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Show iMfmnai Rain Chance Our Phone Numbers Threat -5- 24-4400 -5- 24-2840 -5- 24-4445 -5- 24-4448 E-1- 3. L . News Tips Home Delivery Information Sports Scores Classified Ads Only Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South of thundershowers. Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday, but slightly wanner days. Details, weather map, Page vO i 372 NO. 88 21-3535 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 3 6 FACES 1 0 c WEST'S MOUNTAIN THE WASHINGTON (UPI) -PNixon announced today 35,000 more GIs will be withdrawn from Vietnam by Dec. 15. The time has come to end this war, he said in a new appeal to Hanoi for meaningful peace talks. resident The new pullout, on top of 25,000 announced three months ago and completed in August, will bring the total withdrawals of American to 00,000 by Dec. 15. in a written statement released by the White House, said the reduction of U.S. troop strength to a new ceiling of less than half a million (the total number now troops Nixon, FIRST NEWSPAPER there was 508,000 as of last week) is a significant step The time for meaningful negotiations has arrived, lie said referring to the Paris talks. I realize that it is difficult to communicate across the gulf of five years of war. But the time has come to end this war. Nixon recounted various moves he said his administration had taken to end the war and said the United States was prepared to discuss and negotiate with the Communists on their demands as well as those of the allies. The only item which is net negotiable is the right of the people of South Vetnam to determine thir own future, free of outside interference, he said. Nixon officials had indicat-e- l as recently as a few days ago that the President had not abandoned his expressed hope of 100,000 or withdrawing more men by the end of this year long-stalle- d SEPTEMBER TUESDAY, with the new However, withdrawal not to be completed until 10 days before Christmas, it appeared highly unlikely the 100.000 figure would be reached in the final two weeks of the year The authorized Vietnam troop ceiling at the start of administration was this 549,500. "I have decided to reduce the authorized troop ceiling in Vietnam to 484,000 by Dec. the President said in a 15, statement. He explained that under this new ceiling, a minimum of 60,000 troops will have been withdrawn from 16, 1969 The White House said the total reduction in authorized troop strength by Dec. 15 would really amount to 65.500, but within the authorized ceiling all units are shown at 100 per cent strength. In actuality, most units are slightly below full strength so that actual strength normally is less than the authorized ceiling by one or 2 per cent. This meant that while the figure was different, the new of 35,000 a s announced by the President represented little or no conflict with the 40,500 figure mentioned by Ky. Ky apparently was talking in terms of units at 100 per cent strength. Vietnam by Dec. 15. The new figure of 35,000 men to be pulled out as well as the date for completion of the withdrawal were different from the number and date mentioned Monday in Saigon by South Vietnam's vice president, Nguyen Cao Ky. Ky said 40,500 more Americans would be pulled out by the end of November. reduction Just Sop For U.S. , Reds Say FAA officials, firemen probe wreckage of PARIS (UPI) The Viet Cong today formally denounced President Nixon's decision to withdraw 35.000 men from Vietnam as a maneuver aimed at appeasing American and world public Hanoi said it still opinion. wanted ail American troops out of Vietnam. plane. N. M. Air Crash Kills Kin In a more positive development the North Vietnamese delegation announced it had agreed to receive four Texas ogers FE, N.M. (UPI) -A twin-engin- e aircraft crashed and burst into flames near the Sante Fe Airport Monday, killing the brother of Mrs. Wiland sister-in-la- Witnesses to the crash said the blue and white Aerostor had just taken off from the e airport, after a refueling stop. The aircraft had flown less than two miles off the the north-sout- h runway when . it apparently lost speed, stalled and plummeted to the ground. The plane burst into flames trapping both victims inside. SANTA high-altitud- liam Rogers, the wife of Secreof State William P. Rogers. Killed in the crash were Mf. and Mrs. Bryant W. Langston. Medford, N.J. Their' bodies were badly burned. tary One witness, an unidentified mechanic at the airport, told ' women whose husband-piiot- s were shot down- over North Vietnam but whose fates are not known. However, this was only a sidelight to the peace talks. - officials both of the planes propellers had stopped FROM BEGINNING before the plane crashed. The FAA first determined The provisiona revolutionLangstons identity through ary government of the Viet the flight plan he had filed, Cong issued a formal statebut it was several hours bement denouncing the Nixon fore Mrs. Langston was posistatement while sources close tively identified. to the Hanoi delegation said The flight plan showed the we demand an immediate and two were on a cross country withdrawal of all complete flight from California to New American troops. The CommuJersey. Their next stop was to nists have demanded this from have been Dallas. the beginning. The four women traveled to Paris from Dallas, Tex., Sunday to find out whether we or widow s. are still wives