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The Daily Herald from Provo, Utah • 1

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The Daily Heraldi
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It called for making U.S. China relations more normal and the United Saks promised to reduce its niilary forces on Taiwan as tension ta the area diminished. An official aboard Kissinger's plane said the idaa of another prudential trip to Peking was raised by the Cfcr.esc shortly aftor Kissmger arrived Peking Wsxtey. The trip was scheduled Wednesday after Kissinger chadttd with Ford in a telephone caH.theelM&Isid. Neither side gave a specific raasi for the visit But the issue of Taiwan, the seat of the Nationalist government of China, remains a serious and unseUisd problem in ciia Couiieued Pap li): 6 -V3f- mil -1 I.

Concert Band, and the Panther Band from the same school were featured along with the Provo High Sdwo! Band. The parade wound south r-r-University Avenue and then wt la the Provo City Center oo Center Street where Santa met an enthusiastic throng of children who pressed around the starnf hfshowfwtwt. Stmt tkemiims As part of today's official Christ may kickoff, Provo City crews from the Power Depart mem put finishing touches to the city's street decorations and prepared for the official switch-on at dusk today. The official Christmas tree has been installed and lighted front of the city center in the middle of the street. The 25 foot blue spruce tree was donated to the city by Mrs.

Flora Cosk and her husband of Orem. The tree (Continued on Page lii SyerrisfcfSf in Clash WASHINGTON (UP!) Presifeit Ford will visit the Peoe'i Republic China in the United States and China announced pintiy today at the crsKi.JSios of Secretary of Stats Ik'f'jrj' A. vssit to t.J Ford's visit to China, the second for as American president since President Richard M. Nixon went to Peking is 1272. was announced simultaneously by the WMte Ikxae and the Chinese government.

White Hcjse secretary Rcxi Nessen quoted Ford as ssvmgcftisetrip: "I look forward to visiting the People's Republic of China some time next year and to continuing the process of normaliang oar relaiiosK." It will not be Ford's first trip to China. He went to Peking in Use summer of i72. joint annsmcement, issued at the end of Kissinger's sixth visit to China since July IS71.said: ne U.S. and Chinese sides held frank, wide-ranging and mutually beneficial talks. They reaffirmed their unchanged oommitnient to the principals of the Chang Hai communique.

The two governments agreed that President Gerald R. Ford would visit the People's Republic of China in 1375." i i 5. Mr. Nixon is not presently able to be deposed by the parties in this case. 6.

If recovery proceeds st the anticipated rate, and there are no further complications, we would estimate that he should be able to give a deposition in his homebyJaii.6,lM5. 7. If a deposition is to be taken as described in response to (6) above, we suggest it fee obtained in no more than two daily sessions of no longer than one hour each. There should be adequate opportunity for rest between sessions. Slay Victim kept ap a busy scheduK of appa'ances in Orem, Springvilie, Spanish Fork, Paysaa, and American Fork as 'ifF PRO rode atop th impulsive ofiimi cuy float with attendants and some youngsteri in the Provo parade this morning.

The parade ushered io the holiday season and introduced Santa to Provo. The old man front the North Pole By ROBERT McDOUGALL Santa mads his arrival today sa Provo, and as far sjs the city's nrchants are concerned, Christmas is officiaily The Orem and Prove parades were part of a busy schedule for Santa and his official arrival was also marked today in Springviile, Arreirkaui Foi4. Hs is schedUed to came to Saturday from 2 to I pm. at the Juab High School IndusUiai Arts Building and he is to arrive st Santaquin Dec. 23 and at Pleasant Grove Dec.

7. Excited Crwd The Retail Merchants' Council See Page 28 for page ol pictures on Provo and Orem parades. of the Provo Chamber of Commerce sponsored the offjical Sarita parade for Provo ar.d the chill of the morning air soon evaporated as excited youngsters showed their approval of the proceedings. Two children's Hoats in the parade were awarded prizes. Youngsters from the Provo Second Ward Primary and from tie Provo Community Church prke money for uiuututowraui.

Miss Utah arid Miss Provo added glamour and the entire Provo City Commission added officialdom, while clowns, Sirnkey the Bear aiid of course Santa added excitement. The Provo Parade was the official kickoff for the Christmas Around the World theme which many of the merchants ha a agreed to feature during the festive season. Marching Bauds The parade consisted of about 35 units and the city's schools sent their colorful and talented marching bands to provide the parade's indispensable noise and excitement. The Farrer Jr. High School fend, the Dixon Jr High School on on kayed by ariiament IjONDON (UPI) Parlia- tmi and fjeen Elizabeth today outlawed the Irish Republican Army and gave the police wider emergency powers to arrest and hold suspected bombers and terrorists.

