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THE HILLSDALE DAILY NEWS VOL 187 Michigan, Saturday, November 10, 1973 10 pages Price 10 Cents Nixon Seeks To Clear Away Energy-Saving Effort Grips Doubts About His Integrity; jhg GOP Support Is Pursued WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon has launched a major effort to shore up Republican support and to clear away doubts about his integrity. Friday the White House promised cooperation with the Watergate prosecutors and the courts, and said new material will be given to a federal judge to fill the gap left by two phantom Watergate tapes. Meanwhile, Nixon gave personal assurances to seven GOP congressional leaders in a White More Benefits For Viet Vets Backed By Gov. LANSING, Mich. (AP) In his annual Veterans Day message, Gov.

William Milliken called for increased benefits for Vietnam veterans, noting his support of legislation bene(itting men who served in the armed services during the Vietnam era. firmly believe that we in Michigan owe our Vietnam era veterans a fuller measure of support than we have provided thus Milliken said. He repeated his plea for a public referendum to grant those veterans a bonus similar to those passed for World War I and World War II participants. The governor also described his proposed legislation to put a Vietnam era veteran on the Veterans Trust Fund Board of TVustees and to provide educational benefits to children of Michigan men still missing in action. He added that he supports a bill which would permit a Vietnam era veteran to sit on County Boards of Veteran Affairs throughout Michigan.

"We can never fully compensate our veterans for the sacrifices they have made on behalf of our Milliken continued. we can show our heartfelt gratitude for the contributions they have made to the lives of each of Support Urged For Mayor-Elect DETROIT (AP) Mayor Roman Gribbs called on all troiters to support Mayor-elect Coleman Young, who said he will retain his state senator post until the legislature adjourns to work for bills beneficial to Detroit. The two officials discussed city affairs, and Young accepted invitation to attend the National League of Cities meeting scheduled for December in Puerto Rico. House meeting described later as a This follows statement earlier in the week that he intend to resign despite doubts about his integrity by numbers of Nixon promised, shall do everything that I can to remove those doubts where they There was no solid indication as to exactly what Nixon intends to furnish to the courts. One GOP aide said his understanding is that the material cover a very broad Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott, who took part in the two-hour meeting with Nixon, said, are assured the President is prepared to meet all the charges that have been made, and prepared to refute Scott and Vice President-designate Gerald R.

Ford indicated Nixon intends to go bey ond the material directly related to the tape recordings already covered by a court order. The phantom tapes were the subject Friday of further court hearings before U.S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica, who indicated that the inquiry will continue into a third week next Monday. special counsel J.

Fred Buzhardt testified that he has cleared up one apparent mystery by examining the sequence of conversations on two tapes following an April 15 meeting that purportedly went unrecorded. personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, had given testimony indicating a tape recorder in the basement of the Executive Office Building must have switched on out of turn around 5 p.m. April 16, although it been set to come on until midnight or later. Buzhardt said he deduced that Miss Woods had been misled, and that the recorder actually came on at the time it was supposed to. Prosecutor Richard Ben-Ve- niste said this explanation satisfied him.

Earlier, he had cited the out-of-tum recorder as an inconsistency in the White House story. The recorder is the same one that is said to have run out of tape prior to the unrecorded April 15 meeting. Buzhardt also testified that President Nixon kept him in the dark about the existence of automatic White House tape recorders until about three weeks before the world found out about them Buzhardt, the lawyer Nixon had called in especially to handle Watergate matters, said he got his first inkling of the system June 25. The recorders in offices and on his telephones were exposed in public testimony July 16. Buzhardt said it was this ignorance that led him on June 16 to mislead special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who has since been fired, when Cox asked specifically if Nixon had taped a key conversation between himself and ousted counsel John W.

Dean III, and Buzhardt replied only that Nixon had later dictated his own impressions of the meeting. The President today was reported to be at his mountain top retreat at Camp David, with his wife, Pat, and their daughter and son-in-law, Julie and David Eisenhower. Reporters were not permitted to witness departure by helicopter from Washington or his arrival at Camp David: Energy Bills Due For Senate Action WASHINGTON (AP) The rush toward passage of emergency energy legislation has slowed but a key legislator promises that week is energy week in the Henry M. Jackson, chairman of the Interior Committee, said he expects his energy bill to reach the Senate floor on Wednesday, one day after scheduled votes on the Alaska pipeline and mandatory fuel allocation bills. He made the statements Friday after consideration of his bill became bogged down in a series of technical amendments offered by the Nixon administration.

