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Show Founded 1850 a hen Utah ten dory wa knou n as the State of Deseret V0L 333 N0 1 10 76 PAGES SALT LAKE UTY. UTAH 15 CfctsfTS - , METRO 3, 1976 MAY THURSDAY, First dispatch since Red takeover i i Saigon has remained the same - - almost I The foiioing is the first dispatch received LTI L siii Its CoiiisfoirL fits IS feiigOil s.fivC tfce Communists took ever the city April 30 It came in the form of a cable filed by isaigon Bureau Manager Aian Dawson through Hanoi w the LT1 bureau m Hong Kong. There were no indications of censorship SAIGON (UPI) The Vie Cong has yet to set up a police force in Saigon a week after the Communist takeover, relying moie or less cn tne .honor sy stem for scruffy m the "nit h Vrna nese . ! TLuUsdims of the Cor.vnaj'ust of Saigon after the South trr-cp- s government surrendered Apul 30 $&. , m- pfA Only the honor system snd th threat rumored curbside justice by Ccmmumst troops still in baignn aopeared io be holding bat k looting and hooliganism The Viet Ceng has y et to set up a government in Saigon to run the Republic of South Vietnam, the new name for the country since the fail of the U S backed Republic of Vietnam Members of the Viet Longs Provisional Revolutionary Government have not arrived in the capital and there was no indication when ihev would come -- . V"ir vtv. rv jw- :. - jr - 'Ts it Mrs Minn spoke u rcpoikrs Wednesday tn her dth 91 or with British officials about possible recognition of the new Saigon regime Referring to South Vietnams postwar leconsmiction, she said. We have m fact said that it is the responsibility of America to help repair the damage they caused in Vietnam Im talking about material help. she said As for people, it is up to our government to decide, but mis is eeita.nly not er.vicicred " Clarence Ferguson, ambassador to the United Narcos Social and Economic Council, told the council tlie United States does not favor prov ision of Ann rican assistance for rebuilding the infrastructure of Vrth Vietnam But he said the United States would examine with great care" AJL Jli iques1; fo humamtdian J4 ictnain The North News Vietnamese 2 Samaritans in greet Viet Cong ariiving in Civilians trucks U S. Senate Democrats today introduced a resolution calling for a good Samaritan welcome of Indochina refugees in the United States. A third filed a bill to cut President Fords ?307 million resettlement a.d request Sens. Alan Cranston, , and James B Alien , introduced the non bindmg resolution, while Sen Janies Abourezk, DSD, proposed a time limit of 90 day s on aid to thousands of refugees flying ado the country Abourezk s bill would provide $127 million for the initial 90 day period A House Judiciary subcommittee voted unanimously Wednesday to provide Ford with whatever funds needed to resettle the refugees from South Vietnam and Cambodia, now numbering an estimated 113,000 The House Judiciary Committee was scheduled 0 meet late m the afternoon to take up the Ford request Abourezks bill would cut Fords refugee aid request .to 90 days and would require the administration to justify added help w ithin 60 day s We ought to help these refugees said Abourezk on hs Scrvte floor But before we vote on funding of this magnitude we ought to let the dust settlt and iniutiona subside, he added The Allen Cranston resolution said "Be it resolved that tlie Senate reaffirms that the Statue of Liberty, as Emma Lazarus called her, is the Mother of Fxiles. That the Senate reaffirms that ihe lesson of the parable of the Good Samaritan lives on m ihe minds and hearts of the American people and is a part of their character and that the Senate welcomes warmly the tne reiugees from South latest exiles to our shores Vietnam and Cambodia (UPD T-- scraping away topsoil and WASHINGTON Fer the extracting the mineral with and forcing second time in his brief giant shovels presidency, Gerald Ford coal operators to reclaim the must decide whether to veto a land. States would enforce feoerxi strip mining foit. It the laws was predicted he would turn Tne December rejection tfe? Nil down and Congress came after Congress ad would try to override him. jcurned but this time itos m Tlse Bou& gave final cen- - session end could try to pass the bill over Fords oo ,e--- ? PW ft! " m rr t'SJGS one the a to day to W similar Ford Vrtord IT, DcC mbiT, Proponents are banking on the 2 sent it tc the White that