Show TEMPERATURES FORECAST §tattSarft-feattttoe- ir 20s UTAH VOL LXXXVII PRESS INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY EVENING OGDEN UTAH No 50 UNITED PRESS — Highs Wednesday mostly 3545 Lows tonight gen- erally ASSOCIATED i OGDEN — High Wednesday near 40 Low tonight in middle 15-2- 5 UPI TELEPHOTO 10c DAILY FEBRUARY 19 1974 25c SUNDAY Inlearsts Awaiting 'f-- Kidnapers' Reply On Gift of the William Foundation FRANCISCO (AP) — Randolph A Hearst is awaiting reaction from his daughter’s kidnapers on his plan to deliver $2 million for food for California’s needy as a first step toward gaining Patricia Hearst’s SAN pt Hearst Monday See page 2A column GESTURE asked me for GOODWILL a “They’ve goodwill gesture I consider this a goodwill gesture particularly since there’s no guarantee that my daughter will be released “I think it is up to them now to believe me and to make a good faith gesture of their 6 fly HARRISBURG Pa (AP) — Thomas Gatch Jr’s bid to make the first balloon flight across the Atlantic has suffered a slight setback but he is still cruising along at 35500 feet above the sea After crossing the coastline north of Atlantic City NJ Monday night Gatch reported by radio that one of his 10 superpressure balloons had ruptured and was draped over a porthole on his pressurized gondola Light Heart Gatch said he heard a loud noise when the balloon apparently burst just over an hour after take-of- f The bachelor from Alexandria Va lifted off from Harrisburg International BEFORE DEADLINE Hearst announced his plan one day before a deadline set by the SLA He emphasized it was only a first step “There is no guarantee Patricia is going to get home on this” he said His daughter was pulled screaming from her Berkeley apartment 15 days ago by two black men who fired shots at witnesses Hearst also said he had asked San Francisco attorney William Coblentz a family friend to see that two SLA members charged with the murder of Oakland Schools Supt Marcus Foster last Nov 6 get a fair BOTH BELIEVE The Saudian foreign minister however say that “we both believe something will happen and soon for the benefit of the United States” and the world Nixon said he had asked Kissinger upon his return this weekend from a meeting in Mexico “to go to the Middle East again” to meet with the did Syrians and Israelis “with the objective of getting talks start- FORMER US Attorney General John Mitchell right arrives New York for the start of his trial on obstruction of justice Stans-Mitche- a Federal Court in Trial Gets ll f StartedA her Plea NEW YORK (AP) — Former 'first secretary of commerce 'his attorney general Harry Nixon was assigning a! with are escaped Daugherty accepting and charged Kissinger to another round of Atty Gen John N Mitchell eontri-jmen- ! $200000 shuttle diplomacy such as he Mau Secretary Mitchell was in charge of bution to Nixon’s 1972 successfully employed in ar- rice H Stans made a final tion campaign from fugitive Nixon's campaign beranging disengagement de- financier Robert Vesco 37 or to abort vain effort his chief fund was and Stans today tions refused to discuss his tween Egypt and Israel trial criminal 8 1972 federal when In return the government raiser on March In his Rose Garden com- lay their loss saying “We’re not going last the in first exert the the that indictment “to claimed charges pledged they to talk about the anatomy of it ments some of which were of the Pres- their influence” in sidetracking Vesco offered a $500000 contrimembers involving until we’ve had a chance to barely audible to newsmen kept ident’s Cabinet a Securities and Exchange bution in return for intercession behind a rope barrier Nixon Diu-gui-d sleep on it” John Stans’ attorney Commission probe of Vesco’s with the SEC Ford seemed stunned by the spoke of the importance of a to multimillion his renewed dollar corporate The government charged that request permanent settlement in the dismiss the outcome of con- empire charges eventually a sum of $200000 You can’t mean that” the Middle East But he said the of was agreed upon and that this obstruction and jusspiracy WENT TO PRISON vice president told an aide “immediate problem” is dis- tice to two of them amount was the turned against engagement of forces along the move the trial out of New York Not since the Teapot Dome over to Stans insecretly when he learned of on Washington But loss Ford Golan Heights scandal of 1923 have two cabi- 10 1972 A new law reor to delay it indefinitely April City members been indicted on skirted any mention of WaterLAUDED BY ARABS of He contended that pretrial quiring public disclosure relative to their official campaign contributions gate in assessing the election charges He then invited the foreign publicity had made a fair trial had or political duties In that case taken effect three results ministers to make comments impossible days earlier of it’s a reflection “I’m sure massive Republican President Warren The indictment claims that Both of the Arab envoys lauded “The prejudicial G Harding’s interior secretary the uncertain economic condi- the decision to send Kissinger publicity in this case has con- Albert tions in Michigan particularly to See page 2A column 7 Fall went to prison but to the present the new negotiations tinued spur up right and in the country generally” The four men then stepped time” Diuguid told US DisFord said in a telephone inter- back toward Nixon’s Oval Of- trict Court Judge Lee P Gag-liarTenn fice with the President view from Chattanooga ignor“I’m confident that as the econing a shouted question about