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CtVcasa Wed-sesiav. Jar-anf 14. 1375 1 15 ram page one Usery favored to succeed Dunlop Gulf Oil chief quits in fund scandal News analysis 'J if Company and Joining the International Association of Machinists. Although a lifelong Democrat, the affable union official was tapped by President Nixon for the Labor Department post in 1969. When Nixon's troubles started.

Usery turned down an offer from AFL-CIO President George Me any to be director of organizing, a post which would have put him in contention as Meany's successor. Usery has also declined industry offers. If the power of Meany and other labor chiefs can bring off nomination and election of Hubert Humphrey for President, long-time Humphrey supporter Usery may have a long career ahead in government. committee announced that it found Usery "totally unacceptable" as a possible successor to Dunlop. Attacking Usery for supporting "compulsory unionism" because be favors the union shop concept, the committee stated.

"We will use our every resource to see that such a man does not get into a position to further damage the public interest." WILLIE JULIA USERY a Dative of Georgia and graduate of Georgia Military College and Mercer University, served four years in the Navy before going to uwlt for the Armstrong Cork His resignation is effective at noon Wednesday. THE McCLOY report, riled with In Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month, found that Gulf's political activity since 1960, particularly in the U. was shot through with illegality." The McCloy panel was set up by the Gulf Company after a court suit brought by the SEC. The report, nine months in the making, disclosed that more than $12 million in money "laundered" through a Bahamian bank had been channeled to politicians including former President Richard Nixon, Rep. Wilbur D.

Mills Ark.) and Sen. Henry M. Jackson It also stated that Henry and Deering "had knowledge at least that funds were lieing transmitted confidentially" through tne Bahamas for use as political payments. OTHER PAYMENTS were made, according to the report, to members of the Continued from page one oer to Gulf directors and the Securities ind Exchange Commission. It found that Dorsey "perhaps chose to shut his eyes to what was going on" the slush fund.

Tne board accepted the report and said it "condemned the illegal end improper practices disclosed" by it. The Uiard said it was determined to see that "such conduct shall never again occur within Gulf." ONE GIXF OFFICIAL said the resignations had been requested by the board. The board also said it was appointing a permanent committee to establish a code of corporate ethics fcr Gulf and its employes. Dorsey has been chief executive officer for four years and chairman since December, 1972. He had been with Gulf since graduating from college in 1940.

By James Strong LaDor ei.tor W. L. USERY director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, is the odds-on to succeed Secretary of Labor John T. Dunlop. whose official resignation was expected Wednesday.

Dunlop reportedly submitted his resignation at a private meeting with President Ford Tuesday. Usery, 52. a Demwat and former official of the International Association of Machinists, is the Ford administration's most popular man with organized labor. APPOINTED BY President Nixon. Usery was first named assistant secretary of labor for labor-management services, then was appointed head of the Federal Mediation Service.

He maintains close relationships with both unions and management, and has earned the title, "chief White House labor troubleshooter." Ford's relations with organized labor have deteriorated with his veto Jan. 2 of the construction industry collective bargaining bill. The vetoed bill would have broadened union picketing rights, allowing a union to shut down an entire construction project even though its dispute might be with a single subcontractor. HOWEVER. THE UNIONS had agreed to collective bargaining changes which supporters expected to curb runaway wages and stabilize labor costs.

Dunlop had predicted "unmitigated hell" in construction contract negotiations this spring if Ford reneged on his promise to sign the bill. Among opponents of the bill was big labor's archenemy, the National Right to Work Committee. Last week, the Robert Dcrsey Texas Railroad Commission, former Texas Gov. Preston Smith, a Democrat, and candidates to the Texas supreme court and state legislature. Overseas political payoffs were also documented, including payments made to Italian political parties and to officials in the S3uth Korean government.

Pamela a found slain in Lisle. Pho-tograph is from a 1974 high school yearbook. 'J- is. I Both CTA trains in crash found faulty Woodridge girl strangled Continued from page one ey. Police ruled out robbery as a motive for the murder.

INVESTIGATORS WERE ABLE to reconstruct Pamela's Monday night activities up to 9:45 p.m. She was at home when a friend, Dale Denham, 18, of 7643 Woodridge stopped at her home to visit. They played cards and left about 8:30 p.m. for the home of Kathy Robertson at 2527 Crabtree St. in Woodridge.

At 9:45 p.m., Pamela said she was going to walk to a nearby McDonald's restaurant for a Coke. Her friends did not see her alive again. School friends described Pamela as a quiet, shy girl who was popular in her 'Z-A in. dered a halt to the operation of any train with an inoperative signal system. A CTA spokesman said the five trains taken out cf service during the morning rush hour were cn the Lake, Douglas, and Milwaukee lines.

