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Show WEATHER I XI) EX PROVO-SAL- Amusements Classified Comics 51-5- 5 Editorial 46-- 4 Obituaries Society Sports 14 15 100TH - 11 48 4 (More PROVO, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1972 YEAR. NO. 116 D f3 o 0 - &'rr- t r- - - " r. - XXmAI, fn, r In Tintic photographer Pat Christian traveled to the area late Tuesday, and walked almost a mile along desolate track in a heavy snowstorm before getting this photo. The wheels of the ore car were jarred loose by the impact and pushed under the caboose. Area Second West Water Line Project Set 2 Utah County Men Die in Rail Mishap A lie, which will involve, more I injured following a train accident near the Burgin Mine in the Dividend area of Utah County Tuesday afternoon. According to a Utah County Sheriff's office report, Rupert Clarence Lewis, 54, of 156 S. 400 E., Spanish Fork, and Aubrey Herbert Means, 57, of 290 N. 400 E., Provo were killed instantly when an ore car belonging to the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad rolled about one and a half miles downhill and crushed the two men between it and a caboose car. Injured in the accident was fl si s ? 4 A.S. Reid, 50, of 58 W. 500 N., Provo. He was chief brakeman. RUPERT AUBREY H. MEANS Coupling Train The two victims, one a brakeman and the other a were apparently coupling the caboose to the rear of a Denver and Rio Grande Western train headed for Provo. C. LEWIS con-duct- Federal Post Mr. Reid was standing about for feet away from the other two men near a switch handle. According to witnesses of the mishap, Kennecott Copper Cor., Provoan Appointed To Consumer Panel Provo woman who is already serving as chairman of d the Major Appliance Consumer Action Panel has been appointed to the A industry-sponsore- Federal Governments Consumer Advisory Council. Dr. Virginia Cutler, former dean at Brigham Young University, will serve on both boards. The latter appointment was made through Viginia H. Knauer, special assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs. Neither appointment pays a salary, but traveling and other expenses are paid. Attends Session Dr. Cutler recently attended the 26th National Home Appliance Conference at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. She left Tuesday for the monthly meeting of the MACAP in Chicago, and will also meet with President Nixon and Mrs Knauer in Washington, D.C., to discuss her duties with the advisory council. This appointment will be for two workers, said the ore car traveled about one and a half miles before slamming into the Eight persons, including Dr. back of the caboose. Cutler, serve on the panel, Rapid Rate including three men and five Witnesses commented, the women. They meet to discuss the very difficult problems report noted, the ore car was which the staffs in Chicago, going quite fast when it hit the New York and Washington can- caboose. According to Jack not handle. Walker, deputy Utah County a All panel members are Sheriff, the ore car was on Glen Larson at the siding specialists in some field of not and was interest, such as connected to anyapparently of four other warrantees, finance, household cars at the siding. equipment, etc. S.C. Siggs, special "This panel is an innovative idea of industry to help the investigator for the railroad was consumer," she said, adding in the Eureka area investigating that the panel is like an "om- the mishap and not available for comment today. Officials at the budsman" for the consumer. The panel members try to be Provo yard of the railroad said didn't really know what objective, she said, and in most they cases they have been able to happened but that the empty ore car was alone just before the persuade tha manufacturer in accident. They said they would (Continued On Page 2) have to wait until they had talked to the lone survivors of the accident, Mr. Reid, before they could issue any more Clay-Min- - 111 s years. As chairman of the MACAP, which was established in 1970, Dr. Cutler has resolved over 5,000 complaints made to top levels of the appliance industry. "Most complaints can be handled by local dealers," she said, "but our office is set up to solve the more difficult ones." II ' Complaints Handled Persons with complaints can write to the office at 20 N. Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. 