CITES INTERRUPTION omy improves there will be the oil embargo greater support for the RepubliDiuguid cited the Senate Wcan candidates” See page 2A column 1 atergate committee’s interruptions of its hearings in because of the Washington pending trial of Mitchell and Thus Loser Into Winner Big Upset Mich (AP) cial election to fill Ford’s unex-- 1 — Using Watergate as his war pired term was a “referendum Van- on President Nixon” cry a Democrat who had been derVeen polled 53008 votes to GRAND RAPIDS a consistent political loser has 46159 for favored Republican captured Vice President Gerald Robert VanderLaan Two minoR Ford’s former House seat r-party candidates mustered defeating a Republican who only 4998 votes between them had never lost an election ASKS RESIGNATION “We are sending a message As he did throughout his to Washington tonight” Richard F VanderVeen told a campaign VanderVeen a corporation lawyer cheering crowd celebrating his called Monday night for again breakin victory Monday night Nixon’s President resignation Republican lock ing a bewe “so put may Watergate 5th on Michigan’s Congressionnot hind before us us” al District seat ChairMichigan Republican the that the theme spe Using man William McLaughlin said “Watergate killed us I don’t know of anything else That’s the issue that VanderVeen made We got our Rpublicans ’A iA Aa out and that’s a Republican A district Without a doubt there is a message People don’t like what’s going on in Washing 64-ye- ar 'i S' ton” Van-derLaan- UNDERDOG Richard VanderVeen who ended 62 years of GOP rule in the 5th District gets big hug from his wife at a victory party in Grand Rapids Mich A judge today ordered White House lawyers and the federal special Watergate prosecutor staff to halt further public comment about investigations into the condition of the subpoenaed presidential tapes US District Court Judge John J Sirica summoned the attorneys to a closed-doo- r in the wake of a flurry of reports about the preliminary findings of the panel of experts examining the subpoenaed Watergate tapes least remain confidential” Upon reaching his office this morning the judge immediately called Jaworski and James D St Clair President Nixon’s Watergate lawyer to a conference in chambers sources Oyer the weekend six of one the reported that d technical exHAVE AGREED had told the White House The judge also said partici-meetin- g perts and prosecutor’s office early in pants in the meeting “have January of suspicions that two agreed to take several pre- of the recordings were not origcautionary measures to prevent inals the disclosure of matters which See page 2A column 2 ought for the time being at After the meeting which lasted more than one hour Sirica issued a statement saying “All participants in the meeting have agreed that continued public comment on the grand jury’s work by those who have any association with the investigation is inappropriate” court-appointe- le re-elec- -1 ’s Gas Rationing Plan NAMES IN THE NEWS STAYING ON: Ballet dancer Valery Panov has Republicans Asked if he favors Nixon’s been warned to leave the Soviet Union immediately or resignation or impeachment face “tough administrative McLaughlin said “I’m giving a measures” Mrs Galina lot of thought to what we’ve got Panov said to do It’s obvious something But star the former has to be done on the national with dancer level but I don’t know what” Leningrad’s Kirov Ballet has IN TROUBLE to his refusal repeated Michigan Democratic Chair- abandon her Panov’s wife man Morley Winograd com- added Monday mented “If I were Nixon I’d “They are trying to split us say I was in trouble Nixon was up” she said by telephone part of this campaign so this is from Leningrad “But we love very significant in terms of each other” what might happen to him” The Soviet officials did not VanderLaan 43 who had never lost in 15 previous elec-- spell out what kind of measures they had in mind she said Panov a Jew was fired Cut Out Talk About Tapes Probe Federal Judge Tells Both Sides ce di character DEMOCRATIC punish-ex-Commer- under-the-tab- half-centu- ry He said the election foreshadows “a tough year” for — plomacy by Kissinger agreed upon at a White House meeting between Nixon Kissin ger and foreign ministers Is mail Fahmy of Egypt and Omar Sakkaf of Saudi Arabia Separation of Israeli and Syrian forces along the Golan Heights is believed to be the major obstacle to the lifting of the Arab oil embargo on the United States But no direct mention of the oil embargo was made by Nixon Kissinger or the foreign ministers as they stood in the rain in the White House Rose Garden to report on their meeting Airport at 7:29 pm EDT Monday on a flight he hopes will take him to southern France or northern Spain in approximately 52 hours At 10 pm EDT Aeronautical Instrument & Radio Co in New York reported Gatch at about 200 miles southeast of New York City Aides said the timetable would change because the ruptured balloon would force Gatch to fly lower than the 39000 feet originally planned They said the craft could lose two more balloons without placing the flier in danger The radio monitoring station in New York reported the Light Heart was traveling about 140 miles per hour in an eastbound jet stream when it crossed the coastline X (AP) di- was ed” Hearst said the $500000 he is donating himself represents ‘‘a substantial part of my personal assets” He said the remaining $15 million would come from WASHINGTON The new round of shuttle Cry of Watergate Turns Demo trial -- to begin disengagement talks with Syria and Israel BALLOONIST THOMAS