Stevens Point Daily Journal (Newspaper) - May 5, 1975, Stevens Point, Wisconsin latin Journal MONDAY MAY 5 1975 STEVENS POINT WIS 54481 ASSOCIATED PRESS 80TH YEAR 2 SECTIONS 20 PAGES US to begin withdrawal of troops from Thailand By The Associated Press The United States will re- move more than of its troops stationed in Thailand in the next two months taking its first major step toward total withdrawal from its last tary foothold in Southeast Asia it was announced today The announcement made jointly by the Thai and U.S governments said the troop strength of would be cut 28 per cent to The announcement did not say how many of the 330 U.S military planes remaining from the armada that bombed Cambodia and North and South Vietnam will be allowed to re- main UNDER INTERDICT Mary Ann Van Hoof a Necedah farm woman who claims the Blessed Virgin has been appearing to her since 1949 is seen leaving her shrine last summer AP Wirephoto Bishop invokes unusual discipline against Necedah shrine followers NECEDAH Wis AP In- disciplinary sanctions reminiscent of the Middle Ages the Roman Catholic Church has intensified its 25-year dispute with Mary Ann Van Hoof a farm woman who says the Blessed Virgin appears to her The Most Rev Frederick W Freking bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse took forceful and unusual new steps against motion of the alleged visions last month by sending letters of personal interdict to Mrs Van Hoof and six of her key ers The Associated Press has learned The letters were delivered personally by the Rev James Barney sent here by Bishop Freking last August as pastor Plover man shot while visiting in Florida A Plover man was shot to death about p.m Saturday following an argument with another man at a residence northwest of Tampa Fla Daniel T Weisbrod Plover Pine Village was pronounced dead at the scene with three gunshot wounds according to Fla County authorities Hillsborough Sheriff's Department deputies said Weisbrod was arguing with another man and after an exchange of blows the other man reportedly grabbed a gun and fired three times striking Weisbrod in the chest arm and hand Deputies said the in- into the death is continuing Funeral services for Weisbrod will be held at 10 Wednesday at St Stephen's Catholic Church Burial will be in the parish Friends may call after 4 p.m Tuesday at the Dzikoski Funeral Home A general rosary will be said at p.m Born Aug in Stevens Point Weisbrod was the son of Mr and Mrs James Weisbrod He attended St Stephen's Grade School and graduated from Stevens Point Area Senior High He attended Mid-State Technical Institute Wisconsin Rapids and was a welder by trade His most recent em- ployment in this area was at Joerns Furniture Co Weisbrod left for Florida about four weeks ago Survivors include his father James Route 5 Stevens Point his mother Mrs Gene Lou Ann Jacobsen 3106 Lindbergh Ave two sisters Diane Chicago 111 and Pamela 3108 Lindbergh Ave three brothers James Jr Plover Pine Mobile Court Plover and Gary and Randall both at 3108 Lindbergh Ave his maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Stephen Shibilski Whiting and paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Leo Weisbrod 1809 Ave of SL Francis Church Father Barney is a former associate pastor of St Joseph's Catholic Church in Stevens Point Interdict used frequently against recalcitrant monarchs in medieval times is almost unheard of today Technically less severe than the m o r common ex- communication its effects are much the same Persons under interdict are excluded from all sacraments except confession and will be denied al burial though they are not specifically cut off from church membership It's the first time in my 17 years as a bishop that I have issued personal said Bishop Freking who took the some to disassociate Mrs Van Hoof and her shrine from the church It's very uncommon I've told Mrs Van Hoof she can believe what she wants he said But when she tries to get other people to believe it then she has to submit to the authority of the church Ray Pritzl a spokesman for Mrs Van Hoof and one of those under interdict declined com- ment on the bishop's action saying We'd just like to cept it in a humble way Mrs Van Hoof 65 now says she had her first vision of the Blessed Virgin in November of 1949 There were eight more the following year some ing crowds estimated as high as to the Van Hoof farm near this tiny central Wisconsin community The Most Rev John P Treacy Bishop ecessor at La Crosse ordered an investigation and in 1951 told Mrs Van Hoof and her husband to remove a statue from their farm see that a large cross on the bluff overlooking the village was taken down and stop lating literature about the apparitions In 1955 Bishop Treacy issued an official statement declaring the claims of supernatural sions false and prohibiting all public and private religious worship connected with them But Mrs Van Hoof and her followers say visions and sages from the Blessed various saints as have continued Gathering to pray near the sacred spot where they say the Blessed Virgin has does not constitute worship they contend They've built more shrines and planned still others on the former Van Hoof farm now owned by a non-profit ration known as My God and My Country Inc Widely distributed books and pamphlet of them claiming miraculous bear the message of Necedah to pockets of followers out the United States and in some foreign countries as well We get mail from all over the world telling the bishop he is the instrument of the said the Rev John Malik diocesan chancellor It's rare that a day goes by that he doesn't get a letter about dah Some of them border on the vicious Father Malik is a boyhood resident of Stevens Point Pilgrims still flock to dah on anniversaries of the 1950 visions Many followers have moved here settling in sions which have sprouted up near the shrine and they come there daily to pray Mrs Van Hoofs supporters