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Oshawa Times (1958-), 19 Feb 1964, p. 20

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Pistol-Packing Mama Now Viet Nam Legend "mcr . SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP)-- 'She wears her black hair long and flowing in the traditional pha og ees Maden She is known to ~ flamboyant, assertive and cruel, : Her name is Kim Loan, Some say sho is 33 and beautiful, Oth- ers say she is 38 and ugly. Alla that Kim Loan is an authentic pistol-packing mama who is becoming a leg: = in the countryside south of Loan actually has two pistols strapped to her tiny w both are carried for the Communist Viet Cong cause, COMMUNIST SYMBOL "She is just the sort of symbol you could expect the Commu- nists to come up with in Viet later she left her two young} Long An province capital of Tan An, and headed into the swamps to join the Viet Cong. | all-male territorial units, win-| pistol and the Communists' chief military commander for the Tan An sub:' of a regimental commander, Province authorities are well aware of Kim Loan's opera. with a bodyguard of two men) armed with sub-machine-guns, | "speak too," and She soon emerged as a bold|pistol down, money to my guerrilla in Long An's normally, He quickly brought more ning the ri lp hag ig dpnd She is responsible for ' "nage and subversive cent months she has risen to be against the government in her jAmerican who works in the area. "But her activities have caught their imagination. And 'for all they know, maybe she is supe. atural,"' Province authorities are anx- The province chief believes he can talk her into joining the gov- trict chief, was killed by gov-, Wien he pleaded he could notiornment, and has offered her ernment forces. A few daysjalford to pay, eds. 000 plasters (about $70) and children, a boy and girl, with|slammed one of her weapons! her husband's relatives in ajon the table. The man rushed with him. strategic hamlet south of thejoff to get the money. When he returned, she said, "you were} too slow--speak to this one,| slammed the other | tl safe conduct, to have lunch Despite the wild life she leads in the paddies and swamps of the Mekong Delta, Kim Loan parently still finds time to be woman, Three weeks ago she slipped into Tan An to have her hair waved, The province authorities SPIO" hoard about it, but by the time ithey swooped on the beauty par- 'lor Kim Loan, with coiffure Population Soars Over 19 Million OTTAWA (CP) -- Canada's population soared past the 19,- 000,000 mark an, 1, the bureau of stv' ties estimated today, The popuiation estimate of 19,102,000 at the start of the year repr sented a gain of $55,000 or 1.8 per cent compared with the same date a year ago. Since the June 1, 1961, census count, the population has in- creased by 864,00) or 4,7 per cent, The increase since July 1, 1963, has been 174,000 or one months ' Ul deve wie ass Among the provinces, the largest numerical growth in the 12 months since Jan, 1, 1063, was in. Ontario where the in- crease was 131,000 or two per cent, Quebec was second with an increase of 94,000 or 1.7 per cent, Populations by provinces at Jan, 1, with year earlier figures in brackets: Newfoundland 486,- 000 (477,000), Prince Edward Is- land 107,000 (107,000), Nova Sco- tia 763,000 (750,000), New Bruns- wick 615,000 (611,000), Quebec 5,524,000 (5,430,000), Ontario 6,- 532,000 (6,401,000), Manitoba 957,000 (944,000), Saskatchewan 936,000 (930,000), Alberta 1,421, 000 (1,394,000), British Columbia 1,720,000 (1,684,000), Yukon 16,- 000 (15,000) and the Northwest Territories 25,000 (24,000), per cent while in the first six| of 1868 the rise was 141,-! CFTO Station TORONTO (CP) -- A strike by television technicians at CFTO here caused cancellation Monday of one program which is produced in the station's Sredih ieeidinds eelda ea'. rville McGuire, sentative, said none of the 75 union members employed by the station was at work, The dispute arose when two cameramen refused to accept a work assignment ob the grounds that it involved a job classifl- cation other than their regular one, region, entailing considerable) naw)y set, had gone back to her movement, Cong. tions, They know she travels) VILLAGERS IMPRESSED : In recent months sector--roughly the equivalent) ny» has recruited 33 men from jher old village to join the Viet hideout, : OLD SITE GOES KITCHENER, Ont, (CP) -- One of the city's older land- As villagers tell it, Kim Loan|marks, the Kingsbeer brewery climbed a tree to escape pur-|building, is being demolished to A Storeful of THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, Febryory 9, 1964 19 BEST ACTRESS AWARD! SOPHIA LOREN ACADEMY AWARD WINNER! INCREDIBLE --BUT TRUE! "THE SKY ABOVE MUD BELOW" colon OPEN 6:30 P.M. LA, SHO' ST, Performance in "TWO WOMEN" SPECIAL CAST! Ww RTS P.M. 4 > > > Nam," an American observer noted" she is clever, brash and|CAN BE TOUGH elusive, Vietnamese peasants) One of her duties is collecting talk of her exploits with humor|taxes for the Viet Cong. And and awe," she tan be tough, A villager) Kim Loan's rise to promi-|told province authorities that nence has taken about one year,/Kim. Loan visited him, demand- Her husband, a Viet Cong dis-'ing tax. 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