Griffin Daily News
Constantine, Military
May Settle Differences
By ANTHONY TOBIN
United Press International
Deposed King Constantine of
Greece and the militry regime
he tried and failed to overthrow
are talking about settling their
differences, well-informed sour
ces in Athens said today.
There was no official an
nouncement of contacts between
the young king now in Rome
and the military junta in
Athens.
But UPI correspondent Ernes
to A. Lotito reported from
Athens one informed source
said “something is definitely
afoot to bring the two opposing
sides together.”
In Rome, informed sources
told DPI that Constantine held
lengthy talks with Greek
Ambassador Antonis Poumpou
ras, who then conferred with
junta leaders in Athens.
Constantine was today shut
tling back and forth between a
borrowed Roman villa and the
high-walled Greek Embassy in
the eternal city.
Flees To Rome’
Constantine fled to Rome
early Thursday after the Greek
armed forces failed to rally to
his call for the overthrow of the
colonels who have ruled his
kingdom since an April 21 coup.
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"First In Fashions"
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Friday, Dec. 15, 1967
The colonels followed up his
flight to Rome by naming a
regent.
In his lost home of Athens,
the - military rulers today
ordered back into place the
portraits of Constantine that
some officials had taken down
from public buildings.
Observers in the Greek
capital said the government has
left the door open for Constan
tine’s return. The regent, Lt.
Gen. George Zoitakis, 58, was
assuming the king’s functions
but not replacing the monarch,
the observers said.
Constantine also was reported
busy in search for a home away
from home.
In Denmark, where King
Frederick, Constantine’s father
in-law rules the prime minister
said the Greek royal family
would be welcome. Prime
Minister Harold Wilson of
Britain, where Prince Philip is
a cousin of Constantine, indicat
ed Constantine and his Queene
Anne Marie would be given
Vietnam War Plans
Four-Day Holiday
asylum if they chose.
Rome appeared unsuitable.
The Italian government was
reported unhappy. Its relations
with the seven-month-old milita
ry junta in Greece, now more
solidly entrenched after Con
stantine’s failure Wednesday,
have never been chummy.
Constantine’s presence was not
helping matters.
Then there were riots. Police
arrested 31 persons demonstrat
ing for and against the king and
the junta outside the embassy
Thursday night. Four were
charged with hurling ink bottles
at police. All later were
released.
Diplomatic sources reported
Washington was unahppy at the
junta’s being in power but felt
that recognition for the regime
would have to come in view of
the Athens regime’s anticom
munism and Greece’s position
as a vital anchor of the North
Atlantic pact. But the sources
said much depended on what
Constantine did.
By ALVIN B. WEBB
SAIGON (UPl)—The allies
will observe four days of war
truce during the year end
holidays and are willing to
discuss an even longer ceasefire
if it might lead to “fruitful
results,” South Vietnam an
nounced today.
“Fruitful results” was not
defined in the foreign ministry
statement. It appeared to mean
peace talks, observers said.
The statement said the allies
will observe a one day truce at
Christmas, one at New Year’s
and two days at the Asian lunar
new year TET late in January.
The Viet Cong sought a 13 day
truce period.
Includes Bombing Pause
The truce includes a con
troversial bombing pause over
North Vietnam, the statement
said.
The announcement said that
during the truce allied troops
will fire only when fired upon in
South Vietnam. American Jets
will pause in their bombing of
North Vietnam, a move strongly
opposed by many allied strate
gists who argued the period will
only give the Communists more
time to muscle up their war
effort.
The truce announcement
came amid reports of battle in
South and North Vietnam.
U.S. spokesmen said two
battles were raging in the
South. In Binh Dinh province
300 miles northeast of Saigon.
In one fight, U.S. troops were
battling about 200 Communists
on the spot where 510 North
Vietnamese were killed in a six
day battle that ended four days
ago. In the new fighting, six
Communists were reported
killed with American reinforce
ments pouring into the battle.
Hit Government Outpost
At another point in the
province, U.S Army armored
units were reported battling
North Vletnamse who overrran
a government outpost. Ameri
can commanders reported 55
Communists killed so far with
three Gls killed and 10
wounded.
In the air, Communist reports
said American Jets struck the
Hanoi area of North Vietnam in
two waves today.
American spokesmen reported
a sudden break in monsoon
clouds gave U.S. jets their first
crack in nearly a month
Thursday against the Hanoi-
Haiphong areas of North
Vietnam. MIGs rose to meet the
raiders over both the capital
and the big port city.
U.S. spokesmen said a Navy
F 8 Crusader jet shot down a
MIGI7 in a six-minute dogfight
near Hanoi. It was the 99th
MIG shot down by American
pilots.
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GREEK UPRISING reported led by King Constantine shook the military junta
that seized power from the civilian government last April.
Senate Okays Increase In
Social Security Benefits
Army Planning
Special Force
For Active Duty
WASHINGTON (UPl)—The
Army will soon designate a new
“select force” of 150,000 civilian
reserves who will attend addi
tional weekend drills In prepara
tion for a possible call to active
duty, lt was learned today.
The new priority-status force
is slated to include 89,000
National Guardsmen and 61,000
from the organized Army
reserve. This compares with
119,000 Guardsmen and 31,000
reservists In the present "select
force,” which it will replace.
The changeover Is expected
May 1. Informed sources said
all but three states—New
Jersey, Ohio and Illinois—have
approved the plan, and that the
remaining differences between
them and the Army are minor.
An Immediate difference for
civilians placed in the “select
force” Is that they get 72
weekend drills a year Instead of
the usual 48. In addition, they
face the prospect of being the
first called up If there Is a
decision to use reserves In
Vietnam.
