Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - April 1, 1964, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin Fiftieth Yew April Single Copy Ten Cents Brazil Rebels Gather Strength Threat of Civil War Increases County Ambulance Plan Unacceptable to Rapids EVACUATION are fuM tilt clearing salvageable items and equipment starec shattered Avenue in Alaskan city Death Toll Constantly Changes Alaskans Clean Up Quake Debris ANCHORAGE Alaska AP The terror of quake and tidal was reflected today in casualty figures and pledges of help for stricken southcentral Alaska The toll of dead and presumed dead changed almost hourly The Alaska Emergency Health Office took over coordination of figures but its lists like those of agencies which earlier Counted independently did not Include a number of unofficial re- ports of deaths It might be weeks before an accurate total is obtained The health office tally showed 14 dead and 79 presumed dead plus 55 injured The known and presumed dead figures were up seven from a state civil de- fense total Tuesday night Omitted from Jhe a Coast Its Cape Elias station on Kayak bland No made to check deaths in the Turnagain of where much of the residential area tumbled into the There was word of at least one death in Turnagain Additionally unofficial reports listed 31 persons missing who did not show on the health office list including 23 at Chenega 5 at Port Ashton and 3 at Port Nellie Juan Clear Away Debris In Anchorage the state's est city a bright spring sun warmed crews removing age from the Friday evening quake By this morning most debris had what could from condemned buildings and start the mammoth job of tion In Washington federal cies charged with meeting the emergencies of natural disaster were under orders from dent Johnson to hurry relief Supplies were being rushed to the ravaged south central tion of the in a giant lift by military and commercial planes The Air Force Navy and tary Air Transport Service flew to both Anchorage and Kodiak commercial Northwest Alaska Pacific Northern and Pan carried of food hardware and clothing New Legislation Edward A McDermott the President's director of gency planning was attempting to determine how much v federal relief could be made available under existing programs and what new legislation would be required restore the state tamblor and waves The Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency an- plans to open an gency office in Anchorage to speed programs of the Facilities Administration the Federal Housing tion and the Urban Renewal Administration Alaska Gov William A Egan A proposal to have the county purchase one ambulance each for Marshfield and Wisconsin Rapids and to have the county subsidize some costs on present ambulance service in the two cities was flatly rejected by Wisconsin Rapids officials at a special meeting held here Tuesday night The meeting between Wisconsin Rapids and Marshfield city of- and members of tne County Sheriff and Traffic Committee was called in an attempt to work out a system of ambulance service for Wood County In which the county would shoulder some of the cost Private Service Dropped Attempts to involve the county in such a program were prompted six weeks ago when funeral homes at Marshfield announced they were discontinuing ambulance service as of today April 1 As of 8 o'clock this morning Marshfield is being served by one recently by the is manned by the fire department Marshfield Fare Chief Verlyn said Tuesday night that one ambulance was not sufficient to take care of the Marshfield area because an ambulance is often needed to transfer patients to Rochester Minn Milwaukee or Madison Proposal by Parkin Marshfield Supervisor John kin suggested that the county vide each of the cities with an- other to be operated of L said it may be necessary to call a special session of the state legislature next fall to meet problems of reduced tax income and increased state spending re- from the tragedy The state's most famous in- dustry fishing was more than 50 per cent destroyed Some Alaskans in the earthquake area were engaged in the fishing industry last year Another de- rived some income from it The awesome power of two tidal waves which swept away the entire village of ega with the sole exception of the school was described by Christine Madson a teacher said 23 of the including 10 children were swept away Babies were carried right out of their mothers the Long Beach Calif woman said The waters swept in and went back out carrying away the houses and buildings Not even debris remained Arrest Man In Abduction Of MADISON AP Thomas Howard 26 a salesman from Milwaukee was arrested day on a warrant charging him With the abduction of a old child Howard of the Milwaukee of Hales Corners was charged with forcing Carol ger into his car while she ed in front of her home Monday The child was released sobbing but unharmed two blocks away The girl's mother Mrs Leon Binger 24 saw her daughter being placed in the car ran out- side and grabbed the auto door handle and was dragged 50 feet before she lost her grip Mrs Singer's shouts brought police within 10 minutes and she gave them the license number of the car Traced through the license number Howard