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RUSSELL," Kan. (AP) There was a genuine fenderbender in this central Kansas community last week when a car driven by Jim Fender collided with one driven by Harold Bender. Fender's fender was crumpled. Bender's car escaped virtually unbent. NFL Players 'Cool If; That's Right, Hoar) in ft fn Pom no 'if'.

AHA See Page 18 See Page 6 WEATHER' INDEX- nn Page Amusements II Horoscope TENNESSEATs Pg 21 Church 17 Obituaries 5 Classified SO-M Radio-TV Comics 2H Scram Lets 7 Crossword 6 Sports 18-21 Kdiionals 12,13 Women 2.V27 40 PAGES See Page 29 VOL. 69-No. 127 Stfcond Clu PaitM Paid at Nasfwlllt, Ttnit NASHVILLE, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1974 15 CENTS Ford Expected To Call for Unity, Tell Inflation Plan roundings. While his aides' unfamiliarity with long-established rhythms and rituals at the White House had produced some moments of awkwardness on Friday and Saturday, they appeared much more at ease yesterday with reporters and the long parade of visitors. "WE'RE GETTING the kinks out, I think," said one aide.

"Not that there won't be some problems along the line, of course, but we're going to be candid and open. You can count on that." The prospects of a White (Turn (o Page in. Column 1) new President said that Ford had compiled a list of about 15 candidates for vice president and that it included most of the names that had already figured in speculation about his choice. But the impression left with some of those who spoke to him was that he was still looking for suggestions not only about who should get the job but also what type of person he needed for the post. Sen.

Hugh Scott and House GOP Whip Leslie C. Arends of Illinois said the names of both Democrats and women came up in their discussions with Ford, but neither would identify them, the Associated Press said. SCOTT SAID possible women nominees are "in and out of Congress." Knowledgeable White House sources said select ion of a Democrat was extremely unlikely. Sen. Barry GOoldwater said the discussion with Ford ranged over a number of names including three from Tennessee Sens.

Howard Baker Jr. and William Brock and Gov. Winfield Dunn. AMONG OTHERS on the President's list, Rep. Barber and a bid for mutual cooperation from the legislators.

THE SPEECH is also ex-pected to deal with the economy and the perspective of the new administration on inflation and how to combat it. P'ord's approach, most observers believe, will differ little from Nixon's reliance on government-spending decreases and continuing high rates of interest. "It was a busy and productive afternoon," his press secretary, J. F. terHorst, said after the new President's series of half-hour meetings with his party's leadership in the Senate and is another example of the differences noted by those who had closely watched the previous White House staff in operation.

Like President Johnson, Nixon preferred that the themes of upcoming speeches be kept secret until their delivery but Ford's aides seemed eager to discuss what he plans to say when he appears before Congress. They said his address will include an appeal for national unity, an emphasis on the stability of the government, a promise of White House cooperation with Congress, the House of Representatives, as well as discussions with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, George Bush, chairman of the Republican National Committee, Melvin Laird and Bryce Harlow, both former presidential advisers. By the end of his third day in office, moreover. Ford had also signed his first two bill into law an authorization of new safety standards for Coast Guard ships and a provision for penalties for violations of an Agricultural Commodity Act. MEANWHILE, a participant in one meeting with the B.

Conable of. New York, said, are Elliot Richardson, the former attorney general, Sen. Edward Brooke, and Laird. Although Conable's description of his meeting with Ford seemed to suggest that the vice presidential nomination was the primary topic, terHorst said that the main reason for the individual sessions was to discuss "general transitional problems." That transition seemed to be moving smoothly yesterday as Ford and his staff began adjusting to their new responsibilities and sur Silliman Evans Bridge State Knew arrier Unsafe, Report First Sunday as President ALEXANDRIA, Vo. President Ford chots with the Rev.

Patricio Park and the Rev. William Dols offer offending church services at Imonucl Church-on-f he-Hill, an Episcopal church, in Alexandria. After church, the President went to the White House to work on his first speech to Congress. By JAMES T. WOOTEN Thr Nrw York Timrs Nw Srrvu-f WASHINGTON President Ford will deliver a televised speech to Congress tonight in which he is expected to call for nat ional unity and disclose how his administration will combat inflation.

