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Show -- Tnr lpiry -- .F --Tfc- y" . 5i J- C- Snowy Weekend fth Snow continuing through Sunday. Highs today and Sunday 25 to 30 with lews tonight 20 to 25. Details, s Wer thcr Msn on Pag? B-- Avmfeca M JLmm 3. i J SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOL, 375, NO. 50 4 4 P A G F S 1 THE 'MOUNTAIN 0 e FIRST NEWSPAPER WEST'S Tank - ietnamese outpost in Laos which North Vietnauese troops overran last Thursday in their bid tc crush South Vietnam s offensive against the Ho Chi Mine Trail. Lt. Gen. Hoang Xu.in Lam. commander of South Vietask force tnams 16,000-main Laos, said his paratroopers and armored cavalry were couterattacking to regain the hill. Lam said his units had destroyed 15 of an estimated 27 Soviet-buiPT76 tanks which North Vietnamese commanders used to spearhead the assault through the defense of Hill 31. Lam said hundreds of North Vietnamese has been killed. At 5 p.m. today, Lam said, SciHh Vietnamese tanks were only 100 or 200 yards from the summit of Hill 31 but he reported.: No one is in control of the top of the hill. North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese forces are now fighting for control of the top of the hill. South Vietnamese military claimed Friday that all of Hid 31 was recaptured by South Vietnamese troops, but that report was discredited on the basis of Lams announcement tonight based on fresh radio advisories from the field. There have been previous tank engagements in fighting over the years lb South Vietn lt SBneir In Of U. U. President Granted Leave armored battle raging tonight on Hill 31. The PT76 tank used by the North Vietnamese is a light, amphibious model which has proved impervious to antipersonnel rocket fired by American helicopter crews supporting the South Vietnamese Deseret News Washington tration. Fletcher, 51, will tak: over r the job vacant since Thomas O. Paine resigned last September to take a job with private industry. In a press conference at the U. of U. today, Fletcher said it was important to the nation to have a healthy space program. He said there were counterattack. Field reports Friday said the American-w; now using a sped, i which rocket homes in un he tank endue bv means of a sensitive detec. .ig device. Hill 31 in situated about 12 t $42,500-a-yea- heat-seekin- g miles inside Laos Heavy fighting was also .reported today for the second consecutive day around South Vietnamese Fire Support also Base Hong Ha II nine known as Hotel 2 miles inside Laos. It is manned by troops of the 1st South Vietnamese Infantry Division. Lam said 54 North Vietnamese were killed around Hong Ha II today. On Friday, to South Vietnamese Surer? WASHINGTON President Nixon today nominated James C. Fletcher, president of the University of Utah, to be director of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis- n still plenty of meaningful things to do in space. Among goals important for NASA are adequate funding, a balance between manned and unmanned exploration and closer cooperalion between the U.S. and Russia proper in space programs. Fletcher said he had asked for a two-yeleave of absence from his University job, but did not know if it would be granted. He said he did not know when the NASA assignment would become effective. Peter W. Billings, chairman, Utah Board of Higher Edu- ar Associates A-- 3 Inside The News on steel used in construction and shipbuilding. Like the Janrrary increase, the new price on alloy steel plates becomes effective with the expiration April 1 of price guarantees attached to 1970 price increase. fcCibe him as and quick to see problems a person wh. doesnt pull rank or status, ik hay a repu tation for tolerance and the ability to see the goi side r" radical others, including 1 students. He is and confident. and fellow administrators say he is practical, sensible, devoid of vanity and willing to talk candidly about any Issue even those which might be embarrassing to either the U ' himself. They describe him as a good delegator who is not always looking over your shoulder md leaves subordinates free to use initiative and be creative. Fletcher was bom June 5, 1919, in Milburn, N. T . attended school in New York CUy and received a degree in physics from Columbia University in U4ii, Ik also attended Brigham Young University from 1937 to 1939. He served as a research physicist with the TJ.. Navy Bureau of Ordnance .Ji iatv became s reseat- h a at University. He then moved to Princeton University as a teacher an Hr-m-'- 1 research physicist. He received his Ph.D. i 1948 from California institute of Technology and joined Hughes Aircraft Co. as head of the theory and analysis lab. In 1934, he joined Corp. as an associate director and then director of electronics in the missile division. In 1958, he organized his own firm, the Space Electronics Corp., which was Ramo-Woolrid- involved with developing space vehicles. The company was later acquired by Aerojet General Corp. and a new firm, .Space General Corp. was created with Fletcher as the first See FLETCHER on Page A--2 A New Turn In Colley Case FT. BENNING, GA. (UPI) that Calley did not consider Vietnamese human beings. The judge in the Galley under took Daniel said it would be ofadvisement today a governfered in rebuttal to the dement request to call rebuttal fense contention that Calley witnesses who would testify suffered such combat stress Lt. William L. Calley Jr. beat on the mission that he did and shot Vietnamese prison- not have the mental capacity ers before and after die alto contrive and premeditate leged massacre at My Lai. murder. Col. Reid W. Kennedy, in an The session remained open extraordinary Saturday sesto the press and public despite sion with the