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Show INDEX_ Continues By United Press International Amusements Classified Comics Editorial Page Obituaries Society Sports Stocks Fair and continued hot today and Friday, with afternoon highs in the upper 90s. Lows ‘onight in the low to aid-60s. Probability of rain less than 10 per cent. threats of mass firings tremendous pay cuts, the aN000-member United Transportation Union today 98TH YEAR, NO. 249 $2. 50 PER MONTH — PRICE 10 CENTS aReds Unresponsive made plans to add to the nation’s growingpicketlines by ctriking at least two railroads Friday over a work rule dispute. A half miilion telephone workers remained off their jobs in the second day of a strike against the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT&T) and no negotiations were scheduled. Strikes also continued today in the copper, shipping, telegraph and farm equipment industries. And complicating the labor scene were contract talks involving 350,000 steel workers and 650,000 postal workers in Washington. Union Pacific and the Southern Railway are the targets of the UTU’s walkout, but the union also wants to strike the Chicago & North To U.S. Peace Move Bruce Accuses Hanoi Envoysof Pressing PropagandaEffort Western Railway. Whether they will be able to strike against the C&NW depends on a court hearing today in Chicago on an injunction issued by a federal judge preventing the strike until July 23. As a result of the threatened strike, the railroads announced Wednesday they would impose the new work rules on all railroads not hit by the strike, would fire thousands of UTU members and paychecks would suffer tremendous cuts. The mass walkout by 500,000 Communications Workers of America Wednesday morning did little to disrupt normal telephone service, with the exception of delays when calling information or in operator assisted calls. Scattered incidents of violence and vandalism occurred. AT&T officlals said they LOOKING THROUGH overturned trailer home, Dennis Mauk and his father-intaw Bob Ketchersidetry to see underflattened trailer after tornadohit, xilling three persons and injuring 19 in the Deslodge, Mo. area, Mauk was visiting his wife in hospital where she had just had a baby, when devastation at his home took place. Devastating Winds Hit Missouri (Continued on Page 2) DESLOGE, Mo. (UPI)—High winds tore through this lead mining town Wednesday night and leveled two trailer iitae, ripping trailers from their concrete foundations and hurling them 150 feet into a wooded 5 Killed, 2 Injured in area. 4-Car Crash WENDOVER,Utah (UPI) — Five people were killed and two others injured Wednesday in a four-car coliision about 12 miles west of here on Interstate 80. Six other people, including a newlywed couple from Wendover returning fromtheir Elko wedding, were not injured. Dead are Robert Camille Funge, 51, Chico, Calif. Also killed in the samecar, a Toyota sedan,werehis wife, tentatively identified as Helen, and a 9-or 10-year-old Boy believed to be the couple’s son. Also killed were Francis Ruth McEntire, 44, Montello, Nev., and formerly of Ogden, Utah. Her mother, Eva P. Hardy, 85, same address, was also killed. Mrs. McEntire's daughters, Teresa, Authorities said three persons the outskirts of 60 miles south of St. Louis. Police said most of the personsliving in the trailer courts probably were lead miners. St. Francois County Sheriff Kenneth Buckley said two children and one adult were killed. Heidentified the dead as Hasty, 4or S-years old; STUNNED BY TRAGEDY, Mrs. Ann Johnson, Deslodge, Mo. seemed to be in state of shock after tornado slashed through trailer court damaging her homeand killing three persons in area. 12, and Eve, 8, were injured andin fair and satisfac- ‘Work Slowdown’ tory condition at Elko General Hospital. The McEntire family moved to Nevada about four months ago. Highway patrol units and sheriff's deputies from Utah and Nevada said a car driven by Carl Richey, 18, Wendover, struck the rear of a car driven Work slowdowns have caused by Rick Lane Gentry, 18, Wen- a delayin completion of the fire station in Provo City’s new dover. The Gentry car then hit the building complex. Mayor Verl Dixon commented Funge car, pushing it into the westboundlane into the path of that the city had hoped to move the McEntire car. Authorities the fire departmentinto its new said the Richey and Gentry station by July1, but it has keen cars, returning from the Elko unable to do so because of “work wedding,tried to pass the slower slowdown.” ‘Apparently there moving Toyota just before the was some dissatisfaction with the one of the subcontractors,” accident. Gentry andhis bride were un- hesaid. “In a siowdown, it takes injured as were Richey and the menall dayto do a 20-minute job,” he added. three companions. NewFire Station Completion Delayed HorsepowerWill Haka Horsemanto Final Rest MT. PLEASANT — The body of John Leo Seeley, 84, prominentMt. Pleasant stockman andhorse fancier, will be carried to the chapel and cemetery Friday in a horsedrawn funeral coach, Mr Seelev, who died early this week from injuries suifered in a mishap while horseback riding, made the request prior to his death, according to his family. The century-old funeral coach owned by Berg Mortuary of Provpwill be trucked to Mt. Pleasant and used to carryout Mr, Seeley’s wishes. B 1619 b M 4 9 $1 » Max Berg, president of the mortuary, said he located the antique funeral coach in Nova Scotia, N.Y., and restored it. Tt was used in the Berg centennial celebration last year and