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Show Uax t Iwt Chaw Hfivn m $ Our Phone Numbers tonight with snow Cloudy 3 7 NO. 55 1 524-410- . 524-284- 1 524-444- 1 ' 524-444- : ' i 5, 1969:- - 521-353- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH B-- 9. VOL. 0 News, News Tips 0 Home Delivery 5 Information 5 Sports Scores 5 Classified Ads Only Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South like- ly Thursday. Daytime high 45 to 50. Lows tonight 30 to 35. Probability of snow 60 per cent Thursday. Details, weather map on Page 48 PAGES 1 0 The Mountain West's First Newspaper c MARCH WEDNESDAY, Trapped Utah Miner n A eve fat i y , m 4 y ' ,, ' 4 - Rescuers Talk To Victim r- V: g' rA ' By PAUL SWENSON AND RAY GRASS Deseret News Staff Writers ' IxQ LARK Eighty-seve- n hours of uncertainty ended deep in the earth here this morning, when learned that a trapped miner is alive and apparently well. Miners worked gingerly in their efforts to remove William Vernon (Buck) Jones, 61, from a cramped prison, and guessed that he would be out of the mine by 6 p.m. However, others said the rescue operation might take until Thursday or even rescuers n ' f r $ f? v tzo tor M ,. - , - . u xl v' William V. (Buck) Jones , , . "Can you get me some water?" ATTACK RESPONSE Nixon Warns N. Viets: Will Retaliate Friday." . wa,,v , 'C:V s 5' 1 . i v As?': , Tii Hijacker iv " . . , V. i - ' : r fs" ' m&ams'? .. ' . v V V J : -- As one group of rescuer attempted to reach Jones by the direct route, another crew manned a huge drill In an effort to reach the miner by V' the back door. BEFORE NOON Workmen lugged the big drill into the portal shortly before noon. . A large William V. Jones family has steadfastly held to the belief their father and husband ? vsA'K'Wi" it 3 It n try V - By JACK MONSQN , With Cash - A man deMIAMI (AP) scribed as a grubby looking character with a Fu Manchu mustache and chin whiskers hijacked a National Airlines-je- t to Cuba today and busied himself on the abrupt flight to Havana robbing passengers. The Boeing 727 witji 26 people aboard was seized about an hour after leaving New Yorks Kennedy Airport on a flight to Miami. Cuban authorities took custody of the hijacker in Havana, and permitted the passengers and crew to fly to Miami. The plane arrived here at 8:28 i MIA AA O mtxsirr ?f y ' I e a ro 1 d Vietnam Marine veteran, materialized. - Velma jammed the phone into his hands and dashed to awaken her mother. Mom," she said gently, its the mine. 21-- y - Deseret News Staff Writer - It came shortly after 2 a.m. and his daughter, Velma, answered before it could sound a full ring. Velina, her mother and the other 10 Jones children had waited more than 80 hours for word from the Lark mine about the trapped miner. Im calling from the mine, said the voice on the Hi ;, A . The news that MIDVALE Buck Jones was alive arrived at his, home with a half-rin- g of the telephone. worked Meanwhile, they steadily at punching a steel WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pspike through solid rock to the miner. The plan was to run a resident Hbton put North on notice today to , pipe through the hole to get Vietnam was alive.. curb its new offensive which food and water to Jones. has doubled American casualThe rescuers had searched for ty rates in the South or suffer the missing miner since he disan appropriate response. In a rockfall in the appeared He did not say what the reU.S. Smelting,' Refining and L. , would be, but the chief sponse Mine Lark Mining Companys last Saturday, and had no in- executive made it gravely clear that allied forbearance kling that he was alive. had limits. VOICE CONTACT ; Velma, who had slept bn the will We not tolerate e Id have given couch by the phone fog the in heavwhich result attacks odds he said Ken , ; he had an operation and the doctor asked him if he had a way home,' she recalled after all the He told the doctor he had a way home all right; Then walked all the way , 80 miles. home The Joneses talked about i thrice-wound- was Duwaine the - telephone. Uh-hu- h, saying into Uh-hu- Then he hung up. .Theyve found Dad, hes alive, and Duwaine announced In that calm Jones fashion. I KNEW it! cried Velma. Her mother wept and said Can I shed known it, too. She knew telephone to Velma. her man, and she knew he talk to one of the boys? From somewhere in the .was as hard as the rock he Jones, a mined.