Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 2-7-1969 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. 829. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/829 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]. Cloudy With Want Ad Occasiona l Very Sel.-E-Phone Light Snow Number Is 3321 ! Witness Links Oswald TO PREVEN T OFFENSIVE With Shaw and Ferrie NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A a codefendant. Dymond reacted cial Equality, which was push- one-time civil rights worker told sharply. ing a voter registration drive. the jury at Clay L. Shaw's con- "We are not here to defend One day, he said, a big black the findings of the Warren Re- car pulled up aid parked near spiracy trial he saw Shaw, Lee Tighten Security port," he told the jury. "I im- him as he was standing outside Harvey Oswald and David W. plore you Ferrie together , do not let the drama tie door to the voter registrar's . and pageantry of what hap- office. The testimony by Corrie C. pened in Dealey Plaza in Dallas Collins said a anan he later re- Collins of Baton Rouge was the highlight obscure the real issues in this cognized as Oswald stepped of opening testimony case." from the back seat. Thursday as the prosecution Jack Ruby killed Oswald two He next pointed out Shaw, sit- hammered at a major defense WETNESS Corrie Col- position. days after the Nov. 22, 1963, as- ting at the defense table flanked . Negro from Shaw is accused of conspiring sassination—shooting him inside by four lawyersr as the man he lins, a mailman with Oswald, Ferrie and others police headquarters . Ferrie died saw behind the steering wheel. Baton Rouge, La., testified Around Da Nana to murder President John F. in his apartment in New Or- He identified a photograph of Thursday that he saw Clay SAIGON (AP) - South Viet- dreds of vehicles at checkpoints Marble Mountain area south of year the Viet Cong- and North Kennedy. leans in 1967. The coroner said Ferrie as the man Who was sit- Shaw Lee Harvey Oswald ' ¦; , namese forces tightened securi- along key highways leading into Da Nang and Were conducting Vietnamese attacked Saigon, Da Over defense objections, death was due to natural ting next to Sha-w. and David W. Ferrie to- Asst. causes. ty around Saigon and Da Nang Saigon, searching for hidden an extensive search operation. Nang and 100 other population Dist. Atty. James" L. Alcock Asked When he concluded that gether in a car at Clinton, Collins is a plump, postal the man he had seen was Os- today as part of the campaign arms and munitions that could The Viet Cong has proclaimed centers. South Vietnamese Pres- made no attempt to first lay the La., in late August or early Feb. 15 to foundation for worker with a mustache. In wald, he replied that he recog- to prevent a repetition of last support an attack on the capital. a cease-fire from ident Nguyen Van Thieu said the charge. In- 1 September of 1963. (AP. year Feb. 22 for Tet, the lunar new stead, he opened the case 1963, he was hear of the Clinton nized him from a picture after 's communist Tet offensive. U.S. and South Vietnamese Thursday night his government by Photofax) Security forces stopped hun- forces also cordoned off the year feast during which last summoning five surprise wit- chapter of the Congress of Ra- the assassination. was ready "in principle" to de- nesses. clare a Tet truce, but he was Collins, the fifth to testify, in- not ready to announce the dates. sisted he saw Shaw, Oswald and IN PEACE TALKS It is expected to be much short- Ferrie in Clinton, La., in "late er than the Viet Cong truce, August, or early September " of and Thieu has canceled the holi- 1963. / day leaves that usually are giv- Shortly before, in his opening en at least half* the South Viet- statement, chief defense Law- namese forces. yer F. Irvin Dymond had told Feat DeadHock of Months Ground action remained at a the criminal district court jury very low that: PARIS (AP) _.' The Vietnam repeated their rejection of any newsmen: "The United States May. These earner negotiations level. US. troops from the 9th Infantry Division fought "It is our intention to prove peace talks face the prospect of de-escalation measure not must first formally recognize quickly settled into a regular to ritual at which Hanoi's Xuan with a Viet Cong force 15 miles you that not only did Clay Shaw a sterile deadlock that some linked with a political settle- that it has committed aggres- delegates believe could