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Show mm BYU to Build Huge w Center Sports-Cultur- al (See Story and Picture on Page 8) O 7 f turn 96th YEAR, NO. 34 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH Reds Rout Battalion - By JACK WALSH The WASHINGTON (UPI) SAIGON (UPI)-N- orth Viet nomination Abe of controversial namese troops in two surprise attacks killed 25 U.S. Marines Fortas to be chief justice was 10 to 6, today by the and wounded 126 near the approved Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Mon- Senate Judiciary Committee and sent to the floor. But its day and routed an entire South fate was uncertain because of a Vietnamese Ranger battalion which fled for its life near Dan threatened filibuster. After nearly three months of Nang early today. the committee U.S. advisers with the South of cleared the nomination Vietnamese said there was now an associate justice Fortas, mass confusion in the dark and of the Court and the that they also had to flee first JewSupreme ever proposed for the through rice paddies and rivers nation's top judicial post. in the confused action which A coalition of Republicans and killed 27 South Vietnamese. Another 200 men in the battalion were reported missing. -a i fThe advisers said the batta lion had begun to move to a new position 10 miles south of Da Nang when it was hit with rockets and a ground attack in the early morning darkness. The Communists charged with grenades and the South Vietna mese broke and ran. The North Vietnamese used the same tactics against the U.S. Marines on a ridgeline four miles south of the Demilitarized wrangling, ti I Vvv s ' ! GIRLS line up at packet desk in rehearsal at Brig-BaYoung University today. They are (from left) Ruth Wynn, Emmett, Ida.; Marilyn Hoare, Brisbane, Australia; and V&Iene Sud weeks, Kimberly, Ida. (Herald staff photo by Grant Roylance) Y Students Pour nto Provo Area The vanguard Some 6,000 of them of an estimated 4,000 Brigham Young Univer- - freshmen and 2,000 new trans-are already here and slty students flooded into Prove fers Monday and today. undergoing orientation proce- - 21,000 Thursday 7:30 P.M- - attack followed by a ground assault. dures. Many of the rest are in The Marines held and killed 27 the North Vietnamese, town and on the campus getting of settled, and all must be here driving them off. An American adviser with the by the weekend. Freshmen register Thuredav, the balance on South Vietnamese, one of four attached to the unit, said the Friday and Saturday. The estimate of 21,000 South Vietnamese had killed pus daytime students is approx- more than 200 North Vietna imately 600 above a comparable mese in battles during the past period last year. Final figures few days but buckled under the must, of course, await registrat- surprise attack. ion. "We started out after dark to From Every State move across a field and then They come from every state they hit us with rockets and the in the union and several foreign whole operation fell apart," a U.S. survivor said. countries, cars bulging with lug"The South Vietnamese gage, many accompanied by their parents who jam Provo wouldn't move during the day restaurants, hotels and motels and when they tried moving after dark they got completely until they return home. on-ca- Provo Awaits Muskie Talk Sen. Edmund S. Muskie Democratic candidate for vice president of the United States, will give the major address of his one-da-y visit to extra-judici- Johnson . ti Group Passes ' Bomb Treaty MS a heavy mortar PER COPY leveled (- Zone EM0c Southern Democrats teamed toimation of Fortas is Sen. James Constitution's doctrine of separaise objections to the nomina- O. Eastland, chairman ration of powers. tion ranging from legal philoso- of the Judiciary Committee. In Other objections phy to presidential cronyism. announcing the committe. re. against the nomination include These senators vowed to keep porteT the nomination favorably Fortas' opinions as an associate the Senate from voting on the to the floor, Eastland at the justice in civil obscenity, nomination through the parli- same time predicted the Senate liberties, and communist subversion cases; his amentary device of "extended would not approve it. debate" of filibuster. Fortas has been a personal activities, such as accepting The opposition to the Fortas friend and adviser to Johnson fees from funds raised by could lock the