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III LI jL. VOL LIX, NO. 36 TWO SECTIONS 22 Pages SHEBOYGAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1966 PRICE 10 CENTS 1st Cavalry Overruns Two Cong Companies i li Official Low Americans Open Major Offensive By MICHAEL T. MALLOY SAIGON (UPI) -The U.S. Cold Wave Is Misery To Millions By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Paralyzing Cold Siege Continues The Sheboygan area continued in the frigid, bone-chilling grip of a "real old-fashioned winter" again today.

And there still is no immediate relief in sight. At 6 a.m. today the temperature was recorded at 20 below zero on official U.S. Weather Bureau instruments at The Press building in downtown Sheboygan, the coldest of the year here and a degree below the -19 of Friday morning. One weather-related death was reported in the city.

Leslie W. Herber, 50, of 1634 iaemann was dragged 129 feet down the Photo) KILLED AT ADELL GRADE CROSSING Donald E. Eisentraut, 49, of R. 1, Adell, was killed Friday when his car was struck by a freight train at a crossing in Adell. The car Auto Hits Train, Driver Killed College Students Face Draft Calls Trains Collide In Spectacular Crash In Ohio BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP) A freight train slammed into a derailed baggage car at the end of a passenger train headed the opposite direction Friday night, sending three diesel units and 42 loaded freight cars off the track and setting off a spectacular series of events.

One of the locomotives tumbled from a railroad bridge onto Ohio 508 at the south edge of DeGraff, 10 miles south of here, and the other two locomotives and more than half of the derailed cars ran down a 50-foot embankment into a creek. Three crewmen on the 68-car New York Central freight, bound from Buffalo, N.Y., to St. Louis, via Indianapolis, suffered minor injuries. The passenger train the New York Central Southwesterner carrying an estimated 100 pas sengers, simply detached the baggage car at the end and con tinued on to Cleveland where it joined to make up another train headed for New York. The Southwesterner had originated in St.

Louis. Millions of Americans shivered and suffered today In rec ord-shattering cold. The arctic air broke low marks for the date that had stood as long as 72 years. The Weather Bureau called it "one of the most widespread cold spells in years." A storm dumped up to a foot of snow in the South. The mercury shriveled below the zero mark in 27 states.

It plunged to -40 in Williston, N.D., the coldest of the cold spots in the midwinter chill that covered almost all of the territory east of the Rockies. 'Winds of 40 m.p.h. piled snow Into drifts in Arkansas, northern Mississippi and Tennessee. Jackson, had five inches of snow in six hours. Miscle Shoals, had five inches; and Nashville and Memphis three.

The storm that dumped as much as a foot of snow in Arkansas swirled on into the Tennessee Valley. Face Another Storm The storm center on Saturday morning was over the Florida Panhandle. The Weather Bu reau warned that it will "gain strength and hurl another storm up the weather-weary eastern seaboard." The misery in the big zero belt that stretched from Texas to New York State was caused by plain, piercing cold. Records fell like snow flakes. Among them: Des Moines -23, Rockford, -19, Milwaukee -23, Grand Rapids, -16, Kansas City, -7.

Chicago's official -16 tied a mark for Jan. 29 that has been on the books since 1873. The city's Department of Buildings was deluged Friday by 370 com plaints of unhealed or insufficiently heated apartments. That, too, was a record. The temperature tobogganed 20 degrees in four hours in New (Turn To Page 8, Col.

3) Weather WISCONSIN Severe cold continuing tonight and Sunday. Variable cloudiness with chance of some snow flurries especially north and east. Low tonight 18 below to 28 below. High Sunday 5 below to 12 below. Sheboygan Temperature! (Official Temperatures By U.S.

Weather Bureau) Yesterday's high -7 Overnight low -20 temperature -19 Sheboygan Sklei Today Sunset today 4:57 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow Moonset tomorrow 1:08 a.m. First Quarter today 1:49 p.m. The Planet, Venus, today, Is at Perihelion, the point on its orbit nearest the Sun. Next Saturday, Venus will begin a seven month appearance as a morning star, (All Times Central Standard) Computed For The Sheboygan Press By Bailey R.

