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Mills Says Surcharge
Will Be Up To Nixon
WASHINGTON (UPD—The
chairman of the House Ways
and Means Committee says he
is convinced Congress can do
nothing but let the 10 per cent
Income tax surcharge expire In
June unless Richard M. Nixon
goes back on his campaign
promise and asks its extension.
“It is absolutely out of the
realm of possibility to expect
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the Congress to extend the
surcharge over his objection,"
Rep. Wilbur Mills, D-Ark. said
Sunday in a copyrighted inter
view in U.S. News and World
Report.
“I am still very hopeful we
can avoid extending the surtax,
but we cannot do everything for
everyone and at the same time
let the surcharge expire—not
without having a tremendous
and unmanageable budget defi
cit."
Mills, the most influential
member of Congress on tax
questions, stalled passage of the
surcharge for nearly a year
until President Johnson acceded
to congressional demands for a
cut in federal spending.
Nixon pledged during his
campaign to let the surcharge
die on its schedued June 30
expiration date. But since then
some of his advisers have soft
pedaled this in favor of a short
term extension, or extension of
the surcharge at a reduced
percentage.
His meeting in New York last
week with Nixon left him with
his original skepticism of
Nixon’s proposed tax credits to
businesses who help solve urban
problems, Mills said, as well as
Nixon’s proposed bloc grants to
states of federal reserves.
He added Nixon reached
agreement with him that if tax
credits are used they “should be
treated as expenditures in the
federal budget so they would
not become a device for back
door spending."
“I have always felt very
strongly that the level of
government that spends money
should have the responsibility
for raising that amount of
money,” Mills said. “If we turn
back to the states a part of
what we in Congress levy and
raise, then we have relieved the
states of a responsibility they
should meet themselves. This
would be a mistake, for it
removes the restraining in
fluence on spending.”
Mills, also expressed “reser
vations" about Nixon’s cam
paign proposal for an automatic
cost-of-living increase in Social
Security payments. But he
promised Congress would consi
der liberalizations in payments
in 1969 or 1970.
The guaranteed annual in
come—a proposal advanced by
economists as a substitute for
welfare programs—drew a chil
ly reception from Mills. “There
is a growing feeling on the part
of many taxpayers that it is not
right for them to be taxed to
take care of able-bodied per
sons,” he said.
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Cong Trying
For Saigon
Puppet Panel
By GEORGE SIBERA
PARIS (UPD—The Viet Cong
announced today it was trying
to set up a puppet Saigon
government without waiting for
results of Paris negotiations.
The Viet Cong announcement
came in a communique broad
cast by Hanoi Radio and heard
in Saigon.
The communique said now
was the time to “launch a
series of political offensives
demanding an end to the war,
the restoration of peace and the
establishment of a peace
cabinet which will negotiate
with the National Liberation
Front of South Vietnam.”
In Saigon, political officials
said the Viet Cong call for the
“peace cabinet" was part of a
guerrilla campaign that began
after the United States halted
bombing North Vietnam Nov. 1
to help get negotiations started
here with Hanoi, the Viet Cong
and the South Vietnamese.
The Viet Cong communique
ordered its Saigon area follow
ers to start work toward the
puppet regime because the
South Vietnamese government
now was “encountering serious
difficulties militarily, politically,
economically and socially.”
In Paris, American and South
Vietnamese diplomats were
mapping joint strategy for the
opening of the Vietnam negotia
tions with the Communists.
The conference opening date
remained uncertain pending
agreement between the United
States and North Vietnam on
procedure ground rules.
Both Communist and anti-
Communist diplomats said it is
unlikely talks will open this
week as had been hoped.
Vice President Nguyen Cao
Ky and his Saigon delegation
arrived Sunday. Joint strategy
sessions with American officials
began immediately and were
continuing.
Ky met an hour Sunday with
W. Avereli Harriman, the U.S.
roving ambassador and chief
delegate. American spokesmen
said they held “substantive
talks.”
Reds Shoot Down
IT. S. Photo Plane
By ALVIN B. WEBB JR.
SAIGON (UPD—Ground fire
today shot down a U.S.
reconnaissance plane shooting
pictures of North Vietnam’s
southern panhandle, American
headquarters said.
It was the fourth American
plane shot down over North
Vietnam since the northern
bombing stopped Nov. 1. Three :
were reconnaissance planes, the ■
fourth an escort plane guarding '
picture-taking pilots.
The pilot and his backseat
radar man turned the crippled i
plane out to the South China
Sea today, bailed out and were i
rescued off the North Vietna- ]
mese port of Dong Hol. i
While trying to rescue the i
crewmen of planes shot down j
previously, American hcadquar- j
ters said, U.S. warplanes j
bombed North Vietnam gun j
positions firing at them. There ]
were no reports today of the ;
need for bombing to protect the
downed fliers. j
In the ground war, U.S. .
Marines drove a wedge into a ;
Communist bastion threatening :
Da Nang and, with South f
Vietnamese troops, killed 91 ,
guerrillas.
An American official called
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Ky later told newsmen he had
brought "something new” to
Paris but gave no details. On
his arrival at Orly Airport, he
surprised some diplomats by
stating he would not demand
North Vietnam and the Viet
Cong surrender.
“We will not demand advanta
ges or privileges. We will not
demand that those on the other
side surrender,” Ky said. “We
only ask that justice and reason
prevail.” He said the aggression
against his country must cease.
