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law; imttttd SEVENTY-FIRST YFAR leased "wire service 3CVS.INI I rit31 TtAK OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STEVENS POINT, WISCONSIN 54481, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1966 COPY 10c FOURTEEN PAGES War Policy Riders Run Tokyo Air Crash Mississippi Tornado Toll Hits 60 Dead, 497 Injured Kills At Least 58 1 Bv T. JEFF WILLIAMS TOKYO (AP) Land ing in fog, a giant DC8 jet of the Canadian Pacific Airline caught its wheels in the approach lights at Tokyo International Air port tonight and smashed into a retaining wall. Police said at least 58 of the 71 persons aboard were killed. A police tabulation showed four others were missing and presumed dead, leaving nine survivors. Jesse Zousmer, a vice president of the American Broadcasting was among those apparently dead, along with his wife.

The $6-million plane, bound from Hong Kong to Vancouver and South America, carried 62 passengers and a crew of nine, the Canadian Pacific said after a series of conflicting reports about the number aboard. The four-engine plane ripped a 20-yard section from the breakwater wall at the edge of the runway and scattered flaming wreckage more than 1,000 yards down the runway. Seven survivors were pulled from the plane but one died aft er being rushed to a hospital, police said. The six survivors included two Americans, Mrs THIS PHOTO taken by the newest weather satellite, Essa II, shows 4,000,000 square miles from Dakotas to the East Coast and from northern Hudson Bay to Tennessee. The Great Lakes are circled in white at lower center and to the left of them is Lake Winnipeg.

Blizzard Paralyzing Dakotas, Minnesota US Pilots Open Up On North Viet Nam Into Snag Bv HARRY KELLY WASHINGTON (AP) Moves to put Congress on record against broadening the war in Viet Nam ran into heavy opposition and apparent defeat with in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today. Chairman J.W. Fulbright, D- said after a closed session that action on his own and an other more sweeping anti-escala tion policy amendment was put off until Monday. He added that as he "sensed the mood of the committee," neither appeared likely to be adopted. The committee discussed the policy amendments after, beating back two moves to trim an emergency $415 million foreign aid authorization bill, the bulk of which would be used in South east Asia.

The committee agreed to re fer the two proposed policy rider amendments to the State Depart ment for comment. One, by Sen. George S. Mc- Govern, was designed to make clear that authorization of additional assistance to South Viet Nam shall not be construed as any indorsement of any policy decisions dealing with the war, A second, by Fulbright, would put Congress on record as say ing approval of the bill, or the furnishing of economic, military or other assistance to any coun try "shall not be construed as a commitment to use armed fore es of the United States for the defense of those countries." Fulbright said he expects State Department opposition to both amendments, and "as I sense the mood of the committee the bill will be reported out about as it was when it was sub mitted" by the President. The committee used the bill as the launching pad for its Viet Nam policy that included a closed session Thursday with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

7 Despite McNamara's almost legendary skill for mustering facts and figures in an argu ment, he failed to budge Com mittee Chairman J. W. Ful bright, D-Ark. McNamara tried answer point by point all the questions that had been raised at Ful-bright's hearings. He told the senators he didn't believe the fighting would spread into a major land war that would bring Red China into the fighting.

He also said that "never before in history has the United States been in a better economic position to fulfill its commitments abroad." Fulbright, however, found the war is "a great burden on this country, as rich as we He said the pinch was even being felt back at the University of Arkansas, where federal funds for a dormitory had been disapproved. Shaking his head, Fulbright observed: "I can't remember another major war that has grown like Topsy from a few men in a foreign-aid mission to a major war." The committee is expected to finish turning out the aid bill, already passed by the House, next week so the Senate can act on it after voting on the tax bill. The tax bill, which ran into some tough opposition in the House before it was passed last week, would reinstate recent reductions in excise taxes on cars and telephone calls, install a graduated withholding tax on personal income, and speed up corporate tax collections. Assassination Caller Arrested By FBI WASHINGTON (AP) The FBI announced today the arrest of Oswald S. Pick, 27, New Jersey, accused of threatening to assassinate President Johnson in a telephone call to FBI headquarters.