SCuudiM Yaiu fiidiiiiaineu tight security throughout the capita! against retaliatory IRA attacks. The enti-lRA bill received an unopposed third and final reading in the House of Commons after a marathon 17 hours of debate, The House, of Lords gave it rubber stamp approval les3 than 15 minutes after receiving it and sent it to Quea) Elizabeth, who signed it. Despite a night of criticism by opposition legislators calling the measure too soft, the bill went through the House of Commons unopposed on its third and final reading. The bill, which outlaws the militant group and gives police power to seize suspected members for interrogation, was expected to go to Queen Oizabeth for her signature soon after passage by both houses of Parliament. INDEX 5 a 7 1 which served as a kickoff to the Winterfest is sponsored by Commerce.

route. dtecurrsnt with tb? Wir.trfort Parade, Wolfes Sporting Goods sponsored a marathon oot race which covered several miles in the city including the parade route. Major prizes in 8 drawiag which is part of Winterfest will be given away this evening during a tree lighting ceremony which will begin at 6 p.m. in the area adjacent to the city center flagpole. Other prizes in die contest will be awarded later.

V'liTnKS will be notified. Officials have arranged for a large amount of sealing space for the ceremony. The Scera Park Singers, 150 fifth and sixth grade students 0 1 espects to produce 385,1560 vehicles in January, compared to 370,000 last January when it was cutting back sharpiy because of slumping sales. A spkesman said the number of indefinite layoffs cculd dimb higher than in January as the assembly line cutbacks are felt at plants that build parts. 4 Photo bv leb 4ndFnon 8fS 19 WASHINGTON UPI) A panel of three physicians said today that ailing former President Richard M.

Nixon is unable to testify in the Watergate cover-up trial and probably would not be able to until Feb, 16, 1975. The specialists, who examined the former president at the request of U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica, also reported that Nixon would be unable to make a deposition until Jan. 6, 1975, and then on'y in two daily sessions of one hour each.

The report, which was issued unanimously by the three doctors, threw considerable doubt on whether the former president's testimony will be available for the trial of five former Nixon aides, which had been expected to conclude before Christmas. Nixon, who has been hospital-fed twice since he resigned from the presidency last Aug. 9, was examined personally at his San Clements, home by the three court appointed physicians. He has been subpo-eiaed to testify at the trial by his fomiisr No. 2 White House aide, defendant John D.

Ehrlichman. The 3-page physicians report to 1. Mr. Nixon is not personally able to travel to Washington to testify. 2.

It is difficult to predict with accuracy when such a trip to D.C. nuVht be accomplished without excessive risk, If recovery proceeds at the anticipated rate, and there are no further complications, we would estimate that such a trip be possible by Feb. 16, 1975. 3. Mr.

Nixon is not presently able to appear and tesitfy at a site near his home. 4. His recovery proceeds at the anticipated rate, and there are no further complications, we would estimate that he should be able to testify at a courtroom near his home by Feb. 2, 1975. U.N.'s Geneva Staff on Strike GENEVA (UPI The United Nations' 7,000 employes in organization's first strike today to dramatize their demands for higher salaries, allowances and pensions.

Civil Servants Union officials said only a few persons ignored ihehaif-day strike call. ONE OF NUMEROUS eoircmereia! floats in Orem's VY'inierfcfti Parade this morning is this entry from Comnier-cial Security Bank. Fifty entries participated in the parade cvesfigafisn intensifies Ii IWtti Press fatrMiiai Israeli troop patrolling inside Lebanon battled a squad of Palestinian guerrillas and killed five of them, the Tel Aviv military command reported today. One guerrilla escaped. The first frontier clash in a month took place north of Kibhtite Dtas Thursday night on fee eve of Israeli celebrations merking the armiversary of the U.N.

vote to create tiie Jswiifisisle. "Wg were on a routine patrol fr the frontier by the light of the moon we saw a group of terrorists about 100 yards away," a member of the Israeli patrol said in an interview with the arsned forces radio. He said fe etppment they carried indicated "they were aiming at hitting one of the settlements" Inside Israel "It was 8 hard, fierce firefight." A military command spokesman in Tel Aviv said there were no Israeli casualties in the battle near the collective settlement at Dan, built on the site of ancient Israel's northernmost outpost, Israel said papers on the (Coatiaaed on Page 11) Identified Iff, 17; body found Wednesday by hikers just east of the Tsmpanogos Cave Monument was that of Laura Ann Aime, 17, of Salem. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

James Aim She had bnen staying with friends in the north end of Utah County for about a month. died of multiple blows to the head and strangulation, and she had been raped, acording to the Utah Medical Examiner's office. The body was found nude, part-way down an embankment, just off toe American Fork Canyon road, the sheriffs office said. The manner in which Miss Aime died parallels that of the murder of Melissa Smith, 17, daughter of Midvale Police Chief Louis S. Smith, according to Sgt.

