out a relationship with them now for the rest of the campaign, Nixon said.

Pennsylvania and other major states will be included. This will not be a speech making tour. Based on my conferences with Gov. (Nelson) Rockefeller, Gov. Reagan and Gov.

(George) Romney all have been very courteous to call me I have every confidence we are going to have a working relationship where we take the best from all organizations and work them together. In his acceptance speech Thursday night to wildly cheering delegates, Nixon took a hard line toward putting an end to violence and lawlessness in America. This was an orthodox Republican Nixon. But there also was a new Nixon: one who took a soft line toward the Soviet Union instead of depicting communism as the root of all evil. Temps By United Press International Temperatures and precipita.

tion for the 24. hour period end-ing at 4 a.m. High Low Precip. In what was good timing on the part of police and poor timing as far as the suspect is concerned, Peter Joseph Oliveira, 19, almost walked right into the arms of Officer Tom Clark at 2:20 a.m. today following a burglary of Dans Cafe, 115 W.

Fifth St. Clark, on routine patrol, heard loud banging noises inside the cafe and as he checked the rear of the building there came the sound of breaking glass. Officer Clark moved quickly to the front of the building, in time to see Oliveira running from the broken window where he apparently exited. Later examination showed a bar stool had been used to smash the glass. When overtaken and placed under arrest by Officer Clark, the suspect was wearing black socks on his hands.

Oliveira, who also is known by the name Castillo, lives at 227 Braden Ave. By coincidence, when cafe owner George Rogers was summoned to make a check of the premises, it was his second meeting with police during the night. Rogers had called officers to his home at 228 N. Williams St. at 11:50 p.m.

when he heard the sound of an object being dragged across the ground. As the patrol car arrived, a suspect fled the scene, leaving behind a mattress which had been drag ged about 15 feet from a bed in Rogers yard. Nothing appeared to have been taken from the cafe. Freedom was short for Charles Eugene Luster, 22, of Avenal who escaped custody at Kings General Hospital at 10:45 p.m, Thursday by going through a side door into another room and out through a window. He was apprehended shortly after 8 a.m.

today near Burris Park after a housewife reported seeing a man in blue pajamas in a field. Luster has been in protective custody since July 19 when criminal proceedings were suspended in Superior Court awaiting possible referral for psychiatric treatment. He was awaiting sentence on theft. Fred Kiffer Stacy of 608 Corcoran Avenal, complained Thursday to sheriffs officers that when his car was repossessed it contained personal property, including a .22 caliber revolver. Stacy told deputies that when he went to the car agency in Fresno to claim the gun, it was missing.

The gun, according to Stacy, was registered to a Mildred Laughlin who had bought it in a Hanford surplus store and subsequently sold it to his mother, Florence Stacy. While Verna Bledsoe, 409 S. Irwin was away from home Thursday night someone entered her house and carted away a heavy aquarium with red light and extension cord. She told police when she returned to the house at 4 a.m. she found the front door open and the lights on.

The missing aquarium, containing assorted types of fish, would have taken two people to haul it awaw she added. Carmen Ramirez notified police Thursday when he went to water the lawn at the home of a neighbor, Peter Garcia, 305 E. Second he found the front door open. During the owners absence, burglars had removed two portable record players, two suitcases, a couple of table lamps, ice chest, shoes andother item and rifled through kitchen Julia Rios, 231 W. Second discovered Thursday afternoon that a $10 bill had been removed from her wallet kept on a bedroom dresser.

15 Considered MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-Rich-ard M. Nixon said today that he considered 15 possible running mates including both his rivals for the presidential nomination, before deciding on Maryland Gov. Spiro T.Agnew. Nixon, who surprised most delegations to the GOP National Convention with his selection of Agnew Thursday, said making the choice has been a lonely decision. Funerals Ethel M.

Furman Funeral services were held Thursday morning in Peoples Funeral Chapel for Ethel May Furman with the Rev. James Tubbs of the First Nazarene Church officiating. Soloist was Mrs. Tubbs, accompanied by Mrs. Donald Van-dervoet as organist.

Pallbearers were Lawrence Storey, H.A. Norvell, P. M. Nelson, Leslie Logan, John Fisher and Ken Wilson. Interment followed in Hanford Cemetery under the direction of Peoples.

Air Crash Kills 48 In Germany PFAFFENHOFEN, Germany (UPI) A flaming British airliner carrying tourists to an Austrian vacation dropped like a stone from the sky onto a Bavarian Autobahn today, killing all those aboard. British Eagle Airlines said 48 persons were aboard the plane. Flight 802 which left London today with 44 passengers and a crew of four for the Austrian Alpine city of Innsbruck. The Viscount turboprop had left London for Innsbruck this morning when disaster struck. An official of the nearby village of Langenbruck in the rolling Bavarian countryside said at least two persons saw the crash.

