Janesville Daily Gazette (Newspaper) - August 25, 1966, Janesville, Wisconsin JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE 122 NO. 10 122ND YEAR AUGUST 25, 1968 30 PAGES 2 SECTIONS TEN CENTS City Losing Its Battle tor the Elms By STEVE BUGGS In 195 tiny European beetle brought to Janesville of the most ravaging tree diseases this country has ever Ten years and a heated controversy hundreds of elm trees still die annually faere from the tenacious Dutch elm Nearly two-thirds of Janesville's elms have died been removed stace 1956 and city officials say it's possible that the ing 6,700 wiU die if a solution is not A recently completed survey showed that least 767 of tiie remaining here are diseased and will have to come down before Mxt is the highest ever to be lost in Janesville in one A look at the figures shows the steady loss of what was once one of the major shade trees to the In 1956, 1957 and 1958 only 17 elms wero killed by the but in 1959 It really took hold and 249 were Fatalities Mount In 1960 exactly 400 trees died here and in the years following the grim toll continued to 360 in 1961, 400 in 1962, 500 in 1963, 433 in 1964, 519 in 1965, and 767 in 1966, A reforestation program is well under way in the but none of the new plantings is an the elm is one of the most desirable trees for this type of climate because of its high limb structure and small said Dave director of public just wouldn't pay to plant any more of them until a cure or preventive can be found for Dutch elm Losses here started in 1956, but the story of Dutch elm disease began long before As near as officials can the disease came into this country in the early 1930s in a shipment of elm logs from Holland to the East It was carried by the European elm bark As the beetles moved westward they left a trail of dead and dying trees and denuded areas where the elms once The amazing thing about the killer was that no publicity was given to it as it ravaged United it got to Rockford in 1.954-55 we weren't aware there was such a thing as Dutch elm said had never heard of it After the disease hit the whole nation heard of it. Elm strees began dying there immediately but a reluctant city council took no action to stop it. A Misnomer In a few short years reputation as the began to have a hollow then of dead and dying elms littered yards and terraces and officials there were unable to cope with the magnitude of the virtually none of Rockford's 48,000 elm trees re- All were wiped out within 10 years by the foreign In Janesville things are just a little Dutch elm disease was first identified faere in 1956 in a tree near W. State and S. Willard Immediately city crews began spraying elm trees with This chemical is one of the few that stays on the bark of a tree over a long period of time and is still strong enough to kill the European bark beetle when it attempts to bore into the Robins Affected A controversy developed over the use of DDT late in 1956, when it was found that robins who ate with some of the chemical on their skin As spraying continued through the spring of 1957, more robins died and the bird lovers and tree lovers found they had a controversy on their Finally the city limited spraying activities to early spring and late fall when few robins were Now a state law makes it illegal for cities to spray elm trees with DDT after April 15, the theory being that only a few robina will have returned north by that An occasional bird is still found dead in yards but the problem of poisoning them has largely been according to city But elm trees keep Kessler said there were an estimated 18,000 elm trees in Janesville in 1956 before the disease Now there are fewer than 6,700, it's possible we could losis all of Kessler said all elm trees in the city would have been wiped out within three years if spraying had not started we continue to spray we can prolong this thing from 10 to 60 years before we lose all of our This will give us an opportunity to reforest and it may give us time to find a way to kill the Hie director of public services there is no known cure for Dutch elm disease and at present all that can be done is to kill the beetle which carries ft. As far as is Kessler said the total number of new trees planted each year far exceeds the city's loss to Dutch elm Those lost are mature while those planted are saplings which wall need many years to According to the reforestation program is being conducted primarily in park areas where diseased elm trees have been Replacement varieties include Norway and sugar Carolina Schwedler green ash and pin The city also is using smaller flowering varieties and While the city is removing diseased elm trees from replacement and maintenance are the on Page 2. 1) PULLING FOR and Mrs. Raymond Aguilar of hang to rescue rope thrown them in flooded arroyo at Artesia Their small foreign car floated down channel for some distance when caught in flood The terrified but unhurt except for cuts and was hauled to Red China Teen Gangs Run Wild TOKYO - Communist China ordered the closing today of Sacred Heart a Roman Catholic mission in Peking run by French the newspaper Yomiuri reported to a from Yomiuri correspondent based in said Communist China's Ministry of Foreign shortly after teen-age Red Guards broke toto the and hoisted the Red flag over informed embassies by that it was down Sacred Opposed to Mao The explanation Seki was that the Catholic mission school was supported by those advocating and and those opposed to the thoughts of Moa China's Japanese correspondents in the Communist Chinese capital reported they also put a bust of Mao Tse-tung in the school and