was taken into custody at the plant of his em- ployer Mrs Binger identified him from a group of his fellow workers Howard a university has been married four years but he and his wife are childless Police said he had no arrest record Madison Detectives James Heizler and E d w a rd Daley quoted Howard as saying he had acted on impulse because he loved children and had none He was held in the county jail day night Hungry Thief Bites Into School Supplies KANSAS CITY AP A thief with all the symptoms of tape worm broke into the kitchen of the Young tary School overnight Tuesday Police listed the following items 45 pounds of hamburger 16 dressed ens 20 pounds of sugar 8 pounds of graham crackers 2 pounds of canned cherries and a pound of potato chips Total Nothing WM Embezzler Put On Probation David Hertel 21 was placed on day after he pleaded guilty in County Court to a charge of em- Judge Frederick A Fink the defendant to two years imprisonment in the Green Bay Reformatory then stayed the tence Hertel was charged with em- from the Wisconsin Rapids store of Montgomery Ward Co where he formerly was employed as a sales clerk He has made restitution in that amount Police said Hertel accepted de- posits and down payments on ing machines at the store during the period of Dec 1 1963 to Jan 31 and made out sales for lesser amounts than were re- More Messages Received From Kin in Alaska Mr and Mrs Pat Rudolph received a letter today from their daughter Molly drick of Anchorage Alaska who said she was not hurt in last earthquake Miss Handrick who is an airline stewardess said she planned to return home for a visit sometime next week A ham radio operator from Mid- land Texas relayed a message by telephone Tuesday night to Hugh N Thompson 541 Ave N reporting the safety of former local residents now living in ka The message was from Mr and Mrs Ted Morehouse of ard Mrs Rodney Sachs sent a tele- gram Tuesday to her parents Mr and Mrs Joe Stransky 1011 Cliff St informing them that she and her husband and family now liv ing in Kodiak were safe A telegram was received Tuesday by Mr and Mrs Jerome Smolarek 410 15th St S from their daughter and her husband Mr and Mrs Glen o Spenard The couple is reported unharmed Hot Pact Will Permit Raids Into Laos SAIGON South Viet Nam Viet Nam has reached an understanding the leader of right-wing forces in Laos that will enable troops to strike inside Laos against Communist Viet Cong bases and supply routes informed sources reported This development was said to have resulted from a recent meeting in Dalat the South hill station between the rightist Laotian vice premier Gen Phoumi and South Viet Nam's strongman premier Maj Gen Nguyen Khanh Khanh reportedly won mi's approval to a plan under which Vietnamese raiding ties can strike into Laos against predesignated Communist gests Elements of man rightist army operate along the Vietnamese border His Infantry Battalion is at an out- post a stone's throw from the Vietnamese outpost of Bao Informed sources said Khanh argued that his plan to root the Viet Cong out of South Viet Nam can succeed only if Communist bases and supply routes in Laos are put out of action These include the Ho Chi Mmh trail an ill-defined maze of gle trails which has long been a supply route from North Viet Nam to the Communist las Phoumi reportedly gave his consent to proposals only if the raiding parties were limited in size were in hot suit of Communist Vietnamese and if the targets were in advance Phoumi also reportedly ed that he wanted no part of a military alliance with Viet Nam a move that could bring down the coalition ment For that reason informed sources said Laotian troops will not in any actions with the Vietnamese There also is no likelihood that the U.S government will let American military advisers enter Laos with the Vietnamese raiders The South Vietnamese ment has long wanted some kind of border agreement with both Laos and neighboring Cambodia to stop Communist infiltration Wisconsin thi mar M 41 to IS mrtn M tii M futti it 14 ml Today's Chuckle The next time a Yankee the South ask him if he ever heard of anybody retiring and going North departments ty would Spay each city a year to cover operating expenses of providing ambulance service in their halves of the county Parkin said the proposal was acceptable to members of the Sheriff and Traffic Committee and to Marshfield officials I think if our committee brought in such a tion County Board would cept Parkin said Felt Unfair to City However William S u c k o w chairman of the General Business Committee of the Wisconsin ids Common Council said this city's officials felt the proposal was not fair and we cannot cept it Suckow pointed out that sin's Rapids serves a greater population area than Marshfield and that a year would not cover the cost of the extra men needed to operate the ambulance Mayor Nels M Justeson said the problem was made more because the present ties for the fire department could not accommodate either another ambulance nor the extra men It was proposed by Suckow that the county meet its ity by subsidizing Wisconsin ids and Marshfield for losses in- curred one bulance each and by providing another ambulance and crew which would be stationed