Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - May 6, 1969, Winona, Minnesota Mostly Fair to Partly Cloudy And Cooler TOMORROW SUN RISES SiSO SETS NEW MOON WAY 16 DAILY NEWS Year of Publication WINONA MINNESOTA 55987 TUESDAY MAY TEN CENTS PER COPY Mother Free For Good Home Classified Section 2 SECTIONS 20 PAGES WASHINGTON AP American manpower in nam has stabilized at the last three months and Pentagon say the U.S troop level will never reach the ceiling Some officers believe the number of U.S personnel conv to the war wil not ex- ceed The chief reason for the DOWN An officer pulls down a red flag placed on a pole by marching University of Wisconsin students Monday Other officers stand by as students continue their demonstrations for a third day AP DOUBT If WILL BC REACHED U.S Manpower in Vietnam Stable at ing off in manpower they say is the progress of the war as viewed from the any presidential directive to hold back on new deployments The U.S Command in nam handled the North spring offensive well battlefield casualties are ping and the South Vietnamese military force is developing un- der an accelerated training gram military sources say As long as the situation does not worsen and there appears to be some progress in the Paris peace talks they say the power level could remain where it is today aside from minor weekly fluctuations due to tion ot troops Between and replacements month flow into Vietnam to re- lieve those completing their mal one-year tour of duty in the war zone Officers say all major combat units are now in place In nam The peak U.S strength came mid-February when the troop level hit The level immediately dipped and has e- mained below since then It even dropped to In March The ceiling was authorized by President Lyndon B Johnson in 1968 after the North Vietnamese began their February Tct offensive which shook a rather complacent atti lude concerning the war's gress The Pentagon's maintenance of a Vietnam force level or men short of the approved ceiling may be interpreted by some as evidence the Nixon ad- will as has been widely reported begin drawing American units from Vietnam this year Officers already are ing satisfaction at the progress of the Vietnamese training effort Will Take No Action Against Pueblo Chief WASHINGTON AP Navy Secretary John H Chaffee said today the court of inquiry into the Pueblo incident ed general court martial for the intelligence ship's Cmd Lloyd Bucher and one of his chief assistants but I have de- that no disciplinary action will be taken against any of the personnel involved Chaffee's disclosure came in a six and a report on Congress Expected to Take No Action Against Fortas WASHINGTON AP Con- gress appears unlikely to take any action against Justice Abe certainly won't im- peach receiving a fee from the family financier Louis E Wolfson after being a member of the Supreme Court A flurry of proposals Senate Judiciary Committee in- into Fortas receipt of the fee brought the Chairman James 0 Eastland that there are no plans for an investigation at this time I am not sure we have Eastland said Un- Constitution it seems to me that jurisdiction lies with the House This reference to the House's power to bring impeachment requiring trial be- Senate found Rep Celler man of the House Judiciary Committee hi no mood to tute such Meat Prices Supply Heavy WASHINGTON AP The Agriculture Department says the ping cost of meat a major factor in the unexpected jump in year's food prices comes at a- time when there are dant supplies of livestock The strength in livestock and meat prices in the face of larger supplies is due to rising er incomes unusually low un employment rates and increases in said Monti ay Officials Indicated in effect that higher prices on both the wholesale and retail level are the of more people willing to pay more money to eat more beef Department officials indicator last week that previous esU mates of a 2 to 2.5 per cent rise in food costs this year low and the figure more likely will be about 3 per cent A report on the food outlook is scheduled for release by the de Thursday Cattle prices have set thi pace for the increasing cost o livestock already at a 17-year high agriculture economists said and are expected to contin ue running well above a yeai ago CONFIRMED James 15 Allen Monday was con- firmed by the U.S Seriate as commissioner of a sensitive civil rights tion AP So Nice It's amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away From a youngster's test Thinking your mouth stays shut and your head keeps talking to itself A claims the cynic is times just the pill you have to take after dinner A woman gets more eco- as she grows older at least to judge by the candles she pub on her birthday cake For more laughs see Earl Wilson on Page I have no intention of ig any impeachment he said in a separate in- Life magazine reported in its issue that Aortas amily foundation in January 968 just three months after the ustice was seated on the court The Life account said FortaL id not return the money unti 1 months had passed and three months after Wolfson and an as had been for laling federal securities laws The article also said r services he may or may nol ave rendered to the foundation ustice Fortas name was in strategic places by Wolfson and his business associ ite Elkin Gerbert in their ef ort to stay out of prison Fortas flatly denied he ac any money or that hi ried to do anything on Wolf on's behalf He confirmed that a fee had been by the foundation fo research and writing and tha he returned the money after de ciding he