Tuesday, October 15, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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US B-52 bombers shatter Communist launch sites
SAIGON (UPI)—Nine waves of B52 bombers Tuesday dropped 900 tons of blockbusters into Communist rocket launching positions around Quang Ngai City, the central coast capital pounded by Russian-made rockets Monday.
Near Saigon, U.S. troops killed 25 Viet Cong in the third of a series of Mekong Delta battles that have advanced even closer to the capital.
At least four South Vietnamese were killed and 16 wounded in three barrages Monday. About the same time, North Vietnamese infantrymen overran a nearby government refugee camp.
U. S. spokesmen in Saigon said the eight-engined stratofortresses were summoned from foreign bases to deal a big counter-punch against Red positions eight, 19 and 24 miles west of Quang Ngai. Five hundred and 750-pound bombs tore gaping holes out of the rugged country where Communist troops and supply concentrations are suspected.
The Mekong Delta battle reported Tuesday was the third fight in two days in the swampy area that is a major Viet Cong lair. A total of 87 Communists were reported killed in the three encounters Sunday and Monday.
U. S. Military Headquarters said the latest battle took place Monday about 22 miles south of Saigon where U.S. 9th Infantry Division troops killed 25 Communists during a hunt for Viet
The Communists reopened an old front on the central coast Monday by firing 17 powerful 140mm rockets into the coastal capital 332 miles northeast of Saigon.
Cong units. No American casualties were reported.
The earlier engagements were 90 miles southeast and 30 miles southwest of Saigon.
In the capital itself, a Viet Cong terrorist killed a National Policeman and wounded the 5th Precinct chief of police Monday by tossing a grenade into their jeep. The terrorist escaped after the attack in Cholon district.
Quang Ngai, 330 miles northeast of Saigon, has long been considered a prime target in the recurring Communist scheme to slice South Vietnam in two.
In recent weeks, Communist forces have overrun villages on the outskirts of Quang Ngai, attacked the city's power plant and stepped up pressures on the Green Beret camp at Ha Thanh which guards a vital infiltration route leading from the mountains.
Elements of the U.S. American Division had launched an operation codenamed "Logan Field" nine miles northeast of Quang Ngai to try to clean out some Communist nests. But U.S. spokesmen said the operation was called off Saturday after mixed results: 14 Communists killed and 66 others wounded.
In other action Monday, U.S. Air Force A1 prop-driven Skyraiders zeroed in on Communist forces near the Duc Lap Green Beret camp along the Cambodian border, killing nine Reds and blowing up 20 foxholes, spokesmen said.
In the Mekong Delta, U.S. helicopter gunships supporting American and South Vietnamese foot soldiers cut down at least 37 Communists trying to escape an allied trap near Can Tho about 90 miles southeast of Saigon. There were no U.S. losses.
Fund drive started to aid Biafra
The Committee for Biafra Relief Fund Drive today began a two-week search for help to send food to starving children in Biafra.
Working in conjunction with the KU-Y and the Lawrence Chapter of the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive, committee members have placed posters all around the campus. They will also broadcast appeals from the information booth on Jayhawk Blvd.
An estimated 1,000 people
starve to death each day in Biafra, a section of Nigeria, as a result of the 18-month-long civil war in that country.
"We no longer can sit and look with indifference at one of the tragedies of our time," said Ubamadu Hyacinth, Owerri, Biafra, graduate student and committee member.
KU-Y is handling collections for the committee. Donations may be sent or taken to the KU-Y office, Room B-111 Kansas Union.
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● Gant shirts
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● Bouyant 7 packs
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KU cowgirl—twice a queen
Phone V1 3-2057
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Equally at ease on a horse or in an evening gown, Jan Vandeventer, Raytown, Mo., senior, has won two beauty titles in the last four weeks.
Miss Vandeventer was named Miss Raytown Sept. 28 in a preliminary contest to the Miss America Pageant.
Less than two weeks before, she was notified that she will represent Missouri in the Miss Rodeo America contest in Las Vegas next month.
Shortly after winning the American Royal Rodeo Queen contest last June, Miss Vandeverter was contacted by Freeman Beets, international rodeo management director for Missouri, who sent her applications for the Miss Rodeo Missouri contest.
Miss Vandeventer said the Miss Rodeo Missouri contest was judged on the basis of these applications, pictures, and her riding and an interview in the American Royal Rodeo.
Bringing her interest in rodeos to KU, Miss Vandeventer is one of the founders of the KU Rodeo Club. She is also KU Intercollegiate Rodeo Queen for 1968.
In the finals in Las Vegas, judges will evaluate contestants on appearance, personality and horsemanship, Miss Vandeventer explained. Her event in rodeo competition is barrel racing. Miss Vandeventer said she has been riding horses since she was a child. Her family owns five horses which they keep on a 20-acre farm near Raytown.
JAN VANDEVENTER
Because she couldn't bring her horse on stage, Miss Vandeventer turned to her journalism major for the talent segment of the Miss Raytown contest.
at home convinced me to enter. I didn't tell anybody here at school."
She used pictures from her photography class and gave an illustrated narrative of her philosophy of life.
Judging in both the Miss Raytown and Miss Rodeo Missouri contests is based on poise, intelligence and personality as well as beauty.
Winning the Miss Raytown title "was really a shock," Miss Vandevente said. "Some friends
Sponsors of both contests award scholarships to winners to promote interest in education.
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Why not ask these questions about Bendix Kansas City when Mr. R. E. Cox visits the
University of Kansas
Oct.21,22,1968
Or you may write Mr. Cox at:
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