Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - June 9, 1966, Winona, Minnesota Clearing Tonight Partly Cloudy Warmer Friday TOMORROW SUN RISES SETS NEW MOON JUNE DAILY NEWS of Publication WINONA MINNESOTA THURSDAY JUNE 1966 TEN CENTS PER COPY Alma Pounds Florida THE AFTERMATH which swepta path of destruction from southwest to northeast through Topeka the capital city of Kansas left 12 dead more than 400 injured and homeless This is 12 DEAD IN TOPEKA a main street near the downtown section of the city The building right center has been roped off because its interior was destroyed and it is leaning giving every indication that it might topple AP Tornadoes Strike In Eastern Kansas TOPEKA battered widely tered sections of eastern Kansas Wednesday night including tale's capital city where it gouged a path of de- struction The storms left at least dead nearly 600 In- and damage in the tie state capital was hardest hit with 12 dead An estimated 450 persons were treated for various injuries At least 50 were hospitalized Police and volunteer workers dug through rubble throughout neWs Mound a landmark ta the and section kwal into were left homeless residential area It Sen State University 60 miles west of Topeka suffered heavy erty damage About 65 persons were injured Tornadoes also oe w caused damage at Wolcott and moving ponderously next balo and Lansing hit near the statehouse on the Maj Gen Joe of the downtown area tant general of the Kansas knocking out windows in all the Honal Guard said the funnel buildings and blistering n appeared to bounce off Move fo Wreck NATO Averted BRUSSELS AP Western other U of the North trul 1111 today still faced a fight for the preservation of the Atlantic alliance after a NATO foreign ministers conference that narrowly averted the wrecking of their defense tem The foreign ministers headed homeward with the basic ences between France and the Texan Wins Spelling Bee WASHINGTON AP ert A Wake a old from Clear Creek Junior High Houston Tex won the annual National Spelling Bee today outclassing 70 other young champs from around the rope Failure country The was Beth till 14 from Lucy Tenn In a tense windup Beth to an Indian chief a spelled it sachem She chem Freckles or Sunburn Comedienne Totie Fields teen-age daughter left her a I've gone to the beach to get freckles or a sunburn whichever comes first Sign on a What On Earth Are You Doing For Heaven's Relative humidity ex- plains the Catholic Digest is the extent to which your relatives are all wet If at first you don't succeed just stick around and wait for advice from people who succeed the first time either For more laughs see Earl Wilson on Page 4 Atlantic Treaty Organization still unsettled In three days of hectic diplo- macy they won only time and a framework within which to re- cover from the body blow of President Charles de Gaulle's decision to withdraw French forces from NATO's military setup If they succeed they can con- a coherent Western policy toward the challenges posed by Soviet Communism and the great unsolved problems of Eu- could push France a sort of neutralism bringing in its trail divided alties among the allies and the ultimate peril ot NATO bling into ruins U S Secretary of State Dean Rusk recognizing that historic issues are at stake was flying to Bonn and to London today for a reappraisal of the situation with the leaders of America's two major allies in Europe Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and Prime Minister Harold Wilson French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de re- turned to Paris Wednesday night to report to De Gaulle American sources reported Couve de would visit Washington in September The immediate focus of France's feud with the other U allies rests on the future of her troops in West Germany WEATHER FEDERAL FORECAST WINONA AND VICINITY Clearing tonight fair to cloudy and warmer Friday Low tonight In 40s high Friday 75 LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for the 24 hours ending at 12 m Maximum 69 minimum 51 61 precipitation trace tensive damage on to The with the streets with rubble It con- moving northeastward diagonally across the city ing an urban renewal section called Garden Park and ming into the municipal port damaging planes the er terminal building hangars and other facilities Gov William Avery was at the scene of some of the worst damage soon after the tornado struck He called out the tional Guard and requested by Forbes Air Force Base The heaviest damage to be in a residential area