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Show Our Phone Numbers Showers Possible Chance cf rain and thundei-ehowe30 per cent tonight and 2C per cent Tuesday. Not so warm today with highs in the upper 80s and lows tonight near 60. Details, weather map, Page News Tips 0 Home Delivery 5 Information 8 Sports Scores 1-3535 Classified Ads Only Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South 524-440- rs I NO. 81 3 7 2 LW XI 524-444- 524-444- -52- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH B-1- 4. VOL. 0 524-284- 44 PAGES 10c MOUNTAIN THE WEST'S NEWSPAPER FIRST MONDAY, 8, 1969 SEPTEMBER ura - SAIGON (UPI) Without fanfare, the United States canceled B52 bomber strikes and cut back ofiensive sweeps Commuduring the three-danist cease-tir- e that began today in honor of Ho Chi y Ivlinh. Reliable sources made the disclosure, but U.S. headquarters had no comment on :t. Officially, the United States has followed South Vietnam's decision to ignore the Communist truce. reMilitary spokesmen ported nearly a dozen guerril la violations of the cease-firin the 14 hours after it began at 1 a.m. but called them m-- s i g mfieant, comparatively speaking. 'Three South Vietnamese were killed and 21 others were wounded, field reports said. At least three Americans died and 15 were wounded in Communist cease-fir- e violations. "Over-al- l, enemy activity is significantly less than it usually is, a U.S. military official said. By this time on a normal dav, there would be eight to 10 significant inci land BETHLEHEM Members of the General Authorities greet President David O. McKay on his 96th birthday. Left to right, President Alvin R. Dyer, President Htiqh B. Brown, President N. Eldon Tanner, President Joseph Fielding ' Smith. Shaking hands is Elder Thomas E. Monson, Council of the Twelve. mal day. The U.S. Command also has ordered all American artillerymen in the field to hold their fire unless fired upon, according to the sources. Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, rethe U.S. commander, served the right to resume the B52 strikes, sweeps and artillery raids should the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese unleash significant attacks, they said. South Vietnamese spokesmen said their troops had 50 assorted olfensives under way today actions the Viet radio had Cong liberation promised would be severely punished. Allied headquarters listed 11 Communist incidents in the first 14 hours of the truce. Jen. Dirksen, Voice Of GOP, Dies At 73 Pike, 56, Buried In Holy dents attacks by fire or ground attacks. U.S Command field reports listed no B52 bomber raids since 1 a.m., compared with 10 strikes in the hours just before the standdown. Five American sweeps of battalion size or larger were under way, far fewer than on a nor- e By STEVEN GERSTEL (UPI) Former Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, 56, who died of exhaustion when he became lost in the Judean wilderness, was buried today in the Holy Land he loved. n WASHINGTON -E(UPI) McKinley Dirksen, an e orator whose time- less political skills made him the hub of Republican power in Congress, is dead at 73. The man who for 10 years was the voice, vehicle and vital force of the Grand Old verett old-tim- , The Israeli government office in Jerusalem announced the burial at Saint McKay Is 96 Today , press Peters t By STEVE HALE Deseret Mews Staff Writer McKay -- stores anecdotes leadejr which i .about The church portray his character. i President David O. McKay, whose long life has been described i as a trail of kindnesses began his 97th year ' today. The spiritual leader 'bf 2 8 million Mormons observed his 96th birthday in his Hotel Utah apartment." 1 This milestone in the life of the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints started friends, associates nd, members of The Church recalling "David 0. y "Kest one of the greatest leaders The Church has ever said Elder Hugh B, had, Brown, First Counselor in The First Presidency. He has always been kind, considerate and compassionate. Miss Clare Middlemiss, President McKays secretary for 33 years, told of an incident which underscored that remark. She said he once promised an autograph to a little girl in England, then couldnt find her in the crowd. "He couldnt rest until hed in the newspaper to find her, Miss Middlemiss the little said, adding that girl got that autograph. When President McKay lived at, 1037 Easf South, Temple St in Salt Lake City, two young' girls