- house, Duwaine - : ; One back-slappin- g. that and other family recollections as they roared in two cars toward the mine after getting the telephone caD. There was the time the father walked 49 miles to deliver a cow to a lady, then walked 49 miles back. ' He knocks - himself - out Mrs. Jones 'said. working, The Joneses have 11 children. Mrs. Jones said she hopes he finds some other kind of work. iA A I i v4f 1,000-to-on- last wasnt, three nights,' despite' go to bed, stayed beliind when most of the family made that over the speed limit race to the that she pleas mine. , , "I called all werent home, the kids who she said. : The two cars en route to the mine were joined halfway there by another carload. After hearing from mine officials that Jones would not be out of the mine for about eight the family headed hours, home to rejoice. There Is much, much hap. piness at 46 Allen Street this said Mrs. William V. day, Buck Jones. -- New Heart Creates A A bill Celebrity They handed them over. He took $30 from Pierpont and 820 from Tucker and returned the wallets, saying, Im leaving some money. Then he turned to Raul Rawman, a Cuban exile who lives in Miami, and robbed him of J1.700. With that loot, he returned the cash of Pierpont and Tucker- and said, Ive got plenty now. MONEY RETURNED Passengers said authorities who took custody of the hijacker in Havana relieved him of the 81.700 and gave the money back to Rawman. James Tucker, a native of Belize, British Honduras now serving with the U.S. Army at Ft. Dix, N.J., said, The man came up to me and asked me if I was a rich man or poor man. I said, 'I'm a poor man, and he said, Well, I won't rob you. The pilot gave the first word of the takeover in a radio message while the plane was just south of Norfolk, Va. I'm afraid I have to go to Havana tonight," he said. The plane, Flight 97, carried a crew of six and 19 passengers. A supervisory employe of the airline also was aboard. The plane landed in Havana lit 4 :30 a.m. EST. By M. DE MAR TEUSCHER Deseret News Political Editor Role Dr. Blaiberg's Own Story On Page Ex-Mi- ss A-1- 5 America Takes N.Y. Post to create an invest- ment council to handle state money management was stalled in the Senate today by a question of constitutionality. act The fund investment was advanced to third reading Tuesday by a vote of 27-CI TS POWER However, of . session. investment council, of which the treasurer is a member, And provides for an investment officer and a fiscal analyst to help in invest- ments. - Miss Myerson was sworn In Tuesday In an unusually well attended ceremony at City Hall. She said she would give up her broadcasting activities to devote full tlma to the r post. 825,000-a-yea- Nixon was convinced the current offensive represented a violation of the understanding whereby U.S. bombing of the North was halted . A-- last Oct 31. DECISION DUE Whether we reach the conclusion that the violation is so significant that it requires action on our part is a decision we will be reaching very soon if those attacks continue at - he ' their present magnitude, said. Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird was leaving for , 1 I INSIDE THE NEWS Communist continued strikes at American positions and South Vietnamese towns, however, the Southeast Asian war tended to dominate the two-inc- GALVESTON, TEX. (AP) With no apparent settlein ment striking sight, longshoremen and West Gulf resumed contract shippers negotiations today. Mediators Gayle Wineriter and Daniel Fitzpatrick held a joint session with the union and shippers Tuesday before meeting with each side separately. a SECTION A 1-- 6 National, Foreign City, Regional 7, 8, .12 14, 15 Editorial Pages 15 Our Man in Washington 15 Our Man Jones Music 5-- section b i:--: 1, ?" f 4? 5? City, Regional Theater Financial 65; SECTION Sports Comics City, Regional Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads SECTION Womens Pages - C ' 5 6 7 8, 9 9 6 D : 1, 2 TV Highlights City, Regional 7 8 Asst. Atty. Gen. Robert B. Hansen today raised a question as to whether the bill curtails some of the constitutional power of the state treasurer. The bill would create a Senate majority leader WarE. Pugh, ren Lake, Bess NEW YORK (AP) said final action on the meatelevision perMyerson, the sure would be held up, pendand former Miss ing possible amendment. sonality Senate the America of 1945 promises a Meanwhile, to House . sent and the passed campaign against vigorous for a proposal reorganization In and defrauding cheating the Department of Developher new post as the citys ment Services. commissioner of consumer afSET PATTERN fairs. tive director the administraThese division directors tive officer of the department. must be "experienced and . Under qualified for the positions to the revised bill, which they are appointed. directors of the six divisions In the department will be The senators also passed appointed by the division SB19, which creates a state boards, with the concurrence department of systems planof the executive director. ning and data processing. division Another bill, which gained the Originally, directors would have been final Senate approval abolishappointed by the executive es the proposed junior college director of the department See INVESTMENT on Page 4 ; We have not moved ta-lprecipitate fashion, the President told