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Show Our Phone Numbers More Fog News, News Tips Home Delivery 0 -Information 5 5 Spoils Scores 5 Classified Ads Only Editorial offices: 34 E. First South 524-440- London fog will linger over the area. See details, weather map on Page B 7. - NO. 4 521-353- 40 PAGES The Mountain West's First Newspaper 10c SATURDAY, Ynoa Hopes At Talks PARIS (UPI) Western diplomats said today all four sides had agreed on a round table for the expanded Vietnam war talks but still disagreed whether the table would be divided. Diplomats close to the stalled talks expressed optimism the long hassle over procedures for the opening of the conference may be reaching its final stage. RED MOVE Communists Friday announced their willingness to drop all remaining procedural The UPI Ttlechoto Flames, broken paving fill New York street after N.Y. GAS BLASTS Wide Area Paving Buckles - ments were evacuated from their homes Friday night after a series of explosions on Manhattans Lower East Side. The blasts came as repair crews sought to locate a gas leak detected earlier. Five persons were injured, Including two firemen. None of the injuries were reported to be serious. Pavement buckled for six blocks and several parked automobiles caught fire in the series of explosions at about 11 p.m. Flames from a ruptured gas main continued until 6:05 a.m. Sixteen pieces of fire equipment and 80 firemen stood by during the night to prevent Feels Bite the spread of the fire on between Street Delancey Allen, Essex and Ludlow streets. They were not immediately identified- The two firemen hurt were Battalion Chief Frank Moretta Disaster units, ambulances and fireman Phillip OMeara. Police identified the other injured person as Juanita Pocchecho, 20. Several hours later, a fire broke out in a tenement one block west, on Orchard Street. The third, fourth and fifth floors of the building were destroyed, but no injuries were reported. The building had been evacuated Mowing the and emergency repair crews flooded the area and helped the residents from their apartments. The Red Cross said it had arranged for shelter for about 300 people in hotels and at the University Settlement house. Repair crews from the Con- solidated Edison Co. were unable far hours to find the master valve that would shut off the gas flowing into the ruptured pipe. Con Ed said a repair crew that had been working to locate a gas leak on Delaney near Allen Street suffered two casualties in the initial blast. By United Press International reprisal for an Arab terror attack upon an El A1 jet in Athens, Lebanons 15,000 university had been considered the least students staged their first joint bellicose of Israels Arab neighstrike today, demanding mobili- bors. zation for war and a tougher In Jordan, where King Husline against Israel. sein long has taken a stronger They also vowed no return to is dasses until punishment meted out to persons responsi- explosion. Subway trains on the Brooklyn- - Broadway- - Jamaica line and the Sixth Avenue line -- were halted and the Delancey Street exit of the Williams-- b u r g Bridge, connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan, was dosed. vocal line against Israel, the government today hanged two men as spies. Jordanian officials said Zahran Youseff Ismail Kharroub, 49, and Zubei Abdul Hafiz Kharroub, 39, Abudullash were executed. Nixon Will Keep Bunker - NEW YORK (AP) Nixon said today he has decided to ask Ellsworth Bunker to remain U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, believing that "at this time a change in ambassadors would not be wise." Presi-dent-ele- ct disThe president-elec- t closed that decision as he announced the selection of three top deputies to SecreWil tary of State-designa- te including officially calling the conference a "four-part- y meeting, if the Allies would agree to solid circular table. The surprise move by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong left the old issue the only one delaying start of the conference. And with both sides willing to sit at a circular table, the only shape-of-the-tab- Lebanon Students Strike, Demand War Mobilization ble for allowing Israels commando raid against Beirut Airport a week ago. The students issued communiques demanding compulsory military training, freeing detained Arab commandos, putting the national economy on a war footing, turning villages on the Israeli frontier into armed camps and encouragement of Arab guerrilla action against the Jewish state. The student action dramatized feeling in Lebanon which, until dethe Israeli commandos stroyed 13 airliners Saturday in issues deadlocking the talks, gas explosions early Saturday. No one was badly hurt. P. Rogers. The choice: Elliot L. Richardson, 46, now attorney general of Massachusetts, to be undersecretary of state. liam U. Alexis Johnson, 60, now ambassador to Japan, as undersecretary of state for political affairs. Richard F. Pedersen, 43, deputy U.S. representative at the U.N. Security Council, to be counselor of the State Department. Of Subzero onia - claimed (AP) has Influenza-pneum- 3,594 lives in 122 cities since Dec. 7, almost double the nor- mal expected mortality rate, health officials say. But they say a peak in the epidemic is expected in a