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Show Nr.-- ' i I: 2 DAILY HERALD Today's Chuckle TUESDAY, - SEPTEMBER 4. 1J62 UUh County, UUb v.'TV . 6 Inside Prison Camps ' ! Nothing But An Optical f . Montana State Trooper Turns Jailer in Asia By TOM A. CULLEN , . Newspaper Enterprise Assn. SAIGON. South Viet Nam An American with a (NEA) ' passion loi thoroughness has just tour of completed a 10.000-mil- e war-tor- n South Viet Nam's 43 prisons, and has come up with a surprising conclusion. V The thorough American is William Benson a former Montana state highway patrolman. His conclusion: thai the majority of the Soutli Vietnamese prisons compare lavorafcuy to those in the United States. Benson's finding is considered surprising here, for, the prisons, centers" as they or are optimistically called, are bulging; wifh Communist Viet "re-educati- on Cong teronsts. The exact number of Viet Ceng prisoners Is secret, but thecjtlmates ranse as high as 50,C0O. though 20.000 would seem nearer the mark Political pris oners also include some good democrats who are out of favor nith President Ngo Dinh Diem's government. has The prison population abothe been swoikn also by lition of habeas corpus- and other legal guarantees here. This means that, a man can be for months without , detained any charges being filed against him. No one here pretends that South Viet Nam's prisons are country clubs. In addition to being overcrowded they often lack proper sanitary and coo mt facilities "Nevertheless, the prison au- are trying hard to do j thorities a good Job." say patrolman Benson, who Is now 3. public safety adviser with the United States aid mission . here. "In most cases they are - ay succeeding" , Benson got into the prison business la 1327 as a result of a riot at the Montana . State Prison. At the governor's request he agreed to become acting warden for six months in order to restore order pending the arrival of a professional penologist He was also, called in for advice two years later - when a worse riot broke out, during which the assistant ' warden was killed and several guards wounded. Benson, X1 . only one prisoner Is known to hi.ve ' escapeu from Conson,-whicis located 50 miles from the mainland, and this escapee later recaptured. Today vjs Conson serves as a maximum security prison for about 3,000 : X vr 1 , - - J .! t .MS" . - 3 low-flyin- , jj ( There are black spots, too. I. a prison south of Saigon, Benson found 460 men sleeping In one room The amount of space available per man was a few square feet. The South Vietnamese prison system has its peculiarities. Until recently women prisoners were housed in the same prisons J g i . with fish." ' - Viet Cong. land. "The superintendent has encouraged the prisoners to grow various fruits and vegetables to vary their diet," he explains. "Also,, some of the minimum security prisoners are allowed to go fishing, and not only do they bring the boats back but the boats are usually loaded By WILL BERN Velma was waiting for her cha'nge. at a store counter when a mechanic came up to repair the cash register. Receiving her money, Velma started t leave. But meanwhile "the mechanic, in the course of his labors, had kneeled on the floor. Velma tripped over his outstretched , By United Press International foot and down she, went. OPTICAL ILLUSION Subsequently, she aimed: a. damage suit at the owner GREEN BAlf, Wis. (UPIf of the store. Passengers on a. bus bound to a '"That, mechanic Was guilty- of negligence," she football game Monday told police charged, "He should not have gotten into such a' position they saw a man parachuting from without warning me of the obstruction." . a, plane that caught fire and she herself saw me standing there just a j"But crashed in a field. moment before," protested the mechanic. "I certainly Investigation showed a youth , jumped from a barn roof with a didn't expect her to trip over me." to at- the same "I looked the other way accept my money," ex-- ; surplus parachute time a plane passed plained Velma. "That's why. I didn't iee him change his through smoke from a grass fire, position. I naturally assumed I could step around him.", DOES VELMA HAVE A VALID CLAIM FOR CALLS OFF MATCH DAMAGES? Weigh both sides. Then, friark your verdict :i BRIGHTON, England (UPI) NO ( ) YES ( ) A wrestling matSh between Australian wrestler Dennis For the actual court decision, see verdict, elsewhere Dean and his bear, Igor on this page. because aniwas called off I y I h Curiously