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Show 2A NEWS, Monday, December 11, DESERET 972 WORLD DATELINES 'I'm One Who Should've Died, 'Pilot Says NWT bush pilot who .(UPI) crashed on a mercy flight watched two of his companions die while he survived 31 days thanks to an Eskimo boy and a diet of melted snow, lichen and glucose. .'The pilot, Martin Hartwell. Isaid from his hospital bed Sunday, I dont want to come out a$ the hero. Im the one who should have died, reported his employer, Neil Murphy. 47, was rescued ; YELLOWKNIFE, A t t Saturday when search planes spotted him waving a red flare' beside the wreckage of his downed Beechcraft. Nearby were the bodies of his passengers. Dr. Warren Harrison of Stanton' Yellowknife Hospital said Hartwell was in "excellent condition and is eating well and doing fine." Murphy said Hartwell reported the crash occurred when he took the plane to a to lower altitude improve radio reception after being blown off course. While reaching for the map he turned on the cabin lights which destroyed his night vision. The plane crashed at this point, .Murphy said. The passengers aboard the plane when it disappeared Nov. 8 were an Eskimo boy, Kootook; British nurse Judy Hiu, 27; and Nemee a pregnant Eskimo w'oman. Hartwell and Miss Hill were taking Kootook and Mrs. Mullroyak from Cambridge Bay, north of the Arctic Circle, to the Yellowknife hospital because the woman was in labor and the boy apparently had appendicitis. Mrs. Mullroyak SAIGON ' (UPI) -S- outh Viet- - Jwmese militiampn acting on a , tip from a Viet Cong defector 1 ' a Communist intercepted 1 J iyorce moving from Cambodia ; i toward Saigon today and killed ry'JsT in a bitter fight just 42 I Jmiles northwest of the capital, ; t military sources sa'. J ' :. The fighting broke out nine miles south of Tay Ninh province capital and was still going on late in the afternoon, Vietnamese officers said. Highway 22 linking Tay Ninh to Saigon, 50 miles away, was cut and Weve got the Communist bodies stacked on the road, Hi&OP'S TEXAN Bush For Dole - i WASHINGTON ( AP) National Chairman ilobert J. Dole said today he resigning and that United Rations Ambassador George 'fiush of Texas has been picked replace him. Dole, U.S. senator from DO YOU NEED PDPCS Fittings, Vols, Vi inch to 3 inch. Etc. 4 large slock of both Black and Galvanized. Call on os for a foot or a airload. Our Pipe shop will cut and throat y 4 Kansas announced his impending resignation as party chairman at a White House news conference following a session with President Nixon, but he denied any White House pressure behind his decision to quit. Bushs actual election as chairman of the Republican National Committee will be up to the committee itself when it meets here Jan. 19, but Nixons wishes are expected to be followed. White House press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Bush would continue as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations through the current session of the U.N General Assembly, and a replacement would be announced later. Dole said he had agreed to on in an advisory capacity for a month or two to help Bush break into the new job. I find broad support for George Bush, Dole said. stay SALT LAKE Hartwell fractured both ankles and his left knee in the crash. He told Murphy the boy did quite a bit to keep him alive, including chopping wood Mull-roya- A passenger train smashed into a freight train in eastern Bulgaria Sunday, killing 26 persons and injuring 10 others, the Bulgarian news agency BTA said today. The first sleeping car carrying 50 passengers was BTA wrecked on impact, died and 10 said. Twenty-siwere injured. Urgent measures have been taken BTA said. saying. That night, Hartwell he&'d the boy coughing as he slept beside him and tried to give him artificial respiration. V one South Vietnamese officer said. Government casualties in the first 10 hours of fighting were three wounded, he said. Sunday, Typhoon Therese smashed into South Vietnams, central coast, military spokesmen said today, wrecking one of the last U.S. Army base3 in the war zone and cutting back air strikes throughout the country. But the U.S. comB52 mand said bombers, which fiy above the weather, y flew their heaviest raids in the Saigon area in more than two months noon Sunday and midday today. Military sources said the militiamen in the Tay Ninh, fighting were tipped by a Communist defector Sunday that an estimated 500 North Vic amese and Viet Cong troops had moved out of their and Cambodian sanctuary were moving southeast toward Saigon. Acting on the