since the New Deal days. former legal clients to conduct nomination talkathon Fortas admittedly kept up the a law Senate in a drawn-ou- t seminar, and the in the waning days tf the 90th relationship after method which Johnson by and Johnson named him to the Supreme arranged for Chief Justice Earl the Congress Court in 15. Critics contend Warren to announce his retire-(S- S administration. PANEL OKEHS Page 4) Among those opposing confir- - this was in violation of the fV. THREE FRESHMEN 17, 1968 Panel OKs Fortas; Fil ibusfer Likely So. Viet v TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER (UPI)-T- he WASHINGTON pact could provide a "mulU--' dollar governmental Senate Foreign Relations com- million mittee today approved, 13 to 3, subsidy to oil and gas a treaty designed to ban spread Aiken referred to an article ol of nuclear weapons to have-no- t nations, putting the Senate m the pact which would require the middle of a presidential the nuclear powers to make available to the campaign dispute. vote signatories any of the technical sent the The committee devices developed for peaceful on to fate an uncertain treaty uses of atomic energy. the Senate floor. Senate leaders indicated priPresident Johnson and Vice vately they might avoid a floor President Hubert Humphrey, vote on the treaty this year lest Democratic presidential the it be killed. candidate, have urged quick Aiken said before the commit ratification but Republican nom tee meeting he was not sure inee Richard M. Nixon and how he would vote on it and he several senators have said the was among three members who senate should delay action as a abstained when the time earn. rebuke to Russia for Its invasion of Czechoslovakia. Sen. John Sparkman actinc foreign relations chair man, told reporters he was hopeful the treaty would be PADLOCKED GATE thwarts pupils wbo showed up at Cenacted on by th3 Senate "some tral Commercial High School in midtown Manhattan this time before the 90th Congress e teachers strike enters its fifth day. A adjourns." morning as school board member ttied to open the gate but the key to Another possible roadblock lock could not be found. The strike has kept most of the city's was raised today by Sen, who Georee Aiken. 1,200,000 students on an extended summer holiday. (Herald-UBy LEON BURNETT charged that language in the Telephoto) non-nucle- III 'Wcjf Space Head Announces wil lbe his only major address of his visit to Utah. Governor Rampton will meet the vice president hopeful Thursday at 4:45 p.m. when he messed up." Utah Thursday night at 7:30 arrives at the Salt Lake City Lex' iing what college life Is Under a hail of rocket fire pVm. at the Wilkinson Center on airport and they will visit with all about, freshhmen this week two been squads of Communists have given campus tours, Jhe BYU campus in Provo. The church and civic leaders. to charged through the South for small to assigned A is groups attend. schedpublic urged press conference is Vietnamese and positions throwing activities ensuing -- Utah Governor Calvin L. uled at the Hotel Utah at 5:20 guidance WASHINGTON (UPD-Si- nct for the week, and today were grenades. The allied troops Rampton ttiis morning announc- p.m. the Gemini astronauts rolled to given an "information smorgas- scattered in every direction and Democra Richrrd Maughan, ed that Sen. Muskie will arbord" at which time students the Ranger command post was endurance records around the rive in Salt Lake City late tic candidate for the U.S obtained information in booths overrun and radio communicaearth, much of the glamor has House of Representatives, will from some 50 campus depart- tions were knocked out. Thursday afternoon and will gone from the U.S. space introduce Muskie at his Provo ments. speak at 7:30 p.m. in Provo. It four Americans fled into The program. So has much of the address. The public is invited. scheda the across a river out swam class field, Working money. The appearance will be in the ule will be the primary duty where one of them nearly Vietnam, racial problems, Wilkinson Center because regand politics have taken Wednesday as students meet drowned and then crawled to a poverty istration is under way at BYU with their college deans and sister unit, the 21st Ranger NEW YORK (UPI)-some of the money from the meetA 4 and occupies the fieldhouse, academic advisers. Highlights of Battalion. race towards space. of the the