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Show Sunday, August ! r wo uiv In Utah pI j J ' W Panthers p: I , Crashes By United Press International Two women died on Utah's highways in separate accidents Saturday, one of them after the car she was riding in went ever embankment and the a other in a head-o- n collision. The victims were: Reta S. Ashurst, 28, Monroe, Utah, who was pinned together with her husband when the car he was driving left State Road 4, six miles east of Cove Fort and went over a cliff in the darkness. The husband, John S. Ashurst, 28, was listed in serious condition. Laprele S. Bowler, 62, who died when her husband's car was hit by another vehicle while driving down the wrong side of U.S. 91 three miles west of Santa Clara, Utah. The Highway Patrol said the Ashurst accident was noticed by an trooper who saw skid marks some four hours after the car left the Interstate-8- 0 detour. Y ' . i s J: ''rtvw - They said Panther members were kept prisoner inside the suburban villa at El Biar while stood guard police officers inside and outside. A group of black Americans who commandeered a Delta Airlines DC8 jet here along with a record $1 million ransom were reportedly were among those in the headquarters. Algerian government sources refused to comment o;. the police cordon, saying only that the Panthers were being 1i X v. ?r I "s 5 ill , N . ' ; - J it V. the quarter-mil- e canyon, lool ting impressive until nature took a hand. The project has cost the artist $700,000, it Is claimed . He said he did It "in the name of art." AND FLAPPING, this is what Christo Javacheff 's "Valley Cartaln" across Rifle Gap in Colorado looked like this weekend after wind tore it apart. It had been triumphantly draped the day before across TATTERED SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -brush fire, producing clouds of billowing smoke visible for miles, broke out in the foothills just north of Salt Lake City, Friday, endangering expenseive homes in the area before it was conA trolled. The blaze blackened 12 acres brush and grass and scorched the shrubbery of nearby homes near City Creek Canyon said Battalion Chief Kenneth Curtis. At the heighth of the fire, six pieces of fire fighting equipment from the fire department, forest service, and the water department were on the scene. Curtis speculated that the fire was caused by people careless with matches. of Idaho Fires Rage Out Of Control II planes GOP Hopeful Says Opponent Aids iVicGovern - Republican candidate OGDEN (UPI) Bob congressional Wolthuis accused his primary opponent, Joe Ferguson, of giving "indirect support" to the election of Sen. George McGov-er- n as president. Ferguson, a member of the John Birch Society who is seeking the GOP nomination for Congress in the First District, as is Wolthuis, announced this week he will vote for the Amer- ican Independent candidate fcr President. "In essence, Mr. Ferguson has bolted the Republican party and will support and vote for lame-duc- k congressman John Schmitz, the AIP candidate," Wolthuis said. "The most disturbing aspect of Ferguson's decision to oppose President Nixon is the indirect support which his endorsement and the Schmitz candidacy give to Sen. McGovern," Wolthuis Converted BOISE (UPI) bombar dumped more than 70,000 gallons of said. chemical pinkish "The AIP voter will come Saturday in an effort to quell from the Republican ranks and lightning - sparked range fires will have the effect of reducing within a 125 mile radius of the Nixon margin in both the Boise. popular and the electoral vote." Helicopters toted large buckets of water in an effort to put out a 10,000 acre fire near the n border in Oregon. WW Idaho-Orego- at the Boise Interagency fire center said were making continuand al flights in and out of the area. A spokesman He said a 15,000 acre fire 50 miles south of Boise was burning grass1 and sagebrush and 300 men were fighting to control it. The National Weather Service in Boise said temperatures of 100 degrees during the past four days dropped off Saturday, which would lower the extreme fire danger in Idaho and Eastern Oregon. More lightning storms were forecast fcr the area, but not as many as the two states experienced in the last three days. Fire control officials earlier rushed in reserve "smoke chasers" into fire areas hoping to break the back of the lightninblazes. "This is the worst situation of the past three days," said Vern Fridley, fire control officer at the Intermountain Region Forest Service office. "The winds blew one fire that we had under control across BLM fire lines and turned it toward previously untouched forest areas near Dennett Creek, 10 miles north of Weiser," Fridley said. That fire had burned 2,000 acres by late Saturday. The service also rushed in .another 125 men from Georgia and Wisconsin to a 350 acre fire near the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. The 95 men on the blaze "lost control of the fire" shortly after midnight. Jack Wilson, Bureau of Land Management director at the Boi-;- e Control Center, said 247 fires had been reported in Idaho cilong "and those are just the ones we know about." Officials said a few new fires vere 'eportea last night and this morning, but most of them are under control or extinguishg-caused ed. "investigated." Observers said the police action at the villa included a search for guns. (In New York, a Panther spokesman said the New York group talked with party