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Tim UnArfratM Armlet .. ♦ Buffer Zone Lies Silent After Troops Go SEOUL UT—Two undefeated arm la*—Allied and Red—walked away from the Korean front today leav tog is silence a narrow strip that •By days ago waa rocked by gun- Are. tinder armistice terms aU troops lad to be out of the ZM-mae-wuie Sait by 16 p m. tonight (S a. m . IST). The Army said most of the Allied front was uninhabited seven laurs before the deadline. Allied soldiers Americans. South Koreans and other troops of Sf ether lands—started leaving the battle Une shortly after the truce Was signed Monday morning The fns fefi silent Monday night. of soldiers walked down from bills they had bought in Mood—from battlegrounds half way between the present and his tory: Heartbreak Ridge . . . White Horae Mountain . . .Old Baidy . . fork Chop Hill Bunker HOI . The Hook . . and the outposts—Vegas, Harry, Berlin and bat Beytin . . Going to the hills they crept •kmg under Mazing Red guns in the infantryman’s wary, crouch- Mg walk. When they came down they walked upright, with no shell* to foar. South Korean troops pulled back In^MMULUjrnai OH SALS AT FADSTO'S Food Palace VICTORY • * CASH MARKET 1028 Tnunan Are. We Deliver Phone 2-2013 BBTRireT nr nrrr m nawMBNI . RIB STEW -15 c SMALL fresh ground lean BEEF CHOPS HAMBURGER 69c 1 “• 19c TOP ROUND €be Steaks 69c GR._A MEDIUM LEAN MEATY EGOS SPARE RIBS m 59c “■ 43c FRANCO AMERICAN SPAOHITTI a c 29c AMERICAN IN OIL Campbell's Tomato • SARDINES SOUP , 2 2k I Armour's Evap. ZSC MEK . 3 „ 35* SOAP FAB AJAX CASHMKRt toourr . 3 ng. bars 23c 27 e 2 can. 23 c POTATOES PEAR HECTAB No.iS 19c - Cos 25c WMPTI PREMIUM | BOVRIL Vietna Sausage & 33c I Corned Beef. . can 39c in an orderly fashion from the two] thirds of foe front they held. Almost all fortifications were destroyed. Bunkers were caved to and trenches filled Timbers were salvaged where possible. Across no man’s land, from-Uae officers reported toe Chinese and! North Koreans were sometimes using pack mules to get their equipment out. At toe southern edge of the de militarized zone, the Allied eel-! diers strung barbed wire and act up roadblocks to prevent anyone from entering. The zone wQI be polked by s members of the Military Armistice! Commission si Panmunjoat. The Allied command strung signs ail along the border saying, “South Limits Demilitarized Zone.' ;Do Not Enter.” The signs are Is English and Korea. In some sectors, American and other Allied soldiers worked fever-1 ishly to destroy elaborate fortifi cations before the deadline. I Associated Press photographer George Sweers said 2nd Division infantrymen were working hastily { to demolish the trenches and! .bunker* on Outpost Harry, j About SO Chinese sat lazily on a hill 100 yards away and watchadJ .The Chinese spectators occasion ally played records over a loud speaker for the Americans. | The Chinese brought little pack [jagea containing wine and handker-j chief* and left them on the battle field Just forward o>f one listening [poet. ■ Meanwhile, far to the north, U. N. fortes wero leaving islands off I both coasts of Korea. The islands were-used for radar and air res cue bases. Their deadline for leav ing is 10 p. m. Aug. C. As the Allied soldiers left the front lines some looked hack—for possibly their last look—at the famous battle hills of Korea they 1 were giving up: I Heartbreak Ridge, in eastern Korea, which the American art Infantry Regiment won in a vic ious, month-long bfttif fo the fall I of 1851. It was the first of the] [great Korean MU battles and set the pattern for toe others. Sandbag Castle, a little farthet to too east, where American and North Korean troops faced each I [other only 30 yards apart. | Bunker ROD, hi toe west, where American Marines fought bloody, tenacious battle hi the shadow of I the hallooes floating over the Pan-1 mttafom neutral circle. White Horae Mountain, north of Chorwoo on toe Central Front, I where the Republic of Korea Army met and won its first great test] last October. ■ And tome were ether famous hills, where Americans and theirl allies had died, which toe Reds were riving up: I Old Baidy, northwest of Char won; Pork Chop Hill and T-Bent Hill, in the same neighborhood; and Sniper Ridge, Jane Russell! Hill and Triangle Hill north of :Knmhwa. [ Other hills of Utter memory lay north of toe buffer aone and wifi] remain In Rad hands: i Capitol Hill and Anchor HHI, and j the giant fortress of 3.300-ftx# Papa-Sen on the Central Front [which towers over the Kumbwa Valley. Fund Use Studied PUNT, Mich. Üb-Social workers hi tornado-struck Flint are study log -applications to determine the best way of distributing $801,547 collected for the Red Feather dis aster fund. James R. Burroughs, fond treas urer, reported the total Tuesday and said nona of the money, rep-, rearming donations Brora indivi-l duals and independent organisa tions, had yet been spent ! Thursday, My 31, ITS Dog Days In Sigsbee Park AML ALTHOUGH HE'S ONLY ONE YEAR OLD, Jasper, the Fuller's magnificent English Sheepdog, is almost as big as his mistress, Mary. Jasper oelebrated his birthday Sunday with a doggie party complete with Lolly pups and Hamburger Cake. The gala event took place at the Fuller residence in Sigsbee Part: on Sunday when five canine friends assembled with their own ers and celebrated. Jasper is shown above in the jaunty party hat he wore, tired but happy in the arms of Mrs. Mary Fuller. —Citizen Staff Photo by Finch. Display Cancelled KALAMAZOO, Mich. OP - Be cause of unsettled political condi tions in Berlin, Kalamazoo will miss its chance to present ihe typi cal American city exhibit at the Berlin Trade Fair this fall. The city was cnosen for toe hon or in the spring after State Depart " — From deep inside you comes a new stir and sparkle when you take the wheel of a fun-filled car like this Buick Convertible. Yhi feel happier just to be in a car with the lilt of larks to its styling - with the breeze-blessed airiness of all outdoors all around you. It’s a car that freshens your spirits with its sky-filled view—yet it can snug you in weather-tight shelter, when the need arises, with a mere finger-touch of hydraulic buttons. But you get a heart-lift in this Convertible from something more than just its looks, or its versatility, or die push-button control of its top, its front seat and its windows. —• WWBI METTat AIITOMOMUS AM MKT MMX Ml MK TMM MULBERG CHEVROLET CO. Comer CAROLINE STREET and TELEGRAPH LANE DIAL 24743 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ment representatives conducted a nationwide survey. However, the department now has informed Kal amazoo officials that chaotic con ditions in toe German city malm offering the display an impractical move. A head of cauliflower - about one and one-half pounds - can he cooked while in about 30 minutes. PLASTIC SURGERY? r WOONSOCKET, R. 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