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Show I - -- . ruinrruvvvvvvxf'-njT-ri-iiririr-Lnjnnr Farewell to Arms As Tide Comes In CANNON BEACH, ORE (AP) -S4,000 persons gathered Saturday for Sand Castle Day m Cannon Beach, on the northern Oregon coast The event, nine years old Saturday, has been a competition in the past. Sand sculptors have constructed eve erything from a replica of a Volkswagen van to actual, detailed sand castles in hopes of a nod from the judges ome v Vn ,y'l A? A ' Ho WW x full-siz- . 0 nm' $ .: c I guess everybody was too much into just having a good time to organize anything, saul one coastal resident. " . ,1 Ai t " y . - However, creations of the like octopus, Saturdays A 2 i yrf' V . vKX s r - i v" 9 4 yg 1. f- X tif 5 $f. t xJ vvTy celebrants, ' " 'yg? v lx - '.' - t, i, vA ?' v " iv '4 k,v , N ni .a1.1a - x x yVk The bomb was behind a cloud, he We could see the fireball through said the cloud. The usual fireball changed as it rose above the cloud. We could see the mushroom and the usual ring around the top The Otago reported the explosion took place at noon MDT at an estimated altitude of 2,000 feet. Radio Australia said it '.as detonated from a balloon above the atoll France, intent on developing an independent nuclear force, set off the test in sphere. y f 'W.w A ? - v,- y 4- ' v ,. s 4, f - v jft Pnee increases are likely to be especially noticeable at the outset for poultry, pork, eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables, Fedor indicated The lifting of the price freeze from food was the first step m the Presidents new Phase 4 program, which will replace the largely discredited Phase 3 program that was abruptly terminated by the June 13 freeze. Qualified (it all depends) Undecided 3 6 In addition to the disagreement between Democrats and Republicans on the issue, an interesting deviation bethere tween the attitudes of young and old. For example, over seven out of every 10 young adults, felt President Nixon should appear before the Watergate group, while less than five out of 10 18-2- senior citizens agreed Here are age and political patterns: (Read across). Refuses Any Information the French government refused to give any information on the blast, thought to De the 34th in its South Pacific senes since 1966. We have no comment and do not expect to have any, a Defense Ministry spokesman said m Pans. Rear Admiral E. O. Thorne, chief of As usual, the New Zealand naval staff, said the U S.S. Corpus Chnsti watched the blast about a mile from the Otago. A number of French ships were seen m the area Chinese and Rssian ships also were thought to be momtonng the test, but the Otago did not report seeing them 100 . defiance of worldwide protests and a ruling by the International Court of Justice On Wednesday, the French navy towed the American protest vessel Fn out of the area Skipper David Moodie, 27, Sausakto, Calif , had daringly sailed his schooner to within a few miles of the explosion site. party Should Appear Should Appear Not Appear QuaUfied- - Indeeided Citing the danger of radiation m the Pacific basin, Australia and New Zealand had appealed to the International Court at the Hague to stop France from staging the test. The court requested tnat France postpone it until the tnbunal co'ild rule on the case. France refused to wait. Only a Momentary Flash Shaun Brown, a New Zealand broadcast newsman on board the Otago, said indications were that the blast was litt'e more than five kilotons There was only a momentary flasn instead of the anticipated three second flash, he said No blast was fut ui heard on the ship. Brown said the mushroom, which was recorded by special cameras, began to disperse after 15 minutes When the Otago turned away 25 minutes later to take up a position 50 miles from Mururoa, only a reddish tinge remained in the sky A New Zealand defense spokesman said the fngate would return closer to the test zone if the French showed signs of tnggenng a second nuclear device Tne ship is to monitor constantly for any radioactive fallout New These findings are based on over 600 personal interviews with a cross section of the Utah public The sample was accumulated from counties constituting approximately 90 percent of the states population Protests Arise New protests arose immediately after the blast, from the opposition Labor party in Bntain and New Zealand Pnme Minister Norman E. Kirk. Kirk ordered a strong note conveyed to the French government by the Nw Zealand embassy in Pans. Expires Aug. 12 The freeze will remain over the rest of the economy until it expires on Aug. 12 and is replaced by the Phase 4 regulations. Grocery shoppers are assured only of stable pnces for beef, including veal, which will remain under the ngid March 29 meat pnee ceiling requirements until Sept 12 But Fedor indicated there could be some shortages of beef in the weeks before Sept 12 as producers might withhold meat in anticipation of higher pnces after lifting the beef pnee freeze Hoarding Food the first to feel effects of liftAmong ing of the freeze were workers at the Treasury Department here who found that soft dnnks were being served in smaller cups in the department cafetena Fnday. The governments pnee control gram is administered by the Cost of proLiv- - ing Council, which is an agency of the Treasury Department. There was evidence that seme consumers were hoarding food last week to try to beat the expected pnee increases this week. The ony question for the consumer was how much pnces would increase. President Nixon himself said Wednesday there is no way to