picked some flowers and put them on his porch with a note signed only Ruth Ann and Sandy. It took him two days, but he finally found out who they were, and sent each one of them a letter, said Elwood I. Barker, who once was President McKays bishop. . ' A few years ago, when the church leader Was still driving a car, he was seen stopping as hp pulled into a park- 90-fo- ing spot. He spotted someone else headed for that place, so he tipped his hat, pulled out, and went in search of another place, said an eyewitness. . President McKay always managed to maintain a stately dignity without being stuffy. His quick wit is widely known, and it is reliably reported tht President Nixons EXHAUSTION FATAL at first Israeli police thought he had fallen to his death but an autopsy showed he died of exhaustion in the heat of the desert soon after he became separated from his wife, Diane. , See PEES. McKAY, P. A-- Mrs. Pike said Sunday night she was in no hurry to leave Israel, but a travel agency said today she and her brother, Richard Scott Kennedy, had booked passage on an 6 Employment Level Points The news Up Economic Slowdown INSIDE Olympic Airways flight London on Tuesday. National Foreign 1, 2, 4, Pathologists, who conducted a post mortem at the Abu WASHINGTON -B(UPI) employment and unemployment levels remained al18, 19 most static in August, indicat19 Music ing the growth of the econothe my is slowing down, 19 Our Man Jones Labor Depaitment said today. SECTION B Nonfarm payrolls showed ; an seasonally City, Regional 1, 3, 4, 12, 24 adjusted, of 165,000 during the 2 month to a total of 70.4 milComics TV Highlights 5 lion. But 100,000 of Increase S. was due to the return of auto Sports workers following an earlier 11 Financial 10, hum usual model changeover. 14 Obituaries ...1 13, The August unemployment 14 Weather Map' irate was 3.5 per cent, down Action Ads 1 slightly from the 3 6 July rate. Theater Womens Pages Editorial Pages 12 oth 14-1- 7 increase, 9 13-2- 3 contract Employment construction a registered of seasonally adjusted drop in m 43,000 August. persons in construcUnemployment tion increased to 7.4 per cent from 5 per cent in June. The sharp increase came before President Nixon ordered a 75 per cent cutback in as construction government an antiinflation measure. Stambler said it was far too soon to tell what will to construction employment as a result of the - happen cutback. fanatics. They were not the kind of people you would like to engage in an argument, he told a news conference less than a day after being freed in exchange for 15 Brazilian political prisoners. The veteran diplomat said he had little inkling of his abductors but orientation added that they had nothin? good to sav about the Brazilian government. In their ransom note, the themkidnapers identified selves as belonging to the National Liberation Action an . ideo-logic- over gah, talks with newsmen after release, t A oratorv, exuberant charm and flair for the theatrical, as well as his keen talent for compromise, that often won him the balance of power despite the minority status his party usually held. Outside the Senate, it was Dirksen the master answer-ma- n who caught the imagina- See DIRKSEN on Page pile. Mrs. Pike said her husband See PIKE on Page 6 A-- the MR-8- . The number 8 represents Oct 8, 1967, the date of Cuban revolutionary Ernest Che Guevaras death in Bolivia. Of' his captivity, best-know- insigns of violence to Pikes ternal organs which a fall would have produced. After Pikes body was found near the fortress of King Herod the Great, Mrs. Pike husrecalled her If bands last words to her 1 d.e here, I am at peace. I have no regrets. Pikes body was found 2.6 miles from where Mrs. Pike had left him last week in a state of collapse after their automobile stuck on a rock (idnapers Release r Ambassador RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -C. Burke U.S. Ambassador Elbrirk said today his kidnapers kept their faces masked at all times during the four days they held him captive. He described them as intelligent briefly Kebir Institute of Forensic Medicine, said they found no 6, 8 Howard Stambler, a department analyst, said the growth of nonfarm employment had slowed substantially since March. The increases in the March through August period averaged 145,000 a month compared with a 250,000 average increase in the months from September through March. Asked if the figures indicated the Nixon Administration was winning its