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Show Our Phone Numbers ': Chance Of Snow News Tips Home Delivery Information Sports Scores Classified Ads Only Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South -5- Mostly cloudy today tonight and Friday. Chance of light snow today and tonight. Lows 5 to 10 above. Details, weather map on Fage B-- 24-4100 24-2840 -5- 24-4445- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 9. 524-444- 8- 521-353- 51 f VOL. 375, NO, (7. S. 10c 56 PAGES 6 THE Target Daie: '',ay Envoy In Moscow - How would you like him, being treated the way Zionist thugs treat our diplomats in America? It was the first report of physical reprisals in the new diplomatic war of nerves, kicked off Tuesday when the Soviets announced they could not guarantee the safety of Americans in Russia in view of Zionist attacks on Soviets in America. U.S.-Sovi- CIIAXT SLOGANS For the first time in more than four years Soviet authorities Wednesday evening permitted a spontaneous demonin front of the emstration bassy. About 20 young persons stood before the gate and chanted slogans for 15 minutes. More delegations of Soviet citizens entered the U.S. embassy peaceably to deliver letters of protest against the harassment of Soviet officials and performers in the United States. Three men and a woman from the 1st Medical Institute, one of the men a Soviet Jew, delivered such a letter to First Secretary Sol Polansky about noon. Polansky received the first such letters Wednesday from workers representing two Moscow factories. SIMILAR LETTERS Another contingent of four delivered a similar letter later on behalf of the first state ball bearing factory. This party got as far as the 9th floor anteroom to Ambassador Jacob D. Beams office before being met by an embassy representative. The sources said the Rus Hope Voiced At Paris PARIS (AP) Representatives of Hanoi and Saigon at the Paris peace .talks today expressed hopes that the New Year will bring some progress in the deadlocked talks. But they followed up with repetitions of old charges against their opponents. We express the wish that the conference will record progress in the coming year, North Vietnams chief delegate, Xuan Thuy, told newsmen as he entered the first weekly meeting of 1971. sians Wednesday night approached the diplomat and his wife outside the Taganka Theater, Moscows showplace for and avant garde plays, grasped his lapels. ' They just shook his lapeis a bit and asked him how he would like being treated the way Zionist thugs treat our diplomats in America, the sources said. The incident ended in a few mintues when the diplomat and his wife entered their car, they said. The embassy circulated a background sheet to the American community on the situation today, stating, The U.S. government . . . expects the Soviet government to take necessary steps to guarantee . . . (safety) for American officials and private citizens in the and organizations Soviet Union. With the weatherman's word that the regions icy grip is finally loosening, chilled Utahns breathed easier today, while still breathing wreaths cold. ol steam in There was also heartening news for tiny Kingston, Piute County, where 35 families have been without culinary water since Wednesday when a line froze and burst Gov. Calvin. L, Rampton dispatched an engineer from State Department of Natu- ral Resources to the commu- nity Wednesday night to de- temine what kind of aid the state can supply. A spokesman for the gover- nor indicated the state will be abie to draw some money on emergency funds to help re- store a water supply for Kingston. Temperatures over most of the state were expected to be not quite so cold today, tu- night and Friday, according to the National Weather Serv- ice office at Salt Lake City. Highs today in northern Utah of 15 degrees will likely inch up to 20 degrees Friday. The extended outlook for the sub-zer- o SECTION A Do--It 13, 16, 17 14, 15 18, 19 19 Man SECTION City, Regional Our Man Jones fi 12 1-- B 1, 3, 4, 8 1 8 J Weatherlfcp bLLllUiN Kj World of Women SECTION D Sports Financial - record low temperature of 17 below zero added to the cold weather woes of AlbuN.M. today, and querque, Fraser, in the mountains of registered 42 Colorado, zero in the below degress early morning. For the second straight day, Arizonas record low was broken at Hawley Lake, an Indi- A Today's Thought A hero is someone icho goes through the dark streets of life lighting lam ps for people to see by, A saint is himself a light. Felix Adler i 1. 