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Show Our Phone Numbers Unsettled Cooler today and tonight. Chance of rain 60 per cent today and 40 per cent tonight. Considerably cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers. Details, weather map, Page B-- u ia X3 V f 24-4400 Information Sports Scores Classified Ads Only Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South 24-4445 -5-24-4448 -5- 21-3535 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 5. VOL. 372 NO. 83 Dll ld 1 & J?. News Tips Home Delivery 10c PAGES 7 6 MOUNTAIN THE NEWSPAPER FIRST WEST'S WEDNESDAY, - 10, 1969' SEPTEMBER Light Plane , Jet Crash, 3 Killed i 4 150 Watch In Terror As Jet Spins Downward INDIANAPOLIS, IND. (AP) Collection of bodies and debris continued today in & farm field where the broken parts of a colliding airliner and a light plane plunged from the sky. killing 83 persons. Eyewitnesses single-engin- e the said craft carrying a student pilot, soloing Robert W. Carey, knocked the tail off the Allegheny Airlines jetliner as the plane approached Weir-Coo- k Municipal Airport larger Tuesday. All 78 passengers and the crew of four on the jetliner, as well as Carey, an Indianapolis plumber and father of six, were killed. The jetliner, which began its" flight at Boston, had touched down at Baltimore and Cincinnati and was scheduled to stop It the Indianapolis airport before going on to St. Louis. It was , near perfect weather, said John Shaffer, ere of a team of 16 investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration. Its almost inconceivable that the two planes were at the same spot at the same time. The aerial collision occured near London, a community of 300 about 10 miles southeast of Indianapolis. Most of the wreckage of the DC9 airliner landed in a soybean field 100 yads from a home park- where mobile - Gerda's Eye Keeps Shy Of Mainland HALIFAX, N.S. (AP) Hurricane Gerda moved inland over Quebec province today after lashing the Cana- dian Maritime provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia with rain and winds of up to 80 miles an hour and causing damage that so far appeared to be minor. As she barreled up the Atlantic coast Tuesday, Gerda brushed New'England with 50 mph winds before moving over Grand Manan Island, off the southwest coast of New Four inches of Brunswick. rain fell in Portland, Maine, and two Inches at Eastport. But the center of the storm did not hit the U.S. coast. Nova Scotias south shore bore the brunt of the storm, which tore down telephone and power lines, unrooted trees And disrupted shipping and Airline schedules. many of the 150 residents watched with terror as the severed fuselage of the jet whistled toward them. Bodies, wreckage and luggage fell from the sky. About 500 policemen and a team of federal investigators combed the field today for remnants of the disaster. Airport controllers said the jet disappeared from a radar screen as it dropped from 6,000 feet to 2,500 feet in its landing approach. Carey had taken off from nearby McCordsville on a training flight to By United Press International Israeli planes returned today to the scene of Tuesdays land; sea and air assault against Egypt, bombing and strafing Egyptiart army vehicles and troops. The U.S. State Department reported urgent Middle East talks wuuld begin next week with Russia. An Israeli spokesman said todays air raid against Egypt was in retaliation for further Egyptian n plane right away, but maybe ' sometime, The family moved to JndU from Manchester, anapolis N.H., a year ago. The crew members who perished with 78 passengers' were identified by Allegheny as Capt. James M. Elrod, 47, Plainfield, Ind., First Officer Heckendom, .talks on the Middle East have been continuing in Moscow for the last few" months Mull ap iinw Wirt of flight data Recorder lie amid wreckage of plane after jet rowly missed mobile park coming to rest in a soybean field. Remain m Pi nar-- " carrier claimed . They the ship would be obsolete before the champagne runs down its bow. C VAN-69- Prospects for passage of the measure dimmed with Tuesdefeat of an days amendment to hold up production of the controversial C5A aircraft. It was an unexpectedly harsh reversal for 64-2- 3 critics of the Pentagon, who had compiled a string of victories in the twq months of de-- bate on the $20 billion defense procurement bill. Sen. anti-C5- William - Proxmire, sponsor of the amendment, had camwaged an paign against the huge cargo plane, contending its costs eight-mont- Israel officials had Indicated they would carry out new punitive attacks against felt It Egypt whenever-thenecessary. The swift retaliation was In line with Defense Minister Moshe Dayans warning to Egypt that it could expect even heavier Israeli strikes if toe - violations continue, cease-fir- e Pentagon Critics Lose C5A, Shoot At Carrier ., g Rogers-Gromy- IT ALREADY OBSOLETE? (UPI) -Pentagon critics, trying to bounce back from their worst setback of the year, turned their fire today on a proposed attack aircraft carrier. , Sens. Walter F. Mondale, and Clifford