in the southwest section of the city where an estimated 75 gle dwellings duplexes and apartment buildings were smashed The top two floors of two three-story apartment buildings the Embassy and the Huntington were destroyed K Cuba H damage to the roof of the W dome Windows in the ing were blown out and trees on ty plant just south of the aged 1 to Tides Feared Wind 100 MPH ST PETERSBURG Fla Hurricane Alma ing a trail of at least 39 dead behind thundered toward an- other landfall in the Florida Panhandle today after clawing the length of the state's west coast As the hurricane whirled up the Gulf nt Mexico just shore heavy tides rolled across the beaches in the storm's wake but did not reach the dangerous proportions that had been feared At St Petersburg where Alma came closest to the land water running three to five feet above normal dated beach roads and closed roads and bridges connecting a chain of offshore resort islands The predicted tides of 7 to 10 feet above normal would have wreaked havoc along great stretches of gulf beaches A curve to a northwest track apparently took Tallahassee Florida's capital city of population out of range of Alma's strongest winds The weather ed that the hurricane would reach the area in a few hours and winds would HEADS NORTHWARD Hurricane Alma ed north northwest today ward Apalachee Bay in the Florida panhandle after striking the Tampa Bay area a glancing potent blow Hurricane warnings were up from Tarpon Springs to Apalachicola AP Map Apalachee At 9 at i nules W an Two persons lay dead behind the storm in Florida and in parly re- ported at least 7 were killed 73 injured and crops and heavily damaged reported dead Alma left a trail of e a trail of house grounds badly debris from Key West to pa Bay Looking for a Check the Classified TWENTY-TWO PAGES ROPE This is the swing hanging from a tree on the shore of Lake Winona opposite Olmstead Street from which two sisters feU Wednesday afternoon The girls Nancy and Marcy Lee 10 and 8 years old drowned after struggling for several minutes on the surface within 15 feet of shore A young cousin who was with them was unable to help them Daily News photo Meredith May Kosygin Wants Armed for Keep Russia Next March Ouf of Waf SENATOBIA Miss AP The James H Meredith sippi march has ted to a related protest in Memphis In New York Meredith pledged to re- turn armed if necessary Footsore after adding miles to the 27 Meredith walked before he was shot many of the Negroes staged another mile walk Wednesday night Memphis hospital where Meredith was treated They Bowld Hospital mistreated the law student in bis two-day stay there On returning home told I will be armed when I re- turn unless I have positive that arms are not needed I believe in law and order but if the whites continue to kill Negroes then the Negroes will have to join together to resist this slaughter Meredith said he stm Is weak from loss of blood and that he has been ordered by his doctor to rest for a week before ing to the South The three civil rights leaden who headed the line of ers do joined Beach A possibility of by a fourth today does existed in north Florida Farmer former and south Georgia director of the Congress of aal Equality says he will join King Jr St Student olent Coordinating Committee U.S government because they been and show signs of further had prepared recommendations deterioration Evidently the as to where and how the war Soviet Communists expect little should be started but had not of benefit to themselves to come recommended how to get out of ou a current widespread it- ty purge inside Red China Andersen's Name To Be Given to GOP Convention MINNEAPOLIS Placing the name of former he saw I precisely the question which now worries the most sober-minded leaders of the United States The Kosygin Implication Is that sober-minded leaders in the United States now are ly entangled and in reality are looking for a way out of the Viet Nam war He then went on to say that understanding of this was of great importance in sessing the world situation This suggests that Russia Is willing at this time to wait and watch Most of Kosygin's speech and Stokely had to do with domestic affairs H It t t of some food and light industry items and plans to Problems in the y Mean tna n SoViet Union is in his words giving the Nam Bomber Crash Investigated EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Calif A END OF THE LINE FOR HUGE BER This was the on the ern California desert near Barstow Calif Wednesday after a giant research