The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 40, No. 356, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 22, 1967 Page: 4 of 16
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4 The Altus (Okla.) Times-Democrat, Wednesday, March 22, 1967
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Lucerne
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Crown Colony
Dream Whip
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can
Vanilin
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lit
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Marshmallows
Marshmallows
Mayonnaise
Angel Food
Cream Whipping
Cottage Cheese
Shady Lane Buller
Empress
Fancy
Brawn ‘N Serve
Flakey Gem
Mrs. Wr ghts Cake
Mix-SAVE 6$
Clip And Redeem The Coupon Below At
Safeway By Wednesday, March 29th
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“Grenade!”
Armstrong leaped backwards
as the grenade exploded.
He felt his hip torn open.
He fell in a rolling motion
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Large Ruby
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Prices Are
Effective Through
Saturday, March 25th
In Altus Safeway
Stores
The sergeant searched the 1 \
victim but found nothing. Ris- i
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Young Tender Fresh
BEANS
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made his salary swabbing his
rifle bolt clean or rinsing und-
erwear in a tin bowl. But this
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Cooked 12 to 16 lb. Hams Whole or Shank Hallu.V •
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He found the guerrilla later,
a thin hump of bones, dressed
in silk and instantly dead from
Ocean Spray
Whole or
We Reserve The Right To Limit Quantities!
PARK LANE PLAZA CENTER
He worked all day every , • .
day 3 journey was interrupted.
Sometimes, of course, he had
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Cudahy's Bar 'S' Holiday Boneless $409
Cooked 9 to 11 lb. Whole Hams or Halt Hams Ib.
Fresh Dug Small
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POTATOES
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Complying, the NCO grabbed the ridges to get a firmer grip.
uk ou J a small stick and1 moved a little but it quick-
dug it into one of the ridges y snapped shut.
He had done it innumerable Somebody was under the
times before. Usually, the lid earth; pulling down the lid.
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CHICKENS
VC. He glanced down at his
wound. He could see the hole
and some seeping fluid but it
didn’t appear serious.
He caught sight of the gueril-
la again and squeezed off a
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By TOM TIEDE
HOBO WOODS, Vietnam -
(NEA) — It was near the end
of the month, payday and for
Sgt. Les Armstrong, father of
three, the check would be
somewhere in the neighborhood
of 1500
It figured to a dollar an
hour.
435
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dav it was different. This day i The soldier quick-timed up ed.
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He grabbed the sod and gave away,
a yank. It didn't budge.
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throbbing of his perforated hip.
“It hurt, sarge?” somebody
asked.
Armstrong smiled faintly.
“That's what they pay me
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Heavy Duly Foil
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which concluded with his rifle bavn v . k
pointing directly at the fleeing ing up, he wiped his hands and 3
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Boneles Fully Cooked Cure II $119
7 to 9 lb. Whole Homi or 3% to 4% ib. Hail ib. I
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burst. The gun jammed. Arm-
geant in the chest and bounced strong borrowed a gun and' for," he said.
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he made his living nearly dy- a small path near which sev-
ing. eral officers were standing.,
Armstrong's unit, the 196th Their faces were angled and ----p-
Light Brigade, was on a sweep- their eyes fixed on a s m a 11 the end of
ing jungle search for enemy patch of discoloration. - “ int
and the 25-year-old staff Armstrong stepped around the
sergeant from Malden, Mo., dead piece of earth and exa- .
was picking his weary way mined it closely. It was the would pop up to reveal a Viet But before anyone could react
through the unfriendly thicket, size of a civilian briefcase and Cong tunnel opening, to the realization, the sod sud-
Midway in the morning h i s though roughly camouflaged 1 Not this time, however. Arm- denly shot up into Armstrong's
with bramble it was outlined strong grunted with the stick face.
with traces of shovel markings but the small block ef ground A VC guerrilla appeared in
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COCKTAIL.
Sgt. Armstrong Earns His Living in Vietnam by Nearly Dying x
“Sergeant?” ---------- - -------------------------. _ --
Yessir” Armstrong replied. X "o? tteinpathses in would.not.rryoponiHeremox; a KLUJ tosscd
youo»e he Ot 2° ° "Trap door?" somebody ask- direction. Still no movement.
Dressing Nu-Mode
Tillie Lewis
PEACHES
or Diet
FRUIT
COCKTAIL
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BACON ss
m M |U 6 Mountaire U.S.D.A. Grade A1 4 to
8V 1D 6 Pound Mature Baking
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100 GUNN BROS. STAMPS
With The Purchase of $5.00 ar Moral
Name..............................Address........ ,
LImitOne Coupon Fer Family-Coupon Expires Mar. 25th, 1967
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Buckley, Callaway & Hale, James H. The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 40, No. 356, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 22, 1967, newspaper, March 22, 1967; Altus, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2119131/m1/4/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed July 10, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.