in the central part of the county near Vesper or Arpin Opposes Central Location Walter Braun a member of the Sheriff and Traffic Committee maintained that an ambulance in a sparsely populated area of the county would not be practical Marshfield Alderman Paul ler also argued that the logical places for ambulances are at and Wisconsin Rapids where the hospitals are located Before ending the meeting Suckow asked the County Board committee to attempt to work up a more suitable and acceptable solution to the problem The committee which has been instructed by the County Board to bring in a recommendation at the April 21 board meeting has scheduled two meetings before that lime MacArthur Is Weakening WASHINGTON AP Gen Douglas MacArthur's condition has in general deteriorated in the past 24 Walter Reed Army Hospital announced day But it said the general passed a peaceful night A medical bulletin at added that there has been a slight drop in the blood pressure and a moderate rise in the pulse rate of the general and that his kidney function a complicating tor in his present condition has diminished progressively over the past 24 hours The bulletin said pressure In the tube inserted in the al's esophagus and stomach will be released this ning This tube is used to control intermittent bleeding from the esophagus The bulletin did not say that the bleeding has been stopped entirely Leftist Tendencies of President Spur Revolt RIO DE JANEIRO AP A revolt to oust President Joao Goulart gathered speed today Declaring Brazil will never become another Cuba army navy and state political leaders deserted Goulart The rebels said their army columns marching on Rio de Janeiro were being joined by soldiers sent out by Goulart to repel them Firing was reported in Rio itself Some soldiers in famed fortress in the fashionable beach and apartment section at Rio proclaimed their solidarity with the rebels Shortly afterward firing between the fort and soldiers on a nearby hill broke out a radio station source reported He said one and nine soldiers were wounded when the rebels took over the fort Claim Growing Support In a series of broadcasts the rebels claimed seven of Brazil's 27 states had rallied to their banner in a drive to lift the Red yoke from Brazil His foes charge Goulart is leading the country of 71 lion inhabitants to communism by nationalization of private in- dustry expropriation of land Reef Leaders Stress Unity At Banquet BUDAPEST Hungary AP Hungarian Premier Janos Ka- dar pledged new support for the Union Tuesday night to for strategy talks aimed at strengthening his hand against In the course of Kadar said fanatic bourgois elements fascists have attempted to under- mine our friendship but they failed and finally suffered ig- defeat Khrushchev responded with a toast to ties which he hailed as an ex- ample of unity in the nist camp The stress on Communist un- ity was considered a retort to Peking which has stepped up its attacks on Khrushchev WARM WELCOME FOR NIKITA Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev throws his arms around Hungarian Premier in welcoming embrace at Budapest Tuesday Mm Maria Kadar the wife watches The two communist leaden will hold talks expected to stiffen the China bloc Rep Zablocki Joins in Campaign MILWAUKEE AP More Democrats have Joined Gov John W Reynolds in his campaign against Gov George C Wallace of Alabama in their fight for the party's presidential nomination in Wisconsin's primary election next Tuesday Reynolds a favorite son candidate pledged to President Johnson was joined Tuesday night in his drive by Rep Clement Zablocki Wallace meanwhile ened the pace of his campaign Not Like Kennedy LBJ Cuts Lines to GOP Leaders crisis dent talked to either Senate Republican Leader Everett M Dirksen of Illinois or House GOP Leader Charles A Halleck of Indiana This provides sharp contrast with Johnson's demonstrated de- sire in the first critical weeks of his presidency to court lican support for his actions In that period the President often called Dirksen on the phone a half dozen times a day summoned him to the White House frequently and talked over with him many of the and other problems that were arising When an anonymous While House source criticized Halleck in December for blocking speedy House action on the for- eign aid Johmon had By JACK BELL WASHINGTON AP President Johnson has cut off direct communications with Republican congressional leaders in possible miffed reaction to their criticisms ot his foreign policy course Not since he asked them to the While House Jan 29 to with Democratic colleagues in a di s c u s s i o n of the Panama crisis has the leck in for lunch He apologized for the attack Now however the phones have gone silent and the White House invitations informal and otherwise have ceased Dirksen and Halleck are in- to attribute the two months hiatus in tions to the fact that it is a election year Their at- is that they can get along very well without being ed by a Democratic chief exec- Highly placed Democrats are convinced that developments at and since the Jan meeting have convinced Johnson that the Republicans intend to try to make political capital out of his troubles in and The meeting was described by