The present force was formed
two years ago, and apparently
will end its priority tour without
seeing active service. With
Defense Secretary Robert S.
McNamara scheduled to leave
the Pentagon to head the World
Bank, however, there Is no
assurance his policy will con
tinue.
In a sharp shift toward more
support and fewer combat units,
the new select force will Include
only two Instead of three
National Guard divisions. Those
slated to be tapped are the 42nd
and the 26th, with headquarters
in New York and Massa
chusetts, respectively.
The shift accounts for the
larger proportion of the orga
nized reserves, which consist
mainly of supporting units. The
reserves will be furnishing only
Infantry Brigade from Pennsyl
vania.
The National Guard divisions
which are now “select” and
which are scheduled to go back
to 40 drills a year are the 28th
of Pennsylvania, the 38th of
Indiana and the 47th of
Minnesota. It Is not expected
that any units in the present
select force will be Included In
the new organization.
“The Idea is to pass the
training around and share the
burden” a guard official said.
“In addition, from the stand
point of national defense, the
units which have achieved
added readiness In the last two
years will retain lt and will be
available for use, if necessary,
for a long time.”
WASHINGTON (UPI) — For
the second time in as many
days, the Senate today gave
final congressional approval to
a bill providing the biggest
Social Security benefit increases
since the program was esta
blished in 1935.
The measure, which now goes
to President Johnson for his
signature, also contained broad
new curbs on welfare aid that a
small band of Senate liberals
fought unsuccessfully to elimin
ate.
What happened was that the
bill’s floor manager, Sen.
Russell B. Long, D-La., a wily
veteran of many Senate filibus
ters, called up the measure
Thursday morning when only a
few senators were present and
attempted to ram the measure
through on a voice vote.
At that point, Senate Demo
cratic leader Mike Mansfield of
Davis To File
For Recount In
Sheriff’s Race
JEFFERSON, Ga. (UPI)—I.
W. Davis said today he will file
a petition in Superior Court
asking a recount of the sher
iff’s election which he lost by
one vote to former state rev
enue agent Curtis H. Spence.
The official returns gave
Spence 2,758 votes and Davis 2,-
757 in Wednesday’s voting.
“Many of my friends and sup
porters asked me to do it,” Da
vis said. “The petition will be
filed this afternoon.”
Davis said, “We feel like
there could possibly have been
a mistake In the vote count.”
The two men were running
for the year left In the term
of L. G. (Snuffy) Perry, who
resigned after a grand Jury
said he failed to properly en
force liquor laws.
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Montana rushed Into the cham
ber to protest the maneuver,
though he was not a member of
the liberal band.
He sought and won reconsider
ation of the measure, but with a
condition that a vote must be
taken today. Thus, though the
liberals got a second chance,
any idea they had of talking the
bill to death was gone.
Long’s tactics so enraged Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., one
of the liberal leaders, that he
challenged the “integrity and
honesty” of Long and Sen.
Robert C. Byrd, D-W. Va.,
secretary of the Democratic
leadership who was on the floor
at the time.
The bill, which was considera
bly less than President Johnson
asked for last January, was
hammered out by House and
Senate negotiators last week.
Under the bill, 23.8 million
Social Security recipients would
get a 13 per cent benefit
increase and minimum monthly
payments would rise from the
current $44 to $55, effective next
February.
Freeze Federal Funds
One provision of the bill would
freeze the level of federal
contributions to the controver
sial Aid to Families with
Dependent Children (AFDC)
program. This move was
opposed by the administration,
which has given private assur
ances it will seek to repeal the
restrictions next year.
To finance the bigger Social
Security benefits, the measure
increases the existing $6,600 a
year payroll tax base to a new
top of $7,800, effective Jan. 1.
The current 4.4 per cent
payroll tax rate increases to 4.8
per cent Jan. I, 1969. The rate
goes to 5.2 per cent in 1971 and
to a top of 5.9 per cent in 1987.
This means that maximum
annual payroll deduction would
increase for persons earning
$7,800 and more from the
current $290.40 to $342.20 next
year and to $374.40 in 1969. The
1987 maximum would be $460.20.
26 Counties
Refuse To Join
War On Hunger
ATLANTA (UPl)—State Wel
fare Director William H. Bur
son gave a final report on his
war on hunger today and said
26 counties involving nearly 46,-
000 poor people have refused to
institute a food program.
“There are no words ade
quate for me to express to you
my sadness and disappointment
that despite our best efforts at
least one out of every 100 Geor
gians will still have inadequate
food,” Burson said.
Burson said the war on hung
er had reached 70,370 persons
in 133 counties.
He told a joint food stamp
conference that federal Inter
vention In direct food programs
In the delinquent counties was
a strong possibility.
“I sincerely hope that com
missioners of the counties which
hav decided against food pro
grams will re - assess their po
sitions in the light of innicated
federal intentions,” he added.
Burson said hunger in terms
of the State Department of
Family and Children Services is
“not to be confused with star
vation or a total lack of food
at all times.”
“But at the same time I do
not wish to state categorically
that there Is no starvation In
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since the war on hunger was
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‘Heart’ Man
Takes Steps
CAPE TOWN, South Africa
(UPl)—Louis Washkansky took
his first hesitant steps since
doctors at Groote Schuur
Hospital performed the world’s
first heart transplant operation
i on him Dec. 3, hospital sources
said today.
The 55-year-old grocer's stroll
Thursday was only a few yards
from his bed to an armchair.
, He took it very slowly and
■ seemed to enjoy the walk, the
i sources said.
