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THE TENMESSEAN, Soturrfoy. Auq. 10. 1974 0 rave Hardliner7 i I escribes Sirica Not JpstSayYou WereCaught By FRANK St TIIFRI.AM) A crowd of lxpr drinkers had gathered around the two television sets at the King's Inn on Harding Road, waiting for the President to speak. "I think he's going to squelch all the rumors and say he is not going to resign," said one man.

"NO," said another, "I think he's going to pardon everybody involved." The King's Inn became uncharacteristically quiet. The President began his speech. Nixon said he will resign. "That's enough," somebody said. "Say good night, Dick." THE PRESIDENT said his family had unanimously urged him to continue in office.

"And I did not want to lose my pension," a beer drinker said, completing the sentence for Nixon. The President referred to his "friends." "Many of them are in jail," said a patron. NIXON SAID he had never been a quitter. "Till about 15 minutes from now," someone said. Nixon said that when Gerald Ford becomes Presi has brought he facts to light and that will bring those guilty to justice a system that in this case has included a determined grand jury, honest prosecutors, a courageous judge, John Sirica, and a vigorous free press." SIRICA retired as chief judge on his 70th birthday in March 1974, but he continues active on the bench, handling the controversies over the White House tapes and assigning himself to the Watergate cover-up trial scheduled to start in September.

Sirica, who has only a few silver streaks in his coal black hair, sits in his chambers on the second floor of the U.S. CourtHouse and both reminisces and looks ahead. In almost every other sentence, he interjects, "You know what I mean" or "You know me," said so quickly it comes out as one word. floor of the U.S. Courthouse his son, a college student and reporter.

He recals how proud his own father was when he began to make headlines in the 1930s as an aggressive young prosecutor. HE ALSO recalls as a 7-year-old, early in the century, stepping on a stool to help his father lather his customers. He also recalls his father's vigorous sense of right and wrong. ly questionable pressure. It worked.

Inside the White House, Nixon and then White House counsel John W. Dean HI were talking. According to edited White. Hoase transcripts made public much later, this took place: NIXON: People break and enter, and get two years. No weapons! No results What the hell are they talking about? DEAN: The individuals who are charged with shooting John Stennis are on the street.

They were given, you know, one was put out on his personal recognizance rather than bond. They've got these fellows all stuck with $100,000 Iwnds. It's the same judge, Sirica, let one guy who is charged with shooting a United States senator out on the stret-t. NIXON: Sirica? DEAN: Yes it is phenomenal. NIXON: What is the matter with him? I thought he was a hardliner.

DEAN: He is And six weeks later, in announcing Dean was fired and Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindicnst and former White House aides H. It.

Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman had resigned, Nixon praised the American system: "It was the system that dent, the nation "will be in good hands." "FOR A change," a young man said. The President mentioned his role in Vietnam. "Yeah, thank you for Vietnam," a patron said. THE PRESIDENT said the nation must move on to other things.

"I wonder what Doones-bury is going to do for mate-rial now," someone quipped. There was scattered applause after the speech ended. Two men at the bar had this interchange: "He never said he was guilty. Why didn't he just say, 'you caught me and I "There was no need to stand up and say I did this and I did that. I think this Ford will be like Truman-down to earth, plain America." ONE OF the men predicted that Nixon will face criminal indictments immediately after he leaves office.

"I think there will be some sort of criminal procedure," he said. "I don't think so," said his friend. "I think there will be a legal compromise not necessarily right, but a compromise." Like Says We Dcn'f Do WASHINGTON former Treasury Secretary John B. Connolly and his wife leave U. S.

District Court here after he pleaded innocent to oil charges arising from on allegation he accepted a $10,000 bribe after the controversial 1971 milk price support increase. Connally Enters Plea Of Innocent on Charges 4 lying to a Watergate grand jury on two occasions and coaspiring illegally to obstruct justice by covering up the alleged bribes. Connally has consistently denied taking the money. He has testified that it was offered to him as a political fund, not as a bribe, and that he refused to take it. CONNALLY'S one-time friend Jake Jacobsen, a former White House aide to President Lyndon B.

