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Show m Still More Snow Intermittent snow tonight and Friday. Temperatures in the 30s. Lows 15 to 25. tonight VOL. Details cn Page NO. 379, B-l- Our Phone Numbers News Tips Circulation Information Sports Scores l. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 10 ... 122 Years Of Service Mountain West's First Newspaper 10c 56 PAGES 524-440- 0 524-284- 524-444- 8 JANUARY THURSDAY, 0 524-444- 5 11,. 1973 Pay, Price Reins Dropped For Voluntary Guidelines WASHINGTON' Nixon resident -P(AP) today abol- ished mandatory wage-priccontrols except in the food and health industries. In their place, he established a system of voluntary wage and price guidelines-backethe by threat of government enforcement. The move-- far surprise more sweeping than had been as Nixon expected came asked Congress for a one year extension of his authority to control wages and prices. the President abolished the Pay Board and the Price Commission but retained the Cost of Living Council to manage his Phase 3 economic system. The new program, which immediately replies the Phase 2 system established in November is self- 1971, e d administering and based on the voluntary compliance, White House said. No longer will large businesses and labor unions have to get prior government approval for wage or price hikes except in special problem areas which Nixon listed as food processing and retailing, and the health industry. The President also continued the present system of looser mandatory controls over construction wage increases and said the present voluntary effort to Keep interest rates down would stay Li effect. But for those industries and Unions freed today from mandatory controls, the government retains the right to move in with stiff action to roll back unreasonable increases. per cent ceiling on wages creases should be modified. Nixon said in a message fo Congress that his goal is to re-- d ce the inflation rate to 2.5 per cent or less by the end of 1973. He said his Phase 1 wage-pric- e freeze and his Phase 2 mandatory controls had cut the inflation rate by nearly half to about 3.5 per in- That standard remains in effect until the panel meets and the Cost of Living Council decides whether to accept its y recommendations. base-perio- AFL-CIO- the possibility the case would be expanded beyond the last June 17 simple criminal counts involved in the break-iapparently vanished when Hunts attorney, with agreement of the prosecutor, successfully argued against Siricas suggestion that for Hunt to have his guilty pleas accepted, he explain hew you got into this conspiracy. n Hunt did admit under Siricas questioning that he was guilty of each count and committed the violations knowingly, and 'intentionally and unlawfully. sentencing investigation is completed. Hunt had initially tried to plead guilty to conspiracy to break into Democratic national headquarters, actually breaking ng Watergate building office, and to listening via bugging devices to telephone conversations of some Democratic officials. Bittman argued against Hunt answering the question of how he became involved in the conspiracy on grounds the government plans to reopen a grand jury investigation of the political espionage. Bittman said Hunts answers might prejudice his position in that investigation and that his answers might prejudice the judges own view regarding the other six defendants still After Sirica refused to accept that plea omitting reference to three other charges relating to actually placing Hunt pleaded guilty to all six bugging devices in the offices counts of the indictment against him. standing trial. Hunt was led out of the courtroom by a marshal O. Bittman, pleaded with Sirica to lower the $100,000 bond, saying I don't believe he will be Hunts attorney. William WATERGATE on 45 min-Se- e Page U.S. Preparing To Attack, Viet Reds Charge In Paris Re-ele- Air Strikes Pound Red Supply Area - U S. planes SAIGON (AP) kept up heavy raids on the North Vietnamese panhandle today while ground action tapered down in South Vietnam. Vietnamese officials 54 enemy attacks in the 24 hours before dawn today, the lowest number since the New Year's truce period. South reported TOMORROWS ENERGY Power From Inside - A United Nations semiUNITED NATIONS (UPI) nar of experts said Wednesday that energy from vast underground pools of hot water and steam could fulfill ali electrical needs for the United States by the year 2000. . Moreover, they said, one undeveloped area in Ethiop- ia could supply all power needs for all of Africa. nations said Scientific and industrial experts from this source of energy called geothermal by science could save the United States billions of dollars. 