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Show fygnrwylf Tiihiflrtr s Our Phone Numbers Touch Of Spring and in the Wednesday. Daytime highs mid 40s. Lows tonight near 30. Details, Weather liiap on Page News Tips -521-- 4400 Home Delivery Information Sports Scores Classified Ads Only Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South Partly cloudy tonight B-l- i. VOL. NO. 3 7 3 1 0 SALT LAKE CiTY, UTAH PAGES 3 6 10c THE MOUNTAIN WEST'S FIRST NEWSPAPER Utah Senate Warned On Spending TUESDAY, JANUARY 524-2S4- 0 524-444- 5 524-444- 8 521-353- 5 13, 19 70 I iffi HfPii u j By M. DeMAR TEUSCHER and DEXTER C. ELLIS Deseret News Staff Writers By MORT ROSENBLUM warnings were posted in the Utah Senate today as law-- , makers started in earnest to hammer out a state budget for 1970. Gov. Calvin L. Rampton Monday outlGo slow on spending ined his fiscal LAGOS (AP) Nigerias chief of state, Maj. Gen. Yakubu Gowon, accepted Biafras surrender at midnight Monday, promised a general amnesty and called for talks to work out terms. European and American relief plans to aid an estimated four million hungry Ibos and other tribesmen in the vanquished state recom- - mendations to the 1970 budget session, calling for roughly $19 million in new spending over Australia Hecklers . 1969-70- BooAgnew awaited approval by the Nigerians. A top Nigerian official said the government has all the food needed, the problem is several senators, Today, including the chairman of the powerful Joint Appropriations Committee, warned that it is not absolutely necessary to getting it to the hungry. Reception centers were being established to care for the millions of refugees expected to pour out of the bush. Gowon made his announcement in a broadcast after the Biafran command capitulated earlier in the day. He asked the Biafran leaders to send delegates to field headquarters to work out terms to end the civil war. spend all of our anticipated revenue increase. CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA About 100 antiwar (AP) demonstrators heckled U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew as he laid a wreath today at Australias war memorial, and protest groups planned a larger demonstration Wednesday. l ive oi the hecklers four young men and a woman were arrested. The protesters carried 10 North Vietnamese flags and about 15 signs saying Agnew is a Dirty Fascist Pig, of Gift Bearing Were You at My Lai? and Moon Rocks and Murder. As Agnew and his wife ADVISES SOLOXS Sen. Wallace H. Gardner, Fork, who heads the fiscal committee, warned subcommittee chairmen that you dont have to take the governor's revenue- estimates nor those of the legislative analyst. He noted, however, that the estimates are only about $500,000 apart. Nor do you have to take the governors recommendations for spending, he said. Find out all the facts and then use your own best Beware Greeks, WORLD EXTENDS AID Relief Effort Poised By United Press International World statesmen and relief officials offered the wealth of three continents today in food, medicine and money to save millions of Biafran refugees from starvation. So far Nigeria has agreed to let in only 10 tons of supplies from Britain. PISH asked that they be brought in a civilian airplane rather than military. medical supplies into Biafra was Nigeria itself. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in a television in-- t e r v i e w Monday night, summed it up: Nigeria is as much an independent country as Australia, Canada or ourHe concluded that selves. nothing could be done without its approval. That has not J. Preece, warned against pushing the budget to the emerged from the memorial,!' limit. He noted that the govthey waved to the crowd of ernor called for no tax in300 to 400, and the crowd recreases and added that since we raised taxes last time, we sponded with an evenly divided mixture of applause and did nol expect him to go that Maj. Gen. Yakubu Gowon, boos. route again. the Nigerian leader, has aswe his left when if he Later, said, Agnew But, sured concerned nations that hotei for dinner with Prime spend every cent we take in, plenty of relief aid is already Minister John Gorton, about we will have to raise taxes stockpiled in Nigeria and will next. two dozen protesters flanked again next year or the be distributed to the refugees. Do we have to spend all by as many policemen shoutSen. North waved that money? ed at him and queried Today he cabled permission for one British relief flight of Vietnamese flags. Ernest G. Mantes, 10 tons of medical supplies to who was appropriations chairAt the prime ministers res1965. What if we save in land in Lagos. Nigeria gave a man demonstracounter a idence, list of preferences in aid and $2 million or $3 million? What tion was under way. Two do we do with it? dozen persons carried .signs REDUCE LEVY Croats of Canberra saying Prevent Welcome You save it and well know You, answered and w hat to do with it, Communist Aggression We Support American Aus-- t Gardner. We may even be r a 1 i a n Friendship. As able to reduce the tax levy a Agnews motorcade pulled up, little, he said. The second day of the the small group applauded. y buuget session set a pattern for things to come. Lawmakers met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 10:30 a.m. to go into committee sessions to discuss the budget. That patBy United Press International tern will be followed the rest Israeli warplanes attacked of the week. Next Monday, it lawmakers an Egyptian air base within was indicated, SAIGON (UPI) Commumay take up consideration of eight miles of Cairo today in nist forces shot down three some items. their