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12 A Viet Cong Soldiers Said Determined, Fanatical Killers Editor'! note - What type) - of enemy ii pitted against : South Vietnamese troops : and their American military advisers? In the following . interview a wounded Ameri can officer, the son of a famous general, give an in timate glimpre of the jungle war against "disciplined, fanatical killers." By NEIlTsHEEHAN Saison, Vict Nam -IIPH- Lt Col Frank B. Clay shifted gingerly in his chair, obvious ly still bothered by wounds caused by fragments of plexi glass and aluminum which ripped into his arm, leg and left side. He found a mure comfort able position and leaned back ,a cool drink in his hand. "They have the same spirit as the Crusaders and Sara- cens - all fired up for a cause, he said. Clay, a 40-ycar-old West Pointer, spoke to this cor respondent Thursday just 24 hours after he had been wounded. Oklahoma State Students in Riot Stillwater, Okla.-IUPII-An es timated 2.500 students throw in; beer boltllcs and rocks, rioted on the campus at Okla homa Stale University Thurs day night and early today. Six women in invaded dormi tories, two policemen and a fireman were hurt. The riot got so bad local police had to call for help from state troopers and police departments from surround ing towns. The National Guard was alerted but was not used. The riot lasted five and one-half hours. When two fire trucks rumbled up and the firemen turned fire hoses on the students, some of them cut off the water and wreck ed the equipment so it could not be used. "Then we just had to sweat it out." Stillwater Policeman Dick White said. Thirty-two stale troopers came to the aid of the 2(1 local policemen and 17 campus se curity officers trying to quell the riot on the campus popu lated by 10,000 students. One policeman was struck In the head with a brick and had to have several stitches taken in the wound. A bottle smashed the windshield of a firctruck, and a fireman was cut by flying glass. Lt. Pert Geop'eof the High way Patrol said the 2,500 stu dents ran rfupanl through three girl's dormitories and caused several thousand dol lars damage. Lebanon Oil Drilling Begins Salcm-IOT Reserve Oil and Gas Co., San Franicsco, today began drilling a wildcat well for oil and gas near Lebanon south of here. It's the first oil well drilling operation in Oregon in the past couple of years, and the only one under way now. The start of drilling was an nounced by Willard Farnham of Portland, who heads Farn ham Chemical Co. He negoti ated the drilling arrangement with Heserve. Farnham said the well will he 7.500 feet deep. The site is an 18.000 nere lease block on private property two miles east of Lebanon in Western Oregon's Linn county. The leases are held by vari ous groups and individuals in cluding Reserve. Linn County Oil Development Co.. A. M Ropp of Albany, Frank Need ham of Salem and Jasper D. Turnirige, Jefferson, Farnham said. J" - v ' Vj.f.' r ta 'fa- '- I UwW&WsuJ IKE INVITED Pennsylvania'! Gov. David l.awmuv enjoys a joke will) former President Dwixlit Eisenhower at the General' office at Gettysburg aj the governor extended an invitation for Eisenhower to attend the 54th annual gov ernors' conference and In act as host when the nation's fiovcrnors visit the Gettysburg battlefield July 1 iViI) FRIDAY, MAY 25. 1962 And he spoke with respect of the elusive enemy he has spent 11 months searching out in the rice paddies, swamps and jungles fo the Mekong river delta souht of here. Clay, son of President Ken nedy's Berlin adviser, Gen. Lucius D. Clay, is senior ad viser to the Vietnamese 7th Division which Is responsible for the war against the Com munist Viet Cong in five prov inces south of Saigon. He was wounded Wednes day when Viet Cong bullets shattered the cockpit of the helicopter in which he was flying. Two weeks ago, during a similar operation against the guerrillas. Clay was nearly killed when a Communist bul let crashed through the plexi glass canopy of another heli copter within inches of his head. During Wednesday's brisk action against the Commu nists, three other American officers riding in the same helicopter with Clay also were wounded. Clay said