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Show Tribune Phones Information, 524-450- 524-450- 0; Womens, News and Editorial, Sports, 524-457- 0; Tribune Phones 524-451- 1; 524-452- 1; 524-454- 5; 524-2S4- Promotion, Jtagazine, 524-458- 1. VoL 202, No. 93 House Eyes Bill to Up Salt Lake City, Utah A Barrel Levy y o G U Tribune Political Writers ys- The House also passed its first two bills. Senate Sends House 2 Bills Sponsored By 15 in House The act is sponsored by 15 representatives Reps. C. Del.Iont Judd, majority leader; David C. Harvey, Grove; Kenneth W. Gardner, i e 1 d Stanley A. Leavitt, C. Elmo Turner, erton; Robert L. Backman, Lake City; Harold T. Newman, Dallas H. Glade M. Sowards, Buckway, See Page 2, Column 1 aiw George Romney, secretary of Housing and Urban Develop- - w Burns-- 9 Dead Reuters News Agency - Nine eldKENTUCKY erly residents of a Presbyterian retirement home .died Thursday in an early morning fire that apparently broke out in .the insatutions kitchen. , EUECHEL, residents were treated a. Louisville area hospitals for smoke inhalation and injuries suffered in escaping the blaze. Rev. Jad' Goodykoontz, executive director of the Westminster Terrace Home, said there were 94 persons in residence when the fire broke out. Arson investigators from the Jefferson County Pojice Department said it could be several days before the cause of the fire is determined. The first alarm was given at 2:27 a.tn. Volunteer firemen arrived at the scene four minutes later and found the kitchr fire out of control in the en area. Fifty-fou- r first-floo- Press Wirepnoto ment, Thursday told newsmen agency halted housing project. , or By Jack Rosen dial New York Time Writer The federal governWASHINGTON ment Thursday suspended part of a major program of home ownership lor lower income families, which a congressional report last week condemned as a national scandal. The action was taken by George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who eight days ago assailed The Local Picture, v Oldsters Home Mil Associated Romney Orders Cash Halt In Homes-for-PoPlan B-- 2 lt 54 Treated "s. VI House Puts in Full Day Sandwiched between there appearances was the introduction of 10 bills, including the one (HB50) which would add 15 officers to the- - 15 already employed to enforce the states relatively new mini bottle liquor laws. The measure calls for the appropriation of $750,000 for the rext fiscal year to pay for 30 agents working under the liquor division of the State Department of Public Safety. A & tn&:. A The Senate passed and sent to trie House for its approval two bills, the first of the session, which would clarify the misdemeanor fine for failing to file an accident report and readjust the period of suspension of driver licenses. The Senate also saw introduction of resolutions proposing four constitutional amendments recommended by the State Constitutional Revision Commission and a bill that would tighten regulation over college disturbances. Lawmakers are scheduled to convene Friday at 10 a.m. and, after routine chores, move into a joint session in the House chambers to hear Gov. Calvin L. Rampton's annual budget message probably about 11 a.m. week. hA ,vv sv. si n. the congressional report as misleading and very incomplete. At a news conference Thursday, Romney reiterated that the program is not a it is apscandal. But, he acknowledged, parent that abuses are more prevalent and widespread than had previously been evident. home ownership The pioneering program, authorised by Section 235 of the Omnibus Housing Act of 19G8, provides interest subsidies for lower income families to use in buying new and existing Trice Ten Cents it has been expanding rapidly while most of the private market has been slowing duwn. Romneys action was hailed Thursday chairby Rep. Wright Patman, man of the House Banking and Currency Committee, which issued the critical report on Jan. 5. Patman said the action will do much to restore the confidence of the public administered by HUD. He urged, however, that the suspension be short and that failings in the program be speedily corrected. The committee's staff report said that Federal Housing Admmioiration, an arm of HUD, had virtually turned its hack on extensive profiteering by speculators. It also criticized the issuance of insurance on houses that were not safe, decent, and sanitary, as required by minimum regulations. (Copyright) President Nixon LINCOLN, NEB. called on Americans of all ages Thursday to forge an alliance between generas evidence of his own ations and commitment to that goal proposed the Editor's Note: Thu is tho second artic in 9 series from North Vietnam b Canadian broadcast ioumahst Michael MacLear. The author recently returned from a month-ton- s trip to r pot