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market economies are threatened by the insidious interference of the Soviet National Commander Union in that region. And, as those Al Keller, Jr. free nations of Asia are threatened, both economically and militarily, so is America. The American Legion Magazine Editorial & Advertising Offices In today's world, the United States 700 North Pennsylvania" St. relationships P.O. Box 1055 has very strong trade Indianapolis, IN 46206 with the dynamic market economies of 317-635-8411 our Asian friends and allies. Through their hard work, assisted by our eco- Publisher nomic aid and technology, they have Dean B. Nelson achieved the highest standards of liv- Assistant Publisher/Editor Daniel S. Wheeler ing and the highest economic growth Managing Editor in the region. With that success has Gerard T. Atchison come a spread of democratic ideals and Assistant Editor institutions throughout the non- Grail S. Hanford Communist Asian nations that pose a Associate Editor Kathleen Whitehead dilemma for the Soviet Union. Art Editor ties with Japan, the Our military James A. Chaney Philippines Republic of Korea and the Production Manager provide the framework for cooperative Dwight Lamb efforts to contain the Soviet Union's increasing attempts to project power Al Keller, Jr. and influence in the area. Stationing Advertising Sales Robert Redden Assoc., Inc. U.S. forces in those friendly nations, P.O. Box 999, Teaneck, NJ 07666 side-by-side with local forces, provides 201-837-5511 There was a time when America's the "muscle" to deter Soviet aggres- attention was riveted on Asia, an sion in the area. The American Legion Magazine Commission Free Asian nations have maintained Milford A. Forrester, Chairman, Greenville, SC; James V. awakening giant. Old colonial orders Kissner, Vice Chairman, Palatine, IL; James R. Kelley, were falling, revolutionary nation- their traditional cultural values and National Commander's Representative, Devon, PA; Nor- man Biebel, Belleville, IL; Adolph chosen only those Western ways that E. Bremer, Winona, alistic movements were disrupting MN; Victor Broom, Fulton, MS; John J. Dunn, Sr., Scran- Western complacency, and the add to their societies. Those Western ton, PA; Martin T. Jansen, Little Chute, WI; Eugene J. Kelley, Savannah, GA; Frank J. Holcshuh, Youngstown, accusatory question "Who lost China?" ways have come, for the most part, OH; Russell H. Laird, Des Moines, IA; Arthur M. McDowell, Indianapolis, IN; Nathaniel J. relected a confidence in our from the United States. Thus, the McKee, smug Princeton, NJ; J. Fred Mitchell, Brewton, AL; J. H. Mor- ability to influence — to control — bonds between them and us are ris, Baton Rouge, LA; Bruce E. Penny, Seattle, WA; Floyd J. Rogers, Topeka, KS; George continent. strengthened. Even the Communist G. Sinopoli, Fresno, CA; events on that beleaguered Ralph L. Smith, Bartlesville, OK; Dewey C. Spencer, But today, more than a decade after government on the Chinese mainland Mabelvale, AR; Benjamin B. Truskoski, Bristol, CT; George J. Zanos, Sr., Wellsburg, WV; Bernard Weddell, has come to see the value of Western the end of the war in Vietnam, our Consultant, San Jose, CA; Casimir F. Sojka, Consultant, attention is turned away. Perhaps technology. It is instructive, I believe, New Rochelle, NY events in the Middle East, where a to note that there are today 8,000 in the United handful of tiny nations can with the Chinese students The American Legion Magazine is published monthly by twist of a spigot throw the West into States — and none in the Soviet Union. The American Legion, 700 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, IN 46206, Price: yearly subscription, $9.00; economic turmoil, have captured our And the Chinese conduct 17 times single copy, $1.00 Perhaps the cauldron of more trade with the United States apprehension. Send editorial and advertising material to: The American Is Latin America, teeming with revolu- than with the Soviet Union. there Legion Magazine, 700 North Pennsylvania St., P.O. Box any question then who the Asian na- 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. tion and liable to spill over into our Copyright 1983 by The American Legion. own backyards, has taken on the role tions consider to be their best Microfilm copies available: University Microfilms, 300 N. partners? I think not. of flashpoint once played by Asia. For Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 whatever reason, Asia has been dis- Nevertheless, and perhaps because placed from the front pages, and of this, the Soviet Union has embarked its influence Americans seem somehow indifferent on a policy of expanding Change of Address Circulation Dept., P.O. Box to that awesome continent and the in the area to disrupt the growing re- Notify Post Adjutant and 1954, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Attach old address label, national security questions it poses. lations between Asia and the West. provide old and new address and current membership card number. Allow 8 weeks for change of address to take There is a danger in that. I have seen The Soviet Union seeks to: effect. that danger firsthand. • Neutralize and isolate Japan • Earlier this year, I returned from a Re-establish its influence over Non-Member Subscriptions three-week fact-finding tour of the Far mainland China • Send $9.00 ($15.00 in foreign countries) to Circulation I the Establish the ability to control sea East. was, at once, impressed by Dept., P.O. Box 1954, Indianapolis, IN 46206. vigor and dynamics of the free market lanes over which much of our is economies I saw at work in the Re- Mideast petroleum shipped public of China, the Philippines, Korea • And increase its access to Viet- for projecting and Japan, as well as other nations I nam as a platform Member Audit of Circulations visited. But I also saw that these free (Continued on page 24) Bureau

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IHi I H No Hefty Pay Hikes In 1983 Call Toll Free Assuming you are employed throughout the year, how much do you think 7 days a week your salary (and that of other family members) will increase in 1983? Available data suggests you can expect an average of around 7 percent. That's not an overpowering figure, but it's still bigger than the anticipated rate of inflation, about 6 percent. 1-800- Moreover, it now looks as if wage and salary hikes will remain on the modest side for several years to come. Two factors prompt this conclusion: 1) Unem- ployment is likely to remain high for a considerable time, and 2) the unions 327-0699 whose wage patterns are widely copied — are more interested in job security than in hefty pay hikes. For this year, union bargaining is due in these major industries: Within Florida call glass con- tainers, aluminum, wood products, nonferrous metals, independent steel, com- munications companies, aerospace and shipping. Expected wage increases: 1-800-432-3662 maybe 7 percent. Bahamas, Caribbean, Meantime, experts advise graduating college students to get out and hustle and not play hard-to-get. A survey by the College Placement Council indicates Jamaica.Virgin Islands, that even engineering graduates — the darlings of recent years — will find fewer job openings than last year (off 12 percent). Science, math and technical majors Mexico, Europe, will do somewhat better (up 3 percent). Business and non-technical opportuni- Mediterranean, etc. ties will be down, as will government openings. As for starting salaries, not much change from last year. 270 Mortgage Matters Can Be A Maze The recent downturn in mortgage rates, coupled with an upturn in construc- 7 days © tion, will whet many an appetite to buy a home. Question: How much mortgage & longer M money can you get? Broadly, here's how lending institutions size up applicants: from 525 1. The prospective buyer should be able to come up with at least a 10 percent down payment. However, this can vary up to 20 percent or thereabouts. It's Special Group Rates usually to the buyer's advantage to make as big a down payment as possible, to Special Air/Sea Savings hold down mortgage costs. 2. Size of mortgage is governed by what the buyer can afford to repay Cancellation Protection monthly. For people in modest circumstances, it's roughly 28-30 percent of Credit Cards Accepted monthly income. For those in the higher brackets, the percentage could be more liberal. As for mortgages themselves, today's market is a veritable Oriental bazaar. The standard fixed-rate mortgage is still available, but alongside it are at least 10 other major types, all of which have variations and subdivisions. Your best bet is to start with your own bank, because it may have a preferred rate for customers. But even then you will need advice and explanations to get you IP! through the of options. maze CRUISE CENTER Whatever your method, be sure you know two things before you make a deci- 50 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE sion: 1) the advantages and disadvantages of the mortgage types available to you, and 2) the total costs you are incurring — including such items as mortgage insurance and "points" (extra percentage charges). rMail coupon for color brochure A AAABCO Cruise Center TaxTime Pluses 19000 W. Dixie Hwy , P.O. Box 630877 And Minuses Miami, FL 33163 Your tax dealings with Uncle Sam will be much more complicated this year: On The Plus Side: A 10 percent cut in income tax is scheduled for July 1. Also, working married couples can take much larger deductions to reduce the old "marriage penalty." Minus: Lower medical allowances, and a raft of new excise taxes: 16(2 per pack on cigarettes; 5£ per gallon on gasoline; 3 percent on telephone service. Mean- time, the amount of earnings subject to Social Security contributions has been raised from $32,400 to $35,700 (the rate stays the same, though — 6.7 percent). And remember: On July 1 there will be a 10 percent withholding on interest and dividends that go over the $150 mark. Incidentally, this rule has certain exemptions (primarily for low-income groups and the elderly), but to qualify you must file proper certificates. By Edgar A. Grunwald

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1 THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1983 Big Issues

Should Taxes Be Withheld On Interest And Dividends?

YES • Withholding is not No • Congress made a serious a new tax, but only a method of col- mistake when it passed the 10 per- lecting taxes already owed on inter- cent withholding tax on savings and est and dividends. The new withhold- dividends, due to go into effect July ing rules will reduce the federal 1st. It will seriously discourage sav- deficit by almost $4 billion each year ings just at a time when we should be without raising anyone's taxes. encouraging it and doing everything Without withholding, Congress possible to increase our pool of sav- Sen. Robert J. would have to raise the taxes of the Sen. David ings in the country. Dole, majority of honest, conscientious Boren, If this withholding provision is R-Kan. taxpayers, in order to make up for D-Okla. allowed to go into effect, $3 billion the revenues lost to tax cheaters who would be taken out of the private simply do not report their interest and dividends. capital market and would no longer be available for home Employers have been withholding income taxes from mortgages, job creation or capital formation. wages and salaries for nearly 40 years, and that system I have introduced legislation which would repeal this has produced an extremely high rate of tax compliance unfair provision, and will be urging quick action in the (less than 2 percent of wages are not reported on individ- Congress to correct this earlier error. Hopefully, the effort ual returns). In contrast, fully 13 percent of interest and has a chance to succeed. When the tax was passed as a part dividend income is not reported on individual tax returns. of the president's $98.5 billion tax increase proposal, it Extending the withholding system to interest and divi- survived in the Senate by a vote margin of only 49-48. dends will cut this noncompliance dramatically. If people do not save, money is not available for invest- Unfortunately, improving the IRS information reporting ment in new equipment to keep America the most produc- system will not suffice to close the interest and dividend tive nation in world trade competition. Yet, the American compliance gap. For 20 years, the IRS has been checking people now save less than any other people in the Western individual tax returns against information returns world. In spite of the need to encourage people to save, provided by banks and corporations paying interest and Congress voted last summer to literally rob the saver of dividends. The system does limit noncompliance, but we the benefits of interest compounding and automatic divi- cannot expect IRS auditors to follow up on millions of dis- dend reinvestment by removing 10 percent of the funds in crepancies without being criticized for inefficiency and the U.S. savings pool. harassment. In addition, the information reporting system Not only will withholding hurt the economy, but it will is useless in collecting taxes from over 5 million individu- have a devastating impact on the elderly and low income als with taxable income who simply fail to file individual families. The Treasury Department has attempted to get tax returns. There is no efficient way, other than withhold- around this problem by proposing regulations which ing, to reduce taxpayer noncompliance in the interest and exempt older Americans and others who expect to have dividend area. little tax liability. But it would be up to the individual to The withholding rules are carefully thought out and rec- get the exemption certificate, and every time he opens a ognize the special problems of individual taxpayers. The savings account, buys a piece of stock or puts money into a rules allow for complete exemption from withholding for money market fund, the individual saver would be re- low- income taxpayers and moderate income taxpayers over quired to get and complete an additional form. Other sav- age 65, who may need all of their interest and dividend ers will be forced to file for an income tax refund if an income to pay current expenses. In addition, the rules vir- amount is withheld which exceeds the individual's income tually eliminate any loss of compound interest by permit- tax liability. It would put an impossible record-keeping ting banks to defer withholding on most accounts until the burden on both financial institutions and average citizens. end of the year, and by allowing taxpayers to reduce their In addition, it will place large additional cost burdens on wage withholding and quarterly estimated tax payments all financial institutions, especially the smaller ones. to reflect the amounts being withheld from their savings or The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) investments. Neither individuals who are living on their worked to try to defeat the provision last summer, saying, interest and dividends, nor those individuals who are rein- "We fear the exemption process will frequently fail to op- vesting their interest and dividends, will be adversely af- erate properly and a serious withholding problem will fected by withholding. Only the minority of taxpayers who result." are illegally failing to report interest and dividend pay- In an attempt to get at the small percentage of taxpayers ments wil have their "cash-flow" seriously curtailed — and who fail to report their interest and dividend income, this rightfully so! legislation will penalize the nearly 90 percent of American In the face of staggering federal deficits, the new with- taxpayers who have honestly paid their taxes all along. It holding law reflects a Congressional decision to make sure is abundantly clear that enactment of the 10 percent with- that dishonest taxpayers are paying their fair share, before holding provision was a mistake. It should be repealed be- we even consider raising the taxes of honest taxpayers. fore it is allowed to go into effect July 1.