60606. The panel also has offices in Washington, D.C., and in New York, but all correspondence must be sent to Chicago. e con-sum- f 'j ' (Continued On Page 2) HERALDing contract has been awarded by Provo City Commissioner Two Utah County railroad men are dead and one seriously s (UPI) - A fresh South Vietnamese infantry regiment today joined the chase of n Communist a fleeing unit 42 mi'es north of Saigon, military sources said. The Communists were reported to be among units that had tried to infiltrate through to Saigon. One battalion of the North Vietnamese force was trapped and crushed Sunday night and Monday. The military sources said the remaining two battalions were found Tuesday and immediately put under heavy 700-ma- were killed and a Eureka Tuesday. A runaway Denver and Rio Grande Western ore car, right, hit the back of a caboose being coupled to a train heading for Provo, killing two workmen coupling the caboose. Staff PRICE 10 CENTS excavations on Second West, beginning in about three weeks. Tyler Sand and Gravel was awarded the $31,244 contract to install six and eight inch water mains at four locations on 200 W., which will involve about nine intersections, including Center St. Advisability Aired There was some discussion by commissioners as to the advisability of tearing up the street before the winter ends. Commissioner Russell D. Grange suggested that the contract not be awarded til! March when the weather improves. Jack Zirbes, Provo City Engineer, said some of the work will be on the strip of land to the east of Second West between 1625 N. and the Diagonal. He asked that the contract be awarded now and if there is a break in the weather early in January, the work would begin on that strip. This would not cause a problem for the traffic, he pointed out. Widening Project He said it is important to get (Continued On Page 2) Key Meeting Of Parks pressure. n South The new 2, Vietnamese regular infantry regiment of the 25th Division today joined a militia regiment of similar size to try and break of the up the remainder Communist force. The North Vietnamese carried handkerchiefs imprinted with a statement that they were to be the liberators of Saigon. The infantrymen found and d Communist destroyed a hospital in the rubber plantation jungle country south of Tay Ninh City, 50 miles northwest of Saigon, and also destroyed a number of bunkers and hundreds of pounds of rice. Contact was with the Communists sporadic and officers said they believed the North Vietnamese were trying to get back to their sanctuaries in Cambodia, about 10 miles away. Far to the north, South Vietnamese paratroopers and d marines on the Quang Tri front killed 117 North in a series of Vietnamese battles lasting for two days, military sources reported. Only 17 South Vietnamese were reported wounded in the fights, the Saigon command said. One of the four U.S. aircraft the USS carriers offshore Ranger was hobbled by a fire in the main machinery room today, the command reported. Eight sailors were treated for smoke inhalation. The huge carrier remained on station while making repairs to some damaged pumps and wiring. An was begun to investigation determine the cause of the fire, the command said. A Thailand-base- d U..S. Air Force RF4 reconnaissance jet was shot down last Saturday by surface-to-ai- r a Communist missile over North Vietnam, 45 miles southwest of the port city U.S. of Thanh the Hoa, command said. 700-ma- rain-soake- Session With Tho $772,000 in - PARIS (UPI) Dr. Henry A. Kissinger met for slightly more than six hours today with Hanoi's Le Due Tho -t- he last and longest meeting of their current negotiations. Peace conference sources said Kissinger would return to WashingProvo City Commissioners today approved a capital to ton to report tonight improvements program to spend the $772,000 the city will President Nixon. receive under the revenue sharing program. A spokesman at Orly Field The largest single item is $150,000 for storm sewer said Kissinger's U.S. Air Force construction. plane was scheduled to depart The engineering department will receive $180,000, the at 7 p.m. (1 p.m. EST). Conference sources said Kisscity building $47,000 and the street department $108,000. A fire truck will be order for $100,000, a traffic inger would confer with Nixon, engineer will be hired for $17,000 including expenses, and $44,000 and the respected newspaper will be spent on the city garage. Le Figaro said he would then The parks department will get $102,000. the city attorney present the draft of a new $5,000 for library acquisition, and the sanitation departpeace treaty to President ment $75,000. Nguyen Van Thieu of South The community development program will spend Vietnam. Technical experts $115,000 and $29,000 will be retained for the coniingencies. worked again today on the wording of the treaty. and Washington dispatches French diplomatic sources said the talks had hit "snags" and that no cease-fir- e agreement is expected to be signed before Christmas. However, French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann said Tuesday he thought there would be an agreement by Jan. 3. The official North Vietnamese newspaper Nhan Dan in an editorial broadcast today by SPACE CENTER, Houston ca. He sighted what apparently Hanoi Radio demanded again (UPI) -- The last men of Apollo were three extinct volcanos that the United States sign the gave scientists today one of the elsewhere on the lunar surface original draft agreement and most important discoveries on Tuesday. said continuing support for Cernan and Schmitt make South Vietnamese the moon a deep, orange-staine- d President excursion crater that probably one more seven-hou- r Nguyen Van Thieu would "put was blown out by the