Show ( FORECAST TEMPERATURES : OGDEN: Highs today and 'toSunday in lower 40s low night in middle 20s UTAH: Highs both days 5 lows tonight 40-5- 0 15-2- f 1 I ASSOCIATED PRESS It VOL LXXXVI No 342 OGDEN UTAH UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY EVENING UPI TELEPHOTO 25c SUNDAY 10c DAILY DECEMBER 8 1973 COPPER'S TOO EXPENSIVE ALUMINUM PENNIES NEXT? I? s £ WASHINGTON (UPI) — With the price of ATLANTA (AP) — New York Gov Nelson Rockefeller has refused to reveal his personal political plans but says the Republican party remains strong despite the Rockefeller here to Watergate scandal address a meeting of some 1200 Southern Republicans told newsmen that Watergate was “a tragedy of individuals not of the system” and predicted a Republican would succeed President Nixon in the White House However he refused tc confirm or deny published reports that he would resign before Christmas to devote all his time to a presidential campaign of his own Delegates to the meeting stood to applaud GOP National Chairman George Bush when he told them he saw Nixon three times this week “and I did not see a man who intends to resign” Bush said Watergate “is not a copper about to make pennies unprofitable for the United States Mint director Mary Brooks said Friday the Treasury has asked Congress authorize the coins be made of aluminum instead of copper “With copper prices fluctuating around $1 per pound the metal cost of the cent is about 07 cent Manufacturing and transportation expenses amount to approximately 02 cent for each piece making the cost of the 1 cent piece 09 cent” the Treasury said in a statement The price of copper at the beginning of the year was 50 cents a pound A pound of aluminum currently sells at 30 cents and the Mint can produce 500 one-cepieces from a pound of aluminum compared to 150 from a pound of cooper n i nt the department said Ga issue for Republicans” He said Southern Republicans will win or lose on issues closer to home wipe-o- ut PITTSBURGH Pa (AP) — The United Mine Workers have voted to allow their International Executive Board to suspend autonomy in locals where corruption is suspected The controversial measure was district-by-distriapproved in an vote the first since the UMW began its 46th convention here last Monday Autonomy was a key issue in UMW President Arnold Miller’s reform campaign Delegates opposing the move said they were fearful the constitution committee was trying to return them to the days when former UMW President WA“Tony” Boyle used the autonomy provisions to appoint his own men 821-to-6- 74 ct to run the locals ' infantrymen to reinforce troops that Kien Due in recaptured the district town of officers said the central highlands Field 400 England (AP) — British and Irish leaders continued their d negotiations toward linking Northern and the Irish Republic in a Council of Ireland British Prime Minister Edward Heath one of the participants had hoped to have a deal completed by Friday night but there was no word of any settlement One of the toughest issues was a demand by Notrhern Ireland Protestants that the Catholic-dominate- d Republic abandon its claim to sovereignty over the north — a move that would require a change in the Republic’s constitution SUNNINGDALE British-con-trolle- pockets of North Vietnamese were still holding out in the town and called the situation “very dangerous” Kien Due 90 miles northeast of Saigon on strategic High-wa- y 14 fell to a North Vietnamese tank assault Tuesday WASH I N G TO N (AP) — The Small Business Administration has certified two firms owned in part by a former White House aide as eligible for government contracts earmarked for “socially and economically disadvantaged” Robert J Brown a former $36000-a-yespecial assistant to President Nixon owns a sub- " stantial part of each of the firms ar — The GIA NGHIA South Vietnam (AP) South Vietnamese military command sent w w'wwjiiwiw i i) Ar it- mmx I Kissinger Off Again ff! ! ' i wssm AAr-- " A Ml 1 r 1 5 - A V n If " ' s s t 'ff' £ :v fr r Sy To Europe '' WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Henry A Kissin- ger left for Europe today with promises to US allies of “advance consultation” across the Atlantic in the future Kissinger’s jet airplane took off from nearby Andrews Air Force base just after 9 am for Brussels He was not carrying any specific proposals to put before the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ministers But he hopes to reflect a positive attitude of cooperation while recognizing that “it is for the Europeans themselves to decide how they want to organize themselves” a senior State Department official said The stop is the first in a long trip that will take him on a swing through the Middle East and to Geneva for the opening of the Middle East peace conference Dec 18 MET DAYAN Before leaving he met separately Friday with Moshe Dayan the Israeli defense minister and Ashraf Abdel Latif Ghorbal the new Egyptian ambassador to the United States Dayan pledged his country would be “forthcoming” but declined to predict an Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab y ‘ i I yysx V - X 'yy f ! s -- yp'XXX XXt skf4 & X- 'll ' A- - HOLIDAY REFLECTIONS The Rockefeller Cdnter Christmas energy crisis the tree is decorated highlighted by a greatly reduced All other exterior lighting in the tree lights will burn has been cut WASHINGTON President Nixon (UPI) — tree has gone up in New York but due to the with thousands of reflective discs number of miniature bulbs outlining the tree Center