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Show INDEX Amusements Business Page Classified Comics 'PROVO-SAL- T 22 C-4- through today, arminf trend beginning, hlgas in the Probability of rain near rero through today. Utah as a whole, fair throngh today, highs la 60s and low 70s. 7 41 Editorial mid-SO- 40 I Obituaries Society Sports VOL WEATHER 23 S 111 PROVO. UTAH, SUNDAY, APRIL 49, NO. 45 3 Bases SAIGON rth By United Prss International namese troops captured three Solving secrets of the mean's bases more military Saturday, ancient and violent past were the cne 40 miles from Saigon and objects of the astronauts buggy the other two in the Central ride Saturday before the Apollo Highlands. Thousands of South 16 members prepared for their Vietnamese soldiers were shiftthird and final moonwalk before ed into the capital area to shore today's liftoff. up government defeases against The lunar blastoff and trip possible Communist attack. back to rejoin their third uew As the Saigon troops were member in the command ship pulled out of the central and Casper is scheduled for 8:22 p jn. northern regions of the country, EST (6:22 pjn. MST) today, if North Vietnamese gunners to launched heavy shelling attacks everything goes according schedule. on government positions in The lunar explorers gunned other areas. Guerrillas attacked their buggy across washboard two convoys on a vital supply road in the Central Highlands. VS. B52s continued to pound the area around embattled An Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon. (UPI)-No- if .A.. Txf J 3 7m HELICOPTER MAKES hauling boulders to on mountain above Provo a relatively easy project. The rocks were used block-- Y to give the big letter a facelifting preparatory to the 'Y' Day whitewash May 6. Bob Burr hooks up the drum of boulders to the chopper. Viet- Troops of both sides fought in the streets of the devastated provincial capital, "hurling themselves at each other, each refusing to quit," according to one officer. The three lost bases included Dau Tieng, 40 miles northwest of Saigon, and Delta and Yankee artillery bases on "Rocket Ridge," a long razor-bac- k in the Central Highlands overlooking a valley in which PER MONTH - PRICE 20 CENTS' With Liftoff Today By Reds mas-- $2.50 mn Visit to End U Taken 23, 1972 s. debris and up the steep slopes of Stone Mountain Saturday in attempting to answer some of the mysteries connected with the moon's past "Wow, what a place! What a view!" said astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., standing on the rocky flank in the uncharted Descartes highlands 2 Vt miles from the landing craft Orion. "It's absolutely unreal," said mission commander John W. Young, as they scooped, raked and photographed volcanic chunks and battered crater who debris for scientists -- .. watched eagerly on television. The drive south from the Cayley Plains landing site was less treacherous because of relatively fewer of Las Vegas which he had visited during a geological field trip on earth. While they sampled the original lunar crust from the ble" bumpy ride when the rover crossed Surrey Ridge, a ray of debris apparently spewed out of South Crater during a meteorite impact Parking the rover with its right rear wheel off the ground, Young told Mission Control the moonscape reminded him of the Nevada atomic test site north Mattingly craters along the route, but Descartes formation, fellow Young complained of a "terri- astronaut Thomas K. "Ken" n was making history in the orbiting com- mand ship Casper. At Houston, geologist Farouk El Baz said Mattingly had observed the first primordial lava flow, now frozen into a waterless sea, that had ever been viewed closeup on the (Continued On Page 4) .. milWIIIIVMIIIIIllllWIIIIII.IJ.lllllllllllliyj Apollo 16 Timetable SPACE CENTER, Houston Revised timetable for Apollo 16 (all times EST and subject to change): (UPI) Sunday V r if f ' a.m. Third moonwalk l A- , begins for astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke. Block-- Y Command module 2 p.m. forward positions defending Casper changes orbit to preDak To, Tan Canh and Ben Het pare for docking with lunar module Orion. are located. -' V'-'N- .. i Third moonwalk 3:52 p.m. Militiamen guarding Dau i of ends. once the headquarters Tieng, 8:22 p.m. Orion lifts off a regular South Vietnamese By JERRY M. YOUNG regiment, fled to nearby Tri moon. (6:22 pjn. MST) 10:17 p.m. Orion docks with Tam when they were attacked A was used If you're an early riser, helicopter by a much stronger Communist Casper. tons 10 haul of to Saturday noticed that the force, field reports said. The boulders up to the "Y" from a perhaps you've ' Monday ! 