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Show o. jtjmmmk Our Phone Numbers Summertime 0 News, News Tips Home Delivery 0 : 4-4445 Information 5 Sports Scores Classified Ads Only 5 Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South 524-440- Generally fair and warm tonight and Thursday. Daytime highs 85 to 90. Lows tonight in the mid 50s. Details, weather map on Page D-- 524-284- -52- 524-444- 521-353- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 3. VOL. 371 NO. 1 8 8 3 3 10c PAGES THE WEST'S MOUNTAIN NEWSPAPER FIRST WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1969 Fisherman's Luck? Grizzly Attacks Couples Boat , - Communist high command in is acknowledging Vietnam grave battlefield reverses, but insisting its forces still occupy the most advantageous position. Plans have been drawn for a series of summer and fall campaigns which the Reds hope will drive that latter point home to the United States and to the world. documentation E x tensive indicates that the prime fear of Hanois war strategists is that a strong government may emerge in Saigon behind a shield of American guns, a shield that stays in place even though U.S. public opinion seeks a troop pullout. tacked their small boat in Henrys Fork of the Snake River near Island Park Saturday. The attack was one of the first by a grizzly bear since the death of two college girls in Montanas Glacier National Park two years ago. Mrs. Turner, who returned to Pocatello Monday after being treated for shock at Macks Inn, said the Turners sighted one bear about 11 a.m., but it simply swam about 50 yards across the river in front of the boat. . Seconds later, Mrs. Turner said, another grizzly, growling viciously, stood on its hind legs on the shore and then swam directly at the boat. Mrs. Turner, sitting in the bow, narrowly avoided one Grizzly, like this one, swam directly Turner pulled his does not swim, to the couple received Grover Chatterton Idaho Falls. Mrs. brother. Chatterton wife, who shore and help from Jr., of Turners had sight U. S. ed the bear earlier in the day. State Police were alerted by radio in the a citizens-banChatterton boat. Local rangers we searching for the bear o' , the weekend. Idealism, would be to have America turn away from greatness. SPRINGS, President tolgraduates of the a said: re- do not build Skeptics societies; the idealists are the builders. Only societies that believe in themselves can rise to their challenges. Let us not, then, pose a false choice between meeting our responsibilities abroad and meeting the needs of our people at home. We shall meet both or shall meet neither. surgence of American idealism to counter new isolationists who have declared open season on the Armed Forces. . In an address prepared for the academys commencement exercises, Nixon told the young men entering military service that potential adversaries abroad were never stronger and your critics at never more home were Nixon stopped overnight in Colorado Springs before heading west to his new California home, and, on Sunday to Mid numerous. The President said the critics are for a return to isolationism and that their appeal, with such slogans as Lets first solve our own problems and then we can deal with the of the world, problems should never be underesti-- . The South Vietnamese . President , . The President . , said WASHINGTON (UP;) -PNixon and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu may announce at resident their Midway Island conference the unilateral withdrawal of some American troops from Vietnam later this year, diplomatic sources said tqday. I believe a resurgence of American idealism can bring about a modern a world order of miracle peace and justice. While come see the nations The State Department and White House officials traveling with President Nixon declined comment on the reports. In recent weeks, the Administration has laid down three the around commitments world as a form of militarism, he said abandonment of them his remarks about did not refer to those responsible critics who teveal waste and inefficiency in our defense establishment, who demand clear answers on procurement policies, who want to make sure a new weapons system will truly add to our It is an entire ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) show will the exception of such American combat support as artillery, tactical air strikes, gunships and medical one evacuation helicopters, U.S. spokesman said. HANOI CLAIMS defense. ' conditions under which troops might be withdrawn: When South Vietnamese troops had improved to the point that they