has been eliminated and the time the multi-colore- d White House officials refused $570000 after donating his vice territory j fighting to to confirm the figures but did regain his credibility and show not challenge them and Nixon that “I’m not a crook” has acknowledged paying only authorized release today of a “nominal” federal taxes on his detailed report on his personal $200000 annual salary in 1969 wealth and financial transac- and 1970 tions spanning almost six years Virtually certain to get major in office attention in Nixon’s report was The report to be made public his controversial— some claim at 4 pm EST represented illegal — tax deduction of nearly three weeks of work by a task force of White House aides and lawyers intended to refute allegations Nixon had improperly used the presidency for personal profit Presidential spokesmen promised the material would be heavily documented and predicted it would make Nixon “the first President in history to show everything he has and every expenditure he has made” while in the White House ACCOUNTING Other officials said the report be accompanied by extensive corroborating material and give a full accounting of Nixon’s assets from 1S69 until this year along with “all pertinent information” relating to his tax returns sources of SPACE CENTER Houston income and purchases or sale (AP) — Mission Control is of property during the same keeping close watch on an ailperiod 3 One ing gyroscope on It already has been reported official calls the Skylab situation “a that Nixon paid less than $8000 cause for concern but not in federal income taxes over alarm” 1 the three years between One of the orbiting space lab-- ! and that his net worth al- while in office rose from just oratory’s three gyros has ceased and over $300000 to just under $1 ready Director functioning Neil Hutchinson ‘Flight million said Friday that if a second gyroscope were lost it would mean the mission would have 400 Prisoners Freed to be shortened perhaps by LOURENCO MARQUES Mo- several weeks zambique (AP) — Governor-generIN NO PERIL Pimentel dos Santo toHe said it would depend on day freed more than 400 politiPortuguewhat in this cal prisoners point in the flight that the The gyros are used failed gyro se-ruled territory i presidential papers to the government DISPUTED The timing of that contribution and arrangements for it have been disputed with Nixon ' contending the IRS found all acceptable but critics maintaining he did not personally make the gift until after Congress changed the law in July 1969 to bar such deductions to figure Also expected prominently in Nixon’s report is the allegation a secret investment portfolio valued at up to $1 million has been managed m his behalf by Florida banker CG Rebozo his close friend and neighbor in Key Biscayne Nixon has promised as well to produce documents which will lay to rest speculation his daughter Tricia Cox did not pay the full amount of taxes required on her share of profits in a Florida land investment “We feel that we want to make peace” he said “We feel that we must be forthcoming But we don’t feel we have to do anything” While on the road Kissinger will make a speech to an Anglo-Ame- friendship group in London on Dec 12 and will confer with Spanish and Portuguese officials on the way home from Geneva Presumably he will be back before Christmas but he is not saying Meanwhile an authoritative source said Kissinger would have the protection of 100 agents — 60 from the Secret Service and 40 supplied by the State Department — on his journey through Europe and the Middle East In the Middle East he will meet with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel as well as Syrian Jordanian and Lebanese rican fast-movi- ng leaders rivers Return To Road NAMES IN THE NEWS: LIZ TAYLOR TO WED FORMER CAR SALESMAN? RUMOR MILL: Friends are predicting that the sixth husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor will be a Dutch-boone-tim- e used car salesman Henry Wynberg of Los Angeles Miss Taylor and Wynberg have been constant companions since last July and he has been with her throughout her recuperation from abdominal surgery at UCLA Medical Center He is advising her on business matters and acting as her spokesman The actress’ other big romances— husbands Nickey Hilton Michael Wilding Mike Todd Eddie Fisher Richard Burton— have all been famous men Wynberg 40 was completely unknown until he began actress to Roman cafes squiring the Now he apparently is the most important man in her life There appears no chance she will be reconciled with m See Page 6A (AP)—A truck drivers’ rebellion that resulted in blockaded highways has dropped into low gear after a federal agency promised concessions WASHINGTON Truck drivers began leaving a truck stop near Lamar Pa today after seven drivers were arrested for stopping their vehicles on Interstate 80 About 1000 drivers had gathered at Column i ernes (AP) — Vice dential duties He also received President Gerald R Ford re- word that the President would jects the idea that President present “some new programs” troubles to Congress and reiteration that Nixon’s Watergate have made him a political lia- Nixon won’t resign Ford said he asked the Presibility to fellow Republicans dent about that so he would the defended Ford firmly what to say when he apknow President at a news conference 24 hours after pears Sunday on a television Friday less than he took his oath as the nation’s program “The President has no in40th vice president whatsoever of resign tention