recently appeared in the Provo July 4 parade. Services for Mr. Seeley will be held at 1 p.m,Fridayin the Mt. Pleasant Second-Third Ward Chapel, with burial in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. Friends may call at the family home, 92 S. 5th W., tonight from to 9 o'clock and Fridayfrom 10 a.m. to noon, Burial will be in the Mt. Pleasant City Cemetery. Jackie Borcy, a child; and Betty Nequette, beliefed to be 30 to 35 years old. Buckley said the winds lasted about 10 minutes. “T heard only one man sayit was a tornado,” Buckley said. “J think it was what they used to call in olden times a cyclone. We have not been able to get any confirmation on the exact nature ofthe wind.” The National Weather Service also could not identify the nature of the storm. Police stationed men in the area to guard against looting. Striking telephone workers arrived on the scene to restore telephone service, knocked out when the winds downed power and telephonelines. Buckley said he could make no estimate of the number of people who were living inthe trailer courts, but said many residents managed to escape. “We hope to be able to movein by the end of the month,” he continued. The city had agreed to lease the building now used by the fire department to Sears. The department store's expansion projectis now getting to the state when fixtures will be arriving, and a place will be needed to store them until they are ready for installation. “Sears has been very understanding with the problem we face,” said the mayor. The City Center has been put behind schedule on a numberof KINSHASA, The Congo (UPI) occasions. Last summer and —Vice President Spiro T. during the winter, strikers Agnew arrived in the Congo delayed construction because today on the seventh stop of his someofthe subcontractors were round-the-world diplomatic tour not fully unionized. The strikes and congratulated the Congoened when investigators from lese for the “remarkable the National Labor Relations progress ‘yur country has Board determined that the made in the space of a few contractors were complying years.” with lawand allowing workersto Agnew arrived in Kinshasa, join unions if they desired. formerly Leopoldville, from Thefire station will be the first Nairobi, Kenya. He was schepart of the new building to be duled to meet President Joseph completed. The city hopes to Mobutu Thursday. moveinto the rest of the comWhen the Congo became plex by the end of the year. independent from Belgium in 1969 it was plunged immediately into a chaos of coups, secessionist movements, riots ByUnited Press International and civil warfare. But over the The first known use of a past few years it has become motion picture camera that did oneof the most stable countries not remain stationary while it in Africa. wastaking pictures was in 1896 In Nairchi, Agnew said his when a cameramanfixed a three-day visit to Kenya was a camera to a gondola to “rich and meaningful experphotograph Venice. isnce.’ AgnewIn Kinshasa Now You Know PARIS (UPI)—The United States offered whatit called a new approach today aimed at unfreezing the Vietnam peace conference including a ceasefire throughout Indochina. It said the Communists failed to respo.id constructively. David K.E. Bruce, the chief American negotiator at the Paris talks, suggested at today’s weekly meeting of the conference a cease-fire while the July 1 ereepeek peace proposalsare disc He again urged a restricted, nonpublic meeting to discuss the Communist plan. But he emerged from today’s four-hour sessicn and told newsmen, “I soughtto elicit some clarification of their proposals, past and present, but without any response. forces, allied and Communist, throughout all of Indochina— Laos and Cambodia as well as Vietnarn. The Communists in recent interviews haveinsisted that to enlarge their cease-fire proposal would simply be a delaying tactic. On the same grounds, that to hold a restricted meeting. Today, the Communists said the Nixon administration’s chief reaction so far to their proposais has been to step up the fighti and reassert support of South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu, Economy Gaining— Connally “Nor did I get any answer to the questions I put to them. They pursued their usual false propaganda and reasserted their usual preconditions.” Among other things, the Communist plan calls for releasing the approximately 450 WASHINGTON(UPI) —TreaAmerican prisoners of war and john B. Connalwithdrawing all troops from ly, designated as President Vietnam before the end of this Nixon's chief economic spokes- year. The United States has called in the past for cease-fires, notably last Oct. 7, when President Nixon called for a “cease-fire in place” during an expanded peace conference. The new Communist peace plan calls only for a cease-fire between the Vietnamese Communists and U.S. forces. Bruce, in effect, was widening that to include a cease-fire by all Guahe Tus North he said “if people want to be pessimistic ... they will be able to do it.” PARMA,Italy (UPI)—An At his first general news e rolled through conference since he became the only Democrat in Nixon’s northern Italy from sea to sea cabinet last February, Connally early today, awakening millions declined to be overly specific on of persons and touching off a panicky exodus from several the economicsituation. On unemployment, Connally cities. said the administration had not The earthquake,lasting up to changed its prediction that the 3 seconds in someplaces, was jobless rate could be cut from felt over a 