GATCH 48 Alexandria Va enters the gondola of the balloon “Light Heart” prior to lifting off from Harrisburg Pa airport His goal is to cross the Atlantic own” supermarkets I WASHINGTON (AP) — President Nixon announced today he is dispatching Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger to the Middle East Balloonist Over Ocean The Symbionese Liberation Army which claims to be holdUniversity ing the of California student demanded that Hearst give $70 of free food to each of the state’s poor aged paroled and disabled as a condition for negotiations for her release State officials estimated the cost at some $400 million - Decision BOUND FOR EUROPE Details on how the money would be spent and the food distributed remaind to be worked out he said Food industry officials said $2 million would provide enough food to Jl Praise isS be fine” had said over the there would be legal problems to iron out citing as Examiner and chairman of the an example that persons acHearst Corp told newsmen cepting food may be violating A uV ‘H? Arabians TP SLA handle the money — including $500000 in personal assets — he said would be available today “The money will be availthing will able but we have to find a Hearst proper conduit” the president weekend and editor of the San Francisco 34 4" told Hearst in a taped message received Saturday it would “accept a sincere effort on your part” On the same tape Miss Hearst urged her father to devise a program “as fast as you can and everyThe charitable organization” approved by the California attorney general to stock - MESSAGE TAPED He also is searching for a &- a? f “This is an honest effort on my part to do what I can and that’s all I can do I think they’ll believe that” Hearst said freedom “tax-exem- Randolph 1 INDEX (3 SECTIONS 44 (Includes Sears special PAGES) section) from the Kirov troupe nearly two years ago when he informed the directors he wanted to emigrate VISITOR: Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty plans to visit the United States later this year The cardinal was relieved 2 weeks ago by Pope Paul VI as archbishop of Estergom and primate of Hungary The cardinal’s visit was planned “a long time ago” and prior to the Pope’s an aide to the decision cardinal said Monday Stans and special prosecutor comments Jaworski’s Leon vouching for the reliability of John W Dean III who was scheduled to be a key witness in the present trial As he had before Gagliardi advised the defense that the only way to determine whether a fair jury could be selected was to begin the process of examining prospects He then called a brief Recess while the first of 800 prospective jurors on hand were called Spreads to Virginia Associated Press Virginia will become the 11th state to adopt a gasoline distribution system the nation’s fourth mandatory plan when its odd-eve- n Oregon-styl- e plan goes into effect at midnight Wednesday Meanwhile Vermont has decided to suspend plans for a voluntary odd-eve- n system that j would have started Wednesday Maryland and one county in courtroom to his ninth-floo- r Araomcemerrt of the Virginia Hawaii in making its lan Mitchell 60 attorney general plan was made Monday by' the plan motor- Under datory during President Nixon’s first Gpv Mills E Godwin with license plates ending term and Stans 65 Nixon’s1 State police in the East in even numbers buy on even-- I numbered days odd numbers buy on odd days Six other states and Washing- ton DC also have the Oregon-styl- e plan in effect New Hamp-- i shire starts one today on a two-- ! week experimental basis Godwin declined to call the BAKERSFIELD Calif Jess (AP) deDouglas said Virginia plan rationing The “fantasy” price doubled again and Douglas says he has long struggled to disit as “a gasoline succeed with his nine marginal oil wells like then some reaching $3 a barrel early this scribing He issued the tribution plan “a farmer making a living on 40 acres” year as the government lifted price controls order after meeting with repreon stripper wells and new oil production But like a small farmer who finds his crop sentatives of the oil industry Stripper wells such as Douglas owns and state energy adminissuddenly in short supply Douglas now is produce less than 10 barrels a day With reaping big profits from soaring crude oil trators 350000 of them nationwide they provide 13 prices spurred by the energy crisis The Virginia governor said he Six months domestic was “loathe” ago Douglas’ per cent of the country’s monthly to issue the execthe National Stripper Well production (X 500 to 600 barrels from his production But he said he saw utive order nine “stripper” wells brought $210 a barrel Association estimates it as current the means of only 38 cents less than the price 16 years earlier In California’s San Joaquin Valley where with fuel a coping shortage that Douglas says he had to work o Douglas pumps his oil 63 per cent of the seen has motorists and costs own his trim 24000 Division particularly state wells the are inventing by days strippers in the populous Tidewater and tools to earn a decent living for his family of of Oil and Gas says Northern Virginia areas waitfour Douglas realizes the high prices may not last But even if prices slip to $5 a barrel he ing for hours in order to get By December Standard Oil of California was paying $376 a barrel “Three years ago plans to resume drilling for new wells His gasoline at the few remaining would last was drilled in 1968 a have been $3 open stations fantasy thought” re-Js- ts GETTING SOME GRAVY : Oil Wells Finally Worth It - 12-t- 16-ho- ur t? |