Daily Tribune, The (Newspaper) - April 10, 1971, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin THE DAILY TRIBUNE fifty-Sixth INFORMING THE SOUTH WOOD COUNTY AREA OF WISCONSIN Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin 54494 Saturday April 10 1971 Single Copy 15 Rescue 2 Enemy stages new attacks youths in river here on South Vietnam bases YOU CAN FOLLOW HIS ADVENTURE TODAY Eric J Howen son of Mr and Mrs Orville Howen 530 17th Ave S finds ice cream mighty tasty and cooling following the removal of his tonsils last week at Riverview Hospital Eric's adventuresome trip to the hospital and what happened there are pictured on pages 6 and 7 of today's Daily Tribune Tribune Photo Oil fire cost four lives million NEW ORLEANS AP men move in today to try to strangle the last oil well in an offshore oil fire which has cost four lives and about million since it started Dec 1 Fed by 11 wild wells at its height the inferno had been reduced to a gush of flame resembling a king-sized blowtorch when the drilling rig Margaret braced for the final kill The 131 days ago when an explosion ripped the Shell Oil Company's control platform which stood on stilts in 55 feet of water 10 miles off the Louisiana coast south of New Orleans workmen died in the blast and two died later of burns Since then Shell has picked off the wild wells one by one smothering them deep beneath the bottom of the Gulf of co with the slow and expensive killer well technique The method was adopted fo avoid any sea pollution which could have come from efforts to blow out the fire and try to cap the wild wells at the face Instead the gushing thousands of barrels of allowed to go up in smoke while five big drilling rigs were called in A Shell spokesman said each of the 11 killer wells cost about to drill and were sunk to a depth of feet beneath the sea floor Rev Houston resigns Columbus High post MARSHFIELD Wis AP The Rev Robert B Houston will resign effective April 30 as principal of Columbus High School Houston said Friday he will leave the post after four years because of personal and health reasons Once-Over THE DAILY TRIBUNE Warm cloudy Easter forecast is for warmer temperatures with lows between 37 and 45 degrees Sunday should be mostly cloudy and warmer with highs in the 60s in the north and west and 70 to 74 in the southeast Variable cloudiness with a chance of a little rain is expected Monday and Tuesday partly cloudy Wednesday Turning cooler Monday and gradually cooler into Wednesday Highs Monday should be in the 50s lowering to the upper 30s and 40s by Wednesday Wisconsin Rapids had a high of 57 and a low of 28 Friday The 6 reading today was 23 degrees Two Wisconsin Rapids youths learned the hard way Friday afternoon that the Wisconsin River in April is no place to get an early start on the canoeing season Jerome B Krause 20 211 13th Ave S and Milo Plante Jr 16 230 12th Ave S were pulled from the raging river by Wisconsin Rapids firemen after the homemade canoe in which they were riding capsized when it struck an arch of the Jackson St bridge about 3 p.m Both were taken to Riverview Hospital where they were treated for shock and exposure and then released See Page 2 for pictures of the two and their rescuers According to Wisconsin Rapids police and fire ment reports the youths launched their canoe near the Elks Club about p.m and attempted to navigate the river upstream They got as far as the Jackson St bridge before the canoe tipped over Wilford Woody Doughty whose barber shop is located near the Grand Ave bridge said he saw the youths below the bridge not wearing life jackets Doughty said he told the youths they'd better put on life jackets They apparently heeded the advice as both were wearing life jackets when rescued Police and firemen were notified of the incident at p.m by a witness who said he saw the canoe capsize Police officers went to the Railroad and attempted to throw a line to the youths as they drifted under hanging onto the over- turned canoe One of the victims grabbed the line police said but was unable to maintain his grip and that effort failed The Wisconsin Rapids fire department rescue boat meantime had been launched from a spot about three blocks south of the Elks and the rescue unit caught up with the victims and their canoe near Riverwood Lane The youths were pulled from the water and brought to shore in front of the home of Mr and Mrs Herb Nichols who supplied blankets to cover the youths until the ambulance arrived The entire episode lasted only about 15 minutes according to the report The canoe owned by Krause was last seen drifting through Port Edwards SAIGON AP troops a North Vietnamese attack besieged Fire Base 6 today as enemy forces launched new assaults on government tions in the central highlands South Vietnamese ters said 12 enemy commandos