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Show T1 Thundershowers Thundershowers in most areas. See details, weather map cn Page B-- 5. Our Phone Numbers News, News Tips Home Delivery Information Sports Scores 5 Classified Ads Only Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South 24-4400 24-2840 24-4445 24-4448 521-353- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 38 PAGES 0 e 1 VOL, 3 72 NO. 68 WEST'S MOUNTAJN THE SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1969 NEWSPAPER FIRST Como v.v, imrS 'X ireilu SjfJ.s v i s 15 t By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hurricane Cainille is dead, but the awesome task of searchits victims turned today to the sea off the Mississippi coast for ing and the mountainous areas of Virginia. The toll stood at nearly 400 dead, with hundreds missing and feared dead. O Property damages soared into the hundreds of millions of; dollars. Nat Cassibry, Civil Defense coordinator for the CAMILLE'S TRIAL Mississippi coastal strip estimated that 315 persons perished. He said it was more bodies believed that are buried in the beach sand o Martial Law Area Shrunk Along Coast buried deep where theyll UPi TtMphoto Flames whip through one of six valuable homes destroyed by fire in El Cajon, San Diego County, California. Fires Cut Giant Swath LOS ANGELES (AP)' -More than 1.800 residents fled their homes today as fires rampaged unchecked over a huge swath of remote and relatively unpopulated brush and grassland In Southern California.''-- i'- 1 White House, but it was bum- -' . - An estimated 1,500 persons were ordered out of their homes during the night in northern San Diego County where fire had blackened at least 45,000 acres, officials said, in the wilting, dry heat The biggest fire started Fjri- -, day on Camp Pendleton about 15 miles, south of the Western late-summ- ing eastward today and said to be no tnreat to the summer seaside residence where Pres- ident Nixon has been staying. No injuries were reported. Officials said they could not flrenear stop s'' 12,000-ae- r Fallbrook, 85 miles south of Los Angeles from a valley several hundred containing homes including some in the $100,000 range. A trailer park was also threatened, officials said. about Reports conflicted property damage. Officials said one report, that 15 houses near ; Escondido Frj- burned . -- v for this weeks riots "be re- moved from public life. In Brno, where fresh fighting broke out between youths and police Fricurfew day night, a nine-hoended at 5 a.m. and tound the city quiet at last. Prague also was back to normal after three days of unrest. Prague Radio sharply attacked the counter revolutionaries that the regime has charged organized the fightanti-Sovi- et - ing. must get rid of those who lead our young people into adventures, the radio said. We must remove from We public life those forces which were responsible. ' Whatever ' has . happened now makes it possible to open a battle against them. The bristling radio attack coupled with the new emergency measures foreshadowed a swift crackdown, both on moderates in the government . INSIDE THE NEWS SECTION SECTION A 1, 2 National, Foreign City, Regional Do-I- t Man Calendar 3, 9, 10 3 3 Sports Financial Church Page Theater Editorial Page 4-- 6 7 8 10, 11 12 i B 1, City, Regional Comics TV Highlights 3-- 2 3 5 5 tatnes Weather Map Action Ads 7 Womens Page SECTION 18 C Church News 6 i ) ' . . New Cabinet - , ar Storm Ends Japan Visit from employment, banishment for up to five years from certain parts of the country, or in the case of students, explusion from school. Signing the decree, ironically, were three heroes of last socialism with a years human face, experiment that, on the Soviet-le- d brought invasion: President Ludvik Svoboda, Alexander Dubcek, chairman of the Federal Assembly and Premier Oldrich Cernik. 