The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 April 1968 — Page 6

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The Daily banner, <jreencasiie, Indiana

Monday, April 22, 1968

Only survivor of ambush

On the Farm Front

Try and Stop Me

By Pfc. LEROY JACKS Jr. As Told To UPI ASCOM, Korea (UPI)- If they knew I was still alive, they’d probably have shot me again. I tried to freeze— I knew they didn’t want prisoners. (Army Pfc. Jacks, of Blackwell, Okla., lay in a hospital bed, his legs swathed in bandages. He spoke softly as he talked about the Easter Sunday night ambush of a U.S. Army truck by North Korean Communists just south of Panmunjom. Sgt. James L. Anderson of Camp Springs, Md., and Spec. 4 Larry M. Wood of Barstow, 111., were killed. Jacks survived.) I saw fire from the right side of the road first. I heard it coming from the left, but I didn’t bother to look over there. I was in the front seat sitting in the middle. Three of us were in the front. We left our base camp late that night. It was an explosion that stopped the vehicle, a grenade or something. Sgt. Anderson stepped out. After they fired on us, the

firing stopped for a little bit. They came up to us and Sgt. Anderson said, “Okay, we surrender.’’ That’s when they shot him. He fell over on top of me. I didn’t see the attackers, but I could hear them all talking and everything when they were talking to Anderson. I couldn’t tell how many of them were there. I don’t know.

All together the ambush lasted two or three minutes. Not very long. I was conscious when the second (U.S.) vehicle approached my truck. Probably the second vehicle frightened the Communists away. The North Koreans apparently thought I was dead. After they shot and started pilfering

Killer still on run

DEL RIO, Tex. (UPI)-A 2-year-old Mexican girl, kept alive with a bullet in her head for more than five hours after she stopped breathing, became the fifth victim Thursday of a cowboy killer who murdered four other members of her family in a lonely Texas ranch field. Texas Rangers issued a nationwide bulletin for a freckled, 200-pound man who wore a straw hat and brown cowboy boots when seen with the family of migrant Mexican laborers before they were murdered.

“More than one witness saw the man with the family,” said Texas Ranger Alfred Alice. “If everything they have told us is true, we have a pretty good lead.” Letticia Arellano, 2, died in a Sonora hospital Thursday. She had been shot in the head and left for dead three days ago when four members of her family were killed. Her brother, Manuel Arellano, 5, was the only surviving member of the family. He was in serious condition in a San Antonio, Tex., hospital today with a bullet wound in the head.

around, I was lying there. I was bleeding hard. I could feel them pulling Larry (Wood)—he was sitting next around my side—he was hit when they first hit us, when the first burst came. I felt them pulling him over and pulling him out and I could hear a thud as he hit whatever he hit on the ground. And I felt them reach toward me and pull my weapon out of my holster. I was trying to keep from moving because they didn’t want prisoners. I could tell that. If they knew I was still alive, they probably would have shot me again. So I just tried to freeze. Surprise! CORDOBA, Argentina iUPI) — Maria de Carmen Farias, 19, went to police recently to report that her husband was missing. Police told her her husband had come to the station and asked to be arrested. The charge he confessed to: bigamy.

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By BERNARD BRENNER UPI Farm Editor WASHINGTON (UPI) — A new government survey indicates that food costs take a smaller percentage of the average consumer's budget in the United States than in any other part of the world. The survey, furnished recently to a House appropriations subcommittee, covers the years from 1955 through 1963. No comparative figures for later years were furnished, but the Agriculture Department said U.S. food costs—as a percentage of consumer income—continued to decline through 1967. The department’s world estimates for 1963 showed food costs for U.S. consumers in that year amounted to 20. x 5 per cent of total private spending. Only three other countries covered in the survey came close to matching that record: Canada, with food costs at 21.7 per cent of total private spending; Australia, with 22.8 per cent, and Denmark with 22.8 per cent. Consumers in France, meanwhile, needed an average of 30.5 per cent of total spending to cover their food bills. In Ecuador the food estimate was 44.2 per cent, and in Japan it was 43 per cent. Estimates for other countries included Belgium, 25.8 per cent; Finland, 37 per cent; Great Britain, 27.2 per cent; Yugoslavia, 45.7 per cent; Ghana, 53.6 per cent; South Africa, 27.4 per cent; Israel, 30.3 per cent, and Ceylon, 50.9 per cent. Agriculture Secretary Orvilh L. Freeman told the House subcommittee he hopes farm and commodity organizations could join in a public relations program to convince consumers

More than 200 of the nation’s outstanding 4-H Club members were due to begin arriving here Saturday for the six-day meeting, which opens Monday with a keynote address by Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Will campaign for Branigin INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)— Indiana Appellate Court Judge George H. Prime of Scottsburg said today he will not seek another term and announced he plans to campaign for Governor Branigin in the Democratic presidential preferenceprimary. Prime is serving his first four-year term on the court. The term expires next Jan. 1. He called the presidential campaign “extremely important to the future of the state in Democratic politics.” “We have the opportunity to project Indiana to the forefront of influence in national politics and government, where it has long deserved to be,” he said. “Governor Branigin is a great Hoosier and I am sure that it is his desire to carry Indiana to a position of eminence.”

