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AKILB. VOL LXV. NO 41 1 Gray Withdraws; Nixon Accepts Post As recently as last weekend, the White House had insisted that Gray continued to enjoy the President's full confidence and support. A spokesman said then, in response to press reports, that no decision had been made to withdraw Gray's name. But the White House explained yesterday that Mr.

Nixon, after talking with Gray on the telephone, became convinced that the Senate Judiciary's Committee's action showed that the nominee would not be confirmed. Turn to LIST, All In a brief statement. Gray said: "1 have asked the President to withdraw my nomination for the position of director' of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "The basis for this decision is my deep conviction that the FBI a great and unique American institution of vital service to the President and to the American people is entitled to permanent leadership at the earliest possible time." Gray's office said he would not comment further on his decision. his place, but the list of possible successors reportedly contains only two names.

They are Henry E. Petersen, a career Justice Department lawyer, who is now in charge of its criminal division, and William Matthew Byrne a U.S. district judge who is presiding over the Pentagon papers trial in Los Angeles. The Grav nomination had become the focus of a bitter partisan struggle in the Senate. Only a few hours before the withdrawal announcement, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee had moved to kill the nomination but no action was taken.

(O New York Time WASHINGTON President Nixon accepted yesterday a request by L. Patrick Gray that his nomination as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation be withdrawn. Gray announced here late yesterday afternoon that he had asked the President to withdraw his name. Later in San Clemente. the Western White House announced that Mr.

Nixon would accede to the request. The White House did not immediately announce whom it would nominate in 'The basis for this decision is my deep con-fiction that the Fill is entitled to permanent leadership at the earliest possible time. L. Patrick Gray ft'" U. S.

Shuts Down 3 Labor Camps Stores Cutting Prices 3 Wirephoto By MICHAEL WALSH Pott Staff Writer U.S. Secretary of Labor Peter Brennan yesterday asked immigration officials to remove Jamaican sugar cane workers from two Hendry County labor camps because of deplorable and disgusting" housing conditions. He said Labor Department investigators recently-found "serious deficiencies in housing conditions for alien workers" at the Saunders Labor Camp and the Shawnee Farms Camp near Clewiston. The East Beach Farms just south of Pahokee also came under fire for its conditions. The Shawnee Farms camp and the Saunders Labor Camp.

Brennan said, housed about 500 alien workers, mostly Jamaicans, during the past growing season. The East Beach Farms camp, he said, is already vacant of workers following the sugar cane harvest. All three camps are located near Lake Okeechobee. Saunders and East Beach Farms are operated by the Glades County Sugar Growers Association. Brennan said, and Shawnee Farms by a corporation of the same name.

A Labor Department spokesman said a six-man team of investigators had found 'decrepit" living quarters, rotting and cracking floors, broken steps and porches, nonfunctional toilets and inadequate drainage in some of the housing facilities. Indian With Automatic Rifle Boycott Spurs Cheaper Meat From Pot Wirt Strvictt Two Eastern Seaboard food chains announced retail meat price cuts yesterday on the fifth day of the national meat boycott. Farmers stepped up shipments of hogs, and hog prices dropped 50 cents to $1 .50 per hundredweight on Midwest markets. A spot check of supermarkets and butcher shops across the nation indicated that in most cases meat prices remained stubbornly entrenched despite losses in sales volume as great as 90 percent. But cracks appeared in the solid front when Grand Union Supermarkets and Big Discount Food Stores announced cuts up to 40 cents a pound in more than 525 stores along the East Coast.

Job layoffs mounted in the meat industry. Patrick Gorman, secretary treasurer of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, said the boycott had thrown an estimated 20,000 union members out of work across the country. Grand Union, the nation's 10th largest chain, announced it will cut prices on fresh beef, pork, lamb and veal at its more than 500 stores beginning today to at least 10 cents a pound under the allowable federal ceiling. President Charles G. Rodman said the aim was to "re-establish quickly an adequate flow of meat from farm to table.

"If that flow is effectively reduced," Rodman said, "recent meat prices in supermarkets will seem like rock-bottom bargains to consumers in a year or two." Turn to F(K)I), A5 MacArthur Bowing Out Wounded Knee Pact Is Signed WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. AP- A six-point agreement was signed vesterdav between the government and militant Indians to end the 37-day takeover of Wounded Knee, federal officials said. According to the agreement Russell Means, leader of the occupying Indians, will go to Washington Saturday to meet with White House representatives. Once that meeting starts, the Indians will leave Wounded Knee, submit to arrest and be taken to Rapid City for arraignment. There will be a federal investigation ol Indian affairs throughout the Pine Ridge reservation and an audit of tribal funds.

The Department of Justice is to consider and where appropriate bring civil suits to protect the legal rights of all individual Oglala Sioux Indians against unlawful uses or abuses by tribal government or federal authority. A presidential treaty commission will be set up to re-examine the 1868 government treaty with the Sioux Nation. Indian leaders and White House representatives will meet next month in Washington to consider Indian affairs. The government agreed not to interfere with the amount of bond or terms for the Indians' release by the courts. The government said there were no provisions for amnesty.

Turn to LEADER, A8 Developer Says He'll Sell Holdings in Area development of Big Munyon Island There was no hot water or only lukewarm water in some buildings, laundry facilities were inadequate or nonexistent, there was no heat in some buildings, windows were broken, there were no screens and one building had less than the required minimum of 10 per cent of wall space in windows." the spokesman said. Turn to U.S., All! Alex Dreyfoos president of PEC Communications and founder of Photo Electronics which manufactures specialized television equipment, said the sale agreement with MacArthur's Gardens Broadcasting Co. is still subject to the Federal Communication Commission's approval. Yesterday MacArthur also: -Indicated he will return to U.S. District Court to pursue a suit seeking dredge and fill permits to enable and adjacent lanas in me imiduucts-tal Waterway in North Palm Beach.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his case this week. -Acknowledged that the huge PGA golf club and golf courses are "on the market." The new owners will decide if the facility will become a family-type club now that MacArthur and the Professional Golf Association have "dissolved" their agreement regarding the club. Turn to MacARTHUR, All! By NORV ROGGEN Post Sllll Writor PALM BEACH SHORES Billionaire developer John D. MacArthur yesterday announced plans to liquidate his vast holdings in this area "in an orderly fashion." The first sale, announced at a press conference was of WEAT-TV, Channel 12, to Photo Electronics Corp.

which will operate the television outlet under the name of a subsidiary corporation, PEC Communications, Inc. Wholesale Prices' Rise Is Greatest in 22 Years From Poll Wiro Strvicel WASHINGTON Wholesale prices again surged at record levels last month, forecasting even higher retail prices for consumers and threatening to undermine President Nixon's Phase 3 economic Inside Today CAMBODIAN youngsters head out on patrol near Phnom Penh as heavy fighting prompts President Lon Nol to declare a state of danger Story A14 Amusements BO-9 Bridge Column BIO Classified Ads C7-21 Comics B10 Crossword Puzzle B10 Editorials A20 Horoscope Bid News of Record C5 Letters to the Editor A20 Obituaries C5 People D12 Poster HI 12 134 Wholesale Price Index All Commodities (1967I0D) The wholesale prices soared 2.2 per' gV AsJhl 4 cent in March, the biggest rise in a with food orices surging a record years 4 6 per cent, the Labor Department re a v. jt 't i T.r 7 i i Snorts Dl-6 ported yesterday. Accelerating inflation has pushed Mr. Nixon into clamping price ceilings on meat, but there is a strong movement in Congress to crack down harder by rolling all prices and interest rates back to January levels.

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