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ENQUIRER NEW! The Weather Cloudy and Cold Today and Thursday AND MSU Dumps Broncos Page 1, Section 2 battle creek Wednesday, December is, 1967 Serving South Central Michigan PHONE WO 4-7161 52 PAGES TEN CENTS lOIOLk IIME Sports Revolt I jCOdtjo FT i Dial S6S-1243 Action Line solves problems, answers questions, checks into complaints, stands up for your rights. Call between 4 and 8 p.m.. Monday through Friday. Or write anytime, to Action Line. Box 550, Battle Creek -49016.

OT lllillfTJU'T'. rjj A could be reached by telephone and cable. The first sign of trouble came when armored cars and tanks surrounded the Parliament building shortly after noon. Armored halftracks with troops in full battle dress then began arriving as reinforcements. The building houses the offices of the junta strong man, Col.

George Papadopoulos, who led the April coup. Soldiers and police appeared outside the national telecommunications center. Foreign diplomatic officials had been predicting for days that this would be a critical month for the military junta, and that a countercoup could come any moment. The junta was weakened by two blows. The Cyprus crisis forced it to begin pulling 12,000 Greek soldiers off Cyprus at the demand of Turkey.

Former Premier Constantine Caramanlis publicly denounced the regime from his self-imposed exile in Paris. Greek officers returning from Cyprus were resentful because the military regime backed him, follow him and support him. The king spoke by radio from Salonika, the major city of northern Greece. There were reports that the 3rd Armored Corps in Salonika had rebelled against the military dictatorship. The leader of the corps is a Gen.

Peridis, known as a strong supporter of the king and an opponent of the April coup. The Greek Embassy in London said the Ministry of Information in Athens reported that a coup had been attempted by a group of army officers. A terse bulletin over the state-run national radio declared: "The April 21 revolution is determined to fulfill its mission." The radio did not elaborate, but it was clear that the junta colonels were determined to crush any move to oust them. Athens remained outwardly calm as the king staked the future of Greece and his crown on a move to oust the colonels. He had been obviously reluctant to endorse last spring's coup that overthrew the consti- down in the face of Turkey's threats to invade the Mediterranean island to protect the Turkish minority there.

It was widely predicted that the returning officers would be inclined to join forces with other military factions opposed to the junta. Caramanlis is a conservative and the junta had hoped to enlist his support. The colonels said they organized the spring coup to prevent a Communist takeover. The military regime has been under attack from within and without because of its suppression of civil liberties, including a strict press censorship. Some editors have defied the junta by ceasing publication.

Greece is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization but the United States showed its displeasure with the April coup by cutting off arms shipments. If it comes to a showdown between the king and his supporters and the junta, a civil war could wreck the country. The Turn to Page 2 ATHENS, Greece (AP) King Constantine, evidently backed by part of the army, called on his people today to oust the military dictatorship and restore democracy to this land where it was torn. His appeal raised the specter of civil war in the wake of withdrawal of part of Greek forces from Cyprus ace Turkish demands. The king repudiated the military coup of last April.

Shortly before he spoke troops and tanks took up positions around key buildings in Athens, and the state-run radio said the government was ready to defend itself. The 27-year-old monarch declared leaders of last April's coup were only a segment of the army. "A spirit of revenge will not prevail," he said, "but I will not accept any disobedience from now on and it will be crushed mercilessly. There will be no He referred to the Commu nist-led civil war of 20 years ago and asked the people to assist kl Hi I was discharged from the Army June 21, 1966, and last October I received a letter from the Army Finance Center saying I owed the Army $321.99. They said $15 of it was for a $15 fine I received and the rest was for pay I received for June, July and August of 1966.

When I left the Army I received $152 for the 21 days of June, plus leave pay and travel pay. I did owe a $15 fine and sent that along with a letter explaining how much I received. Now I've received another card saying I still owe $306.99. There must have been a mistake made somewhere and I'd appreciate any help you can give me. B.L.B., Marshall.

The Claims Division of the U.S Army Finance Center in Indianapolis asked Action Line to tell ycu not to worry about the cards. In fact, you may yet get another one marked "Urgent." Said cards go out automatically each month until a case is resolved. In your case, checks for July and August were issued in your name. The Army is now checking to see if the checks were canceled or cashed. If they were, by chance, cashed by someone else, Army experts would be called in to check the signature.

Wait for a letter from the Finance Center which will inform you of the Army's findings regarding the checks. KING CONSTANTINK tulional government. Informed sources said at the time he was not informed in advance of the coup and was forced to approve the military takeover. Soldiers poured into the city and Greek air force jets took to the skies and swooped low over the capital. Athens was cut off by telephone from the rest of the country and some other countries 17 Two Groups Seek Local TV Rights Record Airlift Revealed I'd like to know how long a case of Indecent liberties Involving a child can be postponed in a court of law? The offense happened Aug.

