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Show Our Phone Numbers Rain, Snow Due News, News Tips Home Delivery Increasing high clouds tonight. Rain changing to snow by late Wednesday. Daytime highs 50 to 55. Details, weather map on Page Information 5 Sports Scores 5 Classify d Ads Only Editorial offices: 34 E. First South 524-444- 521-353- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 48 PAGES 6 The Mountain West's First Newspaper 10c TUESDAY, h irhain DeSoy LOS ANGELES - trial of Jordanian immigrant Sirhan B. Sirhan for the slaying of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy seven months ago began today with an unsuccessful defense effort to obtain a further continuance. The trial was only a minute old when defense attorneys obtained a conference in chambers with the prosecution, judge and defendant. After an hours discussion the principals returned to the courtroom and the trial opened. e race The slender track exercise boy dressed in a light blue suit and wearing a blue tie was ushered into the eighth floor courtroom after assing through a .'assageway under heavy guard. delayed one-tim- steel-walle- d U.S., Viets The prisoner appeared more serious than at previous hearings and small in comparison to the towering guards. He apparently did not immediately pick out his mother and a brother who were seated at the rear of the courtroom. The trial began at 9:40 a.m. and chief uefense counsel Grant P. Cooper immediately told Superior Court Judge Herbert V. Walker he wished to make a motion in chambers and with the defendant present. Judge Walker rose to his feet and retired to his chambers adjacent to the courtroom along with Sirhan and counsel for both the prosecution and defense. card-cheatin- required to answer the ques- tions. As the trial opened, Cooper moved that the case be heard by two juries, one to reach a verdict and a separate one to dec'de on a penalty. Cooper argued that two juries were needed because it would be difficult to question prospective jurors on the subject of capita punishment. The California Supreme Court ruled recently that failure to include persons opposed to capital punishment on murder case juries resulted in a bias in favor of the prosecution. The defense chief also introduced a motion to quash the indictment against Sirhan on the ground the grand jury which handed it up was improperly se- lected. Defense motions and jury selection are expected to take tw o weeks and presentation of evidence by both sides two months or more. There are indications that more than 200 witnesses w ill be called. Sirhan, 24, a Jordanian who came to this country as a boy with his family, is accused of shooting Kennedy last June 5 in the kitchen corridor of the Ambassador Hotel as the New Yorker left a victory celebra-- t ion California's following Democratic presidential pri- mary. Five bystanders were wound- ed, and Sirhan also is being tried on five counts of assault with intent to commit murder. The trial will be in a tiny armor-plateeighth floor courtroom in the gray-stonSee SIRHAN on Page AS. d e, FROM $100,000 TO $200,000 - which is taxable, and a $40,000 allowance, The WASHINGTON (AP) House has voted to raise Richard M. Nixons presidential travel yearly which is not. PARIS (UPI) High U.S. and salary to $200,000 a year, douSouth Vietnamese negotiators ble the pay President Johnson today discussed their next move received. in attempts to reach procedural If approved by the Senate agreement with the North and signed by President JohnVietnamese and get the son, the raise would be only the fourth since George WashParis talks moving. ington took the job for $25,000 Cyrus R. Vance, the deputy and the first since 1S49 when chief American negotiator, and Harry S Trumans salary was Pham Dang Lam, official increased from $75,000 to Saigon delegation chief, consid- $100,000 yearly. ered alternative proposals on The new salary would be the Hanoi demand for a round supplemented by a $50,000 an-- n produc conference table, the question u a 1 expense allowance, the expandholding up opening ed Vietnam talks. Vast Shakeup In Education The group remained closeted for more than an hour. The request for continuance revolved around Coopers role in another case, the Ftiars Club g trial. He has refused to answer questions of a federal judge on where he obtained secret grand jury transcripts of the case, claiming it conwould violate counsel-cliefidence. During the noon recess of the Sirhan case, he was to appear again before the judge who will decide whether he will be 1969 7, House Okays Raise For Nixon Pushing For Talks Sirhan Bishara Sirhan goes on trial for murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. RFK Murder T rial Under Way The long JANUARY Oeimo Combined UPI and AP NIXON AIDE'S VIEW 0 524-284- 0 524-444- 5 B-1- 3. VOL. 371 NO. 524-440- With only one strong dissent, from a Republican, the House members rushed the bill through by voice vote Monday. To be effective it must become law before Nixon is sworn in at noon Jan. 20, since the Constitution forbids changing a Presidents salary long-delay- during his term. The presidential increase was recommended by a special commission headed by Frederick R. Kappel, former chairman of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. It also suggested sweeping increases in salaries