The man was taken into custody this morning aboard a Washington-bound train and is held in Philadelphia. The charge, filed in New York, accuses Pick of violating the new law on threats or attempts against the life of the president. The penalty upon conviction could range up to life imprisonment. LBJ Heads For Ranch WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson will fly to his Texas ranch this afternoon for his first weekend visit of the year. Cabinet Called WASHINGTON (AP) Pres ident Johnson summoned his cabinet to the White House to day to discuss plans for streamlining and reorganizing the ex- tcuuvt branch.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A blinding blizzard, probably the worst since the historic storm of 1888. held the Dakotas and western Minnesota in a paralyzing grip for the third straight day today and spread its fury to seven other states of the northern Midwest. The "Great Blizzard" the weather bureau's official classificationbrought new record falls of snow. Its tremendous winds tossed the snow into towering drifts and obliterated visibility. It halted all highway travel, marooned at least six trains, cut off communications to several towns, and closed schools and businesses in North and South Dakota and Minnesota.

A Weather Bureau spokesman said the current storm failed in only one respect to equal the Great Blizzard of 1888. The temperatures had not yet reached subzero, as they did 78 years ago. Thermometer readings were mostly between zero and 10 above. Hundreds of cars and trucks are marooned on the highways, many perhaps covered by drifts. Until the storm subsides, the toll cannot be known.

Bismarck, N.D., reported a JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Rescue workers moved through sparsely populated areas east of here today, picking up the dead and giving aid to the living victims of Thursday's savage tornadoes. Early this afternoon, the Mississippi Highway Patrol reported 60 known dead and 497 injured from the twisters which struck a shopping center here and several rural towns at dusk. Property losses ran high. Hundreds of cattle were killed.

Larry Parks of broadcast station WQFT-FM at Forest, in Scott County, said many homes "are just gonc.and the people In them are missing, too." In Jackson, the state's largest city and capital, a tornado dealt death and devastation in a suburban shopping center. At least 12 persons were killed. Nearby, the modern brick Woodville Heights Baptist church looked like it had exploded. Homes across the street were untouched. One of the tornado victims was Joe Bullock, a Democratic candidate for Congress in Mississippi's 4th District.

Bullock, recently ousted as director of the state's Agriculture and Industrial Board, was killed instantly, the Highway Patrol said, when the twister blew his car off the road near the Fork-ville community in Scott County. Damage was expected to run Into the millions from the state's worst natural disaster since a 1942 tornado left 75 dead in central and northwest Mississippi. An Air Force Reserve C119 transport flew into Jackson shortly after bringing two mobile Red Cross disaster trucks and 20 pints of rare blood from Mobile, Ala. Much of the destruction in Jackson, the state's largest city with a quarter of a million people, was centered around the Candlestick Park shopping center at the southwest edge of the city. The Highway Patrol said 12 persons were killed in the shopping center.

One wall of a supermarket and a service station wall were all that remained standing in the Prisoners from the Jackson and Hinds County jails worked alongside teen-agers, searching for bodies and survivors in the rubble. Bulldozers and construction equipment, owned by the county, were rushed to the area and used to shove aside the tangled debris. WAV. Ragan, State Civil Defense director, said damage to the shopping center "is in excess of a million dollars." A power substation in southwest Jackson was demolished. Much of the city was temporarily thrown into darkness and the lights were out for seven hours in the central business section.

Traffic lights were out because of the power failure and rush hour traffic became snarled. Some people became hysterical. Boy Scouts were pressed into service to help direct traffic, freeing policemen for rescue work. Looting was reported in some damaged areas and also in some sections without lights, but police said "it was kept to a minimum and stopped about as quick as it began." The first twister from the squall line which moved from Louisiana into Mississippi and on to Alabama was reported at Newellton, La. It damaged few houses but left no injuries.

Other funnels stabbed out of boiling, black clouds near Greenwood, leaving a few smashed homes and uprooted trees, but no injuries. Then the shopping center at Jackson was flattened and the tornadoes skipped across Jackson, dropping down into neighboring Rankin County. In Rankin's industrial area, the Knox glass works, Continental Can Co. plant and Jackson Tile Co. plant were wrecked.

