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Show Our Phone Numbers Clouds On Way News Tips 0 Home Delivery 0 Information S Sports Scores Classified Ads Orly 5 Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South 521-440- tonight and Tuesday with chances of sdow or rain. Daytime highs in the mid 40s. Lows tonight 30 to 35. Details, weather trap on Pagv Cloudy 524-2S4- 524-41- 521-353- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH B-1- 5. VOL. 3 NO. 171 7 2 45 524-444- 10c 60 PAGES MOUNTAIN THE WEST'S FIRST NEWSPAPER MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1 969 I U.S., Russ Plan Vienna Meet Arms Talks Set Up Full-Scal- e strategic announced a- Today's panied by both side American they were full-sca- Vienna. They said in a joint communique that an understanding was reached on the general range of subjects" to be negotiated. w ft 260-wor- U.S.-Sovi- et exchanges. was reached Agreement that negotiations betewen the U.S. and the U.S.SR. delega- talks were accom- a visible elation on and both Soviet and tions will be resumed on April 16. 1970. in Vienna and that they will be held again in Helsinki at a later time. said spokesmen completely satisfied ith the results. An At the dosing ceremony, held in the Smolna. the official Finnish government banquet hall where the preliminary talks began Nov. 17, five weeks ago to the day. Smith and Semenov made short speeches thanking Finland for its hospitality. reply was given by Finnish foreign minister Ahti A n. was understanding reached on the general range communique d of questions which will be the subject of further a The preliminary exchange of views which took place concerning the limitation of strategic arms was useful to both sides. the communique said. As a result of that exchange, each side is able better to understand the view of the other with respect for the problems under consideration. The talks will move back to Helsinki at a later time, the communique said. This a a becompromise agreement cause the United States had wanted Geneva and Moscow wanted to remain in the Finnish capitaL The in Semenov for Russia. weapon?, netoday will next start gotiations April 16 in - initialed televised ceremony by chief negotiators Gerard C. Smith for the United States and Vladimir S. HELSINKI (UPI) The United Slates ar.d the Soviet Union, concluding five weeks of preliminary talks on limit-in- g The U.S. and Russian dele- - gates earlier expressed themselves fully satisfied with the preliminary talks, one American official adding: We think we can do business." HO Will Take Time On Tax Bill Soviet spokesman said, we are completely satisfied. This is the first time in history that we and America decided to meet and discus? this difficult, complicated and vital problem. A WASHINGTON (APi -PNixon offered Congress a new out on a civil rights issue today, and Senate Leader Hugh Republican Scott said, I dont think we'll if have a special session Congress delivers on its We are now going for basic talks and we believe that business can and will be done. Where we have the negotiations was of minor importance. responsibilities. Scott al-- o toid reporters Nixon intends to take the full 10 days permitted him. or most of it, before deciding whether or not to sign the What was important is that we both came here with that hope and this hope ha? been realized, the Russian said. W 1 d. -- """ STcvSt r7 . Jf " X - cT - SJf - - N v- y W4 - pj; ". 'Zv r'w$rti?7rf yi ateynTmr-- am rr 4 4 n r t fSarz ; rp l0m " ; O tc- YY. J&-1 in 11 s."" . M - jjW'1 rn&mmmmmm nemsm A sea of automobiles in a suburban shopping center parking lot reflects both the effluence and mobility of Utahns in the 60s U Thant Offers - plane struck it. e Authorities said the plane was damaged by an explosion in flight and was making an emergency landing at the Nha Trang Air Base on the coast 1S8 miles northeast of Saigon w hen the pilot overshot the runway. The plane was en route to Saigon at the time. South Vietnamese authorities said 78 persons were thought to be aboard the more than plane and that 60 passengers died in the crash. They said 40 to 70 children and their teacher were four-engin- killed but flames count difficult d made a among the dead. Officials said the names of four Americans were on the passenger list but that it was not immediately determined whether they were actually crash. 1L 12 City, Regional 13, 14 Theater Entertainment Editorial Pages Our Man Jones Music - 16. 17 18. 19 19 19 SECTION City, 2 10. 11 Financial 6-- 15 , R Regional. 1, 3, 3, 6, 8, 9, 14, 15 1 Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads 15-2- 3 C 6 Women's Pages SECTION 1) 6 7 Sports TV Highlights f tm handiwork starts on where Page today you'll learn about the great population shift which brought people out of the rural areas into suburbia and a city that is beginning to share the problems of other great cities of A-1- industry. To report the significant advances of the decade which will soon be over, the Deseret News assigned reporters, photographers and artists to ex- - Hopes Dim, Officer Says SAIGON (UPI) Allied the country. in- Viet Legislators Accuse Thieu Of 'Ouster' Plot A majorSAIGON (UPI) ity of South Vietnam's nation- telligence officers predicted today the Veit Cong will violate their own Christmas cease-fir- e with scattered attacks in the provinces surrounding Saigon. al assemblymen accused President Nguyen Van Thieu today of participation in a against provocative plot three of their fellow legislators. We have every reason to believe they will violate this cease-fir- e just as they have all the others. one of the officials said. We think not division-sized- , units will be involved. The three-da-y Viet Cong standdown for Christmas is scheduled to begin at 1 a.m. Saigon time Wednesday (12 noon Tuesday EST). 