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The Daily Sentinel from Grand Junction, Colorado • 1

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HE DAILY SEMTIM Weather Party aoudy Homo Edition Monday, July 3, 1972 Grand Junction, Colo, 14Pogi10 Climbing Accident Kills Man On Mt WilsonyNear Telluride TELLl'RIDE A young Eastern Slope man named Jobr Taylor died late Sunday morniruMn a mountain climbing accident irtw 13,600 foot level Mt, Wilson southwest 4 here. According to Bob Sayre of Grand Junction, a member of the Western Slope group of the Colorado Mountain dub, Taylor was In a party of six climbers who were descending the north side of a half-mile ridge between Mt. Wilson and El Diente when the accident occurred at approximately 10 am. They were about SOO feel beneath the summit of Ml. Wilson on a steep rock buttress whm a youngster above Taylor dislodged some rocks, Sayre said.

"A small rock hit Taylor. It probably didnt hurt him but he lost fus balance and probably Jell about 60 feet btfore hitting some slide rock. Sayre, climbing Mt. Wilson with another party, was one of the people who attempted to get the injured climber off the mountain. One of the members of Ta tor's party went to a Gulf Oil geological camp at about the ItOOJoot level and was able to phone for a skyc hopper." So) re said "The helicopter brought Dr iftoberti Elliott and a stretcher from Grand Junction.

-We got Taylor onto the stretcher and moved onto a glacier where we'v belayed down the MOJoct snowfield fairly rapidly. he added. "It was dur- mg this descent that Taylor died. We gave him mouth to-mouth artificial respiration and then moved horizontally across the Jbottom of the snow slope to a point where Dr. Elliott could reach the victim." President At v'AV 4 1 vAx" I rtil V1 I clambered over the rocks to fire the saucers, bombs and the set pieces Sentinel Photo by Charles Teed fS-r Bombs Bursting In Air A soft summer night, a sandy field near Fruita, and Fruita firemen acres cars and people made for an elegant Inde- rockets, flying pendence Day fireworks display Sunday night, and waterfalls.

Age Smiths likely successor is Harold Lee. 73. ho fas been first' counselor to the president and president of churchs Council of The Twelve. The president of The Twelve the man who has been a member of the body the longest traditionally becomes church president. The formal selection of a successor is expected after the funeral.

His name will be announced by The Twelve. Smiths death came three days after the 142-year-old church announced a reorganization to handle its growing numbers. Statistics show it hasgrown 94 per cent throughout the world in the last 12 years. 90103 using Tri the North Vietnamese offensive began March 30. Spokesmen also said government troops in two positions west and northwest of Hue were hit by more than 1,200 rounds and by a ground attack at one position Sunday and early Monday.

The spokesmen said the attackers might be trying to pull South Vietnamese troops away from the drive on Quang Tri. The. Saigon command reported uth Viet Meo rimes, nermy For Saving Deer Littleton Man Fined $58 MEDICINE BOW, Wya. (AP) A little deer is back in Wyoming, and the would-be Good Samaritan from the Denver 'area who nursed it back to health, was fined 358 here Saturday. Vincent Lopez, 35, of Littleton found the deer near Medicine Bow three 9 weeks ago.

He said he tried to find some Wyoming officials that4 could Drive SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese marines, supported by U. S. fighter-bombers dropping cluster bombs on fleeing North Vietnamese troops, moved forward today toward Quang Tri City. Associated Press correspondent Hoi- -take care of the sick abandoned ani- ger Jensen reported from the north-mal, but nobody was reachable in ei- cm front that the North Vietnamese ther Medicine Bow or Laramie. were fleeing in small groups before Lopes said he contacted Colorado the steady movement of the.

marines, game officials the next day about th afterJiis midnight, searefi! Apparently hoping to escape the U. S. Solar Eclipse To Shadow Earth Sayre said the, rescue party stopped frequently to give mouth-to-mouth recusitation to Taylor and that "Dr. Elliott worked on him until pronouncing him dead Limited information was available on Taylor early this afternoon. He was described as a young man and a member of the El.

Pueblo' Group of the Colorado Mountain Oub. Taylors wife, also a member of the climbing party, waited at the geological camp during the rescue attempt of her husband. Sayre said the rescue efforts lasted about 7 to 8 hours until the helicopter took the body to St. Mary's Hospital at approximately 6 p.m. A woman climber was reportedly injured In.

a separate accident on Mt. Wilson Sunday. According to Sayre, the Telluride Rescue Unit brought sleeping bags to the woman and she stayed on the mountain through the night. Members of the rescue unit and the San Miguel sheriff's office were working to bring the woman down from the mountain this morning. 'Dirty Pool' MayvNot Be Unconstitutional WASHINGTON (AP) A federal Judge questioned today whether a constitutional issue was involved in the Democratic Credentials Committees action stripping away more than half Sen.