could take over an increasing share of the fighting. When there was progress at the Paris peace talks. offWhen Communist ensives in South Vietnam subside. Secretary of State William P. Rogers is expected o outline, at a news conference details of bis Thursday, world tour last momh and specifically talk about the Vietnam situation. y accounted for roughly half of the North Vietnamese killed. Hundreds of U.S. B52 bombers and smaller have pounded the enemy with more than 10,000 tons of bombs. Thirty B52& flew five more missions over the area Tuesday night and early today, dropping 900 tons of bombs. fighter-bombe- rs Hanoi claimed more than 3,000 government soldiers had been killed or wounded, wiping out one South Vietnamese battalion and crippling or decimating six others. The new victory of the lib- forces has further proved that for all the efforts of the U.S. to help the puppet army get back on its feet, the latter is irrevocably doomed to complete disintegrate n, said the Hanoi newspaper eration Quan Doi Nhan Dan. iss Lily 'Gives' A Concert worth It was every Miss Lily.., as her penny, friends know her, saia 'after t the performaee in Robinson jammed with .Auditorium, 3,000 persons for the event. , I know a good many adjectives, but hone would fulfill this occasion. The orchestra, which is to sell-eg-t, play tonight to a second premiered Pulitzer I prize-winnin- g Joios , Norman Dello Homage to Haydn, a suite commissioned for $8,000 by Miss Lily. Miss Lily mortgaged 4,000 acres of her plantation in the rich delta plain of eastern Arkansas to commission the work and to bring the orchestra here as part of the observance of Arkansas 130th anni- versary as a territory. She will receive none of the money from the ticket sales. It is to go for music scholarships at Arkansas State University and the University of Arkansas. ft, Miss Lily, who admits to being past 70 but not quite 100 yet, shared the spotlight Tuesday night with works from Wagner. Debussy and Brahms. she reAt intermission, ceived a standing ovation Haco Boyd when Mayor called her to the stage to present her with a bouquet of roses. Lt. Gov. Maurice Britt p then told her that Gov. Rockefeller had designated Tuesday as a day to honor Miss Lily. Miss Lily, a sometime poet and photographer and fuiltims farmer who sometimes clam Win-thro- Missing and presumed lost at sea in the ramming of the U.S. destroyer Frank E. Evans are a Salt Lake City ensign and a seaman who spent his early years in Utah. They are Ensign Dwight Scott Pattee,' 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight G. Pattee, 2079 Lincoln Ln. (4350 South), and their American advisers also suffered heavy losses. More than 700 casualties were re-ported, including 136 'govern-',- ; ment troops and 13 Amerloan named operation, Peoples Rights, is providing a test of U.S. plans to turn over more and more of the war to South Vietnamese forces so American forces can begin withdrawing from Vietnam. At no point in his academy nam war. ed Seaman M.- K. Clawson . early years in Utah Ensign Dwight S. Pattee - - ' . Annapolis graduate and Seaman Michael K. Cawv son, 20, son of Mrs. Shirley Jean House, and Arnold K.' Clawson, Tepee Lodge, both West Yellowstone, Mont. ; Ensign Pattee was gradu-- . ated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1968,; and after further officers traihing at the San Diego. Naval Base, was assigned to the destroyer. He left on this, cruise in March. Borii in Salt Lake City Julj? he was a 1964 graduate of Olympus High School.! A sister, Teri, is presently a; senior at the school, and a brother. Brad, ! a University! of Utah student. ;; Seaman Clawson was borq; May 17. 1949. in American Fork and lived briefly in Salt! Lake City before moving to; West Yellowstone in 1952. - The address did he make any substantive reference to the Viet- Nixon, Thieu May Confirm U.S. T roop Withdrawal Nixon said, h with Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam. . A-- U.S. Destroyed Other spokesmen said that had support He said they offer a simple formula, that touches a responsive chord with many an overburdened taxpayer. But he said that adoption of their views would be disastrous for the nation, would leave the world living in terror in the kind of peace that suffocated freedom in Czechoslovakia. LITTLE ROCK, ARK. (AP) The Philadelphia Orchestra played Miss lily Peters concert Tuesday night, and she figures it was 'worth the 560,000 she paid for it. ll Ill-Fat- killed, 45 South Vietnamese and 32 Americans wounded, 71 government soldiers and two Americans missing. TEST OF PLAN way Island for