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2-A THE TENNESSEAN, Tu-doy, Octobf 18, 19B3 President Inks Form; Campaign "Off, Running' ft 1 'iu If t'- I I'm lill lllll III! liii Irj j) IfiBliJllislI I mSlmMmm (Continued From Page One) Reagan, 72, surrounded by campaign aides, reporters and photographers, said he had not yet set the date when he will officially announce his candidacy, but added, "Possibly by the first of the year." REAGAN COULD still back out, but his staff and advisers believe he is in the race. "Yes, he's running, and the only thing that remains is a formal announcement," said deputy press secretary Larry Speakes. Nashville businessman Joe M. Rodgers, who is serving as national finance chairman for the reelection committee, left no doubt that he believes Reagan will run. RODGERS named state finance chairmen yesterday for all 50 states and set about the task of contacting an expected 2 million Americans by direct mail in the hope of raising $26 million during the next five months.

In addition to the announcement of Bartholomew's position, Rodgers named Knoxvillian Jim Hasslem to serve as Southern regional finance chairman. There also was no doubt in the mind of Sen. Paul Laxalt, general chairman of the Republican Party and head of the campaign committee, as to Reagan's intentions. LAXALT, WHO appeared before reporters with White House political adviser Edward Rollins and former Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, due to join the campaign sometime next year, said, "As far as most of us in the campaign team are concerned, the Reagan-Bush campaign is off and running." But Laxalt said the President will wait until December or January, well after Congress recesses for the year, "because as quickly as he announces he feels he loses some degree of credibility" with Congress. The letter to the FEC that Reagan signed clears the way for his backers to begin a multimillion-dollar fund-raising drive.

THE CAMPAIGN headquarters was being opened yesterday. During the next five months, Rodgers said he hopes to raise $12 million through direct mailings, as well as $4 million through fund-raising functions. The federal government should provide $10 million in matching funds, he said. Through the mail, he also hopes to elicit the help of workers who will volunteer their time, rather than their money, in the re-election effort. TO QUALIFY for the matching federal money, the campaign must raise at least $5,000 in contributions of less than $250 each in 20 states.

Tennessee became the first state to meet that requirement yesterday, when, during the first day of the campaign, residents here contributed $8,700, Rodgers said. FEC spokesman Fred Eiland said Reagan could have submitted either a statement of candidacy or, as he did, a statement of organization. Either statement is required before a committee can raise or spend $5,000 in a calendar year. "AS LONG as the information is there," it doesn't matter which form a candidate submits, Eiland said. "All we ask for is the name of the candidate, his address and what he is running for." Laxalt, a former Carson City, casino operator, called the odds on Reagan's re-election "fairly healthy." On the NBC Today program, Laxalt said Reagan did not seem reluctant to become a candidate.

"I sense greater enthusiasm on his part for another four years." UPI Telephoto WASHINGTON President Reagan points to new National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane during his announcement of McFarlane's appointment at the White House. Brings Talent, Experience' Desperate, They Even Advertise To Adopt Infants (Continued From Page One)' "THERE IS NO long-term commitment of professional services for the person giving the child or for the persons taking the child so what happens if something goes wrong? "What if the child becomes handicapped and the adoptive parents feel they cannot make that adjustment? What options do these parents have? If they-were working through an agency, the adoption would not be finalized until these problems were worked out "But where can these parents go for help?" Cathy Rogers, program manager of adoptions for the Tennessee Department of Human Services, expresses similar concern. "THERE CAN BE many unknown factors in any adoption," Rogers said. "Our concern is that a biological parent might choose this route of adoption without being awafe'of the professional services available at state or licensed adoptionagen-cies." Other authorities, however, encourage the trend of want-ad adoptions and view it as a responsible and needed service. "I see personal notices in" newspapers as a means of giving interested parties on both sides an opportunity to get together and discuss their mutual desires," said the New Jersey couple's attorney, EdytheS-Lichtblau.

"THIRTY YEARS ago, this iype of thing wasn't needed because the law permitted doctors, ministers and friends to help childless couples locate children for the purpose of adoption. "But in recent years in New Jersey and other states, the laws have been changed making it illegal for any individual to act as an intermediary in adoptions. "Because of this, many couples have no other way of letting people know they want to adopt a child or for others to let people know that children are available for adoption." LICHTBLAU SAID until some better means of exchanging adoption information can be found, almost any means of communication is better than none. "What we really need is a uniform federal law on adoption which could get the couples wanting to adopt together with the women wanting to place babies," Lichtblau said. "Some kind of a system is certainly needed, but without it, what else can these couples do?" As with all aspects of the complicated adoption process, couples who decide to place newspaper want-ads must cope with additional frustrations.