His chief negotiator. Ambas
sador Pham Dang Lam, howev
er, warned Saigon would not
i accept “a peace at any price.”
i The former foreign minister
' vowed his delegation would
enter the conference only if the
North Vietnamese and the Viet
Cong were represented by a
single merged delegation.
Lam said although Saigon and
the United States would repre
sent “one side” in a tvo-sided
conference, the two delegations
would remain distinct.
The dispute over the point of
the number of delegations is the
main stumbling block stalling
the conference, originally sche
duled to open Nov. fl, following
President Johnson’s order to
halt air strikes against North
Vietnam Nov. 1.
The Americans and South
Vietnamese have insisted the
conference be held under a
“your side-our side” formula, in
which Washington and Saigon
would constitute one side and
Hanoi and the Viet Cong the
other.
North Vietnam and the Viet
Cong, however, have insisted
the conference must be a four
way affair with each of the four
delegations having equal and
Independent status.
The dispute has boiled down
to an argument over the shape
of table to be used in the
conference.
In private procedural discus
sions last week, U.S. and Hanoi
diplomats failed to resolve this
key point, though seven other
procedural Issues were agreed
upon.
Sunday's fight one of the
fiercest since the bombing of
North Vietnam stopped 39 days
ago and said Marines sweeping
the battlefield today “are
finding bodies faster than they
can count them.”
The Leathernecks lost 16 men
killed and 37 wounded, including
"heavy” casualties to one 45-
man platoon, battlefield reports
said. South Vietnamese losses
were described as "light” with
no fatalities.
Marines closing a massive
noose around what they call
"Dodge City,” 13 miles south of
the allied stronghold at Da
Nang on South Vietnam’s
northern coast, said the fighting
erupted near where they had
found 47 guerrilla bodies, 12
bunkers and 30 covered foxholes
from an earlier battle. Da Nang
is South Vietnam’s second
largest city, 360 miles North of
Saigon.
From hideouts in a treeline,
the Viet Cong and North
Vietnamese opened up with
mortars, machineguns and
rifles while the Marines dove
for cover and hurriedly called
for divebombers and artillery
barrages.
A column of South Vietna
mese troops and armor moved
into help.
The battle raged until night
fall when the Communists broke
it off and vanished into the
darkness. Marines said the
Reds left some of the sturdiest
bunker dugouts they had seen in
the war.
In two other operations, allied
troops reported turning up
Sunday two major guerrilla
caches within 60 miles of
Saigon. Communist mortarmen
slammed 10 rounds into the U.S.
airfield at Nha Trang, causing
light damage.
FAA Investigates
DeKalb Plane Crash
The Federal Aviation Adminis
tration is conducting an investi
gation into the crash of a single
engine airplane in a wooded
area three miles east of Stone
Mountain which had laid undis
covered, with the pilot dead at
the controls for several days.
The pilot was 20-year-old Kel
ler F. Melton 111, a DeKalb Jun
ior College student, and a mem
ber of the Transways Flying
Club of Atlanta. He had recent
ly completed his flying instruc
tions and made solo flights. He
was preparing to enter the U. 8.
Air Force on graduation from
the college.
Young Melton, known to h 1 s
family and friends as "Bo”, is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Keller
F. Melton, Jr., 2283 Strathmore
drive, N.E., Atlanta, and the
great nephew of Quimby Melton,
Sr. of Griffin.
Funeral services for the young
aviator will be held Tuesday
morning at 11:00 o’clock at the
First Alliance Church, 2512 Road
N.E. The Rev. Walter Sandell
will officiate. Burial will be in
the Decatur cemetery with H. M.
Patterson & Sons in charge of
arrangements.
An autopsy revealed the pilot
was killed Instantly when the
plane crashed.
Young Melton was killed on the .
28th anniversary of the day his
grandfather, Keller F. Melton,
was killed in a plane crash at
Chicago. His grandfather was a
safety engineer for the National
Aviation Administration working
out of Chicago at the time.
In addition to his parents Mr.
Melton is survived by two youn
ger brothers, Chip Melton and
Paul Melton; his grandmother,
Mrs. Percy Allen Magahee of
Atlanta and uncles Quimby Mel
ton, Sr., Griffin, and Vai L. St- i
anton, Chattanooga, Tenn.
According to first reports the J
wrecked plane was first spot
ted sometime Thursday after
noon.
Eddie A. Smith was
coming in for a landing at
Stone Mountain Airport when
he picked out the tail section
of plane wreckage through a
clump of nearby trees.
It was so close to the air- |
port, however, that he assumed j
it was the wreckage of an old ’
crash and had already been in-,
vestigated. Saturday, two days [
later, he decided to find out if
anyone had been injured in that
crash.
O. C. Mattingly, one of the
operators of the small airport,
answered the phone when Smith
called and shocked the pilot ‘
when he told him he didn’t!
know of any planes down in the
area.
Mattingly and a companion
worked their way through the
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of Stone Mountain Saturday to
find the wrecked single - engine
plane belonging to Transways
Flying Club of Atlanta. Inside
it, the pilot was dead at the
controls.
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ed so late to call,” said Smith
Sunday, after learning that ths
wreckage had not been report
ed earlier.
Officials said the pilot ap
parently died instantly, in the
crash. The nose of the aircraft
was embedded into the earth,
almost covering the cockpit,
said Mattingly.
When he spotted the plane,
Smith was part of a search
party trying to find prominent
Decatur businessman, Donald
E. Pinyan, who disappeared
mysteriously Nov. 29.