They said it dropped like a stone from the sky and smashed into fiery bits all over the Autobahn, he said. There are bodies lying all over our fields around Langenbruck. Bavarian State Police said fuel from the burning plane turned the Autobahn into a sea of flaming gasoline and sent black smoke billowing over cars backed up for miles on each side of the crash scene. The Frankfurt Airport Air Safety Center said the last radio contact with the lost Viscount came at 2 p.m. (9 EDT) when it was just north of Munich.

The captain had just reported a fire on board, the spokesman said. Then he went dead. Bavarian police speculated the pilot may have been trying an emergency landing on the Autobahn, one of the many superhighways which crisscross Germany from border to border. Fire engines and medical crew from nearby towns and from a West German army post at Manching rushed to the scene. But they could do nothing.

It was not known immediately if any American tourists were aboard. The plane, Eagle Flight 802, was a Viscount which left London today for Innsbruck, the Austrian resort center where the winter Olympic games were held some years ago. Sunny Acres (Continued from Page 1) an and the start of construction signals Sunny Acres nearing the end of what became a rough road. The subdivision was created about 20 years ago and the residents of Sunny Acres, numbering today about 35 homes, have, with the exception of one family, hauled drinking water. Most persons consider the well water to be unfit for drinking.

The third time was the charm. Two previous attempts at getting potable domestic water failed and the third and last began in 1964. A federal-loan grant was approved more than a year ago, but red tape in the FHA had held up securing the money and getting work underway. The loan is for $24,100 and the grant is $22,100. The loan is to be repaid in 40 years.

Water will be metered and Johnston said the average water bill will be about $10 per month. Receipts will go toward purchasing the water and repaying the loan. fDi Jlattforb rntin The Journal Publiftbed every evening except Sunday by Hanford Sentinel Inc. at 418 lest Eighth Hanford, Calif. Entered as aeeond-claaa matter at the Post Office of Hanford, California, March 18, 1886 under act of Congress of March 6, 1879.

The Hanford Sentinel ia a member of Aadit Bureau of Circulations and is reseated ia the aational advertising field by Newspaper Advertising Service Buss Saa Francisco. Subscription Rate: $2.00 per month by carrier ar by mail. Telephone 582-047 SAIGON (UPI) Five Sur-face-to-Air Missiles zipped by American warplanes roaring through the skies of North Vietnam Thursday, but none of the Probe Of Shooting Demanded FRESNO (UPI) The Fresno County chairman of the Peace and Freedom Party has demanded a fresh investigation of the police shooting of a 19-year-old unarmed suspect. Chairman Donald Teeter told the City Council Thursday he and other members of the party were shocked by the killing. A mimeographed statement passed out during the council session by other members of the party called for a reopening of the investigation of the shooting of Michael David Seehoffer.

Seehoffer, an AWOL sailor from Lemoore Naval Air Station was gunned down by Police Sgt. George Hirzel last Friday. Police said they had taken Seehoffer to his apartment to look for stolen merchandise. The suspect attempted to flee as police carried the stolen items to a car and was fatally shot. The statement called for an inquest and the possible filing of manslaughter charges against Hirzel if the investigation revealed such action to be warranted.

Local Man Bound Over Danny G. Dennison, 21, of 9567 Orchard Drive was bound over to Superior Court following preliminary hearing Thursday in Hanford Justice Court on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of minors. A similar charge against his wife, Patricia Dennison, 19, was dismissed. The Dennisons had been accused of taking two runaway girls, ages 13 and 15, with them to Oregon last Thomas Jay Hart, 25, of Sacramento pleaded guilty in Lemoore Justice Court on Thursday to an amended complaint charging him with two counts of issuing non sufficient fund checks. He was placed on summary probation for two years, sentenced to 180 days in jail with 160 days suspended on condition he make restitution and was fined $125 or 20 days in jail.

It was indicated there are 10 checks totalling $157 known to be outstanding. Sports Cars In Collision John P. Lanigir, 42, of Fresno, and Tony Vasquez Lopez, 20, of 7972 23rd Avenue, Lemoore, both drive the same model 1968 sports model car, differing only in color, and both have front end damage to their vehicles after having both arrived at the same uncontrolled intersection at 24th and Fairfax Avenues at the same time. According to the Kings County office of the California Highway Patrol, Lanigir was northbound on 24th Avenue and Lopez was westbound on Fairfax. Lopez reportedly applied his brakes but could not stop in time.

Lanigir reportedly did not see the other vehicle approaching. Margaret Helen Hobbs, 34, of 770 Lawrence Lane, was westbound on Grangeville Boulevard when she attempted to turn north onto 12th Avenue on Thursday evening at 11:45, lost control of her vehicle, crossed the triangular cement island, knocked down a caution marker, crossed a dirt mound and took out 20 feet of board fence belonging to Dr. J. R. Drummond, the CHP reports.

CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our heartfelt appreciation and thanks for helping us through the most difficult days of our lives with the loss of our beloved son and grandson, Monte. Your acts or kindness will never be forgotten. To all our friends and neighbors who prayed for us, sent food, floral pieces, messages of condolence, and called personally, may God bless all of you. Mr. Mrs.

