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Show Home Delivery, (fall Salt f akf "21.2810 Advu Using departments Classified ads General display, Retail display J I 521-353- 524-270- 524-2S6- Vol. 198, No. l! Ill Silt Lake (it), I tali Adds to Area Woes u 1 In PlUr. A ash 1mt Another snowstorm whipped into the Intermountain Region Saturday morning, again tying up traffic with many accidents and adding to heavy snow cover. Before the Intermountain hitting Area, it added misery to the already ealened Northwest snow, iee and flood-tiand Montana. And eastward through the noi them Midwest, below zeio temperatures weie common. Most of the rest of the nation did not escape the cold, soggy weather Saturday. Rain or snow w as reported in 42 of the 48 contiguous states. Saturdays Intermountain stoim li.t valleys along the Wasatch Front in the north just after 8 a.m. The main front blew into Salt Lake Valley just before 9:30 a.m. Road for about an hour. And 43th South east of 23rd East soon became a sheet of ice. Salt Lake County sheriffs office reported numerous accidents in the area, including seven separate w'recks at the same time. At times, the number of accidents delayed officers answ ering calls for up to an hour. n Several nights Diverted spokesman at the Salt Lake International Airport tower said that during storms peak early in the day, a "few" commercial flights were diverted to See Page 2, Column 1 A Do Ohay in Dri vers Seal indicates DENVER, COLO. (AP) A nationwide study the older driver may not be neaily so much a highway hazard as sometimes imagined, a Denver judge reported Sdtut day. A comprehensive study of accidents involving over-0drivers "will be pivotal in lefuttng current older about thinking popular drivers," said District Cuuit Judge Sherman G. Finesilver, who compiled the statistics. He said a study of all the ti attic accidents in one year in 3U states of Columbia and the District those showed the senior drivers 65 and over averaged 37 percent fewer accidents than their piopor-tio- n of the driving population. Lehman Prite 2. 19(i9 Bv Eileen Shanahan - A tax reform plan WASHINGTON hv the Teastiry Department pepaied during the Johnson administration public Saturday. Aimed mainly at making the imhvidu al income tax fairer, the plan would require all the rich to pay at least s une tax but would requite no one to pay more than half his total annual income in income taxes. It would remove. entirely fiom the taxpayer rolls about 1.23 million individuals and families the government defines as poor a maximum annual income of e ted-er- jsasn 'Ss A pileup on U.S. Highway at IKK) tor a leaving one family ot four million of the poor with some taxes to pas. it would change very little the amount ef taxes paid by most of the middle class persons earning Sj.tHKi to $.0,1.11)0 a hut it would simplify taxpaying year tor 18 million people, mostly in the middle-incomhraiket, by piovulmg a huger standard deduction that would he than moie itemizing advantageous deductions. not endoised by The relovm plan either the Johnson or the Nixon adminisnevertheless is expected to trations have considerable intluence on Congress. Wilbur D. Mills, chairman in' the e By Robot t B. Semple Jr. New York Times Writer President Nixon WASHINGTON summoned his key loreigit policy advisers to the White House Saturday to examine the crisis ill the Middle Fast. Against a backdrop of mounting Arabist ali tensions, aggravated by the exe-- Almost immediately law enforcement officers all along Wasatch Front valleys reported many traffic accidents. In Salt Lake County alone, during the first four hours of the storm, more than 80 separate collisions were reported. Kelateil Storv, l'ajie A-- 8 f cut ion in Iraq last week of 14 alleged spies for 1st gel, the President and the National Security Council met for more than three hours in the Cabinet Room. They examined the options available to them and considered the possibility of a quick acceleration of American diplomatic efforts to achieve a Middle East settle- involved a truck, two pickup trucks and two cars. It clogged north and southbound lanes, forcing diversion of traffic to Redwood - Si'oit., 52 (ruts semi-trail- Panel Requests U.S. to kevise ment. 0t By Warren Unna -- 3 Washington Post Writer A panel containing WASHINGTON key advisers to both Presidents Kennedy and Nixon said Saturday that the time has come for the United States to adopt rew policies toward Europe. It urged President Nixon to piopose a summit meeting of NATO heads of government of the Soviet Union, Britain and anniversary meeting here in April. The panel also proposed a Big Four summit meeting with the heads of of the Soviet Union, Britain and France in order to establish an East-WeEuropean Security Commission" to settle the long unsettled problems of post World War H Europe. Q CO Associated Illm of oil washes ashore on the California coast between Ventura and Santa Barbara from a leaking "i Press Wlrephofo undersea well. Main body of oil remains near drilling rig, but winds in area may move it toward beaches. White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler refused to disclose details of the meeting, except to say that it focused exclusively on the Middle East. He said later that the council would meet again on the same subject next week. This was regarded by observers as fresh evidence of Nixon's deep preoccupation with a situation he has described repeatedly as "explosive. Despite the ofticial silence, however, ii seemed clear that Nixon was under mounting pressure to seek new diplomatic initiatives initiatives that might well involve negotiations with the Soviet Union. At his first news conference last Monday, the President suggested that the Middle East crisis might tie wrapped . ito broad negotiations coveting arms reduction and Vietnam as well. U.S.