The Terre Haute Star from Terre Haute, Indiana • Page 33

THE TERBE HAUTE STAB, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1965. 33 A Reporter Spends a 20-Minute Eternity- Lost in a Jungle Death Trap Graham was a member of a delegation from the Chattanooga Area Council on Alcoholism which asked the commission for funds to hire a full-time liasion officer to work with the chronic drunks. By TOM TIEDE "I dunnp if he knows or not, but next time I see him I'll tell Newspaper Enterprise Assn. him PLEI ME, VIET NAM (NEA) foxhole, it, Yea Well, tell Mm I want seemed, held a decaying body and the air stank ofia replacement, also." the enemy dead left to rot in the sun. The point men blazed trails Some had crawled out of their pits only to die in several directions.

Orders steps away, their faces frozen with horror, their bodies for the rest to use the v.j footprints of the guy in front. punctured and burned. Others had escaped. But to We Hnresserl on where? For days, the Viet Cong had harassed this area with death and damnation. Then they disappeared into the jungle beyond.

to the floor of the forest. Each man walked on eggs, the Cong always leave booby traps to protect their retreat and this We pressed on. silence. I could see only trees, I toward the sun. No helicopters bent and broken trees, theleither.

They had been blottingj leaves of which were charredjout the sky all morning and now; and wrinkled from a hundred'there were none. What was the bombings. I matter with those guys? My tongue dropped all the Red dust settled on my boots, way to my stomach with heat cooked the backs of thud. 'my ears. Not even an animal I was lost in Viet Cong coun-! sound but thcn oi course lhcv was no exception.

"Hey," a G.I. bellowed, "you! So elements of the First Cav, think LBJ knows I'm here?" i airy Division went searching. I 1 "What's your name?" i tagged along. Down from the perimeter "Peterson, Richard," he said. wire we moved, this "Sumter, S.C." It was slow moving, and uneventful.

No sniper fire, few boobies, nary a dead V.C. chained to his machine gun as had been the rumor. An hour out, I saw something off in the underbrush left the column to investigate. It turned out to be only a try. Frightened silly, naturally, I began to blindly push through the tangle in search of the path.

I tripped over vines, branches, roots, logs Logs? Earlier in the day a sergeant had found a log crammed full would be all dead. I drank again from the canteen but this time it was cool, I think. Where was everybody? I felt like a bull's- eye. of explosives. "Good God," ll thought.

Then I moved not at all. I shell casing and I sat down to stopped breathing. Punji stakes, tiger traps, trip GRAND SPECIAL PROGRAM MATINEE TODAY ONLY STARTING AT 1:15 CHILDREN 35c adventures of a teen-ager Africa her hilarious jungle pat te's the one in the -ALSO- NEW i TARZAN FINDS FORGOTTEN WORLDS OF ADVENTURE! NO ONE MAY ENTER THE THEATRE AFTER -Prints ULLL IIIUIVII UUU Producttorv STARRING I1ILIAN SCHELL-SAMMHA EGGAR-INGRID THULJN ACTKSS mi UNKS nu nsrvjtt Heturn TiHmiThe Tlsties A Journey Into The Diabolical! Sun To Arrive At Start Of Feature Because No One May Enter During the 27 Minutes After Fabi Enters Her Bath! NOW SHOWING! DOORS OPEN 12:30 PM drown by disappointment with! warm canteen water. I they could be any- for minutes before realizing that everything had grown quiet. Only the breeze and damn little of that was stir- I listened some more.

My ears heard all sorts of sounds except human ones, blood pumping, mostly. Heart thumping, pulse beating 10 minutes, passed 20. And then a noise. A rustle in the brush. I froze, ring.

My outfit had disap peared. I was alone. I began to sweat. Getting up, I stumbled back to the trail only it, too, had evaporated in the oven of where. I wanted to simply scream, but out here nobody screams for fear.

For pain, yes. At length I got to a burned- out area and began to listen. Nothing. I slumped on the edge of a bomb crater and squinted TODAY 7:20, 9:25 an incredible orgy of SIGHTS AND SOUNDS the facts are NOV. 13 End 9:00 P.M.

mvmmm MOVIE MONSTERS COME ALIVE! MONSDEK GOME OUT OF INVADE AUDIENCE fir thxOMU tf yiir lift SEE wkit hp pus tki IGIRLCINZEI HOWTEK! PUSSEGMDKNNRE still as a stake. He was perhaps the ugliest Pfc. I had ever seen. A tooth missing, a potato nose, rumpled, unkempt, sweaty. He was chewing gum and humming.

"Hi y'all, man," he mumbled and then moved on into the jungle. I picked up my fallen jaw and followed. In and Out for Life CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) City Judge Riley Graham says chronic drunks are serving life sentences on the installment plan. The Judge told the City Commission that sfcidrow alcoholics spend more time in jail than some convicted murders.

15th Century Anchors LOURENCO MARQUES, Mozambique (AP) Shrimpers in the little fishing smacks "Lena" and "Boaventura" had a valuable catch off this coast the other day. They-fished up two ancient anchors which experts say date from the 15th Century, when the Portuguese explorers rounded and named the Cape of Good Hope for the first time in history. One of the anchors still has its wooden haft, now petrified by time and tide. A one-kwan note of 14th Century China on exhibit at the Chase Manhattan Bank Money Museum bears the in scription: "Counterfeiters will be decapitated." STARTS FRI. FIRST CITY SHOWING SEE GHIDRAH BATTLE GODZILLA.

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