But, even with swift passage, winter could be nearly over before energy conservation measures take hold completely, an administration official said. Interim Rate Hike Granted Consumers LANSING, Mich. (AP) Consumers Power Co. was granted a $50 million interim rate hike Friday to be split equally between gas and electric customers. The Michigan Public Service Commission said the utility needs the extra revenue to assure a strong financial condition and to attract investment capital.

The rate than the utility asked for mean the bill of the average gas user with a space heater will be 68 cents higher per month and the average electric bill will jump 44 cents per month, the commission said. Large residential customers will bear the brunt of the increase, the commission said. The commission granted a $25 million rate hike for electric service and the same amount for gas service. The interim rate hike was granted while the commission studies a request for a permanent increase of $36 million on electric business and $50.4 million on its gas business. The commission expects to make no final decision on the permanent rate requests for several months.

The interim order means Consumers can start charging higher rates immediately. Consumers Power has 1.1 million electric customers and 915,000 gas customers. The commission criticized several aspects of Consumer operations, and ordered the utility to revise its rate structures so they no longer favor big household customers over small ones. The commission also said it wants a full explanation of why original construction costs for a gas reforming plant at Marysville in St. Clair County increased nearly four-fold.

Original cost estimates at Mai ysville were $40 million. The latest estimate is $155 million. The commission said no time during the two-year period of major cost revisions did the board of directors make independent inquiry into the making process of the management team for planning, purchasing and construction of Marysville, even though estimated costs had doubled and redoubled Commission Chairmen William Rosenberg said the rate increases of approximately 5.7 per cent for electricty and 6.8 per cent for gas are needed assure that the financial condition will continue to be Rosenberg said strong finances will help attract investment capital for new plant facilities. It would take or four to fully implement fuel allocation and rationing plans, John Shaeffer, assistant to White House energy adviser John A. Love, told the panel.

Jackson moved to keep two key administration proposals the waiving of clean air standards designed to protect public health and safety and the deregulation of the price of natural gas at the wellhead out of the bill. Jackson said similar proposals are being considered by the Public Works and Commerce committees. However, Jackson insisted on maintaining a controversial proposal to provide federal subsidies for reduced transit fares. In the past, the administration has threatened to veto bills that contain similar proposals. In its present form, the bill would allow the President to order such energy-saving steps as lowered thermostats in public buildings, reduced speeds on the highways and restricted operating hours for commercial establishments and public services, including schools.

The President could also move tc increase fuel supplies by tapping naval petroleum reserves and ordering oil and gas-burning power plants to switch to coal. The bill also would direct the President to draw up contingency plans for the rationing of gasoline and other scarce fuels. Jackson joined two other Democrats in Congress in urging Nixon to oppose Republican efforts to return the Alaska pipeline bill to a House-Senate conference committee for removal of provisions the administration objects to. The other signers of the letter were Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska and Rep.

John Melcher ol Montana. The bill is now scheduled for House action Monday. Chairman Warren G. Magnuson of the Senate Commerce Committee outlined a schedule that could have the nation return to Davlieht Saving Time Dec. 2.

He said his committee could approve the legislation Tuesday or Wednesday and suggested both liouses could complete action next week. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Efforts to cut energy use continue, but there are signs it may be too late for some consumers. More speed limits were reduced, thermostats turned down and lights dimmed Friday in response to President urgent pleas two days earlier. But the energy shortage already is creating problems for goverment agencies, private businesses and home owners. Several states reduced speed limits to 50 miles per hour Friday in response to suggestions, although in some, it will take time to replace nowputdated speed limit signs.

The national headquarters of the Continental Trailways bus system announced that it is voluntarily cutting back speeds to 50 m.p.h. Dorhn Transfer which operates a fleet of 1,800 vehicles in 10 states from the Mississippi River to Massachusetts, said it had ordered its drivers to voluntarily observe a 50 m.p.h. limit. John A. Love, the top energy adviser, has predicted that Americans probably will have to line up for gasoline rationing for the first time since World War II by next spring.

