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PAGE 4—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, August 24, 1967
Coaches and players on the Oakland UTWA Midget baseball
team were honored at a supper meeting Friday night at the
Newberry Inn. Representing the play-off champions were,
from left, A1 Livingston, assistant coach; H. W. Auton, pres
ident of Local 2014, UTWA; Ray Darby, recording secretary,
Local 2014; and Gene Mathis, coach for the UTWA team.
(Sunphoto.)
Social Security
Information
Medicare has been with us
just over a year now and is al
ready doing the fine job expect
ed of it. Many of our elderly
citizens are receiving needed
medical care with the realiza
tion their bills are being paid,
Miss Martha Pressly, District
Manager of the Greenwood so
cial security office stated.
Although medicare is not de
signed to relieve completely the
cost of all medical needs, the
protection against the stagger
ing costs of major illness is
now the free right of nearly ev
eryone age 65 or over.
All medicare beneficiaries
have received medicare booklets
outlining in detail their rights
and responsibilities under med
icare. Occasionally, however
situations arise which are not
covered in the booklet or the
beneficiary cannot determine
v/hat action is necessary on his
part. In these instances, Miss
Pressly advised, the best move
is to contact the nearest social
security office or a represena-
tive from that office.
Generally, there are only a
few important steps the ben-
efieary should take to insure
complete use of medicare. Fol
lowing are a few:
(1) Medicare beneficiaries
should always present their
medicare cards to their doctor
when requesting treatment.
Lost cards can be replaced by
notifying your social security
office.
(2) Your doctor must author
ize your admission to a hospital.
In other words, you cannot enter
a hospital by presenting your
card alone. Your doctor has to
make arrangements for you to
be entered into the hospital.
(3) When yo uare being treated
by a doctor, either at home, in
his office or clinic, or in the
hospital, you should always
keep your paid receipts for all
services rendered. Before med-
care can reimburse you for out
of pocket expenses, receipted
bills must be presented. A good
place to keep your receipts is
in your medicare kit.
The social security district
office in Greenwood is open
from 8:45 A. M. to 5:00 P. M
M.onday through Friday and
from 9:00 A. M. to 12:00 Noon
on Saturday. The office is lo
cated at 219 Magnolia Avenue
and the phone number is OR
3-1711.
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fni Ahead
J| by
Dr. George S. Benson
President
NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM
Searcy, Arkansas
CUBA’S LATIN AMERICAN
GUERRILLAS
Curly-haired Douglas Bravo
is the Hitler-size Cuban-trained
Commander-in-chief of Vene
zuela’s F.A.L.N., the Commu
nist-led, Cuban-armed guerrilla
force dedicated to the over
throw of the elected Venezuela
government and the United
States. He says his well-train
ed, well - armed guerrilla
armies, which already have
wrought terror throughout
much of Venezuela, are part
of a larger international force
which will overrun and capture
(“liberate”) the Western Hemi
sphere. He and his guerrilla
troops speak frankly (to sym
pathetic newspapermen) of
their connection with Cuba.
“We can say,” Bravo told a
reporter for the Mexico City
leftist publication S u c e s o s,
“that the Cuban movement is
the vanguard of the movement
of liberation of all of America;
of an army which extends from
Mexico to Patagonia (end of
the world), which is locked in
combat with another army . . .
(Ours) is an army which will
keep on growing and it has
but one mission: to defeat the
other army — the army of
the rich, the powerful, the
army of the gringos (Ameri
cans) and the oligarchy (Vene
zuela government).”
Killing and Plundering
The interview with Bravo
and his F.A.L.N. staff was in
a high mountain fastness not
far from Caracas. The reporter
was Mario Menendez Rod
riguez. They told of raids they
had made against Venezuela
army units, of terrorist acts,
the wiping out of a whole com
munity owned by the British
company, Turagua. When the
administrators (of the British
company) had been “subdued”
(presumably to death), “some
of us,” said Francisco Prada,
commander in charge of the
plains region, “proceeded to
take over the installations, the
very comfortable homes the
administrators lived in . . .
Once we had subdued all the
personnel, we sprinkled gaso
line over the installations and
set fire to them, except the
little houses the workers lived
in. Then we preceded to divide
up the abundant stores: fabric,
medicine, food, supplies of all
sort, and everyone who was
there carried off whatever he
could.” Such terrorist raids,
carried out with contemptuous
disregard of government
authority, thus demonstrating
unchallenged power, are cal
culated to friehten the peasant
population into obedience and
finally alliance.
