Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - December 3, 1965, Winona, Minnesota Mostly Fair Tonight Increasing Cloudiness Saturday f RISES 744 SETS FULL MOON DECEMBER 8 DAILY NEWS of Publication WINONA MINNESOTA FRIDAY DECEMBER 3 1965 TEN CENTS PER COPY See Sunday's Classified Christmas Shopper Showcase EIGHTEEN PAGES A Killed in Cochrane Accident WHERE BLACKOUT STARTED El Paso Electric Co Newman plant is shown following the restoration of electricity to many Southern New Mexico and Southwest Texas communities late Thursday Some one million sons were affected by A malfunction in the plant near El Paso is blamed for the blackout which lasted nearly two hours in some areas Electric company officials refused to allow newsmen inside the plant area AP Bases Blacked Out In El Paso Electrical Failure EL PASO Tex AP A power failure that momentarily blacked out four key military bases and plunged a million persons into darkness In New Mexico Texas and Mexico has brought a federal investigation on orders of President Johnson The power failure triggered in El Paso was a small-scale version ol the blackout that left 30 million persons in the eastern United States and da without power for up to 10 hours Nov 9 All bases ed they switched almost to auxiliary power But were without power for more than two hours many civilian population areas Mexico's border with Mexico President Johnson sent Johnson a Federal Power Com- a i'cucidi of El Paso mission engineer from Ft tric Co said the trouble was what caused the device which regulated flow of natural gas to the two units of the com- Newman Plant near New Chopper Shot South Viet and Vietnamese troops beat through the of South Viet Nam today out bringing the Communists major action successive day But American ing a crew of four Americans up their attacks on and nine Vietnamese troops North and South Viet Nam with south of the big U.S air base at fury Da Nang 380 miles north of ui Communist snipers shot down ron All aboard were presumed IS Marine helicopter dead The copter was in a flight of eight seeking out the Viet Cong U.S spokesman also reported a sr from the carrier Bon Homme Thursday over Vorth Viet Nam and crashed nto a peak 40 miles northwest of Dong Hoi a railhead near the NATCHEZ Miss AP A brought from both merchants 17th frontier The pilot was listed as J j Natchez Negro Boycott Ended NATCHEZ Miss AP A brought from both merchants er Negro boycott which brought and the city government what was sted M the shopping area to the NAACP called a settlement The the veree of economic of major racial differences Charles Evers state field the verge of economic tion was near an end today civil rights forces claiming director for the National for the Advancement of victory The three-month Rochester Gelling Shopping Center ROCHESTER Minn Plans for an million shopping ter here with 50 stores were an- Thursday It will be jointly developed by the Apache Corp and the Rochester realty firm of Van Cuyk Leach on a proposed site along 52 and 14 fa southwest Rochester A petition for annexation of the land was filed with the city and will be considered by the City Council Monday night boycott Colored People said the full agreement would be outlined today in a news conference with Mayor John sitting Rugged Individualist The rugged individualist is the guy who insists on walking even when he's on an elevator Worry is like rocking chair It'll give you something to but it won't get you where Men really do understand women but pre- tend they don't It's cheaper that way The used cars on highways aren't as big a as the misused ones The real reason some people hate work alone is that they need someone to blame their mistakes on It's easy to pick out the best people they'll help you do it For more laughs see Earl Wilson on Page 4 carier Enteprise sent up 1 18 planes on aer second day of combat The Enteprise sent up 118 planes on tier second day of combat The Big E's planes dropped 102 tons rf bombs on suspected Viet Cong concentrations and supply dumps in South Viet Vam Spokesmen said to nc ic uic lor we ui m- Viet When they want to and the U.S start it up again they can Worth Tex to El Paso to de- to fail and report to him Joseph Laitin acting press secretary also said Johnson got assurances that all military bases in the area shifted almost immediately to emergency er supplies and that cations systems were not Inter- However Laitin said Air Force Base was without runway lights for some time Other basts affected In El Paso included Biggs Air Force Base where Strategic Air Com- mand bombers are on const anl alert and the Ft Bliss which has an air defense school for instruction of U.S and Allied troops in use of air defense siles White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico a missile development center also was plunged into darkness The mission capability of the Air Force Missile Development Center was maintained and combat readiness was not a Holloman spokesman said An area extending from El Paso to Socorro 175 miles to the north and to Van Horn Tex 120 miles to the east was affected And most of the lights of rez Mexico a nightlife city of about