The Memphis Transit Authority announced a moratorium on charter service Friday and said it was scrambling to find supplies of fuel for city buses. The city bus line, which transports 60,000 persons daily, was informed by its supplier that it could provide only half of the 200,000 gallons of fuel the line uses each month. Bus companies in Charleston and Wheeling, W.Va., also said they may be forced to cut service as diesel supplies dwindle. In Opelousas, Mayor Wilfred Cortez sent telegrams to the President and members of Congress in the wake of an order that would suspend fuel supplies to the electric generators next Thursday. The city of 20,000 would be left completely without power.

will be chaos, nothing but chaos, and really need the National Guard. And I Cortez said. governor temperatures in all state buildings lowered to the 68-degree level recommended by Nixon. But the chairman of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, Jacob D. Dumelle, said Nixon set the wrong priorities in his energy message and should have ordered the auto industry to make smaller cars.

should not set thermostats at 66 degrees so that other persons can drive cars that get only 6.8 miles per he said. Administration officials also were reported to be considering a four-day work week for government employes. This would allow government buildings to be closed three days. The 50-year-old New England School of Art in Boston faces a special problem with the energy crisis. The school plans to lower its thermostats to a range of 65-68 degrees to conserve fuel, but that could be hard on nude models.

Schools officials said they would train the models to raise their skin temperature through bio-feedback devices and would experiment with tent-like enclosures in which the body heat of the artists would give the models some comfort. RUNNING THE GANTLET of congressional and press scrutiny on his nomination as attorney general, Sen. William B. Saxbe (R-Ohio) has drawn some critical fire for allegedly once suggesting destruction of the Watergate tapes. Kissinger, Chou En-lai, Hold Wide-Ranging Talks PEKING (AP) U.S.

Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger flew into mainland China today for with Premier Chou En-lai about Indochina, the Middle East and possibly stronger business, scientific and cultural ties. Foreign Minister Chi Peng-fei and Vice Minister Chiao Kuan- hua met Kissinger at the Chinese airport with diplomatic delegations from several nations. nice to see you Kissinger told Chiao, whom he had seen recently at the United Nations in New York. sixth trip here was in stark contrast to July 1971, when he faked a stomach ache in Pakistan and, under the cover of darkness, flew secretly to the Chinese capital.

That trip paved the way for President visit to Peking last year. Although not disclosing the agenda for the four-day visit, U.S. officials said Kissinger would take up with Chou the volatile situations in South Vietnam and Cambodia. American intelligence officials report North Vietnam has moved MOORED FOR THE WINTER With inches of recent snow in Sault Ste. Marie, even the faintest hopes of recreational boating were out of the question.

Local residents predict that this is going to be the worst winter in years for the Sault and 10 inches of snow already blankets the scenery. The boats were moored on an inland stream. (AP Wirephoto) George Romney Say Nixon Must Act Quickly To Restore Confidence LANSING, Mich. (AP)George Romney, a former member of President cabinet, says he does not believe the President should resign. However, Romney says time is running out for the President to restore public confidence in his leadership.

think he should resign. He still has the possibility of restoring confidence in his said Romney, former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. the President said six months ago he would get to the bottom of Watergate and that the guilty would be It is Cigarettes Linked To Heart Attacks BOSTON (AP) A Tufts University researcher says laboratory tests show smoking has a direct link to the conditions leading to heart attack. It has long been known that blood clotting in the arteries, called arterial thrombosis, leads to heart attack, stroke and blood vessel disease. Dr.

Peter H. Levine of the Tufts-New England Medical Center says his studies show that smoking only one cigarette has a dramatic effect on the clotting of Wood platelets, the small cells that initiate the bloodclotting mechanism by sticking together. has long been known that there is a statistical correlation between cigarette smoking and arterial Levine said. this is the first time to my knowledge that anyone has shown through controlled studies that there is a direct, physical Irvine is an assistant professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and is director of the Blood Coagulation Laboratory at the New England Medical Center Hospital in Boston. In his 18-month study, Dr.

Levine used 27 male and female smokers. Reporting his study in the journal Circulation, Dr. Levin said blood samples were drawn from each volunteer every 10 minutes during laboratory research periods to test platelet function. After abstaining from cigarettes for 24 hours, each subject smoked one standard filter cigarette containing 1.3 milligrams of nicotine. Thirty to 60 minutes after the first cigarette, the subjects smoked one made of lettuce leaves, which produces no nicotine.

As a further control, the report said some subjects puffed on unlit cigarettes. Following smoking or puffing on either lettuce or unlit cigarettes, there was no significant change in platelet function, the report said. However, five minutes after smoking a single tobacco cigarette, there was a marked increase in the ability to form plugs in a manner similar to that found within thrombosed arteries, the study said. very late now. There is not much time Romney said.