12 Do you know a good neighbor?

The American Legion announces Gordon's Good Neighbor Awards Gordon's is seeking five Legionnaires whose outstanding volunteer service to their communities deserves a public round of applause. One award will be made in each of the five categories below. An award luncheon will be held for each winner in his or her own community and all will receive the Gordon's Good Neighbor plaque plus a check for $1,000.00, payable to his or her favorite American Legion-approved charity. Gordon's Good Neighbor Awards: For Heroism lb one whose selfless courage and quick action has saved a human life. For Youth Activities lb one whose concern for the problems and potentials of young people has brought them increased opportunities. For Community Service lb one whose exceptional contribution in volunteer service to his community has made that community a better place to live. For Work with Veterans lb one whose efforts have significantly improved conditions for veterans in need of assistance. For Outstanding Volunteer Service lb one whose attitude and achievements exemplify the true spirit of voluntarism.

Nomination forms and additional details are available at local American Legion Posts. Only current members of the Legion are eligible. Nominations must be received by March 31, 1983. Winners will be announced in the June 1983 issues

of ALNS , National Adjutant's Newsletter. ADVANCE and the American Legion Magazine.

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By Dick Raymond roadside stand. I'd planted peas in space because your garden is mostly traditional single rows and I had some vegetables rather than walkways. As a Gardening is for everyone. Gardening extra pea seed left, so I just broadcast result, you can grow double or triple is for everywhere. And gardening can it over a wide area to see what would the yield in the same space, and you be easier and more productive than it happen. The peas came up thick and don't have all those wasted walkways usually is. lush. They supported themselves, to weed. During the 40 years I have been shaded out the weeds and produced a I prepare my wide row by stretching studying the science of gardening, I've big crop with hardly any work on our a string between two stakes, then developed some simple, practical part. drawing the garden rake along the methods that will allow you, the home After a lot of trial-and-error experi- string to smooth out the wide seedbed. gardener, to cut down on your garden mentation, I found that wide rows are When I plant my fine-seeded vegeta- size and your work, while boosting the perfect method for growing many bles, such as lettuce or carrots, I your production of fresh, tasty vege- different vegetables. Wide rows are sprinkle the seed from a recycled gar- tables. In this article, I'll show you ideal for: lic shaker evenly over the seedbed, how to put these methods to work in a • Greens, such as spinach, leaf let- just like putting salt and pepper on an small "salad garden" I've designed es- tuce and chard. egg. For large-seeded vegetables, such pecially for the person who doesn't • Onions — I have grown 144 scal- as spinach, beets, peas or beans, it's have the time or the space for a large lions in a single square foot! easy to broadcast the seed by hand. garden. • Root crops, such as carrots, beets Then I firm the seed into the soil with Wide-Row Growing and turnips. the back of the hoe, pull some soil over • Peas and beans, which I also plant the row with a rake, smooth it down If you have limited time, space or in rows 3 feet wide or in blocks 12 feet with the back of the rake, then firm it energy, here's a method for growing square. again with the hoe. Then I water. I vegetables that will make even a tiny always sprinkle a few radish seeds in garden produce a super harvest. "Wide with my wide-row vegetables (except row growing" can double or triple your the peas and beans) to mark the rows. yield of vegetables in the same garden Once the vegetables are one-quarter space. More than 30 different vegeta- to one-half-inch high, it's time to thin. bles and herbs can be grown in the If you've ever thinned carrots, you wide rows-, which are really just a know how tedious a chore this can be. band of garden-rake-width rows of Well, I take the work out of it simply solid vegetables. Rather than planting by drawing a garden rake right over the traditional way with vegetables in the row with the teeth digging into the skinny single rows, I broadcast the soil about one-quarter inch. seed over the entire width of the wide It's a horrible sight to see all those row so they grow closely together. little plants pulled right out of the soil. I discovered the wide-row concept 30 But as you thin, you are also stirring "I use a rake to mark the exact width of years ago when my wife Jan and I up the surface of the soil where tiny rows." were raising vegetables to sell at our weed seeds are trying to take root. By drawing a rake through the row, • Head lettuce and cabbage. I plant you're killing more than 50 percent of these in a staggered 3-2-3 pattern so, your weeds before they even appear. as they form heads, the plants cover Thinning also gives your plants the the wide row in a thick carpet of de- room they need to grow, and in a few licious vegetables. days, you'll see that plenty of young The reason wide rows are so easy to vegetables have survived your merci- grow is that your vegetables will do a less use of the rake. As they continue lot of your work for you. Because they to grow, their leaves will shade the grow so close together, their leaves soil, preventing most of the remaining form a canopy over the soil that I call weeds from growing and keeping the a "living mulch." This living mulch shades out weeds, conserves moisture soil cool. and keeps the soil cool. Wide rows can The Salad Garden cut your weeding time in half! Wide rows are a big advantage to I've also developed a garden plan es- gardeners without a lot of garden ( Continued on page 26)

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The Changing Face Of AMERICAN

Millions of jobs LABOR are gone - Victims of a technological revolution

In much of industry, comput- ers and lasers are replacing muscle and sweat, such as on the automobile production line (far right) and precise meas- By Stuller urements (near right). But it Jay still takes humans to build and maintain those instru- In what's become a monthly tolling of the bells, the Department of Labor ments ( below). painfully announces the grim statis- tics. Although the stark figures on ris- ing unemployment are mere numbers and percentages, they fail to sanitize the misery they represent. By the end of 1982, more than 12 million Ameri- cans were out of work, a post-Depres- sion record. First-time applications for unemployment compensation soared to a numbing 709,200 in December. Signs for a major improvement? Northwestern University might make it to the Rose Bowl first. The carnage, however, has been building for some time. An admittedly incomplete list compiled by the Labor Department shows that since 1975, nearly 14,000 plants have closed, with a good 10 percent coming from the job-intensive rubber, steel, textile and apparel industries. Through the first half of 1982, nearly 2,000 manufactur- ing companies went bankrupt, an oc- currence now so common it hardly rates front-page treatment in news- papers. And though all classes of workers have suffered, it is the blue- collar laborer who has endured the brunt of our nation's economic decline. Blaming such economic ills on the

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sitting president is, of course, a tradi- moreover, have aged, and a failure to which in a mature and slowly growing tional, predictable and acceptable modernize the facilities has placed economy encompasses everything from albeit ingenuous — pastime. (Con- them at a competitive disadvantage ecological management to advanced versely, presidents are quick to take with plants in Asia. The vaunted no- health care for our aging population. credit for the good times, and therefore tion of "reindustrializing" America is, In these fields American workers will must accept with equanimity the bad.) quite apparently, all too expensive to realize incredible gains. "We are on The federal government does have even attempt. the verge of a productivity increase some control over the American econ- that is every bit as dramatic as the omy, akin to the influence a cattle shift from an agricultural to an indus- herdsman has with an electric prod. trial economy," says Victor Walling, a Some within the pack of beasts can be business futures expert at SRI Inter- stimulated to move here and there, but "General Motors, for national, a San Francisco area re- as a collective entity it may, if it so search company. The effects of such decides, go its own way. instance, intends to cut its advances will wrench the very sub- What we've got in the United States ." stance and soul of millions of workers. labor force in half . . today is not just a downhill economic This evolution must entail the stampede — the roots of this recession learning of new skills, on a massive are far more portentous than a routine scale, a veritable private sector Mar- downswing so common in the cyclic shall Plan for building technologically free enterprise system. No, at least a intelligent in The American economy is, however, manpower. The way million of the jobs lost in our once- evolving, with changes that are al- which workers view themselves and proud "backbone" industries, will ready most evident. As our business the attitudes they bring to their jobs return. it will never And has little to do fortunes rebound — which is inevita- and employers undoubtedly shift. - Unions, fdfe will with "Reagonomics" or the policies of ble, be it one, three or five years from example, continue to any political party. now — and jobs are created, they will lose members, with a consequent re- Indeed, what it does have to do with increasingly.be based on high technol- duction in strength. Clearly, the na- is a fundamental change in the make- ogy and services. The tremendous and tion is destined for a period of sweep- up of American business, industry and downright explosive growth in the use ing demographic, economic and social labor; of what business and U.S. work- of computers is only the beginning. change, all keyed off how we work and ers have literally done to themselves. Perhaps the majority of new jobs what we produce. Many of the jobs in heavy industry will come under two major headings: Let's regress for a moment and ex- and mass production, for one thing, "information," which includes comput- amine how a nation that leaped out of have or are going to move to nations ers, biotechnology, fiber optics, lasers the agricultural age and led the world where labor is cheaper. Our factories, and robotics; and "conservation," (Continued on page 44)

17 THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1983

Didn't Sleep at All Last Night'

A look at sleep disorders and how to cope with them

By Phyllis E. Lehmann and most mysterious — of human What scientists do know is that feel- functions. We spend a third of our time ing sleepy will not kill you or even in this state of unconscious oblivion. make you sick. People have gone with- Until a year ago, George P., a Virginia Yet, no one really understands what out sleep for as long as 11 days with no businessman in his early 50s, could purpose it serves. When sleep is easy ill effects except drowsiness. not remember what it was like to feel and peaceful, we hardly give it a sec- What, then, is the "right" amount of completely awake in the daytime. "I ond thought. But when sleep won't sleep? "Enough to keep you from being would fall asleep in the middle of come — or when it comes too often — excessively sleepy during the day," re- chairing a meeting," he recalls. "I once the results can be devastating, costing sponds Dr. William Orr, director of the noticed employees taking a pool on the victims their jobs, their marriages and Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at Pres- side about when I would drop off." even their health. Luckily, help is byterian Hospital in Oklahoma City. The embarrassment was bad enough, available for many of the estimated 50 For most adults, that means seven to but George's problem had a dangerous million Americans thought to suffer eight hours a night, though some side, too. "I once fell asleep driving from sleep disorders. Specialists in 32 people do well on less than five hours back from a business trip to Norfolk," sleep clinics around the country use and others require 10 or more. There he says. "After that, I made sure I everything from psychiatry to surgery is some evidence that the average stayed over, even if I had to be down to help people overcome the crippling amount of sleep is also the most there only half a day, because there effects of troubled sleep. healthy. A survey of more than a mil- was no way I would drive at night." Research in the past few decades has lion Americans, conducted by the help from Finally, George sought revealed that sleep is a complicated American Cancer Society, found that doctors at the Sleep Disorders Center phenomenon, carefully orchestrated by people who routinely slept fewer than at Baltimore City Hospital. They di- the central nervous system. Every six hours or more than nine were more agnosed his problem as sleep apnea, a sleeper progresses through four stages likely to die early from heart disease stop disorder that caused him to from the time he nods off until he and stroke than those who slept seven breathing for up to 30 seconds, 300 reaches the state of totally relaxed to eight hours. times or more a night. Each time, as deep sleep. But most distinctive — and A common myth is that people need the oxygen level in his blood dropped, most intriguing — is a fifth stage, less sleep as they grow older, but sleep he would begin to awaken and, with a known as Rapid Eye Movement, or researchers now think sleep needs quick breath. As a loud snort, take a REM sleep, because the eyes actually change very little during the adult starting, result of all this stopping and dart back and forth under the closed years. What does diminish is the never got a restful night's George lids. During REM sleep, the brain is ability to get a good night's sleep. "We sleep. dozed off during the day be- He almost as active as when the person is have found that sleep efficiency de- his body trying to cause weary was awake. It is during this stage that creases dramatically after adoles- make up for lost time. most dreaming occurs. cence," says Dr. William C. Dement, Surgery corrected the problem and Sleep helps to restore body and mind, director of the Sleep Disorders Center today George is a new man. "Now I but how this happens remains a mys- at the Stanford University Medical can go to the theatre in the evening or tery. Some scientists believe that REM Center. "A teen-ager often will have stay up to watch the 1 1 p.m. news," he sleep is essential for mental well- extremely efficient sleep for nine-hours, says. "Unfortunately, I also have to sit being, while non-REM sleep may be and during the waking hours that per- through some dreadful business meet- important for physical recharging. son will have maximum alertness. As ings." There is no hard evidence in either adults grow older, they generally have Sleep is one of the most powerful — case. more difficulty getting to sleep and

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staying asleep. This reduces their occupations, daytime sleepiness can everyone has occasional troubled daytime alertness." pose a significant risk. "You read nights brought on by worry, nervous- In later years, sleep becomes frag- about a truck or bus accident and you ness, jet lag, a cold or fever, muscle mented, the deep stage of sleep virtu- wonder to what extent sleepiness could aches, or too much to eat and drink. ally disappears and sleep tends to be have been a factor," says Dr. Mary For some self-proclaimed insomniacs, scattered throughout a 24-hour period Carskadon, a sleep specialist at the sleep loss is more imagined than real. as the individual sleeps less at night Stanford Sleep Disorders Center. Studies in sleep laboratories reveal and naps more during the day. Older Chronic drowsiness is partly the re- that some people who swear they people also are more prone to sleep sult of a hectic lifestyle: people inten- hardly sleep a wink actually slumber disorders, such as chronic jerking of tionally restricting their sleep time in uninterrupted for hours. It is not un- the legs and breathing difficulties. order to cram more activity into each common for such people to dream they Sleep problems, however, are by no day. But a great deal of daytime tired- are awake. means limited to the elderly. Accord- ness is the consequence of various Two clues that the degree of insom- ing to the Better Sleep Council, re- sleep disorders. nia is serious are its duration and its search indicates that virtually all Insomnia — the inability to fall effect. If tossing and turning persist adults are walking around somewhat asleep or stay asleep — is by far the for more than three weeks and lack of sleepy much of the time. For many, most common problem, affecting be- sleep is beginning to take its toll on the effects are minor — an inability to tween 20 and 25 million Americans. job and family life, it is time to consult function at peak capacity or a vague Its severity is somewhat difficult to a doctor. Because insomnia is a symp- irritability that they do not attribute gauge because insomnia is an ex- tom rather than an illness, treatment to sleepiness. But for people in certain tremely subjective complaint. Almost hinges on diagnosing the cause. The cure may prove to be as simple as buy- ing earplugs or as complex as undergo- ing psychotherapy. A nationwide study of nearly 5,000 people with sleep disorders revealed that 35 percent of those with insomnia were also suffer- ing from depression or chronic anxiety. Personal habits often are to blame for insomnia. Drinking coffee, tea or caffeinated soft drinks close to bedtime can make it more difficult to fall asleep. The effects of a cup of coffee reach their peak two to four hours after consumption and may persist for up to seven hours, according to the Better Sleep Council. Nicotine like- wise acts as a stimulant and can inter- fere with sleep. Heavy smokers may actually awaken during the night be- cause of nicotine withdrawal. Certain drugs such as hay fever medications, diet pills and antidepressants also dis-

