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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1963)
'SET PACE Helicopterj are setting tht pace in modern I top bran it moving toward a multibillion - dollar air whirlwind battles by their mbility to carry ground forces assault arm. -.In strength to troubled areas quickly. Now the pentagon I (hoppers Pass 'Police War Test Result: New Air Assault Division By COL. RAY CROMLEY WASHINGTON (NEA)-Behind the U.S. . Army's experimental Air Assault Division are yean of fighting and dying by the men of a half-dozen nations in the; ''jiorice actions" of the Cold War. -This is the story of the pres sures and the experiences that produced this radical shift in tra ditional military organization. When U.S. troop commanders hit Korea in 1950 they discovered the hard hitting, rapid - maneu vering tactics tested in European battles wouldn't work in mountain ous Asian terrain. Tanks, trucks and artillery were roadbound; the enemy was not. The Heds moved with light weapons, infiltrated over the hills. In Viet Nam, the situation was worse. By the time troops arrived the enemy had vanished. Trucks we're ambushed. Tanks and major artillery were useless; they wouldn t arrive in time. Defense planners studied British experience in Malaya, French ex perience in North Indo China Batista's experience In Cuba against Castro. They even went back to U.S. experience in the 19th Century Indian wars. On thing was clear. Tanks, self propelled artillery, tracked troop carriers would do the job in Europe. The fancy weapons would bog down in Asia. The Army began experimenting with helicopters and small, slow planes that could take off from small, crude fields and fly over forests and jungles. Experimental Jetty-rigged helicopter units were tried out in Korean maneuvers. The-' result, as one company com mander put it: . ''If we'd had helicopters in the Korean war, we wouldn't have gotten caught flat-footed by the Chinese at the Yalu. In Viet Nam, the helicopter was tried in force. The Army foundl i: workable; losses were fewer i than expected. The new mobility and air "artillery worked bet ter than predicted. This was des- v. V ;PI VISION CHIEF Brig. Gen. Harry Kinnard is the pead of.the new air assault division. Working Relatives Of Congressmen pose Problem In Legislative Ethics : WASHINGTON (UPD-In Con- Sress, Caesar's wife is a much iscussed lady. The 535 lawmakers in House and Senate are agreed that they, too, should be above suspicion. But they can't agree on what sometimes makes a congressman Suspect. I .Should a legislator hire his brother-in-law to work in his of fice? Is it ethical to spend the hjv payers' money in a Paris nightclub? Some legislators would answer "ro" to both questions. Others might say "yes." Still others would answer "yes and no." ' Congress, says Rep. Edith Green, D-Ore., has reached the plateau where it needs a police man to tell it right from wrong. To back up her opinion, she Healthy SEPTIC TANKS CI5SP001S AND BIAIHI lillllll lOlll'l IlllOlll IHIUIII Use SIPT0NIC Rigutartyl i ...L ..klna. mill. J- mm a A knrniUll 16 tfluwbtna. Cl ,1. Jl ma.. 500 ! "k Al rr Oror er Herrfwere "Of f H IT -4 JTm. V , M'-rJ PU-i'j ... ..! I : I Ml iP I fliH .V" ' . TROUBLE SEEKER Army's troops. pite the fact that few of the hell copters had proper armament and many were obsolescent. Pro tective , tactics hadn't been well developed. So officers who worked with the choppers swore by them and at Washington for not hav ing come up with choppers de signed for the job. Thus, tile Air Assault Division, now being developed. Hie division will carry its troops' by helicopter; armed choppers will ride shotgun. The division will carry its own air artillery, SS-11 anti-tank mis- siles and 2.75 rockets mounted on1 choppers. Other helicopters will sling-carry Little John rockets. 105mm howitzers and icon-mount ed 106mm rccoilless rifles. The helicopters will also carry ma chine guns. Air cavalry units will have light observation helicopters and light Mohawk planes equipped with side-viewing radar for reconnais sance. There will be skyborne en-: gineers and signal units. Altogether the division will have 400 helicopters and light aircraft About 110 to 135 probably will be light observation craft and about! 325 to 350 Iroquois helicopters for carrying troops, cargo and artil lery. The division will be backed up by an Air Transport Brigade with 80, 32-man, fi.OOO . ton cargo capacity Caribous and probably about 50, 32-man Chinook helicon- tors. , The Air Assault Division could fight alongside more conventional divisions. It could he held in re serve and thrown quickly into a tight spot. It could be used as lank devisions were used in Eu rope for a quick breakthrough fol lowed by an attack .on the cncm.'r rear. The Air Assault Division could leapfrog strong points and leave dropped a legislative reform package into the hopper, includ ing a proposal to set up a 15- member Commission on Congres sional Ethics. The commission would study conflicts of interest and outside income of House and Senate members. Mrs. Green said bluntly that "major surgery" is needed to keep Congress honest. A focal point for much of the recent uproar over congressional honesty is Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, D-N. Y. The Negro leg islator triggered a barrage of critieism when he left in the midst of a congressional session for a month-long lour of five European nations. Powell is chairman of the imnorlaiit House Education and Labor