Soldier Survives Ten-Hour Deluge
Of Live Ammunition In Target Area
YAKIMA, Wn. — “At firs
I thought about retribution to th<
guy who left me there, but mostlj
I was just scared to death.”
With these words, Pvt. Daniel
Arthur, 27, described Friday his
feelings during ten hours in a
target area where thousands of
rounds of live ammunition were
falling.
Arthur was left to guard a
phoney mine field as part of Ex
ercise Coulee Crest, an Air Force
Army manuever. The exercise be
gan May 5 and ends May 20 on
a million acres of Central Wash
ington.
The Los Angeles soldier, part of
the “defending” Blue forces, was
to be captured by elements of the
“invading” Red forces. His captors
failed to show up.
Gen. Paul D. Adams, Commander
in Chief of the U.S. Strike Com
mand and head of the exercise,
said Arthur was erroneously ac
counted for as being out of the
area.
At 6:09 a.m. Thursday, the Red
artillery opened fire. Arthur was
asleep in his pup tent.
“When I first woke up I thought
it was jets breaking the sound
barrier,” he said. “Then I looked
out of my tent. At first I just sat
there and watched the show and
wondered what was going to hap
pen. I wasn’t too worried.
“Then the firing got closer and
the artillery opened up. I thought
I might be sitting on one of their
targets.
“I took all my white clothes—
long underwear, shirts, shorts, a
towel and things of this nature—
and spread them out. I also made
a small fire of sagebrush to try
to attract the attention of the jets,
but they couldn’t see me at all.”
“One artillery shell bounced off
a hill and landed 100 yards from
me. Their kill radius is 50 yards.”
Arthur, who is 5 feet 10 inches
tall and weighs 125 pounds, curled
up into a ball to make as small
a target as he could. He wore
his metal helmet.
During intervals of the bombard
ment, he worked on a letter to his
wife, Wanda, in Tacoma, Wn.
“It ain’t so peaceful here any
Money for Noble Purposes
VATICAN CITY UD — The Vati
can announced Saturday that the
$160,000 awarded to Pope John
XXIII as winner of the Balzan
Peace Prize will be used for noble
purposes. The award was formally
presented to the Pope Friday.
The Vatican did not elaborate
on the specific use to which the
money would be put or indicate
which institution or institutions
might get it.
THE STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W L Pet. Gbl.
Chicago . 17 10. 630
Boston . 13 10 .565 2
Baltimore . 16 13 .552 2
Kansas City .... 16 13 .552 2
New York . 13 12 .520 3
Los Angeles .... 15 16 .484 4
Cleveland . 11 12 .478 4
Detroit . 12 16 .429 5Vfc
Washington 12 17 .414 6
Minnesota . 11 17 .393 6Vz
NATIONAL LEAGUE
San Francisco 19 11 .633
St. Louis . 18 13 .581 IVz
Chicago . 16 12 .571 2
Pittsburgh . 15 12 .556 2Vfe
Los Angeles .... 15 15 .500 4
Cincinnati . 13 14 .481 4Vfe
Milwaukee . 14 17 .452 5 Vz
New York . 13 16 .448 5Vz
Philadeplhia .... 12 16 .429 6
Houston . 10 19 .345 8Vfe
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; more,” the letter started. ‘‘There
• are a bunch of jets tearing holy
hell out of my hill.”
A little later, he wrote: “The
bombs and cannon didn’t get me
but now they’ve got the artillery
after me. Boy, this could drive
a guy nuts.
“Here it is about 3 o’clock. I’m
shaking something fierce. I wish
they’d stop.” ,
At 3:30 p.m., the artillery fire
was suspended and tanks began
rolling into the area.
“I could see men coming over
a hill,” Arthur said in an inter
view. A tank fired a round which
hit 75 or 100 yards up the hill from
me. I was hit by rocks and dirt.
The small arms fire was something
else — I could hear bullets whiz
zing past me.”