Romney, Michigan governor from 1963 to 1969 when he became HUD secretary, said he was in Lansing on business Friday and dropped in on Gov. William Milliken as a Milliken was lieutenant governor and suc- ceded him when Romney joined cabinet. Romney resigned his cabinet post late last year. He said he is now attempting to organize a private agency to identify national problems and facts and Romney said that while on the cabinet he was that there was too limited a discussion of public policy with the Nixon Administration. But, he added, no time did I have a problem of seeing the President when I wanted to.

I saw the President many times and was never stopped by Haldeman or H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's former chief of staff, and John Ehrlichman, the former chief domestic advisor, resigned amid accusations they participated in or helped direct the Watergate coverup. They also were criticized for often making the President inaccessible to other government figures. expected too much of the political Romney said in an impromptu news conference outside office. expect parties and candidates to inform the people.

That is not their primary Romney said neither Nixon nor the Democratic presidential candidate, South Dakota Sen. George McGovern, about regarding inflation and urban problems during last election campaign. more than 70,000 fighting men, 400 tanks and more than 200 artillery pieces into the South since the cease-fire 10 months ago. In discussing the Middle East situation, Kissinger is attempting, sources say, to ease Chinese anxieties about recent U.S.- Soviet cooperation in that part of the world. Trade and cultural-exchange issues were likely to be high on Peking agenda, and some observers have speculated that China may propose talks leading to the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between Washington and the Republic.

But Chou repeatedly has insisted that the United States must break relations with the Taiwan government before Peking and Washington can enjoy normal diplomatic ties. are no hot planned during visit to China, a U.S. official said shortly after the party arrived here. He said Kissinger most likely would not meet with Chairman Mao Tse-tung. But a similar caution was expressed in Cairo when, at the same time, Kissinger was working out a Middle East peace agreement with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

China is the eighth stop on nine-nation tour. The secretary of state, looking relaxed, said in a brief airport statement before leaving Pakistan that the United States considers China essential component in the structure of Kissinger on Friday night met with Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Kissinger and Bhutto held their talks in Islamabad, diplomatic capital. They were believed to have discussed six-point Middle East peace plan and the talks on Friday with the Shah of Iran, a principal recipient of U.S. arms and a close American ally.

In addition to Pakistan and Iran, Kisinger visited Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia before heading for Peking. His schedule calls for him to continue on to Tokyo after his talks in Peking. Firemen OK Strike End MILWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) The union today agreed to end its week-long work slowdown and submit its contract dispute with the city to an independent fact-finding party. Between one-third and one-half of the Fire Fighters Union Local 215 have been calling in sick since Sunday to protest the lack of a contract agreement.

An aide to Mayor Henry Maier said the firemen agreed to return to work at full strength on shifts. The union twice before rejected city requests to submit the contract proposal to binding finding but today agreed to do so at the request of state mediators. Under the agreement, an independent party will be assigned to make recommendations. The two sides still differ on wages, holidays, grievance procedures, a management rights clause, a union request for a city-paid liaison man and length of the contract. William Carey, the aide, said Fire Chief William Stamm has agreed to drop all pending charges in connection with the work slowdown.

Under the contract that expired at midnight last Saturday, a fireman working a was paid an annual salary of $11,070 after four years. A policeman working an eight-hour shift is paid $13,142. issi ng Girl Body Found YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) The body of Ruth Postif has been found by a hunter in a field three miles north of this southeastern Michigan college town, three weeks after she was reported missing. State Police said the 17-yearold Dearborn High School senior had been stabbed several times.

After the discovery Thursday, rewards offered for information that would locate her shifted to rewards for information that will bring about the arrest and conviction of her slayer or slayers. Rewards through a Detroit newspaper (the News) increased to $10,600. Miss Postif disappeared three weeks ago while on a shopping trip. Her abandoned car was found about a half mile from where the body was discoverd by Randy Graichen, 24, a freshman at Eastern Michigan University. Graichen was hunting on his farm in Superior Township, then crossed to an adjoining property.

was walking down the fence row looking for pheasant when something caught my Graichen told officials. thought it was an animal, a dead cow, because cows get back there sometimes. stopped and looked closer and saw feet and The young hunter said he hailed a telephone company crew working nearby and then called State Police. Officials said the body apparently had been carried to the place where it was found. The field has been lying fallow at least a year, officials said.

Miss Postif diappeared Oct. 18 after she left a shoe store in Dearborn about 4 p.m. Attendants at a gas station later told police a girl of Miss description came to the station in a car driven by a man, left a $20 deposit and took a can of gasoline. The attendants said the girl later returned in another car, a black Mustang, accompanied by another man and claimed her deposit. The Postif family car, a i971 black Mustang, was found two days later with her purse and shoes inside..