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Show Our Phone Numbers Mothers Day Bouquet News, News Tips Home Delivery Information Sports Scores Classified Ads Only editorial Offices 31 Fair and warm for Mothov Day. See details, weather map on rage B-- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOL- U 371 - NO. 1 1 ? "''Jr , 10c PAGES 4 6 2 THE Visitors from throughout the world come early Saturday WEST'S ' mm ' MOUNTAIN morning 1 FIRST NEWSPAPER ' I Artai Phew by Deseret taxed the emergency facilities set up at Promontory. Bleachers were provided for the press and VIPs, but it was standing room only for the general public. - It Crowds encircleci the ot where sections of 'track have been laid down over the original road bed where the rails were joined, ajid others sought vantage points from a few high spots in, the area. But is 4s likely that a good share of them thissed the reenactment altogether in the hub bub of the day! yest--erye- Iteseret News Staff Writer SUMMIT PROMONTORY The Golden Spike was driven again today at Promontory Summit as it was 100 years and the dust may .not ago settle for another 100 years.' Thousands of visitors and dignitaries converged on the covered remote, sagebrush spot to witness the historic reenactment of the wedding, of the rails. Once again the electrifying words were heard across tire nation: The last rail is laid. The last spike is driven. Replicas of the Central Pacifics Jupiter and the Unien Pacific's No. 119 stood only a few feet apart waiting for that when the moment fateful tracks would be joined together linking the nation from coast to coast. The turiiout of visitors who came today to w itness the climax to the national Golden Spike Centennial Because of the remoteness of the new National Historic celebration e Site, with only a highway leading to it. no private cars were allowed in the two-lan- area. Public parking was at Thiokol and 32 shuttle buses started at 7 a.m. transporting visitors to the site. In addition, the road was jammed with chartered buses carrying the dignitaries, the press and dozens of other groups. Ambulances, doctors and a helicopter from Hill Air Force Rase stood by for emergencies. In addition, eight station wagons were on the scene equipped with oxygen and stretchers. About Utah Highway Patrolmen and dozens of officers from other law enforcement agencies helped regulate the traffic and handle emergencies. The crowd estimated at somewhere over 10,000 was considerably more than the 300 to 400 persons who made it out to Promontory 100 years ago. Early comers today were entertained with band music provided by the U.S. Army's 21st Infantry Band and Box Elder High School Concert Band and a concert by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir See THOUSANDS, Page A-- 3 i In Her Heart, Barry (Jr.) Might Be Right - top-lev- mance. Tricia invited Nixon, 23, Rep. Barry M. to he Goldwater Jr., her escort at the party. The newest freshman in Congress accepted, and to tongues wag. promptly began President Nixon's younger daughter, Julie, was married last winter to David Eisenhower, grandson of the 1933-6Republican President. What could be more appropriate than for Tricia to be wooed and won by the son ot Sen. Barry M. Goldwater. defeated GOP presidential candidate in the 1964 election? 0 Its not a date," lie emphasized. "Not a date, at all. Goldwater merely accepted the invitation to serve as escort for a pretty young lady, the aide said, and that was all there was to it. said Tricia and young Goldwater have known one another for sevetal years but never been out together. They were guests together with their parents at a Sunday outing this week at the home of Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., Friends perhaps that's when they made arrangements lor tonight. KEY though she had wanted to for many years, Thatr she said, was why she decided to have one as her first big tiarty in the White House. Julie and David fame down from Massachusetts, where both are attending college, for tiie affair and to observe Mother's Day w ith Mis Nixon Sunday. The ball will provide nostalgic moments for former President Lyndon B. . Johnson's daughters, Lynda Bird Robb and Luci Nugent. It will n" their first trip back to the White House since hixon look the piesidential oaif last Jon. 2D ami their huslands from servic in a!- - inside The News A rid Mrs. Maj Robb fre househunting near the Pentagon, where he has been signed to a procurement divkion, Patrick J. Nugent reurned to work in the Johnsoi business enterprise when he .xmplted his tour of duty as m airman Charles S. B SECTION City, Regional Comics Calendar .. Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads Women's Pago SECTION 1. 3 - .... Chinch Npws 2 . - 2 3 2 - - 18 C - FLA. Nixon President (AP) conferred with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and other advisers today as he recommendations prepared for revising tiie public welfare system. Among those joining tiie chief executive and Agnew for the meeting at Nixon's home is Rep. waterfront Rogers C. B. Morlo" of Maryland, chairman of the Republican National committee. Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said there was no for the session. agenda However, part of tiie discusto sion was expected revolve around a forthcoming presidential message to Congress on welfare revisions. ViM-no- first class. SECTION B1SCAYNE. Mfi 521-353- t 5 1st South 1969 C, Don Graystoo Philippines Tour MANILA (AP) Beverly Sills, American colcatura soprano of New YorkCity, will give five performances in the Philippine:: in the irst week of September, it was announced today. UNITED NATIONS (UPI) The world lias only 10 years left in which to pnd ts ancient quarrels and solve problems of the nuclear age, U.N. Secretary General Thant believes. "I do not wish to seem but I can only conclude . . . that the membets of tiie United Nations ha v e ten years left in IM'rhaps which to subordinate their ancient quarrels and launch a global partnership to curb the arms race, to improve Hie human environment, to defuse the population explosion he warned Friday. ... a global is not forged Bolt Hits Plane . - A ASHLAND, KY. (UPI) Piedmont airliner was forced to make an emergency landing at Boyd County airstrip Friday after being struck in mid-ai- r by a bolt of lightning. None of the 36 passengers and three crew members were injured when the lightning struck the plane's stab-plize- The plane, turbo-piop- . from Va. a Fli-22- Fair-chil- d was en route Cincinnati to Norfolk, . . partnership then I verv much fear that the problems . will have readied such staggering proportions that they will be beyond our capacity to control, iie told a conference on the United Nations in the 1970's. No Injuries As TaBIk . Plain), By SPENCER DAVIS WASHINGTON (AP) The United States has told North Vietnam and National Liberation Front representatives it would like to talk about the proposal made in Paris by the Viet for of settlement the Vietnam war. Cong U.S. officials High making this known said the preliminary 10-poi- nt American response did not go beyond Secretary of State William P. Rogers statement late Friday. It contains some dearly unacceptable pi oposals, but there are elements in it which may offer a possiblity for exploration," Rogers said in the first Nixon Administration reto the Viet Cong pro- 'TURKEY SHOOT ' Yanks Trap, Kill 150 Reds CAREFUL STUDY Says Thant If Marine had Tricia said she never been to a masked bail, 5 521-444- 5 y.S. Tells Eteds sponse posal. Remaining, Welfare Steps i An aide to the congressman tiie engagement suggested tonight was simply that, and nothing more. Ten Years Nixon Studies i WASHINGTON (UP1) Some sentimentalists predicted tonight's masked ball at the White House may be the rostart of a new 0 524-414- News Chief Pfotograoner WolDomjj Golden Spike Is Driven Again As Thousands Jam Promontory Historic personages. of came alive under the hot Utah sun and played out their roles much as they did at that first celebration 100 years ago. 1 521-284- to Utah's Promontory Summit for Golden Spike Centennial Celebration and reenactment of driving the last spike which linked the nation by rail. REENACT 'WEDDING OF THE RAILS' By MAXINE MARTZ SATURDAY, MAY Til-11- 00 . . Thant criticized the United States and other Western nations which recently cut their foreign aid allotments. "ft is tragic that at the very moment in history when assistance efforts are beginning to yield results, public and official support in the aid giving countries appears to lie weakening, he said. He emphasized that the position take-- , by the Communist side Thursday at Paris will tequire careful study and clarification. In the view of high authorities here, the proposal does contain new' features which give a promise of some forward movement in the peace negotiations. Rogers, who leaves for Saigon on Monday, declared lie would consult closely with Vietnamese leaders, including President Nguyen Van Thieu, to determine if the Viet Cong program represents a serious response to earlier U.S. and South Vietnam peace proposals. REJECTS COALITION South Vietnam already lias rejected parts of the NFL program which would set up a coalition peace government elections pending general throughout the country. The Rogers statement clared: "We believe tiiat right of de- tiie for the people of South Vietnam must be respected unconditionally. This is the core of the issue in Vietnam." U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabo! Lodge conferred with Nguyen Xium Pnong of the South Vietnamese delegation Friday in Paris about the Viet Cong plan, ft is presumed they discussed the South Vietnamese attack on part of .lie proposal. DA NANG. NAM (UPI) SOUTH VIETU.S. Matings, marched for who two nights to cut off North Vietnamese troops heading toward Da Nang, killed at least 150 of the Communists in two days o' fighting, U.S. military spokesmen reported today. The fighting in tiie rice Iiaddies, about 18 miles from Da Nang, raged in 100 degree heat. Marine casualties were ported as seven dead and wounded. re12 Four other battles between Saigon and the Cambodian border involving U.S. infantrymen and air cavalrymen supported by tanks and air strikes left 6) Communists dead. The fight near Da Nang moved into its second day today. More than 1.500 Marines marched toward the Yu Gia River whore 400 North Vietnamese troops weir trying to burst through allied lines. It's like a turkey shoot." said l.t. Col. Janies Higgins. 37. ol Glendale. R.l. "We broke up a gathering of the hm. We have got them outgunned and outnumbered." Marine casualties were reported as six dead and 12 w minded. When the Reds woke up Friday morning w e were in position," Iliggui- - said. He sol up a command post in a hilltop cenietety over 12 looking the battlefield miles southwest of Da Nang, on South Vietnam's northern coast. We caught them with a lot air and artillery strikes and of we kept closing in on them. Higgins said. "We shut off their escape routes. They were confused and disorganized. The Communists split into groups ami made frantic thrusts against d the tightening there was no cordon but escape, military spokesmen said. U.S. planes swoojied in low over dried-urice paddies, blistering tiie Communists with napalm. More than 3.000 rounds of artillery ripped in from three Marine outposts. You could see the gooks running all over." said Sgt. Mark Lintpie, 22. a sniper from Kansas City. Mo. My buddy killed 14 of them, but he only got credit for said. four," I.iriipic Somebody has to find the body cm the ground before it cour.cs. Today's Thought man nnrr sees nil his molhf Inis been to him till it's too late In let hri know Unit hr sees it. William Dnu Hou cuS .1 ; i |