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Show Cooling Off DEBERET Partly cloudy with chance of thundershowers tonight and Saturday. Daytime highs 85 to 90. Lows tonight in the upper 50s. Details, weather, map on Page B-- 8 VOL. 3 7 2 NO. 7 3 Our Phone Numbers K 4-4400 News, News Tips Home Delivery 0 5 Information 8 Scores Sports 5 Classified Ads Only Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South 10c PAGES WEST'S MOUNTAIN THE FIRST 524-284- : 524-444- ; 524-444521-353- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 5 2 ; -52- NEWSPAPER AUGUST 29, FRIDAY, 1 969 ; N. Korea Holds Copter Crew Crmninid Aeti 'Admraiiti y. Dinra(oifiidl t PANMUNJOM. Korea Release of three (UPI) a of crewmen wounded downed helicopter will be considered only after the United States admits to the criminal act of sending the copter over North Korea and promises it will not happen again. These were conditions of release voiced by the Communists after they disclosed Thursday the three crewmen of a U.S. Army helicopter shot down Aug. 17 over its territory are alive but wounded. Two of the men were reported in serious condition. The first information on the fate of the crewmen was revealed at a meeting be went down just across the north-soutborder, 25 miles north of Seoul. You have stated that your side wounded three UNC tween Allied and Communist officials at the Korean Military and Armistice Commission. Two previous requests for the information had been turned down. This time. Maj. Gen. Ri Choon-Suof North Korea agreed to tiie demand of U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. Arthur Adams. Ri said Capt. David H. Crawford of Pooler, Ga., and Spec. 4 Herman S. Hofstatter of Lowpoint, 111., had suffered serious injuries. WO Malcolm V. Loepke of Richmond, Ind., was slightly hurt. They are now receiving medical treatment, Ri said, giving no details on the mens injuries. The OH23 helicopter h (U.N. Command ) personnel on Aug. 17, 1969. Now I ask you to immediately return n them for proper medical treatment, Adams told Ri. The Communist general repeated earlier North Korean allegations the copter flew across the border on a hostile mission. Adams replied: I told you emphatically that the helicopter was not dispatched to fly over North Korean territory and had no hostile intention against your side. Ri refused to accept Adams answer and continued in the meeting to demand the United States disclose its in the military purpose incident. apology this time and an assurance that such an incident would not happen again. Ri said : If your side frankly admits the criminal act of having dispatched a military aircraft into our side and seriously violated our sovereignty in a flagrant violation of the armistice agreement and apologizes to our side for it and submits a document guaranteeing in a responsible manner that you will not commit such a violation of the armistice agreement again, following the past practice, we will consider your request for the return of the pilots who are in our hands. U.S. officials have said the bubble-toppeobservation helicopter was unarmed and had strayed off course when it was shot down. Witne.-se-s watching from South Korea corroborated the contention. d The North Koreans shot down a light U.S. observation plane over their territory in a similar incident in 1963. Two crewmen survived and were released a year later after an official American apology. In demanding an American i Jetliner "Tops" is Hijacked, 113 Aboard congratulated by master. Axel Patzwaldt. Saves Two Lives A Trans ROME (AP) World Airlines jet with 113 persons aboard was hijacked today on a flight from Rome to Tel Aviv, missing a stop at Athens. TWA spokesmen first Great Dane Is Hero ANGELES (UP1) Tops, a Great Dane doesnt let being named Americas Dog Hero of 1969 go to his ' - head. Eight weeks discovered a The giant dog received the gold medal for his part in protecting the lives of two children. retrieved, . - LOS n Early in the year he saved a young girl from harnr by forcing her from the path of a truck. Tops boy lying apparently lifeless on the bottom of a swimming pooL He barked and brought aid to the pool. The boy was and nounced out of local hospital. j later prodanger at a And, according to his masAxel Patzwaldt, an actor, Tops has survived the honors without it affecting his loveable personality. ter Disputes May Still U.S. School Bells INSIDE THE NEWS School bells may not be ringing on time for thousands of children this fall, as teachers in several communities threaten strikes or other job action. Much of the trouble is in the Midwest. teachers 19,000 Chicago's vote Tuesday on whether to strike at the opening of class is Wednesday. The