Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 17

Lisa AIIvo Blabbermouthmanship Art Petri is fond of pointing out that before marriage the three most important words are "I love tf -v mmv muvw cue a MU ffHL49a A a A. 1 1 i tui vm.c mj iJii cluu. itxai tjr vxouu uie uuuex night, Les alseep and snoring softly and Marty awake and watching the KQED Auction on her bedside TV service for 12, and the bid has reached $276. Marty knows, deep in her secret heart, she MUST have that set so slips out of bed and phones in a higher bid. It isn't Thft hiddint? lim rainig scot 1- Yet 1 goes up to $491 and she bids -A li I I I'll iy ir i i I $525 and gets the set, slips back to bed and goes to sleep.

The next morning she finally confesses to Les she'd bought the set at auction, but so far has only admitted to him spending $235. Les may not be sore even when he learns she spent $525. She i 2 im piSET weB over an picked up the, service, brought it all home anil washed it From Les: "It's the first time in our marriage she wouldn't let me do the dishes." SGT. SAMUEL GARLAND, LEFT, CAPT. CLIFFORD DUNNING Marine advisors go into the field with commandos Herman Mintz's legal fee for defending Tom Truax was paid by Truax's family.

From Lowell Jensen, the assistant district attorney: "Tom Truax is An Oakland man wrote Congressman Jeff Cohelan and explained he collects tokens (a tokenologist?) and since Cohelan was his representative in Washington, would he get the man a parking lot token issued by I Xung Kich Commander Vinh Kham explains operation of lensatic compass to soldier TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1968 17 7 the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology? Cohelan sighed, did, tried to pay the institute for the token, was told the paperwork involved in accepting a dime would cost a fortune, and mailed the brass token to the tax-paying citizen From Barry McCarron, the golfing bartender at Kemo's Outrigger in Alamo: "My game is off because of lack of coordination. My coordination is SO bad I can't chew gum and walk at the same time." 0 0 0 0 You think giving a Rolls Royce as a hole-in-one prize is big stuff at a golf tournament? Well, as Al Jolson said, you ain't heard nothln' yet. When the second annual Celebrity Golf Classic goes at Willow Park Sept 22 (Ring Crosby, Phil Harris and flocks of others), the man getting a hole-in-one will win a Mark III Lincoln Continental. The other three men in his foursome will each be given a new Lincoln Continental a total ol $36,000 worth of cars. Jim Hernandez, the Hayward Uncoln-Mercury mogul, is contributing the copters carry the commandos in to strike a small enemy band from the rear.

River patrol boats transport the men to stage an ambush and then withdraw. The commandos raid an enemy base and then carry away the stores. Sometimes they can maneuver an enemy into the open where he is prey for the helicopter gunships. Sometimes the Viet Cong can be pushed into an area targeted for naval gunfire or onto a shoreline where the river boats patrol. But usually it is a man and his weapon against an elusive enemy.

Lt. Kham, noting that most of his men are unschooled, says he is concerned with only two questions: Do they know how to use a piece of equipment, and can they use it effectively? Sgt. Garland says, "If we had 14 companies like the Xung Kich we could clean out the Rung Sat in six months." whopping insurance premium to guarantee the cars. If someone gets a hole-in-one, natch, the insurance company will buy the cars through Hernandez' new showrooms in Hayward. Which is why he's hoping someone will score an ace.

J- i9f n' i (f I I Mil if i 'W Laaa LJlrt The Rung Sat is a miserable little patch of ground and water. Vietnam's legendary Forest of Assassins is a refuge for the hunted, a land of swamp, jungle growth and lacing streams. The tide runs 10 feet high and the ground is always wet. The Rung Sat is important because it separates Saigon from the sea and embraces the Long Tau shipping channel, a passageway for Allied supplies. The Viet Cong abide in this sparsely -populated area of jungle and waterways, hiding in the heavy growth and resting for other battles.

