Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - March 30, 1969, Waterloo, Iowa Overheard at garage My wife has a strange way of getting even with the power company Sim uses our car to down their poles Established in 1858 SIX SECTIONS FIRST WITH THE WATERLOO IOWA SUNDAY MARCH UQ MONDAY'S WEATHER Slightly Complete weather SEVENTY-EIGHT PACKS PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS WIDOW AT CATHEDRAL Mrs Mamie Eisenhower John into Washington National where widow of the former President is escorted by her son the former President was lying in repose Associated Press LiES IN REPOSE The casket of Dwight ington National Cathedral yesterday Other stories and D Eisenhower is surrounded by honor guard inside pictures on pages 2 6 8 and 35 As fke Funeral Begins Bell's Toll Saddens Washin n U.S in Big Vief Affack Hit Reds South Of Da Nang SAIGON AP More than U.S infantrymen of the Americal Division are pressing a three-way drive along the coastal plain south of Da Nang in an effort to root out enemy forces threatening two cial capitals The U.S Command which had withheld information on the counter offensive for 10 days for security reasons announced yesterday that troops have killed 313 enemy solders at a cost of 37 Americans killed and 337 wounded A headquarters spokesman said the primary purpose of the three related operations is to destroy enemy forces el and but er major objective is to relieve pressure on the cities of Tarn Ky and Quang Ngai Fighting has swirled around Quang Ngai City with a tion of since the opening of the Communist command's spring offensive Feb 23 Soldiers of the Saigon See VIET Continued on page 2 col 7 WASHINGTON AP The knell of a mighty cathedral bell saddened the Washington time yesterday The three-day state funeral of Dwight David Eisenhower had begun With crisp military precision and a minimum of ceremony the body of the president of the United States was received into the stately National dral There in the secluded hem Chapel the coffin will rest to be viewed by thousands of mourners until this afternoon Eleven enlisted men bore the body in slow cadence from a midnight-blue hearse through a portal with the carved tion The Way of Peace The body of the former com- mander in chief was in a ard silver-colored steel the same kind the Army would use for the burial of any soldier The sun broke occasionally through clouds as a chill wind whipped the American and flags flanking the en- trance Mamie Stands Erect Composed tearless the widow and companion of more than half a century mie stood erect at the arm of her son John Eisenhower A veil covered her face Once her son patted her hand As always she wore pearls Before her stood an honor guard that of the famed warriors of modern tary history The late dent's West Point classmate Gen Omar Bradley was there with Adm Arthur W Radford Gen Lauris Norstad other tary leaders the two surviving Eisenhower brothers and his enlisted aide an Army geant About 600 persons stood ly by to await the end of the vate service The chapel doors were opened ly after noon when the many of them ad- mitted in small groups Throughout the afternoon the crowds filed through at a pace of about an hour Those waiting outside got dampened by drizzle that began in Vice President and Mrs Spiro T Agnew were among the callers The late afternoon mourners included House Speaker John McCormack who paid a brief to the chapel Cold Rain Falls The line waiting to file through shortened somewhat as darkness approached and a cold rain fell but several hundred persons still waited Most of the late arrivals came prepared for the weather umbrellas and wearing raincoats The average wait was over an hour By p.m with the rain falling heavily and steadily the line of mourners had dwindled and it only took about 20 utes to move through the cession and view the casket Tempo Picks Up The rain stopped about and within a few minutes the tempo of arrivals picked up again as the line inside the lengthened Military Lincoln Was the First Ike 8th President to Lie in State r Beneath Dome of Capitol Rotunda WASHINGTON AP Dwight D Eisenhower will be the eighth President to lie in state beneath the dome that forms the huge circular hall called the Rotunda at the heart of the Capitol The first Was Abraham coln less than two years after the dome was completed in 1863 and the caskets of all the ored dead since then have ed on the same simple wooden bier Other Heroes Too Besides presidents past ro- tunda ceremonies have honored war heroes members of Con- gress a vice president and the French-born engineer who laid out the city of in all Normally a bright bustling place echoing to the noise of the thousands of tourists who push through it each day the da takes on the solemn air of a cathedral on the occasion of state funerals Its vaulted roof rises 180 feet