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Show THOUGHTS... snow FLURRIES A thought fer the day: ‘Thomas Hardy said, “Patience (is) that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.”” possible today with continued cold weather, High in mid 30s, fow tonight wear 15, Chance of snow is 20 percent, Gb VOL. 46, NO. 39 PROVO,UT arma ones Apollo 9 Drops Into Safer Orbit By EDWARD K. DELONG \L “Rusty” Schweickar' ajpicture-taking | experiments. UPISpace Writer rookie civilian spaceman,! The astronauts first tried SPACE CENTER, (UPI\—The Apollo 9 calmly fixed an “SUNDAY, MARCH9,1969 -Egypt-Israel Duels 1 Centered on Suez to Houston passed the halfway point of|start their main engine and astronauts their 10-day mission with all'drop into a lower orbit, from g their macjr goals already met. which they could return to earth 0 Awakened after 10 hours Of easier in an emergency, about 1 . ray am = e | t oma PAUL T. FORDHAM Fordham vitt and David R. Scott, both found hemselves unscrambling ing instructions. The second Air Force colonels, and Russell a ground control mistake in time they tried it. 9 minutes later, the engine started per- = fectly, NamedP.G. Neil Hutchinson, flight dyna- mics officer, said there was never any danger the astronauts { could have gotten stranged. “If that had been retrofire, we would have gone ahead andlit! City Head | Reported By CLYONE B. LOWE Kaen gqpsnottl MP oboqarueaN | By United Press International Egyptian and Israeli jets vane 7M) lit battled over the Suez Canal | Saturday and troops on the ground fought a thunderous aon BOK ATE rayne, tl bp 4 artillery duel along a 70-mile stretch of the waterway. herup with no problem (despite} = ic Moves Are Conflicting Instructions For some unexplained reason the autopilot controlling the} omenal days, James A. MeDi- their main engine and then starting procedure got conflictUnwinding ° I leep, they joked about their p.m. EST. ‘ospectin banker's hours."’ But the from space. pace got a little heavy when) after five phen hey had to try twice to start PRICE15CENTS It was |the heaviest fighting in the area the trouble),” he said PLEASANT GROVE — Pleas-| Egypt admitted the joss of a A Space Agency spokesman,|ant Grove now has a cily ad- Soviet-built MIG21 andits pilot, \Douglzs Ward, alld th ministrator — a post created by |and said one Israeli jet was engine-starting problem “proce-|the city council in view of the shot down. Israel, charging the jural.”” | growing need for a full-time Egyptians with “trigger happi“It was something in the way| manager of city affairs — and * said all of its planes it (the autopilot) was set up—|Mayor Paul T. (See APOLLO 9, Page 4) Test Hole Is Throughto . Lark Miner Fordham has ned safely. |been appointed by the council Israeli communiques said the to fill it jartillery duel erupted a few Mayor Fordham will take the hours after the dogfight, first job at a salary of $575 per along Suez cease-fire lines in month. By special permission |foyr months. of the city council, he will re- Spokesmen main mayor for the remainder |the Egyptians in Jerusalemsaid , fired the first of his term — a part-time post shots in theartillerybattle, and for which he is, and will con- said tinue to be, paid $75 monthly. |, Mr. Fordham said, following) the barrage was “unex- | pected.” Military spokesmen in Jerusa- his appointment to the city ad-|tem said the big Egyptian guns LARK, Utah (UPI)—Elated|ministrator post, that he has|hegan booming at 6:30 p.m., rescue workers Saturday pushed relinquished the managementof about 4% hours after the a small test hole through to the his business, Cal and Paul’s dogfight, The Israelis said shells rocky niche where miner Ford Tractor Company sales’ stil] were falling an hour after William V. Jones has been|yard to his partner, Calvin|the first was fired trapped for more than a week. Mills. Interrupts Programming EN » \trapped the veteran 60-year-old trator is a new one, as far as| OLD GLORY, % solidly sandbagged into #place, . flies overhead ‘as an unidentified American soldier removes artillery shell [sraeli spokesmen said the |™!"