Sleep helps to restore both body and mind, but how remains a mystery.

rupt sleep. Ironically, even regular use of sleeping pills can make it more difficult to sleep soundly. Both alcohol and exercise can pro- mote good sleep if used judiciously. A single nightcap — one beer, one glass of wine or one ounce of liquor — is a marvelous relaxant for some, but heavier drinking can disrupt sleep patterns. Regular exercise is beneficial for releasing tension and pent-up en- ( Continued on page 42)

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Wind

By Joseph Stocker

Not too many people have been sucked up into the funnel of a tornado, swept to an altitude of 250 feet or more, then deposited back on the ground — and lived to tell about it. It happened some years ago to a master sergeant at Sheppard Air Force Base, near Wichita Falls, Texas. The man, his sister and brother-in- law were in his house when the twist- er hit with a roar like "a hundred freight trains." The house flew to pieces and the sister and brother-in- law died instantly. The lone survivor grabbed a heavy piece of furniture, but his grip was broken and he found him- self hurtled into the air, squarely in- side the funnel, along with a bed, auto tires, fenders and an entire tractor. From a height he estimated later at 250 feet he was able to look down and see all manner of objects being smash- In 1974, a tornado swept through Xenia, Ohio, killing at least 35 persons, injur- ed as the twister whipped along its ing scores of others and doing millions of dollars in property damage. Today, path of devastation. improved forecasting techniques provide more accurate predictions, but still can't It carried him even higher before lessen the threat. finally dropping him into a roll of

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Above, an Alto, Ind., man sits among the rubble that was once his home after a tornado struck that community. At left, this funnel cloud over Algona, Iowa, is shown seconds before it struck and demolished the motel in the fore- ground.

barbed wire. He was terribly injured, liquor store was destroyed but not a had one in 1926 and Los Angeles in but recovered — the victim of one of single bottle fell from the shelves. And 1930. The Eastern seaboard worries nature's awesome mysterious forces. in Oklahoma — or so an Oklahoman more about hurricanes than tornadoes, Modern technology has helped the has soberly sworn — a car was hoisted but a twister struck Worcester, Mass., human race to cope — at least to a from the street of a small town and put on June 9, 1953, killing 90 people and degree — with some of nature's more down atop the post office without a injuring 1,300. And New York City violent rages. What we haven't been dent. had one in 1895. It touched down first able to do much about is that killer Since 1916, when competent record- in Brooklyn, then crossed over into wind known as the tornado. keeping began, twisters have killed Queens. One person died. Twenty It's a screwball wind because of the some 11,000 people in this country. buildings were damaged. crazy things it does. It sucks riverbeds And the United States is not alone in The American middle ge£s it much dry. It plucks all the feathers from being afflicted by these killer winds. worse, though. Annually there are be- chickens. It causes furiously whirling They occur in Russia (where a tornado tween 600 and 1,200 tornadoes in the gravel to penetrate human bodies like is called a "smerch") and in France United States, the vast majority of bullets. One particular tornado (the word there is "tombre"). In India them in the Midwest, upper South and speared a 1 x 5 board right through a in 1822, a tornado hit and killed no near Southwest. Texas experiences the 2x6 board. Another, in Minnesota, less than 50,000 people. most twisters, but Iowa gets most in lifted an 83-ton railroad coach holding Even jolly old London had a not-so- proportion to its size. 117 passengers and carried it 80 jolly twister once. The year was 1091. Worst months of the year, tornado- feet. It didn't do much harm. But in 1638 wise, are May and June. Worst time of Tornadoes are notorious not only for one swept down on an English church the day: From 3 to 7 p.m. the damage they do but the damage at a place called Widecombe-in-the- A few more "worsts" and "biggests": they don't do. A chocolate cake was Moor while the congregation was at The biggest single outbreak of tor- picked up from a wrecked house in To- services and killed people. nadoes occurred on April 3-4, 1974. No peka, Kan., and set down, quite intact In the United States tornadoes have less than 148 twisters snaked out of still on its plate, in a soybean field in occurred in every one of the 50 states. blackened skies over a 16-hour period, Missouri. Ajar of pickles was blown 25 California is not normally considered rocketing along a 2,000-mile path miles and found unbroken. In Texas, a tornado country, and yet San Diego (Continued on page 52)

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DEATH OF THE GOLDEN LION Youthful and green, the 106th Infantry Division blunted Hitler's attack at the Bulge

In the photos at right, American equipment is shown strewn over the battlefield and, below, members of the 106th capture a German soldier. Op- posite page, tanks of the 40th Tank Battalion take up positions in the snow outside St. Vith.

By Don Underwood

• By dusk on Dec. 8, 1944, the green, youthful troops of the 106th Infan- try Division were hunkered down in heavy snows and dense forests of Germany's Ardennes/ Schnee Eifel waiting to move to the front lines. • By dusk on Dec. 12, 1944, the "Golden Lion" Division was in its place in dugouts and bunkers along the Siegfried Line. It was the quietest sector of the 100- mile-long "ghost front." • By dawn on Dec. 16, 1944, the Battle of the Bulge had begun with the German military arrow pointed straight at the heart of the 106th. • By dusk on Dec. 22, 1944, the Golden Lion, as a combat division, was dead.

Twelve thousand of the division's nearly 16,000 were killed, wounded or captured. One decimated regiment and a handful of men from division units

22 THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1983 survived to fight on. In those seven German drive. —became infantrymen. freezing days of hell in the worst "It was," he said, "the 106th and the In fact, the division achieved a re- European winter of the century there 7th Armored who clung to those vital markably high state of efficiency — were 16,000 individual stories of brav- goals even though'they were isolated under stateside conditions. Col. Dupuy, ery, confusion, panic and paralyzing and cut off in small units and pockets the division's official biographer, fear. . . . they held grimly to those highways wrote, in a symbolic epitaph of many: It is now 39 years after that terrible over which the Germans intended to "The only thing lacking in their train- week, and 60 percent of today's popu- pass in their drive to the west. Taking ing would be that first 30 minutes of lation was not even born. Military bis- the shock and impact of German combat, the vital kill-or-be-killed mo- torians have written the story of the armor at the very peak of its strength ment, which only comes with battle." 106th as either tragic or heroic. As one they slowed down the drive ... at one Although the war was beginning to of Allied-High-Command bumbling, or time they halted it ... so that other turn to the Allies' favor, the cost in division-level-commander ineptness. American troops rushing into the lines manpower was exorbitant. So, to re- As one of heroism or cowardice. in the rear could eventually master place those casualties on the battle- Some historical perspective is neces- the German offensive. fields, the 106th was stripped of nearly sary. two-thirds of the men who had been History now sees those GIs of the part of that cohesive unit. The re- 106th, who heard shots fired in anger placements who were rushed in to fill for first freezing the division's ranks were, in great the time that morning . . youths who went of December 16, as a major influence part, students who had volunteered for in the blunting of Hitler's last major into their front-line Army and Air Corps specialist train- offensive. It sees those youths, who positions with neckties ing — not the infantry. Thus, a crash went into their front-line positions course of training began again. ." with neckties neatly knotted, as deci- neatly knotted . . After two months of maneuvers in, sive in the fatal disruption of von on and around the snake-like Cumber- Rundstedt's immaculate timetable for land River in Tennessee, the division's the recapture of Liege, Brussels and staging for combat was at Camp At- the Lowlands. "No greater service on the field of terbury, Columbus, Ind., just outside The German drive failed. The Euro- battle could have been rendered than Indianapolis. The hospitable Hoosiers pean war ended a little more than four that given by the 106th Infantry Di- took the kids from the 106th to their months later. vision and the 7th Armored in this hearts. To the 106th, Indiana became In the immediate days after that crucial struggle at St. Vith." "home." It was the last home hundreds German Christmas offensive was When the Golden Lion itself began and hundreds in the division were to aborted, British Field Marshal Mont- its Janus-like existence in the parched know. gomery singled out the "United States pines, heat and dust surrounding Fort The division's path to disaster took infantrymen who stood in the full face Jackson, S.C., in 1943, the division it to Adderbury, England, for final of von Rundstedt's overwhelming ar- almost seemed marked by fate from combat organization. Crossing the mored power." He cited the 106th In- the start. During that year, youths English Channel to European soil, the fantry Division and the 7th Armored from farms, factories, slums; who were division's flotilla was hit by storms Division "for their magnificent battle insurance salesmen, teachers, clerks and massive waves that stretched the at St. Vith in the first flash of the — one had been a liquor buyer at Macy's (Continued on page 48) - !

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29 THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1983 Dateline Washington

Space Shuttle Triggers New Era PEOPLE & QUOTES Satellites have been revolutionizing global communica- Scorching Policy — "We have no scorched earth policy. tions since the mid-60s, but the fifth Space Shuttle We have a policy of scorched Communists." Gen. Efrain mission — launched in 1982 — is expected to trigger phen- Rios Montt, president, Guatemala.— omenal growth in the industrial uses of space, predicts Basic Research Reality "The simple fact is that the James M. Beggs, chief of National Aeronautics and Space private sector is not going to support basic research. Some- Administration. thing on the order of 95 percent of all basic research con- During the next two or three decades the development of ducted in America today is funded by the government." the shuttle will permit remote sensing by satellite to George Keyworth, president's science adviser. monitor toxic waste disposal, to detect arson and to dis- Standard For Intervention — "The basic standard for cover new resources on earth. Because of the vacuum and government intervention should be that the burden of gravity free environment found in space, the shuttle will proof of need of intervention should be on the government. provide a cheaper means of producing expensive drugs be- Unless it makes a very good case, it should not be in- fore the decade is out, according to the NASA Adminis- volved." Sen. Steve Symms,— R-Idaho. trator. Strength Through Use "I believe that the brain is a During the next 10 years, he prophesies, there could be muscle, and like any other muscle, the more you use it the satellites with multibeam antennas orbiting, capable of stronger it gets." Chairman Ted Turner, Turner Broad- handling up to 25 million users of a wrist radio communi- casting System. cations system. And by 2010, Beggs can see space indus- Why Are We In Europe? —"We are in Europe not be- tries doing than billion a year in sales serv- more $60 and cause we are doing the Europeans a favor but for our own ices. security." Lawrence Eagleburger, State Department official. — Spies Ferret Out Full Pensions Congress Lacks Coherence "One problem is that we are suffering from too much reform. For instance, getting recently struck for the U.S. intelligence serv- A blow was rid of the seniority system was a good thing, but in the unfavorable publicity over the ices, buffeted by a wave of process we made every man a king. We set up endless sub- past few years, a special U.S. court brought 22 when committees, each with a chairman and staff. We made each fully retired operatives in from the cold and made them subcommittee rather free-wheeling and not amenable to pensions eligible for federal employee retirement and much control from the committee chairmen. As a result, benefits. coherence is not a feature of Congress." Ex-Rep. Henry S. in the 22 had been secretly hired by Navy Back 1968, Reuss, 28 years in Congress. intelligence for an undercover operation. They were — Policies Inseparable "It seems to me that all of us brought into the service under the guise of "contractors." who are businessmen have a duty to point out to those who As independent "contractors," the Navy Office of Personnel shape our destinies that international affairs and foreign Management found the intelligence operatives to be ineli- policy are no longer simply matters of concern to govern- gible for retirement credits normally given to U.S. ments or politicians or diplomats. Foreign policy and eco- employees not once but twice. — nomic policy have become inseparable; they have become The one-time spies appealed their case to U.S. Merit the warp and woof of international security." Henry Ford Systems Appeals Board. Following lengthy hearings, the II, industrialist. board's chief administrative law judge, John J. McCarthy, Another OAS Meeting — "Without ever touching on overruled the red tape decision and determined, on the the basic problems, we busy ourselves with writing empty, basis of the evidence, that the independent contractors

routine or repetitive resolutions . . . with which we pretend were in fact just employees of the Navy, and therefore had to solve 'inter-American problems' on paper." Luis Val- every right to their full pension. encia Rodriguez, Ecuadorean— foreign minister. Price West Demands "It seems to be fashionable in Mental Health Care For Aged the West to demand from all who stand in the forefront of With one out of every nine Americans having reached the defense, under machine-gun fire, to demand the widest "golden age" of 65, there's an increasing need for mental democracy, and not just simple, but absolute democracy, health assistance among the elderly. Instead, our aged bordering on total dissoluteness, on state treason, on the citizens are being underserved and even neglected in this right to destroy their own state and country — such free- area by communities and nursing homes, according to the doms as Western countries tolerate. Such is the price the ." General Accounting Office. West demands from each menaced country . . Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Nobel Prize novelist. The lack of attention to the mental and emotional prob- — lems of our over-65s is taking place despite the repeated Liberty For Others, Too "For us to lose our interest emphasis by Congress since 1976 that federal grants and in the liberty of others would be to disregard the guiding aids be utilized to help the elderly, says the GAO, which is light of our history and heritage." Sen. Robert Dole, the investigating arm of Congress. R-Kan. — The target of the GAO report, Community Mental Stringent Laws Needed "If I tell a farmer to stop Health Centers program, was created by Congress nearly growing poppies because it is a social evil, what do you 20 years ago. There is a glimmer of hope in Washington expect him to do? Start meditating and practicing yoga? It that the mental health program, now being turned over to is also a problem at the U.S. end — your laws are not strin- the states, will provide more attention to those elderly who gent enough." Pakistan President Mohammed Zia ul- need it most, the GAO finds. Haq.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1983 Veterans' Update

