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-JL. 11 Jf A ILIi. i --i-mmi Fair Tonight, Cloudy Little Warmer INQ NA For Best Results Use Daily News Classified Ads SIXTEEN PAGES 110th Ytar of Publication WINONA, MINNESOTA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1965 TOMORROW SUN RISES SETS FULL MOON FEBRUARY 15 TEN CENTS PER COPY run y.s. fc'ir Vfefe TU Attack Could Have Been Worse Young American Gives Life In Viet Outpost U.S. Dependents Ordered Out of Danger District WASHINGTON LP) U.S.

and South Vietnamese planes struck another major air blow at Communist North Viet Nam today the second in two days and reported leaving military camps in border areas afire. They have three daughters, Pf 'fc aged 11, 6 and 2. Pyle was transferred to Viet Nam last November from Ft. Ord, Calif. His family remained at home in "We were lucky, God, we were lucky," said a U.S.

Army major who had been sleeping in the officers' quarters nearby. Pyle was married to a Korean he met in 1952 while he was fighting the Communists there. Marina, near Ft. Ord. Mrs.

Pyle wept at the news. Bill Mauldin, the GI cartoon Here in Washington, the National Security Council met at the White House with President Johnson. A major purpose was to hear a report from McGeorge Bundy, the President's spe-, ist of World War II. was visiting his son at Pleiku when the Com "T1 -T- cial assistant, just returned munists attacked. The son, Bruce, 22, is a helicopter pilot.

"This thing woke me up about 2 a.m.," the cartoonist reported. "Col. Hughes (Lt. Col. John C.

Hughes of Herrin, 111.) dashed PLEIKU, South Viet Nam (AP) Things were bad at Pleiku, but they probably would have been much worse if Spec. 5 Jesse A. Pyle hadn't been alert. Pyle, a Korean war veteran from Marina, was on duty early Sunday at a likening post a few yards from the American senior officers' quarters at the Pleiku air base. Pyle apparently heard noises after Viet Cong infiltrators slipped past South Vietnamese guards outside the compound.

The sentry surprised the guerrillas as they were planting explosive charges and began firing. The guerrillas Immediately detonated their charges, and Pyle caught the full blast of one of the explosions. He died while being taken to the infirmary. The Viet Cong followed up with a mortar attack. In all, eight Americans were killed and more than 100 wounded.

U.S. officers said many more probably would have been killed if Pyle had not surprised the Communists before they had all their explosives in place. Red China Calls Attacks 'Provocation' from South Viet Nam. The new air strike, a fol-lowup to that delivered Sunday by planes from U.S. aircraft carriers, was announced in Saigon by the U.S.

Embassy but without details. At Da Nang, South Viet Nam, Brig. Gen. Nguyen Cao Ky, said it was made by 30 Vietnamese propeller-driven A1E Skyraiders and four U.S. FlOOs.

Ky flew the out to go to work, and I dashed out to take care of myself. "I ran out the back door and found an American soldier bad ly wounded by mortar fragments. I tried to help this lid who was hit to get to my cot until the barrage ended. I as sumed I had the only casualty U.S. Army compound, both at Pleiku, were attacked.

Pleiku is about 240 miles north of Saigon. Seven Americans were killed and more than 100 injured. Bundy is due back in Washington tonight to report on the attacks. (AP Photofax via radio from Saigon) PERSONAL SURVEY AFTER ATTACK McGeorge Bundy, left, top White House adviser on foreign policy, confers with Gen. William Westmoreland and South Viet Nam Army Lt.

Gen. Nguyen Khanh at Camp Hall-oway during personal survey following Viet Cong attacks. Camp Halloway and another with me at the time. I called out for help in getting him to the infirmary. lead Vietnamese plane.

The pilots reported heavy antiaircraft fire. Ky said almost all the South Vietnamese planes were hit. One crashed near Da Nang on the return flight. The "On the way, there was a big Jesse A. Pyle Gives Life in Outpost Puzzled U.S.

TOKYO (AP)-Red China today called the U.S. air strike against Communist North Viet Nam an "extremely serious provocation." The Red Chinese statement, carried by the official New China News Agency, said: "This was an extremely serious provocation by U.S. imperialism to extend the war to the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam once again in defiance of world condemnation in an effort to avert total defeat in South Viet Nam." The agency said the White House statement announcing the air strikes "admitted that U.S. President Johnson was the chief culprit in this act of war." pilot parachuted. Ky reported one American iet was hit by flak, but said there were no U.S.

casualties. He said his planes achieved 70 per cent destruction of their targets, leaving them burning, and observed numerous ground casualties. stream of wounded moving toward the infirmary, but everything was orderly, no panic or anything. We'd been hit very hard with a heavy, sudden barrage, but everyone was doing his job quietly and efficiently. "The infirmary was a real charnel house.

