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The Daily Herald from Provo, Utah • 12

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The Daily Heraldi
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Provo, Utah
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12- Sundoy Herald i 1 Bust of Author Provided by Friends of N.Y. 1 Weber College Joins Effort To Enable Star Basque Student to Stay In Country By LARRY CALLOWAY iThe U.S. Immigration "and OGDEN. Utah fUPIWames uralization Service advised th 4 4V Berliners Stream Through Wall for Holiday Visit; Pass Agreement to Expire Decause oi we low immigration quota for Spanish nationals, it was futile even to put Mike's name on the waiting list. Then 250 residents of Evanston, including the mayor and virtually every prominent citizen, signed a petition and sent it to Sen.

Gale McGee, D-Wyo. The senator came to Evanston, met Mike and the Clarks, and then sponsored a bill that would allow him to become a citizen. It was killed in committee. A second attempt by McGee met a similar fate recently with an adverse recommendation by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mrs.

Lillian Clark, 42, got books on how to teach English and began 11 months of intensive tutoring which enabled Mike to speak the language fluently by last September. Trial Basis Then Mike wanted to go to college. After endless sessions ai.d applications and referrals, Mike was admitted, with a great deal of skepticism, on "a trial basis." He had gone through only six grades in the Spanish public schools because, as the son of a basket weaver," he did not have the means tol pay for his own education. Now Weber State Collegers joining in efforts to keep Mike in this country. Dr.

Wendell Esplin, head of the technical BERLIN (UPI) Tens of thousands of West Berliners, most of them laden with" pres ents, streamed through the wall Saturday to make Whitsun noli Nelson and Lee At Odds On r- Health Setup SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) City Health Commissioner Rich- ardJ. Nelson and Mayor J. Nelson and Mayor J. Bracken Lee were at odds Saturday on support of the county's public health program. Dr.

Nelson said a majority of cities and towns in the county supported the program, in cluding community mental health. Mayor Lee Thursday objected to allocation of city funds to the Community Health Center because he said other cities and towns in the county did not contribute to its opera-tion. Dr. Nelson said that he un derstood only Sandy did not support the program. He re quested City Board of Health members to appear at a public hearing on the matter scheduled later, this month.

NEXT OBJECTIVE: MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT The new Miss USA, Sue Downing of Ohio, being crowned by Pat Boone in Miami Beach. She'll represent United States in Miss Universe Pageant in July. (Herald-UPI Telephoto) Ohio Blonde New 'Miss USA'; Arizonan Runnerup KETCHUM (UPI)-A bronze bust of the late Ernest Heming way will be placed in a natural reserve off Trail Creek Road on Smv, Valley property. C. E.

Atkinson, chairman of the committee planning a memorial for the famed author, said the bust has. been provid ed by New York friends of Hemingway. He said the "Hemingway Me morial Park will be located "overlooking a small natural reserve which has escaped the inroads of civilization." The U.S. Forest Service and the author's widow, Mary, planned the memorial to the author. The memorial will be dedicated Aug.

7. Attorney Denies Knowledge On Fund Shortage VERNAL (UPI) Uintah County Atty. Whitney D. Ham mond has denied he has received any information about an audit of the Uintah High School's books which al- legedly show a shortage of more than $3,400. Alvin G.

Bowden, Uintah School Board president, said Thursday he -had told -Ham mond oi me aucut wnicn resulted in the resignation of principal Leland G. Rex. Rex resigned after being ac cused of "misappropriation of school funds." Since then he has made restitution of the missing funds. "No one from the school board or in any other official capacity approached me about this matter," Hammond said. "I haven't seen the audit; all I know is what I have heard in the way of rumors.

About 35 citizens appeared before the school board Thursday to demand that charges be filed against Rex. The irate citizens said that "to let the man go without punishment is settmg a bad example for the children. Bowden said the board was informed by District Atty Allen Sorenson that any action would have to originate with the county attorney. Hammond said he would "have to see the evidence" before deciding what action, if any, should be taken. day visits to East Berlin rela tives.

These trips could be their last. The wall pass agreement reached by the West Berlin and East German governments last vear must be renewed if the wall is to open again next Christmas. The Communists have indicated no desire to negotiate a new agreement. About- 90,000 West Berliners held passes valid for Saturday, and by 4 p.m. about 85,000 passed eastern border guards and entered East Berlin.

About 100,000 have passes for Sunday and another 90,000 for Monday, which is a holiday in both parts of Germany. There were joyous reunions at the wall as families split by it met for the first time since the Easter holiday pass period. Hans Ulbrich Dress arrived at the wall before its 7 a.nv opening. "I want to spend as" much time as possible with my grandmother," he said. Erich Schaffer visited a sis ter, his only living relative.

