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Show Gusty, Rainy DE ERET Partly cloudy through Thursday with afternoon thundershowers. Gusty winds. Daytime highs near 80. Lows tonight 45 to 50. Details, weather map on Page B-l- l. VOL. 3 l THE c MOUNTAIN WEST'S FIRST -5- 24-2840 521-353- NEWSPAPER March 29 at Hoppstadten Miller, with 1,086 injury-fre- Air- 1 969 e jumps behind him in nine countries, applied impactabsorbing technique and sur- nme ra vived. field. 23, Woo His main chute failed to open and his reserve chute became snarled with it. of Charleston, W. Va., a member of the 7th Army Parachute team, jumped from an H34 helicopter in a demonstration for the 8th Infantry club Divisions parachute APRIL WEDNESDAY, -- - 24-4445 -5- 24-4445 Survives 3 ,000 Foot Fall BAD KREUZNACH, GERA U.S. Army MANY (UPI) paratrooper whose parachutes failed to open survived a 3,000-fofall and suffered two broken an Aimy ankles, spokesman said today. Staff Sgt. Carl E. Miller, 27, -5- 24-4400', -5- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 76 PAGES NO. 97 71 News, News Tip3 Home Delivery Information Sports Scores Classified Ads Only 5 Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South Corruption, Illegal Gambling Would Be Federal Offenses WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon, proposing a $61 million war against organized crime, asked Congress today to make corruption of police and local officials and operation of large-scal- e illegal gambling rings federal offenses. In a special message which said the leaders of the Cosa Nostra are more firmly en- trenched and more se cure than ever before, Nixon said his administration is studying the Sirhan Gets potential use of antitrust laws to cripple syndicate-owneoperation of legitimate nesses financed by illicit d A vjansnpr Death Decree nues. Nixon also said he wants g the budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 to be increased by $25 million to a record $61 million. That would finance hiring more sleuths and help staff strike forces being set up in 20 cities to coordinate activ-ie- s of all federal agencies engaged in the Investigation of organized crime and racketcrime-fightin- :F i busireve- LOS gas chamber. The und 12 command modules are on hand for hrtc rlc flights, but "Voice of Apollo" will Voice Of Apollo Silenced SPACE Houston CENTER, Paul Haney leaned (UPI) forward in .the green steno ' chair, his elbows on his knees, and said with a sad smile he no longer is the Voice of Apollo. The fact he lost his job as chief spokesman for the astronauts and the manned spacecraft center less than three months before the first U.S. moon landing, Haney said Tuesday, hurt. And his future, he said, is uncertain. , Later the space agency announced Brian Duff, a former newspaperman, will take over Haneys post in Houston Monday. Haney called a semi-persona- l, news semi-officia- l, First street from the manned spacecraft center and off government property, ' to tell Houston space reporters about his very sudden reassigni ment. Rubbing one hand across his balding head, Haney said he does not know why he was relieved of the job which has made him world famous. He said the - order came after weeks of harassment from his superiors, and that he may appeal it through the Civil Service Commission. Haney said he received the afternoon order Monday relieving him of his Houston job and ordering him to re - A of a photography studio at Conroe, Tex., was in excellent condition. Moore added it was too early to tell whether the patient would be able to see with the eye. hh I National, Editorial Our Man Our Man Music Theater Womens Foreign- - simple operation but the problem is keeping the optic nerve cells alive, said Moore. Even with a perfected procedure it could be used only with the loss of a whole eye, such as in an accident, he said. The type case we had here might happen once In a thousand times. Madden lost his right eye two weeks ago when a corneal transplant was unsuccessful because of bleeding. He was when the still hospitalized donor eye became available. Despite loss of the eye, 1-- L 6,7 7 T T 12,13 16-1- 9 he News Action Ads 20 1, 7, H H U-1- Financial' . ... .. 5 8 9 .'...10 City, Regional . SECTION K 8 7 TV Highlights .8 Entertainment SECTION B City, Regional Obituaries Weather Map I Sports 0 9 center director Dr. Robert R. Gilruth informing him of the reassignment. Space Agency spokesman Julian Scheer told UPI in Washington Haney had accepted the job he was ordered to take as Scheers special assistant. But Haney said that is an untruth. The reassignment order, Haney said, came after weeks of badgering and pressure from Scheer. He said Scheer earlier had offered him two other sets of alternatives, but that when he selected one it was turned down. SECTION P City, Regional .....2.7 SECTIONS Sugar House Moore said, it was found that the nerve essential to vision had not been destroyed. This led to the transplant in which the nerves of the donor eye were connected surgically with Maddens optic nerves. We now just have to wait and see what happens, Moore said. We are hopeful the nerves