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Show Maybe Smw RET N Variable cloudiness through Thursday. Chance of light rain or snow tonight. Partial clearing with patchy night and morning fog. Dc-- . tails, weather map on Page NO. 1 1 48 3 News, News Tips Circulation Delivery Information Sports Scores Classified Ads Only Editorial offices: 34 E. First South 24-4400 -5- 24-2840 -5- 24-4445 -5- 24-4445 521-35- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH C-1- 2. VOL. 37 Our Phone Numbers The Mountain West's First Newspaper 10c PAGES WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 35 1969 o Bo noun Modest Surplus Is Pegged To Boost In Taxes By JAMES L. SRODES WASHINGTON (UPI) Lyndon B. Johnson today proposed a $195.3 billion budget that was both a proud valedictory to his presidency and a challenge to his Republican successor to press ahead for freedom and justice at home and abroad. His final budget foresaw a $3.4 billion surplus in the 12 months starting July 1. But it was pegged to the Here's Summary Of LBJ Budget risky assumption that Congress will approve $12.6 billion in pror posed taxes, including a extension of the 10 per cent surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes. The levy now is scheduled to expire WASHINGTON ' . - , bade farewell to Capitol The many moods of President Johnson as he during State of the Union address delivered Tuesday night. Hill A Sentimental Farewell budget for fiscal 1970 at a glance : A record $195.3 Outlaws billion, up $11.6 billion from 30. . Without the taxes, Johnsons budget would show an $8.7 billion detieit. like all recent federal budgets, it set a new record for both spending and income. CHECK INFLATION said the The President - Sentiment Overtakes $3.4 billion with Surplus the proposed tax boosts. Without them, the budget Congress to incomingl give WASHINGTON (AP) Johnson has the Democratic majorities of House and Senate to give a sympathetic hearing to President-elec- t Nixons program but to push ahead resolutely with legisla-tion for social reforms. Johnson, who sends a $195.3 billion budget to Congress today, said in a sentimental farewell tQihe nation Tuesday ' night that the prospects for better are in Vietnam peace now than they have been in the four years since Hanoi sent regular troops into the South. Vietnam was quickly passed over in Johnsons final report on the State of the Onion, a prosper- - gave him on a basis.. pus nation that sorely needs. he ' said, to repair urban blight, end. racial discrimina- tion, improve educational opportunities and guarantee the safety of its streets. While reminiscenses of his attachment to Capitol Hill were the order of the night during his nationally televised and broadcast sentiment at a joint session of Congress, ; Johnson had some cogent advice to' his fellow Democrats and supporters who led the applause that interrupted his speech 53 times. At the end Johnson urged the national bipartisanship that he practiced as Senate majority leader when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president but which the Republicans , advised ; , President-elec- t $1.7 Billion . Nixon will need your understanding, just I did, he told his former colleagues of the Capitol. He is entitled to have it. The burdens he will bear will be borne for all of us. Each of us should try not to increase them for the sake of narrow as j Proposed For Interior - B-l- .) j personal or partisan advantage." J.i But, having said that, Johnson went on to outline to his and Deriiocratic listeners such Republicans as might a broad program take note of social advancement calculated to write a party record for .the 1970 congressional elections and a challenge to in 1972. Nixons - , $8.7 billion President Richard M. Nixon discretionary authority to re-- j tduce or end the surcharge if j Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, Funds to build 500,000 WASHINGTON (UPI) -- It peace in Vietnam should cut and Edmund S. homes for needy families, was one of those rare moments mih,ary outlays enough, Muskie, Johnson also proposed raising potential with establishment of an when : sentiment overtook poll- top contenders for the 1972 urban development bank to cost of a rst class Mter; fte nomination, listened intently make low interest loans on tics in the Congress of the from six to seven pents, United States. such dwellings. to Johnsons advice. On the (For federal budget requests and revidais, Vice President Hubert Reorganization WASHINGTON (AP) PresiWhen 36th the nations affecting the Mountain West H. Humphrey, last years talization ' of the antipoverty dent Johnson recommended a President finished his final see story on Page presidential nominee, nodded program, continuing it until State of the Union De- billion the the for $1.7 message, budget his approval and grinned we have broken the back of airmail as a separate, erfor todav jmen and women to whom the abolishing as the . President poverty in our land. partment of the broadly was addressed category. offered message of his the made points. Implementation, He likewise called for in- and called for increased spendJohnson, who was said to JFair Housing Act and extencreases in Social Security ing on