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Show it if Sunday, April 2, IS, Hearing Set on Proposed '73 Wyoming Underground A-Bla- 5 1 f 11 FINED ALE, Wyo. (UFI) A indicate that the project cannot public bearing is slated April 21 be carried cut some time in late in Pinedale on the ramifications 19?3. of the proposed "Project Wagon Wagonwheel is a part of the Wheel" nuclear blast scheduled AEC's Plowshare Program to use nuclear explosives for for aJl. A public meeting earlier this peaceful purposes. The plan month in Big Piney attracted calls for detonating five more than 603 persons concharges at intervals becerned over the project Pur- ginning at depths between 11,750 pose of the experiment is to and S.000 feet. Each of the explosions, all in determine if nuclear explosives can free natural gas trapped in the s?me drill hole, would be rock deep underground. roughly five times the power of Among speakers scheduled to the World War II atomic bombs. appear at the April 21 meeting Ttie idea is to smash up a rone of rock where the are Dr. Robert Pendleton, University of Utah radiation ecologist, and hydrologist Dr. Luna Leopold. ed Hie by El Paso Natural Gas Co. and the Atomic Energy Commission-wou- ld detonate five nuclear devices in sequence underground in southeastern Wyoming near Pinedale and Big Piney. Eac' device would be equivalent to, 100,000 tons of TNT. Both Gov. Stanley K. Hathaway and Sen. Clifford P. have asked the Hansen, AEC to hold hearings in Pinedale so the project would be fully understood. The two explained they believed people of the area involved should be told of the environmental impact and what alternatives, if any, exist for obtaining the natural gas. - The (UPI) Energy Commission (AEC) has stated it will be at least six months before a final decision is made on whether to set off a string of nuclear ex plosions to free gas reserves now imprisoned by rock more than a mile beneath the surface of southeastern Wyoming. WASHINGTON But, an AEC spokesman said, preliminary planning for the family "Project Wagon Wheel," as it my objections Rampton Friday also condihas been nicknamed, is planning plans," Rampton said. for me," the gov- tionally endorsed a Nebo School issue "The said He normally. proceeding not one of District proposal for year- nothing has happened so far to ernor added, "was around education at Grant Elementary School in Springville. "I think it's a good idea, but I want to keep a close watch on it on a pilot basis," Rampton said. "Our schools are only used to per cent of capacity and I want to see them produce the maximum in service. "We could have a problem during the summer," tee governor said, "because most of our schools are not air conditioned." 40 Rampton said the state should have a lieutenant governor. Utah's lawmakers, he said, should decide whether to merely change the title of Secretary of State or to give the office "extra duties in state govern- ment" The governor, a n s w e r ing questions from the audience, said the principal evidence of the success of his industrial program is "that we're going Into a fourth year without any tax increase. cases, the strike will affect plumbers who make house calls." Avard W. Booth, executive affected. Leo W. Kelly Jr., business manager of the Utah Plumbing, manager for Plumbers and Heating and Cooling Contractors cipally at large construction Steamfitters Local No. 19, said Association, the Utah employFriday night picketing will be- ers' bargaining agent, said the projects. Plumbers and Steamfitters gin Monday at large selected union decided to strike after rewage Locals 19, 57, 348 and 466 called construction sites. jecting a He added, however, "In some package offer. the strike after union negotia tors and Utah employers failed to reach agreement on pay Increases. Some 400 plumbers are Mass. BRIDGEWATER, "It's like being bom again," he said. For the first time in eight Harlem Four stepped this weekend into the arms of years, Thomas hugged his cheering supporters from the daughter, Avis, now 9. Thomas, William Craig, 25, jail they had entered as teenagers and where they had spent Wallace Baker, 26, and Ronald eight years while undergoing Felder were freed when Suthree inconclusive trials in the preme Court Justice Joseph A. Martinis reduced Wednesday murder of a shopkeeper. bail from $75,CO0 each to "What can I say," one of their each. Within two days, $5,000 them, Walter Thomas, told the friends, neighbors and relatives of 100 crowd cheering, jostling had collected the money in a gathered outside the Manhattan massive drive. House of Detention, better quick, had been accused of They known as "The Tombs." fatally stabbing Harlem shopkeeper Mrs. Margit Sugar on April 29, 1964. In 1965, they were but that convicted, conviction was overturned on appeal. Two subsequent trials last spring and in January shiLONDON (UPI)-Gr- eek ended in hung juries. powner Panaghis Vergottis, (Donald Hamm, another deonetime close friend of Aris- fendant, had pleaded guilty in totle Onassis and opera star the case and a sixth defendant, Maria Callas, died Thursday, a Robert Rice, lias been convictspokesman for his hotel said ed in a separate trial.) Just before the four were Saturday. He was 