The Journal Times from Racine, Wisconsin • 11

RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES I I A Wednesday, Jan. 12, 1964 I A 5 Doctors Staff Emergency Room of Hospital on a 24-Hour Basis SPRINGFIELD, Mass. pital emergency room is becoming the family health center. People just won't wait from the hospital. Sigsbee says, "We make about the same as we did in private practice." One drawback in the work is the hours.

"They are extremely irregular," says Sigsbee. But this is by design. "We work all different hours during the week," he said, "but otherwise say if I worked the night shift only Td go a week without seeing my family." Five doctors have given up private practice to band together to staff the emergency room at Wesson Memorial Hospital on a round-the-clock basis. for their own' doctor any more. Ihey come airecuy to the hospital." Wesson, a 300-bed hospital, supplies the doctors with working space, medical supplies and equipment and pays nurses, orderlies and clerks.

"There is no place to retire to. This is hard work' says Dr. John P. Sigsbee, 46, one of the five who called themselves the Wesson Emergency Associates. No Pay from Hospital The doctors bill their pa tients but receive no money "But it gives me a chance Give Up Private Practice i to do the kind of work I like 1 to do," he adds.

"And it puts me in the spot that I think is Deny Thai land Troops Have Entered Laos the only weak link in our otb erwise very fine medical serv ice in this country." AP Wlrephoto U.S. ENVOY VISITS GERMAN COAL MINE American Ambassador George Ghee, right, wore a miner's helmet as he looked at an old miner's lamp during a visit to the Friederich Heinrich coal mine in Kamp-Lintfort, Germany, Tuesday. At left was Walter Arendt, president of the German miners' union. Like many hospitals, Wes BANGKOK, Thailand UP) son was raced with a rising number of emergency room cases and not enough doctors day that substantial numbers of Thai troops entered Laos, ILS. and Thai officials de to care for them.

The hos possibly to prevent Commu Viei War's 'Forgotten' Yanks pital had no interns or resi nist agents from contacting pro-Communists in Thailand dents. nied today a report by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that troops from Thailand had entered neighboring Laos to help fight the Communists. or to block the North Viet O'IKIA'O' Work in Shifts namese supply along Three years ago, Sigsbee the Ho Chi Minn Trail. and three other doctors Despite Influx of Combat Troops, Gl Advisers Still Live Among VC The Thai spokesman said "It is 1,000 per cent incor formed their emergency room association.

They work in the Post-Dispatch may have erred in reporting anti-Com rect," said a spokesman for Air Chief Marshal Dawee shifts, 42 hours a week. munist drive being pressed in Chulasap, chief of staff of A fifth joined the team last Thailand's northeastern re the armed forces. year as the number of cases treated in the emergency gion near the Laotian border by 800 border police. By Tom Tiede DIEN BAN, Viet Nam (NEA) Capt. Moe Winter is the forgotten man of Said a U.S.

Embassy spokesman: "We have nothing room rose from 20,000 in 1964 The spokesman emphasized to 25,000. that That troops could not be to add to statements made in Washington that the reports are totally without founda "The kind of service we are offering has attracted more dispatched into Laos without tion." patients," says Sigsbee, "and more doctors are referring to the approval of the Laotian government. "We have not made such a request," he added. Richard Dudman, a Washington correspondent of the us. "But the fact is, the hos Post-Dispatch, reported Tues this weary war.

He is an Army adviser. It used to be that his. kind was the whole story. But. that was only 700 U.S.

troops camped here. Now the Tiede of vtsn THE VJ)U BUSY Id brings new beauty to your home with True enough. Smiles are a barometer of human sentiment and, in all but a few hamlets here, Winter is met with stone faces that would freeze time. His jittery job, of course, is to put a fire under the chill: institute medical care, establish schools, build houses, provide security and improve on the general welfare of the public. In short, be physician, educator, engineer, policeman and politician for questionable neighbors, any of whom may be plotting his immediate death.

Civic action they call it here. "Slow Go" "It's a slow go," Winter admits. "We have all the disadvantages of fighting a war on the other man's terms. "We're in his element and, in fact, at his mercy in many cases. It's weird.

We can't see him, but we know he's there." Indeed he is. In the jungle, in the Bhops. Watching. Waiting. A faceless adversary who may be on one side during the day and the other at night.

A man, a woman, a child with a single purpose: to kill. Moe Winter lives with this, a forgotten man. Only the enemy remembers he's here." you been shot at?" he has been asked, "I quit counting the first week," he shrugs. "Doesn't it affect you?" "It did at first." "In what way?" "I couldn't sleep." now?" "Now I take pills at night so I'm only scared during the day." 85 Viet Cong The captain has adequate reasons for fear. The VC are his neighbors this rice-rich district by the sea incorporates two dozen villages, over 100 hamlets (groups of houses) and as many as 150,000 people, enemy or otherwise.

"My area is probably 85 per cent VC-controlled," Winter estimates. "That much?" "Possibly more. Almost every village has an enemy force of nine or 10 people." "You know about them?" "In many cases we even know their names "How?" I'The friendly villagers tell us." "A Little" Progress "Are you making progress against them?" "A little." "In what way?" "Brother, in this area every friendly villager is progress." happenings and the heroics of Winter and his colleagues have been swallowed by a carnivorous combat census 170,000 soldiers in the country at present, 300,000 expected by mid-1966, and perhaps 500,000 if the need continues to rise. The mass of men in arms has pushed Moe Winter out of the publicity picture. But not, indeed, out of the action.

are more than 1 5,000 Moe Winters currently acting as field advisers to the South Vietnamese each still facing the same dangers and discouragements that come from trying to win both the peace and the people. Price Tag They still live among the Viet Cong. They still are the least-protected Americans in the war. And they still carry an enemy price tag on their persons. Says Las" Vegas -born Winter: "If the VC kill a South Vietnamese soldier it is one thing, but if they pick off an American it is something else.

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