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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 5-16-1972 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. 1171. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1171 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]. Report on paralysis will be mad in 48 hours Wallace physician: outlook lor full recovery not good By DON McLEOD loting today in primaries which Wallace had been favored to Dr, James G. Galbraith , head of the neurological department Alabama State Police Capt. E. C. Dothard , who also SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) - George C. Wallace, shot win in a double sweep that would have been the high point at the University ofAlabama , said the governor is paralyzed was' -. hit , was treated for a flesh wound on his right side down at aft election-eve rally, lay gravely wounded and of his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. in both lower extremities. and released from the hospital. partially;paralyzed today on what was to have been the "I feel very optimistic about liim," Wallace's wife,.Cornel- "The outlook caiinot be predicted but it is not favorable ," Dora Thompson , a Wallace campaign worker, suffered brightest day of his presidential campaign. ia, s^id after the surgery in Holy Cross Hospital. "As you Galbraith said. "It would be unusual to get complete recov- a leg wound and was listed in satisfactory condition in Holy y. The Alabama governor was hit several times by a gun- know his nature, be didn't earn the title of the "Fighting ery undei these circumstances." Cross. ?. man who pushed a pistol through a shopping-center crowd ; Little Judge' for nothing, and I expect him to continue in Early today? doctors said Wallace was alert , awake V Billy Joe Camp, Wallace's press secretary, told news- at Laurel, Md., Monday afternoon and fired point blank.; the same-vein .'' ,' V V and?making progress "as well as we can expect." men today that the governor's campaign for the Democratic A man identified by police as Arthur Herman Bremer , 21, Doctors said - Wallace, 52, was hit by five bullets, two Several dozen persons, some of them holding lighted presidential nomination will continue. Camp said 7 Wallace of Milwaukee, , was wrestled to the ground by members of of which caused 7serious wounds. A spokesman said one candles, stood vigil ¦ outside the hospital during the opera- himself made the decision which was relayed by Mrs. "Wallace. the crowd and arrested immediately. was removed, but another near the spine and blamed for tion. ¦?? '¦' ¦ "He will be at the Democratic convention as a strong, : ¦ ¦ ¦ . - After five hours of surgery, police and hospital spokes- " paralysis of the lower extremities was left in place for the -.' . - • Bremer was taken before U.S. Magistrate Clarence Goelz viable candidate," Camp told a news conference. "He expects men said "Wallace 's life was no longer in danger, but some time being. ? in Baltimore late Mcnday night and ordered held under $200,- to win iii both Maryland and Michigan ," paralysis was reported. One physician said the outlook for "I am very happy and I feel very good that he is alive, " 000 bond on charges of shooting Wallace and a Secret Service Bremer was charged by?federal authorities with violat- full recovery was not good . The governor's press secretary Mrs. Wallace said , "that he has a sound heart and a sound agent ,. ' ing thc 1.968 Civil Rights Act by assaulting a candidate for an quoted doctors as saying the paralysis may be temporary, brain and all his vital organs are solid . I couldn 't thank God The agent, Nicholas Zarvos, underwent six hours of elective officie. He was charged also with assault on. a federal "but.we will know more about this in the next 48 hours." He more." surgery for a bullet wound in the neck and was listed in officer , Zarvos ¦ . said Wallace will continue his campaign , .