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Show Our Phone Numbers Some Clearing C-- V.O L. News Tips 0 Home Deliver 0 Information 5 8 Sports Scores Classified Ads Only 5 Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South 524-440- Occasional rain this afternoon and tonight with partial clearing Friday. Daytime highs in the 60s. Lows tonight 40 to 45. Details, weather map on Page 524-284- 524-444524-444521-353- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 3. 10c 372 NO. 102 80 PAGES THE MOUNTAIN FIRST WEST'S NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, 139tb eneml Conference :: ; ; ; Thousands of Church workers will gather In Salt Lake City for the 139th General Conference ; of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, which ; opens in the Tabernacle at 10 a.m. Friday. ; President David O. McKays message will highlight the opening session. President McKay is not expected to ; attend. His address is scheduled to be read by his son, Robert R. McKay. ' President McKay has asked his counselors, Presi-- ; Tdent Hugh B. Brown, President N. Eldon Tanner, President Joseph Fielding Smith and President Alvin R. Dyer : ; i Semi-Annu- al 1 ; to assist in conducting the conference meetings. President Thorpe B. Isaacson is expected to be in attendance at the opening session. Sessions will be held at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Music for the Friday morning session will be by the By J M. HESLOP Church News Editor - BYU Combined Chorus. The Relief Society Singing 1969 yokes Sessions Open Friday : OCTOBER 2, Moth- ers will furnish the music in the afternoon. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir will sing Saturday morning and during both Sunday sessions. The MIA Girls Centennial Chorus will sing Saturday afternoon. Radio and TV will broadcast the conference. More than 200 TV stations will participate in releasing the See GENERAL on Page 4 A-- TOD SANTA ROSA, CALIF. The most powerful (UPI) earthquakes in eight years rumbled along northern California's famous San Andreas fault Wednesday, injuring 15 persons and causing hundreds of thousands dollars in of damages. Santa Rosa, a city of 50,000 about 70 miles north of San Francisco, was the hardest hit community, but the quakes, which started at 9:56 p.m. PDT Wednesday, shook San collapsed Francisco and extended 50 miles south to San Jose. Shattered glass covered the streets of Santa Rosa. Police on an unoccupied parked car. Banks of fluorescent lights crashed on the floor of the post office. A house was moved a foot from its foundations and an overpass sank six inches over U.S. 101, the main north-southighway. In San Francisco, Dorothy Kirsten and Luciano Pavarotti stopped singing in the middle La Boheme of while the opera house shook. After about 20 seconds, while the audience they applauded, started again. Most of the injured in Santa Rosa were treated and released at hospitals for minor cuts and shock. Several fainted when the quakes hit. But one man was badly hurt and another had a broken leg. CUTS OFF POWER downtown roped off a section for hours to prevent looting. The wall of a saloon h All power and communications were cut off in Santa Rosa for eight minutes after the most powerful shock at 9:56 p.m., which registered 5.6 on the Richter scale. Residents ran aimlessly about the dark streets in their nightclothes. The only light to be seen blinked from a sher-- 1 f fs hovering helicopter above. minor aftershock was felt 10:13 p.m. before another A at major temblor, registering 5.5 pn the Richter Scale, hit at 11:20 p.m. Another less severe aftershock was recorded at 5:27 a.m. today. WORST SINCE 61 was the worst California quake since one centered near Hollister, south of San Francisco, registered 5.8 on the Richter Scale in 1961. It PRES. BROWN MESSAGE Use Powers, Society Told ' Too much of religions driving; powers remain unharnessed to the needs that lie all about us, according to President Hugh B. Brown, first counselor in the First Presi- - ; denry of The Church of Jesus Saints. Christ of Latter-daI President Brown was speaking to the thousands of Relief ; Society members gathered in .the Salt Lake Tabernacle Wednesday afternoon for the general session of Relief Society conference. ; Other speakers in the general . session were Gen. Pres. Belle S. Spafford and her two counselors, Mrs. Marianne G. Sharp and Mrs. Louise W. y Madsen. COMBINE ; CHORUSES A combined chorus of singing mothers from Cottonwood, d Mill Creek, Murray and sang several numbers. ; president Brown said man- -' kind has the curious but diwrong ability of keeping vine relationships in one compartment of life and hdman relationships in another.' "In the Relief Society, President