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Show IMDEX Amusements Classified Comics HEATHER 5A-7- A 3A 2A EditorialPage Society Sports Pages Stocks Fair and warmer today. Highs in the lower 79s. Probability of Utah zero. precipitation 21-2- 1 generally, similar forecast. Highs throughout the state in the 70s to 80s. 15-11-1- 1 2f PROVO, UTAH, SUNDAY. MAY 3, VOL. 47. NO. 47 1970 mm gon" for the Vietnam War. American casualties climbed and a South Vietnamese general was killed in one of five Allied aircraft losses. At least nine Americans were r Ve2 j LAVl SHERMAN P. LLOYD Lloyd Is Again Candidate reported killed as a task force of 20,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers drove deeper into the Fishhook and Beak Parrot's regions of Cambodia under blitzkrieg-typ- e air raids described as die heaviest of the Vietnam War. Allied tanks smashed over hundreds of bunker complexes, and official communiques reported at least 634 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed in the offensive which American commanders hoped would deal a death blow to Communist efforts to wage war in Vietnam and Cambodia. General Killed South Vietnamese losses were placed at 15 men killed and 33 wounded. The dead included Maj. Gen. Nguyen Viet Thanh, killed Saturday as he was helping direct the push into the Parrot's Beak. UPI correspondent James Russell, reporting from Parrot's Beak, said South Vietnamese commanders leading a force of 10,000 men believe they may have a North Vietnamese regiment (2,900 men) surrounded in the area. The offensive began last Wednesday, and is mostly a South Vietnamese show with only 40 U.S. military advisers involved. The big American push was in the Fishhook where 6,500 U.S. infantrymen and tank troops were toying to crush the Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN) the Communist "Pentagon" which reportedly has direct teletype links to hi Hill H! .: t) f Uwuw Willi w if ( -- " . BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM may be resumed if the Communists retaliate against the present Cambodian offensive by again running supplies across the demilitarized zone, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird warned Saturday. Sec. Laird, left, watches Col. F. H. Thrush, right, use a map to Contest Vowed By Solons - Soviets Call Cambodia Drive Aggression Act high-rankin- ... Artillery Duel in County Commissioner. Hanks and his sons, Vaud and Shirl, own a furniture and appliance store in Salem. With a in interior background decorating, he managed the Imperial Paint and Wallpaper stoie in Provo for five years. Active in civic affairs, Hanks in was county commissioner 196546. He was a Salem city councilman for two years, and served as mayor for eight years. He has been a member of lions International since 1941, and served as president of the Church. He and his wife, Nelda Hill Hanks, have four children, Vaud, Shirl, and Peggy of Salem, and Mrs. Richard (Geneal) Nuttall, Granger. They have 13 grandchildren. Brigham Young University.' He is an active member of the IDS jC Two Killed Near Orem "spring offensive1 went into its third week. The fierce duel of big guns was fought in the southern sector of the canal, from the southern tip of the Bitter Lakes to Port Tewfik at the northern end of the Gulf of Suez, an identified the dead as James Wendell Crowder, 38, Price, and Earl William Robertson, 16, Wellington. A trooper said the automobile was northbound at high speed when the driver, believed to be Crowder, apparently lost control. (See picture on page 27.) The two men were pronounced dead on arrival at the Utah Valley Hospital in Provo. The bodies were badly burned. the DMZ, primarily to track the southward flow of soldiers States planes have bombed and supplies. missile and Under the principle of sites inside North Vietnam, Pentagon "protective reaction," the unsources said Saturday. It was armed reconnaisance planes the largest attack north of the have been escorted by armed Deifiilitarized Zone DM2 since fighters with orders to fire if the bombing halt began 18 fired upon. months ago. The Pentagon gave no details A Defense Department on the new attacks except to spokesman said the raids had say that the United States been going on for severd days "would take appropriate meaand that one aircraft, an F4 sures and go to elaborate Phantom jet was shot down lengths to protect our reconnai- -' Saturday. More than 100 planes sance pilots." Word of the stepped up air were understood to be taking action came only hours after part in the attacks. The raids were ordered by Defense Secretary Melvin R. President Nixon, a White House Laird told reporters that the United States might resume official said. of the North if the Although President Lyndon B. bombing increased their Johnson ordered a bombing halt Communists over North Vietnam on Nov. 1, supply shipments across the have DMZ. One key supply source 1968, reconnaisance planes Aim M newsman Says U.S. show location of the Red sanctuaries in Cambodia which are the target of the current offensive. Center is Lt. Gen. John of the joint staff of the Joint Chiefs Vogt, director-designatof Staff. (Herald-UP- I Telephoto) Bombards N. Viet e - Short CircuitOxygen Fire Cripple Apollo MIAMI (UPI) American war planes bombed North Vietnam Friday, exactly 18 months to the day after bombing raids were ordered halted, the chief of the Knight Newspapers Washington bureau said Sunday. In a copyrighted story appearing in