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Show DESERET 2A NEWS, Thursday, September N ml ear &RAND 11, 1969 True Ends Blast 3ms Colorado COLO. VALLEY, In Renewed Offensives 44 An underground nu-- i ($P) tear explosion equal m force to 10,000 tons of TNT jarred SAIGON (UPI) A strong Communist attack ground against an American base and the shelling of 41 allied targets marked the end of the three-da- y cease-fir- e in honor of Ho Chi Minh, U.S. military western Colorado Wednesday. Bat whether it shook a billion riijjlah worth oi natural gas fiwe from buried rock forma-ti$i- s remains to be seen next siting he Atomic Energy Commission said no radioactivity reaped into the atmosphere. spokesmen sad today. American forces, which had tacitly obsenvd the Viet Cong truce, took to the offensive as soon as the period ended. B52 bombers, grounded since Sunday, today dropped 360 tons of bombs on fter six days of weither-Ccftis- d delay, the blast went at the scheduled hour of 60 objectors who myrched into he observation te&t while predetonation were in progress. 3 nJ protesters, mostly from of tlte resort community Aspen and the town of Ccdar-pJgsaid they feared the blast, and a possible flurry of nJitcSminated gas later would rdease a radioactive form of jijfflrigen called tritium into tlft atmosphere and then into the food chain. $Tie ground at the observation site, six miles from the bfist) surged upward enough tcjj'hpke spectators when the charge went off, hen jiggled .several seconds. Dust i ftuds rose along the crest of tlie mountains for 10 miles or One big cloud marked a landslide high up on one nSpuhtam $V few rocks tumbled down highways which had been backed to prevent any mis-hpcere-rnJm'- Communist positions, muniques said. IN KIND com- 1 for Gen. A spokesman Creighton W- - Abrams, the U.S. commander in Vietnam, ej f'f . " nre. 4 triggered by in st A) W, . m Rock slide, left, is indicated that American forces would respond to the increased Communist battle activity m kind. Abrpms left Vietnam today for Washington to attend a con ference of President Nixons top military and diplomatic advisers on Vietnam. Tlie discussions were expected to include possible further U S. troop withdrawals and future American tactics in Vietnam. d 1- v V " INFANTRY UPI Telephoto Colorado. Shock topples cans six miles from site. cease-fir- sj but no damage was reported. miles farther away a shopkeeper at Colorado National Monument said cans were shaken from a shelf. Colorado School of Mines at Golden recorded the blast. on a seismograph ard listed it at 5 5 on the Richter scale, an earthquake intensity cappble $3rjcks were knocked off fUnnnevs in evacuated houses narl the blast and in Grand Valley and Rifle, the closest bricks fell idjvnfe. Several on the cornice old an fijnv Grand Valley post office, urtie .blast was felt in Grand Jjjncjion, 40 miles southwest, w of inflicting centered area. A few on The explosion, named Project Ruhson for a village, was part of the governments Plowshare program to find peaceful uses for atomic energy. The $6 5 million blast was d touched off to determine whether underground fission can free gas m commercial volume from sandstone. The AEC and Austral Oil Co. of Houston, Tex., the sponsors, are hoping for release of 60 billion cubic feet of gas by the blast, 8,442 feet below Battlement Mesa. The explosion knocked the needle off the scale at the Unseismoiversity of Utahs graph Di. Kenneth L. Cook, director of the seismograph station, said the blast was equivearthalent to a medium-sizeabout 4.8 on the quake Richter scale. d I PROJECT RULISON j?air Policy Of Evers 4-Ye- Test i Dream Realized ar GRAND VALLEY, COLO d The powerful I (UPI) JFAYETTE, MISS. (UPI) -Aincluddditional charges commit to ing conspiracy have been lodged HJurijer former Ku Klux a against leader found in a car five 'guns near (finUining gno Mayor Charles Evers icl Tuesday night, , : undei-groun- nuclear explosion that gouged an unseen cavern deep beneath a quiet Colorado mountain mesa Wednesday