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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 6-12-1972 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. 1193. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1193 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]. \\* 7 Pa rtly cloudy . & lfW .' .: . M6W with scattered WJm 'M ' ¦ *1 . ' ¦ thunderstorms tft^^ . 117th Year of Publication 2 Sections, 20 Pages, 15;' Cents; One oi nations worst flood disasters Death toll reaches 208 By F. RICHARD C1CCONE earthen dam at rain-swollen Canyon Lake on the western City. (AP) 's edge of Rapid I RAPID CITY, S.D. - The death toll in the nation The 7water smashed through the city , flipping <a*s, > worst flood disaster in 44 years has reached 208, and offi- crushing trees and lifting homes off their foundations and cials fear many more bodies will be found outside Rapid slamming them into a heap of splinters blocks away. City in the streams that filter from the nearby Black Hills. Sen, George McGovern and Gov. Richard Kneip visited 50Q Civil Defense officials estimated the missing at , and the devastated area Sunday. McGovern called it "incredible said today that it was impossible to estimate the number destruction," and said he would ask Congress to provide ex-, of injured. traordinary relief for his home state if deemed necessary. j At least 3,000 persons were left homeless, and damage Hundreds of persons were innoculated for typhoid and ' was estimated at more than $100 million. tetanus at the. Rapid City High School and the Pennington •r Maj. Gen. Duane L.7 "Duke" Corning, coinmanding 2,500 County Hea 1th Department. The Department of Health, Edu- National Guardsmen in Rapid Cityj .said about 1,000 men cation and Welfare stockpiled 10,000 doses of the innocula- worked into the night "turning over any debris that might tions. hide a body.' Rapid City has been without water since the floods •!-' Mayor Donald Barnett imposed a 10 p.m. to dawn cur- struck , and officials said it will be late tonight before drink- few on the city of 43,000. He halted night . search operations able water , is available through city facilities. by the more than 3,000 civilian volunteers, and said the res- Drinking water was delivered by nearby Ellsworth Air cue accomplished as much during daytime hours as they Force Base and passed out in pots, cans and kettles at des- did working around the clock. ignated locations. 3 The since (Continued on page 5a. col. 1) BODY REMOVED .. A National Guardsman ahd volun- flood-damaged Rapid City, S.D., Sunday. Recovery opera- volunteers and guardsmen have been at work j daylight. Saturday, hours after a wave crashed through an Death toll teers take the body of flood victim from the wreckage in tions turned up more bodies in the wreckage. (AP Photofax ) of victim Foreign military aid North Vietnam Wife rail linelo keeps biisy by is debated by Senate China blasted By HARRISON HUMPHRIES Funds to support U.S, he said, "but they don't SAIGON (AP) — U.S. jets WASHINGTON (AP) - participation in Indochina aiding wajit to be driven left a 10-mile stretch of North living out." The Senate begins debate hostilities would be prohi- The bill would authorize Vietnam's-northeast rail line to today on a $1.7 billion for- bited upon reaching a By JAMES WILSON ed of the impending flood $1,657 billion for foreign se- China and about 60 stranded eign military aid bill cut- cease-fire agreement be- freight cars in flames Sunday RAPID CITY , S.D7 (AP ) Friday night. ting off funds for U.S. tween the United States and curity assistance, a cut and shot down two more MIG —Joe Medly and her hus- "I know he was going to troops in Vietnam after the North Vietnamese, re- from administration re- jets, the U.S. Command an- band: Bill were Salvation help someone when the flood Aug. 31. lease of U.S. war prison- quests¦ totaling $2,151 bil- nounced today. Army majors at Rapid City waters caught him;" his lion. ¦ " Prolonged deliberation is ers, and an accounting by .; Large orange fireballs lit up when .the flood hit. Now , she 7 widow said. "He had the anticipated. A similar end- North Vietnam for Anleri. The Foreign Relations the skies 25 miles south of the keys to the truck in his ' Committee reduced admin- is staying busy helping the * : the-war issue, ultimately cans missing in action. 