Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - January 19, 1968, Winona, Minnesota WINONA DAILY NEWS RISES SETS NEW MOON JANUARY 29 Yur of WINONA MINNESOTA 55987 FRIDAY JANUARY TEN CENTS PER COPY Irish Setter Still Missing Classified Section SIXTEEN PAGES Congressmen Say Warl Still No Issue WASHINGTON AP Congress members say Vietnam ranks as the No I issue with voters they've talked to back home but add the war was nearly over- shadowed by ruing anger over riots and crime People want crime in the streets stopped and they don't mean maybe said Rep Bob Sikes He and numerous other tives and senators were responding to an Associated Press survey on what voter attitudes they found at home during their recent recess Rep Tom Railsback reported when he mentioned crime in a speech at Galesburg 111 a waitress took the floor away from him and angrily described how she'd been struck and robbed in what she thought was her safe neighborhood The anger over crime was listed by nearly all congressmen surveyed And it was reflected when President Johnson's State of the Union appeal Wednesday night for stiffer measures brought more cheers from congressmen than any other proposal Rep Graham Purcell said he returned from home convinced the ple want enactment of such legislation to be high on Congress priority list Vietnam is a depressing pall that hangs over said Sen Fred Harris But crime and the riots are really more an issue than Vietnam As for the war most congressmen said they found frustration and disillusionment at home but a determination not to end the conflict without an honorable ment I ran into fewer invade North nam and bomb them back into the stone age people than those for said Rep Andrew Jacobs Jr But the largest number are unhappy the war exists would like to get it over with but have few suggestions on how to do it Rep W R Poage disagreed The majority of our people would like to move faster and get it over Poage said The doves are in the ty The congressmen also found strong feelings against Johnson's proposed tax in- crease government spending and the of militant Negro leader Carmichael and French President Charles de Gaulle Said Rep Jack Edwards People can't understand why we con- to give De Gaulle gold for dollars and don't insist that start paying its billion World War I debt Strong opposition to the tax increase was reported throughout the country but many Democrats and a few cans said they believed people would go along with an increase that had strings attached They want the war over with and they'd be willing to pay for said Rep Kenneth J Gray But there would have to be guarantees that when the war's over the tax conies off Kasperak Has Surgery to Halt Bleeding STANFORD Calif AP A doctor said Mike Kasperak's transplanted heart pulsed on in an excellent manner today after withstanding the effect of another major operation for intestinal bleeding After the three-hour surgery Thursday night Dr Harry Oberhelman Jr said the stress on the retired steel worker's ailing liver probably was greater than on his rowed heart Oberhelman formed the operation Kasperak remained on the critical list Kasperak who received the heart of a dead woman Jan 6 had his gall bladder removed last Sunday He has undergone three massive Hood sions this week Even with this tremendous strain Oberhelman and Dr Norman Shumway who termed the transplant con- in the statement that the heart function was normal Oberhelman member of the team that has watched over Kasperak for nearly two weeks said that in Thursday's tion the vagus nerve leading to the stomach was cut to check gastric juices that were cating the bleeding SPEAKS OUT AGAINST WAR Eartha Rebels at White House Party WEATHER FEDERAL FORECAST WINONA AND VICINITY Mostly fair and mild through Saturday Low tonight high Saturday Outlook Little change LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for the 24 hours ending at 12 m Maximum 41 minimum 21 40 precipitation none AS EVIDENCE NORTH WON'T SCALE DOWN EFFORT Massive Buildup of Enemy Forces Cited WASHINGTON AP U.S officials say a massive buildup of communist forces along South Vietnam's northern tier may be evidence North has no intention of scaling down the war in the near future U.S military authorities in Saigon report an estimated communist regulars are massed in the buffer zone ating the two Gen William C Westmoreland U.S commander in Vietnam has pre- a resurgence of enemy initiatives around the end of the month U.S said Thursday that North Vietnam's military actions are considered by President Johnson and his advisers an important tion of North Vietnam's real in- tentions in its present peace of- FIVE AMERICANS MISSING Three Jets Lost Vietnam WASHINGTON AP Singer Eartha Kitt in an emotional House confrontation with Mrs Lyndon B Johnson said U.S youth are rebelling because of the Vietnam war Young men don't want to be sent off to get shot in a war they don't understand Miss Kitt told the First Lady at a luncheon So they rebel in the streets and take the added explaining to Mrs In case you don't mow the expression that's marijuana Miss Kitt earlier confronted President Johnson who dropped in to greet the 50 women Mrs Johnson bad gathered for a dis- cussion of crime in the streets Johnson told the women he hoped they would go home ex- cited enough to provide some leadership for programs we're trying so hard to develop At times Miss Kitt faced Mrs Johnson directly across the ing table and the scene was electric Mrs Johnson sat through it all appearing disturbed but maintaining outward control Finally she rose to regain com- mand of her emotionally tered luncheon She told the Negro I have not lived the background you have I cannot speak as or as well but we must keep our eyes our hearts and our energies fixed on con- aims to do something that will make this a happier healthier better educated land SAIGON AP Heavy new fighting below