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Show Truck Drivers Walk Out as Talks Fai Machinist Strike Halts UAL Flights 106TH YEAR, NO. 209 PROVO, UTAH, SUNDAY,APRIL 1,1979 $4.50 PER MONTH — PRICE 50 CENTS Kimball's Plea at Conference olidarity in Church and Home Bargaining Ends United Airlines Leaders Claim Cancels Flights Through April 9 Strike Assured WASHINGTON (UPI Teamsters union early Sun The Te s in a statement day 1 part” in causing the walk: The old contract covering 300.000 truck drives and warehousemen ex pired at midnight Saturday Cites New In 1976 the teamsters conducted a Expansion three-day nationwide strike before reaching agreement on a contract J Curtis Counts, chief negotiatorfor In Church the industry, said the breakoff came despite the fact the industry was will ing to give the union a three-year contract of nearly a 30 percentincreasein wages and benefits By PAUL ROBERTS Herald Staff Writer SALT LAKE CITY Calling upon his followers to quench the “embersof wickedness before they become destructive flames,’ President Teamsters spokesmen would not identify what firms would bestruck by the union, but Trew workers The strike was called at midnight spokesman said “interferenceby level government bureaucrats n ground ation’s largest ai er ding non-striking workers reschedule 10 days of t Frank lons. More than 18,300 | l J went on strike against sele ing industry companies after ta new three-year contract broke said the Teamsters wouldnotinterfere with transportation of essential military and medical sup: afte nal al Asst members of the Interation of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, representing 18 611 of the airline's 54.000 employees. announced they had rejected a second tentative contract agreement Union spokesmen in Chicago said the tentative agreement was ‘‘overwhelm- ing rejected’ and that money wasthe union's main gripe —particularly the cost of living package United, which operates about 1.600 daily flights carrying about 130 000 passengers promptly canceled all sche- duled flights through Monday April 9. Late Saturdaytheairline advised the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers that it had accepted the union's request to resume Saturday asked membersto defend the gospeltruth against a world steeped in atheism and godlessness. Speaking to thousands of church membersin the Salt Lake Tabernacle and countless others via radio and television the Mormon leader opened Chief federal mediator Wayne Hor\ th both sides throughout the ational Hotel in at nearbyArlington Va The rank-and-file membersof the unFrank Fitzsimmons to call a strike talks, said Mark Michaelson. United's Midwest manager at O'Hare International Airport the world’s busiest Michaelson said the airline has becfed up its weekend reservation and ucket staff to help those with con-° firmed reservations on canceledflights the first general session of the 149th an- when thecurrent contract expired get booked on other airlines. plies. Spencer W. Kimball of the LDS Church ion authorized Teamsters president nual World Conference of the Church. The president reviewed the progress Situation a t Nuclear the church is making, stating that the temples in Sao Paulo and Logan (remodeled) have been dedicated, five PowerPlantStill ‘Stable and Improving’ more in varying stages of construction and more in contemplation The 4.16 million-memberchurch now has 28,000 full time missionaries worldwide, and“we areturning ourattention more diligently now to one day sharing the gospel with our Father's children behind the so-called Iron and Bamboo Curtains. “We have need to prepare forthat day,’ President Kimball said. “The urgency of that preparation lays heavily upon us. That day may come with more swiftness than werealize. Prepare Spiritually The church leader encouraged Latter-Day Saints everywhere to prepare themselvesspirituallyfor that rapid growth. “Wefind that we Latter-DaySaints are also vulnerable to the destructive forcesof evil that are all about us in a sin sick world. Of greatest concern in dayare those evils which tear at the fabricof the homeandthe family President Kimball reiterated a plea to give attention to the appearancesof home, barns, sheds, fences, “‘to make our communities more attractive and desirable “But while we would encourage you to continue to give attention to the out- ward appearanceof your home. we now implore you to give more and moreattention to the interior of your home,” President Kimball said. “‘I donot refer alone to the cleanliness and attractiveness of the home and furnishings as important as these may be — but to the cleanliness and Godliness of the family members, and tothegeneral at- mospherethat prevails The church president urged parents to take the lead in training their children and not shifting that responsibility to outside influences such as schools, church and various child care agencies andinstitutions. “They never can adequately take theplaceof theinfluence of the mother and father. If parents do not teach their children their children they will be held responsible Safeguard the Home President Kimball's audience was urged to fortify home and family against divorce, broken families brutaility and abuse, immorality pronography and sexual permis siveness. “Such evils are very real and very threatening,” he said. “One has but to read the headlines of our newspapers and magazines to becomefrightningly awareof the crumbling. destructiveinfluences which surround us Perhaps | soundlike an alarmist. If (Continued on Page 4) By BOB GROTEVANT HARRISBURG, Pa. (UPI) — GENERAL view of podium and choir section in historic Mormon Tabernacle at Salt Lake City as President Spencer W. Kimball addressedthe 149th annual World Conference of