-Sovi- nt st Soreason on Panel Members of the National Policy Panel the United Nations Assn, of the United Slates include Theodore C. Sorensen, Pi evident Kennedys special counsel, who served as panel chairman; and Henry A. Kissinger, President Nixons assistant for national security affaire, who took part in all but the final month of the panels study and elected to leave his name on the report even though he now has joined the Nixon Administration. In a burst of bipartisan harmony, Sorensen, at a press conference announcing the panel report, suggested that there now be a Nixon round" of trade negotrade bartiations to eliminate riers, jurt ns there had been an earlier Kennedy rourd" to lower the tariff barof non-tari- riers. Tempo Increases Vast Oil Slick Floats Unchecked GIs Repel Attack As Crews On U.S. Base North of Saigon SAK4N (AP) U.S. air cavalrymen r beat olf a attack hy 503 North Vietnamese before dawn Saturday at an American aitillery base northwest of Saigon. a sector of Tiring enemy activity. The North Vietnamese struck at the five-hou- base, 43 miles northwest of Saigon, behind an intensive mortar barrage, and twice were thrown back. Helicopter gunsliips, and artillery helped repulse the enemy raid one chopper was shot down, the 1.008th lost in the war. Its crew was rescued. fighter-homhei- s four-ma- Urges Security Com mission The panel, in recommending the creation of a Euiopean security commission composed of West and East Germany. Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. as well as the Soviet Union, France. Biitain and the United States, cont the seeks to meet head-ofrontation which has besieged Euiope for almost a quarter ol a ceutuiy. East-Wes- Catch 30 Attackers At one point, artillery fued into a group of 30 attackers caught in the ghni-in- g light of airplane Hares. A sweep of the battlefield, however, turned up only three enemy dead. The men of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division lost two killed and 31 wounded. The North Vietnamese attack was the second of any size this week, following months of relative inactivity in this region. Earlier in the week, 400 North Vietnamese attacked a South Vietnamese camp north of Saigon. Scattered lighting In scattered fighting elsewhere across Vietnam. Allied troops, bombers and uiiiiierv killed 321 enemy soldiers Saturday and early Sunday, the U.S. Command lepoited In a batile on'y 13 miles Item Saigon, four companies of American infant!) men and supporting helicopter gunsliips killed 28 enemy Saturday night. Spokesmen said tlit'ie were no Ameiican casualties. In another engagement, marines of South Koreas Blue Dragon Bngade killed 23 enemy soldieis near Hoi An, about 330 miles northeast of Saigon. gun-.sui- js AND MOKE . . 'nil section of Color (omits; I lump and Paiatlc M.igizinrs; Famous Drand Film Uffei ; Tab Prize (.lifer. . Su mho's Forecast 3. ill Lake City and Ltali Partly eluinly, snow flurries and cola. Weather nu i) is oil Page 1 5; agaz.itie, .M 52 Ways ami Means Committee, has announced his intention to hold extensive heatings this year on various tax reform ideas, and his list of suhjet ts was very simil.u to the topics covered in the Tteasmy Department's package; The Tieasurvs proposals were tians-mitie-d to Mills' committee by the Treas-ii- i v Department this past week and made available lor publication under an agreement by Mills, Joseph W. Barr, former imderseci clary of the treasury, and u.ivitl M. Kennedy, the new secretary. 1iesnlciit Johnson never explained his IKusistent relusal to make the reform package public. He said lie had not stud-.Se- e Page 2, ( oluinn I House talk about negotiations Increasing with the Soviet Union has also led to specin ulation, diplomatic particularly circles, that Nixon might now be edging toward acceptance of a French proposal for Middle East discussions involving United Nations representhe United tatives of the Big Four States, the Soviet Union, France and Britain. France first made the proposal on Jan. 16, and there were some indications See Page 7, Column 6 g Congress Grabs Initiative on No Details Europe Policy B-- 524-131- rromolion, 521-151- On Middle East, U.S. Mav Make Peace Moves - them. Point-o- ive 521-152- President, Council Confer Hope for moderation of Intermountain Area weather began to show Saturday afternoon. Snow decreased to scattered showers. The forecast for Sunday calls for decreasing clouds, a few scattered snow showers in or near mountains but continued cold temperatures. Ahead of Saturdays storm, strong, gusty, southerly winds were measured through the area and after passage of the front they changed to northerly, just as strong, and drove heavy snows before 91 Tvvcntv-- I Scores, 521-150- Women.:. News mid Editorial, $.1 New Yotk Times Writer 3 Hope for Moderation i iimiv Infc mi itMii, 