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Independent from Long Beach, California • 12

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Independenti
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Long Beach, California
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i 9 MbtlA PRESS-TELEGRAM (PM) 'A-12-4NKK1 ENT (AM) PORTER (Continued from Page A-l) Peterson out; Butz stays CAMP Md. President Nixon is keeping Earl Butz as agriculture secretary but. is replacing Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson with South Carolina textile manufacturer Frederick B. Dent, the White 'House said. Wednesday.

-As part of President Nixons second-term Cabinet shuffle, Peterson will take on a temporary special mission to Europe and Asia then return to private There were signs the former Be) and Howell Co. president was eased out after losing a bid to become-an' international economic policymaker and after falling from favor among Nixons glosest advisers. 'Sources said Peterson turned down an ambassadors job in Europe before, losing his bid to handle international economic policy under Treasury Secre- .1 ry and speech at Long Beach City College and i ftnrridnr High School before winning hie first Assembly term in a special election ini 1948. After drafting compromise legislation in 1969 that paved file way for construction of the California aqueduct to bring surplus water from Northern California to the. south, Porter reigned as one of foe most powerful men in the Assembly.

Hie aqueduct is now nearing completion after a 12-year construction program that is regarded as. one of the biggest engineering feats in history. A key adueduct unit file. Carley Porter Tunnel carrying water across (he Tehachapi Mountains was named in recognition pf his. efforts on behalf of the massive water redistribution program.

In more recent years, 'he had turned his attention to water issues affecting the and had coaufiiored the Water Quality Control Act end Clean Water Bond Act Porter was in Chicago on Feb. 19, 1906. He and Us family moved to California in 1917. He attended Compton College and later graduated from use. During World War he erved as an instructor at file Santa Ana Air Base and later became a teacher.

Active in community and civic groups in the Compton area, he was appointed to the board of trustees of Norwalk State Hospital in 1940. He is survived by his wife, Marie, and a son, Cari. Funeral services are -pending-atCal-Moreland Mortuary in Lynwood. FREDERICK B. DENT.

Cabinet Appointee space early today from the Kennedy moon base. BIRD-WATCHING photographers and other observers are silhouetted by the liftoff fire of the Saturn 5 rocket that hurled Apollo 17 into guished career in busivv ness. RESPONDING to questions, Ziegler said Fetorw-. son had ezprecsed a desirwu to return to private fife. Ziegler said Nixon had fered Fetenon a spedalj ambassadorship on trade and international economic -matters but that Peterson -r declined fids because ftf would have required living in Europe.

The President then asked Peterson tobecqme his special reiweeptative and travel to Europe, Asia1 and perhaps Latin America to find way to better? coordinate U.S. internsJ-tional economic policy Ziegler said. Peterson agreed, ZlegM; said, mid will give Nixon detailed report after comi Mating his mission in the spring. Then were indications that Petersons flamboyant and aggressive style had irked some members of' the White Home inner dr'; Me. Ziegler announced a pair, of.

nominations to key -Treasnrj Department; posts. He Mid William EC'; Simon of New will succeed Charidg-E. Walker asdeputys Treasury secretaiy aiyl Edward L. Morgan WjC; succeed Eugene Roqi; sides as assistant TreasunC; secretary for operations, tarifE and trade! affairs. ierigittfidns Walker and Rossides weqp; announced Tuesday by theu; Wednesdays announcements at.

a helicopter hangar news conference reduced to two attorney general and transportation APOLLO ON WAY TO MOON secretary the Cabinet fbSTSi. 2'' crowd nomic powers in Nixons Nixon in his shuffle. (Continued from Page A-l) THOSE ABE KIND WORDS, Robert, Cerium told capsule communicator Robert The rocket's third stage shut down, as planned, 12 minutes after launch, and the astronauts began their two scheduled orbits 106 miles above earth before breaking away for the 84-hour voyage to the moon. Good show, Babe A little late, but a good show, radioed controllers just before the astronauts passed out Uontaries, man completes another step in bis quest for knowledge of his universe and himself, Nixon said. Those who come after win stand on the shoulders of the men of Apollo and their dedicated support team.

Hie astronauts were never in danger throughout the technical delay. It was the first time a manned space-flight had hem delayed so dose to scheduled launch since Dec. 12, 1965, when Gemini 6 was aborted automatically moments after its rockets were ignited. The Saturn rocket was loaded with more than 1 mil- second term. Press Secretary Ronald.

L. Ziegler told newsman at Camp David residential retreat that Petersons departure results not from a rift with Shultz but from a joint decision between, Nixon and Peterson. ef contact with Cape Kennedy for the tint time at 9.49 supercold liquid oxygen and liquid hydro- p.m. gen, and kerosene. Oxygen vapor streamed away from the booster mHw the brilliant white glow of 130 search- The Saturn's fiery wake was visible more than 300 wrfiwa east of Cape -Kennedy as the fUen streaked into orbit, looking Hke a massive otange.

comet i Gathering storm clouds, brought onby odd front moving in from the Wed, were believed to have partial-. ty obscured the view of countless thousands of. spectators hundreds of milies ndrth of the Word is expected soon that Richard G. Klein-dienst will remain as attorney and that John will step down at transportation to become ambassador to the land of Ms ancestors. Dent, whose nomination requires Senate confirma-tion, is a 50-year-old Yale graduate who has been president of Mayfair Mills rince 19ft A native of CapeMayNjwho now fives in Spartanburg, S.C., Dient abo in a director of the General Electric Co.1 and the South CaroliniNa ttanal Bank, and a trustee' of the American Textile Manufacturers frutitqs.