A 12-year-old boy was killed in Rankin County when the whirling winds plucked him from a bicycle and slammed him against a fence. The Air National Guard Armory in Rankin County was hit, with bricks peeled off the walls by the force of the twister. One training plane was swept into the air, then smashed on the ground. The worst tornado this century in Mississippi was in the northeast section around Tupelo in That tornado claimed 16 lives. area but could give no details because of the heavy fog.

Fog that has sworled around the Tokyo area for two days cut visibility to about 1,000 yards, airport officials said. A slight drizzle also dampened the run way. The top part of the big jet was completely burned away. Offi cials said the position of the plane made it appear it had spun around violently as it touched down. It was believed possible that the spinning jet hit the breakwater retaining wall near the bay tail first, thus throwing the passengers into the rear of the fuselage.

Ewe Ogden, Far East sales manager for Canadian Pacific Airlines, said the jet was demolished. He said one survivor, an American woman, told him it was apparent "as soon as the wheels of the plane touched the ground that something was wrong." The woman declined to disclose her name. A police spokesman said when the plane was about one mile from the airstrip, it lost altitude and the control tower ordered it to come up. The plane did not answer and continued to make its approach. high total of 501 combat sorties against targets in the South from Thursday until dawn today, the spokesman said.

Forward air controllers reported 370 buildings destroyed, 350 damaged, 10 sampans sunk and 10 fuel or ammunition dumps blown up. A subsequent flight of six Air Force F100 Super Sabres at noon caught about 100 Viet Cong in a rice field after they fired on a spotter plane, a spokesman said. The jets killed 26 and pulverized seven buildings, he said. On the ground, the U.S. 1st Infantry Division opened a new campaign near the Cambodian border in an effort to chop off what spokesmen called an old infiltration route.

A brigade moved 10 miles southwest of Tay Ninh, the provincial capital 50 miles northwest of Saigon, while U.S. pilots flew 184 sorties in support of the force. Four Viet Cong were reported killed, 15 captured and tons of rice, dynamite and ammunition seized only yards from the frontier. -The 1st Infantry also reported three base camps and two tunnels destroyed. The South Vietnamese disclosed 27 of their policemen were captured by the Reds in ambushes Thursday in the six-mile-wide demilitarized zone straddling the 17th Parallel frontier with North Viet Nam.

These were in addition to 11 police killed and two wounded announced earlier. The Interna tional Control Commission for Indochina has begun an investigation. The Weathet Snow spreading over entire state this afternoon, continuing tonight and Saturday. Strong north winds in northwest tonight spreading over state Saturday. Two to four inches of snow expected in northwest.

Considerable blowing and drifting with near blizzard conditions northwest. Low tonight mostly in 20s. High Saturday in the 20a west, 25-33 east. Temperatures Yesterday's high, 44. Last night's low, 28.

Noon today, 28. Precipitation, 1.15. Five-day forecast Temperatures near normal northwest to 3-5 degrees below normal south and east. Normal high 29 to 37. Normal low 10 to 21.

Colder this weekend, warming trend by midweek. Precipitation less than quarter inch in light snow or raia about Tuesday or E. R. Huebner, 27, whose destination was given as Miami, and a man named Berdell, 38. Berdell was in critical condi tion.

Airport officials said 15 land ing lights in Tokyo Bay along the approach to the runway were broken and one wheel was found in the water. Reports at the scene said at least 30 passengers were hurled into the rear of the plane by the violent impact. Rescue workers had difficulty penetrating the main part of the fuselage to get at the bodies. It was the second major air crash at Tokyo's International Airport in a month. Four weeks ago a Japanese Boeing 727 smashed into Tokyo Bay as it was landing.

It was the world's worst single plane disaster, with 133 dead. The Canadian Pacific plane was Flight 402 bound from Hong Kong to Vancouver via Tokyo, then on to Mexico City, Lima, Santiago and Buenos Aires. One report from an airport worker said he heard two explosions as the plane approached. It was not clear whether the explosions occurred before or after the jetliner touched down. The worker added that he saw a fireball erupt from the landing stallations on tracks along the Red River line leading to Red China.