tor success. Tne vo'e Douse was 293-lthree n.erp than The measure would sei me two rrlircs. or ?nj, ncecca minimum federal standard-- , to cverrtoe if a!! 451 member vote fnr surface mining et co ,1 . - p ends tuvonut milk and oranges all along road to the botdei the 200-im- le the 4-mo- Bangkok, lebable sources reported that the U S. government bis imposed a freeze on any more Cambodian and Vietnamese re fugees who want to go to the United States An Embassy spokesman said he bad no knew ledge of any such directive from Washington complete liberation of South Vietnam and hear an address by the ruling Military Management Commission The last 530 foreigners trapped in Phnom Penh crossed into Thailand today and sev era! panVed a picture of a "dead city littered with decomposing bodies and abandoned household goods, populated only by stray pets and Khmer Rouge soldiers In WASHINGTON (APi Wholesale prices reversed a ombined UPI, AP Sen George S HAVANA UcGovem said today Cuban Premier Fidel Castro has agreed to consider returning $2 million in airline hijack ransoms and the possible release of nine American prisoners on the island as gestures toward better relations witn the United States McGovern talked to reporters a few hours after Castro denied to a news coherence that his government had beta 111 any way involved in the assassination of President John F Kennedy He did say there had been 1 ip Fidel Castro attempts to assassinate leaders, himself included CIA D-D , said he had McGovern, talked with Castro over an eight-hou- r period covering a wide range of S OAS meets; Cuba sanctions not on WASHINGTON first of he (UPI) - Today is General of the Organization of American States The question of Cuban sanctions is not on the 33 point aeenda and the diseuinns are to concentrate on the U S trade act, human rights and leforin of ihe regional system What makes this conference critically important for us is the fact that it is taking place in a particular global the 'y Cuban See CASTRO on A-- h decline and rose percent in April as farm prices ;nci eased shaggy, the Labor Department said lour-moiit- A South Vietnamese naval squadron surrendered to the Viet Cong Wednesday on promise of amnesty by the Communist regime in Saigon, the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported today. Delayed UPI dispatches from Saigon disclosed that some American businessman had been left behind m the hasty U S evacuation However, earlier evacuees in accounts released today related imxcd tales ot killings and kindness horn Die Ki.mer Raage Victors, and one of the last women to arrive said soldieis escorting them gave them nth decline C Strip mining bill Combined UPL AP to celebrate 5 today In a related report, the Agriculture Department said it expected retail food prices to climb 6 to 8 percent this veer if farmers gt ttm large harvests that experts now expect If poor weather reduce- - the harvests, a., it did last year consumers could see food pru es average 8 to 10 percent abeve last year, the Agriculture Department said This would compare with an increase of 14 3 percent in retail food prices in each of the last two years The April wholesale price increase wiped out much of the 2 2 percent decline over the previous four months The December-Marc- h drop dS the biggest four month decline since 1951. Skyrocketing prices for livestock and fresh fruits and vegetables drove agriculture prices up a seasonally adjusted 4 8 percent last month to lead the over-a- ll rise in wholesale prices But not ail the price news was bad Industrial commodities rose h of 1 percent, the same as in March Farm and food prices often change erratically from month to month, and because of this most economists regard trends in industrial pnees as a truer measure of liulation Nevertheless, the April increase m wholesale food prices seems to indicate a new increase is likely in retail grocery prices, which had dropped over the past two months. The Ford administration has forecast an inflation rate of about 6 or 7 percent this year, or about half the 12 2 percent Increase in all of 1974 m the Consumer Price Index, the kev measure of inflation one-tent- 7 agenda context," said William D Rogers n Assistant Secretary of State for Affairs Inter-Amenca- "It is an opportunity and a major challenge tor the United States to show that we have a deep and abiding invest in Latin America The 1964 Cuban sanctions were