26 and the accused has been on bond since Aug. 30. We have not been notified of any action and can't get any action. Mrs. D.

Marshall. A Municipal Court examination has been scheduled by Judge Alfred P. Stuart for Dec. 28. The case had been set for Dec.

14 but the prosecutor's office and the defense attorney, together, requested an adjournment. This is the third adjournment. The first adjournment of 30 days was asked by the attorney who had just been retained by the defendant. Next, the case was postponed at the request of the prosecutor's office as it fell on the same day that a murder examination was to be held in the Municipal Court SAIGON (AP) The biggest airlift of the Vietnam war pushed U.S. troop strength in South Vietnam to about 475,000 today, more than the peak of 472,800 American fighting men in the Korean war at its height 14 years ago.

The U.S. Command took the security wraps off the transfer from the United States of two more brigades of the U.S. 101st on I recently acquired a back brace which my mother used only about 45 minutes. It cost $70 and I'm wondering if you can put me in contact with I'omeone who needs a brace and can't afford one. Mrs.

Battle Creek. Action Line is sending you the name of an orthopedist who occasionally has patients in need of a brace but without funds to buy one. If this is a made-to-order brace, it will have to fit or be adapted for an indigent patient. The orthopedist's office will keep it on hand for just such a case. Airborne Division, World War Screaming Eagles of Bas- togne.

About 7,000 of the paratroopers have been flown across the Pacific since Nov. 17, and another 3,000 are due bv Dec. 29. By STAN KAUFMAN Owners of two ultra-high frequency television broadcasting companies are slugging out the right to operate in Battle Creek. Groups backing channels 41 and 74 each claim to have the "green light" from the Federal Communications Commission to build here.

The matter expected to be decided within a few weeks through the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, meanwhile: West Michigan Telecasters, plans to build a "translator" to retransmit primarily programs carried over its very-high frequency station. Channel 1J (WZZM). in Grand Rapids. And Channel 41, a group composed of former Channel 13 officials, plans to build a UHF television station here under the call letters of WBCU-TV.

Channel 13 owners have taken out a building permit to construct two antennae atop the Security National Bank building, where they plan to install a facility to "translate" the Channel 13 VHF signal to a UHF signal on Channel 74. One antenna would pick up the Channel 13 signal from the tower near Grant. The second antenna would be used to transmit in the Battle Creek area. Channel 41 backers plan to build a locally-operated station with a power of 10,000 watts with later increases to 50.000 watts. It plans to construct a transmitting tower west of Battle Creek with office and studios on the north side of the city.

The FCC, that government agency which holds the power to grant or reject applications licensing of television and radio broadcast stations, may have erred in the case of the two local hopefuls. As one litigant said: it just seems that someone in the FCC at one end of the hall did not know what someone at the other end was doing." Each of the approvals is dated in October. The Channel 74 group has appealed to the court to have the FCC set aside its approval to Channel 41, and Channel 41 has requested that the FCC be ordered to set aside its permission for the construction of the translator. Miss Mary Jane Morris, an officer of Channel 41 and a former FCC secretary, said that her group had no objection to the "foreign signal" beamed in the BatUe Creek area. But she said that when Channel 41 goes on the air.

the translator would have to cease transmissions. She explained that a translator is a device the FCC approves to "fill in the other side of a mountain with tele-Turn to Page 2 Wearing combat fatigues with .45 revolver and dancer tucked in his belt, the 101st com-imander. Maj. Gen. Olinto M.

I am calling for a partly blind friend who walks with the aid of a white cane. She would like to know if there aren't some traffic regulations to protect her when she is crossing the street. A Friend, Battle Creek. The Uniform Traffic Code requires the driver of any vehicle, approaching within 10 feet of a blind or partly blind person carrying a white cane or a white cane tipped with red or being led by a seeing-eye dog, to come to a full stop to permit the handicapped person to proceed. According to police interpretation, this would apply to a blind person who has started across a thoroughfare and not to such a person standing on the curb.

Barsanti, snapped a salute on his arrival today at Bien Hoa Airbase and reported to Gen. William C. Westmoreland: "The 101st Airborne Division is GLENDALE, Calif. Mrs. Frances Howe, 50, and her banker husband, E.

Frank Howe, talk to newsmen in Glendale, Calif, yesterday after she was released unharmed less than two hours after being abducted from her home. Police quickly arrested two men and recovered $50,000 ransom money. (AP Wirephoto) Seize Amateur Kidnapers; Ransom, Victim Recovered present for combat. Westmoreland, now com mander or all U.S. troops in Vietnam, was the Screaming Eagles' commander from 1958 to 1960.

