Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - June 14, 1965, Winona, Minnesota Fair to Partly Cloudy Tonight And Tuesday WINONA DAILY NEWS RISES SETS NEW MOON JUNE 21 10th of Publication MINNESOTA MONDAY JUNE 14 TEN CENTS PER COPY For Best Results Use Daily News Classified Ads TWENTY PACES VICE PRESIDENT JOINS ASTRONAUTS IN TION Vice President and Mrs Hubert Humphrey righl Joined In greeting for Astronauts Edward White and his wife left and James and his wife as they arrived in Chicago today for a huge and celebration The women received bouquets of rows upon arriving at Chicago's O'Hare Field At Chicago Welcomes U.S Space Twins SAIGON South Viet Nam Vietnamese rangers combing rubber plantation just north of the shattered town of Dong found the bodies of about 100 government troops today the remains of the Airborne Battalion a U.S tary spokesman Dong was reported quiet hut braced for more trouble from Die Viet Cong As rangers moved through the Michelin ber plantation a few miles north of Dong they found an CHICAGO AP Astronauts James A McDivitt and Edward H White II were welcomed with the cheers of some tons most of them youngsters for a heroes parade and bration today in Chicago Also on hand in the weather at O'Hare Inter- national Airport's military tion were Vice President Hubert If Humphrey Gov Otto of Illinois Richard J Daley Hall hours before the astro- Chicago's mayor and other cars were expected to vice president Washington before the plane carrying the Gemini 4 crew ar- rived o coner Crowds gathered along the citizenship on McDivitt t it Whit P Boy 12 Survives Sanderson Flood expressway route to the city two officials of the and on La Salle Street near City Aeronautics and Administration Dr George K SANDERSON Tex AP I grabbed a tree but there was snake on it and I let go I went under 5 times maybe Two Youths Killed Near Rochester By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two Rochester brother and killed their car was hit as they backed out of a driveway onto county road Sunday night Other weekend accidents in Minnesota claimed the lives of two young men in a crash in Anoka County snri two other persons involved in Twin Cities area accidents And a suburban Minneapolis couple was killed in a fiery accident in northwestern Wisconsin which claimed four persons Authorities said Steven Wads 16 and his sister Sandra 15 were killed when car was Struck as they backed out of a driveway onto an ty road some seven miles west of Rochester Three persons in the second car were taken to a hospital they were listed as Ellsworth 31 and Hon Johnson both of rural Byron ami Charles Naylor A car crashed into a utility pole at the intersection of two Anoka roads near terville Saturday night killing James Gcse and Donald T Bergman 24 both of St Paul Terry H rural Mound died early Sunday when car ran off County near Mound The vehicle went inlo a ditch and hit a tree A crash in Township suburban St Paul killed H SI and injured his wife Helen Among those killed in crash nn Highway near Phillips Wis were Milt Rademacher 26 ami his wife 23 of Golden Valley Minn 10 times I thought I was going to die This was the grim story of Michael Johnson 12 as he told of his brush with death in the flash flood that temporarily iso- lated this southwest Texas com- munity Friday The slender blond youth speaking from a hospital bed at Ft Stockton 65 miles north of here We were on the roof of this motel when it started cracking all to pieces Mather said Michael get hold of Paul I tried to grab my brother but he was too far away It just seemed like a dream to me Swept away by a wall of waler were Mike's parents Mr and Mrs John Wesley Johnson and the couple's five other children ranging in age from 5 In 14 parties along a normally dry creek in son Canyon recovered the bodies of nil but Johnson He is among 11 persons listed as missing We can assume only that all are said Terrell County Sheriff Cooksey Officials have counted IS dead and 35 injured from the storm which devastated the southern section of Sanderson a railroad center of about midway between San Antonio and El Paso Ten of he known victims were children said the search would continue as long as there is any hope of recovering bodies families aided by Ihc Red Cross Salvation Army and assorted military units continued massive cleanup op- Now Shastri Cancels Bid to See LBJ pass Flags and pennants festooned After a special meeting of the City Council to confer honorary Mueller associate director ami Charles W Matthews Gemini project manager there was a meeting set with school dren About pupils were to put McDivitt and White through a period in McCormick Place Other plans for the day included a dinner for the astronauts party given by Mayor Daley and a fireworks display at night As the civic welcome got dcr way at O'Hare Airport about 109 civil rights gathered in Grant Park on the lake front for con- of a series of school protest activities Leaders of the protesters made no announcement of plans for the day On three days last week the demonstrators staged marches in the city's downtown area The demonstrations In which 450 persons were arrested day and Saturday for sitting down in the streets were staged to protest of Chicago Schools Supt Benjamin C lis whose school