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By United Press International
Israel may give up territory
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Israeli Defense Minister
Moshe Dayan said Sunday Israel may have to give up
some of its occupied territory at the forthcoming Middle
East peace talks. In New York, Sheikh Ahmed Seki
Yamani, Saudi Arabia’s minister of petroleum affairs,
said the Arab nations could start moving oil to the United
States within a month if Israel agrees to withdraw from
Arab territory and the United States guarantees the with
drawal.
May get another chance
HOUSTON (UPI) — The Skylab 3 astronauts, taking
most of today off with only a light work schedule, may get
a chance later to recoup some of the scientific information
lost when many pictures taken of the Earth were
overexposed because astronaut William R. Pogue forgot
to put the light filters in. Sky lab will fly over the same
spots again.
France, Britian in on talks
In preparation for next week’s scheduled Middle East
peace talks, Egypt has moved to strengthen its bargaining
position by asking France and Britian, its two closest
European allies, to sit in on the fullscale negotiations in
Geneva. Israel conceded it may have “to compromise” at
the peace table, but denied any U.S. pressure for
concessions.
British troops on alert
BELFAST (UPI) — British troops went on full alert
today to deal with violence by Protestant and Catholic
extremists angered by the decision of officials in Belfast
and Dublin to form a Council of Ireland. Leaders of the
outlawed Irish Republican Army (IRA) and extremist
Protestant groups immediately denounced the pact and
vowed to fight the council, which was given “executive
and harmonizing functions” on the island.
OAPEC may begin shipments
KUWAIT (UPI) — The 11 foreign ministers of the
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OAPEC) said Sunday their countries woutd resss
- flow of petroleum shipments to the United
States as soon as Israel begins withdrawing troops from
occupied territories. They warned, however, oil
shipments would be almost negligible at first unless Israel
begins a pullback soon.
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Daily Since 1872
ATLANTA (UPI) - House
Speaker George L. Smith,
whose deep voice and calm
manner were hallmarks of
Georgia politics for three dec
ades, died Sunday night at the
age of 61.
The Swainsboro attorney nev
er fully regained consciousness
following a stroke Nov. 11. Doc
tors said he died peacefully in
a coma.
His body will lie in state at
the Capitl Tuesday before being
sent to Swainsboro for burial
Wednesday afternoon.
Smith’s 29 years in the House
gave him the self-assuredness
and calm, cool approach to
problems that come only with
long experience. He seldom
raised his deep voice, but when
he spoke, everyone listened.
Time after time he rejected
the idea of seeking statewide
Hospital expands
intensive care
on first floor
A wing of the Griffin-Spalding
County Hospital has been
converted to an intensive and
acute care section in which
seriously ill patients can
receive constant nursing care.
The rooms are on the first
floor, previously used only by
men patients.
A four-bed ward, next to the
coronary care unit (CCU) has
been converted to an intensive
care unit (ICU).
Patients critically ill, from
any ailments, whether they be
accidents, surgery, or disease,
who require constant around
the clock nursing care, may be
placed in the intensive care
unit when a doctor specifies.
The room, as is CCU, will be
staffed at all times with either a
registered nurse or a licensed
practical nurse.
All of the rooms on the first
floor, south of the CCU and ICU
units to the south exit door, have
been converted to the acute
care unit (ACU).
Patients who need acute, but
not constant care, may be
placed in the ACU. These may
include patients who are ready
to come out of CCU or ICU, but
who need more nursing care
than they can get on other
floors.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
45, low today 30, high yesterday
56, low yesterday 33, high
tomorrow in upper 40s, low
tonight in low 20s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:35, sunset
tomorrow 5:28.
White House turns over more tapes
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
White House has turned over a
“significant number” of tape
recordings and a “substantial
number” of documents beyond
those subpoenaed in the Water
gate case, special prosecutor
Leon Jaworski said today.
In a brief statement, Jawor
ski said the additional tapes
and papers were delivered to
his office during the weekend.
The statement did not identify
the materials and a spokesman
for Jaworski declined to
elaborate.
The statement said, “respon
sive to requests of recent
weeks, White House counsel on
Saturday delivered to the
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, December 10, 1973
office, saying he preferred the
top House job. In the 11 years
he wielded the speaker’s gavel,
he became perhaps the most
powerful politician in Georgia.
Speaker Pro Tempore Tom
Murphy of Bremen will assume
Smith’s day-to-day responsibili
ties until House Democrats elect
a permanent successor to Smith.
Rep. Roy Lambert of Madi
son, chairman of the Democrat
ic House caucus, said no deci
sion has been made on a date
for the caucus to meet to elect
the new party leadership in the
House. But it is expected to be
before Jan. 7, the date for a
joint meeting of the House and
Senate Appropriations commit
tees.
The General Assembly con
venes for its 1974 session on
January 14.
Mrs. Gladys Shaw, director of
nursing, said that a total of 39
employes will staff the new 18-
bed section. She said a patient
at the hospital receives an
average of from three to 3.34
hours of nursing care per day.
A patient in the ACU may
expect from 5.5 to 7.7 hours of
nursing care per day, and those
in the ICU would receive con
stant care with an average of 12
hours individual nursing care.
If only one patient is in the unit,
he, of course, would receive the
complete attention of the nurse
on duty.
Rates for the ICU will run SB2
per day. Private rooms in the
ACU will be $72, semi-private
$64, and the four-bed ward, S6O.