reporters, but the fact that we have shown patience and forbearance? should not be considered as a ?.' ' sign et weakness." In Paris last Sunday Nixon met with South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky who later reported that .Nixon spoke to him of new approaches to the war. The President said this re ferred to the diplomatic initiative which might be used to break the deadlock in the See RETALIATE, Page A-- 4 The President met with 190 telereporters in a one-hovised conference to talk largely about his recent European trip. Against the background Talks Continue In Dock Strike a dirty shirt and long-nose- d An appropriate response to these attacks will be made if they continue. DISCUSSED TRIP question-and-answ- EST. DEMANDS WALLETS long hair, the hijacker, a Negro, stuck a .38 caliber revolver into the face of Robert Pierpont and his companion, Don Tucker, both of North Branford, Conn., and said, Give me your wallets, Pierpont said. conference table in Paris, he told a Tuesday night White House news conference. A-- a.m. Wearing ier casualties to our men at a tune that we are honestly trying to seek peace at the Squires, 58. 148 W. 5275 South, Murray. He was one of two men struggling to find Jones at 2 a.m. this morning. The first voice contact was strikingly calm. Squires and andother rescuer were laying timbers to support the overhead rock when they hear a third voice cooly say: When are you guys going to get me out of here? You okay? the startled Squires called. Jones Yeah, Im okay, But Im dry. Can replied. you get me some water?" Rescuers were still working h to run a water pipe See TRAPPED on Page 4 South Vietnam today. Nixon asked him for an appraisal of the situation. ' This bill, revised from its original form, i3 expected to set a pattern for two other governmental revision bills pending In the Senate. As passed, the measure eli- the department's minates coordinating council, created in 1967, and makes the execu Astros HOUSSPACE CENTER. TON (AP) Astronauts James A. McDivitt and Russell L. Schweickart today fired the big engine designed to land men on the moon after executing the first spaceship transfer by cans. Ameri- i , he might have to delay or r cancel a space walk planned Thursday. Air Force Col. David R. Scott was left alone in the command module, still locked with the lunar vehicle. two-hou- nose-to-no- After firThe jarring ing came more than five hours after McDivitt and a s light 1 1 y sick Schweickart moved through a connecting tunnel from the Apollo 9 command ship into a lunar module (LEM), the spidery craft being developed for a moon landing. overcame an Schweickart early morning bout with nausea and vomitirg to make the n transfer. There was some that if the illness secure, ccn-cer- hours evaluation seven-minut- e of that extensive included a telecast to earth, McDivitt and Schweickart reported all systems in the LEM functioning with only one or two minor problems. This was encouraging news for American plans to land two men on the moon in another LEM in July. The key rest came at 12:42 p.m. EST when the two space-rne- n the big thrust 9,000-poun- d triggered IM engine, the powerplant Start that will brake a later vehicle for a lunar touchdown. firDuring the It ing, McDivitt reported looks pretty smooth. Its going along like a dream It looks pretty good over here, too, reported Scott in the command ship. Nonchalantly, McDivitt sudGee, am I denly injected: hungry." He said the engine was doing a real good job of steering. Spider, that was a beautiful burn. You were right down the tube," Mission Control Center reported. In radio conversation, Schweickart gave no hint that he had been sick. The illness was not reported to newsmen for several hours U1AA and came to light only after the astronauts asked for a private conversation with ground controllers. Afterwards, Mission Control Center admitted that in an earlier private talk Sclweick-ar- t reported he had an upset stomach and had vomited. In tne second talk, he reported he was feeling fine. Air Force Col. McDivitt followed Schweickart through the luiiUtd Into the LEM, leaving Air Force Col. David R. Scott alone in the command module, which remained e with the hooked lunar vehicle. McDivitt and Schweickart mounted a television camera in the rear of the LEM cabin nose-to-nos- and sent a cast to earth. seven-minut- Excellent, e Mission teleCon- - Engine trol reported as the picture flashed on a monitor. It showed a wide angle view of the cabin, with the two pilots standing at their control positions. As if to signal he was all right, Schweickart smiled and waved to the folks back home. Today's Thought ' levder like but it levels Christianity, There is mo by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-lan- d of a true character and of undying hope, both for this world and the nez. Jonathan Edwcads I"'- - |