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mmm FINAL Edition 15 CENTS 60 PAGES FINAL Edition VOL 133 NO. 222 TUCSON, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1974 Ff(o m9 -vj 'People Rule, President' Says By MARJORIE HUNTER 1174 New Vtit Times News Service "f- -4 i' VrUV' 1. a TOP of the NEWS LITTLE CHANGE. The National Weather Service predicts that generally fair and clear skies over Tucson today will likely hold into next week, with little change in temperature. Today's high should be near 95 with a low around 75.

There is a 10 per cent chance of rain. While Arizona had sunny weather yesterday, thunderstorms swept most of the nation. Details on Page 4A. Global MORE IRISH VIOLENCE. In Belfast, Catholic extremists mark the third anniversary of the interment of suspected guerrillas with bombings, gunfire and rioting.

One person is killed and three wounded. Page 3A. National CONNALLY PLEADS INNOCENT. Former Treasury Secretary John Connally enters a plea of innocent to charges of bribery, conspiracy and perjury in the milk-fund scandal. His attorney has 45 days to file motions, and indications are that there will not be a speedy trial.

PageHA. CEASE AND DESIST. The largest supplier of U.S. wheat to the Soviet Union in the massive transactions of 1972 is under an injunction to stop submitting allegedly erroneous figures regarding its futures dealings and positions in grain markets. The firm says any errors were unintentional.

Page 11B. GM BOOSTS PRICES. General Motors announces a price increase for its 1975 models which will add an average of $500 to the cost of a GM car. The firm says price freezes in the past forced it to catch up with inflation in one big jump. Page 3A.

RESEARCH ON FETUSES. Two leading geneticists sharply criticize a six-month moratorium on research with live fetuses, contained in a new federal law, terming it "bizarre." They say the ban is in reality the leading edge of an effort by anti-abortion groups to outlaw abortion. Page 7B. Arizona COPPER STRIKE. Copper industry spokesmen say that the national strike by 20,000 workers against seven producers might not last long.

Phelps Dodge Corp. and union negotiators, were meeting for the first time in a month. Page 4A. STRIKE FORCE. The state Strike Force on Organized Crime will be disbanded Thursday, Atty.

Gen. N. Warner Lee says, because of ineffectiveness and the unchecked activities of its attorneys. The strike force turned up bribery allegations against Real Estate Commissioner J. Fred Talley.

Page IB. 76-YEAR-OLD WOMAN PASTOR. A petite Mexican grandmother, ordained only last month as a Congregational minister, will preach in her clergyman son's Tucson church tomorrow. She. is believed to be the second woman ever ordained by any church in Mexico.

Page 5B. COMMUNICATIONS GAP. The county lost two lawsuits, to the tune of more than $900,000, this year, but someone forgot to notify the Board of Supervisors of the fact, the county manager says. The mixup has caused problems with the county budget. Page 12A.

Local LOWER TAXES. The state doubles its property tax rate and the county revises its rate upward, but even those increases aren't enough to prevent the average homeowner's tax bill from falling. Decreases in school taxes account for the welcome event. Page IB. a Index cn Coffee Break The first lady, Mrs.

Gerald R. Ford, and her daughter Susan, converse with a neighbor, Peter Abbruzzese, on the front porch of the Ford home in Alexandria, yesterday morning, before President Ford was sworn in. (AP Wirephoto) "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." In his only direct reference to Watergate, Ford said, "As we bind up the internal wounds of Watergate, more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars, let us restore the golden rule to our political process, and let brotherly love purge our hearts of suspicion and hate." Asking for the nation's prayers for the Nixon family, he spoke feelingly of Nixon's wife and daughters "whose love and loyalty will forever be a shining legacy to all who bear the lonely burdens of the White House." "I can only guess at those burdens," he continued, "although I have witnessed at close hand the tragedies that befell three presidents and the lesser trials of others." As he spoke his final words "God helping me, I will not let you down" the several hundred persons present gave him a standing ovation. Plans for the simple inauguration had been coordinated by Gen. Alexander M.

Haig who was Nixon's chief of staff. Haig, accompanied by Nixon's longtime: personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, sat with members of Ford's own vice presidential staff during the ceremony. The guest list had been compiled largely by and Mrs. Ford and reflected the new president's popularity among Democrats as well as members of his own party. It was predominantly a congressional as- sembly, a gathering of those to whom Ford felt closest during his long years in the House.

Former Speaker John W. McCormack, a Democrat, came down, from Boston and was warmly greeted upon his entrance into the room by two friendly adversaries, Melvin R. Laird and John W. Byrnes, both former Republican members of the House. House Speaker Carl Albert, arrived trailed by newly acquired Secret Service agents.

Again, as a scant 10 months ago after Spiro T. Agnew resigned as vice president, Albert stands next in line to the presidency until Ford selects and Congress confirms a new vice president. Congress Pledges i Its Cooperation WASHINGTON (AP) President Ford overwhelmingly won a pledge of cooperation and assurance of "fervent hopes for success" yesterday from both houses of Congress. At the same time, debate continued to surge through the Capitol over Watergate and the future of ex-President Richard M. Nixon.

A resolution supporting Ford and authored by the Republican and Democratic leadership was approved without debate or dissent by the Senate and sent to the House just minutes before Nixon turned over the presidency to The House then passed the resolution by a vote of 328-to-O. On the Senate floor, Ford's ascendancy was praised by Democratic leader Mike Mansfield as a tribute to the U.S. system. He hailed the new President as a man with "a clean mind, clear heart, clean record." iliWMHiiaHiiiiiiiiiiMHMWMHriNMHiaNiMHmMHM Gerald Tearful Nixon Bids His Staff Farewell WASHINGTON Gerald Rudolph Ford became the 38th president of the United States yesterday, promising that "our long national nightmare is over." Calling upon the nation to "bind up the internal wounds of Watergate," the new President declared: "Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws and not men.

