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Show Our Phone Numbers Mild, Rainy News Tips Home Delivery 0 Information 5 Scores Sports Classified Ads Only Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South 524-440- 0 tonight and Saturday with scattered rains. Highs in mid 40s. Lows in mid 30s. Probability of rain SO per cent tonight. Details, weather map on Page Cloudy B-- VOL. 521-414- 524-444- S 521-353- 5 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 4. NO. 3 7 3 524-284- 4 8 3 1 10c PAGES WEST'S MOUNTAIN THE FIRST NEWSPAPER JANUARY FRIDAY, 1970 16, No Evidence Of Genocide At First Look Laird-Announc- - gues were invited to investigate reports the rebel Ibo tribesmen were being massacred by thp victorious Nigerian troops. They said that al! refugees they saw in the southern sector of the war front appeared in good physical However, they said shape. they spent only three hours at Owerri, the former Biafran capital which was overrun Sunday, and did net travel north at all into the Ibo heartland where the last battles were fought. We neither saw nor heard any evidence of genocide in the newly liberated areas we a statement of the visited, four said. They said refugees streamed out of the rebel-helareas into towns where markets are beginning to open. The four estimated that 10,000 refugees had already arrived in Aba, another Biafran stronghold that was one of the last towns to fall. They said another 50,000 were in A foreign (UPI) observer team invited to the war zones by the federal government said today it saw no evidence of gpnocide or starLAGOS vation. But four members of the team admfed later at a news conference their inspection tour was less than thorough. Theres plenty of food, Brig. Gen. John L. Drewy of Canada, a member of the team, said. But if the people are stupid enough to run away, theyll get hungry." The four holding the news conference today were among a team of eight invited to tour the war zones. The four declined to answer questions about, wjiy they left the war front on Monday the day Biafra broadcast its surrender and whether their mission could return a clear verdict on the behavior of all federal troops. The four observers were Drewy, Maj. Gen. Yngve of Sweden, Col. Berglund Douglas Cairns of Britain, and Col. Jozef Bierr.acki of Poland. They and four collea U.S. Aims Explained By Rogers WASHINGTON (UPI) -Sof State William P. Rogers says the Nixon administration's program for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war is irreversible and has already changed the tenor of American loreign policy. ecretary d Umuahia and that markets and trading had already opened in many areas. pnero Utahn's photo of young Biafrans in oy jonn measles ward. UTAHN'S BIAFRAN STORY Death IX CONTRAST By PAUL SWENSON I dren Flannery photographed last February and March in Gabon and on the Ivory Coast in West Africa are even more vivid in his memory now' that Biafra has fallen to the Nigerian Army and has technically ceased to exist. Flannery saw 350 children at Catnp Bouake, 400 kilometers north of Abidjan,' the Ivory Coast capital; 200 at Camp Cocidy, just outside Abidjan, and 1,800 at Libreville, Gabon. The children are refuessentially escapees gees smuggled out of Biafra by plane under cover of night. ... Utah Her name was Comfort. She survived the bombing, the slaughter of her relatives, the beginnings of starvation and separation from her parents and her country. But finally, the extreme malnutrition and prolonged protein deficiency she had endured caught up with her and weakened her physical reserves. She now lies in the 14th Biafran grave at Bouake. Ivory Coast, West Africa. John Flannery, Park City photographer recalled today. Beatrice Okere, the teacher who accompanied Comfort out of Biafra, told me she was one of her best pupils. The faces of the black chil John S. Flannery he was there They came out without and clothing possessions, parents, Flannery said. And now they have no country. Flannery, 502 Park Ave., Park City, was flown to West Africa by Columbia University's MERCY (Medical Proposes Bond Law Changes ment that only property payers may vote in bond n tions. Deseret News Staff Writers However, a proposed amendment to eliminate Revisions in Utahs bon.l by laws, labeled a "must Gov. Calvin L. Rampton and legislative leaders, were introduced today in the Utah Senate. this the State Constitution will not be introduced umil next week. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that all registered voters may cast ballots in bond elections. Included in the new Senate bills was a series of proposals to eliminate the maximum interest rates which government units may pay on borrowed money. were maximunis These raised by the 1969 Legislature but have already been rendered obsolete by high inter- from In all. a total of 13 bills were Introduced and submitted to the Senate Rules Committee, whiclr held that all the bills, including the bond series, items and were will need a majority of both Houses to be considered. in the Ineluded bonding package was a bill which eliminates a statutory require- two-thir- Inside The News SECTION A National, Foreign City, Regional ... Voild of Women 8, 9, 16 3 14. 13 Editorial Pages l)o-!- t 13 Man SECTION City, Regional Our Man Jones Comics Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads Lets Play Chess SECTION C Young Americans City. Regional Theater B 4 3 16 4, 5, 8 6, 7 SECTION U 1. 4. 