2, 6 1-- 4 6, 7 Record Lows By Associated Press A spokesman, Pentagon W. Friedheim, mentioned the figure after Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird said in Bangkok, Thailand, today that by May 1 "a major portion of our combat forces that have a combat recombat assponsibility or signment within the country will have been withdrawn. Friediieim said that the present force level of 335,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam would be cut to about 285,000 as of May 1, B"i that more than 100,000 of these will be combat Jerry troops. Other U.S. officials said the role of the remaining combat troops will be to supply the South Vietnamese with air and artillery support, logistics and security. They said the troops might be sent out on patrol as part of their security role. As withdrawals continue after May 1, Friedheim said, combat troops will still constitute 40 to 50 per cent of the force remaining in Vietnam. Those that remain, Washington sources said, will be used as advisers with South Vietnamese units or will be kept in a reserve status to cope with any emergency situations posing a threat to the security of other American personnel. During au interview by four television network representatives Monday Nixon spoke only in general terms of a withcontinued measured drawal. In Paris on Tuesday, Laird mentioned a mid- -' summer goal: of ending U.S. combat responsibilities. This and his reference today to May 1 represented the first move by the .Administration toward a scheduled withdraw- . fill al timetable. There was some speculation the timing might also be designed to head off new student protests about the war, which reportedly are planned for the spring months. The May 1 date has been set, government sources said, unless the Administrations troop withdrawal plans are j upset by some unforeseen contingencies. The end of the U.S. ground combat role will not end the American presence in Vietnam, however, nor will it end American casualties: of A significant number U.S. ermbat advisers will remain for a time with Vietnamese units, and American an trading post on the Fort Apache Reservation, and a 50 per cent loss of that states citrus crop seemed likely. Arizonas record low is 41 two degrees below zero under the previous mark set Wednesday. A man who apparently fell on a doorstep froze to death in El Mirage, near Phoenix, Ariz., and thousands of persons in the Southwest experienced acute discomfort because of failing supplies of natural gas for heating. More than a dozen states lying between the Rockies and the western Great Lakes Lad another subzero morning. The National Weather Service reported the border to border and coast to coast freeze was fraying a bit in the Deep J, estimates of by May 1, At the time of the Cambodian invasion last spring, there were approximately 385,000 U.S. troops in South Vietnam and President Nixon said that 100,000 of them would be withdrawn within a year. -- . The defense secretaiy arrived in Bangkok today for a visit on his way from Paris to South Vietnam. Asked if he would visit Cambodia, Laird replied: I dont , 'A NIGHTMARE' Snow Slows Rail Travelers City, due to arrive at 10:20 a m. today two days late. By BRENT CLEMENT Deseret News Staff Writer For the balance of the passengers, it was on to Los Angeles aboard a Union Pacific train. Those headed for San Francisco would have 3 make extra arrangements for the journey between here and the coast. They had arrived too late in Ogden to catch the connecting train that would take them directly home. That train had left Monday at ; 10:30 p.m. and the next one w'ould not leave until 10:30 . p.m. today. Passengers related exper-ience- s in Salt Lake City ranging from waiting hours in ) After nearly three days of temperblizzards, atures and snowdrifts, a cold Union Pacific train pulled into sub-zer- o on a jour- Ogden Wednesday ney that passengers called a prolonged nightmare. The train left Chicago Sunday evening en route to California, but ran into trouble near Perry, Iowa, when it hit a snowdrift and broke, the heating system and water pipes. From then on it was a story of a struggle to keep warm, of being stranded in railroad stations and of efforts to cope with a storm which was simply too much for railroad workers. I was in a Pullman car and I think Ive got pneumonia, said Mrs. Helen Rawl-in- g. South San Francisco, one of 100 passengers who arrived in Ogden at 12:05 p.m. Wednesday. Now Ive got 15 more hours to spend on the bus. There were 208 people aboard the train when it left Chicago, due to arrive in San Francisco at 3:45 p.m. Tuesnight, 26 day. Wednesday members of the group started their last leg of the trip on a Greyhound bus in Salt Lake 15 below at Richfield and Delta, 12 below at Blanding and 10 below at Ellen Colleroy, Vallejo, Calif., thaws out in warm Salt Lake depot after freezing three-da- y train trip from Chicago. stalled cars with frozen soda pop and milk to crowding to keepwarm at like cattle night. It was too cold to sleep in said Elizabeth your scat, King, a college student from We were San Francisco. treated like cattle. The older people didnt want to leave the warm cars two out of the 20 had heat said James Pot-e- r, and water, One Belmont. Calif. men, night everybody crowd- women and children ed into two cars to sleep. The train, operating from ; . . ; Chicago to Council Bluffs, Iowa, under Milwaukee Rail-Se- e PASSENGERS, Page 9 A-- O i' h vlm Chemlcs! 