Committee. f YES... WE HAVE See hy on -pogt 1 4 of todov's Fomilv WecUv Roberts Hardware Town 4 Country Shoopme Ctnftr "Chinook" transport helicopter disgorges combat-ready them to wither on the vine as U.S. troops did in the Paoific is lands of World War II. Elements of the Air Assault Division would act as sky caval ry to gather intelligence or to harass the enemy's flank or rear, or to slow down reserve troops or supplies coming to bolster ene my units at the front much as horse cavalry operated in the Civ- War. Units of an Air Assault Division could be quickly moved 50 or 100 miles to smash guerrilla con A PORTABLE VAN A Sikorsky S-64 "Skycrane" makes its test (light with a removable van which could trans port' 68 battle-ready troops. Attack scene in upper photo is of an Army "Iroquois" firing an SS-II wire-guided missile. 1 He said the purpose of the trip was to gather facts on the Eur opean Common Market. However, while most of his fel low lawmakers were trying to get Congress adjourned. Powell was reported mixing his information gathering with nightclub visits and sunbathing. Along the way lie spent $1.H3. Two female aides who accompanied him spent $2,428. Neither figure included transporalion costs, according to congressional record. Answering his critics, Powell said they were using a pot-calling-kettle-black type of logic. "1 will always do what every other con gressman has done, is doing, and NOW IS THE TIME TO CONVERT Your Old Worn Out Woodon Windows to ALUMINUM WINDOWS NOTHING DOWN Up to 40 Months to Poy AO A I I Hi Windows ft Doon TU .im . -. centrations in a South Viet Nam type war. Even with the new Air Assault Divisions, if they develop as ex petted, the Army will depend on the Air Force for attaining air superiority on hte battlefield and for close bombing-strafing support of ground troops. The Air Force would; as at present, deliver sup plies to Army level. But in the new concept, supplies would move for ward to corps and division by plane where necessary instead of by truck. Att will do," he said. And as far as junketing goes, Powell had a lot u congressional bedfellows. In 1W2, 101 lavrmakcrs and nearly as many aides toured the world. They reported to the House Administration Committee that they spent a total of $257,514. If junketing is controversial nepotism is none the less so. In the current 88th Congress, payroll records show wives, daughters, sons, brothers and in-laws all working for congressmen. There is no secret about the SHAWS For Books WE STOCK ALL THE LATEST RELEASES AND -"BEST SELLER" Alio Quality paptrback books covering oil ubitcli. Coll or writ if you can't comt in in person. Any boo In gladly mailtd! SHAW STATIONERY 729 Moin Ph. TU 2-2516 Piscatorial Appetites Tickled By Polly's Flies (Continued from Page 1) visits from fishermen passing through Oregon or who come to iish our famous rivers. When he finds lime, Polly is usually happv to take some of these fishermen to his favorite waters to display the catching qualities of his flies. "I began to meet a great num ber of people over the last 10 In 15 years who would come up to fish with me and who were very well educated." Pollv. said. "These people were both in- teresling and stimulating and it was at this point in my life that 1 decided I would begin to broad en myself." he said candidly. Polly took his self education se riously and in his spare time he pores through philosophy, devours two newspapers daily and turns an ear to a growing stock of classical music. Not the least of his interests! is the fascinating search for rare minerals and precious stones and Polly and a rock hounding friend take many three and four-day trips in hot pursuit (if something that will cut and polish, or sell as a mineral. Polly might also be considered a professional miner since he has half interest in a mine on Quartz Mountain. Bay Of Pigs Disaster Recalled 2 Years Later WASHINGTON (UPD - In thel early morning hours of April 17, 1061, a force of 1,500 men in com- bat uniforms stormed ashore in a remote and swampy section of Cuba facing a body of water tailed the Bay of Pigs. As Brigade 2505 slugged inland with high hopes, a Madison Ave nue public relations firm in far- off New York issued a communi- que in the name of the Cuban Revolutionary Council. "Before dawn," it said with un justified optimism, "Cuban patri ots in the cities and the hills be gan the battle to4 liberate our homeland from the despotic rule of Fidel Castro and rid Cuba of international cruelty and oppres sion." In the early morning hours of April 20, just three days later, Havana radio also had a com mumque. mo the world and the Cuban people it announced: 'The mercenary army which occupied Cuban territory for less than 72 hours has been crushed the government disclosed at 2:30 a m.) today in communique No 4." Castro Still There Brigade 2505 set out to destroy Castro, but Castro Is still there. The invasion was launched from a sea of errors and en gulfed in a tidal wave of confu sion: but this in itself was an ex perience that became a teacher. Lessons learned in April. 