Frank, North Conway, N.H. collapsed Friday evening a short time after pushing a stalled car at his home. He died of an apparent heart attack in St. Nicholas Hospital. Elkhart Has -30 Only 11 times this century have Sheboyganites shivered in temperatures colder than 20 below.

The all-time low in the city is -25, originally set on Jan. 25, 1904, and subsequently equalled. And here, near Lake Michigan, it was not as cold as it Ihrrrr 7 a.m. 8 a.m. 9 a.m.

10 a.m. 11 a.m. 20 19 15 11 5 12 noon -2 was in western parts of the county. An Elkhart Lake resident reported an early morning low of -30, a drop of four degrees from Friday's -26 in the village. "I have a new thermometer," she said, "and I checked my reading with several neighbors and we all had 30 below." The current cold wave the 10th day in this "nippy" January that the local temperature has plunged below zero results from a large high pressure (Turn to Page 8, Col.

7) will have to pump out a lot of water before we can find out whether there are other bodies in there." A two-phase investigation was begun into the cause of the blast, tentatively attributed to illuminating gas. The state fire marshall's office opened an inquiry parallel to that ordered by the Boston Gas Co. A spokesman for the utility said the main along Boylston Street between Tremont and Washington Streets was closed, cutting service to the nearby hotel Touraine. There had been no reports of leaks prior to the explosions, the spokesman said. He said the criteria will be similar to those employed during the Korean conflict, which included test score and class standing.

The draft law specifies, however, that the guidelines are not binding on the local boards. Under the system used from 1951-63, some 600,000 youths were given a Selective Service college qualification test. The passing score on the test was 70 to be considered by the local draft board for deferment as a regular college student and 80 for a graduate student, except that 70 was acceptable for graduate students in the healing arts. The class standing criteria were that at the end of a college year a freshman had to be in the upper one-half of his class, a sophomore in the upper two-thirds, and a junior in the upper three-fourths. Monthly draft calls during the Korean conflict rose to a peak of 80,000 a month.

The buildup in the nation's military forces in recent months to meet demands arising from the war in Viet Nam has brought calls ranging as high as 45,229 for December. The January call was for 38,280, the February call is for 29,400 and the March levy is for 32,900. Hershey said negotiations have begun with testing agencies. He said also that the student certificate which schools now submit to reflect student standing is being revised to obtain class standing. A spokesman said the current requirements that a youth must be taking a full-time course and must have satisfactory standing as determined by the institution will continue in effect.

Search For More Bodies In Boston Blast; 9 Die Army's 1st Cavalry today overran an estimated two Communist companies about 200 men in a major American offensive along South Viet Nam's Highway One. Heavy fighting was reported under way. The Cavalry was reported in pursuit of an estimated battalion (500 to 600 men) of Viet Cong and regular North Vietnamese troops in the coastal area 310 miles northeast of Saigon. A spokesman said the Communists apparently were prepared to ffht to the last man. UPI correspondent Joseph Gallowfv, accompanying the First Battalion of the Seventh Cavalrv said the cavalrymen killed 59 Communist soldiers in an fttack on a fortified village north of Bong San, some of them in regular North Viet Nam uniforms.

The 1st Cavalry, who won fame in the battle of the la Drang Valley and Chu Pong Mountain, were engaged in "Operation masher," one of three major American offensives against suspected Viet Cong strongholds. The cavalrymen landed Fri day from Helicopters into a Communist concentration on Highway One and sent them fading northward after a heavy skirmish. The 101st Airborne landed by helicopter 100 miles to the south in a similar "Operation Van Friday. Third Operation The third American operation was Operation Buckskin 20 miles southwest of Saigon where troops of the 1st Army Division have killed 87 Viet Cong in a week-long operation. The village of Ptan-An, overrun by the cavalrymen (Turn To Page 8, Col.