integration plans were rejected by some civil rights groups Soviets Seek Showdown on Peking Policies MOSCOW AP The Soviet Communist party appears to be making a new drive for a down meeting on the split with Peking The Chinese Reds have unleashed a new attack on the Kremlin's leadership Pravda the Soviet party per published Sunday a tion adopted last month by the pro-Soviet Portuguese nist party calling for a world Communist party conference to discuss the dispute Peking which has opposed such a meeting charged hi a broadcast that the new Soviet leaders were being more covert and cunning than Nikita in trying to pervert com- The Russians also were ac cased of being busy in ington London and Paris ing to initiate peace negotiations on Viet Nam in a painstaking effort to find a way out for the U.S aggressors Recent statements from the Soviet Union and members of the Soviet bloc have raised speculation that the Kremlin might place Viet Nam high on fhe agenda of an international Communist meeting In his event it was believed the Chinese would attend a meeting even if it was ed by pro-Soviet delegations because to boycott it would lay them open to Soviet charges of bad faith and obstructionism in the Vietnamese war Soviet Premier Alexei N Kosygin has referred to Viet Nam as a rally point of the two as a i White and McDivill enjoyed a camp's pleasant Sunday at home their families in Houston to church and taking a quick U.S Brigade in Battle Zone Guard Air Near Dona of grim relics left hind by the Viet Cong among them the wreckage of a U.S Army helicopter and a U.S Army man's identification tag U.S authorities announced at the request of the ese government elements of the U.S Airborne Brigade have moved to Phuoc Vinh to protect the airfield and aircraft there Phuoc Vinh is the main I field for the Dong area The U.S paratroopers had been expected to move from there Into the Dong conflict but ths Vietnamese commanders reluctant to ask for them Viet a number ol attacks and es in various parts of Viet Nam today all the way from the mh Parallel to the southern tip ot the nation Ninety American and planes hammered gets in North Viet Nam in ries of separate raids Twenty U.S Air Force Jet bombers escorted by 30 other jets attacked the Ban Xom Lorn U.S TROOPS MOVE IN Men of the U.S Airborne Brigade leave trans- port plane following arrival at Vinh airfield It is the main airfield for the Dong area where heavy battles have raged during the past week Dong was reported quiet but braced for more trouble from the Viet Cong AP by radio from Saigon GOP May Withdraw Viet Policy Support WASHINGTON AP Rep Melvin R Laird said today we may be dangerously close to ending any Republican support of the present U.S policy in Viet Nam This possibility said Laird chairman of the House Republican Conference be- cause American people do not know how far the swim The astronauts will spend night in Chicago and fly to Ann Arbor Mich early Tuesday for another round of celebrations at the University of Michigan Woman Sailing Alone to Hawaii Mrj lips was also in vehicle and perished in flames willi the others Her husband was severely burned and died a Park Kails Wis Price Coonly authorities said late Saturday night occurred when the vehicle slopped In make a led hanti turn and was hit hy an- other A third car crashed into the others Eight persons were Injured OTTAWA AP Prime ister of In- said today President 21 Phil snn go Washington in the fall but hat it will possible for him In accept He lold a news conference he not go lo Washington then because the Indian Parliament will be in session Johnson canceled a visit by to Washington month on grounds that he lie busy with Congress and Viet Nam situation TO HAWAII Mrs Sharon Sites waves o crowd as she leaves from n small boat harbor near Angeles headed for trip to Hawaii all by self Mrs Sites learned to sail x your ago carry no radio on her sloop hut food enough for days She to reach Hawaii in 10 or AP LOS ANGELES tiny sloop with a petite blonde as its only crew is somewhere off the Southern California coast its destination least 30 days sailing and miles away Sharon Sites the Sea Sharp has no radio She set sail from harbor here Saturday and hasn't been reported since small craft corting her turned back off Island Mrs Sites 34 vows she will be the first woman to sail to the islands She'll have lo make it by sail alone Her sloop has an auxiliary engine hut she took no fuel Mrs Ritrs a quit her job as n secretary and invested her savings in the boat anil the trip WEATHER FORECAST WINONA AND VICINITY Fair to partly cloudy wilh lit lie change and Tuesday tonight high Tuesday Official for hours ending at 12 m Maximum 87 minimum 53 mmn 71 precipitation none Official or 24 hours ending at 12 m Maximum minimum 55 mwn 68 precipitation tration is prepared to go with large-scale use of ground forces in order to save face in Viet Nam In a discussion of U.S In- volvement in the Viet Nam con- Laird said he does not think southeast Asia is the place lo commit US troops in ground warfare It was recently disclosed thai under certain circumstances if the appropriate commanders call for help the U.S commander on scene Gen William C Westmoreland has authority to respond In such cases Westmoreland employ American troops