intelli' gence, government troops poured 1,000 artillery shells into the Communist positions during the night, then moved in to make contact just after dawn today. T . The chairman NTSB exam- investigators the structure of the wreckage as it lay before removing the wreckage to a hanger for further investigained Troop Strength Dips To 25,200 - SAIGON (AP) U.S. troop strength in Vietnam dipped slightly last week to 25,200 U.S. Command men, the announced today. This was a drop of 300 from the previous week. The total includes 14,400 Army, 8,000 Air Force, 1,500 Navy, 1.200 Marines and 100 Coast Guard. About 100,000 more U.S. servicemen are supporting the war from bases in Guam and Thailand and from ships of the 7th Fleet. tions. Meanwhile, the Cook County morgue completed the task of identifying the bodies of the victims, some of whose bodies had been burned beyond recognition in the fire that enthe plane shortly after gulf the crash. three passengers, crew members and two residents of a home into which the plane crashed lost their lives in the disaster. Among the dead were the pilot, W.L. Whitehouse and Rep. George W. Collins, a passenger. Forty Eighteen persons on board the Omaha flight, including all three stewardesses, survived. Washington-to-Chicago-t- o Reof the Commit- The Moscow A band of armed Chinese Soviet Kazakhstan entered from Singiang Province last month to attack Soviet shepherds, killed five Russian soldiers and an unknown number and escaped of shepherds across the border with a large number of sheep, a secret government report says. y tee said today he had received information that 115 U.S. servicemen were being held prisoner in Laos and that 141 others had been moved to POW camps inside China. Belfast shot A soldier accidentally and killed a man today while Rev. Paul D. chairman of the group that was formed after the capture of the U.S. intelligence vessel Pueblo by North Korea Jan. 23, 1968, told reporters in Bangkok he received his information from sources in Vientiane, the Laotian capital. 'The troublesome part about tive order. Interior Secretary Rogers lies is that so many of them are C.B. Morton, in a memoraneasier to believe than the dum obtained by The Associtruth." ated Press, has asked his top subordinates for recommendaimed at solving probations CHICAGO CHICAGO (UPI) -- Officials of the National Transportation Safety Board labored in cold and snow Sunday, attempting to determine the cause of the crash near Midway Airport Friday of United Airlines 737 jet in which 45 persons were , killed. . member the Pueblo - Air Crash Is Probed A top secret survey by the Egyptian army and air force has convinced the Cairo military that it cannot fight Israel in the foreseeable future, diplomatic sources said today. The sources said the survey showed that only 0 percent of the army's weapons are battle-readand only 60 to 65 percent of the air forces w arplanes are ready to fly. Bangkok WASHINGTON The (AP) Nixon administration is actively considering creation of a department of natural resources by presidential execu- one-da- Brussels x Kootook died the next dav. guarding the new police station in Belfast's North Queen Street, an army spokesman said. The soldier dropped or fumbled with his rifle in the rain and it went off by accident, the spokesman said. A civilian in the street was to hospital hit and taken where he was found to be dead. he said. hands over the Nobel insignia the medal and the diploma and the prize checks. But his physicians advised against this because the monarch was suffering from a slight cold. The crown prince was called in as a stand-in- . Sofia By Nixon Lind-stro- all Shop '9fl Stockholm lems involved in such an order. Morton requested the recommendations by. Dec. 15, but said he would review them before deciding whether to submit them to the White House. Two years ago, despairing of getting major reorganization through an opposition Nixon President Congress, used an executive order to create the Environmental Protection Agency, transferring major programs from the Interior Department, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and other agencies. An executive reorganization does not require positive congressional approval, but takes effect unless Congress votes to block it. Ten scientists from the United States and Britain and German author Heinrich Boell received their awards Sunday from Crown Prince Carl Gus-ta- f of Sweden then appeared as guests of honor at a glittering Nobel banquet and ball which ended early today. 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