16 1 2, 3 4, 5 5 6, 7 8 Financial City, Regional f Another proposal introduced the today would alleviate problem faced by school districts seeking to retain qualifi cation to receive emergency state aid for construction of school buildings. BONDING LIMITS Under present state law, a distret must be bended to 95 per cent of its borrowing capacity in order to qualify for the state funds. Several districts have approved new bonds but haw been unable to sell them because of the interest rate maximum and the impact of the Supreme Court ruling. The bill proposed today would permit these districts to count such approved bonds as part of the necessary qualification to retain eligibility for construction state building aid. TRANSFER OF FUNDS Another Senate bill would repeal 1969 legislation approving transfer of money from the State Insurance Fund to the general fund to be used for building construction. This transfer has been held to be unconstitutional by the courts. The 4 Sports TV Highlights last measure n WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Lairds disclosure of a bigger cut in total U.S. armed forces indicates the likelihood of another sizable troop withdrawal from Vietnam by midsummer. It also could mean a further reduction in the draft. intro- duced in the Senate provides for limitations in the procedure of allocating special Sec LEGISLATORS, Tage A-- 4 A r subject. "The Doctors Case Against The Pill." written by Barbara Seaman, will be presented in a series starting Monday. It discloses undesirable side effects of the drug. Watch for the first of the condensation beginning Monthe ti a v in exclusively Womens Section of the Deseret News. - WASHINGTON (UPI) The economy stopped growing during the last three months of 1969, government figures showed today. If the same slowdown continues through the first three months of 1979 the nation would be in a recession, defined by economists as two consecutive quarters of nations The Commerce Department said Thursday the nations Gross National Product (GNP) increased at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent during the fourth quarter of last year. The increase, however, was caused entirely by higher prices, not by the production of more goods and services than in the previous quarter, the department said. The GNP is the total value of goods and services produced in the nation. It may total more than $1 trillion in Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin Happiness can be a habit all you have to do is make up your mind to it. Sounds simple when Phillip Pierson, ordained minister and lecturer in the field of psycho-cybernetic- explains it. traced the beginnings of the new science back to Dr. He Maxwell Maltz, internationally known as the father of psychocybernetics and a leading plastic surgeon. It was Maltz discovery, said Pierson, that sometimes altering a pc "son's appearance changed his outlook on completely, but some- times it did not. Regardless of how outwardly beautiful or handsome you could make a person, he remained just as just as much the social outcast as ever. "It became obvious that the image that counts in life is not the one a person sees in a mirror, but the one he sees in his mind's eye. Pierson went on to explain that according to the principles of man functions as a mechanism. His brain and nervous system make a perfect computer. Whatever goal you put belie fore this mechanism. said, it will go to work to pyscho-cybemetie- last haV. For last year as a whole, the GNP was $932.3 billion, an increase over 1968 of $66.4 billion or 7.75 per cent. But the department said the advance included a 4.75 See U.S. on Page A4 1970. Nine million women is a experiment, very large-scalsaid Dr. Hugh J. Davis of Johns Hopkins University. He said sequential oral contraceptives should be banned and most women should drop the pill altogether in favor of the loop or some other birth control method, at least e effects of the until pill are determined. "The next five years should patients provide sufficient from which conclusive data may be derived, said Dr. Robert W. Kistner of Harvard long-rang- Medical School. Meanwhile, there is no statistically valid basis for linking the pill to the various forms of cancer that occur in the female. Their testimony before Sen. At that time, Laird linked his projection to resident Nixons latest order calling for a pullback of some 50,000 more U.S. troops from Vietnam by April 15. Slashes in the size of the nahave been tied closely to the paced withdrawal of American troops from the war. tions armed forces SUGGESTS PULLOUTS Thus, Laird's hike in the anticipated reduction in over-aU.S, armed manpower suggests accompanying additional pullouts from Vietnam between and possibly July. ll mid-Apr- il Withdrawals which began last summer will reach a net of about l. 108,500 by Officials have hinted at another increment, perhaps in the 50.000 range, in the ensuing three or four months. mid-Apri- Such a development would bring the U.S. commitment in Vietnam below 400,000. LEVEL 3.155.000. This trimming of U.S. armed uniformed manpower worldwide could reach as high as 600,000 by tne end of the following fiscal year July 1, 5 Years Should Tell cause cancer. month. And the 300,000-ma- n rollback would bring the total U.S. troop strength down to about Pills Cause Cancer? WASHINGTON (UPI) -Medical authorities pro and con have agreed they will not know for at least five years whether birth control pills military June. This is about 35,000 more than the force reduction Laird projected for this fiscal yea. at a news conference here The actual output of goods and services did not increase at all during the October through December pertod. As a result, there was no more to buy but it cost more. Economists define a recession as a decline in real output for two consecutive quarters. By that definition, a recession is not yet here, but the nation is flirting wit one. Commerce Department experts declined to predict what the GNP would be for present quarter, which runs through March 31. The department said earlier it expects a business slowdown in the first half of this year followed by a modest recovery In the second h. U.S. manpower will be down by about 300,000 men by At Years End Todays Thought life over-al- l Growth Halts Gaylord Nelsons select small business monopoly subcommittee this week demonstrated the split in medical opinion on oral contraceptives, which were approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 10 years ago. Twenty million women use the pill, authorities testified. including nine million in the United States. The subcommittee hearings resume next Wednesday. Nelson also is investigating allegations women are not even told the pill might be dangerous. Dr. Roy Hertz, a former National Cancer Institute official now at Rockefeller University in New York City, a specialist in cancer of female organs, testified Thursday he and others tried in vain to slow down FDA approval of birth control pills a decade ago so they could first be tested. 