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Show Fog To Stay i i B-- VOL. 1 lt i I ? 1 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 2. 374, NO. 167 i A Variable high cloudiness tonight and Sunday with continuing valley fog. Highs today in the 20s with lows tonight 5 to 10. Details, Weather Map on Page 3 8 10c PAGES MOUNTAIN THE WEST'S DECEMBER SATURDAY, FIRST NEWSPAPER 26, 1970 1971: Chance To Set Things Right? United Press International is over. It it should have been. But a rapidly approaching new year will give everybody a chance to set things with promises. right The Christian world celebrated the birth of Jesus Chrirt, the Prince of Peace. But around the globe, war, hate anJ tension vied with love, peace and piety in the Christmas. 1970, wasnt what minds and hearts Saigon To Olathe, Kan. Town Brings GIs Home OLATHE, KAN. (UPI) -SOlathe GIs serving in Vietnam got to spend 10 minutes of Christmas with their families, thanks to their townspeople. Another didnt get home until after midnight today and a ninth gave up his airplane seat so another serviceman could fly home. :ven The servicemen were delayed because a jetliner from Saigon was two hours late getting into OHare Airport in Cicago. Its been so long since Ive a mmmmm, Patrick Kelly told his mother as they were re-- . united at the Kansas City, Mo., airport. He said be would rather have steak than turkey for Christman dinner. seen good, steak of Olathe citizens raised enough money in the last two weeks before Christmas to bring all nine of their hometown boys serving in Vietnam home for Christmas. Only eight came oack. The ninth, Capt. James Smith, stayed in Vietnam because he wanted to give his seat on the The national outcry against the verdicts came as Moscow dispatches reported the two Jews sentenced to death and the nine others including Jews and Russians sentenced to jail terms had appealed the sentences to the supreme court of the Russian federation. Shazar renewed the demand made by Premier Golda Meir and the Knesset (parliament) Friday that the Leningrad executive, who death sentences be revoked company and that the Leningrad Jews charged Mrs. Ruiz nothing. You can say all you want about people not caring and about there being no Santa Mrs. Ruiz said. But Claus, I know one divorced woman and nine kids who will argue the other way until they turn blue in the face. There was good cheer even In Vietnam. Army Spec. 4 Robert P. Decker, 21, Green Bay, Wis., received a new car, a paid vacation, a color SAIGON (UPI) Hanoi television and a $250 wardRadio broadcast today what it robe when he won the said was excerpts from a gift pack on the Christinas night observance Vietnam Gift Pack at an American prisoner of Program. war camp in North Vietnam. A religious service, carols sung by the prisoners and an interview wih one of the pilots were included in the broadcast on the Communist station. Prisoners in the choir sang several traditional Christmas songs, and a special carol TOKYO (AP) North Korea they had apparently written United the States that charged in which themselves, they of armed sent a number God bless you i nd keep sang a ship, spy including ships, you safely, to our reunion day. into North Korean waters We pray for a home reunion today. The North Koreans and well all be there soon. decisive dealt a said tly The broadcast did not say counter blow at the intrudIioiv many prisoners took part ers. in the alleged Christmas night The Korean Central News party. Agency also s id the United A regular Hanoi Radio States sent warplanes to the e broadcaster spot and fired more than 50 said he traveled to the camp large shells at North Korean for the service, and interpatrol boats. The broadcast viewed a man who claimed to said nothing about casualties be Navy Cmdr. Walter Eugene or damage. Wilber of Pennsylvania. There was no immediate Other names mentioned by comment from U.S. or South the Communist broadcast Korean sources. were Navy Lt. Gerald Coffee. Korea Reds 'Bombastic' plane to a serviceman. A commercial jetliner flew the soldiers from Saigon to O'Hare Airport. Chicago's From there, a s er plane provided by a Kansas utilities company flew seven of them to the Kansas City Municipal Airport, where they landed at 10 minutes before midnight. The eighth soldier, Mike Stewart, was given a ticket on a commercial plane to Kansas City. He arrived just after midnight today. The servicemen will be home until sometime after New Years. A band, thrown together just for the occasion, played UPI Telephoto Sgt. Fred Clark looks Hey, Look Me Over as the plane landed in Kansas City, 30 miles from Olathe. Families, friends and the curious swarmed over the runway. Roger Jones, who Knew no one on board the plane, said he came to the a'rport so his the son, Gregg, could see second greatest story ever told. This proves that the people et his three-week-ol- son for the first time. d do care