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Show Mostly high clouds and a little warmer tonight. See details, weather map on Page B-1- 3. VOL. 371 T DE High Clouds Our Phone Numbers News, News Tips Home Delivery 10c 40 PAGES 0 524-284- 0 Information Sports Scores 5 . Classified Ads Only E. 34 1st South, Editorial Offices 521-441- 5. 524-444- 521-353- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH NO. 65 521-410- The Mountain West's First Newspaper MARCH MONDAY, 17, 1969 Dim S .A O r v :v DPI Tetephoto Atlantic. cloud-flecke- d and allied troops killed at least 326 Communist troops in a series of weekend battles, U.S. military spokesmen reported today. But the Communist offensive entered its fourth week with attacks on 30 more towns and allied bases. Most of the fighting centered around Saigon and the 20 SPEEDY EXPRESS Another 131 Viet Cong were killed in the Mekong Delta 30 miles south of Saigon in a called weekend operation Speedy Express mounted to ease the threat to the capital. The series of small firefights cost the Americans two wounded and no dead. There was fighting in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) where U.S. Marines invaded with a force of armored vehicles to seek out Communist gunners firing rockets into South Vietnam from the border zone that is theoretically neutralized. In earlier action to the south U.S. Marine patrols were mauled in double Communist ambushes. HOUSSPACE CENTER, TON (UPI) Like any tourists on vacation, the Apollo 9 y LIGHT LOSSES ' s v ,f i ' - ' 5 ' a , ' t, '$y s V .nr ' V a;, Schweickart proved ready for lunar flight during their y mission in earth orbit. There also was a shot of almost the entire U.S. eastern seaboard, which space agency officials said was unequaled in all the pictures astronauts have brought back from space. The Manned Space Center released 257 feet of 16 millimeter color movies, including the spectacular spider ballet, and an additional 300 frames of 70 mm color still pictures that covered almost everything the astronauts saw from space. ft ;I v-x i V f 4 "I ) .J! , f;' tji. f : I ' s Troops of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division beat off a Communist assault on a base camp 25 miles northeast of the capital and killed nine men of an 80 man assault force, losing 10 Americans killed and 14 wounded. In another battle on the fringes of Saigon a U.S. 25th Infantry Division beat off an assault by North Vietnamese in Hau Nghia Province, 28 miles west of Saigon. rW -- Prime Rate McDivitt, Scott were release, called the third best sequence ever shot in space also included a spiders-eyview of the Apollo 9 command ship, which its astronauts nicknamed Gumdrop e Jumps UPI Telephoto IN THIRD DAY and into Schweickait today their third day of intensive debriefing, telling officials everything they could recall about how their twin spacecraft performed. They flew the Apollo mother ship and moon lander for five days, and the command ship alone for another five. The movies which Carl R. Hart, in charge of the picture American losses reported in the weekend fighting were comparatively light 20 dead and 52 wounded. South Vietnamese forces suffered what the military described only as light losses, some of them sustained in the fighting near the Demilitarized Zone. TO -' Spider's-ey- e view shows' Apollo 9 command ship ghamlng in sun's rays. because of its shape. The movies end with Thursas seen by the days astronauts. First a neon red glow fills the window as the spacecraft blazes into the atmosphere. Then white drogue parachutes pop into view, followed by brilliant orange and d main chutes as the command ship sways toward the Atlantic. The most impressive movies weve ever gotten were Ed Whites spacewalk during Gemini 4. That just y white-stripe- people 'out of their Hart said. The next most impressive films were brought seats, f the rendezvous between Gemini 7 and Gemini 6. And this would be the third. The stills showed many of the same scenes caught by the movies, Including detailed shots of the command ship. Its colors changed from silver to gold to black as it turned and the gun caught It from different angles. Clear photographs of every major city from Los Angeles to Dallas, Fort Worth, across Atlantr and cut to sea at Charleston, S.C., where another photographic bonus. And there a shot all the way up the East Coast from s to Long Carolina Island, a scene Hart said had never before been brought North back from space. The first in the set of prized photographs and home movies were released Saturday. Among those were some depicting the spacewalk of Russell L. Rusty" Schweickart. what you got was corn beef and cabbage. They laughed in New York when told that Savannah, Ga., with a planned turnout of 10,000 or so, hoped to have the biggest parade in the country. The Ancient Order of Hibernians, sponsor of the New York parade, counted on 345 contingents totaling ' 27,000 including 161 bands. It was New Yorks 207th annual show in honor of the saint who, drove the snakes from the Emerald Isle. marchers, Today's Thought Life is adventure in experience, and when you are no longer greedy for the last drop of it, it means no more. Donald Culross Peattie Prominent Dublin marchers in were Bobby Shriver. 