could riot accept th assignment Fortas whose old law firm represented some Wolfson inter ests said the foundation work better race relations Hi statement made no mention c he amount of money involve nor when he returned it When Wolfson's appea reached the high court Forta abstained from taking part i he deliberations The court re fused to hear the appeal An influential Democrat wh did not want to be quoted b name said there is little hood of even a reprimand for Fortas He was indiscreet but didn't do anything illegal th Democrat said Republicans who led the ch rus of Senate criticism agains the justice concede private there is not much that could b done Senate Republican Leader E erelt M Dirksen of came closest to admitting th when he said the ju lice had been guilty of no im peach able conduct ie exhaustive court of inquiry obe into the ship's takeover North Korea on In overruling the court's re- for court als of Bucher and Lt Stephen Harris Chaffee They ave suffered enough and er punishment would not be stifled Harris was the officer in barge of the research ent aboard the Pueblo which as conducting an electronic mission off North orea when she was seized Chaffee reported these had been made by e court of Bucher be tried by meral court martial for five offenses including his ship to be searched hile he had the power to resist ailing to take protective res during the attack lying with North Korean ers to follow them into port FLEE FROM GAS Wisconsin students flee from riot gas as police break up crowds Monday night in a business district near the campus area Authorities made extensive use of tear gas as they clashed with students third consecutive night AP More Violence Hits Madison negligently failing tr classified material on the hip and negligently failing o see that his crew was fairly killed in procedures for de- classified material Harris be tried by ral court martial for three eged offenses of dereliction in of his mainly dealing with the lack of and readiness on the part f the research detachment to able to destroy all classified materials during an emergency Lt Edward R Murphy r executive officer of the Pueblo be given a letter of ad- monition for failing to organize ind lead the crew on the day of the seizure especially in the hip's major internal task of destruction ied material letters of reprimand be given to Rear Adm Frank L Johnson commander of naval forces in Japan and Capt ett B Gladding now retired The court held that Johnson who has since moved to a new assignment was derelict in the performance of duty by failing plan properly for emergency support for the Pueblo in a con- and negligently ing to verify destruct dures for classified documents MADISON Wis AP lice skirmished with students and hippies for a third tive night amid flaming cades and clouds of tear gas in the heart of Wisconsin's capital city Violence continued despite a personal effort by Mayor tic of hippies and their liam Dyke to persuade hippie residents of Mifflin Street where the trouble started stay in their homes Quickly made of cans of blazing trash remained the favored Satellites Guide Queen to N Y ABOARD THE QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 iff The Queen Elizabeth 2 nearing New York on her maiden crossing with gers and eight dogs uses four U.S Navy satellites to pinpoint her position to within 100 feet For watch officers of the million liner it means the days reckoning and are numbered antennae in the Queen's graceful foremast pick up signals from the satellites and transmit them to a minicomputer in the chart room in 20 seconds out comes a string of figures showing the position On the bridge there is no engine room telegraph no quartermaster at the wheel just a row of buttons on a streamlined console tons send signals to the en- room A liny tiller that for of the time is set automatically keeps the ship dead on the course set and checked by half a dozen navigational aids The latest in radar equip ment not only picks up 24 miles ahead it can be Set to watch selected blips on the screen and ring Warning bells if they deviate from their t- ed course But the passengers change little says the crew Maybe they're not quite so discriminating as they used to be just after the said executive chief Arthur Townsend but ically the food they want is still the same and so are our Steak and eggs a day are most in demand y of Wisconsin student bors from the Mifflin Street area where many Bohemian ypes have their homes But firefighters said bombs were used for the first time and students also snarled traffic on State Street the central business district About a half dozen additional arrests were made bringing to 110 the total arrested since lice broke up a hippie block ly last Saturday Hospitals treated five more persons for in- juries or the effect of irritant including a baby exposed to fear gas ing a total of nearly 70 Of these 18 were policemen Rain helped to curb the der by today I didn't come to make any promises I can't do May- or Dyke told the hippies There have been mistakes on both sides After the left Mifflin WEATHER FEDERAL FORECAST WINONA AND VICINITY Mostly fair to partly cloudy night and Wednesday Cooler most sections tonight and Low tonight 40s high Wednesday 60s LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for the 24 hours ending m Maximum 81 minimum 54 noon 66 precipitation 60 Mao Waving the Olive Branch TOKYO AP In his first major move to restore unity after nearly three years of strife Mao forces day held out the olive branch to all but absolutely unrepentant in communist