81. NEW YORK fists clenched Are Buried Workmen bulldozed (UPI) hundreds of unexploded fireworks into a hole and buried them Saturday at the site of a fireworks manufacturing plant where three women employes died in a series of explosions. n u.o. Louui lycpai uiicul safety engineer disclosed the fireworks complex had not been inspected under new federal occupational safety regulations prior to the blast Thursday. The regulations took effect last August. The engineer, Wesley P. Holbrook said, however, that records of the two companies had been impounded briefly and inspected after the explosions which leveled half of the 20 buildings and sheds on the site. No official cause has yet been determined, Holbrook said. Five hundred unexploded devices were found Friday by authorities combing the area. Bulldozers buried them in a large pit along with debris from the blasts. re (UPI)-W- ith raised, the Onassis, Calfas Friend Dies spokesman for the Ritz released, their relatives first Hotel, where Vergottis lived went into the jail to meet them since 1968, said he "died privately. Moments later, they peacefully after being ill for came out, Thomas holding his about a week." weeping mother in his arms. I 1 the sun, skinny dipping and coeducational showers. An estimated 50,000 persons are expected to attend the V festival ut which 23 n musical groups were to perform. One death" "was reported. Police said a youth identified as Christopher Gilligan, 16, of the three-da-y well-kncw- 9 was found Virgin Islands, stabbed to death in a tent on The the festival grounds. circumstances surrounding the however, were not THIS SEASCAPE it among the palnitaM by Mrs. Gloria Paramore Firmage to be shown at th Frevo Art Gallery la ths I'SM!-- ? immediately clear. All roads to the Vega Baja farmland site were reported crowded. Police were in abundance around the site area, but they were not actually mingling Building April scheduled April An artist'i reception is from 2:33 to ( p.m. 23 Exhibit of Oil Paintings By Gloria Firmage Set This Month at Gallery with the crowds. Visitors said the smell of marijuana was in the air, but hard drugs apparently were scarce. They said the atmossite near phere at the a long stretch of beach 20 miles west cf San Juan was almost Oil paintings by a Provo perfect native, Gloria Firmage, will be "There's a tremendous feel- on display during the month of ing of community among the April at the Provo Art Gallery in people there," said Bill Thdmp-so- the Utilities Building at 251 W. an executive for radio 600 N. from April 3 to April 30. station WBMJ in San Juan. Mrs. Firmage has shown her Thompson said the bigge&t paintings in exhibitions in problem was that many of the several states including Utah early arrivals received severe and Missouri. sunburns in the tropical heat. The Utah artist features "The organizers have been landscapes and seascapes, but handing out lotion and pills and has also done florals and porwaking up people sleeping in traits. Her paintings this year the sun," Thompson said. "The will be based primarily upon thing has been beautifully run scenes from Europe, along with so far. There is absolutely no mountain and sea scenes from garbage problem. Trucks are the United Suites. Mrs. Firmage coming in all of the time and accompanied her husband, Dr. hauling it away. Edwin Brown Firmage, Thompson said the atmos- Professor of Law at the uninhibitwas completely phere University of Utah College of ed with no hassles of any kind. Law, to Geneva, Switzerland, where Dr. Firmage attended international negotiations. The couple later visited the Soviet Union where Dr; Firmage conducted follow-u- p talks with Soviet scholars and diplomats in Moscow and Leningrad. Their To Be itinerary also included London, and Madrid WASHINGTON (UPI) Pres- Copenhagen, Mrs. has Toledo, Spain. Firmage ident Nixon has signed legon canvas some of the sketput islation to extend the life of the ches she made while in these 429-ac- re n, Indian Claims if countries,' and these paintings constitute a portion of the exhibition. . Mrs. Firmage attended Provo public schools and graduated from the Brigham Young University. She studied art at GLORIA FIRMAGE Brigham Young and at the in Center Art Chicago, Chicago Illinois. She has also studied at Paramore of Orem. The Utah Laguna Beach, California with artist resides with her husband Bennett Bradbury, one of this and six children in Salt Lake country's most distinguished City. An artist's reception will be seascape artists. Mrs. Firmage is the daughter held April 23 from 2:30 to 6:00 of Mr. and Mrs. James F. pjn. ) I f f 1 1 U Mil U ALL DAY LONG TILL 9 pm Extended Booth said the union origininally demanded $2 per-ho- crease during a one-yeod. The current scale is ar per hour. The employers' was also for a Booth said, with a peri$6.71 offer period, one-ye- ar increase at present and an inadditional crease Oct. 1, 1972. Kelly said the union rejected the Unexploded 'Harlem 4' Out on Bail After 8 Years in Prison Fireworks - Commission Utah Plumbers Strike to Hit Big Projects SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -A Utah plumbers' strike, called at midnight Friday by four locals of the United Association of Plumbers and Steamfit-ter- s