VA seeks to broaden medical insurance collection ef- study, mandated by Congress in 1979 through Public forts. Legion Service Officers have been advised the VA Law 96-151, is long overdue. Vietnam veterans and their is intensifying efforts to collect medical insurance for families are very concerned about the present and long- treatment provided nonservice-connected veterans, term health impact of exposure to the defoliant. We will where the medical insurance policy does not have the urge the timely release of all relevant findings as they standard exclusionary clause. (This clause says no ben- become available to the CDC." efits will be paid for care provided in a federal institu- tion, and is to be found in the great majority of medical Some college students will get an education in citi- insurance policies.) The Legion's concern is that a medi- zenship. Last year at our national convention, the cal center could practice selective admission, and give Legion passed a resolution urging "the president and preferential attention to the veteran who has insurance the congress to disallow any government supported on which VA could collect. The national Veterans Af- educational or business loans, grants, scholarships or fairs & Rehabilitation Division has been involved in an annuities to those individuals who fail to register with exchange with VA on this matter for some time, and has the selective service when they reach age 18." Secretary involved the counsel of our legal consultant. This VA of Education T. H. Bell agrees. Bell has proposed regu- effort does not relate directly to the Legion's long- lations that would require a financial aid applicant to standing mandate against third party reimbursement, complete a statement certifying he has registered with wherein the federal government would invalidate the the Selective Service or that he is not required to do so. exclusionary clause in all medical insurance policies and He would then have to provide proof of that registra- force payment of benefits by insurers in all nonservice- tion. At stake is some $8.5 billion worth of federal edu- connected cases. We maintain this would in effect make cation funds. VA care a co-pay program, since the veteran would be paying for his care through his insurance premiums. "Remember the Bronx Hospital!" As reported here Legion service officers have been alerted to closely last month, design and construction errors in the build- monitor the situation at all VA Medical Centers. ing of the Bronx VA Medical Center, as well as the failure of the VA to correct these problems, make the facility a model of how not to build and manage a hos- Federal/military retirees got a head start on biting the pital system. A report prepared by the Legion's National financial bullet. During the closing days of the 1982 Field Service has resulted in the House Veterans Affairs session, Congress made changes to the federal/military Committee dispatch of investigators to the facility for a retirement annuities that will have a severe impact on thorough review. The investigation team was accom- recipients. Previously, these retirees were entitled to panied by a Legion Field Representative last January. Cost-of-Living (COL) adjustments in their annuities Results are pending. Noting that The American Legion twice a year. The raises, effective in March and Septem- works hard each year to assess adequate VA construc- ber, arrived in April and October pay checks. The Sep- tion funds, misuse of those funds is viewed as a slap in tember increases were eliminated by Congress two years the face to all veterans, Legion officials told the commit- ago. Now they have bumped the COL raise a month a tee. year through 1985. The '83 COL raise will show up in the May 1983 checks, the '84 raise in June of that year Look for an attack on beneficiary travel allowances, and the '85 raise in July 1985. Second, they've limited that's the money paid to veterans having to travel long COL increases for retirees under the age of 62. Under-62 distances for care at VA hospitals. In a memorandum to retirees will get a 3.3 percent this May while those re- the Office of Management and Budget, the Justice De- ceiving survivors annuities, anyone over 62 and disabil- partment has issued the opinion that payment of these ity retirees will receive the full amount. Finally, military allowances is discretionary rather than obligatory. To retirees employed by the federal government will have OMB budget cutters, this may signal an official invita- their federal salary reduced a dollar for each dollar in- tion to deny claims for beneficiary travel allowances crease in retired military pay. legitimate or otherwise — for budgetary reasons alone. The Legion will be eyeing this matter closely to insure Hold off on the victory celebration until the war is that legitimate claims are awarded. If not, legislative won. The Veteran's Administration's recent announce- changes may be the only available remedy. ment that they would turn over responsibility for the study of Agent Orange to the Centers for Disease Con- Annual dividends being paid. The VA is in the pro- trol in Atlanta, was cheered by Legionnaires who know cess of paying dividends to some 3.7 million veterans we've been calling for such action since our 1980 Na- who have retained their GI life insurance in force. No tional Convention. But Legion leadership has been application for the dividend is needed, as each policy quick to note the agreement between the VA and the holder will receive the dividend in the month of the Department of Health and Human Services sets a com- anniversary date of the individual policy. Payments will pletion date for the study of September 1987. "The be made in the manner selected previously by the policy American Legion is not going to put this issue in a holder. Choices range from cash to the purchase of paid

closet until 1987," Natl. Cdr. Al Keller Jr. said. "This up insurance.

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Legion Posts routinely wrestle with furbished steam engine and five of the the problems of raising funds for Post old parlor cars between the Skagway programs, Legion activities and the Depot and the "Soapy" Smith almost always inevitable expenses for graveyard. (Soapy was a notorious out- the Post home. These problems were law who ran Skagway's underworld at compounded for members of Post 7 in the height of the 1898 stampede. Skagway, Alaska, a tiny community of Killed in a gunfight by local hero 800 on Alaska's seacoast. The Post Frank Reid, Soapy is buried at the with one of the smallest memberships edge of town in the old cemetery be- in Alaska was faced with oil bills for side the tracks.) heating one of the largest Legion Post Cdr. Ernie Kelm approached buildings in the state. the railroad's manager, Marvin Then came the steam train idea. Taylor, and described the plan: An ex- Past Commander Joe Kasler, like perienced all-Legion volunteer crew many of the men in Post 7, works for would run the train and charge $5 for the narrow gauge White Pass and the ride. The Post would pay the rail- Yukon Route railroad (WP&YR), a road for the oil used by the locomotive, line running north from Skagway over with any other funds going to youth the rugged St. Elias Coastal Moun- activities and bills against the Post. It tains and on into the Yukon interior at didn't hurt to know that Taylor was a Whitehorse. member of Post 7. A major tourist attraction, the Kasler went in search of the all- railroad hauls thousands of tourists Legion volunteer crew. He caught vet- each summer. The railroad had just eran engineer J.D. True giving a lec- completed a restoration project on ture to Boy Scouts in his side yard. their last steam locomotive, and old With over 37 years of railroading be- No. 73's return to active service was hind him, his military service spent the talk of the town and the answer to railroading in Alaska, and a reputa- the Post's money questions. tion as a local railroad historian, J.D. The idea was simple. Run the re- lived the part of old 73's engineer. Support Your ItLOCO" LEGION Alaska Legionnaires Take Care Of Some Future Post Bills With A Nostalgic Journey Into The Past

Some of the crew of the "Soapy Smith Special" include Post 7 Cdr. Ernie Kelm, Jim Richards, Mike Colyer, Joe Kasler, J.D. True, Larry Sullivan and Steve Hyattes.

36 THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1983

Above, old No. 73 chugs through the mountains near Skagway. At Left, Legionnaire Joe Easier, the volunteer fireman on the train, is decked out in a traditional railroad man's uniform sent him by his father, who is a retired engineer.

Larry Sullivan, who had last fired the 73 back in the early '60s, signed on as conductor. Mike Colyer and Gordy Blanchard, both past Commander's of the Post and experienced trainmen, were happy to lend a hand as brakemen. Kasler got the job of fireman. Skagway and it's restored buildings are all part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Park, and the Legionnaires decided to capitalize on this theme. Jim Richards, who plays the part of Soapy each summer in the "Skagway in the days of '98" and "Soapy Lives" stage shows, volunteered to dress as the outlaw and play the banjo aboard the train. His wife, Dorothy, provided costumed "can-can girls" Vivian and Margo Meyer for the show. More local color was added by Jan Wrentmore, owner of the restored Red Onion Saloon, a former gold rush bar and "house of ill repute." "Madame" Jan enlisted several more characters in costume for the train. In late summer, Post Cdr. Ernie Kelm, decked out in derby, sleeve gar- ters and gold watch, set up his ticket booth in the White Pass depot lobby. The crew and supporters gathered around the train, and the whistle of the locomotive brought everyone down to the station. Children of all ages climbed aboard and the "Soapy Smith Special" spent the day chugging back and forth, accompanied by music and characters out of Alaska's past. The all-Legion volunteer crew not only raised much-needed funds, but sparked the imaginations of young and old alike. To those who did not grow up in the "Age of Steam," the ride on old 73 was a journey into the past they The age of steam is recaptured for train buffs new and old as "she comes around won't soon forget. © the mountain."

37 As We Start Our 65th Year, Remember... To Get Growing, Get Involved!

As Legionnaires across the country new member you've signed up with National Security — Our national se- celebrate The American Legion's 64th your local Post. We're asking for this curity policies encompass aerospace, birthday this year, many are reminded additional information from you so civil defense, law and order, and mili- that involvement by each and every that we, quite simply, may have the tary and naval affairs. Implementa- member is the key to a successful opportunity to say "thanks" for getting tion of these policies involves legisla- Post and to the good deeds that Post involved. Once you've signed up a new tive action and discussion with the performs for its members, fellow veter- member we'd like you to send us the Department of Defense and military ans, community and nation. attached coupon so that we might send services. On the local level, we're Successful American Legion pro- you a free American Legion decal deeply involved with the Blood Donor grams don't set themselves up or run signifying our thanks for your efforts. Program and Disaster Relief in con- without the concerted dedication of It's a decal, by the way, that will have junction with the American Red Cross. local Legionnaires. These men and equal significance to your fellow Youth Activities — We sponsor women know they can't count on Legionnaires; Legionnaires who will Oratorical Contests, Scouting Scholar- someone else to take the lead, they've see by that decal that you're one of the ships, the American Legion Baseball got to make the effort themselves. involved members The American Program, the Special Olympics, Edu- They know a Post's success today does Legion has counted on these past 64 cation Projects on child abuse, the not guarantee its success tomorrow. years. School Medal Awards program and And The American Legion, its pro- Your involvement means telling the many others. grams and activities, is too important potential member who we are and Community Involvement — Whether to these people to assume someone else what we do: it's a school bond issue, a new wing for will make the effort. a hospital, an energy problem or a Veterans Affairs — We're an organ- We know more of you want to get in- cleaner environment, we are there to ization serving other veterans, their volved, to make your own contribution serve our communities and our fellow widows and their orphans. We keep a to guaranteeing The American Legion residents. close watch on all veterans' benefits, continues to be the largest and most ar- You should also tell the prospective visit every VA hospital and employ a ticulate spokesman for America and member that his dues include his sub- full-time service officer at every America's veterans in existence. We VA scription to The American Legion regional office to assist veterans. know, too, that one of the most effective Magazine, establish his eligibility for methods of demonstrating your in- Legislative — We wrote the GI Bill of low cost life insurance and serve as his volvement in The American Legion is Rights and currently lead the fight for welcome to any one of the 16,000 through the recruitment of new mem- solutions to the problems of Agent American Legion Posts throughout the bers; members dedicated to the same Orange. Our full-time Washington, free world. principles and values our fellow D.C. -based staff represents our mem- Individuals are eligible for Ameri- Legionnaires embrace. bers in the halls of Congress and con- can Legion membership if they served We want to help. That's why we've sistently monitors all legislation that honorably on active duty in the U.S. reproduced a membership application concerns veterans and their families. military for at least one day during on the bottom of this page. It's a mem- Employment — Our "Jobs For Veter- any of the following periods: bership application with a difference, ans" program — adopted nationwide in though. You'll note it includes a the late '60s, is the only veteran WWI April 6, 1917— Nov. 11, 1918 coupon to be filled out by you and re- organization program designed to aid WWII Dec. 7, 1941— Dec. 31, 1946 turned to National Headquarters, de- all unemployed veterans seeking jobs Korea June 25, 1950— Jan. 31, 1955 tailing your name and address and the or training. Vietnam Dec. 22, 1961—May 7, 1975

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Interest Will Be Charged On Past-Due Vet Accounts