More than 1,200 passengers were asked to disembark while supervisors took the empty trains to the yards. About 100 persons were forced off an inbound Jefferson Park train shortly before the afternoon rush hour. with a variety of underwriters, officials said. Under provisions of the policy, the CTA must pay the first Vk million in claims, the underwriters anything above that, up to $20 million, and CTA anything above $20 million. THE FIVE trains taken out of service during the morning rush hour and another five taken out of service later during the day brought to 20 the total number of rapid transit trains taken out of service this week because of malfunctioning signal systems.

The CTA board Saturday or t'onliimed from page one iiions from the involved CTA personnel. No public hearing is scheduled. FORTY-NINE PERSONS remained hospitalized Tuesday as a result of the crash, one still in serious condition. CTA officials said that in addition to 310 persons who were treated at various hospitals after the crash, another 173 riders phoned in to report they were being examined by their personal physicians. The CTA carries a $2Vi million to $20 million deductible insurance policy own circle cf friends.

She was not active in any of the school's extra-curricular activities. Besides her parents and her brother Charles, a brother, Patrick, 14, and sister, Susan, 12 survive her. Her brothers and sister left their school classes and went home upon learning that Pamela had been found dead. Shirt plus Lovebirds feathered untaxed nest Motel owner gets vacancy in cell tions Center at Clark and Van Buren streets, characterized the defendant as the "all-time champ in ducking his dues to Uncle Sam." GOVERNMENT PROSECUTORS Michael Groark and Thomas Mulroy had asked for a heavy prison sentence for Rynberk, whose attorneys during his trial argued he hadn't made all that money from renting his motel rooms several times a night. The defense contended the cash, which was stored in bread boxes, a china hutch, and in other areas of Rynberk's home at 16418 University South Holland, had been accumulated by his mother.

Under the sentence Rynberg will be free to operate his 66-room motel during the daytime. He will probably not get to see many of his old customers. scarf at savings that really AMOROUS COUPLES who were wont to rent Peter Rynbork's motel rooms in South Holland with some rooms being rented as many as three or four times a night will not see him around for a year. Rynberk, 47, owner of the Cherry Lane Motel at 1122 E. 162d St.

in the suburb, was sentenced Tuesday by Federal Judge Hubert L. Will on a charge of income tax evasion. He will have to spend his nights and weekends in jail for a year. After that he will be on five year's probation. Rynberk was found guilty Dec.

8 by a federal court jury of evading a total of $170,000 in taxes on nearly $700,000 in unreported income for the years 1968 through 1971. Judge Will, in imposing Rynberk's work-release sentence, to be served at the Metropolitan Correc add up! Civil rights group leader will quit job, leave Chicago HISHERS DOWN SPECIAL Reg. 16.00 I 9J9 JOHN HILL, executive coordinator of the Alliance to End Repression, announced Tuesday he is resigning his position and intends to leave Chicago. Hill, 50, has been executive coordinator for the civil rights group since its founding April 1, 1970. An ordained Roman Catholic priest, he led such organization efforts as protesting the 1969 police raid in which Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were killed and and contending that Angela Davis, accused but later acquittel of murder, kidnaping, and conspiracy, was a victim of political repression.

More recently the alliance under Hill's leadership was active in protesting alleged illegal police spying in Chicago. Denying he was being pressured to leave the post, Hill said his resignation would take effect "exactly six years since I began," on April 1. "I have no immediate plans as to what I'll be doing, other than leaving Chicago and fighting for justice in other ways maybe teaching," he said. PRIOR TO JOINING the alliance, Hill was a founder of the Association of Chicago Priests. The group represents about 500 area Catholic clergymen and has spoken out on their dissatisfaction with the policies of John Cardinal Cody.

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The Ann Arbor News reported Tuesday that the United States attorney's office in Detroit shortly will ask that two suspects be indicted in the deaths of patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital here. But the U.S. attorney's office denied it. Richard Delonis, chief of the criminal division of the office, told The Chicago Tribune that no such action is planned at this time, and that "we will be taking additional testimony from several more persons" be-fore making any decision on asking for any indictments. HE DID SAY that "it appears whoever was responsible for these deaths acted deliberately, and not just with negligence." The Ann Arbor News credited an unnamed source for its copyrighted story.

Mre than 40 breathing failures and as many as 11 deaths occurred among the hospital's patients last summer. Traces of a drug called Pavulon, a powerful muscle relaxant, were found in the body fluids of some of the patients who were revived. RIG BlJYl CARSONS.