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Show Krjrmwn DESERET NEWS, 2A iifMiii3riitiiriwrii'ii,-ii-iiitnilT'"- Saturday, April 19, 1969 Escapes, And He's Hungry S' I I Van Putten as saying. T11 never forget that big, beautiful blond moustache the pilot had. UPI, AP Reports - A U.S. soldier, SAIGON captured by the Communists 14 mouths ago, escape"! und was rescued by an American helicopter, U.S. spokesmen said today. They said his first words to the 'copter crew were a happy shout of I love you! I love you! The GI was Identified as Epee. 5 Thomas H. Van Put-te21, of Caledonia, Mich. He had vanished and apparently been captured on Feb. 10, 1968, while guarding a road scraper in Tay Ninh Province near the Cambodian t border. t Putten was spotted Thursday by a U.S. Army observation helicopter about 71 miles northwest of Saigon near Tay Ninh City, spokesmen said. He had escaped 18 days earlier, he said. r -- Van Fatten first was taken to the 45th Surgical Hospital in Tay Ninh and later was flown to the 24th Evacuation Hospital at Long Bmh, 15 miles north of Saigon."The first time I looked in the mirror that isnt me, he said. After his first night back with U.S. forces, Van Putten ( reportedly complained: "I tried to sleep but the bed is too comfortable. I just keep wanting to talk to people." U.S. headquarters said Van Putten was a specialist four when he was taken prisoner and was promoted to specialist five last Jan. 8 while in Van 'T've escaped Iiom the enemy. Give me something to eat, Van Putten told his rescuers as he jumped aboard Parents Say Prayers Answered AP Wirt Phott Putten, 21, of Caledonia, Mich., escaped from Viet Cong offer being held prisoner for over a year. He had lost 64 pounds. Spec. 5 Tom H. Van helicopter. Reduced to 121 pounds from 185 when he was Van Putten gobbled down chicken with noodles, tli fruit cocktail and warm root beer the crew prepared. He called it the finest food "in all my life. FAMILY CIRCUS by Bil Keane That was the reaction today of a father whose son escaped from Viet Cong captivity in Vietnam after more than 14 months aa a prisoner of war. he and hia wife thought at times their prayers weren't being answered, Harry M. Van Putten of Caledonia said: "In our hearts, though, we never gave up hope." hr "Mommyl There's nothing to eat but aluminum!" Black Students Push N.Y., Georgia Demands student Center, At several other major versity campuses protests had ended or were suspended. uni- About 40 black students at Cornell, protesting reprimands given to three Negro students The black students broadcast briefly over the student radio station, housed in the building, and charged Cornell with having "racist attitudes and failing to provide a relevant black studies program. In Atlanta, Ga., the students at the predominantly Negro, complex were demanding that white trustees resign and that the university be renamed for the late Dr. Martin Luther Ring Jr., a graduate of Morehouse, one of the six colleges. The trustees were locked In the room Friday morning. for demonstrating last DecemCoffee and food was brought ber, took over by campus guards to the trusthe Straight Hall, forcing tees. Students allowed the school to order 30 parents and guards into the third floor 40 school employes out of the conference room where the building. trustees were held. The parents were on the Other than campus security Cornell campus at Ithaca, police, there was no sign of N.Y., for the annual Parents city police on the Atlanta cam- Willard Weekend. white students climbed through a window of the student center about four hours after the peaceful takeover by the members cf the Cornell Afro - American SoAbout 20 ciety. Three of the white students reportedly suffered minor injuries in the scuffle, which was broken up by campus police. The White students were ejected from the building. (UPI) - American While Cornell University center shortly after dawn today, then scuffled briefly with white students. At the Atlanta University dissident students held about 25 members of the board of trustees as prisoners behind chained doors. Suicidal Attacks Hit 'Wagon Train' North Vietnamese soldiers with bundles of explosives strapped to their bodies partially overran a U.S. outpost below the border Zone Demilitarized (DMZ), killing 11 Americans and wounding 23 in a three-hou- r battle announced today. At the same time, U.S. headquarters said a column of were." Black itudents occupied the d, SAIGON CALEDONIA, MICH. (AP) "At times we didnt think our prayers were being answered, but I guess they By Associated Press "I blew a Idas to the gunner on the LOH light observa-capturetion helicopter that picked me up, headquarters quoted pus. At Harvard University, students voted Friday to suspend their strike for seven