Eureka Humboldt Standard from Eureka, California • Page 11

Down With Americans" Huge Flood Cleanup Task Continues SAIGON: Doctors examine Viet Cong terrorist Tran a Dang a i slumps from post following his execution by firing squad in the public market place here today. Dang, who was a March 20 and charged i a i to blow-up a U. S. officers' barracks went to his death shouting live Ho Chi i (Premier of North Viet a Down with Americans." (UP1 RadiopJiolo) Federal Charge For N. Y.

Youih Frank William Abagnale 17-year-old Ml. Vernon, New 'York youth, was arrested here after noon yesterday and 'charged with impersonating an employe of the U.S. Department of Immigration. After appearing before U.S. Commissioner Norman Cissna, he was certified lo Juvenile Hall here and booked en route to the U.S.

Marshal. Abagnale is scheduled lo (ace Federal District Court Shcrill Halbert in Sacramento lo answer lo Ihe charge. The complaint alleges he hai claimed a tax exemption as Federal employe at the Impsi 1 ial 400 motel here. The situation was brought ti light by city police Sergean Fred Sonberg of Ihe check de tail on a routine invesligalion a local checking account which Abagnale opened or atlcmplci open. Sonberg alerted FBI rcsiden agent Richard Miller, and a de scription of the bright 1 I late-model Mustang with the de Traitors SAUION (UCI)-Sonth Vielna niese strongman Nguyen Cao today promised merciless treatment of terrorists, trailors and war profiteers.

He spoke only hours after a firing squad executed terrorist who tried to bomb a barracks housing American Army officers. While Ky was delivering his first major speech as head of Ilic new military regime, American a 1 a continued around-llve-clock air raids into Norlh Vicl Nam. U.S. Air Force and Navy planes flew several missions before and atlcr midnight, bombing supply depots, ship ping, highways and anti-aircraft gun emplacements under the glare of parachute flares. American and South Vielna nwsc planes flew 72 daylight sovlies Monday.

Speaking at a ceremony honoring the nations assisting South Viel Nam in its fight against i in, Ky pledged thai his government will take "drastic measures" lo --1 weed oul corruption. Typical of repair work and clean-up operations performed under U. 5 A Corps of Engineers con- Iract is a i i a i of i Rolmerville home. On Dec. 30, ISC'! (above) the house was a shambles of mud and broken lumber.

But work done as part of Engineers' $16 i i Humboldl County project has the back in reasonable condition (below). A few hours earlier, at fi a.m., Viel Cong terrorist Trail Van Dang was executed in Saigon's central market place. He lioulcd "Long Ho Chi linh" and "Down with the as a volley of bul ls ripped into his budy. The blindfolded Dang was ied to a posl in the center of a U-shaped pile of sandbags. Me submitted quietly while soldiers ied his hands behind his back jut tried unsuccessfully to pre vent a black cloth from bein(, across his eyes.

Troops armed with automatic! weapons closed the, square lo a i and kepi a relatively small crowd of onlookers well away from the firing point. Dang was caughl red-handed by police last March 20 while carrying explosives in the luggage compartment of his motor scooter. Vietnamese! authorities said Dang hadl rigged Ihe charge to explode five minulcs after it was plant- cd at Die U. S. officer's billet' on Vo Tanh Street in Saigon.

He was caught just in time to Frank i i a Abagnale, 17. seated in car, is questioned by special agent Richard Miller of the FBI after Abagnale. of Ml. Vernon, New York, was hailed after a city-wide search by cily pol'icc, sheriff's deputies and Miller during the noon hour here yesterday. Abagnale is charged with impersonating a federal officer.

vice "Bandit" lettered on boll fronl fenders was broadcasl. 1 Miller spotted the youth Fifth Slreel aflerward but lost him in traffic. Miller then radioed police headquarl- crs and an "all units" alarm was broadcast, with the Arcala police throwing up a roadblock there. Sheriff's detective Lee Tern-' pleton finally spotted Abagnale al Harrison and Myrlle Avenues and brought him lo a hall. Colice found a regulation police halon in car.

prevent the blast Minor Injury In Multiple Crash Mrs. a (Bernice) Wallace of Eureka sits injured al the wheel of her car (above) after it collided with the rear of another hailed for the accident pictured below on the Gannon Slough bridge, of the Burns Freeway last night. Mrs. Wallace was treated for bruises and contusions at General Hospital and re- leased. i James 33, of Arcala.

whose pickup the curb a losing a house trailer, nor Karen A a 23, of Eureka wore reported as being injured. The Highway Patrol logged the accident at 9:45 in. I i a i officer in photo is Dennis Pccaut. This weird emblem, painted on both front fenders of the bright yellow Mustang driven by Abagnale, contributed to his capture by sheriff's detective Lee Templeton at Harrison and Myrtle Avenues here yesterday noon. Besides the word "Bandit the design bears the head of a masked man and a derringer-type pistol firing several shots.

Police had no explanation for it. City police officer John Whelihan checks out the car. Repair Job Faces Army Strengthening of the a Prairie and Blue Lake levees and protection of the newly opened Northwestern Pacific Railroad (racks are part of the $9 million flood repair job i facing (he U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Humboldt County. Some $7 million has spent since December in Hum- wldt, for the burial of more than 4,000 drowned dairy cattle, a and levee repair and streambcd clearance.

Humboldt County repairs represent over half the total bill, according to an announcement from the office of U. Col. Robert II. Allan, San Francisco District Army Engineer. Of the $30 million to be spent, $18 million will be channeled into the Hurri- boldl project.

Del Norte, Menriocino, Sonoma, Trinity and Siskiyou Counties will take Ihe other $12 million. Millions of feet of lumber were salvaged locally under unique Corps of Engineers coh- tract with local lumber inter- jests. Col. Allan said. The lum- iber people formed a corporation.

Delta Disasters, iwhich cleaned debris and sal- jvaged usable lumber and logs an arrangement in which the value of reclaimed timber was deducted from the contract. This enabled mills to operate much sooner lhan they would lhave otherwise. I Private contractors have been used whenever possible, according to Col. Allan, lo the extent that $12.600,000 worlh of obs have been placed with a jcrews. 1 Millions of Ions of silt, debris, 1 lumber and logs have been lift; ed from roads, communities and fields.

Dozens of bridges--log, plank, steel and even suspension have been replaced. Hundreds of miles of slreambeds lave been cleaned lo lessen the threat of future floods. In commenting on flood control and damage, Col. A a said "It seems a shame that we can diagnose the illness, treat the patient and then say lhat we can'l afford the cure." He was referring to Ihe Engineers comprehensive, but expensive, Norlh Coast flood control plan..