One flight went as far as the Lang Bun railroad bridge 120 miles northwest of Hanoi and about 40 miles from the Chinese frontier, the spokesman said. There was no assessment of damage. But other Air Force planes, he said, knocked out a bridge 110 miles northwest of Hanoi and another 85 miles from the capital on the same rail line, and cut the tracks and damaged cars 100 miles northwest of the city. The Air Force flew a total of 30 missions. Navy planes flew 25.

A mission usually involves more than one plane. The spokesman declined to reveal the number of individual sorties flown in the North but said they were twice the usual figure. The pilots reported antiaircraft fire but there was no announcement on any planes lost in the North. In the South, Viet Cong guns brought down a Marine F4 Phantom south of Chu Lai. The pilot, 1st Lt.

T. P. Keenan, and his radar officer, Capt. C. R.

Fairchild, ejected over the South China Sea and were rescued by aircraft from the Marine base at Chu Lai. Planes from the three American services flew an unusually agency to spell out reasons for denial. In seeking a state charter, the applicants have listed "Bank of Plover" as the proposed name. They said the proposed capital stock is $150,000, surplus $100,000 and contingent fund $50,000. William E.

Nuesse, state commissioner of banks, has ordered a public hearing on the bank charter application at the Hill Farms State Office Building in Madison on Thursday, March 24, at 10 a.m. A spokesman for the applicants said he hoped for a decision by the State Banking Review Board within a few weeks after the hearing. With its recent agricultural, industrial and population growth, Plover has become a fertile field for bank expansion. The First National Bank of Stevens Point has applied for permission to establish a branch in the unincorporated village. Banks in Wisconsin are presently not allowed to establish branches, but legislation is pending to change this.

Supporters of branch banking have predicted passage in the May session of the Legislature. One certainty is that Plover won't have two banks. An in dependent bank or a branch may be approved but not both. 1 record 24-hour fall of inches of snow since Thursday but measurements of drifts were not obtainable--people couldn't get to them. Even Thursday, drift depths of seven feet or more were reported.

Continuing winds of 30 to GO miles an hour, four to eight inches more of snow, and persisting near-zero visibility were forecast for the remainder of the day in western and northern Minnesota, most of South Dakota and southern and eastern North Dakota. Northwestern Wisconsin was hit Thursday night by the worst blizzard of the season with winds gusting to 52 miles an hour. Hazardous driving conditions were reported today in Douglas, Bayfield and Ashland counties. The storm forced all schools in Douglas County, including Superior, to close. Four to seven inches of new snow was reported in the Super-ior-Duluth area during the past 24 hours.

Other reports indicated that quite heavy snow has been falling in the extreme northwestern counties of Wisconsin. Elsewhere in the state precipitation was generally in the form of rain. Temperatures were well ty of Southern Mississippi student, watched the tornado from his home one mile from the shopping center. "You could hear it coming for a long time," he said. "But when I finally saw it, it was just there for a few seconds.

When it finally set down, it sounded like about 50 freight trains." L. M. Luke saved himself by hugging a steel post supporting a building. He said he watched the building collapse and got a gash on his arm. "The only thing that saved me was the seat belt," said Jim Ward, whose car was tossed into the air and dumped upside down in a nearby yard.

Mrs. Clayborne Strickland saw the tornado rush toward her home, then hop over it. "It sounded like a thousand jets," she said. "My husband said, 'Lie against the He had been in tornadoes before. My yard is Just covered with pieces of tin, sticks, splinters things like that." Deputy Sheriff Bob Fasano, in charge of search operations at the shopping center, said he feared there would be additional dead.

He pointed to a stand of trees and said, "all the cars in the parking lot were thrown in there." Fasano said little could be done about searching the trees until dawn because heavy rains had made the area swampy and other search operations were using all the manpower. By THOMAS A. REEDY SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP) U.S. pilots resumed attacks on the railway line linking Hanoi with Red China Thursday in one phase of the war's greatest display of air power against Communist targets in North and South Viet Nam. "It was our maximum ef fort," a spokesman said today.

In the ground war, two bat talions of U.S. Marines report ed hard fighting with a Viet Cong force of about the same size eight miles northwest of Quang Ngai, 320 miles northeast of Saigon. A Marine jet attack bomber and two helicopters supporting the ground forces were shot down. The Marines, brought into the battle by helicopter, radioed that they were receiving heavy mortar, automatic and small-arms fire just before darkness. There was no report on casual ties.