days, univerafter the sity agreed to reduce the status cf the Reserve Officers Training Corps to an extracurricular activity. Protesters at Stanford University ended a nine-da- y at an research ait-ielectronics laboratory. The dissidents at Atlanta anti-milita- ry n Center, a were complex, demanding that the schools be renamed for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and that white trustees resign. The Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., a Morehouse trustee, walked out of the room Friday declaring his family wanted no part of the tactics protesters were using in seeking to honor his slain son. The protesters had locked the trustees briefly Thursday then released them when a meeting was set for Friday. About 100 students blocked the officials Friday morning. They chained and locked the doors from the inside. In Cambridge, Mass., a mass meeting of 3,500 Harto vard students voted strike suspend the eight-da- y touched off by the arrest of s 200 at the administration building. SDS members However, and about 150 black students seeking a large voice In setting up a black studies program, said they would continue the class boycott. The strike suspension came University 2-- 1 sit-in- after the Harvard a seven-magoverning board which with the Overseers sets policy, generally endorsed a faculty motion reducing ROTC to extracurricular status. n long-rang- e HAYAKAWA OFFERS ADVICE captivity. Spokesmen said he would be flown to the United States today for a reunion with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Van Putten cf Caledonia, Mich. tanks Friday crushed a Communist base camp northwest of Saigon and killed 82 guerrilla defenders. Front reports said the battle cost the United States four tanks and seven GIs killed. FORM CIRCLE Tiie battle two miles below the DMZ late Friday saw 150 North Vietnamese charge out of the jungle against U.S. Marines and soldiers at the U.S. 5th Mechanized Infantry Division who drew their armored personnel carriers into a tight circle, wagon train style. Communist soldiers detonating the explosives strapped to their bodies destroyed three of the armored carriers and blew s hole in the U.S. defense perimeter. Other guerrillas surged through. War communiques said the American soldiers called in and divebombers artillery, strikes to help lift the siege. After three hours, the North Veietnamese withdrew, leaving behind 13 bodies, military spokesmen said. HOTTEST BATTLES The DMZ area fighting and the battle 50 miles northwest of Saigon were the heaviest combat of the week reported by the U.S. Command. Military spokesmen said the U.S. Deploys Forces To Cover Flights Continued from First Page U.S. 11th Armored Cavalry column of Regiment sent a tanks against the guerrilla bunker base camp near Saigon, overrunning the camp but losing tour tanks in the process. Seven Americans died and 28 suffered wounds in the fighting. In the air, U.S. B52s 'Snuff Out JP 'Jackpot' Lure in Ends In Nevada Smoking' WASHINGTON (AP) - Toe nations former surgeon general urges a ban on radio and television advertising of cigarettes, a stronger health warning on cigarette packs, disclosure of tar and nicotine contents, and a warning in all forms of cigarette advertising. Dr. Luther L. Terry, now chairman of the private National Interagency Council on Smoking and Health, added in his testimony before the House Commerce Committee RADIATION RESULT? d LOS ANGELES (UPI) -The jurors who choose life or death for Sirhan B. Sirhan will make their derision ignorant of his fathers boasts that the young Arab "did well to kill Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Nor will they know that Bishara Sirhan Friday threatened "revenge on American if his son is exepoliticians cuted. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. complex. Firemen in a nearby station first heard them at 10:30 p.m. Thursday. They looked outside, saw nothing unusual and figured someone was "just horsing around. A woman told police rhe thought she heard a womans screams as she drove by the site about 11:30 p.m. p.m. At 4 a.m. Friday other witnesses told police they thought they heard the screams. Three hours later, two men walking down a dirt path 25 yards from the apartment tennis courts discovered a black raincoat, shoes and a purse. The trail led to a patch of beaten-dow- n grass where the nearly nude body of darkhaired Sandra S. Linelcome was hidden. the downed reconnaissance plane were found and iwo other destroyers, the Sterrett and the Mahan, reportedly w'ere on their way to join them in the Sea of Japan. At his nationally broadcast news conference Friday, Nixon said protection for 6hip and planes on reconnaissance missions was being ordered in response to the North Korean attack. Any