Arthur stood up and yelled.
Someone called out, “cease fire”
and a jeep rumbled up the hill.
“What in the world are you
doing here?” asked an officer.
“Sir,” said Arthur, “I’m guard
ing a mine field.”
Gen. Adams praised Arthur as
“a brave man and faithful to his
orders.” He ordered an investiga
tion and said new safety proce
dures would be instituted.
A GOURMET'S TREAT
IN STORE FOR ROTARIANS
ANCHORAGE UP) — A gour
met’s treat was in store tonight
for some 500 Rotarians and their
Rotary Anns — an Alaska wild
game dinner that’s one of the
highlights of the four-day Rotary
Convention under way here.
The dinner will feature roast
moose, caribou and reindeer, sal
mon, king crab and trout. Matan
uska Valley potatoes and vege
tables, plus other local products,
are included on the menu.
Alaska Rotarian hunters contri
buted more than 200 pounds of
game and fish for the dinner.
Rotarians from throughout Alas
ka, Washington State and British
Columbia are attending the con
ference, which ends tomorrow
night.
37th Great-Grandchild
DENVER, Colo. Uft — The 37th
great-grandchild of President Ken
nedy’s grandmother was born
Thursday night.
He is Timothy Andrew Fitz
gerald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Fitzgerald Jr. The father is on the
Colorado Academy faculty.
Thomas’ grandmother is Mrs.
John S. Fitzgerald of Boston and
another of her grandsons is the
President.
Change from Left to Right
STOCKHOLM UH — Swedish
automobile traffic will change from
left-hand to right-hand driving in
1967 under a proposal approved
Friday night by the lower cham
ber of Parliament. The upper
house had already endorsed the
government plan.
Rev. David Blackburn is sched
uled to arrive today for the quar
terly conference of the Community
Methodist Church which is being
held this evening at 7:30. At this
time officials of the church for the
1963-64 year will be elected and
a summary report of the church
activities for the past year will be
heard.
ATTENTION
TEEN - AGERS
17 Years and Over
Charlie
Has Made Room In
The Back of the Pool Hall
for
Dancing
Nome School Faculty
Vacancies Being Filled
Vacancies in the Nome School
faculty for next year due to resig
nations and transfers are currently
being filled for the school year
1963-64. The faculty next year as
presently contemplated is:
Elementary School — Mrs. Mary
Croell, Mrs. Claudia Regnert, Mrs.
Jane Perkins, Miss Marlene An
derson, Mrs. Lennie Nerland, Miss
Patty Brooks, Mrs. Deanna Hill,
Mrs. Lucy Poling, Mrs. Mary Beth
Lyttle, Mrs. Ann Gillis, Miss
Glenda Spillers, Rich Lyttle, Jesse
Maynard, Gary Beaty, Pat O’Con
nell and Mrs. Caroline Coons.
Positions yet not filled are:
Elementary principal, 2nd and 3rd
grade positions and 1st and 5th
grade vacancies.
The Junior High School the
faculty — Stephen McPeters, Mrs.
Sharon Bell, Mrs. Emma Cameron,
Milton Johnson, Mrs. Dorothy Em
mons, Don Perkins, John Poling,
Henry Ullrich, Pete Hahn, Mrs.
Mary Ellen Walsh, Pat Hill and
Willard Felton. Unfilled positions
are: principal and industrial arts.
The 1963 school year will begin
with a pre-school faculty Aug.
29 and 30 with school beginning
Tuesday, Sept. 3. School will be
out next year on May 21.
Army Completes
Streamlining Reserve and
National Guard Units
WASHINGTON UP> — The Army
announced Friday its streamlining
of the National Guard and Reserve
was completed May 1, a month
ahead of schedule.
The reorganization plan at one
time ai*oused considerable opposi
tion from state governors and
Guard and Reserve groups because
it involved elimination of eight
Guard and Reserve infantry di
visions and the dropping of more
than 730 out-of-date units.