China Map's new soft line spelled out in the official Peking People's Daily two weeks after the Communist party ideas were made the law of the land by the ninth party Congress An editorial by commentator Jen Ping expressed willingness lo unite with educate and remold the who have resisted him to save all those who can be saved and even those who formerly were classified as enemies Reporting that almost of all of these are to be given a way the paper With the exception of isolating and hitting hard at the very few absolutely unrepentant the proletariat tries in every way to remold all those who can be remolded This will be to the proletariat and harmful to its enemies Mao's offer apparently does nol extend to ousted President Liu The editorial said Liu's influence may breed stubborn ly in high cultural and educational cles We recognize in aft soberness that the class struggle in the ideological and political spheres will not stop simply be- cause we have seized the paper continued Fierce struggles and repeated trials of strength are still expected within the party government and army superstructure The editorial made clear that Mao's Cultural Revolution which began in August 1966 now has taken a new turn and will concentrate on a few figures treet youths swarmed through ie downtown area shouted t pursuing You wouldn't let us have a arty in our own community Sow the whole city will be our North Viets Storm Base Year Cambodia SAIGON AP North troops struck back lay at the massive American lir and ground campaign along he Cambodian frontier but ailed to overrun an American base in the heaviest ack since the border war flared anew more than two months Troops of the North 1st Division also made rocket and mortar attacks on other American bases in a radius The U.S Command said at least 119 of the enemy were killed and 29 others surrendered The American defenders from the 1st Air Cavalry Division re- ported 13 of their men killed and al least 87 wounded In the heaviest attack about 900 enemy troops stormed out ol the bamboo jungles about 2 behind a morlar barrage and assaulted a patrol base named Carolyn from three sides The base in War Zone C 65 miles northwest of Saigon was defended by 300 Air Cavalrymen with 12 artillery guns The North Vietnamese finally fled to the north just before dawn en off by the Air Cavalrymen artillery guns firing at blank range helicopter ships firing rockets and bombers U.S spokesmen said 101 North Vietnamese and nine Americans were killed and 62 Americans were wounded One of the wounded Americans was found in a bunker lying beneath the bodies of five North Favorite Long Shot Win Prizes for Drama Fiction NEW YORK AP A ilc and a long shot have emerged with the 1969 Pulitzer prizes for drama and fiction Playwright Howard Sackler 39 was announced Monday as the drama prize winner for his Broadway hit The Great White based on the life of one- time heavyweight boxing pion Jack Johnson Surprise winner of the fiction prize was N Scott Kiowa Indian for House Made ot a novel about tribulations of an In- dian veteran of World War II As far as is known now an English professor at the University of California is the first member of his race to win a Pulitzer He said he was ware that the novel his first had even been nominated for the award In tha field of journalism the Los Angeles Times won the prize for public service for the third time in 27 years This time the award was for an expose of led to a shakeup of the Los An- geles city government and three convictions for bribery Tuohy 43 a Times Correspondent won the prize in international reporting for com- bat coverage in bringing the newspaper's total of Pulitzers through the years to including three since 1966 The prize for news phy went to Edward T Adams 35 of The Associated Press for his picture of Brig Gen Nguyen Ngoc Loan the South national police chief shooting a Viet Cong captive in the head with a pistol It was the 23rd Pulitzer Prize for Press staffers All individual winners ing receive apiece The Los Angeles Times award is a gold medal Pulitzer winners are selected by the trustees of Columbia Uni- versity with the help of an sory board The annual prizes first awarded in 1917 were in the will of Joseph Pulitzer founder ot the St Louis and later publisher of the New York World Journalism winners for 1969 Local man 49 of the Louisville Ky Times and for the story of the return of a nam veteran's body to man Ky Local reporting bert L DeLugach 43 and Denny Walsh 33 for investigative re- porting in the St Louis Democrat of fraud in a fitters union National Cahn 52 Washington reporter of Boston's Christian Science Monitor for a series on national parks Editorial writing over a od of Greenberg 32 Pine Bluff Commer cial Cartooning over a period of Chicag Daily News Feature Sleet Jr 43 magazine for a picture of Mrs Martin Lu ther King Jr at the funeral of her murdered husband Winners in the arts W Levy Brandeis University Origins of the Fifth Amendment L Reid Ml Holyoke College The Man from New York John Quinn and His Friends New York Of Being Numerous Music Karel Husa Cornell University String Quartet No 3 House Made of Dawn wa Action winner Momaday's first novel and he said I hope it's an indication the American In- dian is coming in for more than he's been awarded previously who grew up on southwestern Indian tions worked on the book for three years He is an associate professor of English with the University of California His parents are veteran of the U.S Bureau of Indian fairs and his father Al is a ed painter of Indian scenes