"WE DO GET the crank calls, which of course are always collect," said the New Jersey home-maker. "But if it does any good, We can find a baby, it will 'all be worth it." 14 Reported Injured In Market Explosion (Continued From Page One) her under the rubble. She said she was led to safety by a customer. THICK, BLACK smoke poured from the modern brick Reagan on McFarlane Pick: "Shares View for Strong U.S.' U.S. Engineer Held In Missile Espionage The national security affairs adviser prepares foreign policy options for the President and coordinates the flow of information on intelligence and interdepartmental activities from arms control to regional policy.

He also briefs the President every morning on world developments. As assistant to the President, he makes $69,800 a year. "BUD MCFARLANE brings a treasure of experience and talent to this new post," Reagan told reporters. "A decorated Marine, a scholar, adviser to three presidents, a veteran of Capitol Hill, counselor of the Department of State, deputy director of the NSC staff and most recently my personal representative to the delicate negotiations in the Middle East. "He is ideally qualified to assume these new responsibilities," he said.

"I was looking for more than experience in filling this post. I also wanted someone of strong principle, someone of keen judgment, someone who could effectively manage the affairs of the NSC." Reagan said McFarlane "shares my view about the need for a strong America and an effective bipartisan foreign policy based on peace through strength. He enjoys the respect and affection of my other principal advisers in the national security community." SAID MCFARLANE: "I look forward to doing whatever I can to helping the fulfillment of the promise of President Reagan's goals in national security affairs." McFarlane, a protege of Henry Kissinger and a former Marine lieutenant colonel, was named Clark's deputy in January 1982 and was named Middle East envoy last July, replacing veteran troub-leshooter Philip Habib. His deputy, Ambassador Richard Fairbanks, is expected to carry on diplomatic duties as a Middle East negotiator for the time being. By HELEN THOMAS UPI White House Reporter WASHINGTON President Reagan named Middle East envoy Robert McFarlane as his national security affairs adviser yesterday, saying the ex-Marine "shares my view about the need for a strong America." McFarlane will succeed William Clark, who was named last week to replace the controversial James Watt as secretary of the Interior.

MCFARLANE, 46, whose appointment is effective immediately, won out for the key foreign policy position over U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, who was backed by conservatives. Reagan rejected reports that Kirkpatrick was angry over being passed over and said she "is continuing as ambassador to the United Nations" and "as far as I know she's happy." He said the reports were based on "faceless and nameless sources." KIRKPATRICK met earlier in day with Reagan and Clark, aides said. The aides confirmed that she has told White House officials that she wants to quit her U.N. position and return to Washington.

"The President is solicitous of her views and wants her in an advisory capacity in his administration if she's interested," one said. THERE ALSO have been reports that McFarlane's appointment was initially opposed by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and CIA Director William Casey on grounds that he would not have the same access to Reagan as Clark, the President's longtime personal friend, has enjoyed. But McFarlane said he sees his role primarily as a "coordinator" and he will have all the access he needs to the Oval Office. with their superior officer, Sergei Gromotowicz. The FBI was informed by John Cunningham of the Army's Ballistic Missile Defense Project Office that "communication of these documents to the Polish People's Republic and the Soviet Union would cause serious damage to our national defense and would provide Warsaw pact analysts with a windfall of intelligence and information about the capabilities of our strategic forces and our present and future plans to defend them." The alleged spy activities occurred in California, Warsaw, Geneva, Vienna and other places, according to the affidavit.

The government said Harper traveled to Switzerland from San Francisco in May 1979, and in that year and the next obtained information that he delivered to the Polish spy in October 1979 in Vienna and in May 1980 in Warsaw. An affidavit signed by FBI agent Allan Power said that Harper engaged in "unlawful espionage activities in concert with and under directions of the Polish Intelligence Service by selling classified national defense information to them which immediately thereafter was passed on to an agent of the KGB." Systems Control, formed in 1968, handles computer applications and software and does engineering consulting and analyzes environmental, industrial, electronic power and automotive systems. A spokeswoman for the company said it had no immediate comment, but would issue a statement later. (Continued From Page One) "We did not feel it was proper to offer immunity," said William T. McGivern, a chief assistant U.S.

attorney in San Francisco. He said the investigation would continue. Harper, whose identity was discovered in March, has cooperated with authorities since his arrest. He faces an espionage charge that could bring a life term in prison. "I am sure we will ask for the maximum penalty," said McGivern.

In 1975, a man identified as William Bell Hugle introduced Harper to two men who gave him a "shopping list" of high technology information wanted by Polish authoritiesofficials said. Hugle is under further investigation by the FBI. Harper, who had no government security clearance, allegedly obtained photocopies of some of the defense materials through his late wife, Ruby Louise Schuler, according to federal officials. Schuler had a "secret" security clearance through her job as a secretary-bookkeeper at Systems Control Inc. of Palo Alto a computer company owned by British Petroleum.

