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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 4-17-1969 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. 888. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/888 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 18.40 Want Ads Today . 19.05 Crest Half Price ~T965 ... 19.20^075 1952 ,.,(¦ 17.50 17.93 This Week . 1951 . 17.10 17.35 I SECTIONS 22 PAGES Forecast Raised to 19.8 Feet FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE RED RIVER Bay State Area , N. Dakota Share New Lake Continues to Minnesota> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS begins to narrow before enter- the window of the Air ^National the three states to battle flood vised downward a predicted As flood waters began to re- ing Canada. Guard plane as it flew near waters. crest on the Souris River which cede in many rivers across Min- Army engineers who flew over Fargo. "I see what they mean "The youth are said to be winds for 14 miles through the Cause Anxiety the area Wednesday described about the water up here." By FRANK UHLIG nesota and the Dakotas one of anti-establishment , but when the city of 22,000. the items left behind was a new it as more like an inland sea The main channel of the swol- Daily News Staff Writer lake along the Minnesota-North than a river. len river was visible only as a chips are down they really come The bureau predicted the Dakota border. "Literally thousands of farms winding line of trees now well through," LeVander said. crest, due April 24, at 21 feet, Release of a debris jam at The lake—120 miles ltfng and are under water and some farm within the flooded area. The governor added that the one foot below an earlier esti- Hastings plus a slower decline information gathered on the mate. 8 to 12 miles wide—is actually buildings are standing in water On the ground; LeVander rode of the Chippewa River than ex- the Red River. up to their rooftops," said one. and walked near flooded areas trip will aid in justifying his re- The city was hit last week by The brown waters of this Another reaction came from of Moorhea'd, Minn, across the quest for federal disaster aid for a relatively minor flood from ' a pected have combined to raisa north-flowing stream have Minnesota Gov. Harold LeVan- river from Fargo. the flood-stricken colhmunities tributary of the Souris which the flood crest here to 19.8 feet. spilled over the banks and en- der who made an air and The governor took time to of Minnesota. crested at 17 feet. It has spent The new forecast is .8 of a N.D., re- gulfed hundreds of miles of flat ground tour of the flooded area. praise the efforts of high school Residents of Minot, frantic days preparing for the foot higher than that issued prairie farmland irom Favrgo to "Holy smokes!" the governor and college students who have ceived a bit of good news today Souris water swirling down earlier this Week by Joseph S. Drayton, N.D.—where the river exclaimed as he looked out of turned out by the thousands in when the Weather Bureau re- from Canada. Strub Jr., Weather Bureau fore- caster , Revisions are now in ef- fect for communities from Al- ma, Wis., downstream to Gut- tenberg, Iowa. CRESTING was reported to- day at Red Wing as the Mis- Find Bodies of Two U.S. sissippi River reached the 18.8- foot mark, 4.8 feet above the 14-foot flood stage. The crest was expected to hold steadily through Friday before dropping off Saturday. Winona's crest still is fore- in Sea of cast for Saturday with the high Flyers Japan level holding through Sunday. _ Friday's expected stage is 19.4 WASHINGTON (AP) The "Individual identifications are In addition to the bodies, the But no decision had been report- feet. bodies of two cre^wmen from the being withheld until notification destroyer recovered life jackets ed about how this would be Other revisions are : Lakfl of next of kin has been accom- and pieces of fuselage bearing done; ' U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane the statement City, up .5 of a foot, cresting plished. shrapnel holes, Among the choices the admin- BODIES FOUND . A shot down by North Korea have "We are now gravely cqjt istated. .. today at 20.5 feet; Wabasha, up . istration was understood to have cross marks the area where .5 of a foot, been found in the Sea of Japan cerned about the chances of ' search for the plane cresting today at A wide considered was a public state- a