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rr DAILY NONA NEW Partly Cloudy, Rather Cool Tonight, Saturday River Stage Today 7 64, Year ago 760 1952 5.07 Year of big flood. TWENTY PAGES 107th Ytir of Publication WINONA, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1962 it' TOMORROW SUN RISES SETS NEW MOON APRIL 4 TEN CENTS PER COPY tif 'J "M.V.I 'W i 1 Flood Waters Surge Through Zumbro Falls 1 If 1 if- i li mi 4- Ti. I 1 fry i SI Tracks Wash Away at Hokah; Water Declines Trunk Highway 74 traffic be tween St. Charles and Elba, Minn, was detoured onto Winona County roads today after the rampaging Whitewater River smashed a 75-foot masonry bridge Thursday at Whitewater State Park. Rail service was disrupted at Hokah when the swollen Root River swept away tracks of the southern Minnesota branch of the Milwaukee Road which operates on freight train daily between Austin and La Crosse.

Elsewhere in Southeastern Min nesota, flood waters were generally receding although motorists were hampered by debris and water. INSPECTING THE damaged TH 74 bridge this morning were threa Minnesota Department of Highway officials E. R. Boyce, Rochester, district maintenance engineer; George Flynn, bridge maintenance By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Flood waters that surged into Zumbro Falls business places and made the main street a deep canal retreated today but the Zumbro River and other southern Minnesota streams continued climbing at other areas. Weather observers received some encouragement from the colder weather.

Joseph Strub, cli-matologist for the Twin City Weather Bureau, said the cold won't stop any flooding now under way but it will delay the flow from extreme headwaters still frozen. Tht Zumbro, which hit Rochester with a record flood level Thursday, struck little Zumbro Falls later in the day. Art Norland, a main street cafe operator, said four families were driven from their homes and floodwater poured into the street level doors of some stores. The water on Main Street, he said, was "waist deep." Flood stage at Zumbro Falls is AC- wHfatJiT: Wwt TH 74 BRIDGE SMASHED The Whitewater River a Trunk Highway 74 bridge at Whitewater State Park disrupting traffic between Elba and St. Charles.

A temporary structure is expected to be installed in a few days. This view of the bridge, looking east, shows the smashed arch at left. Elba is toward the left. St. Charles toward the right.

IDaily News photo) engineer who made a special trip from St. Paul, and Henry C. Kraus, Goodview, resident engi neer. NIAGARA RIVER RESCUE Three-year-old April Hubbard reaches top of Niagara River Gorge at Niagara Falls, in mine basket today with rescuer Russell Sanderson after spending 11 hours on rocky ledge 45 feet down the gorge. April fell into the gorge yesterday while playing.

Rescue took place about Vt mile below the Falls. (AP Photofax) Kraus said a survey crew would Trip Called Fascinating Jackie Wants Husband to Go With Her Next Time Ribicoff, Goldberg Mentioned 18 feet at the Zumbro crested at 28.3 at 4 p.m. The drop Was fast and Norland said the river was back in its channel today. The flood victims were cleaning out their homes and business places and getting ready to move back in. At Rochester, too, the Zumbro was back in its banks and the 30 families who fled their homes were moving back in.

The river was down to six feet from its 18.5 foot crest Thursday. be sent to the bridge later today to take measurements for installation of a temporary structure to close the gap in the bridge. Tha temporary structure will be install ed in a few days. The highway department will consider whether permanent repairs could be made NO FLY-BY-NIGHT SCHEME US. Fights Screwworm with Pope John XXIII: throuch or whether a new bridge will havt to be built.

By RAYMOND J. CROWLEY-WASHINGTON (AP)-President India, where she viewed the Taj Mahal by day and moonlight and Strub said the Zumbro was at 43 The present bridge is 25 yeari cruised the Ganges River to the old and of masonry construction Kennedy was believed today to have practically made up his mind feet today at Theilman, where flood stage is 38 feet. The body of Christian Garness, on a Supreme Court appointee to holy Hindu city of Banares; to Pakistan, where she saw the fabled Khyber Pass and was given a thoroughbred horse named Sar- succeed retiring Justice Charle, 68, rural Blooming Prairie, was found in water near his stalled Evans Whittaker. But he kept his own counsel amid a swirl of dar; and London, where she had car Thursday. Garness apparent By WALTER R.

