October 18, 1972 (12 pages)

(Editor’s Note: Ovyr Congressman, Rep. Clair Engle, only recently has returned from a tour of active duty in Korea. As one who has intimately seen the socalled “Congressional Visits” of Congressmen in Austria, which include (1) shopping tours; (2) briefings which are held for the sole purpose of impressing him, or, as facts should be stated, misleading him; (3) a generous round of cocktail parties, I find it refreshing to find a high representative-of our goverament who goes after the facts.) Observations On Korea By Congressman Clair Engle I spent three and a.half weeks of last month in Korea and in this and succeeding columns I will set forth some observations which may be of interest to you. I went to Korea as an Air Force Reservist on volunteer active duty for the zeason that I have gotten a little tired of the “conducted tours” and the VIP treatment accordeqd Congressmen. It is a standing joke that visiting Congressmen see just what they are allowed to see. Going in uniform I found I had much greater freedom of action and am convinced I got into places and got to talk with the members of our Armed Services on a basis which would have been impossible had I made the trip as a Congressman. My assignment was to check the operation of the newly enacted military justice code under combat conditions, and this gave me the opportunity to move around freely in the various bases in Korea and up to the front lines. Morale Is High The most astonishing thing to me in Korea was the high morale among the Air Force flyers. I suppose I wasn’t prepared for that because of the recent arguments at home about the Korean war. I could cite many instances demonstrating the attitude of our flyers. Probably one of the most significant is the fact that at base after base I was told that the toughest job was held by the operations officer who scheduled the missions; their life is made miserable if they give one group more missions than another. This was true at the Fourth Intercepter at Seoul, the Marines flying the bombers and close-in support, and the ;Forty-ninth Fighter Bomber .Wing, which also flies bombing, close-in support, and interdiction. The highest morale is probably in the Fourth Fighter Intercepter Wing, where the pilots fly our F-86’s. I visited the base one day and came back three days later and we had two new aces. I met both of thése flyers. Their only complaint was that the MIGS wouldn’t come down and fight. The Fourth Fighter Group is, of course, operating in an ideal situation for a fighter pilot; they go up to Mig Alley to engage in dogfights and that is precisely . what they are trained to do and want to do. I suspected, however, that the boys would not be as chipper in the fighter bomber groups where they have been flying the close-in support to the front lines with bombs and napalm and have recently been taking higher casualties. I found that was not the case. Several ef the men in the Forty-ninth ’ Fighter Bomber Wing have completed their 100 missions an have asked to extend their tours, and three or four of them have well over the required number. A group leader who is going to be called out of combat service into operations at Seoul fomplained bitterly about it. These are just a few of the illustrations which I could duplicate many times if the space permitted. Morale Explained I sat down and talked very seriously with the commanding officers and asked them point blank to explain to me why, in their opinion, the morale in their outfits. was so high. It boiled down pretty much to this: rotation , rescve -and equipment. These fellows know that after a certain number of missions they can go home—that’s rotation. They don’t always go home. but they can if they wish. They know. what the percentage of casualties is, and they figure that they have a pretty good chance of making. their prescribed number of missions without getting shot down. Secondly, is rescue. The job our helicopters (called ‘‘choppers” over there) is doing is phenhomenal. When a man goes down behind the lines he carries a little radio which enables him to tell the choppers where he is. Our fighters immediately go down and strafe the Commies to keep them away while the slowmoving choppers go in to get him out. A high percentage of our pilots who have to bail out behind the Commie lines are gotten back. We have an island off the west coast of Korea where we have all sorts of rescue equipment, including flying boats. If a fellow gets shot up on the Yalu he heads for Choo-do (the island) and if he can get down on the island, or anywhere near it, they fish him out in a matter of minutes. Pilots Like Equipment The third item is equipment. Our flyers like their