1971. Because of the force reductions, the draft already has been reduced from about last year to an anticipated 225,000 this year. Further force cuts could carry the total draft call below 290.000 223.000. OVER I MILLION Laird told the Los Angeles news conference that budget reductions, disengagement of the United States from Vietnam, and accompanying purchasing slashes could reduce bv about 1.250,000 the number of persons involved in national defense. Under this, he listed military manpower, civil service employes of the Defense Department and its agencies, and workers for defense con- tractors. He did not give specific ures for each category. fig- abit So Smile Happiness Can By JACKIE PETERSON Copley News Service Speaking in Los Angeles Thursday, Laird said NATION'S ECONOMY Story; Monday est rates imposed nationally as measures. taxelec- person-to-perso- Also Signals Lower Draft Call Doctors Bill By M. pEMAR TEUSCHER AND DEXTER C. ELLIS The strength of Rogers remarks appeared to contrast with statements by Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird, who in the past has been somewhat more cautious and of has spoken residual Emergency Relief Care for forces in Vietnam after the Youth) program to take still conflict has been and motion pictures and tape Laird, in a speech at Los interviews to be used in fund Angeles Thursday, alluded to raising. of South Vietnamese My involvement was on a the fear President Nguyen Van Thieu Flanbasis, that his country probably nery says. I had no real pocould not survive a cut of litical feelings either, way. And when I walked into 200,000 U.S. combat troops in that hospital at Bouake and 1970. Laird confirmed that such a troop withdrawal has got to know those 300 children from 2 to 16, I forgot they been considered but he assertwere Biafrans, I forgot they ed only the President could announce the final figures. were black and I was white they were just children who TRAINING VIETS needed help. In Washington Rogers said: Because there werent President Nixons program enough adults in the hospital to end American participation to go around (18 of us, in combat in Vietnam is irredoctors three young including versible. We are training and just out of medical school, of the Irish nurses, Iborean teachers equipping the forces Republic of Vietnam to take and Biafran teachers and care of themselves as we nurses), I sometimes forgot transfer to them the whole of See DEATII on Page A4 the combat roie. There is a growing confidence in South Vietnam that To Tell this can be done. Assuming its and our policy success the this makes assumption Pill result will be valuable for the future security of the area . . . We believe we are on the Begins track toward national right As Congress continues to inrelease from total preoccupavestigate the possibility of tion with this one area of fororal contraceptives being daneign affairs. gerous, the Deseret News as a to will service public bring readers a condensation of a book dealing with the same They Had Left All Deseret News Staff Writer x Rogers disclosed his views in an address to broadcasters and newspaper editors during a foreign policy conference at the State Department Thursday. And although he disclosed no major new dements of President Nixon's strategy, he was able to make clearer than ever the administrations view' South Vietnam must shoulder the burden of its defense on a rational timetable, or face the consequences. Reduction ed produce it in your life, regardless of the factors working against it. They key to the whole thing, however, is your You have to establish that first before you can change your life, for your goals must not be in conflict with ttie image you have of yourself. e will domi-natOnes said Pierson, whether it is acting on a truth or not. "Look at pyschosomatic be said, "it medicine, doesnt matter whether youre really sick or not. If you believe you are, then you might as well be. What establishes the e. self-imag- e, self-imag- r In Pierson's opinion, people constantly make inner responses to their successes or e is a failures. The self-imag- combination of rooted in the subconscious mind. You cant change it without making a total commitment to do the work. is merely a Happiness habit of the mind. You set an image of yourself as a happy or an unhappy person. Marilyn Monroe is a classic example of the latter type. Not all her fame, beauty and riches could remove that inward habit-attitud- unhappiness she suffered. Pierson cited four insights as thS means by which to build a pattern geared for happiness. s Life was made for happiness and man is meant to be happy. The happy man generally is the healthiest and most successful, he said. Happiness is not a moral issue. Being happy is not a self- ish end. Man is a Whan you finish mechanism. one goal, you must take v.p another if you wish to abide in the happiness habit. Not onlv can happiness be a habit, the speaker added, but it can be he said, Our happiness, produces things in our world that continue to make us happy. t |