Union, will be aimed prin- VEGA BAJA , P.R. (U?I)-T- fce Mary Sol Pop Festival opened here Saturday with thousands of youngsters enjoying death, Planned Parenthood Reach Pact non-prof- zi Underway Salt Lake County Health Board, year-aroun- rate sts gas is now locked up. The gas da, early next year, to finj out reserves lie in the Pinedale for- whether the explosive devices mation of Wyoming's Green and their mechanism are rugRiver Basin. ged enough to work one after The AEC and the El Paso another a few hundred feet Natural Gas Co. (EPNG) are apart in the firing sequence. Thus many present uncertainworking together under a "project definition agreement" to get ties must be resolved before a can be given. In all the engineering and environ- final mental and other information addition, the AEC must prepare a final environmental impact needed for the final design. EPNG will wrap up a formal statement on the possible seisproposal which will be the basis mic and other effects of the exfor negotiating an "execution plosions. So, said the AEC spokesman, coniract" with the AEC. Meanwhile, the AEC plans one or it will be "at least six months" before the project is cleared. more Plowshare tests in Neva SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -- family planning, but of the inGov. Calvin L Rampton told tegrity of local government." The chief executive said, howlawyers that the Salt Lake of Health Board has that no agreement had ever, County reached an agreement on fam- been reached among representatives of the Planned Parentily planning wiih the Communihood Association of Utah, Davis ty Action Program. The governor also conditionalCounty and the cities of Bountid school ful and Clearfield. ly endorsed concepts, the proposed office of "I believe that there will be lieutenant governor, and said accord there," Rampton said, no tax increases are a sure in- "based on of the birth approval dicator of a successful Indus- control efforts by the Davis trial promotion program. County Board of Health and Rampton recently asked the monitoring of the program by Office of Economic Opportunity the board." to withhold $25,000 for the The PPAU aroused a storm CAP's birth control programs of controversy with plans to in the Salt Lake area until local open clinics in Bountiful and officials gave approval. Clearfield. Speaking Friday to the counDr. Sherman Dickman, presity bar association, Ramptcn dent of the it private, of health said that the board told organization, Rampton and approved the plans for families and agreed to Davis County leaders earlier this week that contraceptive demonitor the program. "I have agreed to withdraw vices would not be given tc women under 18. to m. ,u, cmii Festival Governor Withdraws Objections project-sponsor- Atomic Rock Music 2 package because nt "of the form in which it was presented to us." "We are asking for a increase, but were and are open to negotiations," Kelly said. Booth said the effects of the strike won't be felt until Monday, and then principally at large construction sites, many ' of them schools. The strike could affect work at Weber High School, the science building at Snow College, Hillcrest Junior High School and the McKinley School in Tremonton, the Taylcrsville Junior High School, and the Orem Elementary School, Booth said. Pickets could also appear at ZCMI projects in Salt Lake and Provo, Walker Bank Building in Ogden and the New St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City, he added. Booth said construction workers, other than the plumbers, are expected to continue work Monday. - Indian Claims Commission by five years. The commission, due to go out of existence on April 10, was given until April 10, 1977, to complete its work. The commission was created in 194S to hear and determine claims against the United States by Indians. It has dealt chiefly with claims arising from the taking of Indian lands. The new law extending the life of the commission also provides for the transfer to the U.S. Court of Claims of any case still pending before the commission when it is dissolved in April Fool Calls To Zoo Will er World Record Be Intercepted NEW YORK of the Bronx Zoo, including Mr. Lion, Miss Deer and Mr. L. E. Phant, won't be taking any telephone calls today. New York Telephone Co. said special operators will intercept each zoo call, terminating those with April Fool's Day requests. The zoo received some 6,000 such calls last April Fool's Day. (UPI)-Res-id- ents More than 100 species of snakes can be found in Texas. Claimed in Chess Games jlJM liAJ L We Print EGHAM, England (UPI) Two schoolboys finished their 473rd game of chess without a break Friday night, claimed a new world record and went to bed. David Freeman, 18, and Philip Luckett, 17, said their stint of lightning chess, in which all moves had to be completed within five minutes, broke the old record by 9 hours, 58 minutes. UEHEMLUUf Pictures To Your Specifications I "kkHnEipert" MM 24 1 Mr Iw.Nn Mm liiZSiitJ I enealo ay Sale A UMTOilW.UlWMiC""'' 'Willi "'" """ttf,'tm,mmm' Typewriters AN 15 Inch ROYALS 1 REMINGTON IBM ELECTRIC ill .Li b Wide Carriage Reg. 89.50 SALE Reg. 79.50 SALE Reg. 109.00 SALE . . 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