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THOUGHTS lor the day: Poet Lowell once said, brave man he coward = OUNTY, UTAH SUNDAY, J China Puts On 13 Killed ‘No Talk’ Heat 7,1 U.S. Hopes Assurance To ‘In British Rail Crh Reds Will Avert Sea Shots HONG KONG (UPI)—Com- regime not to make any hasty munist China was reported peace moves and has disHIXON, England (UPI)—An Saturday to have turned major patched special emissaries to diplomatic heat on North the North Vietnamese capital to express train carrying 500 passengers smashed into a 60Vietnam to block any talks with reinforce the warning. the United Sta Red China is a major source |ton truck hauling a large Diplomatic sources with con- of war supplies for North electri | transformer Sa*urday tacts in Peking said the Chinese Vietnam. leadership cautioned the Hanoi The diplomatic said there was informants a strong Police said 13 persons kilied and 40 injured | Soviets Also Worned were Of War Zone Dancers Nine coaches of the 1l-car possibility the same emissaries Manchester- to - or another delegation from jumped the t not be Peking might be sent to could Cambodia to counter $2.00 PE 968 S ai By NICHOLAS DANILOFF WASHINGTON State immediately moves determined whether the five toward reconciliation between eMin the truck survived the Red Chinese leadership over The train, traveling miles the turn of events in t ovel the pastfew meat teams "jan hour, sliced into theatgiant Asiaa over da: ruck\atailevelle ie The latest given in Teported worried about North the Midlands town of Stafford Named CC Speaker near the North Vietnamese Sen, Wallace F. Bennett, Hereeyend ane was] Utah, will be the principal |©Scoted oy Ting ism, speaker at the 47th anualin. member of the “China-Vietnam| stallation banquet of the Provo | "tiendship Association. | Chamber of Commerce on Jan,’ Ting would be an ideal man 16. so that it did not every effort” to avoid damage to Soviet shipping. But it also The complaint charged that the Russian ship PereslavL. cautioned of the dangers of Zalessky was damaged Thursday during a U.S, bombing raid Official Concern on the North Vietnameseport of U.S. officials acknowledged Haiphong. | Sailing through a war zone. Signal barriers were halfway the Viet Cong group in Nanning| wrecked racer. the Russians clai pirat cal attacks against their ships by US. pl eS, enough for talks with Prince Norodom ‘train hit it Bennett have to arry defend them<ely je note said the United suggest any immediate and States would “continue to make serious threat of hostilities, dor to India, Chester Bowles, slowly across the rails when the The Chinese mission to Hanoi down, jammed into the top ot was believed to be traveling the transformer, witnesses said. with a Viet Cong delegation) The impact was so violent| which has recently visited| that the truck was hurled 300 Peking. yards down the tracks. | The New China News Agency,; Track marshals righted the Peking’s official propaganda |car and extricated Hulme who voice, reported the arrival of|Wwalked away from thetotally neerr However, the American offihanded to Soviet Ambassador cals pointed out Anatoly F. Dobrynin by Secreta- Russian threat, containe ry of State Dean Rusk Friday note delivered to Rusk Friday night, and made public Satur night, was worded broadly from Vietnam's statement that Hanoi} aj) the dead were believed will begin talks on “relevant| British questions” if U.S. bombing) The truck stalled at the stops and the mission to crossing but a surviving driver Cambodia by the U.S. ambassa-| said the uuck was moving Sihanouk: any shooting involving orth Vietnan: such assurance was diplomatic note would avert confrontation shipping to N cally operated crossing barried | Peking reports were said to British Railways is installing indicate serious concern among throughout the countr SEN. WALLACE F, BENNETT wer Soviet diplc natic ong that neutral nation and the It was the third accident in 10 days involving a new automati| United States. The Mao Tse-tung regime was town of Hixon, six miles they THE TANGLED MASS of steei that once was a dierel-train driver's cab is mute evidence of the sevrity of a crash in Hixon, England, Saturday. An express train carrying 500 passngers from Manchester to Londonhit into a 60-tor truck carrying a giant transformer weigh- ing 125 tons. The driver war killed in this cah and at least 12 others were also killed. (Herald-UP1 Cablephoto) Five Indicted For Conspiring To “24 Yanks