enonrh, Benson found Conson better run than the average prison on the main- i Illusion "44... V7 Redde rs Court 2 NEXT STOP, PRISON Stripped to the waist, Viet Cong guerrillas are rounded up by government forces. They probably will be imprisoned m one of South Vietj Nam s 43 prison camps. az men. and many of the women were allowed to keep their children with them. Also, there is no uniform parerole system or follow-u- p habilitation to insure that Viet Cong do not defect to the enemy again once they ' are released. On the other hand, Benson found that in the province of v Kien Phong, the chieftian had Although ther is some vocaworked out his own parole sys- tional training in the prisons, tem. Here about 80 prisoners there is not nearly enough, acare being held in an open pris- cording to Benson, who wll on without guards whose only stress this in his recommendasecurity arrangement consisted tions for improvement. Specifiof a moat and a picket fence. cally, the Montana expert will The prisoners were released suggest that instruction for ti go home for the New Year's carpent ers, DiacKsmitns, me- celebration, and all reported chanics and weavers be. intrp- back again. duced 180-pou- 356-pou- ' . j Guardsman Completes Kansas Staff Course today mal lovers protested. RECLAIMS PET 'GATER f EXETER, R. I. !(UPI) Albert; the three-legge- d Alligator, was wash tub today sevin his back heavier. eral pounds Albert, the pet of John hogue, 19, of Columbus, Ohio, disappeared last July while Logue vacationed here. The 'gater emerged from a swamp onto a road Sunday, stopped traffic and brought to the scene police and Logue i ; I. iff two-wee- k "4-roo- m . , sff sippurl liwii pii Ml The average family uses 80 pounds of copper ifr its various electrical appliances and automobiles. This comparatively small amount of copper would bfe an inconspicuous package delivered to the front door. But Kennecott must handle 39,427 pounds of rock arrd earth to produce this 80 pounds of copp per 27,999 pounds of overburden and 1 1,428 ore. pounds of The critical cost problem of handling so much low-grad- S, Pace, 43, of Pleasant Grove; FORT LEAVENWORTH Kan. Maj."Sfack Guard National Army recently completed the associate command and genera with a forked stick to reclaim his staff course at The Command pet. and General Staff College, Fort FRINGE BENEFIT v' MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPI) A Leavenworth, Kan. .1 '"Monin classified ad .Monday's Major Pace is supply officer of Che 145 th Field Artillery Group, tgomery. Journal read: water and an Army National Guard unit in apartment and shower, it Provo. garbage furnished. e material has been growihg at Kfennecott. Since 1950 alone, the total material handled has increased over 60 because: , . . e j Overburden removal doubled Copper content of ore decreased Kennecott must solve this problem if coppetpro ductipn is to remain a thriving business that pro duces economic benefits for4he entire state of Utah. 18' V ) who is also a regi- mental ntn2jander In the Montana National Guard, arrived in South . Nam Vict in October. to train civil guards in When tactics. this guerrilla function was taken over by the military he switched to the Job cf public safety adviser. '"I must have burned out several Jeeps in my tour of Viet Nam prisons," he said. ' Alto10.000 gether, he miles by train, helicopter, boat, as well as Jeep. It took him 16 months to complete his inspection. The prisons which he visited varied from Chi Hoa, the bfg classification center near Sai1360. traveled which gon holds 4.000 prison- - ers, to the rocky island prison cf Conson, once known as the -Devil's Island of the Pacific." Ia its long history as a prison I Reader's Court THE VERDICT No, because the mechanic had done nothing which could be classified ai negligent. The court said a person need not Issue a warning when he. does "a com mon and simple act in the plain sUht of those around him." (State laws vary.) FIRE CLAIMS 21 MANILA UPII An apart merit house fire cf unknown origin broke out in Manila's crowded Qulapo district Sunday and killed at least 21 persons, according to police. They said the victims included eight children. ' Authorities said at least six ether persons were injured. Most cf the victimj were members of four families who were trapped behind barred windows in an old- fashioned house-- . The U.S. Air Force Academy opened July 11. 1355, ,with 306 cadets. 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