521-15.1- Reform Income Tax, Treasury Plan Urges Th use Oldsters Snow Socks West By Stan Bowman Tribune Staff Writer Mimlaj Morning Tribune lbones f Labor to Pluir Leak SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. (AP) Dead sea birds were washed up on blackened beaches Saturday as a vast oil slick continued to float unchecked in the Pacific Ocean. Oil crews tried in vain to seal t an offshore leak from which 21,000 gallons of oil a day were bubbling to the surface, feeding a mile oil slick. Stemming the flow could take only a few hours or soven.l weeks, officials said. Conservationsists said the oil posed a sea mammals. The peril of State Fish and Game Department expressed concern for the gray whales that normally migrate at this time of year area. tnrougli the Include Treaty In addition, there is now talk on Capitol Hill suggesting that Nixon might also include the nonproliferation treaty aimed at halting the spread of nuclear weapons as part of the negotiating package. There has been no visible pressure from the White House on Congress to press for ratification of the treaty, leading to speculation that the President is planning to use the pact as a bargaining counter in negotiations involving other matters of concern to both countries, inducing the Middle East. well-shaf- Black oil lapped at the slioie along a stretch of Rincon Oil island, about 12 miles south of luue. Several liundietl dead giebes. small diving birds, were found in the surf, appaiemly killed by the oil they tried to clean Horn their befouled feathers, conservationists said. A leading conservationist gioup. the Sierra Club, said it wired Secretary cf Interior Walter llickel asking him to shut down oil operations in the Santa Barbara Channel. The club director Fiederick Eissler, called the oil slick "one of the woist oil calamites ever to hit the West Coast, and said controls on oil companies are inadequate on the federally owned continental shelf. (ive-niil- e recommendations. In the voter - conscious areas of tax revision, civil rights and aid to education, Congress has taken the lead in a contest for political gain with the new Republican administration. The fast congressional start cn such legislation is designed also to build support for continuing Johnson administration programs in hopes of making it more difficult for Mr. Nixon to change of scrap them. The initiative in helping the 91st Congress start building its legislative record has been taken by three House committee chairman, Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, of the Ways and Means CommitJuditee; Rep. Emanuel Celler, ciary Committee, and Rep. Carl D. Perkins, Education and Labor. v Mills Plans Hearings Mills announced last week after the first meeting of his committee that hearings on simplifying the tax code and eliminating some of the provisos that reduce the tax payments of wealthier indivudualc would begin Feb. 18. Mould Extend Rights Celler moved even faster. Oil Jan. 23 he introduced a bill tailing for a five-yeextension of the Voting Rights Act which has heloed met ease Negro voter registration in the South. The act expires ar in 1970. And Perkin:: alteuuy has held three da.vs of healings on his loll for a five-yea- r extension of the Elementary and Second- ary School Act. v. Iiith President Johnson regarded as one ot his pioudest legisla- to Seal Shaft Union Oil Co. crews were trying to force drilling fluid called "mud" into the ruptured well shaft to seal it. A drilling vessel arrived at the site Sa'ur-da- y to drill a relief hole that should intersect the 3 main hole near the lottoin, providing another means of sealing the well. Ato being itM w ei e a b at equipped with tanks and a section device to stick up oil. and log booms and a mile mg plastic siieet to block the oils path to several harbors. The thick jHtilion of the slick was in a atea south ol the drilling rig. which is six miles off .Santa Baibara, Coast Guaid ofticials said. - WASHINGTON (AP) The Democratic - controlled Congress is pushing ahead with key legislation of its own without waiting for President ' Nixons And Mills made it a point to tell newsmen lie does not even plan to call the new officials of the Treasury Department to testify lit the early sessions. They haven't had time to acquire the necessary background, lie said. Making the congressional stamp on the Ways and Means action even clearer, the committee drew up its list of tax provisions without first getting the studies made by the Tresury Department under the Johnson Administi ation. Birds Perish in Surf Trying Key Legislation tive achievements. One major atea in nn.ii congressional Republicans have staked out a leading position is crime contiul. Rep. Richard head of a House Republi'I. Iolf. can Task Forte on Crime, lias introduced .s a senes of lulls that cany out tie t c k totce made to Mr. Nixon last Deteni'iei. still must be But the GOP piopo-al- s tillered thiotigh a legislative process run hy the Dei. uniat' a. id tiie Poff package is unlikelv o enough intact. recom-mcmlation- , . 4k rfci'A V1 A rJ "Hid il Aisoc aird Pres W rephoto ft re be is a victim of the massive underseas oil leak that Is d routing 2011 square miles of Pacific. Dead sea birds dot nearby coast. Today's Chuckle Sir i ess is tela live. 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