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Show Fair, Warmer , Our Phone Numbers Fair tonight and Thursday with rising temperatures. Daytime highs in the upper 80s. Lows tonight in the mid 50s. Details, weather map on Page News, News Tips Home Delivery : C-- " .X CLEMENTE,. CAUK Fresident Nixon, in (UPI) a n unprecedented move, V . and cities will --have a far greater share of power and responsibility for solving their Nixon said. own problems, people." Together with his national welfare reform, the President called on Congress today to return to the states federal revenues up to S5 billion by without strings at- tvvin Through these to relieve tached. hard-presse- budget stringencies. ' Nixon made it clear in tax sharing he was taiming at shifting the balance of political power and financial clout, cam- Partys ment." Under his formula for handing over funds, Nixon said the size of the total funds to be shared will be a stated percentage of personal taxable income the base on which income individual federal ' ' . WEDNESDAY, 521-353- 5 34 E. 1st South AUGUST 3, 1 1 969 sec- Furthermore, the distribu- tion of the state's share of the federal pie among its local units of government will be established by prescribed formula with local flexibility. Viet Fight Rages On Police Seek Kook - NEWSPAPER ' 8 one-thir- d SINGING SISTERS' FATHER i FIRST Editorial Offices 524-444- ond half of fiscal 1971, this of 1 per cent will be of personal taxable income. In subsequent years, this percentage will rise to a regular constant figure. The allocation of the total annual fund among the 50 states and the District of Columbia will be made on the basis of each state's share of national population, adjusted to the state's revenue effort. the paign pledge, he' added, role of the federal government will be redefined and redirected toward those functions where it proves itself the only or most suitable instru- approaches we. hope d the fiscal crisis of the state and local governments and to assist millions of Americans out of poverty and into productivity." "Ultimately, it is our hope to use this mechanism to so state and local strengthen government that by the end of the coming decade, the political landscape of America will be visibly altered and states In a message tied to his revolutionary welfare reform program, Nixon asked as a starter only $300 million in federal tax money to share with the states because of taxes are levied. For the In keeping with his own and the Republican said: 5 WEST'S MOUNTAIN THE 0 r "away from Washington and back to the country and the SAN mid-197- 10c 76 PAGES 0 524-444- 5 Sports Scores Classified Ads Only SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 3. 372 NO. 58 VOL. Information 524-440- 524-2S4- Plantation r - ; - VENICE, CALIF. (UPI) -William Lennon, 53, father and manager of the singing Lennon Sisters, was shot to idefth in a parking lot Tues- - SAIGON (UPI) U.S. tank crews and allied infantrymen supported by helicopter gun-shi- Colorado. He once was arrested by the Secret Service after threatening the life of PresiB. Johnson, dent Lyndon battled North Vietnamese troops in a rubber plantation north of Saigon today., The battle still raged late tonight. Flareships turned the apparently claiming the Presfrom him day by an assailant matching ident stopped the description of a man who marrying a member of the harassed the family for sev-ey- quartet, Peggy Lennon. . , Lennon was' shot in the , yeare. parking lot of the Marina. Del a Police paid today they wer e he' Rey golf range Searching for the unidentified : worked as a pro. ' suspect who fired two rifle A witness to the shooting, JraOets into Lennons back and told UPI the Another into Jiia. head jn he Watson pounsfl, r suspect jay, in. wait in the lot tried to flee. and jumped out from behind I The gunman, described as another car as Lennon apsloppily dressed and wearproached. ing a crumpled hat, was about , There was a brief conversa30 years old, feet tall, 220 tion, then thfe man. pulled. pounds. rifle from a gunnysack ; Lennons brother, Jimmy, and the two men began scusaid: ; ffing over the weapon. Lennon y The killer could be one of shouted, No, no, dont do it. ihgse kooks who insist, after Help. Help. Bill broke away and startseeing the girls on television, that one of them is in love ed toward the entrance to the Counsil said. with him." It could be one of parking lot, ' those crank callers. There are The man fired, hit him once, Bill staggered, ran toward a Ro many kooks. Officers said the suspect comer fence. The man fired was a mental patient from again and hit him in the back. U.S. military spokesmen said 79 North Vietnamese sol-- 1 al diers were known killed in the fight, bringing to nearly T,8C0 the number, of Communist troops killed since Sunday in the new flareup of fighting that ended a seven-wee- k lull. U.S. losses Jn the battle were two killed and six wcunded. TANK DESTROYED , Field, reports said Commu-- n e ist. fire n knocked out a