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PAGE SIX THF DAILY PLAINSMAN, Huron. South Dakota TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1967 His Luck Held Out U.S. Pilot, Shot Down Second Time, Rescued By GEORGE MCARTIIUR SAIGON (AP)-Lt. Cmdr. De- metrio Anthony Verich dodged two flaming SAM missiles add banked toward the North Viet- namese rail yard that was his target.

A third missile thun- dered intb his Crusader jet's exhaust and blew the tail off. The plane flipped over Mon- day and dove for the ground 000 feet below at 400 miles an hour. The itocky 35-year-old bach- elor from Laona, popped his ejection seat and the chute opened when he was about 1,000 feet up. Ground fire zipped about him and he drifted toward the billowing fireball from his own crashed jet. Verich had been shot down just a year ago on his first tour in Vietnam with the carrier Or- iskany.

That time he was picked up just off the coast with Red mortar shells dropping into the water all around him. This time the coast was 40 miles away and his luck seemed to have run out. After a night hiding out on a North Vietnamese hillside, a Helicopter lifted the pilot to safety Monday with Communist fire zipping around him while other pilots drove off three Communist MIG21s. Verich told a news conference In Saigon today that he landed on a steep hillside covered with brush, tangled trees and vines that rose 30 feet overhead. A few hundred yards downhill he could hear firing and North Vietnamese calling to each oth- er.

"I lay low and covered myself up with branches," he said. He tried to move about mid- night to a safer area he could hear voices about 100 yards tway. But the ground was, so steep he feared he would fall In the darkness and perhaps break a leg. He covered himself up again after moving only 20 feet. At dawn the American planes returned, first the jets, then the slower propeller-driven Skyrald- ers and finally a noisy helicop- ter.

The Red gunners opened up on the planes and the helicopter. Flying his first rescue mis- sion, tall, lean helicopter pilot Nell Sparks, a Navy lieutenant from Tulsa, was wel- comed to the area by a shell that blew into the cabin 18 Inch- es from his fet. It wrecked some of his controls and his ra- dio earphones. While other U.S. fliers drove off three MIG21s, Sparks fanned back and forth over the moun- tainous area, unable to spot Verich.

Finally he neared the downed pilot and Verich fired a rescue flare up through the brush. The hill was so steep the hell- copter's blades were brushing the trees on one side as It hov- ered over Verich about 100 feet below. A long cable was lowered to him. Verich tried to grab the cable. The first time it slipped out of his hands arid helicopter crew- men brought it Up empty.

The second time, said Verich, 'I grabbed it and hung on for dear life." While the 100 feet of cable was slowly pulled in, the helicopter hovered almost motionless. Bul- lets zipped by. The helicopter shuddered from another hit, but it wasn't serious. When Verich finally clawed his way into the cabin, he grabbed a crewman and hugged him. "I guess he thought I was going to kiss him," said the pi- lot.

Then, i machinegilns spraying and jets flying cover, the helicopter "got the hell out of there." It was Verich's second mis- sion of this cruise with the Oris- kany. He completed 75 on his previous tour. After two weeks leave in Australia, he will re- turn to the carrier. Congo Plans Air, Ground Hunt For Mercenaries By ARNOLD ZEITLIN KINSHASA, the Congo (AP) Congo's government made preparations today to hunt down its mutinous white mercenaries with paratroopers aided by foreign African pilots and U.S. Air Force transports.

Reliable sources said 150 Con- golese paratroopers trained by Israel were flown in American C130s to Kisangani, formerly Stanleyville, the northeastern city from which the mercena- WASHINGTON (AP) Astro- nauts who embark in the future on lonely years-long space flights will carry with them the knowledge that their lives likely will be shortened by the experi- ence. A panel of scientists, in a re- port by the Space Science Board the National Research Council, said Monday such as- tronauts will be exposed for long periods to Intense radiation that causes cancer and other illnesses. But the 12-member panel con- cluded that the high motivation 'which characterizes astronauts would make prospects of a shorter life an acceptable price to pay. The panel noted that adding additional shielding against ra- diation to spacecraft would in- crease their weight and thus reduce their potential for space exploration. It said effects of prolonged radiation exposure in space would range from minor skin irritation to occurrence of leu- kemia and other malignant dis- eases.