1 , 1. ' v L set up a defensive 3:52 p.m. Astronauts, now base camp to the giant block sun has also been getting up a troops abanat Tri Tam, back in Casper, jettison Orion. letter as a prelude to the annual little earlier every morning. And perimeter doned by civilians the night Launch scientific 4:54 p.m. "Y" Day, May 6. in order to profit from this, before because of heavy shellinto Moon orbit. About 40 shuttle flights were residents of the state of Utah will ing. 9:16 p.m. Casper fires main ' ' 1 ', ' I " Delta was overwhelmed by a s f made between the base station go on engine for about 2 Vi minutes to daylight savings time tank-le- d North Vietnamese as blast and the Y, an estimated 1500 to away from Moon gravity one week from today. sault Friday night. About a 200 foot rise by a Rocky again and head back to Earth. of South battalion Vietnamese Mountain Helicopter unit. Under the national law, Thursday and & ,; citizens will turn their clocks paratroopers two Rangers v 2:42 p.m. Apollo 16 splashes miles to the scrambled The aircraft was piloted partly ahead one hour at 2 on ajn. down in Pacific Ocean 1,500 by Jim Burr, partner in the firm, Sunday, April 30. This hour of safety of Fire Base Hotel at the ON THE MOON lunar surface. They will complete their moos Apollo II astronauts miles south of Honolulu. of Rocket' end south Ridge. and by full time pilot Carroll lost sleep will be recaptured next examination on Charles and stand John Duke, left, Young today before 1:22 pjn MST Yankee was abandoned SaturBuckmaster. fall when, on the last Sunday in the rim of crater daring their exploration of liftoff. a after heavy we return to normal day morning A crew of coeds would fill up a October, Communist artillery barrage. time again. 50 gallon drum which would be The battalion of paratroopers Franklin's Idea attached to the chopper's hook. there fled two miles north to The load would be carried up the Daylight savings time was Fire Base Five. mountainside and left for first proposed by Benjamin The withdrawals left about another crew to empty. The Franklin. It was not practiced on seven miles of the ridge in VietPARIS (UPI)-No- rtli aircraft would then bring an a widespread basis, however, Communist hands. down three shot said it nam of the needs mountain until the production empty drum down the wvt 1. fa. it Military men at Highlands U.S. warplanes over Thanh Hao u necessary wars maae oetore carrying up anoiner woria rT in Pleiku feared province Saturday, killing "a headquarters payload. Now, along with the song of the the North Vietnamese would certain number" of pilots. North Vietnam made the With a new load of boulders, red, red robin, switching to haul artillery onto the ridgeline WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The delegation to the peace talks, Libyan news agency said in a the big block letter is due for daylight savings time has to bombard the valley bases claim in a Foreign Ministry White House has announced came in support of accusations dispatch from Tripoli. in most issued 14 statement Hanoi of which one certain the become over and of whitewash coat another May Highway Vietnamese talks Nixon South will visit President by 6. signs of Spring. they are being supplied. Saturday. The HELSINKI (UPI) Leningrad and Kiev in addition representative Pham Dang American and Soviet delegato Moscow on his trip to the Lam that 100,000 North VietnaSoviet Union which starts May mese troops were engaged in tions to the Strategic Anns Early-Da- y 22. the current Communist offen- Limitation Talks (SALT) were undecided today on when' the Nixon, who will be accompa- sive. next plenary session will be nied by his wife, will stay in held, conference sources said. the Soviet Union until May 30 Two of the regular sessions BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI)-Pri- me when he will fly to Tehran for Minister Dom Mintoff of were called off earlier this two days. Malta paid an unexpected week because Soviet delegation The house was built by H.L. out of a notion, more than for By GEORGE G.KING residents as "The Octagon visit to Libya Saturday for chief Vladimir S. Semenov was PARIS (UPI)-Pu- blic opinion Moam-ma- r architectural purposes," and polls indicated During the last century, while House," was built in Provo in Southworth, a handcart pioneer, in Moscow for six days to Saturday the talks with Premier Col. Frank Lloyd Wright was 1856 when the city was only who was born in Boston, Mass., patterned the building "after the French government Khadafy, the official consult with Soviet leaders. would win houses in England building houses shaped like seven years old. Located right in January of 1825. According to eight-side- d Sunday's nationwide referenmushrooms all over the East, on the corner of 100 N. 500 W., it a story published in The Daily and the East." dum on the enlargement of the the residents of Provo con- was, through the years, one of Herald in 1925 and written by The shape provided for more European Common market, but structed a unique form of ar- the central trading places of Elizabeth Huish, a Payson room with less wall length a predicted high number of chitecture all their own. Provo, and almost the whole of resident, Mr. Southworth chose necessary. Southworth built the abstentions threatened to lessen to The structure, referred by early Provo's business district. the unique octagon shope, "just house to accommodate the the impact of the victory. Even Communist opposition growing number of travelers who were continually stopping at party leaders conceded that Provo on thoir way from Salt President Georges Pompidou SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -N- tion, said