population just across the border from El Paso also went out Much of the area affected including Juarez is not serviced by El Paso Electric Spokesmen said however that a sudden surge to these areas because of the trouble with El Paso knocked them out Public Service Co of New reau of Reclamation pitched in o assist Archie Jones acting head of furei destroyed and 65 the Adams County NAACP damaged chapter said 21 stores which met Negro demands would be IB fce taken off the boycott list a U.S spokesman That's most of them in that had Mls Main and Franklin Street fe bushes for the headquartered in he said Those that re- fused to comply will stay on the list Jones said the 21 merchants opened more job opportunities to Negroes and agreed that bills mailed to Negro customers would courtesy titles of Mr Mrs or Miss Jones said the Negro ment was not unanimous The freedom Democratic party taon would not go along with the NAACP They ever agree lo he said I don't think they can do much Brown chairman of in Adams county said the group would protest ending the boycott without whining ad- concessions She said she didn't know what form the protest would take Soviet Seeking Soft landing MOSCOW AP The Soviet Union launched today another effort to make a soft landing on the moon with an unmanned spacecraft The probe Luna 8 was the fourth Soviet at- tempt this year to make a soft landing Two earlier attempts crashed on the moon and a third missed it i SOUTHWEST OUT Sections of two states and Mexico shaded area were blacked last night by a power failure to trouble in the Paso Electric Newman Plant near El Paso Texas A large section of New Mexico a part of Texas and the city of Juarez in Mexico were affected Most service was restored in two hours Map Car Rolls Over Twice After Leaving Road COCHRANE brother of La Crosse County Sheriff Paul Wuest died instantly of a basal skull fracture Thursday night when thrown from his car as It careened out of control to the left on Highway 35 one- fourth mile north of Cochrane Donald E Wuest 51 manager of Screw Products La Crosse was driving south as he returned from a one-day bust ness trip to Minneapolis His 963 car veered left on a slight curve and ended up on its wheels about 15 feet east of the concrete in a field It had rolled over at least twice according o Henry Zei chert Buffalo y officer Wuest was found lying on his lack 60 feet south of the car n a furrow of a cornfield 24 eet east of the road Dr E A county coroner saic le had a crushed chest in ion to the skull fracture Wuest was alone in the cat and no other vehicle apparently was involved THE CAR was discovered by he Rev Gene Krueger Alma who was driving south Alma at p.m He saw thing shining in the field and in- but saw no one around He returned to the sher office at Alma reported it and Zeichert was called Rev Krueger went back to the scene and found the body in the pitch blackness of the night The accident occurred abou officers said Zeichert said there were sea belts in the car but were not being used Ther were no skid marks on ah concrete or shoulder no rain or ice According to his information Sheriff Wuest said his brothe may have onto th right shoulder and lost contro as he attempted to get bac onto the concrete He said his brother sometimes b e c a m sleepy at the wheel on his way home from frequent busines trips to Minneapolis His wif had considered going with him on this trip in which case they would have returned to La Crosse today but gave it up ZEICHERT estimated the damage to the car as total The was thrown the trunk cover was torn off and contents of the vehicle mostly catalogs papers and brief cases were strewn The officer also fount Jills from the screw company Wuest managed the La Crosse plant which furnished screws for such large firms as Allis Chalmers and Trane Co in La Crosse and Minneapolis com sanies He was born Feb 10 1914 at La Crosse to Mr and Mrs Rudolph Wuest He attended gan High School and went into manufacturing at 13 b coming one of the best screw machine operators in the coun try his brother said He worket briefly for a company in the east but soon returned to La Crosse and manage for a group of businessmen who own the manufacturing plant He married Fem Lunde o La Crosse 31 years ago The Wuest home is at 1616 Kane St He was a member of thi Elks and active in North Church Survivors His wife twi sons Richard Decor ah Iowa and William junio at Logan High School La Crosse his parents La Crosse two brothers Sheriff Paul and Oswald La Crescent Funeral arrangements are in charge of Dickinson Funera Home Services will be at Presbyterian Church the Rev Leonard Beenken officiating Burial will be in Oak Fores Cemetery La Crosse death was the fourt traffic fatality in Buffalo Coun ty this year Goodfellows Contributions Previously Listed A Friend 2 St Vincent Store 100 Marie 1 IB Memory of Oar Parents Mr and Mrs H G Hymes 5 A Friend from Spring Grove 2 A Friend 1 To SURPRISES Gemini 7 Command Pilot Frank Borman right has a surprised expression on his face as he and Ms fellow space pilot James Lovell go over notes at a meeting at Cape Kennedy Fla AP Weather Only Question Mark in Gemini