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Show a Classified Comics Editorial Page Obituaries Society Sports Stocks 7 WEATHER INDEX Amusements 5 Most cloudy and turning cooler with a slight chance of a little rain, Highs today near 50. Probability of rain 20 per cent. 4143 39 38 4 17-22 $13 31 Utah as a whole, partly cloudy and cooler, * PROVO, UTAH, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1971 $2.50 PER MONTH-— PRICE 20 CENTS Viet Troops Capture Supplies on HoTrail HeavyAir Support 2 Space Rookies Promoted By U.S.A. KY BISCAYNE, Fla. (UPI) —Following long-standing tradition President Nixon Saturday promoted the two space rookies among the Apollo 14 moon explorers. Navy Cmdr, Edgar D. Mitchell, who along with Apollo AMERICAN HELICOPTERS leave asin base of Khe ae to carry South Vietnameseparatroopers to advancepositions in Laos in operation during the week. U.S. copters flew another 2000 South Vietnamese troops into Laos Friday. Front dispatches said six more of the American craft were shot down during the day. 14 skipper Alan B. Shepard, carried out the most extensive exploration of the moon yet undertaken, was promoted to captain, Air Force Maj. Stuart A. Roosa, whocircled the moon in the spaceship Kitty Hawk while the other two descended to the surface, WaterBoard to Seek Boost in CUP Funds By RANDALLL. GREEN OREM — The Central Utah Water Conservancy District’s Boardof Directors Friday voted formally to request increased appropriations from the U.S. Congress for the Central Utah Project during fiscal 1972. ThePresident’s recommended budget for the project is inadequate, said. Lynn S. Ludlow, district manager, and the project will suffer a serious seiback if more funds are not approved, ‘Theboard voted to ask that the budget figure for the Central Utah Project's Bonneville Unit be increased from $10.2 million to $20 million, that the funds for the Jensen Unit be boosted from the recommended $200,000 to $1 million, and that $500,000 be made available for the Upalco Unit, for which no funds were Mr. Ludlow said that the Utah recommendedin the President’s Legislature has also approved a budget. resolution calling on the The board said the $290,000 President, the Congress, and and $659,000 appropriations other agencies involved to make asked by the President for the the necessary funds available. Vernal ara Ute Indian Units, ‘Theboard also voted to ask the state’s Congressional delegation respectively, are sufficient, to delay enactmentoflegislation which would create a High Uintas Wilderness area. District directors approved operating rules and regulations governing the Duchesne Irrigation Block of the Bonneville Unit. Waterpetitions and lease arrangements madeavailable to irrigators on WASHINGTON (UPI) —De- the Duchesne River within the mocrats attacked the Nixon next few weeks, Mr. Ludlow administration’s “economic said. Ed Wiscombe, project game plan” Saturdav as inadequate and unbelievable. development engineer for the Republican National Chairman U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Robert J. Dole accused them of reported to the board that Starvation Reservoir in “mindless criticism.” Gardner Ackley, former Duchesne has now filled to chairman of th: Preside;.t’s 131,000 acre-feet. He said the capacity of 137,000 acre-feet Council of Economic Advisers ld be reached with the during the Johnson administration, said that ‘the proposed spring runoff. Mr. Wiscombe also reported budget and other policies are clearly itadequate to achieve that Water Hollow Tunnelis 87 the administration's ambitious percent complete and that work LOS ANGELES (UPI)—The targets for GNP (gross national is going forward on the outlet tunnels for Soldier Creek Dam. body of the last missing person, product) and employment.” a woman dietician, was found Saturday in the rubble of San Fernando Veterans Hospital, boosting the death toll from Tuesday’s earthquake to 63. Firemen reached the end of the rubble in the fifth day of their search and discovered the + women’s body under a shattered concrete column and it The United States Army Field The Band’s world-wide ‘ours appeared that the steel rods Band of Washington D.C., the have included performances in reinforcing the concrete caught Army’s official touring band, London’s Royal Festival Hall, herat the nape of the neck. She will appear in two free concerts the Edinburgh Music Festival, was clad in a white uniform. in Provo nexi April, it was an- Berlin's Olympic Stadium, the The woman was the 4th nounced Saturday. Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, fatality at the hospital. The band’s local appearance and the Concert Hall in Am“She was in a runuing will be sponsored jointly by The sterdam. position,” said one rescue Daily Herald and Brigham worker, Young University with the She apparently was working matinee and evening concerts in the basementkitchen helping planned Thursday, April 22 in prepare breakfast for the the George Albert Smith hospital’s patients when the 6.5 Fieldhouse. magnitude temblor hit the Los Plans for the concerts were Angeles area at 6 am. announced Saturday by B.E. Tuesday, (Bye) Jensen, publisher of the Herald, and Ben E. Lewis, executive vice president of BYU. The matinee concert at 1:30 p.m. will be for specific age groups from the schools of Utah Valley and will not open to the Demos