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Show Scores Die in Scoftish Soccer Stand Collapse GLASGOW, Scotland (UPI)— Spectators rushing to beat thousands to exits after a big Soccer game Saturday tripped and tumbled a concrete stairway when a crowd control barrier collapsed. At least 66 persons were killed and hundreds injured, rolice said. It was the worst soccer game disaster in British history. Manyof the victims suffocat- ed and others were trampled. Authorities said 66 persons were hospitalized and hundreds others treated for minor injuries. “Tt was like a battlefield,” 9 witness said. “It is difficult identifying the dead. Many had oe ripped off in the Second Holiday Tragedy The tragedy, at Glasgow's Tbrox Park, was the second to hit the soccer world over the New Year’s holiday. On New Year's Eve a chartered plane carrying members of an Algerian soccer team to a match in Spain crashed into the Mediterranean. A search plane sighted wreckage of the plane Saturday and reported there was no indication any of wne 31 aboard survived. An overflow crowd of 80,000 watched Glasgow’s local archrivals, the Rangers and Celtics, battle to a 1-1 tie after both teams scored in the last 9 seconds of Scotland's most famous annual match. Police said hundreds of Rangers fans were heading down stairs to the exits with their team behind 0-1 when they heard a huge roar for the tieing goal. As they tried to return to their standing room places, they were engulfed by hundreds of jubilant Rangers fans trampled. They didn’t stand a chance,” The victims, mostly men in their 20s and early 30s, were pushed by the pressure of hundreds of surging bodies down the steps. Sir Donald Liddle, lord provost of Glasgow, who swarming downthe stairs after the final whistle “There was a mad rush for the ex.ts at game’s end. Then someone fell and someonefell atop him,” a police sergeant said. “It snowballed until a barrier collapsed under their weight.” No Chance Another witness said that when the barrier collapsed, “thousands of persons surged forward, All those in front were Heath called for the lest investigation” into the tragedy Queen Elizabeth said she was much announced the casualty figures said “it is quite clear that a great number died of suffocation." Prime Minister Edward d ssed"’ by the tragedy and conveyed the royal family's “deep sympathy” to families of the dead and injured The stairway barriers at Tbrox Park were reinforced with steel three years ago when two Rangers fans died in almostsimilar circumstances ' | VOL. 48, NO. 36 PROVO, UTAH,SUNDAY, JANUARY3, 1 Congress Quits, Avoids SST. Reconvenes Jan. 21 Fighting ~ DemosPraise, UPI Telephoto A BODY IS CARRIED out of Ibrox Park soccer stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, one of atleast 6€ fans killed whena section of metal and conerete barrier coilapsed. In Indochina Nixon Signs 52 Gverrilla Russ Hint Role Bills: Vetoes 1 Fighting Flares Up As Mediators WASHINGTON(UPI) —President Nixon has vetoed a proposed 4 per cent pay raise for the federal government’s nearly 850,000 blue collar workers, He signed 52 other bills Saturday, including two specifically aimed atbig cities’ high crime areas, One, the $2.9 billion housing bill, establishes a federal insurance program in high crime areas. After the 1968 riots in various cities, many insurance companies cancelled out policies in ghetto areas as bad risks, making coverage fighting package, is intended to help local police forces increase their effectiveness through more personnel and better equipment, Congress had heard testimony that the 1968 crime law chiefly benefitted small towns rather than hig cities. The new law provides that starting in 1972, states are required to pay 25 per cent of any amount a city is obligated to put up as matching funds for federal grants, Nixon was spending the weekend at the presidential almost impossible to get. retreat at Camp David, Md. ‘Theother, a three-y2ar, $3.55 The White House announced the billion part of Nixon’s crime- bill signings. Other measures signed included: Authorizing a three year, $300 million program to prevent andtreat alcoholism. —Authorizing $592.2 million for projects throughout the nation under the 1970 rivers and harbors and flood control act, the smallest amount approved in 20 years, —Exempting the Delta Queen, MAHON,Spain (UPI)—Police and aviation officials gave up the last of the passenger ships hope today of finding any on the nation's inland watersurvivors from a chartered ways, from federal fire safety airliner that crashed into the standards through Nov.1, 1973. —Provides for uniform, equiMediterranean Thursday night with 30 persons aboard, many table treatment of persons of them Algerian soccer play- displaced from homes, farms and businesses by federal aid ers. Spanish, French and Algerian programs. Nixon said he was rescue planes took up the ordering the Department of search again at caer for the Housing and Urban Develop: twin-engine Nord 262 turboprop mentto develop procedures for ilding housing for people after darkness forced a tempordisplaced by those programs. ary halt Friday night. Establishes a national ‘The fact that no sign of the plane had been spotted led the minerals policy in the Interior authorities to discount any Department to encourage pri possibility of finding survivors. vate enterprise in developing sound and stable domestic TRIPOLI, Libya (UPI)—A mining and mineral reclamaUnited Arab Airlines jetliner tion policy, economic use oj evashed during a sand storm domestic resources, research, Saturday as it approached and control and reclamation of Tripoli Airport. All 16 arabs mineral waste, —Extends to March 1, 1971, aboard were killed. The British-built Comethit a instead of Feb. 1, the time for sand dune about one mile short proclaiming natiou.al marketing of the runway at approximately quotas for burley tobacco. 