mainthe workers in tenance already system voted to walk out. At issue is whether the city will honor pay raises promised strike last to settle a two-daol May. The school board, pleading a lack of funds, adopted a supplementary budget last week providing money for half the premised increases. The executive director of Federation of the Illinois Teachers, Oscar Weil, said Thursday as many as 15 school districts in the state could be struck when classes open next week lie said 600 elementary school teachers in Joliet vote Sept. 2 on a contract and five suburbs are still Chicago negotiating new contracts. Almost 35,000 students would be See SCHOOL on Page y GOs SECTION A - ' As newsmen questioned the company, none of the soldiers contradicted the view that the entire company shared in the decision. probably right that there were five who said they wouldnt go, declared Pfc. V 1-- 8 9, 10 Womens Pages Editorial Pages They're Your Schools Our Man Jones Music SECTION City, Regional Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads SECTION Young Americans Comics 11-1- 3 14, 15 15 15 15 B 7 7, 8 8 9 C 3 4 Theater 7 8 City, Regional SECTION D Snorts . TV Highlights Financial 4 .6, 5 7 Stick Together By HUGH VANES VALLEY. CHANG SONG A group of VIETNAM (AP) GIs from A Company said today that the whole company was together when it refused an order to go into combat last Sunday. Newsmen flew to the company operating in the Song Chang Valley this afternoon to got the mens reaction to their former company commanders statement that the refusal was by only five men and that most of the company was prepared to move. Its A-- 7 Fred Sanders of Aiken, S.C., a medic present with the company last Sunday. But when they stood up and said they wouldnt go, others said they wouldn't go either. I recKon it was moial support because nobody . . . we didnt want to go. com- The former company mander, Lt. Eugene Shurtz 26, of Davenpcrt, Iowa, who was relieved of command Jr., Monday, told newsmen earlier today that there were five men who desired to see the inspector general rather than move with the company at that particular time. The remainder of the company was ready to go. Pfc. Carl Moiton of Elms-forN.Y., told newsmen the field: The whole company X in ,,oii- - o M, confused. National, Foreign City, Regional By Associated Press said the plane was headed for Tel Aviv, but Beirut airport reported it would land at Damascus, Syria. A rumor at Romes Fiumi-cin- o Airport said two Arab notables were on the hijacked Boeing 707, but an airline spokesman would not confirm this. The spokesman said there was another unconfirmed report that three men with guns carried out the hijacking. A spokesman for Beiruts airport communications department said it had heard a conversation between the pilot and Damascus Airport. He did not give any details. Officials at the Lod Airport control tower in Tel Aviy also reported radio contact, but said they things were later nitely was behind the refusals. None of us thought we would withstand being pinned down another day or spend another night out there So we decided somebody had to see tire I.G. (inspector general). Everybody couldnt. So those five men volunteered and everybody agreed that the they would represent entite company, to try to get someone out there that could do something about what was going on. Now theyre trying to say that those' five men were the only ones that wanted to refuse. The whole company was not ready to move out. Morale was rock bottom. Sanders and other men in A Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry, agreed that Shurtz, in command for three weeks, was a good officer." Syria has just inaugurated a new airport capable of taking the biggest jets now flying. Palestinian sources in Esir-u- t hinted broadly that Arabs for the were reponsible hijack, but its immediate purpose was not clear. A TWA spokesman said 87 of the passengers had been scheduled to get off in Athens and 14 in Tel Aviv. Airport sources said 73 passengers boarded the TWA flight in Rome. The other passengers were on 'the plane when it arried here from the United States. 41st Skyjack To Havana - A NationMIAMI (AP) al Airlines jet with 49 persons aboard was hijacked to Havana today the 41st commercial plane of the year to be diverted to the Cuban capital. , Mine Kills 5 Guardsmen Bv WALTER WHITEHEAD - A truck SAIGON (UPI) hit a Viet Cong mine killing five New Hampshire National Guardsmen who were driving away from the battlefront on their way to get processed out of Vietnam for home, military spokesmen said today. The five guardsmen were driving down a road 32 miles north of Saigon Tuesday when the trucks rear wheels hit 40 pounds of explosives. They were Spec. 4 Guy A. Blanchett, 22, Spec. 4 Roger E. Robichau, 24; Spec. 5 Richard E. Benest, 24; Sgt. Richard P. Raymond. 