14, and his sister Maria, 13, whose mother is Mrs. Sargent Shriver, sister of the late President John F. Kennedy. The Irish tourist board said Americans were on hand in record numbers and that '00 of them were marching in the parade. The biggest single group, 200, came from Albany, N.Y. Irelands r presi- Eamon De Valera, issued. a message of good wishes to all our kinsfolk and friends beyond the sees. dent, Prime Minister Jack Lynch pledged his government would promote the reunification of Ireland. , At the moment, the six counties of Northern Ireland are separated from the republic. As a symbolic protest against this situation, the New Yoik parade marchers wTere oidered to wear black arm-band- s, y said Michael of Montclair, N.J., national president of the HiberDele-hunt- nians fraternal organization. is about time that the world paid some attention to the discrimination and suppression of religious and economic freedom in the six counties of Northern Ireland. Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley enlisted William Jones, .It lord mayor of Waterford, Ireland, to help him lead the big the annual parade from River green-dyeChicago down the mercantile artery of State Street. Waterford is the home town of Daleys paternal grandparents, and he visited there in d 1964. Map displays spot where Viasa Airlines DC9 crashed, killing all aboard. 5 U.S. Executives, Wives On Plane CREEK, MICH. Ten of the victims of (UPI) the plane crash in Venezuela Sunday were returning to the United States from a Clark Equipment Co. meeting io CaBATTLE racas. They included two Clark ex- ecutives and their wives from Michigan, two Clark dealers and their wives from Virginia and Tennessee, and a Clark salesman and his wife from Virginia. They left for Venezuela March 8 for a four-da- y series of meetings, the Clark Co. said. Other Clark personnel flew separately. Some of them returned Sunday and others will fly back later this week, the company said. The dead are Robert L. Brown Jr., 41, Marshall, Mich., general product manager of the Clark industrial truck division, and his wife, Jane, 39; Albert G. Davidson Jr., 39, Battle Creek, tne Divisions marketing services manager, and his wife, Alice, 41; William Benjamin, Virginia Beach, Va., sales manager for Clarklift of Virginia, the companys dealer in Virginia his wife; Robert Beach, Ashmore, Virginia Beach, a salesman for Clarklift of Virginia, and his wife, and Joseph Venezia, Chattanooga. Tenn., a partner of Clarklift Materials Handling Inc., the companys franchised dealer at Chattanooga, and his wife. crash. Pedro Perez Perazo, political director of the Interior Ministry, told the newspaper Ultimas Noticias today in Caracas that he was flying here to investigate the possibility at the disaster site. There already had been rumors that some of the passengers aboard the plane were delayed on a previous flight from John F. Kennedy airport bomb in New York by a scare which failed to materi- In Caracas, Venezuela, a U.S. spokesman Embassy issued a tentative list of the North Americans believed to have been aboard the plane. In addition to the Ashmore, Benjamin, Venezia, Marshall it and Davidson couples included; Charles Whitman, Ohio. Martin M. Oates, Kansas City. Anthony Oates, Nebraska. Kenneth D. and Sharon Nelin issued son, passport Seattle, Wash. John Joseph and Adeline Heney, Los Angeles, Calif. Patrick J. and Elsie Carter, passports issued in Miami, alize. ALL KILLED All 74 passengers and- - Sever-a- l NEW YORK (AP) major banks increased their prime rate the interest charged their biggest and most creditworthy borrowers to lxx per cent from 7 per cent today. The move, another In a series of increases in this rate, initiated was by Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New Fla. Leila K. Buckson, passport issued in Miami, Fla. Andrew J. Buckson, passport issued in Los Angeles, Calif. The Creole Petroleum Corp. (Esso) reported that the wives of two of its employes, Nina May and Clarice Dee, were aboard the DC9, but did not immediately give out names. The husbands of the victims, Paul May and Frank Dee, work for Creole in La Salinas, Zulia State. Elizabeth Rogers, a Mount Vernon. Iowa, biology teacher from Cornell College, was also among the victims. She had been teaching post graduate classes here on a U.S. The area was quickly enveloped in flames. Eight separate investigating teams are trying to determine what caused the crash, which may have affected indirectly more than 1,000 people. NO REPORT An airport official said the pilot reported no trouble and iiis last radio contact with the control tower was a routine request for permission to take off. The plane lifted off the end of the runway, climbed to about 150 feet, then suddenly lost altitude and went down. The explosion appeared to have occurred when one of government sponsored educational interchange program, the embassy said. York. It was quickly followed by Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, First Bank of Chicago. Falling in line later were First National City Bank of New York, New England Merchants National Bank of Boston, Union Trust Co. of Baltimore, Northern Trust Co. and American National Bank of Chicago. Todays increase sent the e prime rate to another high. It had been raised to 7 per cent from 63J