4:30 a.m, The four-engine —Increases the debt limit plane exploded into flames, under the farmer’s Home hurling wreckage as far as 400 Administration Act from $60,000 to $100,000 and waived for yards. rds. It was the secondfatal airline Vietnam veterans the requireaccident in the Mediterranean ment of a farm background for area in two days. Spanish loan eligibility. rescue aircraft Saturday spot- Nixon and his wife and their ted the wreckageof a chartered daughter Tricia and her steady French plane that crashed in beau, Edward Finch Cox, flew the sea north of Algeria by helicopter to Camp David ‘Thursday night with 31 persons New Year's Day, and Ziegler aboard, They reported no signs said he expected them to return to Washington Sunday. of survivors. Two Air Crashes Take Toll ByUnited Press International Arab guerrillas shelled an Israeli position on the Golan Heights and two settlements near the Lebanese border early Saturday. In the occupied Gaza Strip, a grenadeexplosion killed two children in an-Israeli car and wounded thei mother, Tel Aviv spokesmensaid. An Israeli military spokesman said one Israeli soldier was wounded in the three night bazooka and mortar attacks climaxing a week in which there was an upsurge of guerrilla attacks, new tax aimed at combatting syndicated crime and gambling. The House,in little noticed action Dec, 22, approved a $1,000 annual gambling tax agelnst bookmakers and numbers racketeers, with prison penalties up to 5 years and fines of $10,000 for noncompliance. The bill also provided a 10 per cent tax on gambling profits, But the bili never got beyond , the Senate calendar where it remained until the Senate's final second, The 92nd Congress was expected to take up the measure again. Justice and treasuryofficials, whosaid the tax could bring in $20 million to $25 million a year, wanted it as a weapon against organized crime, whichderives most of its revenue from gambling proceeds, The tax was designed to get around a Supreme Court decision that ruled the existing $50 gambling tax stamp unconstitutional because payment of the tax could result in self- review of foreign policy for the new year, Premier Alexei N. Kosygin Saturday pictured the Soviet Union as a would-be mediator in Indochina and a champion of disarmament, Kosygin Was interviewed by the Asahi newspaper of Japan. The official Tass news agency saw to it that the rare Kosygin interview—his last with Mos- cow’s press corps was May 4, 1976—got major treatment and distribution abroad. The Soviet premier made clear Moscow still fully: sup~ ports Vietnamese Communist demands for withdrawal of U.S. troops as a precondition to peace, and he repeated the Gunnar V. Jarring, United Soviet warning of Dec. 17 Nations special mediator, flew against air raids on North to New York meanwhile for a Vietam, Then he said: new round of peace “We would readily help the expected to begin some time Americans in leaving Vienam, next week, but after all, what holds them In Cairo, President Anwar there. Sadat conferred with his U.N. “Nothing, I think, except the Ambassador, Dr. Mohammed desire of some United States Hassan al Zayyat, preparing for quarters to retain in South the resumption of talks broken Vietnam the anti-popular pupoff four months ago by Israel. pet regime which fulfills the The Israelis announced eariy will of the United States and this week they would reenter perpetuates South Vietnam as the negotiations, an American beachhead.” “The road out of Vietnam is open for the American army,” he said. “The Soviet Union is ready, on its part, to further facilitate the attainment of a political settlementin Indochina.” Kosygin’s emphasis on Soviet willingness to intercede diplomatically in Vietnam caught the attention of foreign obserTwopersons were killed in a light plane crash on Mammoth vers in Moscow because the Mountain near Eureka early Soviets have been publicly Saturdaynight, and two children shunning such a role for some time, were seriously injured. On disarmament, Kosygin ‘Theidentityof the victims was not known, accordingto the Utah made comments that took in HighwayPatrol. The two adults the current Strategic Arms killed, a man and a woman, were Limitation Talks (SALT) in taken to Nephi,and the children, Helsinki and reached beyond em. reportedly a boy and a girl were “We proceed from the taken to Payson Hospital. ‘The plane was believed to