July 22, 2016

Oroville Mercury Register
August 7, 1965
No Progress Toward Viet Peace Claimed
Washington (UPI) Administration officials today reported no movement whatsoever toward a formula for peace negotiations in the South Viet Nam war despite a flurry of diplomatic activity on several fronts. President Johnson, they said, found that a “special message” from President Kwame Nkrumah of Chana boiled down essentially to a renewed a appeal for the United States to stop its bombing attacks on North Viet Nam without any concessions from the Communists. Discussions at the United Nations Friday by the six nonpermanent members of the Security Council, joined at one point by U. S. Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg, were reported to have made no headway in quest for means of bringing an end to the fighting. And a complete assessment of roving U. S. Ambassador W. Averell Harrinman’s talks in Moscow with Soviet Preimer Alexel Kosygin made it clear the Kremlin does not intend to try to persuade Hanoi to stop fighting and start talking. Administration officials, meanwhile, did not express concern over renewed Soviet threats that U. S. plans to increase its troop strength in South Viet Nam would be an “aggressive act’ that would not go unpunished.

Oroville Mercury Register
August 7, 1965
Marines Atop Hill 584 Guard Viet Nam Village From Cong
By Robert C. Miller
Hill 584 Viet Nam (UPI)- Hill 584 looks down on the twinkling lights of Qui Nhon on one side and on the dark jungle strongholds of the Viet Cong on the other. A handful of U. S. Marines is atop the hill to make sure that the lights of Qui Nhon stay bright. Echo Company’s job is to protect Hill 584. They, their mail, and everything they need to exist comes up here by helicopter. If there are any dead or wounded, they will go down the same way. It would take nearly a day of tortuous climbing otherwise. The sunset over the South China Sea brings out the night life in the city below. The neon lights glow over “Rose’s”, “Lily’s,” and the “Blue Angel.” The qui Nhon residents take their strolls about town, the loudspeakers blare at the big movie house, and the towns people sit outside they red tiled houses gossiping. The sunset brings out the night life atop 584 too. The Marines finish their evening meal of C rations and douse all fires. As the lights come on in Qui Nhon, They go out up here. Marines shoulder rifles and move out along the ridge to take up defenses and run patrols that will keep them out in the black jungle until dawn. The night life that comes out around 584 is all enemy. Lt. Richard D. Boryszewski of Yonkers, N.Y., makes the night assignments. Sgt. Donald R. Bragg of Encinitas, Calif., takes one squad and Sgt. Paul McLaughlin of Waltham, Mass., another. Over at the company command post on the other side of the ridge Capt. Fred Tolleson of Oceanside, Calif., tests his communications and prepares for the night. His C.P. is the nerve center of the company and to it comes all the nightly reports. Flares light the sky to the north, hang there for a few minutes and then fade. Up Cu Mong Pass there is a burst of machine gun fire, the thump of distant mortar shelling and the crack of rifle fire, then that too ceases. Once a jet passed over high and heading north to bomb North Viet Nam. Tolleson’s instructions, given quietly in a Texas drawl, are simple. “Keep your eye on ‘em and stay alert.” Finally the outposts report the V.C. “moving away to the north.” There is an easily recognized tone of relief in the report.