paid other federal er raises officials including congressmen but there is no constitutional deadline on those. President Johnson is expected to make his recommendations, based on the Kappel Report, when he submits his budget to Congress later this month. The only vocal opposition came from Republican Rep. H. R. Gross of Iowa, who said he leared the bill would set Kappel recCommission reportedly ommended increasing the pay of congressmen from $30,000 to $50,000 a year; the chief justice from $40,000 to $75,000; associate justices from $39,500 to $65,000; and cabinet officers from $35,000 to $60,000. Other executives would get the stage for fat increases for members of Congress and others. The recommendation for oth ferently. The will be handled dif- nine-memb- comparable raises. If Johnson submits those recommendations, they will go into effect automatically 30 days later unless Congress votes to change or veto them. There is nothing to prevent the other salaries from being changed after Nixons inauguration. If Nixon gets the raise, federal taxes would trim his take home pay about $100,000 a year, two ranking Democratic backers of the Increase said. House Democratic Leader Carl Albert and Chairman Wilbur D. Mills of the Ways and Means Committee said local taxes would leave Nixon even less of the new salary. The Senate is expected to e take up the presidential bill next week, in time for Johnson to sign it before Inauguration Day. pay-rais- SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (AP) young persons achieve tive lives. We know that the problems are in higher education, Finch ROOM SEARCH . explained. Probably the areas Only a few hours earlier an of reel concern are In the public caller threatened by anonymous schools. Weve got to begin to telephone to blow up the Saigon shake up elementary and delegation headquarters where education. Jl ondry O One problem Finch said. Is it met. A room search by to turn up any vacations and more challenging! that elementary schools dont police failed evidence of a bomb. classes are seen by Finch as take television into account a child has perhaps Lam, in an address to a news in what he regards though as probably the area of real 2,000 or 3,000 hours before a TV luncheon, turned down the ele-- set before reaching school concern in education possibility of a coalition with SAIGON (AP) Battling Another problem, he said, Is the Viet Cong, warning it would un(jer the light of flares, a task mentary and secondary schools. be the first step to aj( "Many of our elementary that for a young man with of Amerlcan takeover. are teaching now thejtary obligations, education is to men encircle an out- tried strung out that most stay way they did 20 years CTVIL STRIFE Viet numbered bein interview Cong company an out of the real world until their Finch said He said the Vietnam conflict jn the marshy' Mekong Delta fore leaving Monday night for a1 Finch, 43, is Nixons youngest could not be solved without Washington. Monday night. solution of the Finch. California's Republican choice for the Cabinet. During simultaneous The Viet Cong force was belieutenant governor for the past the past two years, he served asjcMl strife in neighboring Laos between to number 100 or more, the frontier and lieved dispute two years, said that as a gen-- j an University of Cali- and the Americans reported eral proposition, weve probably fornia regent and California South Vietnam and Cambodia, concentrated too much on College System trustee. He asked for an international killing 48 of them. But the rest as opposed to helping Finch said he plans to study police force to patrol all slipped away sometime before fare in detail the recent Carnegie frontiers in the war-tor- n penin-- i dawn today. Commission report on higher suia. He said once peace was fg U.S. casualties were eight education Issued by Dark Kerr, Restored his government would former University of California favor the creation of a broad killed and 11 wounded. president. He said he talked communitv of countries in the Rarely have Viet Cong troops with Kerr and President-elec- t ,heEUrcP'a" lx brought to bat, I, In uch the proposals, Nixffli about force which included plans for vastly recently in the delta. Hell Numerous working sessions, copter-born- e increased financial aid to col- were mfantrymen of the between held being Division leges and universities. 9th . fanned out in members of the two delegations I'm generally in favor of the two the as area the the today, trying to track throughout day emphasis on medical and dental parties discussed a common down the survivor?. schools, Finch said. .stand on procedural questions He noted that A U.S. spokesman said the; AP Wire Photo for the conference. Commission's report includes enemy band was evidently a Wreckage of Allegheny Airlines plane which crashed Monday, killing 11 persons. main force Viet Cong company, proposals for community or jun about! which normally numbers as well as academic training.' 