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'V, Af - L v Vi vV' miTT" iriHliillliiniMiii i Utahns trickled to the polls today in numbers which appeared to bear out predictions of an extremely light vote, even for an primary listed P.egardless of how few the ballots are, they will determine the makeup of the final ballot Nov. 3. A sampling of polling places in Salt Lake County just before noon showed that unless the voting picks up materially later in the day, only a fraction of the eligible voters wiit 833-8t- h f Jme- Juuge&. The pattern was about the same throughout the county. Of two westside districts checked, one had recorded uxf in nfWnJTT I Deseret News Political Editor other mark ballots. Voting District 5 in the area of 1320 E. 2500 South had been visited by only 15 voters, 10 of them Democrats, out of 400 eligible voters. in District 22 at East, the vote was 6 out of 348 at 11 s.m. . . . the slowest weve ever seen. said one O 4 V only off-ye- X ;iT ' By DEXTER C. ELLIS election. tir in Among early voters today were Scott Anderson and Suzanne Dean, Utah University students. Suzanne is chairman of Participation 70. u- A.F. Pushes Viet Pullout re " UPI, AP Report The U.S. Air Force today announced the third major cut in American air strength in South Vietnam in as many days. Military spokesmen said the cuts represented approxireduction mately a in U.S. tactical air power here. An Air Force communique announced that the remainder of the 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing based at the sprawling Bien Hoa Airbase, 14 miles northeast of Saigon, was being inactivated and withdrawn from South Vietnam. The reduction involves a total of 40 planes and about 1,500 one-thir- d ' men, the communique said. The U.S. Military Command in Saigon also announced the withdrawal of one battalion of Army infantrymen, part of a gun battery manned by the Marine Corps, and a Marine, tank company. The withdrawals announced today total 2.710 men, bring-- ' ing the total of withdrawals announced since last weekend to more than 6,000 American soldiers and airmen. That represents nearly half the 14,700 men the U.S. Command must send heme before Oct. 1. to meet President Nixons goal of 384,000 men remaining in Vietnam. Todays Air Force announcement followed disclosure Sunday and Monday that three squadrons of Marine Corps fighters based in the critical northern quarter of the country, an entire wing of U.S. F100 fighter planes and all other Air Force operations at Tuy Hoa Airbase on the central Vietnam coast were being abandoned. , Spokesmen said the 40 aircraft belonging to the 3rd TFW will be turned over to air force units Vietnamese operating from Binh Tuy airbase east of Saigon and Da Nang Airbase in the north. Meanwhile, the U.S. mission and the Thai Foreign Ministry. The rate of withdrawal would be consistent with requirements opera toticnal the Vietnam con- related flict and the security of this the announcement area, IN FUTURE BUILDUPS P TH Ilia WASHINGTON (UPI) Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird has ordered the armed forces to draw manpower from the National Guard and the reserves in any future rapid military buildup, instead of depending on in- creased draft calls, Defense Department TIip said today that the ortfer was issued Aug. 21. It represents a major U.S. policy change. There are about 982.000 men in the reserves of all military services paid for training, but I odays Thought The stones that critics hurl with karjh intent may be used by a man to build his monument Arthur Guiterman the total of tnenihers of ready reserve units not on active duty is 2,331.600. Guard and reserve units and individuals of the selected reserves will be prepared to be the initial and primary source for augmentation of the active forces in any future emergency requiring a rapid and substantial expansion of the active forcek,. Laird said in the order; lie said he' was concerned with the readiness of Guard and reserve units to respond to contingency requirements and with the lack of resources that have been made available to Guard and reserve commanders to improve . . , readiness. Laird ordered the secretaries of all branches of the armed forces to include in all future with fiscal Spared from hijackings and free for .the moment from strikes, France is all upset about wasps. A farmer in central Frarce was stung in the head and died Monday night, the fifth person to be killed by wasp stings in 10 days. A waitress was hospitalized because of a sting, and a schoolteacher stung on the arm lay in a coma. The nations largest morning newspaper, Le Parisian Libere, gave the story frontpage treatment, calling the a stupifying wasp attacks mystery for our scientists." ' V f. The official Communist party organ L'Humanite, also published the story on Page 1, but under a headline that read "Two mortal wasp sting cases dont make an epidemic. Le Monde, the influential and deadly serious evening newspaper, had a long story on the wasps that was signed by a physician. The article reported that wasp and bee stings killed almost three times as many Frenchmen as snake bites did !n the last seven years. The reason there have been more wasp stings lately, the