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Show Our Phone Nu To Stay Fair E3HET Fair tonight and Wednesday. Warm afternoons. Daytime highs in the mid 80s. Lows tonight 50 to 55. Details, weather map on Page 371 NO. 1 3 2 Information Sports Scores Classified Ads Only 5 Editorial Offices 31 E. 1st South 521-353- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH B-l- l. VOL. News, News Tips Home Delivery 3 6 10c PAGES WEST'S MOUNTAIN THE FIRST NEWSPAPER JUNE 3, TUESDAY, 1969 Nixon Raps Campus 'Bullies' 74 Bow Half President Nixon struck back today at camnus radicals who bully college authorities into yielding to demands and declared this moral arrogance has no place in a free community. MADISON, S.D. (UPI) , Sinks In China Sea self-righteo- Storms Stay On East Coast United Press International winds, lightning, hail, heavy rain and cold buffeted the East Coast today in the wake of similar weather that disrupted that area of the nation Monday. After laying siege to New York City Monday, the storms fanned out to create other damage around New York State and in PennsylGale-forc- e vania.- Nixon, speaking on the campus of a small South Dakota college, spoke at length about disorders currently wracking America's institutions of high learning. The address was the P.esidents fullest statement yet on student disorders. He spoke at General Beadle State College at the dedication of the Karl E. Mufclt Library. PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII (UPI) The aircraft carrier Melbourne, flagship of the Australian navy, collid- P ; - After the South Dakota ceremony, the President planned to fly to Colorado Springs, Colo., where he will make the c o m m e n cement address Wednesday morning to the Air Force Academys senior class. , sP as '''.'If. ed with the U.S. destroyer Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea near Vietnam, and today rescue planes searched for 73 men missing from the American warship. One man was known dead from the crew of the Evans, the onetime Gray Ghost of the Pacific which was sliced in two by the Australian vessel. A statement said there were 2C0 survivors . 190 enlisted men and 10 officers. Nixon was informed of the collision soon after it occurred, the White House said today. He is keeping in touch with developments on the search for the missing seamen, Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said. ' Prime Minister John Gorton messaged Nixon expressing "deepest sympathy for families of American sailors missing in the accident. The tragedy almost paralleled a disaster involving the Melbourne in 1964 when the carrier sliced through the Australian destroyer Voyager, and 82 men aboard the smaller ship lost their lives. Wo Nixon said a great many people have become impatient with the democratic process. -- (UPI) Warren Earl Burger won approval today of the Senate Judiciary Committee to become 14 the next Chief Justice of the United suites. The nomination unaniwas .ec. '.imended mously to the full Senate. The committee, in closed session, approved Burger's nomination to succeed Earl G. Warren only minutes after it confirmation a completed which was overhearing whelmingly friendly. CLEARS HURDLE Burger easily cleared the first obstacle toward confirmation after endorsing legislation calling for limited public financial disclosure by all federal judges. He said he could see no objection to a requirement that judges make public the sources of outside income. Burger also testified he lias not changed his legal philosophy and agreed that a balance in maintained must be criminal cases between the rights of the accused and the rights of society. LISTS FEES years a judge Burger, for of the U.S. Court of Appeals here, disclosed after his nomination by President Nixon .o succeed Earl Warren, that he has received $2,000 a year for three years in trustee fees for the Mayo Foundation. I see no objection to that at all, he said when Sen. Joseph D. Tydings, asked him about the proposed judge - disclosure legislation. 13 they support from faculty members who should know better; in the larger community, they find the usual apologists ready to excuse any tactic in the name of 'progress.' It should be that this sort of moral arrogance has no place in a free community. It denies the most fundamental of all the values we hold: resDect for the rights of others. This principle of mutual respect is the keystone of the entire structure of ordered liberty draw By Burger WASHINGTON President Scorning persuasion, they Awarding prefer coercion. themselves with what they call a higher morality, they try to bully authorities into yielding to their demands. On college campuses, self-evide- that makes freedom UPI Telephoto Map locates area where two vessels collided. g BECOME IMPATIENT First Test Cleared Yooiiks AP Aft section, of destroyer Evans,, arrow,- - held -- Wirt-fho- t afloat by 2 other shipi. Shortly before sunrise today the Melbourne cut through the Evans. Within two minutes, the forward part of the American warship sank. Details of the accident, 283 miles southeast of Saigon in the South China Sea, filtered slowly into the U.S. Fleet Headquarters here. But the Australian navy issued a statement saying that the Melbourne