Daily Herald, The (Newspaper) - April 29, 1975, Provo, Utah Amusements Comics Editorial Obituaries Society Sports 10 16 17 4 1415 frS Snow showers decreasing with partial clearing by tonight partly sunny highs 50 to Lows tonight near Chance of precipitation decreasing to 20 per cent tonight and 10 per cent 102ND 233 APRIL PER MONTH PRICE 10 CENTS Agreement Still Tentative CeaseFire Looms As Pulls Out BULLETIN WASHINGTON UP President Ford told con gressional leaders today that on his orders nearly every American had been evacuated from Vietnam without Incident an abrupt ending to nearly 14 years of involvement In that war torn It has gone well and there has been no Clifford told reporters following a meeting with SAIGON UPI The United States pulled out of South Vietnam leaving a peace settlement and the surrender of Saigon in the hands of the Political sources said the Viet Cong and South Vietnamese administrations had reached agreement in principle to call a ceasefire Wednesday but the Communists raised two more demands before there can be a formal The American evacuation on orders from President Duong Van Big Minn prepared for the surrender of Saigon without a ending 30 years of warfare in Indochina and 14 years of American There was no immediate confirmation of the reported ceasefire agreement between the Minn government and the Viet Vice President Nguyen Van Huyen denied But knowledgeable political sources said Huyen had been in contact with the Viet Cong ITS NEARLY and this was the scene throughout Utah County this As Herald Photographer Meb Anderson took this picture of an orchard in at 7 Will It Ever End the temperature on a nearby outdoor thermometer hovered at 30 Several inches of snow fell throughout Utah Valley last night and early Winter Wonderland Loses Planting Hampered By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN If winter can spring be far behind Youd better believe it The stories surrounding this years ubiquitous winter are A patiently guiding his through a department is overheard to I know its snowing but it still isnt Christmastime A carefree soul swings down For Utah Valley the street and unconsciously whistles a familiar tune Walking in a Winter A marquis over a flower show bears the plaintive What Ever Happened to Spring Even the optimists optimist is having a hard time closing his eyes and pretending that white stuff is really apple In the the tenacious Continuing Snow Ups Flood Threat With each day the wet weather the threat of spring floods in Utah Valley according to members of the Utah County Council of Governments Flood Control Action Snowpacks in most canyons are far above and the cold spring weather has delayed the runoff from lower according to Walt county flood control Draper said letters have gone out to all communities in the urging them to make sure the natural channels are free of and recommending that they obtain supplies of sandbags on hand in case they are threatened with Approaching 1952 Level Hobble Creek Canyon snowpack is approaching the 1952 when disastrous floods Draper A survey of the snowpack last week revealed it is heavy in the to as well as the elevations above If the weather should warm the lower elevations and the higher elevations will be yielding their moisture at the same and flooding is he We are urging all communities to look for high Draper American Fork Critical American Fork Canyon is the most critical in some the flood control coordinator explaining that some of the snowpacks are 400 per or four times the level which is termed normal from the averages of many years The one favorable is that the snowpack lies to the and so will yield its load of moisture more slowly than the south or he Rock Canyon and Slate Canyon are both sources of he If you look up Continued on Page 3 Reward Fund Grows for Provo The Provo have received about from donors in their Reward Fund established to help law enforcement agencies solve serious According to Floyd club the local organization members have pledged 100 per cent support of the program Established to provide an incentive for persons having information about crimes to come forward with what they the fund will he used to pay citizens for tips leading to the arrest and conviction of persons involved in certain serious such as rapes In other areas of the rewards are currently being raised to offer for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for the disappearance of Debra of who hasnt been seen since The city council in Bountiful is trying to raise within 30 days to offer as a Public support for the project is being Police there feel Miss Kent was Her disappearance came at about the same time as two other Utah teenagers were raped and No trace has been found of Miss Police officers in Utah County and in Salt Lake and Bountiful Iran Page 1 grasp of winter is presenting some real problems to farmers and threats of spring flooding to the city Farmers are held back in getting their crops planted in Late planting