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Show Cold Cold V Wet and wet. See Weather Map, Page B-- RET HEW DE details, 5. Our Phone Numbers NO. 3 6 9 92 44 PAGES News Tips 364-111- 1 524-284- 0 355-747521-353- SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1968 The Mountain West's First Newspaper 10c 364-258- 1 5 Information 5 Classified Ads Only St. Richards 33 offices: Editorial SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOL. News Depts. Fromm WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate, voting to require the to as its belt has the domestic economy, has apPentagon tighten proved a $1 billion cut in the procurement authorization s o u g h t by the Defense Department. Partly for economy reasons and partly in protest against policies of former Defense Sec retary Robert S. McNa-- j mara, the Senate settled Friday for a $21.3 billion! authorization bill in place of the $22,385 billion the Penta- gon originally asked. Thp roll call vote sending it to the House was 54 to 3. UPI Telephoto Stunned residents mill through wreckage after tornado tore a 400-fo- ot wide swoth through town of Greenwood, Ark. Funnel Hits Ozark Town GREENWOOD, ARK. (AP) tornado that devastated this western Arkansas town Friday killed 12 persons, police said today, as the search for additiona 1 victims resumed. A More than 270 persons were treated for injuries, either at hospitals in nearby Fort Smith or in an emergency 'medical center established In the library here, state police said. The tornado swooped out of a spring thunderstorm at p.m, Friday and 3:23 slammed into the business district, leveling about half of the buildings on the town square and heavily damaging most of the others. It also slashed through residential neighborhoods on either side of the square as it cut a trail of destruction half a mile long and 200 feet wide. It's the roughest thing we ever had, said Mayor Ed Hall, who estimated that of the town of 2,000 was destroyed. A shuttle of ambulances carried the more seriously two-thir- injured to Fort Smith, 18 miles to the north. State Police Capt. Damon Wilson said the first search was not thorough and that he was fearful more bodies would be found today. The heaviest damage was on the square, a cluster of y brick buildings, most of them more than half a century old. The bell tower and third story of the ancient courthouse toppled into the street. Wallace Gattis of nearby Bailing, who was at an ice cream parlor when the storm two-stor- - WASHINGTON (UPI) The of peace contacts between North Vietnam and the United States remained bogged down in a propaganda battle today, but U.S. officials still insisted they were eager to get on with finding a mutually agreeable meeting place. North Vietman, in a long statement issued by its foreign ministry Friday, denounced as unsuitable Secretary of State Dean Rusks latest list of 10 proposed sites. The Communists said, none would do because North Vietnam has no perma-neO- t representation in any of them. . Conditions imposed by the United States. Hanoi said, were extremely absurd and insolent. Within hours, U.S. officials countered with renewed critiCamcism of Hanois choices bodia, because it lacks adeand quate communications, Warsaw because of Polands military commitment to North Vietnam. officials nevertheless U.S. maintained that the United States was dead serious in its desire to get talks going, and insisted that Washington has tried to be reasonable. State Department spokesman Carl E. Bartch was on record inniiiniuiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiii:;!i!iiii;iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!ii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii TOP OF THE NEWS A Taste Of Past Promontory Point is one of file historic sites in Utah and despite its lonely wind-swehills was once a roaring town. Here it was that the nations first intercontinental railroad was linked. Now the rails are gone and Nature has moved back in. But Deseret News Staff Writer Maxine Martz tells why it is still an interesting place to visit, what to see and how to see it. Her storys on Pago And for all the news, heres the index for today: A-- SECTION A SECTION Man Do-- It Theater Financial Comics 11 Editorial Page 12 V saying that the United States would consider other sites proposed by Hanoi. Other officials confirmed that the last formal diplomatic comremunication Washington ceived came at the end of last week and was promptly answered by the United States, which proposed meetings in tangoon, New Delhi, Jakarta, and Vientiane. U.S. officials were visibly irked by the fact that Hanoi has failed to respond through offi- cial diplomatic channels since that message, but instead publicized before the world various charges against all of the American sites proposed so far. Conspicuously absent from the sites either North Vietnam or the United States has proposed was Paris. North Vietnam maintains a mission there and States a large the United embassy. U.S. officials would not discourage speculation that Paris might be a possible site accept able to both sides once the propaganda sparring has died down. They carefully avoided commenting on it. There are indications that U.N. Secretary General Thant was trying to work behind the scenes to bring the two sides to gether in France, and he spent a few hours in Paris today on his way to a conference in Iran. from One prime drawback, the American point of view, in holding (alks in Paris is that France has adamantly opposed the U.S. position in Vietnam, person-to-perso- Punish N. Vietnam - d rs ... y A-- 6 U.S. region. fighter-bomber- s were limited to the panhandle by President Johnsons order partially halting the bombing of North Vietnam. The Air