Ford went to church yesterday for the first time as President, then spent the rest of the day conferring with Republican leaders on the question of a new vice president and further fashioning his speech for tonight. FORD'S televised speech Congress at 8 CDT tonight Egyptian Envoy, Ford, Kissinger To Hold Talks By I'nitrd Prrsi Inlrrnalinnal Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismat Fahmi arrived in Washington last night for a visit that will include talks with President Ford and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. Fahmi is expected to discuss U.S. nuclear aid to Egypt and the resumption of Arab-Israeli talks in Geneva later this year.

IV CAIRO, government officials said Fahmi will pay close attention during his visit to congressional relations because of increased strength there in the wake of Watergate. The Fahmi visit was set up by former President Nixon's visit to Egypt in June. Israel said yesterday it will conduct a one-day, nationwide callup of military reservists to test its mobili zation procedures in the event of renewed war with the Arabs. THE ISRAELI cabinet said in Jerusalem that Defense Minister Shimon Peres ordered the military callup "to test the efficiency of the method of mobilizing the reserves." No date was specified. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin reassured thecabinet that.

President Ford will continue former President Nixon's Middle East peace policies, the government said. Government officials in Cairo said Egypt had received the same assurances about U.S. intentions. THE MOST heartening indicator of Ford's Middle East policy has been his retention of Henry A. Kissinger as secretary of state, the officials said.

Cairo officials said Fahmi will make a point of "cultivating" Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress because of its greater strength after the Watergate crisis and the existence of strong pro-Israel senti-mcnt among many members. Sirica WASHINGTON (LTD Dist. Court Judge John J. Sirica is continuing the arduous task of listening to the secret tapes of Richard M. Nixon, the Watergate legacy he left behind after a bitter and losing court battle.

Sirica was expected to rule' some time today on several claims of executive privilege made by the departed president and to forward a number of the tapes to spe-cial prosecutor Leon Jaworski for possible use at Scott Says Is Nixon Opposition Fadinq? Photo on Pi go 10 bridge rails and box-beam barriers did not reveal any basis for using a barrier with the deflective qualities of the box-beam involved in this accident to contain vehicles on bridges." However, Henry Derthick, engineer of structures for the State Highway Department, defended the choice of the barrier system last night and called investigators for the safety board "so-called experts with 20-20 hindsight." "BEFORE WE installed this rail, we submitted our plans to the people in New York for them to review," Derthick said. "I have letters from New York saying we were making a very good selection and we should be commended for doing such." The report details the conditions and causes of Nashville's worse single-car accident in which an Arkansas car crashed through the bridge's guard rail and plunged 65 feet to the ground, killing three adults and five children. Only a five-year-old boy survived. Before that accident, three of seven fatal accidents since January 1969 were caused when the box-beam guard rail failed to keep the vehicles from falling to the ground below, the report 5 1 0: -5 n-, Says markings and an "inadequately delineated and unnecessary section of concrete island which narrowed the pathway to less than the width of a normal traffic lane all in the last 600 feet of the ramp." However, the report says the fall of the car and the fatalities were caused by: An unnecessary ninc-inch-high curb, which provided the impacting vehicle with dynamic uplift. Improper installation of a box-beam median-type barrier system rather than a more rigid system.

Redesign of the box-beam mounting method, which did not secure the beam to its base. Inadequate maintenance of the box-beam. An outside bridge rail not adequate to withstand the vehicle impact Killed in the accident were Mrs. Pernctter Brown, 56, of Pine Bluff, her daughters, Mrs. Arnell Rayford, 35, and Mrs.

Georgia Lee Glover, 28; Mrs. Brown's granddaughter, Pernctter Tate, Mrs. Glover's daughter, Johnetta Glover. and three of Mrs. Ray-ford's children, Paul and Paula Rayford, 3-year-old twins, and Linda Rayford, 7.

Only Gregory Tyrone Rayford, 5, survived. kP WtrcpKottt a snoke-hondling church in church service lost week. He says. In all, 11 persons were killed in those three wrecks. "EVEN A cursory examination of the previous 'bridge plunge' accidents described in the police accident reports should have indicated to responsible persons that the ineffectiveness of the barrier system presented the possibility of another catastrophe on the bridge," the report says.

Relatives of the Arkansas residents killed last July filed a $2.7 million lawsuit in federal court here July 24 charging negligence in the designing of the bridge, which is now closed to correct safety features and rebuild the roadbed. Named as defendants are the federal government, Marion Construction Co. of Nashville, which built the bridge in 1958, and Clark and Rapuano Inc. of New York, the engineering company which designed it. THE SAFETY board investigation indicates the accident was caused by the driver's failure to maintain the vehicle in the pathway provided.