further action, he Less than 12 hours later, police charged a sailor, Donald Lee Eagle, 25, with first degree murder. Eagle was taken into custody at the the Naval Air Station where he worked as an aviation me- flights. In Its announcement needed for chanic. HOUSTON Hie ty of -P- "After a time lapse of not more than two or three seconds, the first glow grew in intensity until it became an extremely bright white light, a brightness much greater than ordinary sunlight. atrick 'Folk' Diets Can Kill, Medic Says DESCEND INTO CRATER "Everyone was saying that he had ruined the land and permanently endangered the people, said Mrs. Stout "to disprove them, Pat and a few other men descended into the crater, left by the Alamogor- ANAHEIM, CALIF. (UPI) A doctor says American males are dying of heart attacks because "social folklore makes them prove their manhood by eating too much steak, ham and eggs. "We have been sold on the Idea that beefsteak and ham and eggs are the only food fit for a manly man to eat, said Dr. George Christakis, professor of nutrition at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York. "Such s diet may be fine for a cowboy on the range, but its death on the rest of us, those who are especially bound to the desk. Christakis said that American men and women could reduce the heart attack death . do explosion. Stout wanted to show the world there was no longer any radiation at the New Mexico test site. Dressed only in canvas coveralls and canvas boots, he began his descent into the crater just a few From News For (UPI) sergeant battle r two-yedeath may Friday, against have sacrificed his life in defense of "the most awesome thing ever produced by man. Stout, a witness to the test of the first atom bomb in Alamogordo, N.M., was disturbed by critics of U.S. policy after the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. Insulated months after the text explo- sion. But he got only about halfway down when his radiation detector showed a large amount of radiation did in fact remain. He was ordered to leave the area immediately- rate immediately by CO per cent with proper attention to and losing diet, exercise weight CONTRACTS LECKEML1 Stout contracted leukemia in May 1967, almost 22 years after his experiment. seven men and five women who found Sirhan st Stout, aa who lost present contracts. Screams Go At least three times (UPI) in seven hours the pretty, Navy Wave screamed for help as she was being raped and killed, but her cries went unheeded by those who heard them in a nearby shopping center and apartment Witness, Defender Dies A-Te- smoking." More than 250,000 young people will take up cigarette smoking by the same date. More than 12 million excess days will be lost from work "because of higher rates of disease which exist among who Lav ever persons smoked cigarettes. The committee is considering a variety of bills, including a ban on cigarette advertising, tougher warnings and measures which would maintain the status quo. Committee members also were read a telegram from the Bonneville International Corp. that said no cigarette advertising would be accepted on its stations in Salt Lake City, Utah, Seattle, Wash., Kansas City, Los Angeles and New York City effective June 1 and with the expiration o! Sirhan Jury Wave Killed pro-vide- Friday, that: More than 45,000 Americans are going to die prematurely by July 1 "from causes which we believe are with cigarette dropped 700,000 pounds of bombs on Communist troop base camps, concentrations, bunkers, weapons sites, and storage areas in Tay Ninh and Long Khanh provinces north of Saigon. Unheeded, Gov. Paul Laxalt signed CARSON CITY, NEV. (UPI) a bill Friday putting justices of the peace in Las Vegas and Reno out of the lucrative marriage trade business in 197L The bill provides that the post of civil marriage commissioner be created in Nevadas two largest cities to perform with all the fees going to the county wedding ceremonies treasury. Justices of the peace in Las Vegas reportedly each make $100,000 a year from fees and "tips for performing wedding ceremonies. In Reno, the justices of the peace make an estimated $75,000 annually. The bill raises the $5 fee for marriages to $15 during and weekend ceremonies. working hours and $20 for d The measure states the new commissioner is to be office space with a "tranquil atmosphere and the sol. conducted la a digniemnizing ceremony shall be privately fied manner without haste. "Pat suspected right away that it had been caused by the guil- first degree murder last week this weekend differs little from the others they have spent for the last - half months. his exposure to radioactivity, wife said. three-and-o- Stout, 55, of Stockdale, Tex., died of leukemia at 9:55 a.m. Friday at