Sunday's edition of the Miami Herald, Robert S. Boyd said he was standing in a schoolyard of Vo Ninh in North Vietnam when he saw at least five planes "flash out of a clear blue sky, wheel, dive and drop their bombs." Boyd is one of the few Western newsmen who have been ruthorized to visit North Vietnam. His news dispatch had to pass through Norm Vietnamese censors. armored patrol Consisting of two tanks and two halftracks." By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN Mrs. John SPRINGVILLE D. Long, Tooele, was installed as president of the Utah Federation of Women's Clubs Saturday afternoon, winding up a three-da- y convention of the federation in the Art City. The Springville Museum of Art was headquarters for the convention, theme of which was "Art of Federation." Special guest was Mrs. Fred C. Cast, - T 'i - "wiilmniin i iM1- Murray, Myers, Ore., recording William of the General corresponding secretary; Mrs. Federation of Women's Clubs. Sam Owen, Kanab, auditor; Mrs. Earl Goates, Springville, Other Officen Elected to serve with Mrs. treasurer; Mrs. Wendell Winger, parliamentarian; Long were Mrs. Golden W. Springville, Robbr Salt Lake City, first Mrs. Bruce Greene, Roosevelt, vice president; Mrs. Elmer junior director; and Mrs. Faye Klitgaard, Midvale, second vice Mattinson, Payson, historian. At Friday night's "Art of president; Mrs. James Cassano, Dragerton, third vice president; Achievement" banquet, Mrs. Howard Milne, Richfield, women's clubs from Springville, recording secretary; Mrs. walked away with top honors. Portland, secretary Inmuii im .iiiii.iiiiiiiiriii-iiwi- iMMiMifii.Mi..ii.iiliiii)i;.ii).' 4 1" J 1 1 J i i i ended. . Following the artillery duel, Saturday night launched two attacks on Egyptian positions along the Suez Canal, an Israeli military spokesman said. Israeli jets claimed "many civilians, in- children," were killed in the raids. (The Defense Department would neither confirm nor deny the reports, but did note it has been U.S. policy to take "protective reaction" in defense of unarmed reconnaissance planes. In the past, this. has resulted in American planes (See Newsman, P. 4) cluding 20 miuipi,i lniMiHriiH,i1.ir..)fmii - ma w .M$i Sears-Roebu- ck vice Hurford, foundation president. Their project in- volved the promotion of the art project in Springville, and included promoting art serving as art hostesses at the gallery, and conducting drives. Their theme was "Art Is In." The Springville Women's Council also won $50 prize in the Clean Air Community Action Program, and the Companions Club of Springville won first prize of $500 in the Shell Oil contest for its project at the youth center of the Utah State Hospital. Seventeen clubs won cash awards and certificates in the Clean Air Community Action i Program. Others winning cash prizes in addition to Springville were the Reams Ladies Civic Club, and the Salt Lake District UFWC. Other Winners In the continuing membership contest, Kanab Ladies Literary League took the honors for the greatest percentage gain and for the group bringing in the most new members. The Monroe Literose Club won membership honors for clubs with more than 50 members. In the Shell Oil competition, the Junior Culture Club of Richfield took second place of $300, and the Socialette Club of Roosevelt, third with $200. Mrs. Lee J. Diamanti, Helper, was honored as "Clubwoman of the k ) NEW UFWC OFFICERS installed Saturday convention of at the conclusion of a three-da- y the Utah Federation of Women's Clubs in Springville, were, front row from left, Mrs. Golden W. Robbing, first vice president; Mrs. John D. Long, president; Mrs. Elmer Klitgaard, second vice president; and Mrs. James Casuno, third vice president. Back The Women's Springville Council won first prize of $300 in the Community Improvement Project contest sponsored by Foundation. The prize was presented by D. D. Other Honor He said Egyptian fire destroyed one halftrack armored vehic.e and damaged one Israeli tank and another halftrack before the shooting Boyd said the planes spent 50 minutes bombing the Le Thuy district of Qiang Binh province, about 18 miles north of the Demilit ized Zone. (Boyd's report came on the heels of a radio Hanoi broadcast Saturday which charged that more than 100 American planes bombed North Vietnam Friday. The broadcast Utah Federation of Women's Clubs Elects Mrs. John D. Long, Tooele, As President Egypt's Egyptian military spokesman (See BOMBING, P. 4) continued to fly missions north le The Utah Highway Patrol an enemy MEL HANKS j 3 Mideast said. Two OREM, Utah" The spokesman said Egyptian were early gunners "directed concentrated fire from heavy weapons at the Saturday morning in a one-ca- r rollover on Interstate 15 one enemy gun emplacements and quarter mile north of 1300 South. ammunition depots as well as Salem Lions Gub, deputy district governor, and district governor. In 1951, he received the Lions Outstanding Service Award for helping to organize eleven chapters in "iah. Born in Sakm, Hanks graduated from Spanish Fork High School and attended CENTS ft "We believe that congress must veto the war," the four said in a statement. "The only By United Press International effective way to veto it is to cut Egyptians and Israelis battled off the funds for its continua- with heavy artillery for nearly tion." three hours along a Suez Canal front Saturday as On Freeway (UPI) Utah men killed J . meeting nearly the entire day with the official explosion review hoard and the heads of