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SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1969 TWELVE--C SUN-DEMOCRAT, PADUCAH, KY. 'Clear It With Ev' Becomes Administration's Watchword WASHINGTON (AP) In the now on presidential appointNixon administration the ments is "Clear it with after you talk to your builder you'll insist on gas Ask your home builder why Gas heating and Gas appliances are best for initial installation -best for year-after-year satisfaction. He'll tell you about convenience and reliability and low-cost installation and operation all the down-to-earth reasons why better builders specify Gas. Then you'll insist on Gas, too! BUILDERS GASI. WESTERN KENTUCKY GAS 1515 Broadway, Paducah, Ky.

I just as years ago in Franklin D. Roosevelt's day it was "clear it with Sidney." Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois won' a thumping victory over Republican liberals in the decision Friday of Secretary of Welfare Robert H. Finch not to recommend Dr.

John H. Knowles of Boston for nomination as his chief assistant on health matters. Reprinted From Saturday's Edition Dirksen, who has single handedly forced. some Democratic holdovers out of office and has blocked some other prospective presidential appointments, seem thus to have become the individual to see before any appointment is submitted to the President. In the 1940s Roosevelt customarily told Cabinet members and others to clear appointments and policy moves with the late Sidney Hillman.

Hillman, who headed the CIO Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America for a quarter of a century, packed organized labor's most potent punch as the manpower chief of the National Defense Commission. Dirksen's chief constituency in his opposition to the Knowles appointment has been the lead1 ership of the Chicago-based American Medical Association. These medical leaders didn't like Knowles's liberal approach to government participation in health programs. It was not difficult to convince the conservative Dirksen that he ought to go along-particularly when he was reminded of the substantial contributions doctors had made to the Republican campaign chest in 1968. Dirksen was in a position as Senate Republican leader to make it extremely difficult to get a nominee confirmed.

While Knowles himself blamed the AMA primarily for his failure to be nominated, the doctors had found in Dirksen the most effective standardbearer for their conservative viewpoint. The net result could only be to bolster Dirksen's party leadership, under public attack from Sen. Charles E. Goodell, R- N.Y., and others who classify themselves as liberals. Goodell told the Senate June 18 that President Nixon should have the right to nominate the man he wanted for the job, without interference from Dirksen.

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There is no guarantee the committee's applicant will get the job, but the White House has promised to give special attention to such requests. The new procedure was outlined to the committee Friday by Harry Dent, a White House aide serving as President Nixon's specialist in Republican Party affairs. Dent brought the welcome news to the committee at a closed door session of its threeday meeting, set to conclude today. He summed up his remarks later for newsmen. Some indication of the regulars' feeling on the subject was the rousing cheer Friday when it was pointed out that of 80 appointments by Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, only one has gone to a Democrat.

The new procedure will. accomplish the dual purpose of diverting at least some of the criticism from the White House and giving the party chieftains a bigger voice in dispensing pa- Burt Lancaster Loses Divorce Case SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) Actor Burt Lancaster's wife Norma has received an interlocutory divorce decree after 23 years of marriage. The Lancasters have three teen-aged daughters. tronage.

The GOP leaders also hope it will strengthen the party organization all the way down the line. Elly Peterson, vice chairman of the committee, has been placed in charge of the division that will handle patronage, much of which involves jobs on various government boards and commissions. The procedure is not intended for filling top administration positions. Dent has also set up a new procedure involving the committee that is designed to keep a check on the flow of complaints or requests to various government agencies. Instead of going directly to the agency involved, party members will be asked to make their request or complaint to the national committee.

One reason for the procedure, Dent said, is to make sure no improper requests-such as an attempt to influence a decision by a regulatory agency--get through. -(AP Wirephoto) NEW REPUBLICAN SYMBOL-The Republican National Committee announced in Washington Saturday that it is using this rendition of an elephant as its new official symbol. The color scheme for the emblem is three white stars on a field of red with a white bar separating the top from a red body. Adm. Cheek Rites Held In California FULTON, ices for Rear Adm.

Marion Case Cheek, United States Navy were held Wednesday in the U.S. Naval Station Chapel, Treasure Island, Calif. Burial was at the Presidio National Cemetery, San Francisco. Cheek died Friday, June 20, at Letterman General Hospital, the Presidio of San Francisco. The son of the late Mr.

and Mrs. James C. Cheek of Fulton, he was 80 years old. "Mike" Cheek was graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Class of 1911.

In he was ordered to a U.S. Naval Gunboat on the Yangtse Patrol in China. In World War 1, he served with the Atlantic Fleet and later returned to the Orient. At the close of the war Cheek Portugal Lifts Old Decree LISBON, Portugal (AP) Prime Minister Marcello Caetano's government lifted Friday a 40-year-old decree that barred antigovernment candidates from examining voter registration lists. The ban had been imposed by Caetano's aged and ailing predecessor, Antonio Salazar.

Campaigning has started for the country's November National Assembly elections. There are about 1.8 million registered voters among Portugal's nine million population. was with Adm. William in Tokyo Bay on the battleship Missouri for the signing of the U.S. peace treaty with Japan.

He returned with Halsey in the USS New Jersey to San Francisco. Later he was called by the U.S. government to organize and establish the West Coast office office of the Central Intelligence Agency. During this time he resided in San Francisco. Upon his retirement in 1958 he and' Mrs.

Cheek moved to Ross in Marion County, Calif. Among his many decorations he most highly prized the Navy Cross. He was twice awarded the Legion of Merit. He wore the Bronze Star Medal as well. Admiral Cheek leaves his Mrs.

Brenda Mersergeau Cheek; his daughters, Mrs. Robert Tyson, Mrs. Thomas Flynn, and Countess deMorelos and his son, Todd Helser; his sisters, Mrs. Commodore Brann of Oklahoma City and Mrs. Norman Terry of Fulton, and four grandchildren.

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