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Show Variable cloudiness and warmer through Saturday. Daytime high, in the mid 50s. Lows tonight in the mid 30s. Details, weather map on page 6 9 News, News Tips 6 8 PAGES 0 524-2S1- 0 524-444- 524-444- 5 521-353- The Mountain West's First Newspaper 10c 524-440- Home Delivery 5 Information Sports Scores 5 Classified Ads Only Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH B-1- 4. VOL. 371 NO. Our Phone Numbers ERET MEW Warming Up 21; 1969 MARCH FRIDAY, Nixon Calls On Truman Old Feud - If jou NEW YORK (AP) plan to buy a house this last about forget spring, year's prices and don't laugh when the salesman tells you this place is a steal at Buried In Higher interest charges on mortgages, higher taxes and insurance and rising costs of lumber and other materials have sent house prices skyrocketing. More increases are per cent more to about $39,500 in the next six months. "The cost of lunilor rose 5C0 per cent in the past six he said. months, Why? Who's the one pushing it up? Mast of our lumber conies from the big Douglas fir mills in prospect. on Costs have gone up 10 per cent in the last year. said Milton Brock of M. J. Brock & Sons, Los Angeles builder. Bernard Janis, president of Janis Corp., of Miami, Fla., estimated the cost of a $30,000 home has risen 20 per cent in the past year and will rise 10 theyre $40,000. Mi ssouri INDEPENDENCE. MO. (UPI) President Nixon and Harry S Truman, once the bitterest of political enemies, met warmly today on the front porch of the former presidents house not because w'ere Republicans or Democrats but because were Americans. Truman, carrying a cane but standing erect, greeted Nixon with a firm handshake and a smile. A crowd of about 400 was waiting the President's arrival when Nixons limousine pulled up in front of Trumans white, house on Delaware Street. Richard M. Nixon . . . sentimental journey anti-wa- r $40,000 with a year ago, an average 10 per cent price increase, a ljj per cent rise in interest rate and a 5 per cent increase in taxes and insurance. the company said, "And, hell have a hard time finding the same house. Builders keep moving to larger, costlier homes to compensate for the shortage of labor and high land costs. Depending on the the West Coast, and selling to the government and Japan at inflated prices. Weve got to pay their prices to get the materials we need. Advance Mortgage Corp. of Detroit said in its semiannual survey that todays house buyer will pay, compared a market, medium-price- I think Republican, said, we're getting to the point where government price and wage controls might be advis- said the average mortgage Interest rate has risen from 6 per cent to 8 per cent in the last two years. And the increase of banks' prime lending rate Monday to an high of 7 li per cent from 7 per cent indicates that home buyers face even higher financing charges. Sumichrast said tnat since last November, when mort- d home is now from $30,000 to $50,000. Michael Sumichrast, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders, able." Builders are apprehensive that spiraling costs will damp- en demand for houses. Private housing starts in 1968 totaled 1.55 million units. The annual rate rose to 1.84 million last January and slipped to 1.7 million in February. About 20 states have legal ceilings on the amount of interest that can be charged on home loans. Since last summer mast of them have raised their ceiling to 8 per cart from 6 per cent. e . gage interest rates averaged 7 per cent, the monthly pay80 per cent ment on a mortgage on a $25,000 house has risen from $147,80 to $165.40 because of increased 'Russ Plan 1st Strike two-stor- y A handful of Now $30,000 Tag interest rates alone, Janis, who described himself as a very conservative demon- carried signs saying Is Who is President Nixon?, the Military Just? and "ABM-No- ! strators Capability' Nixon, accompanied by his wife, emerged from the car and walked quickly to the front porch where the Trumans were waiting. Mrs. Nixon embraced Mrs. Truman and Nixon shook hands with both, greeting the former President first with a WASHINGTON efense Secretary Nixon twice halted his motorcade along the trip from Kansas Citys Municipal Airport where his plane touched down at 11:49 a.m. (EST). He stopped once at the Manchester Elementary School and greeted several hundred youngsters who had turned out to see him. Were 10 minutes ahead of schedule so we decided to stop, the President said. The youngsters swarmed around him in the bright spring sun. One youngster rushed up to Mrs. Nixon and when she put her arm around him, he "Im glad hes whispered, (Nixon) President. At the Van Horn High School, about three miles from the Truman house, Nixon climbed atop his car and through a loudspeaker reminded several hundred students that the NATO ... each. The Alliance next month will celebrate its 20th anniversary. This visit shortly before former President Trumans 85th birthday shows that where the strength of America is conwere not Republicerned at a system drew a rebuke from Sen. J. William Fulbright, He accused Laird of resorting to use of a technique of fear that tries to precipitate approval of these programs. FIRST STRIKE Laird d!1 not elaborate on his first strike