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Show 4 INDEX ; WEATHER jusements Cassified Editorial Page See “a ren é with chance of cee Continued hot af- %‘ Sie “VOL 48, NO. 4 Partly cloudy — lernoons. Highs today 9 to 100. Probabilityof rain increasing to 20 per cent by late today. r PROVO, UTAH, SUNDAY, JULY5, 1970 ae 2.25 PER MONTH- PRICE 15 CENTS arks July 4th Fete psurge of Patriotism Red Threat On ‘Honor Am erica Day’ Phnom Penh Pulls Record Crowd Is Discou nted At Nation's Capital fought Friday. iit z i 8: 8 Sere2 & HF af i ut: & [ a i el tHe |3 iig HH “In my personal opinion it R | z 4 ¥a¥8. Bg He & z success, # theme ay was a 5. Judges awarded the theme prize to the Provo llth ward float. The theme of the parade and the entire celebration was “God Bless America” and the Nation's s a:I if Meet Named was definitely a success,” ed Montgomery said. “Tt has the spirit certainly delayed the enemy at many degrees hotter in the ae eee a least six months.” today but always . Ei SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) —Sen. Harold E. Hughes, DTowa, will be keynote speaker at the Utah State Democratic Convention July 18 in the Salt Palace. John H. Klas, Utah Democratic chairman, said the Iowa Senator would address the more than 1,500 ates to the convention at 11:15 a.m. Hughes, who is assistant Majority whip, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1968, after serving three terms as governor of Iowa. He has been a leader with legislation to combat alcoholism drug abuse. gomery, D-Mis., who headed the investigation, said his committee will file a report next week with Speaker John W. McCormack, D-Mass., and it will be made public afterward. Montgomery said he believed there was a consensus that President Nixon's operation against enemy sanctuaries in Cambodia was a military that Brezhnev also displayed a large aie Statue of Liberty. Other Honors Second place “ede werealso and Third Wards, while second most beautiful float was that of the Provo 17th Ward. Theme second prize was won by Manavu ae Joseph Fielding Smith of urch acted as jlomarshal for the procession and atthe end of the parade route returned to the reviewing stand to watch the upon thousands of peoplelined the parade route to (Continued on Page4) Drops Trip ToRomania MOSCOW (UPI)—Leonid 1. Brezhnev, general secretary of the Soviet Communist party, has withdrawn from a deiegation going to Bucharest to sign a Soviet-Romanian friendship treaty because of a “catarrhal ae” the official Tass news agency said Saturday. Experienced observers in Moscow said Brezhnev’s absence from the delegation was undoubtedly a combination of orders from his physicians and a tactful diplomatic snub of Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu. hecklers, was polite, orderly and quick to applaud any appeal to patriotic sentiment. Kate Smith got a standing ovation, with whistles, when she belted out “God Bless America” as only she can do. Susan Huskisson, a miniskirted young blonde from Knoxville, Tenu., also drew cheers with a recitation entitled, “I Am An American,” which called the roll of battles in which American troops have died, and ended with the challenge; “Show me a country greater than our country.” Graham,the principal speaker, drew scattered applause whenhesaid “much remains te be done”to fulfill the American dream and to eliminate such blots on national honor as (Continued on Page 4) “2 Attend Central Utahns by the thousands flocked to Provo to witness the parade and participate in the annual tribute to the freedoms enjoyed by Americans. The Provo In— Day celebration is considered to be one of the largest in the nation. ‘The sweepstakes parade float was built by the Oak Hills LDS Second and Third wards for IGA and also featured seven young KeynoterFor Utah Demo By ED ROGERS WASHINGTON (UPI) Twelve House members returned Saturday from a “no briefings, no brainw: Indochina inspection trip with a — majority report that the U.S. incursion into Cambo- e The two blessings were represented by skeletal recreations of the Salt Lake City LDS Templeand the Utah State PHILADELPHIA ea) Capitc) building. the entries in the dark blues. beauty category was the Most Original heed of Pleasant Vi iew Theoriginality prize went to Fourth Ward for Provo Motel Association. Tt was the Old Woman in the Shoe float, also built by Pieasant View Fourth Warders, this one for Taco Bell, Utah County Realtors and Basic HH. Themed “America's Blessings Granted in Little Packages,” the float featured a gat ved and Successful To Crowd 3 the Provo Freedom Festival parade. The graceful float featured a large globe of the world with an American Eagle perched on top. Theglobe rested in the center of four sweeping, balancing arms that projected out over the four corners of the creation. At Prison The rioters, sorne armed with between residents of the trol of the Cathclic Falls Road area and British soldiers. The troops finally restored a semblance of threatened to kill dozens of white hostages unless Black peace at 5 a.m. An army spokesman said 19 Muslim leaders were broughtto soldiers and 61 civilians were the prison to hear their injured. grievances, themed “America’s Blessings are Untathomed” and featured the prize winner. in Judges named the ie tw an aquatic scene, complete with Delicate Balance” earne q Parade entriesin each of ren), mermaids, swans, and sea , accented with light and and theme divisions. turday in state government. Saturday in street fighting eee ae Incursion mialiisaes blended together to point out the blessings “found in delicat balance,” those of church and 400 Riot Cambodia ! By VAL HESS beautiful, : Taped Talk memorial and clashed with police. At mid-afternoon, some of the youthful demonstrators rolled rolled Says Panel Festival Ends Here A : Nixon Gives reflecting fool that Le - Colorful July 4th creation, “! about 300 persons who femcied ot sbrcenites