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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 2-25-1966 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. 760. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/760 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]. Fair to Partly ;- '';^ Nfr- . Starsr : ¦;> : ¦ : ; ; Cloudy Tonight See All the Cars in Saturday The Classified Section Morse Says Fund Will Expand War Fears Conflict itf w WH Expand B Into Thailand de^C^ ) WASHINGTON (AP SAIGON, South Viet Nam outside the ¦camp¦ ¦ perimetier construct an all-weather road — The (AP) — Gen. William C. West- were hit hard.' '- . '. * ' '. through territory long dominat- sharpest congressional critic of ¦ _ ¦:¦ ¦ A three-batallion veteran ed by the Viet Cong. American policy in Viet Nam, y/.w«Av» •».-.- .mw w«-- if^_y_—_____w——w . ¦ .g. xt x o*wtt «iw__—w^/.v.v.'.v.v;-. •.-;:%*¦;¦:¦:••:¦:•:¦:¦/• :¦_ ¦:¦¦¦- •M.?.-.-^/.W?.';-?lwm-39>Wf1Wi>^^ moreland, ebminander of U.S. Communist force of about 800 Col: Eklgar ¦; N. Glotzbach of Sen., Wayne Morse; asserted to- STREET^ OF BLACK MAMET STALLS IN SAIGON . stuffs, liquor, towels, blankets. Many of these come fr om post forces in Viet Nam, paid high , day that through black men drove from east and west Paxico 3Can., commander of the the $4.8-billion bill to Black market stalls line the sidewalk in front of bars on a exchanges market buyers and then to the tribute today to 2,500 American against, .the' Big Red One's First brigade, told Westmoreland he provide more funds to fight the side street in downtown Saigon. The stalls with canvas awn- makeshift stalls which appear just after sunup and fade infantrymen while on a personal Brigade, with some of the* Viet had two* listening posts in the war would expand the conflict ings draped over poles are crammed with U.S'-made food- at night. (AP Photofax) tour of the battle-scarred jungle Cong sweeping across a mine- scrub jungle near a big rubber into Thailand. field in an infantry charge. The plantation which gave the sleep- "A vote for this bill is not a north . of Saigon vWhere they brigade's job in the area was to ing compound a 10-minute alert. hurled back a fierce predawn vote, to support the men al- ready there," the Oregon Demo- Viet Cong assault Thursday^ crat said in a speech released Military Astride the hood of a jeep, the in advance of Senate delivery. Goprdpt^ general told his men: "Ydii "It Ls a vote to double tha gave the enemy a sound defeat men already there, to expaind and I am proud of you; Your the war into Thailand and to Takes Over performance was in the highest provide American financing for spirit and professional conduct pf U.S. fighting men. I salute a military force In Asia." U-S^ you." ' And, lie said, Congress wag SAIGONV South Viet Nam program has run into millions of cized moves have been : made, The disco-very of 46 more (AP) — Huge sums of money, U.S. dollars over : the years. but any concerted program In X5hana'" told when it approved the South- "- . XXX bodies outside the camp's east Asia Treaty Organization loose controls, and the ancient Probably no one knows for cer- would involve high government barbed-wire defenses raised the Asian acceptance of corruption tain just how many. officials whose "support Ky;niust Pact that no such force would toll of enemy dead to at least be required. : " • in government have hampered retain to stay in office, reliable 135. Many more were believed U.S. efforts to stabilize the Viet- Premier Nguyen Cao Ky re- sources say. Morse launched his lengthy to have been dragged away by attack on -U.S. military actions namese economy and to get 100 peatedly has pledged to clean U.S. aid officials in the past the Viet Cong. Fifteen Commu- cents worth of good out of each up corruption which the govern- have conceded that some U.S. and policy in "Viet Nam as ths nists were taken prisoner. Senate moved toward the cli- aid dolar. ment has acknowledged as aid even has reached the Viet While officers of the U.S. 1st "Leakage" ln the U.S. aid widespread. Some highly publi- Gong indirectly, and said steps max of its debate on the meas- Infantry Division's First Bri- ure to authorize additional funds were taken to reduce this prob- gade briefed Westmoreland on lem.; one cf the heaviest attacks of for military operations. REDS HAVE OWN DEBATE the war experienced by Ameri- He was laying groundwork for A huge black market In U.S. can troops, action elsewhere