Johnson, pleaded guilty Wednesday to giving Connally the tvvo payments. Jacobsen once swore Connally refused the money, but has changed his story and is expected to be he star prosecut ion wit ness against Connallv at trial. 1972. Kalmbach transferred what was left into the Nixon re-election camnaign. The co-op has stated that it originally gave the money from its political trust, but discovered that the gift violated the old law against single donations of more than $5,000.

To cover that violation, the co-op then replaced the money with corporation funds, which cannot legally be used in Nixon Cried TV Kuykendall Progress Peril To Everglades (Continued from Page One) loud voice. "If there is any doubt, I plead not guilty to all counts," Connally said in a firm voice after Watergate prosecutor Frank Tuerk-heimer asked whether he had entered a plea. CONNALLY'S attorney, Edward Bennett Williams, asked Hart for 45 days to file motions. Hart granted the request. Then Williams asked that Hart not set a trial date immediately.

"The motions will go directly to that subject," Williams said. HART SAID he would be on vacation next month and wasn't inclined to grant any Dairy Co-Op Sues To RegairVGift' to prepare to go on television." "BUT AT the end he said, "There is one thing I'd like to say. I hope you don't feel I've let you I don't know how to tell this without sounding corny. He (Nixon) cried like a baby." Kuykendall said he had steeled himself for the meeting, but had not expected anything so dramatic. He said Nixon's "total control the country saw on television just wasn'onthere with us." "I KNOW myself that it is the most personally exhausting emotional experience that I have ever been through," Kuykendall said.

"I feel like I've been, to a funeral. It's the most exhausting experience I have ever had in my life bar none." He stayed on to listen to Nixon's television address. tty WKSI.KY C. PIPI'KHT WASHINGTON (UPI) -To the public. Richard Nixon said U.S.

Dist. Judge John J. Sirica was "a courageous judge." Privately, he called him "a hardliner." Nixon was right both times. SIRICA WAS 68 years old when he presided over the original Watergate trial, nearing the end of a long career which started as a boy helping his Italian immigrant father in a downtown Washington barber shop. There is no doubt Sirica played a central role in exposing the worst scandal in American political history.

"I happen to be a Republican, but any decent American Republican or Democratdeplores this kind of conduct," Sirica said from the bench during the January 1073 trial. DESPITE criticism, he often scolded lawyers for not being thorough enough, sometimes took over questioning of witnesses himself, and when five of the original seven defendants sought to plead gflilty, he grilled them about how and why they got into the plot. "I'm sorry, I don't believe you," Sirica told one witness. Two months later, on March 23, 1973, the day of sentencing, Sirica read aloud a letter from defendant James W. McCord alleging there had been perjury at the trial and that defendants had been pressured to plead guilty and keep quiet.

As it turned out, Watergate did go higher, much higher. SIRICA imposed provisional maximum sentences on the defendants and told them he would postpone final sentences until he saw how they cooperated with investigators. It was a clear device to make them talk. Some considered it legal- federal campaigns. SEVERAL other corporate gifts were refunded from leftover Nixon campaign funds after it was disclosed that they were made illegally.

However, in all previous' cases the corporate money had gone directly into the Nixon finance committee and not through such a roundabout route as the 19C9 milk money. set as President Nixon on- WASHINGTON (AP) -The nation's largest dairy co-op has sued former President Richard M. Nixon's campaign trust for return of $100,000 given illegally in 1969, one of the co-op's lawyers said yesterday. Associated Milk Producers Inc. filed suit in U.S.

District Court after months of trying unsuccessfully to get the money refunded voluntarily, according to at Ehrlichman Asks Tria Venue Switch motion for a speedy trial. 'i am not going to move for a speedy trial, Your Honor;" Williams said. There was courthouse speculation that Williams would seek to have the trial moved from the capital to somewhere in Texas, whore Connally is head of a Houston law firm that is among the nation's largest. CONNALLY is charged with accepting two $5,000 payments from Associated Milk Producers a Texas-based dairy-farmer cooperative that is the nation's largest, in return for helping persuade former President Nixon to hike milk price supports in 1971. He also is charged with torney Sidney Harris.