Encourage Draft Law Violations Survive for a mission to Hanoi for the| Sen. Bennett has represented purpose of making sur Base) Utah in the nation’s capital for sticks to a hardline position | 17 years and is nearing the end with regard to talkswith the] BOSTON (UPI)—Fiveleaders Hershey, the Selective Service intimidate us, they will find of his third consecutive six- tae Eeoy ae ts ee antiwar movement’ director. \themselves sadly wrong. aacby Gk | year term of office, a pO including pediatrician Benjamin) ershey, who has b i “The Vietnam war is illegal, | N —A company} He holds high rank on four foreign nations in his role as@| Spock Yale University | action aunt inom. sd seepeal a auiaied ie of 103 U.S. L:fartrymen out-| important Senate committees Vice chairman of the “‘Associa-|chaplain William Sloane Coffin) who are trying to get our kids|United States and the draft numbered more than 2-to-1 | Viet Ambush and is also a member of four|tion for Cultural Revolution werecharged under with indictment Sat-|in trouble,” praised &the Justice|resisters fought their way out ofSaturday a North with Foreign Countries.” It is a) |Jr, wrday conspirin, ‘oti are courageous and iq,| Vietnamese ambush others, ‘i Sen. Bennett is the ranking | (uasi-fficial body under ontell i < | Department Kes ‘ j of the}: to encourage violation € - American diplomats said they simply would have to wait and see whether the Russians, who This Heating have complained with increasing frequency of aerial harass- System Is ment, actually would arm thelr cargo ships, and if they did, whether they mightfire at U.S, aircraft attacking North Viet- For The Birds PIACENZA, Italy (UPI) —Bird raiser Antonio Cieli installed a heating system ; ale day night that killed 10,000 lithe Turkestan incident of June of his birds. 2, 1967 near the harbor of Cam Pha probably was the most serious to date, because one jured. Reds Say In the latest incident, the 3,726-ton Pereslavi-Zalessky suffered damage, according to the indicte Peatahsoe mo a morning at the end of a fierce arr (Bente = will only create greater opposi-|/2-hour battle. Reports from the Bombin draft laws. Republican on the Banking and|% the Chinese state council. g tion to this illegal and immoral|‘ront said the night fighting ‘ , Currency Committee; and has) Ting bas made several trips The indictments Friday by al high rank on the Finance eom-|{o both North Vietnam and sederal grand jury, marked thel neve’eonferente “afewhoura| Wat.” Other Complaints US. bombing raids in North to keep his quail from freez- |Vielnam have brought Soviet ing during a cold wave. jcomplainis involving other So Tt touched off ai fire Fri- |VctShinslikethe cargo Frunge. vessels estan and Mikhail tHMt oa| ary ais Russians, but no Soviet seamen 1 wereinjured. It is thought in Washington Deliberate ee drive|late in his New York apart-| | Besides Spock and Coffin, aeer |start of a “get tough” that the Russians are anxious eh of|ment, freely admitted counsel-|those indicted were Marcus Only y 24 menin ee pe the Ona, against the adult leadership as U.S. officials to avoid an the draft resistance movement,|98 Young men to resist the Raskin, 33, of Washington|of the 196th Light Infantry! moscow (UPI)—The Soviet armed confrontation. | Officials in Washington said the| draft and said he was ready to codirector of the institute for|Brigade emerged unscathed/ynion charged Saturday that |go to jail if necessary. policy studies; Michael Ferber,|from the battle along the coast/1,S, bombing of a Soviet ship in He is also on the Joint Com- By United Press International investigation is continuing and “Tf going to jail helps the \23, of Boston, a Harvard jof the South China Sea 360 miles Haiphong harbor wasdeliberate mittee on Defense Production, the| University graduate student; |northeast of Saigon in the Que| and “cunning” and said Soviet Furnace the Republican Policy Commit- Greek law and legal thought! more charges can be expected.| movement, I'm for it,” “g/and author Mitchell Goodman, |Son Valley area—a zone of| ships going to Vietnam may have a history of more than! “T's a time for exultation,” balding physician declared. Committee on Cambodia, the Jointand mittee, ‘Atomic Hi a sh rethe newlytablishEnergy - ite ds aCor ee * | Now You Know ae Canening tee, the Joint Commission on| ,000 years. Coinage and the Coordinating Committee’s Task Force on Federal Fiscal and | commented Gen. Lewis increasingly heavy combat. have to arm themselves. B.