M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute. Starting Friday they began file ritual of family visits, bus excursions in the country, and of first run movies. Stout had described the first explosion of the atom bomb at Alamogordo as "the most awesome thing ever produced by man. He saw It from a lookout point nine miles away from ground zero. screenings They looked at newspapers carefully stripped of the minutest reference to the man who shot Kennedy and wounded five other persons last June 5 in the Ambassador Hotel CE FOLLIES" 'Hire Handicapped' GEFQIJ-IH)1- WASHINGTON (UPI) -PNixon is urging all executive department and agencies to hire the handicapped. In a memo Nixon said: Administrations of both parties since World War II hae set examples of national leadership In opening the governments doors to more than million citizens who though handicapped have nonetheless been occupationally qualified. resident '11 ES frill SENUJEtffc HIPSTADS . JOhMSOll World Champion Donald Jackson CE FOLLIES ICE FOLLIES ICE FOLLIES 3 1 FULL SHOWS TODAY - 9 P.M. P.M. - 5 P.M. NEW SALT PALACE TOMORROW- -2 Mon. thro Fri- .-t April 26- -1 P.M. P.M.-- Sat. TICKETS Vi PRICE p.m.-- l p.m.-- AT: SALT PALACE p.m. BOX OFFICE p.m. 2CMI-SEA- Sun.. April 27- -2 p.m.-- 7 p.m. PRICES) S5.00 S4.00 J3.00 RS 363-768- 1 Drought In India NEW DELHI (UPI) -conditions in south Drought said, would hinge India have made water so Pyongyangs reaction to the scarce that railway comofficial U.S. protest submitted are having a hard time panies Thursday at Panmunjom and keeping their trains running. "any other developments that All trains run on steam and occur as we continue these large quantities of water are on Professors 'Inconsistent' Tiie actCHICAGO (AP) of San Franci. ing president co State Oollege, Dr. S. L Ha.skaww, says many college professors condemn violence by police but condone violent actions by students. The man who took a firm stand against disruption on the California campus that was wracked by violence earlier this year urged that college faculties overcome what he termed prejudice against policemen and, instead, support the use of police to quell campus disorders. Hayakawa addressed Chicago's Executive Club's weeniy luncheon meeting Friday and drew a standing ovation at the conclusion of his remarks. VA CHIEF QUITS - The chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee says William J. Drivers resignation as administrator of the V GiiiiiiiiiiiiiRiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimtn People imimiiimiiiimiiiNiimimmniiiHiiiimiiimni Veterans Administration is part of a Nixon Administration plan to purge the VA of its top caieer men. Driver, administrator since 1964, has resigned effective May 31, the White House announced Friday. There are Indication a half-doze- n other high-lev- will leave. GIVEN CLEAN BILL -The Navy has gramed John McGee a clean record and a pay raise, but repetced a senator's contention that he was responsible fo rexposing thefts of U.S. fuels in Thailand. Secretary of the Navy John H. Chaffee told McGee, a civilian fuel inspector, he would be transferred from the Navy Fuel Supply Office In Washington tc anothpost in the continental United States and given a new chance to perform satisfactorily. McGee was credited by Sea. William Proxmlre, with "blowing the whistle on loose supply control procedures that allowed massive thefts of military fuels earmarked for Southeast Asia. McGee contended that was why he was sent back to the United States last fall and job as assigned "a make-wor- k a filing clerk. er - NEW PRINCESS Japans newest princess, born Friday night, will never wear a crown. The Infant daughter of Crown Prince Akihito, 35, will lose her imperial title the day she marries. Under the rules of the new democracy adopted during the U.S. occupation o' Japan, titles are retained until death only by the emperheirs. ors male later the Pentagon said MIG jet fighters downed the Navy plane but that it was not known yet whether cannon or missiles Friday, Soviet-bui- lt were used. Defense Department officials also reported the U.S. spy plane had been alerted beforehand that "an attack and that the was possible plane had cut short Its rou-tin- e, mission to return to its base in Japan when it was downed. North Korea claims territorial air and sea limits of 12 miles. Nixon said U.S., North Korean and Soviet Radars all showed that the electronic-equippeplane never got any closer than 40 miles to the North Korean coast during its mission and that it was 90 miles away when attacked. d v, the'r operation. DESERET NEWS 2ALTLRKI CITY, UTAH SAT. I. Pint Swtk RUitorM WHet, M CirculatlM Advtrtfcing . Main St. 14) Salt Lake CUT, Utah Mil Fstablishcd Jura 15. lt'3. 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