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y Pi9*S \ KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Sidelights On VietNam (ED. MOTEi Dr. W. Wyan Washburn, administrator of Royster MrauHial hospital In Boiling Springs, is in Viet Nam and has written “Sidelights On Viet Nam” which appears in SAFmr MEETING Regular quarterly meeting of the Blue Ridge Safety Council will be held at Marion Senior high scMipl Thtirsday, April 21, with serving of supper from 5:45 until 6:30 PjUi. Reserva tions should be made with Max Poore, Personnel Director, A- merican Thread Company, Marion, N. C. 2:24-6:1 today’s edition of Herald). By DR. WYAN WASHBURN SIOEUGHTS ON VIET NAM TO All. CONCERNED: ^ ' This is Saturday night, April 2, 1966 and once it begins, night falls rapidly in the tropics. There is a short twilight and usually not much color in the clouds. Most of the residents of Da Nang go indoors early, tho there are a few late ones on the streets. I toes, but spicy. Or there will be beef (water-buffalo) with toma- I toes and occasionally bamboo ■ sprouts and something that i tastes so much like asparagus, I j believe it is. asparagus. For sup- I per.we ha\e another soup, fried I rice, fried shrimp or a piece of one said one of the previous doc-1 fish and salads of lettuce, onions, tors, did and it •made him so sick I cabbage, etc. I go slow on the he couldn’t work for a week. | salads because of the danger of About the same time as the | bowel infections, but the cooked egg man is the “noodle” man. foods are always good. We al- He is also a street vendor who ways liave tho baked French travels only at night. His trade-' bread which is brown and chew- mark is a little instrument that ey. There is always a dessert, of makes a clicking sound a^ little 1 fruit cooked or fresh,, or bananas like horseshoes on the pavement fresh or fried in butter and or the “cricet” snappers we used brown sugar or about half cook- Thursday, April 14, 1966 to take to school. I may try the od in a sort of syrup. This is why About nine in' the evening we noodles some night. They sniell 11 probably am not losing weight, hear a Weird noise, corping up good. I The meals and laundry and pure the street. It sounds eerie and high-pitched. It is the man with We are eating n&tive food most j drinking water cost about $3 per of the time. For breakfast we i day. the evenirig “sleeping pills”. He have eggs, so small it takes two:j One of our doctors recently op- begins the rounds early and then . with bacon, from their pigs, not' erated on a village chief, ampu- comes about every half hour un- j oiSts. It is always fresh. They j tated most of his leg. While the til curfew at 1' a.m. It sounds I have no way to cure it. Also i chief was in the hospital the Dr. like he is saying “Ho peet low” I French bread and gree'n tea. Oc-1 with several Marines went out but the “low” is long drawn out.4 casionally we get re^ar tea. j to the village, 13 miles into the His pills are not pills at all, but j Most of the doctors drink coffee,' jungle, to pay his respects to the fermented duck-eggs. They take 6ut I prefer tea. Sugar is US and^, parents and the man’s wife. It duck eggs and bury them in the so is the PREAM. For lunch we [.was sort of a .social call and warm earth for 21 days and; may have shrimp sausage fried 1 something thought ‘ to be good when they have really ripened in rice-paper. Very tasty and j public relations. One problem, they are ready for sale. They say quite good. There will be a vege- there is something in the for-! table or meat soup, sometimes mented contents pf the egg that; with rice, sometimes with noo- lets people go to sleep. I haven’t j dies. There will be a white Yam tried one of the eggs, but some- i cake, a little like mashed pota- 1 the jeep only went five miles. ; They’ had to walk the remaining I eight miles out and eight miles back. While there the family in- I vited all of them to eat dinner. The soup and rice and fruit were fine, my doctor friend said, but when they killed the suckling pig and let the blood drain put on the dining room floor, then carved out the meat (raw) and offered him a rib, he suddenly felt quite full and told his host he “couldn’t dat another bite. The Marines at^ theirs. As you may know from the papers Da Nang is in the center of a province who' dislike and’ do not completely trust their central government at Saigon. Being over 400 miles away and mostly Buddhist they distrust the Catholic South. Recently one of their generals, General Thi (pronounced "tea”), was voted out of the ruling group of 10 gen erals of the country. The people up here, especially the hot-heads and Buddhists are going on strike, they call their govern ment names and have begun anti-American propaganda. At a parade this week there were about 5(X) vehicles, trucks, cusses, etc. and over l.OQO bicy-' cles, all carrying banners for GenenarThi and.a few carrying banners saying “Down with A- mericans” and “Yankee, go home”. They think the Ameri cans support the South (the govt, at Saigon) which they do, but they also support this province with 30,000 Marines and other Army, Navy and Air Force units. At any rate, seemed strange, incortgrous and contradictory for them to be carrying the banners while driving vehicles almost all made in US, burning gasoline made in US, with US paint to let ter cloth made in US. Shoes