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Show - - -- Mondav. October iiTiiinLri i" -i THE HERALD, Provo, Utah Page 16, 19 -- ru I mm- Booms Holding Above Lake Powell; Oil Spill To Be Buried KAYENTA, Ariz. (UPI) -Cscheduled to begin skimming off an estimated 4,000 barrels of crude oil, trapped behind logs strung across the San Juan River where it enters Lake Powell today. The floating blanket of petroleum completely covers the expanse of water and trails back 600 feet from the chain of telephone poles and logs, lasned together to prevent its movement into the eastern arm of Lake Powell Rich Lathrup of the Environmental Protection Agency said the oil varies from two to four inches in thickness, and L mixed with debris washed into the river by recent heavy rains. A World War II vintage landing ship was scheduled to deliver rews were g By Demo a clamshell digger to the area near Copper Canyon about S am. today. The digger will be used to skim the oil from the surface and dump it on the river bank, where it will be treated with chemicals and then buried. Sunday the Bureau of Land Management selected a disposal site for the crude oil on an outcropping 100 feet above the river. SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -Democratic Congressional candidate Wayne Owens has accused the federal government of responsibility for the oil spill which dumped 4,000 barrels of crude oil into the San Juan River. Massive Highway Bill Dies WASHINGTON (UPI) -House and Senate negotiators failed to agree on a massive highway construction bill late Saturday, killing it for this session. Although states will still be able to spend money for interstate and other highways, some states will have to curtail their construction programs if does not act before July 1, 1973, on new highway legislation. Congress Secretary Transportation John Volpe said earlier that if Congress acted early in the new session, there would be sufficient remaining contract authority to keep the highway program going at its current level. However, Sen. Jennings Ransaid the failure dolph, to reach agreement "not only will disrupt the highway program but I fear that it also will make the task of expanding mass transit programs a very difficult task in the 93rd Congress." The conference broke down over two issues. The House negotiators wanted to include a 10,000-mil- e "baby interstate" system for those areas not included in the interstate system, which the majority of Senate negotiators opposed. of Senate a bloc And insisted that present negotiators highway programs be continued for only one year in an effort to force a vote next year on whether to allow use of the highway trust fond for mass transit. House negotiators would go for no more than an extension, which the senators said would push the issue into another election year. Steen Has Plan For Creditors - attorney has a pay An RENO (UPI) submitted plan to off creditors of uranium magnate Charles Steen, who has staved off since 1968 efforts to have him declared bankrupt. Attorney George Abbott proposed selling some Steen land near Reno International Airport for a net $1.8 million. Abbott said Steen's maximum indebtedness was $4.3 million and his assets were at least $7.2 million. He asked the U.S. Bankruptcy court to remove trustee Dick Dimond, who had valued Steen's assets at $3.2 million. He said Dimond had hindered efforts to work out a property arrangement under chapter 12 of the federal bankruptcy act, and had "said from the start" that Steen was bankrupt. Dimond asked that Steen, who struck it rich in Utah in the 1950s, be adjudicated bankrupt because he failed to file a workable plan to pay off creditors by a July 21 deadline. But Abbott said the airport land sale indelicate problems. We strengthened the main boom with additional steel cables and checked out two backup booms further downstream." Lathrup said the rains were negotiations, and that an Internal Revenue Service appeal of the lowering of its lien against Steen added to the problem. The IRS lien of more than $3 million filed in 1968 was lowered by the referee to $434,154. Bankruptcy referee Robert Woodward set Oct. 27 for a hearing on Abbott's petition to make the sale free of Liens and "Sii.ce a break in this same pipeline back in 1965, the federal government has taken no substantive action to improve safety procedures," Owens said. The break occurred early last Mexico week in a Texas-NePipeline Co. line in northwestern New Mexico. The oil poured for about two days into an irrigation ditch, and then into the San Juan. Massive efforts to halt the slick at Copper Canyon on the edge of Lake Powell are currently underway! "This spill," said Owens, "which occurred In New Mexico, yet damaged Utah, is clearly an area of national responsibility. Since 1969, the federal i P7; government has accepted, in principle, its obligation to regu- late the safety standards for the interstate pipelines. "However, I find after talking to the Director of the Hazardous Materials Section of the Railway Authority, that he has been given 'zero money and zero personnel' to do the job, "This means that for three years, the authority, which has the responsibility, was denied the resources to carry on any meaningful inspections or enforce any regulations." Owens said Congress' transfer of responsibility for the lines to the Office of Pipeline Safety in August has not improved the situation. He said of nine engineers employed only two are in the field, and their primary responsibility is natural gas rather than oil. "I believe that proper policing would, in the end, be cheaper than the costs of cleaning up after these spills, Owens said. People In The