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Chicago Tribuna. Saturday, June 2, 1973 Section 1 or Cox to ask -May mm in enate Watergate quiz HOWEVER, THEY acknowl By Jim Squires and Glen Elsasser edged that along with Cox's prosecution team are said to be especially concerned that immunity from prosecution the committee may grant key witnesses could severely damage lated matter, Cox-agreed that "full cooperation" would exist between the California and Justice Department's inquiries to the burglary of the office of Cnkaw TrlbuM PttU Stnric assistant, James Vorenberg, they met Wednesday night and discussed such topics "as the risk of- serious damage to in WASHINGTON. June 1-Spe- dal Watergate Prosecutor Ar changes of a successful prose Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. vestigations and any resulting cution. chibald Cox will ask Sen.

Sam Ervin, N. head of the special Senate Watergate in prosecution and the various ways of reducing the There now appears to be no Cox met today with Joseph Busch, the Los Angeles district attorney, and said after way, the sources saia, mat harm." U. S. District Judge John Siri wards that he made no re vestigation, to delay lunner public hearings in the case) reliable sources reported to Cox acknowledged that "questions of immunity', were quest to delay the Los Angeles ca can avoid signing the immunity orders, which force grand jury investigation of the discussed, but both denied that day- burglary. there was any talk of halting The sources said Cox win prosecutors to prove they gathered evidence independent from what is said at the public the hearings.

base his formal request on the Furthermore, Cox authorized the United States Bureau of Prisons to make three convict hearings. contention that more public testimony will endanger the prosecution of a dozen top former Nixon aides and cam SOURCES CLOSE to the JUSTICE Department sources told The Tribune, how-ever, that the Wednesday night session was merely a preliminary to a formal re ed Watergate burglars available for the grand jury E. Senate committee said they doubt Ervin and other com' paign officials on obstruction Howard Hunt, Eugenio Martinez, and Bernard Barker. mittee members will agree to of justice charges. a delay, especially if Cox The Harvard Law School Former Assistant Atty.

Gen seeks a postponement until professor and former United Robert C. Mardian spent about after, indictments are returned. States solicitor general now five hours today being inter Earlier today in a public viewed by Senate Watergate realizes, the sources said, that the expected indictments might now be as long as three statement, Cox denied a report that he was considering court Committee investigators be hind closed doors. or four months away. action to stop the Senate hear ings.

quest for a hearing delay by Cox next week. Cox stated today that i he had any "important requests" to make, he would deal through Ervin. Ervin, the Senate's constitutional watchdog, has warned against any attempt to stop the hearings. He contends that the Constitution gives the committee the same powers to conduct hearings as the courfs have to institute prosecution. IN ANOTHER Watergate-re In response to questions, he told newsmen he never had IF THE HEARINGS proceed at the expected rate, the Both Cox and Samuel Dash, anything to do with the dis majority counsel for the Sen las.

ate committee, attempted to Tribune Photo by David Nyslrom tribution of Nixon campaign funds and said top White sources said, virtually all defendants and many key witnesses in the case will have presented their information in day to put to rest any appear Tribune Photo by William Yttn House aides never pressured him into any surreptitious 'Oh, happy ance that Cox and the committee are at odds over the hear a public forum. campaign money deals. ings. Cox and his newly formed Andrea Ableman, a medical artist, gets a hug from Dr. Paul Waytz after University of Illinois Medical Center graduation ceremonies at McCormick Place yesterday.

Parsons College to shut doors Cicada parade up a tree in Elmhurst. No peril to plants 17-year locusts emerge in suburbs Cicadas, commonly known as the 17-year locusts, are upon us. The inch-long periodic visitor has appeared by the thousands in some suburbs with the advent of the warm weather. Floundering Jn a sea of indebtedness, Parsons was una Newsmakers By Steven Pratt PARSONS College, the tiny Fairfield, school that achieved national prominence during the early 1960s as a ble to meet the full faculty payroll last month. Local banks even tried to impound the school's library books, Immigrant hits in lottery jo Milti WIS.

IOWA Des Moinis I ILLINOIS MISSOURI Hadley said he had hoped operating while it dealt with its creditors. After Parsons failed to meet the payment on the principal of its loans last month, the school had petitioned the court under the federal bankruptcy act for a moratorium on its debts. Dr. Richard Wessler, presidential assistant, said yesterday that only $110,000 had been pledged for the bond, haven for wealthy dropouts, yesterday announced that it From now until mid-summer, according to the County Forest Preserve's conservation director, Roland Eisenbeis, the locusts will close its doors. President Everett Hadley, will emerge from their 17-year dormant stay in the ground and crawl to the nearest piece of vegetation where the females shed the moratorium would give Parsons a second chance, because of a strong academic program and its pleasant surroundings on the Iowa prairie.