and uniforms were ir.,ade in Taiwan in US built factories and their ra dios and loudspeakers made in Japan which is occupied by US troops and sells here by sur per mission. At the same .time we doctors were operating on their sick or dying using US anesthe tics, Antibiotics and all manners of supplies made and paid for by you and other people in the VS- Doesn’t^ make sense, does it. Anyway, that is the way jthe cookie crumbles' today. Perhaps tomorrow will be a different day. This war is full of incongrui ties. The Vietnamese fought, clod and died for a thousand years to free themseh'es from Crin-a, yet North VN now accepts China's aid to fight the South and risks Communism to dia it. They fought the French for a hundred years, but now want to cling to all that French instead of new 20th century ways. They say they want Freedom, but in 2,000 years of written history they have nev er really been free. 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She needs to be a teacher. We did ten major operations today, most of them war wounds in civlians. A little boy, if he lives,, faces the rest of life, if he lives, minus a whole right arm and a left hand. A yioun ? girl is minus the left eye and the other is go ing out. It took her 15 days to walk and bum rides to get to the hospital. She developed sympa thetic ophthalmia in the right eye. If she could have had sur gery the day of the accident she perhaps could have isaved one eye. And on and on. For me the 'n:ost touching case was a lad three years old. A grenade or a bomb '.:lew a chunk onjt of his side .and he was burned over al most % of his body. He got blood and fluid and an operation on his side. He was in a sort of daze and naust have thought I was his daddy. He would hold my finger and pat my arm in confidence whole the other doctors were do ing a cut-down to get fluid start ed. He may not live, but we tried. I thought of another little boy about 50 years ago this year, my younger brother who was burned so ^d he could not live, and vividly recall the grief and sor row and the efforts of the doctor to save him. The family, the race, the nationality or the side of the world they live on is not too important. The right to health and a safe and happy childhood is important. Perhaps we will save some. . . The Veterans Comer ' \ I’S NO-TK: EDITOR’S NOTE: Below- are authoritative answers by the Vet erans Administration to some of the many current questions from forroer servicemen and their fam ilies. Further information oh vet erans- benefits may be obtained at any VA office. Q—How may I get information about getting my GI insurance back in force? I am a veteran of World War H and served in the Navy. I let my insurance drop upon my discharge in 1946. A—To be eligible for the new Gl insurance being sold '..y the Veterans Administration until May 2, 1966, a veteran rrust have been eligible to have purchased National Service Life Insurance, have a service conneted disability or have -a nonservice disability so severe that he cannot purchase private insurance. You should contact the nearest VA office. Q—I am a veteran of World War I. I am 65 and I am retiring in April of this year. Could you please tell me if I am entitled to nonservice-oonnected benefits and how I go about filing for such benefits. BOX OFFICE OPENS AT 6:45 SHOW STARTS AT 7:30 Bessemer City - Kings Mountain Drive-In Theotre v Alwoys $1.00 A Cprloodl A—There is no benefit based on age alone. Veterans of World War I, WW II or the Korean Conflict, discharged under other than dishonorable conditions aft-, er 90 or more days service, or because of a service-connected disability, who are permanently and totally dlsaLled from reasons not traceable to service and are unable to perform a gainful occu pation may b entitled to a non service-connected pension if their Income without dependents is un der $1800 or (with dependents) under $3000. See your nearest VA office. THURS.-FRL-SAT — 3 HITS Q — My father died as a re sult of service-connected disabili ties in World War II, making me eligible for schooling under the War Orphans Educational As sistance Act. May I pursue this education at the U.S. Military Academy? — No. 1 — •YOUNG RACERS" A — No, not under the War — No. 2 — ’’2nd FIDDLE STEEL GUITAR' — No. 3 — ’BLUE HAWAN' ON SAT. MOVIES RUN IN REVERSE ORDER SUN. Thru WED—2 In Color — No. 1 — ’IPCRESS FILE' — No. 2 — ’BIKINI BEACH' Orphans Act. However, since your father’s death resulted from a service-connected disability you'can apply to the President for special appointment to the Academy. The Congress provided for Presidential appointment of additional cadets or midshipmen to the U. S. Military Academy, the U. S. Naval Academy, or the U. S. Air Force Academy from those sons of servicemen who were killed in, or died later as a result of disabilities incurred in service in WdHd War I, and World War II, and the Korean Conflict. Your selection will be in order of merit among other War Orphan applicants as establish ed by a competitive mental ex amination and a physical ex amination. FRL-SAT. j '7 came hare hr yeur funeral, vsar 'TCCHHlCaiQR'l :.1LC.LYLES Production lUiwg RORY VIRSINtA LON WILLIAM SUN.’MON.-TUES.-WED. 9? to p te ei8P liqNmed inaBiotiMiriGtiral 1 't - 4 Look First to First Union and Grow Where the Interest Is! D< VOL. 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