-By BENNETT CERF-

\ SKINNY LITTLE RUNT waxed indignant when a 300■t*- pounder plumped down next to him in the bus and overflowed in all directions. “This line ought to charge by

weight,” grumbled the runt. “If they did,” chuckled the unperturbed fat man, “you’d have to walk. They couldn’t afford to stop for you.”

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That famous old night club character, stuttering Joe Frisco, once was putting up at an old off-Broad-way hotel, and invited a friend to share his room with him for a week or two. When the hotel manager heard about this, he demanded a dollar a day's extra rental for the room.

Frisco reluctantly agreed, but then added, “O.K.—but b-b-be sure you send up an extra G-g-gideon B-b-bible!” Joe Frisco is the gent who described Hollywood as “the only p-p-place in the world where you can fall asleep under a rose b-b-bush and freeze to d-d-death before morning.'’

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"I haven't always been down and out,” boasted one bum to another on a bench in the park. “There was a day when I managed a laundry.” “What happened to it?” asked bum number two. Sadly the first one sighed. “She walked out on me.”

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"I sure was out of my mind when I married you,” grumbled an angry young bridegroom. “I'm sure you were,” nodded his bride grimly, “but I was so in love with you at the time I didn’t

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Lecturer denies charge

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (UPI)Stephen Soudkoff, part-time leeturer in Slavic languages and literature at Indiana University, Wednesday denied not only that he served as a spy in Russia but also that he was expelled from the Soviet Union last summer. Soudakoff issued a statement here after the newspaper Kornsomolskya Pravda said in Mos-

paper article “irresponsible.” He said he served in American military intelligence during World wwar II but since 1955 has had “no contact whatsoever with any intelligence agency.” The newspaper said Sudakov was an associate of Albert Todd, “the notorious director of the Slavic Department at Indi-

ana University, a veteran CIA agent who compelled his students to collect espionage information in the Soviet Union.” Todd now is a member of the faculty of Queens College In New York. He was reported to have been injured seriously in a traffic accident there Tuesday night.

that food prices are reasonable cow that “Stepan O. Sudakov”

and that farmers need improved returns. Problems of poverty and development of urban youth programs will play a major role here next week in the 38th annual National 4-H Conference, a meeting once primarily geared to rural and farm youth interests. Search continues BRECKSVILLE, Ohio (UPI)— A search for Mrs. Hannah Smith, 84, of New Castle, Ind., resumed here today. She had been missing from the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Dr. and Mrs. Morris Dicky, since she failed to return home from a late night walk Thursday. Mrs. Smith was visiting the Dickys. Ten to 15 men from the Cuyahoga County sheriff’s department, a group of Explorer Scouts and 30 civilian volunteers searched for her today on the Brecksville Reservation of the Cleveland Metropolitan Park System near the Dicky home. It was feared Mrs. Smith may have stumbled into one of several deep ravines in the heavily, wooded area. Dying lake MILWAUKEE (UPI)—A Federal Water Pollution Control Administration official Thursday said Lake Michigan is “dying” and the only question is “How long will it take?” Clifford L. Risley Jr.,director of the agency, made the statement at a Great Lakes Research Conference. At Indianapolis only a day earlier, director John Mitchell of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources said he had changed his mind about the “death” of the lake and believed pollution control measures now under way and planned would save it.

was expelled after he admitted he was a former spy when arrested while serving as a tour leader for a student study group from Indiana University. “I have at no time served as a spy or as a trained agent in the Soviet Union,” Soudakoff said. “I fully and flatly denied similar charges when I was questioned at Piatigorsk in August of 1967 while leading the Indiana University language tour. “I did not act improperly in the Soviet Union and I was not expelled from the Soviet Union last summer.” Soudakoff called the newsCounterattack FRANKFURT. Germany (UPI)—Frankfurt police have introduced free judo classes for women and girls over 16 years old in a bid to cut down assaults on women.

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