The Independent-News, Volume 93, Number 45, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 April 1968 — Page 13

'* ' ^ ' ' ' Ulr W^LiS. A &X- ?I. wr- * - '* Mi^- 1 *•» "k'Nel ■ 'd VALUABLE FOREST . . . This collection of what looks like just a pile of socks js actually a part of the U. S.’s most valuable forest It’s the Petrified Forest, near Holbrook, Arizona, which is visited by some 850,000 persons annually. Last year, the rangers who patrol the 90,000-acre preserve estimated that tourists walked off with 32,000 pounds of the 200-mllUon-year-old wood. Unpolished, the wood ranges in price from 15 cents to 2 dollars per pound. K z/ > r$ * ' A Ml 1 v ■bl - i• - J| * 11 *1 AWARD . • . General W. C. Westmoreland, right, Commanding General, U. S. Forces in Vietnam, attaches the Valorous Unit Award to the 13th Combat Aviation Battalion guidon, as the unit’s commander, Colonel Jack T. Dempsey, left, looks on. 'The battalion was the first Army unit to win the award since its creation in 1963, J*" 'i (f J" •*■*“' ■ ...... • —•• ... . ........ ■ । \ 11 I / * HBb- fl 1 ' - SSMMBL / ’ ^SEsS'll '■ lOIF ’-®twl ■XJL : S.W Jg-'1! M ~ » ' ' JEe , - y ■ . « .f >- *■ . wtaHUSHr.'^i THE ODD ON S . . . These peculiar growths in Western Australia are known as Grass Trees. They are just one of the many oddities to be found in that interesting and vast country. <■ ■ "? . GIANT METEORITE . . . Col. C. S. Dresser, right. Commander of U. S. Air Force Air Defense Command s 4683rd Air Base Group at Thule Air Base, Greenland, ( aptain Erik Leo, Center, master of a Danish Freighter, and ( ommander Svend Olesen, Danish laison officer at Thule, examine 16-ton iron meteorite which Danes and Americans Worked to recover near the Greenlandic village of Savigsavik, 60 miles southeast of Thule. Meteorite will l>e shipped to Copenhagen for dispaly and analysis by ssientiste.

? > . JBS mhjt . 4 SW & i g .flS 6 " ■ >r > s is® I I /IL ‘ //■ a| I NATIVE STYLE... Bill Otani, born in Chicago of Japanese parents, didn't like the idea of another cold winter. He took off for the island of Tahiti in the Pacific, where he is learning to live and fish as the Tahitians do. r< ■ ■ - - Lrh - Fa/ 4 aV kb^l" Im K; 1 . P? jHhgr vU il V w INSPECTION . . . SeaHospital Corpsman Secund Class Norman Fuqua examines young Vietnamese boy during sick call at Vietnamese dispensary located at Dana ng. 71 1 A PAPER & TAPE ... A yard and a half of pretty paper, a simple pattern, a pair of scissors and a couple of kindsoftape . . . ingredients for this colorful dress. Sea m s and darts, neck bor de r and decorative flower are tape. Not a stitch of thread. r W ” f r ■ •['• i/ r uK ! tIS J > -i M A 1 CHING... New with college students is this slip on and curler-cover buoffant cap which matches bedroom decor.

AVRIL 4. 1968 __ TI | E INDEPENDENT-NEWS —

‘, * •* ’> r t J ■. ; ,-v A * i SHOW-OFF . . . Industrial tractor shows its strength by lifting a 1917 tractor with its backhoe and a 1967 model farm tractor w ith its front loader, z • 0‘ ■ ^-4?- I ■ ■ •< ■ ■ i J. HAPPY TIME . . . Best time of the day at the t ih Medical Center Convalescent Center at Cam Rhan B > is mad call. Seargeant First Class Figuraro Astacio holds mail ca ldady for ivy Division malaria victims. i 1 Z -Xs. _ - . '* - TAKING IT EASY . . . On the sandy buach of the South ! China sea adjacent to the 6th Medical ( enter at Cam Rh. u Bay, Vietnam, malaria patients soak up sunshine and take n 6‘ easy. - — WITt" ■ t-: — - - WHOM -.-rBUS WAY ... An exclusive busway to transport Milwaukee bus riders between the city and the suburbs at top rapid transit speeds has been proposed by a General Motors executive to an International Conference On Urban Transportation. > “‘tt ' • W « i Ih ' ** » k s y. fj?; I | • ' 11 BANNER . . . Brigadier General Wnlard Pearson, Commanding General of the Ist Brigade, 101st Airborne Div -ion accepts banner from I t. Col. Nugven Hop Doan, Prov ience ( hict of Kontum Province, Vietnam, looking on is member of Colonel Doan's staff and Mr. Phu, ( hairman of the kontum Proviencial Council. Banner read*: "Welcome the victory of all U.S. forces in Operation Hawthorne."

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