ordered the Evans, whicli was ahead of her in the antisubmarine screen, to change course and despite urgent action by the Melbourne a collision occurred. information before we can he said. make a comment, An investigation will be held to determine what happened. The accident occurred during maneuvers conducted by forces of the Southeast Asia ation A U.S. (SEATO). Navy spokesman said the Melborune cut through the Evans at 4 :15 a.m. Asian time (3:15 p.m. Monday EDT). The Melbourne sustained a four-fohole in her bow 12 feet above the waterline, unspecified damages to the forecastle and flight deck and a broken catapault. and aircraft Helicopters from nearby ships joined the who search for crewmen See COLLISION on Page Treaty A U.S. Navy spokesman declined comment on the statement by the Australian navy. "Were waiting for additional A-- 4 s Will Go It Alone First, Says Thieu possible. ASSURE NATION Nixon also sought to assure the nation that insurrection would not succeed if the authorities used the power at their command. South ViSAIGON (UPI) Force can be contained. President etnamese Nguyen he said. We have the power Van Thieu today rejected to strike back if need be. and to prevail. The nation has surCommunist peace demands as vived other attempts at insurillogical' and said his nation rection. would fight the Vietnam war he We can survive this, alone before accepting a coacontinued. It has not been a lition government with he lack of civil power, but the reluctance of a free people to Viet Cong. employ it, that so often has Thieu made the statements stayed the hand of authorities at a news conference and in a faced with confrontation. address Nixon spoke at tiny General nationally broadcast his a short time after returning to Beadle State College first stop on a trip that will Saigon from a goodwill mission to South Korea and Natake him far across the Paciftionalist China where he conic to confer on Sunday about the war with South Vietnam's ferred with presidents Park Hee and Chiang Chung president. Nguyen Van Thieu. HEARS REPORT Thieu also denied that he Before leaving Was lington, had any serious differences Nixon conferred with top with President Nixon on military and intellibringing peace to Vietnam. gence advisers about the Vietnam situation and to hear But he said he had no intention of discussing the possifrom Secretary of State Wile liam P. Rogers a detailed bility of a coalition governCAMPUS on Page 4 ment when he meets with - Nixon next Sunday on Midway Island. Thieu repeated a theme he stated in both Seoul and Taipei declaring that restoring peace in South Vietnam to ensure world peace is important, but to guarantee a lasting peace is more important. We agreed that it is necessary to have an efficient system of supervision and control in order to counter all plots the Communists have for renewed aggression. A issued by Thieu and Chiang before Thieu left Taipei described the idea of a co-- a 1 i t i o n as government absurd. Gov. NEW YORK (AP) Nelson A. Rockefeller says that despite the anti-U.demonstrations his trip w.s a tremenin terms of dous success finding out what the people are thinking. Despite the problems that the trip brought developed, into sharp focus the feelings, of hopes and aspirations Latin Americans, he told newsmen on his arrival Monday night at Kennedy Airport. TRIP CANCELED The New York governor returned ahead of schedule from the second of four planned trips for President Nixon because his stop in Venezuela was canceled to forestall any further Latin-Americ- fact-findin- g Kai-she- A-- Latin Trlp Success, Rocky Says - 7 Seamen Missing - TOKYO (AP) Two Japanese freighters collided in fog off the northeast coast today and seven seamen were reported missing after one of the ships sank. disturbances. He reaffirmed his determination to continue the presidential mission. I think our tours are working very well, he said. As for harm, I cant see any area where harm is OPPOSITION BACKING FAILS Pompidou Certain' PARIS Pompidou (AP) Georges today appeared certain of election to the French presidency following the Communist partys refusal to back provisional President Alain Poher. Strong pressure built up on Poher, a Centrist, to withdraw from the June 15 runoff which will elect Charles de Gaulles - t. successor. Poher ran a poor second in the first round of voting Sunday, cent only 22.13 polling of the vote to per- Pompidous per cent. It was questionable whether a Communist endorsement would have done him much good since it probably would have scared away some of his anticommunist support. But the 44.46 central committee made that academic Monday partys night. Communist leader Jacques But he Implied tionaries. that Pompidou was the lesser evil by singling out the provisional president for special' criticism for having said during the campaign that West Germany should have access to a European nuclear deter-ren- Georges Pompidou . . . gaining ground Duclos, who ran third Sunday with 21.08 per cent, announced the committees call for a boycott of the June 15 vote. He denounced both Pompidou and Poher as capitalist reac- - While many of the 4.8 million Freqchmen who voted for Duclos are not members of the Communist party and may not abide by