17 hours before the allies begin their Their statement said this alleged plot not only was divisive within the government the combut also harmed mon fighting spirit." The assemblymen demanded that Thieu explain the invasion of 500 demonstrators into the house chamber Saturday to demand the ouster of three legislators who Thieu contends are s. truce. The intelligence officers emphasized that their prediction should be taken with the same weight as reports the Communists planned attacks during weesend to commmemorate the 23rd anniversary of their war effort It was the quietest weekend of the month. 24-ho- 15 SECTION he I share the attorney general's serious doubts as to the constitutionality of this amendment and may have to withhold my signature from any legislation containing it. f vague after a stormy Saturday session, but congressional leaders hoped to clear the docket and quit well before Christmas Eve. Todays major item: The massive tax reform bill, with its provision for a gradual increase to $750 in the personal income tax exemption. POLITICAL DISPITE Senate and Republicans Democrats already had staged a political custody dispute over the bill. The taxpaying voters. E3id Sen. Albert can thank Gore, Democrats for the reductions offered by the measure. They cannot thank the Republican leadership which is attemptintg to steal away from the lowly senior senator from Tennessee credit which he does not claim, Gore told the Senate over the weekend in a bit of efreulir S oratory-ALLOW- SPENDING Another key to a recess up before Congress today was a $267 million catch-a- ll appropriation bill. This became the vehicle for a crucial iesolu-tio- n to keep ur.financed government agencies in funds until Congress takes its vacation and returns to act on their appropriations. As matters stand, that is likely to be the situation for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Department of Labor, and the Agency for International Development. resolution The continues spending authority through Jan. 30. Their boom-and-bu- Cease-Fir- e Inside The News National, Foreign was a time of great social change, of expanding incomes and growing population, of in the missle projected tax reform bill now awaiting final congressional approval. The President and Republican leaders of Senate and House, with wives invited, breakfasted in the White House this morning. Scott and House GOP chief Gerald R. Ford of Michigan appeared for statements and questioning at a press briefing afterward. The President himself issued a new statement designed to apply pressure for salvaging a program called the Philadelphia Plan, which is designed to quarantee Negroes more jobs in the construction industry. A rider attached to a supplemental appropriation bill in the Senate would, in the administration view, kill the Philadelphia Plan. The U.S. who comptroller general, helps Congress ride herd on expenditures, has differed from the attorney general on legal aspects of the matter. PROHIBITS USE The rider would prohibit rse of funds on contracts which the comptroller general rules in violation of federal laws. Nixon said he was taking a position that the rider need not be killed but should be modified to permit prompt court review of the legal controversy. While this might be an out for Nixon to avoid an outright veto, he nevertheless still held out a possibility of one. Note On Tree Finds Friends COLr aboard. The crash was the worst in the history of the government operated airlines. It came about 2:30 p.m. and a search for bodies continued until the early hours of Tuesday (Saigon time.) The plane carried 63 passengers and a crew of seven, according to the steward, lie said all of the crew members survived although the pilot was seriously injured, first by a mysterious explosion that occurred aboard the plane and possibly again in the Comics Soaring It d The flaming wreckage touched off fires in a number of prefabricated dwellings in the area, thickly populated with families of government soldiers. Authorities estimated that as many as 25 South Viet-- n a m e s e dependents were plore the significant changes in population, transportation, the environment, entertainment, business, education and medicine. Sixties left their mark everywhere in Utah in the way people lived, played, were educated and healed. The -- (UPI) House approved and sent on for sure Senate passage Monday a sweeping tax reform bill that would rut taxes for all Americans and a 11 per rent Soria) Security increase for 23 million citizens. The action tame after brief