prevent a substantial nse m food pnces, although he said the increase in the second half of 1973 should be lower than in the nrst six months. It was clear that before imposition of See Page Column 1 A-- 4, Aaron Closes In on Ruth ATLANTA (AP) Henry Aaron of the Atlanta Braves smashed his 700th career home run Saturday night, reaching another milt stone in his pursuit of Babe Ruths record of e 714. Aaron ripped a fastball from PhilaKen Brett into the delphia left-hand- Full Story, Page D-- l loft field stands of Atlanta Stadium, about 400 feet away, in the third inning. It was Aarons 27th home run of the season. A crowd of nearly 20,000 gave Aaron a standing ovation. veteran had to take two The bows in front of the Braves dugout. two-minu- The homer was Aarons 1,372nd hit, leaving him only e behind Ruths record in extra-bas- e category. Hijackers Ask $5 Million Hansom for 143 on Jet A reliable Lebanese DUBAI (AP) newspaper said Sunday terrorists wanted million ransom for the lives of 143 people facing another sweltering day aboard a hijacked Japan Air Line jumbo jet at goods, including medicine, Japarnse food and clothing. Aran and Japanese $5 Dubais desert airstrip. The hijackers earlier threatened to blow up the Boeing 747 if anyone approached. They had demanded the release of Kozo Okamoto, a Japanese Red Army fanatic serving a life sentence in Israel for his part in the massacre of 26 people at Lod Airjtort in May 1972. The Beirut daily An Naiiar said it obtained the ransom info'"nation from highly reliable sources, presumably Palestinian guerrillas, although the major commando groups in Beirut have denied Unconfirmed reports said three or four men, Arab and Japanese, were holding the plane. A young woman, identified as another hijacker, was reportc. killed when her own hand grenade exploded. The plane was commandeered shortly after takeoff Fnday from Amsterdam. Her body and a purser injured by the blast were taken off the plane soon after it arrived here. Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone any responsibility for the hijacking. JAL Chief Arrives Numbers, Page A- -f JAL president Shizuo Asada arrived early Sunday to help in the negotiations for release of those aboard the plane. Asada landed at Abu Dhabi Airport, 86 miles southwest of Dubai with 28 other airline officials, two government representatives and a policeman. A spokesman in Tokyo said Asada did not fly directly into Dubai because we feel the hijackers might be excited at seeing another JAL plane. He later said Asada and some of his AND MORE . . . Pages of Color Comparty had reached Dubai but did not say how they got there. ics; Home and Pande Magazines. Among the 122 passengers and 21 crew members aboard the plane was a cousin of Japans Crown Princess Michi-k- o Akira Shoda, 44, is a professor at Keio University in Tokyo. His father and Cool Salt Lake City and Vicinity Michikos are brothers. and generally fair. Some afternoon cloudAsadas plane earned a ton of relief iness. Weather Map, rage JL Sundays Forecast B-- Dive No More , Senor Thees Ees Not the Lost Atlantis It was the most skeptical statement that any committee member has made about the Presidents assertions of innocence When he emerged Friday from his recuperation at the Bethesda Naval Hospital the President declared that he had no intention of resigning and would not wallow in Watergate Nixon held conferences Saturday afternoon at Camp Davul, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctm Moun- g 2 - Claims by a CADIZ, SPAIN (UPI) expedition of the discovery of the loxt continent of Atlantis off the southwest coast of Spam were dismissed Saturday by Spanish officials as a complete lie U S At the same time, a spokesman for the Cadiz Marine Authority said police had been instructed to stop further dv-uiactivities b the expedition members g Not Preperlv Conducted Todays Chuckle proper i Pnces should go up most m those areas where we held them down most, said Kenneth Fedor, head of the councils Office of Food Pnee Momtonng m an interview J this sand octopus to call attention to Sand Castle Day. Other residents are creating sand work. watch the blast through dark glasses, told naval headquarters in New Zealand the flash was not particularly bright Report Seeing Fireball e fitting A i;v;kx President Should Appear At Hearing, Public Says more ), k. - A. of Cannon Beach, Ore., led by an artist, Steidel, and contractor Ray Watkins, built D-- are f If , n n New York Times Writer Witnesses thought the size indicated it WASHINGTON President Nixon has was only a small blast, probably -- lmed told the chairman of the Senate Waterat perfectmg the atomic-bom- b trigger gate Committee that he will not supply which sets off a hydrogen bomb. to Senate investithe presidential papers The blast was observed by the New gators because he is convinced the committee is seeking to incriminate him, Zealand protest fngate Otago, stationed about 20 miles upwind of the explosion. reliable sources reported Saturday. The Otago reported it was receiving no In another development, the commitradiation tee chairman, Ser Sam J. Ervin Jr., Cmdr. Alan Tyrell, one of three men C., said Saturday that the Presiallowed on the bridge of the Otago to dents position was making it more difficult for him to "continue to cling to the that Nixon was not inpresumption volved m the Watergate conspiracy. The Presidents comments to Ervin appeared to represent the basis for Nixons increasingly contentious attitude toward the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities Makes Accusation By J Roy