the call for a boycott, they may throw their votes to Pompidou to ensure Pohers defeat. Although the Communists have never before urged" abstention from a national election, when they have done so on the local level, Gaullists often have profited. Poher had rejected What Does Arms Dollar -Spi- against possible but unlikely threats, former Budget Director Charles L. Schultze told Congress today. Schultze chided the lawmakers for failing to debate whether $1 billion spent on a military program to defend against a remote risk is more important than $1 billion I Today's Thought Lifes perhaps the only riddle that we shrink from giving up. William S. Gilbert r r spent on a domestic program. Schultze submilled his analecoysis to a Senate-Hous- e which nomic subcommittee study of opened a two-wee- k the impact of military spending on the economy. The committee, headed by Sen. Wilissued liam Proxmire, a report last week that accused the Pentagon of wasting billions of dollars every year. At the same time, the Senate Armed Forces Committee opened its. own investigation of the giant C5A jet cargo plane. The estimated cost of the plane now exceeds original estimates by $2 billion, but the Air Force contends the performance of the craft has also increased. Schultze said military spending will increase $20 billion annually by 1974, assuming continuation of m present programs. That would exhaust the money which could be saved by ending the war in Southeast Asia. So, he argued, unless some present programs are cut back, any new weapons syslike the supersonic tems manned bomber the Air Force would drain away wants money from domestic programs. director Schultze. budget under former President Lyndon B. Johnson and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington and an economics professor at the nearby University of Maryland, said mi'itary spending is being forced up by the arms-rac- e psychology. Forces are built to cover possible, but very remote, he said. contingencies, In later testimony Harvard economist John Kenneth Gal t-- (Buy? should consider nationalizing defense contractors that do more than 75 per cent of their business with the Pentagon. These firms are private he only in the imagination, said. The action (nationalization) would insure that such firms are held to strict standards of public responsibility in their political and other activities. former White Galbraith, House adviser and ambassador to India, said military spending had increased because of such factors as fear, and the excessive secrecy growing power of private con- braith said Congress tractors. Galbraith said Congress should resist what he said was the Pentagons use of fear of never nuclear attack and again be stampeded into blind voting for military budgets. EXCEPT Rockefeller was originally scheduled to visit every Latin American nation except Cuba. Peru was taken off the itinerary before the start of the CUBA INSIDE THE 12 Die As Fire NEWS second leg because of a crisis over Peruvian expropriation d oil company. of a Violence has marred seven of the nine stops made thus far. A visit to Bolivia was cut from 22 hours to three and did not extend beyond the confines of the heavily guarded U.S.-owne- airport. Rockefeller attributed the anti-U.demonstrations to dissident students. We must recognize that student protest is a pattern of life worldwide, he said. $1.4 Billion Bill TORONTO (AP) Nutrient pollution in Lake Erie will cost about $1,400,000 to eradicate from the U.S. side of Lake Erie alone, a pollution expert says. Razes Building KANSAS CITY (AP) -Twelve persons, including six believed to be members of one family, died early today as fire swept an apartment building, and police began looking for a resident recently evicted from the building. Police said a youth Pompi- dou earlier suggestion that he withdraw to foster national unit. being done. raling WASHINGTON (UPI) defense spending has bought the United States little in increased security because billions of dollars defend Organiz SECTION A National, Foreign City, Regional Among the dead was Harry Smith. His father, Laurence Smith, 30, is in serious condition at General Hospital from injuries suffered, police said, when he jumped from the third floor 8, 10, 16 Theater 9 Women's Pages Editorial Pages ...14, 15 Our Man Jones Music 15 15 SECTION B who rented an apartment in the building last Saturday and was evicted Sunday for letting some friends move in with him was seen around the building on the south side of the midluwn business district early today. The young man had told the apartment building manager would regret having she thrown him out, authorities added. Eight of the fire victims were children. porch screaming for help. We ran up the stairway of the building, knocking on doors and telling everyone to close their windows and shut the doors. The fire wasnt that bad then. But the when people opened the doors to escape, the draft Twenter said, swept up. i Seeks Extension UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (AP) Diplomatic sources U say that Secretary-Genera- l Thant will ask the Security Council to continue the U.N. Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus for another six months beyond June 15. 7 |