head between ing of making it unavailable for the the day will include a "Meet N.Y. The North Vietnamese attack culing his slogan "the politics Citing lack of funds as one union and the BUFFALO, teachers striking meeting. Your Bishop Night," beginning on the U.S. Marine outpost was presidential candi- joy reason, James E. Webb Monday city's superintendent of schools Following his Provo speech, at 6 p.m., followed by a dance preceded by a mortar barrage ended in stalemate early today, date Hubert H. Humphrey, Humphrey was booed said he would retire Oct 7 as Inside, Sen. Muskie will return to Salt in the Wilkinson Center ball- that was more costly than any crushing hopes for an early end roundly booed by young college by at least 50 antiwar protes- heaj of the National Aeronau Lake City, where he and Gcv. room. single attack during the siege of to the walkout which has idled antiwar protesters, challenged Administration, ters who held up signs including tics and Space ! Rampton will conduct the for After registration Thursday, nearby Khe Sanh. most of the city's 900 public his youthful dissenters today to some that said "remember a joo ne neio. ior seven years. By EDOUARD KHAVESSIAN mal opening of the Humphrey-Muski- e freshmen will hear a The Marines were sunbathing, schools. turn to reason "rather than came as a The decision LISBON (UPI)-Precampaign headquarters Pillow Concert," followed by a writing letters home and The strike, now in its fifth noise and slogans" in all their Chicago." because of surprise particular de Oliveira Salazar, 70, at the Hotel Newhouse. received a long the (See Y STUDENTS Page 4) (See REDS ROUT Page 4) Humphrey protests. 1.12 most of has effective the kept day, just seven timing who has ruled Portugal with an moments after he returned to the ovation million students in the nation's before the first echeduled Humphrey days iron hand for 36 years, hovered chided the protesters. He told launch of a manned Apollo largest school system on an campaign trail witn appearan on the brink of death them that violence and lawless m ana ncre ces summer extended nocnesier, craft holiday. space to said he Doctors appeared Albert Shanker, president of N.Y. in quest of New York's confrontations were inexcusable The decision itself couldn't rally slightly from a deep roma the United Fe- vital 43 electoral votes. After a and appealed to them to let (See SPACE HEAD Page 4) brought on by a stroke Monday than deration of Teachers, indicated two-da- y campaign layoff, Hum- "reason prevail, rather but was etill critical. that no progress had been made phrey promised approximately noise and slogans." He told lie was placed in a breathing students at Canisius them you don't get anywhere in a meeting with School 2,000 apparatus and doctors perDono College a "direct pipeline" to that way. Bernard Superintendent formed a tracheotomy to open Members of the Provo City Is Dr. Harvey J. Flccher and van. Humphrey also urged them By United Press International young people from the White By VAL HESS Ms case his throat and The union Is seeking the House if he is elected president. not to follow the "vindictive The Chinese cultivated oysAi the center of perhaps the Commission also appointed a members of the committee inbreathing, an indication his committee to clude Dr. Sherman "' Wing, reinstatement of 10 teachers Outside the small Jesuit tongue ' and asked the young ters long before the Christian only area In the United States breathing functions might be which fired last spring, and Amertwo college, six young girls dressed audience to "turn away" from era. and Romans successfully direct the has produced campaign for raising Vida Fugal Swensen, Impaired or paralyzed. memoas oi arimciai a in clown costumes with white any loaders who would taxe usea of under job security ican Mothers of the Year, plans funds for the statue. Nelson, Emily Tyler, Charles Salazar's surgeon, Dr. Vas- Chairman of the committee Peterson and Mayor Vcrl G, new system of decentralized face makeup, booed Humphrey them "to the streets' in their growing u.em to sausty in were revealed Monday night concelos Marques, said Salazar refined tastes of their epicures. administration for city schools and distributed literature ridi- -' protests. the Provo City Commission Dixon. had shorn some slight signs of by marIdeal Place for a not did improvement but In announcing the plans, ble