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Show Tribune Phones Information, Womens, 5'4-450- Tribune Phones 5244501; Scores, 524-452- 524-2S4- 1; News and Editorial, Spoi ts, Promotion, 0; Magazine, 524-454- 524-451- 5; 524-45S- By Edwin Q. White Backed by punishing U.S. Vietnamese forces seized the key enemy supply hub of Sep-on- e Saturday and claimed 390 North Vietnamese troops were killed fighting for the Laotian town on ihe Ho Chi Minh South Vol. 202, No. 144 and contained 300 tons of ammunition. The demolition began in mid-daand the dump was still exploding after nightfall, he said. Trail. A Saigon communique said South Viet- namese paratroopers operating east of Sopone spotted North Vietnamese tanks Vietnamese bornear the Laotian-Soutder and called for U.S. air strikes that destroyed 11 of the vehicles. The losses brought to 54 the number of enemy tanks reported destroyed since the Laotian drive begi Feb. 8. h Only Light Resistance A South Vietnamese military spokesman at the Quang Tri support base in South Vietnam said government troops met only light and sporadic resistance when they entered Sepone. Lt. Col. Le Trung Hien said the town was completely deserted and that civilians had left some time ago. He described Sepone as "bombed out" by allied air strikes and said most of ti.e North Vietnamese casualties were inflicted by U.S. warplanes. Hien said South Vietnamese troops had blown up a North Vietnamese ammunition dump on the edge of Sepone that covered an area over a mile square About South Vietnamese infantrymen were lifted by helicopters into the hills overlooking the valley town of Sepone in the last two uays. U.S. airs craft repeatedly pounded enemy around the town and the South Vietnamese thrust into Sepone began shortly after noon Saturday. Lt. Col. Tran Van An, the South Vietnamese spokesman who announced the town's capture, said, "We are in complete control" He said South Vietnamese casualties were light. The U.S. Command announced Sunday that two more helicopters were shot down and destroyed in the lower panhandle of Laos while supporting the 2,000 The town was said to have been abandoned by its Lao residents and almost completely lereled by earlier air strikes. Nevertheless, it was said to have served as an important junction for the North Vietnamese in the movement of men, supplies and equipment from the North into South Vietnam and Cambodia. South Vietnamese ground troops. No casualties were reported. Destroyed The losses, which occurred Saturday, to 54 the number of American helicopters officially reported destroyed in the Laos campaign. There are no enemy in Sepone now, An said, adding that the enemy force, 320th North elements of the battle-teste- d Vietnamese Division, had pulled out. Sepone, on Highway 9 ar.d 25 air miles from the Vietnamese border, had been described as a prime objective when the South Vietnamese drive into Laos began raised Feb. 8. f I 4 Ij Sources said a number of the many roadways and trails that make up the Ho Chi Minh network converged at Sepone, then spread from there again n the route south. By seizing Sepone and cutting the trail system surrounding the town, it was believed the North Vietnamese would be forced to extend their supply movement farther to the west along branches of the trail more open to air attack because of lack of jungle cover. There is an airstrip just outside Sep-onIt is cratered by U.S. bombs but field sources have said it probably could be made serviceable in short order. No details were available immediately on what the South Vietnamese found in Sepone itself, but the government spokesman said the drive into the area had netted a sizable haul of war booty. He said the government force had seized or destroyed 52 machine guns, two 37mm antiaircraft guns, five mortars, 17 rocket launchers, 170 individual weapons, 2,000 Chinese-mad- e gas masks, five trucks, 300 tons of ammunition and 1,000 tons of food. Turk Police, Troops Spread Dragnet, of Four U.S. Airmen Hunt Kidnapers I y mm, ANKARA Police and troops stretched a dragnet across this Turkish capital and manned roadblocks on its highways Saturday in search of terrorists who kidnaped and threatened to kill four U.S. airmen. It was not known if the kidnapers had carried out their death threat. The deadline for the payment of $400,000 ransom passed Saturday morning. U.S. and Turkish officials made no move to pay. The victims, S. Sgt. Jimmie J. Sexton, San Angelo, Tex.; Airman 1. C. Larry J. Heavner, Denver, Cplo.; Richard Car-asz-i, Stamford, Conn., and