THE DECISION to close was made yesterday morning, he said, when it became in their shells. addressing a convocation of the school's remaining 925 students, said the college "is fac "and some of those pledges Once the shell is discarded, the female flies to the tip of a branch where she lays her eggs. The male, meanwhile, fills the summer nights with its rhythmic droning. The locusts pose no threat to plant life. Eisenbeis said.

The eggs which hatch ing insurmountable odds financially and after a 98-year were pretty shaky." MUCH OF THE debt result history, must close. will then burrow into the ground as larvae and won emerge creasingly apparent that the school could not raise the bond The announcement was met ed from Roberts' extensive again until 1990. Avi Israeli, 25, who immigrated to the United States from Israel two years ago with $200 in his pockets, is now $50,000 richer. Israeli, a Washington maintenance man, became the fourth winner in the new Maryland state lottery. He earns $125 a week and lives with his wife in a one-bedroom apartment.

As for his future, Israeli said: "I'm going to invest the money, and if things go right, someday we'll go back to Israel and buy a house. It's what we've been dreaming about ever since I got here." Truman bumps Jefferson Presidents win some and lose some even when they're dead. Missouri Gov. Christopher S. Bond has signed into law a bill making May 8, the birthday of the late President Truman, an official Missouri holiday and removed the April 13 holiday marking the birthday of President Jefferson.

Blob moves north The Garland, "blob" which turned up in a housewife's backyard two weeks ago and was determined by scientists to be a form of mutated bacteria, has arrived in Spenc-erport, N. Y. James Guarnere of Spencerport told authorities he has "a brother, or at least a cousin" of the earlier blob fast enough or draw enough students to the campus this by silence and a few tears from the students and faculty, many of whom had hoped the president who took a school of 212 students in 1955 and built it into a booming college of more than 5,000 where anybody with money was admitted and nobody flunked out as long as his tuition was paid. On Tuesday a federal judge in Des Moines had ruled that the school would have to raise a $250,000 surety bond within summer or next fall. prairie school could bail itself Several other schools have out.

construction program in the early 1960s while admissions were high. But a Life maga-zine article branding the school as "Dropout and the loss of accreditation in 1967 caused enrollment to drop by one half that year and Roberts was fired. Teacher strike nears end: union Progress was reported to- in Thornton Township Elemen- ward a settlement of the 12- tary District 147, where pupil day teachers strike in suburb- attendance has been below 50 an Harvey, Dixmoor, and Blue per cent. The schools have re- been invited to recruit Parsons' students. Faculty members, many with years invest AT ISSUE is a $15 million debt incurred during the ad ed at Parsons, have been told ministration of Millard Rob to look for other employment, Island yesterday as teachers 10 days in order to continue erts, the controversial Parsons and school board members returned to the bargaining table to try to work out an agreement.

Mrs. Jean Thurman, a teacher union representative, said Danaher backlog report called false oozing out of his backyard and it changes color, unlike the mained open by using substitute teachers. Mrs. Thurman said the school board has offered teachers a hospitalization plan for the first time, and also has offered a $30 annual raise, which Is short of teachers demands for an across the board 5.5 per cent raise. The talks are the first since negotiations broke I off Sunday.

Danaher's report in February, accuracy of our statistical re It is particularly distress THE BACKLOG of nonjury white blob found in Texas. Soil experts examined Guarnere's blob and pronounced it a fungus. Zsa Zsa takes strip trip Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor flew into London's Heathrow Air ports." cases in Cook County Circuit she was confident that a settlement will be reached in time for teachers to return to the classroom on Monday. The strike has affected six schools ing to report an adjustment in the number of pending nonjury and found that figuring the "age of pending cases" may amount to little more than an educated guess. Madden said he started to review statistical data on the law division after receiving court is more than 50 per cent higher than the figures report cases which adds 2,663 cases port yesterday clad only in a fur coat and stockings.

The actress, who posed willingly for photographers without open to the January month-end in ed by Matthew Danaher, clerk ventory of 4,963 cases an ad of the court, it was reported ing her coat, exclaimed it was so hot on the 14-hour flight from Los Angeles that she stripped "not in front of every yesterday. justment upwards of more In a letter to Chief Judge body, darling" because she was exhausted. She was accom John S. Boyle and other judges of the court, William panied by her daughter Francesca. Landon sees federal gas rationing than 50 per cent of the previously reported inventory of nonjury cases." THE 4,963 figure had been reported by Danaher.