“The news got around,” ex
claimed Prada proudly.
“Everybody was so impressed
that groups sprang up and be
gan to call themselves guer
rilla bands!”
USA The Main Target
These Venezuela revolution
aries, like their comrades in
all the other Latin American
countries, show grim determi
nation on their larger goals.
Luben Petkoff, tall and wear
ing a heavy Castro beard, is se
cond in command of F.A.L.N.
He said: “We do not see the li
beration of Venezuela as the li
beration merely of our country,
of the land in which we were
born. No; when we speak of
the liberation of Venezuela w(
mean the liberation of all ol
Latin America . . . We inter
pret the meaning in interna
tional solidarity in a truly re
volutionary manner, and thus
we are ready to fight, to fight
against imperalism until it no
longer exists; we are ready to
remain under arms until we
see U. S. imperialism, in par
ticular, reduced to impotence.”
Petkoff, talking freely to the
leftist Mexico City journal,
seemed to clearly identify the
fountainhead (in Cuba) of the
military strength of the guer
rilla forces now active through
out Latin America. He describ
ed a guerrilla landing, from the
Caribbean, on wooded, moun
tainous shores of Falcon in ex
treme northern Venezuela (fac
ing Cuba). “I was assigned
the mission,” he said, “of lead
ing into Venezuela a group of
patriots who had thoroughly
studied, in the places where
the battles are going on (Cuba,
North Vietnam, and Czechoslo
vakia are the principle train
ing grounds), the most out
standing guerrilla movements
of recent times, especially the
Vietnamese. . . The men of the
group arrived by various
means at the Isle of Mar
garita. . . A launch was ready
for us, together with arms. . .*
Although the government
learned of the landing almost
the same day, it was impos
sible for the ‘puppet army’ to
encircle or divide us. . .”
The Shipping Scheme
We have quoted the above in
order to tie it in with the fol
lowing description of how an
estimated lO,0OO trained guer
rillas a year are being dis
patched from Cuba, with heavy
arms trans-shipped out of Cuba
from Russia, Belgium and
Czechoslovakia:
Cuba obtains fishing boats
(or fishing boat blueprints)
from Peru, Colombia, Brazil,
Ecuador, Venezuela and other
Latin American countries.
Cuban shipyards make re
plicas, and provide these “na
tive” boats with forged papers.
The coastal police of the coun
tries where the guerrillas and
and arms are to be landed
seldom pay any attention to
the “native fishing boats.” The
arms, encased in rubber bags,
are dropped into the ocean just
off the coast, and under cover
of night, the “fishermen” re
turn and pick them up. This is
the testimony given to the
U. S. Senate by Antonio Apud,
who was Chief of the Depart
ment of Industries under Cas
tro. Until Apud got his family
out of Cuba he “played along”
with Castro.
Stan Senn, left and Bill Nichols
were among those honored at
a supper for Championship
Midget baseball teams Friday
night at Newberry Inn. Stan
was presented the Most Val
uable Player trophy and Bill
was given the Sportsmanship
award. (Sunphoto.)
IN CHARLESTON
Mrs. L. Clifton Graham is a
patient at Roper Hospital in
Charleston where she will be
confined for about three weeks.
She is in room 206, and is get
ting along nicely, according to
reports.
DECORATING BOOKLET
“Wallcoverings, the Secret of
Pictinctive Room,” is a jumbo-sized
consumer booklet now available
from United Wallpaper Company.
Filled with colorful illustrations, it
contains 32 pages of helpful hints
for decorating your home. Send 25-
cents in coin to: United Wallpaper
Company, Box 9377-D, St. Paul,
Minnesota 55177.
DATE-SOUR CREAM DRESSING
Fresh fruit salads are great fa
vorites in the summertime when so
many fresh fruits are in season. But
fruit salads require just the right
kind of salad dressing . . . often a
problem because so many dressings
are designed for vegetable salads.
The importers of Bordo dates
offer us this delicious suggestion for
a Date-Sour Cream Dressing. Blend
'/a cup dairy sour cream, 2 table
spoons lemon juice, 1 tablespoon
sugar and ‘/a cup imported diced
dates. Mix with a variety of fruits
and serve in lettuce cups.
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