be premise that effective meafrom Minnesota, according to sures in the field of restraining the UHP,butits destination was the strategic arms race and unknown, The Juab County limiting strategic arms would Sheriffs department was at the meetthevital interests not only of the Soviet and American scene of the accident. peoples but also of the peoples of the whole world,” he said. a x Plane Crash Claims Two; TwoInjured WEATHER Partly cloudy today with chance: of snow flurries, Colder, highs today in the mid-20s, Probability of snow decreasing to 30 per cent today. Utah as a whole, partly cloudy today with scattered light snows. Colder. Delay Benefits Gamblers WASHINGTON (UPI) —Organized gamblers won their race with the 91st Congress Saturday. When the Senate died at 2:29 p.m., so did a powerful MOSCOW (UPI) —In a Holiday Toll Climbs ByUnited Press International The New Year's weekend death toll on the nation’s highways climbed steadily Saturday. Its rate of increase indicated about 500 Americans would die in traffic by midnight Sunday. A United Press International count at 6 p.m. EST showed 256 persons had died in traffic accidents since the holiday period began at 6 p.m. local time Thursday. A breakdown of accidental deaths: Traffic 256 Fires 22 Miscellaneous 14 incrimination. The House bill would have gotten around the Supreme Court decision by forbidding federal officials to use information from the gambling tax in connection with prosecution of antigambling laws. Sources said the opposition to the bill came from Nevada senators who disliked a provision in the House bill that would tax legal gambing Total 292 operations in their state. The Texas andCalifornia were far House measure would have ahead of other states in the given federal tax credits, traffic death count—Texas with California 27. New York however, against state ga unted 18 and Illinois 17. bling taxes. UPI Telephoto SOVI&:T PREMIER ALEXEI N. KOSYGIN, in a rare newspaper interview, has hinted that Russia might be willing to act as mediator in helping the U.S. to get out of Vietnam. He offered no specifics. Margarine Tax Repeal OnDocket SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Republicans and Democrats alike are preparing legislation concerning the possible repeal of Utah’s margarine tax -- an issue that repeatedly comes before the Utah Legislature. Thetax calls for a five-cent per pound levy on uncolored margarine and 10 cents a pound on colored margarine, Legislators are planning bills which would reduce the levies in stages and phase the program out over the next few years. The Republican bill is being prepared by Rep. Stanford P. Darger, R-Salt Lake City. He has championed repeal of the tax without success since 1969, Rep. C. DeMont Judd, D-Ogden, the floor majority leader, is handling the Democrat Party-sponsored measure. Darger said his law would provide for immediate repeal of the 5-cent tax and reduction of the 10-cent tax to seven cents in 1972, four cents in 1973 and repeal in 1974. He noted Utah is the last state to retain such a tax while other states have begun phas- ing-out measures. Precedes Truce End By KIM WILLENSON SAIGON (UPI) —South Vietnamese troops battled a North Vietnamese force inside the Demilitarized Zone late Saturday shortly before the Communists announced that the threeday cease-fire had ended. Heavy fighting also was reported in Cambodia In Phnom Penh, spokesmen reported that Cambodian troops ing into a Communistoccupied pass on vital Highway Four linking the capital with the seaport of Kompong Sam ran into entrenched Viet Cong troops. Elsewhere in Cambodia, South Vietnamese and Cambodian soldiers killed 68 Communists in twobattles. The action in the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Vietnam broke out late Saturday afternoon when a platoon of South Vietuamese troops on patrol encountered North Vietnamese soldiers in the southern area of the DMZ, Military sources said the platoon called for air and artillery strikes against ux North Vietnamese, and that eventually a second South Vietnamese platoon waslifted in to supportit. The action took place in the vicinity of the U.S. Army artillery base at Gio Linh near the South China Sea coast, the sources said. U.S. spokesmen said fire missions by U.S. forces in the area were believed to have supported the South Vietnamese operation. The spokesmen said U.S, firebases along the entire 40mile length of the DMZ used Ford Condemns WASHINGTON (UPI) —The longest Congress since the Korean War adjourned Saturday afternoon, only hours short of the constitutional deadline. Retiring Speaker John W. McCormack called it a great Congress, but House Republican leader Gerald R. Ford said it had done “only half of its job.” Shortly after 2 p.m. EST, Reps. Carl Albert, D-Okla., and Ex-Provoan Picked as McKay Aide HUNTSVILLE, Utah (UPI) — Congressman - elect Gurin McKay has appointed radio personality Jay S. Monsen as press secretary. Monsen, 37, is a veteran of broadcasting for 15 years. At present he is news and sports director for KSUB radiostation in Cedar City. ‘ Hewill move with his family to Washington, D.C., in