Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 10-2-1969 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. 926. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/926 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]. Slight Chance Chinchilla Of Showers Grading Light On Friday Classified Section US Deatlis Lowest in Assembly Attempt s to Two Years SAIGON (AP). — The lowest telligence reports that "elements Conduct Its Business weekly combat toll among o£ four North Vietnamese divi- MADISON, Wis. (AP)—Legislators agreed to make anoth- day night outside the Capitol after Groppi was taken Into Americans in two years was an. sions in the area around'Saigon er effort to conduct business today after deliberating whether custody at a church. They said they did not intend to abandon nounced today by the U.S. Comr had pulled back along the Cam- to recess in the face of rowdy welfare demonstrations that their demands for restoration of welfare funds which legis- mand, reflecting a three-week bodian border farther than at turned the Wisconsin Capitol into an armed camp. lators eliminated from the 1969-71 budget. lull on the .battlefield. any time since early 1968. Assemblymen, whose chambers were clogged Monday Groppi, 38, had led Milwaukee welfare recipients on a An official summary said 95 But a spokesman for the U.S. by 2,000 protesters, adopted a contempt citation Wednesday 90-mile march' to Madison. His group of about 100 protesters Americans were killed in action Command said he saw no against the Rev. James E. Groppi, ordering the civil rights was' joined by hundreds of University of Wisconsin students during the seven-day period immediate political significance leader jailed for his role in demonstrations. for three days of challenges to National Guardsmen surround- ending at midnight last Satur- in the latest developments. The Assembly's Republican majority conferred with sena- ing the Capitol. day—a drop from 135 the pre- tors before turning down a motion to recess until next week. The Assembly, angry over an estimated $26,000 in damage vious week and the lowest week- "They are posing a threat to "We ought to adjourn or recess," Sen. Walter J. Hollander to carpets and furniture , voted 71-24 to have Groppi jailed the outlying areas," he said, said. "We can only get in one side of the building. This is ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ly toll since the week ending . - ¦ ¦' ' , . -ASSEMBLY Aug. 12, 1967, when 82 Ameri- "but they are not posing as getting to be crazy." cans died. great a threat to Saigon. Every- About 400 Groppi supporters continued to rally Wednes- (Continued from Page 1) thing he (the enemy) says indi- While the American death toll cates he plans a continuation of decreased, South Vietnamese campaigns punctuated by high- troop casualties rose from 297 to points, along the lines of pro- 308 last week. Since the week tracted combat." This Morning: ending May 10, South Viet- "What We anticipate is a low By AL DAVIS Q^ 'Thank capitol grounds Wednesday quarter, he said, termine, there has been no namese casualties have been level of activityWe punctuated by consistently higher than Ameri- bjgh'ptohit^;/ anticipate he . Daily News Assistant afternoon of Ralph Chase, your brother, power to the violence. can combat deaths, which many will hot jump off any large scale News Editor co-leader of . the welfare people." No official word has been officials say is a result of "Viet- offensive ,hi the near future. He mothers' march, the protest- received regarding the re- MADISON, Wis. - It was Also in the area were namizing" the war. has not taken the position yet of ers were said today to be bearded members of Stu- lease of Guardsmen. We The number of Americans a sustained type offensive." quiet In the capitol area this deciding on new leaders and dents for a Democratic So- were able to determine, wounded last week also went up Despite the low level of ene- morning with several wel- > the future course of action. ciety handing, out mimeo- however, that no Guardsmen to 1,315 from 1,114 the previous my activity, the U.S. Command . fare mothers still maintain- During the sit-in by the graphed sheets deploring the will be kept on duty for week, and South Vietnamese spokesman said American B52 ing their "vigil"^ on the steps welfare mothers, about 800 war in Vietnam. more than seven days. If wounded from 883 to 896. The bombers are keeping up their of the Mifflin Street entrance persons gathered on the The protesters lose much there is still a need for number of enemy killed de- heavy raids- along the border to