George S. McGoverns California delegates. District Judge George L. Hart Jr. said, It might not be cricket, it 1 might even be dirty pool, but is it unconstitutional? Attorney Joseph L.

Rauh Jr. seeking an injuction against the com- mittees action, maintained that A Seven Die In Belfast BELFAST (AP) Seven men were killed in Belfast during a violence-ridden weekend that threatened4-the "tmnsycgase-ftreHT-NonhermretanJ and fanned fears of eye for an eye warfare between Protestant and Roman Catholic gunmen. 1 All seven men were shot in the head, and some were bound and hooded, the trademarks of the Irish Republican Armys execution squads. But at least two of the victims were Catholics. Although there was some speculation that had been killed; by IRA pumishment authorities believed they were the victims of Protestant extremists.

Festival band wandered about dispensing his philosophies free to those who would listen. Marijuana provided something to do for others. A few people continued skinny-dip-ping in small Strawberry Lake, -but a strong breeze Sunday made the lakes cold waters even more biting. Members of the Rainbow Family have told officials they plan to leave their camps about midnight Monday and move eight miles to the top of Table Mountain -for a sunrise gathering July 4th. Then, they say, they will return to clean up the Strawberry Lake area and leave, returning to the communes, colleges and jobs they left around the country in order to gather with the Family.

I well as equal protection of the laws was at stake. The request for a restraining order by" the- court was brought by. McGovern supportersin California just vf North-VWnam. U. Na vya week before the Democratic jets blasted Yong BfLhermal povv a-eonvpntion is-to-eonvene inMiami-er plant 10 miles northeast of Hai- Beaci, phong -for- thrsecond time in six- 4 Dies By DAVID BRISCOE Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The man called prophet, seer and revelator by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), President Joseph Fielding Smith Jr has died.

Smith was stricken by a heart attack Sunday night at the home of a (laughter, Mrs. Bruce R. McConkie. He would have been 96 July 19. Smith had addressed the last general conference of the 3-mil lion-member church in April and had not been ill.

and tanks. But spokesmen said the South Vietnamese, destroyed four tanks and captured another. Thirty miles to the south, 30 rounds of heavy artillery fire hit Hue, military spokesmen said, but there was no immediate report of casualties. Nearly 70 shells crashed into the former imperial capital Sunday, killing 12 civilians and wounding 53. It was the first shelling of the city since cause instant eye damage, including blindness, without the person being aware oMt.

Such a filter can be made with two pieces of black and white film which has been completely exposed andfully developed to maximum density. Negligence, says George. T. Keene, a photographic engineer at Kodak, will result' in almost certain damage to the retina of the eye. It is -possible that only one second of carelessness can result in permanent blindness.

Color film should not be used as a filter because' it does not enougS" metallic" silver to reflect in- frared radiation. The safest method of viewing is indirect: look at the reflection in a pool of water, stand with ones back to the sun and project the suns image through a tiny hole in a cardboard onto a screen 10 feet away or point the large end of a telescope or binoculars toward the sun and focus the image onto a sheet of white paper or cloth held a foot or two from the eyepiece. ed up and was heading out, but they arent teaching anyone anything. You dont havelto go to the top of i mountain and kill "your lungs with smoke to meet beautiful people, complained another on his way out. The smoke came from campfires and cooking fires, hundreds of them.

It blanketed the forested area surrounding the meadow like a fog. Smoke, however, was just one irritation? Food and water were in short supply, sanitation facilities consisted of open trenches and many people were ill-prepared for nighttime' lows near freezing, sleeping beneath plastic sheets and parachutes. One young man with acute appendi for some. Wyoming help. The Colorado people told him to take care of the by-then Bambi.

Medicine Bow Game Warden Pete Muchmore said Lopez was fined a to-tal of $58 for two counts of game law violations and court costs. The possible fine was $208, he said. Bambi will be taken to- the Sybille. Wildemess game unit, on the road be-tween Laramie and Wheatland, Wyo. The animal will be taken care of at the cbnter for tame animals.

Much-more said Lopez got a fine receiption when he appeared here Saturday. We dont treat people unkindly in Wyoming, Muchmore said. air strikes and the shelling. of American Navy ships offshore. U.

S. B52 bombers Dew 13 missions around Quang Tri City, striking ahead of the marines to within three miles of the towns southeastern edge. U.S. fighter-bombers hit the North Vietnamese with- antipersonnel cluster bombs. The marines reported North Vietnamese attacked them on their eastern flank with a force of infantry permitting to see a partial eclipse.