11 They also said this energy source is, along with dean" source of hydroelectric installations, the only it hazards pro-- , environmental the lacks because energy duced by nuclear and hydrocarbon generators. Two of the greatest potential areas for the energy are in the hot springs of Iceland and the geyser fields of California while the most famous is the "Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park, which throws tons of hot water and steam into the air with clockwork regularity. Joeleen Drag, 22, peers skyward after donning Navy helmet. Flight cadet Legislators Take Time able to meet the amount. $25,000 or, at most. $50,000. Sirica said. I deny your request and you can take it to the court of appeals if you want. A-- CommuPARIS (UPI)-T- he nist Vietnamese said today at the weekly Paris peace talks that they would never accept the permanent division of Vietnam and accused the United States of preparing for new attacks in Indochina with the help of South Korean troops. While the charges were being made at the weekly talks at the Hotel Majestic, presidential aide Henry A. Kissinger and North Vietnamese negotiator Le Due Tho met for six hours and five minutes several miles away in more substantive negotiations on the same vital questions. There was no indication of any progress at the longest and biggest meeting of the current round of talks between the two negotiators. They met from 19 a.m. until 4:05 p.m. tj ll He asked that it be lowered to Assistant U.S. attorney says Brigham Young University student recruited as a plant in Muskie campaign. See ... ..story on Page WASHINGTON (AP)-T- he Justice Department Thursday accused the Finance the Committee to President and three defeated congressional candidates of siolations of federal election laws. firms involved in food process- fi WASHINGTON Former White House consultant (UPI) E. Howard Hunt Jr. pleaded guilty today to all charges against him in the Watergate bugging trial. The judge accepted the plea after rejecting Hunt's effort to plead guilty to only three counts. After accepting the second plea. U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica ordered Hunt held under $100,000 bond until a pre- - FLASH Nixon told Congress the mandatory wage and price control system would be continued "with special vigor for d Court Accepts Guilty Plea LATE NEWS year. ing and food retailing. As a general guide for He said he was establishing cent. Phase 3, the White House said, a government committee to price increases should not review federal policies afNixons new program abolexceed increase? in costs. fecting food prices and a ishes rent controls and is Even where costs have inadvisory' group intended to allow reasonable creased, a White Hhouse nongovernment to examine other ways of stain and wage flexibility price summary said, prices should food prices. increases, Secretary of the not be increased if the firms bilizing These Shultz told steps will be coupled, Treasury George profit margin exceeds the he said, with concentrated newsmen. firms profit efforts to hold down food Under Phase 3, a new margin." by increasing food supprices the sumAlternatively advisory ply. committeewiih members mary added, a firm may inShultz said the government into crease reflect industrialists and prices including top would keep close tabs on the cost without such labor leaders as the creased regard to new system and those who s its profit margin if the firms George Meany-wiwould See NIXON on Page A-decide whether the current 5.5 average price increases Watergate Bugging Trial i - not exceed 1.5 per cent in a . For the first time this week. Kissinger and Tho were joined by technical experts who have been working out the precise language of agreements that might accompany a possible cease-firaccord. Some observers took the presence of the technical experts to mean Kissinger and Tho were discussing specifics, rather than general problems, but there was no official indication that this was so. e The two negotiators left sep- arately without shaking hands in public, just as they have done at previous meetings this week. Tho and his (earn appeared relaxed and smiled and waved at newsmen. Kissinger also waved. Soviet Communist Party Vietnam "little by little because both sides wanted it. In remarks to newsmen while awaiting the arrival of French President Georges Pompidou for a summit conference in Brezhnev Minsk. U.S.S.R., said: The affair of the war little by little goes to its end. There are negotiations now for the first time in eight years. What is important is that the two parties wish to finish the conflict by peaceful means. The Communist negotiators at the Hotel Majestic said they would resist any new American attacks and would continue to reject the the division of Vietnam and President Nguyen Van Thieu's authority over the South. For Study By DEXTER C. ELLIS and DeANN EVANS Utah legislators concentrated on committee work today after hearing a gubernatorial budget message with which at first blush they could find little fault. His own Democratic party and opposition Republicans both applauded Gov, Calvin L. Rampton's conservative approach to use of state surplus funds and his tendency to view future revenue increases with some skepticism. Some felt he was a little niggardly in his recommendation for higher education, and Sen. W. Hughes Brockbank, Lake, chairman of the Joint Appropriations Committee, objected to building federal revenue sharing money into the school finance structure. lt Senate President Warren E. Lake, pointed out Pugh, that the Republican legislative caucus several days ago had proposed just as did Ramp-toin his message that onetime surpluses not be used for programs or tax cuts. n g Barely In The Navy And She Disagrees ALAMEDA, CALIF. (UPI) -- One of the Navy's first women fliers was barely in the service when she let the brass know she doesn't agree with their restrictions on distaff pilots. I would like to be carrier-qualifie-d and I would like to fly jets, said blonde Joellen Drag, 22, of Castro Valley, Calif., one of eight women selected by the Navy as its first female pilots. "And I would not object to flying combat missions. The Navy announced that its training program for the women will include sine gle and prop planes and helicopters, but