a summit . Utahns Lost On American tnated. ZvA commander in chief The Academy today nation needs Continued SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese troops and heavy American air and artillery strikes have killed 945 North Vietnamese in three weeks of fighting around Dak To, in the Central Highlands,, military spokesmen reported today. d . Air JSrce control areas lost long ago to fierce encounters. In other enemy forces. places we cannot help having B32 bomber strikes are heavy casualties." The Communist command becoming more effective. The defenses of Saigon sees the following claims as and its Chinese quarter, Cofactors in its favor. lon, are being expanded into American the rural areas, making it casualties will increasingly more much difficult for disillusion the U.S. public. Differences are increasing attacking forces to function. Viet Cong base areas are between the U.S. government under continuing attack. and the Saigon administraSouth Vietnamese political tion, and in the political field the United States is becoming forces are being consolidated. One high-levdocument increasingly confused and isocommented: While carrying lated. out their over-aplan, the Haring been forced by American and puppet forces last year's Tet offensive into have tried hard to create the negotiations, America is seekutmost difficulties for us in ing a political solution to a carrying out our tactical problem that it once thought plans. In ome places we will could be settled by arms, and . See REDS on Page 5 engage in complicfted and Heavy At Dak To - at boat. Nixon, Tells Academy (AP) torces in the heart of the capital while larger units engage at the outskirts. The objective is to collapse or discredit the central gover-men- t and force the United States to accept the inevitable, one way or another, either honorably or dishonorably, as one recent document from Liberation Army headquarters put it. The Communist command sees a pressing urgency for a new military offensive for these reasons: The South Vietnamese army is being rapidly consolidated and rebuilt. A much more sophisticated and consequently much more dangerous pacification plan is bringing back under Casualties Renew COLO. Nixon Such a 'roop withdrawal is seen by the Communist command as being deliberately slowed, to enable the South Vietnamese to better handle their military future without American forces. Instructions carried by courier to many parts of Vietnam in the past month make future strategy clear: Destroy the belief of the United States in the illusion that the war can successbe fully, and that they can attain a superior position in peace negotiations. To bring this about the high command evidently has ordered a new summer offensive against Saigon incorporating the new tactics of striking with small, secret SAIGON Piles of (AP) captured documents show ttie POCATELLO (AP) Tragedy was averted by quick thinking and fishermans luck on the part of Mr. and Mrs. Newell Pocatello, Turner, Idaho, when a grizzly bear at- COLORADO mw NlewM ' swipe of the animals huge paw before the bear swamped the metal craft by burying its bow below the surface. I Turner turned the boat on Its side between the attacker land the occupants, and the bear apparently gave up the attack just before the boat sank in about 10 feet of water. e bers aboard one of her tractors, says she wanted the people of Arkansas to be exposed to good music. Miss Peter is a new lady in my life, but very close to my heart already," said orchestra conductor Eugene Ormandy. Today's Thought Science is organized knowledge ; wisdom is organized UJe. Immanuel Kant 22. 1946, For Collision Survivors PEARL HARBOR. HAWAII The Navy has called (AP) off its search for 73 seamen missing from a U.S. destroyer cut in half by an Australian carrier during SEATO maneuvers. . ' confiWe have absolute dence that we have picked up said a Navy all survivors, spokesman in announcing the end of search operations by 10 ships from three nations. Most of those given up for lost nearly a third of the Evans crew destroyer were presumed sleeping in their bunks in the forward part of the ship when it was hit by the carrier Melbourne, flagship of the Australian hours Navy, in about 650 miles southwest of Manila in the Philippines Tuesday. The forward section quickly sank in 5.400 feet of water. ORDERS INQUIRY Seas were calm and skies clear at the time of the collision and remained so during the rescue efforts. Adm. John J. Hyland, Pacific Fleet commander, ordered a court cf inquiry similar to the Navys probe into t!ie seizure of the intelligence ship