plastered its walls with signs reading foreign and out the running dogs of The Red Guards and adults backing them blocked the school doors and made it impossible to hold The Sacred Heart almost 100 years has not been under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Communist The continued to surge through the streets howling for reforms which ranged from renaming Peking East is Fang Hung - to the abolition of checkers and Western The Catholic said to be one of the few still run by is attended by children of foreign residents in The newspaper Yomiuri said their parents and foreign diplomats who tried to protest against the demonstration by Red Guard youths were Family Ridiculed Yomiuri also reported three members of a believed to be were forced to wear red clothing and forced to stand outside the front gate of their home while being jeered by the Posters have been pasted on the walls throughout the better residential district of reports They warned rich farmers and capitalists to leave their homes within three to leave Peking by Sept. 10." New Chuia News Agency said Red Guards in Shanghai and Tientsin marched into the streets to make a general onslaught on old old and old customs and an all-out attack is being launched by the Red Guards and the revolutionary workers against the ideology of all exploiting Japanese correspondents in Peking reported the guards dragged old through the streets after hanging placards around their necks reading opposed the Crowds of youths surrounded the adults shouting slogans and The Red Guards have been reported on the rampage with government backing since Aug. 20. They mostly are recent graduates of high UAW Marches for Pay Increase DETROIT than 1,200 skilled United Auto Workers demonstrated Wednesday to front of Chrysler Corp. headquarters to promote demands for an immediate The parade of workers grew from 100 to more than 1,200 over four hours as the UAW members expressed displeasure with rejection of union requests to labor and negotiate pay hikes for skilled The Big Three auto firms - General Motors and turned down the UAW requests to con- tracts to bargain over demands for at least a 50-cent hourly The pacts will expire Sept. 6,1967. The demonstration was Auto plants reported no large-scale absenteeism of skilled and skilled trades leaders said this was because they had workers from work to Most apparently were off There are nearly 100,000 skilled tradesmen in the Big with some 600,000 semiskilled or unskilled production The skilled sought reopening of their wages were m comparison with those paid Detroit-area workers to similar jobs outside the auto In down any contract the automakers cited automatic pay raises and which auto workers will receive next month under the current Raises will range from 11.5 cents to 19.5 cents The skilled and die millwrights and the up to an The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates wages for the auto as a average an House Debates Reserves Draft WASHINGTON - The House squares off today for a fight over to a defense appropriation authority for President Johnson to call up some Reserves for active The President has not asked for sudi The provision was toto the biU by the It was not included to the defense money passed by the Under present the President can call up Reserves only after declaring a state of national and then they usually are mobilized by The provision Babe Ruth Home Tonight Janesville's Babe Ruth baseball team will arrive home about 8 o'clock this from where the State and Ohio Valley regional competed to the 15th annual World The Janesville squad boarded an American jet at 2:30 p.m. Daylight today at and is scheduled to arrive at Chicago's O'Hare Field at 5:30 p.m. The 18-man party will be transported to Janesville by a Sam Van Galder bus. The team should reach the local 1-90 exit between 7:48-8 The bus route and Mam The team is expected to receive a big similar to that when it returned from after the Ohio Valley regional Janesville was from the World Series last night when 16-10, by Tenn. Janesville had a 2-2 record to the downing host 2-0, and 6-3. Its other loss was to 7-2. on Sports would waive the emergency declaration and authorize the President to summon Reservists as whether or not they were attached to organized to take advantage of special The Reserves provision added by the Senate is not mandatory for the Spokesmen for National Guard and Reserve organizations opposed the They it would wreck the The Reserves provision was listed as the first order of business for today's House It was expected to be opposed by most Republicans and most members of the House Armed Services which now is considering a separate yAMi Reserve Under the Senate Reservists or National Guardsmen could be to active duty up to 24 minus any time previously on active duty for Proponents of the Reserve provision have contended that many youths have signed up for Reserve and Guard duty to avoid induction for active military They argued that the policy of allowing young men to fulfill their military obligation without the risk of toto combat was unfair to those who are drafted or who volunteer for active Stoce the appropriations measure passed by the House and the one approved by the Senate the measures were sent to a conference where a compromise was rached Among other the compromise agreement for the House to vote on the Senate's Reserves The conferees agreed to go along with the Senate provision with modifying language that the identities of Reserve units ordered to active duty be retained and that family and economic status be While the conferees were their agreement the Pentagon