equipment, and even though there is a good deal of argument about whether the MIG-15 is better than the F-86, which I will tell you about later, our fellows like their airplanes. This was especially true of the men flying the F-84 in the Forty-ninth Fighter Bomber Wing. They think they have a good airplane and after they get rid of their bombs they get out and scoot. Added to this of course are the choppers and all of the survival equipment and paraphernalia which is provided in case the worst comes to worse. And finally, ‘I do not believe that rotation, rescue and equipment alone would produce the morale and the willingness to fight that exists over there unless our men, as close as they are to the situation, had not acquired a deep conviction about the menace of Communism and the necessity of fighting it there, rather than somewhere else, or perhaps, later on our own shores. INTERVIEW WITH RHEE While in Korea I had an hour long conference at Taegu with Syngman Rhee, the President of the Korean Republic. My object was to find out from him (if I could) something of the longrange political and economic picture for Korea. Mr. Rhee did not add to my information on either score. / He opened the discussion with a diatribe against the Japanese. Hatred of the Japanese appears. { to be the controlling factor in his thinking—and a dominant tone in his appeal to the Korean people, whose country they occupied for fifty years. _Mr. Rhee said that no commercial agreement was possible with . the Japanese until (1) the settled the status of about 800,000. Koreans in Japan); (2) restored or made amends for the property, objects of art, etc., and gold they had stolen during the occupation; and (3) settled the fishing controversy in the waters between Korea and Japan. \ He would not agree that there Se, CEDAR THEATRE LAST TIMES TONIGHT ’S KNOT With Randolph Scott and Donna Reed CAPT. PIRATE Featuring Louis Mayward and Patricia Medina Friday and Saturda y : LUSTY MEN. January 2 and 3 Featuring Susan Hayward and Robert Mitchum ‘OUTLAW WOMEN Starring Marie Windsor and Robert Rober Sunday, -Monday, Tuesday January 4, 5, 6 MONKEY BUSINESS Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers. Marilyn Monroe was or ever could be any economic affinity between Japan and Korea. He spoke of industrializing Korea, but did not say how. I tried to get him to discuss the natural resource position of Korea, but he waived it aside. Dislikes State Department Mr. Rhee is very angry with our State Department. It didn't give him money. enough. It refused to buy him three 10,000 ton ships, and provide wharves and warehouse facilities. I asked him what he intended to put in the wharves, and carry in the ships —but he did not answer. He complained that we bought coal for our troops in Japan, rather than providing the machinery to mine coal in Korea. I asked him ahkout the quality of Korean coal— which I understand is poor—but he did not answer. He would not discuss Point IV help—technical aid. He wanted the cash money and was sore because he hadn’t got as much as he wanted. His parting shot was the one that really laid me out. He warned against building Japan as the economic and _ political power in the Far East. He asserted that we should .build a balance of power in the Far East —with Korea a counter-balancing economic and military force against Japan. I came away deeply disturbed that so sensitive a world area (and one in which we are so deeply committed) should be in hands so old and fanatical. Korean Army Well Supplied People back home are always concerned about how well our troops live, whether they are getting enough to eat and keeping warm., We are told, and I believe it, that the Army in Korea is the best fed, best clothed and best supplied army in the history of the country. I took some pains to check into this while in Korea, especially with reference to the front line sol‘diers. Service in Japan and some of the back areas of Korea is really better than state-side service. However, the situation right on the front lines is grim. The men in the front lines get two hot meals a day. The food'is cooked back of the lines and taken up to them in containers that keep it warm and then served in a regular mess liné. The noon meal is the usual K rations but they can be heated in the bunkers as I saw some of the soldiers doing. While up in the front line with the 223rd Regiment of the Fourth Division, I noticed that they had built a rather big bunker and they were cooking scrambled eggs, bacon with coffee. for breakfast. This was something that Colonel Truman, the commander (a second cousin to the President) had put into operation. Meals With,Mortar Fire Mealtimes are changed from day