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Show Our Phone Numbers Some Relief Partly cloudy through Wednesday. Daytime highs in the 90s. Lows tonight in the 50s. Windy. Details, weather map on Page SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH B-1- 3. VOL. 3 7 2 NO. 51 PASADENA. CALIF. (UPI) Mariner 7s close-upictures of Mars early today exhibited in fantastic detail a bewildering variety of surface features on the already mysp terious planet, including a bright spiral marking dubbed the great shoelace. The spacecraft flashed by the Martian south polar cap Monday night and snapped 31 pictures from 2,000 miles away. These photos and ones taken earlier in the evening as Mariner 7 streaked toward the planet were displayed live on screens at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In addition to the spiral formation, other unexplained features Included cloudlike white areas over the polar cap and dark, linear splotches on the surface. 10c 38 PAGES , News, News Tips Home Delivery Information Sports Scores Classified Ads Only ters all over the place, one scientist said as the pictures Part of the problem was that live pictures were based unfolded of what 7s television cameras actually saw. A black horizontal bar running across the middle of the photos, which carried electronic data, further obscured the image. These pictures are going .to be very valuable, said Dr. P.obert F. Leighton, head of the photo analysis section. The complete pictures were stored in a tape recorder and will be played back to earth tonight. The scientists at Mission Control were enthusiastic about the fantastic detail of the pictures from Mariner 7. When its predecessor, Mariner 6, flew past Mars, last week, some of its photos had a disappointing low contrast. on only Mariner Look ai MOUNTAIN THE There Monday. must be a couple of hundred on there. The immediate analysis of the photos came in scientists remarks by Definitive assembled at JPL. conclusions must await processing by what controllers call the boys in the back room and their computers. the great shoelace, Of the one spokesman said, markings have a bewildering and he cautioned variety about coming up with any instant scientific conclusions. The south polar cap and the cloudlike formations over some sections were variously described by observers as frost, dust, haze, fog and rime. One of Mariner 7s objectives was to find out whether the bright, white cap is fro those bright cra WEST'S FIRST Editorial Offices NEWSPAPER TUESDAY, 524-440- 0 524-284- 0 524-444- 5 524-444- S 521-353- 5 . 34 E. 1st South AUGUST 5, 1969 zen water or frozen carbon dioxide. If the cap is ice, it must be extremely thin because the Martian atmosphere is dryer than desert air on earth. The pictures also showed the dark, linear splotches that have been called canals by some astronomers. One scientist said they were "linear segments, lets not use the word canals. Observers have agreed that the features are not the caials claimed by Italian astronomer Giovanni Chiaparelli in 1877. One theory is that they might be chains of craters dark on the bottom and light on the sides. Scientists picked out fea- tures already observed from earth telescopes, such as Nix Olympica (Olympics nose) and Solis Lacus (the eye of Mars). L0TilS Fir 1, WASHINGTON (UPI) -PNixon is expected to announce a pullout of 50,000 more American troops from Vietnam in late August and may schedule another withdrawal of 30,000 fighting men in October, it was learned today. This means Nixon will try to withdraw 125,000 troops by the end of the year and fulfill his expressed hope of beating resident former Defense Secretary Clark M. Giffords timetable ofl00,000. An administration source said Nixon and Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have agreed the withdrawal of 50,000 more GIs is feasible now. Nixon will announce it nam. Ziegler also said no round-the-wor- Worldwide Records Bank Proposed By Sen. Bennett target troops '' Creation of an "international genealogical record bank and the free flow of recorded across national information boundaries was proposed today by Sen. Wallace F. Benin a keynote nett, at the World Conference ad-re- on Records. The Utah senator, who addressed some 6,000 dele- gates representing about 46 nations, companions of conference registrants and the general public, assembled in the Salt Palace arena, said such a record bank and accessibility of .information would be one small but important step toward preservation of the brotherhood of man. Astro Is 39 And Counting SPACE CENTER, HOUSMoon explorer TON (AP) Neil A. Armstrong celebrates his 39th birthday today with his quarantine pals and only 26 candles for his cake. Armstrong and his' Apollo 11 colleagues Edwin E. Aldrin Jr, and Michael Collins were in their 16th day of isolation to keep possible intended lunar bugs from getting loose on earth. All remained in excellent health. If no illnesses turn up or no