2) The Paramount and Plymouth hotels were located in the heart of Boston's sin and sex strip, three blocks from the scene of the November, 1942 Coconut Grove holocaust which claimed 492 lives. The initial explosion blew apart Leonardi's Bar and the Chantilli Coffee Shop on the street floor of the 11-story Paramount Hotel. Tons of debris thundered into the basement of the Paramount, forming a tomb for at least six persons. But others were rescued from the cellar inferno. "I was amazed to think we got some live ones out of the cellar," Fire Chief William A.

Terrenzi said. Gas-fed flames quickly raced through the two hotels and the Gilded Cage, a gaudy strip bar on the street floor of the Plymouth Hotel. Three bodies were recovered from upper floors of the Paramount Hotel. Deadly Debris Filled Air Several lesser explosions followed the initial blast, sending shrapnel-like pieces of glass and steel in all directions. Huge chunks of concrete, masonry and granite rained down on the area for blocks around.

Assistant Fire Chief John Howard said "human limbs could be seen everywhere." Authorities expressed fear that as many as 25 to 30 persons might have been killed. Officials said the toll would have been far higher later in the evening when sailors and soldiers on weekend leave crowd the nightspots in what Bostonians call the "combat zone." In heat so intense it carried manhole covers red and cold so bitter it froze ice inches thick on their garments firemen repeatedly risked their lives to enter the flaming structures and carry injured persons to safety. WASHINGTON (AP) The Selective Service System is moving to tighten up on college student deferments next fall by providing local draft boards with guidelines based on both testing and class standing. The national director, Lt. Gen.

Lewis B. Hershey, announced Friday that details will be announced soon. Union Boss Mike Quill Dies' At 60 NEW YORK (UPI) -Michael J. Quill, the blustery union boss who called the transit strike which disrupted the life of the city and its eight million people, died in his bed Friday of a heart attack. He was 60.

Quill had a 10-year history of heart trouble. Just three days after the transit strike began Jan. 1, when he was ordered to civil jail for contempt of court, the Irish-born labor leader collapsed of what his doctor called "congestive heart failure." He was hospitalized through the remainder of the 12-day strike and released only Monday. He was his usually fiery, sharp-tongued self at a news conference the next day. The fatal attack came while Quill napped at his Manhattan apartment.

He had been conducting union business from his home during the day. Police Guard Called Police, who were euardine Quill because of recent threats against him, said that about p.m., Quill's wife, Shirley, went to his room. Suddenly, she screamed that something was wrong. A doctor arrived and pronounced ram dead. The body of the labor leader will go on view at a funeral home tonight for the next two aays.

Quill's death came when he was at the height of popularity among the Transit Authority's 36,000 employes, members of the Transport Workers Union, I (Turn to Page 8, Col. 5) track. (Sheriff's Department Rural Adell Man Victim A Town of Scott resident was fatally injured shortly after noon Friday when his car was struck by a Milwaukee Road freight train at the County Trunk A crossing on the southern outskirts of Adell. Donald E. Eisentraut, 49, of R.

1, Adell, was pronounced dead on arrival at Plymouth Hospital. Death was attributed to head injuries. His death was the first highway fatality of the year for Sheboygan County. The county did not register its first highway death in 1965 until Feb. 20.

Dragged 129 Feet Investigating county officers said Eisentraut's car was dragged 129 feet down the right of way by the 72-car freight which was being pulled by five engines. The train was traveling about 32 miles an hour. Witnesses told county officers that Eisentraut was traveling about 8 to 10 miles an hour when his car was struck. Eisentraut was alone in the car. The crossing is protected by cross arms and a bell.

Authorities said the warning bell was operating. Employed by the Adell Cooperative, Mr. Eisentraut was born Jan. 20, 1917, in the Town (Turn To Page 8, Col. 1) By Any Other Name ST.

LOUIS (UPI) -The St. Louis Board of Aldermen is considering some image improvement for gaudy DeBali-viere Avenue, a strip of night spots, discotheques and a burlesque house. The aldermen received a bill Friday tc rename the street in honor of the late poet T. S. Eliot, a St.

