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WEATHER WATER Partly Cloud Charl ie W High Tide d Low Tide 1:59 aZm 12:59 a.m. 0$ fj o 03$ 7 , :52652 p.m.a.m. U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Phone 9-5247 Tuesday Date July 11, 1967 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) Rocket Attack On Marine Base UN Approves SAIGON (AP/AFNB) NORTH VIET- NAMESE GUNNERS have scored seven rockethits on the United States Marine base at Dong Ha Thant's Proposal 11 miles south of the Demili- UNITED NATIONS (AP/AFNB) THE UNITED NATIONS Security Council tarized Zone. approved early yesterday a proposal by Secretary-General U Seven Marines were wounded Thant that he put United Nations observers on both sides ofthe and the airfield run-way was shakey Israeli-Egyptian cease-fire line along the Suez Canal. damaged. The field was closed No vote was taken in the 15-nation Council but its President temporarily for repairs. Ethiopian Ambassador Endelka- Enemy gunners sent light chew Makonnen, said it was the mortar, rocket and artillery Many Thanks To consensus of the members that fire against theforward Marine Thant should try to station outpost at Con Thien yesterday "Stan The Ham" observers in the area. but no major damage or casual- Consent of both Israel and ties were reported. Egypt was essential to assure United States military head- success of the plan. Diploma- quarters reported that a mis- tic sources expressed belief taken artillery shelling Sun- it .would be forthcoming. day killed three American sol- Thant told the Council that diers and wounded eight more. he was informed by Lieutenant A U.S. artillery unit--firing General Odd Bull, Chief of the in support of the 173rd Air- United Nations Palestine Truce borne Brigade- -dropped two Supervisory Organization, that howitzer rounds near the peri- GITMO (By BM3 Chet Maddocks) he would need 25 additional meterof a company of the 173rd. CPL. STANLEY "STAN" Siems ham observers for the assignment, In the air war, two U.S. operator at station KG4AM but pending their arrival Bull Navy A-4 Skyhawk jet bombers Marine Side is one of several could send a small team at were shot down by enemy ground voice contacts to the states once to patrol both the Israel gunners over North Vietnam for personnel stationed at and Egyptian sides of the Sunday. Both pilots are missing. Gitmo. Stan (ham name) does front. Hanoi's Vietnam news agency this through means of phone Diplomatic sources had re- had claimed six American planes patch as there is no telephone ported agreement among the were downed. contact with the (Cont'd pge2) Council members on Thant's proposal early Sunday evening, but the final details were not worked out until hours later. At one point the Council re- Steele Tops For June cessed for more than three GITMO--DATA PROCESSOR THIRD hours of private talks. Class David Lee Steele was re- A hitch developed as to the )q cently awarded "Serviceman of number of observers needed for the Month" here in Guantanamo the task,with the Soviet Union Bay. insisting upon strict control I The award,$50, was presented by the Cou-ncil over the entire to DP3 Steele of the Naval operation. Supply Depot by Rear Admiral Both the United States and E.R. Crawford, Commander Naval Britain endorsed Thant's plan Base. in statements to the Council. The 20 year-old 1964 gradu- It met in urgent session at ate of Moon High Schoolis the the request of Egypt and Is- son of Mr. and Mrs.(Cont'd 2) rael after air (Cont'd pge 2) PAGE 2 TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1967 GITMO GAZETTE GITMO(Cont'd from page 1)states since Havana stoped accepting calls on July 3, 1966. This means Stan and a ham operator state-side have to pass the communication over the air then on to their respective parties by means of tele- ComNavBase phones. Thus the call (phone patch) uses both RADM E.R. Crawford the ordinary Public Affairs Officer LT Paul E. Lamey telephone and short wave radio Editorial Advisor JOC William A. Liedtke communication. This is the only meanspossible to make voice Editor JO1 F. Rogers communication between Gitmo and Layout CT2 V.L. Griffeth the states. News SN L. Long The majority of the calls especially the 0 Sports BM3 C. Maddocks personal ones are placed after 6 p.m. on Stant off duty The GITMO GAZETTE is published according time. This makes it possible for the to the rules people involved and regulations for ship and station newspapers as to reach parties not normally out- at home during the day at lined