he and another U. S. military adviser, Col. H. C. Blazzard, jumped into action early Wednesday with company of Vietnamese troops near the village of Nhan Ninh in Kien Tuong Province, 50 miles south of Scigon. Set Trap for Reds Eight other companies of Vietnamese troops, including civil guards and rangers, had been air-lifted around the edges of a wide area covered with flooded rice paddies. criss-crossed by canals, and obscured by fields of man high elephant grass. Object of the operation, Clay said, was to encircle and trap elements of the Viet Cong 504lh Batallion which had been terrorizing the area. Clay, Blazzard and a Viet namese company under a young lieutenant marched along the canal for several hours after being landed by U.S. Army helicopters early in the morning. The group met only light resistance but had to move slowly because of Viet Cong spike traps and other "booby trap" devices, and thick jungle growth which blocked the route, Clay said he stood on the edge of a rice paddy in the afternoon where he could see the action and "rubbed my hands with glee. They (the guerrillas) were moving right toward the regulars." The Vict Cong, as if sensing the trap, suddenly turned west, Clay related, fleeing quickly across canals and rice paddies. Clay and Blazzard climbed aboard one helicopter while a group of Vietnamese followed in a second to head off the Viet Cong for strafing from the air. The helicopters swung out In front of the Viet Cong and then roared back, slamming away at guerrillas from 30 caliber machine guns mount ed in the exits. "The Vii'l Cong hit the ground and returned fire," Clay said. Clay was in the cockpit di recting the pilots, Capl. Rob ert Cornell and Chief Warrant Officer Benny Potts, when a bullet crashed through the plexiglass canopy with "an awful crack." Two more bullets crashed through the bottom and In struments of the helicopter, wounding Cornell in the foot, and Potts in the chest. The round that hit Potts was spent. Blazzard, standing behind Clay, was also hit by flying aluminum and plexiglass. Asked for his opinion of the quality of Communist troops Clay said "I've never lost my respect for them. They're too clever. And they're disciplined, fanatical killers." ALL ABOARD A long line of troops walk to a wailing Military Air Transport C121 airplane at Travis Air Force Base, en route to the Pacific. The deteriorating interna- Fish Propagation Plan Unopposed Portland-tUPll-A public hear ing here Thursday produced no opposition to a decision by the State Water Resources Board that fish propagation is more important than power development on north coastal streams. The board held the hearing on its proposed North Coast Water Basin use program which will govern unappropri ated streams in Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook coun ties. Small areas of Washing ton, Yamhill and Polk coun ties on the west slopes of the Coast Range also will be af fected. After the hearing, members of the board predicted the program would be approved at a June 5 meeting. Hie program is one of a series designed to set up regu lations governing the use of all unallocated water in Ore gon's 18 major drainage ba sins. Much of the proposal deals with establishment of dams which would guarantee ade quate water flow in streams which now are unable to pro vide water conditions for salmon and steelhead growth. The board agreed to con sider a conditional permit for construction of a dam on Pine Creek in Baker County by the Pine Valley Development As sociation. If approved June 5, the permit would allow con struction of the dam if it does not Interfere with fish propa gation. Carpenter Said Top Dancer at School Salem IIIPII A woman who dated astronaut Scott Carpen ter at a high school gradua tion party said today he was the best dancer in school. "All the girls wanted to dance with him." said Mrs. Deryl Currie, Salem. Mrs. Currie knew Carpen ter as a senior classmate at Boulder. Colo., High school, where she said he was a cheerleader. Mrs. Currie. the former Charlotte Stangler, said she and Carpenter had just the one date. She met her hus band at the University of Colorado and the last time she saw Carpenter was in 1049 at