Madden said a deputy clerk M. Madden, deputy director of the administrative office of the Alf M. Landon, the Republicans' 1936 Presidential candi Illinois courts, said the num ber of cases pending in the law division at the end of Jan stated that the discrepancy may have resulted from failure to date who lost by a landslide to Franklin Roosevelt, predicted permanent federal rationing of gasoline and natural gas in a talk in Topeka, Kas. Landon said the current energy crisis will force the nation to turn to coal and atomic energy, of which it has plenty. He said this will cause "as evolutionary uary was understated by 2,663.

count certain cases that were Madden said: filed in 1971 and 1972. "I was disturbed to discover a change in our way of life as did the development of steam "That is not a satisfactory that nobody appears to be able power and the internal combustion engine." The energy crisis explanation for such a sub to speak with confidence on precisely how many law cases stantial deviation," said Madden. "Such errors can under may even be more a blessing than a disaster, he added. Biding her time of a particular vintage are mine public confidence in the pending at any given time. The reason there is no patter of little feet in Washington's National Zoo's panda compound is because the female, Ling-Ling, is waiting for the male.

Hsing-Hsing, to grow up. Zoo officials confided that Hsing-Hsing is still too young for ro- mance. Dr. Theodore Reed, the zoo's director, said, "In about Strike halts work at Sears Tower six months I promise you there will be a great romance." The giant pandas were a gift to the United States from Communist China last year after President Nixon's visit there. Picture on page 1 Hospitals reporting By James Strong Labor editor CONSTRUCTION on the world's tallest building, the Sears Tower, was halted abruptly yesterday by pickets from two striking craft unions.

passe in contract talks. Work stoppages were ordered at shortages of blood 12:01 a. m. yesterday following expiration of the old con Most construction in Chicago tract. weekend, when no blood col WORK WAS halted on the Sears Tower when members of the marble setters' union pick and northeastern Illinois' con-tlnued without interruption yesterday despite a strike by 15,000 laborers, but Joseph Spingola, president of the Laborers District Council, warned that pickets will be at all construction sites in an lections were made.

Emergency calls to the Blood Information Service of Illinois Blue Cross-Blue Shield tripled Thursday, spokesmen said. "We were only able to meet eted the Bite after their con- HOSPITALS and blood banks thruout the Chicago metropolitan area reported critical shortages of blood type O-positive yesterday. Other JJlood types also are in short supply. Manv hospitals have been tract expired at midnight Thursday. The laborers joined the picketing later yesterday, 1 the needs of six of nine hos- Spingola said wage demands remain a key issue, in addition eight-county area around Chicago by Monday.

Several hundred pickets pitals that requested aid," the service reported. O-positive type blood, is the second most common type to certain work-rule changes, principally on scheduling of forced to cancel elective surgeries and others have made out-of-state appeals for volun-teer blood donations, said spokesmen for the Metropolitan Chicago Blood Council. Emergency appeals to Chi workers and overtime pay for were in front of the gates of United States Steel Corporation's South Works and the Republic Steel plant on the South Saturdays. Basic hourly wages for la borer range from $8.50 an Side, causing work stoppages among the population. County Hospital, which normally stocks 70 to 80 pints, was left yesterday with 6nly five pints, Behzad said.

After a citywlde nnpeal by the hospital Thursday, only four persons donated blood, but 14 pints were used. hour to $6.95. With fringe ben efits, the total cost to employ on new construction and repairs. Pickets also were reported at the Atomic Energy Com ers ranges from $7.62 to $8.07 mission's "National Accelerator Laboratory near Batavia. The THE MID 'AMERICA Red was able to help County meet Its needs, by supplying an hour.

Marble setters are currently paid $3.77 an hour, in addition to 30 cents an hour in pension contributions by employers. Altho no meetings are for cago donors have met with 1 "extremely poor results," said officials of the Cook County Hospital Blood Bank. THE BLOOD shortage had beer predicted, but it is worse than we expected," said Oscar Behzad. assistant director of Cook County's blood service. Behzad and other blood bank officials blamed the shortage on the Memorial Day holiday picketing affected neither the steel plants nor the laboratory 1 blood from the New York Blood Wi 1 operations.

Spingola said the strike was mally scheduled, both union and management sources said called after union negotiators Center, Behzad said. Blood donor site addresses, hours and phone numbers are available thru the Blood Council, 332-2271 rT. Qui Ci Qimil 'torn inmm UMwr WoodfWdf IMkh they hop a settlement can be and representatives of various reached over the weekend. contractors reached an im "3.