Brown said, the are not divided, Wil-for- they are together." ! LIFE OF SERVICE i The Church official said an expression of real Christianity is a life of sacrificial service. He told the women how Christ to gave His life as a service mankind. Jesus emphasized the truth that God is not primarily in the Church, but in the midst of needy, sinning, failing yet aspiring humanity. He admonished the women to rememher that religion is action, not diction. Religion must not become an isolated and uninfluential afterthought. On Sundays . . .we go in company with our family and friends to Church for formal worship, which is good, but when it is over, President Brown continued, ; we too often close the door on that experience and return to the routine and mundane affairs of life. President Brown said Relief Society members are, and should be, willingly harnessed to the task of serving their fellowmen. He said, Church members should live lives of ministry amidst the dust and din of daily business. While' we live, we should try to make each day, a year, so far as beauty, nobility and a warm sense of brotherhood are concerned in a time when there is so much cruelty abroad, we must generate the oxygen of love to keep the soul of the world still breathing." He reminded the Relief Society of its mission. It is to establish In the hearts of men and women a love that involves unselfishness, willing sacrifice, mutual forbearance, absolute fidelity and boundless devotion, President Brown said. President Brown complimented the Relief Society women and told them of the See RELIGION on Page A-- 4 Sunday School The famous 1906 quake which devastated San Francisco and northern California was believed to have had an intensity of around 8.25. Santa Rosa was also badly hit then. Sessions Grow Mansfield: The fourth annual Sunday of The School conference Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, opened this morning in the Salt Palace. Attendance at the conference is expected to set a record since stake nd ward level Sunday School workers are invited. Departmental meetings for child area, teacher trainers and music directors opened this morning. Highlighting the conference this evening will be the huge media fair in the Salt Palace exhibit hall. The fair will open at 7 p.m. The public is invited. Displays of some of the latest teaching aids will be featured. Sunday School General Board members will demonstrate For Lady Marines CAMP PENDLETON, A snappier CALIF. (AP) outlook is in store for lady Marines. Col. Jeanette I. Sus-tadirector of Women Marines, said Wednesday three New York designers rire working on new outfits for the " ' girls. i End Firing, production selection and of teaching aids. The importance of having good classes in the youngest age groups was stressed at child area meetings this mornutili-izati- ing. In the early afternoon ward and stake Sunday School workers, were to discuss how to provide more meaningful experiences in the classroom for the children attending Sunday School. conference The four-dawill continue Friday with for departmental meetings y teacher trainers, Instructor use directors, teaching aids specialists and course advisers. A general session will be held in the Tabernacle Friday at 7 p.m. for members of stake presidencies in charge of Sunday School, high councilors and bishops counselors assigned to Sunday School, stake superintendencies and board members, ward Sunday School officers and teachers and all others interested. The general session will not be telecast as in years past, according to Sunday School officials. Stand Fast WASHINGTON Dewret News Photo by sources said today Judge Clement F. Haynsworth is asking President Nixon to withdraw his nomination to the Supreme Court., The sources said the announcement would be made later in the day by the White House. WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixcn stood firmly behind his embattled choice of Judge Ciement F. Haynsworth for a Supreme Court seat Thursday, yet held still another conference on the nomination with Republican senators. expresmounting Facing sions of concern among GOP Senate members, Nixon relayed word through Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler, that he was standing by his selection of Haynsworth. to - questions, Responding that acknowledged Ziegler GOP Sen. Robert P. Griffin of did express variMichigan of his colous concerns Fuout Haynsworth leagues when he and other Republican met leaders congressional with Nixon Tuesday morning. But Ziegler said Griffin did not urge the President to withdraw the nomination, as sources had congressional previously reported. The press aide also disclosed that the Haynsworth nomination was among topics