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Show Fly Flag Today Today with increasing south. erly winds and 20 per cent chance of showers by tonight: Jefferson Day warming trend with high tem- peratures near 70. = ONTH— PRICE PROVO, UTAH, SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1969 15 CENTS Nixon Trims $4 Billion Floods Now |4F, From Fiscal ‘70 Budge t Homeless In oo ‘i ite North Dakota, South Dakota driving more residents {rom and Minnesota President Nixon have asked for disaster area designation, making them U.S. Warships , : Forecasts Surplusof homes in the area's worst flood available for federal assistance er since the record 1956 At Jamestown, N.D., about undation. 100 more residents were driven The total homeless topped from homes, swelling 8.000. The hardest hit areas Telugee total above 2,200. KUBrnt bP. ELLSWORTH, noc the former Kansas congressman and current White House as- A were North Dakota, Minnesota, A few ofthe 2,000 homeless at| Sistant, shown Saturday aftSouth Dakota and lowa but Minot, N.D., were attempting to er being appointed by Presiflooding began in Wisconsin and return to homes as the Mouse| dent Nixon as ambassador to Illinois river ports were bracing River receded, but authorities the for their turns were urging all but rescue, North $5.8 Billion u © i eou (Herald - UP{ SAIGON (UPI) — A dozenover into ground fighting American warships knocked out American off 106 Communist hideouts Satur-/were no repo! day with salvoes from their/battles under way when gas accumulations were stations off South Vietnam's Informed US. sources in coast in the South China Sea, Saigon said the low level of military spokesmensaid. fighting in the past week would Ellsworth South Dakota 1,650, Nominated Iowa 780 NATO Envoy and Wisconsin 60. Damage estimates at Minot, Dikes Hold a key adviser on in the drive to destroy the 34,000 mark for the war, European two tunnel storage complexes. affairs, to be U.S. ambassador Offensive Still Rages —S== | NATO Urges Caution in yjet Cong and North Vietna mese soldiers pushed their offensive toward its eighth week, hitting 30 towns and camps Saturday with overnight! barrages that military spokes- WASHINGTON (UPI) — The World Taiks | White House spokesmen saig jdetailed figures on the new ROBERT P. MAYO announces to budget would be announced in newsmen at While House Saturday that President Nixon’s the com week. ised revised sepnding budget for fiscal 1970 will cut $ billion ‘budget requests are also expectVERNON ROMNEY from domestic and defense programs to produce a $5.8 | ‘ed to be sent to Congress at the mained in their homes, shel-'succeed Harlan Cleveland in men said caused light damage|NATO allies were agreed today billion surplus. (Herald-UPI Telephoto) same time, they added. tered behind the levees early June if the Senate and casualties. that any serious negotiations Johnson Figures Off The Des Moines River wac confirms the nomination Among the population centers with the Soviet-dominated WarThe new adminisration budgfalling at Windom and Jackson,| phe president also nominated hit was Vinh Long, 58 miles saw Pact countries to resolve jet is actually only $2.4 billion Minn., but 470 persons remained Philip Kingsland Crowe, 61, southwest of Saigon, where 10 European military and political Jess than the $195.3 billion in homeless at Windom. Three of giractor of the World Wildlife rounds of fire Friday had killed issues would have be outlays planned byhis predecesthe four bridges into Jackson Fund and a former ambassador |21 persons and wounded 100, undertaken on a cautious, stepsor, Lyndon B. Johnson, in were closed andthe fourth was tg Ceylon and South Africa This time, 34 shells killed one|by-step basis. January. White House spokesclosed to all but emergency during’ the Eisenhower adminis-,and wounded five. The NATO council of minismensaid however that some of traffic. tration, to be ambassador to) Terrorisis.in another Mekong ters, in a communique issued | Delta village, Phu Huu, detonat-\at the close of its two- WASHINGTON (UPI)—Con-|microphone at each senator's the Johnson estimates were off Utah Siate Attorney General “We're holding our breath,” a! Norway, and the total should have been Vernon Romneywill be the key- Jackson policeman said Crowe will succeed Margaret ed a mine in the marketplace, day annual spring meeting, said ress returns from a long| desk. $196.9 billion. note speaker next Saturday at ‘There's‘a continual battle with Joy ‘Tibbetts, who has held the wounding four children serious-|any agenda for eventual discus- Easter vacation Mondayfor its} Ae fewsenators, prizing the Budget Director Robert P. 