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Show LI J Aword Med o Astros (UPD-PresiWASHINGTON Johnson presented gold medals today to America's three astronauts who sailed around the moon and said the achievement showed that there are few problems that cannot be conquered be they "heavens or hunger, or moonshots and dont urban renewal." At a ceremony in the East White House starting a big day for the spacemen in Washington including an appearance before a joint meeting of Congress the President said, "We are quite that they are all proud Americans . but they , represented all mankind." Wiih the astronauts, Frank James Lovell and Borman, William Anders seated nearby, Johnson said the "unparalleled achievement" of the "tough, Room of the , trained courageous young men" cadetook them up Pennsylvahad blazed new trials in and nia Avenue to the Capitol today brought about a "measure of following the White House awards ceremony. unity" on earth. He then warmly shook the At one point, during the three astronauts' hands and awards Patrick Lyndon Nugent, them the presented space the President's grandson, left agency's Distinguished Service his mother Luci's side and ran Medals. In turn, he received up to Johnson. from them a photograph of "the "I'm glad he wants to be an t D t ....u H l i rum space idiiLii as astronaut Mr. President," said ana a miniature reproduction ot acting Space Agency Administhe international treaty to ban trator Thomas Paine as Luci weapons from space. Nugent unceremoniously escortThe activities ed the child out of the crowded Washington the space heroes room. honoring Borman told Johnson as he opened a packed, six days of acclaim for the trio. Their first fondled his medal that the three news conference was astronauts thought they had set for in Wash- experienced every emotion ington followed by a dinner known to man during their 10 Christmas Eve flights around tonight. On Friday they get a ticker the moon, but said of the White tape parade in New York. A House ceremony: "This tops miniparade more of a motor it." post-flig- Anders presented the President and Mrs. Johnson two miniature copies of the treaty nuclear we a p o n s banning which the astronauts had carried with them in the Apollo 8 capsule during their historic flight. Lovell who gave It was Johnson a "picture of the LBJ ranch" from space. Actually, it showed the earth as photographed just over the moon's horizon. During tlie awards presentation, Johnson said: 'The flight of Apollo 8 gives all nations all nation- s- new and a most exciting reason to join in man's greatest adventure. "And finally, if there is an ultimate truth to learn from ithis historic flight, it may be (See LBJ AWARDS Page 4) Um. XT', ,y "ff V v( 4v tl I fl I f 1 ? t il rr N, c" ( I r-- IN A WHITE HOUSE eeremony this morning I'residtut John- son presented a gold medal to Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Bor- - '- w 1 ' mun as the other two astros (background) await their medals, William Anders, left, and James Lovell. (Herald-UP- I photo) Provo CC Elects Officers for 1969 r Dell S. Ashworth, of Ashworth Architects, was elected president of the Provo Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon, and Wilson Sorensen, president of Utah Technical College at Provo, was elected presidentelect. Mr. Ashworth became president immediately upon election, which was by acclamation of the board of directors. He was the only man nominated. Vote Race i ii : s ; Sol ons Sock Ch ange Week: 101 SAIGON (UPI)-Figh- tinc in Vietnam last week killed 101 American soldiers, U.S. spokes men said today. It was one of the lowest seven-da- y death tolls in two years and reflected a three-daNew Year's truce called by the Viet Cong. South Vietnamese officers reported the end of a campaign by government troops in the Mekong Delta that "cleaned out" the U Minh forest and " killed 434 Viet Cong y J 16-d- New Policy Election of a president-elec- t was new this year, the result of a change in the chamber's by laws. Also at yesterday's meeting, directors received the "charge" of their new officers from Aura Hatch, chamber president in 1948 and 1949, and received reports on the Securities Semin ar and on progress of the new Provo City Center now on the guerrillas. X CONGRATULATIONS WERE EXCHANGED by Dell S. left, and Wilson W. Sorensen on their election to the two top Provo Chamber of Commerce offices. Mr. Ashworth was elected president for 1969, and Mr. Sorensen presidentelect to automatically become president in 1S70. Ash-wort- h, The weekly American casual ty figure was tne lowest since the week ending Oct. 19 when 100 U.S. troops died on Vietnam battlefields. It also was the third lowest in the last two Americans years. Eighty-tw- o were killed the week ending Aug. 12, 1967, and 67 were killed the first week of 1967. American wounded last week totaled 599, the lowest number since the week ending Oct. 19 and the fourth lowest in two Associated Press Guild on Strike drawing boards. years. The 101 dead brought total U.S. dead in the war to 30,644. By STANLEY W. DARDEN Wire NEW YORK (lUPI)-T- he Service Guild struck the Associated Press for the first time in history today when editorial employes walked off the job at 8 a.m. EST. No. 9 Your Legislators Speok Whiting Says Problems 'Boil Down to Taxes' AP General Manager Wes Gallagher, working in shirt' sleeves with