FAA Turk Plane Severe Air Pollution Leading To Ice Age? Skyjacked To Bulgaria In summary, l am ' l A WASHINGTON (UPI) University professor foresees the air pollution problem on earth becoming so severe it Eventually will block out the sun and bring on another ice ge. 5 Prof. E. F. Watt of the University of Californias Davis testified before a campus House government ' operations subcommittee Monday. ' lie said a study of live and volcanic eruptions major the ensuing air pollution in the past three centuries clearly showed that they had a major effect on weather. . He said this disturbed him . more than anything else bee cause modem .air poulution may work in a similar fashion, cutting off as much as 20 per rent of the . - , man-mad- . suns radiation. ' ' i . i suggesting that sufficient global pollution can lead, us to an ice age, Watts said. Earth- already has had an ice age, when glaciers covered nearly half the United States. Watts suggested . the pollution' problem is due to overpopulation. He said the U.S. population is growing too fast and already is twice as large as it should be. In Name Only . PLAINFIELD. MASS. (AP) Gerald S. Witherspoon, the new, president of Goddard College, said Monday that he has given all his decision-makin- g powers to the schools faculty, Students and staff. . ISTANBUL,. TURKEY .(AP) A Turkish airliner with 57 passengers aboard was hijacked to Bulgaria today, airline officials said. The Turkish , airlines Vis-- . count left Istanbul this morning on a regular run to Ankara. Airline officials said the plane landed about two hours later in Sofia. . The Tuikish- Embassy in Sofia relayed word it had no information' On the' fate Of the plane after landing. - The passenger list was not immediately available but airline officials said they believed all, ,p.ag$epgers , were Turkish. The four were Mrs. Bonnie Singleton, wife of Capt. Jerry Singleton; Mrs. Joy Jeffrey, wife of Capt. Robert Jeffrey; Mrs. Sandy McElhanon, wife of Maj.Michael McElhanon, and Mrs. Paula Hatness, wife of Capt. Gregg Hartness. NOT RETURNED American troop withdrawal has been one of the key Communist demands in the talks so far. Diplomatic sources said the lack of an immediate response from North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegates here could be traced to several factors. First, the delegation leaders have not returned to Paris yet Hanoi from where they attended the funeral of Ho Chi Minh. Too, the Communis's have a practice of commenting on nothing but specific statements. Allied delegates awaited the reaction they- said might get the stalemated talks, now in their eighth month, moving. Shakes Up Nevada Areas PAHUTE MESA, A (UPI) NEV. entry checking station at St. George. I havent felt a nuclear blast for years. Weve new hydrogen weapon, believed to be one of the most powerful antimissile warheads ever tested, was off underground today, swaying high-ris- e gambling resorts in Las Vegas about forgotten about them. He said it takes about 12 min- utes for the shock wave to get from the blast site to St. George. touched and jiggling coast to coast. seismographs , The blast was recorded as a very heavy shock, at the The underground thermonu- University of Utah seismoclear explosion, described by ' graph station, knocking Hie military experts as a future needle off the recorder. The weapon very important to seismograph is usually set at American security, carved a a very low, sensitive level to cavern almost 700 feet in dipick up mild earth moveameter and displaced 10 milments. : lion tons of rock. The bargain basement detonation, budgeted at only $3 million, was viewed by reporters on television monitors 12,000 feet from ground zero. A rolling hill acted as a shield between the viewing point and the detonation site but the shock came Casey Valdez, identification officer in the Salt Lake County sheriffs office, said the windows on the 10th floor of the Metropolitan Hall of Justice rattled at 8:30 a.m., the - tim dis- Residents of St. George, Utah, reported feeling no repercussions from the blst, and very few of them were that one was being set off. even-awar- e I didnt feel a tiling, said Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Neal Stephens at the ir In 74-Dea- th xrt of of the Nevada When was the device triggered at 8:30 a.m. MDT, there was a jolt at the viewing site like an artillery shell burst, the ground heaved and a viewing monitor was knocked off target. A cloud of smoke or dust covered ground zero as seen on the readjusted monitor and three rolling quakelike movements were felt. At the UPI office iu Las Vegas, 100 miles distant, vto- - - BeNEW YORK (UPI) cause noise pollution is harmful to man it seems it should be harmful to plants since both are, in the scientific view, biological systems.' ' If so, noise pollution would menace man indirectly as well as directly. He eats both plants and animals which feed on plants. Any harm to them would rebound to him. This proposition apparently has been proven through rigorous tests. Growth rate was the measure of harm, using tobacco plants, because their normal growth rates are well established. What harms them would also harm food plants. Three s cientists transplanted 12 male sterile plants into soil baths in an indoor growth chamber at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, when the plants had put down roots and established themselves they were left in peaceful quiet for two weeks while the scientists charted their growth rate. Then the noise was turned on. It came from a loudspeak er on the chamber wall. was It random, nondescript noise generated mechanically and amplified to about. 