C. T. Pruett Mr. Mrs. J.

I. Pruett Mr. J. W. Emmett (Continued from Page 1) Romney as an alternative to Agnew.

Nixon stressed that as far as he knew, there was no significant new development in the Paris talks that prompted Johnson to offer the briefing. In his acceptance speech Thursday night at the convention, Nixon had said of the Paris talks: We hope there is a chance that current negotiations may bring an honorable end to the (Vietnam) war. He promised that he and Agnew would say nothing during the fall campaign that might destroy that chance. But the former vice president said that if the talks drag on without sign of producing a settlement, the first priority of his administration if he is elected will be to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam. Nixon told reporters that down through the years he had never been to the LBJ Ranch despite repeated invitations from Johnson.

Nixon said that after his visit to Johnson, he would spend a week in San Diego. He said that during his California stay, he would visit with Gov. (Ronald) Reagan. Weather There were some scattered clouds this morning over the San Joaquin Valley. Otherwise most California areas are having a sunny day.

Along the coast the usual low cloudiness prevails in both the Los Angeles Basin and the San Francisco area. Temperatures were 3-6 degrees lower Thursday and ranged from 94-103. Minimum temperatures were markedly lower this morning, ranging from the mid 50-60s, except 71 at Bakersfield. The morning weather map indicates a somewhat stronger low pressure area in the Colorado River valley. The Pacific high cell has moved northward and is located 400 miles off Vancouver Island.

The charts of the upper atmosphere indicate that the winds aloft are more southwesterly and a little dryer. This should reduce the thunderstorm activity in the Sierras River Report FRESNO rUPIl -Kings River calculated flow 361 second-feet; Pine Flat Dam storage 373,356 acre-feet; actual flow 1,645 sec. ond. feet. ADM.

S.R. BROWN JR. Fleet Air A lameda CO Named ALAMEDA Rear Adm. Samuel R. Brown Jr.

assumed duties as commander of Fleet Air Alameda today at the Alameda Naval Air Station. He relieved Capt. Roy E. Breen Jr. Breen has held the post since early March of this year and is a former commanding officer of Lemoore NAS.

Fleet Air Alameda is primarily responsible for the training and combat readiness of all Navy light attack squadrons in the Pacific Fleet, including those at Lemoore. Adm. Brown was born in Chicago and attended the Shanghai American School, Shangahi, China, from 1925 to 1928 and the Severn School, Severn Park, Md. He entered the Naval Academy in 1930. During World War II he saw much combat action as an aviator aboard the USS New Orleans.

He participated in action at Pearl Habor on Dec. 7, 1941, in the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, and inthe Solomons Invasion and action in the Eastern Solomons and at Santa Cruz in 1942. He was promoted to rear admiral on July 1, 1962. Breen, whom Brown relieved, entered the Naval Academy, graduated and was commissioned an ensign in June 1938., Stock Market Stock prices supplied bv Dean itter 2016 Tulare Fresno Dow-Jones Averages Industrials down 1,44 Rails down .56 Utilities down .10 AmAir 24 AmCan 46 MGM 36 50 MntWrd 35 AmTob 33 AmAv 37 Armstrng49 35 BethStl 28 PacLght 28 Boeing 58 SacT Catplr 40 Celanese 57 Chryslr 60 Comsat 50 3f4 wnZ el 4 9 1 DelMonte 31 Sfwy 27 DuPont 154 StFe 31 EstKod 76 ElPasoNG 19 Z3 FmeCorp 40 Ford 51 SPac 33 GenDyn 50 StdOilCal 63 GE 82 StdOilNJ 77 GM 77 TWA 375s GenTel 37 Texaco 75 GulfOil 77 TransAm 65 IBM 333 UnOilCal 62 IntHarv 32 UnPac 51 IntlPpr 31 UnitAir 35 54 USStl 38 601 WestElec 69 KenCop 38 Xerox 73 Litlnd 70 Zenith 54 LAST DAY TOMORROW! We close at 1 :00 p.m. Saturday! 2 DRESSES OR MORE OflOO EACH CASH AND CARRY If you wish pick-up and delivery service 2 drosses or more $1.25 each.

Your dresses will be beautifully Sanitone dry cleaned and pressed our usual nigh quality work. SHIRT SPECIAL CONTINUES INDEFINITELY! Save more money by sending your shirts in to bo laundered with any dry cleaning order. 2 or more shirts 35 each. Hanford Journal Issues in Library MORE THAN 100 bound files of The Hanford Journal dating back to well before the turn of the century were moved into the new city-county library building Thursday in preparation for the librarys opening. The bound files were donated to the library by The Hanford Sentinel, which inherited them when the Journal discontinued publication in 1955.

Here, Nancy Hutcheon, a library aide, places one of the large books on the shelf in the library basement. They will be available to the public for research. tar rite FINE LAUNDRY -DRY CLEANING 425 W. 7th St. Hanford For tervict coll 584-3357 ond otlt lor our dry cUaning tpociol.

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