will unite. But ven if the vision doesnt work he will have a normal looking eye. Moore said Maddens eyelids would remain sewn together for about three weeks before it could be determined whether he had vision in the Maddens left eye also has corneal damage but Moore said this probably could be .ed SECTION C Pages In Washington Jones Pages is The SECTION A port to a new space agency post in Washington Monday. He said travel orders came with the letter from space Transplant (Eye HOUSTON, TEX. (AP) total human eye transplant, the first on record, has been Hosperformed at Methodist pital. John Madden, 54, received the eye from the body of O. B. Hickman, 55, of Houston, who had died 24 hours earlier of a brain tumor. Dr. Conard D. Moore, who performed the transplant, said Tuesday Madden, owner Inside conference in the offices of UPI Spaceflight, across the 0 Eye transplant recipients, unlike heart recipients, face few organ rejection problems because the eye does not have as many exposed blood ves- Moore se,Sl Surgeons have performed successful total eye trans- on animals. plants Moore is an assistant pro- fessor c! ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine. He was named recently as as- lnstl. sis(ant director of tute of Ophthalmology in the Texas Medical Center. Haney said he was not given any reason for the Washington order. But he said part of it probably was because Scheer was jealous he did not use that word, but strongly implied it of the limelight Haney received in the Houston job. For the past five years Haney has served as chief commentator during Americas spaceflights, telling millions around the world what the astronauts were doing in space. On Jan. 27, 1967, he also told the world in the saddest news conference of my life about the deaths of three astronauts in the Apollo 1 fire. 'WHY ME' Actor Has Grim Tale Of Cancer When William Gargan was playing the role of the in the comedy, y The Best Man, the Irishman was told his show business cahappy-go-luck- reer was over. He had cancer of the larynx. In a series of articles beginning Monday in the Deseret News, the popular actor tells the story of his fight against cancer, how his larynx was removed, and the indomitable will and steadfast despair that slowly And painfully led him to speak again through the hole in his throat. Gargan titles his story Why appropriately enough me? the same question millions of others could well ask themselves If cancer struck them. Its more than just a story about a mans fight with cancer Its an Inspirational story in the best sense of the word. Dont miss any of the dramatic chapters beginning Monday in the Deseret News. , My mother Is very Adel before said the verdict She is taking this very hard. nervous, Sirhan struck down Kennedy with a bullet in the brain as the New York senator Perhaps the most striking idea Nixon outlined was possible application of (he antitrust laws, or new statutes - WASHINGTON (AP) The chairman of the Senate Post Office Committee says President Nixons prop'wd one cent hike in first clas mail rates is a scheme to get the administration out xf a budget incorporating their theories, to crack down on syndicate-controlle- d business . enterpris- es. The arrest, conviction and imprisonment of a Mafia lieutenant can curtail operations, bind. but does not put the syndicate As I understand it, Sen. out of business, he said. said Gale W. McGee, As long as the property of in an interview, revenue from crime remains, new organized the boost from 6 to 7 cents leaders will step forward to will not necessarily improve, take the of those we place mail service at all. It will go jail. largely to pay for capital imLEVY ON LAND provements which should be However, if we can levy financed by the governments fines on their real estate correvenues. general porations, if we can seek However, Senate Republitreble damages against their can Leader Everett M. Dirk-se- n trucking firms and banks, if said he agrees with the we can seize the liquor in administration that the hike, their warehouses, I think we In included a can strike a critical blow at the organized crime conspirapostal rate increase proposal, is necessary. cy," Nixon contended. Nixon hit hard during his AS A RIDER presidential campaign on the Dirksen said if McGees issues of violence, illegal committee doesnt approve and organized gambling a he attach the bill, might crimes infiltration of legitirider to some unrelated legismate business. And he called lation. the nations booming crime rate a great national disMcGee, who called the proaster." posal a scheme to soak the first class mail user, said a Todays message will be WAR on Page majority of his committee opposes the ircrease, expected in bill form Thursday or Friday. When the bill is filed and when administration plans for revision of postal operations are clearer, McGee said, hell United Press International hold hearings on the request. DISAPPOINTED Mohamed El - Zayyat, the . $611-milli- fol-S- A-- S Flights May Provoke War, N. Korea Warns TOKYO (UPI) The North Korean government said today the Intrusion of any U.S. reinto connaissance planes North