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Pige 2A EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Tuesday, Jan. 22. 1963 iTl Pay Worries Captured Mercenary PICTURE FRAMES 1 , in I mer, a 6-foot-2 South African with a broad grin that never quite reaches his eyes and the shoulders of a professional fullback. Skimmer has a fund of natural charm if you don't notice that the green eyes rarely smile. He is bluff and hearty and talks easily. Now that the fighting was over, what did he worry about? "I suppose I won't get the last of my pay," he said. "I don't see how they can pay that now and I can use it." Mercenaries got around $1,000 a month with half paid in foreign currency, the rest in Katangan francs. Skimmer thought the pay wasn't bad. "They gave us three months in advance when we signed up." About half of his enormous right bicco" had been shot away by automatic rifle fire. He walked to a dressing sta tion and got back in the fight ing after treatment. "This arm isn't ever going to be the same again. I lost too much muscle. Still got a machinegun slug in my hip. It's not comfortable." Did he want to join up some other venture? "Not me. But I hope I get the last of my pay. I can use it. I got a relative in South Africa who runs a little ga rage. I'm going to go in with him. Skimmer didn't want to talk much about the fighting but he obviously was cha grined at the way he had been captured. "I nipped into Elisabeth ville for a good dinner. First thing I know I was surround ed by guns. "I expect we'll be sent off pretty soon now. It's been all right here. Absolutely no abuse, no bad treatment. The food is good. We've got no complaints." It was hard to imagine him poking into the creaky work ings of an automobile in a South African garage. All Sizes and Styles Let Us Help You Design Your Gallery of Wall Arrangements Eugene Frame Co. Turn Rlht Oft Flier Road at Riviera shoppint Center U " ,. 311 River Avenue Ph. Dl 4-4663 Register-Guard Want Ads Bring Results r i J, By RICHARD K. O'MALLEY Of the Associated Press ELISABETHVILLE, the Congo Eight men iounged on cots in a makeshift intern ment room at Elisabethville Airport. Two played black jack. A couple of others read paperbacks. A bored United Nations guard looked on. These were eight mercen aries who had led troops for Katanga President Moise Tshombe in his unsuccessful battle to secede from the cen tral Congo. All had been cap tured and were waiting repa triation. What kind of man is the 20th-century mercenary sold ier? Let's take the case of Skim- JFK Hails Katangese Capitulation WASHINGTON (yd President Kennedy has hailed the end of the Katanga secession and de clared that the Congolese now have an opportunity "to rally behind their national and pro vincial leadership." He said the peaceful entry of ! -v H.'.. I . .. . g. r t 11 'A ft " i - iAnililMI II . The End (AP Wlrephoto) Uniformed United Nations commander, Brig. Reginald Noronha, chats with Katanga Premier Moise Tshombe at Tshombe's headquarters in Kolwezi Monday after the peaceful occupation of the dissident Tshombe stronghold in The Congo's rebellious Katanga Province. Allied Chiefs Confer On Common Market By JOSEPH W. GRIGG Of the United Presi International "' ' PARTS West German ' Chancellor Konrad Adenauer sought to persuade French President Charles de Gaulle Tuesday not to torpedo Britain's ' efforts to enter the European Common Market. Adenauer was in a luvoreu position to exert the pressure, lie and De Gaulle have agreed to an historic reconciliation of two traditional enemies whose quarrels have drenched Europe and the world in blood for a thousand years. De Gaulle was reported insist ing on vetoing acceptance of BritHin in the Common Market at the present. Adenauer was said to be. seeking a face-saving formula to prevent a total breakdown of the negotiations. Talks May Recess One reported West German tuggestion was that the Com mon Market talks being held in Brussels should be recessed for ' a time to allow the present six .members to take a new look at ,tho concept. ims wuuia suivo uuuiuig qui "would give the appearance of lavoiding an open break. J Adenauer and De Gaulle ; planned to go over the Common Market situation Tuesday and .then put the finishing touches -on the treaty of cooperation to which they agreed Monday iMacmillan Pledges Fight ' LONDON (OTP Prime Mini ter Harold Macmillan has served . notice on French President '.Charles de Gaulle that Britain will fight to get into the Euro- .. pean Common Market. Terming De Gaulle's opposi- . lion a "setback," Macmillan told a Conservative Party meeting Monday night lhat the rest of Europe and the free world sup ports Britain's bid for full mem- .'