discussed later Tuesday when Nixon met privately with 10 Republican senators. i i Then, the appointment was discussed in Thursdays White House meeting. He also reported that Thursconference was not confined wholly to talk about Haynsworth but also touched on Vietnam and problems of the general physical environ- days Don Grayston, Chief Photographer Elder Bruce R. McConkie, left, Mrs. Joseph Fielding (Jessie Evans) Smith and President Smith at Relief Society session. Nixon Tipped Scales" In Green Berets Case INSIDE THE NEWS STAND FAST SECTION A WASHINGTON (UPI) -President Nixon finally tipped the scales to drop murder charges against the Green Berets accused of killing a susSouth Vietnamese pected double agent. As comm ander-in-chi- Nixon gives tacit approval to Hilton Still For Haynsworth WASHINGTON (UPI) -SDemocratic Leader Mike Mansfield urged President Nixon today to seriously consider declaring an immediate cease-fir- e by U.S. forces in Vietnam. The Montana senator also that the United proposed States step up troop withdrawals from Vietnam to put pressure on Saigon to accept a coalition government to prepare for new elections. Mansfield insisted that the United States is not moving fast enough to get out of Vietnam. enate Mas sachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke. Wednesday released a letter he had written to Nixon urging the President to withdraw the nomination or face an embarrassingly close vote and possibly even defeat. I really think there will be a heavy vote against him, ment. Brooke said in an interview Griffin spearheaded the sucafter the letter was released. cessful fight last year against If its presented to tire SenPresident Johnsons attempt ate, it will be most en to appoint Abe Fortas chief rassing to Republican senators justice. and. even some Democratic There was no doubt other senators. Senate Republicans were anxBrooke became the first ious to see the appointment of Republican senator to publicly Haynsworth, now chief judge urge withdrawal of the name of the 4th U.S. Court of and the first senator of either Appeals, withdrawn. party to actually predict the The only Negro senator. nomination might be defeated. his subordinates decisions and ultimately bears responsibility for them. And on a matter with the sensitivity and political implications of the Green Berets case, Nixon was sure to have been tuned in on each development. White House press secretary Ronald Ziegler r ud Moncf his day that to the be knowledge Nixon ha. nothing to do with Army Secretary Stanley R. Resors decision to free the Berets. On Tuesday Ziegler said to the best of his the move was knowledge strictly an Army decision although Nixon was kept aware of the case. Wednesday Ziegler conced- ed that after additional checking he had established this fact: Nixon did not direct Resor to dismiss the charges. But the Central Intelligence Agency, through its director, Richthe ard Helms, informed President the CIA would not permit its agents to testify at the Berets trial because of national security. Nixon apparently agreed with Helms. Ziegler, the According Army took this into consideration and dropped the charges. He said Nixon had an opportunity to overrule the Army decision but chose not to. to t i National, Foreign 11-1- 4 Editorial Pag.s Speaking of Politics Our Man Jones 8.9 9 -- 9 9 Music 15,16.18-2Women's Pages 22 Ci'y, Regional SECTION B City, Regional Comics SECTION 1,3, 4, 8 2 C City, Regional 3 Obituaries SECTION D Sports ... TV Highlights 6 7 8.9 Financial 10 City, Regional SECTION E City, Regional - SECTION 1 Theater 2,3 P Preferred Brands 1-- SECTION S Skaggs 1-- 4 Todays Thought Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. Mark Twain We ought to consider seriand stand ously a cease-fir- e fast, he said in an exclusive UPI Washington Window inter- view In other words, fall back into the Gavin enclave-theor- y and do what we can by ac- tions as well as by words to try and bring this dreadful and tragic war to a conclusion. This was a reference to a proposal by Retired Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin that the United States end offensive actlons and concentrate on certain strategic defending areas in South Vietham. WONT FIRE Mansfield said the United States should announce to the world and to Hanoi that American forces will r.o longer fire in Vietnam unless fired upon. He made dear he was suggesting a umlateral ceasefire by the United States. This, he argued, would put the onus on Hanoi to decide whether to continue the fighting. he had Under the cease-fir- e in mind, he said U.S. forces in Vietnam would silence their guns and fire only in response to enemy action. We will, of tourse, fire in return, MansfL-l- said. |