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Show wiivnimt r. cM Friday fur is prv thni Lagaa la (Tear t partly at Umtt art; lifts ia fcws tMi(U winds; PROVO, UTAH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1973 YEAR. NO. 14 101ST $2.50 ratability measurable raia Ira toaigtat Friday. 4 M PER MONTH - u aat4Mt; mdH; hgU PRICE tfcaa ( II per prr teat CENTS' 10 President Nixon Tells Nation bse Ind Watergate ssiiiLk enies FIRST LADY PROUD OF NIXON WASHINGTON -- ; ' . fr TALK (I'Pli -- Mrs. Richard M. Nixon expressed pride after her husband's Watergate speech Wednesday night, saying the President "spoke from the heart and it went to tiie hearts of the American people." The first lady watched the President's address on television in the solarium of the White House family quarters with her daughter and son- Tricia and Edward ' Pufw f Role in Scandal, Stands Firm on Tapes BvKlGF.NEV.RISIIKR WASHINGTON il'I'll -President Nioxn said W ednesday night it is the "simple truth" that he is innocent of guilt in the Watergat? affair. He suggested Senate investigation help solve the country's problems instead of trying to put the blame for the scandal on him. Nixon asked the public to join him in demanding that the Senate end its hearings on Watergate and turn the matter "over to the courts where the questions of guilt or innocence tricing" Nixon's remarks, made in half hour television address from the Ova! Office, were a clear signal to his critics that he was coming out fighting after four vlence mtnths of on the scandal that has wrecked in-la- " ! ' ' ' ' ' i, t ; Cox. Helen McCain Smith, her press secretary, said Mrs. Nixon "sounded very happy and very proud" when she relayed her reaction to the speech in a telephone call i ' ' ' . .... ! ! . I . - . , fl 'fi 1 i ; j I I j - 4 : "l Automobile Crushed By Loader car was crushed by a front end loader on Orem State Street Wednesday afternoon about 5 A Consumers Face Prospect Of Continuing Price Rises By MA THIS CHAZANOV United Press International The consumer faces the prospect of continuing rising prices for everything from food to toasters, refrigerators and automobiles. The big four automakers. U.S. Steel and more than 60 other large corporations have notified the Cost of Living Council (CLC) they intend to boost prices under the Phase IV American p.m. The car was in front of the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Mel vin Dean Nimer, 720 S. State Street, when the bulldozer ran up on the front of the vehicle and got stuck on top according to police. Witnesses said the driver of the bulldozer. Craig Von Wright. 1465 S. 640 E.. Orem. had to use the bucket of his vehicle to flatten the back of the car in order to drive off from the top of it. The police report said the front end loader was southbound on the highway when the mishap occurred. One report stated that the driver had swerved to avoid a collision with another vehicle By DAWN TAYLOR which had changed lanes. SALEM A lady's Softball The car. a 1972 Gran Torino, was destroyed. Damage to the game at 7 p.m. Friday at the bulldozer was estimated at about Salem School will precede a full $600. day's schedule Saturday of the Mrs. Nimer told the Daily Annual Salem Days, sponsored Herald she was sitting in the car by the Salem Liens Club assisted waiting for her husband to get a by the Lady Lions. The Softball game will have bottle for their baby. She said from all three she and the child had gone into participants the house only two minutes Salem LDS wards. In charge of the festivities this before the accident occurred. stabilization program. Other steel producers also have announced their intention to hike prices. The CLC said today that 68 corporations, each with annual sales of more than $100 million, have notified it of planned price increases. If the council does not challenge the increases within 30 days the companies may put the higher prices into effect. More expensive steel can only mean higher costs for manufactured goods two major firms Food indicated Wednesday. prices have been rising steadily and the end is not in sight. A spokesman for Westing-hous- e Electric said the firm was "very concerned" about increases in the cost of raw materials. A General Motors spokesman said CM. which has already asked for price increases on 1974 model cars. Salem Days Festival Scheduled Saturday - Wheat Acreage Curb Lifted to Up Output - ForWASHINGTON (UPI) mally lifting all government planting restrictions on wheat. Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz announced details today of a de- 1974 support program signed to boost next year's wheat crop to 55 million acres. The harvesting allotment on which growers will get full government income protection would be 1.3 million acres more than this year's estimated acreage and would match or exceed estimated domestic and export needs. The announcement came as the administration faced heavy pressure to limit exports from this year's crop. Butz had said earlier that farmers would not be required to idle any acreage in order to qualify for 1974 supports. In addition, acting under terms r farm bill of a new signed Monday by President Nixon. Butz set the harvesting allotment. Officials stressed that the 1974 allotment is not a limit on next year's harvested wheat acreage 'which they hope will rise to at least 60 million acres. That would a record yield of 1 85 Eroduce four-yea- bushels ""re Brief Tieup At Chrysler the car. Witnesses said he used the bucket on the front of the bulldozer to flatten the back end of the car to allow himself to drive down. Two passengers had just left the vehicle Pkow by Pit chriitii before it was struck. THIS VEHICLE WAS CRUSHED by a bulldoier Wednesday afternoon. The car wai parked in front of a residence on Orem State Street when the front end loader reportedly swerved to avoid another vehicle and ran up onto the front of is Ron Linton, past $ president of the Lions Club Activities will officially begin Saturday with the Lions free breakfast at the park pavillion. Summer commence- ment exercises for over The 17 Lions and their wives will furnish breakfast to about 800 2,100 Brigham Young University students are persons, both present and former scheduled to begin at 8:30 residents of Silem. T' Friday This is a.m. Friday when the academic procession a contribution project. Expenses are partially offset by sales throughout the day from the Lions concession booth, bake sale and children's fish pond. Salem City also helps meet expenses with a budgeted non-profi- t, donation. "Because of rocketing food costs." joked Lion Neil Peterson, "we may be forced to serve just plain water." io this year's The compared Lady Lions have made a estimated record crop of 1.72 for a door prize and the men quilt billion bushels. are selling tickets for a exAgriculture spokesmen bike. Both prizes will be awarded plained that the allotment covers just before the city pageant that enough acreage to produce 1.78 , billion bushels, the amount evening. Saturday officials think would equal "Other activities domestic and export needs in the include a Senior Citizens at 10 a.m. where the 1971-7marketing season program 1. (Continued On Pag: 2) opening July 5 1 Graduation I i Rites at begins outside the Smoot Administration Building. The- - deadline for entering the procession, however, is 8 a.m. The ceremonies will begin at 9 a.m. in the Marriott Center. No tickets are needed. Campus tours will follow 1 and 1:30 p.m. and various convocations will be held throughout the afternoon. It is during these convocations when the diplomas will be presented. The graduate school at ft: convocation, however, will beheld at 10:45a.m. in the Marriott Center. 3 hi p ? With DETROIT (UPI) at about 1.000 union plant gates to ensure peace, workers returned to their jobs today at a key Chrysler plant shut for nearly 30 hours by a radical labor group. The Mack Avenue Stamping Plant was dosed Tuesday when Maverick workers occupied the sprawling plant on the city's heavily industralized east side in defiance of the company and their union, the United Auto Workers. Skylab Station In Utah Friday by United Press International The Skylab space station will be visible over Utah once Friday and twice Saturday, the National International Airport where specially trained Israeli security guards boarded it. freed the passengers and crew and captured the hijacker without firing a shot, official Israeli aboard.) 119 sources said. (Lebanese sources in New York said it was actually another Israeli attempt to capture Palestinian guerrillas and that i Israelis said the Boeing 707. owned by Lebanon, was hijacked over Cyprus on a flight from Libya to Lebanon. A flight of Israeli F4 Phantom jets escorted the plane to the airport. Israeli troops had ringed the aircraft with armored any saying considers natural his constituency, said the President had provided no information that would allay suspicions of his own But 1 seconded involvement. the President's efforts to draw attention to "existing snd PRESIDENT NIXON displays a smile as he poses for pictures following his televised address on Watergate Wednesdey night. No pictures were allowed during the telecast. Nixon's Watergate Speech at a Glance WASHINGTON (UPI) -PSpace resident Nixon's Watergate Administration says. speech On Friday, the huge craft can "Because the Responsibility be seen at 4 :56 a.m. for about five abuses occurred under my minutes. and in the administration I Saturday, NASA says, the campaign for my for space station will become visibh accept full responsibility at 4: 11 a.m. and at 5:48a m. them. I regret that these events took place." Involvement "I had no prior knowledge of the Watergate operation: I neither took part in nor knew about any of the and Omar Bradley obvious dangers to our republic." Nixon said that while the Senate committee had set out initially to uncover the facts about the bugging at the national Democratic headquarters, it had become-clea-r after more than two million words of testimony that it has "become increasingly absorbed in an effort to implicate the President personally in the illegal activities that took place." His television address was clear that both the accompanied by a hearings and some of the statement in which the only (media) commentaries on them specific charge he dealt with was have become increasingly ab- the claim by John W. Dean III, sorbed in an effort to implicate his ousted White House counsel, the President personally in the that he had been w?rned as early that a illegal activities that took as last September was place " Watergate cover-uHis motives "Far from underway. trying to hide the facts, my effort On the contrary, Nixon said, throughout has been to discover "he gave me no reason whatever the facts..." to believe that any others were become 