1962, were not forgotten by the Kenne dy administration in the American-Soviet missile showdown last October. Because the Bay of Pigs was such a fiasco as well as a trage dy for the men Involved, and be cause it was such a glaring fail lire of U. S. policy, it will re main a controversy for years to come. The adventure beaan. on the oight of April 16. with a poem. "Alert alert look well as the rainbow. The fish will be 'running very soon Chico is at home visit him The sky is blue But notice on tree Tree is green and brown. . ." Broadcast by a clandestine ra practice. The House pavroll rec ords are all open to public view- Some congressmen even go out of their way to tell their constitu ents thev have a relative on the payroll. But not all of them think the practice is ethical and have moved to curtail it. As part of this drive, the House Administration Committee recent ly approved a proposal to prohib it use of federal hinds to pay any memher of a congressman's staff who doesn't work m Washington or in the representative's home slate. Al odvottiiod Pogt 13 ot Fomilv Wookly OPEN A CHARGE ACCOUNT Up to 5 monthi to poy. No Carrying Charges! SHERWIN-A'k ( YES... WE HAVE WlLUAMS$& 1229 E. Mom TU 4-7704 s : J Talking about his interest in minerals and gems, Polly said. "Fly tying is hard on the eyes and when I get older and my e)es fail me, I'll have to find something "to make a living at." At 60, Polly looks ageless and if it's trekking through the snow at Diamond Lake Pas that keeps him hail and hearty it's hard to believe that he won't be tying flies for another 60 years. When he got tired of tying this inter he took a trip to the Dia mond Lake area and trapped marten. He also took his an nual limit of beaver from his trap line on the Williamson this year. When Polly ' does retire, how ever, he said he'd probably make New, Zealand his home, with its temperate climate, hot springs. and above all, still virgin trout fishing. One of his overriding ambitions is to some day put his 40 years of fishing experiences, and the knowledge of fishing and f I y tying techniques he has devel oped, into a book. Polly has done some writing for outdoor and rock hounding magazines, but his big story is still untold. When he does un leash his vast store of piscatorial knowledge the conservation de partments better be ready with a big stocking program. dio starting before midnight, the poem appeared to be beamed at the Cuban underground to alert.it that the "fish" were at that very moment approaching the Cuban: shores. It is an old trick, hiding a message in verse, and was a method employed by the Allies to alert the French underground on the eve of D-Day. Although melodramatic and ex citing, this poem alerted virtual ly no one. It was merely symbol ic of futility. The anti-Castro nn derground was very much in e.x istence. Some of its members heard the verses on short - wave radios and with agony realized they Had no instructions to un lock the code of the fish, Chico or the rainbow; no prepared plans to blow up bridges, block trains, or delay Castro's 300,000 man militia.. CIA Ignores Underground Behind this lack of knowledge was simple fact. The Central In telligence Agency (CIA) planners who oiiganizcd and directed the Bay of Pigs expedition had decid ed to all but ignore the under ground, which they did not total ly trust, and concentrate instead on a one-shot landing of 1,500 men with no local support. In the penetrating light of hind- forged another link in the chain sight, it was a blunder that of destruction which was to crush the whole operation and badly damage American prestige. For nearly three months Amer ican and exile personnel had trained the assault forces, most ly at a remote camp in Guate mala. , To provide sufficient aerial firepower to protect the invasion forces; American planes would have been needed. But Kennedy firmly ruled out any U.S. participation. Four Americans did. in fact, fly planes provided to the exiles, and vanished under attack from Cuban jets. But the four had been hired presuma bly by the CIA for the sole purpose of aiding the exiles. Here To Stay April 17, the day of the land ings. From the diary of Manuel Penabaz, one of the invading ex iles: "We are entrenched on Cu ban soil, and here we will stay." On April 1!) it was all over. Pounded relentlessly by jelr and Castro's tanks, deprived of sup plies that were destroyed when ships were sunk, alone with no air cover, lacking any internal uprising that would have divert ed the militia, the brigade floun jdered and then quit. For 10 months its members suf fered in Cuban prisons before New York aattorney .lames Don ovan, aided quietly by the Ken nedy administration and openly by the American Red Cross, ob tained tlieir release. RENT the HOST Electric Brush Wtwn clMntiJ by vu . your carpthng , IhMiM HOST - CLEANEO. Salt won't burn; Ouitltll. R- mtvtt dtrl InttMd ot tbampoeinq H in. No hrinkto! mm nap; lavti rtiturt. atera 1 Ph. 4-5111 or 2-2531 tor Comploto Information CASCADE LAUNDRY CLEANERS Opp. P.O. 11th I Klomoth PACE t HERALD AND Family Homes DESIGN 77 Hout 088 Sq. Ft. 24.130 Cu. fl. Garogt 384 Sq. Ft. 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" It was a Montana State Uni versity ring, Class of 1957, -with the initials "JTS" engraved in side. Tlie Fort Hays alumni of fice assumed the task of finding the lost owner. A letter to Mon ONE L-iJ! liJ ,,j Sunday, April 21, 19U) r n - ' " nw f7.u tana State revealed Schaetfer was the only "JTS" to graduate in 1957. Schaeffcr is-now an account ant at the University of Califor nia. Schaeffer was contacted and re vealed he had lost tile ring dur ing a stopover at the airport. The jewelry was sent to him. 'The owner wrote Spomer that the ring had special significance because it was a graduation gift from his late father. "I'm thrilled to have it back," Schaeffer wrote. The tree-borne orchid is epiphyte, not a parasite. WEEK T.,"q 1 17 1280 TU 2-2535 1317 t. Moin
