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Show Home Delivery. Calf 521-281- TriRune Phones 0 Information, 52 Advertising departments Classified ads, General display, Retail display, Salt Lake City , Vol. 1J8, No. 14 I tali Wednesday .Morning By Paul Recer Associated Press Writer trast to the hectic schedule the crew worked under launch day, Monday. The astronauts found time to trade banter wim the ground controllers and to puzzle over the strange voice that invaded their bedroom. During a stateside pass, McDivitt sent thanks for a show of support from the Nassau Bay community where all three live. SPACE HOUSTON' -CENTER, Working at a leisurely pace and joking with the ground, the Apollo 9 astronauts oeketed to 313 miles above the earth Tuesday. Then they rested for manning Wednesday of the moonship and the first of two television shows on the flight. Air Force Cols. James A. McDivitt and David R. Scott and Russell L. Schweickart, a civilian, three times fired the povverful rocket at the back of the command ship entering into a e orbit. The crew then started a rest period of almost 10 hours. Mission planners gave the crew a long sleep Tuesday night because of the workload facing them Wednesday. Smokev bids you a fond night's sleep, said a ground controller on the high-flyin- g . Not tli Rookie! e Hey," said McDivitt, 'when we flew across Texas a minute ago, I looked down and 1 thought I saw a whole hunch of flags flying in Nassau Bay. And if 1 did. would you thank all those people down there for us?" McDivitt, of course, was joking about seeing the flags, hut his friends and neighbors in Nassau Bay are decorating See Page 6, Column 1 SPACE CENTER. HOUSTON (API Space rookie Russell L. Schweickart continued to maintain his cool aboard Apollo 9 Tuesday. His heart registered a steady 70 heats a minute while his space partners hearts raced above 100 during Hie third hunt" of the ship's main engine. The blast lasted neatly live minutes, longest of the day and most demanding on the spacecraft itself. Command pilot James A. McDivitt's heartbeat zoomed to 115 and command module pilot David R. Scott's went to By Walter R. Meats Associated Press Writer Boosts Support 816 Vlillion President Nixon Tuesday night that the United will not tolerate continuation of WASHINGTON Utah Senate Okays School Bill 125-mil- States the new Communist Vietnam. By Douglas L. Parker offensive in South resumption of U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, but would not indicate whether lie might take that step. He would not say what action might he ordered, maintaining that deeds would prove more effective than threatening words. He warned there will be an appropriate U.S. response if assaults on South Vietnamese cities continue. Nixon said he lias considered a Tribune Political Editor school finance program for the next fiscal year was sent to the House of Representatives and a state division for investing idle public funds received tentative approval by the Utah Senate Tuesday. The school program, which calls for an estimated $16 million increase in state and local support, was passed in the Senate on a 23 to 4 vote with an amendment attached seeking to prevent proliferation of computer use in public schools. The idle funds bill, which would create a Division of Investments within the state treasurer's office, was approved upon first consideration by a 27 to 1 vote. The vote advanced the bill to a final consideration in the Senate before tiie bill can be sent to the House for its approval. A Apollo 9 on TV Telecast of the Apollo 9 flight will be by KCPX, Channel 4, Wednes9:30 to 10 a.m. Kl'TV, Channel 2, and KSL, Channel 5, will interrupt regular programs for periodic news bul- presented day from letins. night shift as the crew bedded down at 5 p.m. When one astronaut started up some more chatter, the controller joked, We muse to talk to you. It's a rest period. Landing Craft Test The spidery craft will be powered up for the first time Wednesday. Its large rocket engine will be fired in a test critical to success of the mission and of the lunar landing planned for midg The Senate also advanced to a final reading bills that would eliminate the Coordinating Council of the Department of Development Services, establish a Division of Systems Planning and Computing to manage computer usage, and authorize higher education extension centers for Moab and Roosevelt. A modified bill increasing the cigarette tax by two cents a