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Show Clearing, Cooler Our Phone Numbers Colder with showers decreasing tonight. Partial clearing by Friday afternoon. Daytime highs in the 50s. Lows tonight in the 30s. Probability of rain 60 per cent Friday. Details, weather map. Page News, Nows Tips Hume Delivery i ; ; .7 ' v rc-.-- -- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 74 PAGES 10c THE WEST'S MOUNTAIN NEWSPAPER FIRST OaIv 1 rtW (AP)-Pres-- ident In a special message, Nixon proposed increases in rates for first-- , second- - and third-clas- s mail that he said would yield more uian $600 milion in the fiscal year starting July 1. The first class letter rate would be boosted one cent to seven cents and stamps for postards would cost six cents, effective July 1, under his Ceouft .A ...a' ' ' '' 7, 1968. Although he called for highNixon stated: "This er rates, administration is determined that the cycle of greater and greater postal deficits and more and more increases will be broken." The only way to break that is cycle e he added. "Some of these reforms can be implemented by the postmaster general; others will require congressional action. We will be submitting 'T ' . 'W; li.V iw Israel Warns Egypt SOUTH BEND, IND. (AP) Three times in five months the same youthful gunman held up the sane South Bend gas station. Three times he was identified by the station attendant as Franklin T. Wike, a church-chIr o singer. Three times the police arrested Wike and charged him with robbery. It cost Wike his job, his apartment, his car, his wardrobe, many weeks of liberty and a chance to be married in sunny California. Then Wikes luck turned. He was in jnU, still protesting his innocence but unable to raise .bail on the think rob v - s 'i UWs! vtv blue-ribb- , s' ' v V'. v 'VX v ; I,r 1.: Si, ? ' ir. c .. 1 ' '' V-- . ,34 'Xiv: A. f yi': UJ y . V I ': no clue ns to what action Israel might take, but he noted the strikes Tuesday -- against the Egyptian early radar stations in warning southern Jordan, the only remaining stations on the east side of die canal. The situation was so crucial area that UN. Secretary General Thant said the situation had deteriorated into virtual active war. France joined the United States and Britain today in that the actions warning threatened Big Four efforts to in the Suez Canal find a WASHINGTON (UPI) -The cost of living in March took its biggest jump since the Korean War. Government economists predicted today it could be many months more before prices begin to ease up. The Consumer Price Index s of for March rose 1 per cent an increase twice as high as the monthly average for all of 1968, and h the biggest single increase since Febone-mon- eight-tenth- month-to-mont- 1951. assistant Arnold Chase, ot the Labor commissioner Departments Bureau of Statistics, predicted it would be at least three to four months before the nation sees any slowdown in the rate of price AAan was Gordon W. Ward, 20, of Niles, Mich. He admitted all four holdups. The .charges against Wike were dropped and he was released April 3. Four days later, he and Dian Copen-have18, were married at the Mishawake where both sing in the choir. The newlyweds have settled down In Elkhart, where Wike has a new job with an iron works. A run-i- n with the police as S juvenile had landcdVikes r, r, unload- . strikes, a command spokesman said. The Strategic Air, Command Stratoforts have participated in no other war. The bombers, flying higher than 30,000 feet in waves of five to 12 planes, swept over the War Zone C redoubt over a period of several hours, keep- ing an almost continuous rumble of bomb explosions rolling across the paddy flatlands. REST, REGROUP ic pay increases ranging from American officials had said two to seven cents an hour. Most of the workers are in the file Communists had pulled and away from South Vietnam's public transportation ma chinery cities last week to rest and reindustries. group in border camps in prepThe Increase meant it took aration for another, perhaps $12.56 to buy the same goods ' stronger, phase of their offenand services that cost $10 a sive that began Feb. 23. The announcement that at decade ago. least 55 of file big bombers had Leading the cost of living hikes, the government said, taken part in the War Zone C were "significant" increases bombardment coincided with in the cost of what consumthe release of last weeks casers spend most of their money ualty figures, which showed on an increase in both Allied and iood, clothing, gasoline, home ownership and used Communist deaths oer the cars. previous sevea days. :- tW: -Vv 8 si ' i tx X, .4 V ' '''.'