Rap Economic Program Last Quake Victim’s Body Found Herald-BYU Sponsorship New Russ Economy Plan OK'd MOSCOW (UPI)—The Communist Party Central Committee has approved a proposed new five-year plan for the Soviet economy aimed mainly at ensuring a ‘considerable enhancement of the material and cultural standards” of Soviet life, Tass announced Saturday night. The official Sovet news agency said the new plan, covering the 1971-1975 period, envisages an increase of 37 to 40 per cent in the country’s income in the next five years. Communist sources had predicted in advance of the plan’s publication it would call for increased production of consumer goods and stress the need for better quality to satisfy growing demands of a more affluentSoviet public. was promoted to lieutenantcolonel. Shepard already is a Navy captain, the result of a promotion by President John F. Kennedy whichestablished the tradition after Shepard became America’s first space traveler APOLLO 14 ASTRONAUT Alan Shepard plants U.S. Flag on Moon’s surfacein photo released Saturday of historic Feb. 5 activity on lunar surface. in 1961, Nixon, who chatted with all three astronauts shortly after their splashdown in the Pacific, has invited them and their families to be his guest for dinner at the White House and a weekend at Camp David, Md., his mountain retreet, when the quarantine required of moontravelersis completed. In Legislature To Hawaii SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — The agony and ecstasy of reapportionment faces members of the 39th Utah Legislature when they reconvene Tuesdayafter a three-day weekend. At least two proposais to meet the requirements of representing a shifting population are on the drawing board, the most novelof which reduces the Senatefromits present 28 to just PHNOM PENH (UPI)—A US. Air Force jet transport flew Cambodia’s ailing ruler, Lon Nol, to Hawaii Saturday for specialized medical treatment, The prime minister was Tass said the “main task of recovering from a stroke on Re-aligning of the legislative the five year plan is to ensure a Monday that left him partly districts is required by the State considerable enhancement of alyzed. the material and cultural Before he arrived at the Constitution after each 10-year census. The politicans must standardsof the people’slife on airport, Lon Nol addressed the the basis of high rates of the Cambodian people in a taped complete drawing new district development of Socialist pro- broadcast on national radio, lines by the end of the current duction, raising its effective- assuring them his deputy, Lt. session. If they fail to do so, ness, scientific and technical Gen. Sisowath Sirk Matak, then federal officials may be progress, and acceleration of would be able to carry on the empowered to step in and hanthe growth of labor efficiency.” fight against the communists. dle the chore, Not Convene The legislature will not convene Monday out of respect for the national holiday honoring the birthday of one-time Republican and Presiuent Abraham Lincoln. But Rep. Howard C.Nielson, R-Provo, has drawn a proposed law to be introduced early Sinceits formation in 1946, the In addition to its extensive Tuesday which expands the Field Band has traveled more touring, the Field Band is called House of Representatives to 72 than one million miles per- upon to perform for the members from the present 69— forming concerts all over the President and Vice President of and the Senate to 30 members world. In 1969, the band the United States, members of from its time-honored number presented more than 400 con- the Cabinet, the Joint Chiefs of of 28. certs to an audience of almost Staff, and visiting foreign heads- Nielson said the carefully two million people. of-state. worked bill had bi-partisan support and would give senatorial Army Field Band to Play Here representation in the following manner: Districts one through 12, Salt Lake County, 12 senators instead of the current 11, Districts 13 through 16, Utah County, four senators, instead ~f three; district 17 through 20, Weber County, four senators, instead of three; Districts 21 through 23, Jordan Regime Davis County, three senators, instead of two; district 24, Box Elder County and District 25, Rich County, one senator each. Negotiates With Rebels ByUnited Press International Palestinian guerrillas and Jordanian governmentofficials held peace talks in Amman Saturday following two days of fighting in which 14 persons were reported killed. The government warned against the general public. Administrations of the various schooldistricts already are at work planning details of their schools’ par- Summit, Duchesne. Wasatch, Uintah and Daggett counties, ticipation. one senator. District 27, Car- District 26, Morgan, Rich, bon, San Juan and Grand counties, one senator. The evening concert at 7:30 will be open to all interested persons. Arrangements for obtaining tickets good for free District 28, Emery, Sanpete, Sevier, Wayne, Piute and Gar- admission will be announced later. weapons and armed guerrillas Nicknamed the “Kings of the in the capital. Highway” because they travel The fighting between Arab as muchas 40,000 miles a year, guerrillas and Jordanian the Field Band members have government forces finally died appeared in all 50 states, downabout 3 a.m. Saturday, An Canada, Mexico, the United Interior Ministry