The Herald-Palladium from Benton Harbor, Michigan • 28

THE NEWS PALLADIUM, BENTON HARBOR, MICH. MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1970 PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT 1 SAIGON CHARGED WITH INDIFFERENCE Vietnam Vets Stage Squatter's Protest Do You Have Trouble Telling Sexes Apart By TERRY WOLKERSTORFER Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) "We're building homes here because we have no other homes," the South Vietnamese veteran said, pointing to a motley collection By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP)-Can you ed he squatters' movement as "potentially explosive," and added, "We're keeping an eye on it." One of the veterans living in a shack made of beer cans and cardboard i a shantytown around the Ministry of Revolutionary Development is a former regional force soldier from Phuoc Tuy Province who lost there are almost 250,000 veterans with vmore than 30,000 Of them totally or partially disabled. The disproportionately high number of veterans and their emotional impact as men who have fought for the country makes them a potentially powerful political force. An American official describ man was reported seriously injured. The "call has gone out for more veterans to join the squatters.

South Vietnam, a nation of 17 million people with more than a million men in uniform, has a staggering number of veterans, many of them disabled. The government's new Ministry of Veterans Affairs estimates that both legs above the knee. Totally disabled, with a wife arid three children, he gets $39 a month from the government for food, clothing and shelters. The former paratrooper, who has to support a wife, two sons and a daughter, said he gets nothing from the government. "I have no education to be a clerk," he said.

by parker and hart THE WIZARD OF ID down as a Miss. Would it rather look at a miniskirt than a maxiskirt? Put it down as a Mister. Can it only quote the verse of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Rudyard Kipling? That's a man. Does it like to read by candlelight the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Edna St. Vincent Millay? That's a maiden.

HERE'S SHORT CUT Does it wear boxer shorts under its trousers? That's guy. Does it wear what-do-you-call-them under its slacks? That's a girl. If it walks a yowling baby at 3 a.m., it's the papa. If it takes the baby out in the stroller at p.m., it's the mama. Does it always say exactly tell the sexes apart? Invariably? Sometimes? Never? Woman, in her quest to be equal to man, has come to dress, act and look so much like him that it would be a brash person indeed who claimed he could always tell one from the other.

On the other hand, it would be a pretty dull fellow also who is no case could detect the difference between Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde. Most of us fall in the middle group. Sometimes we can tell the sex of another person without consulting his or her hairdresser; sometimes we can't.

That's the master of the house. Does it love to recall everything that happened to it on its honeymoon? Has to be the bride. Does it yawn every time the subject of its honeymoon is brought up? Must be the bridegroom. If it likes to look at itself in the mirror while combing its long curls and doesn't care if someone else sees it it's a girl teen-ager. If it stumbles out of the washroom in a hurry if someone sees it admiring itself in the mirror while combing its long curls, it's a teen-age boy.

Does it like to talk about sex all the time and discuss its significance? You can bet it's a her. Would it rather just think about sex all the time and hope for the best? You know it's a him. Yes, it is still possible to tell ai.ite&r Yaxz packs pp I of wood and bamboo frames I being erected in a garbage dump just outside Saigon's Tan Son Nhut air base. He had to. stop work to make the gesture: He was hoisting a piece of bamboo into place with his left arm, and his right arm was only a stump dangling from the rolled up sleeve of his paratrooper's camouflage a-tigues.

He still wears them, he said, "because they're the only clothes I have." The ex paratrooper is one of some 200 veterans and their a ilies building squatter's shacks in Saigon to protest what they call the government's indifference to its veterans. The national police tried to evict the squatters, who now total about 500, and one police TAG) what is on its mind? That a Heres a handy little guide to tioln vmt in A dilemma all of us seem to be: the sexes apart. Keeping them facing more and more often: apart is another matter. But who wants to do that? If it lifts its hands palms upward to express shocked dismay, it is feminine. If it pounds a fist into a palm and I him.