Everything was covered with blood. Half the medics were hurt themselves, but the work went on. All these people behaved like Role By Russ Single Education Board Urged for State by Dun lap ion as part of its current ma LBJ Showing Basic Caution In New Crisis WASHINGTON (AP) Presi-I dent Johnson, even while using the strongest language he has yet applied to the situation in Viet Nam, seems to be showing a basic caution that has marked most of his moves in that part of the world. In his only statement dealing with the weekend crisis, he said Sunday: "We have no choice now but to clear the decks and make absolutely clear our continued neuver to gam influence with North Vietnamese leaders? Did Red China and the men in Hanoi conspire to set a trap of embarrassment for Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin, timed to his arrival in Hanoi Barracks and guerrilla staging areas at Dong Hoi, just north of the border, were the chief targets Sunday as 49 U.S.

Navy jets swooped down in a reprisal raid for the North Vietnamese shelling of a U.S. base in South Viet Nam. Three targets at Dong Hoi BULLETIN MOSCOW (in Iivestia said today "it is necessary to put an end to" American air raids on North Viet Nam and published a pledge by Premier Alexel N. gin to back Hanoi against U.S. attacks.

or the Hicher Education Facil Ities Commission, established to distribute federal aid funds, or earmarked for punishment dur Maddox Quits Restaurant, It's for Sale Or did the North Vietnamese a new body could coordinate organize the attacks strictly on their own as a pressure play to at a National Security Council session. The presidential aide hurriedly returned Sunday from a South Viet Nam fact-finding trip and went directly to the White House late Sunday night High-ranking officials declined to predict what turn events would take next. They looked for diplomatic and military clues from the Communists but reported nothing so far giving a firm reading on the Reds' future course. WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. ing the initial raid were skipped because they were obscured by clouds.

The Defense Department said educational efforts voluntarily. But several lawmakers think squeeze more military aid out of Kosygin than he planned to offer them? something stronger is needed to determination to back South Viet Nam in its fight to main- the following U.S. soldiers were killed in the Viet Cong attack at ATLANTA, G. (AP)-Lester officials are deeply puzzled about the Soviet Union's link if any with the weekend wave of Communist guerrilla attacks on American installations in South Viet Nam. Was the operation encouraged and supported by the Soviet Un- I tain its independence." A.

Maddox, 49, a segregationist ST. PAUL (AP)-The chair-man of the Senate Education Committee thinks Minnesota might do well to create a single board to handle state educational matters as New York and California have done. Sen. Robert Dunlap, Plain-view conservative, says he plans to write a bill on the matter and "there Is no evidence of a dramatic nature that so-called voluntary cooperation is effective. I'm thinking along the lines of a super -board." It hat been suggested the Liaison Committee on Higher Education, created in 1959 to make policy recommendations.

avoia. contusion and duplication by state educational agencies-including the University of Minnesota regents, State College Board, State Junior College Board, State Board of Educa- rieiKu: Capt. George Markos, 19 Patrick Circle, Melbourne, Fla. Still left open was the possibility of further reprisal raids on Communist North Viet Nam like Sunday's swoop by 49 U.S. Navy jets on barracks and guerrilla staeins areas at Donz Hoi.

iust Pfc. Joseph Belanger, Bingham, Maine. Spec. 5 Jesse A. Pyle of Marina, Calif.

who lost a long court struggle against serving Negroes, locked his cafeteria and offered it for sale when one appeared at his door. Only Saturday, Maddox had announced that he would serve Negroes, after a lengthy court fight in which U.S. Dist. Judge Frank A. Hooper ruled he was in civil contempt.

It was the Pfc. Joseph ville, Tenn. Parker, Nash-j north of the border. U.S. sources said the bombing i Rain, Sleet Snow Over Much of U.S.

first such ruling under the Civil Spec. 4 Ralph W. Broughman, Covington, Va. Spec. 5 David Craig III, Pit-cairn, Pa.