on the th anniversary of the Republic of Nor, i Vietnam. By Michael MacLear - HANOI, NORTH VIETNAM Troops throng this capital city, crowding its stores and market places and idling in its lakeside caLis. Officially, ,jey are said to be on leave, but Western diplomats in Hanoi deTibe the presencpf thousands of sol By Edward K. Delong United Press International malion on which to base their theories about the origin and history of the moon. It comes at a rather critical time, said Dr, Eugene Schoemak-e- r of the California Institute of Technology, one of the leading U.S. lunar experts. Oihers said the Russian report helps prove all the moons seas are basically alike. Dr. John A. Wood of the Smithsonian Institution crlled the discoveries very reasonable, very consistent with the findings at our two (Apollo) sites. It is really a valuable contribution, in that it extends our know of the moon to yet another site, said Dr. Eugene Simmons, chief scientist at the Houston space center. Vinogradov's presentation at the second annual Lunar Apollo Science Conference marked the first time a Russian had participated in a U.S. sponsored moon ro(k symposium. It also was the first time most Western scientists had heard what was learned from Luna 16, the only unmanned spacecraft ever to visit the moon and return. HOUSTON Studies of moon samples gathered by the Russian Luna 16 robot show surprising similarities to samples returned by two U.S. Apollo astronauts, the vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences -- aid Thursday. Dr. Alexander P. Vinogradov said analysis of material returned to earth by the unmanned Russian craft confirms the findings of most Apollo scientists that the moons great seas were formed from molten lava in the prehistoric past. Vinogradov's unprecedented report at the U.S. Moon Conference was hailed by Western scientists as a major step in lunar research. They said it might signal the beginning of greater cooperation between the worlds two space powers. The SegL of Fertility where Luna 16 landed last September one of the huge, cratered plains on the is a site where face of the moon Apollo astronauts have never gone. The Russian report, therefore, gave Western scientists new infor- - 70 Prisoners Reach Chile, Swiss Er y Still Captive By Francisco Silva Associated Press Writer The ransom was RIO DE JANEIRO paid with the freeing of 70 Brazilian prisoners, but the welcome banquet remained urtasted, awaiting arrival of Swiss Ambassador Giovanni Bucher, kidnaped by terrorists 39 days ago. Newsmen stood vigil outside Bucher's hillside residence and members of the household staff peered anxiously out windows for a sign of the envoy whose release had been promised in return for asylum in Chile for the 70 prisoners. He was the fourth diplomat kidnaped in Brazil In two years. Court Voids Laws to Block Obscenity Orders Suspension Ey Lyle Denniston Romney said Thursday that he had ordered an immediate suspension of that part of the program involving existing housing until he is satisfied it can protect the poor against incompetence, impropriety, and fraud. The congressional report charged that the government had tolerated widespread profiteering by real estate speculators and the sale to poorer families of substandard housing. Some 130,000 families have bought homes under the program, which costs about $140 million a year. About 40,000 of these have bought existing houses, the Washington Star Writer new houses. The suspension will not affect the new housing section of the program, although Romney said he is studying possible im- provements in it. The home ownership program has made up an unusually large part of the home market in recent months because A unanimous Su. WASHINGTON preme Couit struck down Thursday two federal laws that closed the mails to orders for obscene books, magazines or movies. Finding that both laws permit U.S. postal officials to censor the mail unconstitutionally, the justices voided a 19th century law and a separate statute passed in 1960. Although the court has seamed deeply divided on questions of obscenity law, particularly on laws involving the powers of states, there was no hint of division Thursday, interfere with rrtil without proper approval by fedeiat courts. Relying on a 1965 decision that voided Marylands movie censorship law, Brennan said both of the postal laws failed to include built-i- n safeguards against curtailment of constitutionally protected expression. The court's decision applied to the following laws: A 19th century law that gave postal officials the authority to refuse to deliver any mail sent to a person or company that a postal official found to be distributing obscene materials through the mail. A 1960 law that permitted the post office to get a temporary