James M. Gholson, Alexandria, Va., were kidnaped Thursday. View Threat as a Bluff Turkish officials expressed a belief that the threat to execute the four men was a bluff and had to be called to prevent other such incidents, informed sources said. U.S. diplomats were tense but expressed some optimism. Were hoping like crazy, said one. That's all I can say. Were hoping. Ankara was generally quiet after Fridays student disorders, touched off by a police search of Middle East Technical University in the hunt for the kidnap victims. Altogether four persons died in riots Friday related to the kidnaping. Soldiers searching dormitories Saturday, however, found a huge amount of explosives, arms and ammunition, police said. Hundreds of students were arrest- ed. Crucial Political Problem The kidnapers have accomplished their purpose, said one. They have disgraced the government, shown up police incompetence, stirred up student violence. They would only lose in public opinion by killing the jm s. L v h- Americans. Reuters News Agency LONDON Children rode toboggans In the streets of Mediterranean beach resorts Saturday while motorists fitted snow chains to their tires as a surprise late winter cold snap swept Europe. Icy winds kept temperatures below freezing over much ci the Continent and in Britain, and drifting snow cut off scores of villages from Yugoslavia to the Mediterranean island of Corsica. Numerous motorists were held up, d roads and others some on by multiple collisions caused by ice. In Toulouse in southwestern France, the temperature fell to 20 degrees, a record there for more than a century. snow-blocke- Sleds in Streets On the usually sunny French Riviera, rode sleds in me streets of children Cannes. Cap Dantibes was covered with a mantle of snow. Snow also blanketed Paris and Rome, where the rarely heard ring of snow chains was heard. The whole of cenirai and southern Italy was affected. Rome was closed for 18 hours, forcing 50 planes to divert farther north. The main freeway to the north was impassable. In Trieste, winds gusted up to 77 miles an hour while the minus temperature in the Cortina Dainpezzo area of the Alps was the coldest for this time of year since 1890. six-inc- h Capture of the kidnapers is of crucial political importance to Turkeys Justice party government of Premier Suleyman Dzmirel. rem'-el- 's position las been weakened by student violence in unrest and recent months. He holds only a slim majority in Parliament. rn U.S. Ambassador William Handley Issued an appeal saying it was his fervent hope that the Americans would be released safely and as soon as possible. The appeal was broadcast Saturday afternoon by the state radio. The Americans were kidnaped by five leftist extremists calling themselves the Turkish Peoples Liberation Army. Leftist sources, who sympathize with aims of the kidnapers if not their methods, agreed with the government theory that the airmen wouldn't be killed. Inside The Tribune ort The Coldest March For many regions of West Germany lt was the coldest March for decades. In Swabia in southern Germany, the temperature dropped to minus 14.2 Friday night. Temperatures down to 3.2 were not unusual in northern Germany, and in the Harz Mountains they went down to minus i. On Shamberg Lake in Bavaria, ducks and swans were frozen fast in - to 4- 4- n n It Helps a Feller To Fess Up All ifornian. It reads in part: "As a boy I lived on a homestead at V vsvrfikte i h r $ By Hedrick Smith New York Times Writer WASHINGTON A'MSyX ,u sj v a v. jK - Well-place- d ta the Middle was blamed for a collision between a comus, Sunday's Forecast Todays Chuckle Salt Lake City and Utah Mostly fair, turning cloudy by evening. Weather map en Fage The average man has 66 pounds of muscle and 3 2 pounds of brain, which explains a lot of things. B-- 04. A,e& KX4X - vXetfisI Associated Press Wirephot American heIicopfirs stir up dust at Nguyen Hue base near Khe S&nh in northern South Viet I nam as they land to pick up South Vietnamese Marines being airlifted into Laos offensive. Utah Senate Okays Boost In Car Fees, Politics Lids Safety Jobs By Douglas L. Parker and Clark Lobb Tribune Folitical Writers Editors Not: This It another In a tariat of studies of Important lasuet faeint Utahna conducted by Tha Salt taka J. Roy Tribuna. Bandsley strike. This attitude was expressed by two out of every three adults in the state. Union workers are a little more lenient than nonmembers, but all agree that a strike could jeapardize the safety of the