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IIX MEDFOHD (OREGON) . MAIL TRIBUNE . Friday .January. 21, 1955 , (U1IP Maim i TTeDDs Expeiroeoiice dob HeSoBg aipficniredl dob Dsfia ESiio Poorly Trained Patrol Grabbed By Rebel Units Editor's Note: John Abney. veteran l.nite4 Press ; photographer and pic tar bureau manager in Mexico City, was captured by rhel forces In the fighting in Costa Rica on Satnrday. In me iouowing aupatcn, ne tells of his narrow escape from death and. of his meeting wtut Teodoro Picardo. 27. the West Point-trained rebel commander. Annex's dispatch was filed from Ma nagua, Nicaragua, where ho arrived last night. By JOHN ABNEY United Press Correspondent : Managua, Nicaragua (U.R) - You can taste fear when you are waiting for oncoming destruc tion. It is dry and it makes your throat swell no matter how oft en you swallow. . . ...... ,. V We felt that fear Saturday afternoon while waiting with a poorly trained government pa troi lor a rebel tank to come in sight along : the Inter-American highway that bi-sects the Costa Rican jungles. . S-..- It began at 2 p jn. when a gov- enment patrol of 16 men armed . with rifles and' submachine guns set out from Santa Rosa with me and three other correspondents, George Skadding of Life, Phil Payne of Tune and Paul Sance of NBC-TV. .; ' .p... Looked Deadly . . - ' J w e movea aoout inree mues from the government's advance outpost, then set up an ambush near a big clearing where there were scattered trees and high grass. The patrol leader. waved to us and we fell flat, waiting, We heard what we thought was a tank coming toward us. I dropped behind a bushy clump 20 yards from the road and watched them coming. It was a half track' loaded with green-uniformed soldiers wear ing U.S. helmets. They . had a deadly look about them. . It was then I felt the .fear. As the truck moved even with us, three men of our badly train ed and badly placed patrol began firing into the rebels who pour ed over the sides of the half track and scrambled to positions along the road. The fight was on. From the ' direction of the rebel firing we knew- they had ; dispersed " with efficiency and were working on us from both sides. : Heavy explosions - from grenades shook the ground while the chatter-of 'machineguns and rifles a few yards away deaf ened us. The rebel fire . began cutting the top of the grass and knock . ing twigs from my bush and I snaked another .25 feet to the Tear.' . -'"";- ".';:-''";; It kept up for a solid hour the high-pitched chatter of the submachineguns, the sounds of .mortars, the deep coughing of rifles and the slower hammering of .30 caliber machineguns. At the end mortar shells were fall ing with jolts as the rebels me thodically covered the whole area. Suddenly it stopped.' I looked at my watch and it was an hour ' since it began. It was now 3:45. I began to feel movements' in the high grass, the ; quick running bO bi eiiv avwvm vhuiw w w yyiaj "now and then to listen. I rolled on my back, held by cameras and waited. A sub- machinegun and helmet :' with tufts of camouflage grass on it appeared all at once and then a rebel. He was a businesslike kid who waited hawklike while I told him I was a correspondent. Taken CaptiT . v He marched me hands up to i the road where they took ; my papers and cameras and put me . with the rest of the correspond ents lying face up in a ditch, our hands over our head. 1 While other rebels combed the area for more prisoners . our guards kept machineguns on us. Across the . road they collected their own casualties. We plead ed for our cameras to get pic tures but to no avail. A 21-year-old lieutenant nam ed Pacheco was leading' the rebels. His men were, grim and mad at the ambush and thought we were members of the Caribbean " Legion in the forces of-: Costa Rican President Jose Figueres. They wanted to shoot us on the spot. But their young lieutenant told them to tie our hands be hind us and they marched . us down the road to their lines. . We waited until almost dark when I heard a . voice . say ."Hello, John, I wondered if it was you. They told me some newsmen were captured."; The voice was that of a' friend TtZ UUIlC UUUI iUCAitU, Oil CA11C from Costa Rica named Manuel Caballero. He talked to the of ficers and a few minutes