the demilitarized zone and intense air blows at North Vietnam that cost three American planes and a nist MIG interceptor were re- ported today by the U.S Com- mand Coinciding with the battle re- ports were a series of Viet Cong terrorist attacks In one a more mine on the doorstep of a South Vietnamese army quarters in the Mekong Delta spewed hundreds of deadly steel pellets into a nearby market place killing 18 Vietnamese and wounding 38 Monsoon clouds over North Vietnam lifted enough Thursday to permit the heaviest visual bomb raids north of Hanoi in North Vietnam's southern pan- two weeks although U.S pilots have been making radar runs Two Force Phantoms were lost due to unknown during the raids north of Hanoi the U.S Command said and the four pilots were listed as missing Another Phantom after a raid on the Bac Giang power plant 28 miles northeast of Hanoi fired a missile up the tailpipe of a and another Phantom crew saw the Red jet crash the command reported It was the communist intercepter claimed by American pilots The U.S Command in a de- layed announcement said er Phantom was lost Tuesday due to unknown causes in handle end one of the two pilots was rescued The U.S losses brought to 790 the total number of American war planes announced down in combat over North Vietnam in the bombing campaign now nearly three years old U.S pilots flew a total of 112 missions against the communist North Thursday East of Khe Sanh in the first heavy fighting along the ern frontier in nearly a week some 400 U.S Marines with a big assist from artillery and hel gunships nearly wiped out a force of some 200 North Vietnamese Thursday in a hour battle LBJ Shooting For April 1 On Tax Boost WASHINGTON AP The Johnson administration appears to be shooting for an April 1 date for its proposed 10 per cent income tax surcharge an individuals but a retroactive Jan 1 date for corporations This possible schedule emerged Thursday in the wake of the new budget of billion and an 8 billion deficit on the tax the next fiscal year The figures were revealed by President Johnson in State of the Union message his The President said it might cut down juvenile delinquency if Administration officials de- an parents asked themselves at dined to say what effective midnight where their children dates they would seek in Were ing anew for adoption of the As the President prepared to charge but the i depart Miss Kitt stepped in his combination reportedly is the most likely possibility The dates are expected to be disclosed officially Monday when the House Ways and Means Committee reopens lie hearings on the surcharge But in any case the com- chairman Rep Wilbur D Mills says he wants a close look at the budget before he decides whether to support a tax increase Government witnesses will base their appeal for higher es on defense of the dollar abroad and dampening inflation at home One key source said foreign countries consider the tax the psychological bol of fiscal responsibility In planning the new budget the administration is figuring on billion in revenues from the tax package during the current fiscal year which ends June 30 j Mnn killinn ttlo Md billion during the next said path and asked What do we do about delinquent parents who have to go to work and can't spend time with their children? What do you do with the Pausing Johnson told her quietly the 1967 Social Security Act provided millions of dollars for day-care centers He said he recognizes the problem and left the women with the suggestion that they tell me what you think Miss Kitt was not among three scheduled speakers at the luncheon But when the First Lady called for discussion the singer rose and made an sioned plea on behalf of can youth and their parents who she said couldn't come to talk to the President and his wife One of the speakers talked about walking through the TALK BEFORE THE STORM Eartha Kitt leans back as she talks with Mrs don Johnson at the White House The singer invited to a women's luncheon at the tive Mansion later told the gathering that the country's youth is angry and rebellious over the Vietnam war high taxes and a lack of opportunity AP Loan Paid Off By SBA Funds WASHINGTON AP Golden Nugget publican Rep H R Gross charges the Small Business Ad- ministration allowed a nent Alaska Democrat to pay off a bank loan with federal ter funds The SBA acknowledged Thursday that details of the loan to Democrat L Donald provided to The Press by lowan are not inaccurate is a member of ka's Democratic Central Com- and until a month ago was chairman of the central committee for the Alaskan rior He also is the employer of the state's Democratic national at a 3 percent interest committeeman Alex Miller I percent lower than the bank The loan to Pruhs rate Gross after checking with a government agency told The AP Pruhs had a tion loan from an Alaska bank prior to the flood It carried an 8 percent interest rate and a repayment requirement When the motel was aged in the August flood last Gross said Democrat Pruhs went to the SBA and ob- not only a loan for repairs but a loan to retire existing debt and an additional loan of for working capital The entire amount was lumped into an disaster over 30 years Golden Nugget damaged by the Fairbanks flood last August was spotted by Robert M Weinberg a Budget Furthermore Gross said the SBA loan will require monthly payments of the round Pruhs private loan he examiner and reported to his i said required payments of The AP reported Monday that while Pruhs got nearly all the money he est disaster loan in the request by Re- publican Gov Walter J Hickel was cut in half Hickel owns a motel across the street from the a month during the October tourist season a month during the off-season Small Business Administrator fensive North Vietnam's stated price for peace talks is an tional end to U.S bombing Johnson's principal price for ending the bombing officials said is