Here, the people rule." And then, his voice choked with emotion, he urged the nation's prayers for his predecessor and friend of a quarter century, Richard Nixon. "May our former president, who brought peace to millions, find it for himself," he said. Ford assumed the powers of the presidency at 11:35 a.m., the moment that Nixon's letter of resignation was handed to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Then, at 12:03 p.m., Ford took the oath of office in the East Room of the White House by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger before an overflow crowd of friends, the Cabinet and present and former congressional colleagues.

Scarcely two hours earlier, in the same room, Nixon had said an emotional goodbye to his cabinet and top aides. -Raising his right hand, Ford rested his left hand on a Bible held by his wife and opened to one of his favorite passages, the fifth and sixth verses of the third chapter of Proverbs: "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." Then, in a firm voice, he took the oath of office. As the thunderous applause ended, the 61-year-old President began perhaps the most moving speech of his career. Speaking with what appeared to be a new sense of self-assurance, he noted that he was assuming the presidency under circumstances never before experienced by Americans.

"This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts," he said. "Therefore," he continued, "I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not a campaign Presidential Speech WASHINGTON (AP) Gerald R. Ford will make his first speech to Congress as President on Monday, addressing a joint session of the House and Senate at 6 p.m., Tucson time. He canceled a speech to the nation tentatively scheduled for last night.

Oath Of Office Burger in the East First Lady, Betty Ford. speech. Just a little straight talk among friends. I intend it to be the first of many." As the first American to assume the office after the resignation of a president, Ford said he was "acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots. So I ask you to confirm me as your president with your prayers." He declared that he had not gained office by secret promises, that he had not campaigned either for the presidency or the vice presidency.

"I have not subscribed to any partisan platform," he said, "I am indebted to no man and only to one woman my dear Betty as I begin the most difficult job in the world." This was reminiscent of his earlier "I am my own man" that he sounded frequently during recent months of personal soul-searching as he sought to remain loyal to Nixon while at the same time holding himself above the spreading taint of the Watergate affair. He declared that, though he had not sought the responsibility, he would not shirk it. He Other Stories, Pictures On Pages 6,7,8 And 9A. said that those who had nominated him and confirmed him just eight months ago as vice president were his friends of both parties. "It is only fitting then that I should pledge to them and to you that I will be the president of all the people," he said.

He said he would address a joint session of Congress Monday night "to share with my former colleagues and with you, the American people, my views on the priority business of the nation, and to solicit your views and theirs." Seeking to reassure the nation and the world that the United States had not been permanently damaged by the events of recent days, the President pledged an uninterrupted and sincere search for peace. "America will remain strong and united," he said, "but its strength will remain dedicated to the safety and sanity of the entire family of man as well as to our own precious freedom." Repeating a phrase he first used during his confirmation hearings for vice president last fall, Ford remarked: "I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, and not only government, but civilization as well. That bond, through strained, is unbroken at home and abroad." He pledged openness and candor in all his public and private acts as president and then, with simple eloquence, spoke the words that Americans had once despaired of ever hearing: House. At the President's side is the new (AP Wirephoto) Ford T. WOOTEN Times News Service He had determined that he would leave the city as President, and after saying goodbye to the White House servants, Nixon and his family went downstairs to the spacious East Room, where the men and women who had worked for him were waiting for his farewell remarks.

"You are here to say goodbye to us," he began, "and we don't have a good word for it (Continued on Page SA, Col. 1) By JAMES 1IM New Vert WASHINGTON Richard Nixon, his eyes wet with tears, bid an emotional farewell to the remnants of his broken administration yesterday, urging them to be proud of their record in government and warning them against bitterness, self-pity and revenge. "Always remember others may hate you," he told members of his Cabinet and staff in a final gathering at the White House, "but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them and then you destroy yourself." Shortly thereafter, for the last time as President of the United States, he strode up the ramp of the plane that had taken him to the capitals of the world and was flown home to California, where his career in American politics began nearly 30 years ago. Soon after his departure, while Air Force One was soaring high above the heartland of the country, Gerald R. Ford was sworn in here as the nation's 38th President, and Nixon once again was a private citizen.

Despite that new status, more than 7,000 persons greeted his arrival in his native state at the El Toro Marine Air Base. They cheered and sang and applauded when, with his wife, Pat, standing nearby, he stepped to a waiting microphone, squinted into the brilliant midday sun, and said simply, "We're home." Then a helicopter whisked the former President, Mrs. Nixon, their daughter Tricia and her husband, Edward Cox, to La Casa Pacifi-ca, the sprawling seaside villa near San Cle-mente. The Nixons' other daughter, Julie, stayed behind in Washington with her husband, David Eisenhower. Nixon's day had begun in the mist and rain of a humid Washington morning when Manolo Sanchez, his longtime valet, laid out the clothes he would wear during the final hours of his tenure as President.

Bridge UB Horoscope JB Churches 2-3B Movies SD Comics 1M1D Pub. Rec 4C 1ID Sports 1-4D Editorial 12D Tucson Today 18A Financial 5-D TV-Radio 11D Good Health Want Ads 5-18C Gerald R. Ford is sworn in as 38th president of the United Room of the White States yesterday by Chief Justice Warren.