U.S. destroyer found the 18 feet; Alma, Wis. and there are grave doubts that finding any survivors. The and its 31 crewmen has been un- United , up .5 of a ment expressing - the bodies of two crewmen from foot, cresting today at 18 feet , any of the 29 other crew mem- search is being continued." der way since the plane was re- States' protest. The American bers survived, the Pentagon The Tucker recovered the ported missing Monday after the plane shot down by and La Crosse, up .7 of a foot, position also could be made cresting Sunday at 16.7 feet. said today. bodies about 17 miles north of North Korea said it had downed known at the Korean truce site North Korea. They were "We regret to report that the the site where the first signs of the aircraft for allegedly violat- picked up about 85 nauti- Rainfall during this period at Panmunjom, if a meeting re- still can exert a critical effect , destroyer USS Tucker has re- wreckage from the plane, a ing its territory. quested for late tonight-EST- cal miles east-southeast of covered the bodies of one officer four-engine, propeller-driven Chongjin. Wonsan (under- the Weather Bureau said. The NOT TOYS ... What look like toy trucks left behind The bodies were clothed in by North Korea is held. weather outlook appears and one enlisted crew member converted Super Constellation, lined) is near the area fav- on a playground are really full size trucks swept from from the EC121 downed over the were spotted about 120 miles flying suits but were not wear- In any event, Nixon is certain orable for flood-pressed river their junkyard home by the waters of the MinnesotaTRiver Sea of Japan," a Pentagon southeast of the North Korean ing life jackets, Japan's Kyodo to discuss the incident at a Fri- where the Pueblo seizure oc- communities, however, with lit- near Shakopee Minn. (AP Photofax ) News Service reported. Kyodo, day morning news conference, curred. (AP Photofax) , statement said. coast, the Pentagon reported. ' tle or no precipitation in tha which did not give its source forecast for the next two days. also said the bodies were picked up by the U.S. destroyer Tuck- OW Way Best AT WlfNONA the mid-city por- er. tion of dikes still remained tho This was a better country Battle Deaths The recovery of the bodies Lodge Blasts major source of concern. Diffi- -Moscow when people opened meals culties were mounting today Pro Czechs Set as came as the world waited for with a prayer instead of a President Nixon to break the sandbojls continued to burst out can-opener. (Pic Larmour) at random near the Bay calculated fjublic silence he in- .... The recent holiday garb State Lowest of stituted after North Korea de- Red Attacks in Milling Co; proved again that many Crews had increasingly FA. or Attemptat Control clared it had destroyed the women believe Easter Sun- heavy plane. : going as ground in the area PRAGUE (AP) - Leading Czechoslovaks wondered if the popular "Big Four" of the re- day is Decoration Day . Officials indicated Wednesday became -a soggy quagmire from Red Offensive pro-Moscow communists made Executive Committee statement form movement—Dubcek, Pre- South Vietnam repeated eruptions of infiltrat- meant the old guard had wrest- mier Oldrich Cernik, President the President was expected to SAIGON (AP) - Battle a comeback in Czechoslovakia issue some sort of protest to WUWL PAfRIS (AP) - The United ing water. At 3 a.m. today vol- ed control from party chief Al- Ludvik Svoboda and Parliament £wtL unteer sandbaggers deaths on all sides dropped last today as their party's Central North Korea , and there has (For more laughs see Earl States told North Vietnam and fought a exander Dubcek's reformers or Vice Secretary Josef Smrkov- battle to- contain a serious week to their lowest levels since Committee gathered for a crisis been no evidence of a change- Wilson on Page 4A) the Viet Cong today that up- whether it Was a concession that sky. surge of water near Bay State the Viet Cong's winter-spring would save the jobs of the SUB- session. The statement from the Exec- stepped-up military action such buildings. Trucks loaded with push began Feb. 23. ¦fen The weekly casualty reports prominent party mem- utive Committee gave a clean as they launched late in Febru- sandbags were unable to get said 204 Americans, 244 South bers accused of collaboration bill of health to 10 named lead- ary will only bring continued within 150 feet of the location.