THE CO-OP secretly delivered the money in cash to Nixon's chief fund-raiser, Herbert Kalmbach in August 19G9. Kalmbach has testified that he mixed the $100,000 with leftover funds from the 19G8 campaign. The fund paid for such things as salaries for private eye Anthony J. Ula-sewicz and campaign trickster Donald Segretti. In spirator after they were advised an incumbent president could not be charged.

TO CO ahead with the trial as planned, Ehrlich-man's lawyers said in a legal brief, "would be to substitute a trial in the press for a fair and impartial trial." "As a result," they said, "the trial should Ik? continued (delayed) for such time as is necessary to allow the inflammatory atmosphere surrounding this case to be cooled." investigations and xssible prosecutions, including that of Nixon himself. During a news conference at the White House this afternoon, J. F. terllorst, President Ford's press secretary, said the Nixon documents now arc under the supervision of James D. St.

Clair, who will stay on as special counsel to Ford, as he was to Nixon. Larry Speaks, an aide to St. Clair, said "I really don't know who the papers and tapes belong to. This is something that has yet to be determined." John Barker, a spokesman for Jaworski, said "nothing has done" about impounding the files, and he left the impression that it was not considered necessary. Baby Talk: WASHINGTON (AP) -Richard M.

Nixon "cried like a baby" after informing members of Congress Thursdjy night that he was resigning the presidency, savs Rep. Dan Kuykendall, R-Tenn. Kuykendall, a loyal Nixon supporter who joined con-. gressmen this week who said they would vote for impeachment, was among the lawmakers who assembled at the White House Cabinet Room to learn firsthand of Nixon's decision before the President went on television. "SOME SAT at tmd Cabinet table and the rest of us sat in chairs along the walls," Kuykendall said.

"I was not prepared for the emotions. There were emotional hesitations. "The President came in. He mentioned his family he stressed his family. He said that all of them had urged him not to quit.

He said it was not his nature to quit and several other things he said later in his speech." Kuykendall said Nixon was "very controlled until the end, just before he left us Guyana Bauxite Talks With Reynolds Cut GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) Bauxite negotiations between the Guyana government and the Reynolds Metals Co. have broken off, the government said yesterday. Hubert Jack, minister of energy a nd natural resources, said his country wanted to start a Jamaica-styled tax on the American company expected to yield an estimated $15 million. Inquiry By RICHARD D. LYONS TV Stm ark Timn Vi Swvwt WASHINGTON On the heels of Richard M.

Nixon's resignation, some members of Congress were urging impoundment of the presidential documents still in the White House. A few even demanded that the Watergate investigations be continued. But Rep. Peter W. Rodino said after a morning discussion of whether his House Judiciary Committee should make another attempt to obtain the 147 subpoenaed presidential tape recordings that "we're not an investigative body." "OCR INQUIRY is at an end," the New Jersey Democrat said in expressing what to be the feel- Before swamps on the south and west sides of the park.

The 10.000 Islands area is a fisherman's paradise, abounding in tarpon, snook, channel bass and many other gamefish. BiologisLs think the mangrove swamps are also the spawning or rearing ground for many commercially important food fishes. "A WT MORE work needs to bo done in this field, but it looks as if changing the amount of fresh water that reaches the estuaries may change the salinity and destroy their value as breeding grounds," Nix said. The greatest threat to the Everglades at present appears to be from the male-leuca tree, a native of Southeast Asia that was imported to Florida about 25 years ago. Men planted this tree in the populous areas along the coast, but it spread inland rapidly and has already replaced the sawgrass in some parts of the Glades.

"IF IT KEEPS up. 50 years from now we'll be calling it Malelcuca National Park." Nix observed. "They're sitting at the borders right now, waiting to get in. When the malelcuca takes over, you lose even more water. A thick growth of trees obviously is going to transpire a lot more water than sawgrass." The hydrologist says the park needs a buffer zone around it to keep mHaleu-ca and other exotics out.

Wayne Hoffman, Dade County's principal environmental planner, says a new master growth plan being prepared for the county includes a low-opulat ion-density area around the park. Dunn Wires Ford Pledge of Support Gov. Winfield Dunn, chairman of the Republican Governors' Association, sent a telegram to President Ford yesterday pledging "total support" on behalf of the nation's GOP chief executives. "On behalf of the Republic can governors of our notion I' extend sincere best wishes in your new responsibilities," the telegram said. "We pledge our enthusiastic and total support to you in the days ahead.

