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Show Snow on Roads SIE ee Overturns Bus, City Sand Unit By DICK HARMON Herald Staff Reporter A ProvoSchool District school bus traveling to pick up children and a Provo City sanding truck tipped over in similar freak accidents within a few blocks and one hour of each other this morning in Provo's steep Edgemont area Both vehicles tipped over attempting to climb hills during a morning snowfall, police said. The school bus was climbing 1450 East near 2300 North, when it lost power cn wet, sticky snow and went over the embankment on the west side of the road, said Patrolman Les Driver of the bus was Marjorie Crooks,41, of 185 N. 300 E. in Santa—_ Tepo! Mason who eseens ae Two wreckers were needed to remove the bus from the embankment. It is fortunate poemere no children in the bus,” Cpl. Don Robertson said the city sander was climbing above Coventry Lane just east of Foothill Drive whenit slid back and hit the curb. “The large load caused the truck to turn over,” Robertson said Driver of the city truck was James L. Ferre, 22, of 1350 W. 500 N., No. 106 in Provo. Estimatdv damage to the truck was $1300. Cloudy skies with occasional snow and fog will continue in Utah Valley through next week, according to oa from the Springville Junior Weather Station. Tonight’'s forecastis for fog with a 60 percent chance of precipitation. temperatures in the low teens with from the southeast at 0-3 miles per hour. Tomorrow temperatures will be in the low 30s with 50 percent chance of precipitation. Today the temperature was 30 degrees; humidity 92 percent; barometric pressure 30.26 and rising, and winds were from the southeastat 0-3 miles per hour. Extended forecast for Jan. 3-7 calls for clouds but clearing with highs in the 30s and lowsin the high teens. There is a 15 percent chance of snow. Te High Gold Price Jolting Markets LONDON (UPI) — Gold today opened at record highs on the fi:st day of trading in the 1980s. nearing the $560an-ounce mark. The dollar remained under pressure in early trading on European foreign exchanges. Paris’ bullion market shut down for the rest of the day because it could not cope with the demand. “People are bidding for gold lik: no time before,” a dealersaid. ‘The panic can hardly be called trading any more. With the Zurich bullion market closed, gold hit a new opening high of $553.50 an ounce in London compared with Monday’sclose of $524.50. At the morning fix, the price jumped another $34.50 to a new all-time high of $559. The dollar opened easier against most European currencies. althoughit was .still under pressure. The Swiss franc did not show because foreign exchanges were closed in Zurich. “The dollar remained under pressure in early trading, reflecting thecrisis in Afghanistan and the still unresolved hostage situation in Iran.” said a dealer for Citibank. The dollar was slightly firmer against the pound. opening in Londonat $2.2185 against Monday’s close of $2.2200. Foreign exchange dealers in London said that with Zurich closed today. business on the continent was limited but selling of dollars was persistent. The pound held relatively steady. they said. The dollar opened down in Frankfurt at 1.7170 marks compared with Monday’s closeof 1.7315 marks,in Paris at 4.0105 francs compared with Friday's 4.0225 francs. The American currency was also down in Brussels at 28.9250 Belgian francs from Monday's 29.00 francs,in Amsterdam at 1.8890 guilders from 1.9005 guilders and in Milan at 802.00 lira from 804.05 lira. Foreign exchange markets were closed in Tokyo today. 107TH YEAR,NO. 131 Babrak Wants More Soviet Aid By WILLIAM HOLSTEIN PESHAWAR, Pakistan (UPI) — Soviet-installed Afghan leader Babrak Karmal warned today he would ask Russia ‘for more military help to supplement the estimated 50,000 Soviet troops already in his country, Radio Kabul reported. There were unconfirmed reports in New Delhi and Peshawar that Soviet soldiers battled Afghan opposition forces at a point just 60 miles from the Pakistani border. The reports said the Soviets had secured the Afghan capital of Kabul and have moved out to secure the central Asian country’s only major road network. The reports also said the Soviet troops mortared and bombed major telegraphic switchboards and government telecommunications installations, cutting off most communications within Afghanistan. Diplomats in New Delhisaid rebel ing to get the title,” said Franees tribesmen have joined forces with Slutas, administrative supervisor of the hospital. The unnamed girl followed the 1a baby of the ‘70s. Christiana Marie Apanowsy, by only seconds. Ms.Slutas said. Many Americans, as usual, spent New Year’s Day nursing hangovers and watching college bowl games. For those with ‘morning-after’ revulsion, television commentators in Chicago offered advice on a curefor a hangover. Actually, experts said, there is none. But there are a few ways to make it livable — including asprin, plenty of sleep or, for the stouthearted, a variety of folk cures such as the Bismarck herring and cold beer treatment recommended in Germany. And for the armchair addicts, the resultsleft the