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Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 1-11-1966 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" (1966). Winona Daily News. 721. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/721 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]. Partly Cloudy> Sell a Picnic Tabte Warmer Tonight In Winter And Wednesday With a Want Ad Ljfe Goes an a^ Map Lindsay ^40 gf Getting Tough 38inches #Snpw Pf/es t/p In NY. Strike Reds Escape From ¦¦ ¦ -YORK' - . ¦ ' ¦ INTERNATIONAL FALLS, below zero weather greeted ear- water pipe freezing to a mini- NEW . '«! - ' New; Minn. (AP) — Car engines start- ly risers today. mum. means of settling New Yorkls children went to school Electrical car engine warm- transit crisis are being; explored ed, * wa- ter flowed from household taps. ing devices and yweU heated The snow cover U the only under a get-tough policy laid complaint. Pulpwood cutting, a It was life as usual in Inter- school buses get things rolling, down by Mayor John V.V Lind- national Falls, where 40 degree A heavy Snow cover has reduced major, pursuit in this area, has been stymied by a heavy snow say, 'v. VV .' Accumulation; : V The Transit Authority and the About 50 inches have fallen striking transit unions were Iron Triangle Trap so far this winter, and has set- asked to give their reaction to-- SAIGON, South Viet Nam raised the Viet Cong death toll ments put up a fight while the bales of cotton and six tons of TbalTrivasiQri Hed-to around 38 inches. It acts day to proposals suggested by (AP ) — Large forces of disap- to 84 and captured 38 in the four main enemy force vanished. rice; as insulation against the cold Lindsay for: ending the tieup. pointed U. S. troops mopped up days of Operation Crimp, they Paratroopers of the . 173rd Air- with -the result that the ground In a biting statement Monday, today in two big Viet Cong hide- had hoped for far better results borne Brigade took on one guer- While U. S. troops explored a V beneath is soft. Lindsay had told the ' V city's outs northwest of Saigon and in from the biggest American of- rilla band in a brisk fight Mon- maze of tunnels underneath Of more than 100 houses in this Laos Reported Loggers are having extreme mediators to take stern meas- the central highlands near the fensive of the war. day Vend . killed 29 Communists, , ¦ difficulty, getting into the woods ures to end the strike by the bus Cambodian frontier . after the U. S.v spokesmen reported. An- area soldiers of the Royal Aus- ST. LOUIS, Mo: (AP) — The namese infiltration ef South com- and subway workers, now in its bulk of guerrillas once more Their goal was to snares a other 16 bodies were found after tralian Regiment reported kill- Nam by way of the sor where waist-deep snow is ing three Viet Cong in email St. Louis Post-Dispatch report- Viet mon. Skid trails have to be llth day. had escaped into.the jungles. 7 Communist regiment .on the an air attacks ed today that "substantial num- called Ho Chi Minh Trail. This For U. -' . Si'. Officers the opera- edge of the Iron Triangle, ah old Soldiers of the 1st Inafntry actions in the afternoon and runs along the eastern cleared so the marshy: or nor- finding five more bodies. bers" of Thai troops have in- route freeze Lindsay's proposals were an- tion by. more than SjOOO Ameri- guerrilla redoubt that has been Division killed six more guerril- vaded Laos apparently to pre- edge of Laos where it parallels mally soft grounds can ,: sup- grily brushed aside by Douglas cans and Australians 35 miles Communist territory since the las in a 20-miriute gun battle : AU. S. spokesman reported vent Communist troops there Viet Nam.; to depths strong enough to onl light, sporadic contact in port the heavy pulpwood loads. L. MacMahon, chief negotiator from the capital was particular- days of the French Indochina when the Reds tried to protect a " y from making contact with pro- Richard Dudman, a Washing- for the striking AFL-CIO Trans- ly annoying. Although they war. But only rear-guard ele- a large tunnel containing 15 the whole battle area" by to- V Communist insurgents in Thai- ton correspondent for the Post- port Work61"8 Union. • night; " ' said U.S. military Woods workers, on the job as land: ' . Dispatch, tempera- He said it was "time for May- Equally frustrating was an: The newspaper said another commanders in Southeast Asia usual despite the low ture, found the mercury had or Lindsay to face the issues eight-day search for guerrillas possible mission of the Thai were "fully: informed" about realistically and deal