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BONN (LJPI)— The average age
of the 496 members of the West
German parliament that took
office Oct. 20 is 49 years, mak
ing it the youngest ever. The
previous parliament averaged 54
years of age.
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Women Bring Letters
From American POWs
By DONALD B. THACKREY ’
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)- I
The names of 132 American I
prisoners of war have been !
released by two members of a 1
peace group who were the first <
American women to visit a I
North Vietnamese prison camp.
The women told a news i
conference Tuesday they
brought back 138 letters from I
the prisoners and mailed them
in San Francisco Sunday on
their return from a two-week
visit to Hanoi.
Some of the prisoners’
families had not heard from
them for years.
Mrs. Cora Weiss of New York
City and Mrs. Madeline Duckies
of Berkeley, Calif., told news
men they and Mrs. Ethel
Taylor of Philadelphia spent
about an hour talking to three
of the prisoners.
They identified the men as
Mark Gartley, 25, Greensville,
Maine, Paul Gordon Brown, 26,
Newton, Mass., and Bill May
hew, 27, New Manchester,
W.Va. The women released a
photo of the three prisoners.
“Speak Against War”
The women, members of the
Women’s Strike for Peace, said
the prisoners “spoke highly of
the antiwar movement and
spoke militantly against the
war.” They said they were not
allowed to talk to any other
prisoners.
Mrs. Weiss outlined an
apparent change of policy by
Hanoi in regard to mail for
prisoners, who up to now have
rarely been allowed to send or
receive letters or packages.
‘Mrs. Weiss said Hanoi would
now allow families of prisoners
to send one letter a month and
a package of less than six
pounds every other month.
She said mail should be
addressed with the prisoner’s
name and serial number in
care of “Camp of Detention for
U.S. Pilots Captured in the
Democratic Republic of Viet
nam, Hanoi, DRV,” with “Via
Moscow” written on the enve
lope.
Claims Information Withheld
The chief of North Vietnam’s
delegation to the Paris peace
talks said Monday that Hanoi
would notify prisoners’ families
“directly” from now on about
captives because the United
States was withholding informa
tion.
Mrs. Weiss called on the
State Department to release all
the names of prisoners that are
known to be held by North
Vietnam.
“I challenge them to release
the names of confirmed priso
ners,” she said. “I understand
the State Department has a list
of names it has not released.”
The women, who said they
paid for the trip to Hanoi via
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Paris out of their own pockets,
said that all the prisoners in
North Vietnam would receive
Christmas dinner.
Arson Charges
To Be Made
At. Valley
ATLANTA (UPI) - Arson
charges will be filed against at
least two students at predomin
antly Negro Fort Valley State
College in connection with the
burning of the Peach County
courthouse, Comptroller Gen
eral James Bentley has an
nounced.
Bentley said Tuesday the ar
rests of “two or more” Fort
Valley students would be made
“before the first of the year.”
A nearly complete investigation
by the fire marshall’s office, he
said, “has ... established the
SIOO,OOO courthouse fire was the
result of arson.”
Those arrested will also be
considered prime suspects in
other fires that occurred in the
Fort Valley area earlier this
month, Bentley said. Blazes
broke out at the town library
and in several campus
buildings, with Molotov cock
tails being found at the scene of
each.
. Bentley said no motive had
been established in the court
house fire, but that behind the
campus blazes was “just plain
rascality.”
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Wednesday, December 24, 1969
Speaker Smith
Backs Pay Hike
ATLANTA (UPl)—There will <
be a move in the upcoming <
session of the General Assem- i
bly to raise legislators’ salaries
from $4,200 to SIO,OOO, but the
lawmakers will pass no new ;
statewide taxes next year, i
House Speaker George L. Smith |
predicted Tuesday.
Smith said he would support ,
the move to increase legislative ,
salaries.
A citizens committee studying j
the legislature recommended
last week that legislative pay j
be boosted to between SIO,OOO j
and $12,000, but only if the size i
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of the General Assembly is re
duced from the current 251
members to no more than 200.
Smith said the size of the
House may be cut from 195 to
about 175 members when it is
reapportioned after the 1970
federal census. But even if it re
mains the same, he added, the
members should get the pay
raise.
Being a legislator is becom
ing a full time job, he said, and
“even with SIO,OOO, it will be a
financial sacrifice for many leg
islators who earn much more
than that figure in private life.”