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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 4-7-1969 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1969). Winona Daily News. 879. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/879 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE RIVER Yesterday , 9.33 Read By More Toddy ... 9.88 Creifr Than 90,000 1965 ... 10.11 20.7^ 1952 ... 10.76 17.93 People Every Day 1951... 6.70 17.35 14 Americans Muskie Will Killed in Two Keep Making Political Tours 25 Missing in Collision Viefr Battles WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. SAIGON (AP) North Viet- drew under heavy bombard- Edmund S. Muskie says he real- namese infantrymen slashed ment by warplanes and artil- ly doesn't have the presidential into two groups of U.S. troops lery, leaving only three bodies. bug, but nevertheless has no in- Sunday night, killing 14 Ameri- Headquarters also announced tention of dropping the nation- cans and wounding 28 in close- three more American helicop- wide political tours, quarter fighting. Only three ene- ters were shot down and de- that give him the appearance of having , my were known dead. stroyed during the weekend, Of Freighter Oil Barge . ORLEANS (AP)-A Faith were unaccounted for. ran aground. The barge car- like riding through hell, said the tug. Fighting generall raising the number of choppers an itch for tie White House. NEW . , " y appeared head-on collision between a For- Twenty-five were taken to hos- rying '9,000 barrely of crude oil Mrs. Arnold Rego\ifffre, who was The collision occurred almost to be at the lowest level since lost in the war to 2,499. Only one "I find the response enthu- crewman was wounded. siastic enough, warm enough so mosaa freighter and an oil pitals. was being pushed by the tug in a car with her husband when directly under the Greater New the enemy's spring offensive be- barge set both abhae, sent The lire-swept ship sank Warren Doucet. the flames swept up from the Orleans Mississippi Riv- gan six weeks, ago. that I have no disposition to cut off this kind of activity," the sheets of flanie soaring into a about six hours after the colli- Firemen hosed down wharves river 175 feet below.. er bridge. Eleven Americans were billed Maine Democrat said in an in- heavily traveled bridge and cov- sion while being towed away for and ships in the area to prevent The Union Faith, with an all- "I happened to look," said and 13 were wounded in. one terview about the increasing ered a section of the Mississippi beaching. the spread of the blaze. Oriental crew and carrying a Landry, "and I said 'Look, the fight, about 100 miles northeast number of political appearances river -with burning petroleum The oil barge broke in two "It looked like the river was cargo of salt, cotton cloth, toys, ship is going to run into those of Saigon. he has made in recent months. Sunday night. and the two fiercely burning on fire," said Elysse Landry, a handbags, household goods and barges. Then they collided, fol- The- C<jast Guard said 25 of sections floated downstream crewman on a dredger working footwear, was headed usptream. lowed by an explosion. Mortars slammed into a night Muskie, the 1968 Democratic the 51 members of crew of the pursued by fire tugs, One sec- near the scene. The oil barge was one of three bivouac of American paratroop- "The whole front end of the vice presidential candidate, has freighter, the 7,301-ton Union tion finally sank and the other "Now I know what it would be being pushed ddwnstream by ers from the 173rd Airborne Bri- made dozens of speeches at col- ship blew up into fire and smoke gade, defending the southern leges and political affairs in and you could hardly see the approaches to the provincial nearly 30 states over the last ship. The pilot house vras burn- capital of Bao Loc: three months in what observers ing in three or four minutes." see as an attempt to build a A radio operator on the As the mortars pinned down freighter, Yu Fang Fan, 35, said the defenders, North Vietr power base for a 1972 presiden- 1 tial Tun. he felt a "tremendous collision' namese infantrymen drove to and "I looked outside to see the barbed wire perimeter of When asked' about this, Mus- kie said : ... what happened, but there was the camp, hurling hand gre- fire and smoke all around." nades and firing machine guns '"They say I have the presi- Yu said he was rescued when and