MEARS WASHINGTON (AP) Mrs. John F. Kennedy says her journey through the storied lands of India and Pakistan was fascinating and valuable but she'd rather go abroad with her husband next time. President Kennedy, proud and beaming, welcomed the First Lady home Thursday night from her semi-official tour, When the family plane, "Caroline," taxied to a halt at Washington National Airport, Kennedy hurried up the ramp to greet his wife inside. A few minutes later, the smil ing First Lady emerged.

An airport crowd of about 200 applauded as Mrs. Kennedy, wearing a black suit, walked down the stairs. The President followed, hat in hand. As she winged homeward from London aboard a commercial jet airliner, Mrs. Kennedy said the kindness shown her abroad "was because I was the wife of the President so the people were showing this affection for him and he should have been there to receive it." THE 20-DAY tour took Mrs.

Kennedy to for an audience speculation. lunch with Queen Elizabeth. ly got out the car to try to The many names figuring in the walk to dry land, on a county It was, Mrs. Kennedy said, "The road five miles south of Clare- most fascinating experience imag guesswork included two Cabinet members Secretary of Welfare mont, then drowned in the flood- inable." But she said it didn't water. An autopsy was planned.

with metal culvert reinforcement. One of the bridge's three spans was smashed and hurled into tha river by floodwaters. The broken span is in the river near tht bridge. The bridge was built by tha Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Wayno Kontola, superintendent of Whitewater State Park, said the bridge was smashed about 4 p.m.

Thursday. The bridge which is seven miles north of St. Charles is at the north end of the park near the camping area. The bridge roadway carries a single lane of traffic. Floodwaters ran over sections of 74 from Elba to Weaver and from Abraham A.

Ribicoff, 51, former governor of Connecticut, and Sec seem natural to make such a trip without the President. And she The Root River at Hokah, in southeastern Minnesota, stood at retary of Labor Artrur J. Gold berg, 53, of Chicago. 47 this morning, unchanged from Ribicoff once served as a police court judge in Hartford. Goldberg added she belongs at home with her family.

That's where she went Thursday night, after a brief hello at the airport to U.S., Indian and Pakistani diplomats on hand to greet her. J. Kenneth Galbraith, U.S. Ambassador to India, gave the First Lady a kiss on the has nad no judicial experience, although he has practiced law extensively, especially in the labor field. In announcing Whittaker' retirement because of physical exhaustion, Kennedy said Thursday Spring Valley to Chatfiold, disrupt ing traffic in those sections.

House Passes Tax Revision cheek. At Hokah the single track line Smiling broadly, the President he would name a successor short was washed away west of the depot. There was no immediate and his lady drove back (o the White House for Mrs. Kennedy's report from the railroad about ly. This was taken to mean he had someone in mind, because it takes time to winnow possibilities.

Some lawyers speculated that reunion with the children, 4-year- when repairs would be made. The Root was at a standstill at old Caroline and John 16 months. since Kennedy has an eye to history, he might name a legal lum Hokah this morning after flooding bottomland and closing TH 18 at Mrs. Kennedy "made her home WASHINGTON (Jt Administration leaders in Congress hailed today President Kennedy's tax revision bill victory in the House and turned their attention to a Senate fight expected to be just as hot. An almost straight party-line vote saved the" bill in the House Thursday.

Passage by a vote of 219 to 1 came a few hours after the President at his news conference, made a personal plea for the meas iron, bamboo and other curtains dividing nations a fly curtain between Mexico and the United States. There are no plans, however, to change the name of that song to "the flies of Texas are upon you," and the program is not intended to stimulate the of fly swatters. What tht government has in mind is eliminating a livestock pest the screwworm fly that is costing cattlemen about $125 million a year. In its larval stage the fly feeds on the flesh of cattle. It can kill a newborn calf in a week.

