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Show INDEX Amusements Classified Comics Editoriai Page Obituaries WEATHER 2 32-35 31 wo 4 18-24 Snow today, continued cold, highsin upper 20s. Probability of snow today 80 per cent. Utah as a whole, snow over the state today. Highs throughout the Staie,in the 20s and low 30s. 1-16 B $2.50 PER MONTH — PRICE 20 CENTS Negotiators Press For In Legistature Finance Rail Union Settlement Proposals Due Soon Congressional Edict Deterring Walkout Expires at Midnight SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Money recommendations for operation of the maze of state government must be submitted to the Utah Legislature's Joint Appropriations Steering Committee by the first of the week. From here, the committee headed by Sen. Wallace H. Gardner, R-Spanish Fork, and Rep. D. Leon Reese, D-Magna, must take the financial bundle and move it within sight of the March 11 adjournment goal. Final yardage on the recommendations, expected to total roughly $527 million, will be fought out on the floor of both the House and Senate. Republican Senate leaders said Saturday that the next move to solve the state's financial problems must come from Gov. Calvin L, Rampton, who was out-of-the state most of the week. Another Utah Legislature feature is found on page 9. APOLLO 14 COMMANDER Alan Shepard, center, backed by fellow crewmen Stuart Roosa,left, and Edgar Mitchell stop as they leave quarantine of Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houstonto say how greatit was Substances Act, by Sen. Charles Welch Jr., R-Salt Lake, which will try to put a lid on the drug traffic and grant wide 7°DS REE powersto the attorney general. The Senate also plans to move on to a package of schoo! reorganizationbills, which Leavitt said will hit districts in tiny Summit and Sanpete Counties. Officials in Sanpete County, said Leavitt, apparently have agreed to the proposal by Sen. Omar B. Bunneli, D-Price, the Democratic majority leader. The Bunnel proposal would “hold out the carrot in the form of some continuing aid.” The proposal makes each county a school district, but retains existing districts until changed by law, provides the methods of consolidation and gives additional financial help. Leavitt also said the Senate will reduce by $2 million a proposal by Sen. Ezra T. Clark, RBountiful, to appropriate $2.6 million to the State Board of (Continued on Page 4) Violation Charged ByIsrael To Honor Astronauts “No one is in control of the top of the hill,” said Lt. Gen Hoang Xuan Lam, Saigon’s field commander athis forward command post. “North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese forces are now fighting for control of the hill.” Tanks Battle Elements of a 3,000-man North Vietnamese force, led by soldiers riding Soviet-built PT76 tanks, overran South Vietnamese defenders on Hill 31 last Thursday. Lam ordered an armored counterattack and, by 5 p.m. Saturday, he said South Vietnamese tanks had pushed to within 100-200 yards of the top of the hill. By United Press International Israel accused Egypt of violating the Middle East ceasefire Saturday by sending Sovietmade fighter-bombers on reonnaissance flights along the Suez Canal. It also warned Egyptians they would “pay heavily” if they ended the cease-fire next month. At the same time Deputy Israeli Premier Yigel Allon cautioned that Israel’s current disagreement with the United States over future Arab-Israeli borders could worsen even as negotiations progressed to bring the Middle East closer to pea ce. The Israeli Military Command in Tel Aviv announced that Israel had complained to the U.N. truce supervisory organization that Egyptian planes made twoflights over the Suez Canal cease-fire line Saturday, each with a pair of Sukhoi-7 jets. B Senate leadership plans to open the eighth week of the grueling legislative pace Monday with the Utah Controlled Congress Hill at Stake In Tank Battle Majority Leader Dixie Leavitt R-Cedar City, indicatec the GOP awaits further proposals from SAIGON (UPI)—South Vietthe Democratic chief executive, namese and North Vietnamese who spent the better part of armored units fought atop Hill the seventh week of the 39th 31 in Laos Saturday night in the Utah Legislature attending a first major tank battle of the mid-winter governor’s con- Indochina War. Heavy Commuference in Washington, D.C. nist antiaircraft fire protecting The Republicans, Leavitt said, the Ho Chi Min Trail held U.S. are not bereft of money propo- helicopters at bay. sals to raise the 15 million which Although South Vietnamese military headquarters in Saigon Gardner says Utah needs. reported that its troops had But, the GOP will not com- recaptured Hill 31, the compromise on the graduated mine mander of the South Vietnaoccupation tax, which was de- mese task force in Laos said feated Monday ‘on a matter of the issue wasstill in doubt. principle,” according