-' .. ' ./ ' Mrs. Wallace bad said earlier outside the operating- good condition. Doctors said the bullet damaged Zarvos's voice ( Continued on page 10a , col. •) Meanwhile, voters in Maryland and Michigan were bal- feeling, below the waist. ¦ ¦ room door that her husband had no box . Wallace physician i i Fair to partly " I GOT LOTS OF ^S-^BS Governor had cloudy and JINGUN* MONEY ( qi&fo ) Sold My Cor Tto A Wont Ad J ^W: been prepared wa rmer Wednesday ' : :] for violence Pipeline in Southx (^- ': 7777)7- 'x :-77x By JULES LOH ings (or the governor sim- SILVER SPRING. Md. ply: "I love that little (AP) V- The ride to Ihe man. "" hospital seemed interminab- At rallies across the coun- ly long to Gov. George C. try the past eight years, . Viet air defense Wallace. burly Capt. Dothard has "How much longer?" he fended off blows from picket asked several times during signs and many times has the ' 15-minute trip."I hope stepped in front of Wallace they give , me a shot of amid barrages of rotten something soon?" eggs, rocks; and bottles, al- headquarters hit ¦ ways without a word. .. It was a trip the: pro- Monday, Dothard ,. who By GEORGE ESPEIt The command had announced key link in North Vietnam 's vocative campaigner was suffered a flesh wound in earlier that both the northwest mentally prepared to make. SAIGON (AP ) X- 7 American supply network. his light side, wordlessly fighter-bombers wrecked North and northeast rail lines be- "I suppose some day some- held up his forefinger and tween Hanoi and China had . But spolteshicn said that the body might throw something Vietnam 's air defense head- thumb in an okay sign when quarters on the southern edge been cut, and the 7th Air Force effects of the aerial campaign at me other than a rotten he was helped into the am- reported Sunday that its bomb- egg," Wallace once remark- . of Hanoi and cut the main pipe- on the enemy offensive in the bulance alongside the gov- line feeding tanks and supply ers had destroyed tie "Drag- ed during , his 19687 cam- on south would not be known for ernor, ' .-; ' ' ; - ' trucks on the northern front in 's Jaw" brid ge at Thanh paign for the presidency. Hoa , 80 miles south of Hanoi at'. least 30 days. They ' esti- Wallace returned the South Vietnam , the U. S. Com: , a Did he worry much about sign and winked at Doth- mated that? the TNofth Vietnam- being shot? mand announced today. ard , who was released from Intelligence reports ese had a month's supply of "It's not something you have said a hospital Monday flight. Russian technicians and ad- Connally quits fuel close at hand for their let worry you," he said at . Wallace was leaving? the visers were known to be work- tanks arid vehicles in the south. that time , "but I'm fully rally , in a supermarket, ing in the headquarters , but Treasury post Fighting in the 48-day-6ld aware of the possibility. I'm , when the man ' parking lot there , was no immediate" com- ' North /.'Vietnamese- offensive reminded of it every time accused of shooting him BULLETIN . 7V. slowed down , but the? reason ment on this from the com- WASHINGTON-Oft — Pres- I step behind that lectern ." called him back, according mand . was not immediate clear. One . The lectern is? a three- to Emmett W. Eaton, a ident Nixon made a surprise | U.S. military source, said the personal announcement to- sided, bulletproof, steel bar- campaign aide. A six-page communique re ^ | enemy may have pulled back to ricade which takes two men "Hey, George, ain't you porting the assessment of dam- day lhat Secretary of the I consolidate his forces, but Treasury John B. Connally to set in place. .. going to shake my hand?" age done by nearly 2,00G strikes j "even the most ardent: air pow- called in North Vietnam during the — "a tower of strength for ' cr advocate would rot attribute Wallace used it In three ?Eaton said the man the President" — is resign- campaigns the last eight out. .- - . past week said: I this lull to the bombing " ing. ' years and spoke from be- "George turned arid walk- "The North Vietnamese Air Nixon told newsmen at the j South Vietnamese forces con- hind it Monday at nearby ed toward him and that's Defense Headquarters? at Bach White House that he will | tinned to push out irom Hue fo - Laurel — just before he when he was shot," Eaton Mai air field , south of Hanoi , nominate George P. Shultz, I widen their defenses arid keep the North Vietnamese from get- mingled in the crowd and :.: said. was 7struck by U.S. Air Force former Secretary of Labor j was shot. rushed to F4s, destroy ing several struc- and currently director of the [ ting close enough for an all-out Eaton said he ' attack on the old irnpdrial capi- Wallace who was tures." Office of Management and At his side and -also the fallen , tal- ' wounded was Capt. E. C. lying on his back, and be- AFTER. THE SHOOTING ... Alabama al, Md. Mrs. Wallace is crouching over her Bach Mai is three miles south Budget, to succeed Connally. Dothard of the Alabama gan unbuttoning his shirt. after husband , The dark spot on Wallace 's shirt is of Hanoi. To take over from Shultz Reporting on the air -war Gov.