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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 12-31-1964 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" (1964). Winona Daily News. 561. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/561 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]. ant a ^ppu, atm;f far By JAMES MARLOW was dragging then , not bustling, was the Berlin wall, and the up arid down, saying the same didn't change. Here at home the who couldn't. thought, and maybe each year WASHINGTON with the Dallas thing still on his year before. There was al- things over, country was living high. Most just a little less. (AP) - The and promising This bothered him a Utile, but little guy, any little . mind, Spoiling everything for most always something, but this hardly anything. people, that Is. Not everybody, home his New, not much, because he was Time was peeling tt» years Year's Eve felt him, even his sense of life. year practically nothing except It didn't though. He read about millions quicken his blood , who weren't. wrapped up in his garden, and off him like the skin of a bana- A was "MaturaJ. A the presidential campaign. Was that's tor sore. He wholeULiJ > year In 1963, after that day In No- that right? He tried to remem- felt all along the car, and the family, and a na. Maybe something that hap- gone without a great the returns were in before the He never really saw them. fl greal vember, he would have been ber. thousand things every day. pened in 1965 would give him w«n-?r , disaster H« glad if someone count began, and the polls They lived in a different part of What things? He was glad he back, If only for a moment wasn t used to it , remembering town or a different part of the , that President Kennedy, had said There was the income Ux cut. showed it. was asking himself the question. fierce sense of response and It wouldn't last , he thought, country, the empty-handed be as officially : "Happiness is can- He remembered that. And he If someone else bad done the action he had at 21. He knew bustled along, like heading He got on the bus. Jampacked ones. He figured he never saw into a new celed for the rest of the year." remembered he didn't under- but no anxious faces. They were , asking he wouldn't have known better. century. So he stand it or how much the cut them because his routine was what to say because his life d wn askin The year before that the Cu- like him, the undisturbed. Any He looked at the people in the "W. °, ' « himself : ban missiles gave him the was. Too complicated. He'd find home-to-bus-to-office- to-bus-to- wasn't that filled up or tied up bus: the tall, the short, What s the rush? It' shooting in 1964 was far off , in the fat, s just an- creeps. Not just the danger. out later when he was doing his home. or occupied. A feeling of an- the skinny. They all knew bet- o.her year coming up." fc that the Congo or Viet Nam. Any They made him feel more than tax return. It could wait. shouting was far off , too, in the He didn't have much money guish went through him for a ter, too. They didn't seem to be eve r that the world was getting But the campaign stuck: in his Soviet Union or Red China or himself. But at least he could second. worrying. He shook himself. He didn 't know. He had seen 't , but only for a "That' too nuttier. The world he grew up in head. He hadn seen one like it. some place. send his kids through school. It always did s enough of this stuff," he many years to be sure 't Long ago, second, whenever he tried to He wasn like that, or so he told A bit of a weirdy, in a way. and he didn't know said . "Let's get going." remembered this same himself. President Johnson and Sen. The has (arched and the peo- how , he had developed a habit ask himself what he was doing The bus kept going. night last And 1965 year , going home. He Ajid the year before that there Barry Goldwater campaigning ple tilted but their expression of not thinking about the ones with his life. Just existing, he was just around the corner. Cloudy Tonighr; For Best Results Snow, Freezing Use Daily News Rain Friday Classified Ads Hundreds of Losses Heavy in New Viet Ambush Ways to Greet The New Year NEW YORK <AP) - Fall out of an airplane, climb Pike's Peak, dance feet Reds Use Graves of U.S. y <m off, throw junk out of windows or just stand around Times Square with a million other rev- elers — that's how some of the world will welcome in the New Year tonight. ON THE PAYROLL . Walter F. Mondale, seated, On Long Island, at Eastport, Servicemen to Bait Trap -w government casualties at nearly who becomes Democratic Senator from Minnesota , signs N.Y., Frederick Wild, 33, and SAIGON , South Viet taim four U.S. servicemen shot down into a jungle:area here a U.S. and exploded when it hit the treetops. 300 dead, wounded and missing. Frank Guzzman, — The Viet Cong ambushed 100 as fighting continued around Army helicopter was shot <iown Senate payroll in Washington witnessed by Feiton M. Johns- 36, plan to fall A partial count showed at Vietnamese Binh Nghia. « Wednesday night as it was cov- ton, Secretary of the Senate. Mondale , formerly Minnesota's out of an airplane at the stroke marines today as A marine search company least 32 Viet Cong dead. " A U.S. Marine captain was ering marines collecting the attorney general, was appointed by Gov. Karl Rolvaag to of midnight and pass a bottle of they were opening graves be- wounded in the ambush. bodies of government troops. reached the crash site this aft- Two of the villagers also wen ernoon and found four fresh serve the unexpired Senate term of Vice President-elect champagne between them as lieved to contain the bodies of The marines fought their way The helicopter burst into flames killed. Their Catholic families (AP Photofax) graves next to the wreckage, Hubert H. Humphrey. they drop from 12,000 feet to 2,- buried them Wednesday. The presumably containing the villagers are refugees from 0O0 feet. Then, hopefully, they'll bodies of the helicopter's four North Viet Nam and mUitantly open their parachutes. American crewmen. anti-Communist. The marines reportedly were The two sky diven nave a In another action, government digging up the graves when a troops surprised an infiltrating Mondale Starts combined total of more than 600 powerful Viet Cong unit am- Viet Cong unit at Ban Thai, 15 jumps to their credit. bushed them. miles west of Saigon, and killed In Colorado Springs, Colo., Vietnamese losses were be- about 42 guerrillas. Four gov- lieved to be extremely heavy. members of the AdAmAn Club ernment troops were killed and) Senate Duties The marine unit withdrew, four wounded. have figured out a way to get taking their wounded with them, WASHINGTON (AP) - Walt- other new senators. high and still stay sober. They On the political front, talks ' Mondale will take the oath oi and late in the afternoon were er F. Mondale, Minnesota s new will make their annual climb to continued in Saigon between , moved in- office Monday after the new preparing to attack the area Democratic member the top of Pike's Peak and shoot Vietnamese civilian and milt* affairs Congress meets at noon. again with the whole marine to the swing of Senate off fireworks. tary leaders and U.S. Embassy today after signing his official Mondale was accompanied by battalion. In various nightspots around officials, but the deadlock over appointment papers late Wed- his wife and their three children , the fate of the government per- and his mother, Mrs. Theodore the world, music makers will Government troops regained nesday. Binh Nghia, , sisted. immediate- S. McKeldin. The family went play until the wee hours for a town of 6 000 Bo- Mondale flew here man Catholic refugees 40 miles swearing-in ceremony immediately to the home Mon- those people who want to dance ly after a but by Minnesota's Gov. Karl Rol- dale has rented in nearby Chevy out the old year and dance in east of Saigon Wednesday, vaag Wednesday at the state Chase, Md., -while he went to the the new. fighting continued around it to- day for the fourth day. It was Capitol in St. Paul. He was Capitol. One Los Angeles clob , the Congo Rebels greeted by the man he succeeds, one of the longest actions of the Humphrey and Rep, Donald Whisky A Go Go, advertises it Sen. Hubert Humphrey, who war against the Communist Viet Fraser, D-Minn., accompanied will provide "all the Watusi and Cong. moves up to the vice presidency Frug you can stand." next month. Mondale to the offic e of Feiton The Defense Department in Johnson, secretary of the Sen- The Sands in Milwaukee is Washington listed the helicopter Kill American Humphrey resigned Ms Senate ate, for the signing of his ap- throwing in free baby-sitting crewmen as missing, but it seat to permit the 3(>-year-old pointment paper.

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