IIX MEDFOHD (OREGON) . MAIL TRIBUNE .
Friday .January. 21, 1955 ,
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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.
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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."
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GOLD
ARROW
Stamps
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Arrow" Laundry
& Dry Cleanersf l
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ere joining the other progressive
merchants in this vicinity ; in .
issuing . . V , ; r ) .-'
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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
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mi ' rrxtrftts Great. Hirtl;W' ."
IT
CAUTIONED Senate GOP
; Leader William Knpwlahd of
California tells newsmen he
sees no conflict between him-'
self and the President after
a White House .briefing on
new Red China -Nationalist
China fighting. K n o w 1 a n d
called - efforts of Dag Ham
marskjold to free flyers from
Red. China a failure. The;
President urged patience, and
cautioned against impetuous
words while there is still a'
chance.' ' .
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YOU ARE CORDVAilYllNVITED TO VISIT
National Rose Garden Aim
Of Society in Washington
Washington U.R) A W as h-1
ujgwu guucu ciuD.wwiig. con
gress, to ' establish 'a 27-acre na
tional rose garden here compara
ble , in : splendor to the capital's
famed ' cherry blossoms. ;. "r wri
- The Pontiac Rose Society pro
poses that the . garden encircle
the famous ? reflecting pool in
Potomac Park ibetween the. Lin
coln and Washington monu
ments. "-.,"'.' i .
i.There: Would be display areas
for the yearly first award and
ail-American, rose selections, an
other for the prima donnas: of
the rose world and also a "glam
our garden" featuring beautiful
varieties of roses. More (plants
would -line the reflecting. pooL
Outside the; display area . would
be stately gardens of shrub and
old-fashioned roses. ; .
" There is one thorny problem
to be removed before this rosy
vision can become a reality, how
ever much of; the land is now
occupied : by "temporary" gov
ernment buildings. -"
What to Do? ;
These squat, t grey "tempos"
sprang up during World War n
in areas which always had been
earmarked for lawn and land
scaping. The rose-lovers insist
that now,, is-, the time to prune,
ou the unsightly buildings.
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- Albert- E. WesV chairman of
the society's West Potomac committee,-
said: , ,
"We should get rid of the ugly
tempos.? It's a shame .we don't
have a national r rose garden to
compare with those in Europe."
The committee held a sym
bolic ceremony in West Potomac
Park Dec. ;4 to plant a Vgolden
masterpiece," a new hybrid tea
rose. .... , .
This was a token planting,"
West, said. "We have to be the
salesmen for the garden."
Pi The capital has been without
a national rose garden since
1949. The old Potomac rose gar
den had to give way to a new
bridge .spanning the Potomac
river. For-nine years, National
Capital Parks has had plans for
the garden as soon as the "tem
pos" are ; uprooted. But first,
Congress must appropriate the
funds and secure office facilities
for ""the ; temporary buildings'
present occupants. e
,
NO RESPECT
Muskegon, Mich.- WJ.R)
Thieves broke into -a place and
took a box containing $32. It
was the entire capital of . the
North Muskegon Junior Police
Lodge. - -
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