mem- Atlantic Whirlpool May Affect Weather a are watching a giant WASHINGTON (UPI)-Scien- tists whirlpool A cold North Atlantic water which may affect the weather of the U. S. East Coast. The whirlpool, or eddy, broke through the warmer Gulf Stream and is headed south at about two miles an hour. It is now 30 miles east of Savannah, Ga., and is expected to reach Cape Kennedy, Fla., around the end of the summei The eddy, 220 miles in circumference, is so hu ge that its volume is about equal to the amount of water in the Gulf Stream flowing past Cape Hatteras, N.C., in 10 day s . The Gulf Stream's flow of 100 billion tons of wattr an hour is equal to 2,000 Mississippis and 22 times as largti as all the rivers on earth. To keep watch on the eddy, one in what appezu'S to be a series, oceanographers of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tagged it with two orange-painte- d oil drums. This will help scientists in later surveys to identify and track the massive, slowly rotating whirlpool. Dr. Alan E. Strong, NOAA oceanographer, said he eddy's cooler surface temperature is about 65 degrees eight degr than the surrounding sea. Because of such temperature differences, Strong said, "There is a possibility that t h ese huge eddies affect the weather along the Eastern Seaboard'. " cold-wat- cold-wat- er er However, Algerian sources said all communication links between the Panther villa and the outside have been severed since a detachment of police made a surprise raid on the house Thursday afternoon. The police action followed a period of mounting friction between the Panther revolutionaries and their Algerian hosts, WASHINGTON (UPI) --Now that Egypt has ousted most of the Soviet forces from its territory, the United States is again nudgiog Cairo to begin some form of discussions with Israel on a Mideast peace street-spraye- rs which have scorched thousands of acres in a crescent 30 to 60 miles east of Moscow. There were no reports of human injury or the extent of property damage, but the newspaper Moscow Pravda called the fires a "calamity." Tens of thousands of women, children and old men in the fire zone were being moved from their homes to community centers, hospitals and tent cities. Thick, white smoke enveloped To combat a manpower and Moscow for the sixth straight tquipment shortage, an addi- day. 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They now have the chance to attend in the a public college neighboring state with a waiver of The tuition. public education reciprocity agreement between the two states makes this possible. President Nixon in his state of the world message las.l Feb. 9 said the presence of so many but extreme precautions were Soviet troops was a matter of in effect. deep concern to the United Trucks were barred from States, a factor that could entering the city and cars affect war or peace in the which emitted excessive ex- Mideast. haust fumes were ordered off the streets. seeking The car recognition. MAKE MONEY Saving Money Friday, Muscovites from the ar 25-fo-ot last June. India-Pakista- and civilians battled stubborn peat fires raging within 30 miles of Moscow Saturday. A milky blanket of smoke reduced visibility in the Soviet capital to 500 yards. Firefighters used everything from helicopters to to combat the fires, started by spontaneous combustion about three weeks ago, GREENVILLE, Ohio (UPI)-- Six persons were burned alive late Friday night in a two-ccollision that turned one of the vehicles into an inferno. "There was nothing in that car that resembled a human being" by the time help arrived at the scene, one rescue worker said. The Ohio Highway Patrol said the victims, two adults and four children, were burned beyond ot Houari Boumedienne asking that the money be handed over to the Panthers for the financing of black revolution. The Algerians have not replied to either request. They have said that the money remains "in a safe place" while the decision is being made. Algeria returned a $500,000 ransom to Western Airlines three weeks after one of its planes was diverted to Algiers "As you know, discussions is vitally important now that are being undertaken in Korea, active negotiations be undertabetween the two Germanies, in ken," Rogers said. settlement. of the in Much diplomatic There is some expectation in Cypress, Washington that President An- Vietnam. So that the only area import of Rogers' remarks was war Sadat may be receptive to of the world which is left is the obscured by his attack on such an idea, although the State Middle East," he said. Sargent Shriver, the Democraat tic vice presidential nominee. not I'm not is certain. "Now, necessarily High Department was officials said no definite re- this stage talking about face to Rogers said Shrivei? in but face from has negotiaarrived engaging fantasy" "political negotiations yet sponse Cairo. tions, active negotiations. If when he said that Pivsident is made in those Nixon missed a historic opporof P. William State progress Secretary Rogers made his first public negotiations, then the parties tunity in 1969 to negotiate peace appeal to Egypt at a news would have to negotiate even- - in Vietnam. The administration's Middle East policy has been in limbo since Washington failed to get Israel and Egypt into peace MOSCOW (UPI)-- An army of 16,500 Russian soldiers, firemen tht to be RIFLE, Colo. New York Christo winds destroyed his huge pumpkin-colore- d curtain draped across Rifle Gap