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Show jurnmji, Nations Crews Converge Wont Halt of Probe To Fight Wests Flames H By I'mted Press International More than 6.400 fire fighters, some summoned from across the nation, manned forest lines in six western states Saturday where flames have blackened 40,000 acres of timberland In addition, more than 30,000 acres of range grass were burning out of control m central Montana between Jordan and Roundup The Bureau of Land Management said aenal retardant was being used in an effort to control the blaze because of the manpower shortage. Fire fighters were on the line in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washinglon, California and Nevada Cost of the fight exceeded $500,000 daily Damage ran into millions of dollars from the blazes which were caused by lightning and by carelessness or arson Two Planes Crash Missoula, said about 5,000 men fighting 11 large fires m Montana In Idaho the fire threat was so serious that Gov. Cecil Andrus authorized use of national guardsmen if necessary to contain the flames. Andrus said he was making available kitchen units, cargo trucks, medical teams and ambulances to aid the fire fighters Idaho, Montana Worst In California hot winds drove a were north-centra- The Forest Service tallies l,01i fires this summer in the area of northern Idaho, western Montana and eastern Washington That compared with SOI fires in the same period a year ago Tom Holmes, of llie Forest Service in east-centr- lumne, Calif. On Saturday, flames charred more than 3,000 acres of pmon pine, jumper and sagebrush south of Gardnemlle, Nev., in the eastern slopes of the Sierras. Three tanker planes were dropping chemicals on the blaze. Flames consume large pine trees in seconds as more than 3,000 acres of ponderosa pine were scorched near Culdesac, Idaho. New Violence Lathers Chile Trucker Strike New York Times Service - The truckers SANTIAGO, CHILE strike that has poisoned the hie of this country went into its 21th day Saturday with new violence and the resignation of one of Tresident Salvador AUendes new military ministers The air force commander in chief. Gen Cesar Ruiz Danyau, resigned as minister of public works and transport And in what was obviously a gesture of appeasement to the truckers, the gov- - Surgery Saves Baby From Bullet Threat Agence France-Press- e SAINT GALL, SWITZERLAND -A baby bom with a bullet lodged near its heart has been operated on and is now out of danger, it was learned here Saturday. The Swiss mother, Lotti Zwahlen, was allegedly shot last weekend by her Austrian boyfriend al Rorschach, in northeast Switzerland near the German and Austrian borders. A few minutes later doctors at the Rorschach Hospital performed a cesarean on the Lotti After finding that the bullet had of an inch from, lodged only the heart of the newborn baby, named Cecile, doctors had her transferred as an emergency case to the Saint Gall Pediatric Hospital one-sixt- h emment announced the removal of the undersecretary of transport, Jaime Faivovich, who was considered the mam obstacle to a settlement After Allende met in emergency sess-siowith the cabinet at noon, the government announced that Ruizs resignation had been accepted. He has been replaced as minister of public works by Brig. Humberto Magiochetti Barghona, the former operations chief of the air fore? n Academy Chief Advances Gen. Gustavo Leigh Guzman, former head of the Air Force Academy, was named the new commander m chief of the air force. He had been named interim commander when Ruiz was appointed to the cabinet. Another military man, Gen. Herman Brady, director of the War Academy, was named general commissioner of highway associations, replacing Faivovich. In a short sober ceremony at the presidential palace, Allende announced he had received a letter of resipation from Gen. Ruiz claiming that he had not had a chance as minister of public works to solve the transport conflict Requisition Trucks the same time, the authorities began to requisition trucks around the country and ordered the strikers back or the job within 24 hours. The official central command of operations announced that more than 2,000 trucks had been seized without incidents. The truckers, who are vital to the distribution system in this land of rugged mountains and valleys, seek higher freight rates and the right to import new trucks and spare parts (Copyright ) At g 7500-700- 0 ticed Proof of tins was said to have been found at Franchthi. a cave near here used as a home by humans almost from at least without interruption 20,000 BC. to 3,000 B C. Experts regard the cave, in southern Greece, as the most important prehistoric site tn Europe and the Middle East. Dr. Thomas W. Jacobsen, of Indiana University, six years spent The cave, he exploring the site. said, produced evidence of continuous human occupation and activity from the upper Paleolithic through the Mesolithic and the Neolithic. In this sense it is umque. There is no such