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Show f Fair And Warmer RET Fair tonight and Friday. Rising temperatures. Daytime highrf in the 5Cs. Lows tonight in the upper 20s. Details, weather map on Page B-1- 4. 371 NO. 6 8 8 2 PAGES 10c The Mountain West' FBI Arrest 5244400 News, News Tips 0 Home Delivery 5 Information 5244445 Sports Scores 5 Classified Ads Only Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South 524-2S4- 524-444- 521-353- SALT LAKE. CITY, UTAH : VOL. Our Phone Numbers Vy First Newspaper THURSDAY, 20, 1969 MARCH .... ',l v;: "! !." ...... jf'iS Hijack Try - A ORLEANS (AP) gunman who had ordered a flight to Cuba was disarmed and arrested aboard an airliner by FBI agents among when the plane landed there io refuel. As the agent, big, graying John Reed, struggled with the would-b- e hijacker, the mans .22 caliber pistol went off, but the bullet richocheted off the floor without hitting anybody. ; The FBI identified the gunman as Douglas Alton Dickey, 27, and said documents in his possession showed he was born in Casa Grande, Ariz. He was held on a federal charge of air piracy, which carries a maximum penalty of death. Robert E. Rightmyer, agent In charge of the New Orleans FBI office, said Dickey boarded the plane, Delta Airlines Flight 918, Wednesday night at Dallas. ; NEW ! ; By JOSEPH LUNDSTROM, DON WOODWARD and LAVOR CHAFFIN gunman said the 89 other passengers could get off. The last passenger to approach the exit door, where the man stood gun in hand, was Reed, assistant, special agent in charge at Oklahoma City. Reed stopped in front of the man and informed him he was under arrest He said the man replied: I do not intend to kill you but I am going to Havana and I am going to shoot you in the leg." Reed subdued him in a quick struggle, during which the pistol fired once. Reeds presence on the plane was due to his recent transfer from the FBI office at Mobile, Ala., to Oklahoma Deseret News Staff Writers special session of the Utah Legislature will be called in May to consider the financial plight of Salt Lake City and County, if the Republican legislative leadership "will assure me that they will A do something, Gov. Calvin L. Rampton said today. The governor also said the Legislature had appropriated a larger increase to public schools than first was apparent a 316.1 million increase instead of the approximately 313.5 million as first estimated. City. He was flying back to Mobile to move his wife and six children to their new home. . .Wjrf fETAflertt JohnReetJ spoiled hi jack plan Rightmyer said the man produced his pistol and took over the plane about flve minutes before it was scheduled ! to land at New Orleans. He agreed to landing when the. pilot said he could not make it to Cuba without refueling. ; Once the plane was on the ground, Rightmyer said, the Anti-Hijac- 5 ons. ; David - D. Tnomas, acting administrator of the FAA. said the devices would first be tried secretly at various terminals served by Eastern Air Lines the company hardest hit by hijackers. Passengers will not know they are being checked. Thomas would not identify the airports involved, but said it could be assumed they would include Washington National and the major New York City fields. whelmed the , Communists today with a mass of evidence 0 to disprove their charges the current Communist offensive In South Vietnam wu brought on by President Nixons escalation of the war. 0 For once the usually talkative Communists were- - "not able to rebut what I said," :HY rv.. Lodge told newsmen after vr session, the rv todays f second briefest meeting since the expanded peace talks began on Jan. 18. Both sides agreed to meet again next S' V., Thursday.. Lodge spoke after the South Vietnamese delegate accused the Communists of massing for an "many divisions and then on attack Saigon M v 2 S' ' implied that if the attack was V ' , ' ' ' i carried out it could bring the i " , $ Paris talks to a close. The Communists have proV A'WIW Ph6t6 claimed at the Paris talks, and in Hanot Radio broadAccused hijacker Douglas Alton Dickey is led away by F8L agents. casts, that the Communist offensive was launched because the Nixon administration escalated the war after he INSIDE took office on Jan. 20. Lodge tore their statements NEWS apart piece by piece. Lodge refreshed their memories with the fact the SECTION A Communists warned in 8, 13 National, Foreign advance of the 10, 11 Editorial Pages winterspring offensive of 1969 and had boasted of it since it most, "you have received Speaking of Politics A 322,000 to $28,000 11 jewelry started. I am Our Man Jones every consideration. 11 burglary at the A. Fred Dipo He listed public statements 11 amazed at the university. It Musk four-hou- 'A- ''-- v r V THE Students Jailed ., 21 t Gems Stolen In Holladay Demonstration In Burglary 1-- ; COMMACK, N.Y. (AP) -Fi- sentences have been given to 21 student g demonstrators by a fteen-day jail tough-talkin- judge. ; The students, who had been charged with loitering, a misfor an demeanor, sit-iat Stony Brook State Uhiversity last week, were told Wednesday by First Dist. Court Judge Edward U. all-nig- n Green, Jr.: i "You have the right to demonstrate, but you dont have the right to take over buildings or break the law. When you people get out, act like citizens, not animals." The 16 male and five female students were among 300 demonstrators who occupied the college library and some of the administration offices to protest military recruitment and research on campus and the arrest of a former student for trespassing. ' "In my opinion," Green told the students, most of whom had expected a small fine at i Today's Thought , foo, have loved and lost ; I, too, must often fight hard to keep a but I steadfast faith viust not let it go, for without faith there would be no light in ull the world. Helen Keller d , has been too lenient with you. They have been too soft on you. That is why you are now in criminal court" residence, 5107 Holladay Blvd., was being investigated today by Salt Lake County sheriffs office. 