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Show INDEX Amusements Classified 4 Comics Editoria! Page a 30 Obituaries Society Sports WEATHER Mostly fair in Provo-Salt Lake Ogden area ate a litde 3235 cooler with highs in the mid-30s. Prebability of snow less than 10 4 percent, 15-20 $13 Stocks 21 VOL. 48, NO. 35 SEs $2.50 PERMONTH — PRICE 20 CENTS Apollo 14 014 leads Home Maneu vering Blastoff, Redocking Go Smoothly After By Parties 33-Hour MoonVisit SPACE CENTER, Houston Antares moon landing craft off the lunar landscape at 1:48 On VoteBill (UPI)—Apollo 14’s astronauts out of lunar orbit Saturday SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — pass the measure, in spite of The press for extension of vot- efforts by Democrats to stall ing rights to 18-year-old Utahns until an alternate method sees has lost the luster of near un- daylight in the 28member upanimous consent of the 39th per chamber. Tegislature and fallen into a The resolution will go puzzle of party politics. through, Democrats fear, while Democrats are apprehensive a more direct statuwory apthat the GOP will move swiftly to push through a constitutional amendment Monday and steal the glory of obtaining the teen- age vote. Sources high in the Senate, Rampton wants a law which where the amendment, HJR 1, saysflatly 18 is the proper age rests this weekend, indicated to vote in elections. Republicans have at their disposal the necessary 19 votes to pe and Peter D. GrundfosIt Lake, has been ioe and will be introduced into the lower chamber Monday morning. The governor's apne is to take the new law bel Utah Supreme Court and obtain a deSees judgment as to its constituticionality. If the high court says such a law is constitutional, a resolu- porestand pro: cess of putting a constitutional amendmenton the general election ballot in November of 1972. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the 18year-o! vote for federal offices, such as it. If a means VERNON B. ROMNEY is not found to allow teen-agers to cast their ballots for state offices before 1972, Utah must also undergothe costly process of providing two ballot forms—one for the teen-agers and another for the general electorate. Senators almost became embroiled in a party fight Friday afternoon over the constitutional amendment favored by ReThe annual Lincoln Day publicans and a simple law endinner, sponsored by Utah dorsed by the Democratic govCounty Republicans,will be held ernor. this year on Thursday, Feb. 25, ucuses called at 7 p.m.in the Eldred Center in It took party caucuses before Provo. All Republicans of the the measure was moved to the county and others interested are third reading calendar. The uninvited to attend, according to animous vote to move the resoGlenn C. Shaw, county lution along came only after chairman. Democrats obtained what they An informalreception will be believed were assurances the held prior to the dinner. Guest measure would be tabled Monspeaker will be Vernon B. dayY. All other constitutionRomney, Utah State Attorney General. Tickets have been al amendments have been roudistributed to all voting district tinely tabled just short of passofficers. (Continued on Page 4) Lincoln Day Dinner Set For Feb. 25 LEFT, AND Mrs. Louise Shepard radisie Eaeeen’as they learn of successful departure from moon surface of their astronaut husbands. SAIGON (UPI)—North Vietnamese gunners in Laos apparently trying to frustrate any invasion opened up with TownsIn Italy Hit By Quake heavy artillery fire Saturday on 29,000 American and South Vietnamese troops massed along the border in South Vietnam. One American was killed in the barrage. Elements of a_ separate 19,500-man South Vietnamese task force scored its biggest victory in eight months of fighting in Cambodia by hurling back a strong Communist attack before dawn Saturday. Ninety-one North Vietnamese were reported killed in a fierce three-hour battle. Field reports said 10 South Vietnamese were slain and 37 wounded. Official Hint In Saigon, the official com- VITERBO, Italy (UPI)—A sudden earthquake rumbled through ‘he Lazio foothills Saturday nightleaving scores of dead and injured beneath the rubble of demolished buildings. Officials said at least four were killed and 60 mentator for the governmentinjured in the tremor which Tun television network hinted struck towns surrounding Viter- that a South Vietnamese thrust bo, about 36 miles north of into Laos was just a matter of time. He said South Vietnamese Rome, Hundredsof persons ran into troops had everyrightto attack mamese bases in the streets of Viterbo scream- North _.elp Laos and to save ing and crying at the sudden Laos earth movement which was felt South Viemam. Washington dispatches Saturin distant towns and shook buildings as far away as Rome. day said President Nixon may Officials said several apart- give the go-ahead for a South Vietnamese strike inte Laos in mentbuildings collapsed around Viterbo andin the nearby town the next few days. No of Tuscania, situated in the American troops would be Lazio foothills of the Sabini involved, but U.S. airpower would support the drive. Mountain chain. Military sources