Show Old fashion locomotion Jay and Karren Schvaneveldt 301 West Center took advantage of about six inches of snow and the sun morning to put their horse and newly-falle- n 100-yea- Saturday old r sleigh through the paces near Center and Marindale Schvaneveldt has had his sleigh out 12 times this winter and has traveled about 50 miles "going all over the valley" Beirut fighting disrupts American evacuation BEIRUT Lebanon (UPI) — US Marines flew out the last American civilians fleeing west Beirut Saturday but the evacuation was inter rupted when a shell exploded over a crowd of people waiting to leave the seafront None of the evacuees was injured but later a girl was wounded by gunfire near US Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew as she waited for a helicopter In Washington the State Department said 375 people left Saturday and the operation to evacuate Americans “has been completed” despite the disruptions caused by continued ld factional fighting in the besieged capital Some 550 people including SOS Lebanese Americans evacuated from Beirut reached refuge on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus Saturday most by an overnight boat crossing but some by direct helicopter flight More were expected to arrive Sunday 4 Syrian television said American in the flew over Syrian positions warplanes and Metn mountains east of Dahr but were turned back Beirut at fire from gunners Syrian by F-1- mid-afterno- on anti-aircra- ft “Our anti-aircra- defense units confronted ft the planes and forced them to flee westwards” a military spokesman told Syrian television The State Department and the Pentagon said the reports could not be confirmed There was no word on the fate of Frank Regier 50 an American professor at the American University of Beirut kidnapped Friday Regier who was born in Montgomery WVa lived in west Beirut with his Lebanese wife for 25 years The harassment of the evacuation was in marked contrast to Friday when almost 1000 Americans Britons and other westerners left without incident The last of 32 helicopter loads lifted off from the seafront corniche at early evening Fragments of exploding shells fell near the fleeing foreigners and two crashed into the Mediterranean about 50 yards from where the Marines were processing the civilians “One shell exploded in mid-a- ir over the would-b- e evacuees” a UPI photographer said They were rushed into the British embassy building A Non Politburo mourn Andropov leaders seek successor MOSCOW (UPI) — Konstantin Chernenko led members of the Soviet Union's ruling Politburo bier of his Saturday past the late adversary Yuri Andropov as Kremlin leaders sought to agree on a successor There was no word on whether the Politburo had chosen a new leader of the Communist superpower despite a meeting earlier in the day of the Central Commitee which is expected to approved the choice of a successor There were few immediate signs of change in flower-bedeck- ed Soviet policy The official Tass news agency’s list of world leaders who expressed condolences left out President Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Reagan in a conciliatory tone called for “a good faith effort on both sides” to allow the superpowers to “begin rising above the mistrust and ill will that cloud our relations” Andropov 69 died Thursday after a yearlong battle with kidney disease An official autopsy released by Tass said his kidneys heart and lungs finally gave out He had been out of public view since last Aug IS Police and army troops sealed off central Moscow to traffic and pedestrians to enable a motorcade of black Zil limousines to carry the Legislators not surprised at Matheson’s decision By PatMcCutcheon and Bob Findlay staff writers Cache County legislators and party officials political expressed little surprise at Utah Gov Scott Matheson's decision not to seek a third term Matheson made the long-await- ed announcement about' his political future Friday Sen Charles “Chic” Bullen said Matheson's decision came aa no surprise to him “In our conversations I got the impression he had reached the same decision I did not to run again” Bullen said “As an Individual and as a friend I hold him in the highest esteem” be added “Although we didn't agree on everything we agreed mi a vast majority of Issues I’ve enjoyed a fine relationship with him His door was always open to me” Bullen said he has not endorsed any candidate for governor He said he would wait “at least” until after a special session of the Legislature tenan tatively slated for March before announcing which gubernatorial candidate he will support “I've worked with (Rep) Inside A Hyrum today teenager is waiting patiently in Salt Lake City's Primary Childrens Hospital for anew liver' Hillyard said he has endorsed Bangerter as the Republican gubernatorial candidate State Board of Regents Chairman Kem Gardner and State Board of Education Chairman Oscar McConkie Jr are possibilities for the Democratic nomination ' “if I were predicting” Hillyard said Cache County Democratic announced Republican gubernatorial candidates Cornaby Chairperson Bobbie Coray said has said he will decide soon Matheson “has been one of the whether to run for the state's best governors the state has had The people of Utah owe highest office him a great debt and should Hillyard Lyle Rep also expressed little surprise at wish him the best in whatever hedoea” Matheson's announcement And though she would make “I’ve felt all along he would not pm because of health pro- no prediction about who the blems” Hillyard said “But I Democratic choice for governor thought after the (budget) will be Coray said “I’m sure session he might change his the Democratic Party will continue in its tradition of mind and run again excellence in candidates” a as like “I the governor "I was mildly surprised” person even though I disagree with the wisdom of some of his said Rep Stephen Bodily R- - ' Lewiston “I thought that prob- policies'' Hillyard said the governor's ably he would run for another decision will have a “dramatic” term but it didn't surprise me impact on the relationship be- too much “I have to admire him from tween the state's executive end the Matheson branches respect that he made a legislative decision that is difficult to make has been a strong governor Hillyard said which has con- at times I’m sure the party was tributed to a polarization be- trying to persuade him to stay tween the governor and the continued on page 2 Legislature Norm Bangerter and I sit next to Karl Snow and in front of Kay Cornaby in the Senate” Bullen aaid “There are still some things 1 want to do and I think it would be in the best interests of the people of the state to wait before making an endorse? menL” Bangerter and Snow both are Communist Party leadership to the front door of the House of Unions where Andropov's body will lie in state until burial Tuesday in Red Square Analysts were divided over the prospect that Chernenko 72 will avenge the political setback he suffered after the death of Leonid Brezhnev on Nov 10 1952 and claim the power that Andropov wrestled away A Central Committee source said the group's 300 members met Saturday presumably to debate the Politburo's recommendations and elect a new leader of the Communist Party the nation’s most powerful post The meeting suggested an announcement might come as early as Saturday night but eastern European diplomatic sources said leaders of their countries were not expected in Moscow until Monday Chernenko's age could work either for or against him Although the average age of the surviving 12 full members of the ruling Politburo is 67 the oldest members are thought to be most comfortable with one of their own Around Red Square thousands of Soviet citizens stood in line for hours in weather to get a rare close-u- p look at the man who led the USSR for the past 15 months THE WORK ETHIC: SURPRISINGLY HEALTHY US workers lead in commitment to jobs -- an Index About Cache Adopt a pet Agriculture I 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