Boulder. Hatfield Addresses Grade School Grads Shaw, Ore. - H'Pfi - The six graduates of a two -room grade school here will have something lo talk about for the rest of their lives. Gov. Mark llatficlc! spoke for 18 minutes to Cheryl Lynn Kindle, Pamela Ann Towlc, Arthur Orlando Stout. Ora Elijah Stout, Kenneth Moody and Thomas Edward Stewart Wednesday night. The ti5-year-old school is lo cated about 10 miles southeast of Salem. Portland Prices Up0.1 PerCenl San Francisco ilTT The average price level of goods and services purchased bv families of Portland wage and salary workers edged up 0.1 per cent over the January-April quarter, the Depart ment of Labor said today. Knod and housing led the Increase. Transportation costs dropped 11 3 per cent with the deepening of a gasoline pries) war and reductions on the prices of new cars. j ; " V':' ? ' , OS-tote s-ikU:- 4 j; ! nt'ltf Underground Nuclear Test Held in Nevada Washington-IUPIi-The Atom ic Energy commission con ducted a low-yield under ground nuclear test today at its Nevada test site. It was the 34th announced shot of the series. The AEC announced the detonation in the usual brief statement. Low-yield explosions have a force of less than 20 kilotons or 20,000 tons of TNT. Wilson Elected To Health Group Dewey Wilson, M e d f o r d lawyer, was elected president of the Jackson County Mental Health association at the an nual meeting this week. He replaces Dr. John Mc Laughlin who has been presi dent for the past year. Other officers elected In clude the Rev. Fred Evans of the First Christian church, Medford. vice president; Mrs. Robert Minear, secretary; and Mrs. Chester Guchcs, treasur er. Board members for the year are Lindsay Vinsel, Ren Taylor, Mrs. Harry Watson, Mrs. Phyllis Pescnti, W. E. Thomas, Ronald Ricketts, Richard Kuhn, Henry DeVoss, Tom Ginn, the Rev. John Ilg and Dr. McLaughlin, and Mar tin J. Elle and Donald G. Mc Larrin of Ashland. Advisory committee mem bers are Dr. A. E. Merkel and Miss Frances Clink of the county heallh department. Dr. Harry Danielson, psychiatrist, and Miss Ethelyn Shumway and Tom Goff of the Family and Child Guidance clinic. COOKED OUTDOORS SERVED OUTDOORS Come Early, Stay Lt! 4Sfc5 MEDFORD MAIL . tional situation in Southeast busiest military airport in the Negligence Noted In Barge Explosion Pasco -IDPII- Negligence on the part of the Pacific Inland Navigation Co. has been blamed for the 1958 explosion of a barge in Pasco. In an opinion to be filed to day in Franklin County Su perior Court, Judge James Lawless found for the Port of Pasco in its $55000 suit against the navigation com pany, a port lessee. Lawless described the claim as reasonable and proper. An electrical short circuit on the barge ignited gas fumes Dec. 16, 1958, causing an ex plosion which destroyed the barge, a portion of the port's oil dock, and destroyed some $20,000 worth of gasoline. r MOW IT'S Be sure to dial all seven digits of the number when making a local phone call starting Sunday, May 27 at 12:01 a.m. IF YOU LIVE IN: MEDFORD JACKSONVILLE CENTRAL POINT PHOENIX-TALENT GOLD HILL PACIFIC NORTHWEST BELL SUNDAY, JUNE Authentic Island Style ENTERTAINMENT & DANCING Pwaa Kala Lomi Lomi Salmon Moa Poi Hawaiian Chicken Uwala Kalua Baked Bananas Assorted Salads Fresh Cocoanul Cake Banana Muffins MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW! Phones: JU 2-1107 or 855-1207 CALL TODAY 'V TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON , Asia has made Travis the United States. (UPI) Broken Chair Brings Suit for Damages Salem - IUPD - A man who claims he was injured in the headquarters of the State In dustrial Accident Commission here filed suit in circuit court asking for damages. Joshua B. Avison said the chair he was sitting in broke. His claim for compensation was rejected by the commis sion last week. Army Convoy Passes Through Medford A U.S. Army convoy passed through Medford shortly after noon yesterday en route to California via Highway 99. The convoy, composed of 66 vehicles, left Ft. Lewis, Wash., yesterday morning. 