about the boys despite their positions on the war, said Terry Welch, who organized the drive. This can only happen in said one of the serOlathe, viceman, Kenneth Allebrand. The people here are No. 1. Fred Clark's wife rushed out to greet her husband as lie stepped eff the plane. She carried their baby who is 1 month old today and whom Clark had never seen. Clark played with the boy and then noticed something pinned to his blanket. It was the emblem of the cavalry division he serves with in Viet- nam. Aren't you proud of that?" his wife asked. Clark looked at his son, and then he smiled. English-languag- Navy Lt. Deane Woods. Air Force Lt. John Owen Davies. Air Force Lt. Gary Sigler, and Air Force Capt. Norman Inflation Dissolves Peace Dividend' - WASHINGTON (AP) The peace dividend, the billions of dollars the Nixon Administration lipped could be channeled back into health and education programs when the Vietnam war wound dawn, has proved to be a myth in a wave of inflation. There is no peace dividend, says Robert C. Moot, the Pentagon's comptroller. Inflation and pay raises have eaten most that at its peak in the Vietnam war was the Pentagon an costing added $20 billion a year, but by the end of the current fiscal year the figure wall have been sliced to about $10 19G8 JERUSALEM (UPI) President Zalman Shazar called today on all Jews and all men of conscience the world over to protest against Hie death sentences imposed in the Leningrad plane hijack trial for Hie Jews of the Soviet Union cannot raise their voices. - The Even without a peace dividend, it would seem that defense spending could be reduced as the war comes to a dose, and the men and the machines come home. But that is not to be. Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird has already let it be known Pentagon spending will go up next year for the first three years. in an interdew. Moot ofan fered explanation for where the expected savings disappeared and why defense time in spending is heading up instead of down. Over the past two years, some savings have already been plowed back into the economy, he says. This is the $6.2 billion resulting from the 1968 Pentagon budget of $78 billion to $71.8 billion cut in the in the current fiscal year. Pay raises for military and civilian workers in the Defense Department make up another $4.6 billion of the $10 billion drop in war csts. Piled on top of this was $300 in million boost military retirement pay. With inflation driving up costs. Moot explains, the Pentagon. as well as all other federal agencies, is paying more for the same goods and services purchased two years ago. To keep spending to Laird says is the level and at the same what rock-botto- time finance modernization programs, lie has trimmed military and civilian manpower rolls. The size of tire armed forces has shrunk from 3.5 the Nixon Administration took office lo about 2.9 million today and will diop further to perhaps below 2.5 million. Still, the pay raises combined with the impact of inflation. will force a reversal in the downward trend of the defense budget next year. Moot says. When the President submits his new budget to Congress early next year, the Pentagon's share is expected to increase about $2 billion. Moot says the emphasis in million when WpIIs. the i.ew budget will up on more money for research and to counter Soviet in Ibis field, moie development increases money for modernization new ships and planes delayed by the war and to help' offset th manpower cuts in 'he military services. Theie will also be more money for foreign military aid to carry ouf the Nixon doctrine of helping America's allies do their own fighting. Today's Thought Wc loce the things ire lore for what thcij an. nobrri Frost girl, then being forced to stop taking calls because too many people wanted to lieip; and the Jewish men in Milwaukee. Wis., who worked on Christmas Eve for Christians so the latter could be with their families. teen-age- Israel President Calls Far A World Protest mankind. Near the plant where Christ was born in Bethlehem, a hand grenade said to hav been thrown by an Arab guerrilla exploded. Few pilgrims heard the explosion. More heard a girls choir from Texas sing in Manger Square: Glory be to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of goodwill. The Middle East with its tension between Israelis and Arabs was not the only battleground. There was no forgetting the Vietnam war. American soldiers Nine were killed and nine wounded Christmas Eve when a U.S. artillery shell smashed into an American post. The U.S. military command said the shell was misdirected. Two other Americans died when their helicopter was shot down 75 miles north of Saigon. Mrs. Concepcion Ruiz, a divorcee, and her nine children celebrated Christmas in their home in Tucson, Ariz., remodeled from a tin, dirt-floshack by Frank a construction Drachman, Day. We all look forward to the day when we'll spend Christmas at home together, Hope told 20.000 GIs. Then there were officials of Bayonne (N.J.) Hospital, first issuing an emergency appeal for a rare type blood for an ill SOVIET HIJACK TRIAL Broadcasts POW Party . 