said South Firemen and Red Cross workers from nearby villages Vietnamese intelligence troops rushed to the stricken towns in have actually been operating in an effort to reach dozens of Laos west of the Khe Sanh residents surprised by the Valley for several weeks. A who tremor andtrapped beneath the Montagnard tri wood and stone of their lives in South Vietnam told a UPI correspondent he was a demoli houses. member of a team of five The counties are Garfield, montagnards and three AmeriWayne, Pinte and Kane. cans who were flown out from Also si a Laos mission a week ago. — House Bill 5, which provides for a master state file of deWhile the U.S.South Vietnacrees from the federal district mese force waited in rain and courts, to be maintained by the fog on Highway 9 near the clerks of the state district reactivated Khe Sanh base in courts, South Vietnam’s northwest cor— House Bill 202, a $6.9 mil- WASHINGTON ‘UPI) — Sub- ner, a force of Laotian troops On Seeeaseswoes contracts issued in Utah for the driving up Highway 9 toward to see the state government Polaris and Poseidon missiles the South Vietnamese frontier throughthe final months of the will total about $63 million in driving Communist currentfiscal year, ending July fiscal 1972, down from about forces frem a village protecting i $74 million during the current an important leg of the Ho Chi — Senate Bill 28, which au- fiscal year, according to Sen. Minh supply trail. thorizes towns to levy up to 16 Wallace F’, Bennett, R-Utah. Reports from military sourmills in taxes to provide for The Navy Missiles were dethe retirement of general obli- veloped in part at two Utah-based ces in the Laotian capital of gation bonds,and to levy taxes plans, Hercules at Bacchus and Vientiane said the Laotian force seized the village of Muong for special purpose bonds. Thiokol at Brigham City. Phalane Friday, giving the Laotians a jumping off point for an assault on Tchepone 50 miles farther west. In Provo on Murder Count SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — A Texas man has been jailed here on charges of first degree murder in connection with the death of his wife, Jan, 25, in Abilene, Texas. Salt Lake County and Utah County authorities arrested William Ray Quinn, 43, of Abilene, withoutresistance at the Albatross Cafe in Provo Fridaynight. At the time of his arrest he was armed with a .22 caliber automatic pistol and over 10 rounds of ammunition, accord: ing to Capt. N. D. Hayward of the Salt Lake County Sheriff's office. Hayward said Quinn had lived in Utah until about six months ago, then moved to Texas. Quinn will go before a judge Monday.Texas authorities have been notified. Utah Missile Contracts for $63 Million Set os Texan Nabbed HERALDingthe News Cougars Defeat Utes-Read All AboutIt... Whecold rivals BYU and Utah playin basketball, that’s the big newsof the day. Last night’s Cougar-Ute gameplayed in the BYU Ficldhouse isno exception. Read the details on Page9 of the Herald sports section today. ‘The head of the communications department at BYU has someinteresting things to say on questionable mannersin an “environment of goodness” in todzy’s guest column on the editorial page where Bye Jensen’s weekly column also appears, Mrs.Mitchell, inenn s Nemsees Oy,Tee is the wife of Edg: Edgar Mitchell. Mrs. Shepard, interviewed at Space Center at Houston, is the wife of Commander Alan Shepard. night and heeded home from the most venturesome and scientifically rewarding moon mission man has ever flown. A burst of the Kitty Hawk command ship's main engine rocketed the spaceship out of an orbit above the brown, “talcum-colored” craters of the moon and sent it streaking toward a Tuesday splashdown in the South Pacific, 900 miles south of American Samoa. During man’s longest stay on the moon, Alan B. Shepard and Edgar D. Mitcheli collected a treasure of moon rocks and performed other important scientific feats, But the flight may be beet remembered for a golf shot Shepard took when the serious work was done. He and Michell rocketed the Reds Fire On Allied Troops Gov. RamptonSigns ReapportionmentBill SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Gov. Calyin L. Rampton has signed into law four pieces of legislation, including a reapportionmentbill. House Bill 19 provides for reapportionment by moving four counties from the First Congressional District to the Second. p.m. EST Friday, end redocked with the Kitty Hawk one hour blasted their dusty spaceship Don’t miss reading the weekiy Sunday supplement, Family Weekly, and the colored comics, along with the top local and wire news of the day. No Connection Sources in Vientiane said there was no possible connection between the Laotian force moving up Highway 9 and any South Vietnamese units which might strike across the border over the highway from the Khe Sanh area. North Vietnamese gunners dug into the hills around Khe Sanh opened up with six suelllag attacks Saturday against force of 9,000 Americans and 20,000 South Vietnamese mobilized in the area for a secrecy-shrouded operation that began Jan. 30. and 47 minutes later. aboard the command ship, brushed off as much