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fVirginio roftt Saigorj; tmir 6f duly in nearly completed and the July children MU the Army's advisory com- on to the Vietnam Aent. Ft, $rd, Cm, to Mrs. Aue wrote can SctalUJG to get larger by the hour, When we had about given up ever see' W.Akf island darkness. MILES and then Manila, ing lam loomed ANOTffEtt was Guam, 8,789 aiK miles from San' Francisco. The heat that hit us we left the plane in lili reSsid: 'Anielesl were of is 681 pore.

CfaUia; tt latfon. (coiwbined French 'and Oriental coittfes "aijd Adjoining is ChdloW, the Chinese city and center of merce. The traffic is like nothing I'd ever seen. Everyone on the right has the right of way and knows it. There are few stoplights.

But occasionally member of the local direpts traffic. THERE ARE BICYCLES, motor bikes, motor scooters, motor- cyctes, taxis that dart in. and; hbrse-drawn ox-drawn carts and. cars. The first couple of rides in a taxi frightened ine to death, but now I'm fairly Most of the women and girls wear coolie hats and jackets and long full pants.

The working almost i either of poles balanced on their shoulders, Many loads i on their heads. Fren'ih -VM The OWentai custom Ii lot the men to go to these things and thfe wives te stays at, lortje. pt next day wished that I'd staged WE'VE ORfiAfLY ENJOYED our rides about the emmtrt. Waller buffalo, graze jij W16 roadsides and oken amble orito the; 6 a dV: 1ftsome people sft before their making gravel out of farge by pounding them mK mallets. Col.

Cpriant, we'vl paid our Jast to toy. -the fabulously beautiful yaticah-like temple, of. the Cab Dae near' the Cambodian border. The sect combination ConiPuciahslim, i worship, CathoUcism, Taoisra and Buddhism. We arrived in morning service.

architecture. There are no window o'nly over which we secure Ipuvered shutters at in'ght. Each room has a ceiling fan. The lizards come in at night to eat the mosquitoes; Everything has to be cleaned. up immediately after meals, or the ants come in.

Oc- cassibnally we've had large cockroaches too. The average maximum temperature here is 86, degrees, and thp 71. The, climate is monsoqnal, i heavy rainfall between May. The hot starts in late February, or March. Often it, is 81 degrees at am.

and gets h'otter as the day progresses. I SOON LEARNED why servants are a "must 1 here. You just haven't energy enough to do anything in this heat. Everyone takes a siesta every afternoon from 1 to 3 9'clock, and all the stores and businesses close. The season starts in June and it rains at least twice a day! It ii rain like I'd never seen It cools things off but.

the atomosphere is muggy and sticky With '-The smells in Saigon are terri- fjtc.y do shopping at a lots of canned freglj loods cap, be fqund on loci) market, Fresh produce to pe, washed in boiled water cooked or peeled. NO LOCAL greens due time for. the Gongs rang, worshippers chanted, bowed their heads; to three times, in succession throughout the ceremony, and lit incense and tapers. I HAVE BEEN -VISITING a Vietnamese Veterans Hospital each Thursday morning. Edna Schpettle'r, Jack sister-in-law, is on the same committee.

We visit the paraplegic ward, taking old magazines, fruit, candy and cigarettes to about 18 fellows. It's quite pathetic; I try to overlook their plight and concentrate on their smiles of appreciation. For several months until March, when school is out here, taug'ht in a Vietnamese school two hours a day. One of my classes had had 6 to 8 months of English, the other to 2 years. The pupils, all Chinese, 'ranged in age from 7 to 20 yeafs.

THEY COULD READ English through constant repition' but didn't know, the meaning of, the words. I tried to teach them meaning and found it rather frustrating at first, then, most interesting. The students were so eager to learn and tried so hard. The only problem was getting them to understand. also been busy with Cqb and Boy' Scout activities.

I was den mother for Jirn's den for seven months before he became at, Bpy Scouti and a Cub Scout. We had and gold James Van Horn Horn is convention Van Horn, of Angeles Symphony, wch- estf Reaves Wednesday to attend the national convention of the Arherlcari 'Symphony Orchestra in rPhoenix. The, convention, from June 11-13, will, prpyide workshops in orchestra management, conducting, composing "and' seyeral for musicians in different fields. Affer the corf- ference in Phoenix Van ilbrh will attend a summer workshop for conductors, musicians and composers at Asilomar, Calif, for two and one-half weeks. Van- Horn will be a speaker at one of the panel dis'eussions on symphony orchestras at the Asilo- mar conference.