Sometimes they turn their mortars and recoilless rifles on the ships moving up the channel. The area does not warrant the sustained efforts of the Army of South Vietnam or. American forces. No decisive battles are fought there. Responsibility for the 450 -square mile area rests with 13 home guard companies and the platoon sized Xung Kich (Commando), a ready reaction force composed of the best men from the home guard.

The commandos are led by Lt. Vinh Kham, 26, who grew up in the old imperial capital and university city of Hue. He is assisted by three American Marines, Capt. Clifford Dunning, the son of Lt. Cmdr.

(ret.) and Mrs. Gordon Dunning, 3 Muir Way, Berkeley, and Sgts. Samuel M. Garland and James May, advisors to the commander of the Rung Sat When the Xung Kich go in the field against the Viet Cong the Americans frequently go with them. In the Rung Sat, war is basic.

Modern machines of war get the men to and from battle but the tactics are without sophistication. Heli 1 0 Mel Belli is opening new Los Angeles offices with a slight change in the name of his law firm, which must now be some sort of record for length Belli, Ashe, Ellison, Choulos, Cone and Harper, Irmas, Simke, Rutter, Green, Lasher and Hecht The last Mills College graduate in line'to get her degree, petite Evany Virul, accepted it from the tall president of Mills, then jumped up and planted a kiss on his cheek. -He smiled and the audience cheered Joe Piccini-ni, reading about the dragging Vietnam peace talks: "They prove conversation IS a lost art" Sometimes things just never work out right Mrs. Tobe Burnstein is food chairman for next Sunday's Jewish Community Center carnival in Oakland (to raise money to send poor children to summer camp) and one guy contributed 1,000 weiners. Followed by another guy who contributed 500 hot dog buns Out in Mir-amonte Gardens, a sort of mecca for the middle-aged in Orinda, the residents are putting on a variety show Saturday night and one group of housewives who sing together call themselves the "Sexurbanites." Because they're a sextette, of course.

And a group of resident actors will do a sketch called "The Shady Motel." You can see the train of thought COMMANDOS DISEMBARK FROM AN AMERICAN RIVER PATROL BOAT Weapon being handed over at right is a captured Chinese AK 47 assault rifle LT. KHAM SEARCHES BUNKER Tactics are unsophisticated. Airport future Discussed Underground Plan For Concourse Mimi Lewis, a caterer in Walnut Creek, got a phone call from Internal Revenue. What's the trouble? Well, it seems that somehow Mimi had been assigned the same employer's code number as the U. S.

Consul General in Vietnam, and the confusion has been something fierce Peggy Nickerson is stalled in a long line of traffic on Moraga Road during the commute rush. Finally, ahead of her, a woman gets out of her car, shoos a baby red squirrel off the road, and traffic starts to move again Denny Risdon waj sent to Vietnam and Mrs. Riley Cole, whose own son just got back, told Mrs. Ed Risdon that when she writes her son she should mark the envelopes with "S.A.M.," meaning "send airmail." So for a couple of weeks now, Mrs. Risdon has been marking envelopes and maybe that baffles the postal clerks but it means "deliver Jimmy Muir saw a bumper strip saying: "Pay your taxes.

I need my poverty Which is a little like the bumper strip saying, "Take care of your heart It may become mtee." 9 0 0 0 Sherrie Hoover at the Iron Horse: "Father's Day 1j eomizg it's time to open a charge Chock Gancy at Clancy's, with his latest drink, a Bonnie and Clyde. "You have two and they hare to MJ you Leo Glorgetti: Turtleseckj mean cs necktie, which makes it MUCH easier to drink cct of a water fountain." By BILL EATON Oakland port commissioner yesterday began discussions ol their operating budget of sane S9 million and branched off into $10 mil-boo worth of additions to Oakland International Airport. Ultimately, they expect they'll have to butid a new airport costing roughly $100 mllioa, but neither the $10 million nxxLfxratioa nor the ultimate airport axe in the proposed operating budget for the fiscal year that begins JulyL The operating budget errriskrj as estimated in projects. The total mdudes $1,830,000 for the new Seventh Street marine terminal, $1,790,000 for taprcve-ments xt the Octer Harbor termfcal, $3 million for acquiring the Oakland Dock and Warehouse company's property it the fcsw Harbor, fx RKe preparation at fee pert, asd for improvements at the airport The port board will held a nxA TseeSrg on the budget Thursday at p.n. Yesterday's discussion went far into the future, but not because of the in planned airport improvements which include dike construction for an extended runway, facilities for in-fiight meals, the second stage of an air cargo terminal, and runway and Uxhray improvements.

