Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 11-1-1965 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" (1965). Winona Daily News. 662. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/662 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 Tonight, For Best Results Cloudy Tuesday; Use Daily News A Little Warmer Classified Ads Cause Sought in $815,000 Fire Magnusson Says Volunteer Dler After Attack He Won't Resign At Fire Scene ST. PAUL (AP) .— State In- Local and state fire marshals an attempt to fire Magnusson. were probing today for the surance Commissioner Cyrus The governor asked for the Magnusson sent a formal cause of a fire Sunday which rejec- resignation Saturday, one day destroyed Randall' tion today to Gov. Karl Rol- after Magnusson and 16 others s Super Valu vaag's request that he resign. here and resulted in an estimat- were indicted for alleged fraud ed $815,000 damage. Rolvaag said he planned to by a federal grand jury. meet with Atty. Gen. Robert A member of the Goodview Mattson this afternoon to dis- Asked bis reaction to Magnus- volunteer fire department, Rol- cuss the next step, which pre- son's refusal, Rolvaag said: and J. Limpert. 36, 840' 39th sumably would revolve around "My reaction is one of disap- Ave., died Sunday evening at pointment, since I was careful Community Memorial Hospital not to prejudge his case but after suffering a heart attack merely sought to restore public at the fire scene in the Westgate confidence in the insurance de- Shopping Center. 17 Dead in partment." . ONE OF THE fonr Winona In his letter, Magnusson ech- firemen injured in fighting the oed his statement late Saturday blaze was expected to return in refusing to resign. Magnusson home from the hospital Tues- Minnesota wrote: day. Capt. Lamar W. Steber, 1171 W "In rely to your letter, I have . 5th St., sufered a mus- cle spasm in his back. He was no reason to resign as insurance the only fireman commissioner and therefore re- hospitalized. Accidents Lambert S. Bronk, Rolling- By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS fuse your request. I am innocent of any wrong doing and will be stone, received a cut on his Seventeen persons died from fully vindicated in court." hand while working with the Minnesota traffic accidents over In a letter earried to Magnus- Rollingstone volunteer fire de- partment in the weekend, raising the 1965 son's home by a member of the support of the Wi- nona firemen. Minnesota City toll to 672. governor's staff Saturday, Rol- vaag asked the commissioner to volunteers also responded to a That compares with 696 a year resign "because it is imperative call for help from Fire Chief earlier. On Oct. 1, the figures that public confidence in all John L. Steadman. were 580 and 616, a gap of 36. matters pertaining to insurance Steadman, although currently Edward Benson, 8, son of Mr. be restored." on sick leave , was at the fire scene to aid Assistant Fire and Mrs. Matthew Benson of Within hours, the executive Chief committee of the Minnesota As- Edward M. Lelwica. in directing Crosby, was killed Sunday aft- the fire fight. ernoon when struck by a car in sociation of Mutual Insurance Agents endorsed the governor's Crosby. LELWICA said today, "It action. wasn't a matter Gary Lynn Davis, 24, Fergus But Magnusson fired back the of lack of fire Falls, died Sunday night, the H^HBBHHMiiHilsVHPtVHi^iVi^itBIHaHM r^-^SHiHii^B^B^BHHBV ^ilH^ equipment or manpower. We same day. "I can tell you with- ' just Highway Patrol said, after the out equivocation, I have no in- WHERE IT STARTED . -. " . The chiefs and two assistant chiefs of the 2 p.m. From left, La Crosse Chief Fred Genz, La Crosse assistant Al Smikla had to contend with that false ceiling and car he was driving rolled over tention of resigning," he told The Winona and La Crosse fire department examine the general area of Randall's (partially obscured) , Winona Chief John L. Steadman and Acting Chief Ervin lack of ventil- ation in the Randall's building. on Highway 59 about five miles Associated Press. "I have done Super Valu at Westgate Shopping Center where a fire started Sunday about R. Laufenburger. (Daily News photo) " south of the Grant-Otter Tail nothing wrong. A man is pre? The first fire rig arrived from County line, in western Minne- sumed innocent until founa the West End fire station at 2:22 sota. Alvena Mortenson of Fer- guilty." p.m., two minutes after the fira gus Falls, a passenger in. Da- The federal grand jury charged call from Randall's manager, vis' car, escaped injury, as did that the u defendants conspired New York Planes Blast James Hogue. By the time Lel- three passengers in the other to take $4 million from Ameri- wica arrived three minutes later ¦ ¦ ¦ . ,. with two other rigs, "the car. The other driver ^arroll can Allied — which sold .i- 1 ' ' Divis" "' " - ..