later our hands were ordered untied. use REftDY-Kiro Kl K ETT E Phon 2-5336 or 2-5897 M. C. UNINGER & SONS 1,20 Mothers Await Annual Polio March; Coverage Areas Told Approximately 1,200 mothers in Medford have completed plans to march against polio for one. hour on Monday, Jan. 31. It will be the annual Mothers March, set from 7 to 8 p.m. j Mrs. Lew M i 1 e s, chairman, said the entire city, including several of the 'surrounding rural areas, has been broken down into 45 sections with a captain assigned to each section. Cap tains, in turn, -; have assigned mothers to cover each block in the area during the appointed hour; '' V: ; :". sThe ; Mothers ; March will, .be by invitation only,, with a burn ing porch light or candle in the window indicating the occupant wishes to be called up to con tribute to the fight against polio. Apartment house dwellers and those in hotel rooms may signify their willingness to join by hang ing a shoe or tieing a handker chief on a door knob. No calls will be made where the invita tion is not out, Mrs. Miles point ed out. " - -Coverage. Areas Listed Area to be covered by the marching mothers was described by Mrs. Miles. Roughly, it in cludes the following: f Pacific highway north to Beall lane, M e r r i m a n rd. to Table Rock rd., to the airport rd. and Biddle. rd. io the Crater Lake highway, Ross lane to KMED and back on Sage rd. to McAn- Pear Growers Here Meetings of Jackson county pear growers and stone fruit growers are scheduled for next week, according to , Don Berry, county agent for horticulture. -, Pear growers will meet Mon day at the Central Point Grange hall starting at 1:15 p.m. Speakers on the program are D. D. Evans,: assistant professor of soils, Oregon State college: Henry - Hartman, head i of the horticulture 'department, OSC; L. G. Gentner, entomologist for the Southern Oregon branch ex periment station; Harry O'Reil ly, plant pathology specialist, OSC; and Berry. ;. ;.. , Demonstration Set v 'r " A demonstration of the use. of wood products in orchard heat ers will be given at 3:45 p.m. by Stan Corder, of the forest prod ucts laboratory at Corvallis. : The meeting of stone fruit growers will be; held Tuesday, starting at 1:15 p.m. at the Phoe nix Grange hall. Speakers will be Higdon,. O'Reilly, Hartman, Gentner, :Evans, and Corder, who also will: present the orch ard .heating demonstration at the Tuesday meeting. ! AUTOMOTIVE UN . New London, Conn. U.R) Thomas J. Ford, employed by the Nash ! Garage, drove his Chevrolet; into, an ' Oldsmobile and a Renault 1 1 . "You're lucky" as hell to be alive," Manuel told us. In the morning we 'met Capt." Teodoro Picardo, the 27-year-old West Pointer commanding the rebels, at his headquarters and Lt. Claudio Fonseca, the second in command..- v:- -,.-...' "You b"oys are lucky," Picardo said. "You were born again yes terday afternoon in Costa Rica." - rs GOLD ARROW Stamps -ANNOUNCE-; Arrow" Laundry & Dry Cleanersf l &5261IUver$id i ere joining the other progressive merchants in this vicinity ; in . issuing . . V , ; r ) .-' GOLD ARROW STAMPS Double Stamps Given" Until Feb. 5 en all work at the ARROVIf LAUNDRY tA' DRY CLEANERS Meetings Monday Tuesday drews rd, ' Cherry st.; Lozier lane, - Oakgrove rd., Casino rd., Perrydale ave., and roads within that area between Bellinger rd. and Jacksonville highway, -v the area between Myers laner'inciud ing King's highway. South Peach st., allofOrchsfrd' Home dr Thomas rd. extending to Jack sonville-Phoenix highway, Bar- nett rd. . to North - Phoenix rd., including Ellendale dr.,- South Modoc ave. and Murphy lane, Spring st. to Modoc ave. includ ing Eastover: Tr and Country Club Estates, Biddle rdJ to Mor row, rdi Corona ave.i to Crater Lake highway and Delta Waters rd., and the Grandview Market area: ' Chairman Confident : : Expressing concern . over re ports that the March of . Dimes campaign is lagging behind pre vious years for the first time in county history, Mrs. Miles said she was confident' the people of Medford would not let the mothers down and said she felt her portion of ..the month-long fund-raising campaign would pass previous marks. " ' . Ono i. " It is this .- C3?- :jSs. ,r There s iheiang --X mi ' rrxtrftts Great. Hirtl;W' ." 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