a firm indication from Hanoi either by action in the war or by assurance through diplomatic channels that a bombing halt would bring immediate communist lation Johnson has long since ruled out what officials describe as a one-sided talk and fight situation in which the U.S would stop the bombing and join in peace talks while the war otherwise continued bated The diplomatic front now finds Washington and Hanoi engaged in tance exploratory negotiations through intermediaries each evidently trying to find out if there is any concession to be won in the other's position The United States has edly received word through these channels that North nam would be prepared to start talks in a few days after the bombing was halted One of President Johnson's conditions for stopping the bombing in der to get discussions going is that the talks should begin promptly Another condition as Johnson put it in his State of the Union message Wednesday night is that the talks should give sonable hopes of being tive To Satisfy themselves on this point U.S officials are ing Hanoi what issues would be on the agenda But the crucial point from the American point of view is tary de-escalation by the com- in response to ending the bombing And on this point Johnson and his advisors want answers to two Would North nam be prepared to stop ing reinforcements to nist forces in the Would all attacks from North forces in the buffer zone be This issue judged by the lic positions of the two sides is deadlocked at present because Hanoi spokesmen have said publicly the United States is re- sponsible for aggression against North Vietnam has no right to deny military response on their part to ending that Claim Killings Were Plotted In Havana GUATEMALA AP Did Jie shadow of Fidel Castro lurk the machine-gun slaying this week of the chief of the U.S military mission here and a val Guatemala's police chief Col Manuel Sosa Avila himself the Robert C Moot had told The j target of an unsuccessful All we want to do is reduce the guy's debt to what it was be- fore This refinement of the figures She said she didn't intend to the President outlined includes offend Mrs Johnson or the not revenues from the er women I am here to not only revenues charge but also from a speedup of corporate tax collections and the postponement of cuts scheduled to go into effect April 1 When the administration posed a 6 per cent surcharge last January it carried an tive date of last July 1 But it wasn't until Aug 3 that the President upped tlm request to 10 percent jer say what is in my heart Youngsters are angry said Miss Kitt because their ents are angry and their ents are angry because they're so highly taxed and because there is a war going on and we do not understand why No mother wants to work to educate her child only to have him snatched away and sent oft to she said Claim Official Invented Story of LSD Blindness HARRISBURG Pa AP A i Shafer said Yoder legally letter then contacted Yoder Pennsylvania health official's concern over the illegal use of LSD by children apparently blind since he was accidentally hit with a baseball bat 45 years ago admitted the fabrication to motivated him to invent a story lhat six Pennsylvania college Gen VVi am C Sennett pKt w T in Raymond P Shafer says Shafer said Thursday he could offer no other reason why Dr Sennett said certain tencies and inadequacies in the Yoder claimed the youths took the hallucinatory drug together some 18 months ago then lay down in a grassy area near their college and stared un- blinking at the sun Yoder an expert in rehabilitation of the blind claimed the retinas of case records apparently their eyes were destroyed Norman Yoder 53 state com- tored to fit the The story touched off a for the blind since the questioning of Yoder until spread search by newsmen for 1959 fabricated the story admitted the incident was i identity ol the students Yoder Yoder suspended from his job Snafer added that a had refused to identify the col- by Shafer collapsed after re- tary in Yoder's office read the lege or name the students but GOV SHAFER vealing the hoax a state official said and was sent to a atric hospital in Philadelphia The governor revealed the hoax to a news conference just day after telling reporters he was convinced the incident curred based on information from Yoder's superior Public Welfare Secretary Thomas W Georges Jr records to Yoder and he told her what alterations insertions and deletions were necessary j state The story was first disclosed Georges said all had resumed academic studies at different schools Jan 12 in an Press dispatch from Washington It quoted Yoder as reporting the story originally in a letter to a U.S Department of Health and Welfare official last I November The AP obtained the officials backed his including story as did Joseph Hunt U.S of rehabilitation services Hunt said in Washington there was never any reason to doubt Yoder's word that he was ways very careful and in what he said DR during renl wave says yes He claims the plot was hatched at year's meeting of the Latin American Solidarity OLAS conference hosted by Prime Minister in Havana Yet the slayings occurred as Monies chief of Rebel Armed re- ported veering from Castro's line to softer policy I Havana Radio reported after year's conference that the Guatemalan OLAS delegation including Monies went from to Moscow for I Outside communist circles there is no indication of anti- U.S in Guatemala We are all equal was the way a taxi driver summed it up Guatemalans Americans Mexicans we are all friends A U.S government man said The tremendous reaction that followed the killing of the Americans attests to the fact that the Guatemalan people were shocked and sad The military mission has been here since 1956 invited by the Guatemalan government The functions of the member mission are to extend advisory training and supply help to the Guatemalan Defense ment