investigating engineer teams. If the short circuit and combustion theory proves corthat crippled the moon-boun- d rect, it makes the second time The official news agency Tas3 Apollo 13 spacecraft and almost these events have struck the distiiMH statements by sev- stranded its astronauts in Apollo program. An electrical eral official Soviet organiza- space. short in the Apollo 1 command tion wf 3 as excerpts frr,m Deputy space agency admi- ship on a launch pad at Cape other Common Low nistrator M, George jxfew (See APOLLO, Page 4) and some Western countries announced this conclusion &V U.S. the action. condemning The central council of the Soviet trade unions said the "people of the U.S.S.R. have learned with profound indignation" about the Cambodian Afro-Asia- Mel Hanks, former SALEM mayor of Salem, has announced for the his candidacy Democratic nomination for Utah 15 of - By EDWARD K. DELONG MOSCOW (UPI)-T- he Soviet UPI Space Writer Union Saturday described PresSPACE CENTER, Houston ident NixoirV4ecisioH to send U.S. troops into Cambodia as (UPI) A short circuit and a oxygen fire an "act of undisguised aggresprobably caused the explosion sion." 2tAJ!fi County Commission .i-l- By DARRELL GARWOOD WASHINGTON UPI United Vya f, :v?wi Mel Hanks Files For PRICE Raids Going On 'Several Days' I Tiinoi. By JOHN HALL A mechanic twlt of the U.S. 35th Infantry Division cut WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A SALT LAKE CITY (UFI Corrtnunis' shaken Senate Democratic leadHighway 7, f s Rep. Sherman Lloyd, FishiHK er Mike Mansfield never ''so iwt?, in sujpij officially announced his candiin my about thret mli ; fror, the frwn in the dusr-dacy Saturday night for district town of lifeline Cambodian Eaturuay to in Utah's Second Congres- Memot, and joined elements of vote against all future fore?p sional District. South Vietnamese aid bills. Other senators contia 3,500-ma- n Lloyd, completing his third force in the encirclement of nued their search for a way to term in the U. S. House, repre- COSVN. stop expansion of the Indochina sents Salt Lake, Tooele, Juab, Brig. Gen. Robert M. Shoe- War. Millard, Beaver, Iron and Wash- maker, deputy commander of "It's been a disheartening, ington counties. the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry disturbing, depressing week," Lloyd is a member of the Division, said major Commu Mansfield told newsmen in his House Foreign Affairs Commit- nist supply caches were uncovtee and of its subcommittees on ered, mcluding one which held PnMaA Nixon,s to events. the Near East and State DepartA statement issued by the intaCambodia. ment organization and foreign supplies. headquar n Soviet Committee of He operations. the not said ters was located. foreign aid Solidarity called on "all He is chairman of the House "I hope we're pretty much in program was being "subvertand peaceloving Republican Task Force on Lathe heart of COSVN," Shoema- ed" around the world for bor Law Reform and a mem- ker said. I!s added that there military ends and was used in forces to come out in the ber of the House Republican was no way of telling whether Southeast Asia as the prelude defense of the people of Cambodia, in support of the Committee on Committees. g Communist lead- to U.S. involvement just liberation struggle for the The former Salt Lake City ers were still in the area or had "I just will net vote for any patriots of Vietnam and Laos." lawyer was first elected to Con- retreated deeper into the more aid programs," he said. The incursion into Cambodia gress in 1962, and in 1964 tried jungles. out." "I'm I'm coincided with the May Day through the for Republiunsuccessfully "I would think an awful lot of holiday, the main international can nomination for the U. S. key people would be in the Meantime, Sens. George Senate. Mark Hatfield, Communist holiday, and SouthShoemaker said. area," east Asian developments were He was again elected to ConCharles E. Goodell, Military sources said as 1966 given little space in the Soviet in in and Harold E. and gress Hughes, many as 7,000 North Vietna1968. Lloyd had served eight mese and Viet announced they would press Friday and Saturday. Cong were -. serv-in the force Utah a Senate floor showdown Senate, years believed based in the area and on the war with an up or down ing one year as president of that attached to COSVN headquarbody. He served four years on ters to protect the handful of vote on funds. the Utah Legislatuve Council inCommunist officers directing "The time has come for the cluding two years as chairman. the war. Senate to be confronted by' a yes' or 'no' vote on the war," they said. JSLSK! - M Red 'Pentagon' Target of Drive By BERT W. OKULEY SAIGON (UPI)-U- -S. troops seized a major road inside Cambodia Saturday and began closing a ring of steel around jungle sanctuaries believed to house the Communist "Penta- PER MONTH $2.25 row, from left, are Mrs. Howard Milne, recording secretary; Mrs. William Myers, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Sam Owen, auditor; Mrs. Earl Goates, treasurer; Mrs. G. Wendell Winger, parliamentarian; and Mrs. Bryce Green, junior director. Mrs. Fay Mattinson, historian, was not present when the picture ttss taken. Year." In the Community Improvement Contest, second place of $200 went to the Civic Improvement Club of Brigham City; third of $100 to the Rebus Rota literary Club of Mon-ticell- o; and fourth of $50 to the Women's Civic League of Tremonton and the Home Arts (See FEDERATION, Page 4) |