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Quips and Quotes at 71 All nuHi it has been oar fate Ta harbor gnesls from out-of-state. We railed Ike welcome wages Mt And gamely ckanteared them aboat. We picnicked them ea Mountain tops Aad hnaled eoaveairs la shops. We drove to every site historic And dlard ear I Heads ea iraU caloric. Ia fact, the carpet that we spread Waa frankly an expensive red. Does someone ask what ia the reason We treated gnests so well this season? Oar answer, withoat haw or beat: Next year we plan to visit THEM. To tht casual obierver, abttraet art appears to be painted by a person who didn't know wktre to draw the lint. Lavonn Mathiton r ' r A harried business execu tive visited his doctor for a prescription. "I can't get any sleep," he said. "I need a sed ative." "I can't five you sedatives," the doctor replied. "You're al lergic to them." "Well, how about that twi light sleep' I've been reading about?" "That's only for labor," the doctor explained. "What?" cried the business man. "Isn't there anything for management?" Lawrence Mohan "Be with you ta a moment." "WHAT AM I DOING HEREr (Continued from page 5) have taken cover, which at least keeps them from making trouble for a while." If s after a spell in the rear echelons, where many high ranking Vietnam officers owe their jobs to political pull, not skill, that Tom wonders why he ever left France, "My moat frustrating experience was being sent to province to observe field tactics," Tom says. "When I got there, the local commander said he would have a search-and-clear operation going out the following morning. When my sergeant and I came to the jumping-off point, though, we found the operation had been cancelled for some vague reason. The same thing happened the next day and the next. "On the fourth day we went through the same schedule-and-cancd business again, but now there was a clear rea son for it. The commander had intelligence of a large con centration' of VC three or four miles from his headquarters. " 'How many?' I asked. "'Fifty or more' this against nearly 1,000 men he commanded! When I urged him to send troops out after them, he said he would consider it But by that evening, the number of VC had grown in his mind to 600, so he just waited until he learned that the VC had withdrawn. I was back home by then." Life is easier to bear "back home" in Long Xuyen, where Tom isn't plagued by timid officers. When he's not out in the field, he helps train Vietnamese. "They need all the instruction they can get," he says. "They come here with exactly six weeks training, and they don't know much about handling equipment. This doesn't keep them from being tigers in the field, though. They're great scouts, too. "I don't know how many times they've saved my life by exposing themselves to draw the fire and by keeping me from walking into ptm; in the jungle. Punji are booby traps. The worst ones are slivers of bent bamboo with long nails in the end. You spring the trap, and the bamboo whips up to drive the spike into your stomach or cheat. I've learned to spot punji by now, but only because the Viet namese have kept me from tripping dozens of them." - After seven months, the Vietnamese return Horner's respect and affection in full. His appearance on the post is greeted by a ragged cheer and an accolade in the only English the soldiers know: "Number one! Number one!" Ton's ONLY RECREATION in Long Xuyen, aside from an occasional ancient movie that finds its way there, is caring for a seven-foot boa constrictor his men gave him as a joke when they discovered he didn't like snakes. He hasn't named the snake, but he has confounded the funsters by building a cage for it and learning to handle it Except for the boa, Horner is surrounded by nothing but work, which he doesn't like to abandon even for an occasional "Rest and Rehabilitation" leave. He turned down an "R and R" recently because, "It only interrupts the grind, it doesn't change it When you get back, if s just as hot and miserable as before, only now it seems twice as bad because you've been cool and safe for a while." As time passes, results become apparent, too. "You can see changes when you look back over a few months. I waa just driving down a road, wondering why I felt strange, and then it dawned on me: I was atone! What progress! When I got here, no one drove that road alone unless he had suicide in mind. Ambush was certain. But not now. "In the same way, it dawns on you every so often that this or that village hasn't been attacked for months. Or that it has been a long time since a field was burned in a particular area or a farmer killed. 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