were killed and the defenders seized three rifles five nade launchers and some ex- plosives which were to have been used to blow up the base Headquarters said there were no South Vietnamese alties Four hours after the attack beaten back South jets bombed North Vietnamese positions about a north of the base The spokesman said 20 enemy diers were killed and the bombs triggered several dary explosions indicating hits on ammunition stares Enemy gunners shelled three South Vietnamese tions near Fire Base 6 which has been under seige since March 31 Two South ese soldiers reported wounded Mortar shells triggered a fuel fire in one of the attacks on the airfield at Dak To north of the fire base U.S bombers and helicopter gunships kept up their attacks against ments of three North ese regiments in the region to prevent them from overrunning South Vietnamese positions U.S have been dropping tons of ex- plosives on enemy troop con- centrations within two or three miles of the lery base 300 miles north of Saigon near the ture of Laos Cambodia and South Vietnam After the struck Friday smaller U.S and helicopters saturated the jungles around the base with napalm in an effort to burn off ilit heavy growth giving caver to the North Vietnamese Nearly 100 miles to the east along the Bong Son plain dering the South China Sea U.S paratroopers from the Airborne Brigade clashed twice with enemy troops The U.S Command said 11 enemy were killed while nine cans were wounded One U air cavalryman was killed and six were wounded in a patrol action 51 miles east of Saigon Enemy losses were not known Elsewhere North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops shelled four Cambodian positions along an embattled stretch of Highway 4 which links Phnom Penh and Cambodia's only deepwater seaport at Kompong Som As the enemy commandos launched their attack on Fire Base 6 U.S helicopters braved ground fire to slip in and re- an American artillery of- ficer who had been trapped be- hind enemy lines for nine days Four Cobra gunships vided cover for the rescue copter that brought 1st Lt Brian Thacker 25 of Hawaii to a field hospital in He was reported in satisfactory condition The helicopter crewmen that brought Thacker out were from the same unit that the ant had helped earlier When Fire Base 6 was overrun on March 31 Thacker stayed be- hind and covered for seven helicopter crewmen two c-f them wounded whose craft had been shot down They escaped but the lieutenant was cut off behind North Vietnamese lines Thacker was declared ing April 1 South Vietnamese forces reoccupied the base the next day and on Friday the lieutenant walked back in after nine days in jungle May restrict celebrate Easter in less traditional way Pleads to arms charge ALEXANDRIA Va AP Retired Army Maj Gen Carl C Turner pleaded guilty Friday in U.S District Court to fully soliciting 136 firearms from the Chicago police and keeping them for his own use mercury use in Illinois CHICAGO AP Illinois an- officials say the state may move to tighten regulations on the use of cury and possibly impose a ban on mercury batteries David P Currie chairman of the Pollution Control Board said Friday he will ask the State Institute for mental Quality to develop lations that would cut down emissions A report released this week by a St Louis research firm in- high levels of mercury downwind of four municipal in- and eight power plants in the Chicago and St Louis areas The study reported the 12 sources annually release pounds of mercury into the air as opposed to pounds per year of mercury discharged hi the country's lakes and rivers The high amount of airborne mercury has been blamed by some scientists on long-life alkaline batteries which contain the metal The batteries ex- if burned and release mercury as a vapor Mercury in the air is washed down onto land and waterways by rain It is absorbed by fish and can contaminate them as a food source Today's chuckle One of life's pleasantest moments is when your children get to the age where you don't have to pretend any longer that you know everything By the Associated Press Christians prepared today to celebrate the most important date on their church calendar with traditional across the nation while Jews observed the second day of Passover Passover began at sundown Friday in homes and gogues with ceremonial dinners and readings of the story of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt The dinner called ders will be repeated tonight by Conservative and Orthodox Jews Thousands are expected to at- tend Easter Sunday sunrise services although many in- eluding vacationing college dets will observe the holiday in a less traditional manner A group of 100 students from 10 Eastern colleges is spending the Easter recess in Nevada Mo assisting elderly capped and other persons and