through some of wis splashed around _noisi Monument, Rev. Billy Graham speaks (lower ieft). (HeraldUPI Telephoto) 3& LFAST, Northern Ireland (UPI).Bat troops imposed a stringent curfery on a riottorn Roman Catholic section of Felfast Saturday after a night of violence and enforced it with their guns. All weekend parades were banned. Five civilians, two of them CROWDS GATHER at Lincoln Memorial Saturday tor interfaith religious service leading off dayne “Honor America Day” observance. In background is Washington it i rH ii f ( Atlreland Washington. Telephoto) gER g & i In Riots for taking pride in America’s ly while Graham listed reasons i Mi &a y Toll Mounts \ 908 WIPE, an ot eae figures. in “Honor America Day” Bit a s Bes Se Eg z. County ted Patrol were searching for Wilson’s body at press time as darkness began At Kompong Thom, a city the search. : ’s wife and family were near the geographical center of driving a vehicle down the road Cambodia where a major alot ‘theriver while the men ow of Communist ls were os waiting to pickfas reported, them Wilson's wife was a lobbed into Cambodian j waeat the scene of the positions near a drowning while the search Field commanders feared a fullscale atterspt by North continued. Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces to take K Thom, a city on the banks of the Sen River which would give them control of important communication and supply lines, Lincoln Memorial, attended by about 30,000 people. The vast majority came to wave flags and’listen attentive- i Military sources here in Saigon said the 4,000-man South Vietnamese task force rushed to the defense of Phnom Penh six days ago had made only light contact with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units and that there was no need for them to stay. Cambodian units were believed able to cope with the situation, The force of South Vietnamese marines andinfantrymen, along with some armored units, was reported to have pulled back to positions around Kompong Speu, 2 province capital and highway junction 25 miles southwest of Phnom Penh, A South Vietnamese headquarters base at the Phnom Penh Airport was closed dewn and moved to Can Thoin South Vietnam's Mekong River Delta 75 mies southwestof Saigon. re gate 1 z eck seek 3 sZ Sheriff Chapple and the Utah Evangelist Billy Graham and =giae 2 SPANISH FORK — Glenn Wilson, 35, 673 S. 10 E, Springville, apparently drowned in a tubing accident in the Spanish Fork River up Diamond Fork Canyon late Saturday afternoon. According to Utah County Sheriff Ralph Chapple, Wilson was tubing with two other men in the river when his tube hit a snag and he lost the tube and went down. The names of the two men tubing with Wilson were not immediately available. The point at where the men were tubing is very high wit oe 475 cubicfeet ay water per second to the sheriff. That the US.A., despite its faults, is a country to be of was the theme of “Honor American Day” ceremonies here and in thousands of other communities from Maine to f Accident Mars 4th seattered with communiques reporting two Americans and seven wounded in two widely separated clashes, one near the Cambodian border 100 miles north of Saigon and the other in northernmost Quang ‘Tri province. Nine North Vietnamese Bes Viet Cong were reported slai in the two battles, which sn ihiy i Drowning By LOUIS CASSELS WASHINGTON (UPI) America celebrated her 194th birthday Saturday amid assurances that most of her children Vietnamese gunners shelled Kompong Thom, a strategic city 80 miles to the north. Combat in South Vietnam was described as light and i i wi, : SAIGON (UPI) —South Vietnamese commanders Saturday discounted threats of a Communist attack on Phnom Penh as “phony” and withdrew the last of 4,000 troops defending the Cambodian capital. North EgvptHits Israel Jets ByUnited Press International Egyptian gunners along the Suez Canal hit two Israeli jet warplanes and destroyed two tanks Saturday in another day of heavy peeatong the front, an Egyptian spokesmansaid in Cairo. In Tel Aviv, Israeli military spokesmen made no mention of lost in the ith consecutive day of air raids along the canal. But three Israeli soldiers were wounded Saturday, they said, when an Army unit came underfire from Lebanese territory while patrolling in the Metullah area of UpperGalilee. Philadelphia Favored for Bicentennial Fete WASHINGTON (UPI) —The commission set up to plan celebration of the nation's 200th anniversary has recommended to President Nixon that, Phi- ladetphia be the site an international exposition and a re Fourth birthday party in Philadelphia nosed out Washington, D.C., pans ie es the for the honor of bicentennial host city, but the commission recommended n i a report that all three prepare own to rocus attention on different aspects of American life ‘The report by the 3i-member American Revolution Bicentennial Commission also stressed that proposals from many other cities for special events would considet and approved within the next six years. Recomm indations in the 38 page report that four focalpoint cities stage elaborate activities “international sources earlier in the week. But other specific recommendations of the commission were. Convening joint sessions of Congress in various cities throughout the nation. —Ouifitting a special promotional ship to tour the world and invite visitors from abroad to the anniversary celebrations. —Urging Americans to make a" yject”’ of learning at least one foreign of reports thal ‘special observances of their hadfiltered from commission large number of ? 4' rists. —Planning by private and public transportation officials to ensure fast, low-cost travel by 1976, particulary along the Bast Coasi where mostof the events scoadaling. special even!event during the winter Olympics at Denver in 1976. commission ed the year-long celebration be called ‘festival of freedom’ tha aHert seis, Open Tor HoweUSA andHorio” |