Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 1-3-1966 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. 714. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/714 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]. Occasional ; Cloudiness '¦I "- ' ; ' y Extra Set of And Warmer Snowtlres? Sell Them 1 Tonightv Tuesday With a Classified Ad VIET CONG SLI P AWAY Humphrey (J Sx Brigade vgdes Back Home In From Far Easl Transit Strike WASHINGTON (AP)- Vice President Hubert H. Hum- phrey r returned from a week's Red Delta Stronghold visit to Far Eastern; countries today and said that while he By THOMAS A. REEDY borne Brigade, backed by artil- Reeds near the Cambodian fron- the fighting, their spokesmen "feels good about the area" he SAIGON, South Viet Nam lery, air strikes and even tanks, tier.;.-- said, H x its New York will withhold Specific comment (AP) — U.S. paratroopers began with high hopes of rous- The U.S. paratroopers had slogged through mud and ing the guerrillas from their By this afternoon, there was until after reporting to Presi- ¦ moved westward from Saigon ¦ ¦ swamp today in their first big Stronghold; >... .. ¦;¦. - only occasional contact With the dent Johnson. .'.:¦ ' - ' guerrillas. ' into the sugar and rice fields invasion of the Mekong Delta Although they offered some around Bao Trai, 20 miles from He was met at Andrews Air but a large Viet Cong force brisk skirmishes and steady sni- A 1315. spokesman said the the capital They captured a Force Base by the diplomatic slipped deeper into the Red per fire at the start of the opera- 173rd Brigade had killed 111 ? large store of. rice and other envoys of the Philippines,' Jar sanctuary, eluding their pur- tion New Year _s Day, the Viet Viet Cong, captured 7 and de- food and some National Libera- '¦' pan, Nationalist China and suers. ; ' " '. -V. .V- Cong withdrew into the marshes tained 502 suspects. Vietnamese tion Front flags. The probe by 173rd Air- in the direction of the Plain of troops killed 125 guerrillas in South Korea and by the dean of the After the initial encounters, however, the Viet Cong headed the Washington diplomatic toward the Plain of Reeds, a corps, Ambassador Guillermo marshy Communist area on the Savilla-Sacasa of Nicaragua, northerir fringe of the Mekong Delta. It has long been consid- Humphrey told newsmen Hanoi Chills US ered a Viet Cong infiltration "we've had a very rich and re- route and base camp. warding trip.'? He declined to ' It was considered donbtful comment on any talks he may that the heavily armed Ameri- have had in furtherance of the Efforts P&ac© cans would attempt to pursue Viet Nam peace drive of the (AP)-Two achievedfc* the United States must ington haslet it be known that it the Reds over terrain unsuited Johnson administration. WASHINGTON of to their equipment. President Johnson's peace en- halt v "definitely and uncondi- would be willing to discuss the "We came back feeling good four points if negotiations 'got Although American p lane s voys continued their efforts to- tionally" all acts of war against about the areas we visited," he day despite new dampening the North, under way. again spared the Communist The Hanoi newspaper also North from attack, U.S. Air said and described the four na- blasts from Hanoi. , U.S. efforts to get such talks The: North Vietnamese Com- said Washington would have to . Force B52s bombed jungle tar- tions in which he stopped as the four conditions started moved ahead with rov- gets in Binh Duong Province 40 munist party organ Nhan Dan acknowledge Averell "S t a u n c h allies and good branded the current U.S. peace the Communists have set down ing Ambassador W- mileis northwest of Saigon. Harriman's arrival in Pakistan friends." . .. moves as "trickery" and said for an end to the war. What was The Communists attacked a The vice president flew here acknowledge was for talks with President Mo- that if any political solution to meant by " " Vietnamese scout company from HawSii. the Viet Nam war is to be not immediately clear. Wash- hammed Ayub Khan while G. Mennen Williams carried the command post with flamethrow- Humphrey stood in a . cemer American view to African lead- ers arid grenades 12 miles south tery in the hills above Honolulu ers.. - of Tuy Hoa, on the central where dead of World War II, As the flurry of American dip- coast. They were beaten off. Korea and Viet Nam lie buried.. ONE /WAY TO GET THERE . .. A girl Union against the