Female VC sharpshooter builds record with 18 kills
TOKYO (UPI)—Hanoi's news agency said yesterday the Viet Cong are hailing a new heroine with the sharpshooting skill of a Sergeant York—a girl about as tall as her rifle "with a record of killing 18 Yanks with 21 bullets."
The North Vietnam News Agency (NVA) said "Tran Thi Buoil, usually a shy girl, has become an outstanding destroyer of Yanks with her brilliant record," reportedly achieved near Dong Ha in northeastern South Vietnam.
NVA said the girl, whose home is in the coastal town of Quang Tri in South Vietnam, drew laughs from her battlefront comrades when she arrived toting her gun.
"Is it you who carry the gun or the gun that carries you," NVA quoted one frontline joke.
State blamed for low wages paid students
Students have traditionally blamed the University of Kansas administration for comparably low student wages. But Vice-Chancellor Raymond Nichols prefers to pass the buck to the Kansas legislature.
In an interview Friday, Nichols explained that seemingly low campus minimum wages were the result of a lack of cooperation on behalf of the legislature.
"Nearly every time we've asked the state legislature for additional money towards wages, we've gotten a flat 'no.'"
Nichols explained the intricacies of financing student wages and the problems which arise when the federal minimum wage law is raised.
The money is first allocated by the state legislature whereupon University departments are granted a certain amount of money.
However problems arise when the federal minimum wage law is raised and the legislature refuses to give the University enough money to cover the raised wage.
In this case Nichols explained, a reduction in the number of student work hours is necessary to compensate for the lack of required finances.
Nichols said however, as of July 1 of this year, the legislature will give an unspecified amount of money which will increase the available amount of student work hours.
According to a student employment manual compiled by the Payroll Office, the present campus minimum wage is $1.30 an hour with the highest paying jobs available to graduate research assistants who can earn $3.00 an hour. The next highest wage of $2.75 an hour can be earned by computer programmers and operators and nursing assistants. Each job opportunity is categorized into four wage grades which are determined by performance and experience.
The history of student wages has been unimpressive with an hourly wage of $.70 an hour as late as 1966.
Then, it said, she ran up her deadly sniping toll in three days.
However, Nichols explained that because of annual 15 cent increases in the minimum wage law extending into 1971, campus wage opportunities which are now low compared to off-campus wages will be raised to $1.70 an hour.
Her first targets, NVA said, were a group of GIs at a position near Dong Ha.
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"They didn't know that Buoi and other liberation fighters' guns were leveled at them, it said. "Some gathered to talk. It was at this time Buoi aimed at two GIs sitting close to each other. Her bullet went through both bodies and they instantly fell stone dead."
Buoi was so engrossed in sniping that nightfall came without her knowing it. That day, she killed seven GIs.
The next day, it said, all U.S. troops dived for cover when her first shot killed one of them, "except for one gunner who was bringing his mortar in Buoi's direction and preparing to open fire.
"She calmly waited and when the enemy gunner stood up and was about to tuck in a shell, she pulled the trigger and sent him to hell."
The final day, it said, "Buoi picked off nine GIs without the survivors knowing where the lethal bullets had come from."
COFFEYVILLE (UPI) - A 3-year-old girl, shot in the abdomen, was in critical condition yesterday after receiving transfused blood of a rare type, rushed here from Wichita in an emergency relay complicated by an accident.
Girl, 3, critical gets rare blood
Lt. Jack Meloy of the Sedgwick County sheriff's office was carrying blood for Stephanie Smith when his car was hit broadside by another car at a Wichita intersection.
After the crash, Sedwick County Sheriff Vern Miller sped to the accident scene, picked up the shipment of type A-negative blood, and rushed it to a state trooper waiting at the city limits.
The blood was then passed from car to car in a relay that delivered it to the Coffeyville Memorial Hospital.
Hospital attendants said the condition of the girl, remained in critical condition following surgery. She was shot accidentally while several children were playing with a small caliber revolver they had taken from a drawer at the Smith home.
Ike grows weaker has constant oxygen
WASHINGTON (UPI)
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower grew progressively weaker during the weekend despite the "vigorous" efforts of his doctors to counteract his latest heart affliction, the hospital said yesterday.
Eisenhower, 78, requires constant oxygen and other medical support after suffering congestive heart failure March 15 at Walter Reed Army Medical
Center where he has been hospitalized since last spring.
A hospital spokesman released this report on Eisenhower's condition:
"During the past weekend, General Eisenhower has grown progressively weaker. The manifestations of the previous reported congestive heart failure have increased, despite vigorous therapy. He is requiring continuous oxygen.
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