to Senate President Haven J. Barlow, RLayton, UPI Telephoto to be out in the “beautiful world.” The three have been in quarantine since completion of their lunar landing mission earlier this month. Lam said South Vietnamese paratroopers and armored cavalry had destroyed 15 of an estimated force of 25 North Vietnamese tanks in the counterattack and that “hundreds’ of North Vietnamese had been killed. “The fighting in Laos is becoming intense and that is what we expected,” a spokesman at South Vietnamese headquarters in Saigon said. “We would like to see the enemy stand and fight. Now, they are doing just what we expected them to do.” Fighting at Bases As the battle for Hill 31 raged into the night, field reports Saturday told of other heavy fighting Laos around South Vietnam’s Fire Support Base Hong Ha II and Fire Support Base Delta. Those two bases andHill 31 flank Highway 9, the axis for the 19-day Soutith Vietnamese offensive into Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail — i Vietnam’s main supply ine. Lam said South Vietnamese defenders of Hong Ha II killed 54 North Vietnamese Friday and a Saigon communique said 45 more were slain Saturday when a Communist attack was hurled back. Five South Vietnamese were reported slain in the action Friday. Lam could not give South Vietnamese casualty figures for the fighting Saturwas treated at Utah Valley day. Hospital and released. She is Heavy antiaircraft fire prevalso a nieceof Miss Pace. ented U.S. helicopter crews Officers said the crash from getting supplies into occurred about 6:15 p.m., and (Continued on Page 4) that the road was snow-covered and it was snowing at the time. Assisting the investigation was Wasatch County Sheriff Floyd Witt. Miss Ellgen wasin her second year at BYU, majoring in child development PHNOM PENH (UPI)—An $18.5 million shopping list for Cambodia has been forwarded to Washington from the U.S. Two WomenKilled In Canyon Collision By CONNIE HANSEN HEBER — Twe young women were killed and three others injuréd, two of them seriously,in a two-car headon crash Friday night near the Wallsburg Junction at the head of Provo Canyon. Dead are Beth Ann Eligen, 19, a sophomore at Brigham Young University, from Craig, Colo., and Teresa Ann Martin, 22, Greeley, Colo. Seriously injured and in the Utah Valley Hospital Saturday were Margy Pace, 39, 76 E. 7th N., Provo, an aunt of Miss Ellgen, and Barbara Sanborne, 19, St. Louis, Mo. Both were in “poor” condition, Miss Pace U.S. Receives Cambodia ‘ShoppingList’ embassy intestine, and Miss Sanborne with possible internal injuries. According to State Trooper Robert Palmer of Coalville, who headed the investigation, one Colo., as passengers. Miss Phnom Penh, diplomatic sources revealec lay. The sources said $10 million in economic aid will income gasoline from Indochina and American trucks, if Washington officials approve the requests. The other $8.5 million will be surplus American agricultural products, the sources said. Washington should approve the U.S. embassy requests without any trouble, and the final agreement should be ailer surgery for a perforated car was apparently driven by Miss Martin with Miss Sanborne as a passenger. The other car, the trooper said, appeared to be driven by Miss Ellgen with her aunt and a third girl Jeanne Cook. 18a BYU coed also from Craig, in signed in Phnom Penh soon, BETH ANN ELLGEN ' one diplomat said. By EDMUND GLEN JOHNSON. SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI)—Praising Apollo 14 as the mission that “put it all together,” the newest moon walkers, other astronauts and space officials Saturday honored the men on the ground who make space travel possible. “T believe that on Apollo 14 it all together— , engineering and science,”said lunar pilot Edgar D.Mitchell looking fit, but pale after weeks of quarantine that ended only Friday. The Apollo 14 crew is scheduled to fly to Washington Monday for a news conference 214 dinner with President Nixon. Mitchell and fellow crewmen Alan B. Shepard Jr., and Stuart A. Roosa and Apollo 13 astronauts James A. Lovell Jr., and Fred W. Haise Jr., joined officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for an awards ceremony at the manned spacecraft center Saturday. John L. Swigert, Apollo 13 command module pilot, could notattend. Dr. George M. Low,acting NASA administrator, said Apollo 14 proved man was more valuable than mechanical devices for space exploration. “Above all else, we saw that man belongs in space as space exploration belongs to man,” Low said. Lovell, referring to the oxygen tank explosionlast April that crippled Apollo 13 on the way to the moon, said teamwork brought the crew home safely by turning the lunar moduleinto a lifeboat. Roosa, who orbited the moon while Shepard and Mitchell walked the surface, added: “You take & man and put him alone in a spacecraft designed for three people and put him 