package received unanimous consent for introduction into the Senate by Sen. Warren E. Lake City, and Sen. Car1 L. Pugh, The measure is esPettersson, timated to raise about $2!4 million. Sen. Pugh, the majority leader, asked that the bill be tabled temporarily beas to the cause of the uncertaintly need for additional revenue measures. A cigarette tax bill calling for a four-cehike was killed last week in the House. television show at 7:27 MST, also is planned. McDivitt and Schweickart will crawl into the moonship through a tunnel locking the spacecrafts together. It will be the first time American spacemen will have moved from one spacecraft to another in space. The three firings of the rocket engine were tests of the handling characteristics of the command ship and lunar craft while they are locked together. It also cut the weight of the command module so that it can be more easily maneuvered. The crew was ahead of its flight plan schedule at one point and Schweickart asked for new data on landing sites that will be used in the event of an emergen- Increase Seen 12 The school finance program contained in SB3 calls for about a 12 percent increase in state and local support, sponsors of the bill said. Gov. Calvin L. Rampton had recommended an increase of approximately 14 percent in his budget message. On final passage the till was amended cy. came the Sorry about that, Rusty, reply. "We dont have that yet . . . the weather has turned pretty bad in some of the areas and we had to shift areas. Roger, said Schweickart. In fact, the ground added, "it looks like ve are going to have to keep you to provide that implementation of a data flying or either land you here off Red processing program among schools must first receive the approval of the State Fish Isle in Galveston Bay. "Uh . . . why dont we just stay up Board of Education and the proposed Difor a few days? came a voice from vision of Systems Planning and Computing. space. OK, that sounds like a good deal. Legislators have estimated that virtusales tax increase The food and bubbly are holding out ally half of a House will have to be the 11 "passed as astronaut an by joked. right, See Page 5, Column 1 The work pace Tuesday was a con- one-ce- E. Germans Block Berlin Traffic For 2 Horns in War of Nerves German border guards early Wednesday scaled off the easthounil lane of the HelmsteiUrBerlin Autobahn for the fourth time since last weekend. By Otto Doelling Associated Press Writer Communist East GerBERLIN many blockaded all traffic on the main autobahn to the west for two hours late Tuesday in its war of nerves against the ?. Imminent election of a West German Associated Press Wlrtotos president in West Berlin. Mr. Sehroeder East German soluiets Hclmeted Mr. Heinemann stalled cars and trucks, including some Defense Minister British army vehicles, at 4 p.m. Tuesday of $30,000 a year, are Gerhard Sehroeder and Justice Minister enBerlin the West at harriers by raising Gustav Heinemann. trance to the superhighway and at Helm-stedThe blockade, most serious in a the West German border crossing of harassments engineered 1 10 miles sequence 6 away. Promptly at p.m. point of the barriers came down and traffic was lately hv the East German regime Communist chief Walter Ulhricht, was allowed to move again. to Warsaw Pact Within the Communist-wallecity, attributed like the others in the intervening leftist students joined the Red campaign. military maneuvers Demonstrating about 500 strong on the Communist territory. A U.S. spokesman said: We are takKurfuerstendamm, they halted traffic authorand shouted Sirg heil! Sieg Heil! at ing up the matter with the proper The Russians. meant the ities. That West Berlin's police. hold the Soviet Union, The chants were directed mainly Western Big Th-not the East Germans, responsible for agamst 22 members of West Germanys Berlin's access routes, surface and air. National Democratic Party right-winFederal assembly members were not who are delegates to the federal assemdirectly affected. Barred by East Gerbly. man edict a month ago from coming in The Bonn Republic's Federal Assemby land, they flew In aboard allied planes electoral college bly, a made up of federal legislators and state that regularly fly the three air corridors representatives, is to choose a successor linking tiiis city with the West by Big Four agreement. here Wednesday to President Heinrich Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger Luebke, who is retiring. e