participants as disappointing so far as it concerned development of any unity of opinion on Panama Subsequently Dirksen and Halleck have been hammering away in GOP leadership ments at Johnson's handling of Panama and other international matters This was the sort of political barrage the late President John F Kennedy used to take in stride Kennedy established a pattern of ringing up Dirksen a couple of times a week and inviting him to come by for a late afternoon drink In these sessions the President tried out some of his ideas on Dirksen Once in a while I would tell him Mr President if you do that I'll get up on the Senate floor and denounce you from stem to Dirksen said He would just die laughing Now however the laughter seems to have out of relations with the in Tuesday appearing in three cities and participating in a number of radio and television programs some of them ed for later use Picket Activities He closed his day with a speech al where only one pickel marched before the building m wilh the larger picketing at other appearances His day stops at Sheboygan and Howards Grove were picketed and at his talk at the Howards Grove High School some of the pupils blackened their faces in protest of his segregationist views Reynolds and Zablocki spoke at a convention meeting of the Milwaukee County Citizens Council which has nearly 100 affiliated members on the city's South Side the center of waukee's Polish-American Most of our Reynolds said came from Eu- rope some from Poland They may have poor but they brought great assets with them in a great religion and in the institution of the family they brought culture and work habits Advantage The Negro Reynolds said was never given the same ad- vantages as immigrants from Europe Zabtocki Mid that now discriminates against groes but Polish Americans and citizens of eastern Europe will be next on his list We remember Hiller's Zablocki continued Now we must see thai these mongers of hale and do not prevail Our forefathers came here to avoid religious persecution Outside the hall six persons distributed folders which were 7 and his demand to Communist parly says he is only working lo improve the lol of 20 million peasants As Goulart sought to rally forces loyal lo him Gen berto Castello Branco chief of the aimy staff and Iwo other high commanders de- clared had swung to the rebel cause Attack Orders Justice Minister announced that unite of 3rd Army had been sent from Rio Grande do Sul to attack the rebellious 2nd Army's base in the industrial center of Sao Paulo 220 miles southwest of Rio Goulart also ordered troops to move against Juiz de Fora in Mmas Gerais State 80 miles north of Rio where the revolt erupted Tuesday and against Belo the capital of Minas Gerais A rebel radio proclaimed Juiz de Fora revolutionary capital Rebel broadcasts said Hie guard of the 2nd Army com- manded by Gen Amaury Kruel and a force of led by Gen Olimpio Mourao commander of 4th Military Region at Belo were converging on Rio de Janeiro to try lo depose Goulart A proclamation announcing their swilch to the rebel cause was signed by the chief of staff and Gens Arthur da Costa y Silva and Decio Palmeiro bar It charged that Goulart had placed himself in open ity through successive against the just practice of democratic regime Rio Hit by Strike Downtown Rio was virtually deserted morning as a eral strike called by the Com- general con- federation of workers in support of Goulart paralyzed transport Government trains operating out of Rio were stopped and in- buses were halted The chief of the Commercial Aviators Union went on the network to urge pilots navigators and other cial aviation employes to stay off the job today International wireless com- panies continued operating The Merchant Marine Union dock workers and other mari- time workers joined the strike in Rio A spokesman for the union said all merchant ships 7 Vernon County Woman Is Named Mother of Year OSHKOSH AP Mrs Sullivan of the Vernon County community of Ontario who was cited 21 years ago for her work to improve conditions in rural ties is 1964 Mother of the Year She said she was pleased by the selection She also said I'll be glad to tell you my age I'm 71 The choice of Mrs the mother of three was an- Tuesday by the sin unit of the American ers Inc She will go to New York City to join tives of the other slates in the National Mother of the Year competition The choice was announced by Mrs Bess M Specs of chairman of the state selection committee She said Mrs Leda Bloom of Route 1 was the first and Mrs Elmyra Anderson of Osseo the A member of Sacred Heart Church at Cashton Mrs is a charter member and the first president of the Vernon County Homemakers As a teacher one of her schools was the first in the county to iate with Hie National Parent Teachers Association She has been a tireless er in community affairs man of many groups heart fund blood donors anti- tuberculosis rationing USD bond drives Civil Defense and Red Cross In 1943 she was ored by the University of consin for capable leadership and untiring efforts to improve conditions in rural ties Her children are Mrs Clara McGlynn a registered nurse Ross an employe of the waukee Road and a foreman foe ttn Con- struction Co