Transit Authority entered Johnson Back lomatic activity continued, the Teh Reds were reported killed. Only a short drive away men takes to two-wheeled transportation tfear Col- its third day. The strike idled the entirr lull in the bombings of North A military spokesman said it wounded in Viet Nam lie in an umbus Circle on New York's Broadway to- subway system and most of the city's buses. Viet Nam targets moved into its ' Army general hospital. day, as a strike by the Transport Workers (AP Photofax) .i -yH y -y ' .', : was the first time the Commu- 11th day. nists used flamethrowers. The It is like that in the Pacific — At White House The bombing moratorium Is South Vietnamese didn't cap- the old battles running into the viewed as a part of Washing- ' ' ¦; WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi- Johnson is in "excellent ture any of them, but they were new... : " . ton's efforts to establish condi- dent Johnson shifted his base of health." tions favorable to the beginning believed of Chinese make and On another stop, Humphrey Auto Traffic operations back to the White To the unscientific eye of a of peace /talks with North Viet part of the equipment of a bat- saw ships destined for Viet Nam House today, convinced he's newsman, Johnson looks and talion of North Vietnamese reg- Nam, ' riding at anchor in Manila har- once again in good shape and acts much as he did before his ulars; bor with the islaind of Cprregi- ready to face the heavy work Oct; 8 gall bladder-kidney stone The public reaction from Ha- The government "force was dor and Bataan looming on the Piling Up/ May load ahead. operation — except that he has noi was anything but encburag- taking part in a search-and-de- horizon. The latest word from his per- shed a lot of weight. The weight ing. Only hours before the parjy stroy operation with South Ko- Speaking at the University of sonal physician, Vice Adm. loss is all to the good in Burk- organ Nhan Dan made its dec- rean troops in Phu Yen Prov- ¦¦ ¦ ¦¦ Hawaii Sunday, Humphrey said George G. Burkley, is that ley's bpinion. .. .: larations North Viet Nam's ince. that since World War II the Be Curtailed President Ho Chi Minh had de- Another 100 miles up the (AP)-The Reporters .who were Invited to United States has suffered 175,- NEW YORK brunt clared that the Communists coast, Vietnamese: troops 000 casualties. of a two-day-old transit strika the LBJ Ranch in Texas Sunday would fight until final victory. ' launched three relatively large "We did not ask for war in hit New York this dreary Mon- to bfe served eggnog, coffee- He said he was standing firm operations to relieve pressure cookies and candy by the Presi- Korea. We have not sought war day, threatened for a time to $3;5/Milli6ri on his terms for peace — terms on Quang Ngai City, a provin- in Berlin. We. have , not sought dent and Mrs. Johnson could already rejected by the United cial capital. Several battalions overwhelm Manhattan with au- detect no evidence of his earlier States. war in Cuba. We have not took light casualties in a skir- sought war in Viet Nam." tomobiles, then eased into a discomfort when he moved Ho's views were in messages mish eight miles south of Quang slowly, deliberately, to the Japanese newspaper Asa- But, Humphrey added, "We flow described as normal. Fire Sweeps Ngai while other companies of have been called.to , the defense As traffic^ had piled tip during He walked with an easy stride hi Shimbun and to a Havana regional forces bpergjed about a around the ranch lawn, chatting meeting of leftists from three of others as well : as to our- the early rush hour Mayor John mile southeast of this battle- selves." . informally with reporters and continents. The message sug- ground. V. Lindsay warned he might be Sitka, Alaska photographers and joshing some gested anew that Hanoi would Americans do not want to forced to close off the city to agree to negotiate only after the SITKA. Alaska (AP) - A of his guests. He seemed to be A third government force haye it written, he said , that any more automobiles. in fine spirits. United States accepts its four- came under heavy small-arms we were the warriors of the $3.5 million fire destroyed an point demand, which includes " estimated 50 per cent of the Johnson had predicted a few fire about midway between 20th Century." . Lindsay, who took office just „ American troops business district of this historic weeks after surgery that he withdrawal of Quang.