Rivals for the presidency, a largely made the flight from Bonn in a See Page 2, Column 1 ceremonial job that pays the equivalent Mtir: t, d blue-coate- d ee i 300-mil- t aj prece- Mr. Nixon peacemaking ges- tures, in the Middle East and possibly even In the Vietnam conflict. At a White House news conference Nixons lasting just short of an hour chosen format for a report on the European mission he concluded Sunday night talk of that continent was shadowed by the account of the situation in Southeast Asia. Nixon said Communist attacks on cities and bases in South Vietnam are a viola lion of the understandings which Jed to the current peace negotiations in Paris. He reported that his journey to Europe has created a new relationship of trust and confidence with allied governbut his account of the situat'on ments on that continent soon gave way ta a statement of intent in the Vietnam conflict. ..The President gave no indication of the response be might order it Communist assaults on South Vietnamese cities and bases are maintained or accelerated. Considers Bomb Renewal Associated U.S. soldier keeps automatic rifle ready as he examvehi- ines wreckage of two armored Russian-mad- e Allies Hike Effort S. Viet Press cles which were destroyed when they attacked camp near Cambodia. In the background is a PT76 tank. Premier Escapes Death To Stall Viet Red Offensive SAIGON (AP) Allied forces intensified ground sweeps Tuesday in an attempt to upset enemy plans for a second phase of a spring offensive. U.S. military analysts said they believed the first phase had ended, at least in the Saigon area. They expected a second, and more violent series of attacks this weekend or early next week. The ground sweeps so far have failed to smoke out the 13 enemy battalions believed committed possibly 7.500 men to attacks aimed ultimately at Saigon when the offensive began 10 days ago. S Reulers News Agency 1IELMSTEDT, WEST GERMANY Even as he said that a decision will come soon as to whether U.S. action is required, Nixon spoke hopefully of progress in relations with the giant of t h e Communist world, the Soviet Union. his said He through journey the allied capitals of Eurojie was a dent to broad summit talks with the Soviet Union. And he spoke hopefully of Soviet lt Weather Brings Shift Optimistic of Progress necessary To Final Reading summer. East 521-45S- Viet Attacks, Nixon Avows 108. 313-b- e 1 ; 5; Cant T derate WlioV Nervous? In Moonship Test Today seven-minut- Scores, 524-45- 2 524-451- 2 Astros Desert Apollo 9 A 524-450- Womens, ; 521-157- 324-2S6- a.m., 500 524-454- 524-270- lunar-landin- 1 News and Editorial, Promotion, Sports, Magazine, 521-353- bug-lik- 1 Battalions South Vietnamese Tran Van Huong narrowly escaped death or injury at the hands of a Viet Cong assassination squad Wednesday. Alert police guards foiled an attempt to kill him as he left his office. Police said Huong was being driven home about 1 p.m. when at least four terrorists wearing the uniforms of South SAIGON (AP) Premier Repulse Armored Assault Ten Soviet-mad- e tanks and other armored vehicles struck at Ben Ilet and a U.S. spokesman said at least two tanks weie destroyed and three other vehicles smashed. Mines on the road used by the tanks s were credited and jet with helping to turr back tire armored fighter-bomber- assault. The Green Beret camp at Ben Het is 12 miles west of Dak To, the scene of one of the war's most savage fighting around Thanksgiving in 1967. It is seven miles southeast of the point where the borders of South Vietnam. Laos and Cambodia join. U.S. spokesmen said the tanks were identified as light model, amphibious PT76 types. Car Speeds Away Police guards and Vietnamese troops in the area opened fir as Huongs car picked up speed and escaped. It was not immediately known whether the car was hit, but police said Huong was not hurt. Police said that meanwhile a fifth member of the assassination squad tried to push a l cycle cab containing a claymore mine and six pounds of plastic explosive toward an open gate of the building housing Huong's office, and two more terrorists on motorcycles opened fire. attack. That question is one that I have given thought to, he said. But Nixon said he will not indicate what will happep if action is found necessary, for it is more effective to use deeds than threatening words. We shall use whatever plan we consider is appropriate to the action on the other side, he said. Twice, in almost identical words, Nixon