News By United Press International TAKING A GAMBLE ZEPHYR COVE, Nev. (UPI) Casino owner William F. Harrah, 61, was married of the committee that II .,. II ill , - - which caused some evacuation and an timated half million dollars damage. two-da- y kS0 Killed on Hunt - A VAUGHN, Mont. (UPI) hunting accident Sunday afternoon claimed the life of s of the size BIG SUR, Calif. (UPI)-W- hen boulders local youth. an avalanche of mud and Volkswagens." Cascade County Sheriff's depThe Monterey County Sherboulders smashed into this identified the victim as uties 13 a office said homes, Facific Coast resort town, Tom iff's A. Lueder. He was shot service Mark Murphy Jr. said "it sounded store, Post Office and with a .22 caliber rifle while with filled station were mud, like about 30 diesel trucks near here with two and slime had seeped into 10 hunting revving at the same time." friends. teenage Murphy and his family of other residences. walkout. Negotiators continued meeting Sunday and were scheduled for talks Monday at GM's major body stamping plant at Mansfield, Ohio, and its Dora-vill- e, Ga., assembly plant A company spokesman said "negotiation would probably continue" on the St Louis dispute as well. es- Montana Boy Brings Heavy Damage At issue in St Louis, as at Lordstown and Norwood, Ohio, and a number of other GM plants, was the union's charge that the consolidation of GM'i Fisher Body and Chevrolet Assembly Plants last October, and their takeover by the GM assembly division, had resulted in layoffs of some 1,000 to 1,400 employes. Dee Hospital To Be Torn Down - The OGDEN, Utah (UPI) Dee Hospital in Ogden will be torn down Nov. 1, a spokesman said. Use of the three-acr- e site has not yet been determined, he said. Hospital WASHINGTON (UPI)-Elea- -nor McGovern, wife of the Democratic presidential candidate, has been released fron Georgetown University Hospital. Mrs. McGovern, was 50, allowed to return home Sunday afto spending three days in &s hospital for rest and tests. She was admitted to the hospital late Thursday after suEering severe stomach cramps. Mrs. McGovern had campaigned strenuously for her husband for several weeks before she became ill Her husband said the tests showed she apparently only needed some time to relax. UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY INTiRSTATl chain of rttidtnt paraprohttional schools is upending iff raprosonafion in Utah. A now schoof will b opened in Qrtm-Prov- o eroa in rosponso to moricof demand. This schoof can bo ownoo by an investor with compofo company guidance ond assistance. Excoifenf first year refvrn and future poHalial. Guaranteed ntutn of invtstmtnt in one year or (ess. financial arrangements provided to qualified individual. Call Or. Nord 2 StC for detail. Apparently in keeping with an earlier statement by UAW president Leonard Woodcock, the St Louis "termination" will cost the union less in strike benefits to its members, because they do not draw benefits until the second week of a walkout. 292-174- ed my smashed it against my trailer while I watched standing on my porch. It had big redwood logs coming across the highway with opened again and electricity and telephones were restored, but there was no water after pumps broke down. Mass Murders Charged To Black Militant Gang persons, (UPI) - Eight murdering members a black militant ing two white persons slain vironmental factors may influence the development of a hatchling into a male or a female." He's conducting his study with turtles 451 box, map, painted, snapping and musk and will incubate turtles clutches of eggs in his laboratory. Legler says scientists expect a balanced sex ratio in animals about half and half. But he says that may not always be true at least with reptiles, Several years ago in Panama, exten-wee- k Legler said, he conducted d sive research on the turtle lation and found it was 68 per cent male; "There is good reason to pect that genetic control of sex k weak in turtles. There are no soft-shel- l, popu-calle- cancelled the award and offered sex it what he described as the "Coward of he Year" award, chromosomes and the sex can be altered sxperimentally in young APPEALS TO RED CROSS animals by hormonal treatDACCA ment." Legler said desh He said it is known that some Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is appealing to tht turtles begin their post-natRed Cross to ask Pakistan to existence with a reproductive stop the "persecution of Bengasystem which is neither male nor lis in Pakistan" and to help female. secure their repatriation. Legler is trying to find out if The prime minister made the such things as temperature cf appeal Sunday to Marcel incubation, acidity of the nest of the In- or types of food can be a key Neville, distinguishable (UPI)-Bangla- al nine execution-styl- includ mmam e. some of them former students at Malcolm X College and dishonorably dis charged Vietnam veterans, were described by police as "the ringleaders and trigger-men- " of a gang that selected its victims at random. The eight, t Police said the slayings, some of which date back to last spring, appeared to be racially motivated and were linked together by ballistic test results. Held without bond in Cook Jail were Reuben County Taylor, 22, his brother Donald, 21, Michael Clark, 21, Nathaniel Burse, 23, Edward Moran Jr., 23, Robert Wilson, 18, all of Chicago. Murder warrants were issued for two other gang members. Not all eight men were implicated in each murder, police said. The eight were charged in the murders of wealthy insurance executive Paul Corbett, his and sister-in-lawife, in Barrington Hills, an exclusive Chicago suburb; the slaying of three members of the Stephen Hawtree family