The General Counsel of the Veter- ans Administration has announced that, beginning April 1, 1983, the Vet- erans Administration will begin charging interest at the rate of 15 per- cent on overdue accounts owed by vet- erans to the VA. The General Counsel has further advised the Assistant Deputy Ad- ministrator of Budget and Finance that, in instances where interest has been charged on benefit debts and the debt has been written off as uncollect- able, and subsequently the account is reactivated on the award of new bene- fits that will be subject to offsetting, interest will be added for the entire time the debt was in a nonactive status. Legion Department Service Officers and Rehabilitation Directors have been advised of this change so that they may bring the information to the attention of all veterans whose cases Daniel D. Foley, son ofPast Natl. Cdr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Foley, and a St. they are handling where the veteran is Paul, Minn., physician and a captain in the Minnesota National Guard, was obligated to the VA for over payments. recently awarded the Valley Forge Cross for Heroism by the National Guard Further, they have been advised, be- Association of the United States. Foley was cited for his "extraordinary display cause of the potentially large sums of of heroism on Dec. 23, 1981, when at great risk to himself, he disarmed a money involved, to pay special atten- gunman who was firing wild shots from a rifle inside a public restaurant." tion to debts incurred on defaulted Taking part in the presentation of the medal and citation by Minnesota _. home loans. Adjutant General James G. Sieben were, from left, brother Tom Foley; Past Natl. Cdr. Foley; Capt. Foley; Mrs. Dan Foley; Lyn Drummond, Capt. Foley's fiancee and Dr. James Foley, a cousin. (Minnesota National Guard Photo) Post Honors Vets At Arlington Cemetery Legion Post's Efforts Will Legionnaires of Unknown Soldier Post 44 of The American Legion in Keep National Cemetery Open Arlington, Va., have made ar- rangements with Arlington National A National Cemetery in west cen- burial space was particularly acute in Cemetery to provide escorts at burial tral New York State that was sched- the Bath area because, had the ceme- services of veterans whose families are uled to close in the next two years as it tery closed, the closest national ceme- unable to attend. ran out of space now looks good for an- tery was located at Harrisburg, Pa. Post Cdr. Richard B. Shreve said other 30 to 35 years, thanks entirely to National Cemetery officials had Legionnaires from the Post will repre- a local Legion Post. previously requested additional funds sent the family at the interment or from the VA's Department of Memo- "Project Extend" is the brain child of disposition of ashes in the colum- rial Affairs. They were advised no members of Charles E. Wescott Post barium at Arlington and mail an ac- funds were available from the federal 173 of Bath, N.Y. The local Post ini- knowledgement of the representation government for the cemetery's expan- tiated purchase of six acres adjoining to the family. sion. the National Cemetery in Bath and Arrangements for representation Post Cdr. William K. Kastner launched a fund-raising campaign to should be made through the Office of launched "Project Extend" after re- cover the $18,000 purchase price. the Superintendent, Arlington Na- ceiving the endorsement of Post mem- tional Cemetery, at the time the re- Robert Blake, director of the Na- bers and having learned that no funds mains are shipped to the cemetery. tional Cemetery at Bath, said there for the purchase of the additional land Further details about the program are were only 360 available burial plots would be available from the federal available from Unknown Soldier Post remaining out of its original 9,315 ca- government. He negotiated the pur- 44, American Legion Department of pacity. The six-acre addition will pro- chase price with the owners, a local Virginia, P.O. Box 5595, Arlington, vide 6,000 additional burial plots. The sand and gravel company, and has Va. 22205. need for additional national cemetery coordinated local fund-raising efforts.

39 THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1983 NEWS FOR LEGIONNAIRES

VA Inspector General Hotline Established

A new toll free telephone to the VA Inspector General's Office has been es- tablished to encourage the public, as well as veterans and VA employees, to report ways to save money and reduce waste and fraud in VA programs and operations. VA officials stress it should not be used to inquire about individual eligibility for benefits or for other bus- iness dealings with the VA, which can be handled with the servicing VA office or hospital. The new number, 800-368-5899, serves the continental United States (except the Washington, D.C. area) and Puerto Rico and the Virgin Is- lands. During Fiscal Year 1982, 301 indi- While waiting his turn to be loaded aboard a medeuac helicopter in Vietnam in viduals called the Inspector General's 1967, Topeka, Kan., Marine Pfc. Ward Downey gave his battered helmet to war Hotline to report 405 allegations of correspondent Raymond Coffey saying, "Ifyou're going to be around here, you fraud, waste, abuse and mismanage- ought to have a helmet. Here take mine." That was the last time the two men ment in the VA. Of the 242 cases saw each other until recently when Coffey, now with the Chicago Tribune, flew closed, 47 of 314 allegations received to Topeka to reunite the 34-year-old former Marine with his helmet. Over the were substantiated by audits, investi- years, Downey's helmet had been resting in a place of honor on Coffey's gations or program official reviews. fireplace mantle. Ward, a member of Maple Hill Post 130 and a Topeka Substantiated cases have disclosed mailman, contacted Coffey after reading a newspaper article by Coffey in employee misconduct, program fraud which he, after experiencing the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial or abuse, and mismanagement or in Washington, D.C., expressed his best wishes to Downey and other Vietnam wasteful practices. vets he had met. During the emotional exchange in Topeka, Downey presented Coffey with a postal cap, fishing cap and a new helmet to replace the one Coffey had held for 15 years. Downey, a three-time recipient of the Purple Heart, lives VA Compensation with his wife and three children in Topeka. (Topeka Capital-Journal Photo) Of America's 24.3 million surviving veterans, one out of eight receives monthly Veterans Administration checks in the form of compensation or pension.

WWII Veterans

Sixty-nine percent of the 16.5 mil- lion men and women who served in World War II are living today, and they constitute nearly two out of five veteran survivors of all wars as of the end of Fiscal Year 1982. About one out of seven living World War II veterans is receiving compensation or pension payments from the VA.

Korean War Vets

Four out of five of the 6.8 million men and women who served during Harry N. Walters, left, is sworn in as head of the Veterans Administration by the Korean War are living. Only one Vice President George Bush. With him at the White House ceremony is his wife of 17 veterans of this war is receiving Ilia. Walters, 46, is the former Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower compensation or pension payments and Reserve Affairs. (VA Photo by Harry Merritt) from the VA.