Quarnberg. Her body, also bettered and with a nylon stocking around the neck, was found in Summit Park in Parley's Canyon about two weeks after she disappeared. Law officers have linked the liurder of Miss Smith with the attempted abduction of a Murry girl from the Fashion Piace Mail and the kidnapping of Debra Kssit, 17, of Bountiful, less than two hows later at Vievonont High School. Dr. Serge Moore, Utah state medical examiner, said Miss Aims died ebout a week ago Utah Ctety deputies are trying to determine her activities in the final weeks of her life for clues in the murder.

Sgt. Quarnberg said there sren 't any def-mt! leads in the oa Page li) weil as in Provsi today. STv Gf Christmas Season in Orem. ttie urem tiiamDer of from the elementary school, will preset a half ijuur- pi-ogram during the tree lighting program. Thousands of lights on trees at the city center will be lighted.

The Winterfest celebration. sjpsored bv the city's cWsiber of Commerce, opened the Christmas shopping season in Orem. Killer Cyclone Svvssps Cccist Of Bangladesh DACCA UPI) Prime Minister Mujibur Rahman mobilized a giant civilian and military relief force today to aid victims of a killer cyclone that swept across the southeast coast of Bangladesh, Newspapers reported at least 24 people were killed and 100 injured in the cyclone which battered the coast Thursday with miie-an-heur wires and it-foottidel waves. The storm heavily damaged the famine-wracked nation'; precarious rice crop and submerged low-lying coastal areas near the port of Chittogong and offshore islands. 93 Lrowfi Viws Oppi ren City float, the first float in the parade.

Several other royalties appeared in the parade. Floats from various businesses and other groups, Orem High School's Marching Band, and the city's newest ambulance joined downs and antique cars in the large parade which served as a kickoff for Hie Orem Chamber of Commerce Winterfest celebration. The Army Honor Guard served as color guard and led the parade which traveled along State Street from Center Street to the University Mail. Concurrent with the Winterfest Parade, Wolfes Sporting Good3 sponsored a marathon foot race which covered several miles in the city including the parade By RON BARKER Utah County Sheriff's deputies are comparing notes with other police departments to determine a possible link between the death of a Utah County girl found Wednesday in American Fork Canyon with the murder of a JIXCsl.rnlM I ft I S'U I. IXC disappearance of a Bsuntiful girl, Sgt.

Owen Quarnberg said the i -Jii. i LAURA ANN AIME, 17. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Aims, Salem, has been identified as the murder victim found in American Fork Canyon Wednesday.

Anyone having seen her in the past month should call the Utah County Sheriff's office, which is investigating the crime. By BANCROFT Orowr! on-ad-s-ha'f miles of Orem's State Street this morning and were entertained by a long line of Winterfest Parade entries. A highlight of the parade was Siiiitii Clans who greeted parade viewers from his sleigh which was pulled by live reindeer. Mayor James E. Mangum headed a list of local dignitaries a.nd served as grand marshal for the parade which wa staged in a cold canyon breeze that chilled spectators.

Crowds began lining up an hour before the parade which started at 10 a.m. Ruth Smith, Miss Utah State Fair and also Miss Orem and Miss Utah County, joined her Orem attendants on the Orem DETROIT (UPI) General Motors Corp. today announced a new nir.d of layoffs and plant closings for iJ.oi puv tuiuuier 24,000 employes out of work. The hyoffs include elimination of shifts at two acssinbly plants, new production schedulas at four others and short shutdowns at six mere. They will bring GM's iPrP fi win icyui Bf Is Plant Closing total number of indefinite layoffs in January to 64,000 workers.

Industrywide, almost 112.UW auto worxers will be on indefinite layoffs in January, almost equal to the more than 115,000 indrtry workers who wre en indefinite layoffs during last winter's energy-crisis sales slump. Despite the cutbacks, GM Amusements 14-15 Comics 26 Editorial Obituaries 4 Society 25 Spmts Stocks it.

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