bomber and a chase plane from Edwards Air Force Base collided Famed pilot Joseph A Walker flying a chase plane and Maj Carl Cross copilot of the were killed Al White pilot of the huge plane was hospitalized AP detailed collision board is beginning t investigation into the between the giant re- search bomber and an jet chase plane which killed pilot Joseph A Walker and the pilot THE pilot Al 1 ejected in a capsule seat Wednesday suffering only bruises and shock Also killed was Maj Carl Cross White's whose e body was recovered from his n P1 e 8 h u capsule ejection seat near the 8 time of th of thp others would avoid a of thp u aon ir n chase plane Mates hit the two tall on the triangular crashed near Barstow Calif 45 miles east of the base Communists whatever aid necessary Significantly this of Viet Nam immediately an appeal to the rest By WILLIAM L RYAN AP Correspondent Premier Alexei Kosygin has told the Soviet people and the Communist world k effect that the will avoid min ing any more deeply involved in and to present a united front to Viet Nam than It is at present He counseled patience will pay dividends in the long run speech to Moscow ranks with Soviet Communists Wednesday the Soviet The phraseology indicates ment chief offered this no means thinks that ment of Viet K near future Administration advisers In tween Peking and Moscow are the rest of the world Girls Drop Into Water From Swing Two sisters drowned day afternoon In Lake Winona opposite Olmstead Street when they fell off a rope swing into water over their heads Nancy 10 and Marcy f daughters of Mr and Mrs ol E Lee 722 Wilson St died about p.m within 20 feet of their horrified cousin who was unable to help them MARY MEIER daughter ol Mr and Mrs Robert A Meier 409 W Broadway had gone to Lake Park to play with her cousins She said that Marcy Lee had swung out on a rope suspended from a tree at the edge about p.m and had trouble getting back Nancy Lee reached for her sister from shore but both then lost their grip on the rope and fell into the deep water Nancy could swim but Marcy could not according to their cousin Roxanne Malay daughter ol Mr and Mrs Eugene B Malay 462 W 5th St was fishing by with her brother On ing the screams of the Lee ters who were struggling in the water the Malay children ran to the Lee house nearly three blocks away MR AND MRS Lee ran to the scene to find that their daughters had under Mary Meier had gone into the water in a fruitless effort to Is help her cousins The Lees began an equally effort to locate the es of their daughters Meanwhile the Malay girl and fin er excitement she -J the police where the Lee girls had gone down t Andersen ln nomination for the gubernatorial endorsement of the state GOP convention became a virtual certainty today Twenty Republican delegates or alternates to the June convention in Minneapolis said they will nominate Andersen and the former governor today gave his approval The Intent of the 20 Including many GOP leaders with long records of party activity was disclosed Wednesday in letters to all convention delegates The signers represent all con gressional districts except the second in southwestern sota I understand the problem that could develop under the customary convention Andersen said and therefore have no objection to my name placed in nomination Andersen said he has the and t this first time with some of the first signers w tary snarl if there is a deadlock u among the three announced Andersen who served a r o wing of the at an years as governor before his the girls but with no success tude of feet Both planes defeat in 1962 by Dr John A Tweedy acting ra again h i onX e g GOP convention deadlocks endorsement are Harold Vander Nancy Jeanne Lee 2 p.m and began a i the lake Marty's body was located by r crew about p.m and Nancy's body was brought to the surface 10 minutes later by the fire de- dragging crew The girls had gone down within 10 feet of Marsha Jane Lee sub- When the nominations close body was found near they cannot be reopened without park fit Jt mi The bodies were about 20 feet from shore in 15 to 20 feet of of the water AMBULANCE and lire de- crews using oxygen packs and artificial respiration techniques worked with Mr Lee two for nearly half an hour to revive acg Fanner Laborite Karl coroner arrived at the scene Rolvaag has said he would con- shortly after 3 p.m and the the girls dead The dead girls father is s grs aer s a Announced candidates for the clerk at the Winona Post Sylvan M and Glenn M Morgan of the police 3 Col 6