With the first good weather in more than a week, American planes flew 55 missions double the usual number deep into North Viet Nam. For the first time since the 37-day bombing pause ended Jan. 31, they ranged far north of Hanoi. Air Force jets pounded bridges, trains and other railroad in Tornado's Fury Told By Survivors above normal over all of Wis consin except the extreme northwest Thursday. The high est reported in the state was 57 degrees at Burlington.

Madison and the Beloit-Rockford area had 56, Lone Rock 53, La Crosse 52, Milwaukee ,49," Racine 47, Green Bay 44, Eau Claire 43 Park Falls 40, Wausau 39 and the Duluth-Superior area 32. The state low during the night was 27 at La Crosse. The na tional extremes were 91 at Mc- Allen, Texas, and 20 below zero at Butte, Mont. Spring Rain Doesn't Scare Winter OH Spring, in a hurry to push winter out the door, brought us better than an inch of rain Thursday night in a storm which included a few flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder. But with its rent paid up for a couple more weeks, winter ignored the eviction notice and sent temperatures tumbling below the freezing mark today.

No subzero weather is in sight, but snow is expected and crocuses are advised to take the hint and stay underground a-while. Last night's rain, together with melt water from our remaining snow patches, flooded streets in areas not served by storm sewers. For the second time this winter, Park Ridge had a pump operating to remove water from a village low spot. It was set up at the corner of Woodlawn and Greenbriar, and irrigation pipe was strung out to carry the water toward the Plover River. Settlement Near In Ripon Strike RIPON (AP)-Negotiators for the Speed Queen division of Mc-Graw-Edison and United Steel Workers Local 1327 has reached tentative agreement on a contact that would end a four-month-old strike at the company's Ripon plant.

Speed Queen president J. B. Murray said that if terms of the agreement are ratified by the union, production workers would be called back to the job Monday morning. Union president Carleton Retz-laff said he had called a membership meeting for Saturday night to vote on the agreement. However, both sides declined to give details.

The union struck the plant last Nov. 3, two days after expiration of its contract. Speed Queen reopened for limited production Feb. 26, utilizing office and supervisory employes and some non-strikers. Seek State Charter For Bank In Plover By JAMES E.

BONNY JACKSON, Miss. (AP) "It sounded like a thousand jets," said one survivor of the death-dealing tornado which struck Mississippi's capital city. "Like about 50 freight trains on the same track at the same time," was the way another described the fury at dusk Thursday. Larry Swales, 17, an employe of a grocery store in the Candlestick Park shopping center which was flattened, said: "Somebody rushed into the store and yelled, "There's a tornado coming." "There was mass confusion. After it passed, I pulled a dead child from under a car in a yard outside.

People were running around screaming. Howard Polk, owner of the grocery, said he saw a dead woman and a child in a car in the shopping center parking lot. "Another child was walking away from the car with blood running down his face," said Polk. "When it hit," continued Polk, "I was about three blocks up the street. It picked up my car.

When it got back on the ground, I was going back in the direction I had come from. "I heard an explosion and the Woodville Heights Baptist Church just disintegrated just poofed. Debris was going everywhere." Mike Callahan, 13, a Universi Another attempt Is being made to form a bank in Plover. An application for a state charter has been filed by seven area residents, five of whom applied unsuccessfully last year for a national bank charter. The applicants are: Clarence A.

Worzella, a Plover potato grower; Howard B. Woodside, Route 1, Plover, an attorney for Sentry Insurance; Edward J. Okray, Plover, a produce dealer; Samuel G. Kingston, 2032 Main president of the Citizens National Bank of Stevens Point; Milvern E. Jacklin, Plover, a dairy salesman; Wilson B.

Greaton, 2264 Stanley president of the Junction State Bank of Junction City; and Dr. Henry A. Anderson, Whiting, medical director of River Pines Sanatorium. All but Woodside and Greaton applied in August to the comptroller of the currency in Washington, D. for authority to organize a national bank in Plover.

They were turned down last fall. No cause for the rejection was given. An official of the comp troller of the currency's office said it if not the policy of the i.