Watching from the sidewalks of New-- York- -City-aTviewer may be ble -to see 79.5 per cent of the sun darkened. From Chicago, 63 per cent will be covered; from Denver, 36 percent; from San Francisco, 14 per cent. In New the eclipse will begin, according to the American Museum-Hayden Planetarium, at 3:22:45.3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, reach its maximum at 4:42:11.9 and end at 5:45:11.0. -Because the eclipse will be partial for viewers in the 48 contiguous states, millions will be exposed to the sttmMttr" 'dangers of Iookirl UL 1 HitJ the naked eye.

Looking at the unshielded face of the sun with the naked eye or through any optical device, such as the viewfinder of a camera, can seriously damage the eye, says a warning from theJEastman Kodak Co. A person must use a filter to look directly at the sun, Kodak says a filter that will not only reduce the visible energy of the sun but will also reduce sufficiently the invisible ultraviolet and infrared radiation which can 5 CY weeks. Pdst Office 9 Other Agencies To Close Tuesday Government offices will be closed Tuesday for the July 4 holiday, as stores. There will be no postal deliveries, and the post office will be closed. City trash pickups from Tuesday on will be one day behind the normal schedule.

The Daily Sentinel will publish as usual. July 4 celebrations will be held in many Western Colorado towns, in-. eluding Palisade, Aspen, Glenwood Springs, Gunnison, Meeker, Montrose, Ouray, Paonia and Telluride. NEW YORK (APX- A thousand-mile-an-hour shadow will sweep the earth the marie of an eclipse of the sun. The shadow will dip down at the Sakhalin Islands off northern Japan, then race across the coast of Siberia, northern Alaska Canada and the Maritime Provinces.

All of the rest of the United States, except Hawaii, will be able weather Be A Fourth summer weather sent hundreds Grand Valley residents into mountains over the weekend temperatures were 10 to 20 degrees cooler and the trend is expected through the July 4ho-Jiday. 4 Junction and Palisade shared temperature in the state with 98, and the warm weather expected to continue in the Valley through Tuesday. Junctions 98 came close to the citys record high of in 1969. The high temperature Sunday was other communities temperatures of 90 or above including Delta with 97, 96; Montrose, 90; Paonia, 90; Cedaredge, 90. probability through in the Grand Valley is near However; a slight chance of afternoon and evening showers is ex-' the mountains.

extended forecast calls for temperatures in the mid-90s through in west central Colorado showers and thunderstorms the mountains and east. Many Reported Leaving Granby Rschar Sticking To Demand REYKJAVIK! Iceland (AP) The rid chess championshiawaa-1 -i threatened with collapse todays 24 hours before Bobby Fischers deadline to show up or forfeit his match with Boris Spassky of Russia. Fischer, the American chess was reported sticking to his demand for more money. He told the New York Daily News he wouldnt yield. The six-man board of the sponsoring Icelandic Chess Federation was reported unanimously opposed to paying Fischer the money.

The board met. early hours today with Fischers Andrew Davis. spokesman said there was no progress. As the deadline approached, the board was in session again to decide whether to pursue negotiations with Davis, a mam they say has no written credentials from Fischer. (Earlier Story, Page 2) Truman Rtported Satisfactory KANSAS erry (AP) Former President Harry S.

Truman has entered Research MedicaL Center for routine examinations for what his personal doctor said was a lower gastrointestinal problem. The condition of the 88-year-old Truman, yvho was taken to the hospital last week after falling in his home, was termed satisfactory by his physician, Dr. Wallace H. Graham. Dr.

Graham said the former presidents intestinal ailment is related to one which put Truman in thek hospital for more than a week early In 1971. To Hof Warm of the where to continue Grand the high Sunday is Grand Grand matching 100 set a year ago Five reported Sunday Fruita, and Precipitation Tuesday zero. pected in The mid-week with mostly in By KEN HOSKINS Associated Press Writer GRANBY, Colo. (AP) Astrologi-cally, a member of the Rainbow Family of Living Light said, Rs very spiritual time. Spirituality may have been the keynote Saturday when 10,000 or more young people jammed into a marshy Rocky Mountain meadow near here for a religious festival staged by the Family.

But disenchantment was the word for many by Sunday-afternoon as hundreds, and possibly thousands, began the steep, rocky trip down from Strawberry Lake. It was supposed to be a festjypl of light, said one youth who had pack- citis was airlifted from the meadow by an Army helicopter Sunday after the chopper unloaded another supply of medical equipment. Dr. Val Wohlauer of the Colorado Department of Health said the medical situation was under control, but were getting into a real bind for supplies. He said five doctors and four nurses were working at the festival.

Some brothers and sisters, however, apparently were able to ignore the inconveniences and overcrowding. Small musical groups gath-, ered for impromptu session with guitars, drums and flutes, usually sparking other festival into freeform dances. An old man in loin-cloth and head.

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