articles agreed, is that there A 6, 7 8, 9 10 -- National, Foreign City, Regional World of Women starting 1972 necessary resources to upgrade the National Guard and the reserves. He also ordered modern combat equipment provided for those units, plus improved training for them. budgets Lairds order reversed a policy instituted by the Johnson Administration in 1965 at the time of a fast buildup for the Vietnam war of relying on massive draft calls to obtain needed manpower. official said that resulted in a lot of draftees going to war while a lot of reserves werent utilized, and that may be one reason for the problems we have now with support of the war. One The official added that the old policy also let the reserves slip down to where you couldnt use them." France Abuzz Over Wasps PARIS (AP) A Theater have been more wasp The house veterinarian at Le Parisien Libere, De. Fer- nand Mery, explained: "This year, premature summer temperatures which facilitated their supply of protein in all varieties resulted in a greater than ever multiplication of wasps. More nervous and demanding in time of stormy weather, they went on the attack with the frenzy we have observed." Dr. Mery said the wasps have become meaner because has made overpopulation them prone to "aggressive exasperation. A 11-1- Do-I- t Man SECTION j B 1. City, Regional Our Man Jones Comics 1 -6 3 C 1-- 4 Sports TV Highlights 5 6, 7 8 Financial City, Regional SECTION P . Penney 5 2 5 Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads SECTION 3 14, 15 Editorial Pages 14 8 J., J riaoers UQ , pDV Liantmna O J 1 Two Granger area districts 25 out of 542 and 9 out of 271 eligible voters. Salt Lake County Clerk W. Sterling Evans found the same trend in his sampling. One district had counted 15 votes, another only five or six. Evans said the peak voting period traditionally occurs between 5:30 and 8 p.m. as citizens get off work and head for the polling places either before or after supper. The voting across the state was in a crazy-quipattern, due to the wide variation in lt the number and intensity of contests in various areas. Most counties had relatively few locai contests and severai had none at all, but practically every locality had soma candidates to vote for fehool board, jusiice of ihe peace, county officials or legislators. The nearest thing to a statewide race was the First Congressional District Democratic nomination contest between J. Keith Melville of Provo and K. Gunn McKay, Huntsville. While initial voting appeared light and was likely to remain that way throughout the voting hours until 8 p.m., there is one group of voters which should be out in force. This is the-- University of Utah segment of the voting 16,000 young population people who have been since early this ypar to get involved in the system. Many already have. Some bar-rag- 1,000 and attended mass meetings 400, including 250 conven- tion delegates, were elected to voting district positions. was This accomplished through Participation 70, which is now gearing up to Utah Election Service On The Job the elections are primary or general, Utah Election Service is geared for action. And again tonight, UES will be where the action is to assur? Deseret News readers of latest results. Although the turnout is expected to be light, UES will Whether have teams of election specialists to receive, tabulate and report the latest results throughout the evening. Utahns may call the Deseret News Jnlormation Center and then read the at complete reports in Wednesdays Deseret News. 5 get out the student vote for the final election. A limited amount of organized effort has been expended in stimulating the vote in the primary election, but the major effort is yet to come, said Suzanne Dean, Participation 70 chairman. Even so, the heavy emphasis on political activity at the university is expected to have an effect in stimulating student voting in the primary. Citizens voting today can mark either a Democratic or a Republican ballot, but cannot vote on both slues. This will nullify the vote. In Salt Lake County, the Democratic side has the most four-yecounty-wid- e contests ar commissioner, of the composed state's major news media, includes the Deseret News. Salt Lake Tribune, Ogden StanUES, dard Examiner, Provo Herald, Logan Herald Journal, KUTV, KCPX-Tand radio stations KSL, KALL, KSUB. KSL-T- V sheriff, county attorney and recorder, one State Senate and four State House of Representa- tives races. The Republican ballot has only one contest ior a county that of position, county commissioner. However, it lists two State Senate Sec UTAHNS on Page A- -i two-ye- Are Held In 8 States Political novice G. Harrold of Florida and old pro Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas faced stiff challen-twee- n ges today as eight states held primary elections. Carswell, the former appeals court judge whose to the Supreme nomination Court was rejected by the Senate, has been involved in a bitter campaign for the publican nomination to the eight-terSenate against Rep. William C. Cramer. Carswell Re-gai- d. By Associated Press Western governments delegated the International Red Cross today to negotiate with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine for the release of the 180 passengers still held captive from two of four planes involved in Sundays hijacking plots. Reporting the agreement,. British officials said Israel opted not to join the ' . u y ii i i .. IM FLA. ST. PETERSBURG, A bolt of lightning '(AP) which flashed out of the dark- United States, Switzerland, West Germany and Britain in the Red through Cross. Citizens from all five working Faubus, former governor of Arkansas, sought the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in a runoff against attorney Dale Bumpers. Fau in bus was the front-runnthe eight-ma- n primary, but failed to gain a clear majori- ty. Also holdin" primaries today were Arizona, Colorado, New Hampshire, Utah, Wis- COnsin and Vermont. Georgia holds a primary Wednesday. six-ter- N F WS SECTION an- 14 out of 500. GOVERNOR inr M I Armed Forces To Rely On Reserves, Guard joint a votes out of 600; 12 Polls To r'e,s announcement said today U.S. military strength in Thailand will be reduced by 9,800 men w ithin a year. The announcement said the cutbacks, .which will bring total U.S. troop withdrawals in Thailand to 15,800 men since September 1969, were the result of talks held be- - Thai-U.- 1970 8, nations were reported aboard the two planes in Jordan. As the move was disclosed In London, Sir Alec Douglas-Hom- e, the British foreign secretary, summoned envoys of six Arab countries for discussions on the hijacking crisis. n The move was promoted by an ultimatum from the PFLP, an Arab guerrilla organization, that a woman hijacker, Miss Leila Khaled, being held in London and six otner commandos imprisoned in Switzerland and West Germany be released by 11 p.m. EDT Wednesday. Otherwise, the ultimatum said the Swissair DC8 and the Trans World Airlines Boeing four-natio- MAJOR ISSUES School integration and bus- ing were the major issues in e campaign both in Florida and Arkansas. jn Florida, Cramer leaned heavily on his authorship of amendment an antibusing to the 1964 Civil Rights Act while Carswell blasted the ultraliberals" in the Senate. They were running for the seat vacatpd by the retire- ment of Sen. Spessard L. Hol- land, a Democrat. Running for the Democratic senatorial nomination are for-- f rner Gov- - Farris Bryant, speaker Fred Schultz of the Florida House, State Sen. Lawton Chiles and Alcee Hastings. The issue, again, is See PRIMARIES on Page 707 being held at a small Jor- danian airfield would be blown up with the passengers still aboard. Red Cross officials reported later the Palestinian guerrillas had upped their ransom demands to include the release of 3,000 Arab prisoners held by Israel. Israel has indicated it wants no part of the See HIJACKERS, Page A-- 4 A-- S BOMB CHECK DELAY ening sky over a practice high school football game killed two players and injured 20 otlier youngsters, two criti- Sirhan Kin Jordan-Boun- d cally. The bolt Monday centered on a huddle of the Gibbs High School offensive team, working on plays to be used in the season opener Sept. 18. Killed were senior Robert Newton, 17, an County Conference tackle last year, and sophomore quarterback Vincent Williams, 16. Four players remained hospitalized, two the them Bruce Chapman and Alfonso Black, both 16 listed in critical condition. Sixteen other persons were treated for shocks and burns. LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Extra security precautions a bomb check including delayed the departure today of a jetliner taking Mary Sirhan, mother of convicted assassin Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, on the first stage of a flight to Amman. Jordan, and meeting with Palestinian guerrillas holding two hijacked airliners and 180 passengers. Airlines A Trans World spokesman said the precautions were prompted by Sundays hijackings of three jetliners by Palestinian rillas. guer- In the Middle East, meanwhile. guerrillas denied they had demanded the release of Mrs. Sirhans son as one provision for the return of two of the jetliners and ihe passen- gers. The jetliner carrying Mrs. Sirhan, after a delay of one hour, 18 minutes, left Los Angeles International Airport at 10:03 a.m. PDT for New York. A TWA spokesman said Mrs. Sirhan; her attorney, Luke McKissack, and an L. McCowan, an aide to McKissack, were on the flight but 4 that a brother of Sirhan, who also had made reservations, did not accompany them. denied that Sirhans release was one of its demands. - said the spokesman three told him they planned to buy tickets in New York for a flight to Amman. The A top spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said in Beirut that the release of Sirhan, an Arab immigrant convicted of Sen. of the assassination Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, was one condition for the release of the planes and passengers. Later the PFLP officially I am concerned about the life of every human being, whether it is my son or those people they are the same to me, Mrs. Sirhan told a news conference before learning of the official denial. People have to find a way to make peace in the world, If this country Is she added. able to send a man to the moon they should be capable of making peace. Mrs. Sirhan was escorted from the news conference ia tears. V |