Bad Bandages

To Richard Green, the Korean war was a bonanza. As manager of the Guild Products Corporation, an improvised firm with a rented plant in Newark, N.J., Green managed to get a $177,335 Government contract to make bandages of a type used by front-line medical corpsmen for emergency dressings and tourniquets.

Some of the Guild Products' output--earmarked for Marines in Korea--was up to specifications. But 15.000 of the company's bandages were made on defective machines, and were so cut that they would fall apart under the slightest strain. Navy inspectors were shown only good bandages. An indignant Guild Products foreman tipped off the FBI; if he had not done so, the faulty bandages would not have been discovered until they reached the Korean front.

Last week Richard Green was indicted on four counts, each of which might cost him $10,000 and five years in prison. The defective bandages could have been resewn to meet specifications for less than $200.

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