simply does not allow sufficient time for maturing of some crops in the wests relatively short growing Record snowpacks in all of the canyons along the Wasatch with more moisture being added almost have the residents of areas With the possibility that spring may be bypassed entirely this year as winter yields directly to the threat of snowmelt floods is Fullmer Utah State University Extension reported little damage so far to the fruit crop in Utah Cold weather has fortunately delayed the budding except in the earliest blooming primarily he Nine of the biggest in the county reported Monday morning that damage from frost was The big crops sweet and sour and plums are delayed because of the cold and buds have not developed too it was Allred said believed the got through Monday night without any great amount of primarily because of the high rate of Temperatures were expected to drop as low as 23 degrees in the West Mountain and in some other sections of the Central Utah fruit but there were no indications of serious Allred declared that the apricot crop is negligible in Utah Where the spring planting is progress lags according to the Utah Crop and Livestock Reporting Last the service the rain and snow kept farmers out of their fields all but two days in Cache and Rich Tractors rolled from dawn to dusk when weather permitted as Utah farmers raced against time to complete the spring the service Soil moisture was considered slightly above average in most although the growing degree temperatures were below t recorded a bitterly cold 16 degrees this the lowest reading in the M Milford wasnt alone with a subfreezing low Recession 75 Says Simon WASHINGTON UPI Treasury Secretary William Simon said today the recession is 75 per cent I think everyone agrees were at least 75 per cent of the way through the he told a Senate appropriations subcommittee The seeds of recovery that are sown in every recession have been sown in this Simon said he is not altering his prediction that the upturn will begin in the middle of the year and the recession will be over despite the disappointing spring revival in car sales and housing He said a lagging will proba bly climb over last months per cent level and there are other statistics that are going to be disappointing as he The recession is going to end in the middle months of this year even if we do nothing the upturn will Aid Vote Held Up In House WASHINGTON UPI Atthe request of the White House Speaker Carl Albert today suspended action on legislation to provide million in and humanitarian aid for South The which was approved by the Senate last was scheduled for a vote this afternoon but Alberts action meatis it will not come to the floor until at least Democratic leader Thomas ONeill said many sections of the had become with the evacuation of all Americans from ONeill said only six Ameri cans remained in Saigon of them newsmen their own ONeill said the was not being considered by mutual agreement between Congress and the White He said Secretary of State Henry Kissinger would send a letter to Congress later today outlining the changes the administration wants in the ONeill said sections of the dealing with presidential use of American troops to evacuate Vietnamese should be removed and that the money total in the should be cut MARINE dressed in battle gear blocks South Vietnamese young and as they attempt to join Americans at a downtown evacuation pickup UPI Telephoto By Ford Marines Ordered Into Evacuation Banned On Market by Edict NEW YORK UPI Wall the symbolic center of reluctantly is em bracing free enterprise after 183 years of buying and selling stocks on noncompetitive Under government the jealously guarded practice of is banned after trading For brokers have anguished over the arrival of May The end to fixed rates was imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in three Three years fixed rates were abolished on tran exceeding They were eliminated on transactions under April and will be abolished on everything else Some brokers predict doom for the stock Some fear for their jobs and their Most predict smaller firms eventually will go out of business or be swallowed up by bigger The intention of the SEC is to allow an investor to shop around for the best Major such as insurance companies and nny he the only With more business to they can negotiate cheaper rates than they now The individual investor proba bjy will up paying just about what he pays under the fixed commission system vised with various modifications by the New York Stock since its inception in Virgil chairman of the Securities Industry Continued on Page 3 Iron Ore Rate Up To Geneva SALT LAKE CITY UPI The Utah Public Service Commission has granted Den ver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company a 5 per cent rate increase on ore it ships from to Steel Geneva WASHINGTON UPI Promising that force would be used only to protect President Ford ordered Marines to evacuate the last Americans from Vietnam 14 years