statement meaning that the Russians had chosen to concentrate on achieving a knockout blow of the United States with one attack but In two days of Senate testimony he referred repeatedly to Soviet SS9 missiles he said the Russians were deploying. This Fulbright retorted: happens all the time. In discussing the Russians' military capability, they suddenly become giants with all the skill and talent in the world Laird, in warning of the Soviet monster missiles, said, Our own warheads . . . are only a fraction as large. ... Americans. all about." . Truman, who will be 85 May 8, was president when NATO came into being. Nixon will spend most of the weekend in Southern California and will have some major conferences on Vietnam, but the first part of the trip was a sentimental journey here to see the man with whom he formerly feuded. n, If .the first manned lunar landing comes off as planned in July, a space official says, it will be followed up by a series of others for a sum total of 10 voyages to the surface of the , moon. Dr. Thomas O. Paine, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, told the Air Force Association convention Thursday ; If we do make the first touchdown this summer, well lollow that with three similar voyages, each time increasing the scientific equipment. Each of the first four moon landings, he said, would leave equipment to measure lunar surface disturbances and to reflect laser beams back to earth. IMIovs temperatures, examine the Martian atmospheres and measuie light radiation. Press Writer Within 150 miles of New York Qty, you can turn on a radio and hear this: What do they call a person who doesnt lock his car? Answer: A pedestrian." O.. George, George! I told you to lock the car." Answer: Shut up and keep walking. Its not radio comedy. Its a small part of the biggest campaign against auto theft ever initiated in a single part of the country. The goal of the experiment Is to cut auto thefts, a large and growing problem across the nation but particularly in and around New York City. In tlie city, and adjacent suburban counties 120,000 cars were taken last year. Eight out of 10 were unlocked and four of 10 had key s in the ignition. Lock it and The slogan, pocket the key is bombarding eyes and ears from all media. The campaign is a pilot project of the Anti-Ca- r Theft Committee of the National Automobile Theft Bu- reau. Eighteen major ance companies finance the bureau. William Boone, a transplanted New Yorker now liv insur- r I SAO PAULO, BRAZIL (AP) A power failure triggered a crash of an electric train loaded with w'orkers and students and a locomotive Friday, killing 30 to 40 persons and injuring more than 30, police reported. Line officials said the packed suburban train, heading for Sao Paulo was stopped bv a power failure. A locomotive was sent out on the same line toward the train to help it into Sao Paulo. The power came back on and the comunexpectedly muter train continued on its way unaware that Ilia locomotive was speeding toward it. The two met with a crash that overturned three passenger cars. head-o- n Inlear This: Lock By MICHAEL S. HARRIS Associated The six later landings, he said, could be set up in the areas of the most significant interest and could include overland exploration. Were talking here really about mans conquest of the seventh continent, he said, noting that the moon has about the area of North and South America. Paine said the second decade of space exploration which began this year would include a number of probes ol Earths sister planets. Two probes, one launched last month and the other due to leave next week, will orbit Mars and send back to Earth of that television pictures planet. They also will trans-m- i. WHY SMALLER? Sen. Symington, asked Daird why the United States chose smaller warheads. Symington said Laird had given the impression that previous Democratic administrations had allowed Russia to gain a nuclear ad- Stuart 30 Killed - V Jr o V"V I ' , TliK't it. UP ic 10 Trips To Moon Trains Hit Head-OIf All Goes Wei! . HOUSTON, TEX. (AP) secretarys statement Senate hearing on the proposed U.S. missile defense cans and Democrats but were Thats what this visit is -D- Melvin R. Laird said today Russia unquestionably was going for a first strike capability when it chose to install monster offensive missiles with nuclear warheads of 20 to 25 megatons Harry S Truman no bitterness smile. (UPI) vantage. Laird said that was not what he meant. He said he agreed with the U.S. decision to concentrate on smaller warheads. He then said: We were going for a second strike capability. With their large megatonnage, they were going for a first strike and there Is no question about that." In nuclear parlance, a "first strike would be an initial aimed at crippling attack another nation. A second strike would be the retaliatory fil ing of missiles by the nation attacked. Laird did not say how many SS9 missiles Russia has. But See RUSSIA on Page A-- S That Car ing in Chicago and spokesman for the committee, said, In 1937, 655,000 autos were stolen in the United States. In 1968, the figure went up to 815,000. Were projecting a figure of one million stolen cars for 1939. About 60 to 70 per cent were taken by joy riders, a lot of them mostly youths from deprived