in support of Vietnamese forces faced with aggressive attack when other effective reserves arc not available and when in his judgment the general jary situation urgently requires The American people deserve an answer Laird said lo the question of how far the tration is prepared lo go wilh large-scale use of ground forces and The party Shortest Distance The shortest distance be- tween home and school de- pends on whether child is going or coming A ski resort isn't considered x funny place but claims Shelby Friedman it tures some people A check of local swimming pools reveals some startling figures A famed er explained how he learned to speak The same way I lo ice I kept making a fool of myself till I tered it are adolescents who behave like children i they're not treated like adults For more laughs see Earl Wilson on Page 4 base its future support on the nature of that answer In the absence of this an- swer we can only conclude that present policy is aimed not at victory over the Communist in- nor at driving Com- out of South Viet Nam but rather at some sort of tiated settlement which would include Communist elements in a coalition government If such is the objective of the Johnson administration Laird said then the charge can be levelled that the administration is over committing ground forces and needlessly exposing the lives of thousands of can boys It Is Laird's view that proper application of air power could do the job without large combat forces One such step already long Laird said is lo re- target our bombing raids on more significant targets in North Viet Nam A major transportation and supply area is he port city of Haiphong To continue to the unhindered flow of war terials in and out of that area only insures greater American casualties in future Viet Cong offensive actions No Trace ot Missing Girl ST PAUL Ap Federal authorities continued their search wilh police for duos in the disappearance ol Barbara 14 missing from a baby-sitting job since lasl Wednesday night A weekend search of sections of Ramsey and Anoka counties over the weekend failed to re- veal any trace of the girl ter of Mr and Mrs George sen of Shoreview St Paul sub- urb Barbara was only a lew doors from her when she vanished 70 miles southwest ol Five were re- ported destroyed and 10 heavily damaged kit areas of the Ba Bon army 60 miles north of the de- militarized zone U.S men igld Heavy also ued inside South Viet Nam against suspected Viet Cong U.S Navy and Marine Corps were said to have 118 Sunday Maimed heavy damage to and suspected troop con- centrations Six Americans were killed over weekend but none to have died as the re- sult of enemy action Four U.S Army helicopter were killed Saturday night when their craft crashed 30 miles east of Saigon during t An explosion aboard a truck it Chu Lai beachhead Sunday filled two U.S Marines and in- jured 19 others The men had wen swimming and a man said a grenade fell from one man's belt exploded In the bottom of the truck and set off a can of gasoline The American were rushed to the airfield at Phuoc Vinh after the Viet Cong ambushed a Vietnamese para- troop battalion Saturday night The airfield 40 miles north of Saigon is the main supply point for the Phuoc cial military zone The Vietnamese battalion wu attacked as it moved into Thuan Lot village 4 miles north of Dong The Viet Cong struck from the north and west sealing off the government from the rear Reports from the area said 250 of the battalion's 400 men were killed wounded or cap- tured This brought the number of Vietnamese dead or missing In the fighting around Dong since Thursday to about 600 Eighteen Americans were listed as dead or missing government es claimed they killed 300 Viet Cong in the fighting Thursday for Dong and that U.S air strikes killed another 400 The figures were not confirmed by U.S military sources A relief force entered Thuan Loi Sunday and found the town empty Both Viet Cong and dead had been hauled away and there were no ians A U.S helicopter made a mid- night flight through enemy fire and rain to fly three U.S ers out of Thuan Loi during the fighting Lt Gen William C moreland commander of U.S forces in Viet Nam visited Dong Sunday and con- ferred with Vietnamese Brig Gen Cao Van Vien South Viet Nam's general staff announced by radio it had formed a committee under the chairmanship of Mnj Gen Nguyen Van Thieu to set up a new government nml along with a war cabinet The 10 members include army corps commanders chief ol eral staff and air force mander Brig Gen Nguyen Cao Ky In effect Thien thus becomes chief of stale although civilian Khac Suu remains for time being as caretaker chief of state with Premier Phan Quat was defense ter in the government U.S Ambassador Maxwell D Taylor returned to Saigon from conferences in Washington with President Johnson and other too officials Prime Minister nf India who wound up a state visit to Canada today told Toronto Globe and Mail that commitment of U.S troops into combat in Viet Nam might lead lo dangerous He said hat India and Canada more or less eye lo eyo on Viet Nam and both countries feel that talks might be between the warring Indit and Canada are wilh Poland of the International Control Commission that over- sees operation of the va agreement on Indochina