Sheridan tank, believed only destroyed in combat in the nine months the armored vehicles have been in use in Vietnam. . Heavy fighting also raged near Da Nang and a U.S. Marine battalion commander and five other Marines were killed in a battle there. More than 130 Americans have been killed since the North Vietnamese ended the lull with an attack near the Demilitarized 2one Sunday. : U.S. spokesmen said at least 30 North Vietnamese troops were killed by the Marines in tl)e fighting near Da Nang. . OFFICER CUT DOWN . . rocket-grenad- the-seco- -- ' : Drug Angle Probed Jn Multiple Slayings SECTION A The battalion wa cut down by lire as he led his assault on North National, Foreign ANGELES (UPI) detectives ; concentrated on the today narcotic of the grisly stab- Ling and shooting deaths of Sharon Tate and four 'aspects" guests at her estate. Police would neither con- t -firm nor deny a report drags were found1 in the 1966 black Porsche owned by mens hair -stylist Jay Sebring, one of the 'five victims. The Los Angeles Times said -today narcotics were found in his expensive sports car parked outside the Benedict Canyon home leased by Miss .Tate and her husband, film director Roman Polanski. , "Narcotics aspects are was- all Under investigation, would police spokesman of the head say. The force on the case - . 6, 7, said Sunday that no narcotics in the had been found house. Chief 10, 11 ..11 T. Noguchi said his office was conducting tests on the victims to determine if any had been using not were Results drugs. expected for several days. ' B SECTION 1, 8 City, Regional Comics TV Highlights 2 3 6, 7 Financial rCTin C V, R?Pnal "The theory that the macabre murders might have been carried out by someone freaked out on narcotics, however, . seemed untenable because police said the three telephone lines into the estate, 18 feet above the ground, had been 1 Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads D Womens Pages SECTION Sports severed. 1, 2, 8 E 3, section Killed with Miss Tate, 26, and Sebring. 33, were coffee heiress Abigail Folger, 26. Polish film producer Voityck Frokowskv, 37, and Steven f City, Regional Theater Entertainment SECTION Grand Central 18. .3 1 SECTION ' 2 3 . machinegun troops in an Vietnamese 6-- 8 . 1, 3 4, 5 6 G 8 . commander oops dug in on coastal plains, 18 miles southwest of Da Nan2- - Military spokesmen said . the Communists appar- enlly had gone into the plains in search of rice. Shortly after noon today, an armored squadron of the U.S. 11th Armored Cavalry and a company of government rang- ore clashed with North Viet- namese units in a rubber 68 about miles piantation ncrth o Saigon. The fighting raged between rows of rubber trees, with the North Viet- namere using drainage ditch- es 88 trenches- - 11 Music 11 City, Regon"aT'VJlVl6-1-8 aminer Thomas Parent, 9, 13, 15 Editorial Pages Our Man In Washington Our Man Jones Ex- Coroner-Medic- t t, IX' r hf, Today's Thought Superstition is the re ligion of feeble minds. Edmund Burke . Apollo 11 astronauts Michael Collins, Edwin Aldrin and Neil Armstrong wave to throngs ' ' Daring Nine Escape To W. Germany - i RusHONG KONG (UPI) sian, and Communist Chinese .troops rlashed today in a border battle less than 500 miles north of Chinas main nuclear testing center in Sinkiang Province. i Each side accused the other of provoking the battle, which appeared to be the most serious since the two Communist giants clashed over a disputed Usuri River island early last March. V Peking Radio charged that a Soviet task force supported by tanks, armored cars and helicopters knifed across the border and killed and wound- ed an undisclosed number of Chinese troops. It said Russia had called in reinforcements and the fight was still developing. M o s c o w countercharged that 'the Chinese invaded Soviet Kazakhstan and then attempted to bring up rein H v. -- forcements numbering up to 700 men. It reported dead and wounded on both sides. accusations came in formal notes exchanged between the two gov- The'angry ernments at the embassies in Moscow and Peking. The battle occurred in the Basin, an area Dzungarian borjust below the der and about 500 miles north of Lop Nor, the site of Chinas nuclear base. The basin is in Sino-Sovi- H. northwest area of which stretches westward 1.000 miles across the top of Tibet. Todays incident came less than a week after the hvo nations agreed at Khabarovsk Jointly to improve navigation along their common Far East boundary rivers, the scene of bloody border clashes last March. The Soviet news agency . Tass said several groups of the Sinkiang GERMANY HELMSTEDT, An East German (AP) naval officer and his brother breached Communist border barriers today and led the seven other members of their families to West Germany. - The brothers used a commandeered coal mine locomotive to reach the border south of here. Then they crossed through an unnamed section of the Communist death strip on foot under the cover of morning darkness. , The two . men were identilieufied only as a in the tenant commander East German navy and his brother, an engineer employed at a steam-powe- r, plant fed bv the coal mine from which the locomotive was taken. With them came their wives and five children ranging in age from one to 13 years. West German border officials said the East Germans drove the locomotive to its terminus at the top of a slag heap overlooll"g the border. The nine then slid down the heap and picked their way through barbed wire tha, was with overgrown weeds. heavily Chinese troops invaded Russia lip with fire on the Russian frontier guards. 