not jet aircraft or carrier landings since current law prohibits women from flying combat missions. -' multi-engin- The eight fliers picked by the Navy for the womens program included four women already on active duty and four new enlistees. After they finish their training and serve as pilots for six months, the Navy will evaluate the and decide how many women will enter flying on a continuing basis. The other women fliers are Lt. (j.g.) Judith Ann Neuffer, Wooster, Ohio; Lt. (j.g.) Barbara Ann Allen. Chula Vista, Calif.; Ens. Kathleen Lou McNary, Plain-fiel111.; Officer Candidate Jane Millen Skiles, Des Moines. Iowa: Jo Anne Zepher Cove, New; Ana Marie Scott, McLean, Va., and Rosemary B. Merims, San Diego, Calif. pro--gra- Cadet Judith Neuffer holds model C-1- Holl-ma- Rampton's proposal that $10 million of the estimated $45 million surplus be used to start construction of a new campus for the Provo trade technical school found ready agreement among most legislative leaders. There was also general agreement w'ith the governors suggestion that some $11 million of the surplus be allocated for the most urgently needed building construction and improvements at state schools and institutions. The budget message was the Wednesday, of the biennial session. major business the third day y The Senate and House introduced fewer than half a dozen bills, following a deluge of See UTAH oil Page Miss Drag was sworn into the Navy Reserve Wednesday by her father, retired Navy Cmdr. Theodore F. Drag, at ceremonies held beside a T34 Beech Mentor trainer at Alameda Naval Air Station. Her mother, a former Marine Corps sergeant, watched proudly. After administering the oath, Drag broke tradition by kissing his daughter. The new enlisted woman, who had her blonde hair in bangs and wore boots, said she had wanted to be a professional horse show jumper but decided instead to volunteer for the flying program when it was announced. "There is nothing serious in my romantic life. Miss Drag told reporters. "The men I go out with think its fantas- - 30 at swearing in ceremony. tic. They want me to take them up in a plane. She enlisted in the Navy for six years and will go first to Women Officers School in Newport, R.I., for a course starting Jan. 23. After graduating as an ensign, she will spend 45 weeks in pilot training at Pensacola, Fla. Miss Drag said she didnt expect to have any problems with sailors who resent women fliers and thought trainers actually might be easier on the gals. She also predicted little difficulty in meeting the physical standards required of Navy pilots running a obstacle course, one and f miles cross country, and treading water for 30 minutes and swimming a mile in a flight suit. Miss Drag said she has taught swimming, horseback riding and skiing and plays tennis. d one-hal- She graduated last month with a bachin political science from California State University at Hayward. elors degree A-- 8 leader Leonid I. Brezhnev said today peace was coming to TODAY'S STOCKS YORK (UPi, -Popened higher in active trading Thursday on the New York stock exchange. NEW rices Shortly after the opening bell, the Dow Jones average of 30 blue chip industrials had risen 0 75 to 1,046.81. Advances topped declined, 119 to 85, among the 326 issues on the tape The market declined Wednesday as investors again showed their concern over the problem of inflation and the lack of progress at the Vietnam peac talks. However, interest in blue chip issues. (Complete New York, American listings, Page Richardson Faces Opposition - WASHINGTON (UPI) An antiwar senator says there may be a filibuster against Senate confirmation of Elliot L. Richardson as defense secretary to focus opposition to the Vietnam war. symbolic effort and I don't think itll get very far. Hughes added that he might organize a filibuster if he found enough support but not if it would be only an act of Following a hearing by the Senate Armed Services Committee on the nomination Wednesday, Sen. Harold E. told newsHughes, men: I am not opposing Elliot Richardson, but the goal is to stop the mechanism in the Senate including bills and nominations until we can stop the war. . f However, Hughes told a newsman later in the day that such a filibuster would be "a Claiborne Pell, recently told a closed session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Congress must consider using its power of confirmation and appropriation in an effort to end the war. A spokesman said Pell has not agreed to lead a filibuster but he would be sympathetic" to it. Meanwhile there was a separate controversy over the nomination of William Cle futility. Sen. V ments Jr. as Richardson's deputy. Sen. William Proxmire, DWis., had asked the committee to delay Clements confirmation until the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reported on whether SEDCO, Inc., a company Clements has headed, omitted mention in its reports to SEC of a conspiracy" and fraud suit against Clements, the company and three business associates. Proxmire released an SEC letter which said investigators did not have sufficient facts to determine whether the Dallas firm violated SEC regulations on Wednesday SEC Chairman William J. Casey then released a second letter saying "the staff does not believe that the company failed to report any event or events required to be disclosed in reports filed with the INSIDE THE NEWS SECTION A 9 National, Foreign ....1, 2, 8 Legislature 12, 14 City. 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