240,900 miles from home and youreally anpreciate the team.” Shepard said the Apollo 14 flight he commanded was an “overwhelming success” that renewed his convictions about a solid future for manned space exploration, They will be honored by Congress Tuesday. WASHINGTON (UPI)—Negotiators for the railroads and the United Transportation Union (UTU) pressed Saturday for settlement of the dispute that caused last December's nationwide strike and threatens to trigger another anytime after midnight Sunday. But UTU President Charles Luna refrained from issuing orders for a walkout while the talks continued and federal officials close to the bargaining played down the possibility of an imminent coast-to-coast shutdown, The UTU is the only one of four unions that has not reached agreement with the railroad industry since they staged the Dec. 10 strike which Congress ended by passing emergency legislation. Management proposals for changing work rules—not pay increases—have been the primary stumbling block. Tf the dispute is not settled before that congressional act expires at 12:01 am. EST Monday, the union will be free to call a strike. The negotiators returned Ww the bargaining table at midmorning after a 3% hour session Friday at which both sides reported some progress with help from federal mediators. The UTU represents about 9,000 employes,including trainmen, firemen, conductors and switchmen. The union was understood to be holding out for three principle demands: —No increase of so-called “inter-divisional” runs, which usually exceed 100 miles and do not require replacement of train crews. —Extra pay for employes who use walkie-talkies and other communications equipment. —More and broader coverage for crewmen who incur awayfrom-home expenses. The National Railway Labor Conference, negotiating arm for most U.S. carriers, has sought moreinter-divisional runs to increase operating efficiency. The industry has opposed a salary differential for radiotelephone use on grounds it makes the crewman’s job easier andsafer, Resolution of these issues apparently would enable the parties to settle on a pay package similar to that approved by members of the three other unions—the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, the Hotel and Restaurant Employes and the Brotherof Maintenance of Way Employes. Under terms of these agreements, the employes will receive pay raises of about 43 per cent over 3% years. All four unions got a 13,5 per cent wage boost under the special act congress passed to halt the Dec. 10 strike. Air Force Puts Heat SAIGON (UPI)—The U.S. Air Force cracked down on narcotics abusers Saturday and according to military sources rounded up about 70 airmen in the largest mass drug raid stayed in Vietnam. Officially, the Air Force said at least 40 men were picked vp. A spokesman for the 7th U.S. Air Force said the men were detained for “alleged illegal use, possession and sale of narcotics.” None of the detained were officers or highranking non-commissioned officers, Military sources said the case concerned use and sale of heroin, adding that some of those held were members of ‘ue Office of Special Investigations (OSI), the Air Force's elite criminal and counterespionageinvestigating agency. Unlike the U.S. Army, the Air Force has no drug amnesty program “and narcotics users are subjectto prosecution, even if they surrender voluntarily for treatment. Larson Raps Grand Jury Report; Proposed Charges NotSigned Yet SALT LAKE CITY (UPI)— Salt Lake County Sheriff Delmar L. Larson called a federal grand jury report released Thursday an ‘“‘assassination of his reputation and others named in the report. No action was taken on the report Friday. The report and three recommended indictments weredelivered to the U.S. District Court but U.S. Attorney C. Nelson Day did not sign the indictments, which would make them formal charges, The indictments charged that Larson, along with former - On Narcos DR. JAMES C. FLETCHER,presidentof University of Utah since 1964, nominated Saturday by President Nixon to head National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He has requested a two-year leave of absence from the university. Fletcher Nominated By President Nixon As New NASAChief WASHINGTON (UPI) —President Nixonselected a university president Saturday to direct the nation’s multibillion dollar ce ; Nominated as head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was Dr. James C. Fletcher, 51-year-old president of the University of Utah. Uponconfirmation by the Senate, he will succeed DDr. Thomas O, Paine who resigned Sept. 15 to take a job in private industry. See related story on page 29. The White House said that Dr. George Low, who has been acting director since Paine’s departure will remain with the space agency, probably as deputy director. Fletcher takes over the space program at a time when it is facing further cuts in budget and