to be resolved at this meeting, hut they will be left tor a later conference goes to Ford, veto likely , Rep Morris Udall, floor manager of the compromise Nil, thinks there era enough votes to overrule Congress, he said, has reaffirmed its commitment to strong surface mining regthe Presiulations and I dent hpers the message But opponents, such as R- Rep M Ilham Wampler, h r2 "Ci "ciim Wcdncoday s vote and comvote pared it with the 333-when the initial, stranger, versiu.i passed I feel after tmi vote. . . the cr.sr.cev ct a veto ate enhanced, tVam- pia, ? ,'4 e - 4 Ken Hechler, D Wf Va , ihe most outspoken congressional critic of strip Rep mining, voted against He said, It s a mouse of a bill Other switches came from North and South Carolina. Five North Carolina legis lators and four from South Ciroluu who supported the hi!) rhe Drt time voted against tms version from Two congressmen Kentookv, the nations iead-ifi- g coat producing state, also opposed tne compromise although voting for the House ridi in March Around the world Price rise May return hijack cash, Castro says Senate WASHINGTON o South yli a V Vgency reoorted that more than 1 million persons gathered m Saigon Wednesday oJSai .yffffgsaug . VC asks U.S. to help rebuild Combined LTI, AP 1 he new Viet Cong government in South Vietnam has called on the United States to help repair damage to ihe w ar ravaged country The United States said it would consider requests for humanitarian aid to South Vietnam but would not help rebuild North Vietnam's economy Mrs Pham Thi Mmh, a member of the Viet Cong delegation m Pans, told a London news conference, We welcome most favorably all help as Song as no conditions are attached to a. - tV o Louise Dunlap of the Environmental Policy Center was discouraged at losing so many House vetes but remained confident ef a suc ceesful override If they vto it, its going to further damage the credibility of the White House on energy issues, she said Carl Bagge, president of me National Coal As sue. said Congress had ignored bonds request foi essential changes "Future generations wdi b grateful if veto this Sgisia ht vi!l on a five disa-tand bhtov,'d and reasonable bilt, f irst 1 he end of the Vietnam war should strengthen detente be tv. Cell East a!.d West, Leonid I Bieiuitv, general secretary of the Communist party, said tndav Speaking a! a Kiemlm ceiemony marking the 30th anniversary of the end of World War II, known m Russia as the great patriotic war, he openly snubbed China by failing to mention that country among fraternal socialist councoalition He added the tries 01 among the stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction is becoming ever more absurd , farther advanced have Communist Pathet Lao forces near the south on the Vienbane-Luan- g Frabang highway neutralist center of Vang Vieng The advance backed by tanks puts them about 75 miles north of Vientiane. Syrian troops have taken up positions m Jordan at part of greater military coordination between the two Arab countries, according to the Kuwaiti ncwspapci S.y assail In other Mideast news. The first two ships to leave the Suez Canal in ught years armed in Port Said en route to the Mediterranean and President Anwar Sadat declared the city a free zone, destined to become the Hong Kong of the Middle East President Ford will name Malcolm Toon, a long-tim- e expert on Europe, as ambassador to IsraeL State Department sources said today, sucreedmg Kenneth Keating, who died of a heart attack on Monday Meanwhile, Lebanese Premier Rashid Sohl fought today to keep hrs six marrH-oniv eminent irom collapsing aftei seven cabinet muuslei s rc anii-Hitl- Bagge said Ford s previous veto called the bill too inflationary arri said it would out domestic coal production m a time 01 energy shortages The Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest eieetric utuit, Wednesday vrged Ford to sign the bill is the first time the TV A has gone on record in support of the legislation, although in It the cast officials have said hav penecailv Kiir.pmt passage of a linn federal strip mining control bill i ei bj Across the nation Interns and residents at Martin Luther King Hospital n Lo Angeles have called a wildcat strike and say they w on t go back until the countv comes up with more money for patient care The doctors said not enough money went for patient care or better working conditions. Meanwhile, San Francisco