maintain that the Queen of the Holy Rosary Mediatrix of Peace shrine has never been condemned by the Catholic Church They say the alleged visions are still under gation in contention denied by argue that they are not doing thing against faith and als They describe their izations as groups whose members happen to be Catholics They point to their efforts to promote prayer and religious devotion to their work against immorality and abortion and say they are being unjustly persecuted by the church It's our intent to do good to help said Pritzl a tall intense lumber yard owner who moved to Necedah from Appleton 10 years ago He is treasurer of My God and My Country and Mrs Van Hoof has designated him as her advocate Bishop Freking who accuses the Van Hoof followers of ing the church's statements in an attempt to find an inter- acceptable to them established a special in- commission which concluded in 1970 that that Mrs Van Hoof and her followers were violating the legitimate exercise of episcopal ity It recommended strong ration and wide publicity for what it called Bishop Treacy's 1955 condemnation and said those connected with the Van Hoof cause should be told to re- move all shrines and cease promotional activities Further it said they should be advised that they can never operate un- der Catholic auspices Bishop Freking accepted the See bishop page 2 However Thai Foreign ter said for the time being his country will hold on to 130 South Air Force planes that were flown there by refugees They are claimed by both the new Saigon regime and the United States which gave them to the former Saigon ment He said there has been no contact so far between VS of- and the Thai government about the planes and the next step is to hold talks also said his government is ready to open diplomatic tions with North Vietnam Saigon radio monitored in Bangkok today carried the first word of release of persons imprisoned by the old South Vietnamese regime It cast an invitation by the new regime for newly freed political prisoners and their families to meet at a pagoda and help plan a welcome home ceremony for people returning from Con Son prison island Communist broadcasts in the past have claimed the Nguyen Van Thieu government held tens of thousands of political prisoners but the Thieu claimed it held only criminals and Communists The East German Communist party newspaper Neues Deutschland reported from gon that thousands of officers and men of the former South Vietnamese navy turned over their ships and equipment Thursday and Friday Neues Deutschland also said the Saigon airfield at Tan Son Nhut was reopened Friday It said the harbor at Da Nang was reopened April 24 and that foreign freighters could dock there after completing sary forms provided by Government missions abroad The joint ment on troop removal spoke of total withdrawal by year's end But the Thai foreign minister said realistically he hoped this could be accomplished before See Indochina page 2 Ford wants Vietnam peace has bitter I million for refugees taste for many Americans WASHINGTON AP The Ford administration will ask for million to transport and care for more than Vietnamese refugees the tor of the President's refugee program said today At the same time the tor L Dean Brown suggested refugees will be free to return to South Vietnam if they Brown told the House gration subcommittee there are four categories of refugees starting with Vietnamese brought out under a special provision of U.S immigration laws that would have up to They will be accepted into the United States unless any wish to emigrate to third tries or return to their native Brown said He said the second category includes Vietnamese picked up at sea by U.S ships We propose to accept for Brown de- clared The third category involves about Vietnamese and Cambodians who fled to other countries many in plied ships and planes The fourth category is an unknown number of diplomats around the world The U.S planes and ships be reclaimed Dean said and the Vietnamese and who used them to flee will first be required to seek asylum in the countries they went to If refused asylum they will be asked to seek resettlement assistance from international organizations Brown said and if they can't get that they will be considered for immigration to the United States on a or basis He said most diplomats will be able to settle abroad and those who cannot get inter- national organizations to take responsibility for them will be considered for entry into the United States Brown said refugees had been for by 5 EOT today and that sibly another are still on ships of other countries By JULES LOH AP Writer The guns are silent and few are sorry for that But to a nation accustomed to celebrating peace with ticker tape the war in Vietnam ended in the minds of many Americans only in disillusionment frustration anger con- fusion A senseless said Constance Gordon a Chicago librarian interviewed after church services More than killed and hundreds of thousands wounded what do you say to that? Senseless tragedy is the only way to put it I breathed a sigh of relief when it was finally said Richard Scott a old telephone company executive from Omaha But it was a sad sigh Even with the kind of effort we gave it was all really to no avail Those were the fundamental feelings of scores of their countrymen questioned at random by The Associated Press at their jobs and homes and churches in cities and towns and villages across the land Some utterly drained by the In- experience were too benumbed even to follow closely the daily accounts of the fall of Saigon a Vietnam veteran in Philadelphia preoccupied with his own problem of unemployment was not aware a day later that the war had ended Others as if reflecting the promise of spring after winter's rains and ruins preferred to look not behind but ahead with hope It is time that as a country we begin anew that our centennial and the end of our