Mrs. -Van Horn and the three will visit relatives in Carnation while he is away. events alf' Circle of the Ian Women's food tips Masonte memorial Sons of Norway, ejubfiduse, 8 p.m No, Roosevelt boar tutheran oom; i Port Angeles Lodge No. 69, AM, Masonic Temple, lo a.m.; rites for Emil Johnson, Harper funeral Home, ii a.m. Angeles Grange Auxiliary, Grange Hall, poUuckluflch at noon, Charity Cjrcie of Holy trinity Lutheran Church, Fireside Room, 1 p.m.

tJON Board of Directors, Camp Ffre Clubhouse, jp.m.; to approve third quarter alloca- Ruth Circle of the Presbyterian Women's with Mrs. James 30 Joint meeting of area loggers, and officials the state Department of natural resources, GAR Hall, Port Angeles Lodge No. 69 Masonic Temple, 8 p.m.; stated Woodward students vocal recital, Literary Clubhouse; everyone welcome. WEDNESDAY Claliam County Rural Library Board of Trustees; 114 W. 8th St.

10 a.m. Mount Pleasant Home Economics Club, ail-day picnic with Mrs. I). V. Reed, bring potluck lunch and table service.

Group one serving. Business meeting and election of officers, 10:30 a.m. Elizabeth QircJe of the Presbyter- Women's dessert luncheon, with Mrs. P. M.

Berg, 12:45 p.m. 0 16 0 French actress Brigi'tte Bardot poses fts she meets the Dress upon arrival in London to shoot location scenes for her new movie "Babctte Goes to War," like in Port Angeles'; and just as they do, at home the boys look forward to outings and camp. Jim is working on his marHs- manship badge. He and his dad. who helped with the scouts, practice at an indoor range.

Bill's den recently had a trip in the Navy launch qn the river. The Saigon. is a busy river. "Oceangoing vessels dock along its sides. Junks and sampans, many their owner's 1 only home, ply back and forth.

JIM daj(S at Boy Scout Camp at Nhatrang in the north Country, will have three FAMILY DINNER This way of cooking asparagus may convert you to a new method! Broiled Shoulder Lamb Chops Panned, Asparagus Cuts Potatoes Tomato Salad Bread Tray Fruit Pie Beverage PANNED ASPARAGUS CUTS Ingredients: 1 bunch (2 pounds) asparagus, 3 tablespoons butter or margarine, V4 cup boiling water, teaspoon salt. Method: With a swivel blade vegetable peeler, pare scales and outer covering from asparagus stalk's, up to buds. Wash in hot, then, rinse in cold water. Slice into diagonal lengths, about Vt- inch thick; slice through buds this same way. Over low heat melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a deep 10-inch skillet with a dome cover; add asparagus; stir to coat with butter.

Add boiling water and salt, Cover and boil fairly rapidly just until 5 minutes; lift cover several times, mix and Watch like a hawk. Uncover; "if there is more than a few tablespoons of liquid in skillet, remove excess, Stir in remaining tablespoon butter. Makes 6 servings. Note: The asparagus used in testing this recipe were on the thick side 21 stalks in a 2-pound bunch. Camp at Dalat, iiv the: the end of June, I'm gfojing along as den niQther, Since we leave shqft- ly after school staritsi a won't go back, agd the heavy from wajter and the human excre- roent used as fertilizer.

We must boil all the water we use for drinking and for scrubbing our teethi The Vietnamese cook their food on charcoal grates, using fish. oils and various sauces, Fish and rice are staples, Jim and Bill have mastered, the art ol using chopsticks quite successfully. Oujp maid is Chinese so speaks that language, The awah Vietnamese and speaks that language and French. J'xs leajn tfce latter and to teach them English. Our A 0n one are Vietnamese, aM oji the Thai, Fortunately they 1 speak English.

WE'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER our Christmas here. A beautiful poinsettia tree was in full bloom in the yard next door. It was cool in the mornings but by a.m., it hot. Our Christmas tree was a 12 ft. tall long-needled pine.

Qrna- meots slipped off, and was so high we had to, throw on the icicles. For a table centerpiece. I used an oW tog. r.ublber tree nuts, emJfes, sUvgr- paJni and pieces of bolly the family sent us from Seattle Jfew Year or TBT in is a big gives, gifts. pay their hfijp Uoiibie salaries as a boms md them off.