| the government is trying to \44, of New York City and Tempie, Maine. | The Americans counted two| The Soviet government newsPaul Markham, the U.S. North Vietnamese bodies when \paper Izvestia rejected the US. attorney in Boston, presented jthe smoke of battle cleared. {government's explanation the evidence on which the grand Many Communists were be- the damage to the vessel jury returned the indictments. |lieved killed by artillery barra- Pereslavl Zalessky was The Justice Department said ges and air strikes supporting “inadvertent” result of a raid | Geneva’s No. 1 blast furnace |on Haiphong. there were no plans to arrest the beleaguered U.S. unit. the men, A spokesmansaid the ‘The Que Son Valley combat, a | “The purpose was cunning,” Was scheduled to shut down five would be notified to appear bitter battle along the Cambo- \the dispatch said. “It was not to|Saturday for what a company in U.S. district court here at a dian border Friday and a series |hit the ship directly. The idea| kesman termed a “partial | still undetermined date for of hit-run attacks by Viet Cong was to drop delayed-action | reline” job. bombsall around the ship.” | arraignment. | The spokesman said the furearly Saturday killed a total of The indictments brought un- 26 Americans, wounded 84 and A Radio Moscow broadcast{ nace would be out of producjar the Seleciive Serivee Act took a staggering toll of South heard in Tokyo Saturday nigh tion for “less than two months.” said 10 Soviet freighters were | specifically charge the five men Vietnamesein five villages and with conspiring to counsel, aid outposts which were the targets a zoule oealpbong mes The contemplated repairs do ‘argo of industrial machines, not constitute a major rebuild and abet those who wished to of guerrilla night raiders. | refuse to serve in the armed Reports reaching Saigon said power generators and mine job such as will put a furnace \forces and comply with other the Communist terror raids exploration equipment for North out of actior for several months. The other two blast furnaces | duties required by the draft before dawn Saturdaykilled 14 Vietnam. lzvestia said the Pereslavl at Geneva will continue in norlaw South Vietnamese, wounded a\ Zalessky was trapped in a circle mal operation, the spokesman The maximum penalty for the (See 24 YANKS, page 4) (See REDS SAY, page 4) said offense is five years in prison and a 10,000 fine. Goes Down se For Repairs MonetaryPolicies. Sen. Bennett is also the author of two books, “Faith and Freedom,” and “Why I Am A * aud was a prominent Salt City businessman when elected to the Senate in 1950. The banquet will be at 7 p.m. Jan, 16 at the Riverside Country Club in Provo. Awards Due Dr. L. L. Cullimore will install 1968 officers, President Jack A. Craghead will give his annual report, and several special awards will be made. Frank §. Dain, a former chamberdirector, will be master of ceremonies. Reservations may be made at the chamberoffice. Due to the broad interest in Sen, Bennett, non-chamber members A | Postage will be welcomed, but must also make 1 Wotherspoon, tions. chamber William mana-| ger said. | Officers to be installed that night will be elected by the chamber’s board of directors| THE CHRISTMAS RUSH revisted? Nope. "Twas the night before the new postal rates when all through the lobby, customers waited in lies to mail packages before the raises wentinto effect. Actually, the picture was taken in the Provo Post Office Saturday at 12:15 p.m. The rush to heat the rate raise brought such a crowd that postal employees were forced to keep the office open a little past the noon Saturday deadline. Gives Kidney to Brother | Provoan Has Own Transplant Story Rates Go By MILDRED B. HALL jto the surgery wt removed family. She expresses regret Provo has been making its her kidney and whic! wa: s im-| that the transplant was not sucown transplant history the past mediately transplanted into the |cessful, but said, “I am very few weeks, with the unselfish body of her brother. The opera- glad to have been able 10 make act of a sister in donating a tion was declared successful, the try, at least.” She is conWhat kind of a stamp did kidney to aid her criticallyill|the kidney began operating at! valescing at her home in Provo, you put on that letter today? once and functioned well for a While recovering in Losx An|Better check to be sure it’s a ter love hath no week in which time, Mr. Ly- geles, the Christmas holiday six cent