The division's 1st Brigade has been in Vietnam since July 1965. When completed, the airlift will have involved 373 transpa cific flights, which after discharging men and supplies generally took off within 15 minutes I am calling to find out why I can't draw unemployment pay. I was pregnant in December of 1966 and quit work. I've just now been released by the doctor to go back to work. I was told I couldn't get unemployment because I hadn't worked 14 weeks in this year.

And because of my being pregnant. I wasn't able to. I was wondering if that was right? Mrs. P.P., Battle Creek. The only way Action Line could help you would be to bring about a change in the state's unemployment compensation law.

Under the law. you must have worked a minimum of 14 weeks between the date you applied for unemployment benefits and one year previous to that date. The reason you didn't work doesn't enter into the picture, according to the Employment Security Commission. on the flight back to Court Drops Murder Charge; Bordine Free 101st Division Headquarters at Ft. Campbell, Ky.

U.S. spokesmen said the airlift is the longest and largest ever staged direct from the United States to Southeast Asia "and gave us an excellent opportunity to test our airlift capabilities." The lift is delivering 10,356 troops, 5,118 tons of vehicles and cargo plus the division's full complement of 105mm cannon and 37 helicopters. Barsanti and his command group arrived on a C141 Starlift-er jet transport piloted by Gen. GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) Two amateurish kidnapers held a banker's wife hostage for $80,000 but then settled for $50,000.

Then, police said, they got only 11 blocks with the payoff. A butcher and a cabinet maker were taken into custody Tuesday with the ransom money and the unharmed hostage, Frances Howe, under a blanket on the floor of their car's back seat. When a quickly mobilized police detail halted the car, the armed men surrendered without drawing their pistols, officers said. Mrs. Howe, 50, told newsmen that one of the kidnapers earlier told her "if everything goes well, no one will be hurt." Booked on suspicion of kidnaping for ransom were Robert Sheader, 32, who said he is a cabinet maker, and Edson Lagrand Little, 26, who said he is a meatcutter.

Police said both gave addesses in nearby North Hollywood. As the two were being booked, Mrs. Howe and her husband, E. Frank Howe, related details of the two-hour ordeal Shortly after Mrs. Howe had gotten their 15-year-old son off to school, the doorbell rang at their $70,000 hilltop home in Glendale, a suburb northeast of Los Angeles.

''Two men with guns grabbed me and pushed me inside and told me they wanted money from my husbands bank," she said. They commanded her to telephone the Union Bank's branch in nearby Van Nuys where her husband is vice president. On the phone. Howe was told to put $80,000 in a specified street trash can "if you want to see her alive." When Howe said that much was ridiculous, the caller suggested $50,000. The banker said he didn't even have that much.

he made his way out of the room. Although appearing elated. "Take it from the bank," he was told. "That's also ridiculous," Howe said. "How can I take it from the bank? I'll have to tell someone." 'Then tell somebody in case you think I'm not serious, I'll put your wife on the phone." Mrs.

Howe told her husband shakily: "This is no joke. They mean it." Howe called police, got the money from the bank, drove to the drop location and left the money in a paper bag. Some 50 police staked out the location. Meanwhile, Mrs. Howe said, the abductors tied her hands behind her back and put her in the back of the car, "In a way, they treated me kindly and they were polite," she said.

"They were not rough." Police caught the car about two miles from where they saw one of its occupants pull the ransom money from the trash can. Where can I obtain information on Australia as to Irving conditions, job opportunities and an all-around picture of the continent? G. Richland. Try writing the Australian Consul, 636 Fifth New York. N.Y., 10000.

isoraine reiused to make any By DEBORAH BACON Dale E. Bordine, 27, charged in the slaying of Harold Sim-onds, Tuesday walked out of Municipal Court a free man. A charge of first degree murder against Bordine was dismissed by Emmett Township tuna oi statement to the press. He left quickly with his attorney, F. Jack Neller.

Justice Augustine said dis Howell M. Estes commander missal of the charge did not pre Justice Merle Augustine on the elude the Drosecution frnm Evening Prayer bringing further action against Bordine if they have additional grounds of insufficient evidence. His decision at 4:45 p.m. climaxed three hours of testimony eviaence to show probable cause on examination of the charge of the Air Force Military Airlift Command. "Hi, Westy," said Estes, beaming, as he stepped from the plane in gold nylon flight suit.

He told newsmen the transfer of more than 10,000 men could probably have been accomplished within seven days in an emergency. -O God, turn our thoughts outward rather than inward. Give us a new philosophy of "What next?" to replace the old one of "What's the use?" Keep us from being easily discouraged and self-centered. Amen. Boraine Had committed the mur der.