3 RD MENU X 11 v' " yvnstft--vf isLMHaaBaLl iFI I Mi &k.LJ II I 1 Pit Roasted Whole Pig Pit Baked Salmon Chicken Luau Pit Barbecued Chicken Baked Yams Seaweed Relish Pineapple Luau Style Sweet & Sour Shrimp Fruit Salad - Surgwnj Replace Boy's Right Arm Boston (UPI) Surgeons waited today to learn if their "one in a million chance" of replacing a 12-year-old boy's severed arm had worked. The right arm of Everett Knowles Jr., Somerset, Mass., was torn from his shoulder Wednesday when he was hit by a Boston & Maine Railroad train. His condition at Massachu setts General Hospital today was listed as fair. But he re mained on the danger list. A team of surgeons per formed a six-hour operation on the boy to put the arm back in place. They had to repair fractured bones, skin and tissue damage and rejoin vital blood vessels. Dr. Henry L. Edmunds Jr. said there w a s a noticeable pulse in tne boy's right wrist after the operation, indicating a good supply of blood was reaching the arm. If successful, the operation would make medical history. Medical officials here said that to their knowledge such a feat never had been accom plished. But the fight is only begin ning. It will take four to six weeks before doctors will know if even the first stage has been successful. It will take from two to five years to learn the final outcome of the operation. DISCUSS CONGO UNITY Leopoldville - (I'PIl - Central Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula and President Moise Tshombe of secessionist Ka tanga Province met for the third consecutive day Thurs day to discuss Congo unity. Informed sources said the two leaders agreed on procedures to be followed during the re mainder of their talks. trn From Noon Till 2:30 a.m. All CHILDREN'S PROGRAM at 3 P.M. Bring the Whole Family Enjoy Our Luau Garden "? Pacific Northwest Bell Declares Dividend Seattle -0IPII- The board of directors of Pacific Northwest Bell Thursday declared a quarterly dividend of 22 cents per share on the company's common stock, payable June 29. 1962. The dividend is payable to shareholders of record at the close of business June 8. Groups Submit Oiler To Union Portland -fl'PD- Two employ ers' groups submitted another offer to Portland Local 1092 of the Food and Drug Clerks Union here Thursday, but the union negotiating committee said it would recommend re jecting the proposal. Union Business Representa tive Gordon Swope said a meeting of some 2,000 mem bers of the local has been call ed for Tuesday morning to vote on the offer, but he said the committee will present a unanimous recommendat i o n against it. Negotiations with the Food Employers, Inc., and the Port land Independent Grocery Employers Committee have been going on for about 90 days. Contracts covering some 250 grocery stores in Mult nomah, Washington and north ern Clackamas counties ran out April 29. There has been no strike, but the union bar gaining committee has been authorized to call a stoppage if necessary. Swope said employers had offered a 25-cent-an-hour in crease spread over two years, plus a number of fringe bene fits. The union is seeking higher wages and more mon ey for evening work. The cur rent union scale is $98.50 a week for clerks with more than 12 months experience. mwm TWIST-CHA CHA CONTEST Sunday, NO COVER CHARGE IAST WEEK'S WINNERS Layton Skovc and Dixie GlunkeH PRIZES! PRIZES! PRIZES! PRIZES! lit Ladici' Wriil Watch 2nd Transistor Radio 3rd Dinner (2) in Candle Room 4th Twist Records 5th 2 Deluie Pinas From Shakey'a 6th 2 Deluxe Pixxas From Shakey's 7lh $25 Dancing Lessons From Arthur Murray ADULTS ONLY Please Medford Hotel Bar of Music Under Stars Greens and Island Foods Flown in From Hawaii! SPECIAL! I SPECIAL! ISLAND PUNCH Served in whole Pineapple or Cocoanut Shell Located: Halfway Between Gold Hill & Rogue River on Old 99, Freeway Turnoffs Foots Creek or Redwood Hwy. sf W VJ AJ CANCELS UN VISIT Salisbury, Southern Rhode sia - UPI) - Southern Rhodes nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo Thursday canceled his scheduled visit to the United Nations because, he said, tha government here planned to ban his political party and ar rest its leaders. Nkomo, who said he received his informa tion from "reliable sources, had been scheduled to leave for the United Nations today. 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