27, and Spec. 4 Gaetan J. G. Baudoin, 20, all of Manchester, N.H. All were of the 3rd Battalion, 197th Artillery, which had arrived in Vietnam in September, 1S68, for a years duly. All the rest of the battalion made it back to rear areas for NAL said it was reported that the hijacker was accompanied by a woman and three children. 1966. The captain of NALs bound from Miami to New Orleans and Houston, radioed from a position 30 miles northeast of Sarasota, Fla., at 10:12 a.m. EDT, We are being hijacked. Everyhe thing is under control, said. We will probably not be talking to you again until the departure from Havana. 183 f t UP v in s b j;i Jta , Workers descend on Pittsburgh, Pa., city hall to enforce rights processing home. A South Vietnamese patrol led by a U.S. Green Beret sergeant discovered an obsolete U.S. M41 tank hidden in an Communist unde r ground bunker near Tay Ninh Thursday. Military spokesmen said it had been captured from South Vietnamese troops three years ago. Military spokesmen said the U.S. M41 tank was the first found in Communist hands in provinces near Saignn. It was captured in a Viet Cong attack on South Vietnamese forces tiie night of March 24, Flight - V- xi ML Earlier, the pilot had radioed Rome: Proceeding directly to Tal Aviv. Hijack. The plane carried 101 passengers and a crew of 12. The flight, No. 840, originated on the U.S. West Coast and proceeded to New York before arriving in Rome. s Telephoto jobs - for - blacks dispute. Pittsburgh Workers AAarch Dn Protest Ey JACQUELINE SNYDER PITTSBURGH (AP) - Hun- dreds of white construction workers angered over an order that stopped them from working for two days to meet Negro job demands marched downthrough Pittsburghs town today, carrying signs, chanting and clapping their hands." As they progressed through the downtown during heavy traffic, pemorning rush-hou- r destrians along their way whistled, cheered and clapped. Motorists in cars and bus drivers honked their horns. People in buildings along the march route tossed confetti out of windows. LETS GO About 600 of the workers gathered at Pittsburgh's Civic Arena, just on the fringe of the biggest Negro area in Pittsburgh, and started their march. They milled around until a group of ironworkers surged forward and shouted: Let's go! As they walked, more people joined the march. Police estimated the crowd We at 2,000. to work! We want want to work! We want to work! the men chanted. Interspersed were cries of White power. Some of the signs read: White Pride and . Union Joe Sold Us Down Unity, the River, and Down With Joe, We Want o Work. The Joe was in reference to Mayor Joseph M. Barr. The workers took a winding path through the downtown, keeping to the sidewalks and stopping traffic only when they crossed the streets. Policemen on motorcycles escorted the group. The march was orderly. IN THIS TOGETHER Were all in this together, said one worker. We don't have any leaders. We make our own decisions. The marchers stopped at the Building where about 200 construction y workers gatnered the shutdown to protest of construction to meet Negro demands that more blacks be admitted to craft unions. Owners of 10 major construction projects involving more than $200 millioi and 31,000 workers closed the jobs Thursday after three days of bitter demonstrations seeking more craft union jobs for blacks. Some of the idled men at City held a counier-proteHall. The work halt was designed beto permit negotiations tween officials of the citys builders and trade union and the Black Construction Coalition. The befean negotiations Thursday and continued into the early morning today in projects the office of Mayor Joseph M. Barr. The only apparent result was an appeal today by craft union leaders asking the workers not to appear aj. ' todays planned protest. The coalition, a loosely knft union of the citys Negro! groups, organized the three- - j day protest to point up the" fact that only two per cent of . the citys more than 30,000 trade union jobs are held bj'j Negroes. - 7 Herbert Hill, labor director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said his group plans legal action to halt all publicly funded construction in tiie' United States until morf blacks are admitted to craft" .! unions. Either black men work or nobody worKs, said Hill. "We are not going to allow billions of dollars of federal, state and " municipal funds to be used to' subsidize racial discriminain tion the construction, industry. Today's Thought Habit , if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. St. Augustins ; |