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Show Our Phone Numbers Time To Inhale? News Tips Home Delivery Cloudy and smoky tonight and clearing Friday. Daytime highs 35 to 40. Lows tonight in the 20s. Details. weather map on Page Information Sports Scores D-- VOL. 3 7 2 NO. lOt PAGES THE WEST'S MOUNTAIN FIRST 0 524-444- 5 524-444- S Classified Ads Only Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South 521-353- 5 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 8 6 5 6 1 524-440- 0 524-2S4- NEWSPAPER 4, 1969 DECEMBER THURSDAY, A Deseret News Exclusive following W or exclus've onilyvs me waste military engendered disposal system 3 uncovered by tbe investigation of the Deseret KewV WasJtmqtoA correspondent. Tlt of thrwrft fee Pentagon By GORDON ELIOT WHITE Deeret News Wariiington Correspondent WASHINGTON Anrv and - The Federal Eureau of Investigation are looking into the alleged scrapping of millions of dollars worth of lO'tly military enuipirert at Ft. Belvoir, Ya.. by a central tKe Army supply depot Washington area. for the spokesman at the here of the Deferne et Supply Agency told the News that the Army' criminal investigation division and the FBI were investigat A liead-quart- De-er-- Gordon Eliot White . . . finds irregularities ing charges that salvage officers at Ft. Belvoir have for two sears allowed a Maryland auto parts dealer to haul away as much as 20.000 pounds a week of costly technical equipment while conthe deliveries as cealing light scrap metal." Quantities of new and unused radio receivers. teletype machine. Ampex piofessional tape recorders, medical equipment, material legedly scrapped there and the dealer. All defense installations are required to ship excess property to a central depot for and classification i when practical, by the Defense Department or other government agencieo. Maten-a- l not needed by the government may be donated to colleges, and otlier Toe organizations. remainder is supposed to be sold through public bidding. Ft. Belvoir is the central depot in northern Virginia for installations around Army the Washington, including Pentagon. Ft. Myer, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Army Security Agency. Vint Hill Farms Station (a communications monitoring schools, non-prof- laboratory, and were alcrvp-tologic- from base!, and other facilities such as the Engineer Center at Ft. Belvoir itself. A check of bidding records showed that Ft. Belvoir sold virtually no equipment except as scrap during tlv last 18 months. Officials in the office of Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird and the Department of the Anriy were working on the case, which apparently was being given more intensive investigation than such allegations have received in the past. Sources in the Washington area told tie Deseret News that officials at Belvoir had asked scrap dealers to bid on Bel-voi- r. FBI and Delense Supply Agency officials said they were looking for both possible mismanagement of the equipment stocks at Ft. Belvoir or collusion bene een personnel and other nearly metal. The current contract was understood to call for payment to the government of about five dollars a ton. The equipment actually being sold for that sum included costly technical materia), much of it new. Tvpe-riters, radio equipment, microscopes, and other units were being disposed of as scrap. Papers on one lo showed that 13 new receivers were monitoring dumped as surplus scrap on July 23, 1969, though the papers noted that they had been shipped to the Belvoir Depot from Vint Hill Farms Station as excessive serviceable property. lockers, valueless an annual contract to haul away eld bedsprings, smashed J2 ' , : Sources here said further that officers at Ft. Belvoir had been caught with a large quantity of valuable equipment already classified as scrap. The material, largely usable business machines, was allegedly taken out and sma-h- el to prevent investigators from finding it before the scrap classification could be rew ritten. Last year the Pentagon, which procured more than $39 billion in military equipment, sold to the public usable material w ith an acquisition cost of $584.5 million. The Defense Department received proceeds of $51.2 million from all disposal programs except real estate. S' ' . 2.,-.