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Edell, 2904 Oakcrest Ave., Baltimore, MD 21234 (301) "Taps" Recordings OUTFIT REUNIONS 668-3501 627th Medical Clearing Co. (Sep) (WWII) (Sept- Fremont, IN) Robert Vogelpohl, 856 Dernier PI., Cin- will held in indicated. particu- Available to Posts Reunion be month For cinnati, OH 45224 (513) 931-5047 lars write person whose address is given. Notice accepted 640th Tank Destroyer Bn. (WWID (Aug-Salt Lake City) Periodically, The American Legion official form stamped self- on forms only. For send Don Poulsen, 15 East 5900 So., Murray, UT 84107 (801) Magazine hears from individuals and addressed envelope to O R. Form, American Legion Mag- 266-1563 azine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Notices 753rd Railway Shop Bn. ( June-Bucyrus, OH) Ray Tittle, Posts requesting sources of recordings must be received five months before scheduled reunion. 2512 Old Lake Rd. W, Huron, OH 44839 (419) 433-4336 Earliest submissions are favored when the volume of of "Taps" for playing at military fu- 876th A/B Engr. Bn. Assn. (May-Flemington, NJ) El- notices is too great to print them all. Notice of Outfit Re- wood Fahrenholtz, 1201 Green Hill Ave., West Chester, nerals and other patriotic services. unions are run only once during a calendar year. PA 19380 (215) 696-4384 1397th Engrs. (WWII) (May-Omaha, NE) Mrs. Walter needing "Taps" recording in Posts a Tabony, 1220 Kentucky St., New Orleans, LA 70117 cassette form may obtain one by writ- (504) 943-0905 "A" Btry., 191st F.A. (WWII) (June-Winchester, TN) ing Mr. George Gregory, 1470 Circle Army W.F. Williams, Box 215, Cowan, TN 37318 (615) 967- 7568 Dr., Apt. 304, Pontiac, Mich. 48055. 3rd Bn., 126th Inf. Assoc. (May-Wyoming, MI) Bennie Benedict, 1200 44th St. SW, Wyoming, MI 49509 (616) "B" Btry., 93rd AAA Gun Bn., 10th Army, (1941-45) This recording features the "Taps" 538-8540 (WWII) (May-Detroit) Glen Julian, 9531 Crosley, Red- 10th Mtn. Div. (July-Vail, CO) A.J. McKenna, 4725 W. ford, MI 48239 (313) 531-5792 played at the funeral of President Quincy, #14, Denver, CO 80236 (303) 794-5226 "B" Btry., 104th AAA (AW) Bn. (July-Phenix City, AL) 10th Mtn. Div. (Southwest Chapter) (Mar-Gatlinburg, J.C. Farrar, 1521 5th Ave., Phenix City, AL 36867 (205) John F. Kennedy. It is available free of TN) Harrison Coleman, 1209 Edwards Rd., Greenville, 298-2794 charge, but donations to help defray SC 29615 (803) 299-1078 "B" Btry., 232nd AAA S/L Bn. (July-Wilmington, NC) 24th Sig. Const. Bn. (WWII) (Aug-Harrisburg, PA) Roy Mayo, 3065 Sunset Ln., Cocoa, FL 32922 (305) the cost of transcribing the cassettes George Jae, 310 Oakwood Dr., Monroeville, PA i5146 632-6570 and postage are appreciated. (412) 373-1625 "C" Btry., 546th AAA (AW) Bn. (July-Des Moines, IA) 36th Inf. Div. Assn. (Sept-Dallas) Leonard Wilkerson, Robert Hasen, 15113 Village 15, Camarillo, CA 93010 Box 2049, Malakoff, TX 75148 (214) 489-1644 (805) 482-3198 37th Combat Engr, Corp (July-Albert Lea, MN) Ray "C" Btry., 602nd F.A. Bn. (July-Rapid City, SD) Reuben American Legion Life Insurance Schreiber, 420 W. College, Albert Lea, MN 56007 (507) Heupel, Box 99, Elgin, ND 58533 (701) 584-2326 373-6733 "HQ" Btry., 439th AAA Bn. (Sept-Collinsville, IL) 46th Carrier Sq. (July-Columbus, Tom Sol- Charles Anderson, 1518 Monongalia Ave., Willmar, Month Ending December 31, 1982 Troop OH) MN tis, 23332 Roger Dr., Cleveland, OH 44123 (216) 732- 56201 (612) 235-4865 9492 "Service" Btry., 188th F.A. Bn. (WtVII) (June) Otto Vic- $20,240 paid — age at death 36. Cause of death — 74th Troop Carrier Sq. Assn. (434th Trp. Carrier tor, 904 N. Anderson, Bismarck, ND 58501 (701) 223- Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Total premium paid: $192. Grp.) (WWID (June-Ft. Worth, TX) V.M. Draper, Rt. 4, 8834 Box 379, Bluff City, TN 37618 (615) 764-4362 "A" Co., 23rd Inf. (WWII) (June-San Antonio, TX) Ray Benefits Paid January 1, 1982— 80th Div. Vets Assn. (Aug-Albany, NY) Edward Thomas, Jennings, 3739 Consear Rd., Lambertville, MI 48144 December 31, 1982 $4,019,040.05 5 Stirrup Dr., Albany, NY 12205 (313) 856-4558 Total Interest Paid Since 86th Chemical Mortar Bn. Assn. (May-Tacoma, WA) Lt. "A" Co., 112th Inf., 28th Div. (July-Corry, PA) Frank January, 1982 12,302.51 Col. John Deasy, 1830 30th Ave., San Francisco, CA DeLury, Rt. 2, Corry, PA 16407 Basic Units In Force 94122 (415) 566-2177 "A" Co., 371st Engr. Bn. (June-Southgate, MI) Andrew (Number) 258,750.0 90th Bomb Group (H) (Jolly Rogers) (Sept-Seattle) Szocs, 14841 Champaign Ave., Allen Park, MI 48101 New Applications Approved Tom Keyworth, 38 Crestlyn Dr. E, York, PA 17402 (313) 382-6543 Since January 1, 1982 3,398 (717) 741-3998 "A" Co., 702nd Tank Destroyer (June-Huntsville, AL) New Applications Declined 90th Div. (May-Europe) Bill Falvey, 213 E. Main St., James Martin, Sr., Box 127, Collinwood, TN 38450 Since January 1, 1982 1,502 Niles, MI 49120 (616) 684-4202 (615) 724-4586 New Applications Suspended 93rd Arm'd F.A. Bn. (June-Maple Shade, NJ) E. Harold "A" Co., 738th MP Bn. (1946-47) (Apr-New Stanton, PA) Since January 1,1982 1,222 Pilley, Jr., 60 Gates Ave., Gillette, NJ 07933 (201) C.H. Brown, Rt. 2, Box 45-A3, Arapahoe, NC 28510 (Applicants failed to return 647-3262 (919) 249-1092 health form) 95th Inf. Div. Assn. (Aug-Chicago) Theodore Nelson, Box "B" Co., 204th QM, 5th Army (WWII) (July-Park Falls, Chicago, IL 798-6761 WI) Joe Doyle, 107 N. Washington St., Lyndon Stations, "Effective January 1, 1983, a 20 percent 'across the board' 1274, 60690 (312) increase in benefits will be extended through December 31, 99th Signal Bn. (June-Grand Prairie, TX) Louin Griffin, WI 53844 (608) 666-3381 1983." 826 Donlee, Lancaster, TX 75134 (214) 227-4910 "C" Co., 110th Med. Bn., 35th Div. (July-Atlantic, IA) Darel Middleton, 3124 N. St., The American Legion Life Insurance is an official 106th Cavalry Grp. Vets (June-Champaign, IL) Ed Hess, 77th Omaha, NE 68134 571-0131 program of the American Legion, adopted by the National 1409 Champaign St., Champaign, IL 61820 (402) Co., Executive Committee, 1958. It is decreasing term 114th, 932nd F.A. Bns. (June-Louisville, MS) Lamar Ar- "C" 702nd Tank Destroyer Bn., 2nd Arm'd Div. (Aug-Buffalo, insurance, issued on application to paid-up members of The thur, 813 Liveoak Dr., Clinton, MS 39056 (601) 924- NY) Michael Ryan, 490 Taunton PI., Buf- American Legion subject to approval based on health and 6825 falo, NY 14216 (716) 838-2105 139th O.B.A.M. Bn., 3037th Co. (Power Train) (Apr "C" Co., 746th Railway Oper. Bn., (June-Indianapolis) employment statement. Effective Jan. 1, 1983, death Greensboro, NO Reid Summers, 415 Florence Cir., Mrs. William Orndoff, 9222 Rushmore Blvd., In- benefits ranged from $100,000 ( 10 units through age 29, 25 Statesville, 28677 dianapolis, IN 46234 (317) 271-4070 in Ohio) in decreasing steps to $125 (V"2 unit at age 75 or NC "E" Co., 373rd G.S. over). Previously, maximum was 8 units. This protection is 150th Engr. Combat Bn. (WWII) (May-South Yarmouth, Regt. (June-Alexandria, LA) Herschel Allen, Rt. available throughout life, as long as the annual premium is MA) Philip Dobruck, 2 Dayton Ct., Newington, CT 1, Box 31, Lena, LA 71447 (318) paid, the insured remains a member of The American 06111 793-8963 Legion, and the Plan stays in effect. Available up to 10 units 158th Inf. RCT (September) Clarence Fennell, 142 E. "Cannon" Co., 106th Inf., 27th Div. (WWII) (Oct- Ogallala, at a flat rate of $24 per unit a year on a calendar year basis, Washington, Phoenix, AZ 85004 NE) Milton Baack, 616 East H St., Ogallala, (July-Hazleton, 69153 (308) 284-2112 pro-rated during the first year at $2 a month per unit for 207th (C) Engrs. PA) Joseph Yenchko, NE 781 Lincoln St., Hazleton, (717) 455-4207 "G" Co., 119th Inf., 30th Div. insurance approved after January 1. Underwritten by two PA 18201 (Sept-Beckley, WV) Richard Earll, commercial life insurance companies, the Transamerica 222nd Search Light Bn. (June-Harrisburg, PA) Paul Box 288, Union City, PA 16438 (814) Occidental Life Insurance Co. of California and The United Hoffman, 204 Gettysburg St., Dillsburg, PA 17019 (717) 438-3940 "Service" Inf., States Life Insurance Co. in the City of New York. The 432-5271 Co., 152nd 38th Div. (June-New Haven, IN) Zion, Sr., American Legion Life Insurance and Trust Fund is 255th F.A. Bn. (WWID (Sept-Cincinnati) Marvin George, John 1222 Spring St., Ft. Wayne, IN managed by trustees operating under the laws of Missouri. 44 N. Jackson Ave., E2, San Jose, CA 95116 (408) 259- 46808 (219) 422-3967 No other insurance may use the full words "American 4927 Legion." Administered by The American Legion Life 255th Ord. (M) Maint. Co. (WWII) (Apr- York, NE) Insurance Division, P.O. Box 5609, Chicago, Illinois 60680, Harry Snowden, 203 W. High St., Lexington, NE 68850 to which write for further details. (308) 324-3235 Navy 299th Engr. Combat Bn. (WWID (June-Rochester, NY) 5th NCB (WWII) (Sept-Oxnard, CA) Laurence Terry, Donald Miller, 808 Placek Dr., Johnson City, NY 13790 5307 Maryman Rd., Louisville, 40258 (502) 937- (607) 797-8826 KY 8921 LIFE 292nd JASCO (Sept-Louisville, KY) William Keatting, MEMBERSHIPS 30th NCB Bn. (May-Mt. Pocono, PA) Paul Flack, 154 8507 Old Shep Rd., Louisville, KY 40219 (502) 969-0345 Cuba Ave., Staten Island, NY 10306 (212) 351-4730 322nd Cannon Co., 81st Inf. Div. (Sept-Peoria, IL) John 48th Seabees (July-Chicago) Bert Fisher, Rt. 2, Box 104, The award of a life membership to a Legionnaire by a Johnson, 1811 E. Terrace View Ln., Peoria, IL 61614 Potomac, IL 61865 (217) 569-2250 Post is a testimonial by those who know best that such a (309) 685-4367 61st NCB (July-Boston) Anthony Narekiewcz, 223 Elm member has served The American Legion well. 327th QM Co. (May-LaCrosse, WI) Manuel Houghton, St., North Reading, MA 01864 Below are listed some of the previously unlisted life 2320 Wildwood Ln., Manhattan, KS 66502 63rd Seabees (Sept-Nashville, TN) Ken Denger, 950 St. membership Post awards that have been reported to the 405th AAA Gun Bn. (WWID (Oct-Roanoke, VA) Warren Rt. 380, Xenia, OH 45385 (513) 372-6647 editors. Dillard, 2033 10th St. NW, Roanoke, VA 24012 (703) Navy Hurricane Hunters (VW 4, VJ 2, VP 23, VPHL H.W. Whipple (1982) Post 24, Bradenton, Fla. 366-3576 3, VPW 3, VPM 3, VPB 114) (June-Jacksonville, FL) Nat Scolnick (1982) Post 265, Tamarac, Fla. 413th Arm'd F.A. Bn. (Aug-Bemidji, MN) Earl Larson, Hurricane Hunters Committee, 2818 Cedarcrest Dr., William F. Burdick (1981) Post Nantucket, Mass. 1121 Irvine Ave., Bemidji, 56601 (218) 751-4093 82, MN Orange Park, FL 32073 John A. McNamara (1982) Post 138, Spencer, Mass. 472nd F.A., 472nd F.A. Para-Glider Bn. (July) Julian PCER 855 (July-St. Paul, MN) Gerald Mitchell, 1261 Donald K. Boether (1982) Post 267, Haledon, N.J. Panek, 3334 Demmler St., McKeesport, PA 15131 96th Ave., NE, Blaine, MN 55434 (612) 784-1903 John V. Kinney (1982) Post 87, Dansville, N.Y. 504th Army Ordnance HM (June-Clay Center, KS) Tin Can Sailors (July-Charleston, SC) Ed Ward, Frank Carpino (1982) Post 347, Larchmont, N.Y. Martin Bauer, Box 44, Clay Center, KS 67432 (913) Battleship Cove, Fall River, MA 01752 William E. Dunphy (1982) Post 721, Buffalo, N.Y. 632-3888 USS American Legion (APA 17) (Sept-San Diego) John Edward Doney, Neil F. Ruddy (1982) Post 927, Gil- 513th Engrs. LP Co. (Aug-Lafayette, IN) John Watts, Rt. Zuella, 7434 10th St. N, St. Petersburg, FL 33702 (813) bert, Pa. Crawfordsville, IN 47933 (317) 339-7792 4, 522-0740 James E. Pierce (1982) Post 49, Smithfield, Va. 550th Airborne Inf. Assn. (Sept-Orlando, FL) Robert Vernon Knoff, William Gollberg, Richard Randa Gallardo, Rt. 3, Box 180A, Wallkill, NY 12589 (1982) Post 449, Elm Grove, Wis. 557th AAA Bn. Assn. (May-King of Prussia, PA) Louis (Continued on page 57)

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Sleep

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ergy, but vigorous physical activity in snoring and no obstruction. A defect in treatment and modified lifestyle can the late evening increases the level of the central nervous system simply often control the symptoms. Doctors stress during the night. causes the diaphragm to stop moving usually prescribe stimulants to reduce About 7 percent of all insomniacs and breathing ceases momentarily. sleep attacks and antidepressants to suffer from a peculiar disorder of the Central apnea patients can be treat- help prevent loss of muscle control. sleep-wake schedule that keeps their ed with respiratory stimulants that Patients also are counseled to take bodies out of sync with the rest of the keep the diaphragm functioning prop- short naps during the day to help world. Such people toss and turn until erly while they sleep. Or, surgeons stave off sleep attacks. nearly dawn and then want to sleep may insert a pacemaker in the dia- The greatest tragedy about both until mid-afternoon. Treatment in- phragm to regulate its rhythm. narcolepsy and sleep apnea is that volves resetting the body clock so that In some people with the obstructive patients typically suffer for 10 to 15 sleep conforms to the schedule that type of apnea, losing weight helps years before their illness is correctly society demands. Under a physician's solve the problem. Severe cases re- diagnosed. Many narcoleptics, for guidance, the patient goes to bed three quire a tracheotomy, or permanent example, have been treated for schizo- hours later each night and sleeps for opening in the windpipe, which can be phrenia, labeled as alcoholics, fired only eight hours. "After about a week, plugged during the day and opened at from their jobs and divorced by their the patient has moved around the night to permit free passage of air. In spouses without any understanding clock, and he then trains himself on a newer procedure, successful in about of the root of their troubles. The im- the desired bedtime," explains Dr. half of sleep apnea patients, surgeons portant thing to remember is that ex- Michael Thorpy, director of the perform a sort of face-lift on the back cessive daytime sleepiness after an Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at of the throat, removing excess tissue average night's sleep is not normal. Montefiore Medical Center in New and tightening up the soft palate to A patient referred to a center spe- York. create a larger airway. cializing in treatment of sleep disor- People who are so sleepy that they Sleep apnea certainly ranks as the ders can expect to undergo a thorough frequently doze off during the day are most dangerous of sleep disorders. But medical and psychiatric examination. usually suffering from more severe the most disabling is narcolepsy, a Physicians may decide that a sleep disorders. The most common — and strange nervous system ailment that study also is needed to document, for most dangerous — is sleep apnea, afflicts between 100,000 and 250,000 example, a suspected case of sleep which afflicts an estimated 2 million people in this country. When the dis- apnea. The patient is then asked to Americans, including nearly half of all ease strikes, usually in early adult- spend a night or two sleeping in the people over 65. The disease is most hood, victims complain of excessive laboratory, where he will be attached prevalent in middle-aged men, though daytime tiredness — at times so over- to monitors that measure brain waves, it occurs at all ages and in both sexes. whelming that they succumb to sud- eye movements and chin activity (all It is sometimes called the snoring dis- den sleep attacks. Within a few years, of which identify the specific stages of ease, because many victims are leg- another devastating symptom appears: sleep), breathing patterns, heart endary snorers. The snoring and the when touched by strong emotions of rhytbms, oxygen levels in the blood repeated interruption of breathing are any kind, the victim experiences an and body activity such as leg move- caused by an obstruction in the air- abrupt loss of muscle control that may ments. From this information, doctors way, which, in many cases, is excess range from a sensation of weakness to decide what course of treatment is tissue around the base of the tongue complete physical collapse. "When I needed. and in the soft palate at the back of used to laugh, it felt as though my face The vast majority of Americans, the throat. were falling apart," says one woman. however, can overcome their sleep Not only does sleep apnea rob the Like many narcoleptics, she valiantly problems by following a few simple victim of rest; it also taxes the heart tried to suppress her emotions in order rules of "sleep hygiene": and lungs, leading to life-threatening to avoid the embarrassment of another • Don't try to get more sleep than you complications. "The continuous low attack. "I just avoided laughing and need. "Some people complain of in- level of oxygen in the blood causes became a very serious person." somnia because they think they need vessels leading to the lungs to narrow, Unlike sleep apnea, narcolepsy does eight hours of sleep a night but they're so the right side of the heart must not threaten health or longevity. Its only getting six," says Dr. Orr. "In strain to pump blood to the lungs," exact cause remains a mystery, but fact, they may function perfectly well explains Dr. Thorpy. "Also, at the time sleep researchers suspect it results on six hours. It sounds so simple, but of apnea, there is a slowing of the from some defect in the brain mecha- it's important to ask yourself if you are heart rate. We have even seen the nism that regulates REM and non- really sleepy when you go to bed." heart stop completely for as long as 12 REM sleep. Normal people do not • Go to bed and get up at the same seconds. When the patient finally takes reach the rapid eye movement stage time every day. "If you physically re- a deep breath, there is a sharp in- until 70 to 100 minutes after they fall quire eight hours of sleep, you should crease in the heart rate. This sudden asleep. In narcoleptics, on the other spend only eight hours in bed, regard- reversal can trigger abnormal heart hand, REM sleep occurs immediately, less of how much sleep you actually rhythms. Finally, for people already both at night and during daytime got during the night," says Dr. Thorpy. suffering from coronary artery disease, sleep attacks. Some genetic factor ap- A regular schedule is especially impor- the drop in oxygen during apnea may parently is involved, because the dis- tant for older people who often spend damage the heart muscle." order tends to run in families. up to 12 hours a day in bed, even In a rarer form of the disease, Although there is no known cure for though they rarely need more than known as central apnea, there is no narcolepsy, a combination of drug eight hours of sleep.

