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Show Daily Hero M thhisday march . mm fTl-- Probe Continues in C7Z A P1LLSBURY I pilUhiiru't Utah Sheep Deaths By HERBERT B. LAL'GHN'ER TOOELE, Utah (UPI) Army germ warfare teams tested soil for poisonous nitrates and alxaloids and took blood sample.1! from sheep as the death toll reached an estimated 5,500 in one week. The sheep, believed victims of a mysterious poison, began "dying a few at a time" last Thursday In the isolated Skull Valley area 35 milei west of here and adjoining Dugway Proving Grounds, a biological and chemical warfare testing itation. Dugway officials tested toil Officers At and blood samples but said they had not conducted any recent experiments which would be harmful to animals. An official statement was expected later today. Two herds of 2,800 sheep each, owned by the Anschutz Land and Livestock Co. of Denver, were affected and losses were estimated at $300,090. About six Goshute Indian families and the Basque tending the herds ere the only residents of desolate Skull Valley, a desert range accessible for most of the year ve only by hicles. Dugway's testing area is lo0 cated miles away and blocked by the low Cedar Mountain range, and the two affected herds were some IS miles rs sheep-herde- 1 nirr jS M 40-5- Westminster apart. SALT LAKE CITY (UPI- )George W. Woods, a old junior from Omaha, Neb., reported recovering. David R. Waldon, state agri Wednesday was elected student said it body president at Westminster culture commissioner, Collece. "appears a poison is involved" Woods, a psychology and so- in what he termed "nearly a ciology major, is a member of wipeout of the herds. The disease appeared to af a scnolastic achievement sotwo-yefect the central nervous system, a and dean's list, ciety varsity basketball player, out Waldon said, and the sheep were going editor of the student news- "dying a few at a time." paper and a former member Dr. Jordan E. Rasmussen of the literary review board for the U.S. Department of Agri culture's Agricultural Research the campus magazine. Jerry W. Rose, 26, a junior Service said, "We don't feel it's from Atwater, Calif., is the new a contagious disease. We haverice president A veteran of the n't found any poisonous plants Army Special Forces, Rose is . .1 wish we knew." Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, R-majoring in history and biology and is a member of the choir Utah, has called for a full in and vice president of the Vet vestigation by the Army and the erans Club. USbA. Elected secretary was MargIn letters to Army Secretary aret Osborne, 21, a junior from Stanley Resor end Agriculture Salt Lake City majoring In sec- Secretary Orville Freeman, ondary and physical education. Bennett said, If the deaths are Bill It. Fenton, 20, a sopho- attributable to chemical warmore from Mountain Home, Ida fare tests, action should be ' ' M HERSHEY'S J '777) Q ( I ,. I SPRIHGVIUE lgfE Observers said Wednesday afflicted sheep would stagger and flop onto their sides in snow, too weak to Others being fed baled graze. alfalfa at the Hatch Ranch were Are Named PR0V0-0RE- ar u f HERSHEY'S INSTANT (ME CHOCOLATE ho, majoring in history and taken immediately to compen economics, was named treas sate the sheepmen for their I urer. losses." Dr. Hiiiman A. Nelson, a vet erinary toxicologic for the Na- Scout Executive In Salt Lake f$ Selected tional Animal Disease Laboratory at Ames, Iowa, arrived Wednesday Co join fee investigation. Waldon said about ISO heep SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -Lfrom both herds ynn M. Austin has been ap Wednesday morning. "Thf rest pointed to succeed Ross J. Tay are on their backs." lor as executive of the Great Salt Lake Boy Scout Council Austin, executive of the Lake Bonneville Boy Scout Council at Ogden, will assume tc role as head of the nation's eighth larg est Boy Scout council April 21. WASHINGTON (UPI) A Taylor has accepted a north Idahoan and three with the national GSA. were among 60 serviceAustin, a native of Liberty, Idaho, has served on the Ogden men identified Wednesday by council since 1960 and was the Defense Department as killformerly district executive an ed in Vietnam. Howard B. field director in the San Mateo, They were Waldron, husband of Mrs. HowCalif., council. More than 40,000 Cubs, Scouts ard B. Waldron, Coeur d'Alene, and Explorers are enrolled in Idaho; Boatswain's Mate 1C 1,700 units sponsored by 600 or Edward J. Hagl, husband of ganizations in the Salt Lake Mrs. Grace M. Halg, Bozeman; Pfc. Charta G. Boyer, son of council. Mr. and Mrs. William G. BoyANTICIPATION er, Billings; and Pfc. David G. TOKYO (UPI)-Ja- pan will Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. issue a special postage 6tamp to Howard C. Anderson, Billings. commemorate the return of the Bonin Islands from U.S. control. APPLE EATERS The Postal Ministry said a stamp, depicting dawn over UTRECHT, Holland (UPI) the Pacific viewed through the The Dutch claim to be Europe's I leaves of a betel-nu- t palm on an leading apple eaters, with an island coast, will go on sale the annual per capita consumption day Japan and the United of 66 pounds. This, according tc States sign a treaty returning trade sources, beats British the islands to Japan. The apple consumption by about 200 ministry said this could possibly per cent and French apple come in June. eating by some 100 per cent. CRACKERS . 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