The Independent-News, Volume 120, Number 48, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 April 1995 — Page 6

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- THE INDEPENDENT NEWS — APRIL 13, 1995

Beloved War Correspondent Ernie Pyle Remembered Fifty years ago this month, word of the death of war correspondent Ernie Pyle from a Japanese sniper bullet came as an unpleasant surprise. On April 17, 1945, there were those who could see the end of the war in the Pacific, and after all, the famous war correspondent had already survived up-front service in the foxholes of North Africa and Europe. It had seemed like he had nine lives. Though Pyle the correspondent didn’t need an appointment to chat with generals like Eisenhouwer or Bradley, he preferred to depict the life of the mud-slogging, long suffering GI in his syndicated newspaper columns. And the feeling was mutual. Over his temporary grave on the island of Ie Shima near Okinawa, the soldiers had placed a marker which summed up their feelings for the correspondent: “At this spot the 77th Infantry lost a buddy.’’ When Ernest Taylor Pyle, of Dana, Indiana, enrolled at Indiana University in 1919, he didn’t seem all that much different from other aspiring journalism students. But the difference soon became obvious. Pyle gravitated toward a bohemian set of students like Hoagy Carmichael, later a composer, and Nelson Poynter, who became editor of the Washington, D.C., Daily News. Pyle’s taste ran to a variety of student organizations and he tried his hand at editing a humor publication called Smoke-Up, as well as the editorship of the Indiana Daily Student. When the IU baseball team was invited to Japan as guests of Waseda University, he and three college buddies wangled crew jobs on the ship that carried the team. CENTURY 21 SAYQIE & ASSOCIATES

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In his senior year, Pyle looked as if he was headed toward an IU commencement when his life took a sudden detour. He was offered a job on the LaPorte (Ind.) HeraldArgus, a position which lasted only four months because the ScrippsHoward newspapers wanted him in Washington. Os that apprentice period of his life Pyle wrote: “1 was here three years that first stretch, as reporter, desk man, telegraph editor and makeup editor — broken into the first year by a trip to Puerto Rico (where I had all my money stolen) and Panama, on an Army transport working as seaman.’’ As a World War II correspondent, Pyle was at home everywhere on the front line. At a campus plaque dedication ceremony following Pyle's death, Gen. Omar Bradley told the audience how reluctant he had been to spend some time with Pyle. “At the time I was still wary of newsmen. Thirty-two years in the peacetime Army had taught me to do my job, hold my tongue and keep my name out of the papers. Why don’t we get out of it if we can without getting Pyle mad?’’ Bradley soon learned what the Gls had known all along about Pyle — that he was an uncommon man. ; Speaking about those days, the general continued, “No one could have been more pleased than I was when I heard that he was going with us on the Normandy invasion. It meant a great deal to the men, and it seemed to be a symbol of good luck to have him along. I invited him to ride on the Augusta, with the command ship, but he refused, preferring to go along on an LST with the troops.” The university forgave Pyle for dashing off to face life before getting his diploma. He came back to the IU campus in November 1944 to receive the first Doctor of Humane Letters degree the university had ever awarded to anyone. When conferring the degree then-IU President Herman B. Wells called Pyle a “homespun Hoosier, world traveler, discerning reporter, unexcelled interpreter of the minds and hearts of men in peace and in war, advocate for the rights of the soldiers in the ranks. Beside a photo of Pyle and Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., an Army . recruiting magazine described the correspondent. “What he lacks in size he makes up in two-fisted swing-power. He is five feet, six inches tall and weighs 110 pounds soaking wet. He is often the butt of practical jokes.” IU has remembered one of its most famous alumni by giving his name appropriately to the building

that houses journalism classes. Enshrined there are the desk he used as editor of the Indiana Daily Student and the battered portable typewriter he used to write his columns published in some 80 newspapers. BETHEL TO HOST SENIOR ART EXHIBITS The Bethel College Art Department will host a Senior Art Exhibition for Jennifer Allen and Joyce Carpenter April 6-17. The exhibit will be held in the Otis and Elizabeth Bowen Library on the Bethel campus. The paintings and sculptures of Bethel are majors Jennifer Allen, North Liberty, and Joyce Carpenter, South Bend, will be on display. This will complete their senior comprehensive art project requirements for graduation. The show is free and open to the public, and may be viewed during library hours: Monday-Thursday, 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.; Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.; Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. For more information call the Bethel Art Department at 219-258-0173. HIGHWAY ROAD CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION AVAILABLE Brochures detailing planned 1995 highway road construction projects are now available to the public. The brochures were developed by the Indiana Department of Transportation and describe both where the construction projects around the state are to take place and why those projects are being undertaken at this time. These brochures give Hoosiers information about where the major projects will be during the spring and summer months as well as where to expect detours. This information should help drivers avoid unnecessary delays while on the road, and improve safety for both highway construction worke This information should help drivers avoid unnecessary delays while on the road, and improve safety for both highway construction workers and Indiana motorists. The 1995 construction season will be the largest in the history of the Indiana Department of Transportation with over S4BO million dollars of projects planned. Locally, motorists will need to be prepared for the construction project on U.S. 30 in Starke and Marshall Counties. This project will limit traffic to two lanes from May until September. Those interested in receiving the free brochures about the construction projects should write Rep. Gary Gook at his Indianapolis office: State Rep. Gary Cook, Indiana House of Representatives, 200 W. Washington Street, Indianapolis, IN 46204.

