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Thursday, June 22, 1967 Griffin Daily News
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The Griffin Women of the Moose No. 1288 held its
installation of officers for 1967-68 at the Griffin
Moose Lodge. The new officers were installed by
James T. Chappell, governor of Griffin Lodge No.
1503 Loyal Order of the Moose. Lucille Estes, College
of Regents, was installing chairman, Marie William
son, installing guide and Mary Vertere, installing
chaplain. Dowell Bartley, state director of Moose,
M-16 Rifles Jam In Combat;
Marines Want Old Guns Back
By ROBERT KAYLOR
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) — Several
months ago a Marine staff ser
geant with a rifle company that
was pinned down by Communist
fire south of the demilitarized
Bone (DMZ) found himself in
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Lying next to the sergeant
was a man who had just been
seriously wounded in the arm
and was losing blood.
The sergeant was carrying
one of the first Ml 6 rifles taken
into combat by a Marine,
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spoke to the assembly. The new officers are (1-r)
Lillie Dell Maddox, senior regent; Jean Harris, chap
lain; Dot Chappell, recorder; Rudine McKemie,
assistant guide; Virginia Battson, argus; Bea Bevil,
pianist; Mary Louttit, sentinel; Lee Stapel, guide;
Edie Lewis, treasurer; Mary Greene, junior regent;
Irene Akin, graduate regent; Asenith Crawford, out
going graduate regent.
although Army units had been
; armed with the new weapon for
i some time.
1 With Communist bullets snap
ping inches away, the sergeant
; raised his rifle to lay down cov
i ering fire so other Marines
, could drag the wounded man
off—one shot — and then the
rifle jammed hoplessly.
The Marines were able to get
the wounded man to a medical
corpsman in time to save his
life. But the sergeant never took
that Ml 6 to the field again and
disposed of it shortly afterward.
Space Photos May
Aid Geologists
By AL ROSSITER JR.
United Press International
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) -
Prospectors of the future may
use space to look for oil and
mineral deposits on earth.
Geologists on the ground
won’t be replaced, but their
painstaking study of some of
the world’s most rugged and re
mote areas may be aided tre
mendously by observers with an
orbital vantage point.
This was pointed out at a re
cent meeting of the American
Astronautical Society in a pa
per by Dr. Monem Abdel-
Gawad, a research scientist for
the North American Aviation
science center at Thousand
Oaks, Calif.
He said a careful study of
photographs taken by Gemini
The inident is significant in
light of recent charges that the
modernistic Ml 6 rifle, now
adopted as the standard U. S.
infantry weapon in Vietnam, is
unreliable and prone to jam.
The Ml 6is a lightweight
weapon with a black plastic
stock and a carrying handle on
top which fire? at an unusually
high rate of 800 to 850 rounds a
minute.
The rifle was a futuristic
shaped flash hider at the front
of the barrel backed by sev
eral metal rings. To the unini
tiated, it looks like something
straight out of Buck Rogers.
Complaints against the MIG
have increased since the weapon
was made available to the Ma
rines late last year and the Ml 4
was phased out by Leatherneck
infantry units. Manw Marines
have said they want their old
Ml4s back.
The furor got to Washington,
where a congressman quoted a
letter from a young Marine to
his mother in which he said,
"these new Ml 6 rifles aren’t
worth a ” The House sent
a committee here to investigate.
Some military sources take
the view that jamming prob
lems will be reduced when
troops who are new to the
weapon learn how to take care
of it properly.
“I think if a guy knows how
to clean it he’s in good shape,”
said one. He said a recent mili
tary investigation showed that
some of the soldiers who had
complained about jamming had
admitted to cleaning their
weapons just once a week.
“In this kind of war and this
kind of country a weapon may
need cleaning as much as three
or four times a day,” the
source said.
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astronauts demonstrates the po
tential of studying earth’s sur
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the efficient exploration of min
erals, petroleum and other na
tural resources.”
Abel-Gawad said Gemini as
tronauts in 1965 and 1966 snap
ped many high quality color
photographs of the Red Sea ba
sin and North Africa, for exam
ple, where there usually is clear
weather and little vegetation to
obscure rock formations.
“This region provides excel
lent exposure of unlimited geo
logic features which can be ef
fectively studied from space.”
He noted the area contains a
large variety of exposed rock
spanning ages dating from a
million years ago, has outstand-
There have also been some
complaints from units such as
the Army’s Ist Air Cavalry Di
vision, which has had the Ml 6
since it came to Vietnam in
1965.
One such gripe, according to
military sources, may be valid.
It is that although the Ml 6
bullet has greater speed than
the Ml 4 51ug—3,250 feet per sec
ond compared with 2,600 feet
per second — and therefore
greater penetrating power, the
bullet is lighter.
This means, according to the
complainers, that an Ml 6 bullet
often is deflected from its
source by heavy jungle foliage
in places where another slug
would bore its way through to
ward a communist target.
But the smaller size and
weight of the Ml 6 round (it is
approximately .22 caliber com
pared to the Ml4’s 7.62 mm) al
so presents an advantage.
An infantryman can carry as
many as 400 rounds for an Ml 6
in 20-round magazines, is about
the limit a man can carry. This
means the soldier with the Ml 6
has double the firepower.
Tlie weight of the weapon it
self is also smaller—6.s pounds
lor an Ml 6, compared with 9.84
pounds for an Ml 4.
Whether or not complaints a
bout the Ml 6 turn out to be
justified, they may soon be ac
ademic. Some units in Vietnam
are now testing a new weapon
that is even more Buck Roger
ish than the Ml 6.
Tlie weapon, known as “ston
er,” can be converted easily for
use as either a pistol, a rifle,
or a machinegun. Officials say
they do not yet know when or
if it will become ready for mass
distribution.
ing oil and minteral reserves,
broad areas of unmapped de
serts and is crossed by the
great Nile River system.
From some of the Gemini
photographs, Abdel-Gawad said
geologic maps have been pre
pared which show the results of
earth ruptures and movements
millions of years ago.
Such cataclysmic disturbanc
es trapped some of the oil now
being pumped out of the Gulf of
Suez region. By locating previ
ously unmapped areas of these
earth movements, or faults, ge
ologists may find new prospec
tive sites to search for oil.
Abdel-Gawad said the maps
contain “a wealth of new ge
ologic data” which also may
play an important role in in
creasing man’s understanding
of the complex geologic history
of northeast Frica and the Red
Sea valley.
“Comparable work would
normally require many man
years of ground field-mapping
to obtain,” he noted.
He said most of the earth sci
ence experiments that may be
suggested for future orbital
missions should be able to satis-
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SECOND CHOICE
TOKYO (UPD — The United
States placed second behind
Switzerland as the country
Japanese people like most, a
monthly public opinion poll
conducted by a Japanese news
agency said Wednesday.
Asked to “list up to three
countries you like,” 37.8 per
cent of the Japanese polled
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But 37.7 per cent replied
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SOVIETS BOW OUT
MOSCOW (UPl)—Tass said
Wednesday the Soviet Union has
withdrawn from participation in
the first live television program
linking the world.
The program, “Our World,” is
to be screened Sunday by a
satellite hookup of 40 nations.