The idea is not new. It was used with success a few years ago in Florida. But it has never been tried on sucb a scale and country without the natural barriers of ocean and gulf that Florida has. How do you eliminate flies by producing them at the rate of 75 million a week? Science and sex are the answer. It seems a male screwworm fly rendered sterile by radiation is just as interested in female screwworm flies as his untreated brothers and she in him.

Flood an infested area with sterile males, let nature take its course, and pretty soon no larva, no flies, and no problem. It is estimated it will take about three years for the 'screwworm flies to eliminate themselves. February Traffic. Claims 2,440 Lives CHICAGO (AP)- The National Safety Council reported Thursday that traffic mishaps claimed 2.440 lives in the United States in February, an increase of 7 per cent over February, 1961. By JOHN BECKLER WASHINGTON (AP) The government is hatching plans to produce 75 million flies a week and turn them loose in Texas.

It is also planning to add to the Jury Gets Case Against 3 in Police Slaying MADISON, Wis. UV-The fate of three Chicago men accused of killing one Wisconsin policeman and wounding another was in the hands of a Circuit Court jury of six men and six women today. Defendants far the seven-week old trial are William Welter, 23, and Richard Nickl and Lawrence Nutley, both 27. All are charged with first degree murder in the slaying of Sauk County Patrolman James Jantz and with attempted murder in the wounding of Lake Delton Police Chief Eugene Kohl. Jantz, 25, of Baraboo, and Kohl were shot Aug.

21 in a Lake Del-ton gunbattle after the officers stopped the trio's car to question them about lavish spending in area resorts. In instructions to the jury latt Thursday, Circuit Court Judge Bruce Beilfuss imposed a limit on the verdict that could be reached. He said each defendant must be found guilty or innocent of first degree murder and guilty or innocent of attempted murder. And he told the jury that if "any reasonable doubt exists- in your minds as to the state proving all elements of its case you must acquit the defendants." about 4 p.m. Thursday.

Traffic inary such as: I. Paul Abraham Freund, 54, was detoured through the village on TH 44. This highway joins 18 coming statement aboard the flight from London to New York, where the Caroline was waiting to take her to Washington. A reporter asked: "Would you like to make a trip like this again?" And law professor and legal historian at Harvard, author of "On Understanding the Supreme Court," and other works about the high tribu Thursday night. Flood stage is 47.

Upstream at Houston, where flood stage is 15, the Root was at 17.8 today and Strub thought the crest may have been reached. He added, however, that there probably will be little chance of much falling off for 36 hours. Floodwaters of the Root washed out some Milwaukee Road railroad tracks west of the Hokah depot. Water lay over Highway 18 between Hokah and La Crosse, Wis. In Western Minnesota, ice went out of the Yellow Medicine River at Granite Falls overnight.

Ice left the Cottonwood River, near New Ulm. Thursday and the river was clinbing rapidly near Lamberton. The level at New Ulm today was 14.3 three feet over flood stage, and Strub thought the Root may climb as high as 16 feet Saturday. The climatologist said most flooding would be on farm areas. The Minnesota River broke loose south of Mankato and rose rapidly, from 7.4 feet Thursday morning to 13 today.

A crest of 18 feet was expected Monday afternoon. However, flood stage is 19 feet and Strub said dikes would protect to 26 feet. The weather official said it was fortunate melt has not begun on the upper Mississippi River, north of the Twin Cities, or on the St. Croix or Chippewa rivers. When these waters start coming, another rise can be expected again north of the village.

Despite flooding, children In the Hokah area were getting to school. Families living north of Hokah have begun moving Into town Mrs. Kennedy gave a written nal. Kennedy is reported to have offered him the post of solicitor reply- general at the start of the admin which is safe from floodwater. "I would not have missed one istration but Freund is said to have turned it down.

Archibald second of it," she said. "However, tt feels unnatural for me to go Cox is now solicitor general. on such a lone semiofficial trin Thursday night the Richard Johnson and Leslie Sheehan families moved into town to stay with relatives. Remaining in the flooded area are the John Von Arx family, which lives on high ground, and 2. Eugene Victor Rostow, 41, without my husband.