P. Case, said they were hoping for a vote today or Thursday to prevent the Navy from laying the keel for the nuclear peace-makin- h had soared in three years from $3.2 to over $5 billion as a result of an unusually liberal contract with the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. But at the end of the controwhile versy, most senators critical of the contract nonetheless felt the C5A Itself could be a. valuable tool Many said they were tantalized by the planes massive airlift capabilities which might enable the United States to close some of its overseas bases. Mondale said those pushing for an increased carrier fleet, like their predecessors who defended the horse cavalry and the battleship," are following a path of tradition rather than reason. Mondales argument ' that the Navy was adhering blindly to outdated policy of keeping 15 carriers scattered around toe seas of toe world was attacked In turn by Sen. Henry M. Jackson, Jackson defended the carrier as a vital weapon to project modern tactical air power into those parts of the world where we have vital interests." Waiting Sweeter Than Th' Reality BRUNS VHLE, VA. (AP) For 25 years John . H. Folks, 69, waited for this remote Allegheny Mountain community to establish telephone service. In August, when the Williamsviile Mountain Grove Telephone Co. made the final hookups, Folks was one of the first to have his phone installed. After two weeks of waiting, his phone .finally rang. It was the wrong numbef. Scholar Named SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA Australias new trade (AP) union chief is a Rhodes scholar with degrees in literature, economics and law. He is Robert J. Hawke, 39, who this week was elected president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. and Premier Golda Meirs statement such raids would continue if no peace settlement were reached. ' JORDAN FIGHTING front and in Amman said the two sides exchanged artillery fire for 30 minutes in the South Jordan Valley. He said ' the Israelis began it by using Israel-Jorda- n a spokesman -- mortars and artillery against Jordanian forces near Magh-tafour miles north of toe s, Dead Sea. An Israeli spokesman said todays air attack destroyed Egyptian army vehicles near Abu Darag and Ras Zaafrana, two of the principal points hit Tuesday in a combined air, sea and land attack which Israel reported left 100 to 150 Egyptian troops dead and scores of tanks, trucks and armored carriers destroyed. The area is about 40 miles south of the Suez Canal. He gave no details on toe alleged violations or on the size of the Israeli air attacking force. Nor did he indicate any casualty figures for either side today. SIC ALASKA ANCHORAGE, With the stakes in (UPI) toe billions, Alaskas modern bid today for sourdoughs claims in an oil boom which makes the 49th states famed gold rush look like penny-ante. The prospectors of 1969 secretive oil executives and their tightlipped bankers waited until the last minuta before submitting offers on 450,858 acres of toe states frozen Arctic tundra. At stake were 179 parcels of d land along the north slope, an icy wasteland frequented primarily by Eskimo hunters until oil was dis- covered there last year. state-owne- Map locates area where bidder are seeking oil leases. Pipeline route from fields Is also shown. I J Alaska officials expect the high bidders to offer more than $1 billion putting more money ia toe treasury in the- i next 10 days than A'aska spent in its 10 years as a state. The parcels, which went unclaimed at an earlier bidding, included several near Prudhoe Bay were Atlantic Richfield Co. and Humble Oil Co. brought in wells In 1968. Experts estimate the north slopes petroleum reserve at somewhere between 5 billion which and 50 billion barrels would make it one of toe worlds largest oil fields. Oil companies have spent estimated $500 million exploring the area and protecting their findings. The street scene In Anchorage Tuesday night was reminiscent of Gold Rush days. Tight-lippeoil tycoons and their bankers in suits mingled with roust- - an d abouts just back from the oil fields, their pockets bulging with money after a months work. Hotels were jammed and some bankers slept on the DC8 jet chartered by the Bank of America to haul the winning checks to banks so they can begin drawing interest immediately. Bank of America is handling investments for the state, and will put the money in U.S. Treasury securities, one of only two avenues investment open under state law. The other is bank certificates of deposit. Gov. Keith H. Miller, in a statewide radio and television address on the ev of the bidding, told Alaskas 285,000 residents they would share in the bonanza. He v promised meaningful , Cease-Fir- e , fighting also flared today on the presi- " moves have been more or less stalled. AirSrican officials expressed hopes the talks would ' give the a new start 26, WASHINGTON but than most greater attended the funeral dents, with Mrs. Nixon. The Senate adjourned its session and all 99 members went to the church services together. At the request of