the LDS Church at Saturday Church Roll Climbs to 4.16 Million SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — The sessions. Many other generalauthorities of the church also address the conference, which continues today. (Herald staff photo by Paul Roberts) Arab Nations Cut Oil, Economic Aid to Egypt By United Press International Arab nations Saturdaycut off all oil supplies and economic assistance to Churchof Jesusof Christ of Latter-day Egypt. suspended it from the Arab Saints released its annualstatistical League and voted to recall their ambassadors from Cairo to punish report for 1978 Saturday. The church reported a total Anwar Sadat for signing a peace treaty membership of 4,160,000. a birthrate with Israel. But two million Egyptians morethan double the nationalrate. and gave Sadat a hero’s welcome on his anincreaseof 694 wards and branches return, Nineteen membersof the 22-member The report said there were 60 countries with organized branches or Arab League. ending a five-day wards, 990 stakes worldwide; 166 full- meeting in Baghdad, Iraq also contime missions; and an increase of demned the United States for what PLO chief Yasser Arafat called 37,000 priesthood members. There wasa total of 301,000 students Washington's “snake's head” role in enrolled in church seminaries and institutes and another 70,000 enrolled at church schools, colleges and continuing education programs Church welfare services assisted 111,500 people with cash or commodities and piaced 21.000 persons in jobs. A total of 443.500 man-days of labor were donated to welfare programs and 18.9 million pounds of goods were disDES MOINES, Iowa (UPI) — A coalition of labor leaders and liberal tributed from church storehouses The church birthrate wasreported at activists Saturday formed the nucleus 30.7 per thousand. compared to a of a movement aimedat drafting Sen. national rate of 15.3, There were 13.1 Edward Kennedy to run for the Coalition Formed Aimed at Draft Of Sen. Kennedy persons married per thousand presidency But the question remained whether The church genealogical department reported 983,000 100-foot rolls of the coalition, prompted bydissatisfacmicrofilm. equivalent to 4,679,000 tion with JimmyCarter would snowvolumes of 300 pages each. There were ball into a nationwidepolitical alliance 5,120,000 namesclearedin 1978for tem- of labor and liberal Democrats “If we do thingsright, this will be the ple ordinances. The church had 16 temples, including the Logan Temple was start of a groundswell all over this reopenedin 1979 after being closed for state,’ said party activist Arthur “This country is demanding a year for remodeling. Five temples Hedberg. are in the planning or construction stages. leadership. so why not the best? The best is Ted Kennedy Cites Case Pending in Provo Court Dismisses Suit, Delays Validity Test of Law on Circle-of-Gold Issue Asked specifically about one report Top nuclearofficials said Saturday night theystill had “‘days’* to cool the Three Mile Island reactor, but America’s lop nuclear expert said it might be ‘prudent’ to evacuate people within five miles of the plant if a hydrogen bubble preventing the cooling cannot be eliminated. President Carter said in Milwaukee Saturday nightthe ‘‘situation is stable vd slow!. improving” at the crippled nuclear p.ant. He said he would visit thie site which is still seeping radiation, “‘in the near future.’” bringing about the treaty between See Pages 2 and 28 for additional coverage on the dif- Egypt and Israel, sources said. ficulties at the Pennsylvania nuclear powerplant. A PLO official said the ‘struggle would continue’ to impose similar White House Press Secretary Jody sanctions against the United States, but the Arab ministers apparently took no Powell said Carter might visit the nuclear powerplant as early as Sundirect anti-U.S measures. The Arab foreign and economic day Thousands of residents haveleft the ministers, acting with abrupt speed, voted to immediately cut ‘‘all area around the stricken plant voluneconomic assistance of anykind’’ to tarily. Others stubbornly remained Cairo, impose anoil embargo,and sus- manywith their bags packed, awaiting pend Egypt from the Arab League and a possible official evacuation order. Harold Dentonof the federal Nuclear move the Arab League headquarters Regulatory Commission, Carter's perfrom Cairo to Tunis Egypt has already endedactive par- sonal representative at the site said ticipation in the league, headquartered the bubble that was blocking the coolof the reactor core was decreasing in Cairosinceits founding 34 yearsago. ze. But he had nospecific estimate This is a decision and not a recommendation,’’ Hamadisaid of the cut of when it might be eliminated. Denton said the NRC still was economic aid. He said the sanctions went into effect as of the day Sadat operating on the premise the bubble signed the treaty with Israei. March 26 would be eliminated and there were He said the Arab nations voted to still days to work on the problem. Earlier, Joseph Hendrie, chairman recall their ambassadors from Egypt at once and recommended that all of the NRC, said that if the bubble political and diplom. relations be could not be eliminated and other steps had to be taken to prevent a meltdown cut within a month. He said the individual Arab governments would vote of the reactor then it might be prudent on cutting diplomatic andpolitical ties to evacuate residents in a five-mile The final communique of the con (Continued on Page 4) Egypt Hails Pres. Sadat radius of Three Mile Island NRC officials in Washington said the likelihood of a meltdown, which could kill thousands with radiation and cont miles of land. wasstill “very remote Denton spent the day at the site of America’s worst nuclear