water pollution programs have consulted Nixon on the sion of provisions of the Vottaxes on workers and Indian affairs. Comments ranged from his withholding . major points of his speech, ing Rights Act. and their employers, to pay for finest hour to A sentimental! A full $300 million approcalled for: a 13 per cent hike in benefits; His budget for fiscal 1970 also inand first rate, A 13 per cent over-al- l priation to carry out the Safe journey proposed an additional $19.7 maintenance of the present crease in Social Security ben- Streets Act and legislation to appeared that Republicans and; j tax on new million to raise the National t efits, with attendant increases require the licensing and regpta. cdls -- "'park Sendee's budget to $122.7 in payroll deductions. During istration of. firearms. higher taxes on truck fuels,! .... An increase in congresthe campaign Nixon called for aviation gasoline and airline, j linking benefit increases with sional salaries from the pres-Se- e The budget represents an tickets. PUSH on Page A3 the cost of living. Vice President Hubert H.l Heres how Johnson's fiscal, increase of $1.3 million over last 'Humphrey called the message! 1970 budget compares with the year for Interior, but a depart- a legacy upon which to build, current fiscal year (all figures iment spokesman complained, What he seeks is continuity jin billions of dollars): 1969 1970 It is bare bone. INSIDE THE 198.71 186.1 .. he was able to lift the eyes of Revenues , . , i 183.7 195.3, to the problems we Outlays America h,.F . of Office Coal all the reaus, ve 14 NEWS 3'4; Research and the Southeastern ,SurPiis STILL AT WAR and Southwestern Power admin- Rep. Melvin Laird. defense secretary designate forj Although about istrations would get increases. optimistic the Nixon administration, said the Paris peace talks, Johnson The Bureau of Indian Affairs See SENTIMENT on Page A-- 8 based his military budget! would receive an increase of SECTION A j requests on the assumption that; 53.4 million for a total ; of U. S. troops will be fighting in '289,123.000. Vietnam tlroughout the fiscal; ie presidential request for Lt. Col. Volynov, the Soyuz 5 vear whicti ends June 30, 1970,! lthe Federal 'Vater Pollution flight commander, radioed back 18 months from now. that he and his crew overcame the the recent de- - Control Administration However, the pressures of liftoff satisfacdepartment's top was spender of the escalation . .... fighting , torily. Tass said the men feel cost a penny more, seven cents, reflected in a decline of 53.4 totalled $305.9 million, up $5.1 fine and that all went to mail a letter if Congress billion from $28.8 billion to million, accordin2 to Phm. accepts a recommendation of $25.4 billion a year inj Seeking the increase for the President Johnson in his budget estimated costs of the Vietnam par Service, the budget Then, in a live TV broadcast from Soyuz 5, he said, Despite conflict. It was the first Buchjcast that ti,e today. parks will draw The President recommended decline since the United States slight vibration, we feel fine and visitors in fiscal SECTION C that the first class rate got involved in the Asian war. everything is in perfect order . and n board. the domestic air- - Even so, total defense spendSports In a farewell message before City, Regional 6, 11, 12, 20 mail rate be combined in a sin ing would rise by $500 million to We are Theater 7 gle class costing seven cents. $81.5 billion because of takeoff, Volynov said, 8. 9 first class mail already creased allocations for missiles, . proud of having been entrusted Financial 10 moves with participation in the peace- TV Highlights by air, said Johnson. fast new nuclear submarines, of a high-t12 urging the change as a means the development ful exploration and uses of outer Obituaries .12 reduce the perennial postal performance jet fighter for the spare for mankinds practical Weather Map mines. Roe LBI BUDGET, Page needs. 1219 'deficit. Action Ads j President current year. Income $198.7 billion, provided Congress enacts tax extensions and increases sought by Johnson. an surcharge was necessary to would show deficit. in the the government keep black and to help check inflation. However, he asked,' Politics -P- resident Johnsons federal, one-yea- June (UPI) . ,d J i 2 Soviet Spaceships Abortions Bill Goes auts Lt. Col. Boris Volynov, The explosive issue was one j Although Shatalov reported he Alexei Eliseyev and Lt. Col. ot 10 new bills dropped in me;couid see Soyuz 5 plainly there! Yevgeny Khrunov had esta- Senate hopper this morning. of indication no an blished communication with was linkup today since by Soyuz 4 and they started a pthe" key proposals included expected ' bills to: nightfall they passed out of program of joint experiments in contact with ground space. welfare Prohibit payments radio .. R , control until Thursday morning.) to families of strikers. r.ermnnv the Provide legal procedures) Although the Russians have a director of the Bochum Institute n for making body organ trans-jehaj0f communication centers! f0r Satellite and Space 'across their vast country they SOt(th. Heinz Kaminski, pro- Authorize physicians to per- - ,ave onlv tw0 tracking stations dieted the Soviets would