'ubma-chinegu- The NEW YORK 'UPD Big Town gave America's men from the moon a thun: derous welcome today. Showered with ticker tape and confetti so thick it was like a snowstorm in August, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A., Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. and Michael Collins followed the route of America's, heroes through New York Citys financial district and up Broadway. Bands played. Spectators packed as tightly on the narrow sidewalks as subway rid- . and opened r . N.Y' parade. f ' i, . -- Slops To Welcome Astros j - ' in N Y. Pulls All Chinese i I, 16-to- 30-0- 6 , ; night into day. n As a result of measures frontier taken by Soviet guards, the violators were thrown out of Soviet territory, Tass said. The exact site of the clash was not known, Peking said Russians several hundred invaded Chinese territory. ers at rush hour yelled, cheered and surged through police barricades. Police had to struggle to keep the throng from engulfing the three men. It's wonuerful. Its exciting. The best part of all is being here, Armstrong said as he walked up the steps of City Hall for the official welcome to New York by a beaming Mayor John V. Lindsay. And this was only the start of a day that would take the three astronauts, their wives and children next to Chicago for an afternoon parade through the loop and then to Los Angeles for a state dinner tonight with President Nixon. The Apollo team got an early start on the big day. arriving 30 minutes early at John F. Kennedy International Airport in the President's Air Force One. But it was the publics first chance for a real glimpse of the space men since they returned from the flight that put Armstrong and Aldrin on the surface of the moon July 20. The enthusiastic crowds were waiting when the astronauts landed in a big Marine helicopter at the Wall Street Heliport. We have honored many men who voyagers before sailed around the world, men who flew alone across the ocean, Lindsay said in the City Hall ceremonies. But today v e honor three men who forged the first link between the earth and the for that victorv New stars York thanks you , and the world thanks you. Then, as the crowd of more once than 10,000 cheered more. Lindsay placed the gold medal of the City of New York around the neck of each astronaut. Firecrackers could be heard popping behind City Hall. and I must say we are thank ful from the looks of the beau tiful weather today that yoicr dont hold a grudge,Vi Armstrong said as he stood smiling in windless weather. . ... We understand that Be r t pur--cha- a MacArthur through the on of heroes. se can:" or Party-it- 'll - I I - A (UPI) at the glittering party presidential coming-ou- t tonight for the Apollo 11 astro- -' nauts can choose from an array of VIPs seated at 144 tables. notables S i from the worlds of science, are politics and diplomacy gathering in the Los Angeles ballroom of the Century Plaza Hotel to toast Neil Armstrong. Edwin Aldrin Jr. and Michael xteen-hundre- d Collins. In contrast to ". crowds halted the' . Surging motorcade within a hundred;-feeof its start at Bowling-- . Green, the spot where Petet Mir.jit negotiated the of Manhattan Island., . from the Indians. The Stars and Stripes hung.: from scores of buildings along;' the route of Lindy, Ike audT. Night For VIPs LOS ANGELES table-hopDe- in workers ings to die moon men fronT their steel girders and cranes number of you ascribe the weather, the rainy poor weather in the past few weeks to our flight around the moon, Astro Construction their yellow hard hats stopped woik nearby to shout greeCU i The guest list released, Tuesday included the' gover nors of 44 of the 50 states, the! representatives of 92 foreign, nations, justices of the U.S. ; Supreme Court, senators and;' of the spaced congressmen committees, the joint chiefs of staff, and other astronauts - f and their families. A guest, ambling from table to table,, might come upon guests ranging from Charles Soviet to the Lindbergh Charge d' Affaires, The nation will be able tot. watch the gala on television; as President Nixon and Gov,s Ronald Reagan of California' propose toasts and the Marine band plays such songs a t Stardust, Moonglow and, Moon Over Miami. ; i . the squeeze-tub- e food the moon voyagers consumed in space, tonight they will feast on a gourmet dinner featuring beef in salmon poached filet, champagne and a fancy ice cream desert. v V |