conducting a clean-up at a youth center at nearby Metz In Fort Lauderdale Fla a mecca for vacationing gians students were reported listening to rock tunes about Jesus Christ over transistor dios as they sunned on the beaches At Needles Calif an mated persons were camped along the Colorado River Authorities said the campers were young people and the majority are pretty well At Canon City Colo 70 and underprivileged children were expected inside the walls of the state prison for an Easter egg hunt sponsored by two inmate self-help groups At Bryn Mawr College In Pennsylvania the sunrise ice will begin with the ing of a floating sculpture entitled Resurrection It is a trapezoid made of coated plastic suspended by about 100 balloons the work of New York artist Paul Von Ringelheim The Nixon family will spend the Easter weekend at nearby Camp David Md and attend Easter Sunday services at Pa with Mrs Mamie Eisenhower The presidential party will in- clude President and Mrs on Julie and David hower Tricia Nixon and her fiance Edward Cox Because of death we'll be open GREEN BAY Wis AP Because of the death of our founder we will be open Good Friday Noon 3 p.m Those were the words of an enterprising advertisement placed in the by Trinity Lutheran Church Church will start sex early LOS ANGELES AP A minister says his Unitarian congregation is starting its own sex education program for youngsters from 3 years We want to tell them what they want to know not what we think they should know These Mds are filled with never answered be- said the Rev Robert F Kaufmann of the Emerson Uni- tarian church in suburban noga Park Kaufmann 49 and father of two children said 60 children would take part in eight weeks of Sunday morning classes He said they would be split by age in to classes of 10 to 12 students with an adult couple present Schools aren't answering the students questions Kaufmann said School sex education often amounts to a basketball coach showing the kids some frogs and telling them to be sure and take showers take two laps around the says mann He said classes would begin with pupils submitting written unsigned questions about sex He said no question by the 7 to will be left swered but the 3 and toddlers will be eased into sax education more gradually The older ones will learn terminology to begin with All the words for the organs and all the acts We try to take away the thrill of using a dirty word he said Break ground Tuesday for new Savings Loan building State leaders criticize support for Lt By the Associated Press The public support for William L Jr which has built up since his recent con- viction for the murder of 22 South at My Lai was strongly criticized by high Wisconsin political and leaders Friday Frankly I am dismayed by the popular reaction which lends to make some sort of hero nnd which defends his U.S Rep Robert Kastenmeier said in a newsletter sent to constituents The reaction may be a tchl against singling out one person to eliminate a collective guilt feeling or a protest against the Vietnam war he said But atrocities of the Viet Cong do not excuse the conduct at My Lai said Episcopal op Donald Hallock of waukee We must never take our moral and ethical stands from the atrocities committed by Hallock said in a ment made in conjunction with the Diocesan Department of cial Action War demoralizes Those who believe this war to be justified must continually face this risk Ground will be broken Tuesday at the northeast corner of Sth St S and East Grand Ave for construction of a new S 3 0 0 0 0 0 Wisconsin Rapids Savings Loan Association building that will double t he space of the present facility ErI Odegard association executive vice president announced today The new savings and loan building scheduled for com- by Nov 1 will be a foot structure with masonry and brick exterior and tinted glass windows and wiH be equipped with six teller windows one teller window and a night depository The building which will bo carpeted throughout also will have a full basement and will have 270 feet of frontage on East Grand Ave on Sth St and feet 9th St Persons using the teller window will drive in from 9th Si and exit into Sth St Odegard said The facility also will have about 22 parking spaces for customers and 10 for employes Total estimated cost of the new facility the land price included is expected to be about Architect for the building is John J Flad Associates Madison and the general contractor is Gritz Builders of Wisconsin Rapids Plumbing will be done by Eron Gee Plumbing Heating Co Rapids heating and ventilating by Mid-State Con- struction Co Wausau and electrical work by Van Ert Electric Rudolph The present savings and loan building located at 133 2nd St N will be sold Odegard said Artist's rendering of the new Wisconsin Rapids Savings Loan Association Building
