Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 July 1974 — Page 3

Monday, July 1,1974

Banner-Graphic, Greencaitle, Indiana

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Palestian Guerrillas Roam In Lebanon

ARKOUB Lebanon (AP) — All we want is to live in peace and for the government to get the guerrillas out of our area." said one of the villagers here in south Lebanon. But five years ago the Lebanese army tried to bring the Palestinians under its control and couldn’t do the job. An agreement to coexist resulted, and the government does not deny that there are thousands of armed guerrillas in the country'. with the concentration heaviest in the south. They seem well established in Arkoub, a village two miles from the Israeli border. Half a dozen young Palestinians in fatigues suddenly appeared in the village and ordered foreign correspondents on a government tour of the region “to leave at once.” One noisily pulled back the bolt of his AK47 Soviet automatic rifle and placed a bullet in the breech. "V ou can’t order people about, this is Lebanese territory,” protested the Ministry of Information official with the newsmen. “Yes, but this is a militaryarea," the guerrilla retorted. Then he and his companions walked away and disappeared behind a house heavily damaged by shelling. The Lebanese government and the Palestinian leaders in Beirut deny Israel’s charge that the terrorists who have been making suicide raids into Israeli towns and settlements in the past three months come from villages and refugee camps in Lebanon. They say these guerrillas are based in Israel. “Look at this fence, not even a bird would be able to get through it, let alone a group of grown men,” said a Lebanese army lieutenant pointing to the Israeli-built barrier along the border. It consists of a first line of multiple barbed wire coils.

piled on top of each other, backed by a 10-foot-high fence of thick wire netting. A wide military road, patroled day and night by the Israelis, runs parallel to the fence up and down the steep valleys, cutting through fertile orchards and fields. There are also “enough mines and other booby traps the other side to blow up a whole army . . .” the lieutenant added. Artillery shells could be heard echoing along the deep valleys scoring the flanks of massive Mt. Hermon. The Biblical mountain, still streaked with snow in June, dominates the district, which the Israelis call Fatahland after A1 Fatah, the largest Palestinian guerrilla organization. A Lebanese officer said the shells came from Israeli guns hitting villages farther north. “The situation is very bad,” said Michael Abbla. mayor of Marjayoun, the main town in the region. “Many people are leaving the area. They are afraid the Israelis will retaliate again after Nahariyya.” Three guerrillas slipped into Nahariyya, on the Israeli coast seven miles south of the border, Monday night, occupied an apartment house and killed four Israelis and wounded eight before the Israeli army wiped them out. Rather than the usual immediate strikes by the Israeli air force at guerrilla strongholds north of the border, this time the Israeli planes have stayed home, perhaps so as not to embarrass President Nixon while he is in Moscow. Meanwhile, the church in the village of Rashaya Roukar was filled with old women and children, lying on mattresses and pillows spread on the floor. They had turned the church into a bomb shelter, hoping its thick stone walls and high arched roof would protect them from the Israeli bombs and shells when they did come.

July

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In U.S. History

CHICAGO (AP) — Independence Day is best knowm for par a d e s , fireworks, political speeches and picnics. But, in addition to being the birthday of the United States, this day is also the ‘birthday” of several other historical endeavors as well as the day that three presidents died. On July 4, 1817, New York’s Governor De Witt Clinton thrust a shovel into the earth in a ceremonial groundbreaking for the construction of the Erie Canal. The canal was the first important waterway built in the United States, according to World Book Encyclopedia. It joined the entire Great Lakes system with the Atlantic Ocean, and helped develop New York City into the financial center of the country. In 1828, July 4 was the date selected to celebrate another historic groundbreaking — for the construction of one of the nation’s first railroads, the Baltimore and Ohio. Charles Carroll, the only surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, was selected to toss the first shovelful to mark the event. Carroll said. “I consider this (the groundbreaking i among the most important acts of my life, second only to that of signing the Declaration of Independence, if, indeed, second to that.” In 1848, July 4 marked the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument in the nation’s capital. Independence Day in 1883 marked the nation’s first Wild West show . “Buffalo Bill” Codyintroduced the show in North Platte, Neb. The first rodeo to offer prizes to winners was also introduced that year on July 4 in Pecos, Tex. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt sent a message around the world in 12 minutes, on July 4, marking the opening of the first Pacific cable. President Harry Truman granted the independence of the Philippines on July 4 in 1946, fulfilling a promise made to that nation in 1898. The admission of Alaska into the Union was marked on July 4 in 1959, when the first 49-star flag was raised at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., and at Fort McHenry in Baltimore. Another star was added when Hawaii joined the Union in August, 1959, and ceremonial flag raisings were again conducted on July 4 the following year. The Fourth of July celebration in 1826, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the nation’s birth, had

more somber overtones. A 13-man committee was formed in Washington to plan ceremonies that would mark the nation’s semicentennial with proper style. All surviving former presidents and signers of the Declaration of Independence were invited to take part. James Madison, Charles Carroll, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were unable to attend, but each wrote a letter and all were publisheo ai Washington’s newspapers. Two days after the celebration, the word reached the nation’s capital that Thomas Jefferson had died on July 4. Two days later, the word of John Adams’ death on the same date reached Washington. In 1831, President James Monroe became the third president to pass away on July 4. At the time, according to World Book's research, the deaths struck the country as something more than coincidental. They were considered as signs of Divine Providence. Mushrooms Have Many Faces By TOM HOGE AP Newsfeatures Writer It took me years to acquire a taste for mushrooms and then the taste became an obsession. When I took a vacation trip through France a couple of years ago, I devoted most mealtimes to sampling the delightful fungi dishes of that land. They ranged from mushroom omelets for breakfast to mushrooms poached in thick country cream for lunch and mushrooms flamed in cognac for supper. There were many other variations, of course. For instance, there is that magnificent specialty known as Duxelles, named after the Marquis d’Uxelle, an 18th-century nobleman whose chef dreamed up the dish. It consists of chopped mushrooms and shallots or onions slowly cooked in butter until the moisture has evaporated. The preparation is great added to sauce or used as a stuffing for chicken or fish. The French are said to have been the first to popularize the custom of eating mushrooms raw in salads, dressed with olive oil, wine vinegar and fresh herbs.

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