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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1963)
s wt -r. ! 1 I V. LOCAL GUARDSMEN AT CAMP Over 100 Klamath Basin men are taking two months of summer training with National Guard units Battery B and'C of the 249th Artil lery SP at Camp Rilea in Warrenton. Two of the men, from left, Pfe. Delbert Folk and Pfe. Conrad Reinmiller, members of the 2nd Automatic Weapons Battalion, help unload and store ammunition for firing their 40 MM guns. On the right is Pvt. William Sharp of Grants Pass. Italians Launc To Wipe Out h Drive The Mafia Dirty Thirty Saturday Patrol Bolsters Viet Nam Air Force By KOnKRT C. Mll.U.R .during the sensitive later hours suspicious noises outside their SAIGON (UPIl The Dirty Thir- when the enemy prefers to at-'mmrv,,,nH Th.. inh hA i, T.J help (lie Marines who have a com ty goes to war at ten o'clock on tack. Saturday night in Saigon. -gg nis,bis e.xains Mor- And the war is never far from'rie. "we spend hours just orbit PALERMO, Sicily (UPD Itali an liberator-hero Giuseppe Gari baldi tried to do it in the last century. Benito Mussolini claimed to have done it in this century. Now, modern Italy is trying again to wipe out the Mafia. For the first time in 30 years the Mafia, perhaps the largest and most feared underground criminal organization in the world with influence strong even in the United States, is on the defensive. Its leaders are behind bars, or in hiding. Temporarily, at least, it has ceased to be the unchal lenged bully boy of Sicilian life, threatening and shooting down those who get in its way and keeping Die nearly 5 million peo ple of this island in abject pov erty. The police, and the entire Itali an nation, have declared war on the Mafia. On the outcome depends wheth er a band of outlaws is more powerful than the legal authority of a modern government, and whether Sicily is ready at last to take its place in the 20th Century. Attempts to wipe out the Mafia have been made before, most no tably by the late II Duce. No one has ever succeeded. The present "war" began to take shape last year, when sev eral Capuchin friars were found to have become involved in the murder and extortion rackets of the criminal society. Civic and political groups in Sicily, shocked by testimony coming out of the trial, demanded that the central government in Rome act once and for all to eliminate the Ma fia. The Italian parliament voted to investigate the "honored society," as Sicilians had long been accus tomed to calling it. But months went by without any action. Then last June 30, a group of Italian 'policemen and soldiers was sent out to investigate a suspicious-looking abandoned car in a village near Palermo. As one of them raised the trunk lid, a charge of TNT went off. Seven men were blown to bits. Police reinforcements swarmed to Sicily. A roundup began. Backed by armored cars and armed j ith machine guns, the .po lice went into the back streets of Palermo and the little outlying towns dotted with orchards of orange, lemon and almond trees. If arrests and investigations were the whole solution to the Mafia problems, it would have been eliminated long ago. The real problem is getting evi dence that will stand up in court, finding witnesses who will talk and courts that aren't afraid to convict. Saigon, even in the doorless, tired old Dakotas flown by Capt. Bong Nguyen Manh and his crew. They are the resuscitation squad of the Vietnamese Air Force who work the night shift in this war, the tin bellies of their DC3s loaded with flares as they prowl the skies looking for trouble. The trouble is seldom in the air, but always on the ground around some isolated outpost, or village that the Com munists attack during the black ness of the night. And when the call for help goes out from Thai Lai, or Ang Tang or any of the hundreds of posts! in the Mekong delta or the central Highlands, it's the lumbering Da kotas that roar to the rescue with their million candlepower flares. There are thousands of Vietnam ese and many an American alive this night only because of the swaying chandeliers that turned the night into day and enabled the besieged defenders to drive off the attack with fighters and bombers sent to their rescue. The pudgy, bouncy Captain Bong has spent 6.000 hours of his life flying the Vietnamese skies in these obsolete planes, most of them at night and nearly all of them at war. His take-home pay? About $25 a week. The only American in the crew of eight is Morns Beddoe Jr. (1500 Califor nia St., Mountain View, Calif.), a captain in the U.S. Air Force and one of the Dirty Thirtv. On this and every other mission he and the Americans fly. Morrie is sub ordinate to and under the orders of Capt. Bong and the other Viet namese Air Force plane captains. Morris probes the wet night with his flashlight as we walk to the plane and explains how the Dirtyl Ilurty came into being "We were sent here to replace the Vietnamese pilots who were being trained in the newer equip ment 01 their expanded air force," he said. "The thirty origi nal pilots lived with the Ameri cans who were finished with their work when we were starting ours. They never saw us in anything except our flight suits and dubbed us the "dirty thirty! The flare planes go on alert the moment the sun goes down, and at least one is always in the air ing Saigon. I can make a tour of the city in 15 minutes." Ordered Aloft Early There will be no circling Saigon tonight for it's a wet, ebony night that the Vict Cong favor for their attacks. And something is up, for the crew has been ordered aloft earlier than their usual takeoff time. Despite the millions of candle- power carried in the fuselage, the1 illumination prior to takeoff is strictly a flashlight affair, sup plemented by the jeep lights of the arriving plane crew, and the vivid flashes of lightning to the north. Vou clamber aboard dragging! parachute and flak suit and stumble over the black - tubed flares that will be a godsend