Show V Serving Weber IMorth Davis Morgan and Box Elder Counties 94th Year No 67 Ogden Utah w gmajjp WASHINGTON (AP) — Vietnam veterans tobacco farmers and supporters of water projects are ex- pected to be among the losers in a $10 billion round of new budget cut proposals to be announced next week by the Reagan administration Part of the cuts were revealed at a news conference Friday by President Reagan when he announced plans to save $13 billion over the next two years by keeping the number of federal employees 63100 below the level planned by the previous administration “Millions of Americans today have had to tighten their belts because of the economic conditions and it's time to put Washington on a diet too’ Reagan said The president plans to detail more than $10 billion in additional budget cuts Tuesday and it is those proposed cuts administration officials say which will affect the Veterans Administration tobacco subsidies and water projects An aide to Budget Director David A Stockman said the planned VA reductions include the closing of 91 psychological counseling centers for Vietnam veterans for a savings of about $30 million a year D-P- SAN SALVADOR El Salvador (AP) — Leftist guerrillas slaughtered “hundreds” of peasants who sided with government troops in a coun- terinsurgency operation in eastern El Salvador military sources claim The sources said the massacre occurred in and around San Lorenzo 45 miles east of San Salvador but gave no date and provided only a sketchy account There was no independent confirmation of the incident and no immediate comment from either the leftist insurgents or the government of this war-tor-n Central American nation The guerrilla command announced a “final offensive” against the government Jan 10 But the drive apparently bogged down in part because the guerrillas didn’t get the support they expected from the peasants The government claimed that guerrilla bands in San Lorenzo were “wiped out” in a campaign last week and had reported that guerrilla activity seemed to be dimishishing across the coun- try But there were new reports Friday of fighting at scattered points around El Salvador and military sources said shooting broke out again sidies for tobacco growers would “be cut a little Some critics of Reagan budget proposals have expressed doubt the tobacco subsidy program would be touched by cuts because it has the strong support of Sen Jesse Helms a Republican state from the tobacco-producin- g of North Carolina At his news conference Friday Reagan again defended his proposed cuts in various social prog- rams “We’re not cutting into the muscle of a program where it is going to require taking aid away from those people that must have it’ he said Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige told the Senate subcommittee on regional and community development Friday that the administration will move quickly to close down eight federal regional commissions created to stimulate economic growth Meanwhile advocates for the Community Services Administration which has been marked for extinction by the Reagan administration said Friday they will appeal to the public and Congress to help save the agency United Press International Walter Cronkite gets a farewell handshake from a 13-year-- 'Uncle Walter' signs off for last time NEW YORK (AP) — Gently chiding “those who have made anything of this departure’ Walter Cronkite passed the “CBS Evening News’ anchor to a younger colleague with the promise “I’ll be back from time to time’’ “Old anchormen you see don’t fade away’ Cronkite 64 said at the close of his last “Evening News” broadcast Friday “they just keep coming back for more” Cronkite whose desk will be occupied Monday by Dan Rather characterized the occasion as “but a river after disappearing from a shopping center has been listed as the 20th black child slain in the Atlanta area in the last 21 months The body of Curtis Walker who had been asphyxiated was found Friday in South River in southern DeKalb County Public Safety Director Dick Hand said The youth had been missing since Feb 19 when he was seen at a shopping center His case had been assigned to an Atlanta police task force investigating the 21 baffling disappearances and slayings of black children since July 1979 Firemen returning from a routine afternoon call spotted the body as they drove over a bridge above the muddy river Hand said In a preliminary autopsy Friday night DeKalb County Medical Examiner Joseph Burton ruled that Walker had been asphyxiated He ex- planned a final kill peas®infs at San Lorenzo between army troops and an unknown number of guerrillas The sources also reported a battle at San Antonio de Los Ranchos 50 miles north of the capital which they said ended with the army recapturing the city The sources said 35 people were killed including government troops An army communique also reported 30 guerbattle for Jutiapa 30 rillas killed in a miles west of San Salvador An estimated 16000 Salvadorans have been violence in the 17 months killed in left-rigsince rightist Gen Carlos Humberto Romero was ousted by a junta While battling the guerrillas the junta has also had to fend off attacks from rightists opposed to its attempts to distribute land held by the rich El Salvador’s leading rightist former Maj Roberto d’Aubuisson called Tuesday for a military coup to topple the junta A junta spokesman said the government was still searching for d’Aubuisson to arrest him President Reagan told a news conference in coup in Washington he would view a right-win-g But he concern” with “the gravest El Salvador 24-ho- ur ht post-morte- m after his disappearance last Hand added The month corpse was not badly decomposed but cold water in the river may have retarded the