to day _ because the Commies have a disconcerting little practice of finding out where the troops are concentrating for their mess and throwing in some mortar fire. We therefore keep changing the mess hours ‘and keep as small a concentration of men in the messline as possible. Conversely, we find out where they serve their rice, and whatever they eat, and spray the area with mortar fire and fire from what they call the Quad-50s. The latter are four 50-caliber machine guns hidden back of ,our lines with the fire directed from observation posts and out of the central fire control station. Our intelligence informs us that it is very disconcerting for the Communists to have 50-caliber slugs served with their rice. Additionally these Quad-5@s and our mortars can be called on to fire at night on roads. and troop concentrations from predetermined settings. Both sides try to use mealtime: on the front lines to inflict harassment and a few casualties. The quality of the food is good. I ate in the enlisted RS ART EET SAND and GRAVEL PLASTER SAND, ROAD ROCK ASPHALT, TOP SOIL BUILDING ROCK DRAIN ROCK HOMER BEVARD & SON Phone: Grass Valley 1432-M or 528-M nae ee renames! = men's mess and found the food excellent. i Winter Clothing Adequate Most of the winter clothing had already been distributed when I got there, although the real winter hadn't set in. It gets awfully cold. I was on the north rim on what is called “The Punch Bowl” and with everything I could find to put on, wasn’t anv too warm. However, the troops are provided with heavy clothing, parkas, gloves and a new type of boot. This new. boot is really phenomenal. If we had had it when our troops retreated from the Yalu, we would not have suffered the casualties from frostbite we did. The remarkable thing about the boot is that it is very light. I asked the men in the front line positions about them and they are certainly very much pleased. In ‘short, our Government has reduced the hardship on fhe front lines in almost every way it can without of course being able to eliminate the hazards. Any idea that each side shoots a few rounds as a salute in the morning and then sits down for a pleasant day is quickly dissipated by a trip to the front lines. Firing is continuous there with some small arms, a good deal of automatic weapon and machine gun and a lot of artillery. The Communists appear to be much more severely rationed on ammunition than we, although they have the artillery and they can call in a lot of fire when they want to—as much as_ 5,000 rounds in a very short time on a position they are interested in or are preparing to’ attack.’ -Patrols Hazardous Most of the casualties up front come from Cemmie mortar fire and from patrols. At night the area between the two lines is literally alive with patrols. We send out ambush patrols to lay in wait to catch their patrols and possibly get prisoners, and in addition send out attack patrols which are supposed to go forward until they contact and engage in a fire fight with the enemy. It is very difficult, of course, to reduce the hazard of this kind of business except by stopping it altogether. The men at the front line live in bunkers which may be a part of their machine gun position, the observation post or back a little way in the trench system. The bunkers are heated by a small stove and the light is provided by candles, which, of course, are used very sparingly. Manning the front lines, of course, is a 24hour job. I visited a good many of our machine gun emplacements, usually operated by two men. One would be on watch while the other slept. It is a very tough life and there just isn’t A enough that can be said in praise . @ of the men occupying the front. ¥ lines or that can be done for them. But, as far as I could see, our Government has done just about everything that could possibly be done to make it easier. MOUNTAIN CHEVROLET FOLK ATTEND CHEVIE CONFAB IN FRISCO A new Chevrolet that will create an “entirely new conception! of automotive beauty and performance” was promised today by Al. Cheney, general sales manager, Mountain Chevrolet Company. Cheney made his statement following a meeting with company representatives in San Francisco, where p53 plans were revealed to northern California Magnificent : MAGNAVOX TELEVISION ¥ SALES SERVICE Installation with cs Sry eae Tie, Nevada County. Nugget; Wednesd Troops Doing F ine, Rhee Poorly, . 3 Engle Finds on Tour in Korea N' ay Oct. 18, 1972 5. Combat Badge Now in Korea With the 45th Infantry Divi-. sion in Korea—The Combat Infantryman Badge for excellent performance of duty under enemmy fire in Korea was awarded to Pvt. Elroy M. Bingham, whose parents live in Nevada City. Calif. He is a member of the 45th Infantry Division, an Oklahoma For Pvt. Bing! . SAYS PONTIAC OFFICIAL : i with green for*popularity .among the buyers of 1953 Pontiac Chieftains. . Green was the color most often chosen by Pontiac owners in 1952. according to H.