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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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