Korean air space could provoke another total war in Korea." The statement came as the Soviet Union expressed concern over the U.S. naval buildup off Korea. The North Korean Central News Agency followed up the warning by reporting U.S. troops guarding the Korean truce line fired thousands of bullets and shells" into Communist territory today. It called the alleged shelling a vicious provocative act and a crude violation of the armistice. And in Seoul, the Korea Herald reported that South Korea had asked the United States to issue a joint statement warning North Korea that any further provocations against the Allies would bring immediate response. Egypt Rejects appropriations subcommittee on the Post Olfices budget requests. We have heard lots of statements from the new administration about how it was going to institute business practices in the Post Office Department, he said. Yet when they piesented their budget it turned out to be the same old thing. Superior Court Judge Herbert V. Walker set May 14 for hearing motions for a new trial and it was presumed he would pronounce formal sen- -' tence then. He will be asked at that time to reduce the sentence to life in prison, an option he has exercised but once in 19 jury death verdicts. The seven men and five women, an assemblage that includes a Ph.D. and a plumber, filed into their seats without once looking at Sirhan, who was sitting at the defense table coatless and tieless in the blue shirt he has worn through most of the trial ANTITRUST PLAN Questioned McGee also said he was disappointed in Postmaster Gen. Winton M. Blounts testimony Monday before the Senate first-degre- In the spectators section sat the defendants brother, Adel. He declined to talk to newsmen after the verdict, saying in a choked voice, Nothing. Mrs. Mary Sirhan and a son, Munir, were at the family home in Pasadena listening to a radio. under this, a witness granted immunity could not be prosecuted on the basis of his testimony but would not be immune from prosecution based on other evidence. Should the witness refuse to testify, he would be liable to a prison sentence for contempt. Mai, Rate Boost brother of assassinated President John F. Kennedy campaigned for the country highest office last June. The same jury that convicte ed Sirhan of murder last also Thursday decreed his death. The decision followed 11 hours and 45 minutes of deliberations that began last Monday. . And In another request for legislation, he proDOsed A new broad general, witness Immunity law. He said that, be missing Arab immi- grant took the verdict without a sound. He was chewing gum when he entered the courtroom and his jaws never stopped moving as the jury was polled one by one. $1,000. 11 -S- whose condemned today to die in the At least a dozen more cities will be added to the list within two years, he said. Nixon also proposed the annual federal tax on gamblers be increased from $50 to The Apollo (AP) assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy stunned a nation afflicted with violence, was eering. DOZEN MORE UPI TMohoto ANGELES irhan Bishara Sirhan, official Egyptian government spokesman, said today in Cairo that Egypt would not respect the United Nations cease-fir- e at the Suez Canal line as long as Israel continued building fortifications on the east bank. Zayyats statement followed Egyptian announcement that an Egyptian commando unit crossed the Suez Canal early today and killed six Israelis and captured one in a clash on the Israeli side. Egypt has ser.t p&trols across an situation The United States was making few statements as it assembled U.S. Navy Task Force 71 in the Japan Sea to protect reconnaissance flights by spy planes but Japanese newspapers and television kept up a running commentary by sending out their own scout planes to report developments. They said reconnaissance flights had resumed.; The North Korean state- ment was broadcast by the Korean Central News Agency and monitored in Tokyo.; It said President Nixons decision to continue the reconnaissance flights was nothing but a new provocation against us, nothing but a threat and blackmail. The Communists said Nixons statement which followed the shooting down of a U.S. EC121 reconnaissance plane was an open declara-to- n that he is taking a step further toward the brink war. Cease-F- i almost daily for the past four days. ' Cairo said the Israeli soldier would be exhibited at a press conference this weekend. The . along the canal was becoming so critical that Britain today joined the United States and U.N. Secretary General Thant in an urgent warning to Israel and the Arab nations that further violations of the ceasefire could hinder Big Four efforts to secure a lasting peace. Zayyat, in defending Egyp- tian attacks across the water way, said, I dont think you expect us to respect the cease-fir- e which he said is violated repeatedly by Israel. He said Egypt did not expect the cease-fir- e to last 99 years because to do so would mean recognition of the Suez Canal as a new Israeli border." Todays Thought One laugh o a child will make the holiest day more sacred still. Robert O, IngersoU J |