in a move to tie onto the bill a pro- curfency and commodities flour- the past; 24 hours , tapered off. vision rescinding the 1964 reso- ishes in Viet Nam. The biggest U.S., South Vietnamese and oth- A REPUBLICAN SUGGESTION . , . Republican Senate lution that gave President John- ih both categories are in Saigon. er Allied troops reported only Leader Everett Dirksen Thursday urged Vice President Hu- son a blank check to carry on American GIs help feed both. sporadic contact with the ene- bert Humphrey to report to the people on his tour of South- what Morse calls an illegal war. Post exchange Hems ranging UiaMw^iJl my. east Asia and the Pacific Area. Dirksen, after Humphrey Sen. Richard B _ Russell, D- from cigarettes and cameras to briefed congressional leaders on the nine-country tour, said high-fidelity sets and television A third day of heavy rains Ga., chairman of the Armed curbiJd air raids against North "Let' s tell the people we are in there to win, and shall win." Services Committee, was ready sets find their way to thi blkck ) : HoldMtirioi market. Cigarettes are rationed Viet Nam; The thick overcast <AP Photofax ix .:i:.y .yx with a cpuntermove he hoped "WASHINGTON (AP) — Com- year-old President Ho Chi Minh and GIs are limited in the num- allowed only four air strikes would be a clear warning to munist North Viet Nam evident- that goes beyond immediate ber of major items they can against roads and bridges Hanoi. His plan was to substi- " around the coastal city of Vinb, tute for Morse's proposal a re- ly has had its own closed-circuit tactics. buy. - . Lt. Gen. J A. Ankrah version of the U_S. policy debate . 165 miles south of Hanoi. The affirmation of the 1964 resolu- Ent there is no ' '.doubt of the Until the second half of 1965, 7th s jets made no sorties tion - ' . on the course of the Vietnamese GIs took part of their pay in ACCItA, Ghana (AP) - Gha- Fleet' Snow Covers . Hanoi stern public rebuke adminis- against the North Thursday. A vote on the bill is expected war. The hardliners in by par- U.S. dollars, which were eager- na's new military leaders say who refuse negotiations appear tered earlier this month they overthrew President The government announced early next week. ty theoretician Le Due Tho to ly snapped up on the black Kwa- earlier that 17 Communists Vice President Hubert H. firmly in control- market. me Nkrumah because he had Expert analysts say they can- what he called "a small number were lulled by artillery and air Eastern US. Humphrey was doing some lob- of comrades who have devel- abused individual rights and lib- not tell if there Is any real split The American mission then erties. Eower in a fight in the province By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS hit the New York City area, and bying in the background as the oped erroneous thoughts and etween a 350:man Vietnamese Snow covered populous sec- Washington sloshed through the Senate moved toward its cru- within the government of 76- ' began issuing military payment "He has been running the views. certificates, which became the militia batalion and a Viet Cong tions of the Eastern quarter of wet coyering of more than five cial vote. "They entertain subjectivism country as if it were his own force of undisclosed size near the nation today, disrupting air inches, with heavier amounts in Morse promised that after currency in the PX, commis- personal property," Radio Gha- and pacifism," complained Tho. sary, American billets ani U.S.- Lam Son Thursday, The Viet and highway travel in some suburb an areas. giving senators the weekend to "They display pessimism and na, controlled by the new re- Cong also attacked a 120-man citieis.' In Pennsylvania, more than a think over his case he will ask Draff Objector run officers' and enlisted men's gime, said Thursday. militia force near Hai Lang, half foot of snow fell in Harris- fail to realize clearly the decep- clubs. A storm that dumped nearly Monday that his proposal be tive peace negotiation plot of Announcing the creation of a which straddles north-south a foot of snow in Arkansas burg aad nearly a half foot was attached as a rider to the bill the enemy." National Revolutionary Council, Route 1, but as in the other fight Thursday swept into areas from reported in some suburban authorizing an additional $4.8 Dumps Manure the radio said Nkrumah's government casualties were the eastern Appalachians into areas of Philadelphia. Accumu- billion in funds for the war.