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Labor

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in industrial development could slip to and, above all, introducing robots to tric opened a $6 million learning cen- such a significant extent over the last perform unpleasant or precision tasks, ter at its locomotive factory in Erie, decade. The answer, in part, lies in our jobs even the most skilled human can't Pa. Employees will be taught to oper- very prosperity and continued growth; do with consistent quality. The com- ate new automated equipment the growth that covered mistakes and in- pany figures one robot can displace 1.7 company plans to install. Currently, efficiencies, yet still allowed us to keep workers in an assembly plant and 2.7 U.S. corporations spend about $30 bil- upgrading our standard of living. in a manufacturing facility. lion a year educating employees. And In the rawest sense, Americans in A study by Carnegie-Mellon Uni- as new, technology-oriented companies the post-WWII era grew fat. Workers versity predicts that by the year 2,000, emerge, they will face a compelling became accustomed to rising wages such robots will replace three million need to establish even more in-house and the goods and services this factory workers. Computers are al- training programs. affluence could buy. A new car, a new ready supplanting hundreds of The federal government was spend- shotgun, new clothing and a generous thousands of clerical positions, as in ing about $4 billion a year on job daily ration of beer were viewed not as banks. Even traditionally secure training, primarily through the fortuitous amenities, but as necessities. white-collar jobs soon will be affected Comprehensive Employment and Meanwhile, in Japan, Korea, Taiwan In many firms the role of junior man- Training Act (CETA). Some of the and other Asian countries, eager and agers is coordinating paper flow; but money that used to go to CETA is now industrious workers were willing to as executives become comfortable with channeled through what are called toil harder, but for much less. in-office personal computers, which "private industry councils," which Business also developed flab. A cheap electronically whip paper logjams into work closely with local businesses and and ample supply of energy contribut- shape, the need for an entire level of provide training for existing jobs. This ed. It was only in the 1970s that oil management could be obviated. is important, for it's perhaps best that demand began to pressure supply, Mix these facts together and the government stays out of the area. It is thereby increasing prices. But Ameri- whole idea of a technology-based eco- easy to recall how the federal minions can manufacturers did not recognize nomy — already undercut by foreign trained young, Los Angeles blacks to the trend soon enough to reinvest competition — looms as a kind of fu- be elevator operators in the early earnings into capital projects that ture world nightmare. But need this 1960s, just as automatic elevators be- created energy-efficient plants. U.S. be the ultimate obsolescence of the came standard. automakers misjudged the demand for American worker? Business is unlikely to make such small, quality vehicles and fell behind Not at all, for the robots themselves mistakes, as it will dearly need skilled the Japanese and Europeans in pro- must be programmed, supervised and workers. It is estimated that by 1990, ducing such cars. Since automobile serviced. There must be workers to a demand will arise for some 450,000 manufacturing has been the core in- make, sell, service and operate the bionic-medicine specialists and genetic dustry in this country (its attendant new machines. When any industry engineering technicians, occupations industries providing jobs for millions), grows, its health begets more employ- that barely exist today. As noted, since this one error sent seismic shocks ment for people selling homes, food, Americans are living longer — and throughout the economy. stocks and insurance to its workers. A with the "baby boom" generation, a There are, of course, many other fac- rather simple technological develop- group concerned with its health, tors involved, but taken together these ment can whelp, even inadvertently, reaching middle age — there should be forces have priced American industry other advances. "Air-conditioning is a startling growth in fields of health right out of many world markets — and technical change that made possible "conservation," from speech pathology sometimes the domestic market. the revitalization of the sun belt," says and physical therapy to medical and The ranks of New York City's gar- Princeton University Professor Orley dental programs that can be handled ment workers, for example, has de- Ashenfelter, noting that once the by nurses and technicians. clined by more than 60 percent since South was made comfortable, "people Environmental conservation is al- 1945. Says Sol Chaikin, head of the In- moved in and industry followed." ready something of an institution in ternational Ladies Gament Workers Manpower training, of course, is a this country. Most large manufactur- Union, "There's no way you can com- keystone. A former, well-paid auto ing corporations, like those in the oil pete against 15-cent-an-hour labor in worker is hardly going to be happy and chemical industries, have bur- China." The country's steelmakers earning the minimum wage at a ham- geoning environmental compliance were operating at only 35 percent of burger stand. Yet the middle-aged staffs. Progress on alternate energy capacity in December 1982. A weak blue-collar worker who has spent the sources, such as synthetic fuels, solar demand for steel is one reason, but last 20 years as a welder had better be power and "windfarms," has slowed strong foreign competition — some of it willing to accept any training that's due to plentiful oil. This will change government subsidized — is another. available, lest he be left behind. Un- and workers will be needed in these Pittsburgh has lost 35,000 jobs since fortunately we've entered a cold age, fields. Computers, moreover, are just 1979. 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. . . Continued greater economic strength— as do man- federal and state laws have changed will have to be retrained for work re- ufacturing positions "If you serve a the rules of the game. quiring technological literacy. Our hamburger at McDonald's you don't Concomitantly, there's a decrease in prosperity — even our survival — generate any jobs beyond that," the adversarial relationship between depends on our will to invest in grumbles a United Steelworkers workers and employers. And this in people." official, who points out that if you turn brings a fundamental change in Corporations, of course, cannot do it "serve a slab of steel," someone else how workers view their job and them- all. Schools must build the foundation. can make another product — they are selves — an atmosphere whereby per- "That means we must augment the perhaps the measure of a refined soci- sonal initiative and professionalism is three R's," says Brown, "with the three ety. Activities people now do volun- fostered. C's — computing, calculating and tarily, such as reading to children, vis- One notes this change in the tele- communication through technology." iting the elderly or lobbying for phone industry, where phone in- Technology is not the only change in causes, could evolve into paid work. stallers and repairmen are now called the evolving milieu of American labor. "systems technicians," which given the Service jobs also include the sophis- The entry of massive numbers of state of the art is no euphemism. In- ticated; finance, consulting, insurance women into the job force has clearly stead of wearing jeans and a sagging and so on. They're important, and not compounded the task of finding suffi- tool belt, these workers now carry merely busy-work. And where high- cient employment for those who want briefcases, and dress in suits or tech and service jobs combine, the fu- to work. Part-time workers, and those dresses. Pacific Telephone systems sion can revitalize an economy. who "share" jobs, are an increasing technicians schedule their own rounds, Take New England, which after los- factor. Indeed, those who work fewer and are frequently assigned to large, ing most of its textile, shoemaking and than 35 hours a week, the definition of corporate clients. "We want them to other manufacturing industries, earn- "part-time," now comprise 20 percent look and feel more professional," says ed the sobriquet "Rust Bowl." But of the nonfarm work force, up from AT&T's national director of business while national unemployment rose, 14.5 percent in 1974. Retirees who services, Hugh Jacks. And they surely last year it actually dropped in Massa- want to stay semi-active in work, par- do when instead of just pulling wires, chusetts. "High-tech became to New ents who want to spend more time they're called upon to re-program a England what oil is to Houston," ex- with their children yet still draw in- computer-controlled switchboard. plained a Boston College economics come and others who can afford the Working with computers is professor. much freedom, seek job-sharing and part- more abstract than, say, tightening time work. In 1978, Wang Computers moved its bolts on an assembly line. But it is also headquarters to Lowell, Mass., which Still, it is going to take solid skills invigorating. There's an allure to in turn drew other high-tech firms to and knowledge of technology to find these machines; witness the popularity the once-depressed city. As a result, secure employment over the next two of home computers. some jobs were created. But decades and beyond. A glance at the 6,000 The nation does, however, have a there's a caveat to all this brightness. want ads tells the story: Transamerica problem with a growing "technological The average wage in Massachusetts is Mortgage Co. needs a computer pro- illiteracy," which runs against the more than a dollar below the national gram analyst familiar with "IBM types of jobs the future will hold. Na- average of $8.50 an hour. Although COBOL Panvet TSP/SPF, OS/JCL, tional Science Foundation funds, once some high technology jobs do indeed OS/MVS." For most of us, the classi- used for programs to give science the attendant service jobs fied might as well have been written pay well, teachers continuing education, have substantial in Bulgarian. simply do not offer been drastically cut by Congress. salaries. Fewer than one in 10 American high It is, however, the future, for al- The service economy is hardly a school students takes a one-year though America's core industries may happy alternative for workers who physics course. Only one-third of the make a modest comeback, they will have been getting high pay in the auto three million students graduating not return to their job-rich strength of industry. But it may be the only alter- from high school each year have taken the 1950s and '60s. This is bitter news native. And unless wages stay rela- three years of math. to a 25-year veteran of a once-thriving tively low in high technology, once Indeed, students today are being auto assembly plant, now echoing only again foreign competition could catch sent toward those high-tech jobs with with the spectral groans of unmade up with and surpass U.S. firms and a pick-and-shovel education. The Na- Chevrolets. Such a worker must accept workers. tional Science Teachers Association, a lower-paying job, or undertake mas- Unions, therefore, could continue for example, reports a 77 percent de- sive retraining, learning an entirely with the decline they've already expe- cline in the number of math teachers new field from scratch. It will change rienced. Although organized labor since 1971, and a 65 percent decline in the way he thinks of himself, and how he approaches work, an essential ele- clearly produces higher wages for its the number of science teachers pre- ment in a person's psychological members, the suspicion is strong that pared to teach in secondary schools. makeup. unionism also is bad for employment. The level and quality of such in- Almost across the board, the recession struction must be improved, says The work revolution is under way has hit hardest in those industries former California Gov. Jerry Brown. and it carries disruptive and painful where unions are entrenched. While "Forty percent of our new jobs in this forces. But it cannot be stopped. unions in the 1930s were obviously an decade will depend directly or indi- America's unemployed and young "engine of economic growth," needed rectly on high technology-related in- workers cannot beat back this impend- to counter omnipotent employers, dustries. Tens of millions of jobs will ing shift. There's no choice but to modern management practices and be obsolete, and those holding them join. O

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40-mile crossing into a five-day 106th Infantry Division, in its combat teuffel. As it poised for the December nightmare. It was the youngest, high- nakedness, consisted of three infantry 16 surprise attack, it included divi- est IQ'd and most seasick division ever regiments, the 422nd, the 423rd and sions of infantry, paratroops, SS con- to make a landing. the 424th; four battalions of field artil- tingents and battalions of artillery up An Army snafu left the troops with- lery, the 589th through the 592nd; the to and including massive railway out transportation at Le Havre, so 81st Engineer Combat Battalion (of guns. In his way were the 106th Divi- they stood, slept, slumped or shuffled which more will be recounted later) sion's 422nd Regiment, under Col. De- for a night and a day. One squad built and support troops: medics, the recon- scheneaux, on the north of the 106th's a forbidden bonfire. The first casual- naissance troop, signal, ordance, quar- perimeter; the 423rd, commanded by ties of the war for the 106th occurred termaster and military police bat- Col. Cavender, in the middle, and the when a buried shell, on which the fire talions. 424th on the south, under Col. Alex- had been built, exploded and the squad All of them became combat infan- ander Reid. The division commander, members were blown away. trymen in that one week. The War Maj. Gen. Alan Jones, was headquar- Eventually, the truck columns Department had devised a special tered with his staff in a schoolhouse in wended their way through France, recognition that only those who actu- St. Vith. Manteuffel's orders were to Luxembourg, Belgium and then just ally engaged the enemy were honored be in St. Vith in 48 hours. across the German border into the to wear: the Combat Infantry Badge. A hundred different writers have brooding forest of the Schnee Eifel. The 106th counted, perhaps, the high- told a hundred different versions of The woods were dense, impenetrable est percentage of those emblems what happened from that point on. in spots, with barely passable paths or awarded, as cooks, clerks, supply Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Manteuf- trails. Here and there stood small sergeants, vehicle drivers and order- fel, Ridgway— all have had their say. picture-postcard villages blanketed in lies took up weapons and joined the A recent version is recounted by the knee-deep snow. The weather was battle. And became casualties. World War II historian, Charles Whit- freezing. ing, in his Death of a Division, and it As they moved into the front-line is coldly critical. dugouts being vacated by the Second Whiting reconstructs an appalling Division, they sheepishly took the drama in which he details ineptitude taunting of those battle-worn veterans and confusion when the 422nd and who were on their way back to a rest Today, the 106th lives in 423rd Regiments were quickly sur- area. Those combat-wise GIs also took rounded by the German tanks and in- the hearts and all the heating stoves. minds fantry, of lack of decision by division The shivering, frostbitten troops of of those who were there. headquarters and of a faulty telephone the 106th at that moment shared, in a line from corps headquarters to the sense, one secret with the Allied High division, which might have averted it Command. Neither had any realiza- all. tion that Hitler, losing on all fronts Radio transmission was jammed and and desperate, had decided to launch a the efficient German radio teams were mammoth counteroffensive "to de- In various increments of time during listening. Col. Peiper of the Nazi 1st cide," in Hitler's words to his generals that period, the division had the sup- SS Panzer Division later told Whiting on December 12, "whether we shall port of the 14th Cavalry Group, 275th that because of radio, he knew his op- live or die." Armored Field Artillery Battalion, ponents' moves throughout the battle. Hitler took the route the experts 820th Tank Destroyer Battalion, In St. Vith, the pro-German citizens said was impossible — through the 634th Anti-Aircraft Battalion, the were relaying every action of the slopes and forest of the Ardennes, in 112th Infantry Regiment of the 28th 106th's headquarters to the Germans. blizzards that negated Allied air Division, the 168th Combat Engineer With Jones fearing that at least two power — to try to split the Allied ar- Battalion — in addition to bits and of his regiments were either sur- mies and drive a wedge into his im- pieces of a score more units of all rounded — or disintegrating — and mediate goal, the rail center of Liege. types. with the 14th Cavalry in a messy rout, To succeed, he first had to break But none was to play a greater part the general desperately tried to talk through to the two major road and rail than the 7th Armored Division under with Lt. Gen. Troy Middleton, VIII centers in Belgium, west of the Ar- Brig. Gen. Robert Hasbro uck, and the Corps Commander, over the sketchy dennes: St. Vith and Bastogne. But be- commander of his Combat Command telephone line. tween him and those objectives was B, Brig. Gen. Bruce Clarke, when they The question of whether to with- the 106th, spread pitifully thin, with were rushed into the action from 100 draw the two crumbling regiments the men dug in so far apart they could miles away. never was intelligibly answered. Jones only wave to each other in the short The enemy did succeed in splitting ordered the regiments to hold. They daylight hours ... or "touch" by pa- the Golden Lion Division in and held until December 19. On that day, trols, day and night. around towns, the names of which will some 9,000 American soldiers became Massed against them on the German be remembered by only a few — Scho- prisoners. The moral decision by the side were the 6th Panzer SS Army in enberg, Bleialf, Manhay, Lanzarath, two regimental commanders in sur- the north, the 7th Army to the south, Houffalize, Vielsalm and so many rendering is still debated. and in the center — aimed squarely at others. The crippled and confused 424th the 106th— the 5th Panzer Army. Germany's 5th Panzer Army was Regiment, on the southern part of the