in- volvement in Southeast Asia may offer us an opportunity to recapture the ideals upon which our country was said The Rev William Pegg in a Sunday sermon at the Ontario Methodist Church in Buffalo Edgar Grossman a New York stockbroker had been a staunch supporter of that in- volvement But I'm past feeling he said I would rather look to the future The underlying national mood dejection tempered by optimism had however a number of shadings To those whom the war touched personally the end was especially crueL Mrs Howard Donald of Tamaqua Pa lost a son He was 19 He thought he was doing the right thing and was there for the right she said Now it's all gone down the drain and it hurts What did he die Joe Funn a Wheeling banker also lost a son but his frustration was of a ferent sort Yes I'm disillusioned but not he said My wife and I are disillusioned with the government officials who would not allow the military to win the war That is the tragedy of Vietnam Unlike Funn some who shared his view still harbored bitterness In my opinion with our failure to win we dealt a death blow to the democratic way of said Richmond Va City Councilman Nathan J Forb a lumberman It was the saddest day of my life when it sank in that we had lost the war in Vietnam Jennings a father of three from Peabody Mass said he was a hawk during the war and his feelings haven't changed What we've done is taken the easy way out Vietnam represents a lack of will and it doesn't portend well for the future An Air Force veteran in Spokane We should have blown Hanoi off the map five years ago A Dallas We made idiots of ourselves Curiously or perhaps not so curiously persons now claiming to have been opposed to the war all along seemed far in excess of the numbers who actively opposed it during its progress We never should have been there in the first was a lirie tirelessly repeated When MA Duvernay said it however he seemed utterly believable We never knew the politics of the said Duvernay a portly New Orleans postman We were like in the American Revolution out there fighting a war we didn't like or understand getting shot by people in the woods Those who did participate in antiwar demonstrations were by and large not in- toward smugness Marriner Eccles a Salt Lake City banker said he was one of the first businessmen in his county to oppose the war strongly a decade ago Now that it is over he politely declines to At Southern Illinois University in bondale once the scene of antiwar protest the campus mood was almost somber The only thing he really noticed said University President Warren W Brandt was a reaching out to help the 40 students on campus who may have families trapped in Vietnam Reaching out to help Vietnamese refugees was in the nation as a whole another matter A priest from the Archdiocese of Hartford Conn gave eight radio and TV sermons during the weekend on What would Christ to do today with the Vietnamese and a Dallas executive himself a Cuban refugee had no misgivings about the welcome he would give them Others however usually citing the current economic downturn weren't so sure I don't think children in America should be said William M Galloway a Hyattsville Md filling station manager whose view represented a sizeable minority If you can raise the money for refugees you should feed the people here West hit again by heavy snow By The Associated Press Winter over the Rockies and intermountain re- gion early today dumping from three to nine inches of snow in parts of Utah and Montana Snow with rain at lower fell from southern gon into western Montana and Wyoming and down into ern Arizona A heavy snow warning was issued through today for parts of Montana where a foot or more snow was predicted Heavy snow warnings were also posted for Colorado and travel advisories were issued for the mountains of eastern Idaho where heavy snow was likely Strong winds in parts of Arizona and the areas of Southern fornia also resulted in travel advisories being issued Before dawn two inches of snow fell at Flagstaff Ariz and both Bozeman and Butte Mont added one inch for a tal depth of five inches Rainfall of up to three inches in the Southeastern states caused some flooding in the Carolinas but by Sunday the rain accumulation slowed down considerably Showers and damped areas from central Texas into Louisiana with some danger of flash flooding and from northeastern Iowa into Wisconsin Rain and drizzle covered much of New York New sey and southern New England Rain continued in eastern Wisconsin today after moving across the state during the night Beloit had the largest amount of precipitation by 7 at 60 inch Baldwin had 30 Spooner 25 Pewaukee 23 Superior 21 and Rhinelander 10 Smaller levels were recorded elsewhere About 73 families remained out of their homes in low lying areas of Prairie du Chien ing the weekend as the River crested at just over 21 feet and one of two bridges connecting Wisconsin with Dubuque was closed due to high water But the sin Transportation Department said all state trunk roads and bridges were open today MISSISSIPPI COMMUTER Mrs Rosemary Schneider and her companion Trixie paddle toward their lower Main Street home in Prairie du Chien Wis Sunday while the Mississippi River cresting more than three feet over the flood stage inundated about 25 square blocks of the city AP Wirephoto West Salem bank robbed WEST SALEM Wis AP Robbers escaped with early today from the Union State Bank in this western consin community authorities said Police said two or more men accosted a teller as she un- locked the door to the bank shortly before 7 She told police she was coming in early to practice on an office chine The weather Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with a chance of showers Lows tonight mostly in 40s Highs Tuesday in 60s Temperatures High Saturday noon to Sunday noon 58 Low 37 High Sunday noon to this noon 58 Low 46 Noon today 53 Prec 03 Sunrise tomorrow Sunset tomorrow