'sions “must be prepared well in first hard look at President) old traditions which still prothe Utah County Republican seepage and we have had to nost since 1964. Crowe, a natively ‘Mayo told newsmen the Party organization convention. build some secondary dikes'g New York, was previously, Far to the north, Communist /advance” and limited to those ‘Nixon’s new budget. Democrats} vides each Senate desk with a billion in planned cuts in the , behind the original ones 0 associated with Life and For-|ground gunners knocked down a issues which “best lend them- were primed for battle. box, were skeptical of the new budget will whittle defense The meeting will be held al contain water that Keeps boiling tune magazines. He once was\U.S. Marine CH46 Sea Knightselves to fruitful negotiation and| “We should refer to this as snuff microphone proposal but Mans- programs by $1.1 billion and 7 p.m. at Spanish Fork High up.” special assistant to the late|helicopter near coastal An Hoa, /an early resolution.” the long awaited, long anticipat-; field predicted it would ‘pass reduce domestic programs the School and will see delegates With the crest still a week Secretary of State John Foster killing five of the American Gls) This phrasing was taken to led budget,” Senate Democratic| overwhelmingly.” remaining $2.9 billion. elect new county Republicanjaway, the Mississippi River was Duyljes, ~ aboard, U.S. spokesmenlevel said. _of|member mean that leaders of the 15leader Mike Mansfield said Westernalliance, while Both Nixon and Mayo noted officers, state delegates andjrising two feet a day at St.! Esworh, 42, of Lawrence,| The stepped-up 4)| Saturday however that of the $ billion /Paul, Minn., and many streets) (See ELLSWORTH, Page 4) ‘shelling attacks did not carry! (See NATO URGES, Page | Mansfield and other prom-| county central committee. increase in over the All county delegates elected|were already closed. Pleasure inent Senate Democrats includ-| | 1969 budget total, domestic at the 1968 Republican mass|craft were orderedoffthe river. ing Edward M. Kennedy and} e programs will gain $.5 billion e , Levan-| | meetinge were named for two) Minnesota Gov,at Harolq | EdmundS. Muskie have warned | e t F of that increase. y the drowning vears and will be delegates to|der, alarmed “This administration will nev| repeatedly they were anxious to| ama [e) U / mM jof a -year-old boy at tis year’s convention. pare military spending and} er turn its back on the growing County Republican officers to|Shakopee, Minn., appealed to pump the savings into domestic) needs of the American people,” flood of clear stay to chairman,|sightseers a include programs | be elecied \Nixon said in a prepa With Nixon promising ite-| By United Press International ‘statement. vice chairman, treasurer and areas. “The effects of widesecretary. Current county offi-SPread flooding are serious eli ang Jordanian troops | In addition to the cuts in cers include Fred T, Wright,|enough without the added including a new Pentagon battled with tanks, mortars and spending for 1970, the revised hairman; Mrs. Harold Bailey,|''gedyof loss of life,” he said budget Tuesday, the tranquil} Machine guns for three hours budget also cut $5.5 billion in some ofthe items on parently been overloaded. pace Congress has pursued ice chairman: Claudius EB, The boy and his 15-year-old) fxtensive damage was in-|crushed authorizations for sound stage and covered] Scenery, catwalks and other since convening Jan. 3 appeared Saturday, Jordan announced. requested Stevenson, treasurer; and Don|s!s!er were ariel into “ee flicted an a sound stage at the the area Israel dismissed it as a future spending to a total of eae ready to quicken four),oo as much as with Studio|the Picture Motion Fri-/pyty River Minnesota flooding Peterson, secretar skirmish and accused the Arabs $204.6 billion, Mayo said. truss) the