court order Voids Movie Law Justice William J, Brennan Jr who wrote the court's opinion, said that both laws allowed postmasters and their superiors in the Post Office Department to Todays Chuckle The taxpayer may be the first America's natural resources to be hausted. diers as unprecedented and all the more surprising in view of recent Washington statements on increased infiltration of South Vietnam. In the diplomatic community, the speculation is that some of the troops are being assigned to industry and development of the vome front. here in North Vietnam, Here as el-ea visitor returning after 15 months sees evidence of a shift .from military to dow mestic priorities amid preparations for a continuation of war. The current slogan, bannered on almost evnry street, exhorts Vigilance on the Home Front, meaning both in its defense and its development according to a blueprint for an industrial great leap forward. U.S. nir strikes in November and tV troop assault at Sonuy are interpreted m Hanoi not as a reaction to the shooting down of American reronaissance aircraft or to conditions in POW camps but as a deterrent to. North Vietnams sudden large-scal- e reconstruction. After two years of sleepy security, Hanoi reacted in Suddenly one morning the city was filled with the enemy whei- posters urging, Fight ever he comes, and in whatever form and with whatever force he comes. guns materialized on rooftops in the city center, and militia units began days of purposeful training in Anti-aircra- ft combat. In one frenzied days work, Hanois air raid shelters, which had long been rtroied and unusable, were cleared of reiu.se and were fumigated by the so called Ho Chi Minh Youth Brigades which perform emergency labor instead of military service. The countless sided walk potholes, instant individual Column 2 See Page 4, street-to-stre- air-rai- retaining mail tnat is destined for a sender oi challenged material. The court ruled that the procedure under the first statutes was unconstitutional because it did not require the government to take the question of obscenity promptly into court for a judicial ruling. Once the postal official found that the materials being put in the mail were obscene, it was up to the sender to seek a court review'. It is a fatal flaw for the obligation to get judicial review to be placed on the sender, not the government, Justice Brennan said. Examining the latter law, which does provide some judicial review of attempts of postal censorship, Brennan concluded that it does not remedy the defects of the older law. Iphrld of ex- and listened attentively as he delivered his remarks in a quiet voice. There weie a few shouts of peace now as he moved to the rostrum. (Copyright Russian Luna Samples Similar to U.S. Apollos Destiny Not Divided There ran be no generation gap in America, Nixon said. The destiny of this nation is not dividit Is one destied into yours and ours ny, we share it together. We are responsible for it together. And in the way v. e respond, history will judge us together. There has been too much emphasis on the differences between the generations. he went on. There has been too much of a tendency of many of my generation to blame all of your generation for the excesses of the violent few. Let me repeat what I have said over and over again during the past two years. I believe one of Americas priceless assets is the idealism w'hich motivates the young people of America. My generation has invested all that not only its love but its hope it has in yours. I believe you will and faith redeem that faith and justify that hope. I believe that as our generations work together, as we strive together, as we aspire together, we can achieve together achieve great things for America and the world. His proposal to combine VISTA, the Peace Corps, and other federal programs in a single department aimed at attracting young volunteers to government ser Tne audience gave Nixon a standing ovation when he entered the field house Soviet Report on Moon Let us forge an alliance between generations the President said. Let us together seek out those ways by which the commitment and compassion of one generation can be linked to the will and experience of another, so that together we can better serve America, and Americans can better serve mankind. Nixon disclosed his proposal in the course of an address about the role of youth in American society. In both tone and content, his remarks to the students were far more conciliatory than his approach to them in the recent campaign, when h? regularly denounced protests and campus activities. Thursday b conceded that his own generation must accept some of the blame for national divisions, and must do more to give young people the power to participate in shaping the course of a