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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 12-2-1965 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" (1965). Winona Daily News. 687. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/687 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]. Too Many U. S. Soldiers Tied F Down by Guard Duty More Troops Mostly Fair And Mild Tonight To Garry Fight And Saturday To Reds Asked (Editor 's Note: Impor- tant decisions on the fut ure course in South Viet Nan are expected when Defense Secretary McNamara ' re- pbrts to President Johnson this wee k on his latest trip to that country. Just what is the military pictur e that must form the basis of these Red Gunners Get decisions? An Associated Press correspondent pre - sents a full account of the aituoh'oi* as seen in Saigon and in the f ield.) By PETER ARNETT SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) —Despite the huge Amer- 3 ILS. Jet Fighters ican buildup, Allied forces in Viet Nam remain insufficient to carry the fight to the Commu- nist Viet Cong effectively. An important reason: Most U.S. / Planes From and Vietnamese troops are pinned down by security jobs — including keeping what they hold — so that surprisingly few Enterprise Lost battalions are available for searching out the Viet Cong. An influx of troops from Red North Viet Nam has in effect On First Day returned the situation to where SAIGON, South Viet Nam it was earlier this year, before a (AP) — Communist gunners surge of new U.S. forces Upped the balance temporarily in the downed three U.S. jet fighters, Allies' favor. including one from the newly The Commnnist In recent arrived atomic-powered aircraft weeks have shown themfelves carrier Enterprise, during raids willing to sacrifice hundreds of on North and South Viet Nam in troops. Man for man, they are the past 24 hours, U.S. spokes- as well equipped as the U.S. infantryman and have as much, men reported today. if not more, firepower. Seldom Another fighter from the En- mentioned any more in Saigon terprise crashed into the sea is the theory that a U.S. platoon, while trying to land on the 85,- because of its firepower, could O00-ton carrier, the world's larg- easily wipe out a Viet Cong est. The accident occurred on company. the Enterprise's first day of The war now probably will combat operations in the South produce bigger and bloodier China Sea. battles. It seems likely that The four airmen from the En- only if U.S. troops can wipe out terprise were rescued. The pi- large Communist units will the lots of the two other planes were 'BIG E" JOINS THE WAR ... The nu- readied for the steam catapult launching. Two enemy return to the harassing missing and presumed killed. clear-powered USS Enterprise, world's larg- F4B aircraft were lost the first day. The car- bit- and-run guerrilla-type war. The losses pushed the number est warship, has joined the Viet Nam war. rier Is capable of launching four aircraft Allied forces in Viet Nam to- of American planes downed in simultaneously from its four and one-half acre tal a little over 689 , An A4C jet is shown taking off for a bombing 000. Of these ,-—- i —¦ operations in Viet Nam beyond r . mission to suspected Viet Cong targets in flight deck. (AP Photofax by radio from Sai- 170,000 are American, 500,000 FOREIGN INSTALLATIONS IN VIET locate areas of combat between troops of 150. Vietnamese, 18,000 South Ko- South Viet Nafa, as a F4B jet, center, is gon) NAM .; . Map shows locations of American, these countries and the Viet Cong. (AP Photo* One of the planes hit was an rean, 1,300 Australian and 300 attack ¦ Australian and New Zealand fax Map) Air Force F105 during an New Zealand. In addition, the South Korean, on a bridge 50 miles north of U.S. Navy has major forces troops.in South Viet Nam.. Shaded zones Hanoi Wednesday night Pilots deployed off the coast. At least reported they saw four surface- LBJ Expects Prosperity four, aircraft carriers and num- to-air missiles in flight in - the erous destroyers are In action in area but said none scored bits. the South , China Sea all the time. One carrier provides air- How AllIM Forces U.S. spokesmen said Air craft only for South Viet Nam: Force planes attacked two mis- Without Inflation in '66 Destroyers are used with great* sile sites 35 and 40 miles north- JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (AP) - them from here as they support cern. It will come because there «r fretpiency to bombard Viet east of Hanoi Wednesday after- President Johnson told top