1315, 17, 21 City, Regional SECTION B Asst Dist. Atty. Howard Berler said he had agreed to reduce the original charge of criminal trespassing because the students had no previous arrests. A felony conviction would have precluded the students from entering some fields, such as tiie U.S. civil service and law. Unsigned leaflets were later distributed at the campus urging students to protest the sentences. SgL Don Strong said bur- City, Regional 1.1, 5, 8, 10, 13 Comics 2, 3 4 TV Highlights 14 Obituaries 14 Weather Map Action Ads glars apparently entered the three-stor- y home between 9:45 a.m. and 12:20 p.m, through a second story window and took jewelry, including diamond necklaces, rings, a 13-2- 2 SECTION Womens Pages C watch and other Items. He said burglars also broke open a safe in a basement room. Con- 8, 11. 12, 16 -1- -5, tents of the safe were strewn about, but be said it had not been determined what was SECTION D 6,000-stude- Sport s'.. 1-- Financial --- U me sti lire-lnlitil- eir -PWASHINGTON (AP) Bettel-heiBruno sychologist says there are striking similarities between student disorder in the United States and the upheaval in German universities that preceded the -- rise of Adolf Hitler. m House Education subcommit- student on tee hearings unrest, Bettelhelm said a further parallel between , today and Germany is a pre-Na- prevailing attitude that the disorderly youths are idealists concerned with the real Issues of society. Bettelheim, a survivor of "Then as now, he said, Hitler's concentration camps, "The rebellious students weie says a determination to bring . pictured as a new generation down the establishment is the disgusted with the coniplacea-- 1 same motive in both cases, cy of their parents, lighting but the great danger now Is to courageously for a better the universities, not the world." nation. In testimony prepared lor t taken. 9 8. Bettelheim, a professor of psychology at the University I y one-hal- com-mut- Earlier, at a breakfast meeting of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerces long-rang- e Turning to ! ! ; ! education, Rampton said the Legislature appropriated a larger in-S- GOVERNOR on Page A-- 3 Hit Guerrilla Lair Ambassa-do- r (UPI) Henry Cabot Lodge over- - predicted. City and county officials have sold their needs, but these simply got lost in the shuffle of the last day or two of the Legislature, Rampton observed during his press conference. The half-cesales tax would be a temporary measure to insure the city relief to meet Its current needs. Gov. Rampton said he f cent sales favored a tax increase to meet the financial needs of Salt Lake City particularly. This form of tax is desired above a type tax, he added. But for relief, consolidation of city and coun- ty government into single mu- nicipal organization will be needed. In this area, the recent Legislature did noth- ing, the governor declared. The technicalities involved in the bills whicn would have to be House Bills 16 and 71 occur because uua lias an enactment date of April 1 for 4 cents sales tax, and the other sets the date of July 1, but for only the present 3 cents. One of the bills will have to be vetoed and to be consistent with the other, he explained. PARIS Planned By FAA ; WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Aviation Administration says it plans to begin testing next week a new antihijacker device designed to fell if passengers boarding airplanes are carrying weap- No Reply To Lodge Charges? tl Test k Phot, Presidents Council, the governor said he foresaw another tax increase next year when the Legislature meets in its annual budget session. "I see no help for it, he declared. The increases then will be in the areas he recoma cigamended this year rette tax and a graduated sevthe governor erance tax The special session also will be asked to correct technical conflicts In several tax measures passed by the Legislature in the session which ended last Thursday, and to sustain appointments, the governor announced during a televised press conference at KUED, Channel 7. The conference vill be televised at 7:30 tonight. unwillingly into col- I think H is unnatural to keep a young person for some 20 years in dependeeny, and attending school," said Bettel. heim. Bettelheim said instead of pursuing a policy of college education for everyone the United States should develop educahigh-levvocational tion to train youngsters for jobs that will give their lives meaning and purpose. 1 - An EgypCAIRO (AP) tian airliner loaded with Moslem pilgrims returning from Mecca crashed today in upper Egypt, killing 87 persons, . reported. offi-.-ria- ls Health Minister Abdou Salam said 14 persons survived the crash but three were in critical condition. Ieco led said many modern student rebels are in fact adolescents 0 v e r w rought pushed lege. 87 Die In Crash . UPI correspondent Nat Gibson, with the drives i . spearhead, said a fusil-- , lade of guerrilla rocket and rifle fire pinned down the heUborne U.S. attackers and they summoned 200 South Vietnamese reinforcements. e Two waves of B52 Stratoforts unloaded more-tha180 tons of bombs onto Michelin the Communists Rubber Plantation base camp before dawn. At 9:30 a.m., the American troopers charged in, leapfrogging on helicop- -' . ters. With U.S. divebombers and the, hammering artillery persistent guerrillas, columns of tanks churned In to help out the beleaguered U.S. troopers, pinned down in the craters left by the B52$ and ; bombs. 