The discussion expanded" on the basis of a proposed Series Revenue Bond Issue. These bonds would pay for an crane for ship cargoes at Seventh Street, but they would also fund half the cost of a Jet maintenance base at the airport far World Airways, and $300,000 for "phase one expansion of the airport terminal buikiing of which $500,000 would serve to establish a permanent customs gate and the remaking $400,000 to begin final designs for expansion of the exisucg terminal. Ben E. Nutter, port executive directpr, said bids for modifies tica and expansion of the airport terminal can't be let fiscal 13-63 "because the design Job is to great" Expassioa would take place over the next two to three years, adding 14 airline loading gates to the 10 which exist, and at a cost of perhaps as much as $10 million. Peter M.

Tripp, port board president, said the $10 million figure "scares me" Tripp said, "We paid $2 2 million for the terminal we have, and now we contemplate $10 million for additions to that bufldlng. "We win never be able to amortize this in the time it becomes necessary to build the new airport," Tripp said. Nutter said the $10 million expansion, which would include new boarding gates at an upper level above part of the exfciBg terminal "finger," is based on studies coo-esied by the airlines. "Yoa can decide to expand at the rate the airlines are asking, Nutter said, "or yoa can waX and kt that expansion go kto San Francisco and San Jose." The ultimate new or "master pka" -airport would be at feast fire years in the desn, 1 a a a i a and buDding aod tie necessary Bay Area Conservation and Development Commission approval for some 2.200 acres of Bay fin. The cost of the ultimate airport would be in the Mighborhood of $130 million.

Nutter said. When the new airport is completed, half a mile out into the bay from the present jet runway, the existing airport with its now-contemplated mocbfications would become a "cornrnuter airport" for coastwbe traffic. Board member George J. Vukasin asked, "Can we assume the type of terminal we a with modifications, would be old-fashioned in five yean?" "Any terminal w3 be old-fashioned in five yean," Natter replied. He said the airlines bebeve the $18 million modificaiiots must be made but that the Port roust si-maliaaeousry proceed with pkrriTg for the cltimite airport.

"This (he mast feporUnt tea on the budget." Natter said. Tortnstey, It is not fcr this (14-69) fiscal year." RICHMOND The downtown Richmond station of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system win have an underground concourse instead of an over-bead walkway. BART officials notified the city council last night they have definitely agreed on the underground design for the approaches. But the station itself win sta be at grade level. Because the loading platform is set at ground level, the approaches mast be either over or under the BART and Sontbera Pacific railroad tracks.

The overhead station wis deemed, ncrwtrtahle and the council reqoeAed an dfirgroend approach. Councilman NaSozid 'Bates, a Negro, last tight asked city officials to ccme up with some facts on use of the chemical mact ty police. Bates said other cities were apparecL'y basing mace be cause U.S. health officials said mace might be dangerous to human eyes. He said he wanted definite information so he could get the council to take a firm stand oo the use of mace by police.

The report will come before the council on June 24. The controversial cable television franchise for the city, approved by the council Jan. 22 but overtimed by a vote of the people June 4, will come up again Jury 22. Attorney Arthur Shelton previously requested thai Attorney William Kretxmer be allowed to present a proposal by Bay Csfclevfcion for council approval last tight Bet be dropped the reqaest and Mayor John Sheridan asked tfcst the city manager solicit bids from all concerned parties, with Jary dead-hoe, and make a report to the council on uly II.