personnel. From a peak budgetof $5 billion a year when it was driving for the moon, NASA now is down to about $3 billion a year. Larson also blasted the jury for singling out public officials for condemnation in order to gain “‘rectification of undesirable conditions which it claims to have found in the Salt Lake The new nominee for the County Jail.” NASA post is the son of Dr. Larson said he does the best Harvey Fletcher, 1615 N. Willow job he is able to under “the Lane, Provo. handicap of existing law,” and There are only two more said improvements in the jail moon shots scheduled in cost money, “a commodity in NASA’s Apollo series. It then such short supply in Salt Lake will embark on a prolonged County.” earth orbiting sky lab program. He added, ‘The assassination Low said in Houston he was Low presented NASA’s highof the reputations of men who “very pleased that the Presest award, the Distinguished deputy county attorney Leon A. have devoted lifetime to pub- ident has nominated a man of Service Medal, to Dale D. Halgren; Deputy Sheriff B4- lic service is not in the public Dr. Fletcher's qualifications to Myers, Associate Administrator ward D. Scherer and jail ste- service.” become administrator ... and for Manned Spacccraft Office; ward Aldo Richins were involSiguard A, Sjoberg, Divector of ved in misdirecting funds used Flight Operations; Walter J. to feed inmates of the county Kapryan, Director of Launch jail. Operations; Eugene F. Kranz, Larson said he obtained a Flight Control Chief; and Glynn copy of the grand jury report S. Lunney, Chief of the Flight “at myown expense,” Director’s Office. “These documents were not provided to me nor discussed with me prior to the blast of Thelast call has gone out for orders for the 1971 Progress publicity condemning me and Edition whichwill be distributed next Sunday, Marc. 7, to all convicting me in the eye of the regular subscribers. public, including telecast comSeveral hundred subscribers have ordered extra copies and ments of the foreman of the now onlya limited numberarestill available. Those wanting to grand jury.” By CARL RIBLET JR. place orders may do so by contacting your Herald carrier or Larson added, “The records cominginto the office at 1555 N. 2nd W. Usingthe order blanks Fortunate indeed is the I a. accused of conspiring to that have appeared in The Herald maynot reserve a copy s20n dieter whose fat has never destroy were my personal recenough since only a limited numberare now available. come back, who has found a ords, a daily tally sheet mainPrices for the extra copies this year are 20 cents ner copy way to keep his eyes bigger tained by my jail steward for delivered to your door; 30 cents wrapped and mailed anywhere his assistance in estimating the than is stomach. in the United States or to APO addresses; and 60 cents “Dieting — a system of daily meal requirements.” One wrapped and mailed to foreign countries. starving youself to death so indictment charged that Larson ‘Theedition this year is crammedfullof facts about Central and others conspired to destroy youcanlivea little longer.” Utah. Theissue deals with the area’s industries, scenic views, —Jan Murray records and keep them from cities and counties, education, and clubs and organizations. : the grandjury, a HERALDing the News Last Call for Copies Of '71 Progress Edition Isn’t It The Truth! I'm looking forward to working with him.” A spokesman for the university said of Fletcher. “He has done a lot for us—not just in termsof raising money but also in upgrading the faculty. Fletcher, who has been president at Utah since 1964, (Continued on Page 4) Fred Russell Leaves U.S. Service WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon accepted with “deep regret” today the resignation of Fred J. Russell as undersecretary of the interior. The White House restated its intention to offer Russell another high level post in the administration. Rogers C.B. Morton told Russell he would not keep him in the Interior Department, when he became secretary earlier this month. Russell had been serving as acting secretary after Nixon fired Walter J. Hickel from the cabinet post Thanksgiving Eve. His decision on mine safety and other controversial issues have come under fire from several quarters. Russell, a Los Angeles multimillionaire businessman, was a heavy contributor to Nixon’s 1968 campaign for the presidency, Before going to the Interior Department, he was deputy director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness, Steel Prices Rise on Alloy PITTSBURGH (UPI) —United States Steel Corp., the nation’s largest producer, has announced an increase of 6.6 per cent in the prices of alloy steel plates, effective April 1 The pattern was expected to be followed by other major steel producers. In announcing the price hike Friday, US. Steel said alloy steel plates comprise 3-10ths of one per shipments. cent of industry |