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THE LEGION CORNER “Gulf War Syndrome Hits' Close To Home” Behind every veteran stands that veteran’s family. They stand by their husbands, wives, mothers and fathers through the periodic unpheavals of military life. A veteran's family waits through the long months of separation while their loved ones are deployed in their country’s service. And in the case of thousands of Persian Gulf War veterans, their families are suffering serious health problems resulting from their spouse’s tour of duty during the war, 1990-91. The Jessie Ziegler family of Cape Coral, Florida, stood up when Jessie, a Marine Corps lance corporal, answered the call to service. Lance Cpl. Ziegler saw front line action in an artillery unit during the conflict, and reveled in the attention he and his buddies received a welcome home victory parade to celebrate their swift victory. Three years later, Ziegler is having difficulty attracting the VA’s attention to his medical problems, which include recurring rashes, fever, muscles separating from his bones and gastro-intest-inal problems. His wife, Angie, was there to greet her husband at his homecoming parade. She was in good health then, but she quit her waitress job due to recurring weakness, and now suffers from rashes, arthritis, and conditions similar to her husband’s. The couple’s daughter, bom after Ziegler returned home, is coping with a severe respiratory ailment, chronic fatigue and other unpleasant conditions no 3-year-01d should have to worry about. Fatigue, aching joints, shortterm memory loss and respiratory problems have become the trademark symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome. The VA has to stop approaching this growing problem from the viewpoint of needing answers to a “medical mystery.” This is a human tragedy, compounded by the alarming documentary evidence piling up about veterans' spouses and children falling ill. The American Legion was the first major veterans organization to call on government agencies to drop its piecemeal research efforts —a group of sick veterans in Mississippi, another in Maine, one over here in Indiana — and conduct a peer-reviewed, full epidermiological study of all possible sources of the undiagnosed Desert Strom illnesses. nosed Desert Storm illnesses.

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i The National Institutes of Medß icine, a government agency study ; ^,. fe ^ ing the problem, concluded the VA t - J Department of Defense (DoD) am®® the Department of Health an(®HJ Human Service should be doin^^H. ' a better job of collecting and coflHH ordinating medical data on thestS sick veterans. Stunned by criticism charging®® the VA with dragging its feet«®f the government finally plans t<^^V 1 do what The American Legioi^®^ 1 has been advocating for threi®®^ years: conduct a comprehensive^® l study. In January, Dr. France® ■ Murphy of the VA’s Central Offic® said the department will be sel^H ( ' to launch the epidemiologica*^® study in six or seven months, bu®® Legion observers predict it won' J begin before 1996. When they're ready, The Ameri® can Legion will ensure the job done right. By Nationa Executivr'M® Committee action last fall, Res. commits up to SIOO,OOO to reviev*^® VA’s scientific methods in con H® ducting the needed epidemiologi® cal study, monitor every step o^^V its progress and suggest change;® as warranted. Meanwhile, more sick veteran;B®h have signed on to VA’s PersiarH Gulf Registry, which at last coun®® totaled around 30,000. After ‘The®® American Legion Magazine’s’ Jan ® uary Desert Storm article “What’d^®^ Wrong With Me," the DoD, ap® parently feeling left out, wrote u^^H e to say that 12,000 active duty Gull® War veterans are registered iri^B 3 its clinical evaluation program. H. DoD officials are at pains to pub 9®* licize their clinical program de® signed to diagnose and treat sick® gulf vets. The Pentagon planners®® deployed fighting units and ships®® to the gulf in masterly fashion®® in 1990-91, but once the war was® concluded the sense of urgency® faded as reports by veterans suf-^H 1 sering undiagnosed illnesses multi-9®* plied. Wf We believe the DoD is taking^^V the first steps in the right direct®® ion. Let’s just hope it won’t be® too late to help thousands of vet® erans like Jesse Ziegler and his® family, who have been left to lin-^H 4 ger too long with no answers and® dwindling hopes. Judy’s Beauty Salon! 207 W. Center St. North Liberty ® 656-4491 MEN - WOMEN - CHILDREN ^® Helene Curtis Uniperm - Spyro Perms ^^® Curling Iron & Hair Accessories — Jewelry ^®; Cosmetics - Ear Piercing - Pertumes GIGI Home Hair Removal Sukeska Hair Products WALK-INS WELCOME Open Monday Thuridty, Friday. Saturday Closed Daya Tuesday & Wednesday Open Monday, Tuesday & Thursday Evenings Shut-In, Hospital & Nursing Home ® Service

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