Rampton, who is seekLake to Nephi. would win the ballot called to ing a third term, will resign in obtain national endorsement of icholas L. Strike, a ? said Saturday he 1974 to run for the U. S. Senate Why businessman, the of admission Britain, WalExactly where Mr. South-wor- Ireland, Norway and Denmark wants the Republican guberna- seat held by Republican got the idea for the house's to the Common Market to make torial nomination to prevent lace Bennett A former president of the four years of "caretaker govshape remains unknown, but nation alliance. ernment" under Democratic Utah Manufacturers Associaoctagon houses were quite popGov. Calvin L Hampton. tion, Strike also said Rampton ular at the time. Another one, VIENTIANE (UPI) The show. . . Strike, the first candidate to conducts a "one-ma- n only one story high, was Jate'r Pathet Lao Communist repreannounce for the GOP nomina-- frequently at odds with his built in Provo, about a Hock sentative here said Saturday team." He pledged an adminisfrom the Southworth house. discussions on the release of tration based on the "principles Other octagon houses were built American prisoners of war held -v-' of modern, effective, efficient north as Lakeside in Laos could far Utah in as ij begin as soon as management" and as far south as Parowan. O the United States ordered a Addressing a crowded press However, the Southworth "total" bombing halt in the conference in the Temple Square house was believed to be the only landlocked kingdom. Hotel, Strike said Rampton was I :. y octagon house built in Col. Soth Phetrasy, the i t conducting a "do nothing, don't known the and only Utah, Communists' perLaotian rock the boat administration." to been kind have of its structure manent spokesman in VienStrike, a life long active built by adobes. tiane, said "there were many" member of the state's Greek The house was of sturdy U.S. POWs held the being by community, is general manager construction. It was built of Pathet Lao but would not of Ajax Presses, founded by his adobes three times the ordinary disclose the exact number or t jf father in 1923. The firm manusize, and had walls almost two their whereabouts. factures laundry and dry cleanV' feet thick. o ing equipment, and is now a di'Dovetail' Floor vision of McGraw Edison Co. United PARIS (UPI)-T- he The father of two grown chilLumber was used for the States made public Friday 5 1 dren, active in industrial circles floors, stairs, and woodwork, intelligence reports indicating n and GOP affairs but and the flooring was done by the that North Vietnamese combat bein Strike the units were politics, Such method." bearing major "dovetailing til .. . .. jh. I 11 Mil lieves he "made the right decihigh quality material was used burden of the fighting in South sion" to seek the nomination, ' in building the home that the Vietnam. Herald by Clarence D. Taylor who also THIS WAS the Provo Octagon House, early-da- y but knows it will be a tough in in contained windows The a the and the reports, store, hotel, and social center. This photo glass provided a clipping of the article by Elizabeth ' ' statement released by the U.S. NICHOLAS L STRIKE (niu the Taylor collection was loaned to the Huish, quoted (a the accompanying article. fight (Continued cn P. 37.) Gets Facelift Via Rock Shuttle Daylight Time Set April 30 10:52 "'. tm .''Si5 fJ .v ! "i ,&.p STANLEY A. LEAVTTT Legislator Will Seek Reds Down Around the World 3 War Planes Re-Electi- on A. Leavitt, Rep. Stanley cumbent state representative from Orem, has announced that on the he will seek Democratic ticket. "Now is the time to begin the actual planning and building of the Utah Technical College on its Orem Campus," Mr. Leavitt said in reference to his campaign plans. He noted that he has strongly supported vocational education during his term of office. Committee Posts in- a member of the legislature, Mr. Leavitt, has served on the Joint ApWhile propriations on Education, and the Public Health and Welfare, Political and Consumer Affairs Committees. Active in community and civic affairs for the past ten years, Mr. Leavitt has also been an Orem City Councilman, and ha3 participated in the Chamber of Commerce, the Orem City Center Committee, and the Regional Law Enforcement Agency. He is presently president of the Orem Boosters. School Career Mr. Leavitt is employed as supervisor of the junior high schools in the Alpine School District. He has been principal of both Lincoln and Orem Junior Highs. An Orem resident for over 17 years, he has a varied background in many local activities. He and his wife, Edna, live at 940 S. 100 E., Orem. They have seven children. Charg e Denied By McGovern PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -Aides of Sen. George McGovern Saturday denied a charge by the Pennsylvania State Depart- ment that the South Dakota Democrat failed to file on time a financial report related to next Tuesday's presidential primary. 1 Nixon to Visit Leningrad, Kiev; Common Market Vote in France 1 - Store, Social Center, Hotel Remember Provo's Octagon House? six-ho- ur Republican in Utah Gubernatorial Race Elcht-Slded- th - rl y p - "ri in two-stor- little-know- n 1 |