110 to 130 men. Most of the, enemy forces in the area have been recently operating in These or platoons. Rest satisfied with do- squads PORT MORESBY, NEW GUIgroups usually gather only for ing well, (Did leave others planned operations, and it was NEA (UPI) An earthquake reto talk of you as they speculated that this force may gistering 6.9 on the have been assembled to break SEOUL (UPI)-Ricl- iard of shook Scale Richter M. parts yleasc. Newr Guinea and the Solomon BRADFORD. PA. (AP) -- was checking the seat belts. Pythagoras the lull in the delta or was on Kixon niay fly to. Bangkok ized and went back for those the march to reinforce enemy !ttilhjn Islands Monday. No damage a month after his For the second time in two I knew something was who couldn't get out. was reported. inauguration as President for a weeks an Allegheny Airlines No one was thinking of wrong when the ship started summit meeting with the propjet crashed in bad weath- to go up in the air. We cut themselves, said Chet 'leaders of allied nations fighting er while trying to land at the some trees, then we flipped 56, of Downingtown, in Vietnam, a Seoul newspaper Ta. We were just trying to over. I was sitting about airport here. said today. Eleven persons were killed. of the way back behind get out everybody we could. Seventeen others, most of the right wing and in front of The school boys weie wonderThe newspaper Shina Illio ful. They handled themselves them left hanging from their an emergency exit. sources as quoted informed like men. I'm proud of them. when the Convair seatbelts I was suspended upside midin saying the summit A still working hard to guard 580 flipped upside down MonWASHINGTON (AP) belt. down Neither, they said, will It Allegheny Airline.", which safety by my February Ull discuss the postcrawled to safety There was a young girl across has had three fatal plane secret report on an Air question the possibility that ugainst leaks. war rehabilitation of Vietnam day night, on a snowswept golf course. the aisle from me who was crashes since it started flying intelligent life exists beyond investigation e The and the allied approach to the report lias 10-A of flying saucers will say the earth. Instead, it will ema n investigating alive but couldn't get out of passengers in 1959, said it had been turned over, at the Air war talks. Paris team from the National her seat. I unbuckled her belt no reason to believe there is there is no scientific evidence phasize that the investigation Forces request, to a special uncovered no scientific evito Indicate that these unidentiand pushed her out the any link between the two accisaid Transportation Safety Board, It is sheer speculation, committee, of the appraisal dence to support contentions dents near the fied flying objects are spacewindow. a Foreign Ministry spokesman concerned about the amazof SciNational Academy of Bradford two he Cherico the similarities the and said confirm the by various individual scienasked to Regional Airport. ing ships from another world. girl to which report. refuses ences, Informed sources told the tists and private organizations others out and stood There are no plans to stop went to work today accidents, helped divulge any information, even South Korea, Australia, New to find out what happened. A them up against trees to see if any flights, " spokesman said. Associated Press that this will that flying sauctrs are visithe names of committee and the Zealand, Thailand, the latest crash was night be the primary thrust of the tors from a distant planet. similar team has been investithey were all right. members. in have forces Philippines tlie Christmas S c h a c k e, 16, of Eve 737, which originated in WashJohn closely guarded report on a gating The study, financed by a Vietnam aiding American and Findings of the academy r crash of an Allegheny flight Mechaniesburg, Pa., said the ington, stopped in Harrisourg study by a team of South Vietnamese troops. $300,000 grant from the Air committee ere to be attached scientists. crash felt like someone was and was bound for Eric and eight miles away that killed nongovernment Force, was made by a team to the report for simultaneous President Johnson called the 20 ol 47 persona aboard. The sources said the report slamming the left side with a Detroit. The first crash was of scientists under the direci eloase by the Air Force, now first such summit meeting in There whs no panic. said will not claim that the study hammer. We ran into tree Flight 738, t.hich goes the tion of Dr. Edward U. Condon for scheduled tentatively turned over ar.d slid. I ether way. October, 1966, in Manila. The Sandy Cherico of North East, limbs, produced proof that UFOs of the University of Colorado. Friday. Both were Convair 58i)s, wound up hanging are net manned surveillance last summit wan in Australia Pa., a passenger. It all hapupside down. Someone yelled to go both were making instrument It was learned that the only craft from outer space. You following the death cf Prime pened too fast. The Tight security has been imMinister Harold Holt in Decemhad already out the back. cant prove a negative, the posed on the project from tha oilier copies of the report are landings in snow, both turned A-See 11 DIE on Outside the survivorsrgan- come on and,the stewardess soi wees said. start, and authorities are locked in a basement atjhe ber, 167. 48 Cong I Die sec-yea- r- In Mekong Night Battle - mili-schoo- ls intantry-Communi- st ago,so mid-20s- ." wel-jsta- rrl'Slr . New Guinea Tremor1 Today's Thought Seoul Reports Summit Plans 'Amazing Similarities' Noted As 2nd Plane Crash Kills 11 Mes-serve- y, - Force-finance- d Mot Space Visitors two-thir- 1,000-pag- li two-yea- I ftp |