in western Colorado. As the 250,000 square-foripped curtain flapped in the 30 to 40 MPH winds, its torn edges slapped the sides of the quarter-mil- e wide valley hurling boulders onto the highway below. Drivers were herded through the curtain at intervals by the Colorado State Patrol when the winds hit a lull. Javacheff and his decided to dismantle the entire curtain as soon as the winds would permit it. The destruction of the curtain shattered Javacheff "s effort to drape the gap. He tried last year, but the winds did him in then. v The project thus far has cost him $700,000. The curtain was a majestic site when it was dropped Thursday. Even disgruntled Rifle area residents thought it was rather unique the Eighth Wonder of the World they called it. Cars drove through a cutout in the center of the curtain. The curtain was Javacheff's most expensive and ambitious undertaking. hijackers. Panther leader E 1 d r i d g e Cleaver then addressed an open letter to Algeria's President conference during tually directly, because it which he said peace discussions makes sense if they sir e going to were going on in all the world's to get along together, trouble spots except the Middle negotiate directly. "But in any event, we think it East. Thousands Battle Fires Around Moscow, Russia Even though it was after dark, a rescue helicopter quickly flew to, the platoon's position to take McVicker back to the hospital. "When I heard the medevac bird in the air, I knew that I was going to be O.K., I wasn't going anywhere but home," he said. ' it will take time and a lot of willpower, but I've got plenty of bom. My woun is will heal." Proud American McVicker had worked in northern California's Lassen State Park before going into the Army for a tour in Germany and then serving 11 months in Vietnam. He had planned to become a policeman with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department when he was discharged. He recalled Saturday a letter he had written to a California editor, in which he said "lots of people are humping (marching) over here and getting hurt so that others wUl not have to come over later." He said, "I'm a dedicated American and proud of it." Wind Destroys Gigantic Sex Burned Curtain Across Rifle Gap Alive in Nature proved (UPI) stronger than Flaming Car artist Javacheff 's dream Friday as gusty beginning when Algerian officials seized the ransom money from the Delta hijackers upon their arrival at Dar el Beida airport on Aug. 1. The United States government immediately requested that Algeria return the money to Delta airlines and try the U.S. Nudging Egypt to Resume Mideast Peace Talks With Israel pany." Someone asked how he felt about being the last "grunt" slang for infantryman to be wounded in Vietnam. "I could have done without it," he said. "But I will be all right. I have always been proud to be a grunt. We had a mission to do and we did it." His platoon was preparing a night defensive es "There are indications," he added, "that a number of these eddies are coming south down the samo general route. We don't know enough about them to tell wheth ;r this is so or, if it is, whether it's uncommon. "Possibly this is an exceptional year for the forn lation of eddies. Perhaps this year's unusual weather is causing it." Compliments Medic McVicker remembered being stunned and the ojtfit's medic, Spec. 4 Brian Charron ov Des Moines, Iowa, working on him. "I toid myself, Jim, keep your head. You'll be all right. The medic did a great job. He's a great guy and the best medic in the com- b bers in Algiers by telephone and were told the police had been withdrawn and the mem- 9 position when he tripped the hidden boobytrap, McVicker s&ia. "I remember the dirt and the metal coming up all around me. It must have blown me five feet in the air," he said. "I was conscious all the time and afraid I would land on another mine when I came down." er Mission Accomplished Saturday, some of his friends from hi? Delta Company platoon visited him. They joked, pushed each other around in wheelchairs, and bought cold drinks for McVicker and the six other men his ward. bers freed.) Brush Fire - Vietnam (UPI) Jim stepped on a boobytrap in the jur.gle southwest of here Wednesday night and made American history. The rifleman was the last American to be wounded fighting with a U.S. infantry outfit in Vietnam. On Friday, his unit the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry was deactivated. At that time it was the only U.S. ground battalion still in the field. "I don't particularly care to be the-- last grunt wounded," he said today, "b- -i someone had to be." McVicker, of Cascade, Idaho, row lies quietly on the green sheets of a steel bed in the U.S. 95th Evacuation Hospital here. Bandages encase both legs where jagged shrapnel caused multiple wounds. And pads are held across both eyes by a rubber band that stretches around his head. A piece of metal hit above his left eye, and he must undergo an operation to have it removed. There is some question about his sight. He will be flown next week to Okinawa for further treatment. witnesses said. y Endangers S.L. Homes By KEN WAGNER DA NANG, ALGIERS (UPI) Folice Saturday heldBlack Panther Party members under apparent house arrest in the Panther villa international headquarters, 100-fo- ot 23 Vietnam Combat Ground Force Algeria m Uth-Pa- ge 'Last Man' Wounded in U.S. Held in " THE HERAID, Provo, 13, 1972 W., Provo r-- 1 33 Y 200 W.- - Proo s |