closest raid to Egypts American helicopters Monlegislation to revise Utah's capital since the day, and, for the first time in clouded bonding statutes alwar of 1967, a Tel Aviv more than a year, used a ready have betn prepared for mine to damage a U.S. Navy spokesman said. introduction. Senate vessel in Vietnam waters, First steps will be Senate He said the target was spokesmen said consideration of three resolumilitary a military camp Khanka, today. tions necessary to get a packwhich contains equipment In Saigon, official sources et of some 11 or 12 bills on the to the air North Vietnamese a Egyptian belonging reported budget agenda of the force. buildup in the Mekong Delta, session which opened Monday. possibly indicating a major If the resolutions gain Israeli military sources said Communist military effort is of both s the raiders met only light approval planned in the populous reihe House and Senate the antiaircraft fire and were not gion south of the capital. package of bills, now in the challenged by E g y p t i a n Communist fire ground hands of the Senate Rules planes. downed and destroyed tire Committee, will be introduced The Cairo version of the three light model Army obserfor floor consideration. Israeli raid said planes vation helicopters as they Meanwhile, with the session were used to support Aiked only two days old and already attempted to bomb Egyptian military targets in these ground troops in widely sepadeeply immersed in hammerbut that they were drivareas lint 1970-7rated incidents Monday, budget, there ing out a was were growing indications that en off by antiaircraft fire and one crewman only the bond proposals might bo Egyptian planes. injured. The crashes raised Ameii-(aAnother Israeli announceamong the very few lo items helicopter losses in comactually ment said Israeii planes re-- 1 timed later and attacked bat operations in nine years of receive legislative debate. war in Vietnam to 1 454. Lawmakers, obviously awed Egyptian military objectives in the central sector of the Sec BONDING on Page spokesmen said. Suez Canal for 45 minutes. A Seven thousand tons of powdered milk, grain, high protein meat and fish lay on the Portuguese island of Sao Tome under the auspices of Joint Church Aid, according to an International Red Cross spokesman. Another 15,000 tons of food and medicine provided by the Red Cross was stacked in Lagos and Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Still more, about 5,000 tons provided by the United Nations, was in Dahomey, Nigerias western neighbors. But a barrier in getting the foodstuff and much needed -CWASHINGTON (AP) lias been given a chilling account of potential disaster from air and water pollution if conventional methods are used to satisfy the nation's growing hunger for generating plants. Rivers, lakes, even the sea none are immune from spokesman said all planes returned safely. The raids came as Premier Golda Meir told a group of visiting U.S. Jewish newspaper editors and publishers there is no chance of peace in the Middle East as long as Gamal Abdel Nasser remains in power in Egypt. She also said the Soviet Union is r.ot interested in any real settlement and Israel would reject any peace proposal reached without Tel Avivs consent. electrical power. The testimony, compiled lathe Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, is expected to bolster the committees position that nuclear power, despite drawbacks, is the nations best bet for the least pollution in future energy meeting nuclear generators. Sen. Ralph Israel Hits Air Base Near Cairo Reds Down U.S. Copters Arab-Tsrae- li y two-third- come. A second barrier was physical. Two and one half years of civil war has pounded roads to rubble, put airstrips out of action, knocked out bridges and destroyed much of the na- tions trucking capacity. Leading the potential relief effort in terms of capital was the United States. One Dead, 10 Missing In Alaska Hotel Fire ALASKA A N C HCRAGE, One woman died and (AP) a fire chief said nine other persons were unaccounted for after a fire razed the three-storframe Gold Rush Motor Hotel in 10 belov-zero weather early Tuesday. Several of the survivors aiul a fireman .were injured. Reports of tiie number hospitalized varied, ranging from seven to 16. lice that he ran through the halls to warn the occupants after the fire broke out about 2:45 a.m. AST but he did not know how many got out. Cochran said he was carrying the card file of registered guests and drepped it as he dashed through the hotel. The file was last in the flames, so names of the occupants were not known. The clerk said 34 of the luxury hotel's rooms wore occupied and between 40 and 43 persons were i i the building, including the manager and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Grove, both of whom were hospitalized with fractures after leaping from a second-storwindow. d Alaska Borough Fire Chief Bill Tonguet said 34 of the 43 occupants of the hotel had been accounted for, including the unidentified dead woman. The desk clerk, Donald F. Cochran, told Maj. Ed Dankworth of the Alaska State Po- - y it ADEQUATE CARE He pledged that adequate care wall be given to all civilians and said army units will be accompanied by police to establish effective federal presence . . . They will take all care . . . and shoot only if they encounter resistance. Gowon said he accepted in good faith the declaration by Biafran Maj. Gen. Philip Effiong that the vanquished make secessionists would peace in accord with the Organization of African Unitys resolution stipulating a united Nigeria. Effiong, 45, took 'over Sunday night after the Biafran u