on ig Ene foura from water of col-|inches truss roof a when But the week's schedule of of exaggerating to make it | The $5.8 billion surplus goal day night while walking along a) saturday zs that their floor action was light e appear war was imminent tan ne erica lapsed and dropped tons of de- inch water line in the ceiling and firemenindicated losers \for the vear is the largest since -_ tree branch and was rescur that was broken. first impression of the situa-/House takes up Tuesday a bill Jordan said Israeli forces|the $7.1 billion in excess bris on the sound stage. The death brought the Minneso-| There was no estimate on the tion was that this probably to clamp down onoil spills and |triggered the fighting, eightirevenues reached by the There was no onein the area! ta flood toll to five. caused the collapse. jsewage discharged from ship. A |miles south of the Sea of Galilee|gvernment in 1951. The largest when the truss collapsed about| amount of damage. Sandbags Filled a ‘ ifive-year extension of federal Boy Scouts and high school 10 am. and no one was in-) The Provo Fire Department BYU officials said the mis-\aid to education programs also \near Al-Manshiyah, The Arabs|ever recorded was$8.9 billion in |reported no casualties of their|18, the budget chief added. students filleq sandbags Satur-| jured, was called to the scene when hap occurred in a sound studio| was ready for House considera- lown, but said the Israelis) Mayo said the new budget is |day at Humboldt, lowa, to ‘The falling truss pulled the|the falling debris set off the : draggeg off eight men. | (See FORECASTS, Page 4) protect the town's water and} joists loose from three trusses,|fire alarm in the building and that was constructed in 1965, eae ears , | scheduled sewage treatment plants jextensively damaged the heat- firemen indicated it appeared after much of the original mo-!t, Senate action calls for the (See HOMELESS, Page 4) ing and plumbing systems, to them that the truss had aption picture studio was de-first public address system in | stroyed by fire on Sept, 15,|Senate chamber history. The WASHINGTON (UPI) — The 1964. |proposal would install a small Nixon administration announced Saturday that it was moving to That $500,000 fire resulted in| . | County GOP Confab to Hear Romney 1 produce the largest surplus since 1951 when Harry S Truman was in the White House Nixon said the surplus “will |speak louder than any words” to demonstrate that the nation “jt determined to bring a halt to the inflationary spiral which has seriously affected our leconomythese last four years.” hideouts up and down of American dead will rise past supplying the guerril- The Red River of the north to the North Atlantic Treaty! climbed to a record crest at) Organization in Brussels. Crookston, Minn., 1¥ feet above) Ellsworth, formerly a conthe record set in 1965, but|gressman from Katsas and Crookston’s dikes were holding political director of Nixon's jand the 8.500 residents re- election campaign lastfall, will The President said the cuts will lower federal spending for the fiscal year starting July 1 as proposed by the last Johnson budget to $192.2 billion and 7th Fleet slammed into| ertheless, they said the number authorities said they were being, WASHINGTON (UPI)—Pres- las’ nationwide offensive. | conservative because a junior|ident Nixon Saturday nominated| Headquarters in Saigon said| high school and a newoone of his White House the shelling also destroyed 50 {elementary school sustained assistants, Robert F. Ellsworth, bunkers, 10 gun positions and severe damage. programs and produce a $3.8 billion surplus Hundreds of shells from the be reflected in casualty figures t ND., topped $3.25 million and There major destroyers and cruisers of the Teleased next Thursday. Nev U.S. (UPI)—Pres- ident Nixon announced Saturday that his revised spending budget for fiscal 1970 will cut $4 billion from domestic and defense Atlantic Treaty Organization, crews to stay away from the| Telephoto) flood areas, Two homes exploded and burned Friday night touched off. Gasoline was leaking from submerged autos, adding to the fire hazard Minnesota had 2,000 homeless WASHINGTON Ss BUDGET DIRECTOR Congress to Return From Easter Vacation New Battle By Israel, Jordanians