dangerous organisms appear in the rocks the astronauts brought home, theyll be returned to the outer world next Monday, $ The conference, sponsored by the Genealogical Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints, officially opened today with registrants in attendance from throughout the United States, Europe, the y South Pacific, South America, Mexico, Asia, the Far East and other parts of the world. Many of the worlds prominent archivists, historians, and librarians genealogists had registered by this morn- ings 10:15 a.m. general as- sembly, conducted by Paul F. Royall, a member of the conference executive committee and general secretary of the society. , Delegates were welcomed today by Elder Howard W. Hunter of the Council of the Twelve of the Church and president of the society, who also introduced Sen. Bennett, and by Salt Lake City Mayor J. Bracken Lee. K. Gunn McKay, administrative assistant to Gov. Calvin L. Rampton, also spoke. Introduced to the audience of about 6,000 were President Hugh B. Brown, first counselor in the First Presidency; President Alvin R. Dyer and President Joseph Fielding Smith, counselors in the First Presidency. Elder Marion G. Romney, of the Council of the Twelve, offered the invocation. n The Salt Palace sound was effective through-- o ut the arena with the exception of a dead spot at the east end. There were no chairs in this sys-ter- area. The Mormon Youth Sym phony and Chorus, conducted by Dr. Jay E. Welch, provided music for the session in the Salt Palace arena. The symphony and chorus performed Jubilee by Thanks George Chadwick; Be to God from Elijah by Liebesiieder Mendelssohn; 52 Waltzes, by Op. Ode to the Brahms, and West Wind (Poem by Shelley) by Cyril Jenkins. In his address Bennett told the conference the record bank would be philosophically possible if national governments could come to realize that the very existence of such a bank would be a force for peace. He said it would be made physically possible by continuing success in increasing the 4 See SEN BENNETT, A-- Eteds Drop Informed (UPI) military sources. said today the North Vietnam- ese have dropped plans for a new military offensive in the South in response to recent SAIGON U.S. troon withdrawals. These know ledgeable sources said the lull in ground fighting in South Vietnam, now in its seventh week,, may continue indefinitely and that the war will be allowed to fade away. Despite the general lull, there were a number of small scale clashes Monday in which 2C8 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese were killed at a loss of one American killed and seven wounded. The fighting included a heli n copter attack on a laden Communist bicycles and motor scooters convoy, supply-America- One ranking U.S. officer said despite the lull, North remain Vietnamese goals unchanged and Hanoi now believes these goals can now be milifulfilled in a d tary effort. Hanoi for the present can more or less sit back and watch us go home. The military sources said a North Vietnamese liev.enant captured last week near Da Nang said he had been ir. tructed to inform his troons that the war appeared to be won because the Americans are going home. Truck traffic on the so- - the fall of 50,000 in the phased with- drawal. . By DOUGLAS PALMER Deseret News Staff Writer In called Ho Chi Minh Trail leading into South Vietnam from Laos dropped from about 400 vehicles a week in February to only four a day last week, the lowest figures in two years, the sources reported. David UPI correspondent Lamb, Quoting military intelligence, said Communist commanders in the past five weeks have held a series of meetings to discuss future war strategy in terms of the U.S. troon withdrawals, Paris talks and the lull in fighting. He said one such conference a month ago in the jungles of Laos resulted in the cancellaoftion of a planned mid-Julfensive in northern Quang Ngai Province. y Nixon announced an initial troop cut of 25,000 during the June 8 Midway summit meeting with President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam. Nixon was considering a broadcast to the nation from Los Angeles in late August on the next pullout of fighting men in his campaign to Viet-nami- the war. REPORT TO NIXON Wheeler presented his evaluation of the war picture and continuing military lull to Nixon on July 22, a short time before the President embarked on his world tour. Nixon said in Guam he was reviewing the possibility of further troop withdrawals and would make his position clear in late August. of enemy The an evaluation of activity whether it is deliberate or not is under intensive study in the White House and the Pentagon. DIRK3EN STORY Senate Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen toH reporters Monday there is eviat tlje White dent belief House a further U.S. troop withdrawal from Vietnam beyond the 25,000 men now could being brought home be announced before the lend of this month. He declined