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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 34

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BETWEEN VIET REDS, ALLIES 22-B ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Mon July 19, 1971 Villager's Life a Nightmare V- Horse Vaccinations Ordered in 5 States DALLAS (UPD Agriculture department animal health experts and state veterinarians Sunday ordered mandatory vaccination of all horses in five Southwestern states as part of a program to control a sleeping sickness epidemic. The action was one taken by veterinarians from Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas and Louisina and federal officials during a meeting Sunday. The meeting was called to discuss ways to stop the disease before it spreads out of Texas. "Each state will have to put in a regulation of its own, but all have agreed to do it. We need at least 99 per cent of the horses vaccinated if we are to get this thing stopped," said Dr.

Raobert E. Omohundro, assistant director of the Animal Health Division of the Agriculture Department in Washington. The disease Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis (VEE) spread into the United States from Mexico in early June. It began two years ago in South America and has been slowly moving northward since. Dr.

Jack R. Pitcher, assistant USDA veterinarian in charge of fighting the disease in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, said 820 Horses have died so far in Texas and another 1,070 are infected. Dozens of humans have caught the disease, but it takes the form of a mild case of flu in humans. not to wear them. I did not dare speak to any of the others who were rounded up, too.

We were half dead with fear. The Communists led us to a bare field no I don't know where it was. It was raining and dark." f. The men of Ap Don were then blindfolded with their shirts and for an hour they listened to a speech warning them not to support the government, the village officials or to take part in the PSDF. "The Viet Cong said to us, if we catch you a second time we'll cut your throats," and, before they told us to return to the village, they took off our blindfolds and warned us not to look into their Vo Van Due said.

gence on Viet Cong activities inside or near their hamlet and give warning in case of attack. It is required of all Vietnamese of certain ages to belong, and to only guard their hamlet. Vo Van Due, who knows that each time he is required to tell his story that a Viet cong agent or sympathizer is probably present, was a little drunk that June night he, slept deeply. The Communist soldier who came in his house had to shake him roughly to get him up. "Some of them were in black pajamas, others in khaki uniforms had the accent of the north," Vo Van Due said.

They ordered all of us to bring our shirts with us but By GLORIA EMERSON TRUNG LAP, South Vietnam (NYT) Vo Van Due, a 40-year-old farmer who was abudcted with 20 others by the Viet Cong in June, tells the story like a man who has memorized a nightmare. "I was sleeping and I grumbled when I was woke up, not knowing who it was," he said in Vietnamese. "I was so afraid when I saw. It seemed so certain I was being led outside to be killed." His wife could not even speak or cry out, he recalls, she could only sit there, mute and wide-eyed as an unknown soldier with a gun told her husband to shut up and keep moving. It was June 19, 3 a.m.

in the hamlet of Ap Don, in Trung Lap village, which is reached by a long streak of dirt road just off Route 1. This is South Vietnam's major highway. The village, which is close to the district town of Cu Chi, is about 28 miks northwest of Saigon. A platoon-sized group of armed Viet Cong walked in the hamlet of Ap Don, scattered leaflets denouncing the Saigon government, and, with no sense of rush, searched the small, mud-walled houses to round up 20 men in the People's Self Defense Force. The PSDF, as it is called, consists of a local, unpaid defense force of males too young or too old for the army.

They are supposed to gather tntellx- Build your dinnerware service build of fine eliina whileyou Staff Photo Guy WORLD WAR II TRAINER DAMAGED IN CRASH LANDING Landing Gear of AT-6 Failed at Fulton Airport Plane Crash Lands After Trouble Aloft A World War II Army training plane made a forced belly-landing at Fulton County Airport Sunday following an onboard firs and a landing gear failure. Neither the pilot, R. W. Dennington, nor passenger Harold Turner was hurt. "It was a hydraulic problem," said Dennington, 36, of Atlanta.

"Just before that we had a lot of smoke in the cockpit due to a small fire somewhere, and it knocked out my radio." Rescue units from the airport and the Atlanta Fire Department stood by as Dennington brought the old North American AT-6 in for a crash landing. The plane made two passes over the runway With its wheels down before Dennington retracted the gear and skidded in, according to assistant chief controller Harlan Townley. Dennington said his wheels would not lock in landing position. A veteran private pilot with 3,400 hours flying time, Dennington owns the training plane. Air traffic control specialist David Wood said the landing was excellent, but that it was "lucky, real lucky" that the craft did not catch fire.

PIOSEER JOURNALIST Your first 4 pc. place setting is your savings. REE when you open a new savings account or add $25 or more to your present savings. Mrs. Nora Smith Services Tuesday I v5 it I -Y VI PATTERN Constitution State Neva Service ASHBURN, Ga.

Services for Mrs. Nora Lawrence Smith, former publisher of The Wiregrass Farmer in Ash-burn, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the First United Methodist Church here. Mrs. Smith, 85, died Saturday in Turner County Hospital following a stroke.

The newspaperwoman came to Ashburn in a covered wagon when it was little more than a sawmill village and began working on The Wire-grass Farmer staff as soon as her father, Joe Lawrence, founded the paper in 1899 Mrs. Smith succeeded her father as publisher in 1939, Light Moss Green floral motif on smooth white surface double banded with silver. PUBLISHER SINCE 1939 Mrs. Nora Smith jf SPEED YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS An Eligible Institution Under the Federal Insured Student Loan Program. Job Placement Assistance for Graduates SECRETARIAL ACCOUNTING KEYPUNCH BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FASHION MERCHANDISING Ask About Our Approved Courses for Veterans CALL NOW FOR INFORMATION 873-2751 Classes Now Forming MARSH DRAUGHON Business College.

1627Peachtree "Accredited by The Accrediting forfcjjmesiichooli" and continued in that position until she sold the paper in 1969. She served as a president of the Third District Press Association and was a member of the Georgia Press Association's Board of Managers. In May, 1968, Mrs. Smith became the third recipient of the National Newspaper Association's Emma C. McKinney Memorial Award for "her distinguished contributions in community journalism and civic leadership and in continuous vigorous support of good government in her native state of Georgia." Mrs.

Smith was a member of the GPA's Golden Club, which includes persons who have worked on Georgia newspapers for 50 years or more. "I love the work," she wrote in her farewell editorial column in 1969. "When I was 13 years old I crawled up on a stool and learned to set type by hand and have been working ever since, leaving only to go to school and college I came to Ashburn when I was four years old, nothing was here, only a wilderness. Sol have watched the town grow and love it Mrs. Smith was a graduate of Houghton College in Houghton, N.Y.

There are no survivors. In lieu of flowers, Mrs. Smith had requested that donations be made to heart or cancer funds. And with each additional deposit of $25 or more, you may purchase other place settings or any of these accessory units to build a service for 8 or 12. AH yours at special savers prices.

Start today and watch your savings grow! 4 pc. Place Setting $2-99 4 Fruit Dishes 2-85 4 Soup Dishes 3,85 4 Salad Plates 3-00 1 Open Vegetable. Dish 3-P 1 Gravy Boat 4-00 1 Sugar Creamer 4-00 1 12" Platter 4-25 1 14" Platter 5-50 fine china now being offered by the International Silver Company, the largest manufacturer of fine exclusively for them and available only to our account savers. A QUALITY SCHOOL Of LTV EDUCATION SYSTEMS, INC. COLtfGf DIVISION 104 GEORGIA S.E.

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