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Show Tribune Phones 524-2S4- 521-353- 0; 5; 524-270- 524-2S6- iikt Sfilsme Salt Home Delive:y, Advertising departments Classified ads, General display, Retail display, 1. Salt Lake City. Vol. 201, No. 94 I tali Friday Morning July 17, 1970 Tribune Phones , Scores,! Information, Womens, 524-450- 1; 524-450- 524-4521:- 7; 0; Nows arl Sports, Editorial, 524-451- 1 524-4545- Promotion, ; Magazine, 521-157- Price Ten Cents ' ;! 524-4581- .; Economy Begins Upward Roll By John M A I'eane ocidied Ptrss Winer WASHINGTON' Aitei six months of doldrums the nation's economy blossomed Thui-da- y into ti.e pionn-- e of a business levival and slowing inflation Commetoe Department's quartei-llepoit oil Gross National Product showed an almost invisible increase m actual production during April, May and June, ending two quaiters of decline. Tiie y Percent Increase 4.5 fiom the previous quarters 6.4 percent, highest since tiie Korean War. Total Gioss National Product for the Apt period was $970.1 billion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, up fiom S95S.3 billion in January. February and March. This was an inuease of a modest 4 3 pei cent. crease v as welcome news to government policy makei'. who because ot its small size tended to view it as no change at all. Houevet, it followed two consecutive quarters of decline, which had piompted some obscners to conclude the nation w .! m its fifth recession sime World War II. Despite the encouraging figuie. the nation is still not out of the economic woods. Unemployment is near 5 percent and may go higher. And consumer prices have yet to show any important reaction to lessening inci eases in wholesale and nidusttial prices, which were largely for the retarded inflation figut e ot the second quaiter. Both the Commeice and Tteasuiy reacted with guarded opti Welcome News It was almost lt of entnely the lae 4.2 percent pi ice increase, leaving a teal'' increase in production ot only s of one percent. GNP measures the value of all goods d and sen ices sold, and real GNP is in 1938 dollars to eliminate the effects of current inflation. But meager as it was, the leal in ic-u- thiee-tenth- At the same time, the repoit showed inflation at an annual late of only 4.2 the lowest since the percent quarter of 1968. For the Nixon administration, it was a welcome relief er lig-uie- mism. Harold C. Passer, assistant secre-tarof commerce, said the reports mealed an essentially sideways movement." n The economy stabilized rather than he said. "This lontinuing to decline, lays the foundation for an early resumption of growth. He said consumei .spending was the stiungest tactor m the GNP and was for the rntiie morose, and he said there are indications fiom a 7.6 late of consumer savings highest m two years that spending will use still more this yeai A s Tieasury spokesman said the do not indicate an upward tiend. but aie obviously an impiovement over pet-ic- fig-uip- last quarter. American Dole a I f v pv4 n' !fjj s'? Food for Peace s KM j, vlHWu :( Bv Don Kendall Associated Press Writer SitJl Associated Press Wirephoto President and Mrs. Nixon greeted Prince and his sister. Nixon Flourish Greets Prince Charles , Anne By Helen Thomas United Piess International WASHINGTON The Nixon family welcomed the Prince of Wales and his sister to America Thursday with a ioyal flourish, from hot tea to a heraldic blast on U.S. Army trumpets, and then whisked them to a Maryland mountain-to- p for steaks and com on the cob. Always Fascinating' monuments and our ball team. The U.S. Marine Band played Hail to the Chief and Rule Britannia. The crowd waved tiny American flags and British Union Jacks. Charles waved and smiled. New to Princess Anne noticed 300 reporters and photographers crushed behind restraining ropes. I didnt know there were that many cameras, she said quietly. n suit in Charles wore a milk chocolate brown and carried a soft four-butto- Humid weather and warm words from President Nixon greeted the future British king as he arrived at the White House for the start of a private three-davisit, their first to the United States. America has always been a fascinating and intriguing country to us, and to slay in the White House is a peculiar honor, said Prince Charles, standing on a podium facing 4,400 White House staffers, their families, tourists and government workers. We want you to feel very much at home, the President told the Prince and Princess Anne. We want you to get o know Washington, our Congiess, our y fedora. Anne, 19, wore elbow-lengt- h white gloves, a lime gieen dress and a straw skimmer wrapped in a lime chiffon scarf that fell to her shoulders. Her skirt, like that of Nixon's daughter Tricia, was about three inches above the knee. Baseball, a barbecue picnic, a vi-- it to Congress, a meeting with Apollo astronauts, a cruise down the Potomac to under Mountain Vernon, a dinner-danc- e the stars on the While House lawn were on the schedule. And the President promised to leave it all to the ioyal visitors young hosts. Tricia and Julie and David Eisenhower. brown Russians, W. Germans Set Dale To Begin Nonaggression Talks New York Times