Info-China Fight Seen As
Pacific War Over Again
By Robert C. Miller
United Preu Correspondent
With French Forces in the
Mekong River Delta, Indo-China,
Mar. 16 UJ.R) This battle in
the Mekong river delta is the
South Pacific war all over again,
with the same equipment, the
same heat, the same green hell.
I went along on a dawn am
phibious attack against an esti
mated 300 Vietminh rebels hold
ing an island in this great delta.
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American veterans of the Pacific
would have recognized every
thing except the language, which
was French.
This is the French fight
against the communist-led guer
rillas of Ho Chi-l.Iinh.
Pincers Movement
The operation by French and
native troops was a pincers
movement, with attempted land
ings on opposite sides of the
four-mile-wide Bassac Island sup
ported by aerial reconnaissance
and naval fire. i
Troops boared the same land
ing craft and barges on which
thousands of Americans made
similar excursions. There was
that familiar mugginess of the
tropical dawn and throbbing of
diesels as the barges moved down
river.
Your LCI noses cautiously
through three miles of jungle
bordered canal and you have
the feeling that every move of
the invasion flotilla is being
watched. This is Vietminh terri
tory, and their ambushes have
blocked the canal, which the
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French are attempting to clear.
iiie LUl butts us bow into a
slimy budbank, the gang plank
is lowered and the troops "hit
the beach" just at sunrise.
The area apparently was a
guerrilla bivouac. It is pitted
with trenches and foxholes. Now
it is deserted and the landings
are unopposed.
Sends Out Scouts
You attach yourself to a squad
of black-shirted Cambodian na
tives in short pants, commanded
by tall, bereted Master Sgt. C.
Chesmais of Boulogne. Chesmais
forms a point, sends out bare
footed scouts, and starts inland.
Within an hour the squad is
dripping wet, partly from strug
gling through knee-deep swamps
but mostly from the pressure
cooker heat that steams out of
the ground as the sun gets
higher.
Once you flop in the shade for
five minutes but get up covered
with stinging ants.
Hour after hour the squad
pushes through the swamps and
you pity the machine gunners
and mortarmen with those heavy
pieces.
There is no sign of guerrillas.
The squad returns to the beach
head. There is a lengthy exchange
of rifle and machinegun fire
from the interior, and through
your binoculars you see tiny
figures maneuvering and shoot
ing into a banana grove on the
far side of the swamp a mile
and a half away. A puff of blue
grey smoke sprouts from the
grove and the crack of bursting
artillery shells drifts across the
heat-drenched delta.
Guerrillas Withdrew
Army Commander J. Finck of
Paris radios that he has engaged
some rebels inside a fortified
village. The guerrillas withdrew
when subjected to artillery fire.
Now he is going to burn their
fortifications.
French officers explain that
village-burning is done only in
extreme cases such as this, when
troops are fired on from the vil
lages. You sit on a log first mak
ing sure it is antless and watch
the distant clouds of heavy
smoke as the village goes up in
flames.
A philosopher could write
eloquently about that smoke,
using it as a sjanbol of all wars
and the misery' and suffering ac
companying them.
GOOD IDEA
Seattle. Wash., Mar. 16 (U.R)
The last-day rush at the collector
of internal revenue office
brought a man who wanted to
know if he could deduct the cost
of his marriage license from his
income tax.
Oregon's population of deer,
elk. antelope and bear is esti
mated by wildlife officials at
654,000.
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TEMPORARY HAVEN Child actress Lore Lw Michel beams con
tentedly as she finds a temporary haven with Rev. Elford 8undstrom
after running away from her foster parents In Hollywood. The 9-year-old
blonde film player said she ran away from her foster mother,
who Is accused of starving her to keep her small enough for film
roles, because "I was hungry all the time."
Wagner Creek
Wagner Creek, Mar. 16 Wag
ner Creek school has received
several new pieces of equipment.
Among them is a telephone, dit
to printing machine, weighing
machine and large world globe.
The plan now is to buy a new
radio-phonograph combination.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hild are
serving as janitor and cook at
the school while Vera Wolber is
undergoing a major operation. It
is hoped that Mrs. Wolber may
be back before end of the school
term.
The new science room equip
ment has arrived and there is
hope of having the room com
pleted for the coming school
term.
Livestock 4-H club held a
meeting March 3 to discuss the
ham dinner. Rope for making
halters was given out. Carlos
Goddard and Glen Bradley are
to serve refreshments next
meeting. Verlee MacDowell and
Nora Bailey are chairmen for the
entertainment committee for the
next meeting. There will be a
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Fisher's New Pancake Mix 27
makes the tastiest, lightest pancakes
and waffles you ever sank a fork
into. And here's the recipe you've
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Lenten cooking!