500-- and One of the tanks burst into flame, the mot inside fleeing, wounded. The GIs charged a Communist bunker, dropped out and in a grenade scrambled seven guerrillas. Bursts of allied fire cut them eight-engin- 750-pou- NEAR KOREA FIGURE Deaths In Vietnam Reach 33,063 American battlefield deaths in VietSAIGON (UPI) nam passed the 33.000 mark in the third week of the nationwide Communist offensive, the U.S. command said today. Spokesmen said 351 Americans were killed last week, raising the wars death toll for the United States to 33,061 If that rate continues, in two weeks more Americans will have died in Vietnam than in Korea. Another 1,401 American troops were wounded in the seven days ended March 15. The Communist offensive the week before had cost 336 American lives and wounded 1,634. Military spokesmen said Communist forces lost 15,089 killed the first three weeks of the offensive. Their tosses last week were 4,137, the spokesme said. South Vietnamese armed forces casualties last week were 325 killed, 1,156 wounded and 39 missing in action government spokesmen said. . ' . ; . V ' Defense Chiefs Warn down. The going was tough in the! plantation hideout of the 7th North Vietnamese Division, whose battle plans in the nationwide Communist offensive are said to include an attack on Saigon. WASHINGTON (UPI) -U.S. losses in the fighting 40 miles northwest of Saigon Top Pentagon officials testified today that Russia is were light. Elsewhere the guerrillas deploying a big improved intercontinental ballistic mispushed their offensive with 30 sile that could knock overnight shelling attacks, out (ICBM) all" of substantially rocket including a missiles. salvo into the sprawling U.S. Americas offensive t., military complex at Da Nang. Appearing at a nationally Two rounds spilled into suburtelevised and broadcast hearban Tien Sha, killing two ing of the Senate Armed Sercivilians and wounding six. Defense vices Committee, It was tiie second succesSecretary Melvin R. Laird said the Soviet threat to U.S. sive night the Communists had shelled Da Nang, the missile bases is increasing allied bastion city 380 miles rapidly, justifying deployment north of Saigon. Wednesday a of President Nixon's proposed rocket salvo killed 10 Safeguard Antibailistic Missile civilians and wounded 23. ABM) System. This time the main targets were U2S. . military facilities and a prisoner of war camp. Two rounds spilled into suburban Tien Sha, killing two South Vietnamese and woundHe said special prep scjiopls ing six. One rocket splattered should be established for both shrapnel Into the big U.S. black and white youngsters, Navy hospital in Da Nang but from culturally deprived no one was hurt backgrounds so they will be War co mnuniqnes deable to enter college on an scribed allied losses in 11 of equal footing with other the attacks as light. youths. Ten miles south ol Da And to counteract the disNang, the Viet Cong invaded rupt of Influence of the stu- the village of Vinh Dien. dent militants, he said, tiie South Vietnamese troops universities should use their behind armored personnel full administrative powers to carriers spewing machinegun control the situation and try fire routed their. Wednesday, to organize the killing 50. More than 30 homes students into an effective were destroyed and five civilcounterforce. ians died. I of Chicago, ! by the Communists, information on i North Vietnamese Infiltration, captured Communist documents and discoveries of weapons stockpiled by the Communists for the offensive. SAIGON (UPI) U.S. riflemen followed Helicopter-ridin- g thunderous 652 bomber, raids into a Communist plantation lair northwest of Saigon today and battled dug-i- n guerrillas into the night. Red losses in the allies Operation Atlas Wedge counteroffensive climbed past 330 dead. , . : Of New Red Rockets intercontinental ballistic missiles a large and accurate weapon," Laird told the committee. "With improvements in accuracy and a continued increase in numbers, the Soviet missile force could gain real effectiveness against our Minuteman ICBMs." Later, Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard displayed charts showing Russian missile gains over the past three years and said: This analysis has brought us to the conclusion that the Soviet Union has the capability to destroy substantially all of our Minuteman missiles in hardened silos is they choose are to do so." many installing They SS9 DC3 Crash Kills 15 NEW ORLEANS (UPD- -A privately owned plane bound for a British Honduras duck and jaguar hunt with 26 persons aboard crashed and burned today in a thick fog at New Orleans International Airport. Fifteen persons died and 11 survived. The survivors were taken to the New Orleans Ochsner Foundation hospital. A temporary morgue was t being et up on the east-wes- runway for tiie 15 persons killed. The flight originated in Memphis, Tenn. "At about 300 feet from tiie site of the wreckage there was a very deep cut in the runway where the airplane evidently bounced first. Then there were further cute further down where the propeller of the right wing evidently cut up the runway, said Dan Goldstein, a reporter for station WNOE tit New Orleans. |