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Show 4J. irffrrttfririi1ww.i. ' ' , : ; v. nuBaiimiHui 524-440- 0 524-284- 0 details, 524-444- B-1- 8. VOL. 370 NO, . News, News Tips Home Deliver-yInformation 5214445 Sports Scores Classified Ads Only 5 Editorial offices: 34 E. First South Cloudy with temperatures warning; slightly. See weather map on Page I i ! Our Phone Numbers A Bit Warmer - , " - 3 521-353- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 1 5 6 60 PAGES - The Mountain West's First Newspaper 10c WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1 969. By Vneft Cmig From Desolation To Freedom By ALVIN. B. WEBB JR. Freedom is a LANDING ZONE LIBERTY, VIETNAM (UPI) in a of brown corner the eyes, a hand-p- at young soldiers tiny tear on the cold metal nose of a helicopter, a chance for a moment to forget feet swollen by miles of forced marching. So it was, at 10:42 a.m. New Y ears Day, when three 21-year-- American GIs who won- dered whether they would ever see home again walked through a desolate, scrubby little field in Vietnam and crossed the boundary between captivity and liberty. A Viet Cong leader droned out their names in a singsong monotone Spec. 4 James W. Brigham Spec. 4 Thomas N. Jones . . , Pfc. Donald G. Smith but they seemed not to hear. Above their heads waved the Communists red and blue flag with its gold star, but they did ... ik t v la UPI Telephoto Three U.S. prisoners flanked by VC negotiators wait release 50 miles north of Saigon. Cong flag waves in background. It's Farewell To 1968 By Associated Press The old year and the confet- ti were gone today and milmen lions of American for sets to television migrated a marathon day of fartball bowl watching. Ended were the parties ranging from intimate midnight suppers to a 30,000-gueTexas bash where celebrators bade farewell to the turbulent st and troubled year of 1968. But the air of festivity continued with the parades and pageantry preceding the gridi-A- n estimated ron clashes. people jammed Pasadena, Calif., for the 80th annual Tournament of Roses reduced the size of the Times Square crowd somewhat but parade. still nearly 400,000 President-elec- t Nixon was there were on hand to watch the illumito the among the fans going nated ball drop down the Rose Bowl for the contest beflagpole on the Allied tween Ohio State University Tower. Chemical and the University of SouthOne of the evenings biggest ern California. - celebrations was held in Hous-toIn El Paso, Tex an it Tex., where the parade through the downtown 30,000-gueparty required ansection caps the week-lon- g 4,000 gallons of champagne nual Sun Carnival festivities and 25 tons of ice. today The giant bash was held in The New Years Eve cele- ! the Astrohall, adjacent to the brations generally went off as Astrodome where Oklahoma scheduled from New Yorks and - Southern Methodist ' Times Square to the streets of - played the Bluebonnet Bov 1 San Francisco. , football game earlier in the and the flu epidemic evening. 100-fo- ot n, st P-ain .i A SCRAMBLER Top Year For Mart The stock market chalked up Its most active year in history in 1968, and a full listing of that activity wiil be found on Page B-- of todays Deser8 et News. The complete list of the New York Stock Exchanges high and low prices for the year mirrors a period of unprecedented activity that saw nearly hands. 3 billion shares trade Brokerages; that the were so exchange cut down the number of trading days to four a week. This swamped resulted in the fewest number of trading days since 1914, when it was shut down at the start of World War I. But this failed to dampen trading, which averaged more than 12.8 million shares a day. Cold Wave Numbs - Anglo-Frenc- supersonic expected to be test flown within a few months. The Soviet designers were considered to be at least six years ahead of the Americans. Boeing recently scrapped deE2707 signs for a swing-winand started redesigning on the basis of a fixed wing. The U.S. plane will he bigger and faster than either TU144 or g Test pilot Eduard Yeiyan, 42. reported the characteristics of the sleek, delta-win- g jetliner have turned out better . . . and control of it is even more pleasant than that of subsonic planes. Yeiyan was responsible for testing more than a dozen Soviet aircraft. The TU144 is designed to carry American people are moderately optimistic that 1969 will be a better year. Although a majority of 59 percent sees the coming 12 months as not much different from the past 12, nonetheless, among the roughly The lililliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillliiniliiniliiiiiiiiiiiiiiKiii Today's Thought To 7c no to the road ahead, ask those coming back . Chinese Prov&b four in 10 who see change ahead, the optimists outweigh the pessimists by over three to one. The causes for hope can be found in four key areas: Heading the list is an end to the war in Vietnam. Two 66 out of every three people feel that prospects percent are improving for an honorable settlement of the war and an end to 4he loss of life in Vietnam. The number who arc optimistic about specifically the Paris negotiations has almost doubled since September. They think these develoi-menwill contribute much toward making 1939 a better year. Not far lhiiiU is the ts Panel Raps Israel By Associated Press The U.N. condemned Security Council was contrary to the M.N. charter and would not be recognized by Israel. He said the resolution