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Show Our Phone Numbers Rain Possible News Tips Home Delivery Little change m temperature, with highs in 80s, lows m 50s. Partly cloudy with chance ot rain today and Friday. Details, weather nap. Page NO. 3 7 2 United Press International Abdel President Gamal Nasser of Egypt sent his air force deep into the Israeli-helSinai desert today in an d attack against an Israeli army headquarters and other military installations, Cairo reported. A spokesman said huge fires were started. Israel said the raid cost the seven warplanes Egyptians shot down and an eighth probably destroyed. Cairo claimed PAGES four Israeli planes shot down in dogfights ranging from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and said the Egyptian air iorce lost two planes. Cairo said the series of Egyptian raids today were in retaliation against Israel's landing in Egypt Tuesday when Israeli tanks cut a swath of destruction, meeting almost no opposition. It said Israelis battled the first two raids today but that the third m i no opposition. 1 Oc THE Israeli planes also struck twice at Jordan today, hitting an Arab commando base southeast of Esalt and a mortar and small arms emplacement which had attacked an Israeli patrol in the Beisan Valley. As the air war flared with new intensity, Arab guerrillas said in Amman, Jordan, they blew up a dam early today in the Jordan River Valley and flooded Israeli settlements and inflicted damage estimat- - Russ, China Chiefs Meet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin met brief(UPI) ly today in Peking with Chinese Communist Premier Chou the official Tass News - Agency reported. The announcement stunned diplomats because It was unexpected. Informed sources had told UPI hours earlier of the meeting and some diplomatic sources expressed reservations because of the deepness of the split and the fact Chou appeared to have snubbed Kosygin at the Hanoi funeral MOSCOW En-la- i, Premiere Alexei N. Kosygin (top) makes surprise which visit to Chou En-lstuns diplomats. ai Sino-Sovi- of Ho Chi Mmh. Tass said the two sides openly explained their positions The brief and held a conversation useful for both sides. statement was devoid of the usual amenities such as cordial, indcating there was some straight talk on both sides. The meeting in Peking coincided with a new Soviet barrage of propaganda with the Soviet press bitterly accusing the Chinese of maintaining a state of armed tension and provocations on the border. anti-Chine- It was the first time the two premiers had met since February, 1965, when Kosygin, on his way to and from Hanoi, and Chou. stopped briefly at Peking to see Mao Tse-tun- g MOUNTAIN WEST'S FIRST NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Presidential Changeover At Ford . . . Knudsen Fired Motor Co. for 19 months, was fired Thursday. Knudsen issued a statement Sa3'ing: This morning, my employment as president and chief operating oficer of the Ford Motor Co. was terminated by the board of directors of the company. In the 29 months that I have been with the Ford Motor Co., the company has substantial progress. made The companys record in recent months has been the best in the industry. The firing of Knudsen was abrupt. Knudsen said Henry Ford II himself notified him Tuesday he would be leaving. His explanation was that things had not worked out as he had hoped, Knudsen said. Bunkie Knudsen, called by his friends, joined Ford Motor Co. in February 19C8, leaving behind a long career wth General Motors, where his father, the late William S. Knudsen, had been president. He replaced Arjay Miller as president of Ford. Miller was given a newly created post as vice chairman of the board under Ford as board chairman. Knudsen was However, made chief operating officer of the company, which gave him power to run it. Miller subse quently announced his resignation to join a university faculty. Knudsen said Ford never indicated to him any dissatisfaction with his .services or the direction the company was taking. Dirksen Buried In Hometown - The PEKIN, ILL. (UPI) Dirkof M. Sen. Everett body sen, aboard the presidential jetliner, left the nation's capital today for burial in the prairie earth near this town v hich sent him to Congress 35 years ago. Dirksen's widow, Louella, Egypt reported Israeli air