Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 9, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday february 9, 1968 giant save in Friday to 10 . Saturday -10a.m. To 8 off your total food purchases we love to save you Money first Grade butter Silver Brook j Jane Parker Angel cake save 20c each Grade a chickens Frozen vac Pac 3 to 4 lbs. Oakdell ice Cream gallon v2 4 pints Heinz n Glass baby food strained of. 8199 cooked Ham sliced just right in. Only popular brands cigarettes weekender packs King size 25 s mild old cheese Marvel White bread 16 of. Loaf White beet sugar 10 la. Bag Gilt Edge flour 10 la. Bag seven up family size quarts 5s99 plus Deposit bulk cookies dares .00 fancy Mclntosh apples 6 it. Bsat. Dis Caprice your Little profit food store 891 St. Mary s re. Survivors describe Battle continued was recounted Here thurs Day by four survivors of the 14 Green berets who came out of the Camp. Ten other special forces Nien who were in the Camp Are still unaccounted for. Shortly after Midnight wednesday the Camp with its 24 americans and three companies be vietnamese and montagnard irregulars was hit hard by the North vietnamese. For the first time in the nine year War the enemy used tanks and mechanized troop carriers. Identify tanks the first sight of the enemy attack came when a tank with a huge spotlight Proke through the outer South perimeter of the Camp from Highway nine which runs West from the South China sea across South Vietnam and Laos Tot thai land. They came up the Hill but one of our 106 . Recoilless rifles knocked out two of said intelligence sgt. Peter Tiroch 25, of Indianapolis. Then one of our 106s was blown As the enemy tank Force 15 machines in a kept coming the special forces men tried to Knock them out with Light anti tank weapons. Of n tank rumbled around the two disabled machines firing what Tiroch Esti mated was a 75 or 90 . Gun. But Othra tanks began blowing Down the defenders " bunkers. Some tanks moved in from the West setting off. The special forces fuel. Dumps with their powerful fire. The tanks were buttoned up tight. Special men said and they were Well c camouflaged Sticks Bushes ant limbs Trees. During the fighting Many of the Green berets separated. Sgt. Tiroch and another team member broke out of the concertina wire on the North Side of the Camp and dug in about 150 Yards from i perimeter. Thev night in a clump of Bamboo. Not much you can do against tanks after a Tiroch said. Meanwhile another tank had trundled Over to the command Post where eight . Soldiers and several vietnamese were positioned. Behind the tank or per haps Riding on it was an enemy demolition squad which quickly spread out around the area dropping Satchel charges into the bunkers to destroy them. In the command bunkers communications sgt. Emmanual Phillips 32 of Portland Ore gon was Manning his radio. About . He left the Protection Bunker to try to get better communications with aircraft Over head with the artillery fire control Centre at the main Khe Sanh. Camp three Miles East Northeast. He also wanted to turn on recognition lights for Friendly aircraft so they could Bear Ings for possible air support. When i reached the top stairs of the Bunker about 70 feet away and looking r i g h t Down my Throat was an enemy sgt. Phillips said. Due to the fact that the tank was looking at me i did not turn on the recognition the tank let Loose with its main gun and shortly thereafter it and Vance and Stop right on top of sappers apparently leaped off the tank or moved in right behind it wearing White bands to keep their own machine gun from hitting them. They dropped More Satchel the air of bunkers or threw grenades into the ports. They entertained their selves this Way for a couple of said sgt. Phillips with a Smee. J a in the . Bunker a half dozen vietnamese special forces men finally ran out the Entrance. A Little while later the vietnamese inter Preter who was apparently captured was forced ton shout Down to the Ameri cans it s All right to come then the earlier Conversa Tion with the North Viet namese ensued. It ended with a full scale attack on the a sgt. Phillips said the Bunker was filled with smoke dust tear Gas and severe concussions. Tax Cut or else horsemen continued promote and stage an annual series of stakes races for Mani Toba bred thoroughbreds this re quest was rejected by or. Enns in a letter to the association in january. Consequently breeders and horsemen in the province feel they Are being treated shabbily by the government. They say that in the last 10 years the government has Given Assiniboia Downs a kick Back of Accord Ance with a contract signed with the track. This contract has expired. Or. Freed and director Ralph Kennedy said the loss of a Rac ing season in Winnipeg would Cost the government in the area of million in tax Revenue in addition to the millions of tourist dollars which the sport attracts. If Manitoba horsemen with draw their horses thoroughbred owners in other areas of Canada and the United states would be immediately notified and they would not ship their horses to Winnipeg. Even if a settlement were reached quickly out of province horsemen would have made other arrangements and would not be Able to run their Stock