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Show Variable clouds tonight and Saturday. Daytime highs in the mid 30s. Low tonight 15 to 20. Details, weather map on Page B-- 9 News, News Tips Home Delivery -5-24-2840 -5- 24-4445 -5- 24-4445 521-353- The Mountain West's First Newspaper 10c 48 PAGES -5- 24-4400 Information Sports Scores 5 Classified Ads Only Editorial offices: 34 E. First South SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH i VOL. 371 NO. Our Phone Numbers RET N Some Clouds FRIDAY, 10, 1969 JANUARY t GNL Y. pim .Sdhtte Asftros TT NEW YORK (UPI) three lunar - in temperatures iced by gusts of wind, the turnout looked as though it would be Way Apollo disappointing. Yorkers . But New Sea c! Tranquility they visited on the moon. A few of the welcomers who crowded upper windows along the route were so carried away they forgot to shred their telephone books, a traditional parade custom. They threw them out whole instead. Flags and signs reading Welcome Astronauts decorated the route, and a triumphal arch formed by two fire far cry from the they still love a parade and this was the first Eroadway welcome in three years. They swarmed out cf office buildings and stcres as the sounds of sirens and martial music echoed in The Canyon of Heroes. They packed the sidewalks solid to shout their admiration for the first explorers to circle tne moon. Tape and confetti swirled like a blizzard around the overcoated but bareheaded astronauts who rode in the rafcod rear seat of an open limousine. They grinned and waved gloved hands to the hundreds of thousands who paid them homage. It was a The astronauts, bundled against icy winter winds, rode today through dense, cheering crowds up the Broadway route ol heroes in a tumultuous welcome that saw whole telephone books tossed from skyscrapers along with ticker tape and confetti. Until only a few minutes before Frank Borman, James A. Lovell and William A. Anders started the renamed up proved CP" O truck towers crossed above their route where they entered City Hall Park for welcoming ceremonies by Gov. and Nelson A. Rockefeller Mayor John V. Lindsay on the a a & steps of the historic building. Rockefeller said These three wonderful mer. have endeared themselves to the hearts and minds of all New Yorkers, all Americans, and to people throughout the world. They and their families and organization (NASA) have given the world a wonderful lift at a time when we really needed it, he added. The astronauts admitted they were deeply touched by n their o .sv: the Eroadway parade, a custom which Lindsay terminat-Se- e N.Y. on Page 4 A-- Russ Hurl UPI Ship At Venus SIRHAN TRIAL PRECEDENT MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet Union today launched an unmanned spaceship toward the planet Venus, the second in less than a week. The Soviet news agency Tass said the new ship was called UPI Teleohoto Edwin Aldrin, Neil Armstrong . . , and Michael Collins will try moon landing. " K'Vtt'; i .. t 3 Space Vetera ns Na med Grew g To f - Two the most ambitious space misWASHINGTON (UPI) veteran spacewalkers and the sion man has ever planned pilot who brought Gemini 8 capped a day filled with space through the nations only emeractivity in the nations capital gency in orbit will try to carry mankind to the surface of the Earlier the Apollo 8 astronauts, who orbited the moon 10 moon, perhaps by mid-Jultimes during their Christmas The space agency Thursday Gemini 8 week flight, made their first named these men public report on that mission. pilot Neil Armstrong and space said the most impressive walkers Michael Collins and They view they saw was the blue ball as the Buz Aldrin Edwin of earth rising over the chalk-whitcrew for the first 'U.S. lunar rugged lunar landscape. landing spaceflight, Apollo 1L Their mission now carries the Moonflight heroes Frank Bor-entire focus of the $25 billion niiiiiiiiiniiitiminiiiiniiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiniiiinin Apollo program, aimed at fulfilling the goal of a moon land ing in this decade set more than seven years ago by the late Today's Thought President John F. Kennedy. If humility and purity If Armstrong, Collins and in Aldrin make it July they he not in the heart , they would meet this goal with are not in the home: and months to spare. Plans call for are not in the to if they and Aldrin Armstrong are not in the home , they actual the landing, attempt while Collins circles the moon city. 69 miles above them in the T, S. Eliot Apollo command ship. Naming of the astronauts for aiimiiiiiiiiiiiinnniiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiimiiiiiinini y. e, man, James Lovell and William Anders received gold medals and congratulations from President Johnson in a White House ceremony, spoke to a joint session of Congress and held their news conference first post-fligin the afternoon. The announcement of Apollo 9s crew, also revealed Thursday, came as a surprise addition to this schedule. Two memcrew bers of the Lovell and Anders were on the backup crew for Apollo 9, and hours after the announcement they were still unsure whether they could talk freely about the new assignment. Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin will be flying the fifth manned Apollo mission. Their mission could start as early as July 11, when launch a moonshot window that lasts until July 22 will open. Armstrong, who flew Gemini 8 to a safe emergency splashdown in the Pacific Ocean after a wildly firing control rocket (UPI) A Purdue University student with a switchblade knife flew to Cuba with love Thursday. Seventy-eigother persons aboard an Eastern Air Lines jet reluctantly went along for the ride. Known only as Ronnie." the ht hijack- acne-soarre- er the airliner said he was a C .imu-nlwho hates the United States and Eastern Air Lines and loves Russia and . . . Cuba." The man used the knife to pull the third hijacking of the year and the second of an Eastern Air Lines plane In less than a week. The pilot, Capt. James E. Hord, radioed he was being hijacked at 1 :50 p.m. Hie Boeing 727 landed in Havana at 2:51 and returned with six crew members and two passengers at 7:24 p.m. Hie remaining 70 disgruntled passengers returned on an Eastern Lockheed Electra at 12:07 a.m. today. The FBI and Eastern officials identified the hijacker as of Mlami-to-Nassa- u st Ronald T. Bohle of Indianapolis. Bohle told a stewardess he was a student officials at at Purdue, and the university said a student by that name attended one of Purdues branch schools at Michigan City, lud., and took one course. Stewardess Joyce Ann Jemi-ga- n said the hijacker told her he was from Indianapolis and that he went to Purdue University. He said he was a Communist, and that he loved his state, and that he loves Russia and he loves Cuba," she remembered. He made like he was sick and went into the lavatory and when he came out, I gave him a burp bag and then he sat down next to me on the jump seat on the rear of the plane," Miss Jemigan said. I hate to tell you this," he But were going to said Cuba I replied oh no, were not and thought he was just joking. Oh yes, we are, he said and pulled out a switchblade seven ANGELES (AP) -Squestioning of prospec- V. Walker wants prospective cross-examine- d A-- 4 The simultaneous flight of two stations interplanetary would enable scientists to determine characteristics of the PARIS (UPI) Ambassador shroud around W. Averell Harriman, the chief atmospheric Venus, Tass said. of the American delegation to Venus 6 was scheduled to the Paris Vietnam talks, will reach the morning star in the leave his post Jan. 19, the day before Richard M. Nixon officimiddle of May. becomes President, it was ally was 8:52 launched a.m. at It announced today. Moscow time (12:52 a.m. EST) today. At 2 p.m. (6 a.m. EST) it U.S. officials said Harrimans was 40,760 miles from earth departure would come before while Venus 5 was 870,000 miles the arrival of his successor, on its way. Henry Cabot Lodge. Lodge will Venus 6 weighed 2,492 pounds. run into a Hanoi team greatly Like Venus 5 it carried strengthened today by Swedens Vietpennants with a profile of Soviet recognition of the North founding father V.I. Lenin, and nam government the U.S.S.R. coat of arms. Lodge, named by Nixon to Both spacecraft were report- succeed Harriman, is expected radio and their to leave his post as ambassador ing by instruments were functioning in Bonn Tuesday to return to normally, Tass said. Washington rhere he faces a or eight inches long which he poked into my side, she said indicating its length. It was terrible. He said he warned her that if someone called his bluff, hed have to kill me but that I wouldn't feel a thing." The hijacker then forced her to take a seat near the cockpit door and another stewardess, seeing what was happening, opened the cockpit door and informed the captain. Mr. and Mrs. J. Zanone of Memphis, Tenn., were sitting In seats nearby. If I had had a gun, I would have killed him," Zanone said. What do you want me to do? he asked the hijacker. He said get back, youre In danger.' I told him not to harm tlie girl, Zanone recounted. Mayor ITaco Boyd of Little Rocki Aik., his wife and 22 agents of an Arkansas insurance firm were en route to a company conveniion in Nassau. Boyd described their treatment See KNIFE on Page A-- 4 Hijacks im Senate hearing on his confirmation as the new head of the American delegation in Paris. U.S. officials pointed out that Harrimans departure was in accordance to State Department protocol that officials normally abandon their posts before the arrival of their successors. Harriman, a former governor of New York has State, announced plans to retire in Washington, D.C., on his return to the Unietd States. Harriman is expected to meet with Lodge in Washington to discuss the stalemated negotiations he has been conducting with North Vietnam since May 13. UluiJS Tf? y Pleurae V M : ' . 