Shots CAPE KENNEDY Fla Weather the bugaboo which has plagued many U.S space shots remained the only question mark today as Gemini 7 astronauts Frank Borman and James A Lovell Jr made final preparations to slart off day on man's longest space ture Weatherman E A Amman of the National Aeronautics and Jury Deadlocked In Liuzzo Trial MONTGOMERY Ala A jury trying three Ku Klux Klansmen on charges of civil La Crosse News Media Units lo Fight Secrecy LA CROSSE Wis AP A newspaper two radio stations and a television station have united to block at least a Common Council tion they maintain was in tion of Wisconsin's laws The news media obtained a temporary restraining order Thursday night blocking the council's attempt to select school board members at a cus closed to reporters The order signed by Circuit Judge Lincoln cited specific instances of secret cil meetings in 1961 1964 and this year The order was served by at- representing the La Crosse Tribune and radio stations and as the council president called the meeting to order The newspapers and stations said they would seek to make the order permanent The cil which was seeking to elect four school board members and fill a council vacancy is ted to move to have the order vacated rights conspiracy growing ou of the killing of Viola Gregg Liuzzo reported today it was hopelessly The judge ordered them to keep trying for a verdict U.S Dist Judge Frank M Johnson Jr reminded the 11 white men on the jury that they had heard testimony from 40 to 50 witnesses and had approximately 60 exhibits which went into evidence Then he said You haven't commenced to deliberate long enough to reach the conclusion that you are hopelessly locked The three Collie Leroy Wilkins 22 of Fairfield Ala and Eugene Thomas 42 and William Orville Eaton 41 both of Bessemer at a table with their attorney Two Killed in Action WASHINGTON AP Two Minnesotans were on a Defense Department list Thursday of U.S servicemen killed in action In Viet Nam They were Marine Cpl George L Stollzman son of Mr and Mrs Rudolph A Stoltzman of Mankato and Marine Lance Cpl William M Savoren Jr 19 son of Mr and Mrs William M Savoren of Minneapolis Space Administration reported Thursday night he was con- cerned about a fast-moving of rainy weather going across the Southern United Stales toward Florida Amman said he hoped trough would pass through be- fore Saturday's scheduled p.m EST blastoff of the Titan 2 rocket and the Gemini The weather may riot si good as we've had it on soms past said Charles thews Gemini program er But we feel we have a good chance of going Saturday Borman an Air Force ant colonel and Lovell a Navy commander are scheduled to circle the globe for a record H days On the ninth day Dec 13 the Gemini 6 astronauts Navy Cmdr Walter M Schirra Jr and Air Force Maj Thomas P Stafford are to blast off from the same launch pad and at- tempt to rendezvous and fly in formation with Gemini 7 The two space ships are to conduct a series of maneuvers for about six hours perhaps proaching to within inches of each other with a remote they may touch Tie team mast prepare the Gemini 6 rocket and spacecraft for firing In a record nine days a task which ly requires 29 Flight Director Christopher Kraft said Thursday night that if Gemini 6 Is delayed the ini 7 flight could be extended to 15 days to give the rendezvous a better chance WEATHER FEDERAL FORECAST WINONA AND VICINITY Mostly fair tonight Increasing cloudiness Saturday Low night high Saturday Partly cloudy and mild Sunday LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for the 24 hours ending at 12 m Maximum 43 minimum 37 noon 37 precipitation 03 Woman Who Opened World Of Books to Blind Is 100 WASHINGTON AP The frail blind woman who opened the world of books again for the newly blinded veterans of World War I celebrates her 100th birthday today It's another milestone for Ad- elia M Hoyt the born farm girl who became director of the Library of Congress Braille transcription section A special birthday present will be a check for of the Workers for the Blind of the District of bia Daring her trained more than persons lo transcribe the reading guage of the blind She began this work at the urgent plea of the American Red Cross when the blinded erans of World War I started to return home They were taught to read Braille as part of their tation But then it was ered there were no books able to read once they had learned the system Miss Hoyt ook on he task of CHRISTMAS otter DISUSES training volunteer transcribers organizing lessons selecting manuscripts and selling up transcription chapters all over the country She knew how it fell to loss sight Hers began to fade at tha age of 6 and when she was 13 she left her home near Cedar Falls to enroll in a school for blind But education for sightless then was far from complete You had to do it on your she recalls When her family moved la Washington in 1913 she became an assistant in the reading room of the Library of Congress When she retired in 1938 sha was in charge of service for the blind For many years Miss Hoyt lived the home for blind in Georgetown She now lives at a nursing home near the library