populace. Here is the question asked by the latest poll, followed by the findings: "Do yon think public employes, such as policemen and firemen, shou'd or should not be allowed to strike? . Believe: Should be allowed to strike 37 22 67 6 59 4 72 6 100 100 100 Tables Reapportion - Meanwhile, the House opened discussion on a bill to reapportion the legislature, but ended up tabling the matter. The legislature recessed for Sunday before reconvening Monday. The automobile registration bill, sponsored by Sen. Dixie Leavitt, City, the majority leader, replaces an original proposal that would have hiked the registration fee by $7.50 statewide. Squeaks Through The substitute, passed 15 to 10 the bare majority needed would provide each county, and the cities within, the option of tacking on the $5 fee for cars and trucks to be collected at the same time as the property tax. The state now has a $5 vehicle registration fee, too, which is distributed in state road aid. The local option fee would be remitted by the county assessor to th local governments for use in traffic law enforcement. It would be a misdemeanor for persons to register cars in counties other than which they live to avoid payment in a county taking up the fee option. Sen. Leavitt estimated about $1.6 mil- Considered Speedup These results are based on cross-sectio- 600 person- n by Sen. Thorpe B. Waddingham, Nearly all the votes against the bill came from the Democratic side. He said he had doubts about a checkerboard effect among courses choosing not to exercise the option which could affect administration. He said farmers, with add tional vehicles, could be affected unduly. The option alters the philosophy of dedicating registration revenues to highway dingham said. of the purposes, Sen. Wad- Fine Bill A lion could be collected in Salt Lake County annually, witn about $800,000 for Salt Lake City. al interviews with a state's citizenry. crime control act as an alternative aid increase program to a proposed haif-ceia tha local option sales tax. Opposition to enactment of the optional vehicle registration fee was expressed sion. The limited amount of indecision indicates that most residents have a firm feeling on the subject The sharpest separation of opinion occurred by political party, with Republicans, Independents and Democrats opposing a public employe strike in that order. Here are comparisons: Kepubli- - Jndepend- - Demo- - y Stale- Wide Union Union 27 The Utah Senate Saturday passed a local option $5 increase in the automobile registration fee and a campaign spending limitation act both of them by relatively narrow votes. The permissive registration fee increase caps the Senate's proposed packto aid local governage of Irmas'ments and ti.e campaign spending bill faces an uncertain fate. Both measures now go to the House of Representatives for consideration In the sesremaining four days of the Thant had indicated that Israrl diplo- repre-ecutat- MORE The Home magazine, Tarade magazine, eight pages of color ifItt - "Its a fine bill, said Sen. Leavitt, which goes to the root of a problem in local government assistance by allowing those counties which need additional revenues to obtain them. The political campaign limitation bill, amendincluding several Republican ments into the Democratic sponsored form, was passed on a vote, but only after it was temporarily killed on a See Page C, Column 4 Aussie Survives Ordeal oil Isle Reuters News Agency A man BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA who survived for almost a week on a deserted island off the Queensland coast eating goats meat and the flesh of a giant lizard was recovering in a hospital heie Saturday. Police said the man, William Stevenson of Sydney, paddled 16 miles on a su. iDoard from the mainland to St. Bees Island equipped only with a wet suit, swim flippers, knife and spear gun. It took him 15 hours to reach the island, from which he was unable to - return. The measure is considered by Senate leadership in conjunction with a variety of other bilib concerning property tax allow-- a u ps, speedup collections of state road aid to local governments, and prospective funds under the federal omnibus Police who went to the uninhabited island after reports that a man had been seen there found Stevenson in an old shack suffering from badly cut and infected feet and in need of medical attention. Pullback Plan Includes Safeguards for Israel mats reported Saturday that the United Nations suggestion for Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninula included hitherto undisclosed safeguards to help protect Israeli interests. These sources disclosed that Dr. Gun-na- r V. Jarring, the U.N. special AND iSj w i M Knowles, Okla., around 1906. I shot two or three quail three days after the season closed. I was not caught nor did I attempt to settle for them. I am a Christian and bplieve in the law. What is my fine? Tillery has sent the letter to the Wildlife Conservation Office here for disposition, but, he says, "Probably the fact that this has been on his mind for some 64 years will be fine enough. JA i 1 Should not be Undecided OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. (AP) -With an eye on heaven, an elderly California man has apparently decided to settle up the celestial score while his feet are still on the earth. A game ranger in Gate. Okla.. Ray Tillery, recently got a letter from the Cal- r 4 L ? is the consensus of Utah citizens that public employes, such a3 police and firemen, should not be permitted to Greek and an Italian ship near Sibenik on the central Adriatic Coast of Yugoslavia. There were no casualties, but the 4,500-toPergamos had to take shelter in a small bay where it will stay until damage is repaired. The other ship, the Italian - registered 3,000-toBeatrice, continued its voyage to Venice. Jn Yugoslavias mountain region of Pluzine, 9,000 persons were cut off by drifts up to nine feet deep. j - r 4 It Coldest Spell in Decades Takes Firm Grip on Most of Europe - S' By Toboggans on tbc Riviera -t j O V t i Jd Public Opposes Strikes in Overwhelmingly, Turks have reacted with shock and anger to the kidnaping. Sen. Nadir Nadi, owner of the leftist newspaper, Cumhuriyet, which has been used by the kidnapers as a for their demands and messages from the airmen, said it was wrong to kidnap "innocent youngsters. 4. s? Y1 4 By Nick Ludington Associated Press Writer L ? V Converged At Sepone pos;-tion- 54 Copters 1; 524-288- y SAIGON - 524-270- 1. Associated Press Writer 0; 521-353- 5; 1; 524-157- air strikes, Home Eciiery, Advertising departments Classified ads, General display Retail display, E ?.', had at- tached a number of previsions with regard to such key items as the future of Sharm and Israeli passage through the Suez Can.--!. The result would be to leave the way open for extensive Isiaeli bargaining with the United Arab republic. news reports and the Heretofore, s'atement Friday of Secretary General was being asked simply to agree to withdraw, causing Israeli political leaders like Deputy Premier Yigal Allon to charge that this was bemg set as a precondition to negotiations. American officials were understood to fpel that Allens statements represent a smokescreen and an effort to divert attention away from the original Jarring communication. Practical security arrangements at Sharm the strongpoint at the southern tip of Sinai that protects and controls passage through the Strait of Tiran. The diplomatic informants said that all these points, especially the issue of Sharm which Israel has long insisted on retaining, were deliberately left open for future Israeli bargaining. These informants said that a similar - r 'fied on Thants statement, disclosing that Jarring sent Israel a noie on Feb. 8. The note asked for a clear-cu- t commitment to withdraw to the international boundary of the United Arab Republic on the understanding "that satufactory arrangements would be made for: Freedom for Israeli navigation through the Suez Canal. set cf conditions htd been pm io ihe Egyptian government in separate note cn Feb. 8, when Cairo was also asked whether it would accept a peace agreement with Israel. In replying favorably to Jarring, the Egyptian government accepted all three of the above conditions, diplomatic sources said. Once the Middle East ceasefire was continued beyond its deadline at midnight Saturday night, the United States was expected to pursje more vigorously to respond its effort to persuade favorably to the Jarring proposal. Because the entire initiative originated with Jarring, Washington considers it inaccurate for Israeli leaders to contend that Cairo is imposing prior conditions on the negotiations. Arab-Israe- Well-pIac.- J Niaui, udrr. li informants say that high istration offv?i,!s that trying to avoid a direct response to the Jairing initiative by suggesting that both Israel and Cairo set aside "ultisuch as matums and Cairo's demand for total Israeli withdrawal from Sinai and Israel's refusal to go bak to the old international border Israel is on the Sinai. (Copyright) |