reflects a moral, political and jurididal bankruptcy of the Security Council in respect to the Middle t- Midwest ' T 30-ho- wind-blow- s Russ Supersonic Jetliner Success In Maiden Flight The Soviet Concorde, which have approxiMOSCOW (UPI) Union zoomed into the new year mately identical specifications, with the worlds first test flight but it will be late for initial of a supersonic passenger jetlin- markets in the supersonic age of jet travel. ; er. of son famed, Tupolev, By getting the TU144 airborne Andrei designer on the last day of 1968, designer We Tupolev, said the TU144 took off Alexei Tupolev jested. have outstripped our British and smoothly and quickly gained an airport near French colleagues working on height from on Moscow Tuesday. a least Concorde by at year. Its takeoff run was 25 sech Concorde is the joint onds. , airliner U N, Israel Tuesday night for its premeditated military action in attacking Beirut International Airport. It was the third council con- East ' 1 demnation of Israel in 10 It was a quiet New Years The people of Israel will and Israel replied see in eve at the Texas ranch of stared Americans straight months, todays decision anothonce more by denouncing Hie President Johnson. The Presier sign that the strength to ahead, or at the ground, and alcouncil. most did not seem to hear. dent spent the evening with vindicate their rights and proMrs. Johnson and White tect their legitimate interests Meanwhile, an Israeli army Then, dustoff, Lt. CoL John House aides.- -, , must come from within theta V, Glbney, 38, of Oakdale; N.Y. spokesman in Tel Aviv re' '7 Associated Press By U.S. of three head the that selves," he saidl ported delegation, persons The nation's traffic toll simiwere killed Tekoahs attitude in was the for called a rocket attack Bitter-col- d signal climbed slowly In the early weather numbed curtly to to lar of town that Israeli land the the officials of to up against helicopter pick Kiryat holithe nations midsection today hours of the New Years .Shmoneh near .the Lebanese in earlier instances when the while rain and fog three men. snow, day. border. The spokesman said council censured and : conWAY THE ON in travelers the The count reached 29 early plagued holiday Pacific Northwest and parts of Jim Brigham, of Ocala, Fla., the rockets were .believed to demned Israel. These conholiday pedemnations go back as far as today. The the Northwest. had been a prisoner of the Viet have been fired from Leba' ; riod which began at 6 p.m. 1955. non, . Cong since he was captured on n The of blast arctic at ends LebFouad former midnight Boutros, Tuesday The Security Counair eased its grip on the 'Rockies a road sweeping mission Sept. anese foreign minister and tonight. 13. Jones, of Lynville, Ind., was cil voted unanimously for the and western plains, held firm in head of a special delegation to The National Safety Council and declared Midwest and bore down on last seen driving a truck last condemnation the council debate, comhas estimated that 200 to 260 the 25. of Lebanon Smith, Akipn, Pa., was entitled to comAugust the South and East. highway-accidentin die had been in Communist hands pensation for 13 civilian air- plained that the resolution persons may SKIDS BELOW failed to call for' specific since last May 13. during the holidays. craft worth more than $40 . Temperatures which failed to Now they were on their way million which were destroyed penalties against Israel. Arab and Soviet bloc narise even to zero during the day, home. Israeli commandos in a tions had demanded sanctions by Tuesday in portions of the MidThis little kidney-shape- d plot daring raid on Beirut airport against Israel and revocation west, skidded well below before oL the Saturday. of landing permits for Israeli dawn. Fargo, N.D., residents of land along die banks Tek-oa- h Vam Co Dong River 50 tulles Israeli Yosef 24 airliners in UN., member in new in delegate the rang year of Saigon actually said the council action countries. degree weather.- - Readings near northwtst 10 below extended southward has no name. I gave it the best one I could think of Landing across northern Illinois. Zone Liberty. The Deep South, hit by a suc2 SIDES HAGGLE cession of cold waves, again For 42 minutes the Commuwas stung by hard freeze as the 120 passengers nonstop 4,000 fell into the lower 20s nists and the Americans hagmiles at a speed of 1,550 miles mercury about when and under across northern Alabama and gled an hour. Georgia. Temperatures tumbled what conditions the prisoners Tupolev said Tuesdays flight into the low teens in Virginia would be released, about the of 38 minutes would have been and Tennessee. terms, even about chairs. WIND GUSTS the Communists long enough for the aircraft to Suddenly, fly from Moscow to Stockholm, The reau said, with the West and The intense cold raised wind stopped the talks and trotted out WASHINGTON (UPI) stools. Census Bureau has estimated South gusts of 30 and 40 miles an five backless, bamboo drawing the most people. Munutes more of haggling, then that there were only 2,006,000 It said that although the West hour. lines It snapped power Son and left several thousand Chica- the talks halted again while the more Americans on hand to continued to have the fastest hauled out five welcome 1969 than 1968 the growth rate, the South got 'the go area residents without heat Americans Follows most new people. . for two to three hours Tuesday metal