Current rates in the CCU are
SB7. Heart patients will continue
to be placed there. The dif
ference in the CCU equipment,
including heart monitors and
other instruments, accounts for
the higher costs there.
The section, which was
opened last week, had had no
patients by this morning. None
of the patients presently in the
hospital were sick enough to
need it, Mrs. Shaw said.
The ICU unit visiting hours
will be the same as those in the
CCU, five minutes on the hour in
the afternoons.
Visiting hours for the ACU
were being worked out.
The outside door at the end of
the first floor will be closed and
used only as en emergency exit,
Mrs. Shaw said.
special prosecutor a significant
number of tape recordings, the
contents of which will be
carefully analyzed.
“Such of these as contain
information material to the
special prosecutor’s investiga
tions will be presented to the
(Watergate) grand jury without
delay.”
The statement added, “a
substantial number of the
documents requested by the
special prosecutor were also
delivered and assurances have
been given by White House
counsel that searches are now
in progress for certain docu
ments for which requests are
outstanding.”
Few pieces of legislation got
far without Smith’s approval, or
at least his involvement. Wheth
er calming stormy debate with
his patient but no-nonsense
presence, or acting as a buffer
between warring factions at the
capitol, Smith’s strength always
was felt.
A political independent in a
legislature often pressured to
take sides, he sought to keep
the House in balance between
the forces of Gov. Jimmy Car
ter and Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox.
A House member since 1945,
the imposingly tall politician
was first elected to the Georgia
House in 1945. He served as
speaker under Govs. Ernest
Vandiver and Carl Sanders from
1959 to 1967, then became the
first speaker elected independ
ently when the House seized the
authority to elect its own leader
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TO CHRISTMAS
Regents
negotiate
building
The Board of Regents will
have to negotiate for a price to
construct a research building at
the Georgia Experiment Station
in Griffin.
The Hugh Brasington Com
pany of Columbus submitted the
apparent low bid of $1,342,700.
This was more than had been
set up for the building.
Jerry Bilbro, Griffin architect
whose firm is handling the
project, was to talk with
Brasington representatives
today about ways to reduce the
building’s cost and bring it
within the money available.
A spokesman for the Regents
said the board probably would
consider the building bid at
their January meeting.
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“What a fellow’s willing to do
without is more important than
what he owns.”
Jaworski is known to have
been seeking White House tapes
and documents pertaining to
the Watergate break-in and its
cover-up, in addition to materi
als that the White House
provided two weeks ago under
subpoena.
He also is known to be
seeking materials pertinent to
related cases such as dairy
industry contributions to the
1972 Nixon election campaign
and an settlement in 1971 of an
antitrust suit involving Interna
tional Telephone and Telegraph
Corp.
Federal court documents
disclosed last week that Jawor
ski on Nov. 14 requested a
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from then Gov. Lester Maddox.
George Leon Smith II was
born Nov. 27,1912, in Stillmore,
Emanuel County. He attended
Swainsboro High School then
earned both undergraduate and
law degrees at the University
of Georgia.
Throughout his long political
career, he always maintained a
law practice in Swainsboro.
Smith was on the state Demo
cratic Executive Committee in
the early 1940’s and again from
1949 to 1961. He was president
of the National Conference of
State Legislative Leaders in
1963-64.
He is survived by his wife,
the former Frances McWhorter
Mobley, and a daughter, Sally,
a stewardess with Delta Air
Lines.
Pike mails
tax notices
Tax notices have been mailed
in Pike County, resolving the
threat of closing schools and a
county financial crisis.
Pike County Commissioners
said the notices were mailed
under a Superior Court order
issued by Judge Andrew
Whalen, Jr. with the under
standing that tax notices are not
final.
The 1973 Pike tax digest is in
litigation with the State
Revenue Department.
Some adjustment in tax bills
may be necessary after the
litigation is completed, a
spokesman for the Pike County
Commissioners said.
The Commissioners have
contended State Revenue De
partment factoring caused the
tax digest and assessments of
property in Pike County to be
too high.
Based on 40 percent of market
value, the 1973 Pike digest as
Band concert
Tuesday night
Spalding Junior High Units I
and II will present their annual
Christmas band concert
tomorrow night at the Griffin
High auditorium.
The program will begin at
7:30.
It will feature Christmas
music.
Admission will be 50 cents and
number of tape recordings and
memoranda involving White
House meeting in early Janu
ary of this year.
John W. Dean 111, former
White House counsel, testified
at Senate Watergate hearings
last summer that discussions
took place during that period
relative to granting executive
clemency to one of the
Watergate conspirators, E.
Howard Hunt.
Federal Judge John J. Sirica
listened last week to one of the
other White House tapes—one
containing an 18-minute hum
that blocked out a presidential
conversation on Watergate
three days after the burglary
occurred.
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submitted to the State Revenue
Department is about sls
- compared to $12.5
million for the previous year.
The Pike County School
System had feared it would not
be able to continue to operate
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For the birds
CLEVELAND — A sparrow takes a breather after landing
on top of one of many parking meters in front of a
restaurant on the East 9th street pier. The bird didn’t get
ticketed, despite the violation. (UPI)
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without local tax income.
The Pike Commission spokes
man said payment of taxes
based on the tentative notices
being mailed now would mean
the schools would have some
money.