Bardsley Authoritative soprces at the commitThe Utah public is disapomted m Prestee said that the President had made the ident Nixons decision not to appear be- accusation about the committees fore the Watergate investigating commitin the sources words that the motives tee committee was out to get him. when By a he talked with Ervin on the telephone Utahns say margin, 1 July 2 , the day Nixon was hospitalized that speaking out on with virai pneumoma. the issue, as the PresiThe White House had no comment on dent promised, is not the report. But a high administration of- enough that he ficial, asked to verify the account, com- should submit himself to questioning just as plained that "even a personal phone conversation between a President and a sen- any member of his adator, or an interpretation of it, soonpr or min stration later in this case nine days, which is To a large extent, finds its way into attitudes toward a longer than most presidential appearthe press. We continue to be mystified ance followed partisan lines, with Demoby this. crats contending Nixon should come before the committee, and Republicans Ervin said in comments to newsmen in Atalantic Beach, N C that he was maintaining he has a right to refuse. however, were in mystified by the Presidents apparent deIndependents, cision to withhold from the Watergate strong agreement wuth Democrats, which Committee the secret tape recordings of produced an overall opinion climate unfaNixons White House conversations with vorable to the Presidents position key figures in the Watergate affair The The Salt Lake Tribune's Utah Poll senator was m Atlantic Beach to address question: a Democrat Party dinner President Nixon has said that he will No Rational Reason make a statement on Watergate, but will I can think of no rational reason for not appear before the Senate investigatthe President not turning over the tapes ing committee Do you feel Mr. Nixon unless the evidence found m them would should, or should not, appear before the Those committee7 be against him, Ervin said. seeking the truth will draw the inference The reaction that his Should and a justified inference 0 appear reason for not producing the tapes is be31 Should not appear cause the evidence would be adverse to him. pants v a' ' A 5 ,.? NEW ZEALAND WELLINGTON, France exploded a controversial (AP) nuclear bomb Saturday ar Mururoa atoll m the South Pacific, sending a mushroom cloud of smoke 20.000 feet into the atmo- By James M Naughton Hot XV I x 5 French Detonate Nuclear Test Nixon Feels Solons Out To Get Him See Page A4, Column 3V 1 Residents Bill tt ki - . ? 1'r S & ? ,2ii -- s U$J was washed away by the next high tide week-lon- - WASHINGTON The Cost of Living Councils trp food pnee expert says Americans can expect to begin paying higher grocery hills this week now that President Nixon has lifted the pnee freeze on food A V, H. the To Ervin &.'' i By R Gregory Nokes Associated Press Wnter sS' iss . - y K ' t , -- x- - event Bill Steidel, a local artist, cajoled his casual work force into heaping up an octopus replica complete with a mouth and suction cups on its tentacles Contractor Ray Watkins helped with the plans given to octopus builders t J f 2 Jr "VO., J ,K! i Vr Nonetheless, residents and any others who strayed onto the beach managed earlier this week to construct a sand octopus more than 100 feet from tentacle to tentacle to publicize the ' j ffc ' ' - But this year was different. than They d'd not have proper authenza tion and certain procedures were incorrect, the spokesman said contradicting hir, 'lit statenv n's bv Mrs Maxine that all the necexpeditions essary permits had been obtained from Spanish authorities Permits were not applied for in the and the diving was not correct wav the spokesbeing properly conducted, man said shor said the military naval Mrs command here had issued summons t her, htr codirector and three underwater divcis to appear in court Month v, But we wont do it First wo want to have a mooting with the US ambassador to Spam and tie Spanish raval n. mister to find out why police are keeping us from returnWe were in ing to the site, she said international waters and the subpoenas violate our rights as human beings, she added Identify Underwater Ruins The strong expedition sponsored by Peppcrdine University of Los Angeles arrived in Cadiz two weeks ago to search for Atlantis, which legend that predatsays was a ed the ancient Egyptians and which disappeared under the sea thousands of ears ago. n After two days of diving at depths of feet, the expedition leaders anthey had found and photographed roads, columns and walls between 14 and 16 miles from the Spanish coast which they identified as Atlantis. up to 95 nounced So far, however, they have only released one blurred underwater photograph of two divers holding up ? piece of masonry. They said they had been prevented by police patrols on local beaches from returning to collect more data from the spot, where according to one of the teams experts, Eggerton Sykes of Brit- ain, their finds dated from at least 6,000 years ago: It is at least 6,000 years since the area was above water, Sykes told a news conference Fnday. local archaBlanco, Concepcion eologist and curator of Generalissimo Archaeological Museum in Cadiz, said: Its too early to say, but it sounds very unlikely you can plunge into the water and find an undiscovered city with walls and columns on the first attempt. The group has issued drawings of fragments of amphorae and columns, but these look to me to be of the Punic era of around the 3id Century BC v |