JANUARY 29, 2014 THE PRESS PAGE 3
&Walsh County
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FOR THE TROOPS
-Walsh County Veterans Service Office
The Fascinating story of Moe Berg
When Baseball greats Babe Ruth
and Lou Gehrig went on tour in
baseball-crazy Japan in 1934 some
fans wondered by a third string
catcher named Moe Berg was in-
cluded. The answer was simple
Berg was a US spy.
Garbed in a Kimono one night
Berg took flowers to the daughter
of an American Diplomat that was
being treated in St Luke's Hospital
which was the tallest building in
Tokyo. Needless to say the flow-
ers never got delivered as Berg as-
cended to the roof to film key fea-
tures of the harbor, military instal-
lations and railway yards etc. Eight
years later Jimmy Doolittle would
study this film to plan his famous
operation entitled the Doolittle
Raid.
Moe Berg grew up in Newark, NJ
as the son of a pharmacist. He had
a love for baseball; as kid he start-
ed playing it on the streets of his
hometown at the age of four. He at-
tended Barringer high School where
he learned Latin, Greek, and French.
He graduated Magna CUT Laude
from Princeton having added Span-
ish, Italian, German, and Sanskrit to
his linguistic quiver. During further
studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and
at Columbia Law School he picked
up Japanese, Chinese Korean, In-
dian, Arabic, Portuguese, and Hun-
garian, fifteen languages in all.
In World War II he was para-
chuted into Yugoslavia to assess the
value to the war effort of two
groups of partisans there. No small
feat for a man of forty-one years of
age. He reported back that Marshall
Tito's forces were widely support-
ed by the people and Winston
Churchill thus ordered all out sup-
port for the Yugoslav tmderground.
Later that same year he penetrat-
ed German held Norway, met with
members of the underground and
located a secret heavy water plant
which was part of the Nazi's effort
to build the atomic bomb. His in-
formation guided the Royal Air
Force in their bombing raid to de-
stroy the facility. Concerned about
German efforts to build a nuclear
weapon he was sent to Switzerland
under the code name "Remus" dis-
guised as a graduate student he met
with Werner Heisenberg to get in-
formation from him as to whether
the Germans were close to obtain-
ing the weapon. Lucky for Heisen-
berg the Germans were not as Berg
was instructed to assassinate the sci-
entist if the Nazi's were close to
building it. Moe Berg's report
was given to both Winston
Churchill and President Roosevelt
who responded by saying "give my
regards to the catcher".
After the war Moe Berg was
awarded the Medal of Merit which
is America's highest honor for a
civilian in wartime. He refused to
accept the award and it was later
given to his sister after Berg passed
away and is now on display at Base-
ball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown,
NY. Clearly this man was a very
fascinating and courageous indi-
vidual who we would do well to re-
member.
Just a little tidbit of history that I
hope you enjoyed.
Chris Kratochvil * Walsh
County Veterans Service Officer
Administrative Building, 638
Cooper Ave Ste 5, Grafton
Larry Syverson, Past Presi-
dent and Lobbyist for the ND-
TOA will review and discuss with
you the changes
of your duties and responsibil-
ities as township officers.
' Mark Verke, Risk Manage-
ment Specialist of the North
Dakota Insurance Reserve Fund
will speak on risk reduction in
your township.
The Country Lawyer Colum-
nist in our quarterly newsletter,
Mr. Tom Moe, will hold an open
forum on the legal responsibilities
of township Officers.
Hotel Meeting room, 7-9 PM
February 12 ..... Williston
Earnie French Center, 1-3 PM
February 12 ..... Stanley
South Community Hall 7-9 PM
February, 13 .:..,. Borhan
I Uity Hall 1-3 PM - "
February 13 ..... Regent The
Enchanted Castle 7-9 PM
February 14 .... Steele The
Vets Club 1-3 PM
February 24 .... Larimore
American Legion Club 1-3 PM
February 25 .... Park River
City Hall 1-3 PM
February 25 .... Langdon
Farewell from the Mayor
As you can tell from the title, I
have decided not to run again for
the position of mayor in the best
city in North Dakota.
2 terms, 8 years and we have
accomplished so much in that
time. When you voted me in, 8
years ago, I had 5 major projects I
thought the city needed and 4 of
them are done. Ground level hous-
ing for retired citizens, addition to
the bike path, new sidewalks on
Main Street and new sidewalks to
the school, help getting Kringstad
Ironworks established with the
right funding, finding some new
businesses AND last but not least,
getting something done with the
rough railroad crossing on high-
way 17. Everything has been done
except the crossing and that
should be accomplished this year
when the state works on #17.
With the addition of Walsh
Grain LLC, the new building lots,
roads, infrastructure and every-
thing, we added about $30 million
to the City of Park River, over and
above what we usually do.
There are 2 words I absolutely
hate--the word 'T' and the word
"CAN'T"! All these improve-
ments were completed by working
as a team. I would like to thank
and the people I've worked with
over the years. The development
corporation, the community club,
the renaissance zone committee,
the housing authority, the planning
and zoning committee, the airport
authority, The Red River Regional
Council, county commissioners,
the hospital board, the school
board, the fair board and the li-
brary board,just to name a FEW!!
A special thanks to the city
council members that I have had
the privilege to work within the
past 8 years. They have had to
make some very hard decisions
and there is always some second
guessing but things ,always
seeme0 [0, wrk ot nd It ,,
a tougli job and tfie2’ mfiriage a'ton
of money and make sure it goes
where it will help the city. I think
it's pathetic that with all those re-
sponsibilities and all the phone
calls and all the meetings that the
"pay" is $100 per month. Gotta'
love the "job" because you sure
aren't going to get rich!
I don't even know where to
the country. In any other city, all
the work that our 3 office people
accomplish, the number of people
in that office would be at least
doubled. Excellent job ! ! !
Our outside employees are the
same, managing an electric utility,
furnishing a supply of excellent
water to hundreds and keeping the
sewers running in the right direc-
tion. The snow removal is second
to NONE and all the mowing,
street maintance, water breaks and
everything else they do to keep
Park River looking good. They all
do a FANTASTIC job.
A special thanks to our city at-
torney, Steve Currie. He has de-
cided not to be the city attorney
after the 2014 election. He has
saved the city thousands if not
millions of dollars with his expert-
ise. I've asked some pretty stupid
questions over the years and his
reply has always been" Are you
really that stupid or are you act-
ing"! Actually, he never said that
but I'm sure he was thinking it!
Park River has a great future
ahead of it and I'm just glad I was
able to be a part of that. I've gone
toe to toe with a couple of gover-
nors, state legislators, US senators
and Representatives. I've written
letters to the same, letters to the
editors of papers all over the state
and did a radio show to get state
funding for our water tower.
We got a 50% grant from the
state but I would like to see that in-
creased to 75%. It looks now like
it will become a reality in 2015.8
long hard years of work and it was
worth every second of it!
Park River's infrastructure
needs MILLIONS of dollars of
improvement. The water and,
sewer lines are terrible and need to
be replaced. A recent break in a
cast iron water main was the size
of a silver dollar but we had to dig
up 20' just to get enough good
pip.e, 9]each end to d9 the splic-!
ing±we need to start replacing as'
soon as possible. The state has the.
money to help all the cities with its
infrastructure needs but they
would rather stick it in another
"rainy day fund". Let your legis-
lators know that it's raining and
cities need the money NOW!
It's been my pleasure!
Thanks for the memories!
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