Pueblo. The stern section of the Evans was being towed to the Philippines by a fleet tug late Tuesday when the Pentagon began releasing names of the casualties. Among the lost were the three Sage brothers of NiobBoatswains rara, Neb. Mate 2.C. Gary, 22, Radar-ma- n 3.C. Gregory, 21, and Seaman Appren. Kelly, 19. LISTED SURVIVORS Fireman Lawrence J. Reilly' Jr. of Costa Mesa. Calif., perished, but his father, Senior Chief Gunners Mate Lawrence J. Reilly Sr., was a survivor. Navy headquarters listed 199 Evans survivors and one dead in addition to the 73 missing. The Melbourne had no casualties. One of the survivors was Seaman Marcus Rodriguez, 20, Fresno, Calif., who was flown to a hospital in Cam Rahn Bay with a broken leg. pre-daw- n still-floati- I still cant believe it, he said. The only thing I recall is a helicopter taking me somewhere. U.S. naval officials refused to speculate on the cause. The Evans was the seventh American warship involved in a major accident at sea in less than three years. The first six took a total of 313 American lives. ; Other survivors were en route to Subic Bay, the Phi-- , liypines, aboard the carrier Kearsarge. They included the skipper, Cmdr. A. S. McLe-mor- The latest collision came as some 40 warships of six Southeast Asia Treaty Organization nations were on maneuvers. e. A sunset memorial service was held aboard the Kearsarge before the carrier headed for Subic Bay. The Melbournes On 25,000-to- n bow' was badly gashed above the water line and its. light , deck damaged. It set course for Singapore, where it will undergo repairs. In Sidney, officials said the collision occurred when the destroyer was moving from a position forward of the Melbourne to one astern. , Feb. the 10, 1964, Melbourne cut in n side-swipe- d by a Japanese freighter, crushing steel sides of a gun platform. INSIDE THE ' A National, Foreign ..1, 2. 4, 5, 12, 13, 13-1- 7 Editorial Pages 10, 11 Our Man Jones 11 Our Man In Washington Music Women's Pages srmnv . ..11 11 I..." City, Regional Comics ".18-2- 8-- .2 Theater Entertainment 4 5 SECTION Air Conditioning C . ' .......1-1, 0 ss1 - r - Financial , 8, ermnv l ...l-- SECTION P 2-- 5 City, Regional TV Highlights 7 T policies. Laird issued a memoran dmn to Secretary of De- fense Roger Kelley a day after the Navy disclosed that three brothers of a Niobrara, family were missing iea' u Grand Central - ss r i 1 CFfTinv . He enlisted in the Navy Jan. 1968, and received basic, training at the t San Diego Naval Base before being as- -, signed to the destroyer June 9, 8, 1968. ;!; His maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Mac Nelson, reside at 5487 Hunt Rd., in Salt Lake City. A brother, Arnold K. Clawson, is serving with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam. Another brother, Scott, resides with his father in West Yellowstone. ; Sec- WASHINGTON (AP) of Defense Melvin R. retary . Laird- - expressing shock at the loss of three brothers with the Neb., SECTION D Action Aads ; ' destroyer Frank E. Evans, today ordered a special re- view cf service assignment 1 n 1, 3, 4, He attended high school in St. Anthony and Idaho Falls, while living with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold N. Clawson, Idaho Falls. He graduated from Fremont High at Ashton in 1967. ' Death Of Brothers Shocks Secretary NEWS . " two an Australian escort destroyer, the HMAS Voyager, with a loss of 82 lives. The Melbourne underwent a refit that lasted 12 months. Four months ago. while she was in Melbourne's Garden Island Naval Dockyard, the Melbourne uras 705-fo- ot SECTION . . The three: Gary oage. .2, Gregorv Sage, 21; and Kelly Sage, 19. Laird suggested to Kelley that he study the assignment policies of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines to see be whether they should changed to prevent assign- - 1 f ment of members of a single family to the same ship or unit. He ordered Kelley to report back with recommendations . ; ; by June 15. He asked: Should our assignment policy be revised; and if so, how, to prevent as-- .; signment of members of a sift- - ; gle family to the same ship or!-unit- ? ,!: , The Navy said its policy 3s' to permit brothers to serve-o- n the same ship together, when they request it, as did the Sage brothers, and when! it is feasible. ;!; The Navy had no immediate information on whether the loss of the Sage brothers was the heaviest in a single family aboard any naval vessel since!! the five Suliivan brothers of' Waterloo, Iowa, were killed when the cruiser Juneau sank!, during the battle of GuadalcaV nal on Nov, 13, 1942. , -- -- I |