deterioration DeKalb County has 30 officers investigating Walker’s and Bal- - It was overweight Soviet tank gets traffic ticket Mass (AP) — tank on its way back A Soviet-mad- e to Washington from Defense Department exercises in Vermont ran into trouble in this small New England city when police stopped it for being overweight State Police said Friday they stopped the flatbed truck carrying the tank after two of the truck’s tires blew out nearly whacking a state police cruiser with flying rubber State Trooper Edward Ashman said the tank covered with drab camouflage paint and equipped gun with a 115mm smooth-bor- e was identified by police as a Soviet-mad- e NORTHAMPTON T-6-2 Vermont National Guard Maj Gen Reginald Cram said the tank had been in that state for about a month for “Operation Snow One” a Defense Department exercise conducted near Burlington to test equipment and troops in cold weather Although officials did not comori- ment specifically on the tank’s gins the Pentagon is known to have put togeather a unit of Soviet military equipment including captured tanks for use in training exercises The unit is based in Aberdeen Md The equipment apparently was captured by Israel from Arab troops during one of the Mideast wars But state police in Massachusetts didn’t know that Wednesday when Trooper William Fisher patrolling Interstate 91 saw fragments of rubber from the blown tires of the tank carrier sail across the windshield of his police cruiser Fisher was not hurt and ordered the tank and its carrier towed off the road and weighed Poice said it topped the scales at 121480 pounds or nearly 202 tons over the legal limit said he could not answer whether such a coup would halt US military or economic aid Responding to another question Reagan referred to the country as “our front yard” and said the United States was trying to help halt “infiltration into the Americas by terrorists who aren’t just aiming at El Salvador but at the whole of Central and possibly later South America and I’m sure eventually North Amer- ica” Reagan said US military advisers sent to train Salvadoran troops would stay out of combat He said he did not believe there was “a valid parallel” between the situtation in El Salvador now and in Vietnam in the 1960s American involvement in Vietnam began with military advisers training South Vietnamese troops and escalated until more than 500000 US troops were waging war against Communist guerrillas In Moscow the Soviet news agency Tass said “Many observers cannot help asking the non-comb- at reasonable question: Are not the developments in El Salvador today reminiscent of the events in Vietnam in the early 1960s?” tazar’s deaths Hand said adding his department was working closely with the Atlanta police task force that has the primary authority in the slain children investigation Some 80 to 90 officers from various law enforcement agencies swarmed through the river area after the discovery Friday searching for evidence and doing interviews Roadblocks were staffed in the area throughout the night Police planned to continue their efforts today door-to-do- or Volunteers also gathered today for another search dividing into two groups to check wooded areas vacant lots and abandoned buildings in the southwest south and southeast areas of the city and "parts of DeKalb County east of the city said John Bascom of the United Youth Adult Conference The conference has coordinated the volunteer searches since last fall The Atlanta task force also is investigating the disappearance of 10-year-- Darron Glass 'Death will be a relief' condemned killer says MICHIGAN CITY Ind (UPD — Condemned killer Steven Judy saying he “doesn’t lose sleep” over his slayings of a young mother and her three children declared death will be a “relief” for him because society “is not ready to help or try to correct people like me” ' Judy 24 Indianapolis BOGOTA Colombia (AP) — Chester Allen Bitterman Bible translator from Lancaster Pa was killed today by the guerrillas who kidnapped him six weeks ago and his body was found in a stolen bus in southern Bogota police said An institute official confirmed the death of Bitterman who worked for the Summer Institute of Linguistics as a translator of the Bible into Colombian Indian dialects 9 Members of the guerrilla movement in Bogota on Jan 19 kidnapped Bitterman accused him of being a CIA spy and demanded the institute be closed Police said Bitterman’s body was found in the bus after an unidentified woman caller telephoned radio stations newspapers and the police saying that Bitterman had been “executed” and that his body could be found inside a bus in southern Bogota the Colombian 28-year-- M-1- capital “There is no doubt that it was Chet” said Robert Whitesides an institute official who went to the Bogota morgue to view the body Police said it appeared that Bitterman had been killed inside the bus by shots fired by his kidnappers and in front of the vehicle’s driver who was bound and gagged An 9 flag was found near the bus police said There were conflicting radio reports quoting police sources saying that three men on the bus fled when police approached it Bitterman was shot once in the heart and his body remained in a sitting position in the front of the bus an institute source was quoted as telling Radio Caracol But a photograher for the Bogota daily El Tiempo who saw Bitterman’s body in the bus said the linguist had been shot in the head apparently only once and that his face was covered with blood The guerrillas hijacked a bus at about midnight forced it to a location in the city was picked up Bitterman where around the drove bus the and then the radio hours city for several a said in report quoting police sources M-1- still-undisclos- is scheduled