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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 6-26-1972 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. 1205. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1205 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 fl^iFttia ¦ml$w cloudy and warmer "teEa ¦ i« M -thru • through Tuesday ifLfc^ 117th Year qf Publication As East flood waters recede Cleanup, rebuilding efforts open By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS would be forthcoming. embankment. funds would be available. ered by flood insurance. Massive cleanup, relief arid The pledge came after the There were some local prob- Lincoln said the aid would be Tbe crash of a. helicopter on rebuilding efforts lave begun governors of five states and a lems in New York and Pennsyl- swift, sufficient and wide- a surveying mission for the representative from a sixth met vania with spectators and loo- spread. Army Corps of Engineers killed BS tiie Hood wafers recede in in Harrisburg, Pa,, Sunday ters. .; ' . ' - .. Other governors attending tha three persons Sunday, bringing the devastated East, The death with George A. Lincoln, direc- A lack of potable drinking meeting were Unwood Holton the known death toll in New toll from the week-long storm tor of the President's Office of water was reported in at least of Virginia, Russell WV Peter- York to 23. stood at 117 today Emergency Preparedness. son of Delaware and 'William T. In several places, once tb» and tens of 80 communities in Pennsylva- thousands remained homeless. Red Cross officials said 112,- Cahill of New Jersey. New rains stopped and the floods be- As the rivers returned to 000 homeless people were being nia. In New York a shortage of York's vacationing Gov. Nelson gan to recede, there was a new their banks, thousands returned cared for at 330 emergency containers for bringing in water A. Rockefeller sent a represen- problem: sightseers. There to their homes and businesses shelters in Pennsylvania, New was reported in Elmira. tative. were throngs in Harrisburg, to clear away silt -with shovels York, Virginia and Maryland, At the meeting in Harrisburg Reid Cross President George and in Pittsburgh one police- and brooms, and there was a and they launched a disaster Sunday, OEP director Lincoln M. ELsey announced his organ- mar radioed that the curious brealc in the crisis tiiat began fund campaip for $10 million. told the governors that federal ization's $10 million disaster were "raising all kinds of hell'* when the storm named Agnes While most of the flood threat assistance ranging from rent- fund campaign after a seven- downtown. slammed across ihe Florida was past, watches were still free, temporary housing to hour aerial survey of the affect- Police in Eldred, -Pa .-, had coast on her disastrous course unemployment compensation ed area. He . : estimated that problem — pleasure kept in several areas including their own a week ago. would be available. more than 30,000 families in boats raping up and r down With property damage over Petersburg, 7a., where the Ap- Pennsylvania Gov. Milton J five states would need Red flooded Main Street. that assistance. : STAND GUARD . .V National Guard Agnes. The troops are being used to keep the SI billion mark in Pennsyl- pomattox River was not ex- Shapp expressed concern Cross One policeman said the police vania alone pected to crest until tonight, the aid would not filter through Federal and state authorities "7' ' , the storm-torn can't cope with the problem. 7 troops watch over the business district of . the curious and looters away from the dam- states looked to the federal gov- and Almond, N."¥., threatened the red tape quickly enough. said that of the substantially Elmira, N.Y., as search efforts continue in aged stores and to assist in rescue efforts. ernment for assistance, and "a by a 14-mile-iong artificial lake Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel more than $1 billion damage, a "Our rowboats just aren't fast the flooded area resulting from tropical storm (AP Photofax ) . 