.A r; electrical photo in a mug shot file where the gas station attendant picked it out after the first It robbery last November. took a month aqd a half to raise the $5,000 bail. Free on bond, Wike learned that he had been evicted from his apartment and fired from his job as a salesman. The station was robbed again Feb. 2, and again the attendant identified Wike. Frank and Dian had eloped to California to be married. Wike was arrested and extradited to South Bend. His car and clothes were left behind, and he says he hasn't seen them since. After another week in jail, relatives raised $10,000 bail , l V 1 rtf '' jf A iv AP Wire Ptw Sirhan B. Sirhan, with codefepse attorney Russell U.S., Viets Soften Paris Stand - chance time. of making bail LOS ANGELES (UPI) - PARIS (UPI) The United States and South Vietnam offered the Communists three major concessions today but first indications were they had failed to break the deadlock that has paralyzed the Paris peace talks for weeks. The biggest concession came when Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge declared American willingness to join simultaneous negotiations on political as well as military issues an original demand of the Hanoi and Viet Cong delegations. Viet Cong spokesman, Tran Hoai Nam, promptly rejected Lodges call for simultaneous political and military talks. Nam told a news conference the U.S. offer was U.S. nothing more than a ploy to build up the prestige of file Saigon government A The station was robbed a third time March 26. Wike was identified and jailed again. I was broke and disgusted," he says. There was no this Robbery No. 4 came March with Wike still behind bars. Thats when the police caught Ward, who has pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing. 30, Today's Thought To create a little Jlcrw er is tlie labour of age x. William Blake In another major concession South Vietnam indicated it had dropped its insistence that the Viet Cong disavow their Communist affiliation before they could participate in the political life of South Vietnapi. The third concession also came from South Vietnam. It said for the first time that mutual withdrawal of foreign troops was the key Issue in the talks. Previously South Vietnam had opposed any hints of an early withdrawal of U.S. troops from the coun-try- , v Parsons, right, blinks in glare of floodlights. E. . Sirhan May Never Enter San Quentin Gas Chamber g Jailed 3 Times bery charge, when the young gunman made his fourth call on the gas station. This time he was caught by two policemen in a patrol car. The gunman, who bore a close resemh'ence to Wike, church increases, and that it could be much longer. As a result of the latest Increase, 35,000 persons will receive automat- bombers 20-to-n peaceful solution. Since Korean War e ed at least two million pounds cf bombs onto guerrilla troops in War Zone C, 50 to 75 miles northwest of Saigon. Some of the bomb$ fell within ltu miles of the Cambodian border. Theres troop activity up there and theyre going after it," a spokesman for Gen. Creighton W. Abrams U.S. command said. RED STRONGHOLD Eleven of the 14 flights that Abrams ordered into action overnight dropped their bombloads on what U.S. intelligence said is the North Vietnamese 1st and 7th Army Diin War visions bivouacked Zone C, a guerrilla redoubt for tlie entire Vietnam War. As far as we can tell, it is B52 bombers asthe most sembled in the Vietnam War for such a concentration of Cant Ignore Raids , Wrong con- Military spokesmen said the eight-engin- ruary, are particularly . Vietnamese soldiers regrouping near the Cambodian border for another phase of their nationwide offensive. Jerusalem. MAY PROVOKE ACTION The senior Israeli officials said there was scant possibility of Israeli launching another all-owar although they charged this is what the Egyptians seem to be trying to provoke through their raids against Israelis on the east bank of the canal and their heavy shelling. UPI correspondent Elav Simon said the officials gave We cerned over the huge and mounting postal deficit and the evidence, recently stressed by the President's Commission of on Postal Organization, costly and inefficient practices in the postal establishment, the platform writers said. Sen. Gale W. McGee. chairman of the Senate SAIGON (UPI) The United States massed its biggest wartime armada of B52 bombers today and sent it against North UPl Telephoto Israeli soldiers keep watch from roof during re specific proposals for such f,, Youth Parajde in effective, through reforms in the way the postal system operates, long-rang- Post Office Committee, said Wednesday he wants to see administration plans for revision of those operations before scheduling hearings on the rate hike. Nixon was promising a study of proposals to reorganize the Post Office Department, including a controversial plan first broached by former Democratic Postmaster General Lawrence F. 0Bi.en, to transform the department into a corporation- The corporation, as it turned out, was endorsed