MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE.
MONDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1900
Many South Viet Mam Villages Peaceful by Day, Horrible by Night
) By ARTHUR J. DOMMEN
', Cho Gao, Soulh Viet Nam
(UPD-To. reach this village in
the Mekpng river delta one
drives along a narrow, bumpy
road between, flooded rice
fields where black-clothed
peasants are busily trans
planting the new rice crop.
Thnlched-rooJ huts dot the
flat land, connected with the
toad by a maze of pathways
along the tops of dikes.
Peaceful enough by day,
Cho Gao and many other vil
lages and hamlets like it have
become, by night, the scene
of acts of bloodshed and ter
ror. This correspondent visited
Cho Gao to talk with the peo
ple who are most directly In
volved in the two-way strug
gle now going on In the South
Vietnamese countrys lde.
where the farmer and the civil
servant often have to make
the decision: The Viet Cong
(the name for local Commu
nist agents and guerrillas) or
the government of President
Ngo Dinh Diem.
It is a life and death deci
sion, and for many it is their
last. . . ;.
The name Cho Gao means
literaly "rice market." The
village lies along both banks
of Viet Nam's most heavily
traveled inland waterway,
wide canal used by junks and
barges carrying the produce
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.and let us also give thanks
for the human dignity which we' enjoy as free individ
uals ... for the preservation of the peace .. . for the
prosperity of our great Nation ... for its thrifty and
self-reliant citizens ... for our homes and tho
family happiness they bring . . . for the challenge
of the unlimited opportunities which lie ahead.
CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE 4 PER ANNUM
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Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford
29 Norfh Ivy Street Robert F. Kyle, Manager
of 13 southern provinces
northward to Saigon, half a
day's journey away.
Proud Little Town
Cho Gao is a proud little
town, with its modern, corru
gated iron - roofed school
buildings, its army post and
its ferry that Is pulled across
the canal by a fixed cable.
On one side of the street are
shops stocked with 100-pound
bags of Tunisian phosphate
for sale to farmers who want
to make the effort to fertilize
their fields to obtain a second
annual rice crop. They bear
the red-whltc-and-blue clasp
ed hands symbol of the Amer
ican aid program.
The district administrative
headquarters are a little way
out of the center of town.
There, grouped around an
open square are the district
Information office with loud
speakers attached atop a near
by pole (operated by gasoline
generator-electricity has not
yet reached Cho Gao), the po
lice station, the office of the
plainclothes police, the farm
ers cooperative, the Bureau of
the National Revolutionary
movement, South Viet Nam's
national political party, and
the house of the district offi
cer.
Progress Inspected
Inside the house, one of the
district officer's assistants told
of having spent the morning
inspecting progress at an ag
glomerate community being
built at the other end of the
province
The government has placed
much hope in its far-reaching
plan to build agglomerations,
"agrovillcs," throughout
the south. The Viet Cong have
concentrated their efforts
against the agrovillcs, trying
to sabotage them and Intimi
date their inhabitants.
Cho Gao has been called
upon to provide 500 workers
for the new, agroville. They
receive no money for their
work digging canals1 and
building roads. They are hous
ed for the week they spend
away from home in a sort of
communal bunkhouse. Their
village Is responsible for send
ing them food during their
absence from home.
The district officer's assign
ment made it clear he believes
the government's efforts at
winning the- wholehearted
support of the peasants de
pends on the success with
which it can convince the pea
sant he is working for his own
good, for his own country,
"Despite our troubles, he
said, vve have great confi
dence in our future."
Nevertheless, he admitted
to having taken the precau
tion of covering up his offi
cial license plate with an or
dinary civilian license on the
drive to the new agroville-
as "a sort of camouflage." The
rill tti w $m$M
ANYONE FOR CAKE? Evansville, Ind.'s Fellowship cake,
the world's largest, was fed to some 15,000 at ihe cuy's
municipal stadium. The cake took many days to prepare
and fed an estimated 250,000 people. It measured 38 feet
long, 8 feet wide and 12 feet high. After the stadium group
was fed, tne remainder was distributed throughout the city
to passing motorists.
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SEEKS TORTOISE BAN
' London-fflPB-The Royal So
ciety for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals announc
ed today it will try to end the
importation of tortoises from
the Mediterranean. The so
ciety charged that Britain
bound tortoises are tied to a
stake in the hot sun while
awaiting shipment.