the building. north side of the capitol of. their crowd during the troops, those now on active clined to 2,382 from a revised to- north of Saigon. Wednesday night, about grounds. Several Negro day due to the university duty will be replaced. tal of 2,696 the previous week. "In the areas the B52s are hit- 600 demonstrators, liberally youths wearing Milwaukee schedule, many students About the only thing that NAACP T-shirts •¦ led sing- can be said by Guardsmen The U.S. Command said 38,823 ting," he Said, "the eiiemy is GROPPI IN CUSTODY . Dane County Sheriff Vernon dotted with University of leaving at frequent inter- ,, seren- ing of protest songs and in favor of the present situ- Americans have been killed in carrying on actions preparatory Leslie escorts the Rev, James Groppi from St. Paul's Catholic Wisconsin students " vals to attend classes. aded" the Rev. James Grop- chanting of slogans. ation is that the weather is action in Vietnam since Jan. 1, to jumping off on a campaign. University of Wisconsin campus in Madison He is moviflg " Chapel near the pi, the militant Milwaukee A purple-bereted Negro The Guardsmen and local much nicer than it was last 1961, with 556,629 enemy in supplies,' build- authorities ing his " forces .Wednesday where the civil rights priest was arrested on priest, outside the Dane youth was peddling the of- law enforcement February when they were claimed killed in the same peri- , gathering his are holding up well, although od. forces. He doesn't gather his order of a Milwaukee judge for possible probation violation. County jail where he was ficial newspaper of . the called to Madison to "cool" Groppi had participated in welfare protests at the state taken after his arrest. Black .Panther party and their job is tiring and boring. the University of Wisconsin Last week's low casualty forces unless he is planning So far as anyone can de- count was coupled with U.S. in- something.'! Capitol for three days. (AP Photofax) With the arrest on the when we Banded him our campus. AFL-CJO Plans SEEMS TO BE HOOVER'S PHILOSOPHY How Assembly Voted Oh Contempt Issue To Kick Out Retirement? Dont Meniion It MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Here is how the Assembly voted WASHINGTON (ffV-White ident Lyndon B. Johnson terests of his own career, since President Calvin Cool- Wednesday when it passed a contempt resolution carrying a House sources say FBI Pi- waived the mandatory fed- which has been distin- idge named him to the post jail penalty for the Rev. James E. Groppi., guished and in the interests in 1924. rector J.Edgar Hoover, eral retirement age of 70 Democrats for : Atkinson, Baldns, Boeckmann, Day, Gro- of the FBI, which has been Long a symbol of law and Hephner, Jackson, Kleczka, Korpela, Chemical Men director. Presi- ahek, Grover, Hanna, dinner party host to Presi- for the FBI a great, investigative agen- order, Hoover enjoys the re-. Looby, Lynn, McCormlck, Mathews, Mato, Mittness, Pabst, ATLANTIC CITY, M.J. (AP) dent Nixon Wednesday dent Nixon continued the cy," Clark sai*. spect of Nixon and Atty. Radcliffe, Rogers, Stack, Sweda, Vanderperren, 23. — The AFL-CIO opened its con- night, has given no indica- waiver. In an interview with the Gen, John N. Mitchell. Democrats against: Anderson, Barbee, Bolle, Brown, vention today with plans to kick tion he will retire on his 75th During the recent contro- Associated Press last May, NeitherNixbn nor Mitchell Conta; Czerwinski, Dneholm, Huber, W. A. Johnson, Jones, versy over who authorized has given any sign that ' " out one union and to raise dues birthday Jan. 1. however, Hoover said he 20TH ANNIVERSARY•. J Kessler, Lipscomb, Molinaro, Nager, NSkolay, O'Malley, They say they know noth- an FBI wiretap of the late has no intention el retiring. age 75 represents a magic 1 , Sansasarlan , , by $4.6 million a year for some The caption accompanying Orlich, Otte, Parys, Peloquin , Simla Tobiasz ing to support renewed Dr. Martin Luther King's "As long as God grants number to be translated Warren 24. \ 13 million members of the labor telephone in the early 1960' into automatic retirement this Peking radiophofo re- widespread speculation Hoo- s, me the health and the , Alfonsi, former Atty. Gen. Ramsey stamina to continue I have for Hoover. On the contrary, ceived in Tokyo says it Republicans for: Alberts Belting, Blanchard, federation's remaining 121 ver was contemplating step- , , Bradley, Byers, Conradt, Froehlich Gee, ping down 'in the near fu- Clark suggested Hoover's no ambition other than to perhaps because of concern shows Chinese Communist Boche Bock * unions.