100 decibels, which is a level city people endure more or less daily. The noise was kept going for two weeks. During those two weeks, the growth rate decreased by an average of some 40 per cent. The smallest plants were affected the worst. The scientists, C. B. Wood-lief- , L. H. Royster and B. K. Huang, reported this in tones of alarm to the Acoustical Society of America. People are s - now aware that noise is a form of pollution for them only because- theyre being subjected to more noise than ever before, they said. That goes for plants, too. Agriculture is mechanized. Tractors and other farming machines generate as much noise as trucks do. Superhighways cut through once quiet farmlands which are crisscrossed overhead by jet planes. Redactions in growth rates could prevent food crops from reducing food maturing, and cutting into supplies farmers income. The scien . scientists urged a tific investigation of noises effect upon food plants, before the world of both man and plants becomes any noisier. A critical question in need of answering is whether plants are able to recover from the adverse effects of the nsise environment. full-sca- an official reprimand. McLemore, 40, of Vallejo, Calif., would have been sentenced to two years at hard labor and dismissed from the Navy. He was sleeping in his cabin when the carrier Melbourne sliced the Evans in two June 3, killing 74 Ameri- Today's Thought Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. Hen t'y J. Ku.s( i . The military judge, Capt. Hames E. Keys, 49, of Kansas City, Mo., deliberated 35 minutes before bringing in the guilty verdict. S. Albert Commander McLemore, it is my duty as military judge to find you guilty of all charges," Keys said in the quonset hut courtroom. McLemore also had been charged with dereliction of duty. The Navy had tried to prove McLemore negligently failed to alert the officer of the bridge of V.U Pahute Mesa, site of nuclear underground test. dow shades flapped and water sloshed in a tumbler. ; Atom Energy. Commission over hovered helicopters ground zero during the test and reported no radioactivity was released above the test site. . from the mesa, service station attendant Frenchie la France, said it was really shaking, it shook windows and TV aerials, and the stop light suspended over the intersec' tion swayed. INSIDE THE A anticipated maneuvers and that he failed to specifically order the same officer to awaken him when the maneuvers close-quarte- began. The guilty verdict was something of a surprise. Six See F.S. SKiPftK, Page A- -l 3 6 12, 13 13 13 B ....1, 3, 11, 22 J 2 -- 7 Financial TV 8, 9 highlights".".". riO Obituaries Weather Map Action 12 13 Ads 1 Step Up Air Strikes By United Press International The Israeli air force swept into action today after a one day respite and bombed and strafed Arab guerrilla bases the Jordan valley, a military spokesman reported in in Tel Aviv- - The spokesman also reported new violence in the ! occupied Gaza Strip. spokesman said the planes hit one base at Telmiles three about Hugeiga, eat of the Jordan Rivc--r in The Brandt Prepares Visit To U.S. BONN, GERMANY (AP) -West German Foreign Minister Willy Eranat said today he plans to go to New York on Sept. 22 for a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers and other foreign ministers of North Atlan-- t i c Treaty organization countries. Brandt said lie would stay only one day because of the West German parliamentary election SepT. the possibil- ity todays test was of a new warhead, perhaps a spectrum, bomb a thermonuclear device which releases heat rays that could destroy any object within their reach. 7 1 Music Our Man Jones SECTION City. Regional Comics . J Sports This indicated f Israelis NEWS Theater Womens Pages Editorial Pages Air Force Gen. Edward B Giller emphasized that the device was not an extension qf boxcar the program, to which the largest underground test of the United States 1.2 was megatons in April 1968 touched off. At Beatty, Nev., 30 miles SECTION A Menace To Plants And Man By DELOS SMITH -- " National, Foreign City, Regional cans. iixjoise W. CALJF. Found Guilty Collision SUBIC RAY, PHILAPPINES Cmdr. Albert S. (UPI) McLemore, skipper of the U.S. destroyer Frank E. Evans, today was convited of negligence in the collision of ..is ship with an Australian aircraft carrier. He received UTAH iHc. mograph 100-fo- I''r--'- i PAHUTE Officials at the schools seisstation said u.e shock was 6.3 on the Richter scale the equivalent of a damaging earthquake. They said that it is probably tnat persons in high Salt Lake buildings would have felt it. red frame shack containing triggering devices jumped 30 feet into the air at shot time as the instrument package was detonated 3,800 feet beneath the earths surface. A as an abrupt jolt at that tance. 'jSi 2t(. the northern Jordan Valley, and another at Wadi El Arab, about six miles east of the Jordan River opposite the Kibbutz of Gesher and Nev.or ur. : He said the action lasted 29 minutes and all Israeli pianes returned safely to their bases, with the exception of Monday, Israeli planes had been in action every day since last Tuesday's ground, soa and ajr attack against Egypi, j ft' |