accident Saturday then reported to Gov. Dick Thornburgh Saturday night on the cur CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) — President rent danger Anwar Sadat returned in triumph Saturdayfrom his peacetreatysigning with Israel and basked in the adoration of his people. Millions of Egyptians waved olive branches end released white doves into the air as Sadat's plane touched down in Cairo and his motorcade madeits way along the 12-mile route to Sadat’s Nile River retreat Thepresidentinsisted on riding in an open car defying assassination threats from Arabs furious over his maverick peacepolicy Officials said the reception amounted Denton said there was now no threat of any hydrogen explosion fromth crippled reactor. WASHINGTON (UPI) —- President Carter says the steps taken to contain the Three Mile Island accident are adequate” and Americastill has “a stitutionality of Section 76-6-519 in the time was not an “appropriateuse of the Utah Criminal Code court system Named as defendant in the suit was Nearly 200 people interested in the Circle of Gold status appeared at the Utah Attorney General Robert B Hansen. The attorney general's office court proceedings friday when Judge Christine Durham Blatter and Mrs and some with firearms lined the scores a need to reassess safety regula: stating the Circle of Gold was illegal ‘ar power inand promoters and participants in the King stood to receive irreparable route, shoulder-to-shoulder. Another tions within the program could be prosecuted criminal damages because of the business in 20.000 plainclothesmen were deployed dus of the Third District Court dismissed a suit questioning the Utah law which prosecuto y labels the program an pyrainid scheme. uit, which was filed by Salt Lake City attorney Robert Van Sciver on behalf of a Bountiiul woman, Mae Blatter and a Salt Lake City woman, Nancy King, sought a declaratory judg: ment from the court on the con Mr. Van Sciver in his remarks. in dicated that Mrs ly because the offense constitutes a terest (hey had in the ircle of Gold Mrs Blatter bec AUISt of the criminal Class A tiisdemeanor s brought tinst her tor al Judge Durham said it was her opt ¥ promoting the Circle of Gold ton that because Mrs, Blatter was a because she wanted to. defendant in a criminal court case in invest in the program Provo. hearing the plantitf’s actionina (Continued on Page 2) Sait Lake City court close to the same & remarkable safety record’ in nuclear to a ‘yes’ vote for peace and was a slap in the face’ to Arabs opposing power production the peacetreaty Police sources said Saturday however, the president also policemen about 70,000 some armed with batons on sidewalks and at strategic points ‘long the way the sources said Sadat defying Arab calls for his asnation, stood in an open car with Vice President Hosni Mobarak at his side. The President smiled and waved to the crowds hydrogen explosion and that the NRC would have to speed upits timetable in dealing with the threat Denton said ‘We have not changedourtimetable. It's still days away before we can make any change in the cooling system.” Denton said there had been a buildup of oxygen in the reactor but that the amount would have to quadruple — something that would take at least 12 days before the mixture of hydrogen and oxygen became flammable. Even then, hesaid, there could not be an explosion without somethingto ignite the mixture NRC officials in Washington also denied there had been any drastic change in the situation. calling any report to the contrary ‘‘erroneous."” Discussing the possibility of an eventual mass evacuation NRC spokesman Brian Grimes said the evvacuation might be done in stages with thefirst stage involving about 40,000 people in a five-mile radius of the plant. Another NRCofficial said as many as (Continued on Page 4) Carter Speaks In Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, Wis. (UPI) — Sounding more like a candidate for re election, President Carter said Saturdayhis accomplishments in peace and the domestic economy have helped give Americans‘‘a better quality oflife Carter cameto Wisconsin forstops at Wausau and Milwaukee in behalf of Reps. David Obey and Clement Zablocki and for an address at a Jefferson Jackson Day dinner I want to lead a nati that 1s com- mitted to some very simple prin ciples,” Carter said, “peaceinstead of war to exemplify in the highest sense of equity. fairness and justicefor all, to yur standards of civil or s and to giveour citizens a human r better quality of life” Carter's 10-1 rinute address delivered on f of Obey in a jam- med NewmanHigh School gynasit Wausau was Ny interrupted ix applause as he ticked of accomplish- ments of his adn istration Nuclear Safety Record Rernarkable, Says Carter By DICK HARMON Herald Staff Writer SALT LAKECITY—Acourt ruling on the validity of the investment program eatitled “Circle of Gold” was del; released an opinion earlier this year there was a growing danger of a le within the high: safety of the pe risk radius of the Pe syivania plant nuclear react suddenly ind rter added “! believethat this acy wil make us all reasrresent safet regulations and limitations on radi- In an interviewtranscript released said the Pennsylvania accident under We are monitoring it veryclosely Carter said. “'] think t precautionary measures that have be be takenin the future are adequateso far as we can foresee Healsosaidhe believes ‘everything is being done at this point to ensure the raised threats of spreading radioactive contaminations. els, inexord and will probably lead towards even more design mechanisms ut ¢ the president said, “we have had and sull have until this mo- ble safety recordin the production of au our own defenses for the production of electricity,” | | | | |