sounded his warning: . . . We will not tolerate a continuation of this kind of attack without some response that will be appropriate. Ranges Over Trouble Spots In a foreign policy discussion that ranged over world trouble spots Nixon: Reported that the situation in West Berlin, subjected to Communist travel harassment, "seems to have leveled off, but is changing hour by hour. Nixon said the Soviet Union has been told that harassment of the isolated city will jeopardize relations with the West. I believe that At this moment the Soviet Union does not want to have Guards Return Fire the situation in West Berlin heated up lo Guards at the building returned the the point where it would jeopardize more fire. The cycle was halted in the middle important negotiations at the highest level with the United States, he said. of the street and did not explode. He said his journey to five allied naThe attemot on the presubstantial mier occurred about a block from the tions in Europe produced U.S. Embassy. As security guards at the progress toward a conference to resolve embassy mounted a special alert, police the situation in the troubled Middle East He said as a result of his conferences, sealed off Thong Nhut, the street which runs in front of the embassy to Huong's the positions of the United States and Sec Pago 4, Column 1 office, and adjoining sheets. three-whee- Mauled Military sources said three of the battalions were badly mauled in fighting last week around Bien Hoa, the big allied air base 15 miles north of the capital. The remainder were still within 24 hours march of Saigon but there is no immediate sign that they are massing, these sources reported. In addition to the ground sweeps, E32s went into action in an effort to upset the enemy's timetable. The Stratofortresses hit at troop concentrations, base camps and staging areas ranging from 16 miles west of Saigon to Kontum Province in the mountainous middle of the country. It was northwest of Kontum that the North Vietnamese led by tanks attacked a Special Forces camp at Ben Het Tuesday morning and were repulsed. Vietnamese rangers opened fire as the car passed them. But he said there has bee" considera-- , tion of a resumption of U.S. bombihg over areas of North Vietnam now free, of section. versary Wednesday's Foreoa?l Salt Lake City and Utah Generally fair with mild temperatures. Weather map is on Page 29. ... Times Overkill U.S. Stocks 30 Nerve Gas Could Depopulate World - WASHINGTON (UPI) The Army told congressmen Tuesday it has enough of a single nerve gas in its chemical - biological warfare arsenal to kill the world's population many times over. But Russia, one lawmaker reported, may harbor an even more lethal capabiland highly seity in this cret field. Rep. Richard D. McCarthy, who sponsored a closed Army briefing for House members, said after it ended he is worried not only about the overall arms race but also more immediately about the fact the deadly nerve agent a substance labeled by the Army GB sometimes is transported by rail. We have had an alarming increase in railroad accidents, so this poses a most serious problem, he said. One estimate coming out of the brief- d ., - ic that the United States has GB on hand to kill 100 billion ing indicated enough people," McCarthy told newsmen. That would be enough to kill the world's estimated population of 3.4 billion nearly 30 times over. anothRep. Robert L. F. Sikes, er of several dozen members attending the briefing, said lie thinks the U.S. is not ., doing enough in the field. Sikes said it is estimated the Russians have seven to eight times the capabil- - Toilays Chuckle elevator: Sign on a Eighth Floor Button Out of Order. Tlease Push Five ar.d Three." self-servi- bio- itv of the United States in chemical logical warfare. McCarthy said he will ask Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird what U.S. policy is regarding germ and gas warfare, and why there is such overkill" capabil-itv- . "I am concerned about the rapidity of strides taken not only by the U.S. but other nations in this matter, McCarthy said. I plan to take up with Secretary; Laird some questions not answered at this briefing." McCarthy set up the briefing, but wanted it open to the public. The Army sent Brig. Gen. James A. Hebbeler, director of chemical - biological research and nuclear operations, lo brief the congressmen, but the Army nrefeiTed closed meeting. It was divided Into two classified and unclassified. parts 1 1 |