WASHINGTON (AP) Al- though it is likely you'll soon have to submit to periodic in- "'spections of your car or truck- if you don't already--there's no proof it will help you avoid acci- dents. That's the conclusion of a Stale University, where a study group of researchers at Arizona of motor vehicle inspections was made under an AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety grant. The researchers conceded that available data docs "lean in favor of motor vehicle inspec- tion as a means for accident reduction." But they empha- sized there was no real proof to that effect. Compulsory periodic vehicle Inspection has become a federal requirement under a ad. Previously, such inspection was required by only 20 slates and the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON A The Air Force soon plans to begin training pilots for the Fill nir- craft, a version of the contro- versial TFX. The Pentagon said Monday night training in the Fill will set under way at Ncllis Air Force Base, N'evacia, where one of the supersonic warplanes already is on hand, ries and rebellious Katangan troops fled July 13. The sources said Ghana has sent three pilots to fly the Con- go's T28 propeller-driven fight- ers, and President Joseph Mo- butu's government has asked Ghana to lend it two jet fighters and seven more pilots. Mobutu also is expecting help from the Ethiopian air force. The mutineers reportedly have retreated to the plantation of their Belgian leader, Maj.

Jean Schramm, in a tropical rain forest 155 miles southeast of Kisangani. They are estimat- ed to include 50 to 180 whites and 200 to 800 Katangans. The rebellion began July 5 after Moise Tshombe, the exiled ex-premier and Katangan lead- er, was kidnaped in a "hijacked plane to Algiers and the Congo- lese government asked for his extradition so it could execute him. The mutiny collapsed when the -mercenaries, opposed by loyal Congolese troops and re- ceiving little support from white settlers, withdrew from Kisan- gani and Bukavu, another pro- vincial capital on the Congo's eastern border. Congolese troops went on a rampage of looting and random firing after they reoccupied all of Kisangani, and the city was still without normal communi- cations with the rest of the Con- go Monday.

In Bukavu, where returning Congolese soldiers raped and killed Europeans in an anti- white frenzy, some residents were still barricaded in their homes. Racial feelings were subsiding, however, and food stocks were again ample. T. Frank Crigler, the U.S. consul at Bukavu, said he had lost contact with about 30 Amer- icans living in the interior as far as 300 miles from Bukavu.

Most are missionaries and their fami- lies. Congolese authorities have grounded a plane used to supply them. Novelist's Works Oil Sale In Maine KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP)--Some 1,000 paintings and artifacts of the late historical novelist Kenneth Roberts go on the auction block today at his Rocky Pastures eslalc. One painting on sale is a por- of Elizabeth Brown Rogers by Colonial artist Joseph Black- burn, considered to be a major influence on the portrait style of John Singleton Copley. Mrs.

Rogers was the wife of Maj Robert Rogers, a principal char- acter of "Northwest Passage." Ralph Humphrey Is in isf Condition Ralph Humphrey. Huron busi- nessman, is reported to lie in istiictory condition at University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison, where he has been a patienl (or a week. Humphrey re-entered the hos- pital last week for a checkup fol- lowing his hospilalizntion there last May. Vice, president Huber Humphrey visilerl his hrnlhrr S'ltv day on iiis return from a party meeting in Minneapolis. I OPEN HOUSE WAS HELD this weekend at Woonsocket's all-new Prairie View Re- tirement Homes, with about 400 people touring the facilities Saturday and Sunday.

Here T. R. Brlsblne (right), treasurer of Prairie View Homes, explains the elderly housing program to a Huron couple. The north wing (below) of the two-section retirement center has been opened, and an identical west wing will be completed and dedicated later this summer. The buildings each have eight double and two single living units.

(Plainsman Photo) Prospects Fade For U. N. Adoption Of Israeli Withdrawal Resolution By WILLIAM N. OATIS UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. AP) Prospects faded today 'or adoption by the U.N.

Gener- al Assembly of a resolution call. ng for Israeli troops to with- draw from Arab territory seized in the June war. Syrian Ambassador George J. 'omen told the assembly's spe- cial session on the Middle East all the Arab states main- ain their refusal to recognize he state of Israel. Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban replied this "strengthens my government's resolve not to respond to any request or inter- est from these states until or unless there is an explicit recog- nition of Israel's statehood, sov- ereignty and territorial rights." The Latin-American group of 23 nations adopted a passive attitude toward Its negotiations with the Soviet Union for a res- olution on Israeli withdrawal that could get the two-thirds vote necessary for approval.