Calhoun County Prosecutor John Jereck was unavailable for comment today on whether fur iner action would be taken. The turning point in Tuesday's examination came when Rattle Creek City fireman Jack L. Den Russians Fly for Yemen? ney, 30, of 45 High St. took the stand. When Dennev beean to recount a conversation that took and spelled freedom for Bordine, lodged in the county jail since his arrest Oct.

22. Bordine and Patrick McNamee, 28, were charged with the slaying of greenhouse owner Simonds on Oct. 14, 1966. McNamee is awaiting trial on a charge of first degree murder. Justice Augustine stated the prosecution had established the fact that a crime had been committed, but had failed to present enough evidence linking Bordine to the crime.

No fingerprints, palmprints or other samples of physical evidence were introduced by the prosecution at the examination. When the decision came, a girl sitting in the front row of the court ran up and threw her arms around Bordine. The smiling defendant was surrounded by a throng of well-wishers as INSIDE TODAY Gov. Rockefeller still on Gov. George Romney's bandwagon.

P. 14, S. 3. Congress votes federal pay raises for all, cuts $4.1 billion from operations. P.

14, S. 1. Michigan National Guard gains strength, Marshall unit to be deactivated. P. 15, S.

1. Springfield schools endorse plan for new sidewalks. P. 15, S. 1.

City Commission opens the way for 1.600-unit housing complex. P. 4, S. 1. place the night of the murder between himself, his ex-wife and McNamee, an objection was raised by Bordine's attorney.

Conversations or statements made outside the Dresence of the defendant constitute hearsay evidence and are inadmissable in court, with very few Justice Augustine recessed Turn to Page 2 Page Sec. By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (AP) Some well-informed U.S. officials are convinced Soviet military pilots have been flying combat missions for Yemen's republican government against royalist forces attacking San'a, the capital city. This reported involvement of Soviet fliers, using Soviet-made planes and supported by Soviet ground crews is considered to reflect Moscow's desire to establish power positions in the Middle East, once the exclusive doman of Western interests.

The possibility of Soviet fighter participation was raised a few days ago when a royalist information minister said the body of a Soviet pilot, carrying Russian-language papers, had been found. In official quarters in Washington, it is said there's no doubt the downed airman was a Soviet. Yemen has considerable strategic importance because along with the neighboring region until recently known as Aden it dominates the 12-mile wide southern gateway into the Red Sea, It has a commanding position on the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean and the Indian oceans. The canal has bee closed since the June war between Israel and the Arab states but is expected to be reopened eventually. Washington authorities say privately they can't recall conflict similar to that in Yemen in which Soviet pilots have played such an active role.

There have been reports of such involvement in the past in troubled lands, but in the present case responsible policy makers say they have no doubt the information is true. Whether this marks the beginning of a new phase in Soviet foreign operations is yet to be determined, they caution. The war in Yemen is between the republican regime and Yemeni Royalist forces which took to the hills in September 1962 when the monarchy was overthrown. The struggle has been going on, with periodic eruptions of violence, for five years. But two recent developments changed the political framework in which it has been conducted.

President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt pulled out the last of his Soviet-armed troops, which once totaled around 70,000, as a result of a deal with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. The deal was made necessary by Nasser's need for new financing following Egyptian defeats in the June war. Nasser had backed the republican government and Faisal the royalist group. The result of Egyptian withdrawal was to create at least a partial power vacuum. Also within the last month Britain removed its forces from Aden, giving way to a new native regime which proclaimed itself the "Peoples Republic of Yemen" on the ground Aden is really "South Yemen." Again the result has been to contribute to the area's political uncertainty.

These developments were long foreseen and both the Soviets and Chinese Communists have maneuvered to take advantage of them. Johnson administration officials regard the prospects for the future there with some anxiety. OCH'T FORS6T, ONLV 10 SHOPPlhJS PAVS LEFT TIL CHRISTMAS Astro Guide 11 1 Comics 12 3 Crossword Puzzle 5 3 Contract Bridge 18 1 How Smart Are You? 10 1 Local Births 13 3 Local Deaths 13 3 Radio and TV 8 3 Regional News 12, 13 1 Sports 1, 2, 3 2 Stock Markets 13 3 Women's News 1, 2, 3 3 Wants Capitol Open LANSING (AP) The State Capitol would be open to the public seven days a week instead of the present five days under terms of a concurrent resolution introduced in the House Tuesday. The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Matthew McNeely, D-Detroit, calls on the State Department of Administration to provide public access to the Capitol each day of the week, at least from 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m. The only days exempted would be Thanksgiving. Christmas and New Year's day. IIIIIIIIIMM.