in NAVEXOS P-35 and under the direction of the reduced evening rates when toll calls are necessary. Naval Base Public Affairs Officer. It is printed four This means that Stan averages 40 to 50 hours of his days a week at government expense on government equip- own ment. The time at the shack a week. His normal off opinions or statements in news itmes that duty schedule appear herein are not to be construed official- or is seven nights a week and Sat- as as urday and Sudnay afternoons. reflecting the views of ComNavBase or the However, he's Navy Dept. thinking about cutting out Ads and notices will be accepted between the hours of the afternoons be- 8 a.m. and 5 FRI cause too-many calls are DNA (do not answer). p.m. MON thru only and willbe publish- Last month ed in either Monday's, Tuesday's or Thursday's GAZETTE. he completed 983 calls to the states about half No ads or notices--except command notices--will be of which were made at night. pub- This also includes lished more than once a week about 80 to 100 emergency nor will they be run in calls both incoming and Friday's paper. outgoing. This mark is by far a record for the most calls com- pleted in a month, but Stan won't be happy un- SAIGON (AP/AFNB) A NEW 50 million dollar til he breaks the 1,000 mark. This figure of United States Army port installation just out- 983 calls does not include DNA's and BY's side Saigon has been opened officially. (busy) which total about 30 to 40 percent of High-ranking military officers were on hand all calls attempted. for the formal dedication of the 100 acre There are other people involved in the phone facility called Newport. patch business and they are Lcpl. Mark Kramer, It can handle, at one time, four ocean-going Leon (Ham operator in Philadelphia), Woody freighters, two fleet-size landing ships and (ham operator in upper Michigan State), and seven barges. other ham operators throughout the country. Mark helps Stan at the Shack taking incoming UNITED NATIONS (Cont'd from page 1) battles phone requests and with the job of reaching and artillery duels that breached the June 10 Base personnel when its their turn to place cease-fire for the second week in a row. their call. Thiis enables -Stan to spend -all The session convened shortly before 6 p.m. his time on the air making calls. Leon and EDT Sunday and adjourned at 12:19 a.m. Monday Woody are the two most used evening operators without setting any new meeting date. state-side. They spend most of their time begging Stan to throw more traffic (calls) GITMO (Cont'd from page 1) Joseph G. Steele their way. This is the case with many ham's of 1004 Sandhurst Drive, Coraopolis, Pennsly- who will come on throughout the evening and vania. ask for traffic. They have spent as much as His rate, Data Processor (DP), was just 15 hours on the air, a feat accomplished by changed from Machine Accountant (MA) on July Leon on June 17. These people are also off this year. duty volunteers who donate much of their free time so that we might talk with loved ones at HONG KONG (AP/AFNB) COMMUNIST LED DEMONSTRA- home. TORS ran wild in the streets of Hong Kong So with, "this is King George 4 Able Mike again Wednesday, stabbing a streetcar driver running overseas phone patch traffic for the to death and setting fire to two buses and a military personnel of Guantanamo Bay and a streetcar. clearfrequency would beappreciated gentlemen,? The attack on the trolley driver brought to which is often heard at building 201 MarinE ten the number of deaths in a fresh outbreak Side we want to give Stan a well done. of anti-British rioting inthe British Far East All persond desiring evening .phone patcl colony. calls to the states are requested to call be Chinese Communists launched the latest dis- tween 5:30 and 6 p.m. so that you won't inter orders by marching across the frontier from rupt the operator while on the air. the mainland Saturday. GITMO GAZETTE TUESDAY, JULY 11,1967 PAGE 3 WASHINGTON (AP/AFNB) SENATOR CLIFFORD CASE WASHINGTON, D.C. (NAVNEWS) FORCES AFLOAT had some words against the South Vietnamese And Navy firefighting schools will shortly re- government and its army. ceive a unique portable high expansion foam In a speech delivered in the Senate yester- generating system developed by the Naval Sci- day, the New Jersey Republican said the Viet- ence Laboratory. namese government should -reform itself and its Within the past few years liquid fuel fires army or lose U.S. support. have been reported in engine, boiler and ma- Case said the U.S.