Here. Manitoba horsemen and breeders and the Hyba Are convinced that if the govern ment tax were reduced it would result in an increase in the Quality of racing. Therefore interest would be stimulated and a the Long run the provincial tax coffers would recoup More than they might give. It was , that the tax on racing in Manitoba is the highest in Canada. In Quebec and Ontario the provincial re turn is six per cent. In Alberta and Saskatchewan it is five per cent. It was also noted that e. P Taylor head of the Ontario jockey club which control racing in that province was seeking a tax reduction from six or cent Iri the 10 years the province has received More Lan million Revenue from be tax on racing but it is Felt y horsemen that this sum will decline considerably inthe next new years without an adequate apply of Quality horses. These they claim will certainly not be available under the present tax Structure. The Hyba state that Otal capital investment in thoroughbred Breeding and Allied ields in Manitoba is estimated at nearly million with annual operating expenditures in the province Well in excess of nillion. Walkie talkie probably saved trainman s life port Arthur cup a Walkie talkie radio used communication Between a train Crew May have saved a 30-year old Canadian Pacific railway trainman s life wednesday. Gus Cosgrove of Schreibe used the Small hand radio to Call for help when he crushed his right leg after falling unde a moving train during switching operations at Marathon Abou 130 Miles East of Here. He lost his leg above the Kne and was in satisfactory cond Tion thursday in St. Joseph general Hospital Here where h was transferred after receiving treatment at Marathon. Kennedy urges end to continued i we heard the North vietnamese talking Over head As if they were discussing what to. bout1 off the tear Gay being dropped Down the air shafts some of forces men put in Gas masks. Others who did not have them put medical their noses it was dark in the Bunker and six of . Ameri cans Svere wounded by the blast. But the Bunker remained intact. At this time we were the Only americans left in sgt. Phillips said. The enemy was industrious but not very smart or they would have driven us out. We decided to. Play North vietnamese forces still controlled the highest ground of the Camp. Air strikes were called in and the Hilltop was severely blasted but the enemy Hung on having himself occupied some of the bunkers and kept firing machine guns Down at the Allied forces who tried to assault them the air strikes sounded like they were coming right Down on top of said sgt. Phillips but that was just where we wanted it during the morning the other survivors of the Battle who had been dug in at various Points around the sprawling Camp began forming up together. Finally after air strikes Aud ground fire pinned Down the North vietnamese in then bunkers about 3 ., tie eight special forces men in the command Bunker were Able to struggle out dragging their wounded with them. The team survivors then turned off their radio and sgt. For two or three hours there were no More explosions. But about Dawn two severe Satchel charge blasts Shook the Bunker. Parts of the sides of the Bunker caved in and the Entrance was blown away. To escape when Daylight came the wounded men were Given morphine be cause they were i much pain sgt. Phillips said. The main problem then was to try to get the wounded out of the Bunker lifting them directly overhead since the Entrance was now blocked. Cratic senator who last month delivered a scathing indictment of the Saigon government after a 10-Day visit to Vietnam. The new York senator spoke n the context of the current Viet Cong offensive against the major cities and provincial capitals of South Vietnam. We must rid ourselves of the illusion that the events of the past two weeks represent some sort of he said. That is not sen. Kennedy conceded that the Viet Cong probably would not be Able to hold1 the cities but they have demonstrated despite All our reports of Progress of government strength and enemy weakness that half a million american soldiers with vietnamese allies with total command of tie air total command of the sea backed by huge resources Aud the most modern weapons Are unable to secure even a single City from the attacks of an enemy whose total strength is about he scornfully brushed aside Allied estimates of enemy dead observing our intelligence chief tells us that of men thrown into the attacks on the cities been killed. If Only two men have been seriously wounded for every one dead the entire enemy Force has been put out of action. Who then is d oing the smal operators Kansas City an Esti mated 85 per cent of a the cattlemen in the . Are Small operators owning and grazing 200 or less head of cattle. The special forces men then moved from the Camp across Highway nine to the South to the old Lang Camp that was. Overrun last May and which has been serving As Van. Alternate command Post. There they waited for american helicopters to evacuate All the troops there to the main Marine Campat Khe Sanh. In Danang special forces officers said they were still hoping that some of the other men would turn up alive i Cost automatic transmission re builders Ltd. Free Road Al ;