Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 263, Decatur, Adams County, 7 November 1962 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7.1962

i I ' »" # » *'• A FLICKER OF LAUGHS— No trouble in identifying the above, left to right, as Jayne Mansfield, Maurice Chevalier, Eleanor Parker and Mike Connors. They costar in “The Panic Button, an uproariously funny movie filmed in Rome.

Prisoner Os Reds Treated Like Pigs

By CHARLES W. CORDDRY United Press International . WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sgt. Orville R. Ballenger has an expressive answer when asked how an American soldier is treated if ire falls captive of the Communists in Southeast Asia. “It’s disgracing the pigs by saying it,” the intense young guerrilla fighter tells you, “but I would say like pigs.” Would he be more explicit? “Certainly. The first five months of my captivity I was locked in an old toilet. I wasn’t allowed out but twice a day. This was to eat meals which consisted .of rice and salt —rock salt. “The room was completely sealed. I had one small ray of light through the door. I was kept filthy, kept in rags. I was not given any clothes. So that is why I say we were treated like pigs.” Ballenger, who is 28 and a native of Columbus, Ohio, is now serving again with the Army Special Forces at Ft. Bragg, N.C., after two months of medical examination and treatment following hi s repatriation in August. During a recent visit here to be honored at the annual meeting of the Association of the U.S. Army, the sergeant told about his long months of his imprisonment in the not-so-cold war

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in Southeast Asia. Ballenger was an adviser with a Laotian army unit in April, 1961, when ambushed and captured by Communist Pathet Lao forces near the Plain of Jars- in northern Laos. The next five months were spent in the outhouse that Ballenger said measured 4 feet wide and ? feet high. What was a typical day like? “I tried to make _,.-a training program for myself — physical training. I watched spiders on the wall. I threw rocks, built little houses with sticks, anything like that to occupy my mind. “I remembered a’’ the states in the Union—it took me three days to do that.” Did he wonder how he came to be in such a place? He went through “every emotion-in the book.” "You can’t help doing this while you are in solitary confinement. You can’t see and you don’t know what is going on. However, I did keep in mind that I was an American soldier and that I had God with me, and I prayed frequently, and every time I got in periods of disgust or feeling sorry for myself, I just prayed. “I also remembered the 23rd Psalm that I hadn’t said since I was a small child. I used to

Rural Areas Are Alerted On Emergency WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Agriculture Department has prepared a leaflet alerting the rural population to the problems of fire resulting from nuclear attack and suggesting methods for meeting this emergency. The leaflet is titled “Rural Fire Defense—You Can Survive.” “Preparation” is the keyword to the national civil defense program, according to the leaflet. “It may mean survival.” But before discussing preparation, the leaflet asserts: “There is no easy answer to achieving protection from a nuclear attack. An accident or an enemy’s aggressive move can bring down on us a devastation too gruesome to describe. “No one is immune from this danger that riuciear weapon technology and strained international relations have made part of our daily living. “No one. “Not even the farmer, the logger, or other rural dweller.” The leaflet describes in layman’s language the damage which a nuclear attack can cause bn farms, woodlands, and rural communities. It lists measures for avoiding or reducing this damage. Its basic purpose is to serve as a training aid in preparing rural families to protect themselves and ther property in a fire emergency. It envisions rural families as self-contained fire protection units. To provide leadership in rural fire emergencies, a nationwide civilian rural fire defense organzation has been established under direction of state and federal forestry agencies. Among the essential preparations one should take is: "A shelter against radioactive fallout and contamination. All families should have access to this protection. Stock the shelter with enough food and water to last a few weeks; first aid supplies; emergency sanitary facilities, bedding, and other items to maintain health and morale. Make sure it is ventilated. Keep a battery radio there, ready to tune in on radio stations issuing warning and directions.” say this daily, but God is the one that pulled me through. I give Him all the credit—and our I State Department, of course.”

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Turks Are Heartened By Kennedy's Stand

By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In Izmir, some 300 miles down the Turkish coast from Istanbul, it still is summertime, the grapes are ripe and palm trees rustle in the off-shore breeze from the Aegean Sea. Across the Aegean, some 200 miles away, lies Athens.. In the triangle formed by Istanbul, Izmir and Athens are the Turkish Straits and the gateway to the eastern Mediterranean traditionally sought by To the east, Turkey’s mountainous border blocks Soviet expansionist aims toward the Middle Eastern oil fields. Nerve center of this defense complex is Izmir where U.S. Lt. Gen. Frederic J. Brown commands Allied Forces Southeast Europe and where the 6th Allied Tactical Air Force also has its headquarters. Izmir and Incirlik, in the south, are the two most important NATO bases in Turkey whose defense is based at least in part on the instant retaliatory abilities of Allied missiles equipped with U.S. nuclear warheads. These are the bases which