anesthetists ignored a legislator's appeal lo end their strike and predicted five hospitals would be bankrupt if their strike lasts another week. The strike o er rising malpractice insurance rates is in its eighth day The refugee pipeline is pouring Asians into Camp Pendletons Little Saigon so fast that it is almost full. The camp, with a capacity of about 18,000, had almost 15 fiftfl lefugees today m Quonset huts and i,00whdMily erected tonts. More than 21,1)00 refugees have been processed through the California center, but nearly 7,000 persons have moved on to Ft. Chaffee, Ark , and Eghn Air Force Base, Fla On Wall Street NEW YORK (UPI) Battling profit takers and the effects of some confusing economic news, the stock market pushed higher today in fainy active trading on ' the New York Stock Exchange The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which seesawed throughout the early trading, was ahead 2 34 to 838 78 shortly before 3pm EDT. Advances led declines, 501 to 852, among tne 1,751 issues crossing the tape Turnover during through five hours of trading amounted to about 17 scares, ccmpa-c- d with 17 690 000 during the same period Wednesday ) (Complete New York, American lists on 6 Clearing skies, soggy streets L-J- j Decreasing clouds today signal fairer and warmer weather for much of thi state Temperatures tonight will be near 35 and Friday near 70. Extended outlook partly sunny through Monday (Details, weather map on C-- Business CofniCa n, or The Hedies of the last two Marinos killed in Vietnam are protubly m an American run hospital in Saigon The Pentagon say s the State Department is trying to get them back op 1 he father of on? of the Marines says he will go lo the Viet Cung d necessary to get his son heme The Pentagon Wednesday confirmed that the bodies of Cpl Claries McMahon Jr n( Woburn, Mas . and Lance Cpi Pan-iJudge of Muishalltown, L,w a, were not taken out of the country because of the chaos during the final evacuation The Federal Energy Administration has begun a program to lo.ce 79 eieetric power plants across the nation tc Durn coal instead of oii The purpose of the the first exercise of FEA's pe-e- r to p.ogram conservation is to reduce oil 'mports But the program will ( auve increased air, waier, noise end solid Wdste pollution FEA Administrator Frank Zarb said all 79 plants selected have the ability to burn either coal or oil The House Ways and Means Committee tentatively has approved a series of tax benefits designed to encourage industry to seve energy The incentives, part of an overall energy tax bill, include faster tax write-off-s for companies whnh convex wades mio fae' , tax credits for companies which install energy-savin- g material such as .nsulation or solar heating, and tax credits for firms which recycle materials n Wd v Tiv;; no-m- seen on the Vietnamese have moved In Washington ' itijufs fight between haidhn? CemmoinsK and moderates particularly North Vietnamese but there was no mamlv Viet Lung confu ination Political anal, sts sanl the moderates appeared ,r favor giving a vome m the South letnamese government, but the hardliners disagreed There were no reported Viet Cong reprisals m to Sa,gon and hie a the city reto.m-wnniR 4b 'lours of tlie Communist takeov er, Viel Cong iiid - But lheie were new scenes Noilh Viethdinese shopping in the still uper black matket, Communists soldiers and South Vietnamese civilians chatting amiably, highways open o the Mekong Delta In many wavs, Saigon still appeared to he a wide-ope- n Black city despite the takeover markets flourished dealing m American. South Vietnamese and North Vietnamese currencies The Communists have yet to open banks a week after the hbei alien, spurring the illegal money transactions that have taken place in the capital during 'hree decades of war Tran Thanh a millionare businessman of Chinese origin, turned out be a Commumd ER on A 6 See TAKE-O- Ivukoulsjde theuty . - IF There was speculation among political obser cspitsl. streets Today in the News H- B16, 17 D16 Our Man Jones A3 Comment A5 Sports Deaths C8 TV Do-lt-M- A3 Theater an Living D! 9 -- Si Information 524-44- News ups 524-440- 0 Sports scores 524-444- S Ombudsman 364-852- 8 A( lion Ads Advertising Dll Music Cl -- 5 C6 Today B14, 15 What s Doing D17 A Uni Leary pk KN4&AKOO in cfiTrei?. nfV ff BMty Cu 521-35- 1 svtt; Home delivery problems (Call Monday itirough Saturday before 8 p m 524-244- 0 |