spokesman Kingdom, Europe, the Far East Central America, said three policemen were and Killed and six wounded in the representing the United States figh'ting. Army. Tooele countie; ie senator And, District 30, Beaver, Iron, Kane and Washington counties, one senator The plan would hand Salt Lake County two more representatives in the House, up to 30, while Utah County would increase from eight to nine law makers. Davis Coynty would field counties, one senator. District continued presence of heavy BEN E. LEWIS,left, executive vice president of Brigham Young University, and B. E. (Bye) Jensen, Herald plans for April 22 concerts of United States Army Field Band in Provo. on Saturday. The ICC was formed by the 1962 Geneva Convention on Laos to halt a civil war raging at the time and India was named chairman and Canada and Poland members. Poland’s Foreign Minister Stefan Jedrychowski added to his call for ICC action a warning that U.S.Polish relations were deteriorating. Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai met in Peking Saturday with a North Vietnagain two new lawmakers,up to mese delegati-n led by Vice Premier Le Thanh Nghi in seven from five. Carbon County would de- search of more military and crease from two to one, how- economic aid. In the background was Peking’s warning ever. But in the Senate, a radical that it considered the invasion plan was being waved gleefully of Laos a “grave menace to by Sen. Thorpe Waddingham, China.” D-Delta, which reduces the up- Howeverdiplomatic analyists per chamber to just 23 mem- in Hong Kong said there were (Continued on Page 4) bers. Redistricting Proposals Due Lon Nol Flown SAIGON (UPI)—South Vietnamese troops supported by hundreds of American planes and helicopter gunships battled deeper into Laos Saturday, capturing vast quantities of supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail including trucks, guns— and 2,000 chickens and ducks.Fighting intensified and the South Vietnamesesaid they had killed 179 Communists in the past 24 hours, bringing the six day Communisttoll to 361 at a loss of 42 dead and 142 wounded. As the fighting increased there were new international diplomatic efforts to end the invasion. Canadian External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp called last Monday for reconvening of the International Control Commission (ICC) for Laos to end the fighting. He was joined Friday by Poland and by India 29, Millard, Juab and The Delta attorney, savoring the possibility of representing 48,038 persons in Juab, Millard, Beaver, Iron, Garfield, Kane and Washington counties, showed the proposal around Friday evening, commenting, “not bad, not bad at all.” The squiggly lines would mean Waddingham must run against Sen, Dixie Leavitt, R- Cedar City in the next election. Leavitt, who is Senate majori- ty leader, eyed the possibility of competing against Waddingham in the heavily populated Juab County far to the north and commented, “a Democrat computer thought this one up.” Sentiment Against It was not known whether Waddingham would actually introduce the proposal, but senti- ment throughout the Senate generally was againstit. No Indications China Plans Tolntervene HONG KONG (UPI)—There are no indications Communist China is preparing to intervene militarily in the Indochina War despite some ominous-sounding warnings from Peking. This was the general assessment by diplomatic analysts of three Chinese government statements issued during the past week in respons: to the oa Vietnamese thrust into a08, the latest of these statements was issued Friday and broadcast early today Peking Radio. It called the A breakdown of the plan American-supporied drive into_ would give Sanpete, Sevier, Southern Laos to strike at Piute, Wayne, Emery, Grand Communist supply lines and and San Juan counties one sen- bases “a grave menace to ator, forcing voters to choose China.” between Sen. Kendrick Har- “The Chinese people absoluteward, R-Rivhfield and Sen. ly will not remain indifferent to Ralph Preece, R-Vernal, should it,” the statement said. It both elect to seek re-election, added that “the Chinese will It would give Summit, take all effective measures to Wasatch, Duchesne, Daggett, give all-out support and assis Uintah and Carbon counties one tance to the three peoples of senator, forcing a runoff be- Indochina so as to thoroughly tween Sen. Omar B. Bunnell, defeat the U.S. aggressors and their running dogs.” (Continued on Page4) HERALDING the News J.C. Penney—Lust Of The ‘Merchant Princes’ J... Penney, a familiarfigure in Provo and Central Utah as stores throughout the years, “merchant princes.” His he personally visited his many was perhapsthe last of Americ death Fridayat 95 in New York City brought many memories to people here who actually knew him. The Herald carried a brief death notice on Page i of its Friday issue. Today, on Page 36, his career is discussed in detail. Menlike J. C. Penney comeoncein lifetime, but each week in the SundayHerald you'll find The Family Weekly section, a nationally-recognized Sunday supplement. Today’s brings manyarticlesof interest, including the role of the computerin warfare on the battlefields of today. specialsectionalso is part of today’s Herald — the annual Automotive Section featuring the 1971 cars which will be shown during an open house byauto dealers during the week. . |