jury absent said strong objections from Geotge he would put his decision in W. Latimer of Salt Lake CirY, writing next week. chief defense attorney. LatiHe also granted a recess on mer argued that the offer of Monday and Tuesday to give proof might have an adverse the prosecution time to shape impact on the accused on the up its lengthy rebuttal case. part of the public. Kennedy The prosecution said it needed told him that impact would time to call witnesses and arhave no effect on this range their travel here to testbecause the ify. jury has been instructed not to read nor to listen to 102 CIVILIANS news about the case. Calley, 27, who led a platoon We dont know what this a on would be, Latimer sweep of My Lai in 1968, is testimony it would be whether nor said, with premeditated charged There admissable. may be no there. murder of 102 civilians the govern-meand for basis it, Daniel III, Capt. Aubrey M.. may not he able to . the prosecutor, outlined the prove it. Yet its advertised, testimony he said his witnessall over the world. es would present as follows: I'm remarked: Kennedy The evidences that on a sure the press realizes that. a about previous operation After Daniel outlined the month before My Lai the accused detained an old man, testimony, Latimer said that weve got witnesses to show and one of his men in his that in man old Calley was not there (at the beat presence a well and the accused shot the well incident and other do we bring them this unarmed old man in the beatings) make Do a farce of we in? well. this? OLD VIET WOMAN court-marti- g By U.S. Steel months schedule. Legislature Price Upped leave effective May 1. The delay until May is to allow the board to name a replacement, Billings said. Asked about NASAs budget problems, he said that raising money is a requirement in the new federal post. The U. president said he would spend the next several "getting to the of the NASA operabottom tion and in finding out what direction the agency should be going. The NASA nominee became president of the University of Utah in 1964 after 20 years of work as a scientist and leader In the aerospace industry. He took the university post 119-ye- Passed semi-quaranti- ea ion, said the board has granted Fletcher a temporary because he said it represented a new kind of challenge and an opportunity for public service. During his seven years at the U. the school has undergone the most extensive period of change in its history. Campus acreage has increased by 87 per cent and new buildings by 85 per cent. The faculty has increased by some 60 per cent, graduate student enrollment by 90 per cent and total enrollment by more than 54 per cent. Federal research grants have tripled and private gifts have quadrupled. Fletcher has been popular with both faculty and students and has practiced an open door policy in which any student or teacher can get to see him, although it may take time to work into his busy World, Astros Say headquarters in Saigon, defenders repulsed a North Vietnamese aVack on the base and killed 45 Communists. HOUSSPACE CENTER, Five South Vietnamese were TON API Apollo 14 astroreported wounded in the fight nauts. calling their moon misFriday. Lam said he had no sion a super success. were figures Rr South Vietnamese released from quarantine Fricasualties m the action today. day and will start a round of U.S. helicopter crews said public appearances here they were unable to fly today. supplies into either Hong Ha Stuart Alan B. II or Fire Support Base Delta, A. Roosa Shepard Jr., and Edgar D. Mitchseven miles inside Laos, beell were released from the isocause of heavy Communist of the Lunar Receiving lation antiaircraft f Five medical 14 hours earlier Laboratory nam, particularly during the evacuation helicopters were than They planned. originally North Vietnamese assault on turned back when they tried their first night at home spent of some the old imperial capital of to land and pick up 47 Hue in early 1968. But the Hue the South Vietnamese in The days. astronauts are schedwounded Base at Fire Support combat and other tank actions uled to attend a space agency were not of the scope of the Delta. award ceremony here today. They and their wives will fly to Washington later this weekend for a news conference in the capital on Monday. DINE WITH NIXON The spacemen also are scheduled to dine with President Nixon, spend a weekend at the presidential retreat Camp David. The astronauts walked into the bright Texas sunlight from the quarantine quarters W'ould which Bv DEXTER C. ELLIS and legislation, of the LRL and threw out benefits and, for their arms in delight. sweeten CURT BURNETT the first tine, introduce a Its great to be back in the Deseret News Staff Writers factor into penworld again, said Mitchell. The Senate and House acted sion companions. Roosa told a small crowd One bill of the retirement on legislation ranging from which greeted the astronauts, fire safety in the schools to to the House, SB131, which, It was a great mission and public employe retirement at for the first time, would set Its great to be out of jail. an unusual Saturday session. up a pension for governors. Shepard talked of the moon The Senate also passed missions scientific findings. Bills passed were: the package was passed and sent amending HJR16, Everything weve seen so would which take far continues to indicate it State Constitution to create SB13, $225,000 out of the State Insurhe the office of lieutenant goverwas a super success, nor, replacing the secretary ance Fund, to build a surplus said. of state. The measure also property warehouse. The loan ON JAN. 11 would allow the state auditor would be repaid with 6.5 per The Apollo 14 astronauts cent interest ouf of the $23,256 and state