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Nikita Khrushchev had in mind when he offered to trade removal of his rockets from Cuba in exchange for similar U.S. action in Turkey. President Kennedy’s prompt reply that the Turkish bases were not negotiable squelched any hope the Soviet leader might have had on that score and heartened the Turkish people who have been among the United States’ staunchest Allies. Gone is the one - time rag - tag Turkish army of ill - trained men and antiquated weapons. Its new U.S. - equipped army of approximately half a million men is among the largest and best trained and equipped in Europe. Its air force flies modern U.S. planes and has been promised others even more modern. Together with a Greek army of around 200,000 men, these are the forces upon which the United States and its NATO Allies depend to maintain communications lines to the Middle East and North. Africa. For more years than men can remember the Turks have fought the Russians. The proud Turkish army does not regard itself as a pawn which can be maneuvered either by the Soviets or the United States. Turkish Foreign Minister Feridum Ceman Erkin put l it this way: ; “Missiles in Turkey are entirely defensive. Turkey cannot be the subject of bargaining in this matter.” a J' k <4* j gg||| ■Th yfl ' ? - R • x z ADMITS SLAYING —William Carl Boehm, 17, admitted to police in Middletown, Ohio, that he killed a neighbor girl, Deborah Anne Lafayette, 13, when she refused his advances.

Many Proposals To Ecumenical Council VATICAN CITY (UPI) — The Ecumenical Council, faced with the decision to change the Roman Catholic Church’s public worship or leave it as it is, had plenty of proposals to choose from today. Some 175 speakers had spoken in the Latin-language debate on church liturgy by the time session opened. Many have favored some changes in the form of the worship, including the mass. The suggestions have ranged from proposals to substitute native languages for Latin in part of the Mass to a call Monday for a brand new Mass. German-born Bishop William Duschak of Calapan, Philippines, said at a press conference that the council should “offer the world a new, so-called ecumenical Mass completely in the vernacular” — local language rather than Latin as presently used. - "My experience has shown that the Mass for my flock by far does not have the meaning that Christ and the Church want it to have,” he said. “If men in centurie's gone by were able to choose and create Mass rites, why shouldn’t the greatest of all ecumenical councils be able to do so.” Although his proposal for a new Mass was the most startling and different suggestion put to the council, many others have, been made. One, which has gained a good deal of support, has been to change the first or teaching part of the Mass from Latin to English or other modern languages. £i/-| - I ["■ ’ » i flnH GHOST TOWN—Tourists in the “ghost town” oFVirginia City, Nev., had their eyes opened by these “ghosts”— set out by a group of youngsters in the Halloween mood.

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WYNNE CHESTER SAYS; ;K> -J A Forest Fire Is A Fata[ Thing[ . My husband Joe and I have the merciless killers of game been visiting schools, Scout and destroyers of opr timber, meetings, local clubs and so on, our watersheds, and of game to talk about campfire safety, cover that will take years to using material we requested replace. from the Department of Agri- Remember, the woods and culture’s Forest Service in fields are part of the priceless Washington, in an effort to do heritage of our wonderful outour part in preserving the door America, So build your woods we both love so well. fires in the right places, keep Careless hunters, combined them small, make sure they’re with Autumn leaves and dry out when you leave. Strip your brush, can cause costly, dan- cigarettes and watch those pipe gerous forest fires. The camp- ashes. A forest fire is very final fire that “looked” out, the drop- — and very fatal! ped cigarette or pipe ashes, the needlessly large fire built to cheer up the place — these are few

Over Half Million Infected By Histo

By DONN F. DOWNING United Press International KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPD— The disease is often mistaken for influenza, pneumonia and tuberculosis, and more than a half-mil-lion persons are infected annually. In about 1,000 cases, it is fatal. Most of the victims live in the river valleys of the central United States. _ - The disease is histoplasmosis—“histo” as the medical men refer to it. It is caused by inhaling fungi spores. The disqgse, which is mysteriously connected with the droppings of birds, invades the lungs, and can be serious. “Estimates of 30 million people infected are probably conservative,” said Dr. Michael L. Furcolow, a U.S. public health officer. He was here for the National Pest Control Association’s annual convention. Furcolow, chief of he Ktansas Ciy field station of the Public Health Service’s Communicable Disease Center, has been on the trail of histo and the fungus that causes it since 1945, when one Camp Gruber, Okla., soldier died and 27 were hospitalized with symptoms that suggested pneumonia and tuberculosis. Laboratory tests ruled out the early

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