Ziegler said Nixon believes Dent will make an aeefetazy o( because of his fights encircling the launch pad. The mfoainn was the nations sixth expedition to the surface of the front face of the moon. It was the Wrapup flight of the 25 UQion Apollo project, and scientists were hoping it would add the first and last chapters to 'the story of the moons birth, development and apparent premature' death. AN ESTIMATED 86 BULLION others saw the drama unfold on television, as the networks stayed on air THE ASTRONAUTS began the first seven miles of with live coverage, canceling scheduled late movies. wirfr 13 minton mile voyage when a special van drove Smoking banned WHILE BtlTZ is retained in the lecond-terin Cabinet, White House officials said Nixon has or-1 dered a broad shakeup of The Agriculture- Depart- meat to make it even more respootiveto farm- i ers needs based upon to-, days problems.1 Changes in key Agriculture Department personnel will come soon as part of the' positive jolt sought by the President the officials said.

Undersecretary of Agriculture Phil Camp-. bell conferred with Nlxpn here The first night launch in U.S: space history was. the in the $25 billion Apollo program that' President John F. Kennedy proclaimed 11 years ago as the great new American enterprise. Taurus-Littrow is regarded as the most difficult landing area attempted in any of the six manned mil- them from their quarters to the oceanside firing pad at 3:46 p.m.

PST. Huy wore White spacesuits but still were able to wave to the'erowds on hand to meet them. Cernan, 38, was first out of the building and he was greeted by his wife, Barbara, and their daughter, Tracy, 9. Mrs. Cernan tearfully called out darling and Ces White House.

Simon, 45, has been partner of the New Yoro investment banking firiaef Salomon Bros, since 1964.1 Morgan, 34, was a Phoe- nix, lawyer before joining fits White House staff in 1969 as deputy, Regardless of the Orange County will turn smoking in automobiles traveling on mountain roads. County supervisors have decided Tuesday that the smoking ban will apply yearcound for users; of sions, but the region! also is potentially the richest in r. nan Mew her a kiss and patted them both. geological dues first and-last chapters of the. Evans, 39, came next and he, too, was greeted.

tooonYhiztory; hia! family. He hugged his wife, Jan, and smiled at their. It 1 nrfepunsd. Cernan and Schmitt are to set out from their lunar children, Jon, 11, and Jaime, IS. Bto.

JSwa nuxriedup garetteedgars or pipes. Um IW ft 11 aI itimaa 4a Vm ImoKawil atul mwiiiil kaw ekoak Itfsillf Mm KltllUM -1 of three, to her husband and pressed her cheek against his bubble lander Challenger Monday night for the first sbvenhonr excursions. They. are. scheduled to spend a record 75 hours an the moons surface.

-V-V. THE ASTRONAUTS haA leaped into their takeoff ertft, President Nixon sent a message of hick space helmet. Schmitt, 39, a bachelor geologist, was last out and when he stepped into the van to go to the pad, he turned around and jokingly pretended to try to get out. The idiots had a filet mignon dinner before donning tiieir spacesuits. Doctors pronounced them in top shape a.

brief medical checkup. and Godspeed from Ms (kom David, BfcL, retreat With tbe final mission of the Apollo lunar explore' i REGARDlUSOaOLEYS PAIUdnG LOTS! -H, 1 1 1 In answer 0 ihaartidt off November 17, 1972, 5075 Long Beach Biyd.r hesaHfais separate a Hardware Mart at Thteindudes We also hav TRUMAN CONDITION Ef Mrs. Hruman, walking slowly and with aide guilty the aid of a cane, smiled towasd televi- sion cameramen and photographers as- jf semMed in a large ghrap about 250 feet Of JiCTIUTy from her waiting car. (Continued from Page A-l) Air Terminal jbylffito Westwood, longtime associate and. diauf- and Secret Service men, who took her.

lerae trees and twentyone medium size trees in plants and small trees si planters. hundreds of nidpal Trumans for, by oar dLreotiy to the hospital. When buying property, removing bunain DodeyYstandards, the cost of one parting space is over two 3 A One parting qxxe behind Dooley's store will have over twenty cars in and out a day, or over six hundred cars a month. This is the value of one parking place. 1 She then arid something that brought a-round of laughter from her escort of Secret Service agents.