AT $260 A NIP
Pinner, Engla'nd-flJPD-Wine
shop owner Tom Norman has
offered to sell a bottle of 1811
Napolcan brandy for 1,000
pounds ($2,800) providing the
buyer will let him buy back
one drink for .100 pounds
($280).
"I fancy a drop myself,"
Norman said.
clean up bills and get ready for winter expenses
G2&G ask ,he 'riend,y 'an man
$25 to $1500
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185 E. Main St Phone: MU. 9-5421, Ashland
life tnturanc available on all loom at low group rates
Viet Cong have been ambush
ing and assassinating govern
ment officials when they get
the opportunity.
Viet Cong terrorism has not
been much of a problem in
Cho Gao district itself. Things
have been quiet here. The dis
trict is considered "safe and
there is no need for pacifica
tion by the army, as in other
areas.
Units F6rmed
However, two units of Re
publican Youth have been
formed and armed with
French rifles. These youth, be
tween the ages of 18 and 25,
can act as a militia in aiding
regular troops in case of a se
rious engagement with the
Viet Cong.
Such engagements are rare,
though, and the dread pres
ence of the Viet Cong makes
itself felt In small, individual
acts against civil servants and
those accused of "collaborat
ing" with them.
Changed Quarters
Only a few weeks ago a
hnmlct chief In another dis
trict in the same province was
reported assassinated. H 1
name was Bay Nhleu, and he
was well regarded by his
neighbors and had the reputa
tlon of making good collec
tions on loans made by the
government's A g r 1 c u 1 ture
Credit agency.
He had the premonition the
Viet Cong was determined
kill him, so he moved from
house to house at night, each
time sleeping in a different
place.
On the night the Viet Cong
went for him, even his wife
did not know where he was
A snort time later ,he was
found sleeping in a hut. The
nine Republican Youths
the hut with him were armed
only with sticks and were or
dered to clear out.
How was he killed?
He was strangled. A note
listing his "crimes" accused
him of doing his job too well
The Viet Cong also set fire to
the roof of the hut so the blaze
could be seen in all the dis
trict, the usual way of indi
cating they have assassinated
someone.
These are the facts of life
today in South Viet Nam'
villages. '
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send a child to the store?
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when you lot a youngster take your shopping UbI?
Isn't it for the sume reason that you buy 70
of your family's food without actually seeing it?
You know that
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; .' . and that tho name -on the label is your best
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The more good brands you get to know, the
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Inspectors Get
Award From State
For Suggestion
Six shipping point Inspec
tors for the state department
of agriculture who live In
Jackson county have been
awarded $500 through the
state's . employee suggestion
awards board.
The six are Roy M. Harri
son, Harold A. Clement, Lloyd
O. Sutton, L. W. Monroe and
Walter D. Jenson, all of Med-
ford, and David W. Turner of
Central Point.
They suggested a table for
sorting and sizing pears. The
table, according to the state
department of agriculture
has proven to be more accu
rate and has more than dou
bled the tonnage an inspector
can examine. It also will eli
minate the hiring of part time
personnel.
Yearly Savings
Yearly savings of $10,000
are anticipated as a result of
the suggestion, the department
said.
The $500 award, which will
be shared by the six men, is
the 10th maximum award
made during the five-year his
tory of the employee sugges
tion awards board, and the
first maximum award for the
state department of agriculture.
A seasonal cook for the
state department of forestry,
Eva L. Gerhardt, was award
ed a certificate of commenda
tion for suggesting a conveni
ent way to pack lunches for
fire fighters. She is a resident
of Medford.
Mrs. Lininger Named
To College Group
Mrs. B. M. Lininger, 135
South Keene Way dr., has
been appointed to a La Verne
college, La Verne, Calif..
counseling committee in the
field of wills, annuities, and
estate planning.
Mrs. Lininger, a former
trustee of the college, is rep
resenting the Church of the
Brethren constituents of the
college.
La Verne college, located
30 miles east of Los Angeles,
is a four year liberal arts in
stitution granting the bache
lor of arts degree.
CLAIMS JET RECORD
Chleago-iUPD - Trans World
Airlines today claimed one of
its Boeing 707 jetliners Pilot
ed by Capt. Buddy Hagins,
Los Angeles, Sunday set a
new commcrical Los Angeles-to-Chlcago
record of two
hours, 49 minutes four min
utes less than the previous
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