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Show Page HERALD, Provo, Utah, Sunday, August 4, SO-- THE 1974 Killer Floods Kidnapper Says He's Patriotic (UPI) - Hit Bangladesh - DACCA (UPI) The Bangladesh government moved in troops Saturday for rescue and relief operations in the country's 30,000 square miles flooded by monsoon rains. Government officials said at least 109 persons have died in the g floods and 20 million of the nation's 75 million population had been affected. by the overspilling of the Brahmaputra River. U.S. Ambassador David E. to Prime Boster presented Minister Rahman a check for $25,000 for the relief of flood victims. Admitted ATLANTA kidnaper William A.H. Williams court jury told a federal Saturday he was acting as a Three Safe After Night On Salt Lake conspiracy. "I am on trial today, the way I think about it, not as a kidnaper or extortionist, but as a patriot who tried to do something to alert the American people to the dangers that lurked," he said. Williams, who cried and sobbed during four hours of direct testimony Friday, became testy and flip at times under Saturday. At one point he told the prosecutor he was just reciting the alphabet when the prosecutor observed he seemed sane enough to be whispering and consulting with his attorneys. regarded SILVER SANDS BEACH, Utah Three men, stranded on (UPI) the Great Salt Lake for 20 hours when a fuel gauge wire on their boat broke, were safe and sound in their Salt Lake County homes g today. Joe Shafer Jr., 20, Scott 15, and Bob Owen, 24, became stranded Thursday when the hot wire leading to the gauge broke loose and fell across the steering column shorting out the Bre-shear-s, Another newspaper, Ittefaq, said at least six persons were killed Friday night when a bus with 25 passengers skidded into a ditch filled with flood waters about 15 miles east of Dacca. Authorities said the air force dropped supplies to thousands of persons marooned in flood-hi- t areas. Officials reported roads, railway and communications lines had been wiped out in many places by the floods, made worse 8 newspaper editor Reg Murphy to focus world attention on what he Meek-lon- Unofficial estimates said more than 300 persons died and one newspaper reported flood waters had wiped out a village and its 800 inhabitants are missing and feared dead. Official spokesmen said Prime Minister Mujibur Rahman had ordered troops to run trains on lines affected by the week-lonfloods to move food grains and other relief materials. The Bengali daily Banglar Bani said flood waters from nearby hills wiped out the village of Lauergarh in Sylhet district, about 130 miles northeast of Dacca. - abducted he when patriot as Jewish a y ransom, from ; Overshadowing the talks this year is a widespread fear that a strike this fall could cripple electric power production, particularly on the East Coast, causing serious effects on the nation's economy. Steel mills and utilities depend heavily on coal. The final decision of whether to strike rests members of the coal with the miners' union under a provision voted last December that calls for any bargaining agreement to be ratified by the rank-and-fi- S3 employers. wiring system. A search was started for the trio Thursday night, but their boat wasn't spotted until Fri20 hours and 15 day morning miles after they became strand- Howard RENO, Nev. (UPI) Hughes and three other men have been ordered to appear in how the court to .explain Airwest billionaire acquired Airlines. PARK CITY, Utah (UPI) -Thead of CBS radio news says The three were towed into the Communications Silver Sands Boat Harbor in their the Federal disabled boat after being spotted Commission's Fairness Doctrine 10 miles northwest of Antelope results in overcoverage of news, Island by a Salt Lake' County inadequate political coverage Search and Rescue Unit and a limitation on usage of news sources. airplane. ed. he Emerson Stone, vice president of CBS for radio news, told the Rocky Mountain Broadcasters' convention here Friday night the doctrine, which requires stations to give equal time to opposing viewpoints, results in broadcasters being "leaned on A deacon is the lowest level in with the adopted in the Mormon priesthood which approval of the BSA as a of 12. means of better coordinating enter at the boys proceed with a civil rights suit age "It is apparent that the Church Church against the Boy Scouts of of Jesus Christ of Latter-Da- y doctrine, however, priesthood activities and the America despite a liberalized excludes blacks from the church's male youth programs Saints and the Boy Scouts of Mormon Church policy towards America which for decades have been are bedfellows against priesthood. black scouts. based on scouting. the interests of black people," "The pideline regarding the Church leaders and national of Utah announced the The church senior patrol leader was not University Friday charged it would modify a policy which political science professor. intended to discriminate against Boy Scout officials agreed on a excluded blacks from the top Kimball said. new guideline providing that Church President Spencer W. anyone," in we have learned that "generally the deacons quorum Kimball and National Boy Scout "However, post would serve as the churchsponsored scout troops, officials issued a joint statement the guideline is not in accord with president senior leader" unless patrol to intended it "never saying saying the church would modify the charter from the Boy Scouts someone else is "better qualidiscriminate against anyone." of which America under the rule the which its reserved fied." But NAACP spokesman Mike "senior patrol leader" post in church operates the scouting . But Clark said the church's Clark said the church's latest each troop to the local Mormon program." statement was in itself "racist deacons' quorum president Kimball said the policy was new statement apparently re 1973 leadership ffllW BLADE CUT i A r - i V m YY m U en fi JANET LEE . w subtly to overcover hews events." "We are not. allowed to cov- broadcast executives and owners that broadcasters' rights and