- r . ' 4 , Z i' ' ' 7'. , ' .v. ' V . ' , v . - ' i. Cf a ' 4 iJ -- I '- ' ' if - - i- - ' S' - ' ' - V ' ' V f j ;?' S f 2 ? Zr i ' .VV " T W , rit ' 5 ' ' ' - k " f . - v "! , f . ., 2 ' '' 'V J . WASHINGTON (AP) Rail industry and union negotiators re? died a wage settlement today for 48.000 snoperaft of Welker and Secretary Labor George P. Shultz ssd we will not be having any strike on the railroad." The agreement va reached 20 hours cl nonstop after Although it must be ratified by the members four unions, negotiator William W. Winpisirger agreed tlie strike threat was chief of union ended. It v on't be necessary to inthe public, the convenience shippers, Winpisinger said. Details of the agreement vere withheld pending union ratification votes, except lor the fact the settlement will cover 1970 as well as retroactive 1969 hikes. "While we were not able to achieve every goal we set out to achieve, we did hit some said Winpisinger. vice president of the AFL-CIInternational Association of Machinists. "We are confident our membership, in evaluating it. milestones. to boost the $600 exemption to $700 next year and to $800 in 1971. will agree with us, he said. In addition to the machinist. the unions involved are electricians. sheet meril workers and boilermakers. "The carriers are very gratified," said John P. Hiltz. chairman of the industry's National Railway Labor Conference. Haynsworth Will Stay On WASHINGTON -P(AP) Nixon annimmed today that Judge Gement F. Haynsworth Jr. will continue to serve as chief judge of the Fourth U.S. Grcuit Court of Appeals. With Haynsworth standing at his side, Nixon went before newsmen at the White House to describe his rejected nominee for the Supreme Court as a victim of "bruially vicious attack. In the face of thee, the President said, tlie judge might well have considered stepping down from the circuit bench. resident (UPI) Three days after the draft lottery selections for next year, these are the questions the Selective Service says It is receiving most frequently: Question: Vbo is affected by the lottery: Answer: Those young men born between Jan. 1, 1944, and Dec. 31. 1950. effect will the rew sjstem have on deferments? A: It doesn't have any effect. Only tho-- e holding ia or lAo conscientious objector) will be called. Q: llhat Q: Can a student whose umber looks good Is hiss man Q: A jsung already I t X, .. X f: 'i f . .V " J , r fc v. I Tne tax reform bill passed by tlie House last summer did not change the exemption but made an equivalent $9 billion worth of tax cuts chiefly through cuts in tax rates and in a rise in the maximum standard deduction of $1,000 to $2,000. The deduction is used by taxpayers who do not lT: f i Residents .v'a ri V H . a s t - w S' ' . ' " - '?' - II - 25-fo- ot -- PV -- ' -- - J " , ,, 'hi II os Sr r ! of Ochu's north shore watch from ; 's - v t i J f U ' v 1 r 4- AP Wirephorg wave bears down on the coast. itemize their expenses. OX COMPROMISE The conference committee will have to work out a compromise bill from the cornpet-in- g approaches taken by the and the House. Tlie committee would be convened probably in January after the Senate passes its version of a tax reform bill. Capitol Hills foremost tax expert. Rep. Wilbur D. Mills. chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was described as willing to listen to the Senate arguments. He. would play a dominant role in the conference committee. He has opposed increases in the exemption in tlie past. STAGED CITS The administration prefers the staged rate cuts, coming into effect in 1971 and 1972. Senate becau.se it felt the government could not afford tlie $6 billion revenue loss See BOOST os Page A4 immediate T ruces Set For Holidays - SAIGON (LTD President Nguyen Van Thieu announced today that for humanitarian reasons. South Vietnam and the United States would honor truces for Christmas and New Years. The , announcement was made after Thieu came out for a meeting with U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. American embassy spokesmen said the two were in mutual agreement op the New Swells Build In Pacific - PowHONOLULU (UPI) erful winds today drove new sea swells up to 40 feet high towaid the battered Hawaiian Islands, w here mountainous wave caused more than $1 million damage earlier this week The Weather Bureau said the first onslaught would hit the island of Kauia about 5 p.m. EST and the island of Hawaii 200 miles from Hono- - Thieus office said the Christmas truce would begin at 6 p.m. Saigon time Christmas Eve and last until 6 p.m. Christmas Day. The New Year s truce will ran from 6 until 6 p.m. New p.m. Dec. Years Day. LDS Property Not Damaged 31 Todays I would take the mam brunt after dark. Residents on Molokai and Maui were also warned to take every precaution in this dangerous situation. An indirect victim of tlie waves Tuesday was Robert V. Beadles. 