with us by. the U. S. 1st cavalry, Air- troops is to block North Viet- the Thai moves. risen to 34 below by 8 a.m. as a light breeze from the north- fairly. He should stop trying to mobile Division in the central east broke the calm accompa- cheat the people of New York highlands on the Cambodian nying the thermometer plunge. with innuendo." frontier,V not far from the la Drang Valley where the Flying • another In the early hours of today At -Baudette, -Minn., negotiations again ended with- Hof semen battled it out with town about 50 Canadian border: out agreement. The mediators North Vietnamese regulars last miles west of International Falls told the Transit Authority and November. dropped to an un- tie mercury the unions to come back later official 38 below. - ¦; ; This time the Communists ready to give their ideas about hurriedly pulled but, abandon- "Yon learn to live with It," Lindsay's suggestions. ing four rest camps capable of said one Baudette : resident. accommodating 3,000 guerrillas. but things keep Here Is what the mayor rec- "Sure it's cold, ommended as alternatives to a The cavalrymen destroyed the going. We're thinking of hockey camps, . drive to negotiated settlement: —trying to organize a That the mediators make spe- The operation netted eight replace equipment for the pee- Communists . captured. Some of team. All of the cific recommendations for a wee hockey ; that a fact-finding the captives were identified as s equipment was lost in a settlement team' commission be appointed to members of the 32nd and 66th fire Sunday : night; The warming North Vietnamese regular regi- " study the dispute and make rec- house burned down. ommendations ; or that new pro- ments. There also were reports Thirty below zero weather cedures be adopted, such as ad- that an antiaircraft battalion hit Bemidji , Minn., and Hibbing visory or binding arbitration. with 18 Chinese machine guns had an overnight low of -^-28. Lindsay coupled the last two had been in the area. alternatives with a recom: As the Americans crashed mendation that the strikers re- CARRY CASKET OF SHASTRI .. '. So- to New Delhi where his body will be cre- into one campsite, they saw a Don't Put it Off turn to work pending final set- viet Premier Alexei Kosygin, left, and Pak- mated. Shastri, Khan and Kosygin had squad of armed men in a patch tlement. istan's President Ayub Khan, second from worked out a limited peace pact between quilt of khaki and black uni- Never put off till tomor- Sylvester Garrett, one of the ; left , carry the casket of India's VPrime Min- India and Pakistan shortly before his death. forms flee across the Tongle row what you can do today. three mediators, said regarding ister LaL Bahadur Shastri to plane in the This picture is from Tass, the Soviet agency. San River, the border with Tomorrow ; there may be a MacMahon's public rejection Cambodia 40 miles west of Plei- new tax on it A.. Holly- that he did not believe the union Soviet Asian city of Tashkent VMonday. Shas- (AP Phptofax by cable from Tashkent) kuV A big cooking kettle still - Insom- j wood producerism:. • leader's statement "necessarily V tri, who died of a heart attack, was flown I simmered. A Viet Cong briga- nia is bad' but it's nothing represented a full exposition of dier general left behind a small to lose any sleep over . the union's views to the various Nanda New Indian Premier satchel with a single star pinned A certain henpecked hus- alternatives." to it and his toothbrush and band is writing a book about paste inside. his problems. Instead of a MacMahon seemed particu- Operation Ripping Mustang ja cket it'll have an apron larly enraged by Lindsay's brought the 1st ; Cavalrymen . .. Speaking of modern suggestion that the strikers re- within 100 feet of the Cambodian bathing suits, if you give a turn to work pending a final set- Shastri border, and some of the 1st Cav- ' woman an inch — she'll ^fesSjg. ' tlement. : Collapse of alry's helicopters swooped wear it.- . Nowadays it He contended Lindsay wanted down on the river to sink a takes businessmen three to "defer our claims until the Communist sampan. Hereto- hours to eat lunch—15 min- end of 1967 to give (Gov. Nelson fore, the American troops were utes to dine and the rest A.) Rockefeller and Lindsay an SO Wings At Conference under orders to keep at least of the time to fill out the opportunity to get together as RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil NEW DELHI, India (AP) - mains of the humble-born little three miles from the border to expense account.
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