per cent last Jan. 6, to 63i per cent from 6,$ per cent last Dec. 18 and to 6 4 per cent from 6 per cent last Dec. 2. The latest Increase had been widely expected as the availability of lending mone, tightened. The Federal Reserve has pursued a tight money policy as a means of stemming inflation. all-tim- 8 Jordan Camps By United Press International Israeli jets attacked eight Arab guerrilla encampments in Jordan today, inflicting casualties in a series of surprise attacks, informed military sources reported in Jerusalem. Jordan said the jets hit three settlements with rockets, napalm and machinegun fire. It was the second Israeli strike into Jordan in two days and came as reports reached Beirut that Iraq had sent units of its air force into Syria to protect Iraqi troops which entered Syria last week at the height of new Mideast tension. There were no official Is-- r on a e 1 i announcements today's air strikes but informed sources said the strikes were part of what Israel calls routine preventive measures" against Al Fatah and other bases used by commandos striking into Israel. New unrest broke out in the former Egyptian held Gaza strip today and Israel closed down four schools after pupils tried to demonstrate in the street. So far Isiael has closed schools where students have demonstrated against the Israeli occupation. , In Jerusalem, Mrs. Golda 70. was sworn in as Israels fourth premier. She pledged that we sliall again be victorious if a new Middle East war breaks out and said Israel would never accept any peace imposed by the Big Meir, Four. INSIDE THE NEWS SECTION A 4 National, Foreign City, Regional 6, 8, 11, 13, 20 Theater Womens Pages Editorial Pages 10 14-1- 7 18, 19 Music Our Man Jones 19 19 SECTION Ci(y, Regional Comics Financial Sports TV Highlights . B the plane's turbines grazed a high tension wire. Fifteen other air crashes have taken more than 100 lives. The previous worst occurred aviation accident Dec. 16, 1960, when two airlin- ers collided over New York City, killing 134 passengers and persons on the ground. LOST ALTITUDE A policeman who was a witness said the plane lost altitude after taking off, hit a high tension pole, spun and fefi in pieces on the residential districts of Ziruna and La Trinidad. The area on the outskirts of Maracaibo. Venezuelas principal oil center, is inhabited by about 15.000 Coand lombians. Venezuelans Guajiro Indians. The plane had been in service only 10 days. The flight originated in Caracas, 330 miles to the east, and picked up more passengers in Maracaibo. The airline said there were 74 passengers and a crew of 10 aboard. CAUSE UNKNOWN The cause 1, 3, 10, 11 2 4, 5 i 8 10 Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads 10 crew members, at least 47 of them U.S. citizens, were killed in the crash. Authorities estimated that at least 71 persons have perished on the ground and feared the fotal would increase as the grim search continues. The DC9, powered by two turbofan engines mounted aft, had attained an altitude of only 150 feet when it faltered minutes after takeoff and plunged into a cluster of low cost homes in Maracaibos La Trinidad and Ziruma districts. To7y2 Pet. Israeli Jets Blast & Pennsylvania Banking Trust Co. of Philadelphia, State Street Bank & Trust Co. of Boston and First National All Irish, Even In Yimbucfoo By Associated Press Hundreds of Americans turned up for the St. Patricks Day parade in Dublin. In Chicago, the Chicago River was dyed green for the occasion. At Grogan's restaurant in South Boston you could order anything you wanted, but of the wreckage through homes destroyed y the crash "f a Venezuelan jetliner bound for Miami. Five more persons died today from injuries suffered when the big Viasa airline DC9 with 84 persons aboard into a residential plunged area Sunday and exploded minutes after taking of' from Grano de Oro airport. ; SUSPECT SABOTAGE . Venezuelan authorities said today there was real evidence of sabotage in the miles east of Saigon beat off an assault by 600 Viet Cong attacking in human waves Sunday and killed 109. The Thais lost two killed and 14 wounded. VEN- The death EZUELA toll in aviations worst disaster reached 155 today as searchers combed the most spectacular battle, Astros Film Great Shots PROVED READY The spider is the moon landing craft which astronauts James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott and Russell L. Combined Wires MARACAIBO, Thai troops using bayonets in LIKE SPACE TOURISTS astronauts brought back photographs of their trip and officials said today some of the pictures from a spiders-ey- e view were the most spectacular ever taken from space. the pictures released , In today, an ugly brown, gold and silver spins spider slowly, upside down as though hanging on an invisible web. Every major city in the southern United States was within range of the space camera. Sabotage Mekong Delta to the south. In American SAIGON (UP1) S Suspects 326 Kill Hi Lunar Module 'Spider' hangs 100 miles above Venezuela Allies Repel Viet Cong, ; 11 13 11-2- 0 of the crash was known, but authorities said they had recovered the plane's black box flight and were studying the last moments of the flight. It was not known whether the l pilot radioed any distress before he went down. not er slf-na- |