. hershlp in the six-nation trade group. "We still believe that, given ' the will, the remaining difficul '. ties can be surmounted," he aaid with evident passion. The Common Market issue is ; expected to be one of Macmil ', lan's biggest political challenges - in tlio new parliament session - which opened Tuesday with cer emonies honoring Opposition Labor Party Leader Hugh Gait- . ikell. who died last Friday. The ceremonies were the only sched uled business for the day. night. The treaty will bind the two nations closely in the fields of politics, defense, education and culture. It will be signed to night or Wednesday. 1- rench Foreign Office spokes man Claude Lebcl sought to as sure the rest of Europe that the treaty was not aimed at any other nation. Subject to Ratification 'On the contrary, it must be regarded as the first, indispen sable step leading toward the unity of Europe for which both sides hope, he said. The treaty will be submitted to both national parliaments for ratification. It will be accom panied by a joint statement by the two leaders. Its main provisions are: The heads of state and government will meet at least every six months. Their foreign, defense, education, youth and sports ministers will meet every three months and their chiefs of staff every two months. Three high officials from each govern ment will meet monthly as a sort of watchdog committee. There will be exchanges of troops for training, joint ma neuvers, joint use of training camps and joint research in arms production, except in nu clear weapons. There also will be joint studies of strategic and tactical problems. There will be alignment of university degrees, increased study of each other's language, exchanges of scholarships and coordination of research, ex cept In the nuclear field. West Germany has pledged itself by treaty not to manufacture nu clear weapons. U.N. forces into the Katanga stronghold of Kolwezi had con firmed the downfall of the sep aratist regime of Moise Tshom be. This, he said In a statement Monday, "is warmly welcomed by the United States and all who are concerned with the future of the Congo and the whole of Africa." Gives Credit to Ike He said the Eisenhower ad ministration "determined wise ly" that the U.S. goal of seeking conditions allowing the Congo lese to work out their own fu ture could best be pursued through the United Nations. He added that his administra tion had vigorously supported the U.N. efforts. The American people, he said, are deeply indebted to U.N. Secretary-General U Thant and to his predecessor. Dag Hammar skjold "who gave his life in the quest for peace" In the Congo. Assistant secretary ot stale G. Mcnnen Williams expressed belief that the U.N. success also had brought dividends to the United States. "Increased Respect' The U.S. participation in the U.N. Congo operation, he said, "has greatly increased the re spect of Africans for us." Williams, chief of the Stale Department's Bureau of African Affairs, viewed the U.N. victory as, in effect, a defeat for com munism. In an interview he explained his reasoning: "We think the major achieve ment of the U.N. operation was to remove one of the main ob stacles to Congo unity and sta bility. Now the Congo govern ment can get things rolling. Whcnovei there is stability or Independence, the capacity of the Communists to enter and interfere is greatly diminished, or even diminished to zero." Coal Miners Back on Job CAHMICHAELS, Pa. Ml Some 1,000 coal miners re lumed to work Monday at U. S. Steel Corp.'s nearby Robena Mine where 37 miners died in an explosion last Dec. 6. The mine had been idle since the blast and the miners had re fused two previous orders to return to work. They had said they wanted steps taken to in sure safety and prevent more explosions. The miners voted over the weekend to return to work. Some 600 members of United Mine Workers Local 6321 were on hand for the vote. U. S. Steel said the entire Robena complex with the ex ception ot the Frosty Run shaft at Robena No. 3 will operate on a five-day week. The explo sion last December occurred at the Frosty Run shaft. A public hearing into the causes of that explosion ended last week. A final report is pending. Population Count TAIPEI, Formosa MV Formo sa's population has been set at 11.474.639. The count, through November, 1962, did not include an estimated 600,000 men in the Chinese Nationalist armed forces. BIG Y OPENING NOW TWO LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU W or pleojed lo announce that the Big Y Timber Topper, with a new larger dining area, hot re-opened! 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