Assembly President Abdul Rahman Pazhwak of Afghanis- tan told the assembly if no agreement was reached by then, it should end the special session. There was no objection, and it appeared that the issues left unsettled would be returned to the Security Council. As the vanguard of the 33-man U.N. observer team began sur- veillance of the Suez Canal cease-fire line between Israeli and Egyptian forces, an Israeli- Egyptian dispute over Israel's intention to put patrol boats on the canal threatened the opera- tion. Israel claimed it had the right Pentagon Wants More Iron, Less Copper Used In Vietnam By BOB HORTON WASHINGTON Pentagon wants (AP)--The to bombard Vietnam with more iron and less copper.

It's a matter of economics. Copper is more expensive than iron and the United States has been investing quite a lot of the metal around Southeast Asia in the form of artillery shells and small arms rounds. Pentagon spokesmen say that in the case of larger shells--the 90mm, 105mm and 155mm-- tbout two pounds of copper is expended per shot. Virtually all of this is in the shell's rotating band, which metallurgists -be- How They Voted WASHINGTON (AP) Here is how South Dakota congress- men were recorded on recent roll calls: SENATE On rejection, 17 to 74, of Prox. mire, amendment to ag- riculture department money bill to cut $1.5 billion from Commod- ity Credit Corp.

spending author- ity. Against the amendment: Me- Govern and Mundt. On rejeclion, 14 to 76, of Will- iams, amendment to limit farm benefits payments lieve can just as well be made of iron. Lesser amounts of copper are used in small arms projectiles and in the internal works of ar- tillery shells. According to the' Pentagon, U.

S. forces in Vietnam fired roughly 15 million rounds of 90mm, and 155mm artillery shells between January 1966 and last May. At two pounds of copper per shell, this indicates the United States shot off roughly 30 mil- lion pounds of copper in an 18- month period. Pentagon spokesmen say de- fense supplies currently pay about 38 cents per pound for copper either from government stockpiles or from domestic pro- ducers. This is--two cents higher than last year's price.

Just by saving 1 that two cents per pound through iron substi- tution the Pentagon could, at current consumption rates, save $32,000 a month or $384,000 year. Actual cost figures for the iron still are indefinite. Reduction of copper in war consumables also would help ease the drain on government- owned copper stockpiles. The General Services Admin- istration says there is no short- age of copper. But its figures show a severe decline in copper stockpiles the past two years.

.0 patrol tile waters on the east- ern side of the canal. Egypt warned that it would open fire on any boats the Israelis Egyptian Ambassa- dor Mohamed Awad El Kony Secretary-General Thant letter Israel had placed nine mats on the east shore of the Bitter Lakes, which form part of the southern half of the canal. Reports in Vienna said Soviet Communist party chief Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Alexei N. Kosygin had urged the lead- ers of the other European Soviet bloc companies at their meeting ast week to contribute more to aid of the war-battered Arab economies but the smaller Com- munist governments were unen- thusiastic. Israel exchanged 361 Syrian soldiers and 230 Syrian civilians for an Israeli pilot captured by ie Syrians during the war, the Bodies of two other Israeli pilots shot down June 5, an 18-year-old Israeli civilian who disappeared on a flower-collecting tour last September, and an Israeli Arab who said he was kidnaped from lis home in Nazareth almost seven years ago.

and subsidies to a maximum of $10,000 per year to any one pro- ducer. Aganist the amendment: FaCCS McGovcrn and Mundt. On passage, 46 to 35, of a bill to create a Great Salt Lake na- tional monument on Antelope Island. For: n. Against: Mundt.

On rejection, 38 to 45. of Ben- nett, R-Utah, amendment to re- quire approval of Utah Legisla- ture for acquisition of state property for the national monu- ment. For the amendment: Mundt. Against: McGovcrn. On rejection, 37 to 47, of Pas- lore, D-R.

amendment to i i a from Atomic Energy Commission authorization $7.33 million eomitting aiomic ac- celerator to Wcston, III. For the a Mcliovern. Against: Mundt. HOUSE On passage, 271 to 111, of bill to bar federally chartered or in- sured banks from selling lottery lickels. Against: Reifcl.