sequence anvwhere else in the Old World. Archaeologists 1 had explored many The Senate Waterabsolutely not pack up its investigations and turn Water gate over to the courts as President Nixon has urged, a top staff membei says. The and bugging of Demo- break-i- cratic headquarters in the Watergate again will be the focus of two or three days of public hearings the week of Sept Teams at Work 10 to 15 men each are now working m Washington and around the country doing the investigative background work for what is now intended to be two complete but concentrated sets of heatings, Edmisten said. Teams of Flames that hail threatened La Grande, Ore., with a population of 10,000, were being brought under control. Before it was beaten back, the fire had roared to the outskirts of the town, within 300 feet of a hospital and consumed time buildings. Among the buildings destroyed m La Grande was the $70,000, 1 home of the Wesley Allen family. I looked out the door and there was a wall of flames bursting over the hall with the most terrible explosive roar, Mrs. Allen said. In his speech to the nation laM Wednesday night, President Nixon said After 12 weeks and 2 million words of televised testimony, we have reached a point at which a continued, backward-lookinobsession with Watergate is causing this nation to neglect matters of far greater importance to the nation . . . The tune has come to turn Watergate over to the courts Jumped in Car all jumped in the car and bounced down the driveway and by the time we hit the mam road, the flames were roaring over us. By the time we reached the edge of town, less than a private. The committee is not about to fold up," he said. It has its mission to perform and its gomg to do it. ... Absolutely not, categorically not. Edmisten said in an interview which echoed what many other Watergate com- mittee staff members are asserting We Assoc toted Press Wirephoto Tony Frince stands by remains of his house on the outskirts I of LaGrande, leveled by forest fire that threatened the town. Rejects Industry Contentions ground-breakin- Court Upholds Beef Price Freeze - A federal WASHINGTON (AP) appelate court upheld the beef pnee freeze Saturday, rejecting meat industry contentions that the Cost of Living Council was arbitrary, capricious and exceeded its authority. A special U.S. Appeals Court panel said it is clear the Pacific Coast Meat Jobbers Association Inc. and the National Association of Meat Purveyed Ir.c. had not made the showing necessary to entitle them to a preliminary injunction. The decision upheld a ruling on Aug. 6 by U.S. District Court Judge Robert F. Peckham in San Francisco. three-judg- e Several Reasons For several reasons," the appeals court said, it was entirely reasonable for the CLC to decide to keep the ceiling on beef longer than on other meats." The council continued strict price ceil- ings on beef until Sept. 12 while lifting them on the rest of the meat industry. There was evidence to show that beef pnees were rising faster than other meat prices and that live poultry, sheep and swine were being destroyed, while beef was only bemg withheld from the market," the court said. It rejected contentions that the Cost of Living Council acted illegally, since the President and those to whom ,ie delegates this power are specifically given the power by the Economic Stabilization Act the power to institute pnee controls May Seek Aid While there was testimony in the record to show that plaintiffs are experiencing losses from the beef pnee freeze, it is not clear that the harm will be irreparable," the court said Todays Chuckle Not so many people have lost faith in America as you might think. An a ful lot of them still sign up for 3(Vyear mortgages Age sites in Greece, some revealed human occupation in the re- upper said. mote Paleolithic period, before 8,000 B C., while others showed evidence of Neolithic activity after 6.000 B C. when man still used stone tools but was getting close to the discovery of metals. by radiocarbon now at about 7,000 B C. It was the discovery of obsidian, a glassy voleame stone, and of large fish bones at levels below 7,000 B.C. that first raised the issue of navigation Stone Since 1967, when an Indiana Urn zersity team started digging pits in he floor of Franchthi Cave, aicha-eologist- s have been uncovering successive layers of habitation. We have now reached down to the e staff aide to Edmisten, a Watergate chairman Sam J. Ervin Jr, said investigative work on Watergate itself was largely completed with interviews last week of three White House aides: Larry Higby, Steve Bull and press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler. All three were reported to have claimed partial executive privilege to avoid answering investigators questions about the presidential tape recordings the committee is seeking. The investigation into the other two areas will be more difficult, Edmisten said, because of the work that must be done. long-tim- mile away, we could see