marked the realization of a dream. Officials of the Austral Oil Co., ot Houston first acquired interests m the Ruhson field western in Colorado 15, but had no way to unlock . of new charges, conspiracy al.d vjolation of the gun i$ntml act of 1968, were pktcod against La ?e Walton Wednesday nigh. He previously had been cfarged with speeding and carrying concealed weapons ajid s faced a hearing later Tht today (1 pm. EDT Wednesday), Communist infantrymen broke through the perimeter of a U.S. Army base called "Siberia in the western end of the Que Son Valiev about 33 miles south of Da Nang, known natural gas reserves trapped deep beneath the surface. The firm, after several major studies of the fields industry effort to tap the Mesa Verde formation, went to the Atomic Energy Commission in 1966 to discuss use of nuclear energy. They presented "the Project Ruhson feasibility study which officially , launched the start of the jcl.t government-privat- e cious resource. C. W. Leisk, president of the Texas firm, which is picking up 90 per cent of the $6 5 bullion cost of project Ruhson, estimates as much as 12 trillion cubic feet of gas may be trapped in the field. Nuclear stimulation could enable man to recover about 50 per cent of it, he said. He estimated its gross value at $13 billion. 'ZjGJMC I COTTONWOOD OGOCN pre- said. spokesmen The attackers were driven off after three hours of fighting by troopers of the American Divisions 196th Light Infantry Brigade, aided by aerial and artillery, communiques sa'd. s, Come and see how Hathaway has captured the charisma of that racy and expensive sports car, the Porsche. See how one or a few of these shirts can give you and your wardrobe a lift Color isnt the only thing thats new here. Check that collar: Hathaways newest, the Jermyn Street. Letter perfe t for todays large-knottneckties. And check those new fast-baFrench cuffs, too. All in all, a very racy collection in a crisp new corded cotton pique. Soup by for a look gun-shi- American spokesmen re- ed d LAS VEGAS, NEV. (AP) A large underground nu- clear test will be conducted next Tuesday at the Nevada Test Site, the Atomic Hathaway is inspired by Porsches colors ported 23 Communist-initiateincidents during the Viet Cong Nevada Blast the SALT LAKE e fighter-bomber- AEC Schedules ATTACK an hour after the ended at 1 a.m. About Ener-g- Commission ck which killed seven Americans and wounded 46 cease-fir- e others. today. General Visits said Wednesday. The blast, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, will have the foice of som what less than a megaton," a spokesman said. SWITZERLAND Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. Army chief of staff, arrived today g for a four-davisit and groups urged die population of the neutral country to give a "proper we1 come" to the former commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam. BERN, (AP) - y COTTONWOOD Downtown and Cottonwood FREE PARKING -- KEARNS GARAGE left-win- Downtown Store Open Monday Till 9 Other Week Nights TillS 40 Cottonwood Mall Store Open Monday, Thursday end Friday Till Other Week Nights Till 6 00 arQMStemsar 55 OCDEN SALT LAKE I Itet vi l&iSti p W ri rs9 CkBfirMNSHP tgdaj Lwrs, who took office only srfew weeks ago, declined to maient on the new charges. Ig1 jaid Wednesday that he had .received several anony- - fkeutk. CbdltAASt ZGM I SALT LAKE 12 00 y O dVl I COTTONWOOD OGDEN i8UOGETSTOR; nSouj telephone calls warning Ijjatihe had been marked for Msassmation. n JjAsked today if he believed nj was an assassination him, he replied, pM-aagin- tjWre damn right." .Evers normally sits as judge but said he wpuM step aside m favor of Nbgro Alderman Fred Allen when Waltons conspiracy comes before the court tqday Evers planned to conduit the hearing into the other charges. Dalton, foimer imperial i-- o iCjrard of the defunct Knights of the Green Forest, was ariested near a shopping center owned by Evers after witnesses noticed him circling ifie block in a ear. 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