Set vice The Soviet Union and Wet Germany have agreed on July 27 as starting date of formal negotiations in Moscjw for a renunciation of force treaty , It was announced here Thursday. West Orman Foreign MinLtor Walter Scheel will travel to the Soviet capital on July 26, the foieign ministry announced in a brief statement. The statement ended weeks of uncertainty about the actual start of formal, high-levnegotiations between tlie two i o u n t r i e s. According to inforaied sources, the West Ormans suggested the last week in July as a suitable time to begin the talks. BONN in Moscow were prepared in several rounds of informal talks which Brandt's special envoy. State Secretary Egon Balir, had with Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko during the last few months. The results of Bahr's preliminary talks, parts of which leaked to the press, are currently the subject of a bitter controversy between Brandts ruling Social Democrats and Seheel's Free Democrats on the one side and the opposition Christian Democrats on the other. The opposition claims that the Bahr paper, containing the results of preliminary talks in Moscow, shows ttip governments readiness to meet Soviet demands vv ithout obSoviet taining counter-concession- (Copyright) Rapid Reply The sources said that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko Seheel's quickly partner in the negotiations ptoposed Monday, July 27. as opening German day for the historic, Soviet-Wes- t conference. .The start of the Soviet-WeOrman negotiations for an agreement renouncing the use of force in mutual relations, will climax Chancellor Willy Brandt's efforts with the for reconciliation countries of Communist Eastern Europe. Bonn is engaged in similar talks with Poland. WASHINGTON The Nixon administration has stepped up military aid to Saigon under the Food for Peace program W'hich last year generated nearly $106 million to help finance South Vietnamese military operations. 'f his was more than triple the $31.9 million granted South Vietnam for common defense under 1968 food aid agreements. Bv Stan Benjamin Associated Press Writer You drive into a service station and the attendant asks: Check the boiler? Or you put out the cat. head for bed, and ycur spou-- e asks: Did you remember iu wind the ear, dear?" Such situations ntay be the icsult 10 or i5 years front now of government autoefforts to develop a pollution-fremobile engine. Steam engines and windup motors aie only two of the possibilities being studies as competitors for today's gasoline powcombustion engine a ered e 7 f? a ism rtfi J(v! i n Av ,v iii iiH.f 1I& v. , 4 The disclosures are in a report to Congress by President Nixon on Food for Peace operations during calendar 1969. The report said the defense grants to Saigon were used for the support of the military budget and added: The increase in the size of the Vietnamese aimed forces during the past year and the ongoing Vietnamization of the war have given special importance to r x s x v 1954 (Kci the years South Vietnam lias $520.7 million in military aid grants under the food program begun in 1954. Two thirds, or around $360 million, was earmarked for the South Vietnamese military durirg the past four years. The largest grant was $143.6 million during the Johnson administration in 1966. But the program slacked off duiing the following two years until new agreements actually aie negotiated by the State Department but are financially charged to the Agriculture Department. New agreements with Saigon so far this year are running at about the same late as in 1969, Agriculture Department records show. I .S. I nod Under Food for Peace agreement':. South Vietnam is allowed to buy U S. bum commodities mostly lice, wheat, i niton, tout, daily pioilucts amt tobacco with ns own currency. Most commonly, olficials say. tne agreements earmatk 20 percent of the local cuircncy for use by U.S. forces in Vietnam. The remainder is granted to the Saigon government specifically tor its military use. Since Food tor Peace began 15 years ago. nearly $1.5 billion of these local currencies have been funneled into military budgets of various countries. Korea was a major recipient some la- -t years ago but has been cut back and in million $32 received military only year giants under the food program. Officials say that the military grants lepresent only a fraction of the total Food for Peace operations. Last year agreements weie signed for about $905 million worth of U.S. farm commodities to be shipped to recipient countries. Todays Chuckle boy who is eagei lawn is too young to. Any to mow the r Si a -- j ft V H, Committee E. Tram, on Thursday. Rus.