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6 A THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER S. 1961) MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON foreign Legion' Defends U.S. Under the Stars mm By ZANDER HOLLANDER Fulda, Germany (UPI) Ihey call themselves he "For eign Legion" but their (lag is the Stars and Stripes. They have never defended France in the Sahara or steamy Orient. They defend the United States on the Free World's bor der with the Iron Curtain. This foreign legion consists of 105 soldiers of the U.S. Army's 3,000-man 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment gu.irH'ng a 300-milc stretch of the Communist-barricaded boundary between East and West Germany. They are not American citizens. But they chose to defend the United States by enlisting in its Army. "The Berlin crisis made up my mind, said Pfc. Raul M Guzman, graduating from high school in Los Angeles three years ago. "I know I had to get military service out of the way some time, said Guzman, the driver on an armored personnel car rier. "But I figured if America was really going to be my coun try, that was the time to prove it." Like almost all the "foreign Morse, Wallace Trade Insults Washington - (UPI) - Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) and Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama traded long - distance insults Wednesday about the way Wal lace has handled the school inte gration situation in his state. Morse denounced Wallace on Uie senate floor as a "punk" and "a disgrace to the great office he holds. Wallace retorted at Montgom ery that Morse was "a psy chiatric case" and added: "I'd rather be a punk than a pink." Morse said Wallace's anti-integration tactics "are those of a shyster ... He will stand in the pages of the history of Ala bama and this country as a complete disgrace." Wallace, informed of Morse's attack, shot back: "That sena torial drip from Oregon . . , needs his head examined.". r... . I -... Mjm.&3mtSmLmTmm mm mJL'LmmC . J across the line, you get a sense of doing something important. I plan to re-enlist." The Mth's 105 "foreign legion naires" come from 24 far-flung lands including the Pacific isle of Samoa, E s t h o n i a, The Ukraine, Norway, South Africa, Guatemala, The Dominican Re public and Switzerland. Germany was home for most 41. Ten come from Canada, 10 from Mexico and nine from Hungary, most of them, like Petri, former Freedom fighters Six come from Ireland, six 'FOREIGN LEGION' They call themselves the "Foreign Legion" but their flag is the Stars and Stripes. This legion is composed of 105 soldiers of the U. S. Army's 3,000-man 14th Armored Cavalry regiment guarding a 300 mile stretch of the boundaiy between East and West Germany. They are not American citizens but Jhey chose to defend the U. S. by enlisting in the Army. Shown front to back in this photo graph taken at Fulda, Germany, are Pfc. La zaro M. Julve, Cuba, tank loader; Specialist Five Joseph Petri, Hungary, tank gunner; Pfc. Ludwig Tyszecki, Poland, tank driver; Sgt. Claudio S. Poiani, Italy, tank commander. (UPI) legionnaires" in the 14th, Guz man aims to become an Ameri can citizen. So does Specialist Five Joseph False-Lashed Pros Must Be Licensed New York (UPI) With out batting an eyelash, New York's Secretary of State has ruled that any person who ap plies false eyelashes profession ally must be a state - licensed cosmetologist. Said Mrs. Caroline K. Simon, "The application of false eye lashes constitutes a potential danger to the eye itself, and should be done only by a qual ified person. It was in licht of this fact that the rule was pro mulgated . Petri, 23, Detroit, Mich.', a Hun garian freedom fighter who es caped to Yugoslavia when Rus sian tanks crushed the 1956 re volt and went to the United States in 1959. "Once I'm a cilien," said Petri, crack gunner of an M-60 Patton today, "it should be easier to bring my taother out of Hungary. I'm not married Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribuna In Medlord, phone 772-6141; Ash land call at 416 Bridga it., or phone 482-3002: Yreka. phone Victory 2-2898 before 8:45 p.m. daily and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call pleaiie notify office, thin eliminating' apecial messenger service. yet but when I do I want my children to grow up Ameri cans." For Sgt. Claudio S. Poiani, 27, of Kellogg, Idaho, the mo tive was "join the Army and see mama and papa." Poiani emigrated to America in 1955, leaving his parents at his birthplace, the Italian port city of La Spezia. After several years as a zinc and copper ore extractor in Idaho, Pioani enlisted "because I figured the Army was the best Way to visit the old folks." But the Army, said Poiani, turned out to be more than just a free ride to La Spezia. "When you're up here," the M-60 tank commander said, ges turing toward the horizon be yond which lay the Iron Cur tain, "and the Russians are just Williams Presented With Scholarship Each year at the close of the YMCA Diamond lake camp, the camp counselors . select the counselor who has most closely represented in his personal con' duct at camp and in his leader ship, those Christian qualities which the Y seeks to encourage in all youth. The counselor selected is pre sented with the D. Ford Mc- Cormick Memorial scholarship grants of $100 to aid in educa tion expenses. This year Frank Williams, 2182 Old Military rd., Medford, was selected by his fellow coun selors at Diamond lake to re ceive this scholarship award Frank was a counselor with the YMCA day camp, which is for first and second grade boys, then went to Diamond lake to serve as counselor with a group of grade and junior high school boys. He served for six weeks. This fall Frank is entering Southern Oregon college. m in pWw' ' - t- limit ' -wo. cm. OREGON FOOD STORES Weirgare She-pping Center 2370 Wait Main Medford from Italy, five from Britain and two from The Netherlands. The rest are sole representa tives of 16 other countries. Col. Wallace L. Clement of Cambridge, Mass., commander of the tradition-proud 14th, rates his "foreign legionnaires" as "among the best soldiers we've got anywhere in the world." Citizens of Fulda, headquar ters of the 14th, and of its two sub-headquarters towns of Bad .Horselfd and Bad Kissingen are often astonished to find soldiers speaking so many remote lan guages serving in the American armed forces. When Guzman and Pfc. Juan E. Arguello, 20, San Francisco, Calif., "get to talking Spanish, the Germans stand around pop eyed," a fellow soldier said. Arguello, a mortar gunner from Granada, Nicaragua, said he really joined the Army to im prove his English but "it cer tainly helps to have a few amigos around." The men of the "foreign le gion" are scattered in all three squadrons of the 14th. They hold down jobs as varied as tanker, medic, mechanic, cook, chap lain's assistant, infantry squad Stripes leader and drummer in the regi mental band. The Army imposes only one restraint on their service with the 14th; no non-citizen is as signed to the mobile patrols or observation posts which main tain, a round-the-clock watch at the border 365 days a year. The reason: If the Commu nists ever grabbed a non-citizen in a border incident the United States might not be able to per suade the Russians and still more the East Germans to return him, especially if he were born in what is now Communist territory. Interlopers Cause Textile Troubles College Station, Tex. (UPI) How much trouble can an old coat or colored handker chief cause in a bale of cotton bound for the textile mill? 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