Wednesday, December 18, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Marines approach Viet Cong stronghold
SAIGON (UPI)—A force of 7,000 American Marines and South Vietnamese infantrymen drove toward the heart of a Viet Cong stronghold near Da Nang yesterday and reported killing 259 in 11 days of combat.
Communist troops hit Da Nang with a mortar barrage last night.
American losses in the big allied offensive 25 miles southwest of Da Nang were
placed at 18 killed and 73 wounded. South Vietnamese casualties were described as "light" in official communiques.
Despite the success of the new push and an earlier offensive by the allies in the same general area, Communist troops were still able to get close enough to Da Nang, South Vietnam's second largest city, for a mortar attack.
The raid last night sent 15
KU coeds help Girl Scouts by organizing a local troon
By RUTH RADEMACHER
Kansan Staff Writer
The Girls from U.N.C.L.E. think KU coeds Susan Shaffer and Barb Recker are pretty nice people. The Psychedelics and the Rat Patrol will agree with them.
The U.N.C.L.E. girls, the Psychedelics and the Rat Patrol are all part of Girl Scout Troop No. 627, which Miss Recker and Miss Shaffer organized.
Miss Recker, Mission sophomore, wanted to start a scout troop last year, but didn't know whether she could manage one alone. Along came Miss Shaffer, Kinsley junior, who was also interested in working with a group of scouts, so the girls pooled their efforts to organize Troop 627.
The troop is made up of 20 girls between the ages of 9 to 11. All of the girls attend Pinckney elementary school in Lawrence. Meetings are held every Tuesday afternoon at Watkins Scholarship Hall where Miss Recker and Miss Shaffer are residents.
"We organized the troop because we wanted to help the scouting program in Lawrence," Miss Recker said. "By doing so we're helping the girls to learn through girl scouting, and hopefully, we will help the girls grow into useful individuals."
Scouting isn't new to Miss Recker and Miss Shaffer. Both became Girl Scouts in the second grade and have been active in the organization since that time.
Miss Shaffer attended a summer camp, Camp Hazen, in the Wheat Belt Council out of Hutchinson for six summers. Two summers ago she got her counselor's training at Cheley, Colo., camp outside of Estes Park.
Miss Recker also attended a summer camp for six years before entering the counseling phase of camping. She attended a camp on the Lake of the
Ozarks in the Mid-Continent Council out of Kansas City. Two summers ago Miss Recker became a counselor at the Lake of the Ozarks camp.
Both Miss Recker and Miss Sahffer are now members of Campus Girl Scouts which has just recently been organized.
At their weekly meetings Miss Shaffer said the girls sing, work on badge points, plan service projects and plan camp-outs for the troop.
The girls are not all the same ages and they come from a variety of backgrounds, but they all get along well together, Miss Recker said.
"Last week we were planning our Christmas party," Miss Shaffer said, "and the girls were concerned because one of the troop members is a Jewish girl. They wanted to know if we couldn't celebrate Hannukah for her instead of Christmas."
Miss Recker and Miss Shaffer admitted that the troop took a certain amount of time which busy coeds don't always have, but said, "It's something nice to do away from campus activities."
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Scattered small arms fire crackled around several sentry
posts on the outskirts of Da Nang last night, and U.S. artillery crews opened up on at least five suspected Communist positions southwest of the city.
The new offensive, dubbed "Taylor Common," began Dec.
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