Louis native. isters and the executive committee will be held in Brussels. Disagreement remained at the end of a morning session, however, on the main point in dispute Whether or not a veto right can be retained by individual members on decisions of vital national interest. A new French proposal on this is being considered. "We have to ruminate over it," said Dutch Foreign Minister Josef Luns after a working dinner Friday night.

But Gerhard Schroeder, the West German foreign minister, said the latest French proposal still did not answer the basic question: Should each of the six member nations keep a veto over major decisions? France has bought to keep the veto, but the other five members want to go ahead with plans to replace it with majority rule. The new French idea is this: there would be no formal veto but if a member nation said a proposal threatened its national interest, France would refuse to take part in the voting or to recognize the result there were vote. Johnson lias 'Free Hand' In Viet War WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres ident Johnson has answered increasing demands for a continued bombing pause in North Viet Nam by saying that Congress already has given him a virtually free hand to act as he sees fit. In a three-sentence reply Friday to 16 senators who asked him to extend the 37-day-oId pause, the President referred then to the broad mandate given him by Congress in August, 1964. The mandate was contained in a resolution passed almost unanimously shortly after North Vietnamese vessels at tacked American warships in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Gives Broad Mandate It supported his use of "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression." The resumption of air attacks still appeared inevitable on the basis of the administration's assessment of the lack of positive response to its peace efforts. The only question seemed to be when and on how large a scale. The outlook was further clouded by the broadcast by Hanoi Radio of a letter North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh was said to have sent to the leaders of Russia, Red China and other Communist countries. The letter did not mention the bombing pause directly but took a hard and apparently uncompromising line on North Viet Nam's position on negotiations and could be the Communists' last word on the peace offers. White House Press Secretary Bill D.

Moyers told newsmen that Johnson "wants to make absolutely certain in his own mind that what he decides is best for the nation No one except the President knows in his own mind when that process of evaluation has ended." High Level Meeting Johnson's reply to Thursday's letter from the senators came as he continued his sessions with top advisers. Friday's meeting included Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNama-ra, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, U.N. Ambassador Arthur J.

Goldberg and Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In his note to the senators Johnson referred them to a letter he sent last week to 76 liberal House Democrats who were concerned about escalation of the war. The letter implied the Communists were using the bombing pause to reinforce their forces in the south with further men and supplies.

Jilted? BARTHOMLEY, England (UPI) Found by the roadside here: A plastic bag contain ing a brand new wedding gown and headdress. BOSTON (UPI) Grim searchers hunted for more bodies today in icy rubble caused by devastating explo sions which ripped through two hotels in Boston honky-tonk district Friday night, killing at least nine persons and injuring 58 others. The series of blasts and flames triggered by them roared through the Paramount and Plymouth hotels, a strip joint, a bar and a coffee shop. Some 150 persons fled the hotels into 14-degree cold intensified by strong winds. The blasts made a 30-foot crater in busy Boylston Street.

A fire department official, pointing to the hole, said: "We Mil France, CM Partners Approve Major Point fv itvtmmmi muipliwiwumj 1 warn LUXEMBOURG (AP)- France and its five common market partners agreed today on one of the two major points in the dispute between France and the community's other members what powers should the community executive committee have. Before final agreement on the executive committee's powers, a joint discussion between min Today's Index Look in the Press Classified Section for "Just what you've always wanted." It might be there! Regular Page Features No. Churches 12 Classified 1S-19 20 21 Comics 10 Editorial 22 Markets 4 Obituaries 8 Personals 4 Show Time 17 Society 6-7 Sports 16-17 Television 11 Timetable 10 fire ripped through two bars, a coffee shop and a 10-story hotel. The blast blew out a 60-foot section of a sidewalk in front of the structures. (AP Wirephoto) EXPLOSION TAKES NINE LIVES This was the scene on Boston's Boylston Street to-c'ay, aftermath of Friday night's explosion and fire that claimed at least nine lives and injured scores of other persons.

The blast and Michael J. Quill 1.