nation. Periodic Alerts Jolt Hanois Peaceful Mood four-pa- sional approval creation of a government agency designed to enlist the energies and idealism of youth. Within the coming months, the President told an audience of some 9,000 students and faculty at the University of Nebraska Coliseum, he would ask Congress for authority to combine the Peace Corps, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) and other federal agencies in a new volunteer service corps that will give young Americans an expanded opportunity to serve the poor at home and abroad. Forge an Alliance Norlh Vietnam Today r vice arose, the President said, out of his wish to give substance to this alliance between the generations. He announced further that Joseph Blatchford, presnt director of the Peace Corps, would head the new agency if it receives congres- housing. rest 5; 1; 524-285- L January 15, 191 By Robert B. Semple Jr. New York Times Writer By Douglas L. Parker and Clark Lobb Booze, beer and butter substitute took the spotlight Thursday in the Utah House of Representatives. Legislation was introduced to double the number of liquor enforcement officers, to hike the excise tax on beer from $1.10 to a barrel and to lcpeal the oleomargarine tax and, at the same time, dean up some bookkeeping matters for the State Tax Commis- 521-333- 524-270- J 's' Would Go to $4 0; Scrap Generation Gap In U.S., Nixon Pleads Nl Beer Taxes The House put in a full day's work Thursday and heard from Ward C. Holbrook, executive dilector. Department of Social Service, and Dr. Walter D. Talbot, state superintendent of public instruction. Both addressed the Senate earlier in the Friday Morning A V"' 81.10 Home Delivery, Advertising departments Classified ads, General display, Retail display, Scores, 1; Decision The ruling Thursday upheld decisions by federal courts in Los Angeles and Atlanta. In an opinion Thursday on another matter, Justice Brennan spoke for a ruling that six Deep South states have litiie discretion to change election laws on their own when the changes risk discrimination against black voters. Applying provisions of the 1965 voting lights law that restrict election laws only-ithe South, Brennan said that either the U.S. attorney general or a federal court in the district must have a chance to approve any proposed expansion of city boundaries to take in more voters, moving of polling places, and switching of election from polling to Inside the house the butler had ordered up a chicken and steak banquet, complete with champagne. Foreign Ministry officials said Bucher was to be set free as soon as news agency photographs of the Brazilians arriving in Santiago got back to Brazil. A flurry of police activity may have delayed Buchers release. On previous occasions kidnapers have refused to free hostages ui.til all police searches were halted. Police activity seemed to have increased after the Varig Airlines Boeing 707 took off at midnight for Santiago carrying the 70 prisoners, largest number released in any modern day political kidnaping. A heavy guard was placed around the Swiss Embassy a few miles from the envoys residence. During the night, checked. Three men passing ears were taken aw'ay for questioning although they insisted that they were guests at a nearby hotel. When the jetliner arrived at Santiago's Pudahuel International Airport before tia'vn Thursday, photographers and television cameramen were the only persons allowed on the ramp. As the 59 men and 11 women disembarked, they were forbidden to speak to newsmen. The plane also carried 35 security guards and three children of one of the prisoners. A group of about SO Brazilians living in Chile cheered the prisoners as they got off the plane and some held up signs reading: The struggle continues. Some prisoners were laughing, and several flashed the V sign. Two buses took the prisoners to a police barracks in Santiago where they were to be processed. The prisoners were exiled by Brazilian President Emilio Garrastazu Medici as dangerous to national security. Bucher was kidnaped on Dec. 7 by a leftist group called the Popular Revolutionary Vanguard. It demanded that 70 political prisoners be flown to Chile or elsewhere, that a revolutionary manifesto be published and that free passage be given on Rios commuter trains during negotiations. Inside The Tribune ward-by-war- d e balloting. The decision involved the town of Cai-toMNs. The community, with a population of about 10,000, had been challenged in federal court by a group of Negro voters with regard to three and changes in its election laws, city-wid- n. office-seeke- k (Copyright) Salt Lake City and Utah Fair w I. some clouds and warmer. Only a slight chance of rain or snow. Highs to be in mid 40s, lows in low 20s. Weather map, page B-- I |