Many Republican lawmakers have privately expressed fears ing” Ford reported “I have Nixon’s low rating in public heard it before and it was reitopinion polls may rub off on erated to me this morning them However Ford said “If “I personally do not think he they had the opportunity to should resign” the vice presihave the President appear al- dent added noting also that he most without exception they sees “no evidence whatsoever” to justify a House vote in favor would be glad to have him” Earlier talking with news- of impeaching Nixon men during a picture-takin- g EXONERATED session outside the Senate He said he expects Nixon to chamber Ford said “I don’t release this month details of his think the President is a politi- finances and of his handling of cal liability to any candidate” the International Telephone & In his first full day as vice and milk fund Corp Ford spent barely Telegraph president cases over an hour presiding over the “When all of the facts are Senate said out” the vice He met for 45 minutes at the “he did assure president me he will be White House with President exonerated There Nixon where he was given a completely will be no fair charges of indescription of some vice presi- - volvement” Ford said his duties will include presiding over the NaCalls Special Session tional Security Council and the BOSTON Gov Domestic Council in Nixon’s ab(UPI) W Francis Sargent has called sence Also he will be expected for a special session of the to carry out the politick role Massachusetts Legislature next performed by past vice presiThursday to give him powers to dents and to work closely with deal with the energy crisis Congress the “Stop 64” during the pas two days awaiting the outcome of negotiations between their leaders and Washington officials “We’re going to keep on truckin’” said Thomas “Wisconsin Man” Stanley a trucker from Waterford yis He said only about 200 trucks were at the stop early today WASHINGTON - About 700 truckers threatening to block the Ohio turncalled off pike near Toledo and passersby alike watch in Rio de Janeiro as man hangs onto rope descent perilous during from crane after fire erupted in the lobby of a downtown building RESCUERS 000 TO LOSE AIRLINE JOBS Associated Press Eastern Airlines will lay off nearly 5000 of its 34000 employes by the end of the month a union spokesman says World Trans Airlines meanwhile announced plans to furlough 350 pilots next year as it curtails operations to meet a 15 per cent drop in fuel allocations A for the spokesman International Association of Machinists said the union was informed of the Eastern in cutbacks a meeting in Miami Friday low-seniori- ty Slcylab 3 Develops New Gyroscope Difficulties yNo Cause for Alarm' would j 1969-197- al for control and stability of Sky-la-b station cannot be controlled by one gyro alone Skylab 3 astronauts Gerald P Carr William R Pogue and Edward G Gibson would not be endangered by the failure of the gyroscope because there are alternate methods for conn trolling the position of the station space But Hutchinson said that these backup systems could keep the vehicle aloft for only a maximum of about three weeks He said even then experiments that require maneuvering the spacecraft would have to be curtailed He was hopeful the trouble- h The 85-to- some second gyro would continue to function and that the flight would continue for its planned 84 days The astronauts are in their 22nd day in space The first gyro to fail was lost Nov 23 when a bearing gave out for an unexplained reason Hutchinson said in recent days gyro number two has shown some of the same symptoms exhibited by gyro number These one before it failed Mison showed symptoms up sion Control display panels about one month before the bearing failure — during the time the station was unmanned between the Skylab 2 and 3 missions their protest today and also began dispersing The trucker gatherings in Lamar and Toledo appeared to be the last trouble spots in the nation to defuse Meanwhile Teamsters union President Frank Fitzsimmons arranged to meet today with President Nixon to discuss the truckers’ grievances about fuel limitations price gouging on fuel by some retailers and low! ered speed limits Fitzsimmons who has ' not supported the truckers’ sporadic blockades of major highways met for more than an hour Friday night with William E Simon head of the new Federal Energy Administration -- concession A delegation of four truckers who have negotiated in Washington with various government agencies went back behind the wheel after receiving a key concession from the Interstate Commerce Commission The ICC agreed to revise its procedures to permit truck op- See page 6A column 5 Paving Way For Appointment Of Saxbe Passes - WASHINGTON (AP) Legislation to pave the way for Sen William B Saxbe’s nomination as attorney general has gone to President Nixon The bill which won final approval in the House Friday lowers the attorney general’s 9 level of salary to its $35000 for the duration of Saxbe’s term This was needed to get around a constitutional provipre-196- sion that no member of Con- gress can be appointed to a federal post for which the salary has been increased during his term In 1969 with Saxbe in the Senate the pay of all Cabinet members was boosted to $60000 NEWSMAP illustrates three important sections of space station now encounter- ing new but not alarming qyroscope problems V The White House had been withholding formal nomination of the Ohio Republican until the constitutional problem was resolved - V |