2,000 square mile from Genoa a almost 6 per cent of the labor area force to 4.5 per cent by the Venice and from Milan middle of next year, But in the Florence. It included tee next breath he said, “I’ta not major city north of Rome prepared ti say that we are except Turin. One woman was i eported dead going to meet (the goal).” Oninflation, Connally said in .se town of Guatalla the rate of price increases and many others were treated, SAIGON (UPI)—The U.S. “should stabilize” this year. police said, for injuries suffered command today reported a Asked if he expected it to in a wild scramble in Parma to renewal of heavy air strikes stabilize at the 7.2 per cent escape the ancientcity. over Sout’: Vietnam’s northern annual rate recorded in May, No damage was reported to quarter and the first sizeable he replied that the present rate the art treasures of Florence or groundfighting involving Amer- “is closer to 3 per cent.” But Venice, badly damaged by a he declined to predict inflation 1966 flood. Chimneys toppled in icantroops in a week. other cities and a number of Military spokesmen also said at thatrate either. 29 Americans were killed i Vie last week, a sing! ly high figure angles the lack of groundfighting the past seven days. Thirteen of the deaths were men who died of wounds and Gls previously listed as missing. Field reports said meanwhile ByUnited Press International that South Vietnamese enSAIGON — Renewed heavy air strikes in the north of gineers had finished rebuilding South Vietnam were reported today by the U.S. command. Fire Base Fuller, a mountainOn the ground, American Gls returned to groundfighting top outpost overrun June 23 by for the first timein two weeks, and South Vietnamese forces the North Vietramese. Amerireturned to Fire Base Fuller, near the Demilitarized Zone, can advisers were sent back to overrun by Communist troops July 1. Military spokesman the renovated base along with a also said 29 GIs died last weekin Vietnam. (Continued on Page 2) PARIS (UPI) The Viet Cong charged at the Vietnarn peace talks today the Nixon administration was dragging its feet on the Communist peace proposals. At the Western White House in San Clemente,Calif., meanwhile, Nixon and top policy advisers continued their consideration of the seven-point peace plan, with no details on the administration policy reassessment being made public. farm bees one The Bologna Observat on the 12-degree Mercalli scale. It tentatively located its epicenter 50 miles north of Bologna in (Continued on Page 2) Thieu Says Viet War Tempo Picks Up He Won't Retaliate SAIGON (UFI) — President Nguyen Van Thieu said today that although Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky had oe remarks” him, he would not retaliate because it would be futile and might benefit the Communists. Thieu, in a statement issued At a Glance a resinsa corrupt and unfair administration. Ky ie News Highlights Honor Banquet For Wilkinson Slated Tonight A dinner sponsored by the Provo Chamber of Commerce honoring President Ernest L, Wilkinson of Brigham Young University will be held aat 7 p.m, tonight in the main ballroom of the Wilkinson Center on campus. Although the rese vation deadline is pest, provisions will be made to seat a limited number who failed to make reservations, a committeeman said. ‘The master of ceremonieswill be a past president of the chamber, Arch Madsen. The committee of past presidents, chaired by Wilson W. Sorensen is in charge. President Wilkinson will step down from his position at BYUat the end of August. DESLOGE,Mo. — Highwinds ripped through this lead mining town today, leveling twotrailer courts, and killing three persons and injuring 23. But the National Weather Service was unable to identify what type of storm howled throughthe small community 60 miles south of St. Louis. AMMAN — Fresh fighting broke out today between Arab commandosand soldiersof the Jordanian Army.It was the third stright day of clashes. In Cairo, the semi-official newspaper Al Ahram said Egyptis ready to intervene in Jordan to praventa “bloodbath.” Meanwhile, in Israel, that nation celebrated Air Force Day, with flyovers, speeches, and an appeal to the United States to provide more jets, WASHINGTON — A half-million telephone workers remained off their jobs today, and a union representing 180,000 railroad workers vowed to strike at least two ~eilroads Friday. Railroad management spokesman said thestrike, by the United Transportation Union, would mean layoffs and pay cuts for workers on non-struck roads. political liaison with the president because “I no longer can blindly follow you on the path of errors which have placed our fatherland under peril.” “The president observed that, in the past, as well as in recent months, even though Vice President Nguyen Cao Kyoften criticized him publicly and made slanderous remarks against him, he has keptsilent because, in his opinion, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky has adopted such attitudes only as part of the vice president's electoral campaign,” the statementsaid. Jordan Reports Fresh Fighting By United Press International Fresh fighting broke out between Arab guerriilas and Jordanian Ary forces in Jordan today, the straight day of clashes, A Cairo newspaper said Egypt was ready to intervenepolitically to preventa bloodbath. Israeli troops caught up with a six-man Arab guerrilla squad believed responsible for the inl 7 rocket attack that killed tour persons in a Tel Aviv suburb. The military said the Israelis ‘wiped out’ the guerrillas. k |