necktie loosened said and collar unbuttoned, "essential and basic news services" would be maintained despite the strike. At a news conference held in the Rockefeller Center head quarters of AP, Gallagher said his news organization was "far better than functioning expected" and added: "I see no reason why we can t maintain services indefinitely." Gallagher said the main issue in the contract talks was the guild demand "for a form of union shop." He said the guild EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is ially in light of the heavy de was asking that eight of every the ninth in a series of arti- mands for large increases in 10 new employes be guild cles on legislators who will budgets. members. "I believe AP men should be But he also foresees some represent Utah County in the 38th Utah State Legislature legislation liberalizing election free to join a union if they want which convenes Monday. laws to relax resident require- to and I don't think we should ments and several other types coerce them," Gallagher said. of legislation. He favors relax- - "Our position is firm on the By TERENCE L. DAY The problems facing the 1969 inc the election laws to insure guild shop. In this day and age due that citizens are not denied the it is not enough to be objective. Utah State Legislature themselves to convene Monday pretty right to vote simply because The organizations should be above suspicion and a much boil down to taxes, have moved recently. undermine our also foresees guild shop would cording to Rep. Harold J. WhitRep. Whiting -- ing, Mr. Whiting will serve on (lie Highway and Aeronautics, the Judiciary, and the Elections committees. He is beginning his second term in the House. In private life, Mr. Whiting of is president and e a Spring-villand Haymond, Whiting construction firm. Mr. Whiting said he has taken no stand on proposed tax increases because he has seen nothing "concrete" on them. He predicts every effort will be made to keep from having a tax iciau. U.S. War X t 1971. urn PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH Toll For Mr. Sorensen won his position In a narrow vote race with Mike Jense, owner of Central Utah Aviation Inc. As president-elec- t, Mr. Sorensen will function as vice president in 1969 although his He autotitle is president-elect- . matically becomes president of the Provo Chamber in 1970 at which time the chamber will for elect a new president-elec- t Mr. Ashworth is a descendant of Mormon pioneers who came to Utah from England and New England in 1847 and 1848. He was educated in Salt Lake City BYU for attended schools, three years, and graduated from the University of California with a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1949. War Action He served in the U. S. Navy from 1942 until 1946 and saw (See PROVO CC Page 4) 96th YEAR, NO. 117 Nonetheless, he fays, "it is quite likely that there will have to be some increase" in taxes. If there is, he foresees it coming in the area of a sales tax increase and possibly a gasoline tax increase perhaps even both. Funding programs will be the main issue, he believes, espec- -' The wounded total rose to 192,926. The South Vietnamese also reported a sharp drop in casualties last week. They said (See U.S. WAR, Page 4) n Fiib uster Israel Peace Plea Snubbed ANNIVERSARY HIS 56TH The nremier-desinnat- e orom By United Press International Lebanon snubbed an official isef TdstrengVien 'Lebanon's Israeli plea for Middle East; army, to back a plan for "tranquility" following Israel's 'drafting all young men and commando raid on Beirut women, and to strengthen the of Lebanese outposts Airport, authoritative sources in line Jerusalem said today. guarding the Israeli border. His Premier Levi Eshkol of Israel political backers support com' to tried get the proposal mando raids into Israel. delivered in a note to Lebanese In Jerusalem sources said President Charles Helou but it Eshkol's note was given to a was returned, the sources said, Lebanese officer along the because it had not gone border during a meeting ar"through acceptable channels." ranged by the U.N. mixed The Israeli raid Dec. 29 armistice commission immedidestroyed 13 commercial airli ately after the Beirut raid. The ners and brought the downfall officer opened the note and read of the Lebanese government of it, they said. Then days later it came back. Premier Abdullah Yafi. Yafi's In Amman, Jordan said its In Beirut today, successor, Rashid Karami, be- troops sent an Israeli patrol gan work on what politicians fleeing across the Jordan river in a would be the most Wednesday said "hawkish" cabinet in Lebanese artillery, machinegun and mor- no were There duel. history. Helou named Karami to tar the post Wednesday. casualties. NEW YORK (UPI) -PrRichard M. Nixon was celebrating his 56th birthday with a quiet dinner at the campus apartment of his newlywed daughter Julie, 20, and her husband, David Eisenhower. Nixon, accompanied by his wife Pat and daughter Tricia planned to fly to Westover Air Force Base, Mass., and travel by car to Northampton, Mass., where the young Eisenhowers live in a apartment. th Consultant To Nixon Appointed ident-ele- For Freedom in Blazing Battle PER COPY Resolution Filed by Idaho Man esident-elect YORK (UPI)-Pr- esRichard M. Nixon Charles B. appointed today Bud' Wilkinson, a campaign assistant and former University of Oklahoma