I have lawyer-economist," dean of the missed my family and have no Yale Law School and, brother of desire to be a public personality Walt Whitman Rostow. chairman on my own." of the State Department'i policy planning council, i Mrs. Kennedy, who made the ure, ine House action was considered his biggest triumph of the 1962 session. Rep. Hale Boggs of Louisiana, the Democratic whip, said "this sets the pattern for the Kennedy program this year.

These were Democratic votes." On final passage, 218 Democrats and a lone Republican, Rep. Richard H. Poff of Virginia, supported the bill, while 162 Republicans and 34 Democrats voted against it. House Democratic Leaders said privately that when the day began the bill lacked the necessary votes to survive. Up to voting time the leaders worked furiously, buttonholing all Democratic House members.

The key test was a Republican effort to strip the two most important provisions from the measure $1.2 billion in annual tax cuts to business that buy modern machinery and equipment and a withholding system for interest and dividends. The administration won this fight with the support of 225 Dem Some thought that Kennedy tour with her sister. Princess Lee Radziwill, said, "We will never forget all the people who were so kind to us, but our husbands were the kindest of all for letting us go." might name a Negro to the Supreme Court for the first time, but others felt he would wait until later before taking this historic step. In case he decides to take it "It was an unusual trio because now, a name prominently mentioned is William Henry Hastie, 57, former governor of the Virgin Islands and since 1947 judge of it was neither official nor private," she said. "The reason it happened is because my husband knew how much I had always longed to see India and Pakistan.

This was my only chance so I'm grateful to him and to my broth the J. M. Lorenz family. Boyce said 16 was expected to be closed at Hokah until Saturday morning at the earliest. When there's heavy flooding from the Root, 48-72 hours is the minimum it takes before th water recedes," Boyce said.

TH 61 was open today between the Twin Cities and La Crosse after being closed near Lake City Wednesday and Thursday when runoff water ran over the road. The area is l'i miles north of Lake City, opposite Hok-Si-La, the Boy Scout camp. Here's a roundup of conditions on other area highways: TH 26 Closed since Thursday morning because of flooding from the Root. The segment runs from TH 16 to a point li miles (Continued on Page 3. Column 5) HIGHWAYS FRIEND TOOK EXAM FOR HIM the 3rd U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals, with headquarters at Another Negro figuring in the ocrats. Voting to strip the bill were 163 Republicans and 27 Edward Kennedy Tells of Embarrassment at Harvard Anoka Hospital Head Resigns, Protests Setup ANOKA, Minn. (AP) -The pres. ent setup at Minnesota state hospitals is "administratively absurd," Dr. Donald B.

Peterson said Thursday night in resigning as head of he Anoka institution. Peterson said he was quitting because the new Minnesota policy of replacing hospital medical directors with lay administrators "gives very little hope for improvement of the state's mental hospitals." He said he had accepted the superintendence of the Fulton, Mo. state hospital and asked that his resignation become effective no later than Sept. 4. In condemning the lay administrator system, Peterson that a hospital must have undivided administrative authority to provide an effective recovery atmosphere for mental patients.

He is the fifth Minnesota hospital head to have quit since 1959. WEATHER FEDERAL FORECAST WINONA AND VICINITY-Part-ly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Little change in temperature. Low tonight 25. high Saturday 35.

LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for the 24 hours ending at 12 m. today: Maximum; 39; minimum, 28; noon, 34; precipitation, trace. AIRPORT WEATHER (North Central Observations) Max. temp. 38 at 2 p.m.

Thursday, min. 28 at 6 a.m. today, noon 33. sky overcast at 3.000 feet, visibility 15 miles, wind 15 m.p.h. from west, barometer 30.09 and steady, humidity 72 percent.