responsibilities force them to er political candidates as our move towards being fair and that judgment warrants or to freely the truth "will work its way out." use our news sources," he add"With the doctrine some ' ed. broadcasters start to temper He told the. convention of their judgment and not provide g9 quired that a black boy be better qualified his white "We consider the policy statement itself to be racist and he s a i d. condescending," "There is nothing in the statement to indicate the BSA and the IDS church are acting in good faith." Utah chapter of the filed the civil rights action a week ago against the national Boy Scouts and a local troop sponsored by the church. The suit claimed the Mormon policy discriminates against two The NAACP Brennan 10 for all of your IBS. canning!!! Calif. (UPI) -VWalter Brennan, 80, was put in the intensive care unit at St. John's Hospital Friday and was being closely watched. The hospital said then his condition was "guarded" and would not reveal his condition OXNARD, eteran actor DllclOM to Mnre and M "0,r "''e' tooflfl! eiif DIXIE COLD CUPS 15 12-0- z. IB Cups Brennan was admitted to the hospital nine days ago for treatment of emphysema, worsened by local smog conditions. In Wyoming 46-O- z. Cans Fatalities -- n Drug Raid Nets Eleven - ElevLOGAN, Utah (UPI) en persons have been arrested in Cache County on a variety of felony narcotics charges and police say more arrests are expected. The arrests Thursday resulted from a three week investigation by undercover agents from the Utah Liquor Law Enforcement Division, the Cache County sheriff's office and Logan city . police. 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Groups other than the federal government also interpret the doctrine, he said, in urging restrictions on the media by asking that some things not be reported because they may be FRUIT DRINKS TURKEY ROAST there contingency plans for evacuating the 300 Americans based in the city, sources at Da Nang said. About 45 of the American in Da Nang are residents employes of the U.S. Q28 49 Janet Lee f.. consulate today. FOR No. 2Vz Can "" The attacks followed a warning by South Vietnam that if Due Due or any other population center in the area falls to Communist military force, Saigon will scrap the Paris peace agreements. As the war crept slowly closer to Da Nang, South Vietnam's second largest city 370 miles north of Saigon, the U.S. In Hospital black scouts who are A RAWLINS, Wyo. (UPI) not members of the church, but been Salt Lake woman has City who belong to a predominantly killed in a rollover near here. Mormon troop. Sweetwater County Coroner The church announced its Vase said Pam Whitecot-ton- , Peter policy change two hours before a died after the 20, hearing on the suit in federal driven by her brother court. U.S. District Court Judge ' Willis W. Ritter postponed the Raymond, 28, left the road Thursday and rolled over. hearing indefinitely. Authorities said the driver apparently fell asleep at the wheel. Bike He was treated for minor injuries SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -T- inRawIins. . hirty six bicyclists were killed in California during the first four Chinese opera dates back months of 1974, according to the to the late 13th century under the Yuan Dynasty. National Automobile Club. ugar Stock up now II than counterparts. PORK n BEANS . - forces Saturday overran four ranger outposts government shielding the beleaguered DuJ; Due district capital, 25 miles southwest of Da Nang, in their offensive against continuing South Vietnam's second largest city, field reports said. 'Fairness Doctrine7 Unfair, Says Executive FCC and condescending" and pledged to continue the legal battle. By PAULVOGLE Communist SAIGON (UPI) in the Hughes, reportedly Bahamas, has been named in numerous court actions, but has never appeared to answer any of them. Utah NAACP Says Scout Suit Won't Be Dropped SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -Utah leaders of the NAACP will Fighting Is Heavy - 10-d- Murphy's Appear in To District Court Previously, the union leadership approved the contract for members. The new provision has the coal industry worried, and UMW Secretary-Treasure- r Harry Patric acknowledges the final decision on a new contract rests with the miners. "I don't care if we get the moon," he said. "It is going to be damn hard to get ratification. These men have been without a great deal for a long time." ' Both sides say they are ready to begin talks now, and union officials report fullscale bargaining will resume late this month. However, talks could be disrupted by a strike by UMW miners against the year-lon- g Duke Power Co.'s Brookside Mine in southeastern Kentucky's Harlan County. The strike has been marked by violence and Miller's prestige is on the line in trying to win the local contract. "If the Brookside situation heats up again, we are not going to sit still and talk about collective bargaining. We are going to back in Harlan County," a Miller aide said One tactic that has been much discussed is memorial period to Miller's call for a honor men killed in mines. Miller's use of it will have the effect of depressing coal ' stockpiles on the eve of contract negotiations. Disclosure that PITTSBURGH (UPI) the coal industry and United Mine Workers union have met secretly raised hopes Saturday that a nationwide coal mine strike can be averted this fall. The secret meeting was held Wednesday in Washington between a union delegation headed UMW President Arnold Miller and senior officials of the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, which represents 60 per cent of the nation's coal mining companies. The meeting was to discuss a contract to replace the present pact negotiated in 1971 strike and which runs out Nov. after a 12. Williams, 34, a subcontractor, is charged with extorting $700,000 in 1 Secret Meet Raises Hopes For Avoiding Coal Stoppage Vietnam Hughes Ordered Si 7 WE CARE mm rmmmmmmmmmmB DAYS A WEEK EXCEPT: ' Cottonwood Mall CentervHIe Tooele ftKB (Mill ftggS) Prices Effective August 4 thru August 7, 1974. |