chief of state, Gen. C. Ojukwu, left the country on one of the last flights out. A Red Cross worker said Ojukwu flew to Libreville, Gabon. GRANTED ASYLUM Ojukwu was expected to arrive today in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, and the Zambian government said it would grant him asylum. But it added that it preferred that he fly as soon as possible to Europe for security reasons. Zambia is one of the four African countries that recognized Biafra. radio broadcasts Despite and victory editions of newspapers, there was little jubilation in Lagos at the war's end. Clusters of soldiers at the usual roadblocks and sentry points appeared almost indif- to feed about 500,000 refugees. All the food we need for relief is right here in Nige.ia, the problem is logistics, said a top-lev- government offihave the food they cial. We are used to. A civilian state government for the area that has been Biafra already exists with headquarters at Enugu. It is one of the states in the federal structure Biafra resisted for 254 years. Officials were expected to begin arriving speedily from nations ready to join in the relief effort. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs David Newsom was to meet with Gowon today or Wednesday. Newsom arrived ferent. Monday on a familiarization If we had been fighting antour planned before the wars other country, perhaps ii surprise ending. said one would be different, Britains Lord Hunt, conThere is no rejoicNigerian. queror of Mt. Everest, will arrive Wednesday with a ing in this. One government broadcast relief mission. He already has called for massive organizaMonday night urged Nigerians to treat the Ibo refugees kindtion with a single chain of ly. saying "they are hungry . command. . . they must be fed. Their Prime Minister Harcld Wilclothes are in tatters . . . they son called a meeting of Britmust be clothed. ain's main relief organizations Federal rehabilitation in London to organize the commission officials ordered sending of food and medical hundreds of tons of supplies to supplies. In Washington, a spokespoints near the front to assembled said President Nixon man stocks supplement ower: Can Bt hopes that the suffering will stop and mercy will be shown. We stand ready to assist in As any way we can. announced Sunday, eight huge Air Force C130 cargo planes and four helicopters are standing by to ferry $10 mil- lion worth of food and other supplies authorized by Nixon. A special envoy from Pope Paul VI brought a message from the pontiff to Gowon Monday, but a government statement issued later strongly' criticized the Popes remarks Sunday in which he expressed fear that the wars end would be followed by The government genocide. said the Vaticans support for Biafra had prolonged the war and needlessly cost lives. Ambassador Fete - ATHENS (UPI) Henry ,T, Tasca, new U.S. ambassador to Greece, presents his credentials to the Thursday regent by the appointed military-backe- d government to represent exiled King Constantine. The credentials presentation was ceremony arranged Monday during a meeting between Tasca and Foreign Minister Panayotis A. Pipnelis. Erase Pollution? 1 A-- 4 Inside The News SECTION A 5, 6 4 National, Foreign Legislature - 8, 10, 16 City, Regional Womens Pages Editorial Pages Do-I- t Man SECTION City, Regional t 14, 15 15 U.S.-Sovi- B 1,2,11,20 A I 1 ongress needs. Witness after witness the committee: told Americas atmosphere already is fouled by choking clouds of sulphur spewed into the air by coal- - and d g the mal pollution discharge of into the water effects of therresulting from heated liquids by steam and Even the power dams once believed to be the cleanest of all instruments for producing electricity now are believed to damage the water that spills over them by raising its nitrogen content to levels incompatible with aquatic life. The testimony was presented at hearings late last year and released by the committee today. A second series of hearings is scheduled later this month. A The testimony came as scientists and conservationists raise more and more objections to side effects of electrical generation. Government amt private experts predict U.S. demands for electricity will neariv treble by 1990. and double once again by the year 2000. Attacks are being made on all types of electric generating plants by environmentalists." Rep. acknowledged Chet Holifield, chairman of when the the committee, opened. hearings Cut the California Democrat stated bluntly he takes little stock in objections to nuclear power plants. The business of his committee, Holifield said, "is to encourage development of nuclear electric generating plants." And witnesses, from Presidential Science Adviser Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, and Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg on down, did not disappoint him. Without nuclear power, said DuBridge. "the nations energy supply in the next century and perhaps the latter portion of this century would be in serious jeopardy." Added Seaborg: "With good planning and continued dedicated work on the part of those in the nuclear field, our electric utilities and those government agencies that regulate our nations power systems, wc can have safe, clean 4 and reliable nuclear pow er as much of it as we will need. Both acknowledged nuclear has drawbacks, hut contended man has the know-hoto technological overcome them. The added expense of such a system would be great, said, hut if society Is willing to pay that additional cost, of course, there is no problem. generation Hoi-ifie- ld Todays Thought Kind words cost no more than unkind, ones. Jeremy Bcnthani 1 |