300-fo- Formation Of was the 39th commercial airliner to be hijacked to Cuba this year, the 15th of a foreign line. If found guilty, the new code provides as punishment advance toward a timwhere it' burned downed helicopter for six bered acres. Two fires hi Thai Bernardino '' flay. Another U.S. .force heat in County 0 miles east of Los fighting hundreds of North Vitrapped 1,900 burned about , Angeles etnamese in a nearby valley. acres, creeping within a few The riflemen, assaulting hundred feet of houses. ' , from two directions under a has Los Angeles County shield of air and artillery escaped brush fires so far alstrikes, swept to. the top of the suffered residents though high Hill 101 without through, a high temperature resistance. They took the ' of 97 as a degrees Friday ' third straight smog alert was peak at dusk and immediately set up a defensive perimeter. called for the day. Sunday they planned to push the final 1,000 yards, toward the helicopter wreckage.. . ' said Battlefield reports ' scores of fortified bunkers the North Viet-- t . from which namese regulars had battled the . advancing Americans since Tuesday had been caved ' in but there were no Communist bodies. Military spokesmen said SAIGON (UPI) President 500 North Vietnamese nearly Thieu Van Nguyen . today have been killed in soldiers asked Tian Thien Khien, 44, ' fighting over the past five who is a four-stgeneral in the area 17 miles west minister of the interior, to days of Tam Ky 340 miies northform a new South Vietnamese ' east of Saigon. cabinet , U.S. losses have been 32 In making the announce- - killed and 137 wounded. ment 24 hours after Prime ' American jets and artillery Minister Tran Van Huong repounded the hill for 12 consecsigned, the presidents office utive hours as five companies did not say Khien would sucof the U.S. 196th Light Brigade ceed Huong but informed pushed up the hill. sources said he would. Thieu has requested Prime Minister Tran Van Huong and the whole present cabinet to stay on in their present positions as a caretaker government until the formation of a new government, the announcement said. Khien is a deputy prime minister and minister of the interior. He has headed the controversial program to try to stamp out Viet Cong leadership in the nations towns and villages. Huong resigned after five weeks of unsuccess'ul negotiating between himself, Thieu and political parties which Thieu is trying to include in the cabinet to broaden the base of the government in preparation for national elect. cans. The plane TOKYO (AP) Tropical storm Cora swept into the Pacific today after killing two persons and injuring 177 dura rampage ing through Japan. said die storm, Police accompanied by small torna-doe- s, wrecked 180 houses, leaving 1,038 persons homeless. At least 250 houses were partly destroyed and more than 1,000 were flooded or partly flooded, i Rains inundated 1,168 acres of farmland and caused 105 landslides on the islands of Kyushu, Shikoku and central Honshu, paralyzing road and railroad traffic. At least eight ships were reported sunk and 27 were damaged when they were washed ashore. The storm, which hit Japan with typhoon strength Friday and then was downgraded to a tropical storm, moved out to the sea off Miyagi prefecture, t d their ' 5,000 Thieu Asks . tion. dismissal . Burcarmanga to the Colombian capital today and forced to fly to Cuba. Tne plane, an AVRO 748 turboprop, stopped at the coastal city of BarranquiUa to refuel before heading across the Caribbean Sea to Cuba. It was not immediately known whether any of the passengers were Ameri- emergency regulations were in the interest of public order and said they would remain in force until Dec. 31. They were effective immediately. Among - other things, the new measures eliminated preliminary hearings, instituted summary trials, barred defense lawyers access to evidence until during the trial and permitted three weeks detention for police investiga- summary bomb-scarre- An BOGOTA (UPI) Avianca airliner with 23 persons aboard was hijacked on a domestic flight from . slovakia. A n official government announcement decreed the Capture Scarred Hill (UPI) - . Colombian Plane Taken To Cuba and resistance leaders outside it, In the wake of the disorders on the first anniversay of the Soviet invasion of Czecho- FLASH FLOODS Hundreds SAIGON about 80 Pendleton fire iOf U.S. infantrymen today miles south of Los Angeles . Hill across 20,000 acres of dry captured i .101 North Vietnamese from . into the adjacent , brushand who1 had blocked National Cleveland Forest, gunners some Southern California desert towns and by humidity that sagged to a very low 10 percent even along the Coast. Winds fanned the Camp &m affect day night, was Incorrect. In El Cajon, 40 miles south of Camp Pendleton, a small six 9(Lacre .fire consumed houses before it was put out. Three ' major fires still burned uncontrolled in-.