Schuler died in June, and Harper remarried a month later. The affidavit said the FBI was tipped to the case in May 1979 by a high-ranking officer in the Polish intelligence service, Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa, who is now "safe." The source worked directly with Zdzislaw Przychodzien, then a lieutenant colonel in the Polish Intelligence Service, as well as Sasser Inclined' Against Clark Choice protests about his description of a commission he picked as being made up of "a woman, a black, two Jews and a cripple." Gark was Reagan's national security adviser "Watt left a disaster area behind him," Sasser said. A major test for Clark will be to show he can gain "the confidence" of Congress and various environmental constituencies, the junior senator from Tennessee said. "I am dubious Clark will meet those," he said. "If you press me to the wall, my present inclination is to vote against Clark." The Reagan administration will have to prove William Clark is qualified to be the Interior secretary, Sen.

Jim Sasser said here yesterday, adding he is "inclined" to vote against the appointment "Judge Clark appears to have little or no qualifications to serve as secretary of the Interior," said Sasser, a Democrat "I will have to satisfy myself vthat he is capable. "All things being equal, a president should have his choice. In this case the burden will be on Judge Clark." President Reagan nominated Clark last week to succeed James Watt who resigned in the wake of Fatal Truck-Car Crash Probed $23,570 Government Oil Lease Brings $7.66 Million in Resale grocery store and was visible several miles away as firefighters from Charleston, South Charleston and neighboring communities worked to extinguish the flames. A Hudson Sign Co. warehouse next door also caught fire after the explosion just before 2 p.m.

The grocery building had been reduced to rubble by about 4:15 p.m., but small pockets of natural gas continued to ignite, keeping emergency crews at bay. Rescue crews using a bulldozer and crane began sorting through the rubble about 7 p.m. after being assured that the danger of additional explosions was past' A HELICOPTER overhead used floodlights to illuminate the scene. About 9 p.m., work crews were lifting sections of the collapsed roof with heavy equipment and using shovels to search through the debris. Robinson said at least 14 people were injured, seven "Right now, we're hopeful everybody got out of he said.

"Possibly it could be midnight before we get all the debris cleared said that if any people were trapped inside, the odds were "very, very astronomical" that any survived. STATE MEDICAL Examiner Ir-vin Sopher said he had been told by rescue workers to expect "between five and IS bodies," but that none hl been recovered yet COLUMBIA, Tenn. An investigation was continuing yesterday into a Sunday night accident which claimed the life of a Spring Hill, man and injured his wife. Walter Lee Johnson, 19, was dead at the scene after being thrown from his car during a collision with a tractor-trailer truck and being pinned under the larger vehicle The accident occurred at the intersection of Highway 99 and US. 31 North.

BARBARA JU1LVSON, 19, was listed in satisfactory condition last night in Maury County Hospital from injuries sustained in the accident Police said questions remained as to the truck's rate of speed, which vehicle had the right of way at the traffic signal and whether alcohN was involved The driver of the truck, Johnny Attkisson, 28, of Summertown, was not injured and had not been charged in connection with the accident SERVICES for Mr. Johnson, an employee of Lasko Metal Products Inc. in Franklin, will be at 130 p.m. tomorrow at Oakes and Nichols Funeral Home. Burial will be in Hardison Cemetery, Maury County.

Survivors, in addition to hit' wife, include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hershel Johnson, Columbia; a sister, Lavana G. Hardiman, Columbia; two brothers, Hershel and Lewis Johnson, Columbia, and grandparents, Exie A. Johnson and Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Brown, of Columbia, and Mr. and Mrs Sam Driver, Carthage, Texas. The federal government will get a royalty from all oil pumped off federal land in the Amos Draw, Guidry added, but this royalty will be lower than it would have been had Davis reported its oil find. "On non-competitive leases, the government gets 115 of the value of the oil that is he said.

"On competitive leases which are let in areas where we know there is oil the government gets between 115 and 25, depending on the amount produced." Some geologists believe there may be as much as 100 million barrels of oil in the ground under Amos Draw, as well as billions of cubic feet of natural gas. (Cootlnned From Page One) "These leases should not have been issued," he said, explaining that the lease lotteries are supposed to be held only in areas where there are no known oil reserves. However, in the months preceding the Amos Draw lottery, the Davis Oil Co. of Denver had been drilling in the area and had discovered oil, Guidry said. Davis officals failed to report this discovery to the Interior De-' partment however, so the lotteries were held on schedule.

Davis oil obtained eight of the 18 tracts which wertteased. Had Davis informed the federal government of its oil find in the Amos Draw, the federal leases would have been offered by competitive bid, Guidry said. In other words, the oil companies would have bid against each other for the right to explore the land and that money would have gone into the federal treasury. Instead, the government will receive only $1 an acre per year on the land, while Buttrey and the other lottery winners were able to negotiate windfall deals with the oil companies. For its failure to report its oil find, Davis Oil was fined 14,100, Guidry said..