the house gomg up in flames. As I told the children, a house is a house. We all got out. Thats what counts, said Mrs. Allen, wife of a physician. The Forest Service m Missoula. Mont., said a call for help went out to every Forest Service region in the country as 17 additional fires erupted Friday in Largely Completed It added that the freeze will end Sept. and individual merchants may avail themselves of the CLC exemption procedures wnere unnecessary hardships are Paleolithic Jacobsen cf dates counts. Our floor is level, We obtain confirmation being experienced. And no showing has been made that the public interest would not be impaired by the inflationary pnee increases which would occur that much sooner if the freeze regulations continuing the price ceilings were enjoined, the court said. The meat industry organizations had complained also that the council failed to hold hearings on the freeze. The court said the law provides that to the maximum extent possible, but not in every case, such hearings to be held. No Improvident Action In this case, the judges said, the record does not reveal improvident action, but rather a step that was reached after extensive consultations, albeit formal ones, with interested groups and individuals, including some members, of plaintiffs organization. These are really babes and our chief drive now ;s putting ourselves in the position in which we know the right questions to ask, he said new-bor- n Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers, ' Page A-Page Pge Arts Nat l J, fi, 12, 13 Business NatI 20, G-2 5 a-- 2 Classified Columnists Com. Carrier Editorials Forn Forn Obituaries Sports' Star Gazer 7 G-- 7 Theaters Lifestyle G-- S H-1- 8 Television 6 12, 14, 18, 1 Utah Poll Washington l 0 E--- 7 A-- 2 AND MORE . . . Home and Parade Magazines; Color Comics. Sundays Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity Mostly fair with slight chance of scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. ther Map on Page Wea- 0 lf)00 fairly limited." Samples were sent to England for analysis. The reply was that the obsidian was from the Aegean island p Melos, some 75 miles south- east Years fishing off shore. This was apparent from the small size of the fish bones found in older layers Fish Vertebrae B.C we Suddenly about find fish vertebrae." he said Franchthi Cave, work on which has unraveled with impressive detail how , people lived 20,000 years ago, Ues near the extremity of the northern arm of the Gulf of Argolis, southeast of Nafplion 7,500-7,00- 0 Useful for Toelx Melos, an extinct volcano, was not inhabited in the period in question The conclusion was that the inhabitants of Franchthi Cave had boats "Obsidian is very useful for nuking tools, because it chips mto sharp Jacobsen said. But the edges, sources of obsidian are known and The conclusion, Jacobsen said, was supported by the evidence of the fish vertebrae. Before B.C. the Franchthi cavemen did most cf their 1 g 12 Greek Cave Yields Evidence . Advances Seafaring by By Mario S. Modiano New York Times Wnter American KOILADA, GREECE archaeologists in Greece have dug up evidence of the worlds earliest seafaring, dating from about at least 1,000 years before sea B.C. travel was known to have been prac- - will gate committee g of 2,300 fire fighters were flown to the threatened areas from Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, New Mexico and Arizona Press Wirephoto Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON recess A total Associated Bv Lawrence L Knutson 10, said Rufus Edmisten. deputy counsel for the panel. Sworn testimony is planned then from former While House special counsel Charles W. Colson and convicted Watergate spy E. Howard Hunt. Both men likely will be recalled for later testimony on alleged political duly tncks in last years presidential election campaign, committee sources said Edmisten said this weekend that a status report on the two remaining phases of the Investigation dirty tncks and oe waiting for wili financing campaign the committees seven senators when August they return from their month-lon- Two planes carrying fire retardants crashed more than 60 miles apart while fighting forest fires in the Sierra Nevada of California. One went down in flames at Placerville airport and the pilot survived with burns. The other pilot was rescued unharmed by a helicopter after his tanker went down near Tuo- I Committee Plans More Hearings man-cause- d fire through more than 3,000 acres of valuable watershed and timber-lanin the Stanislaus National Forest southeast of Sonora. Authorities estimated the preliminary damage at $5 million worth ol ar and pine lumber and $10 million in watershed serving the San Francisco Bay area l The worst fires were in Idaho and Montana. In Idaho one fire roartd through 5,000 acres of Nez Perce Indian land, and 4 009 acres were burning near Bull Creek, About 5,000 acres were ablaze in Montana between Great falls and Helena W atergate 7,509-7,00- 0 (Copyright) |