5 wte - mother Mary and his brothers Adle, 29, and Munir, 21, all were absent. Sirhan appeared disappointed. Most of the days proceedings took place in chamber as the defense tried to show Sirhans case was damaged by news stories and similar coverage. Ten radio newsmen and a man who runs a private broadcasting monitoring service were subponaed to testify , in the chambers. t Each was instructed not to discuss publicly what was said and all followed instructions. " f officials admitted the present negotiations are in a deep freeze pending either a change of position by Hanoi or Saigon, which has refused to enter foursided peace negotiations. Diplomatic sources said the Swedish move may soon be followed by other capitals in Scandinavia and possibly elsewhere. There was speculation Stockholm had discreetly tipped off its Scandinavian neighbors before becoming the first major Western nation tu recognize Red Terror Disclosed In Saigon SAIGON (UPI) The S Vietnamese government closed today that a Commi suicide team acting ui orders from Hanoi penetr after a Decen Saigon offensive fizzled out, attem to kill a Saigon University dent and sentenced 22 ot to death. The disclosure came In T a complaint lodged today by the Saigon government with the International Control CommisHanoi. : sion (ICC), the three-natiobdfly North Vietnam was expected formed 15 years ago to police; to hail the move as a massive the truce ending the French' breakthrough. But the Hanoi Indochina War. n withheld immediate Hie announcement of Harri- delegation comment pending instructions mans return came as UJ. from its capital move The Swedish certain to cause dismay in Allied quarters which are engaged in a test of wills with the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong over how to organize the expanded Paris talks. American officials said the recognition was unrelated to the negotiations and sought to minimize its impact. (In Washington, the State Department said it had no comment on Swedens decision. Washington maintains an embassy in Stockholm and the Swedish government still offici ally recognizes South Vietnam.) (In Saigon, Nguyen Qui Anh, the No. 2 man in South Vietnams ministry', foreign said, This policy has favored the Communists. We are not at all surprised at their decision.) The Swedish announcement said, A the negotiations in Paris are now entering a stage The Saigon foreign ministry; said the suicide team formed when the Communists; decided to step up their' s terrorist, murderous and rebellious activities after an at-- ! tempt to launch the winter-spri- ng offensive in December; bogged down. INSIDE THE NEWS SECTION A 6. 16 National, Foreign Womens Pages 7, 14, 15 Editorial Pages l.i Theyre Your Schools la Our Man Jones 15 Music SECTION B 5 City. Regional . 10-1- 3 . TV Highlights it is hoped, will be Obituaries decisive for peace in Vietnam, Weather Map it would appear that the tiinej Action Ads has come to establish diplomaSUCTION North with tic relations Young Americans 4 6 which, Vietnam. Bril ' Ml !! T ' tf Imill ' llllIWi illitTlIMIliWIH BI.M Stewardesses on planet Donna Steiger, Joyce Jernigan, Sandra Gipson. i - court session, then retired to the judges chambers with defense attorneys and prosecutors to hear private testimony from radio newsmen about the publicity in the case. The defendant was dressed in a new blue-grasuit and tie. He was accompanied by two guards. While the judge spoke in opening the session, Sirhan turned in his chair and, eyebrows arched, searched the rear row of the courtroom for his family. For the first time since the trial began Tuesday,, his nine-minu- Harriman To Quit Jan. 19; Talks Face 'Deep Freeze7 e. Sftimdemift timifie-WieDdii- mg MIAMI g See VETERANS, Page LOS ome indivijurors Venus 6. tive jurors In the Sirhan Bisha-r-a dually in the privacy of his Sirhan trial will be conduct- chambers in areas of a senThe Venus 6 station is to make a smooth descent in the ed behind closed doors, the sitive nature. Venus on the defense says. Cooper defined as sensitive atmosphere Grant B. Cooper, one of any questioning about opinnightside of the planet, Tass three lawyers defending the ions prospective jurors might said. Jordanian charged have on Sirhans guilt or innoIt will conduct scientific with Sen. Robert cence What they may murdering explorations together with the F. revealed plans have seen on television or Kennedy, Venus 5 station launched in the for the secret questioning dur read 'In the newspaper. . Soviet Union Jan. 5. But Cooper said questions ing an impromptu news conVenus 4 which landed on ference Thursday at the end about the death penalty would Venus Oct. 18, 1967, was the of the third day of Sirhans be asked in open court He first spaceship to make a soft trial The trial was in recess said the secret questioning is was Landing on the unprecedented In this today. Jury selection Jurisdiction. planet expected to start Monday. Sirhan appeared for the Cooper said Judge Herbert Hie latest launch indicated the Soviets at present were concentrating their major space efforts on nearest earths interplanetary neighbor. Tass said later both spacecraft would make a smooth descent in the atmosphere of Venus on the night-sid- ht moon-circlin- Secret Query For Jurors cloud-shroud- Moon-Landin- Ttepht Astronaut William Anders, right, and Apolio buddies used slides during news conference. U..S officials in Paris said, We recognize the existence of North Vietnam ourselves enough to engage with them in a negotiation, even though we do not them diplomatic give recognition." Sports Comics Financial City, Regional ... ' ! 6 C 134. 5 68 Hieaicr City, Regional SECTION ' D . 5 g, 7 $ ; |