Spec. 5 Gerald D. Founds, Seaside, Calif. An eighth victim who died later of injuries in the attack was not immediately identified. Couple Found Dead in Aulo and rocketing carrier planes skipped three targets earmarked for punishment because they were obscured by low clouds.

Less than 24 hours after the shelling of Pleiku air base which triggered the U.S. retaliation, Red guerrillas fired mortars into Soc Trang air base southwest of Saigon but did no damage. Eight Americans died and more than 100 were wounded at Pleiku. At the moment Washington authorities generally believe that the pressure-play theory is correct. They think the North Vietnamese pulled a fast one on Kosygin in the hope of getting a bigger slice of Soviet help.

They reason that the timing of the attacks in South Viet Nam early Sunday morning, a few hours after Kosygin's arrival in Hanoi, could not have been accidental. Somebody wanted to prove something. The Soviet Union which has trade and other interests in the West, would probably not see any gain and might see some loss in being identified with the killing of Americans in South Viet Nam. Kosygin and Soviet Communist party secretary Lenoid I. Brezhnev only a week ago sent word to Washington that the Soviet government was interested in President Johnson's proposal for an exchange of visits.

This was taken here as an encouraging indication of Soviet interests in improving relations with the United States. Dangerously heating op the war in Viet Nam would clearly run contrary to such an interest and, indeed, what happened this weekend could be a blow to the whole project. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rain, sleet and snow covered a vast section of the nation today and a cold air mass hovered in the central states. The Weather Bureau said 38 This assertion was coupled with a presidential announcement that American dependents would be evacuated from South Viet Nam, that an antiaircraft missile battalion would be moved in and that reinforcements might be coming. "Clear the decks," an American slang phrase, seemed to sum up a tough-minded attitude that if the Communists wanted a showdown, the United States was ready.

In ways, the new flareup was the Gulf of Tonkin all over again. Last August, after patrol boats based in North Viet Nam twice attacked U.S. destroyers in the China Sea, Johnson ordered bombing strikes against the mainland of North Viet Nam. The raids were carried out. Results officially were described as devastating.

The Communists did nothing. WEATHER FEDERAL FORECAST WINONA AND VICINITY -Fair tonight, occasional cloudiness Tuesday. Warmer tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 8 to 15 above, high Tuesdav LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for the 24 hours ending at 12 m. Sunday: Maximum, 45; minimum, 32; noon, 34; precipitation, none.

Official observations the 24 hours ending at 12 m. today: Maximum, 43; minimum, noon, 19; precipitation, none. ran ot the 48 adjacent states re 100 qr NOTH win NAPA ceived precipitation. The cold front, edging eastward along a line from Michigan to northeast Texas, left be Rights Act. "I'm happy now." said the slim, bespectacled Maddox Sunday, "what I've been going through is worse than death itself." Weary but smiling, he told a news conference in his cafeteria, "I let others talk me into surrendering because of financial reasons.

The life I have lived and the torment that has been mine since yesterday would make death itself seem sweet." Negroes made no effort to obtain service at the restaurant Saturday. On Sunday, a lone gray-haired Negro. Jack Goog-er, appeared at the door and told Maddox he had heard the restaurant was now serving Negroes. V. Maddox then closed the doors, and put up a sign which read: Sen.

Robert Dunlap hind it a trail of sleet and ice- U.S. officials said Pyle was on sentry duty at Pleiku and spotted Viet Cong infiltrators placing explosive charges prior to the mortar attack. Py le opened fire, and the Communists set off their charges prematurely. He was killed by one of the blasts. American officers said they believed U.S.

casualties would have been much higher had the infiltrators not set off their charges prematurely. Pyle was a veteran of the figiiting in Korea and was married to a Korean. She and their three daughters live at Marina, near Ft. Ord. Bundy was expected to report covered highways.

Motorists tion and Department of Educa were warned of hazardous driv tion. "Let's face It." said one leels- ing conditions from Texas to the lower Ohio Valley. Snewfall was relatively light. lator. "There's just so much money to be spent on education.

We've got to eet down to the except in the mountain areas of Arizona and New Mexico. business of planning in the whole field." In the East, mild weather prevailed but rain and some fog made things dismal. There was WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. The bodies of a man and woman were found early today in a car inside a closed garage. Police Chief R.

J. Exner identified them as, Mrs. Evelyn Hopp, 37, of Wisconsin Rapids and Benny Hutkowski, 21, of Bancroft. Hutkowski's body was behind the wheel of his car in Mrs. Hopp's garage and her body was in the front seat beside him.