provided more details on a military program announced by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara to a New York speech Decision; Warm and sot lo cool tonight Friday mostly fair and a Low tonight 5S-U. High Friday winds diminishing a tonight Friday westerly winds 10-18 Precipitation tiea less than i i per cent tonight and It's about time for some warmer the weatherman decided As a tiie Janesville area forecast calls for fair skies and a little warmer The possibility of rain is all but Tomorrow's high here may reach close to 90 compared to yesterday's 75 and day's noon temperature of 75. The low is expected to approximate that of recent nights at 53-60. The mercury dipped to 54 early this morning and was at 52 yesterday A few sprinkles dampened northeastern early but clear skies prevailed over the rest of the Highs ranged from 76-68 and lows were from 44-58. returned to high prominence over the United States yesterday with a 108-degree while turned in a 36 for the national overnight ANOTHER ELM TREE y crewman Wally Mikkelson puts the electric saw to one of three diseased elm s the crew took down today at 108 S. Arch St. Scene is a familiar one around Jane which has nearly two-thirds of its elm trees in last 10 P hoto N. Viet Nam Suffers Worst Raids of War South Viet Nam warplanes staged the heaviest raids of the war on North Viet Nam flying a record 146 the U.S. Military Command announced Fighting also flared on the ground U.S. Marines clashed agato to brisk fighting with North Vietnamese army regulars to the northern provinces of South Viet The Military Command disclosed that the Leathernecks were engaged to two new operations and so far have killed 188 of the also erupted 20 miles north of Saigon where units of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division engaged a reinforced company of Viet Cong troops early In Military Command that the number of American servicemen to Viet Nam had surpassed 300,000. A buildup to 350,000 to 400,000 is expected by the end of the battle deaths for the week that ended last Saturday were 91, ten fewer than the week In addition 425 Americans were wounded and eight were listed as or South Vietnamese forces had 216 killed and 414 wounded or Nguyen Cao opening South Viet Nam's national election called for a large turnout of voters Sept. 11 but warned of an in- crease to terrorism aimed at disrupting the The 146 missions flown against the North exceeded the previous record set earlier this month by An official U.S. spokesman would hot the number of plane but acknowledged that they were the highest so far to the This would probably run from 400 to 500 American pilots claimed heavy Four of 18 oil storage depots attacked were damaged and several others probably hit but smoke and dust prevented an accurate Most of the attacks were concentrated in the Southern Panhandle and just north of the demilitarized Only one raid was made in the Hanoi an oil depot 18 miles from the Communist tal with results not The Force flew 71 Navy pilots 68 and U.S. Marines Today's ground action fallowed two engagements 90 miles apart to the northern section of South Viet Nam by U.S. Marmes They reported 211 Communist dead and said they suffered only light casualties Guard Will Protect Marchers in Cicero to reopen labor Their OPEN United Auto Workers bid to reopen contracts to negotiate demands for pay stage a demonstration at Chrysler raise was rejected by General Motors and ters m Detroit yesterday protesting refusal of Big Chrysler last CHICAGO - Hie National Guard will protect Dr. Martto Luther Jr. and a column of civil rights followers Sunday when they parade to where Guardsmen used bayonets to quell a race riot to 1951. The decision to use the Guard to the suburb on Chicago's western boundary was made Wednesday by Gov. Otto Cicero officials and Sheriff Richard Ogilvie of Cook County had declared that county and police would not be able to hostility to the Kemer told newsmen that he wouldn't know how many troops would be needed Guard officers assess the I know he cannot designate any we prefer to call on those to the of Cicero and When asked why he thought the Guard was you anticipate there is to be property and even more possible I think it's important that we do everything our power to law and order and peace to the Maj. Gen. Francis commanding general of the 33rd said at least 2,000 troops would be don't anticipate any trouble writh the citizens of Kane any outsiders for trouble will be stopped - and stepped Cicero officials have said they fear a large influx of white the American Nazi toto the Dr. said he appreciated the governor's for the protection of our march toto is that wo can march to the Southern bastions of segregation such as Mississippi without arms or he cannot march peacefully toto a Northern suburb such as Cicero without an armed escort of Kmg said he would lead the march toto The march is part of a campaign to the Chicago area against alleged racial to The National Guard was called to a city of 70,000, to 1951 when of broke out after a Negro bus driver tried to move toto an About 125 whites and Negro marchers Wednesday night filed along sidewalks to West an community on the city's Nearly 500 policemen held back a jeering mob of whites as the marchers picketed three real estate agencies they accuse of He's the kind of friend you can depend around when he needs Much More Inside FRED HOLT says a Cook of Week new school administration for the city is only a Editorial matter of Page 4 Every Movies 4 WHITEWATER State Obituaries sity announces personnel TV 4A changes for the student affairs Society 9 Page 14 1,17