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Forget about big, USS Anthony (DD 515) (Sept-Philadelphia) Joseph VMF 311 (MAG 31) Transportation (May-Akron, OH) clumsy yank-you-along Williams, 307 Woodbine Ave., Westville, NJ 08093 Paul Goldberg, 627 Wayland Rd., Plymouth Meeting, tillers forever! (609) 456-5471 PA 19462 (215) 825-2454 The Mantis tills a USS Augusta (CA 31) (Apr-San Antonio, TX) Robert 6"-9" Bastian, 5604 Fillmore Ave., Alexandria, VA 22311 Coast Guard sensible wide Braine 630) (Little Beaver USS Aulick (DD 569), (DD (not 20" or more like Squadron) (1944-45) (Oct-Washington) CD. Lail, 159 USCG Construction Unit 26 (June-Elgin, ND) Harold 9th St., Colonial Beach, VA 22443 (804) 224-7643 Ricketts, Elgin, ND 58533 (701) 584-2542 big tillers). Mantis Orleans) W.C. Fuqua, USS Bennion (DD 662) (Aug-Boston) William Kelley, 35 USS Bisbee (WWII) (May-New weighs just 20 lbs. (not Horton PI., Milton, MA 02186 (617) 698-0286 1315 Hillside Ave., Richmond, VA 23229 (804) 288-8291 to lbs.). Mantis' USS Cabot (GVL 28) (Sept- Philadelphia) Al Stranaghan, 200 300 212 Ridge Rd., Millville, NJ 08332 (609) 327-2457 Miscellaneous tines are so rugged USS California (Oct-Biloxi, MS) Harold Bean, 616 W they're warranted Lafayette, Staunton, IL 62088 (618) 635-5638 Ex-POWs Assn. (Korea) (July-Dayton, OH) William USS Copab.ee (CVE 12, VGS 12) (Aug-Seattle) Joe Norwood, 5013 Ormand Rd., W. Carrollton, OH 45449 unbreakable for life.. (Michigan) (Quad-State) (April) Ted Downs, Rt. 5, Box 130, Huntsville, AR 72740 (501) Guadalcanal Vets Mantis' engine is so 738-6374 Blahnik, Box 181, Coloma, MI 49038 TILLS DEEP! durable we give you a USS EUyson (DD 454) (Oct-Philadelphia) James Gal- Guadalcanal Vets. Assn. (Aug-Oak Brook, IL) Guadal- WEEDS FAST! breth, 8927 Carriage Ln., Indianapolis, IN 46256 (317) canal Vets Assn., Box 5222, Chicago, IL 60680 lifetime replacement USS Ontario (Naval Station, American Samoa) 849-3315 agreement. Mantis' tines go through USS Florence Nightingale (AP 70) (Oct-Boston) Bill (Sept-Orlando, FL) Howard Povey, 2055 Scranton Ave. Preskins, 39 Egerton Rd., Arlington, MA 02174 (617) #337, Orlando, FL 32817 (305) 282-0565 tough soil like a chain saw goes through 648-7785 wood. No jerking, no yanking you USS Fred T. Berry (DD/DDE 858) (July-Charleston, SO Denis Gordon, 319 E. Main St. L7, Marlboro, MA 01752 along. ..and Mantis turns on a dime! (617) 485-7261 Put the fun back in gardening. USS Gleaves Assn. (July-York, PA) William Anstine, 76 TAPS Argyle Ave., Glen Rock, PA 17327 (717) 235-3175 SEND TODAY FOR FREE INFORMATION! USS Keith (DE 241) (Sept-Hudson, OH) Dan Capozzi, 927 Damon St., Akron, OH 44310 (216) 253-3877 USS LCI-G 1056 (June-Nashville, TN) Arnold Aiken, The Taps Notice mentions, when- For more information write 1313 Vandora Ave., Garner, NC 27529 (919) 772-4927 Mantis Manufacturing Co. USS Mansfield (DD 728) (Aug-Richmond, VA) Robert ever possible, those Legionnaires who Pike, 134 Schools, 3955 Monza Dr., Richmond, VA 23234 (804) 2651 Huntingdon Dept. 271-1551 have held high National or Depart- Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006 USS McNulty (DE 581) (May-Gettysburg, PA) Bill ment Office in the Legion, United Olivier, 14 Wills Dr., Hartford, NY 13413 (315) 732- 3677 States government, or other forms of Name USS New York (BB 34) (1915-46) (Oct-Tidewater, VA) national prominence. James Brown, Rt. 2, Box 638, Smithfield, VA 23430 Address (804) 357-3942 Oklahoma Assn. (May-New Orleans) Clarence USS City Knight, 7831 Aberdeen Rd., Bethesda, MD 20814 Alton S. Wright, Ala. Department USS Pennsylvania (BB 38) (6 & 6A Divs.) (June- Denver) Mrs. J.W. McMahon, 5121 Mendocino Blvd., Commander (1963-64). Department State Zip Sacramento, CA 95820 (916) 452-2237 Vice Commander (1962-63). USS Salt Lake City Assn. (August) Leroy Ewing, Box 1703, Portola, CA 96122 (916) 832-5369 Byron C. Waggoner, Ind. An Ameri- USS Tangier (AV 8) (May-Tulsa, OK) Sherman Peters, 1548 E. 43rd St., Tulsa, OK 74105 (918) 747-5499 can Legion Founder USS Yew (YN 32) (June-Bristol, PA) Charles Theobald, Charles MacAluso, N.M. Depart- Sr., Rt. 1, Box 158, Rock Hall, MD 21661 (301) 639-7530 ment Commander (1966-67), Depart- Air Force ment Vice Commander (1962-63, DERBY 8th Air Force (July-London, England) Lt. Col. J.H. 1965-66). Woolnough, 7752 Harbour Blvd., Miramar, FL 33023 (305) 961-1410 Sydney A.R. Finer, Conn. National 10th Air Depot Assn. (Aug-Lancaster, OH) Bill Bow- DAY man, 3844 Waterbury Dr., Dayton, OH 45439 (513) Executive Committeeman (1935-37), 299-2775 Alternate National Executive Com- 29th Air Serv. Grp., 13th A.F. (July-Dayton, OH) Frank Pace, 315 W. 15th St., Dover, OH 44622 (216) 343-7855 mitteeman (1934-35), Department MAY 7th 30th Bomb Grp. Assn., 7th A.F. (B-24, Pacific Thea- ter) (WWII) (Oct-Afton, OK) 30th Bomb Grp., 19 Commander (1933-34), Department Lowndes St., Charleston, SC 29401 Vice Commander (1931-32). 39th Troop Carrier Sq., 317th Trp. Carrier Wing IT'S TIME TO ORDER (July-Greenville, NC) Kenneth Bell, Box 59, Constable, James Richard Zoll, Ind. Depart- NY 12926 YOUR HORSE RACES 93rd Bomb Group (H), (All Sqdns.) (June-New York ment Commander (1971-72), Depart- City, NY) Bruce Holcom, 1611 W. 28th, Lawrence, KS ment Vice Commander (1970-71). FOR THESE 66044 369th Ftr. Sq., 359th Ftr. Grp. (WWII) (Aug-Dayton, HISTORICAL DATES... OH) Anthony Chardella, 105 Mohawk Tr. Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15235 (412) 793-9010 COMRADES IN DISTRESS 420th Air Refueling Sq. (Mar-Alexandria, LA) Jess 1. Kentucky Derby-Sat., May 7th. Gibbs, 5411 Downing St., Alexandria, LA 71301 (318) 2. The Preakness-Sat, May 21st. 442-5556 Readers who can help these veterans are urged to do so. 3. The Belmont-Sat, June 4th. 421st AAF Base Unit (Muroc, CA) (May-Branson, MO) Usually a statement is needed in support of a VA claim. Lawrence Abbamonte, 3938 Amundson Ave., Bronx, Notices are run only at the request of American Legion Order before April 1 5th and receive NY 10466 (914) 237-0063 Service Officers representing claimants, using Search for a generous 10% discount. 454th Bomb Sq., 323rd Bomb Grp. (White Tailed Witness Forms available only from State Legion Service Marauders) (WWII) (July-San Francisco) Joseph Hav- Officers. Please contact CID # The American Legion A Nite At The Races' continually offers rilla, 1208 Margaret St., Munhall, PA 15120 (412) 461- Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, 700 N. Pennsylvania St., In- RECENTLY photographed races not with 6373 dianapolis, Ind. 46206. one but with FIVE CAMERAS for extreme 574th Sig. AW Bn. (New Guinea, Philippines 1945) close-up action. Todays top announcer (June-Orlando, FL) Charles McGaffin, Rd., 1st Bn., 26th R. Finnigan is seeking wit- San Mateo Marines. John calls each race. All of our races are 328-9576 nesses to verify a claim that while stationed San Mateo, FL 32088 (904) at DaNang, available on 16mm color and sound film 703rd Ordnance Co. (July-Bangor, Bill Offennan, Vietnam, he was rendered unconscious when he was hit ME) or on video cassettes and include Race 128 Mayfair Ave., W. Hempstead, NY 11552 (516) 483- on the head by a rifle. Contact CID 837 Programs,- Mutuel and Daily Double 9883 Camp Stoneman. Marvin D. Smith needs witnesses to Tickets, Play Money, instructions, a 5 901st Engrs., 8th A.F., HQ Co. (Wide Wing) (July- verify a claim that in April 1953 while stationed at Minute Introductory Film and more Rochester, NY) Howard Staigl, 3423 Pleasant Ave., Camp Stoneman, Calif., he was hospitalized for head- Hamilton, OH 45015 aches and sinus trouble. Contact CID 838 Trotter and Greyhound races are also Det. 4 1141st Spacty Sq. (USAF Flight Section, Boot Camp, Farragut, Idaho, USS Warren. Wilford G. available as well as our exciusivePast Per- Naples, Italy) (June-Dallas) Dan Benstrom, Box 825, Woodbury needs witnesses to verify a claim that while formance Race Kits. Gwinn, MI 49841 (906) 346-3567 aboard the USS Warren (APA 53) in 1945, he suffered a Pilot Class 43F (Gulf Coast Trng. Command) (May- knee injury and had an ear operation. Contact CID 839 Don't Delay! Order today! Philadelphia) Lt. Col. J.H. Woolnough, 7752 Harbour 17th F.A. Bn. Robert V. Boring is seeking witnesses to CALL COLLECT (212)769-7355 Blvd., Miramar, FL 33023 (305) 961-1410 verify a claim that while stationed at the 35th Parallel in October 1953, he suffered a back injury. Contact CID Marines 840 ^ r^ite «\t (he rfeces. iijc. USS Ashtabula (AO 51). Clinton E. Tyler needs wit- 18th AAA Motor Transport (WWII) (Apr-Trenton, NJ) nesses to verify a claim that while aboard ship in 1958, 2320 Avenue "U" • Brooklyn, n.y. 11229 Frank Ratliff, 335 Riverside Dr., Russell, KY 41169 he injured his back and head in two separate accidents. (606) 836-3585 Contact CID 841

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59 THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1983 Parting Shots

The Indian squaw was explaining the facts of life to her young daughter. "Stork not bring papoose. It sometimes come by beau and error." —Donna J. Dempsey

Writ In Stone A Naval officer asked his small daugh- ter what she learned at Sunday school. "We studied about the commanders," she reported. "We learned they're al- ways broke." —Jeri R. Jones

Electronic Epidemic Video games, According to claims, Build sensory expertise. To some, they're the greatest, To me, they're the latest Communicable disease. — Sally Palmer

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