send a storinzations 'eKcw,hre the Soviet Academy' form , voluntary third Soyuz ship aloft soon to i0f Science's research vessels' upon sound medical grounds. the' others in building an j0u Enforce traffic parking wftlorzhovet.s and Novel ia the oarlliorbiting launch platform law enforcement regulations at,Guf of Guinea area off West for flights to the moe.i.) institutions of higher learning. Africa and the Vladimir Konta-- j tation into rov in the northwest Atlantic. -R- egulate trans-pomSn after the -- .14, a.m. EST . .. tie state of gifts of body organs, ... s. j . to mi in MtoM Roe.vS Stanford G, Sen. Gunnison a physician Intro-See SENATORS on Page I. st i 1 d A-- six-ce- I o A-- 2 31 ll LLS-lg- Today's Thought -- ! Peodl, Missimig The idenri TteUs! , t j j more; 5 knifing into space and curlinj lcck together and begin t0 1)iat Soyuz 4. forming a space station circling Never had Soviet television u, ()p shown a launch so soon after It The four Soviet cosmonauts, happened. Pictures of Sliata-jaon their first space missions, l0V.B Uftoff Tuesday appeared matched the group of four minutes ater and he told a .Gemini astronauts in 1965 as the; live auaicnc.e from space that largest contingent of spacemen "everything is fine. "( e . J" Jwo u,1',it Laos (UPI)-- 1" VIENTIANE, I Communist commandos broke "Hlwvuused hut did not link through a triple perimeter of barbed wiie early today and Tass sai(1 Shatalov watched destro'-es more than his craft as Soyuz 5 sped, f,om of the mall) Laotian army Au revoir in outer; ammunition depot near Vien bito It is easier not to speak tiane, military spokesmen said. sP",'p. he called to the three, a u ord at all than to speak toward More than 2,000 tuns of newcomers hurtling 1 h a u d o s more r ire if him. munitions and other explosives in the compound, the largosi in If successful, the linkup will' should, Laos, went up In explosions that be the first between two, Thomas a Kcmpis t rocked downtown Vientiane 12 manned space vehicles and may miles away. Head to an immediate try fori tiiiiiiiuitiiiitiiiiiiiiitiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiim jt ' Now Orbiting Earth To Senate tons. ... 24 dead, 85 injured and 17 missing today after a series of explosions and fire swept the flight deck of the nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise on a training exercise. The vo r 83,000-- t o n carrier, ds warship, biggest made it back to port Tuesday under her own power from the scene of the disaster 75 miles southwest of Honolulu. 1 A Navy source fh:t attributed the initial explosion to a bomb falling from an airplane landing on the carrier. LaUr this was officially retracted and a Navy spokesman stated that the causa of the blasts was unknown and under investigation. ship's nuclear Utahn Escapes plant was not affected. Planes from the Enterprise were taking part in an exercise Tuesday morning at an uninhabited Kahoolawe, island used as a bombing range, pending redeployment to the Western Pacific, It has heen In action off Vietnam ser eral times. The Enterprise, known to her 3.000 men as the Big E", had launched one flight of planes and was preparing to send off a second group armed with live bombs and rockets. Sailors on the flight deck said the first explosion apparently occurred in or rear an F4 Phantom jet parked abut 73 feet from the stern of the ship. I was walking forward on MURRAY A Utah crew- man on the nue'ear aircraft carrier Enterprise told his parents by phone from Hawaii today he had escaped Injury In the explosions and fire that " racked (he ship. Utn all right and I wasnt hurt," Fireman Robert E. 20, told his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Nation, 1593 V. 4989 South, Murray. N a 1 o ns normal duties aboard die carrier are those of a fireman, hut he was not on hose" duty at the time of He the disaster. really sounded shaken on the phone and said he hadnt been able lo get through because of busy lines," his mother said. Na-lio- n, 1 D1 the flight deck when the first explosion knocked me down." said Petty Officer Billy Hawk, I picked 25 of Austin, Tex. myself up. ran to a fire station and started getting cut gear. Warrant Officer Jim Helten. Thei e was multitudes, of heroism. When the fire was finally brought under control, nearly three hours after it began. Helten found that a piece of metal had been blown info his right leg. Ills injury' was not serious. 36 of San Diego, Calif. A fire unit went by me into the scene, there was another explosion and the man who had the end of the fire hose, I heard the first explosion wasnt there any more." and saw a big ball of flame." At a dockside news confersaid Larry Upchurch, 25, of ence following the arrival of Dallas. Tex., a flight deck, the Enterprise, Navy officials chief. "1 started toward the said there were at least 10 area aid was blown down by the second explosion." explosions. Most of the missing apparently were blown off A search of the disaster the deck into the sea. scene for possible survives 1 saw people physically was carried on by the Navy blown out of the area where picket ship Stoddart, the Dthe fire started and get up estroyer Rodgers end by Navy and go back in," said Chid and Coast Guard aircraft. I |