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Show : m rrpT'ttript rn yfiWgg Our Phone Numbers Rain Nearing News. News Tips !)' Fair today with rain Sunday. See details, weather map on Page f'rno '''livery formation Sports Scores B-- 4. Chs-ifie- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOL. 371 NO. 94 46 PAL. 1 0 c THE MOUNTAIN WEST'S FIRST - Editorial Offices NEWSPAPER 0 -5- 24-4445 521-353- 34 E. APRIL SATURDAY, 0 524-284- 524-4445 Ads Only d 524-440- 19, : 5 1st South 1969 er Combined UPI and AP A sea and air convoy, including the battleship New Jersey, be gan forming today in the western Facific to fulfill President Nixons pledge of protection for the reconnaissance flights he ordered over the Sea of Japan. The Defense Department confirmed that the New Jersey, the nations only active bat and an undisnumber of other ships will provide necessary protection" for tleship, closed Speedy Salt Lake -Los Angeles route awaits closing of "$1 gap" m uiies 13 r.liiiion Pop 3.85 Money Will Pull By JIM ROBINSON Deseret News Staff Writer - It will take ST. GEORGE money to remove a big plug in the Los Angeles Salt Lake but City traffic bottle-neck- , once the plug is removed big dividends will result. secThe plug is a tion of uncompleted just east of Littlefield, Ariz., through the rugged Virgin River Narrows. Bids for grade, drain and structures on the final link between the Nevada-Arizon- a St. border and George were advertised on April 15. Bids will be opened in Phoenix June 6. -- 3.85-mil- e 5 Estimated oust for the proj- - ect Is a stunning $14 million, or well over $3 million per mile, Ilighway officials say it nrey turn out to be the most expensive piece of interstate in the entire country on a per mile basis. "There are lots of reasons why this section is so expensive, Max Blazzard, project engineer for the Arizona De-- . partment of Highways, said. Among them are huge cuts and fills, five major bridges, flood extensive protection measures, river diversions, difficult access and difficult engineering problems. will When completed, 2 miles from cut between the current U.S. 91 route between Mesquite, Nev., and St. George. It will probably cut , 11-1- Killed, 40 Hurt In South Twisters At least one person was killed, more than 40 injured and scores driven from their broken homes Friday when tornadoes spun across Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina. The biggest of the twisters churned through a trailer park near Douglas, Ga., twisting mobile homes like toys and leaving 30 injured, seven seriously. The only death was reported in a sparsely settled area near Luverne, Ala., where a twister destroyed a house and trailer, killing a man and injuring his wife and two other persons. Nathan Taylor, 42, was killed and his wife, Myrtle, critically injured when their home was destroyed. The two injured live four miles from the Taylors in a trailer that was heavly damaged. time,. . . i . 20 . and there are several areas where traffic is limited to 35 miles per hour. Grade and drain for all but the last section of the highway has been completed. Included in the completed portions are two major bridges one 850 feet long, the other 500 feet long. Both are about 97 feet above the river. Nixon Had 1 By UnitPd Press International minutes driving Blazzard estimated. is designed for 70 traffic; the grade is between two and three per cent most of the way through the canyon. The present grade on U.S. 91 over the length of Utah Hill is seven per cent most of the way. In addition, shorter hills are even steeper about Warning About Plane Three twisters struck Dougin less than 90 minutes. The first was the worst, swirling through the trailer park, crumpling mobile homes and trapping many inside. Wreckers raced to the scene to pry the victims out. They were taken to hospitals in ambulances and cars. One of the twisters picked up an empty school bus and slammed it into a wooded las area. The Georgia State Patrol said eight to ten houses were demolished by the storm, and 10 to 12 house trailers were destroyed. Flash flooding also was reported in areas of Georgia. More than four and a half inches of rain fell In Columbus, and Atlanta was pelted with more than two and a half inches. Cornelia, Ga., had three inches In the period from Thursday to Friday night. By SARAH MtCLENDON North Amoriun Nevnpoptr Alilonc - A high WASHINGTON South Korean official warned President Nixon three weeks ago that North Korea was going to shoot down two U.S. reconnaissance and planes capture an American spy ship. The three aggressive acts would serve to test