In file hospital barbershop, some 15 feet from the parked oar, a hoqdtal security i plaindotitesman Im telling you, she Is somefidng else Everyone else is getting gfi shook up, but shes always file one with the level heed. Truman has' been hospitalized eight times since leaving the White House in 1953. it is possible for a shopping1 center, with Wall Street money to do many things a possible tor a shopping1 center TRUMANS TEMPERATURE was 102.8 degrees, tin hoqdtal said, indicating is not responding to antibiotics ad- ministered intramuscularly, necessitating the administration of the MrtDdntfo intra-- venously. 'I An hour earlier, the hoqdtal said Roman's condition was in a very delicate and critical balance. The hospitals definition of critical includes the phrase death may he imminent.

Dr. Wallace Graham, Trumans long' time personal physician, was also at his bedside, the statement said, and an internist, Dr. Wilson Miller, had been in attendance since early evening. with a parking lot, as they have many ac buy and develop one small lot at a time. acres to work with.

At Dooley's, we must which makes the desires of the Planning Commission very difficult. A. former Los Angeles city commissioner, accused of three counts of perjury stemming from the 1969 Beverly Ridge Estates project, was convicted Wednesday on one of the three counts. Roy Genie Lewis, 43, who was with the building and safety commission from 1962 to 1968, was acquitted on the other two counts in a two-day non-jury trial before U.S. District Judge William P.

Gray. Lewis was indicted following his testimony before a federal grand jury in 1969 involviftg'variouk financial transactions in the now-defunct construction project in the Santa Monica mountains. Although offstreet parking is required, Dooley's has for every square foot of TRUMAN HAD remarkably good health during his lifetime. He often referred to the presidency as a man ing job, but entered the hoqdtal only once while he held the dffice. That was toward the end of Ms term, in July 1952, while he.

was recovering from a mild virus infection. He remained' three days in Walter Reed Hospital in -Washington, then was pronounced in excellent shape. On returning to Independence file fallowing year, Truman kept to Ms regimen of arising early and taking long, brisk walks in the deserted streets. ln contrasting the parking lots at Daojes with the) new K-Mart parting lot on Cherry Ave. in Long Beady there is not a angle planter, tree or bush in the entire parting lot or on any place on ihe entire property.

Compare this with the industrial parting lot or on any place on the entire property. Compare this with the industrial area next door to them, which has many planters and treds. Notice the hew White Front parking lot an Cherry Ave. in North Long Beach. With the exception 6f one planter next to the building, not a single planter, tree or bush is found in the entire parking lot.

THE CONDITION of the tough little man of Independence was listed as when he' waa admitted. But be deteriorated to. serious during night At a 3 p.m. news briefing, officials said the 33rd president was slightly improved and more comfortable. Three hours later he was given a mild sedative and encouraged to rest A report earlier Wednesday evening from Graham, had said the former presidents heart rate was speeding at times.

The statement said, however, that -his Mood. After trips to the hospital for surgery 1 1 1 in 1954 and 1963, persons close to Truman I Olltll, li), rippCfi said he never regained the robustness that characterized his fife. by bomb he An arthritic condition in Ms hip put a noticeable shuffle in Ms walk. He relied more and more on his' cane! Is it the policy ofthe Gty of Long Beach to eliminate the independent merchant in favor of the large Wall Stmt chains that take everything out of a community and contribute very little? -S limits. Droves, the hospitals public relations asked about the irregular heart beat, said it is sometimes irregular and at that point ita rapid.

One friend remarked: The only time Harry still walks briskly is when he is in New York and Washington when newsmen are tagging along. The people of Long Beach should do some thinking or there will not be any independents to hold down prices and work for the good of the community. Remember, it is the independent businessman that works with local organization for the betterment of the community, not the Wall Street-owned business. SAN RAFAEL (A A 15-year-old high school student was reported in satis-, foctory condition Wednesday after a time bomb be was carrying exploded, Mowing Off parts of four fingers on Ms left hand and injuring Ms chest, abdomen and head, police said. Thomas Henry Garvey, TRUMANS PUBLIC appearances became fewer.

After an hour or so at a banquet table, Ms face showed Truman once confided Ms two part formula for longevity: 1. Choose the right grandparents. I did. I come from a long lived family. 2.

Keep those veins in the legs fono-. WHEN ASKED EXACTLY why Truman was brought to the hospital, Graham aid the pulmonary difficulties had been treated at home, as indicated, for the past two weeks. The acute phase and heart failure began the night before hospitalization while the arterial sclerosis has been brisk-walkSr preferably OWURJKSM9L tixhe PRESBENT DOOUrSHMOWMEMAar.SC. SONOSEMCH High School, -told officers he made the bomb fiy stuffing gunpowder into a piece of pips and attaching a timing device, Police Capt. Tom Stephenson said.

at dawn. Doctors will tell you that other- Trumans wife, Bess, remained at his wise the veins get dogged. fadfido in his sixth-floor room until 4:35 Why, hq was asked, did he carry a p.m. cane Truman explained that the cans Mrs. Truman, wearing a grey tweed was to help Mm uphill on his dawn pa-coat with a navy dress smilgd warmly as tools and to bop on the head a py reporter she left fiie hoqdtaL who asked silly questions.

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