football coach, as a special consultant. Cubans Make Successful Bid 10c. ules NIXON MARKS NEW 81 D THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1969 WASHINGTM VP1). their today began biennial move to change the senate's rule permitting Liberals Sen. Frank Church filed a resolution in behalf of himself, Sen. Philip A. Hart, and others to change Rule 22. They want to reduce from (or 67 senators if all ar present) to three-fifth- s (or a maximum of 60 senators) the number needed to invoka two-thir- ds cloture-t- he debate-haltin- g de- vice. Church asked for "immediate consideration" of the rule change. "I object," interjected Sen. Spessard Holland, selected to lead Southern opposition. That automatically put off consideration of the proposal until Friday. Hart said 34 members had of the joined as resolution, double the number Dacking a similar proposal which was defeated two years ago. Included were four new comerssens. Allen Cranston, Thomas F. Eagleton, Wilkinson, who left one of the Harold Hughes, MIAMI (UPD The 81 Cuban in an outskirts of Havana and The truck then rolled to a slop most successful college football and Charles a Goodell, its passengers began refugees who succeeded in the at the city of and careers to run unsuccoaching Hart said Sen. Edward M. most massive escape through Camafeuey, picking up mostly pouring out into the darkness in cessfully for the Senate in 1964, Kennedy, U.S. the Naval base at Negro laborers. newly electa mad scramble for the Navy will handle special projects for ed Democratic had Guantanamo during a blazing One of two drivers of the base fence 200 yards and a hail whip, Nixon. His first job is to study "indicated he would do anything gunbattle between their leaders truck said the shooting broke of bullets away. the 1,500 to 1,800 he can do. This will help from a and Castro guards spoke only out near Caimanera and one But the escapcrs were unclear boards and commissions now It parliamentary standpoint. reluctantly today of the dash for bullet crashed through the cab on just where the truck appointed by the president with means that right at the top of freedom. and killed his companion driver. (See 81 CUBANS Page 4) the view toward consolidating the leadership we have some Some of the 46 men, 13 and streamlining them. body who is as involved in this women and 22 children were too as anybody in the senate." Ronald Nixon's to remember, others dazed Ziegler, press confirmed spokesman, feared for reprisals against today that the President-elec- t has no relatives they left behind or the plans for putting his personal many who didn't make it and financial holdings in a trust win. "a 2t all were apparently warned to ' By United Press International r"4 wn.v.'..!' f"m when he assumes office. U.S. officials. silent jfund San Bernardino County in keep by position." conthe liquor strengthening This has been the procedure California, the statements to Brought to the immigrant guild Despite largest in the trol laws, and some strengthenifollowed by most of Nixon's the contrary, Gallagher said processing center near here, the country with 20,119 square miles of law of other areas ng told stories that predecessors to avoid any hint is mnre than 16.5 times larger the union shop issue "is the refugees of "conflist of interest." accounted for at least three than the state of Rhode Island. basic dispute." 100 who to had and said arsons he dead up Gallagher failed last Monday to make it ASSOCIATED Page 4) over the high chain link fence encircling the landward 1tel side of the Guantanamo Base. Two large Navy transport panes airlifted them to Miami for hours of huerrogation by It was cold last night, but U.S. PARIS (UPI)-No- rth Vietnam' and a Communist side, in which authorities, who later no jeason record. The mercury declined to comment on the said today the South Vietna- the Viet Cong would be denied at the Olmsted Station of Utah incident or even acknowledge it. mese regime of President the status of an equal partner. Power and Light Co. in the Bus Freedom Van Thieu is trying to Nguyen Le said Saigon's "puppet" of Provo mouth $ Canyon reported The full story may never be the Paris talks on torpedo a low of nine degrees above was "obstinately Vietnam and keep the Ameri- regime known, but it appeared a large zero about 7 a m. to trailer-trucpeace and national ' called the "Hava cans involved in the war. But the season low at that Thanh 1 station was 4 Le, chief independence, and is persistentNguyen degrees recorded na to Guantanamo Freedom conferone Bus" of the Hanoi by Special refugee spokesman Dec. 22 and 23. delega- ly hampering the Paris A FATHER AND one of his two sons are shown at the Miami tion, took sharp issue with ence on Vietnam." In Provo, Mountain States began picking up passengers statement Fuel Supply Co. reported a low very early on Jan. 6. Refugee Center awaiting processing after they and 79 other Thieu's Tuesday Le claimed Saigon "wants the As it wound its way 600 miles Cubans escaped from Castro's Cuba by fighting their way to warning that South Vietnam United States to prolong its of 17 degrees recorded at sev t the U.S. Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. (Herald-UP- I wanted the Paris parley to be aggressive war so that they can eral times between 3 a.m and over the main high 7 a.m. HAROLD J. 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