FISH 'N' CHIPS (Serve. 4 people)
Cold water to make
total 'A cup liquid
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Deep fat far frying, or
hot fat at leail I
Inch deep
1 lb. boneless fresh
fish or frozen freih
fillets
1 cup Fiiher't
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1 egg
Cut fish in finger-size strips. Put Fisber's Pancake
Mix in mixing bowl and coat fish strips well on all
sides, lift out fish and lay well apart on board or
paper. Beat egg with salt in cup and add cold
water to moke total cup liquid. Add this mix
ture to remaining Fisher's Pancake Mix and stir
just enough to make smooth. Dip each piece of
fish in this baiter ond lower carefully into deep
fat which is heated to 385 F. (inch cube of
bread will brown In 60 sees.). Fry 3 minutes.
Keep fat above 370 (inch cube of bread
will brown in 60 sees.) while fish is frying. Drain
fish on crumpled paper and serve hot with
suitoble sauce. FRYING PAN METHOD! Use
some temperature in hot fat 1 inch deep.
Do not crowd.
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special livestock meeting March
17.
The 4-H Cooking club girls
and boys had a cooked food sale
in Talent at the Valley Locker,
March 11,
Mrs. Hopkins was present at
the last P. T. C. meeting to talk
about organizing a Girl scout
club at Wagner Creek. Many are
interested.
The Livestock 4-H club will
give a ham dinner and have some
entertainment March 23 at the
school house from 5:30 to 9 p. m.
Wagner Creek school had a
patriotic program February 24.
Two plays were Riven, George
Washington and Abraham Lin
coln. Refreshments were served
by the 4-H Cooking club. Pop
and ice cream were sold with
the other refreshments.
Delbert Goddard, who has
been ill with pneumonia in a
Medford hospital, has improved
anil will be able to return home
within a few days.
Mrs. Blanche Robinson spent
March 12 at the home of her
niece, Mrs. Ormy Goddard.
Visitors at the Howard Work
home March 12 were Mr. and
Mrs. Vernon Reh, Talent; Mil
dred Taylor and Lenore Cuth
bertson, Medford, nad friends
from California. Penny Taylor
spent the week-end with her
grandparents.
Mrs. Wilma Arnelt and a
friend from California have
charge of Wagner Creek Sunday
school and services while the
Rev. J. C. Arnett presides in the
pulpit of Medford Assembly of
God church until arrival of the
regular minister.
Mr. and Hrs. Kokomo of Med
ford visited her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George Galbraith, here,
March 12.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Clift
spent the week-end with Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Gleim. Clift is a ma
chinist at Crater Lake govern
ment camp.
Eighteen relatives were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Lockwood
March 12 at a dinner in honor
of Marie and Betty Abbott, who
were up for the week-end from
Gridloy, Cal. Present were Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Sommer, Mr.
and Mrs. William Sommer and
children, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Som
mer and riauEhter Debora, Miss
Goldie Abbott. Mrs. Glen Ab
bott and daughter Betty, and
Grady Simmons, a friend who
came with them from Gridlcy,
Cal.
Mrs. Audrey Clupney, Mr. and
Mrs. Chas. Long, Talent, and
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnle Nicholson,
Medford, were visitors at the
Dave Brabbin home March 12.
Mr. and Mrs. Laytnn MacDow
ell. Mr. and Mrs. Jlmmle Mac
Dowell and Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Rapp and twins visited at the
Ralph Green home March 12.
Over the week-end Mr. and
Mrs. C. V. Hopper entertained
relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Dollard, owners of Rogue Food
shop, Grants Pass, and Mrs. Hop
per's sister, Ann Stewart, who
has been visiting h" Pollards
the past few months. Mrs. Stew
art is returning soon to her home
in Glendale, Cal.
Two groups from the school
went on skating parties to Ash
land Skateway March 11 and 12.
Dave Brabbin accompanied the
group that went Saturday and
Mrs. Hild with the second group
Sunday.
Robert Hild. C. Ph. M. Naval
hospital, Oakland, Cal.. and his
friend, Mr. Grant, spent the
week-end with his parents. Mr.
and Mrs. E. L. Hild.
A shower given recently In
honor of Mrs. Natalie Buseman
at the home of Dorothy Mason
Thursday, March It, 1950
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
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Yamhill County
Wins 4-H Honor
Boys and girls lnYamhill coun
ty who took part in the National
4-H better methods electric pro
gram last year
and had a hand
in winning the
handsome
bronze and
green plaque
recently pre
sented to the
County Exten
sion office by
the Westing
house Educa
tional Founda
tion. Yamhill
was selected by the state club
office at Oregon State college
for doing the most outstanding
lob In the project. Every year
one county in each state Is given
this recognition.
Typical farm jobs which were
analyzed and better methods put
into practice were washing and
Ironing clothes, canning and
freezing foods, barn chores and
mine count
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was attended by many from
here.
Mrs. Ella Abbott is leaving
soon for Gridley, Cal., where
she will be a guest in the home
of her daughter, Eudell Rogers.
home heating, reported William
M. Perry, county extension
agent. Results in cooking and
home heating were most grati
fying, stated Perry, since the im
provements became permanent
and did much to bring about
better living on the farm. Mem
bers took a great deal of inter
est in their individual problems
and were very proud of their
accomplishments in the program,
according to the report.
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