¢T- AE AUARRY (Hereld-UPI Telephoto) . In Effigy By ne , Local Option _ Angry Russ Hang Mao “That's a good looking job, Careful Study Radio Cairo interrupted its! boys,” Jones shouted gleefully) Mayor Fordham’s selection |, ar programming to anwhen the diamond-tipped drill|for the new post came after ounce that an artillery battle into sight. jsome two months of careful wih Israeli gunners was under The eight-inch diameter drill Study of several applicants for y y. The Cario report said the broke trough to Jones at 1:30/the job, members of the city eyptians were using field| |p.m—one week, two and one Council said guns, mortars and light wea. half hours after a rockfall The position of city adminis-|pons. rock DESPITE SWIRLING SNOW,tens of thousan ds of Muscovites marched Saturday in second uy of mass protests against alleged killing and mutilation of Soviet border guards by Chinese troops. Effigies of Chinese Commun ist Party leader Mao Tse-tu burned. Tax Is Killed HENRY SHAPIRO By RAYMOND F. NASH The local option sales tax bill, MOSCOW (UPI)—Angry SoSALT LAKE CITY (UPI) —|which would have boosted the viet citizens Saturday burned The Utah Senate Saturday killed levy from one-half cent to one |Pleasant Grove City govern-|artillery duel raged from and hanged effigies of Mao Tse.|@ bill doupling the local option|cent on the dollar, was killed on AS soon as the test hole was| ert Eekno ieee eaniata southward to the Sue7 /tung outside the Communist Sales tax after advancing Jegis-jan 8-19 vote with one senator \Chinese embassy here in an lation Giving cities the authority absent. a blanket was hay ht aaeislig icalaie ey gen sait p An Israeli | insult. to th to increase local property taxes. | Advanced to the third reading eel to sees to ih off any and complexity of city prob-|the Egyptians failed to respect} re ruler of their giant “||calendar was a measure in[EE De Nee Deering AEE ec requires a fulltime execu-|{wo U.N. cease-fire requests at creasing the city proj ee tive and administrative officer. |7:45 p.m. and 8:25 oe and neighbor. Incensed by the disclosure of Outlook Good «iin fo 35 mils only alt But the tough father of J1|~The time has come when We/ continued to bombard Israeli Lake City would be directly af. |said “He hasn't got an ache or|need someone to activate and positions in the Port Tewfic and bloodyatrocities allegedly comfected by the measure, since a pain,” according to Benton follow through on the decisions |Mithla sectors of the front mitted by the Chinese during from its protective casing during fighting near Bien Hoa completed, village, (Herald-UPI Telephoto by Kent Potter) e eporte S 5 B CCcu py! ng ff U LZ er |Boyd, vice president of U.S.|and policies of the city coun-|where the battle was sill last Sunday’s Sino-Soviet border For Pact on one |Smelting, Refining and Mining) cil,” one of the council explain-|raging. battle, an estimated 100,000) Ogden, Provo, Logan and other ‘second and third - class cities currently have property tax Muscovites ignored a swirling) The Israeli a for ie late winter snowstorm to stage Nuclear Arms cling of 34 and 35 mills. notjibe cease-fire requests Duties Listed pa-jand respect for the Demilita-| Howard Niejsen, Riverton,| N (UPI)—Allied ! |a march past the ee embassy| Salt Lake City, with a current Radio by broadcast those he|with that said Fordham Mr, a making sel poolaed Tone ty Communist forces|Utah, one of the drillers, said) complex for the second day in a! roperty tax ceiling of 18.5 mil : into the southern sector of the|were stipulated by the United|he shouted “Hey, Jonesy, how!considered some of his import-|Cario, \Co. Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) anq|States in ordering the bombing|@"e you? Jed. \ant duties would include: Unconfirmed reports in Jeru- row. WASHINGTON (UPI)—Senate oa ‘a 22-mijl els celta of |salem said Egyptian oil refine- | An effigy of China’s 75-year-/Democratic Leader Mike Mans-| Under terms of the bill, city are clashing on a daily basis halt against North Vietnam last| “Jones asked me who I was| ‘To coordinate the activities ruler, in blue cotton field said Saturday “prospects commissions will be able to [introduced himself and Said| all city employees in the inter-jries in Suez City had been set old with North Vietnamese regu-|Nov. 1, pajamas, was strung from a look very good” for ratification raise the mill levy only after Jars, informed U.S. sources said/ In explaining the allied|‘Get me out of here for hell’s\est of cooperation and efficien-|afire by the Israeli hombardment, The reports saig the fires miniature gallows placed in a of a long-delayed treaty de-|holding public hearings. Saturday. At least 2,000 Com-|patrols into the DMZ, a high- sake.’ But he said it as if he|cy some snowbank in front of the Signed to curb the spread of In other Senate action, laws munist troops were reported in)ranking U.S. Army ecficer said) was joking. He's not afraid in| ‘To serve as purchasing agent|could be seen raging embassy. A cloth and cardboarq|uclear Weapons to nations! makers approved and sent to |distance away for the city corporation Saturday: “Frankly it’s the any way.” the zoe. |the governor sharp tuition hikes the) A later Egyptian military effigy was burned nearby by) Which do not havethem. augment and pursue To with) wisecracked also Jones on| tabs keep can we way not/only is The DMZ fighting | The agreement, called the!at all state colleges and univer. que said the firing another group. announced through information| what North Vietnam is up to in|those coming to his aid about|development of the Pleasant/communi Veteran observers could not} Nuclear Non-proliferation Trea-sities, 8:30 p.m. but! I at [stopped park, industrial new when|Grove paycheck burgeoning respect/his qon’t They DMZ. the channels in Saigon or do of charged that Israeli gunners jrecall any previous incident in/ty, goes to the Senate floor ‘The tuition increases average official military spokesmen|the zone’s neutrality, and, as alhe said “You guys are working) To carry out the policies minutes which Soviet demonstrators had! Monday with Mansfield, Senate $90 for resident students and straight time and I'm just|the city council as a whole, and resumed the battle 45Page even admit to the presence of/result, we can't afford to/for 4) burned or hanged an effigy of/Republican Leader Everett M.'slightly over $100 for out - of5) = (See DIPLOMATIC, (See RESCUE CREW, Page 5)| (See FORDHAM,Page the reconnaissance patrols injeither."” = Mao. The Chinese present Mao| Dirksen and the Senate Foreignstaters. (a i Lea the supposedly neue as a figure revered by the Relations Committee solidly) Senators sent to the governor . rip dividing North and Sout entire population and regard] behindit a bill increasing salaries of Suean | Utah County Flood Picture any affront to him as an) “[ think we'll have an/preme Court justices by $4,000 The report of the DMZ action a d extremely serious act. lextended debate,” Mansfield 4 year and district and juvenile i; Rg coincided with ee in Less Violent said in an interview. ‘‘The/court judges by $3,500. Currentiver the Saigon area, including one Jor an Saturday's demonstration) prospects look very good but a in which North Vietnamese Blasting Set to Clear jasted 4% hours, 90 minutes/two-thirds majority is alwa 16,00 a year and district and troops charging behind clouds of} longer than the one on Friday.|hard to get.” \juvenile court judges $14,000. nausea and tear gas stormed It was, iiowever, less violent.. He said the Senate debate) The House earlier passed leg. to do the work. He said the felt that the Corps of Engineers| Vide the manpower to do the \Some stones and ink bottles’ might takeall week. By VAL HESS jislation increasing the govera U.S. outpost. American detenders of the Blasting powder will be used amount of mud to be removed would probably furnish the Work. were hurled at the five.story| Also in Congress, the House/nor’. lary to $20,000. Differ. Agreement Reached base near Phu Khuong hurled|ty clear mud and sand bars would not justify the expense blasting powder needed for the County Commissioners agreed embassy building but few proCounty wouldahs mark River in Mr. McGregor indicated he} job if Utah sa back the assault in seven hours) 444 of the Jordan to the proposal. The commission their TU 0to ee icantriver northern totats Soviet authorities drew an counted) fang dead. of heavy . open the will now formally request the Eleven) tempt Communist found takes up its fir will be ironed out by a request Tuesday a up aleg to rebuif pat 153 double line of buses in front of| proposal that theceiling fo Corps of Engineers, in writing. {the embassy and kept marchers national debt be boosted by $ Americans were killed and 30 allow a on water as pos- HERALDing The News to assist with the project. Jin the road to frustrate thosebillion into Great Salt | C flow to sible h menudo: | County commissioners and G. seeking to throw objects. More American headquarters Te-\7 344 : b want) reached islon % ‘Marion Hinckley, former comported a total of 