4th Wegt and 33rd South xho line was covered with to soil by the workmen prevent it from freezing but See SLIGHT on Page 3 fin stated total withdrawals . Laird said Thailand will need more military aid, particularly over the next decade, because President Nixon has called on Americas allies in Asia to take on more and more of their own defense burdens as U.S. forces in the area are reduced. Milford, Vernal. Salt Lake Citys low was 1 degree above zero, Kingston was not the only frozen where community water pipes were a problem, Pipes burst on Hotel Utah property ir Salt Lake City, at a Murray church, in a Logan department store and in Salt Lake County, where a high- way was flooded. In the process of widening 33rd South and moving a Pumping station from beneath an overpass at 3rd West, Alder Construction Co. uncov- -' water line that ered a long-rang- would ed the Administration oeat its own publicly have any meeting scheduled there at this time. This' ; seemed to indicate theat he might fly to Phnom' Penh : from Saigon without previous announcement. Premier Thanom Kittikachorn said earlier he would; ask Laird for more military aid. including helicopters,-- : and faster delivery of items the United States is provide.;; ing under its present aid program. The premier also was complaining to Laird about reports that the United States plans to sell 160,000 tons of American rice to Indonesia and South Korea, traditional markets for Thai rice. Foreign Minister Thant Khoman said his government would have to resort to other measures if talks with Laird failed to produce results, but he gave no indication what might be done. BANGKOK, THAILAND (AP) Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said today that the United States could increase its military assistance to Thailand as it broadens the appieation of the Nixon Doctrine in Southeast Asia. promises warming trends that may push the mercury into the 30s in some parts of the state, with lows from zero to 10 degrees to night jumping into the 20s. A chance of light snow was predicted today, with the probability of measurable pre- cipitation around 20 per cent tonight and decreasing to 10 Per cent Friday. Beforethe letup there was stlU another round of near-th-e temperatures in f,ecord "e staje during the right Wf,dnefday and early today, ich Co binS Plund to a 34 degrees below zero Tues- day night( did not report a temperature this morning, It was 23 degrees below in Bryce Canyon during the Ilight) 22 below in Roosevelt, 19 below in Green River, 17' at troops will continue to conduct air operations and, probe artillery ably, activities. The next phase of the Arne.-ica- n withdrawal will Involve handling artillery, logistic and aircraft support over to the Vietnamese, perhaps by late next year, the sources said. Thpse sources also predict Could Increase Thai Aid, Laird Says weekend below u xx'GSr y u y y lzz? xcsa Can Expect 'Warm' Trend IfilGlNGWS Inside TL Foreign City, Regional Theater Editorial Pages A Chilly Utahns I National, WASHINGTON (UPI) -U.S. troops will cease to play a major combat role in Vietnam after May 1, but the Pentagon said today (hat more than 100,000 combat troops will remain there in a security role. 7, 197 JANUARY THURSDAY, 1 cffW m Accosted MOSCOW U.S. (UPI) Embassy source,--; said today three Russians grabbed an American diplomat by his outside a theater lapels Wednesday night and asked WEST'S FIRST NEWSPAPER MOUNTAIN ; i 'd , JiVy c. mm ifs A'j 4lfv I West - South and Southeast to the accompaniment of light rain and drizzle. A wanning trend was in a northward developing flow of air up the Great Plains. No such letup was in sight, however, in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. ff i?J; 11 n , f, j v fr? ' i n iC In Arizona, Russel) Sheide-ma- n of the Federal Insurance Corp., said the record cold wave in the citrus area appears to be the worst weve experiencced. He predicted a 50 per cent crop loss if it continues. The three major utilities in Arizona have switched from turbines to fuel oil because of natural gas cutbacks by the El Paso Natural Gas Co. Gas supplies were curtailed because of the heavy demand for heat. Tii & Deseret Ice Newt, oNitos by Stc.e Parker hangs beneath Union Pacific train after heating system broke and caused "prolonged nightmare" for 203 passengers. ' t . 4 |