Ours were goee 4ays. I was five months seems and it gives us the i The packers are jfuje 8 to crate what we brought' here, and the treasures we've acquired Among them is a lovely hammered brass tray coffee table, the gift of the Indian doctor in the army, and hig, 'Their little son stayed with us while his parents visited their home in lodja. We have completed our shots, we're Inward to duty at ft- prd, wbej-e; hfiye friends, Soon it'U bs, JMly 12 and away we'y go. Time, tea, KfWii speaks more Chinese than English, Personals Susan Clayton, Charles Fields, Daniel Howard, John MartHJa and Michael Wilson, of Pert Angeles and Klist of Sequim are among the 1,915 new students registered for fall semester at Washington State College. Marilyn Corfee received her cap from St.

Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing, Bellingham in capping exercises Friday at Western Washington College of Education. Miss Corfee is a freshman at the college. In Bellingham for the ceremony were her parents Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Corfee and her sister Mrs.

B. P. Berry Jr. sons Jimmy and Joel of Milwaukee, Wise, Mrs. Berry, a Roosevelt High School graduate in 1953, is here visiting her parents.

Former resident wins scholarship The Women's Club of San Jose, awarded Mrs. Terry Fieldhouse a $250 scholarship and honored her at a luncheon. Mrs, Fieldhouse, the former Haroldine Ruthruff of Port Angeles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Buthruff, is attending San Jose State College taking Bourses, in education.

She is the mother of tjir.ee small children Beth, Gayle, 5, and Bruce, 7. Her husband is connected with the forestry department of an insecticide company in San Jose, love it is a to turn a vase once day to'keep flowers frqm turning in oot direption towards the ta a giveo by the Vj-etosniyese Signal top. Wives ftf Acaer ieaa ftws mres Ua4 been iavited be- lore, wives te parties, iito ways we'U al- was ow mate warning rilnnar. was Ito sBf sitfto msm. Five to receive degrees at WWCE Ralph E.

Hilt and Jeanne E. McCormick are among 350 graduates who will receive degrees at Western College of Education's COth commencement Friday at Bellingham. Also candidates for degrees are Lewis P. Dey and Mrs. Sally D.

Wilson of Sequim and Jesse I. Moore of Forks. All will receive bachelor of arts degrees in education, Dey also has- qualified for a bachelor qf arts degree. Quads doing fine but papa's in trouble EAST ORANGE, N.J. (AP) Giro Bravata's quadruplets and their mother are doing fine in Orange General Hospital.

But the proud papa admits "I've got troubles" another family in New York City. Bravata became the father of a girl and three boys Saturday. Sunday he admitted he was married to another in man and hac cwo children by Jieiv "Oh, hes a uue one," moa: Bravata's wife, Grace, 38, as she lay in bed under sedation after hearing of the quads, But Bravata, 39, a railroad freight conductor, said the quads mother, Louise Strohlein Bravata knew all along be was married. "Louise couldn't be happier, 1 Bravata said, NO lAJMf As for Grace: "I have no desire to talk to her. I never did.

She's been giving me a har4 time since the first day I married her-" Bravata said his lawyer, Her man Capwi of New York, "hag got the case." Caponi said Bravata and the njotJieF of the quads had never been married, that legal action wife Grace had started never has been put ou a court calendar anc Bever to terminatiofl." Tig only thing legal about the separation. Capcui saicj, "is that it's tiuwever, saj4 cJka eowrt order, Bravata required to pay $40 mootbly support of Grace tlieir chiidreo, a girl ao4 toy. aad years 1 Grace at her home io York City, saJ4 Two Walk from trnia to Mexico City By JACK RUTLEDGE MEXICO CITY Cal ifOrnians boasted they could walk 2,300. miles to Mexico City. Twelve pairs of shoes later they made'it.

Bill Tynan and Bill Bates, both from Los Angeles and 28, quit good jobs for adventure. They don't, regret it. But both Bills say: "We're hrqugh walking for a while. We'd ven accept a ride on a bicycle." The'7-month trip started from IDS Angeles Oct. 18, 1958.

Un- haven, they soon looked like Fidel Castro's Cuban rebels. "In fact, we were mistaken for lubans several times," said.Ty lan, who resigned from Walt Dis- iey Studios for the jaunt. (PIES "And once in Sinalca de Leyva, the state of Sinaloa, we were arrested as Russian spies." Bates, who worked for Douglas Aircraft, said they had been warned that Yaqui'Indians might cause trouble in remote areas. People told us they would cut our throats. Instead, they ran every time they saw us The walkers carried no weap ons of any kind.

We were often stopped and would come up sort of surround us, make a thor and as soon as the found we were unarmed, they be came friendly." Actually, Indians helped make the trip possible. The two started Tom, Los Angeles with $400 be ween them, hoping to live on day. SLEPT IN JAILS They soon ran short but Indians the Sierra Madre area fed free for almost a month. Another money-saving device: ails. "We know more about Mexican ails than most people," said Tynan.