As Roof Truss Collapses "sz.»: U.S. Hopes To Resume CambodiaTie Soldier of Mapleton Killed patch up relations with Cambo- the one existing studio being dia and was ready to open relations with the United States in May, 1965, over an incident which involveq a} U.S. military intrusion from More than 100 movies have/negotiations with Red China im death. wrestling, next Tuesday ‘‘or at He was born Jan. 31, 16, in Survivors include his parents Cambodia and the UnitedStates Vietnam Prince Sihanouk announced earlier Saturday he expected a) communication from the Nixon) receipt of the Nixon communi- cation, proposing the talks late Friday. Spain’s Former Wednesday} which wowld recognize Cambodian boundaries. In a speech to the national assembly, which was heard by US, radio monitors here, the chief of state said that on i will reestablish “We relations immediately.” In Action in Vietnam War any other date convenient for since they were first built in| the Chinese” in an effort to end Provo, a son of Robert A, and of Mapleton; five brothers and Averett Snyder. five sisters, Russell K. Snyder, 1959, After the 1964 fire, movies their bitter border dispute Ren Pfc, Snyder recieved his edu- stationed at San Diego with the were produced at the televi-| which has claimed casualties on ation in Springville City) (See SOLDIER, Page 4) sion studios in the Harris Fine both side: wane The viet Foreign Ministry schools, graduating from Spring 5, i Arts Center until the new fa- handed the Red Chinese Embas- ville High School. For a short cilities could be erected. sy in Moscow a qiplomratic note time he wag employed in the has been Cambodia’sill-defined eastern frontier with South on | F been produced at the studios! Moscow South Vietnam into Cambodian) territory | A major difficulty between administration \ SPRINGVILLE — William| He left for Vietnam Jan. 11, Saturday's incident occurred in| Talks With | (Bill) Robert Snyder, 23, 1318] 1969. this new sound stage. | China on Issue |W. 1000 N., Mapleton, was kill-| Pfc. Snyder was an active . | ed in action in Vietnam April member of the LDS Church. Engineers and fire marshals| MOSCOW (UPI)—The Soviet 7. Word was recieved by his enjoyed sports and while are investigating the incident.|tnion today offered to start parents Saturday confirming his in Hehigh school took state in Cambodian Chief of State Norodom Sihanouk severed di- plomatic Soviet Proposes rebuilt and a new one added.| discussions on resuming diplomatic ties. of specific, and ing granddaughter of England's Queen Victoria, lapsed into a Mill Department at businesslike. cal College in Provo for one year prior to going on an LDS the Mission to the Southwestern CanadianMission for two years. The transmission of the note Queen in Coma 5 por'ed today by Soviet news agency Tass LAUSANNE, Switzerland (UPI)—Former Queen Voictora-Eugenie of Spain, last surviv- Rolling The document was reported to Geneva Steel Works be brief—less than 300 words—| He attended the Utah Techni- Following his mission he re- Now You Know| ByUnited Press International The male bloodsucking band- turned to the Technical College and graduated in diesel mech- anics. During the summer of 1968 coma Saturday, It was feared ed louse weighsas litt! State Department spokesman 0.005 he worked for Jensen Drilling she would not recover. | of a milligram—or 5,760,000 to; Construction in Washington. Carl E, Bartch told newsmen| eeecanaad | that the U.S. government had In August of that same year | The former queen, 8, has| an ounce. asked Australian Ambassador PILES OF DEBRISlitter ; floor of BYU a esMotio n Picture Studio sound stage after a roof truss |been seriously ill for several! By United Press International he was drafted into the U.S Graham Feakes, in the Cambo- collapsed Saturday morning. Sagging joists and beams can be seen in the upper part Of weeks. She is the great aunt of The highest recorded number Army, and recieved his basic dian capital of Phnom Penh to the picture. No ove was injured in the mishap and damage was extensive but no estimate | Queen Blizabeth Il and Princess of pigle's in one litter is 34, training and AIT training at) j @f damage has yet been mado, 5 deliver the message, ‘born in June, 194, in Denmark, }Fort Ord, Calié, |