This happened due to confusion, the report says, caused by the increasing curvature of the northbound ramp from 1-40 to 1-65 and 1-24, narrowing of the ramp from two lanes to one. a misleading traffic-control sign, misleading pavement Fatal Handful By TOM GILLEM State highway officials knew a supplemental barrier system blamed for an eight-fatality wreck last year was unsafe before it was installed on Silliman Evans Bridge in 1967, a federal report says. A month before plans for installation of a box-beam barrier system on the hazardous interstate bridge was signed, 141 employes of the Tennessee Highway Department attended a conference where the system was thoroughly discussed. AND THE study released yesterday by the National Transportation Safety Board on the July 27, 1973 accident also says: "A search of the literature available in 1966 and 1967 on But Scott, who made his remarks on the CBS TV "Face the Nation," and Griffin, w-ho was interviewed on the American Broadcasting "Issues and Answers," both agree that Congress was legally powerless to prevent Leon Jaworski, the special Watergate prosecutor, from pursuing the matter of Nixon's culpability. The most the Congress could do, Scott suggested, would be to approve a sense of the Congress' resolution "addressed to the prosecutors" asserting that the publicity surrounding Nixon's apparent role in the Watergate coverup had jeopardized his chances for a fair trial.

"IN MY judgment." he continued, "Dick Nixon could not get a fair trial and especially in the District of Columbia which has been the focus and the burning fire of all of the charges and innuendoes against the White House." (Turn to Page 10, Column 4) legal team time to study the tapes. Sirica has opposed any postponement in the past, but it was not known how he might rule now in the light of last week's stunning events. Since the trial is expected to last as long as three months before a sequestered jury, and judges are loathe to keep jurors locked up over the Christmas holidays, it was considered possible any di'luy would be cither extremely brief or all the way into next year. By JOHN M. CREWDSON TV Kf York Timn Nri Sfnirf WASHINGTON Hugh Scott, the Senate Republican leader, said yesterday that he has found growing bipartisan opposition in Congress to the possible criminal prosccuuunui lurnifi r-: wwijifini mm it Sen.

Hugh Scott Senate GOP leader 't Mil P. Griffin of Michigan, the Republican whip, who maintained that Nixon had "suffered the ultimate political penalty" for his handling of Watergate, which he termed "essentially a political offense." Griffin said he thought "that most people are satisfied with that." Sen. Robert P. Griffin Republican whip former key Nixon aides arc charged with conspiracy were expected to move today or tomorrow for a delay in the trial. One defendant, John D.

Ehrlichman, did so Friday. He contended that "inflamed passions" from Nixon's last days in office make finding an impartial jury impossible. Other defense lawyers were expected to make similar claims. EVEN Jaworski might agree to a brief delay, perhaps a month, to give his dent Nixon for his role in the Watergate coverup case. The Pennsylvania Republican said he has spoken with most of the leaders of both parties in the Senate and House and has concluded that "most of them would wish that nothing further Happens to Nixon.

"MOST OF them are mously compassionate," he added. "In fact, I know of none who aren't. Everyone hopes that we can say enough is enough, this is the end. "Hanging is enough without drawing and quartering," Scott said. Scott, whose visit to the White House Wednesday with news of Nixon's badly diminished support in the Senate apparently played a central role in Nixon's resignation the next day, has previously expressed the opinion that Nixon's loss of his office mounted to punishment enough.

HE WAS joined yesterday by his colleague. Sen. Robert The judge already has sent Jaworski five of the tapes all among those for which the White House released edited transcripts last April and for which no privilege claims were filed. A SPOKESMAN for the judge said Sirica had planned to work through the weekend. He listens, hour after hour, in a locked and windowless jury room near his chambers with only his law clerk present.

Defense attorneys in the coverup case in which six Still Listening to Tapes At Alk 4 the coverup trial due to start a month from now. OF THE 64 tapes Jaworski subpoenaed last spring, Nixon surrendered 55 after the Supreme Court ordered him to. The other nine, the White House said, could not be found. Sirica must listen to them all and decide which are relevant as evidence. He must also rule on Nixon's claims that some should still be kept secret on grounds of national security or executive privilege.

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