to die early Monday in the electric chair for the April 1979 of Terry Lee Chas-tee- n and the drowning deaths of her three young children In a Friday night news conference at the Indiana State Penitentiary Judy said he has no regrets about the slayings and is “just kind of glad it (his life) is over now” “If society is not ready to help or try to correct people like me then they just might as well go on and do away with us” Judy said The blond mustachioed young man with cold blue eyes lambasted the American Civil Liberties Union and accused the group of publicity seeking in an attempt to stop his execution Judy said “You didn’t see them when my trial first started And all of a sudden they want to surface at the end “They are actually going against my wishes They don’t represent me and as far as I’m concerned it’s illegal” said Judy who was flanked by his attorney Stephen Harris Colombia! rebels US Bible translator ed Authorities said Bitterman was apparently killed at about 4 am just six hours after a guerrilla negotiator had said the institute would have “to deduce the consequences” of its refusal to leave Colombia Bitterman was married and the father of two daughters In Lancaster Bitterman’s mother (2 SECTIONS We’re sadwhat the Lord wants dened because of it but there’s a lot more involved than the life of our son There are the lives of thousands of Indians in the jungle who have never heard the story of Jesus” On Friday a spokesman for the guerrillas had indicated that Bitterman was still alive but said the guerrillas planned to kill him if the institute refused to leave Colombia An institute spokesman told the guerrilla spokesman by telephone that the institute was staying “Then the institute will have to deduce the consequences” the guerrilla negotiator said “The one who pulls the trigger is the one that kills him not us” the spokesman for the institute told the guerrilla after the two sides renewed their standoff positions The guerrilla negotiator called 10 times Friday night over a period of five hours to a minister’s office where the institute official and several reporters had gathered for the telephone interview and negotiating The telephone receiver was hooked to an amplifier so all could hear An Associated Press reporter was among those there The guerrilla said the kidnappers also intend to kill two other institute personnel and the wife of one of them if the three all Colombians don’t leave the country He said a “revolutionary court” had condemned the three to death The guerrilla did not mention any new deadlines for the institute or the three newly threatened people to leave Colombia LocalMetro Movies and several members of the Indiana Department of Corrections Judy said he is looking forward to his death that the punishment meted out to him was fair and that there is no chance he will change his mind “I was given a death sentence” he said “If that was the punishment handed out I feel it should be carried out It is a relief ( ‘ ' 18 PAGES) Churches Classified Comics Editorials Steven T Judy Mary received news of her son’s death calmly saying her family was “fully prepared for flmsnde rape-murd- er Obituaries Sports 4A-5- A 5B-9- B 6A-7- A 2A IB 10B 4B SB 2B-4- B Television 7A Utahthe West Weather 8A 3A Darts win 2 B Ecumenism No apartments Catholics Lutherans meet weekly at St Joseph’s Elim Washington Terrace says apartment renting must stop in single family areas l ob churches f' ML transition a passing of the baton” But his last day as anchorman a job he took over in 1962 to build a reputation as one of the most trusted men in America was marked by an outpouring of tribute from viewers as well as peers “He was a formidable competitor” NBC anchorman John Chancellor said at the conclusion of his “Nightly News” broadcast “And he brought such distinction to his work that he made the rest of us look a bit better” anti-pover- ty BeMsfts amination today Hand said The public safety director would not say how Walker the third victim to be found in DeKalb County was asphyxiated Hand said it was “logical to assume” Walker’s slaying was related to the death of Patrick Baltazar whose corpse was found Feb 13 in northern DeKalb County Several of the other slain children were asphyxiated and found in remote areas far from their homes Officials used medical and dental records provided by the special Atlanta police task force in identifying Walker’s body Hand said There was nothing to indicate whether Walker was killed soon the CBS Evening News ending 19 years as anchorman for the program crew member Friday after signing off Atlanta police find body of 20th victim ATLANTA (AP) — A boy found floating face down in a 50$ Sunday o Other proposed VA cuts include eliminating or delaying planned hospital construction projects reducing agency personnel and placing tighter restrictions on the ability of GIs to borrow on their life insurance policies at low interest rates said the aide who asked not to be identified by name In addition Rep Robert Edgar a has said the administration wants to end a $63 million education and job training program for disadvantaged Vietnam veterans prevent expansion of a vocational rehabilitation program and limit salary increases for doctors and dentists The Stockman aide declined to give the extent of the new cuts being planned for the Army Corps of Engineers $18 billion water development program which was scheduled for a reduction of $90 million in the first round of cuts listed last month Stockman has been quoted by The Los Angeles Times as saying water projects on the West Coast would be spared as would be the Tennessee-Tombigbe- e Waterway in Alabama and Mississippi He was quoted as saying sub Salvadorans: 25f Daily Saturday March 7 1981 4A |