3,000-wor- d p "1 The White House tapes guilty." And on top of this, he shall continue to oppose efforts said Dean's testimony had been which would set a precedent that contradicted by the 34 other subsequent cover-u- p activities." The break-iwould cripple all future witnesses before the committee. investigation "... I continued to get the same presidents by inhibiting conver"I had no prior knowledge of answer: that there was no sations between them and those the Watergate operation. I LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- indication that any persons were they look to for advice." neither took part in nor knew "I will do all that I about any of the subsequent Omar N. Bradley, last of the involved other than the seven Pledge five-sta-r officers who com- who were known to have planned can to ensure that one of the cover-u- p I neither activities. manded the American military and carried out the operation. " results of Watergate is a new authorized nor encouraged in World War II, underwent an "It has level of political decency and Senate inquiry (Continued On Page 2) integrity in America ..." operation early "The time today and was reported in Looking ahead serious condition. has come to turn Watergate over An army spokesman said tothecourts. where the questions of guilt or innocence belong. The drug treatments to remedy Bv United Press International The Apollo astronauts spent a time has come for the rest of us "massive blood clots" in the general's lungs had total of 299 hours, 38 minutes on to get on with the urgent business of our Nation." the moon. failed, necessitating surgery. Serious' After Surgery n emergency Now You Know Nixon Slated To Address VFW Confab there were two "hijackers" who Israeli secret were actually agents. The Israelis seized another Lebanese airliner last Friday and diverted it to Israeli where no Palestinians were found . Rather, he sought to convince the public that foes bent on his political destruction were preventing an innocent President from solving inflation and other urgent problems. "We must not stay so mired in Watergate that we fail to respond to the challenges of surpassing a importance to American and the world," he said. "We cannot let an obsession with the past destroy our hopes for the future...These are matters that will not wait. They cry out for action now." His appeal received mixed reaction. Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr.. chairman of the Senate investigating committee, had no immediate comment. Sen. Howard Baker, the ranking issued a terse Republican, a spokesman for the conservative wing of the Republican party that Nixon personnel WASHINGTON (UPI) -Prwill address the annual national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New Orleans Monday on his way to California for a stay, the White House announced Thursday. Nixon will appear at the opening session of the gathering at the Rivergate Convention Center before 45.000 VFW members. Deputy Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren said. Warren also told reporters that telephone calls and telegrams to the White House had been "overwhelmingly in support of the President" on his Watergate speech to the nation Wednesday night. Warren did not give specific figures. Warren said Nixon talked esident-Nixon Hijacker Captured as Plane Lands at Lod Airport - provide nor attempt a definitive account of all that took place." to information from the President would be helpful. Sen. Barry Goldwater, 19 Passengers, Crewmen Released TEL AVIV (UPI) A young Arab man hijacked a Middle East Airways flight today and forced it to land at Lod to possible appropriate statement "They are in and they are working," said a spokesman for Chrysler shortly after the first of 2.62b workers returned for the first shift. Aeronautics 8 i Plant Ends loyalists To Be Visible year I the upper echelons of his staff and sent his popularity rating to an all time low. He declined to answer any of the specific charges of raised during the 37 wrong-doindays of Watergate testimony on grounds that "it would be neither carriers, fire trucks ambulances in case and of emergency. Cyprus, The hijacker, about 25 years dressed in a green suit, was led away from the red, white and blue Boeing 707 smiling broadly. His intentions remained a mystery. He had made no demands to Israeli authorities. No shots were fired during the rescue attempt, a military spokesman said, and no one was hurt. old and The hijacker, brandished two pistols in seizing control of the airliner over who had was immediately questioned by military officials, including the armed forces chief of staff. Lt. Gen. David Elazar. There were unconfirmed reports he had requested political asylum. Passengers and crew mem- bers from the airliner boarded three buses parked near the plane and Were taken into the Lod passenger lounge where they were served orange juice and cakes while waiting for their flight to Beirut to resume. The operation was reminiscent of a similar action on May 9, 1972. w hen Israeli forces stormed onto a hijacked Sabena airliner at Lod. killed two of the hijackers and capturing the two others. Witnesses said the hijacker today was standing in an open doorway at the rear of the plane talking with an Israeli security man on the ground when three other security men entered the aircraft from the other side and jumped him. two-wee- personally to several callers. 1 ) |