to some trapped souls out there in the darkness. The Vietnamese crew comes aboard, chattering and laughing. They wear their mud brown and green camouflage suits. Capt. Bong in faded red jockey cap and scarf goes forward with Morrie and Lt. Phvoc, pausing to explain in careful English that a Marine patrol is in trouble out in the swampty delta near Chan Doc and has called for help. The door is taken off, the en gines started and within minutes "November November" is charg ing down the rainswept runways and into the stormy night headed for Chan Doc and the embattled Marines. The washed, friendly lights of Saigon diffuse into a glow on the horizon and below there is nothing. Phvoc works over his charts up forward, taking a reading from one of the dozens of rivers that pass beneath and correlating it with the clusters of blue-green neons that light every town in Vietnam. How he expects to find his target in that void is beyond comprehension. But in little more than half an hour after leaving Saigon, "November November" is circling the battlefield and in ra dio contact with the Marines. You call Captain Bong's atten tion to a flare that arches up in the air far off to the right, but he shakes his head impatiently, that's another battle in this war and no concern of ours. Probably an putpnst whose jittery defenders pany of Viet Congs surrounded and desperately need illumination to prevent them from escaping. They had landed at dawn from two river boats and thrown a net around the surprised enemy. Cap tain Bong poimed to the lights of the two boats anchored off the shore and took his bearings on them for the drop. He pressed tlie buzzer tw ice and the crew tossed out the flares which bathes the area in a sickly! green light as they drifted earth ward. He banked the plane out over the river and the two amber flares revealed a swampy area. crisscrossed by jungled streams.' Muddy, humid and stinking in the machine guns and twenty light. on the runway like Hie tired bird daytime, but a nightmare in the ones, a big haul in this war. she was and the night's work was darkness where practically cvery- W hen tlie last flare went over over for "November November." thing that moves is dangerous,'the side, Bong headed the n'aneiThe other alert planes were Eone whether it be man. beast or rep tile and the delta was satura ted with all three. It all looked peaceful enough from up here, a land of no shadow, void of all life except for the two boats on the river, the distant lights of Chan Doc and the flares. For the next five hours we orbited the battlefield, always keeping it lighted. Bong and Mor rie relieved each other at the con trols and the bundled-up flare crew alternated at the job of open ing the tubes, preparing the fuses and kicking out the flares. Word came up from below that the Ma rines had captured two heavy! Back to aaigon witn a many thanks and well done" radioed from the Marines. Another of the Dirty Thirty would relieve us to keep the Reds penned in until dawn when the Marines hoped to finish them off. The twin-engined Dakota settled FOUND OLD SKILL MORTON, England UPI - A farmer Tuesday unearthed a skull believed to be 12,000 years old while plowing a field in this Lin colnshire village. some 011 special missions, others on station. One, with Captain Clarence G. Kravec, '3205 Maryland Avenue I McKeesport, Pa., landed a few! minutes after "November Novem ber." The Communists had dyna mited the railroad near Phan Hang and Kravcc's plane had gone in with flares to prevent them from attacking the trains and repair crews. They kept the area illuminated until the track was replaced and the trains mov ing. It had been a busy night for the "Dirty Thirty." Field Selects . 4 Top Volunteer Vy Harless, assistant coordina tor of the Kingsley Field Family Services, has been selected as the Services' Volunteer of the Yeaf, the Information Office of the air field has reported. Mrs. Harless received the award for being largely Instrumental 'in. shaping the activities of tlie fam ily services during the past year. Meanwhile, Ella Hall, resigning coordinator of the group, w&s selected Volunteer of the Moitjh for her efforts in Increasing the number of volunteers, planning and directing orientation p r o grams, and coordinating the ac tivities of her chairmen and their staffs. HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Thursday, August 1, 19K1 FAGE 1-B Two-County Picnic Set A recent meeting at the home of Bonifay Yancey, Klamath County Pomona Grange mas ter was held to make the neccs saiy arrangements for the forth coming annual Klamath and Lake County Grange picnic. Klamath County granges will be the host this year, with the picnic place to be at Joe Potucek's swimming pool in Langell Valley, Sunday, Aug. 4, 12 noon to 4 p.m. All grange members and their guests are invited to attend the potluck picnic and bring their own table service and folding chairs. Klamath County granges will furnish the coffee, ice cream and punch. There will be a soft ball game between Klamath and Lake counties, horseshoe play ing and swimming for all at a small charge. Old-lime fiddlers' contest, square dancing and oth er entertainment will also be on the docket. Allen Wheeler, state master, is expected to be at the picnic and the drill team that won in state competition will do their drill. There will be signs posted in Bo nanza near Big Springs Park for directions. Serving on the committee for the picnic is Margie Newnham, chairman, Otis Osborn, J i m Flowers. Zetta Sullivan and Ro berta McGee. STIFFER CONTROL W ASHINGTON HTD-The Sen ate passed and sent to the House Tuesday legislation to impose stricter federal controls over stock trading in tlie over-the-counter market. The measure, approved by voice vote, would extend present finan cial disclosure provisions and put stiffer controls over brokers, dealers, and other employes en gaged in selling or trading over-the-counter issues. ..... 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