Police Chief R. J. Exner said the two had gone bowling in Stevens Point about 2 p.m. Sunday in the company of two of Mrs. Hopp's sons, Kenneth, 16, and Donald, 15.

The chief said the boys went Into the house on their return home around 1 a.m. today but the older pair remained in the car. Exner quoted the boys as saying the car engine was shut off when they entered their home. 7-Day Gemini Crew Selected Dunlap would include the Uni versity of Minnesota In his some heavy rain and flooding. xiosea.

uut ot business resulting from an act passed by the U.S. Coneress. signed bv although little damage was re coordinated plan. The chairman of the House ported. President Johnson and inspired State and Junior Colleges Com Charlottesville, recorded Action Sidetracks Republican Attack ana supported by deadly and bloody communism." CAMIOOU jjuYHoX) SAIGON 3.38 inches of rain within 24 hours and most of the rest of the state got two inches.

The James mittee, St. Cloud Conservative Robert Mahowald, agrees with Dunlap's position. "It's coming this session," said Mahowald. "We've ent tn River basin was rearing the flood stage. be thinking of educational tele If Ml hAvW SOUTH LSOC TIANO NAM sneak attack on South Vietnamese installations.

Eight Americans were killed and more than 100 wounded. Johnson provided the "forcible action" by dispatching carrier planes to bomb the southernmost military bases in North Viet Nam. Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, who had expressed his "deep concern" recently over the de Who's an Economist? An economist (says Leo Aikman) is a fellow who, finding himself in a breadline, can explain exactly why he is there It's not nice to talk about people behind their backs but it's certainly safer that way A teen-age driver wrapped his sports car around a telephone pole (notes the Lion) and shrugged, "well, that's the way the Mercedes Benz" Have you ever eaten a Baked Rhode Island? It's a small Baked Alaska, for people on diets. ui -v.

a- HOUSTON. Tex. (AP) Air Force MaJ. L. Gordon Cooper, the nation's most seasoned space traveler, and Navy Lt.

Cmdr. Charles Conrad Jr. were WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson apparently has sidetracked a massive Republican attack on his Asian policies by ordering retaliatory forays against North Vietnamese bases. Before the weekend's military action, congressional Republicans had been waiting only for a presidential assessment of an on-the-spot report of the Saigon situation by his special factfinder, McGeorge Bundy, before blasting away at Johnson's course. They suspected Bundy's recommendations would be for, as they put it, "more of the same" in South Vict Nam, with no spectacular acceleration of American effort there.

They were poised in this case to demand what House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan colled "forcible action." terioration of the U.S. military vision ana avoiding duplication and making credits transferable from one school to another." Added Dunlap: "If the university has on outstanding lecturer why limit him to the university? Why not put him on closed-circuit television so students at Mankato and St. Cloud and all the other colleges could benefit?" Both legislators believe junior colleges may one day take over most undergraduate studies with state colleges granting bachelor's degrees and the university becoming devoted mainly to graduate study. The super-board idea, which might lead the way toward such a situation, is something Gov.

Karl Rolvaag has stopped short of proposing, although he has endorsed closer educational coordination many times. selected today to fly the seven-dav Gemini space flight. Chosen as the backup crew were two civilians Neil A. Armstrong and Elliott M. See Jr.

Both are former Navy RETALIATIONS Map locates Soc Trang Air-base, 100 miles southwest of Saison. where red guerrillas tried a mortar barrage attack. This took place only a few hours after our own retaliatory strike by 49 carrier-borne U.S. planes in the Dong Hoi area ot North Viet Nam. Broken line and arrows mark the Ho Chi Minh trail, Communist supply route which has been used to step up pace of Communist offensive.

(AP Photofax Map) position in South Viet Nam, gave full endorsement to the President's action. Dirksen said that if he had had to make the decision, he would have done exactly what Johnson did. Otherwise, he said, the United States might have been convicted in the eyes of Cooper was a member of the original seven-man Mercury astronaut crew. See. Armstrong Asians of a fatal immobility 1 and Conrad were among the nine men selected in a second group of astronaut trainees Sept.

17, 19C1 that could have wiped out U.S. prestige in that part of the world. i (For more laughs see Earl Wilson on Page 4) Mr, and Mrs. Lester Maddox Then came the Vict Cong.

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