House debate on a compromise bill drafted during the weekend. DOUBT To be quite candid, said in his statement. NATIONS (AP) U Secretary-Genera- l Thant said today the first step for peace in Vietnam should be creation of a broad-basenational government that could command the confidence of most factions. news conIn a year-enference, Thant asserted that such a move should take priority over proposals for a cease-fir- e or elections, both of w hich he ruled out as impossible under existing conditions. WASHINGTON The The same bill contains a provision to permit the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and other agencies whose appropriation bills have not been passed, to continue through spending J.in. 30. Nixon has threatened to veto the appropriation bill winch provides far more for education than he asked and which he contends would be inflationary. A veto of both bills could thus create a deadlock for the department. But Tord and Scott said Congress could avoid that by passing separately a simple continuing resolution. The vacation timetable was SH.ARES UNITED subre-gional- SECTION A a problem for the 70s. Utah And The ' 60s Viet Peace Step School , Spews Fire And Death An NHA TRAXG (UPI) Air Vietnam DC6 passenger plane, crippled in flight by a mysterious explosion, slid off a runway during an emergency landing today and exploded into a school crowded with kindergarten age children. Loss of life was heavy. South Vietnamese military police said they feared that more than 125 persons aboard the plane or on the ground were killed and that 40 to 50 children" in the school died in the disaster. The school itself burst into flames when the and poses DESERET NEWS REPORTS Viet Plane Hits BULLETIN resident Dec. 9. Thieu said that if the assembly would not oust these men, then the people and the armed torces wil) cut off their heads. Polite guards at the assembly made no attempt to stop the demonstrators. Today's joint statement by fau. legislative blocs representing more than 100 of the 135 House members said Thieu and his government must be totally responsible for the invasion of the hoa-e.- " North Vietnam. Of the three legislators said by Thieu to be two have kept their seats in the assembly while the third. True, ha? e in Japan been in since February. The blocs that issued the statement today assured the government they were sell-exil- but said they would resist any pressure on them such as demonstrations or threats by Thieu. The public in and outside the country must be given clear explanation for the provocative plot aimed at dividing government organizations At least 1.500 persons and harming the commou surged into the National As- fighting spirit. it said. sembly grounds Saturday and Assembly sources said the 500 of them entered the chamspeaker of the hou-- e, Nguyen ber, chanting, clapping and Ba Luong, was drafting a beating on desks of deputies. paper demanding that the The targets of their demongovernment take court action stration were deputies Pham against the demonstrators, The True, Tran Ngoc Chau most of whom were strong and Huyn Van Tu. In a speech refugees from Tt o Today's Thought The sum which two married people owe each other defies calculation. It is q ?! infinite debt, which ran onli be discharged through all cter-nlt- g. Johann Goethe US, OHIO (UP!) It w - just another Christmas tree until Mr. and Mrs. Le Gillespie found the handwritten note attached. The note, wrapped in foil and attached by a cotton thread to a limb of a Christmas tree the Ohio couple had purchased at a local shopping center and were decorating at heme read: Dear Christmas tree girl buyer: I am a a little handicapped with writing due to cerebral palsy. Mv sister writes for me. Should I be lucky enough to get a saeatei for Christmas, size 14. thar.k you." YOUNGEST GIRL The note was signed by Adele Perry, the youngest of five girls and three boys of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Perry, Piitou CiHtr.ty. Metigomich. Nova Scotia. The Ohio couple asked the to Columbus Citizen-Journcheck the authenticity of the note because of hoaxes involving notes tied to Christmas trees in past years. The newspaper contacted Mis. Perry who confirmed her daughter, Mrs. Robert Mclver, had written Adele's note for her and tied it to the tree which was scheduled to be shipped to somewhere in the United States. Mrs. Perry said Adele has y. suhered from cerebral palsy since she was eight montlis old. Oniv her hands and hips remain affected. Mrs. Perry said. She'll be terribly excited a nice couple dow n there in Columbus, Ohio, actually got her note and are interested in her. I'm excited about it myself," Mrs. Perry added. The Gillispies already have purchased a matching sweatand scarf for the child and said they plan to send other gifts later. er Ice, Frost Pay Hawaii A Visit HAWAII (UPD Hawaii had a couple of strange weekend visitors ie? and fro-- t. VOLCANO. The here temperature dropped to 25 degrees, leaving ice and a layer of frost on the ground. Volcano, which is 4,090 feet alxne sea level, is on the Island of Hawaii. The 25 degree reading was believed to be the lowest qn record in a populated area of Hawaii. i w |