one, or smaller ones could be used to describe man’s condition was much im-|was brightened by the surprise | totaling six cents. visit of lier husband, Mr. Platt, the willingness of Mrs. Allie proved Sowthyincubators and their condition is|hospital’s pediatric department. |strated that sepa yn, though | Today is the day the new Platt, wife of Gordon Platt of Suddenly the organ stopped |Mrs. Platt said that there have JOHANNESBURG, postal rates went into effect, Provo and mother of their functioning and it was neces-|been many heartening things They were fed through tubes for |difficult, was fea: le Africa (UPI)—A 27-member becomingstabilized.” raising first class rates from eight children, to undergo a/sary to perform more surgery connected with the experience the first eight days of their Further tests were performed On Danger List surgical team successfully sepaand the children thrived so that five to six cents an ounce. harrowing operation to remove |for the removal of the kidney and noted that the support of rated Siamese twin girls Satur- Dr. R. R, Drubin, superinten-/lives, she said. day in a uur operation dent of Johannesburg Children’s Only four days after birth,| by Jan. 2 their combined weight] Air Mail has gone up from a kidney in order “to do what which, it was found, had devel-|family and many friends had eight to 10 cents. we could” to help her brother. joped a blood clot. Mr. Lyman’s |been rewarding, She also men| Hospital, said the children were|}, doctors claimed was a medical oth suffered jaundice infection|2s 18 pounds, Both six and 10 cent stamps The dramatic event had its body is now operating with an/tioned gratefully the unselfish they still on the dangerlist however. and later a severe bowel “It was decided that first, Dr, |are available at the Provo Post g in California where Mrs,|artificial kidney and as of this and totally unexpected acts of The surgeons said Catherine She said it would be difficult infection and their combined|Were nowfit for surger: Office, but they are not the Platt’s brother, Almon P. Ly- past week, it had not been de-|kindness by strangers at the 0 know when their mother,| weight of 12 pounds dropped to Drubin said, “and ‘rehearsals’ and Shirley O'Hare, who were |new ones being rushed off the man of Stockton, a Blanding, |cided just what steps will be|hospital and friends of these in\geban.” |Mrs. Ronald O’Hare, would be! 11 joined at the head, "stood the allowed to see the babies. presses. Utah born son of Mr, and Mrs, |taken, either for another trans-|dividuals which was humbling The doctor declined to disControl Infection procedure well” and were “‘con- It_was believed the first time vith“ aula \close the names of the doctors Robert Q. Strong, Provo Post- Edward P. Lyman, laystricken |plant, or for the maintenanee|and gratifying. sidered satisfactory.” Jin South Africa that surgeors| With “rigorous” treatment, | sho performed the operation. master, said his office also has in a San Francisco hospital, jof the artificial kidney. The| Mrs. Platt is employed as a More than four hours after/had separated infants joined at|the doctor said, the infection! Johannesburg is nearly 100¢|8" ample supply of one-cent Dociors there suggested that a|surgery itself was performed secretary in the office of the the operation, the hospital said: | the head. was brought under control and miles northeast of Cape Town, stamps which you can add to |kidney transplant :night be the|in a Los Angeles hospital after |purchasing agent at Brigham “The twins have regained) The twins, born Oct, 7 injon Dec, 5, the babies were) where Dr. Christiaan Barnard five-cent stamps to make up means of restorng Mr, Lyman|transfer of the patient there, Young University, Mr. Platt is to health. Mrs. Platt responded Mrs, Piatt returned from Los |also employed at BYU, Their consciousness and are slecping|nearby Bononi, were two weeks individually anesthetized and has performed two heart |the new rate. Post cards are now a nickel and going to San Francisco, she | Angeles during the week after |family, which welcomed mother peacefully. It has been possible premature and were immediate- underwent a three-hour investi-| transplant operations since Dec. | (See POSTAGE RATES, p. 4) ‘underwenta series of tests prior |three weeks absence from her |(See GIVES KIDNEY, page @ » fo remove them from the| ly put under care of the gation in which “X-rays demon-|3, Wednesday. | Medical First in Siamese Separatio Up Today |