week or two. The National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta reported that the number of deaths recorded in the control cities is 1,608 more than would have occurred if the country had not been hit by a Hong Kong flu epidemic. are Comparisons actually not conclusive, the center cau tions, because the barometer is gauged on the 122 cities, not nationwide. However, the epidemic is similar to one in 1967-6involving the asian flu, center officials said. The Hong Kong strain, so called because it was first isolated in Hong Kong, has been reported in 47 of the 50 states. Those states not reporting incilents are Louisiana, Mississippi and Hawaii. In the past two days over 8,000 new Infiuenza-lik- e cases were leported in Alabama, the state Health Department 8 said. However, W.H.Y. Smith, head of Alabamas Bureau of Preventable Disease, said that only 18 cases had been identified as the positively Hong Kong variety. "It looks like were in the throes of an epidemic of Hong Kong flu, he commented. Persons with chronic diseases and the elderly are highly susceptible. Surgery is being delayed in many instances because of a blood shortage. Ep'demics have cut down the number of blood donations, officials said. U.S. Surgeon Gen. Dr. Wil 4, 1969 Uoiifty. WASHINGTON (UPI) The 91st Congress, confronted as the nation with youthful challenge and a desire for unity, gave Sen. Edward M. Kennedy a place in its leadership and Adam Clayton Powell a measure of forgiveness. In a day of dramatic Capitol Hill action Friday, Senate Demo- crats picked the surviving Kennedy brother as their whip," assistant party leader, over the incumbent Sen. Russell B. Long, of Louisiana. The House voted to return the seat it denied Adam Clayton Powell subject to a stiff fine and loss of seniority. Powell, the controversial New York Negro preacher-politiciabanished from the House In 1967, took the oath of office after dark at the end of a hectic floor fight on his bid to be seatr ed for a 12th congressional term. n two-yea- DENIED SENIORITY But under the conditions imposed by his colleagues, on a 251 to 160 vote, the Democratic lawmaker will be denied the benefits of the seniority system and his $2,500 monthly salary check will be docked in equal $1,150 installments until December of 1970 a total of $25,000. issue that remained was whether it will be symbolically marked off or divided to preserve U.S. and South VietnamUtahs Republican representaBy The Associated Press ese demands the conference be Sherman P. Lloyd and tives, two party negotiations. Temperatures plunged far Laurence J. Burton, voted NEXT WEEK? below zero today in much of the against the seating of PoweU. midcontinent. Tiie diplomats said there had For a man of Powells past The second wave of intense been such progress toward g style the punishcold this week sent temper- breaking the deadlock that has ment might have seemed too atures tumbling to subzero lev- held up the start of the talks humiliating. But he swallowed els from the northern Rockies since Nov. 6 that a final agree- it, and came forward at once to eastward to Wisconsin and Illi- ment could come as early as be sworn into office by Speaker nois and southward ns far ns next week. However, the final John W. McCormack, apparentissue Is touchy and the atari of Missouri and Kansas. ly reconciled to punishment after the talks could be ielajed for Among the- lows: Bismarck, sitting out most of the past two some time. N.Dm 25, Sioux Falls and years of the 90th Congress on a The closest the two sides have Caribbean island without pay Aberdeen, S.D., 24, on the and with 20, Omaha come to final agreement Paid, very little attention. 18, Dubuque, Iowa 17, Chi- table issue is a proposal by the HE WONT CHANGE States, approved by 7, Indi- United cago 8, Milwaukee PoweQa exclusion last time anapolis and Kansas City, both South Vietnam, to meet around was on a special committees divided solid table circular a by --1. finding that he had put his wife of green baize. thin a stripe TRAVELERS WARNED on the payroll when she did no Snow flurries and snow work; that he had abused funds of the Education and Labor squalls kept travelers warnings in effect from northeastern Ohio Committee of which he was to western New York. chairman; and that he was conSnow fell on Atlanta during temptuous of the committee in its attempt to Investigate his the night as the large mass of affairs. arctio air swept into the Deep South. Cold rain chilled other Allied SAIGON (UPI) In all, the committee alleged sections of the Southeast troops ambushed and killed 45 he misused more than $40,000 of For much of the midcontinent Viet Cong in operations in the the taxpayers' money. the new surge of polar weather canals and swamps of the "Do you plan to behave any was a replay of a cold snap that Mekong Delta and U.S. troops differently? he was asked at a in a news conference after his seatsettled over a large part of the killed 46 more Communists northern half of the country drive to disrupt a threat against ing. It Saigon, military spokesmen said "Thats like asking me if I Tuesday and Wednesday. came after less than two days today. plan to stop beating my wife, of U.S. infantrymen, Navy patrol he wintertime temreplied. "Ill behave the peratures. helicop- same as