163 Commuasapa Cc amps: Get News missioner and landowner in the than 200 windows were broken nists slain in three Saigon area eee ; ne Arie in the building on Friday. battles against overall U.S. \Utah Lake area,3 indicated they)Y| tn In Hong Hong Ki Kong, a Peki s *e oft ls after they)thao 7. Peking radidio aunThe tes erp3dpetete,ConySl| In Green Sheet Section Tosses of 12 dead and 40/¢al and slateofficial hls Se: south of the Point of the Mount- were not certain much enaacat the broadcast. wasearwhi was. heard which hormuck cera how [rerzapt | that it would ve sufficient to}h eet It was a big evening for sports, what with the Cougars help in the coming water probAs the ground fighting intensi-| ln playing in the NCAAregionals aud the State Class “A” finals lems that are expected this fied, Communist forces Friday] They explained that there are held in the BY') Fieldhouse, Read the news in the green sheet spring. night and early Saturday|several areas where mud has sports section. It is felt that the more water unleashed 50 new rocket and/been deposited and has collapElsewhere there's lots of good reading, including top world) that can be sent down the mortar barrages on towns and)/sed into the channel off the Laird Inspects U.S. Outposts ee. the hall, House meme imed early after they (See LOCAL OPTION, Page 4) Nixon Ponders ABM Stand in Face of Strong Opposition WASHINGTON (UPI) While} Of the 91 senators responding Presigent Nixon ponde ed the in person or through aides, 20 matter at his Florida hid ay, Said they would vote for an a survey completed ABM deployment. Twenty-five and local news on Page 1 end inside pages. Here are a few Jordan River, the more water) cvicoy (ypt)—Defense Se- showed that 46 senators—only/said they were undecided. bases in widely scattered areas| banks, | stories of special interest: Utah Lake can hold without cretaty Melvin R. Laird con: five short of a controlling, Most of the undecided are of South Vietnam. Mud Slows Flow | —The full report of the committee which researched the flooding surrounding lands. ferred with South Vietnamese majority—opposed or were lean-| Republicans who could be A cessation in Communist ‘This mud slowsup the flow of founding dates for Provo. Page 2. | Flooding Predicted leaders Saturday on the new ing against deployment of the expected {to follow Nixon's attacks on population centers) the river and decreases the —The Belle of the Y winners. Page 3. Experts have predicted a Communist offensive and pri Sentinel Antimissije System recommendation, especially if amount of water that can be —James Eari Ray rumored planning to plead guilty to| spring of high water and flood- pared to leave Saigon for an The telephone poll by United|he makes a strong appeal for inspection tour of U.S. outposts Press International, conducted|deployment in the interest of ‘The plan to blast the mud) —Democratic Utah governor attends Republican legisla-|or nearly so, as the flooding in the countryside. during the past week, indicated national security this area experienced in 1952. As Laird m By United Press International out of the river was agreed) tors’ caucus to mull schoolfinance bills. Page 9 ith President however that the odds against) But at the moment, lacking Plastic surgery Was used as|upon after F, W. McGregor, Provo architect heads committee for design of Washing-| Utah Lake is now neaily at com-| Nguyen Van Thieu in Indepen- the ABM could be reversed if any firm indication’ of the ton Tempie. Page 8A. {promise levei and is predicted’ \dence Palace in downtownthe President decides to resume |President’s thinking, those senaearly as 800 B.C, by the Hindus|resident engineer of the U. to restore missing facial fea-|Army of Engineers sai "t forget the women’s section—nor the Sunday comics|to rise between 1% and three|Saigon, a mass funeral washeld construction not nearbig cities|tors willing to commit themtures somelimessliced away as that it would be too expensive) and Family Weekly magazine supplement. All part of the mee higher. In 1952 it reached) for 16 victims of a rocket attack but in sparsely populated rural|selves are against deployment wo move heavy equipment ip, Sunday el (See BLASTING,Page 4) lon the city last Thursday, areas, | (See NIXON, Page 4) @ form of punishment, Now You Know |sccomodsied by the channel. slaying Martin Luther King. Page 9 ing, perhaps even as extensive |