in the air topped by a patch of ceiling from which the glorified figure of George Washington painted in draped robes and sur rounded by allegorical figures peers down as if from a cloud The wails at the base are part of the original central structure built after the British burned the Capitol in 1814 The Marquis de Lafayette a living hero was honored in the first Rotunda ceremony in 1824 During the Civil War while the great cast iron dome was being put in place northern troops camped out in the da as they did in all parts of the Capitol They called it the big tent The first three presidents to lie in state there were the tims of in 1865 James A Garfield in 1881 and William McKinley in 1901 A fourth was John F Kennedy in 1963 Other presidents who lay in state there were Warren G Harding in 1923 William ard Taft in 1930 and Herbert Hoover in 1964 While the fierce passions ar- by the Civil War still blazed Congress honored two of its most ardent antislavery members with state funerals in the Rotunda Rep Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania in 1868 and Sen Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in 1874 Sen Robert Taft The only other member of Congress to lie in state in the Rotunda was Sen Robert A Taft of Ohio whose funeral service was held there in 1953 Henry Wilson vice president during Ulysses S Grant's ond term died suddenly in the Capitol in 1874 and was given a state funeral The nation has paid final ute to four war heroes in da John A Logan in 1886 Adm George Dewey in 1917 Gen John J Pershing in 1948 and Gen Douglas MacArthur in 1964 Unknown Soldiers In addition unknown soldiers from the two World Wars and the Korean War lay in state there The only other person given such an honor was Maj Pierre Charles L'Enfant who planned the capital city and in his case it was belated recognition In 1909 84 years after his death his body was removed from its burial place on a nearby farm and reinterred at Arlington tional Cemetery after lying in state in the Rotunda The builders of the Capitol and the early Congresses had hoped the Rotunda would mark the final resting spot of George Washington but Washington's family carried out the wish written in his will that he be buried in Mount officials said would remain open as long as any members of the public de- sired to pay their final respects Tight Security Tight security prevailed to shield the family from the lic Only the family honor guard and pallbearers were present for the brief service in which the cathedral received the body Special Prayer The Rev Francis B Sayre dean of the cathedral and grandson of President Woodrow Wilson whose body lies in a nearby crypt said a prayer he wrote especially for Gen Accept 0 Lord the love and respect in the hearts of all those who come to this place com- forting their sorrow and ing their thanksgiving Gather them anew to the of this nation that our trust may ever be in Thee and our strength founded upon Thy glory Cherish Lord Thy ple and keep them this day and ever more Two other prayers were read from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer When it was over the family walked from the chapel and en- tered hower in a car with a license plate bearing the initials DDE undisclosed locations First in Line First in line when the doors were opened to the public was an Army widow Mrs Ray man whose husband had been a colonel said she was old as Ike Entering the austere ber mourners filing behind a felt rope saw the bier lying be- tween rows of 10 pillars rounded by an honor guard resenting each of the five ices The five enlisted men in dress uniform standing guard around the closed coffin in half-hour shifts remained at attention Only the sound of shuffling feet could be heard Close by is the crypt ing the body of the hero of nila Bay Adm George Dewey Former Secretary of State Cor- dell Hull also is buried in the cathedral a massive soaring structure at the crest of a hill where Massachusetts and consin avenues intersect The White House is about two miles away Gen Eisenhower it was said had chosen the Episcopal he was a of the blance of its tower to that of the chapel at West Point The public passed through the chapel for 45 minutes at a time For 15 minutes every hour it was closed to all but family and friends of the five-star general Military Efficiency The relatively quiet beginning to three days of funeral try went off with military ciency the general would have See IKE Continued on page 2 col 1 Public Offices Closed Monday Most public offices in loo with the exception of the city hall will be closed row in memory of Dwight David Eisenhower Schools will be open here but plan memorial ceremonies Story on page 13 Cedar Falls 24 City in Brief 18 Classified Advertising Comics 25 Considine Column 24 Farm News Home and Garden Markets Northeast Iowa Sports