universities of Alabama Revelers Get Ugly In Reno, Chicago By United Press International New Year's revelers turned vandalin two of the nation’s larger turn-ofdecade celebrations and one ofthe ‘80s’ first babies had hospital nurses to thank for not being born in the '70s. Fighting, looting and arson broke out in downtown Reno, Nev., at the stroke of midnight. It took an armyofpolice to restore order. More than 100 people ended up in jail and property damage was heavy. Police said there would have been a lot more damage — and probably more injuries — if revelers had liquor glasses to hurl at police and stores in the downtownsection. After a similar riot in 1961, the downtown casinos began issuing plastic drinking glasses to their patrons. In Chicago, upward of 100.000 revelers jammed the downtown State Street Mall, dancingin the streets and smashing windows and panels in two mobile television units on hand to televise the festivities. Nurses at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital counted downthe seconds and claimed to have delivered the first baby of the i980s at one second after midnight. “We wereholding her head back, try- and Southern California in dispute as to who should be chosen the national championship by a panel of coaches that vote in the UPIpol Undefeated. untied Mlabama soundly defeated seventh-ranked Arkansas, 249, in the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans while unbeaten but once-tied Southern Cal rallied to edge undefeated Ohio State, 17-16, in the Rose Bowl. Prank with Lighter Claims 46 Lives CHAPAIS, Quebec (UPI) — fire apparently started by a New Year's reveler playing with a cigarette lighter roared through a nightclub, killing 42 people, most of them trappedin a narTow rearexit. The New Year's Eve disaster was the worst fire in Quebec in 41 years, since 46 people died in a blaze at Sacred Heart Collegein Ste. Hyacintie in 1938. Claude Rioux, chief of police in Chapais, a northern Quebec malig town of 3,200. said Tuesday almostall of thevictimsweretrapped in a narrow rear exit when fire roared through the Opemiska Club during a New Year's Eve dance. The bodies, he said, were charred almost beyond recognition. ‘‘With someof them, thereis a leatherbelt or a piece of clothing that will help iden- tify them,” he said Some 300 people esca} from the one-story building through tworear exits, many of them severely burned on their hands and face. But 41 people were overcome and their bodies were found Tuesday in a heap around the doors. The 42nd victim died in a hospital later in the day in Quebec City. In Chibougamau, some19 miles east of Chapais in this snowswept mining and lumbering region, an unidentified 21-year-old man was scheduled to appear today before Quebec Fire Commissioner Cyrille Delage. Police Chief Rioux said the man. who was arrested Tuesday morning but not charged, “was playing with a lighter close to an archof tree branches near the front entrance." 4 PROVO, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2, 1980 $4.50—MONTH, PRICE 25 CENTS KURT WALDHEIM Afghan soldiers. their former foes, to authorities have provided ‘‘clearly insufficient” security for Russian hanistan. diplomats. In New Delhi, nearly 100 Athan stuTass also reported that Karmal condents seized the Afghanistan Embassy demned President Carter's critical for six hours today protesting the statements on the Soviet invasion of Soviet invasion of their homeland. They Afghanistan. calling them U.S vowed Afghans would retake their interferencein the country’s affairs. country from ‘‘Russian invaders.’ The In a dispatch from Kabul, the new unarmed students. shouting. ‘‘Wewill Afghani leader was quoted as saying, fight,” tore down the Afghan national Carter's comments on the Soviet drive flag at the embassy and hoisted a green across the border ‘‘actually mean Islamicflag. interference in Afghanistan's internal Embassy sources in New Delhi said affairs. the United States might consider any “Statements of other imperialist Pakistani requests for additional arms forces and reaction of the region have in light of the Soviet incursion into much in common with these neighboring Afghanistan. embassy statements,” Tass quoted him as saysources said today. ing. Pakistan. to wahich the United States Asian diplomats in the Indian capital stopped all aid in April. has not re- also said the Soviets have poured 50.000 quested additional arms thusfar, the troops into Afghanistan, beginning with a massive airlift over Christmas that source said. In Moscow. the Tass news agency helped install Karmal as leader and complained the seizure of the Afghan oust Hafizullah Amin, who waskilled Embassy in New Delhi showed Indian either during the coup or executed battle the Soviet invasion force in Afg- afterward. American diplomatic sources estimated the numberof Soviet troops in Afghanistanatthe slightly lowerfigure of 45,000 with about the same number massed onthe Sovietside of the border with strategic Afghanistan. which borders Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan. In the Afghan capital of Kabul, Karmal was quoted on the official Kabul Radio as