Dirksen ; comrades at funeral services family, there was no television for the dead Senate Republior photographic coverage 'in-- 1 can leader. side the new chprch and only The final rites took place at a handful of reporters were 'the National Presbyterian admitted. The funeral was Church an hour after Dirk-sen- s only the second service to be coffin was taken from held in the new structure the Capitol rotunda where the which opened for the first, Illinois senator lay time Sept 7. . , in state for 24 hours. A steady Dr. Elson, who was pastor stream of people had passed to toe late President Dwight D. Eisenhower, quietly by the bier. read from Dr. Edward L. R. Elson, Ephesians in memory of DirkSenate chaplain and pastor of sen: Put on the whole National Presbyterian, - conarmour of God, that ye may be duced the funeral service. able to stand against the wiles " Dirksen, who died Sunday, of the devil. will be buried Thursday afterFor we wrestle not against f noon in his hometown of flesh and blood, but against j Pekin, HL principalities, against power, i Nixon, who eulogized Dirk-se- n against the rulers of the dark-- j at a Capitol memorial ness of this world, against service Tuesday as a man See THRONGS on Page 4 I U.S.-Sovi- A-- Z IS WASHINGTON (UPI) -Tof the people paid ' their final respects to Everett M. Dirksen at toe U.S. Capitol today and President Nixon hundreds of other." joined friends and , congressional , housands MOSCOW TALKS , E. Last Respects Paid To Solon The State Department said Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko would meet at the United Na- -, tions when the General Assembly convenes Monday, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin was accompanying Gromyko from Moscow and is expected to sit in on the talks. . le Pittsburgh, and two stewaf. desses, Patricia Perry of Lynn, Mass., and Barbara Petruclck of Boston. Searchers found bodies in a wide area, some among trailer homes and others hidden in See JET oo Page vio- e said such Egyptian attacks were likely to continue since Egypt believes it can win a war of attrition. Columbus, Ind." His wife, sobbing as she spoke to newsmen, said: He loved flying. He had been doing it for years just for his own pleasure. This past year h was working to get his license! He didnt plan to buy a William cease-fir- lations along the Suez Canal this morning." Cairo diplomatic reports including tax would be financed from the least income and state oil royalties. A consortium of oil producers is planning a $1 billion, pipeline from the Arctic fields to a southern Alaska port, and an experi- programs" relief 800-mil- e mental tanker is making a test voyage at present to find a Northwest Pas- sage to Alaska. Both means are under consideration as methods of moving the oil when the fields go into production about 1972. Bids were accompanied by a check for 20 per cent of the offer. By flying the high bidders checks to New York tonight Alaska can immediately convert them into government bonds earning $45,000 a day interest for each $1 billion in bids. Ends, Viet Still Quiet SAIGON (AP) - A been any split between tjie U.S. and South Vietnamese on the matter governments of the cease-fire- . three-da- y trice unilaterally de- clared by toe Communist command ended early Thursday but it was unclear whether the enemy would immedi- ately resume a fall campaign. The truce, tacitly accepted by the U.S. Command in a sharp dispute with the Saigon government, ended at 1 a.m. NO REPORTS American An military spokesman said just after the expiration of the truce period that the U.S. Command had received no reports of renewed enemy attacks. ReHowever, he added, ports from the field usually unless are slow coming in there has been a major incident. It may be some time before we know if anything significant has happened. beWednesday Meetings tween top U.S. and South Vietnamese officials touched off speculation of further American troop withdrawals and n extended seeding down of military operations. A CONTESTATION? There also was speculation that the United States had sounded out North Vietnam about continuing the ceasefire the Viet Cong declared as a mourning period for the funeral of President Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam. In Washington, State Department press officer Robert deJ. JlcCoskey denied spite the evidence of reports that there had from Saigon Today's Thought The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of s The cease-fir- e was called by the Communist side because of toe death of North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh. South Vietnamese reaction initially was against going Subalong with the cease-firh sequently a joint Vietnamese statement said that Allied operations would be influenced by the level of enemy attacks during the cease-fii- e a qualified acceptance. Yesterday the South Vietnamese released figures e. U.S.-Sout- reporting that their military operations had increased durIn contrast, ing the cease-firU.S. operations have gone e. down. 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