the will of ihe new administration. . The warning, according to a reliable source who must go unnamed, was delivered to Nixon at the time of President Eisenhowers funeral by the former South Korean ambassador to the United States, II Kown Chung. Ambassador Chung was sent here to represent the president of South Korea at the funeral rites and had a meeting with Nixon at that time. ' The second plane, the ambassador told Nixon, would be shot down off the coast of Manchuria. Insich The News SECTION A Theater 12, 13 Editorial 14 SECTION B It Is known that both the U.S. and Soviet intelligence services are spying on Red Chinese troop movements in Manchuria. Ambassador Chung also won a pledge from Nixon to visit South Korea, thus breaking side rope, of visiting he would western not Eu- travel abroad during the first months of his presidency. t mt flip reconnaissance missions. Word of the new military deployment tame only hours after President Nixon's warning Friday that American intelligence - gathering planes like the Navy EC121 downed Monday night by North Korea no longer for would be fair game enemy attack. photo by Utah Hiohway Dtparment REDS WEAVE STORY of Korea North Meanwhile, just west of this bridge in Arizona. said today the United States fled from an armistice commission meeting at Friday because it of the feared exposure truth" about its reconnaissance plane shot down in the Sea of Japan last Tuesday. The declaration was made 1-by Maj. Gen. Lee Choon-su15 North Koreas chief delegate to the meeting, who reiterated North Korean claims the U.S. plane carrying 31 perFive additional bridges cost about $800,000 to build. Navy was downed after it viosons ' secin final must be built the The west bridge (850 feet Communist air space. lated tion. Two will be between 90 cost 97 feet high) ACCUSES GENERAL and 100 feet above the river. long, The other three will be about $1,250,000. Over 16,000 yards The United States, Lee said, of concrete will be used in the was attempting to reverse 65 feet high. The longest will black and white with statebe 820 feet, the shortest 270 bridges. feet. ments that the plane was in In addition to the bridges, international air space. At one point on the west end there will be nine major chanThe North Korean Central of the project two bridges will nel changes of the river, the News Agency broadcast Lees butt together to form a section majority in solid limestone statement. Lee also accused mile of solid rock. of over U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. The two bridges bridge. Over 4 million cubic yards James B. Knapp, head of the start and end on the same side of the river; they never of rock must be excavated and U.N. Command delegation, of committing a flagrant violacross the river, just wind moved. It will cost approximillion to around a protect tion of the Korean armistice mately $1.6 agreement by walking out of the highway from unpredictabove it, Blazzard said. the meeting. floods. River An indication of the cost of able Virgin In Washington, the PentaThree or four major cuts the additional bridges comes declined to give any will reach a depth of 300 feet gon from the cost of the two comdetails of the defensive force The limestone. the east ones. The pleted bridge through it was assembling, other than See RUGGED on Page A--S (500 feet long, 96 feet high) to report that the USS New has been diverted Jersey from her scheduled arrival at Long Beach, Calif., and is Plug one-thir- d unstow gear planned for use on the moon. curve' New Czech Chief Toes Soviet Line - CzechPRAGUE (AP) new Communist oslovakias party chief declared political war on those who do not toe the Kremlin line, but informants said today the chief, Gustav Husak, made some concessions to get the support of liberals in government. One source said Husak got all but five votes of the Central Committee, which ousted reformist party chief Alexander Dubcek in a secret ballot Thursday. Informants cited these reasons for his strong showing: Husak assured Dubcek supporters he would not, for now, accept the Soviet invasion as justified. He assured reformers political arrests will not be made for any violations his committed prior to assumption of power. Despite these concessions, few doubted that Czechoslovakia is in for a more authorita-tiobrand of communism Slovak. under the The news agency CTK today circulated Husaks first major foreign policy address, made Cenat the Thursday-Fridatral Committee session, in which he promised to take up the glove" against rightists elements. and n y anti-Sovi- We shall not back down. shall not call it play, but a struggle, and I am absolutely sure of political victory, said Husak. ... We child's to the western He repeated criticism that the Dubcek regime had alelelowed anti- - Communist ments to plunge Czechoslovakia into a crisis. cluded HOUSSPACE CENTER, Two TON, TEX. (AP) American astronauts Friday hours of walked through 2 chores theyll perform on the moons surface in July. Officials said the dress rehearsal went very smoothly. Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin wore 'heir bulky pressure suits similar to those designed for the moon. Site of the practice session was an indoor gravel pile, created to simulate the barren surface of the moon. Both astronauts walked with a gait and used and jerky hand awkward movements. Officials said the pressure suit and life support back pack caused the abnormal movements. largest attack carriers In the U.S. 7th Fleet, had cut short a state. Husak said the March I Pacific. DISPATCH CARRIES But it was known that the USS Kitty Hawk, one of the is incompatible with the ideology of this party. It is in sharp contradiction to the state policy ci this anti-Sovi- Astros Rehearse Chores For Moon to Hong visit Wednesday Kong and prepared to set sail. A spokesman for the U.S. consul general there said one destroyer would leave with the Hawk and another Kitty would follow behind. Two destroyers, the Tucker and the Dale, already were in the area where remnants of See C.S. DEPLOYS, Page 2 A-- stiff-legge- d 28-2- 9 demonstrations acts that were inpre-ciel- y Todays Thought d counter-revolutionar- He criticized Prague leaders who termed the demonstrations trivial and said: I am not afraid to use the expression counter-revolutionar- Henry David Thoreau Prosecutor's CALIF. SACRAMENTO, of The sister-in-la(UPI) a U.S. attorney faced a jail term today after she was dragged cursing from a courtroom while protesting the arrest of 18 spectators, including her husband. The Incident Friday was the second in as many days in the court of U.S. Dist. Judge th Sherrill Halbert, who Thursday ordered the 18 arrested for contempt because of a disturbance following the sentencing of a draft card burner to five years in prison. As Halbert sentenced the A r mstrong demonstrated setting up of a dish antenna. He will command the lunar landing flight and will be the first man to walk on the It takes two to speak the truth one to speak, and another to hear. EC moon. After he pulled a lanyard, releasing a spring-loade- d dish of wire mesh, Armstrong ducked awkwardly to avoid the spring action. Aldrin demonstrated a crane to be used to lower two experiments the landing mission will carry. The crane, carried in a side compartment of the lunar module, has one lanyard for lowering and raising the experiments and another to guide their descent. Aldrin carried one experiment a seismographic meaaway from suring device the lunar module. He pulled pins from latches, then released a cable. The box sprang apart and unfolded into a series of panels. The other experiment a was laser beam reflection uncovered by Armstrong, who aimed it toward a point on the ceiling simulating the moons view of the earth. in Feels Wrath last of the arrested spectators Friday, Mrs. Barbara Papke stood up in court and shouted, I cant take this anymore. The judge summoned her to the bench, cited her for contempt of court and sentenced her to six months in jail, the maximum term. Mrs. Papke, 28, a sister-in-laof Chief Asst. U.S. Atty. James A. Simonelli, persisted in trying to speak to You as a Halbert, saying person have to listen to me. While being dragged from the courtroom by U.S. marshals, she cursed, shouted and at one point called Halbert an "arrogant a is. Halbert directed the U.S. attorney's office to draw up rn assault charge against her after she made what appeared to be a slapping motion at a deputy attempting to lead her away. But at the close of business, no charge had been filed. Mrs. P a p k es husband, Charles, 31, a Davis film maker and antiwar activist, was among the spectators arrested Thursday. He received a suspended jail term and five years on proba- y i tion. Halbert ordered 15 of the arrested spectators, mostly students at the University of Col'fcrn'a at Davis and housewives, to pay fines ranging from $20 to $i00 or serve five to 25 days in jail. The judge ordered the spectators taken into custody Thursday when they refused to heed his order not to leave the courtroom. Moments earlier, he sentenced to prison Peter Schurman, a university student, who burned his draft card during a rhetoric clast. Simonelli was the prosecutor. ' |