"We slept in them in almosi every town we visited free." The two Californians spent week- mds of five months practicing hiking in the. sandy Mojave Deserl prior to taking off for Mexico. "It was a good thing, sale Bates, "this walking is tough." Tynan wore out eight pairs of shoes, Bates four, Ceci beans are delicious on Irst-course appetizer platter they are marinated in white wine vinegar, olive oil, salt, freshly ground pepper and crushed gar ic. Sprinkle copiously with minced parsley on serving. The beans may be bought in cans or cooked at home.

Fire clfrectors hear reports; discuss cahnp W- HatKr? was li (he The fctrattf of directors Fire Girls Itte. heard committee reports at their immty iwjfefjfftg Monday evening itt tfie cafrip Fare Clubhotrse, Camping chairman Feed Ratfte nvited members, and parents Camp Fire Girls, to fating sack ttflches and join a work patty. "tine 13 at Camp David junior, Crescent, to help ready the eamp for the summer season. Gamp Eire Girls use the camp tuly Brochures have been distributed. Radke announced Richard Wherll has been "engaged as camp director.

Mrs. Wherli has a college degree, in recreation and physical education. She has. been a substitute teacher in the Port Angeles schools this year, and training of the Camp fire Girls Boaid of Directors. Jessityn Warwick will he waterfront director.

KE AISO gave highlights of the camp rally at Lincoln Park May. 23. He directed the 60 girls attending In playing baseball and other games. Assisting were Camp Fire Executive Thelma Saunders and Mines. Hugh Simpson.

Leslie Warwick, Leo Kono- jaski, W. J. Brummer and Miss Dolores Saunders. Other mothers attending w.ere Wmes. Arthur Wendel, Paul Reed, James Donahue and Wiliam M.

Wenner. Mrs. Saunders reported for Mrs. Oscar Sedergren, group organization chairman, who is vacationing in Mrs. Sedergren has been conducting mothers meetings and organizing new Blue Bird groups for fall.

LEADERS OF the new groups are Mrs. Kenneth Rodocker and Mrs. Kenneth Paden, Monroe; VIrs. N. Schrader, Lincoln: VIrs.

Jess Sinnes, Washington; Mrs. Margaret DeWar, Queen of Angels; Mrs. Albert LaRue, Franklin; Mrs. Alf' Larson and Mrs. William Fell, Jefferson and Mrs.

H. G. Dunn and Mrs. Jesse Donovan, Hamilton. Mrs.

Harold Latrpf, who Is ingeles, ptesented CPriidetiC'HlPrf het. top Her sotvios- on the boflfdjaiwl ts Msfstani He reminded, committee men to turn in financf efjjMlzatieri budget semed to Onitetl "Qobd- to July, niLKEIWOV'. urged, all Gamp Pire Girls and, adults to write their senators and representatives or the postmaster general ing a commemorative, stamp lit observance of damp Fire's Golden Jubilee in I960. A letter from MM, Jack Ehrig, program ehairmaft of the al cbnference, thanked Mrs, Saunders and Fulkerson for tHe work shop on ptibllc relations eon- ducted during the'conference in Vakima. 1 Another letter invited the board to, a bii.fnft^gi picnic af Kltsap CpUnw Council's Camp, Newana in Bremerton Sun day.

Mrs. Jack Merrill scheduled a "Hobo Heaven" weekend of fun at Camp David Junior June 6-7 for all Horizon Club girls in the The board will meet at the clubhouse June 29. The Camp Fire office will closed during July and August. Company fare: Rock Cornish game hen may be seared in a hot oven and then roasted at a moderate temperature. This method usually gives the birds an inviting browq color.

Bachelor of to 16S candidate's Hilton ftatitns, Conductor, of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra; was awarded an hortwary; doctor 01 mtttic degree, are a master, one of great orchestra leaders in ea," Dean Alvin B. Qualf told onorary doctor of divinity'de- grees went to the Rev. Edward J. CaldwelL North Hollywood, and the Rev. Garth A.

a Seattle pastor but former FT. LEWIS (AP) here rocked Saturday as 4th Infantry Division celebrated Division 'Day on the 16th anniversary Us landing on the Normandy beachjBS. Kor two hours more than 20,000 spectators saw and; heard almost every weapon in the division's arsenal fired in a massive diplay of firepower. The shqotoff was preceded by a parade of 10,000: troops and 200 heavy weapons. "This is one of the largest reviews ever held 'here," Maj.

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