in rural Monee, 111., the killings of Army Spec. 5 William Richter in Highland Park, 111., and Michael Gerchenson, a Southr ern Illinois University student. All the victims were white. Dr. Charles Hurst, president of Malcolm X City College said members of the gang were expelled from the college last spring after they beat and er intimidated students and ers. w teach- He said De Mau Mau was formed in Vietnam and the men got together when they returned with dishonorable discharges to the United States. Corbett and three members of his family were found in the pantry of their $100,000 suburban estate Aug. 4. Police said the family was encumbrances, and Nov. 17 herded into the for a hearing for creditors to apparently president determine if the plan itaeH will ternational Committee of the step In determining whether the room and shot at point blnnk turtle is male or female. be accepted. Red Cross. range. blood-splatter- Saving. For most people, it's not something you leap into with both feet. You start small. And as you grow, your savings habit grows with you. Security, there are savings plans for beginners, and for seasoned veterans. 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A forest fire on the mountain San Lucia Mountain summer scorched 4,400 last 50 persons Saturday, forced from their homes and caused acres of tall pines and damage estimated at more than redwoods and now "the vegeta$500,000, although no serious tion isn't holding back the rain the way it should," sheriff's injuries were reported. "There was a rumbling and a deputy Jeff Smith said. Officials feared there would crashing. It started coming at about 50 miles an hour. I be further mud slides if the wanted to get my car out of the current rain continued. More way. I didn't worry about rain was forecast for Tuesday. California Highway 1, which myself," said Don Smythe, 22. car up and was closed for two days, was "It picked Birth Study OWN AWARD IJVWRENCE. Mass. fUPH Birth control advocate William in R. Baird showed up Lawrence Sunday even though the Temple Emanuel Brother- hood had cancelled its sche- doled presentation of a "Man of the Year" award to him. Rabbi Harry Roth announced last the presentation was off because of "pressures in the community." Baird appeared Sunday at a H tMNU Big Sur Avalanche Environment Topic of OFFERS - Mexico months. UAW Local Back A UAW spokesman here labeled the St Louis agreement "a termination, not a settlement," but was unable to provide the terms, under which the 8,500 employes ended their 3,-- CAR IS NEARLY SUBMERGED in mud near motel on Highway One near Big Sur, Calif., as heavy rains precipitated mud slides Sunday to Roxanna Carlson, 32, a former model. The marriage CHICAGO was the fourth for Harrah, who of was formerly married to singer Bobbi Gentry, and the second gang called "De Mau Mau" with for Mrs. Carlson, a native of were charged Sunday Yerington, Nev. They were married in a Presbyterian ceremony at Villa Harrah, a lakefront home on the south shore of Lake Tahoe. Only a few close friends and relatives were present. The newlyweds will honeymoon in Europe for three weeks and then return to live at Harrah's home south of Reno. SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -Can a difference in environment HOME DESTROYED determine whether an animal is JOHNSTOWN, Ohio (UPI)-F- ire born mule or female? destroyed the top floor of A scientist at the University the three-stor- y frame home of of Utah says it's a possibility. Rep. John M. Ashbrook, "A fantastic possibility," says in this central Ohio Dr. John M. Legler, an expel weekend. community during the on turtles. No one was in the house when "This is one of the most fascibroke out flames Saturday nating projects we're working on night. the question of whether enFiremen said the roof and third story were destroyed, but the bottom two floors vere only water damaged. "We're not sure what started the fire, but it could have been wiring i " rf. equipped with buckets to sMm the oil from the water surface. But EPA experts said the backwash from the helicopter props probably would send waves of oil spilling over the booms. helicopters - ' Kir Vfiw V- w DETROIT (UPI) Without calling it a settlement, United Auto Workers Local 25 has agreed to return to work Tuesday at the Gereral Motors Assembly Division Plant in St Louis, while bargainers continued meeting in Ohio and Georgia, attempting to resolve other strikes. w I Texas-Ne- w have already begun cleaning the area from the pipeline break to the river, and downstream from where it entered the San Juan. However, EPA officials said many areas of the San Juan are completely inaccessible at this tint of j ear, and won't be cJeaned until the spring runoff washes away the oil in sis On Job; Others idle f P 140 miles erst of here in New Mexico late Monday after a Texas-NeMexico Pipeline Co. line ruptured. The crews bad planned to use should speed the cleanup. The crude oil entered the 1 For Oil Spill river washing more debris into the river, "which is increasing tne pressure behind our main boom, but it's holding up well and we don't expect any problems." He said it would be impossible to estimate when the oil would be removed, but said use of helicopters for the first time today to ferry men around the area Candidate Blame Placed volved Lathrup said BLM crews were working in the area SO miles north of here all day Sunday. He said the heavy rains .88 inch at nearby Blanding Sun"aren't causing us any day :un B fat Securty d KHfto. Nonl Anocaton FM St B of Ftst Stturty F$l Stcu'ity SWe Btok ol SpnnowK Utan Manor Factual OopoM mautanca CcvporaKn. Bank BounMul. o Bock Sprnigt. Wfonwig NMonai Anocamn Utah. |