Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 3-31-1972 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" (1972). Winona Daily News. 1132. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1132 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]. Fair fo partly ¦ : ¦ V ¦ | / $ » , . .' • 6w\ t urn THE cloudy and cool . #>c«? through Saturday 17th Y«ar of Publication Army s plan to North Vietnam intensifies attacks drop KP ripped Heavy fighting along DMZ By GEORGE ESPER after a nearly two-week lull, and one antiaircraft artillery by congressmen SAIGON (AP) — .The heaviest fighting along the de- ' radar site was destroyed. The command said the strikes were militarized zone in more than four years raged today and made to protect American planes operating in Laos. WASHINGTON W — The This has been one of the North Vietnamese forces sharply increased their attacks on While there were no aircraft losses over North Vietnam, Army's plan to do away with Army's key selling points government bases in the central highlands. the command announced — the second logs in two days of a KP in "the new volunteer in its campaign to recruit The air war also heated . up as a North Vietnamese four-engine computerized gunshap used in the secret elec- Army" by hiring civilians an all-volunteer force. MIG21 was shot down and the United States lost its second tronics war over Laos and the downing of one of the Air for the job has run into fire The committee spokesman computerized four-engine gunship in two days and one of Force's biggest helicopters. from some key congress- said some members feel the Air Force's biggest rescue helicopters, „ men. They say the money "that's a lot of money and New U.S. air raids were launched inside -North Vietnam T a . V ——I could be better fepent else- a big departure from the after a nearly two-week lull and American jets attacked ene- where.. ¦ way the Army has always my gun positions in the southern half of the DMZ. A House Appropriations done business." Hundreds of South . Vietnamese troops and some Ameri- Committee spokesnum says In hearings with top Army can forces, at the option of local field commanders, were several members have ex- leaders over the past sev- ordered on heightened alert. pressed doubts over the eral weeks, the spokesman U.S. and South Vietnamese field commanders in the 3rd Army some committee mem- 's request for $W mil- said ^ Military Region that includes Saigon and ll surrounding lion in next year's budget bers questioned whether the provinces increased the state of readiness for all of their to make permanent its ex- money could be spent "on ' troops, " "¦;" periment of replacing sol- cancer research or even a The U.S. headquarters tor Saigon ordered all Americans diers with civilian kitchen new tank." off the streets of. the .capital. - ' But an hour later the head-: policemen, or KPs. Other members, some of quarters of Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, the top commander, whom pulled KP in their rescinded that directive. Army days, suggested the In the central highlands, six government bases were Nixon blocks troops might be oetter off shelled from dawn to dusk Friday, and one of them was hit keeping, busy by peeling po- with 10O mortar rounds. One ground attack was reported. rail strikes tatoes and washing dishes , First reports said the only government casualties were three "than smoking marijuana ," BULLETIN troops wounded. the spokesman said. North Vietnamese troops battled government forces and WASHINGTON (AP ) - In response, the Army has President Nixon today block- armored columns near pong Ha, nine miles south of the gathered ammunition from DMZ arid farther west near Camp Carroll. ed, for 60 days, - the threat its top field commanders of strikes in two railroad The U.S. Command said that one of two Air Force F4 for a counterattack to im- Phantom fighters escorting Ibombers on raids against the labor disputes. press upon the committee and Nixon's action-appointing Ho Chi Minh trail supply network in Laos intercepted the importance of. the KP- shot down a Soviet-built MIG21 on the y North Vietnamese emergency boards wider placement program to boost the National Railway La- side of the border Thursday night. troop morale. The F4 crewmen, Capt. Frederick Olmsted, 29, Chula bor Act —. removed the pos- Gen. Michael S. Davison, Gerald sibility of tbe railroad Vista Calif., on his 212th combat mission, and Capt. the Army's commander jn R. Volloy,^ 28, of Cincinnati, Ohio, on his 110th mssion, fired- strikes which could have Europe, says keeping KP as They come at midnight tonight mssiles at the MIG about 35 miles north of the DMZ. part of a GI's duty "would said the MIG exploded into afireball. One case involves a wage be to renege on a promise U.S. fighters and work rules dispute in- It was the fifth MIG reported down by and to undercut prograss to- this year and the 116th of the war. It was the farthest south volving some 6,000 AFL- ward the modern volunteer years strengthening CIO Sheet Metal Workers a MIG has been shot down in several , Army." reports that North Vietnam may move part of its air force who work in the repair • * EGG-SQUISITE ART . It started out with an ordinary The general said that by closer to South Vietnam's, borders. m a m shops «f all the nation's hen house egg but with more than 60 hours of careful work, . r ^~^^ "^*'"^**—* mmmmmmmmmai ^atmmammi ^m hiring civilians in Europe Meanwhile, U.S. Air Force fighter-bombers joined 7th FLAREUP . ' . ..The heaviest fighting in four years raged rail lines. The union bad the Army has been able to Mrs. William Porter, of the Jeweled Egg Club, Miami, Fla., . Fleei destroyers in an air and naval bombardment of along the DMZ today as UiS. destroyers battered North Viet- announced no specific strike return 3,500 soldiers to their has come up with some more masterpieces. Her club uses firing from the southern action, but it was believed North Vietnamese gun positions ' namese artillery shelling Stouth Vietnamese bases. A North primary duty. "This equates raw eggs as a base for a new art form that brings as high half of the DMZ. prepared to stage walk- to more than four mechan- S. planes made two attacks Vietnamese MlG was shot down north of the DMZ and two outs on at least several as $500.00 for some of the more elaborate creations. (AP The U.S. Command said U. ized infantry battalions," he against antiaircraft defenses inside North "Vietnam Thursday American gunships were downed in Laos. (AP Photofax) major rail lines. said. Photofax) Prices paid farmers drop Inside: Christians 11U U Wearing the age of linn 61, Sen. Hubert Humphrey has hurled him- steps Three food chains self into the presidential retrace race with the energy of a man half his age — story, page 2. " to the cross ISaKuin Winona County By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS freeze meat prices UdrVIII District Court Judge Glenn E. Kelley has . Christian pilgrims flocked to signed an order completing Jerusalem today to retrace By MICHAEL J. REILLY since last summer. Christ's final footsteps along (AP) final distribution of more WASHINGTON - A day after Safeway said it lowered its meat prices as than $1 million in the estate the Via Dolorosa—The Way of Treasury Secretary John B. Connally talked a result of the drop in prices paid for cattle. of Herbert C. Garvin, one Sorrows—to the traditional with leading chain-store executives about the Basil Winstead, vice president of Safeway, of the founders of Bay State scene of the Crucifixion. high cost of food, three supermarket chains said the reductions had been planned for Milling Co. here, who died Thousands of visitors from moved to stop the spiral. some time to take effect during the Easter in 1942 — stories, page 3. abroad passed through the nar- Grand Union and Winn-Dixie put f reezeis weekend, but "Safeway decided to make these row lanes of Jerusalem for the on current prices Thursday. Safeway Stores, reductions effective two days earlier than annual Good Friday pilgrimage Inc., cut beef prices in its 246 stores in Mary- planned as part of pledge to the admin- Truckers Set. its vers have filed sex discrim- of mourning to Calvary. land, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware and istration to do everything in its power to ination charges after being the District of Columbia. help keep food prices low." forced off their rigs by a Warm spring breezes swept Grand Union froze fresh meat and poultry On several cuts of beef , Safeway reduced company ruling — story, the city as the pilgrims, some prices for 30 days in Its 500-plus stores in tbe prices 10 cents a pound. page 4. .^_ of them carrying 2-foot wooden East, and Winn-Dixie, with 871 stores in the Wednesday, Connally summoned repre- crosses on their backs, began Southeast, froze all food prices through April. sentatives of tiie 12 largest food chains to dis- ¦' the m i 1 e-long procession The Agriculture Department, meanwhile, cuss the high food prices. Berrigan £•£»• through Jerusalem's bazaars. announced that the prices paid to farmers Those taking part in the meeting said no sumed deliberations in the It was the fifth Good Friday for beef on the hoof dropped 20 cents per pressure was exerted by the government, but kidnap-bomb conspiracy case against antiwar in Jerusalem since Israel cap- AWAITING INSPECTION .