moon dust as possible, and turned the corner for home. “Here we are at our home awey from home,” Shepard called out during the rendezvous just before when he saw the Kitty Hawk flying above the Antares. the nauts had peviously experienced trouble stl the docking mec! and of the batteries in the hes! stage of the lander. “Beautiful, normal docking,’ exclaimed Mitchell. “We got a hard dock.” to first headed for the moon, mp aie ey succeeded only Roosa, displays Gecurted Wi the weal of fos Aol 1d mission at her home in El Lago, Tex. With her is her son Christopher, 11. Roosa piloted ft command module in moon orbit while fellow astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell landed on moon. Lunar module and command module were successfully linked Saturday preparatory to homeward trip. More Extensive Exploration Set For Next Moon Mission in July SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI)--The next Apollo moonflight team will land at the base of some of the moon’s highest mountains in July, spc i 66 hours there, and cover up to 25 miles of lunar landscape with an electric car. Apollo 15 commander David R.Scott and his copilots, Alfred M. Morden ard James B. Irwin, will also make a spacewalk a quarter of a million miles from earth and put a small automated satellite in lunar orbit. Obviously much more ambi- MeirAll But Rejects Egypt Suez Proposal By United Press International Israel’s military command said Saturday at least four Arab guerrillas were killed and twoIsraeli soldiers wounded fo a series of clashes in “ occupied Gaza Strip, Golan Nixon Stays Overnight at CampDavid WASHINGTON (UPI) —President Nixon flew to Camp David, Md., by helictpiee y for ‘an overnight stay at the mountain presidential retreat. Nixon was accompanied by Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, his national security affairs ve ser, and aeR. Haldeman, his chief of The Praaens planned to return to the White House Sunday in time for a worship sary during which former astronaut Michael Collins, now an Assistant Secretaryof State, will offer a prayer in behalf o¢ the returning Apollo 14 astro- nauts. Heights and Jordanian west bank. Guerrilla mine explosions wounded seven other persons and blasted a train. The flareup of guerrilla activity in territories occupied by the Israelis came as Premier Golda Meir, in a television interview, all but rejected Egypt's offer to permit clearance of the Suez Canal if the Israelis start withdrawing troops from the canal’s east bank. Mrs. Meir said what Egyp- “What are you doing way down there, oh fearless one,” Roosa called out when he first saw his companions approaching from below. tious than the Apollo 14 Later, asbea drew closer, he expedition, the Apollo 15 joked::You lost little weight mission will last 11 days and Scott and Irwin will double the 33% hours that Alan B. Shepard and Edgar D.Mitchell spent on the moon. Scott and Irwin will conduct descent to the lunar landscape. three excursions over the lunar ‘Thorough Mix terrain lasting up to seven hours each. They will carry eens and Mitchell’s record their own transportation for the 33% hour stay on the moon first time, a new four-wheeled, was a thorough mix of trend and battery powered car called a frustration, success and failure. LunarRover. They picked up 109 pounds of Apollo 15 is scheduled for moon rocks, slammed a golf launch July 25 from Cape ball for ‘miles and miles and Kennedy, but project officials miles” out over the lunar say the moon car’s schedule is terrain ani set up a $25-million “very tight” and any major science station which, officials problems probably would delay reported, was putting out its delivery. weaker normal signals for an unknown reason, The rover is scheduled to Their most bitter disappointarrive at the Kennedy Space Center April 1 for final, ment was in not reaching the prelaunch checkout. If it is top of 400-foot-high Cone Crater, where geologists besignificantly late, the Apollo 15 would be delayed until late lieved there might be rocks (Continued on Page 4) August. Timetable for Apollo 14; tian President Anwar Sadat wants is for the Israelis to begin pulling back ‘without even a peace agreement.” The premier will meet with her cabinet Sunday to consider Israel's next movein the light SPACE CENTER, Houston of the surprise Egyptian (UPI)—The timetable for Apolproposal. lo 14: (all times EST and AnIsraeli military spokes- subject to change), man said one Arab guerrilla Sunday was killed in a clash with an 9:23 a.m.—Astronauts wake Israeli patrol Friday night in the Tel el-Saki region of the up. 1:38 p.m.—Course correction northern Golan Heights on the cease-fire line with Syria. He if required, 7:53 p.m.—Astronauts stage said the patrol discovered signs that other guerrillas had been final telecast, showing simple experiments designed to see wounded and dragged away. * Final Telecast Tonight how the lack of gravity in spaceflight affects pe biological processes. Tele- minutes, sr23 p.m.—Astronauts begin 10-hour rest period. y 9:23 a.m,—Astronauts wake up. 5;50 p.m. —Course correction if requir ed. 11:23 p.m.—Crew begins eightrest period. |