continue ment. sion in South Vietnam, and then Thuy repeated week after week southwest of Saigon Thursday not engage in conspiracy, but ' that he never knew nor for'. months. ' . It was a day of charges and agree to put an end to that that there could be na progress night and reported finding 14 en- laid until the United States stopped eyes on either Oswald or Fer- Chief U.S. negotiator Henry countercharges, what one Asian aggression." emy bodies at dawn. diplomat described as "a dia- all bombing of North Vietnam. rie." Cabot Lodge warned against U.S. spokesman William Jor- No U.S. casualties were re- Oswald, a former New "false optimism" after Thurs- logue of deaf mutes." Eventually, serious bargain- ported. Or- dan told his news conference the ing began in private contacts leans resident, was named Ken- day's fruitless third session Spokesmen of all four delega- nedy' killer b which lasted six hours. tions agreed that, once again, Hanoi-NLF peace terms were growing out of the coffee breaks The U.S. Command also an- s y the Warren "a prescription for surrender Commission. The report progress was nil. The only deci- at the formal talks. U.S. offi- nounced that two more Ameri- said he "Although we do bur best to and abandonment." cials hope the new talks will de- operated alone, with no credible achieve progress," Lodge told sion was to meet again next can helicopters were shot down evidence Thursday. Commenting on Kiem's de- velop the same way, but they oyer South Vietnam, one while of a conspiracy." newsmen, "the going is hard. mand for a Saigon "peace gov- In opening, Dist Atty. The National Liberation say no such movement is in carrying South Korean soldiers Jim Therefore there must be no ernment" which would be will- prospect yet. Garrison told the jury the state false optimism, but we must not Front's chief negotiator, Trari on a combat assault about 170 would Buu Kiem, and his spokesman, ing to negotiate a political set- There was widespread specu- show the President "was be discouraged." "It is a miles northeast of Saigon and struck by a ly Van Sao, appeared to harden tlement, Jordan said: lation after President Nixon's the other number of bullets pretty extreme position to main- in the Mekong Delta coming from different gurs at In the meeting, Lodge again their conditions for a settle- news conference Thursday that about 60 miles southwest of Sai- different asked North Vietnam and the ment. tain that the government you his visit to ,Paris Feb. 28 would locations—thus show- are dealing with must be over- gon along the Cambodian bor- ing, that more than one Viet Cong's National Liberation Kiem told the conference produce some spectacular person thrown before there can he any American move. der. A spokesman said an was shooting at the President." Front to drop polemics and there could be no progress until American and the present Saigon government agreement.'' Nixon said he planned to con- two South Ko- The 6-foot-6 district attorney propaganda statements and get reans were killed and two thus served notice that down to specific de-escalation has been ousted and the United The deadlock was reminiscent fer with Lodge and might con- the War- new initiatives that we Americans and two South Ko- ren Report would be, in effect, measures beginning with resto- States has agreed to negotiate of the beginning of the prelimi- sider " ration of the demilitarized zone. directly with the Front. nary talks between the United might take to make more prog- reans wounded. The Hanoi and NLF delegates Sao went ever further: telling States and North Vietnam last ress than we have done." The "U.S. Command also re- vised its total of helicopter loss- WEATHER es in the war, raising it to 2,352. FEDERAL FORECAST This included io helicopters not WINONA AND VICINITY — previously listed which the com- Cloudy with occasional mostly mand said were not shot down very flight snow Nixon , occasionally but were lost due to mechanical ; mixed with a little freezing driz- WASHINGTON (AF) - Presi-^Middle East settlement. /• - summit meeting should be well not only for areas of agreement failures or enemy rocket and ^ zle tonight and Saturday. Not dent Nixon has indicated he At his Thursday news confer- prepared and that the agenda among allied leaders but• mortar attacks on helicopter much change in temperature. would be willing to hold a sum- ence, Nixon scoffed at "instant should cover "various differ- expressions of disagreement.