statue honoring motherhood describe them. New Policy From to be placed in the Provo Mayor Dixon stated, "Provo Other medical sources said he Is an Ideal location for such a Civic Center when it Is comshowed some signs of lucidity fine tribute to motherhood. pleted. today when he was visited by Dr. Avard Fairbanks, famous There is no other valley in the Donha Marinha de Jesus, the United States with (wo AmerUlah sculptor, will create the woman who has born his sources said the end of January, following which will be an enThe that fiOO naval air reservists WASHINGTON' (UP!. BOSTON UPn-S- cn. Edward ican Mothers of the Year, Mr. Congressional statue, housekeeper for half a century. the U.S. of seizure t..at the Air the Mrs. told uf Nov. were and third a I. small America M. a would bulk 37.000 Kenned of called be released reservists place office confirmed porcelain they by largement i bhe left his bedside in ship Pueblo by statue he created to present today he will make a campaign America, as we have in Utah to active duty ear! thU year The only other Navy reservists Force tentatively plans to intelligence convulsive sobs. to (he American mother of the appearance h"re Thursday with County." have no chance of benefiting called to active duty were l.Ono! release reservists sent overseas North Korea, the first call of nc. c reassuring Utah CoLily U the home of soon trotn the Pentagons new construction woiker (seabees) when they return from active this war went out for 11,800 Air Vice President Hubert H. year. words, Portuguese in all walki The statue will be carved out two former Mothers of the policy of returning them to who already are in Vietnam. Guard, Air Force duty tours, presumably next National Humphrey. of life waited anxiously for the Naval Air Resent Reserve and of white Italian rouble and It will mark Kennedy's second Year, Lorena Fletcher, Provo, civilian life as soon as possible. 1.000 and spring. between This leaves next medical bulletin. They alio will members. of PleasLavina More 1.000 a seated are in 1965, his and Defense than feature the figure Former Fugal, Secretary who campaign appearance since speculated on a successor a mother with a small girl brother Robert's assassination ant Grove, 19S5. Mrs, America Far F.a.M, mainly Vietnam, 9.000 Air Force reservists Another for 12.201 call, for earl Robert 1 McNamara, who had should be considered can Salazar die or be will have to they Issued In April standing by her side and an In June and hlJ first since of 1968 la Joan Peterson Fisher where was reserves, with bad experiences calling Incapacitated by the stroke Infant is In her arms. of Salt Lake City and a native complc'e their yenr'a tour of releases In the next few months. endorsing the Humphrey-Muski- e National Air for two rolice end Republican Guard, of Provo, and Jaynann Tayne, duty. Another 20,000 are In the The Air Force'i only statement reserves lof the Berlin crisis in Except UO.ooo Coit ticket last week. d Guard were said to heve taken squadrons fighter Dr. Fairbanks was at the Humphrey will make a brief Provo, placed third In the Mrs. Army, which says Its require- so far Ii that it is "analyzing 1961, steadfastly refused during "adequate measures" to cope commission meeting Monday downtown appearance Thursday America competition last year. ments have not changed and the most orderly method of most of his tenure to call any ployed to South Korea, bod with any emergency, but the night when the Clote Relatives that It has no present plans to effecting their release when civilians for the Vietnamese forces have been considered plans were an- on his way to Sioux Falls. S. D. Lisbon in mainly In the light of requir Several of the committee grant releases. National appeared nounced and indicated that the for the atmosphere operational coinmitmentj will war. Tlowing h Wtica at menls for the Vu 'names war, waa Ai announced leaving Will COSt The TRIBUTE Monday Contest. 130,000. (See permit," Page I) Navy project city-wid- Retirement PI Stalemate Remains In School Strike Premier Of Portugal Near Death micr t., Vice President Challenges Antiwar Protesters to Use 'Reason Rather Than Noise' (UPD-Democ- ratic An-ton- Tribute to Motherhood 55,000-momb- Planned in Civic Center Now You Know seven-memb- Joyce gun-rantc- larger-than-life-si- Ted Kennedy To Appear With Hubert Despite Pentagon's No Quick Benefit Seen for Most Reservists - |