The Senate Finance Committee er-in-law (Prince Stanislas Radziwill) for letting us, two sisters, be away from home where we belong for so "They were wise," she added, "because it has taught us so much, our lives and our thoughts will have been enriched and deepened by this experience." will lose no time in getting down guessing game is Thurgood Marshall, 53, of New York City. As chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, he was a leader in the legal fight that led to the Supreme Court's decision against school segregation. to work on the bill, but floor de bate in that branch is many weeks away. Secretary of the Treasury Doug las Dillon will be the opening wit Agents Raid Shack ness as five weeks of public testimony begin next Monday. Chair man Harry F.

Byrd, said more than 200 witnesses are list ed and the hearings may run even longer. Boy Operates Still Kennedy, saying he wants to set the record straight, told this story of the incident: "I entered Harvard in 1950 at the age of 18. During the second semester of my freshman year I made a mistake. I was having difficulty in one course, a foreign language. "I BECAME SO apprehensive about it that I arranged for a fellow freshman friend of mine to take the examination for me in that course.

The dean learned of this and my friend and I were asked to withdraw with the understanding that we might reapply for admission after a period of absence, provided that during that time we could demonstrate a record of constructive and responsible citizenship." After leaving Harvard, Kennedy joined the Army as a private and served two years in Europe as an infantryman. "Upon my return to the United States," Kennedy continued, "I made application to Harvard and was accepted for readmission. My friend, who was also readmitted, and I later represented Harvard in intercollegiate athletics. "I worked hard, passed all my courses some with honors and was graduated in good standing in 1956." Kennedy said he applied for admission to University of Virginia law school after graduation from Harvard. "The authorities at that institution," he said, "were fully aware of all the facts surrounding the Harvard incident.

They have an honor system at the law school of the University of Virginia. I was accepted at that institution and was graduated in good standing three yean later." BOSTON AP) Edward M. Kennedy, youngest brother of the President and an aspirant to the U.S. Senate, disclosed today he was asked to leave Harvard University in 1951 for having a friend take a freshman examination for him: "What I did was wrong," he told the Boston Globe in an interview. "I have regretted it ever sincip.

The uhhappiness I caused my family and friends, even though 11 years ago, has been a bitter experience for me, but it has also been a very valuable lesson." Kennedy later returned to Harvard and was graduated in good standing in 1956. The story of young Kennedy's withdrawal from Harvard has been rumbling around in Massachusetts political circles for some time. 1 MANITOWOC, Wis. W) State agents led another raid on an illegal still Thursday night and jailed a 17-year-old high school boy they said had been operating it in a shack near his parents' home for the past two years. Sheriff Reuben Huntington said that the boy's father was taken into custody later and admitted helping his son build the still and obtain ingredients to make moon- school and for parties at homes when parents were away.

They said he had made several hundred dollars. State agents and local police, who made the raid, declined to identify the youth, except to say he lived in the Town of Manitowoc Rapids, about two miles west of here, and was a student at Manitowoc Lincoln High School. Officials said they would confer Here is how Minnesota and Wisconsin congressmen were recorded as the House voted 225-199 Thursday to refuse to strike two key provisions from President Kennedy's tax bill: Democrats against: Blatnik, Karth and Marshal of Minn. Republicans for: Andersen, Judd, Langen, MacGregor, Nelsen qnd Quie of Minn. Voting against the move were Wisconsin Democrats Johnson, Kastenmeier, Reuss and Zablocki.

Voting for were Wisconsin Republicans Byrnes, Laird, O'Konski, Schadeberg, Thomson and Van Pelt. found in the basement of the fam ily home along with a 55-gallon barrel of ingredients and a gas plate. A barrel containing 30 to 40 gallons of moonshine was discovered behind the garage. An agent estimated it was about 80 proof. Officials quoted the boy as saying he made the liquor by adding sugar and yeast to plums, apples and peaches.

An agent for the State Cigarette and Beverage Tax Division said the raid was the sixth on an illegal still in the state in the last eight months. shine. with the district attorney today on was held as a Authorities said the boy had been i charges. The boy selling the liquor for $1.50 a quart I juvenile prisoner. or a fifth to students at the high' A 20-gallon capacity still was 0.

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