dying from Challenger tonight, plant- out the light which just ing man's footprints in the glimmers at the end of the gasp of lunar volcanism. Pushing their oxygen back lunar dust for perhaps the last tunnel." pacKS and moon buggy to the time this century. The commentary said further limits, the Apollo 17 explorers Again running behind sche- support of Thieu would "continalso drove to a mountain dule, the two finally received a ue a protracted war." Houston from landslide and collected prize good night UPI diplomatic reporter Stespecimens that may range to control at 6:20 a.m., delaying wart Hensley said administra the opposite end of the lunar the start of the outing by one tion officials in Washington hour. Tuesday's first moon life span. gave the impression that one of A. and walk was also delayed an hour the Cernan Eugene problems concerned the Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt as the astronauts fell behind exact nature of the cease-fir- e may now have stored in the then too. extremely difarrangements cabin of the spacecraft ChallenThey will leave the moon ficult to arrange in a war ger the youngest and oldest Thursday and rejoin Evans in where there are no clearly rocks ever. They were tired, orbit for two more days around defined front lines and the their muscles were weary and the moon before returning for a of authority each side degree their hands sore, but Cernan splashdown in the Pacific next would exercise in the areas and Schmitt were exuberant. Tuesday. under its control. And, so were scientists at During tonight's surface expeThis authority will be subject Mission Control. dition, Cernan and Schmitt will to military observation by a "It was absolutely outstand- visit a second massive mounn comsupervisory ing," said mission scientist tain and inspect another crater mission in which approximately Robert Parker. that might produce additional 5,000 troops from Indonesia, The third crew member, evidence that Taurus-LittroCanada, Poland and Hungary Ronald E. Evans, was adding valley was the scene of a fiery, are expected to participate. In ' to the scientific windfall by explosive volcano that photothe political sphere, the Saigon observing the moon from the graphic evidence sugests and Viet Cong authorities would On Page 2) orbiting command ship Ameri operate under the auspices of a national council for reconciliation and cooperation. Improvements Apollo Explorers Find Prize Lunar Rocks, Discover Deep Crater -- four-natio- three-segme- Board Slated The Provo Parks and Recreation Board will meet tomorrow to discuss the setting of golf rates for 1973. The meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the City Commission Chambers will consider six programs in addition to the golf rates. Leona Holbrook will make a presentation on the Provo River Parkway, and Jack Rohbock will ask the board to consider designating an area for model airplanes. An update on an airport plan being done by the Vetchtel Corporation will be presented. The study is now 50 per cent complete. Reports on city ski program, revenue sharing, and other winter recreation programs will i J I . L i i 'i v i i car-tank- Hospital in was available. It was not immediately known if any others suffered injuries, the spokesman said. The mishap occurred about 10:15 a.m. Details of the mishap were not available. C" J"J"'Jf 'm'tkfrmn i " Enchanting Christmas Story Begins Today The brightest of all fireflies had a special gift to give to Jesus on and as meaningful as Christmas Eve. It was a precious gift Christmas itself. Find out what it was in a special holiday story strip, "How the Firefly Lost Its Heat" which begins in the Herald today. The first three installments appear on Page 42. The strip should be of special interest to youngsters. Among the many other interesting features in today's Herald is a picture layout of photos of Utah Valley taken from the air. You'll find the intresting spread on Page 51. FARMINGTON, Utah (UPD-Th- ree persons were killed tocrash iust day in a north of here at the intersection of Shepherd's Lane and U.S. 91. A spokesman at South Davis Community also be considered. the News Utah Crash Kills Three Bountiful said three persons were killed, but no identification i i ' ' 'i . rt DR. VIRGINIA CUTLER - Six-Ho- ur City Approves Red Force TWO RAILROAD men of Utah County third injured in a railroad accident near PER MONTH Federal Fundi Pursue ( 1 $2.50 So. Viets SAIGON if !J). Return iiassanger for Report o n Talks . r- - s p. n iff:,;. r - wiatktr Probability of snow 10 per cent or less through Thursdt7. Ml j LAKE-OGDE- T Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with patchy night and morning fog. High Thursday lower 20s, low tonight near zero. - SNOW...AND MORE SNOW The frigid temperatures of the past several days eased up Tuesday as Utah Valley received a new coat of snow. The amount of the white stuff varied according to area. Herald staff photo by Meb Anderson, taken along Highway 91 in North Orem, gives an idea of the depth at that point. In siirriicim |