neighborhoods, but not all. The rest of the is professional problem he added. thieves, There is little we can do about the professional. But, we know we can have an effect on the joyrider. The campaign is running in newspapers and magazines, on radio and television and in v. a million leaflets being handed out on the street. The leaflets are being handed out to people paying tolls in the New York area. They are being mailed out by the utility companies in billing and notices, and they are being handed out by the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts and the Kiwanis Club, among others, Boone said. Today's Thought man is bon i into the world whose work is not born with him. James Russel Lowell iVo at Denver West High School.; Militant Corky Gonzales, center, was arrested by police during protest Denver School Open Despite Student Clash Hayakawa Disagrees On Amnesty i SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Acting President S. I. Hay- akawa today refused to accept in its entirety an amnesty section of an agreement ending the San Francisco State College student strike. The agreement was reached Thursday between representatives of students who have been on strike for 113 days and the five members of a committee appointed by Hayakawa. at a morning However, se-le- news conference Hayakaw-- a said he could not agree with seven recommendations dealing with discipline of students arrested on the campus scene of many turbulent periods that include acts of violence and 178 arrests. GREAT CARE misunderst a n and misinterpretations of this section of their agreement began to appear within minutes after the document was signed. I think I should make clear that I have each of the seven recommendations with great care and can only say in reply that I cannot agree prior to any hearing what the limits of the penalty for a given offense will be, Hayakawa said. I do, however, agree that a review of current disciplinary procedures should commence immediately. Because con-s.der- A TeleohoW , RECOMMENDATION Hayakawa also told the news conference his position had not changed on personnel matters and indicated he considered the agreement ' between the strikers and the committee to be only a recommendation. The strike leaders at a Thursday news conference indicated they felt it was a binding agreement. Officials DENVER (AP) at Denver West High School said they expect to maintain school as usual today in the diswake of a turbance climaxed by the arrest of more than two dozen persons. Three others were g injured. racist over Complaints instruction by a social sciences teacher at the school triggered the Thursday demonstration, along with demand for more privileges and Chicago instruction. Officials of the Denver school district said the teacher involved had asked for a the and transfer request would be granted. A spokesman said the teacher had sought the transfer earlier. Of course we hope there will be no trouble, said Robert G. Mohar, assistant princischool. pal of the "There always is a possibility but we expect to maintain school as usual. As many as 300 persons took part in the demonstration, begun when some 150 of walked out students classes. Police arrived and fights broke out. Some officers used chemical mace to subdue protestors. All those arrested bad been released on bond by Thursday . 1,800-stude- night, Hit Saigon? The ComSAIGON (UPI) winter-sprinoffenmunists sive blazed with new intensity today, and Red gunners shelled 65 tow'ns and bases in South Vietnam. Senior American officials said the offensive had a chance of hitting Saigon this weekend. g 50-5- 0 Rodolfo including schools. With a police helicopter hovering overhead, groups of students and others marched on City Hall, downtown police headquarters and the State after I the Capitol building school incident but there was - v no serious trouble. Chance 50-5- 0 Iresident Lyndon B. Johnson, escaped injury but two other Marines were killed when mortar shells struck a building at the 1st Marine Division headquarters in Da Nang. American commanders said Communists hurled ground assaults at the on American bases to the city but approaches Corky Gonzales, leader of the militant Crusade for Justice, a Hispano organization Also arrested was a television cameraman who police said struck an officer with lus camera. Rumors late Thursday indicated a general student strike would be called for West and two other high schools, as well as two junior high a weekend attack on Saigon had a 0 chance of coming off, but they said the "big counteroffensive through the Michelin rubber plantation had killed nearly 500 North Vietnamese and may Ihave disrupted the attack plans.;.' 50-5- The three were thrown back. In the Michelin rubber plantation 45 miles northwest of Saigon some units were reported retreating, but the threat to Saigon increased from other areas. One of the Communist shellings inflicted heavy losses at Chu Lai where 20 warplanes worth more than $20 million were put out of commission. U.S. Marine Maj. Charles S. of former Robb, son-in-la- Inside The News SECTION A National, Foreign City, Regional Music 20 2, Womens Pages Editorial Pages Theyre Your Schools Our Man Jones 13-1- 7 18, 19 19 19 19 . 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