-E. Crawford, general sales manager, but Ihe believes that other colors being offered in the 1953 line will give the leader a good race in the coming year. The eleven brilliant colors. will National Guard outfit which arrived in Korea in December. 1951. Prior to that it had received intensive field training in Japan as part of the islands’ U. S. security force. A machine gunner with Company I, 179th Infantry Regiment. Private Bingham entered the in Korea last September. Happy Valentine Mr. and Mrs. Paul Valentine and son James of ‘an Bernardino are spending the New Year holidays at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Nelson of Harter Lane, Nevada City. Young James is on leave from the Naval Training Base in San.Diego. Pellegrini Returns Lou Pelligrini, long-time miner who has been working in a Shasta County copper mine, has returned to his home, Nevada City, where he has lived for 24 years. dealers. Other personnel of the firm making the trip to San Francisco were Cliff Jacobson, Eddie Abrahams, Jerry Vignal, new car salesmen; Jesse Smith, used car sales manager; Kenny Zurflueh, body shop foreman. George Raddue, owner of the firm, could not attend due to illness. Cheney pointed out it is quite apparent from the 1953 products that the largest automotive company in the world is anticipating one of its biggest years in ’53. the new Chevrolet has not been announced, Mr. Cheney is already making plans for a display of the car in Grass Valley. He is confident that interest in the new model will draw record room, Although the date for showing . breaking crowds to the show-’ be available singly or in combi nation on eleven body styles in the 1953 Chieftain line, Mr. ; Crawford said. Cramer's Auto Sales, Hills Flat, is the local Pontiac agency. They are now displaying the model. * Army last February. He arrived . ~~~ ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS % HOUSEHOLD % COMMERCIAL % INDUSTRIAL %& MAINTENANCE ELECTRIC WIRING of all types Winter Heat Problems? Le a © ONTR iq LICENSED AcTOR GRASS VALLEY LOCAL AND LONG RELIABLE Transfer & Storage AGENT FOR LYONS DISTANCE MOVING Mobile TV Tower :

(Editor’s Note: Ovyr Congressman, Rep. Clair Engle, only recently has returned from a tour of active duty in Korea. As one who has intimately seen the socalled “Congressional Visits” of Congressmen in Austria, which include (1) shopping tours; (2) briefings which are held for the sole purpose of impressing him, or, as facts should be stated, misleading him; (3) a generous round of cocktail parties, I find it refreshing to find a high representative-of our goverament who goes after the facts.) Observations On Korea By Congressman Clair Engle I spent three and a.half weeks of last month in Korea and in this and succeeding columns I will set forth some observations which may be of interest to you. I went to Korea as an Air Force Reservist on volunteer active duty for the zeason that I have gotten a little tired of the “conducted tours” and the VIP treatment accordeqd Congressmen. It is a standing joke that visiting Congressmen see just what they are allowed to see. Going in uniform I found I had much greater freedom of action and am convinced I got into places and got to talk with the members of our Armed Services on a basis which would have been impossible had I made the trip as a Congressman. My assignment was to check the operation of the newly enacted military justice code under combat conditions, and this gave me the opportunity to move around freely in the various bases in Korea and up to the front lines. Morale Is High The most astonishing thing to me in Korea was the high morale among the Air Force flyers. I suppose I wasn’t prepared for that because of the recent arguments at home about the Korean war. I could cite many instances demonstrating the attitude of our flyers. Probably one of the most significant is the fact that at base after base I was told that the toughest job was held by the operations officer who scheduled the missions; their life is made miserable if they give one group more missions than another. This was true at the Fourth Intercepter at Seoul, the Marines flying the bombers and close-in support, and the ;Forty-ninth Fighter Bomber .Wing, which also flies bombing, close-in support, and interdiction. The highest morale is probably in the Fourth Fighter Intercepter Wing, where the pilots fly our F-86’s. I visited the base one day and came back three days later and we had two new aces. I