Does it talk for hours and still leave you wondering what in the world is really on its mind? That's a her. If it goes around the house murmuring, "Now where on earth did I leave my glasses this it is grandma. If it answers in exasperation, "For Pete's sake, they're on top of your head where they usually are," it's a grandpa. Does it cheat on its diet by sneaking a chocolate marshmal-low sundae now and then? That's a fat girl. Does it cheat on its diet by sneaking a double dollop of mashed potatoes at lunch? That's a fat fellow.

TARDY QUESTION Is it late because it takes it so turns red in theiw it is mas- Hal Boyle culine. Does it wipe the sweat of its forehead with a finger? That's a man. Does it pat its perspiring brow with a piece of crumpled paper tissue? That's a woman. If it can spell puce correctly, it is a she. If it can't spell or pronounce puce and doesn't even know what the word means, it is a he.

Would it rather wear miniskirts than look at them? Put it long to dress? That's the mistress of the house. Is it late getting home because it missed three trains after stopping off to have just one with the boys? KlmKSKISXMm V) Jill IN i iwHqffl'i llBlllllli life II V'' A'tf ii. v.i; NEW SIGNS: Forty-five new signs have been placed on Blue Star Memorial highway in Allegan county giving the road the added designation of A2 in an attempt to give the road added identification. The venture is an experiment involving the Allegan County Road Commission and the State Highway Department. Names of Blue Star Memorial is not changed.

(Prosch-Jensen photo) Signs Designate Allegan Highway Markings On Blue Star Are Experimental ALLEGAN Forty-five new signs have been installed on Blue Star Memorial highway in Allegan county giving the road the added designation of A2 for identification purposes. The siens wprp erected hv the Allegan Countv Road Commis I-9 fTT 74 70 7470 per mmm onma a pr annul rmr annum 6-MONTH CERTIFICATE $1,000 Min. 90-DAY GOLDEN PASSBOOK $100 Mia. A I CERTIFICATE CERTIFICATE TV 11: 510,000 Hid. $5,000 Mia.

Sav now at ony First Federal office. Get in on the new opportunities for bigger yields and take home a wonderful gift besides! Free gifts available only through April 71th so hurry and PtANT YOUR DOLLARS. INTEREST ON ALL SAVINGS COMPOUNDED DAILY. PAID QUARTERLY tion to the highway after it was turned over to the county following the completion of Interstate highway 196. She maintained after the highway was turned over to the county it was poorly marked which caused a loss of business to area merchants.

With the help of State Sen. Gary Byker (R-Hudsonville), a meeting was arranged wijh county and state officials during which she proved the need for the road to be marked on state maps and for directional signs on interstate roads. Neils said he believes the State Highway Department intends to add markers at the North Shore drive and M-89 interchanges and a large overhead sign where the freeway crosses over Blue Star highway. He said, "if the experiment is successful, Van Buren and Berrien counties will no doubt mark their portion of Blue Star in the same manner. This type of sign was adopted by the National Association of County Engineers and could eventually be used to mark all heavily traveled primary roads which Savlng dcpeilttd by the 10th In any quarter or available first 10 days of the following quarter or any tint on 90 davt' nsitr.

Limit: 0m ift ptr wctvar ui prsM. Inttrtst cannot ki tftfai lor lift. sion as an experiment, according to Fred Neils, Allegan county engineer. Neils said, "This is an experimeatal cooperative venture with the State Highway Department to identify a primary county road." The signs are reflectorized keystone shaped with blue ackgrounds, yellow borders and lettering. They said Allegan county A2 and are mounted on top of the original Blue Star Memorial Highway signs; They were installed from the Van Buren Allegan county line at North Shore drive.

South Haven, to the Holland city limits. Cost of the signs and installation to the county was about $2,000. Instrumental in the new marking system on the state map was Mrs. Howard Temple "NT- COLD CARPET it IV. ft 1 MA ST.

JOStPH ffnss of Saugatuck. Mrs. Temple and her husband own motel on Blue Star highway just outside Saugatuck. She waged a one-woman campaign to restore identifica involve more than one county. Blue Star highway begins one mile south of the Berrien-Van Buren county line and runs north to the Holland city limits..