Not vot- ing: Rcrry. On passage, 368 In in, of bill providing for a comprehensive review of all national water re- source problems and programs. For: Keifel. Not i Kerry. On passage, lo of hill i the i of the i i i i Commission.

Not i Hcrry nnd i Senate Ethics Unit On Charges WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Edward V. Long faced the Sen- ale ethics committee on charges he misused a wiretapping probe in a bid to help Teamsters Un- ion President James R. Hoffa. After a three-hour closed ses- sion Monday, Chairman John Slcnnis, said the ethics panel hasn't formed any conclu- sions.

He indicated another in- terview was in the offing, hul mentioned no date. Long, a Missouri Democrat, he volunteered lo appear before bipartisan committee and planned to answer the charges againsl him-- leveled in its a the fir.st oppor-! By ROBERT TUCKMAN SAIGON (AP) The U.S. Command today reported 122 Viet Coot! sampans sunk in two lellcopter attacks, at least 143 Communist soldiers killed in small firelights across South Vietnam in the past 24 hours, jnd Red mortar and rocket at- acks on five South Vietnamese and'American camps near Sai- gon. The command said one flight of Firefly helicopters using searchlights and flares sur- prised a convoy of supply sam- sans at the mouth of the Truong Jiang River 350 miles northeast Saigon before dawn Monday. Coming under hesvy fire from the edge of the river, the heli- copters silenced the gun bunker with rockets, then destroyed 71 of the 40-foot junks and sam- pans, the leader of the flight reported.

A similar helicopter strike weeks ago surprised anoth- Sharp: U. S. Bid To Win Underrated HONOLULU (AP) Adm. U.S. Grant Sharp, commander of American forces in the Pacif- ic, says the North Vietnamese underestimate the determina- tion of the United States to win the war in Vietnam.

We are much more deter- mined than the North Vietnam- ese realize," the four-star ad miral said Monday in an inter- view at his Camp H.M. Smith headquarters overlooking Pearl Harbor. -Sharp said the North Viet- namese "think that with all these demonstrations they hear so much about that we're about to pull out" of Vietnam. "They're completely wrong," said Sharp, whose command area involves 85 million square miles and nearly a million peo- ple. He said the Communists 'must realize they can't win.

"They must be trying lo out- last us, hoping the same thing will happen to us that happenec to the French. In the case of the French, they just decided not to support the war any longer." Asked if there is a chance of North Vietnam outlasting the allied forces, Sharp replied, don't think so." He said the phrase that the allied forces arc winning the military war in Vietnam is cor- rect but conceded that the pad fication program is going "slow- er than we would like to see it. But it's a long, slow process." Sharp said it "is pretty hare to tell" how the war will end. "It could end by the North Vietnamese just gradually fad ing away and going hack to North Vietnjim which would be all right i us, or il might enc by them deciding lo lunily." f.ifc said used his suh- I'omiltce's Investigation in an attempt to keep Hoffa out of jail nnd a to try to reverse, the union leader's conviction, nvicted liiisrd his a i i i i a i i i a i of jury a a on ce him i i i i i i BUY A 1967 CHRYSLER From D. lirquhart Sons U.

S. Helicopter Raids Sink Sampans; Communists Hit Camps Near Saigon er convoy on the same river aud sank 148 sampans. Another U.S. Army helicopter gunshlp team reported it sank 51 sampans and destroyed 11 fortified positions in day-long operations about 30 miles west of Saigon Monday. Communist gunners fired about 200 mortar and rocket rounds into five South Vietnam- ese and American posts be- tween midnight and dawn today In an arc about 25 miles north- west of Saigon on a road leading to Cambodia.

Simultaneously, the Viet Cong hit one of the posts--at Phuoc Hiep--with a 500-man infantry attack. Military spokesmen said one American was killed and 15 wounded and South Vietnamese units suffered light casualties. The Viet Cong lost 11 dead in the Infantry attack on the post at Phuoc Hiep, which was de- fended by a battalion of South Vietnamese troops supported by U. S. Asks Reds To Okay Neutral POW Inspection WASHINGTON (AP) The United States has asked the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong to permit neutral Inspec- tion of their prisoners of war.