Force, Navy and Marine jets bombed a wide range of targets that had been obscured by bad weather, the spokesmen said. The previous high on Oct. 14 was 163 missions and the 1968 high was Thursday when 145 missions were flown. GROUND FIGHTING Oi) the ground, a Marine convoy. speeding toward the Khe Sanh fortress Friday ran into a Communist ambush, but the h MarinA blasted their way straining greatly relations. through and kept the vital supIt would be possible, although ply road open. Near Saigon, U.S. not likely, that the United States troops found a cache of Viet would object to Paris on the Cong rockets of the ground it would not bear an im type used in the new year offen sive. partial atmosphere. The spokesmen said that al-- ; though Fridays raids were now, U.S. limited to the area below the Marks Uprising 6 7 8, 9 10 To Normal Pressure Builds For WASHINGTON is building on Congress to break a log jam and enact President Johnsons proposed income tax hike amid some alsigns it may be moving though not so fast as the administration would like. Chairman William McChes-ne- y Martin Jr, of the Federal Reserve Board applied new pressure Friday by coupling a plea for immediate action on the tax boost with a warning that we are in the midst of the worst financial crisis we have had since 1931." Martin spoke to the American Society of Newspaper Editors as the effects of a f per rent raise, to 5Va cent, in the rediscount rate were spreading over the country in the form of inwas about the average number creased interest costs for r raids through bank loans. for The stock market, already out all the north. Normally half would be flown above the 19th shaken by the rediscount rate increase, which tends to slow parallel. (AP)-Pres- 122-m- 3, 6 City, Regional Sports Church Page 4 B Still Close SECTION C Church News I ocrat to announce his intention to challenge incumbent Republican Sen. Wallace F. Bennett. He launched his Senate bid at a morning press conference. The major thrust of my campaign trill be to tell Utah that America is worth saving, asserted Dr. Williams. ESCALATE PEACE must escalate the works We square. ly One woman was stumbling day, but scattered instances of apply to all other programs if of peace. We must seek peace in Vietcable "utting were reported. No we are going to realize the $6 with over fallen electrical wires, he said. I yelled for her to format settlement talks were billion savings, Williams said. nam. Dr. J. D. Williams We can make some redactions We must work toward reducbe careful, but she just kept scheduled until Monday. domestic not in programs only . . .launches Senate bid tion in prices and in taxes, balMost of the impact of the mumbling and went on. A company of Marine re- strike was felt by those who but in military programs. ance the federal budget and save the dollar at home and t0 the twin goals of making servists were called from tried to make calls requiring an fights reduction weekend training at nearby operator. Delays were encounabroad. every American city safe for any Sen. John C. Stennis, Fort Chafee to guard against tered in credit card, n successis woman to be on the streets at If SerArmed my campaign fighting to keep the looting during the night. and collect calls. vices Committee figure intact, ful, I will be a senator FOR night, everywhere in America, But officials of the striking stressed that his panel already Utah in the U.S. Senate, he and of assuring all Americans, Workers Communication of had reduced the administra- said in his statement of Candida of whatever race or creed, the We must work toward right to any house he can afford America (CWA) predicted incon- tions original request by $383 cy. and any job for which he is veniences would crop up in the million. building a better Utah. Williams said he endorses qualified, Dr. Williams added. automated Dr. dial service as On the final roll call, Sens. the Vietnam bombing pause and this equipment broke down without In period of high Mike Mansfield, He maintenance. employment and inflation, we and efforts for negotiations. Ernest Gruening, The two struck companies, voted added that we must continue must balance the federal budget Gaylord Nelson, to bomb the staging areas and so that fiscal policy will aid, not the Bell Telephone System and against the bill. trails close to the 17th parallel undercut, monetary policy in Western Electric Co., are Sen. Wayne Morse, and stop quibbling about the; subsidiaries of American Telejeering prices and reversing who was absent, was paired site for dollar-gol& Co. peace talks so we can he phone drain, Telegraph U.S, All of are critics it. SAIGON (UPI) A force of In Toledo, Ohio, nonstriking against begin to talk for peace. added. in Vietnam. U.S. jet fighter-bombeesti- work VIETNAM EFFORTS to policy crews OTHER ISSUES attempting mated at 500 planes struck the OPPOSES POLICY damaged He telephone said his campaign posiOn repairworked under the local domestic front, southern regions of North Viet- cables guard by Mansfield, the Senate Demo- tions inciudes demands for Dr. Williams declared that: nam Friday with the heaviest sheriff he said offiopposed cratic Ohio Bell leader, deputies. maximum efforts from the bombardment of the year, U.S. cials said Utah everything gunshots damaged the the bill, among other reasons, South Vretaamese to secure and entfaed to 'nder military spokesmen said today. cables. 