"It is sad that we can only see each other every few months," he said. "And 'this could be the last time." It was the fifth holiday visit ing' period since the wall-was built four years ago. The wall opened Monday and will close again at midnight June 13. ers, sailing craft and tugs had brought more than 338,000 Brit ish and Allied troops off the bloody beaches of Dunkirk so they could return Jo fight another day. More than 50 of those little boats, manned by the now-graying crews, that made his tory, returned to honor the men who never made it back to England.

British, French, American and Belgian army units assem bled for a parade through the rebuilt port city in a double celebration marking the evacu ation and Dunkirk's liberation from the Germans five years laten ers, was remarkably composed after the judges named her the winner. The award means" $5,000 in cash, $5,000 in personal appearance contracts and a spot among the 15 semi-finalists in next month's Miss Universe pageant here. Wreath Maries Anniversary Of British Dunkirk Rescue college, and mathematics instructor Jim Lewis are helping the Clarks in their continuing fight TVlth the immigration au thorities. They hope to enlist the help of Sen. Frank E.

Moss, D-Utah. Mrs. Clark, distraught at the thought that there may not le a way to keep Mike in his chosen country, said, "As long as he was herding sheen it would have been all right, but now if he has to go would be better that he never knew us." Banker Feels Coin Proposal Good Solution WEST HARWICH, Mass, (UPI) The executive vice pres ident of the American Bankers Association said Saturday that the Johnson' administration's proposal to eliminate the use of silver -In dimes and quarters was a "sensible and permanent solution to the coin shortage." Dr. Charles E. Walker told the 66th annual meeting of the Connecticut Bankers Associa tion that the proposal that dimes and quarters be made from the same "sandwich" of copper "and nickel now used for five-cent pieces is "not a matter of debasing the value, but a matter of no coin." "A token coin will not dimin ish the purchasing power of money," he said, "but actually will permit an increase in trade and commerce.

President Johnson Thursday asked Congress to pass legisla tion ending the use of silver in dimes and quarters and reducing the silver content by 40 per cent in half dollar pieces. One in every 25 U.S. citizens is on the nation's relief rolls, up 2.2 million in 10 years. HUMAN FAILURE BLAMED Fog, rain and snow wwe. not major causes of highway accidents in 1964 that claimed 48,000 lives.

About 90 per cent of the crashes occurred in clear weather on dry roads, accord ing to an authoritative survey just released by a leading in surance company. iX0A DUNKIRK, Prance (UPI)-A Royal Air Force plane swooped over a flotilla of small white boat Saturday and dropped a wreath on the water to mark; the 25th anniversary of the end of one of the greatest rescues in military bJstoryiinkirk. The wreath was in memory of tfwse who didnt make it. It wu on June 4, 1940, that tit British Admiralty an nounced the conclusion of boldly Imaginative World War Jmeu operation. A motley armada of 860 ves- sen private yacnts, oarge wemg ooats, lifeboats from ocean linen, adghtseeing steam Miguel Apeztegui, 22, a Basque sheepherder who learned English in 11 months and is now at the head of his freshman class at Weber State College, has been informed he must be out of the country by June 29.

Two years ago, "Mike," as he has come to be known by his friends on the Ogden camp us, was living in a wagon in western Wyoming and working at the trade for which his peo ple are famous Mike is now an student in his third quarter in electrical engineering at Weber. He is on the dean honor list. Last quarter his grade average, for a full" load of courses, was 3.72 out of a possible 4.00. And he's paying his own way. Much of the -credit goes to Mr.

and Mrs. LaMont Clark of Evanston, Wyo. Clark, 46, a Union Pacific engineer, was keeping some horses on the ranch -of John Urozz, where Mike worked. Clark was amazed at Mike's intelligence and athletic prowess. "Twice, when we were hunting rabbits at night with a spotlight, Mike ran.

down the rabbits and caught them on foot," Clark said. Learns English Mike wanted to learn English, and Clark began having sessions with him at the ranch at night, teaching him the names of objects. "Now," Clark said, "he uses words we don't even know." When Mike's three-year contract as a sheepherder expired in 1963, and he was to return to his native village of Sunbilla in the province of Na-varra, Spain, the Clarks took him in and began the long series of unsuccessful attempts to keep him permanently in the United States. They tried to adopt him, but were informed he was too old. -ARROW- 8.95 CENTRAL SOU ARI 200 No'.

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She was one of the top 10 finalists in the Miss America contest where she competed in Atlantic City as Miss New Mexico last year. Second runnerup was Miss New Mexico, Judy Baldwin, 19, of Clovis. Julie Andrus, 18, Miss Kentucky, was third runnerup, She is from Maysfield, Ky. Fourth runnerup was Dianna Batts, 19, representing the District of Columbia. She lives in Falls Church, Va.

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