7 y; presidential aide promised it of rainwater behind a highway said he feared that not enough "minuscule : fraction" was cov- enough," he said. British claim Demo platform 14 guerrillas calls for US. N. Vietnam shot to death BELFAST, Northern Ireland Vietnam pullout steel plant (AP) British troops claimed By STERLING F. GREEN Spokesmen for Sen . George they shot 14 guerrillas in gun (AP) - First- McGovern and Gov, George G. battles Sunday as the cease-fire WASHINGTON minority draft planks of the Democratic Wallace indicated that proposals would be introduced j promised by the Provisional 1972 platform called today for wing, of the Irish Republican precipi tating floor fights at the "an immediate and complete drafting sessions of the full 150- Army neared. Six other persons withdrawal of all U.S. forces in knocked out member Platform Committee ) were killed during the weekend, Indochina" and took a middle SAIGON CAP US. pilots It was learned that the Viet today and Tuesday. V knocked out North Vietnam's Tri plant was attacked on June raising Northern Ireland's ground stand on the hot domes- tic issue of racial school bus- Sen. Fred R. Harris of Okla- only steel plant, pu* a power 1 with laser bombs, but that death toll to at least 383 in opera tion and raid was not announced be- ing.. .; homa also urged platform draf- plant out of three years of communal vio- dropped two bridges in week- cause it failed to put the plant Both planks, and perhaps as ters to revolt against their 15- lence. member drafting subcommittee end raids, the U.S. Command out of commission. many as. a dozen others, head reported today. Three of the dead were Brit- ed into floor fights as the full by demanding stronger tax-re- The 7th Air Force announced ish soldiers, killed when their 150-member drafting committee form and antitrust planks and a Radio Hanoi claimed that six that four of its Phantoms truck hit a mine near London- convened for a two-day session denunciation of strip-mining.. U.S. F4 Phantoms were shot dropped laser-guided, 2,000- derry. Troops killed one gun- open to press and public. A spokesman for Wallace down , but the U.S. Command pound bombs into the open man. The other two deaid were Challenges were expected said the Alabama governor con- said it had no plane losses to hearth furnaces of the Thai a Protestant and . a ' Roman from both rgiht and left on the siders the subcommittee's pro- report. However, it is the com- Nguyen steel plant 3ft mile* Catholic, and there was7 specu- eight-plank platform drafted by posed busing plank—still not mands policy to withhold such north of Hanoi on Saturday. lation they were killed by as- a 15-member drafting subcom- disclosed to the public or the Information as long as rescue Sixteen other Phantoms bomb- operations are in progress. sassination squads from the ri- mittee which itself could not full drafting committee—is un- ed warehouse areas. ' .;¦ val religious factions. agree on a defense spending satisfactory. ' V' V U.S. pilots flew more than 27(1 The Air Force said part of The worst outbreak came plank. And a number of supporters strikes on 'Saturday and a like the plant was not hit hut ths Sunday when at least 2» gun- of front-running Sen. McGovern number oh Sunday. destruction of the furnaces de- It sent two versions lo the men attacked the troops iji Bel- reportedly felt aggrieved that On* flight of four Phantoms stroyed North Vietnam's entire fast. More than . 700 rounds floor, one demanding a strong the South Dakotac's positions hit tbe Viet Ttl thermal power capacity for producing struc- were fired. military stance to deter aggres- were inadequately reflected in plant 25 Miles northwest of tural steel for railroads, "They have never been more sors and keep the confidence of the planks being drafted, Hanoi on Sunday with 2,000- bridges and buildings. reckless," one Briitsh officer allies, the other suggesting, that The small drafting subcom- pound, laser-guided bombs. Today more than 70 U.S. B52s reported. "It was almost sui- cutbacks should be undertaken. mittee labored almost all Satur- They "effectively destroyed the bombed North Vietnamese posi- cidal the way they came at The Vietnam plank de- day night to produce three do- plant's capability to produce tions menacing South Viet- us." nounced President Nixon 's fail- mestic planks, The policies electrical power for the nearby nam's northern front for the But the guerrillas as usual ure to make good on his 4-year- started with a "guaranteed industrial complex," a commu- fourth successive day. Little carried away their casualties, old promise of peace and de- job" proposal and federal in- nique said. other action was reported along and it was not known how clared that his Vietnamization come supports not unlike Reconnaissance : photos con- the My Ghanh defense line 20 to many were killed and how program has been proved a de- McGovern's s h a r e-the-wealth firmed the destruction of the 25 miles above Hue, many wounded. lusion. plan—but far less specific. RELIEF CENTER .... Some volunteers center with food and clothing along with boiler facility, the electrical The U.S.