'because of a provision for 30 hold their own villages and end the state is a Just federal Gearing weather permitted CWA officials said none of He also endorsed Deal forprograms corruption. Utahs. the UJS. Navy, Marine, and Air their members been had the goal of a United Nations suForce planes to swarm against involved in any vandalism. a campaign must be mount- . pervised plebiscite in North and communication targets in the They warned that It is not ln gress to get the 30 080 Viet-!1 . South Vietnam to guide a federal lands still due panhandle region in record size only wrong but no such act ever lice the world. We ought to have nam peace Commission and, if acres for the second consecutive day. ended a strike by as much as a learned that from Vietnam. under the 1895 Ena- 'a cease-fir- e occurs, a phased Act. The 160 missions, each involv- - minute earlier. Nelson said he could not vote withdrawal of American forces. ,kjnS the state must fight for ing three to five planes, was the ifor the measure because it He also called for United Na- heaviest in six months. And national for au- tions, not a U.S., in million included $655.7 of1aPPrPratins supervision Riot Study Planned since they were concentrated thorizations for work toward any plan adopted by a Peace parks and forests in Utah, for below the 19th parallel, they WASHINGTON ,new projects such as Antelope deployment of a limited antibal-listi- c rvimmigsinn, (UPI) were the heaviest in the region Chairman Edwin E. Willis of missile system which he With the advent of peace in 'island National Park, and for of the war. rorcts-- all as a said would trigger a missile, Vietnam, Dr. Williams said Oie improved the House Committee on HEAVIEST ATTACK $30 billion now being spent there means to improve the quality of Activities said Fri- race with Russia. The 160 missions flown Fri- day the committee will resume Senators favoring cuts in the 'could be used to reduce taxes at Hi for our people and bring to to most bill determine were Oct. the since 14, hearings Tuesday day that; home and to win the war on new visitors and industries generally argued the spokesmen said, and the what if any subversive elements money would be freed for tlie poverty and the battle for our,Utah- Gov. Calvin L. Ramptons heaviest one-daattack of the contributed to urban riots in war on poverty and other 'cities. We must commit ourselves See PROFESSOR, Page domestic programs. war in the southern panhandle recent years. U.S.-Frenc- 1, 2 3 National, Foreign Sen. John J. Williams, the cutback sponsor, said the 3 per cent figure was the same struck, said, the courthouse ratio the Senate used when it just exploded. It just popped recently approved a $6 billion out, like dynamite exploding. cut in overall federal spending Halod Davis of Greenwood to go along with a 10 per cent (UPI)-D- ial WASHINGTON said he drove into town minincome tax increase. utes after the storm struck service appeared near normal This Is the same formula we and saw people walking dazed- today as the telephone are going to be required to strike stretched into its third around the Dr. J. D. Williams, University of Utah political science professor, today announced that he will seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Dr. Williams, director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University, is the first Dem- U.S. Raids Propaganda Battle Rages On Viet Peace Talk Site prosjpeCt Dial Service The bill, authorizing funds for ships, planes, guns, missiles and military research and was originally trimmed to $22 billion by the Senate Armed Services Committee. This was further cut 3 per cent $660 million by a 45 to 13 vote after senators rejected a variety of other economy proposals. CUTBACK PATTERN J. D. Williams Seeks Office officers of the U.S. embassy observed Friday the 25th annl versary of the Warsaw Jewish ghetto uprising by laying a wreath at the ghetto monument, A dear-weathe- one-hal- pr -sure business and private spendreacted to Martins ing, speech with a sharp drop. At his home in Kensett, Ark., Chairman Wilbur D. House Mills of the Ways and Means Committee where the proposed 10 per cent income tax surcharge has been bottled up for months refused comment on the rediscount move and the statements of Martin and ment spending during the year beginning July 1 and in future years as well. Mills again, in an Arkansas speech, insisted on holding the line against increased outlays. sources said Congressional the immediate difficulty is on the spending side, with the others. The interest hike was generally attributed by the Federal Reserve Board to inaction on the tax bill. Mills did say, however, that the plans to resume discus sions with the House which for a time had resisted too severe trimming of the budget, was reported resigned now to going along with almost anything Congress might g Appro-p-iatin- CommUtee when he to Capitol Hill returns Monday. Heads of the taxing and committees have spending been trying to work out a combination of tax increase and limitations on govern Committee so Appropriations far unable to agree on budget cuts as deep as Mills advo- cates. The administration exact as the price crease. of a tax in- The White House said Friboost day (he rediscount underscores the urgency of action on the tax bill. During his speech of almost an hour, Martin told the editors the United States faces uncontrollable an either recession or an uncontrollable Tcax inflation if it does not bring its domestic budget deficit and its imbalance in international payments under control. He stressed what he termed a threat to the monetary system of the whole free world: Unless we reverse our current trend, it will inevitably lead to a worldwide devaluation of currencies. Martin blamed both administration policies and Congress for the present dangers, but said there is still time to avert disaster. llimillllllll!!WIII!llllllllllllllllll!!llllimilllll Today's Thought Success usually comes to those icho are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thorcau llli:illllilllll!INlUllllllllllllll!lllllllllllll!ll!ll |