1 of it. Moot said was meanwhile, his and seventh perspending haps final year of shows in South Vietnam on Christmas Hope, Hanoi Radio Im so glad to see you Im gonna wrap you up and put you under the tree, Kellys mother said. .. of Decki'm overwhelmed. er said when comedian Bob Hope drew Deckers name. The voice claiming to be WilI have received ber said. many letters, packages and cards, and today I received another package. There were many boxes of candy . . . and eight pictures of my family, which havp much sentimental value to me. Its a very happy occasion to receive the packages, espeof year. It cially this tin make.; your heart feel good to receive packages and be allowed to receive packages. the '"he broadcast said celebration was Christmas with held in a large room electric bulbs and spotlights." A huge Christmas tree had to been set up. according Hanoi Radio, and a streamer, God of love with the words and peace be with you," was strung across the room. and all Soviet Jews who so leniency in the Leningrad trial. desire be allowed to emiLHumanite said the verdict would grate to Israel. provoke legitimate d emotion Special prayers for the among even he Jews and all Jews livfriends of Russia. These were demonstrations ing in Russia were said in synagogues throughout Israel against the verdict in Washtoday, the Jewish sabbath. Beington, New York, London, cause it was the sabbath the Rome and Tel Aviv. In Paris nationwide protest rallies and the window of he Soviet tourmarches were not held today. ist office was smashed by a But what shaped up as the paving stone and French govbiggest demonstration so far ernment officials said France was scheduled after the sabwould intervene. baths end this evening in the Diplomatic observers in huge square of the Kings of Moscow expressed belief that Israel in front of Tel Avivs the death sentences would be modernistic glass and concommuted, unless the public crete city hall. Mrs. Meir heroutcry abroad hardens the self planned to address the attitide '.7 the highest Soviet officials. The news agency throng. Israel got support from two Tass today condemned what it the called a new fit of anti -unexpected quarters Paris Communist newspaper Soviet hysteria whipped up by LHumanite and the British Zionist circles . . . and masCommunist Party appealed for terminded by Israel. ln-ingra- Reds Violate Holiday Truce - SAIGON (UPI) The U.S. Command today reported 81 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese violations of the U.S. and wounded during the allied compared with three wounded last Christmas, official records showed. Spokesmen for the U.S. Command said one of the American wounded came Christmas cease-fir- South Vietnamese Christ. The Communists truce was still in effect. mas cease-fire- The command also reported nine Americans were killed and nine wounded when a U.S. 105mm artillery shell hit an outpost in the northern sector of South Vietnam shortly before the allied cease-firThe accident caused the heaviest U.S. casualties in a single ground incident since July. It occurred 11 miles southwest of Hue. Military spokesmen said troops and other allied units resumed combat operations at the 6 p.m. Christmas Day exof the allied A cease- de- cease-fir- e clared by the Viet Cong was still in effect. It started 17 hours before the allied truce and was scheduled to continue until 1 a.m. Sunday. The U.S. Command said the Communist violations in the allied truce period showed a last years from decline Christmas truce when inei 115 Communist-provokedents wpre reported. d American casualties Day when Communist ground fire knocked down an OH38 Kiowa observation helicopter 70 miles north of Saigon. Two other Americans were at midafternoon Christmas day when they came under small arms fire while en route to a position of the 1st Brigade, 5th Division (mechanized), 12 miles south Zone of the Demilitarized wounded (DMZ). U.S. forces, South Vietnamese piration fire. e of four The fourth Cl wounded during the truce was hit in a clash in the central region of South Vietnam before dawn Christmas Day. South Vietnamese officials said 17 government troops, police and civilians were killed, 53 wounded and one kidnaped by the Viet Cong during the truce. Communist losses were placed at 20 killed and one captured. Communiques from Phnom Penh said Cambodian T28 bombers pounded suspected North Vietnamese troop concentrations 18 miles east cf Phnom Penh early today. The bombing rattled windows in the ennital. Inside The News SECTION 1,2 National, Foreign City, Regional Church Tage Soort? Editorial 3 3 - 4. .i 6 SECTION City. Regional Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads SECTION T A B . . 6 |