the middle of January to take up duties for the First District congressman, Originally from Mt. Pleasant in Sanpete County, Monsen has worked for radio stations KOVO in Provo, KSVCin Richfield and KSL news in Salt Lake City, where he served as capitol corrn it. Mr. Monsen was graduated from Snow College in 1953 and Brigham Young University in 1957. While attending BYU he met the former Lauretta Young of Reindeer, Ore. whom he married. They are parents of five children. McKay, a Democrat is currently touring areas of the district to meet with city and suspected Communist move- coun‘y officials before leaving ments that could not be hit. for Washington Jan. 10, their weapons four times during the truce period, and there were two other sightings of Utah Begins Diamond Jubilee Celebration SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Utah begins celebrating its 75th anniversary of statehood today with open houses and special church services. The day is called ‘Cultural Heritage Day” and will focus on Utah arts and letters and the cultural and religious heritage of the Beehive State. Open houses will be held at the Cathedral of the Madelaine; the Terracor Buildng, formerly the David Keith manson; the Utah State Historical Society Building; the Utah Institute of Fine Arts; and the Brigham Young University Salt Lake Center for Continuing Education, Churches throughout the state have been asked to have a commemorative activity to emphasize their religious freedom enjoyed in the state, according to chairman Wilburn C, West. Diamond Jubilee activities will continue through Jan. 11 with each day carrying a special theme and emphasis. John J. Rhodes, R-Ariz., and Senate leaders Mike Mansfield, D-Mont., and Hugh Scott, R- Pa., madetraditional telephone calls to President Nixon, who was at Camp David, Md. Then, at 2:29 P.M. EST, having reached a compromise on the future of supersonic flight by putting off a vote until next session, th Senate quit. At 3:12 p.m., after paying lengthy respect to McCormack, the House adjourned. The 92nd Congress will begin Jan. 21, Scott noted that Nixon was thefirst President since Zachary Taylor to face a Congress controlled by the opposition party in the first two years of his term, “This was a mixed bag Congress whichin its later days was featured by obstruction by the few of the many and by an unfortunate amount of quarreling between the Senate and the House,” Scott said. Ford, speaking elsewhere, said the Senate had become “fittle more than a debating society.” The Senate was tied up during much of December by severalfilibusters. Mansfield said the Senate's chief achievement was reassertion of its “power in foreign policy.” He said the big domestic achievements wereits adoption of Nixon's and its own proposals dealing with crime, drugs and pornography. Thefinal barrier to adjournmentfell when a resolution providing appropriations for the Transportation Department at $2.6 billion, including $210 milion for the SST, through March31, passed the Senate by voice vote. The SST’s chief opponent, Sen.William Proxmire, D-Wis., dropped his opposition to the appropriationsbill. He received assurances from key senators of a separate vote on the 300passenger, 1,800 mile-an-hour jet early in the 92nd Congress. In the final hours of the session, Sens, John J. Williams, D-Del., and George Murphy, RCalif., resigned to give their successors added seniority. Sworn in were Reps. John V. Tunney, D-Calif, and William V. Roth, D-Del. They will have seniority over all newly-elected (Continued on Page 4) INDEX Classified Comics Editorial Page Obituaries Society Sports 29-31 2 a 4 17-20 9-12 Along With Rest ofNation Snow Storm Plasters Utah's Dixie By United Press International Blowing snow from a husky winter storm Saturday plastered highway signs at St George, Utah, that boast: “Wherethe summersun spends the winter.” Eight inches of snow piled up at Leeds, Utah, only 20 miles north of St. George, and blizzards raged through the state's high mountain passes, Up to 8 inches of snow fell along the eastern slope of the Colorado Rockies, with heavier streets and highways. snowfall in the high mountain Sunny skies and country. Snow flurries skittered across New England and the upper Great Lakes, but the New Year’s Day stormthat dumped heavy snow on much of the East has moved out into the Atlantic. New York City‘ifted its snow emergency, effective at 6 p.m. Saturday, after more than 3,000 sanitation workers cleared a warmer temperatures reduced the fresh snowpack in New York, Washington and other cities in the The snow was welcome at ski resorts where operators have reported difficulty keeping enough snow on the slopes to cover rocks. Temperaturesfell to 12 below zero at Omak, Wash., early Saturday and stood at 1 above at Butte, Mont., in midafternoon, East. The snow storm in the West covered most of the southern and central Rockies and the southern part of the intermounIn contrast, it was warm and tain plateau. The main thrust of the storm was expected to push humid in southern Texas and eastward across the plains the mercury rose to 79 at Brownsville, Tex, Sunday. |