attacks against the Zafaran area on the Gulf of Suez but said Egyptian planes drove off the invaders. Cairo also reported aerial duels ovpr and Port Said and said Israeli planes struck at Suez City. Fighting also flared on the Israeli-Jordefront, and a in Jordanian spokesman Amman said two Israeli warattacked Jordanian planes forces in the Jordan River Valley with napalm. He reported no casualties in the A S.L. Launching For raid, Israels five-minu- sixth this month. Jordan said the Israeli planes attacked following a brief exchange of machine gun fire near A1 Karkar, a mile south of the Sheikh Hussein Bridge three miles south of the Dead Sea. Israel said hc-- planes struck Arab guerrilla bases in retaliation for gurerrilla raids against farm- ing communities in the area. Cairo said S17 and MIG17 and MIG21 jet fighters given to Egypt by Russia attacked and destroyed two sitps on which Israel had emplaced Hawk missiles received from the United States. fighter-bombe- rs Nixon Plans Address At U.N. Session WASHINGTON "(UPI) -PNixon will address the 24th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept, 18, the White House announced today. resident Press Secretary Ronald said Lie President probably would use the occasion of the visit to meet privately with representatives of other countries, but he said he had Zei-gl- no information on any specific meetings. He also could give no information on the subject of the Presidents address, but it appeared likely Nixon would deal with two of the most pressing foreign problems he faces the war in Vietnam and tensions in the Middle East. other family members, Sen. and Charles H'. Percy, members of Dirksens staff the casket accompanied aboard Air Force One. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and more than 100 senators and congressmen came on three other jets to pay their last tributes to the color- R-Il- ful lawmaker who had been Sente minority leader for 10 years. Schools and government here closed for the day. Virtually all of the bsusiness-e- s in Pekin planned to shut their doors until after the services. nearly The venes speak EDT, House General Assembly con- Nixon will Tuesday. some time before noon, on Thursday, the White said. Ziegler also announced that Fridays big Vietnam strategy session would be held at the White House. If ur resort to lmd.cn. the only thing ire ran hope for is civil vor, bloodshed and the end of our dreams. Law and order are the only edge ice hare. Archie Moots t L Wednesday in a dramatic financial battle which estabmore lished two records than $900 million in total sales and high bid of $28,233 an acre. total price a The $900,220,920 surpassed of previ- ous high for sale of oil rights which netted about $700 million in California. A combine, including the Getty Oil Co., owned by billionaire J. Paul Hess and Amerada Gftty, Corp., topped the acreage mark by paying $72,277,133 for the 57th of the 179 parcels sold in the sale. day-lon- 8 g The highest price ever paid before for oil rights was $27,420 an acre for a plot of Louisiana tidelands. Every maior oil company in the United States was represented in the 1,087 bids submitted for oil rights to 450,858 acres of Alaskas fabulous North Slope. State officials said most of them were successful bidders on at least one parcel. This is Alaskas greatest Gov. Keith Miller told day, 700 persons jammed into Sidney Laurence Auditorium for the opening of bids. Earlier he promised Alaska would use H, 1969 By JOSEPH LUNDSTROM Deseret News Staff Writer v; A new public transportation system was proposed for Salt Lake City today. Chief features of the proposed system are a downtown with transportation center possible satellite centers in nearby population centers a guideway system of special A-- ifK 4 A A-fc- r.rr. . Jsv -- Hun- i jC&m' Aim High For Better Transport. See editorial, page iff (called the interface system), which would tie the transportation center to the Salt Lake International Airport, expansion of the airport, and a looping of the downtown business area with a guideway :.jd . ? '&'' ,v.:, ' 4 I? JP ittsar or interface system. The proposed system was put together by the Ford Motor Co., transportation research and planning office, after months of study and prepa- 'TT. "U iJM hpi V ration. Theme of Fords proposal is There Must Be A Better Way. The conclusion of the fX-sS- fl . - J$li , report is, There is a better way, according to R. P. Whorf, transportation expert with the Ford company. Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce officials and mem- bers previewed the proposal at a breakfast meeting this morning at Hotel Utah. They were enthusiastic and described the idea as exciting, and dramatic, challenging, futuristic. Hopes were expressed that the proposal can be developed as a prototype for the entire nation. Ford officials have estimated that total cost of their program would not exceed $30 million. This would include the transportation center and the guideway system about 7j4 miles long. We arc going to give the Ford project a thorough study as to feasibility, said Maxwell E. Rich, chamber executive vice president. It is very possible we cap get federal SECTION A National, Foreign City, Regional Editorial Pages 6 15 15 15 SECTION B 1, 4, 5. 14. 15 Theater Financial .2 7 fi. 10, 11 TV Highlights Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads aid from the Department of Transportation and the Housing and Uiban to Department Development finance a portion of such a pioiect, he added. Possible local financing could be through revenue major bonds on the airport. in the Ford As outlined study, the guideway system See GL'IDEWAY on rage A-- S With 'Sense Of Shame' 7, 10, 12 14, 15 Sneaking of Politics Music Our Man Jones City. Regional Comics Robert Whorf of Ford Motor Co., points to artist's conception of transportation center. Upper picture shows terminal building at airport. Drawings are not specific proposals, he stressed. Irish View Wire Wail THE NEWS the money for meaningful purposes, including tax relief for the state's 285,000 residents. A few persons failed to share his enthusiasm. Four pickets, who said they represented a group of 25 Eskimos at Point Barrow, marched outside with signs claiming the land belongs to its original Eskimo owners. An old car parked across the street was plastered with '$2,000,000,000 signs reading, native land robbery. Early bids ran so high officials estimated the total See OIL on Page 4 Pad Travel Space-Ag- e INSIDE Alaska Oil Grab A Record Today's Thought 5 524-444- TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM STUDY $900 MILLION IN SALES ANCHORAGE, ALASKA Tne state of Alaska (UPI) sold oil rights in a huge region of the frozen Arctic 524-444- ed in the tens of thousands of dollars. The Cairo spokesman said the dogfights erupted when the Egyptian planes struck in two waves against Israeli targets in the desert. He said they hit a radar station, two rocket sites, the southern command post of the Israeli army, artillery positions and a naval installation on the Gulf of Suez. The air war increased in tempo during the day and vehicles Semon DETROIT (UPI) E. Knudsen. president of Ford 0; Information Sports Scores Classified Ads Only 5 Editorial Offices 34 E, 1st South SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 5 6 8 4 0. 524-284- 521-353- B-1- 5. VOL. 521-440- ! 15 15 15-2- 4 SECTION C Women's Pages SECTION I) 1, 2, 6 8 Sports 1, 2, 6--8 .BEL FAST, NORTHERN A sullen IRELAND (UPI) and silent crowd of Protestants and Roman Catholics watched today as an ugly monument to sectarian bitterness slowly rose in the heait of Belfast under the supervision of British army engineers - Both Protestant and Catholic clergymen admitted they viewed the scene with a sense of shame the construction of a barbed wire peace ime dividing tne two communities, t a barricade described bv some as the "Belfast Wall The British, using bulldozdrills and pneumatic sledge hammers, were working from both ends of the troubled area toward the center, a distance of about one and a halt miles. At the centet Catholic militants sounding a warning that they would resist the old barricades coming ers, , down Bolh sides threw up piotee-ve barricades at height of notthe ing. 1 Catholic-Protesta- It makes one feol . the Rev. Charles Poiter, a Protestant clergysaid. man Barbed wire fences to keep Chnrtiafts rpart, he added, half to himashamed, self. On the other side, his senti- ments found an echo in 4i) Rev. Feter Boyle, a Roman Catholic priest. This w ill stand as a monii- ment to our failures, he said. As the army worked, some ' 21) barricades had been taken down voluntarily beta by ' sides. ; |