7 Chinese ; border after about 20 living victims and he is one pocket. They never found withdrawn, delayed Senate Sen. John C. Stennis, X>- istration requests for mili- Air Force F4 Phantoms at- the truck." tary assistance grants from of the more than 200 who passage of the State De- Miss., chairtaan of the Sen- tacked the rail line and a string : when waters swept Bill Medley had been an partment authorization bill ate Armed Services Com- $780 million to $600 million, died of freight cars 50 to 60 miles through the town. officer in the Salvation for a month earlier this mittee, is expected to lead foreign military credit sales northeast of Hanoi, pilots re- , "The last I heard from Army 24 years this month. year.,. * opposition to the Mansfield from $527 million to $400 ported . The end-the-war amend- amendment, as he did last million, and security sup- him was about 8 o'clock Fri- "I grew up in a Salvation ment, initiated in the Sen- month to the end-the-war porting assistance f r o m Two Navy Phantoms from day night when he yelled, Army family, " Mrs. Med- ate Foreign Relations Coud- rider to the State Depart- $844 million to $650 million. the carrier Coral Sea engaged 'Honey, I am going out to ley said. "My parents start- mittee by Majority Leader ment bill. The bill would set a $250 a pair of MIG17 interceptors 26 Story Book Island to see if ed the Salvation Army Mike Mansfield, D-Mont., Stennis told the Senate a million limit on U.S. ex- miles south of Hanoi and I can help','.' Mrs. Medlgy church in Columbia City, would require uncondition- month ago that with, the penditures .in or on behalf brought them down with mis- said Sunday; 7 Ind., and when we were al withdrawal of ground North Vietnamese engaged of Cambodia, and require siles, the U.S. Command said. Story Book Island is a kids Bill started coming to troops from Vietnam Aug. in a powerful new offensive specific authorization of There was no damage to the park hit by 5-f oot-deep our Sunday School classes^ 31 and conditional termin- "it is time to buckle down Congress for financing of two Phantoms, the command flood water. We went together, and ation of all U.S. air and and stand firm." foreign forces of operating said, but a Navy A6 was lost on "He was doing what the when he got out of the naval operations in and "The American people in Laos, Thailand or North Sunday 45 miles south of Hanoi Lord Called him to do Army we were married." over all of Indochina. want an end to the war," Vietnam. and the twq crewmen were re- when he died," she said. ported missing.; '.* " •'He was going to where he The command said 37 MIGs was needed. I'm sure many have been downed this year people in the community and 148 have beeij brought grieve him. He was needed Court upholds down since June 17, 1965. hereT" Military spokesmen said the Mrs. Medley, who said action was the start of a con- she had slept littl e and eat- certed effort to destroy an esti- en nothing since Friday club rights on mated 600 railroad cars stran- night, was supervising the ded in North Vietnam 's two Salvation Army clothing and rail lines to China by cuts in food distribution center Sun- the lines due to American bomb- day, the same job she held Negro guests ing. when informed Saturday WASHINGTON (AP ) — The Many of the cars are report- night of his death. And she Supreme Court today upheld ed loaded with war materiels said she was sticking with the right of private clubs to ex- from China, and the explosions the relief work until the clude Negroes as guests. and fires Sunday indicated they emergency is over, then con- The 6 to 3 decision was deliv- contained ammunition and fuel. tinue their church and char- ered by freshman Justice Wil- ity work. liam H. Rehnquist. It went The U.S. Command also re- TEARFUL REUNION . A mother bursts into tears ported that Air Force Phan- Salvation Army Maj. Wil- against a black brought as a after finding her son alive after a flood swept through Rapid liam G. -"Bill" Medley, 50, guest to the Moose Lodge in toms made the first attack of City, S.D. The mother, whose home was swept away, thought the war on a hydroelectric pow- had removed the campe r Harrisburg, Pa. her son had been lost in the rushing water, (AP Photofax ) from the family pickup fo In other action, the court: er—and North Vietnam's larg- est power plant—on Saturday. help assist rescue efforts MJ1S.