rifles. dential bug. I really don't. But a tugboat pulled alongside the The paratroopers fought back the more involved my explana- ship after he had yelled out the and called in helicopter gun- tions get, the more I get stuck porthole for help. He said at with, the bug. And I know what ships and troop reinforcements, least one more crewman also I'm saying now will find its way who succeeded Ln driving off the into countless headlines across climbed out through the port- attackers after a 2%-hour bat- the country." hole. tle. North Vietnamese casual- Harbor officials feared that "It might be bet- ties were not known, spokesmen He went on: wharves and other ships along ter not to comment at all, but the wharves would be ignited by said. then I would be accused of a The other engagement also the oil-fed fires. lack of candor. "It looked bad," said E. lasting 2Vz hours, was in the "If I had a decision to make S. Viet Cong's War Zone C strong- Reed, acting port director. One today, I'd probably say 'No.' ship was moved from the area hold in northern Tay Ninh prov- But I don't have to say 'No' to- ince along the Cambodian bor- HOMEWARD BOUND say 'Yes.* and preparations were made to . .. day. I don't have to move others where thousands of Ameri- U.S. Army Spec. 4 John C. So I don't say either. , but firefighters der, kept the sides of threatened ves- can air cavalrymen are pur- Dembrosky of Bethlehem, "I really don't know if I want North Viet- Pa., carries his adopted to be a candidate for president. sels sprayed with foam and wa- suing troops of the ter and none caught fire. namese 1st and 7th Divisions. daughter in a bicycle taxi to But Pm not ready to reject it." Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Air- heard an explosion and the Troops of the 1st Air Cavalry "I port, the first leg of his jour- whole sky lit up," said Joha Division sweeping 65 miles Buela, 42, a bridge patrolman. northwest of Saigon late Sunday ney home. It took Dembros- ky and his wife seven Motorists on the bridge sa-w came under withering small Donor Found flames lapping up on both sides arms and machine-gun fire that months to receive permis- sion to adopt the girl. (AP of the structure. killed three Americans and SKYLINE ILLUMINATED . The burning Formosan an oil-loaded barge. Twenty-five Chinese crewmembers of The river is three-fourths of a wounded 15. The enemy with- Photofax) freighter vUnion ; Faith lights, up the New' Orleans skyline th« vessel were unaccounted for, (AP Photofax) mile wide where the bridge For Houston Sunday night after it collided in the Mississippi River with spans it. THIS YEAR Heart Patient RICOMMENDATIONSWANTED BY CONGRESS HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) - Doc- tors at St. Luke's Episcopal Rogers: Hope for Hospital started an operation at 7 a.m. (GST) today to* replace the mechanical heart implanted McCormaek Wants Nixon to Hurry in Haskell Karp, 47, with a hu- WASHINGTON (AP) - House Cormaek said in a statement 'in session, McCormaek said that before it those recommenda- reform legislation before the SomeWithdrawal man one. date the legislative branch end of the month even if Nixon A spokesman for the hospital Speaker John W. McCormaek, that Congress and the new Pres- to tions which the President has to WASHINGTON (AP) - Secre- to give any details of the plan D-Mass., prodded the Nixon ad- ident "can best act by the exec- "has made fine progress." submit to the Congress." hasn't submitted his own pro- or to say whether there has in said the donor was a 40-year-old tary of State William P. Rogers Lawrence, Mass., , widow who ministration today to speed up utive expediting messages and "As a practical matter," he McCotmack's prod came on posals. fact been any progress in sec- its recommendations to Con- reports as quickly as possible." said, "it .is exceedingly, difficult the heels of a weekend state- Mills , D-Ark., is chairman of declared today that "we cer- ret contacts with communist had suffered irreversible brain tainly hope there will be some dainage after she was flown to gress. Without mentioning criticism for the leadership in Congress to ment by Rep. Wilbur D. Mills the committee, which handles negotiators in Paris or else- Emphasizing that he meant of Congress for having done lit- formulate a legislative program that his House Ways and Means all tax legislation. chance of a mutual withdrawal where. Houston this morning.