saying he would request even more defense aid from Moscow and other Soviet-bloc countriesuntil opposition to his rule dies down in the Central Asian nation. “We announce to the world that as long as the enemies of Afghanistan do not refrain from interfering with our sovereign territory, we. on the basis of the wishesof the people of Afghanistan and for the sake of the defense of our country, shall ask for further assistance from the U.S.S.R. and other peace-loving countries.” the radio quoted Karmal. Captors Rap Waldheim TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) — U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim met with Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh today in an attempt to break the stalemate over the American hostages, but militants holding the hostages vowed they would have nothing to do with the U.N. chief. Waldheim, haunted by photographs of his past association with the exiled shah, met for the third time with Ghotbzadeh since his New Year's Day arrival “Your ideas may have helped,’ the Iranian told Waldheim. There was no elaboration on the comment. However, the secretary general by late afternoonstill had not succeeded in getting the audience he requested with Islamic strongman Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini — probably the only manin Iran who canfree the hostages, now in their 60th day of captivity. Militant students said Waldheim was not welcome atthe U.S. Embassy. “‘We won'tlet him in evenif he wantsto,” a spokesmansaid. Instead. the militants hoisted a poster showing Waldheim kissing the hand of deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s twin sister. Princess Ashraf Pahlavi. duringhis official visit to Tehran last year. The Islamic Republic. a publication of radical Islamic clergymen,carried a photographofthe shah,a Star of David superimposed on his face, shaking hands with the secretary general. “Waldheim hand-in-hand with the executioner.” the caption read. ‘The nation has bitter memoriesof thelast trip of Waldheim,this independent head of the U.N. to Tehran.” Iranian oil workers demonstrated in front of the U.S. Embassy todayin support of the militants. and three more demonstrations ending up at the em- bassy compound were planned fcr Thursday. A large crowd of demonstrators gathered outside a centerforthe treatmentof victims of reported atrocities of the shah’s regime where Waldheim wasscheduled to pay visit. Wednesday: Flap Continues Orem says it will respondtofire and ambulancecalls in Utah County areas adjacentto the city, but only if the county asks and only if the county will pay all costs, says the city’s manager. The city still thinks Orem residents are paying for firefighting in the county and are subsidizing county residents. The city manager said without a County-city fire agreement, county residents cannotcall Orem forfire protection and mustcall the county fire marshall. Orem’s city manager said he thought the matter could soon he resolved. For story see page 3. Billings Gets Honor Roger Billings, president of Billings Corporation in Provo, has been named «s one of the 10 outstanding young men in America by the U.S. Jaycees. Each year the Jayceesselect 10 young men who have madesignificant contributions to their business and civic communities. See story on Page 2. Killings Threat Police are investigating letters to a newspaper columnist from selfdescribed “ugly, lonely and ur.wanted” man who threatensto carTy outa series of randomkillings in Southern California. Homicide investigators are working together to reach the letter writer, who they said exhibited “considerable intelligence” in his writing. See story on Page12. spotted the men wrestling beside the toad, pickedup oneoftheir two guns and held the pistol on the trooper’s attacker until help arrived. See story on Page12. Mom Charged A 20-month-old child wasset atire early today in an exorcism rite by his mother and grandmother who feared he was ‘‘possessed’’ by the devil, police said. The young boy was reported in critical condition in a New York burn unit and a hospital spokesman said he also was malnourished. The mother has been charged in the case. See story on Page 12. She Saves Cop Afghanistan Action A womanpasserby is credited by Arkansas State Police with saving thelife of one of their troopers who was shot and choked by traffic violator. Police say the anonymous woman toward major decisions to confront the Soviet Union's military intervention in Afghanistan. He summoned his National Security Council President Carter today moved to an afternoon meeting and rushed ¥ back to Washington after canceling several appearances. See story on Page 5. Haze to Linger Lingering smoke and haze, with night and morning fog, said likely through Thursday in the Central Utah area. A 10 percent chance of showersandlight winds will accompany overnight lowsin the 20s and highs Thursday in the upper 30s. See additional Utah weatherinformation on Page 3, and a aational weather report on Page 5. WhereToFind It Amusements Arts Classified Ads Comics Editorial National-International Obituaries 19 1 39-43 33 5, : 4 Society 4 Sports 6-9 |