- , San Diego County hnd twe Mhw crackled over parched areas of - San Bernardino County east of Los Angeles. Fire fighters were hampered by near record temperatures that hit 113 Friday in - Sse&c Ihii&tie A series PRAGUE (UPI) of unprecedented police state measures suspending normal legal procedures went into in Czechoslovakia., today providing swift and severe punishment for protestradio ers. The state-ru- n demanded those responsible sea, Cassibry added. U.S. GIs CALIFORNIANS FLEE probably never be found. Weve already pulled some bodies out of the water and theres no telling how many more have been swept out to . In Virginia, where Camille spawned flash flooding, there were 60 known dead with more than 110 missing. It appears that perhaps at least 100 of our citizens have lost their lives, Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. said after surveying the mountainous western part of Virginia. Hardest hit was Nelson County, an agricultural area, where the toll was 44 early today. Other communities in the Blue Ridge Mountain foothills also suffered heavily. Officials expect to find additional bodies in mountainside homes buried by earthslides during the flood. At least 25 homes were swept away and buried in mud in the tiny community of Davis Creek, north of the Nelson County seat of Lovingston. RivEB RECEDES In the state capital of o n d, the flood-swolle- RicK-- m n James River began to recede after cresting at 28.6 feet 19 and feet above flood stage was expected to be back in its banks by late tonight The flood crest moved into flat eastern Virginia where its danger sharply dissipated. Camille also claimed 10 lives in Louisiana, two in West Virginia and three in Cuba. Camille, the worst hurricane ever to strike the American mainland, broke up Fri- -' day in the far reaches of the North Atlantic. The storm had merged with a frontal system off Newfoundland and had lost all characteristics of a tropical storm, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported. Airlift Aids Victims, sea Page GULFPORT, MISS. (UPI) Martial law was lifted along the Mississippi gulf coast Friday except in the resort stretch hardest hit by hurricane Camille, It seems to have settled down to a more or less routine cleanup job in the area, said Gov.John Bell Williams in shrinking the area of martial law to Biloxi, Gulfport, Mississippi City, Long Beach, Pass Christian, Bay St. Louis and Ocean Springs. Brig. Gen. George A. Lincoln, head of the Office of Erne rgency Preparedness, said it may take up to five weeks to get services restored and the residents of the area moved back. It may be a year, he said, before the coast returns to normal SEARCH BAYOUS National Guardemen, using amphibious vehicles,' hunted Friday for bodies in remote bayous where pilots had regreat numbers of ported dead. But very few bodies were found, and Williams said the receding tide apparently had swept the bodies into the bay. There still was confusion and controversy over the death toll. Williams said the number of dead would exceed 200, but Mrs. Gladys Gorenflo, coroner of Harrison County where A-- 3 most of the dead have been found, said she has been keeping count of the bodies and the total was 115. The governor is wrong and I'U tell him so, she said. I have viewed every body that has been brought into all funeral homes and his big num' ber is ridiculous. DEATH TOLLS Mrs. Gorenflo said the large death tolls and predictions, which range up to 1,000, was the result of everyone wanting to get Into the picture.- Williams admitted at a news conference Friday the handling of bodies and the death toll had been the weakest part of opr operation here. He said he understood the . Red Cross was taking care of that phase of the oper- -' ation, but the Red Cross said its efforts were concentrated on refugees. morgues and laneral parlors to turn over their bodies for collection at a central point where the state has some refrigerated trucks. FBI experts were to aid in the identification of bodies. Huong objected to tfie poli- ticians in the cabinet. He said they would put party interests above national interest. Today's Thought People dont ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfyi- emotion than a Robert Keith Leavitt Navy Seabees probe the shattered remains of an a partment complex at Pass Christian, Miss., for victims of Hurricane Camille. fr. c I i , . STATE TO COUNT Civil Defense Mississippi Director Miller Dent said the state has begun an effort to count and identify the dead, and he asked hospitals, ions. dozen facts. C , , |