folding chairs from a hel- smallest gain since 1945. The overall increase in U.S. Western states while the temperature hovered icopter. drew 5.2 milLOS ANGELES (AP) -E- near zero. Not once dl4 anyone sit down. population, the bureau said, was lion people in 1968 for a growth a 1 per cent gain over last New rate of 19.4 dmund G. Brown Jr., son of winds lashed pop per cent while tile Abruptly, at 9:42 a.m., the Years the former California governor, tions of the eastern Great Lakes Day and was the slowest South received 7.1 million new the recessed negotiations is taking the plunge into poli- with snow growth rate since the 1940 re- people for a 13.2 per cent squalls. Travelers Americans wordlessly to their cord low of .92 per cent. tics. The Brown, an warnings were issued for the with the Viet growth rate. Cong helicopter, attorney, said Tuesday he will north Atlantic states as a devel- their five chairs and a tiny It is estimated that there are California led the nation in run for the city junior college oping storm rolled up the coast, table covered with a U.S. rain 202.254.000 Americans today. the number of new residents In The bureau said the population board in next April's elections. A storm that million but was edged dumped 10 to 12 poncho, to sip Vietnamese-Frenc- h increase over 1967 was the 19683 out by Nevada, Arizona, Alaska, beer. The joo sought by Brown, a inches of snow into the Pacific result of approximately 3,487,000 Hawaii and Florida for the five e The prisoners will be Democrat like his father, h non- Northwest over three days ta deaths and fastest 1,929,000 births, growing states. 3 YANKS on Page A-- J pered off slightly. partisan. 448.000 immigration arrivals. The bureau also said the aver-age statistical American in 1969 will continue to grow younger, move to the West and the South, INSIDE set up a household earlier and have smaller families. NEWS In 1968 the average American was 27.7 years old almost two hand will be controlling law in 1969. yviule Americans are But only 33 percent of the years younger than he was in and order. As evidenced in agreed that 1968 was one of public feels that the simple 1960. SECTION A the last presidential camWomen continue to outlive the most turbulent and violent fact of having a new Presi4, 6, 20 National, Foreign dent in the White House! will men, the bureau said. The averpaign, the American people in our existence, less 7 Womens years Pages are still of a mood to take a help a lot in making 1969 a age age of women is 29 years than a majority feels that 19 Editorial Pages to no nonsense can better This while the average man is but approach finding year. are so to be events less likely B SECTION be taken to mean that the 26.4 years of age. keeping law and order across in the year ahead. the land in 1969. There were nearly 50 million City, Regional, people are less in a mood to The are highly place their hopes in a person- family units in the United States people 1, 2, 5, 6, 10. 11, 14. 17 However, a majority of oriented toward substantive alized way in the new occu- in 1P68 and the Census Bureau Theater 2, 3 53 percent also hopes and solutions to the central probof the White House than said the number of people in Financial pant 28 expects that progress will be lems they feel are plaguing in the specific steps his Ad- those units declined from 3.3 in Entertainment 9 registered on the racial front, American society today. ministration will take to alle- 19G4 to 3.2 last year. 16TV Highlights a development they believe The decline in family size was Obituaries Obviously, there is hope that viate the major problems. 17, 18 w'ill make things better." the new Nixon Administration national probability cross attributed to the falling birth Action Ads A There is widespread feeling will move toward section of 1,455 adults was rale. The bureau said that the Weather Map 18 ; that new and creative resolution ofeffectively the war, toward asked in a survey conducted United States had a birth rate C SECTION approaches will be taken to protecting the real income of between Dec. 12 and 18 f of 17.9 babies per 1,000 persons relieve racial tensions." in 1967 and it estimated that the Sports the people, in taking hold on 5 Comics 1969 will Do be a underyou think Less stress is laid down by law and order and in figures for 1968 and 1969 will be 6, City, ?; Regional the public nn the possibility of taking those measures which better year for people such as even lower. SECTION P continued s be io on in united Americans the States, yourself .tilings slowing down and will show substantial prog-tfson Page A-- 2 the move during 8, the bu- - Penneys See 1$ in racial matters, j calming down in the country AMERICANS Rise In Population Smallest Since '45 - Ex-Gover- nor Footsteps Gale-forc- e . re-Se- THE Jkmeirkms Hlflodeiraitely By LOUIS HARRIS not look up. STARE AHEAD To their front five Communists and five U.S. military representatives carefully, formally intdhed the rites of official prisoner releases. But the young PREMEDITATED ACTION 1-- 72-1- ..18, hope for a "sound dollar. A substantial 63 percent of the public partly hopes and partly expects that steps will be taken to protect the value of the dollar. This expression undoubtedly reflects continuing-' concern over the impact of inflation on real income at home and over possible devaluation of the dollar in world money markets. 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