busi- each other there. We must equal is no other answer. Cong facilities and provide fire Deployed in South Viet Nam noon. Heavy dust and smoke ness leaders today he expects their sacrifice and uphold their "Peace is our commitment. support for villages and out- SAIGON. South Viet Nam IB- important airbase. Several air stripe there. (Continued on Page 10 Col. 4) record prosperity without infla- cause..." Peace is our goal. Peace will ba posts under attack. Here is how Allied forces are Marine Seabee battalions work Marine officers say they RED GUNNERS tion in 1966. He called for wage- At the same time, he restated the only victory we seek. And U.S. strategy is to punch deep deployed in South Viet Nam: in tbe Da Nang area. would like a more aggressive price restraint to help achieve his offer of unconditional talks peace will come." aimed at ending the Viet Nam Many of the biggest names in into enemy territory and hold as UNITED STATES One Marine regiment guards role, but rhe Marine high com- that. much of it as required to oper- Marines, totaling 40,000 have mand says if its forces can hold In an address prepared for conflict — an increasingly costly American industry, trade and the increasingly important Chu to the war that has sparked public dis- finance are represented on the ate base installations. One "U.S. been assigned to the northern Lai air base, 65 miles south: of the coast and increase control in delivery by telephone aim is to keep its major base coastal part of the country. In the lowlands, the, Viet Cong can Champion blue - ribbon Business Council, cussion of potential inflationary 125-member council. It acts as Da Nang, where helicopter and meeting in closed session in pressures in the months ahead. an unofficial government advis- installations outside the range South Viet Nam since February, Marine jets are based. Patrols have the mountains and high- of Communist weaponry. they have established them- lands. Washington, Johnson called for Said Johnson: ory group. from Chu Lai penetrate about 12 ' But putting bases d^ep in selves in three main areas: the "We want the places where cooperative decisions by indus- "I have said it beofre. I say it Johnson s decision to address miles into countryside where try, labor and government to again now. This -nation is ready the business leaders coincided Communist territory, the U.S. Da Nang air base, Chu Lai and the Viet Cong operate. the people are," said a Marine Steer Brings command has found, requires the Hue-Phu Bai sector. officer. "The Viet Cong can keep wages and prices in line to talk, unconditionally, any- with increased public discussion plenty of men to defend them, Most of the U.S. Marine Corps The Marine enclave In the have the rest." with federal guideposts designed where, with peace as our agen- of inflation pressures that might da. grow out of multibiUion-dollar and this defense job has eaten 3rd Division is at Da Nang, Hue-Phu Bai area devotes itself Two Vietnamese army divi- to guard against inflation. up battalions. preoccupied with protecting the almost wholly, to guarding the federal outlays for the war in sions fight alongside the U.S. $10 Per Pound In so doing, he cited the sacri- "Peace will come because It Viet Nam. Jungled areas like Chu Lai, Marines in the 1st Corps area of (01 An Khe and Ben Cat CHICAGO — The grand fices of American troops in Viet must. It will come from courage, It also came at a time when , where up Viet Nam. champion steer of the Interna- to six months ago the Commu- I NO DRAMATIC MOVE Nam, saying: "We must support from constancy, and from con- Johnson's normally harmonious nists moved freely, have be- A whole division of V.S. tional Live Stock Exposition, relations with the business troops—the 1st Cavalry, (Airmo- an Aberdeen Angus summer world had become something of come American base locations. ) Now that the bases are set up, bile Division — is based in the yearling, was sold today for $10 a question mark because of ad- the question is: "Where do we An Khe Valley in the middle of a pound, well under the rec- ministration efforts to hold go from here?" Viet Nam. This misty mountain ord price for this show. Bismarck Aroused down prices and interest rates. U.S. Buildup 1,050 The Allied buildup thus far area was envisioned as a jump- Based on its weight of The White House said Johnson seems at the most to have had ing-off point for airmobile op- pounds when it was designat- was invited to make the speech the effect oi containing the erations using the division's nu- ed top steer Monday, the An- by W.