after the first troops were sent into the Southeast Asian At Pentagon spokesman Joseph Laitin said there were about 200 Americans left in Saigon and they were expected to be out by noon The President has ordered the evacuation of the remaining Americans from the White House statement The military situation around particularly at the has deteriorated to such an extent that this measure has become necessary to insure their Nessen said Ford conferred with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger early this morning and was brought up to date on the situation in Nessen said the President told him he feels the operation is going smoothly but Nessen did not elaborate on Fords comment but pointed out that the operation was being Continued on Page 3 Barrage Kills 2 Marines WASHINGTON UPI The Marine Corps announced today the names of the two Marines killed in the artillery and rocket attack on Saigon airport The two men were the fourth and fifth American serv cemen killed in Vietnam since the ceasefire agreement The dead were Charles McMahon son of Charles McMahon Darwin son of delegation at Saigons Tan Son Nhut airbase and had reached a tentative Huyen said on Saigon Radio and television his government had decided to meet the last two demands of the Viet Cong for the opening of peace talks end to American intervention in Vietnamese affairs and abolition of the Saigon war But no sooner had Huyen met these demands than the Viet Cong raised two more withdrawal of the 7th Fleet from Vietnam waters and disarming of Saigons army and French government sources said the demands were more like a demand for complete Marine helicopters plucked groups of 20 and 50 other foreigners and some Vietnamese from landing pads at Tan Son Nhut airbase and the Embassy as the evacuation continued into the A Pentagon spokesman said Ambassador Graham Martin radioed from Saigon that he estimated the American evacuation would be complet ed by noon EDT Saigon The report said 200 Americans were left as of Two senior government sources said new Vice dent Nguyen Van Huyen had met with Viet Cong officials in Saigon today and agreed in principle on a ceasefire to begin more According to senior govern ment the Saigon gamble to order all official Americans out of Vietnam today paid off with the agreement by the Viet Cong to talk South Vietnamese soldiers were reported fleeing the capital area and plane after plane flew officers and their to to to to the South Vietnamese navy sail ors began boarding ships in the Saigon River to flee the battle At one point they opened fire on South Vietnamese civilians attempting to join Frightened South Vietnamese pushed and shoved some Americans off of buses sent to take them to Tan Son Nhut airport to be flown out on South Vietnamese troops opened fire on the buses but no injuries were Fires around Saigon lit the night sky as the huge American protected by Navy Phantoms and Marine Cobra helicopter continued the There was no word at nightfall how many Americans and other evacuees remained to be taken but there was no letup in the helicopter shuttles which began The helicopters carried the evacuees to an armada of more than 50 7th Fleet warships off the Vietnam The American withdrawal caused some but less than many analysts had believed would A curfew kept most Saigon residents off Continued on Page 3 Refugee Impact Brings Dispute WASHINGTON UPI Two Democratic leaders in Congress are in sharp disagreement over the impact of South Vietnamese refugees on an American economy burdened by recession and high Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Robert says he has serious reservations about admitting as planned by the administra partly because of the economic House Democratic Leader Thomas ONeill says the Vietnamese would not be a factor in American The two Democrats agree that the best the Vietnamese can hope for in this country are the most menial In a Senate speech Byrd said his reservations about bringing large numbers of refugees into the United States stem also from the cultural differences they will But he the fact that more than 8 million Americans are and that our country is experiencing an A y economic does not add to the prospect for success for such a Calling the overall economic picture far from Byrd said adding well over refugees to that picture will not help the United He said there seems little hope for the unskilled to find any work and and teachers could wind up doing the most menial ONeill said in a Public Service Broadcasting television There are so many of the real lower echelon working in a kitchen in a probably running an We know that in this day and age that we cant fill jobs because of the fact that a person can earn more or get more by being on the welfare ONeill said who fled to the United States when the Communists took over filled many of the menial jobs in the Miami and of course theyve grown in proportions and are getting out of that Government officials said the Continued op Page 3