-e-it cha'rman of the President's Council on Environmental Quality, announced the advisory appointment of an the federal committee to monitor program and other domestic and foreign and to keep an eye on problems J mm Isa 3 I sjf i' ;6 WO- - v' ' ;' ' - Cranes stand idle over stranded ship on strike- paralyzed London dock. Queen Elizabeth pro- - J Press Wirephott claimed emergency, enabling government to order treops to waterfront to handle vital supplies. Strike Threatens Economy Queen Declares Emergency in Britain By Leslie Haynes LONDON Queen crowded House of Commons. Labor member of Parliament Tom Diiberg asked Reginald Moulding, the a Reuters News Agent y Eliza belli H Thursday issued a proclamation placing Britain under a state of emergency of a nationwide strike by 47.000 e longshoremen. Under the emergency the new government will have wide e of power-- , including the tiie i rippling efic-ct-s of a troop-- , to oft-stoppage winch thieatrns to wieck Britain's economy. The government's power to call in tioops was quickly seized upon by Labor opposition members when the Queen's proclamation was officially announced in u-- et home (interior secretary minister), whether it was proposed, and at what -. siege, to send troops onto the dockMaulding said they would be used if it was necessary to maintain essential sci-ices. Suggests Troop Shortage v home secietary James Callaghan under the Labor government until it was defeated a month ago suggested it was not possible to find troops to replace nearly 50.000 longshoremen for the loading and unloading of cargoes. The situa- - ICC Approves Post Office Request tion. therefoie. was extremely serious, he added. Maulding admitted it would be. a difficult task for the troops but said the government was quite satisfied that sufficient men weie available to maintain services. The longshoremen aie demanding an increase in their basic wage rate from just over 11 pounds ($26.40) per vvec'k to 20 pounds ($48). Rejecting this demand, the employ cis oflered to increase guaranteed minimum which stevedoies would earnings even if there is no woik (or them from 16 pounds ( 38.40) per all week week to 20 pounds ($48). Talks aimed at ending the strike ended in deadlock Wednesday night and HI maior docks in Britain were at a standstill for the first time since a general strike in 1926. Act 50 4 ears Old For Increase in Parcel Post Rates T..e national state of emergency declared by Queen Elizabeth come- - under to a act originally pa-sfoluine-- t counter mounting indu-tnlowing World War I Under the Emergency Downs Ait of e 1920. the government can troop- - s clock hands to keep up the flow of lood to the none);, and other import ed - WASHINGTON (UPI) The Interstate Commerce Commission Thursday-authorizethe Post Office to raise the co- -t of parcel post an average 13.4 portent and to increase catalog postage by 6 percent. The Po-- t Olfice estimated this would bung m an additional $123 million in revenues annually. For 47 percent of its par- would cel post volume, it said inciea-e- s amount to 5 to 10 cents par package. A icasonable period for public notice and consultation with major parcel post a! mailers will be allowed betoie the higher said. a spoke-ma- n The ICC. which has jurisdiction over only this type of ma;l diarges, denied an accompanying lequest for a on parcel-- . The rates go into eltect. sur-chat- e set Aug. 17 for a heating, the department to set (oitii the leasons for the surcharge miniIt would replace the mum charge now in eiht lot balloon, commission oi e panel-- . In Our Sailmobile a-Lo- ng major source of air pollution. Last Feb. President Nixon proposed a federal program to develop a new. pollution-fre- e auto engine by 1975. The Department of Health. Education and Welfare has already issued some research contract on the project. And I Assoc.atetf Aid Since Buy s v v If u" this budget support. 10, WASHINGTON vV -- , Lets Try a Chug st Preliminary Talks The foreign ministry said Schell is in London to brief the British on t'ne question of Soviet-Wes- t German relations. He Is scheduled to fly to Washington Friday to discuss the same subject with Secretary of State William P. Rogers. The Soviet-WeGerman negotiations vw a xx Tf 0 Goes to Military Prince Charles and Tricia Nix- on leave the White House after SpveutttyKspVft' Fuels Saigon War Machine V TV. . f created by the alternative engines them- selves. Train laid the auto industry is trying to improve existing auto engines to meet antipollution standards that vv ill probably be enforced by 1980. If they fail. Train aid, the governof ment want- - to have other type engine available that can meet tho-- e standard. Many Fuel Possible John J. Biogan, HEWs project manag-ei- . told a news conference at Train's headquarters that the new engine most likely 1o succeed is Ihe gas turbine, al- - teadv developed for heavy trucks and tiled experimentally in caiv. Ernest S. Starkman. an engineering profeor at the University of California and chairman of the new advisory panel, said a gas turbine can use as fuel anything from Napoleon brandy to heavy fuel tiL" Brogan said, however, that both engine emission and the cost of matt Hals would have to be lowered to make the gas turbine a practical alternative. Next most likely to succeed. Brogan said ate the steam engine and a hybrid engine that draws energy Irom both burning fuel and rechargeable eieclric u-- my . It - the lit tii time since 1939 tout act ha been invoked. Tne la- -t cuca-ioWas in 1905 dunng a stnkr bv 17.000 the n -men which immobilized 607 Briti-i- i ships leader of the Labor when the pie-eva pr.me Harold Wil-ont n.m-l-te- n. 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