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10-A Fort Myerg (Ha.) News-Press, July 14, 1968 Motor Bikes Cause Saigon Road Jams nnOI' Kt Med does not seem to mind paying $300 for a $150 bike so long as the motor bikes keep coming in. Meanwhile, traffic problems increase with every new motor bike. Even Vietnamese mothers rip along on the bikes, with their children on the back fender and their traditional Au Dai dresses fluttering behind. Last year, 207 persons died in traffic accidents in Saigon and 60 per cent of the deaths were caused by motor bikes. import "motorbikes from Japan for re-sale in Vietnam.

Why does the government buy so many motor bikes for re-sale in Saigon and other areas ofjthe country? Some American officials say it is a quick and easy way for the Vietnamese government to collect taxes. The government adds 100 per cent in import, duties and consumer taxes to each motor bike it imports and thus doubles its money with each transaction. The consumer, for his part, JutBtUAllQt (rrv) f- 1 No protective shield necessary BORN SAILORS, the English will use sand when water isn't available. Sand yachting doesn't have the prestige of its water counterpart, but it's a growing sport in many European countries. This photo was made in Perranporth, England.

keep buying and buying. Saigon residents now own 100,000 motor bikes, according to official government statistics, plus 25,000 motor scooters and motorcycles, 25,000 trucks and assorted "heavy" vehicles, 17,000 passenger cars and about 433,000 bicycles, pedi cabs and carts. It all adds up to about 600,000 civilian vehicles in a city which has only 216 miles of streets. This means there are about 2,770 civilian vehicles for every mile of street. Military Traffic South Vietnamese and American military officials say it is impossible to determine how many military vehicles are in the Saigon area, because the number fluctuates with the fighting around the city.

But they conceded that the figure runs well into the thousands. Most traffic jams are caused, however, by the motor bikes. There were few of them in South Vietnam before 1965, when the U.S. began its major troop buildup. The troop buildup attracted American construction firms to build bases and barracks, and the contractors began buying Vietnamese currency from the government with American dollars to meet their local payrolls.

Almost immediately, the South Vietnamese government used millions of the dollars to exclusively GLEN J. IRION J025 W. FIRST STREET Modem EqitlemMt ED 7-WJ (CwrrW N.Y. Timtt tervict) SAIGON A Vietnamese army sergeant was driving an American colonel and a news man to Tansonnhut Air Base one afternoon recently when his car became snarled in heavy traffic After waiting more than 10 minutes the two Americans got out and walked the remaining five blocks to the air base through a sea of motor scooters, motor bikes, motorcycles, armored personnel carriers, trucks, cars and jeeps. Thirty-five minutes after they got there the sergeant arrived with the car.

This was just another traffic jam in a city in which enemy rocket attacks can scare the people into building sandbag bunkers but can't keep them off the streets. Freighters continue to plow their way up the Saigon River, through enemy ground attacks and allied counter offensives, to bring Japanese-made motor bikes to eager civilian buyers. And somehow, despite rising food costs and plummeting rockets, Saigon consumers Tips Pay Off MANILA Ml An anonymous tipster linkup called "Crime Stop" is helping to foil marauders at the big Clark Field U. S. Air Force base north of Manila.

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Buerry said negotiations were already under way with the National Broadcasting Co. to carry its basic programming and plans are to include some American Broadcasting Co. programs, too. Buerry said the station's ultra-high frequency will be no deterrent to local reception since all color TV receivers and most modern black-and-white sets are provided with built-in UHF tuners. "In addition to this," he said, "subscribers to Leeco and all other CATV systems (cable-vision facilities) in this area will be to receive our programs." Buerry, formerly a WMYR radio personality, will be general manager of the new Channel 20 station.

Howard Hoffman, formerly of the WMYR sales staff, will be assistant general manager and director of sales. The board of directors of the new station consists of the following: Tom Mitchell, a manufacturer of electronic nuclear measuring equipment, chairman; Buerry, corporation president; William Dakos, M.D., corporation vice president; Hoffman, corporation secretary and treasurer; Jackson Burgess, owner of Burgess Island and founders of Burgess Vibrocrafters, a small appliance manufacturing firm; Rex Stubbs, M.D., Tom Gore, M.D., H. Quillian Jones, M.D. Cite OD AMERICAN DEPT. 3333 CLEVELAND AVE.

COMPARE A new local television station to operate on Channel 20 has been authorized by the r. Federal Communications Commission. Joe Buerry president of Broadcasting-Telecasting, said he received a telegram Saturday announcing approval of the application. "There were no objections and no competitive applica-; tions," he said. "We hope to be on the air by November." Buerry said the new station's offices and studios will be lo-cated near the downtown sec- tion of Fort Myers.

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