to pinnoint the number. White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said Nixon told the Democratic and Republican leaders Monday there had been substantial improvement in the military situation in South Viet- - Todays Thought I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. Henry David Thorean speed of withdrawal and reciprocity on the Communist side. If Hanoi reduces its forces in South Vietnam and does ment of the lull and the possibility of South Vietnamese forces assuming greater responsibility. W '.h them was Ellsworth G. Bunker, American ambassador in Saigon, who conveyed his evaluation of the Thieu governments political ability to withstand withdrawal of greater numbers of Americans from the field and his capability of replacing GIs with South .Vietnamese sol- de- cision had been made on a further troop cutback. The withdrawal of the first group of the 25,000 contingent began in July. Administration sources say they are looking at the result and the drop in enemy operations carefully and prayerfully. Nixon discussed the troop question with Thieu during his trip to Saigon. He flew into the war zone with Gen. Creighton Abrams, U.S. military commander in Vietnam, and received Abrams assess not send them into Laos and Cambodia, a bigger phaseout of U.S. troops is possible. There is some evidence of a slowdown in Communist infil- -, tration. If, however, it is determined there is no reciprocal rate of withdrawal on the enemy side, then the U.S. timetable will depend on when the South Vietnamese forces can be trained to replace U.S. diers. said there is a relationship between Sources direct troops. . ' . . ; . - - RELEASED BY CONG 3 GIs Reach later this month. FALL TARGET On the basis of Wheelers survey of the Vietnam militia and Nixons own talks and observations during his trip, they reportedly have set another Don VIENTIANE, LAOS (AP) -L- ooking gaunt after months in North Vietnamese prison camps, three U.S. prisoners of war arrived in Vientiane tonight and described their treatment as adequate. They landed from Hanoi in an International Control Commission plane in company of an American pacifist group who went to the North Vietnamese capital to pick them up. After huddling with U.S. Embassy officials inside the plane, the three came out to meet reporters. They seemed somewhat dazed. Lt. Robert Franchot Frish-man, a Navy pilot from acted as Santee, Calif., spokesman. Asked about their 29, treatment in prison camps, he replied: "I do not want to other prisoners jeopardize still there. My treatment has been adequate." Frishman, however, praised the treatment he was given by North Vietnamese doctors to a wounded right arm suffered when his plane was shot down. His arm l ung limply by . his side. With him were Capt. Wesley Lewis Rumble, 26, an Air Force pilot from Oroville, Calif., and Douglas Hegdahl, a seaman apprentice from Watertown, S.D. The doctors were very busy giving treatment to their own people, Frishman said. It would have been easier to amputate my arm, but they operated on me and removed my elboW. I still have my ! ' arm. Frishman reported the main diet of the prisoners was based- - around bread, soup and pork. It may not sound very good but they had a way of preparing it that made it tasty, he said. Frishman said he had not been brainwashed. Hegdahl said nervously that the main activities during their were imprisonment sweeping floors and listening to the Voice of Vietnam, the;' North Vietnamese propaganda - vi station. The three looked gaunt and pale but otherwise well. They wore blue dungarees and rubber Ho Chi Minh sandals without socks. A Tax Break Ahead for Twiddle - InWASHINGTON (AP) come tax rate changes in the tax reform bill will be recom- puted to give a better break to middle income taxpayers, Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, indicated today, Mills, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, told the House Rules Committee his panel will go back to work on this portion of the bill to do what I thought we were doing in the first place provide a tax rate reduction of at least 5 per cent for every group. The Democratic Study of Group, an organization moderate and liberal Democrats in the House, had said the committee bill did not meet that test. tax-writi- The group issued an analysis contending that the reform bill might provide no reduction for as many as three million or four million taxpayers, with incomes roughly between 4,000 and AAarT? $13,000 al depend- ing on their family situation and the deductions available to them. action on a compromise extension of the income tax surcharge. 0 House vote Mondays assures extension of the 10 per cent surcharge only through Dec. 31. But an addi- -' 237-17- and some Democrats outside its ranks have been pressing for a chance to offer amendments to the tax reform bill when it The DSG d is debated Wednesday and Thursday. 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