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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1956
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Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS " i
Washington Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson on the
farm bill sent to President Eisenhower for signature or veto:
"I don't go and sulk in a corner if I don't get everything I want.
My only object has been to get a bill which would be good for the
farmers. This is not a good bill."
Washington Rep. James T. Tumulty (D.-N.J.) on what Prince
ton university should do about students inviting Alger Hiss to ad
dress them:
"I say he should take the children involved and that's what
they are over his knee and paddle them."
Chicago Negro singer Nat King Cole, attacked ty three white
men on a Birmingham, Ala., stage, on performing before segregat
ed Southern audiences:
"The U.S. Supreme court is havin a hard time integrating the
schools, so what chances have I got to integrate audiences."
Washington Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall
In a political speech on former President Truman:
"One feature of the mess he left behind was a farm economy
on the skids and a law responsible for the huge mountains of
price-depressing farm suprluses."
Harrisburg, Pa. Democratic National Chairman Paul M. But
ler, in a political speech on President Eisenhower:
"It's a do-nothing administration, an administration with no
leadership ... an administration whose President has been away
from the White House more than 35 per cent of the time in the
first 39 months of his term."
Liberian Vessel In Trouble at Sea
Halifax, N.S. U.R) A Cana
dian destroyer today stood by a
storm-battered Bermuda - bound
Liberian freighter that had re
ported an explosion on board.
The 35-knot destroyer Nootka
interrupted its return here from
Canadian - U.S. maneuvers to
race to the side of the freighter,
Antonios, whose skipper radioed
he, might have to ride out a
storm blown up by 35-mile
winds.
.The Nootka messaged ' Navy
headquarters here at 1:27 a.m.
(EST') that she was "standing
by" the freighter.
Elite US Army Volunteers Would
Penetrate Enemy Lines in War
By CHARLES CORDDRY
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) If a war
started, elite groups of U.S.
Army volunteers would pene
trate at once to points deep in
side enemy lines where they
could stir up rebellion and
create general chaos.
The toughest training the
Army can give goes to these
men who comprise the Special
Forces. They take up where the
paratroops and Rangers leave
off. You know them by their
green berets the only troops
with such headgear and their
parf.troop boots and jumper's
wings.
Their home is Fort Bragg,
N.C., and their boss is Col. Ed
son D. Raff, commander of the
Psychological Warfare Center,.
a pioneer of guerrilla-type opera
tions by U. S. forces in World
War II.
The Special Forces are ready
to operate independently or in
contact with friendly forces at
the front lines. They were or
ganized in September, 1952,
under 3 new policy calling for
rough-and-ready units trained to
wage war behind an enemy's
front lines.
They already have the Rus
sians stirred up. Moscow radio
recently let go with a blast at
the "spies" the United States
allegedly is training at Fort
Bragg.
Two Groups
Plainly, Moscow meant the
Special Forces. But these men
are not "spies." Nor, the Army
says, can they be cdmpared "to
any conventional unit." They
were created "to provide in
time of war a weapon through
which the .Army can train, sup
ply and direct guerilla opera
tions against the enemy 'in sup
port of military operations."
They assert and no one who
sees them can doubt it that
they are "ready to go anywhere
at any time to do anything and
get there by any method."
The Army now has two Spe
cial Forces groups, the 77th at
Fort Bragg and" the 10th in Ger
many. Both have recently been
reduced in strength, presumably
to provide trained personnel for
an airborne division going to Eu
rope and the reactivated 101st
airbornediyision in this coun
try. A group might normally
have 2,000 men, but the actual
strengths are secret.
Sometimes called "liberation
sDeak a variety of languages
used on both sidse or tne iron
Cutrain and, though mostly
Americans, they include refu
gees from the Communists.
After basic training and a tour
at the paratroop school, a man
may volunteer for the Special
Forces. Today's teams are filled
with two- and three-time voiun-
tcsrs.
The men train in the swamps
and mountains of North Caro
lina, learn amphibious warfare
fighters," Special Forces troops and survival techniques from the
marines, undergo hign-mountain
exercises, in Colorado. Wherever
they are, they' learn to live off
the land indefinitely.
Live Off Land
They operate in teams of .15
men two officers and 13 en
listed men ready to infiltrate
enemy territory and train as
many as 1,500 guerrillas. It's the
"cheapest way we have to fight
a war, Army officers say.
A Special Forces team is made
up of medical specialists able to
perform operations in the field,
linguists, demolition specialists,
radio operators and all hands
can operate weapons from the
45-calibre pistol to the 105 MM
45-caliber pistol to the 105 MM
reach for 1,500 miles, sending
signals and providing directional
beams for aircraft if need be.
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opeciai forces training in
cludes large doses of simulated
"brain-washing" to guarantee as
far as possible against any repe
tition of the episodes in which
a few Americans succumbed to
Communist techniques in Korea.
This training is similar to that
now given aircraft crews.
Typical Exercises
A typical training exercise for
the Special Forces would be to
fly'several hours and then nara.
chute into the training site the
Marine base at Camn Leienno
C, or Fort Carson, Colo., for
Unemployment
Reserves Decline
Over $5,(
Salem tU.P.) Oregon's unem
ployment reserves have declin
ed more than $5,000,000 to $48,
817,893 during the past 12
months, the State Unemploy
ment Compensation Commission
has reported.
The figure was the lowest for
the reserve since early 1944.
Chairman T. Morris Dunne
said income during the first
quarter of 1956 was almost ex
actly the same as a year ago
with payments to insured claim
ants $1,706,727 higher than in
early 1955.
Contributions ' from employ
ers amounted to $1,895,785 for
the past three months with gov
ernment interest adding $325,
215. On the other side of the
picture, compensation paid to
the unemployed reached $9,798-
349 an increase of more than
21 per cent over last year.,
Increased payments were ac
counted fcr largely by the high
er henefit schedule adopted by
the. 1955 Legislature. Weekly
checks in March averaged $29.80
compared with $22.48 for the
same period a year ago.
MOSLEMS END STRIKE '
Casablanca, Morocco (U.R)
Nearly 10,000 Moslem laborers
at United States Strategic Air
Command bases in Morocco re
turned to work today ending a
four day strike. A back-to-work
accord was signed by their un
ion and French labor negotiators
Thursday.
Fire Profecfion
Funds To Be Spent
Salem (U.R) Nearly $6,
000,000 will be spent during
1956 for fire protection of 12,
000,000 acres of state and pri
vately owned forest lands, ac
cording to James H. Walker, as
sistant state forester in charge
of the protection division.
Most of the financial load will
be carried by land owners and
operators, Walker said. He esti
mated their costs at $4,750,000
for snag falling, protection
equipment and additional patrols.
PEACE MISSION U. N. Secretary Dag Rammarskjold
(left) is welcomed on bis arrival in Tel Aviv by Gideon
Raphael (right), Israeli's foreign ministry U. N. Adviser.
The gentleman in center is unidentified. Hammarskjold
then flew to Jerusalem as Western diplomats in Jerusalem
warned that delay in bis peace mission might be too late
to prevent war.
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example where they live off the
land and on what they take with
them for days or weeks. They
then march out, maybe as much
as 100 miles.
Their job, in the Army defini
tion of guerrilla warfare, is to
'harass, delay and disrupt the
military operations of the
enemy, possibly leading to civil
war. . . ." Their tactics are
'unorthodox," including inspir
ing "passive resistance,, espion
age, sabotage, diversion, assassi
nation and propaganda."
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