On behalf of all Tennesseans I offer our strength, our prayers, our dedication and our devotion as we face the opportunities for a better i life for all," Dunn said THE EVERGLADES. Fla. (AP) the strange beauty of the Everglades will survive only if man can preserve it from its most determined destroyer himself. The 1.5-miIlion-acre national park, believed formed 5,000 years ago. sprawls across two-thirds of the tip of Florida.

It encompasses every ecological system native to the area, from the sawgrass panoramas of the true Glades to the tangled mangrove swamps where the land reluctantly gives way to the sea. AUTHORITIES THINK the complex sawgrass, cypress and estuarine systems harbored by the park could disappear unless officialdom in booming Miami and other Gold Coast cities 30 miles to the northeast changes its definition of progress. For 10 years, Frank Nix has been the hydraulic engineer for Everglades National Park, studying the complexities of the water flow that is life itself to the wilderness. He's concerned. "If the rest of South Florida is developed like the Gold Coast, we will run out of water.

If that happeas, you won't have an Everglades National Park," he said. "The Everglades has always cycles of flood and drought. But man has done so much draining in the Everglades regions north of the park that he has created an artifical drought and made the dry years much more severe." THE EVERGLADES surprise visitors who have been taught by books and bug killer advertisements to picture them as a thick, tangled jungle. The true Glades is a hori-zion-wide sweep of 5-to-10-foot sawgrass, reminiscent of the monotonous wheat-field vistas of Midwestern states. In the summer wet season, countless bass, gar and other fish, reptiles and amphibians live in the 18 inches or so of water that covers the sawgrass plain.

In the winter dry period, the animals retreat to the deeper water oT pools called sloughs, and the great swampy plains dries up. IN DROUGHT years, when rains are late and light, only the skeletons of 4-foot long garfish lying on the parched land give evidence that water was ever within 100 miles of the place. The fresh-water flow also maintains a low salt content in the estuarine mangrove Delay or WASHINGTON (UPI) -John D. Ehrlichman, already once-convicted and facing more criminal charges, asked yesterday that next month's Watergate coverup trial bo delayed or moved from Wash-ington because of "inflammatory" developments. He cited the "virtual toppling of a presidential administration" by Watergate.

HIS PLEA was filed in federal court within hours I i ''A' Hi III1 wj -vifi v. a 1 i 4- 4 5 1 1 I 1 I i Ends But Tapes Linger after President Nixon, whom he once served as chief comestic affairs adviser, resigned to face an uncertain future as a private citizen that may even include his own indictment in the case. Six former Nixon aides, including Ehrlichman, are scheduled to go on trial Sept. 9, accused of conspiracy to hush up the bugging scandal. The same grand jury that indicted them in March named Nixon an unindictcd cocon White House and neither Nixon nor his aides have told Dr.

James B. Rhoads, the archivist of the United States, what is to be done with them. In a tradition dating back to George Washington, presidential papers are considered to be the property of the outgoing chief executive to dispose of as he wishes. A bill to make these and any other records generated by a federal official the property of the public was introduced six months ago by Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind.

but little action has been taken on the proposal. NIXON'S PAPERS are a unique case since, unlike the documents of other past presidents, these could shed light on WatergateVelatod ing of the majority of the memberships of both Iwuscs of Congress. Yet the disposition and even ownership of the enormous amount of presidential records, some of which could be used as evidence in forthcoming trials, was a recurring question that remained unresolved. As Rep. Jonathan B.

Bingham, D-N. put it in a speech on the House floor: "The tapes and documents must be produced he ull story of Watergate is not known." MORE THAN 13,000 cubic feet of records, papers and audio-visual materials dealing with the Nixon administration are stored in the National Archives here. But an immense number of records stilr-remain in the Hurts ATLANTA His eyes glistening ond tear rolling down his cheek, Robert Show, Gorgia state Republican chair- man, watches a television nounccs his resignation..