met both of thése flyers. Their only complaint was that the MIGS wouldn’t come down and fight. The Fourth Fighter Group is, of course, operating in an ideal situation for a fighter pilot; they go up to Mig Alley to engage in dogfights and that is precisely . what they are trained to do and want to do. I suspected, however, that the boys would not be as chipper in the fighter bomber groups where they have been flying the close-in support to the front lines with bombs and napalm and have recently been taking higher casualties. I found that was not the case. Several ef the men in the Forty-ninth ’ Fighter Bomber Wing have completed their 100 missions an have asked to extend their tours, and three or four of them have well over the required number. A group leader who is going to be called out of combat service into operations at Seoul fomplained bitterly about it. These are just a few of the illustrations which I could duplicate many times if the space permitted. Morale Explained I sat down and talked very seriously with the commanding officers and asked them point blank to explain to me why, in their opinion, the morale in their outfits. was so high. It boiled down pretty much to this: rotation , rescve -and equipment. These fellows know that after a certain number of missions they can go home—that’s rotation. They don’t always go home. but they can if they wish. They know. what the percentage of casualties is, and they figure that they have a pretty good chance of making. their prescribed number of missions without getting shot down. Secondly, is rescue. The job our helicopters (called ‘‘choppers” over there) is doing is phenhomenal. When a man goes down behind the lines he carries a little radio which enables him to tell the choppers where he is. Our fighters immediately go down and strafe the Commies to keep them away while the slowmoving choppers go in to get him out. A high percentage of our pilots who have to bail out behind the Commie lines are gotten back. We have an island off the west coast of Korea where we have all sorts of rescue equipment, including flying boats. If a fellow gets shot up on the Yalu he heads for Choo-do (the island) and if he can get down on the island, or anywhere near it, they fish him out in a matter of minutes. Pilots Like Equipment The third item is equipment. Our flyers like their equipment, and even though there is a good deal of argument about whether the MIG-15 is better than the F-86, which I will tell you about later, our fellows like their airplanes. This was especially true of the men flying the F-84 in the Forty-ninth Fighter Bomber Wing. They think they have a good airplane and after they get rid of their bombs they get out and scoot. Added to this of course are the choppers and all of the survival equipment and paraphernalia which is provided in case the worst comes to worse. And finally, ‘I do not believe that rotation, rescue and equipment alone would produce the morale and the willingness to fight that exists over there unless our men, as close as they are to the situation, had not acquired a deep conviction about the menace of Communism and the necessity of fighting it there, rather than somewhere else, or perhaps, later on our own shores. INTERVIEW WITH RHEE While in Korea I had an hour long conference at Taegu with Syngman Rhee, the President of the Korean Republic. My object was to find out from him (if I could) something of the longrange political and economic picture for Korea. Mr. Rhee did not add to my information on either score. / He opened the discussion with a diatribe against the Japanese. Hatred of the Japanese appears. { to be the controlling factor in his thinking—and a dominant tone in his appeal to the Korean people, whose country they occupied for fifty years. _Mr. Rhee said that no commercial agreement was possible with . the Japanese until (1) the settled the status of about 800,000. Koreans in Japan); (2) restored or made amends for the property, objects of art, etc., and gold they had stolen during the occupation; and (3) settled the fishing controversy in the waters between Korea and Japan. \ He would not agree that there Se, CEDAR THEATRE LAST TIMES TONIGHT ’S KNOT With Randolph Scott and Donna Reed CAPT. PIRATE Featuring Louis Mayward and Patricia Medina Friday and Saturda y : LUSTY MEN. January 2 and 3 Featuring Susan Hayward and Robert Mitchum ‘OUTLAW WOMEN Starring Marie Windsor and Robert Rober Sunday, -Monday, Tuesday January 4, 5, 6 MONKEY BUSINESS Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers. Marilyn Monroe was or ever could be any economic affinity between Japan and Korea. He spoke of industrializing Korea, but did not say how. I tried to get him to discuss