The Army said 23 Army Nation
al Guard divisions and six Reserve
division are now completely reor
ganized into a new structure based
on battalions of 750 to 850 men.
The Army said the new struc
ture provides combat flexibility.
SECURITY WEAKNESS
MOSCOW (jP> — Soviet military
leaders apparently shaken by se
curity weaknesses spotlighted by
the Greville Wynne-Oleg Penkov
sky espionage trial, have ordered
Soviet servicemen to button their
lips.
“There are chatterboxes among
us who violate conversational dis
cipline on the telephone, radio and
other means of communication,”
the newspaper Red Star complain
ed Sunday.
A front page editorial on the
spy trial said careless military
men “give up information that
should not be given out, in letters
and in public lectures at broad
meetings.”
Atomic Scientists Meet
TOKYO UPi — American and
Japanese atomic scientists met to
day for the first conference under
a U.S.-Japanese agreement on the
exchange of technical data on civil
uses of atomic power.
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House May Balk
At Helping Foot Bill
For Military Pay Raise
WASHINGTON UP) — The House,
which last week voted pay raises
of more than SI billion a year
for military personnel, may balk
this week at helping foot the bill.
A bill to raise the national debt
ceiling has top billing on this
week’s congressional docket. With
out its enactment, administration
leaders claim, the Treasury may
have difficulty meeting its obli
gations. Among the obligations are
government payrolls.
The debt limit measure comes
before the House Wednesday,
having been postponed a full week
because of leadership fears that
there weren’t enough votes to pass
it last week.
Only 10 represenatives voted
against the military pay raise bill
when it was passed and sent to
the Senate, where it is pending.
Efforts to force a roll call failed,
many members obviously not
wanting to go on record one week
for increased spending and then
voting a week later against in
creasing the debt limit.
The debt bill would boost the
ceiling to $307 billion at once,
then to $309 billion from July 1
to August 31, at which time an
other hike may be needed. The
present legal top is $305 billion.
CLASSMATES TAKE ACTION
LONDON UP — Prince Charles,
14, heir to the British throne,
snores so loudly that his classmates
took action.
Charles is a student at Gordons
town in Scotland and sleeps in a
j dormitory.
When his royal highness was
asleep his mates walked to his bed,
set up a tape recorder and turned
it on. Then they whacked him
with a pillow.
The prince sat upright in bed,
rubbed his eyes and asked, in ef
fect, “what gives?”
“It’ll take only a minute to
tell you,” replied one of the boys.
F-105 Thunder chiefs in Japan
FUKUOKA, Japan UP — The
first 14 U.S. Air Force F-105
Thunderchiefs, part of a wing of
about 75 new jets, arrived at Ita
zuke Air Base Sunday despite
Socialist protests.
| Canada Is Ready to
Accept Nuclear Weapons
HYANNIS PORT UR — President
Kennedy and Canadian Prime
Minister Lester Pearson ended
two days of talks Saturday with
a disclosure Canada is ready to
accept nuclear weapons as soon
as arrangements can be negotiated.
A high U.S. official said Canada’s
two Bomarc missile bases might
be supplied with nuclear war
heads well before the end of the
year.
The communique did not men
tion the nuclear warheads speci
fically. But it said Pearson had
confirmed his government’s in
tention to carry out defense com
mitments previously made. Inform
ed quarters said this was a refer
ence to the 1959 agreement which
Pearson has declared is a commit
ment to accept nuclear weapons.
The announcement said further
Kennedy and Pearson had agreed
defense arrangements should be
continually improved and adapted
to suit changing circumstances.
U.S. officials said, however, this
was not intended in any way to
cancel Canada’s nuclear commit
ment.
TONIGHT
Father Nep tunes
Lobster Fra-Diablo
with Rigatoni
$5.50
T-Bone Steak
with Mushrooms
$5.00
Chicken Caccitore
with Spaghetti
$3.65
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