by a commission appointed during the Johnson administration to figure out ways to rescue the ailing postal serviced form to tiie Congress within the next 45 days. Nixon drafted the special higher message proposing rates as part of his plan to budget produce surplus in the ner bookkeeping year as suggested in the at Miami GOP platform Beach. V Pummels Red Units Nations truce observers complained today that Egyptian gunners had opened fire on U.N. observation posts along the canal and fired on an ambulance plainly marked with a red cross. They said the attacks occurred Tuesday and Wednesday. - Postage Dmr from three to four cents for a letter. The price went up one cent in 1963 and again Jan. now 10 plan. Airmail rates cents would not be changed. Without these and other proposed increases affecting newspapers and magazines and the bulk mailings often Nixon termed "junk mail said the Post Office Departments (deficit in the coming fiscal year would approach $1.2 billion. He said higher rates would help achieve two important goals: control of inflation by bringing the federal budget into better balance and improvement of tht; postal service. If approved it would be the fourth postal rate increase since 1958 when the rate went B52 Fleet United 969- 4 WASHINGTON Nixon appealed to Congress today for a penny boost in the cost of mailing most letters and promised to outline a major overhaul of the Post Office Department within 45 days. Fighting broke out again in Lebanon between police and Palestinian refugees demanding the government aid Arab guerrillas in their border raids against Israel. Six cities were placed under curfews, lifted only long enough for residents to buy food. 1 : n The Israeli warning came a day after Egypt said it no longer recognizes the 1967 ceasefire. 24, i i Egyptian raids across the Suez Canal may lead Israel to take strong counteraction to regain the initiative, senior Israeli defense sources said today in Tel .Aviv. APRIL THURSDAY, N1 '4 United Press International 45 521-353- - iV sfJt 0 Information 5 Scores Sports Classified Ads Only 5 Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South 524-44- m s 00 524-284- 524-444- B-1- 9. VOL. 371 NO. 98 524-44- . Sir- han B. Sirhan faces death for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy, but there is a long road ahead before his execution in the apple green gas chamber at San Quentin. That day quite possibly may never come. Sirhan, who killed the young senator at the peak of a drive for tlie presidency, said on Wednesday after a jury decreed the death penalty even Jesus Christ could not have saved me. What may save him is sentiment against capital punishment plus legal appeals up to the U.S. Supreme Court that are certain to take more than a year and may spare Sirhan indefinitely. Arab The tiny, immigrant chewed rhythmically on a wad of gum as the seven-man, n jury brought in the unanimous verdict of death after a trial that had lasted three and months. one-ha- lf Superior Court Judge HerV. Walker will hear a motion for a new trial from defense lawyer Grant Cooper May 14. The judgfe was expected to deny it, atid then Sirhan will be moved under heavy guard either to death row in San Quentin or the hospital of the state medical facility at Vacaville, Calif. bert FBI Arrests 2 On Miami Flight - FBI BALTIMORE (UPI) agents arrested two armed men from a Miami-boun- d Northeast Airlines jet during a scheduled at stopover Friendship International Airport early today. one from Hie two men New York City, the other were charged from Miami with violating a Federal Avia- Since there are already 80 I just cant say, he replied. But this is an entirely different case, a much bigger case. People are afraid of it. Chief Deputy Dist. Attv. Lynn Compton, the head of tlie prosecution team, was asked whether he thought the death penalty for Sirhan would be a deterrent. I hope this will put people on notice that we simply can not toierate this kind of solution to political or social problems in our country, Compton said. ; Compton said it was his opinion tnat finding of the jury reflected the fact that the of the people of file United States favor capital punishment when it is appro'priate. Inside The News tion Administration law prohibiting carrying concealed weapons on an airplane. Each man was reportedly carrying a pistol. They were scheduled to be arraigned before a U.S. Commissioner later today. M. Edward FBI Tully, director in Baltimore, identified tlie two men as Carl Joseph de Giorgio, 25, of 133 E. 15th St Naw York, and Gary Robert Carman, also 25, of an unknown address iMiami. persons on Californias death row who have evaded capital punishment for years, Sirhans execution was no certainty. Cooper was asked about that. SECTION A National, Foreign. 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