fight against inflation, Stambler told a news The growth of conference: the economy is slowing down in terms of employment. for NO VIOLENCE SECTION A - Elbrick I have no told newsmen: complaints about my treatment after the first night. He said he was told about the reasons foi the kidnaping only in vague terms and was not allowed to see any newspapers urttl Saturday afternoon, aftter the military junta agreed to the kidnapers demands. He speculated that the kidnapers did not W'ant him to know they had threatened his life. Meantime, Brazilian security officials launched a widespread hunt for Elbricks abductors. They seari hed several hours in the area where w as set free. Police sources said at least a dozen persons were arrested. The military junta that took over a week ago when President Arthur da Costa e Silva ha suffered a stroke alerted military and law enforcement agencies to beon guard camagainst a broadened paign of violence which the (wo terrorists groups that kidnaped Elbuck promised to unleash. There was speculation that the junta would issue a decree nuking death the punishment for terrorism. The Brazilian military plane cai rying the 15 prisoners whose release was demanded by E b r l c ks kidnapers arrived in Mexico City Sunday afternoon. 1 ft Party in the U.S. Senate died Sunday after three heart stoppages. six days after an operation for lung cancer. In a congressional career that covered 35 years, first a? a representative from the combelt region of his native Pekin, 111., and later as a senator, Dirksen was one of the most colorful and controversial politicians of his era. The tributes were immediate and deep. President Nixon said he will be remembered as a giant in the history cf Congress and as one who on issues the great always placed the nation first.- Richard B. Russell, dean of the Senate Democrats, added: Few senators have been more universally loved by the American people. . . . When he spoke the nation listened, and his eloquence on the issues of our day was a source of national strength. The Senate planned to meet today and then adjourn in tribute to one of its n figures. Tentative funeral plans were for the late lawmakers body to lie in state Tuesday in the Capitol Rotunda and after services at National Presbyterian Church to be taken by funeral train to Pekin for burial. In the Senate, it was Dirk-sen- s body was discovered Sunday by Israeli border guards at the foot of a cliff, six days after he was reported missing in the desert where Jesus spent 40 nights fasting. v i Editorial comment, Page Cemetery Pikes 4 ; Protestant in Jaffa. A-- 8 Apollo Rocket Moved To Pad CAPE KENNEDY The Apollo 12 (UPI) space mac hineSaturn 5 was being moved to the launch pad today in a step toward the start of Americas sec- Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad, Richard F. Gordon and Alan L. Bean were expected to watch the oot tall rocket-spacecraft- three and one-ha- SAN CLEMENTE. s ll mile journey from an assembly building to the oceanside launch site. CALIF. President Nixon months working (AP) a vacation at the Western White House today and fiew to a meeting with President Gustaended ond moonlandirg expedition on November 14. 333-- f Back To Work For President vo Diaz Ordaz of Mexico on his way back to Washington. After joining Ordaz on the n border to dedicate a dam, Nixon planned to take a look at Hurricane Ca- milles path of destruction across Louisiana and Missis- sippi. , Back in a capital saddened death Sunday of Senate Leader Everett Republican M. Diiksen there will be an immediate gap in the President's schedule. The regular Tuesday meeting morning with Republican congressional leaders was canceled. by the In his office at the Western White House compound Nixon huddled Sunday with his chef adviser on national security,' Henry A. Kissinger. They were looking a all aspects of North the three-dacease-fir- e Vietnam ordered in commeni-- , oration of its dead presi-den- t, Ho Chi Minh a cease- fire South Vietnam i ejected. y Today's Thought You can't hie on amusement. It is the froth on water an inch deep, and then the mud Gcoi ye MacDonald I The President, accompanied by his wife and two daughters, waved gaily to a small group of about 75 persons as he boarded Air Force One at El Toro Marine Air Station this morning shortly after hel- icoptering from his home in nearby San Clemente. i Press Secretary Ronald I Ziegler declined to say what the ultimate American reaction might be. |