I boats, and rocket-firin- g always did. ters teamed Friday to corner FRIGID WIND LIBERAL VICTORY kill 22 Viet Cong 60 miles Biting winds held the mercury and Kennedys win, on a 31 to 26 near zero or below in most of southwest of Saigon and a South vote in caucus prior to the offibattalion today the northern plains and Midwest Vietnamese cial opening of the new Senate, 23 in a killed guerrillas throughout Friday, despite brilwas by many a prelliant sunshine. fight in a canal 63 ude toregarded a bid for national leaderof southwest miles Saigon. Any significant snowfall genship, perhaps as early as 1972, erally was limited to the Gieat The operations near Saigon although the Massaweeks-lon- g were of drive a Lakes region. One and part chusetts denied it. lawmaker to of clear the capital area accumulations fell along eastern shores of the lakes in Michigan Communists to prevent them But, together with the election and in parts of Ohio and west- massing for a new drive on the of moderate Sen. Hugh Scott of ern New York. city as the government has pre- Pennsylvania over conservative Sen. Roman L. Hruska of A mixture of rain, freezing dicted frequently. The Viet Cong killed three Nebraska for the corresponding rain and snow plagued motorists through much of the Pacific Americans and wounded 25 in Republican No. 2 leadership herthe Northwest, a region hit by one another engagement near Sai- post, new Kennedy victory power for the Senate of its worst winter storms in gon. U.S ships blasted North Vi- alded liberal faction. years at the start of the week. etnamese positions in the DemTravelers warnings remained in ilitarized Zone (DMZ) and the Scott won on a 23 to 20 vote. effect for eastern Washington Communists in the border atrip Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana and and northern Idaho. fired at U.S spotter planes. the Senate Democrats third in command, Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, were without opposition, as was Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, Senate GOP leader. high-steppin- Allied Drives V!e jfc-- near-norm- two-inc- h liam H. Stewart says doctor-.- ' use of the vaccine on patients coupled with the fact that some who need the dosage are not asking for it is complicating the epidemty the Hong including Kong flu virus, Brig. Gen. Oscar Davis, post commander, said germs, Maj. James N. Rowe smiles as he sets foot in Texas. HERO OUTWITS CONG ic. At. Ft. Benning, Ga. plastic face masks which cover the mouth and nose have been Issued to basic trainees. A spokesman said it "is to be worn at all times when are massed together. The mask, identical to those trainees worn by surgeons, Is designed to prevent the spread cf Today's Thought There are only two Iowa. On the House side, Speaker weatures that can surMcCormack, 71, was mount the pyramids the on a straight party line vote as expected, following his eagle and the snail. Eastern Pi overb victory in Democratic caucus 241-18- uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuuiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiii) Goodby Reds , Howdy Texas SAN ANTONIO, TEX. When President (UPI) John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Army Maj. James Rowe, then a 1st lieutenant, heard the news from a Viet Cong officer. In the fall of 1963, Rowe had been a prisoner for about a month in the steamy jungles of Vietnams Mekong Delta. Friday Rowe returned to his home state after an ordeal that lasted more than five years. Rowe overpowered an armed guard last week and was rescued by a U.S. Army helicopter pilot The Special Forces officer, one of the first American advisers sent during the early years of the Vietnam conflict, wore a new green beret as he told of almost constant transfers from one makeshiit prison to anoth-e- r. 5-- d Rowe said he lived most of the past five years "in nothing but thatched buildings with bars for walls." He ate little more than rice during his captivity and heard only bad news from the United States his captors wanted him to hear. He was taken to Brooks Army Medical Center at Ft Sam Houston near San Antonio for a medical examination and was expected to leave for his home in McAllen, Tex., in the next few days. The McAllen Civic Commission met Friday to decide what sort of welcome to accord their returning hero. Rowes parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Rowe, asked that the welcome be as small as possible, but said they also knew their son belongs to the country and to McAllen and we are willing to share him. his ordeal, the Despite crewcut West Point graduate told newsmen he wanted to go back to Vietnam. "I have already asked to be sent back to Vietnam, Rowe said. "I feel the experience gained over the past five See FREED on Page A-- S POST VACATED In another Republican contest, Sen. Gordon Allott, 62, a conservative from Colorado, defeated moderate Sen. Robert P. Griffin, 45, of Michigan for chairmanship of the Senate GOP Policy Committee. The vote was 25 to 18. The post was vacated by the retirement of Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper of 7 Thursday over youthful insurgents. ' AP Wirt Photo Shatter Reds - ipidemic Doubles AAortality Ekrte ATLANTA JANUARY Adam C. 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