Voicing concern over the treatment of some 180 captured U.S. soldiers and civilians, the White House said claims "of the National Liberation Front and the North Vietnamese that they are treated humanely" cannot be verified because neutral ob- servers have not been allowed to visit the prisoners. The statement Monday said more than 20 Americans are believed held prisoner by the Viet Cong, or National Libera- tion Front. More than 160 U.S. servicemen, mostly airmen, are known to be imprisoned in North Vietnam.

The White House also urged return of sick and wounded pris- oners under terms of the Gene- va Convention on prisoners of war. The statement suggested that Newspaper Exemption Plan Backed WASHINGTON (AP) Jack R. Howard, president of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, said today an antitrust exemp- tion for merger or joint opera- tion of financially failing papers is vital to the health of the newspaper business." A publisher from Chattanoo- ga, and a professor from Southern Illinois University challenged that view. They spoke in testimony prepared for the Senate anti- trust and monopoly subcommit tee. It is considering legislation to permit the merger or joint com- mercial operation of newspa- pers when one of the publlca- tions is classified as failing.

Hoy McDonald, president and publisher of the Chattanooga News-Free Press, said no mat- ter what name is applied to a joint newspaper operating ar- rangement, "it is still a mono- poly and at this time, no com- peting media can replace it." Bryce W. Rucker, a professor of journalism, said, "I fervently hope you will not arm powerful, wealthy men with this weapon with which they may drive the remaining independent publish- ers to the wall and take over their newspapers. Those giant publishers do not need your help. The small ones do." the International Committee of the Red Cross, which it said in- spects prisoners taken by U.S. or South Vietnamese forces, should be allowed to visit cap- tured American personnel.

Meanwhile eight House Re- publicans, who last week urged a step by step de-escalation of the Vietnam war, said, "We are not yet convinced that Hanoi has no interest in peace." "But we are convinced," Rep. F. Bradford Morse, told the House, "that the possi- bility has not been tested by creative and sensitive U.S. di- plomacy." Their proposal calls for stop- ping all bombing north of the 21st Parallel for 60 days. If Ha- noi responded with a similar de- escalation, bombing then would be stopped north of the 20th Parallel and so on through five steps.

Joining Morse in backing the plan are Reps. John R. Delleu- back, Oregon; Marvin L. Esch, Michigan; Frank Horton, New York; Charles McC. Mathi- as Maryland; Charles A.

Mosher, Ohio; P.ichard S. Schweiker, Pennsylvania, and Robert T. Stafford, Vermont. artillery and flareships spewing quick-firing Catling gun shells. The air war Over North Viet- nam continued unabated, and U.S.

Command reported the loss of the Ollth U.S. combat to gunners In North Viet- nam, an Air Force F105 Thun- derchief which went down Mon- day on a raid against the rail yard atKep, 38 miles northeast of Hanoi. The Air Force said the pilot a missing. a i Hanoi claimed two U.S. planes wen downed Monday and one pilot taken prisoner.

The U.S. Com mand reported 134 missions were flown over North Vietnam despite spotty weather that cov- ered many target areas. The frequently hit rail line northeast of Hanoi to Red China was hit at Kep and at Bac Le. Pilots reported many cuts In the rails but were unable to give further damage assessment be- cause of smoke and dust. Navy pilots from the carriers Oriskany, Constellation and Bon Homme Richard also concen- trated on North Vietnam's rail lines.

One flight from the Oris- kany sent up a billow of flames and smoke from a fuel dump at Don Son only 13 miles northwest of Haiphong. Four Communist MIG21s were sighted in their busiest day in more than six weeks. Three of them attempted to disrupt the rescue of a Navy flier south of Hanoi but turned back when Crusader jets tried to tangle with them. A fourth MIG was jumped near Thanh Hoa and fled when a Skyhawk jet unleased a long-range bar- rage of rockets and 20mm can- non fire. The Navy pilot, Lt.

Cmdr. D. A. Verich, 35, of Laona, had hidden overnight In moun- tainous country below Haiphong after being shot down Sunday. His rescue by a helicopter crew from the carrier Constellation was his second after being shot down over North Vietnam in a year.

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