48. former Gear-fielUtah, mayor and formerly an engineer at Radio Station KLO in Ogden and KGEM Radio in Boise. Idaho. He died of a heart attack at- lulu, n w hile tributed to assisting in rescue operations. Salt Lake friends said he was searchmanning powerful lights at Makaha near Honolulu at the request of the Honolulu Fire Department. The lights are owned by KGMB radio and television stations in Honolulu of which he was internal manager. (See obituary on page A new storm centered about 1.200 miles north of the over-exertio- .) islands has winds up to 50 miles per hour, the Weather These strong Bureau said. surface winds have once again generated large swells which threaten the n o r t n and west shores of the islands with another dangerous surf condition. The giant waves, some as high as 50 feet, began Monday night, forcing more than 1,000 residents northern along shores to flee their homes. standdown. has received an order to re- had their preinduction physiport tor induction. Does he. cals before they are called, he come under the lottery? said. A: No. Inductions being The spokesman said flat alc al 1 e d now are for this though there have been calls months draft quotas. The to Selective Service HeadJanuary draft quota of 12,500 quarters. few have been critifor which young men will cal or crank. Quite a few begin receiving notification people felt the new system next month, will be the first presented a fairer solution. o.ie filled under the lottery he said. system. A spokesman at the Selective Service Headquarters Thought said there also may be many local at draft boards delays and army induction centers beTo be tceuA; is miser-abl- e cause procedures must under, whether itt doing or go a drastic change to cope in suffering. with the new system. Some Inductees may not even have J0h ii j I r ri) - J Si 1 - a1 Questions Fop Up On Lottery (low in the draft call order) go to his local board and ask that his student determent he changed to LA so he cm rod his obligation next year by sitting safely through the selection? A: Tlie Selective Service Headquarters, Pending further clarification. is advising thoe persons to sit tight. But it suggests such a move probably wouldn't be advantageous because the student will hold 'he same position in the dr aft when his deferment ends and the, might be fewer men drafted at (hat time. ' . ' ' r property of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daAll v WASHINGTON m - w committee voted Wednes- day against the proposal of Sen Albert Gore, Rails, Unions Reach Accord i A will represent the Senate in the conference STRIKE AVERTED A 'i . - 'Vs X ''jm t v I 3 - k t , a By MIKE FEINSILBER WASHINGTON (UPI) The Nison Administration thinks House-Senate committee to kill a boost in the init can convince a come tax personal exemption to $800 a tax cut its sponsor said would help the man with a big mortgage on a little house filled with children. Its chances of doing so look good. Most of the senators who v t- f v i f A s - . Nv f '7. , Saints apparently escaped damage from heavy surf waves which hit Oahu Island, it was learned today. However, a student of The Giurch of College of Hawaii, at Laie. was seriously injured when she was struck by a wave. Nedra White. 19. from the mainland, went to the beach witli a friend to uatch the wild surf, according to Owen J. Cook, president of the college. They has just stepped out of the car when the wave struck them, he said. Miss White w ill be hospitalized for about three weeks with a broken pelvis and other injuries. Cook said. The point where the incident occurred is about 13 miles from the college, he said. Farewell For Lodge PARIS (UPI) Ambassa- dor Henry Cabot Lodge bowed out of the Paris peace talks today with a farewell speecn reviewing the past and expressing hope for the future. The Communists ushered him out with a renewal of all the charges that made him quit in the first place. Adding 4o a complaint by North Vietnam negotiator Xuan Thuy that there had been no progress in 19 months of negotiations with Lodge was a series of new charges that the United States had committed thousands of barbarous crimes in South Vietnam. Lodge, 67. nas been a key figure in American Vietnam war policies since the early 1960s. Todav was his last as chief negotiator. On Saturday he plans to leave Paris for his home in Boion. He summarized his parting speech as a review of the things which we on our side have proposed, what the other side's reactions have been, what are some of the most persistent and erroneous beliefs which impede progre:-- , and what is the hope for the Lodge submitted his resignation to President Nixon last month for personal reasons. but his letter of res- ignation also showed frustration over the lack of progress in the 10 months that he has headed the U.S. negotiating team. future. inside Fhe News SECTION SECTION D A National, Foreign Gty. 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