the natural resource position of Korea, but he waived it aside. Dislikes State Department Mr. Rhee is very angry with our State Department. It didn't give him money. enough. It refused to buy him three 10,000 ton ships, and provide wharves and warehouse facilities. I asked him what he intended to put in the wharves, and carry in the ships —but he did not answer. He complained that we bought coal for our troops in Japan, rather than providing the machinery to mine coal in Korea. I asked him ahkout the quality of Korean coal— which I understand is poor—but he did not answer. He would not discuss Point IV help—technical aid. He wanted the cash money and was sore because he hadn’t got as much as he wanted. His parting shot was the one that really laid me out. He warned against building Japan as the economic and _ political power in the Far East. He asserted that we should .build a balance of power in the Far East —with Korea a counter-balancing economic and military force against Japan. I came away deeply disturbed that so sensitive a world area (and one in which we are so deeply committed) should be in hands so old and fanatical. Korean Army Well Supplied People back home are always concerned about how well our troops live, whether they are getting enough to eat and keeping warm., We are told, and I believe it, that the Army in Korea is the best fed, best clothed and best supplied army in the history of the country. I took some pains to check into this while in Korea, especially with reference to the front line sol‘diers. Service in Japan and some of the back areas of Korea is really better than state-side service. However, the situation right on the front lines is grim. The men in the front lines get two hot meals a day. The food'is cooked back of the lines and taken up to them in containers that keep it warm and then served in a regular mess liné.

The noon meal is the usual K rations but they can be heated in the bunkers as I saw some of the soldiers doing. While up in the front line with the 223rd Regiment of the Fourth Division, I noticed that they had built a rather big bunker and they were cooking scrambled eggs, bacon with coffee. for breakfast. This was something that Colonel Truman, the commander (a second cousin to the President) had put into operation. Meals With,Mortar Fire Mealtimes are changed from day to day _ because the Commies have a disconcerting little practice of finding out where the troops are concentrating for their mess and throwing in some mortar fire. We therefore keep changing the mess hours ‘and keep as small a concentration of men in the messline as possible. Conversely, we find out where they serve their rice, and whatever they eat, and spray the area with mortar fire and fire from what they call the Quad-50s. The latter are four 50-caliber machine guns hidden back of ,our lines with the fire directed from observation posts and out of the central fire control station. Our intelligence informs us that it is very disconcerting for the Communists to have 50-caliber slugs served with their rice. Additionally these Quad-5@s and our mortars can be called on to fire at night on roads. and troop concentrations from predetermined settings. Both sides try to use mealtime: on the front lines to inflict harassment and a few casualties. The quality of the food is good. I ate in the enlisted RS ART EET SAND and GRAVEL PLASTER SAND, ROAD ROCK ASPHALT, TOP SOIL BUILDING ROCK DRAIN ROCK HOMER BEVARD & SON Phone: Grass Valley 1432-M or 528-M nae ee renames! = men's mess and found the food excellent. i Winter Clothing Adequate Most of the winter clothing had already been distributed when I got there, although the real winter hadn't set in. It gets awfully cold. I was on the north rim on what is called “The Punch Bowl” and with everything I could find to put on, wasn’t anv too warm. However, the troops are provided with heavy clothing, parkas, gloves and a new type of boot. This new. boot is really phenomenal. If we had had it when our troops retreated from the Yalu, we would not have suffered the casualties from frostbite we did. The remarkable thing about the boot is that it is very light. I asked the men in the front line positions about them and they are certainly very much pleased. In ‘short, our Government has reduced the hardship on fhe front lines in almost every way it can without of course being able to eliminate the hazards. Any idea that each side shoots a few rounds as a salute in the morning and then sits down for a pleasant day is quickly dissipated by a trip to the front lines. Firing is continuous there with some small arms, a good deal of automatic weapon and machine gun and a lot of artillery. The Communists appear to be much more severely rationed on ammunition than we, although they have the artillery and they can call in a lot of fire when they want to—as much as_ 5,000 rounds in a very short time on a position they are interested in or are preparing to’ attack.’ -Patrols Hazardous Most of the casualties up front come from Cemmie mortar fire and from patrols. At night the area between the two lines is literally alive with patrols. We send out ambush patrols to lay in wait to catch their patrols and possibly get prisoners, and in addition send out attack patrols which are supposed to go forward until they contact and engage in a fire fight with the enemy. It is very difficult, of course, to reduce the hazard of this kind of business except by stopping it altogether. The men at the front line live in bunkers which may be a part of their machine gun position, the observation post or back a little way in the trench system. The bunkers are heated by a small stove and the light is provided by candles, which, of course, are used very sparingly. Manning the front lines, of course, is a 24hour job. I visited a good many of our machine gun emplacements, usually operated by two men. One would be on watch while the other slept. It is a very tough life and there just isn’t A enough that can be said in praise . @ of the men occupying the front. ¥ lines or that can be done for them. But, as far as I could see, our Government has done just about everything that could possibly be done to make it easier. MOUNTAIN CHEVROLET FOLK ATTEND CHEVIE CONFAB IN FRISCO A new Chevrolet that will create an “entirely new conception! of automotive beauty and performance” was promised today by Al. Cheney, general sales manager, Mountain Chevrolet Company. Cheney made his statement following a meeting with company representatives in San Francisco, where p53 plans were revealed to northern California Magnificent : MAGNAVOX TELEVISION ¥ SALES SERVICE Installation with cs Sry eae Tie, Nevada County. Nugget; Wednesd Troops Doing F ine, Rhee Poorly, . 3 Engle Finds on Tour in Korea N' ay Oct. 18, 1972 5. Combat Badge Now in Korea With the 45th Infantry Divi-. sion in Korea—The Combat Infantryman Badge for excellent performance of duty under enemmy fire in Korea was awarded to Pvt. Elroy M. Bingham, whose parents live in Nevada City. Calif. He is a member of the 45th Infantry Division, an Oklahoma For Pvt. Bing! . SAYS PONTIAC OFFICIAL : i with green for*popularity .among the buyers of 1953 Pontiac Chieftains. . Green was the color most often chosen by Pontiac owners in 1952. according to H.-E. Crawford, general sales manager, but Ihe believes that other colors being offered in the 1953 line will give the leader a good race in the coming year. The eleven brilliant colors. will National Guard outfit which arrived in Korea in December. 1951. Prior to that it had received intensive field training in Japan as part of the islands’ U. S. security force. A machine gunner with Company I, 179th Infantry Regiment. Private Bingham entered the in Korea last September. Happy Valentine Mr. and Mrs. Paul Valentine and son James of ‘an Bernardino are spending the New Year holidays at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Nelson of Harter Lane, Nevada City. Young James is on leave from the Naval Training Base in San.Diego. Pellegrini Returns Lou Pelligrini, long-time miner who has been working in a Shasta County copper mine, has returned to his home, Nevada City, where he has lived for 24 years. dealers. Other personnel of the firm making the trip to San Francisco were Cliff Jacobson, Eddie Abrahams, Jerry Vignal, new car salesmen; Jesse Smith, used car sales manager; Kenny Zurflueh, body shop foreman. George Raddue, owner of the firm, could not attend due to illness. Cheney pointed out it is quite apparent from the 1953 products that the largest automotive company in the world is anticipating one of its biggest years in ’53. the new Chevrolet has not been announced, Mr. Cheney is already making plans for a display of the car in Grass Valley. He is confident that interest in the new model will draw record room, Although the date for showing . breaking crowds to the show-’ be available singly or in combi nation on eleven body styles in the 1953 Chieftain line, Mr. ; Crawford said. Cramer's Auto Sales, Hills Flat, is the local Pontiac agency. They are now displaying the model. * Army last February. He arrived . ~~~ ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS % HOUSEHOLD % COMMERCIAL % INDUSTRIAL %& MAINTENANCE ELECTRIC WIRING of all types Winter Heat Problems? Le a © ONTR iq LICENSED AcTOR GRASS VALLEY LOCAL AND LONG RELIABLE Transfer & Storage AGENT FOR LYONS DISTANCE MOVING Mobile TV Tower :