-.. -<>>"^ i** ri« « . smoke high- Reserve ions 6- K» ** Anderson, 24, Wendell, Muin'.i risk auto IhsiffancS'Iif32" states was so thick, you couldn't see> suffered minor cuts to the face. — and related firms controlled your hand in front of your Kfar leader- Missile Sites face," he said. Ralph Lange, 33, a suburban by Philip Kitzer Sr. of Chicago and his sons. This smoke was to play a key St. Paul father of six, and Wil- ' role in limiting the ability of liam J. Fenz. 21, St Paul, were Magnusson is specifically ac- May Survive Cuts cused of allowing American Al- Near Hanoi firemen to get at the fire's killed early Sunday when a car Kills Self "base", according to all the lied to start operating in Min- WASHINGTON (AP) - The not required and would be vision of New York, the 90th South Viet Nam ran off a U. S. 61 curve and READING, Pa. (AP) - Dan- , SAIGON, officers involved. rolled over a bank in St. Paul. nesota in 1963 without proper fi- last six Army Reserve divisions phased out as soon as possi- Infantry Division of Texas the iel Burros, New York Ku Mux " Infantry Division of Ohio ^AP) — Battling their way The West End hose company Passengers Thomas Johnson nancial backing and of allowing — tabbed by Secretary of De- ble. 33/d , 18, Klan leader, shot himself to fense Robert S. McNamara for and West Virginia, the 102nd through heavy missile and con- laid a 2%-inch line from a hy- and Brack Barkcus, 17, both of company officers to pocket 15 55,000 reservists effect- per cent of premium re- death minutes after learning his elimination — may be saved Of the Infantry Division of Missouri ventional antiaircraft fire, U.S. drant northwest of the building St. Paul remained hospitalized Jewish origin had been made ed by McNamara's action at to the door at the ceipts without regard for its fi- 1 after all. and Illinois, and Che 81st Infan- Navy and Air Force planes hit building's today, Johnson in critical condi- public, a fellow Klansman told that time, about 42,000 are en- try Division of Georgia, North northwest corner where the fire nancial status. It was learned today that three surface-to air missile tion and Barkcus in poor "The charges contained In the police. rolled in the six divisions and Carolina, South Carolina and started. The firemen were able condition. Army planners are leaning to- their component elements. launching sites Sunday about 35 indictment against me personal- Burros, 28, died of two bullet ward a proposal that would Tennessee. ' to open this door to get inside ly are extremely weak and in- wounds Sunday shortly after he preserve division structures and The six are : Army officials said these divi- miles northeast of Hanoi, a U.S. where, according to a Randall's Anthony Schwegel Jr., 18, and employe, a whoosh and gush of Mark B. Waltzing, 16, both of nocuous," Magnusson said Satur- had read a New York Times identities, although the outfits The 63rd Infantry Division of sions average about 7,000 men military spokesman said. California, the 77th Infantry Di- smoke had preceded the blaze. thev-St. Cloud area were killed day, "and they form no basis story detailing his long-hidden would be smaller than they are each. One Navy plane was shot Saturday night when Schwegel's for a demand such as, the gov- background. now and their members would down and the pilot was listed as THIS HOSE company pro- ernor has sent to my home to- drill without pay. motor scooter collided with a The shooting was in the apart- missing. ceeded to a hydrant southwest car on Minn. 152 south of St. day." ment of Roy E. Frankhouser Such a solution might satisfy of the burning building, accord- Earlier, Rolvaag had said he Pilots reported they counted Cloud, the Highway Patrol re- Jr., 25, who has been named by congressional critics of McNa- ing to Lelwica, and laid two planned no action over the week- 13-Inch Rain at 17 missiles fired at them during ported. The auto driver, Bene- the House Committee on Un- mara's plans to streamline the more 2%-inch lines. With these, dict"" Feld, 42, of Waite Park, end.