treasurer to succeed into a went themselves. rent now being paid a year were on Jan. 11. They HB205, which would prolor a warehouse. launched toward the moon in vide that the secretary of This also went to the House. to earth, Jan. 31 and retm-nestate would assume the status Meanwhile, it was announced and a stricter quarantine, on lieutenant goverof that Secy, of State Clyde L. Feb. 9. nor until the Constitution were Miller, acting as governor in This is the healthiest crew amended. of Gov. Calvin L. the absence weve ever had, said Dr. The last bill v- - s passed on had signed into law Charles Berry, the chief as- a straight party line vote of 63 Rampton, SB48. Democrats and T RepubliThis measure provides a cans. Both measures now go clearer definition of what to the Senate. Also passed in the House constitutes campus disruption and clarifies the authority of was SB43, providing a method for bringing public schools college administrators to into conformity with the State enfotv? order on campuses. Fh-iafi. House passed Fire Code without having the bill shop enforcement rammed down and an s throats. It wh! h would require that school officials PITTSBURGH (UPI) -tic.vimion workers .ijiribute calls for negotiations between United States Steel Corp., the c st of collective the fire marshal and school to nations largest producer, has to the extent they superintendents to arrive at a announced an increase of 6.6 benefit fret '. it. solution, if necessary. cent in the prices of alloy per The House also passed The Senate concentrated on steel plates, effective April 1. public employe retirement See LEGISLATOR, P&ge The pattern was expected to be followed by other major steel producers. In announcing the price hike Friday, U.S. Steel said alloy steel plates comprise three-tenth- s rf one per cent SECTION T SECTION A of industry shipments. It was the second pr ice increase on steel products in 1971. Last month industry hiked by 6.8 per cent priejs Bills 27, 1971 UXI025 Rages For Hill SAIGON (UPI) The first major tank battle of the Indochina war raged tonight for control of Hill 31 a South V- FEBRUARY SATURDAY, Astronaut Shepard comes physician. before the flight was to prevent the as- tronauts fram contracting disease just before the mission. The quarantine afterward was to preven their spreading any moon germs they may have contracted. Ninety-tw- o pounds of moon rocks gathered by Mitchell and Snepard remain in quarantine in ihe LRL. Scientists embrace his wife, Louise. start fate-to-foc- e, are exposing swoa of it to a variety of animals, fish and plants to test it for any harmful effects. If none are found, the moon material will be released to scientists for study after April 4. Also released from quarantine Friday was Nancy Klein, a laboratory who accidentally technician stuck herself with a needle Thursday while working with Apollo 14 moon samples. The astronauts had originally been scheduled for release this morning, but Berry said the Friday release was authorized by a contamination committee of scientists. We are confident we have no illnesses in any of the crewmen or anyone quarantined with them biologically or anything else, Berry said. court-marti- al er search-and-destro- y utch's Bicycle: HOLLYWOOD (AP) Shirley Temple's teddy bear $430, Marilyn Monroes ' bed $650 and Paul Butch Cassidy Newmans bicycle $3,100 at an auction of movie props. The oval, chaise-styl- e bed provacatively perched on by the late Muss Monroe in Lets Mike Love went Friday night to a New York dealer: agent who declined tc he identified. An agent of Universal Studio bought the wheeled teddy bear pulled cn a string by toddler Temple in Captain aiy in 1036. ' stu.ventieth Century-Fodio had bought it from a toy department for $3. The bidder, Arthur Trudeau. said the fuzzy teddy will become part of a hitherto million $1 unannounced, brought x nt Hollywood museum opening next Thursday as a new attraction n the Universal Studio tour. The auction of 20th Century-Fo- x props continues through Sunday at the newly opened galleries of Sotheby, Parke-BemLos Angeles. About 730 persons attended Friday nights session, when et sales totaled A young paid $650 in carried $67,375. Atlanta admirer for the carpetbag The Sound of Music by Julie Andrews. I am her No. 1 fan Carl Lacey, claimed 21, who said his business is buying ard selling hotels and motels. Composer Burt Bacharach unsuccessfully bid $3,000 for the bicyle ridden by Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The winning $3,100 bid came from television producers David and Burt Winters Rosen. Newproducing Theyre mans fi;st television special, to be shown April 18 on ABC, and said they wanted the bike as a gift for Newmans wife, whose Joanne Woodward, birthday is today. Bacharach said hed have the bike in a glass hs Westbury, N.Y., restaurant. The Dover House. he he Instead, joked, guessed hed have to display the Oscar he won for the song displayed case at RainButch Cassidy drops Keep Falling On My in Head." A 20th Centufy-Fo- x official estimated the studic might realize $400,000 from the four-da- y sale of approximately 2,000 items, only part of its prep department. Evidence also will be that prior to and subsequent, to My Lai he beat prisoners he had 1 Vietat an captured, namese woiiiui' ior no apparent reason, and hat he had a reputation for being rough w:Mi prisoners. This has a bearing on the mental state of the accused at the time of the incident. The judge remarked that such testimony might also holster the defense contention Today's Thought. What did ice do today that ice can point to for generations to come , to say that we laid the ... foundation for a better and more peaceful and more prosperous wovMf Lyndon B. Johnson V- - |