Television 25 Theaters Waterloo Deaths 14 Women's Security Council Asked to Condemn Raid by Israeli Loved Admired Him Above Anyone WASHINGTON AP A generally white middle-class suburban kind of people who twice elected him tribute to dent Dwight D Eisenhower as his body lay in state in Washington National dral Military men former riors their wives and widows dotted the well-dressed throng that wound for hours around grounds of the cathedral There were few younger ad- ults and even fewer Negroes in the crowd most of whom lived through World War II They moved through the el at a rate of about an hour The first person in line was the widow of Col Ray Coleman The Mrs Coleman dressed in black said she had met Eisenhower's widow mie and that Mrs Eisenhower was very interested in the Army Distaff Hal a residence for military widows where Mrs Coleman lives Another mourner was Isabella Jones executive director of the National Commission for dren and Youths which she said was established by Eisenhower when he was President I loved him I admired him above anyone I prayed for him to get Mrs Jones said tearfully as she left the chapel A graduate of Columbia Uni- versity where Eisenhower once served as president Mrs Jones said she had campaigned for him and voted for him as a gate to the National Republican Convention that nominated him for president in 1952 Probably the youngest of those who passed the draped casket was old Michael who was carried by his father Robert of Pittsburgh The ents and three visiting Washington and decided to view the coffin Kilbane a former Marine pilot in Vietnam was asked why he brought the baby He 1 would like to be able to tell him some day ho was here Miss Ethel Shaughnessey of Mass a temporary resident of Washington said it took her an hour and 25 minutes to get through the line If I hadn't come I'd be sorry for the rest of my she said Miss de- scribed the chapel setting as very impressive simple and nice Mrs John J Sullivan of per Montclair led her troop of 32 Girl Scouts through the line to view the casket She said the group had come to Washington for a civic ject and was now participating in a truly historical event Another mourner was retired Naval Gerald Weyrauch in his was in charge of tlie Eisenhower kitchen staff in Newport and Camp David from to 1961 Tells of Ike Anger Weyrauch reminisced with newsmen about the first time he cooked steak for the President He said Eisenhower became quite angry when the er sliced the steak in half and let the juices run trom it But he said Eisenhower's ire quickly subsided and the two were back on a basis He said the general liked his steaks rolled in salt and then cooked right on the coals not on the grill UNITED NATIONS AP Pakistan Senegal and Zambia proposed formally late yesterday that the Security Council condemn Israel's air raid on Jordan last week They handed in a resolution for that purpose just before the council adjourned until after Dwight D Eisenhower's funeral in Washington row A spokesman said U Thant hopes to be able to attend the funeral Deadlock Continues The resolution failed to break a backstage deadlock over whether the council should also condemn other flagrant tions of the cease-fire as manded by the United States This was intended to mean Arab guerrilla forays into Israel and shellings of Israeli settlements and positions Like earlier drafts that the United States had rejected The measure limited the condemnation to the Israeli raid It had n paragraph ing that numerous premeditated violations of the cease-fire have Say Not Enough But a source informed on the U.S position said that was not enough The United Stales ed the resolution to condemn the Israeli attack and other tions in the same paragraph so as to hit not only at Israeli air raids but also at Arab shelling and commando incursions The resolution focused ly on the Israeli strike that killed 18 people in the Jordanian village of Ein Hazar near the town of Salt It condemned the recent pre- meditated air attack launched by Israel on Jordanian villages and populated areas in flagrant violation of the United Nations charter and the lutions In the same sentence it warned that if such attacks were repented The council would have to meet to consider furl her more effective steps ns envisaged in the charter to en- sure against any further tition Watering Down That was a watering down of wording that thn United States had rejected The original ing was that in case of another Israeli raid the council would act under the ment section which economic sanctions or military force The resolution also the loss of civilian damage to the council concerned about the ing situation which endangers peace and security in the U came in after all-day vate consultations No dale was announced for a resumption of Ihc council de- bate deplored life and It
