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NEWS, AUGUST 18, 1S74 THE FORD FAMILY They'll Make the White House a Home tw- Fr'raf of a geriet) By PAUL HEALY and ANN WOOD 01 The Ntwt Washington Bureau AMERICA'S new first family is refreshing. The Gerald Fords' three boys and a girl are all handsome and healthy and wholesome and comprise the largest First Family since the Franklin D. Roosevelts, who had five children, all grown. However, you have to go all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt's "wild bunch" for a President's family which is so close-knit and yet so charged with energy in doing their own thing preferably outdoors. How will the down-to-earth Fords whose openness comes naturally take to the grandeur of the White House, much less its total security and the constant white light of publicity? They have to live with the prospect that they will be celebrities forever, for America possessive of its First Families, past as well as present.

The new names which will soon Ve household words are Michael, Jack, Steven and Susan with an added starter, Michael's pretty bride, 'Gayle, who has the same scrubbed blonde look as her in-laws. Even though they were sprung Into it overnight, the Ford children hnd thouRht they were ready for their emergence onto the world stage. 'After all, they had all been reared just across the Potomac as the offspring of a rising Michigan congressman, and topped it olt by being much more in the public eye as the Vice President's offspring. it they hadn't seen anything yet, in terms of pursuit by the news media Associated Press pncTO With cHaracteristic informality, five of the seven members of the immediate Ford family sit for a backyard picture at their former home in Alexandria, Ya. From left: Susan, 17; "Michael, 24, end his bride, Gayle, 22; the President and Mrs.

Ford. zese's, the neighbors for whom Susan baby-sits, is a sign reading, "White House Press, Ye Olde Alexandria Branch." To avoid nosy reporters and cameramen, 18-year-old Steven parks his yellow Jeep a block behind the house and vaults the hedge between the Fords house and that of another neighbor, Daniel Moler. Mrs. Eleanor Moler told The News that she didn't mind Steven's traffic through the yard because their neighborhood was now f'the safest in America." and the public gawking. The pressures on them come from all directions.

For the last week, the Fords' modest four-bedroom brick split-level in Alexandria, was cordoned off for one block to try to discourage the tourists which it didn't. Across Crown View Drive, batteries of cameras are pointed at the green front door. Telephones have sproutea in the grass, installed for the wire services and some newspapers. Above the open garage door of the house belonging to the Peter Abbruz- Not only are there police and Secret Service agents all about, but one cop sits in her backyard while President Ford takes his morning and eveninsr 20 laps in the Fords' swimming pool la their backyard. Inside, the presidency has jammed the house almost to the bursting point.

Already strained to accommodate the 6-foot President, his three 6-foot sens, and two medium-tall women (Betty Ford (Continued on page 78) 1 BimmlthltsS mearMmkys hiri By JEROME CAHILL Washington, Aug. 17 (News Bureau) The White House denounced today a small group of "right-wing extremists" that it said was attempting to block the chances of former New York Gov. Rockefeller to become vice president by falsely linking him with Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt and a reported scheme to disrupt the Democratic National last Sunday and told him some documents in seven boxes of Watergate documents originally belonging to Hunt had been photocopied before they were destroyed and the copies had been placed in two safe-deposit boxes in a bank in a certain city. The documents purportedly showed that Rockefeller had bankrolled a scheme to disrupt the 1972 Democratic National Con- Continued on page 37, etJ.

1 Convention in 1972. Presidential Press Secretary Jerald terHorst said the office of Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski had checked the allegations against Rockefeller and had found them "worthless" and "without foundation TerHorst added that the New York Republican was still in the running, with a number of others, for appointment to the nations' second highest office. from "a group right-wing extremists who for reasons of their own decided it was useful to blacken the reputation of Gov. Rockefeller." The press secretary said a number of individuals appeared to be involved in the anti-Rockefeller effort. He said that the possibility of legal action against theai or their group would be looked into by the Justice INDEX TO FEATURES ML 4 if in Business Editorial Page Family Living Horoscope Arm Landers 69 63 -75 86 86 Obituaries People's Voice Spoils Dr.

Van Delten Vw 104 63 106 102 69 Living Animal World Garden Yeu Can Do It Tax Counsel 6 16 4 18' 2 19 10 Antiques Classified Ads Social Security sons will go to discredit Mr. Rockefeller and thereby attempt to remove him from consideration." TerHorst refused to identify the extremists behind the allegation against the former governor. Another White House source -said the group was "not any formal organization of the left or the right that is in existence and well known." The source said that the in "President Ford has advised me that former Gov. Rockefeller has been and remains under consideration for the vice presidential nomination," terHorst told reporters after conferring with Ford on the results of Jaworski's investigation. "A Deplorable Example" "The President regards the inaccurate information given to Mr.

Buchen (Philip Buchen White House counsel) on Sunday, Aug. 11, as a deplorable example of the lengths to which certain per leisure To Announce on Schedule The White House spokesman said the flap stirred up by the eharge against Rockefeller had caused no slippage" in President Ford's intention to announce his choice for a vice president on Tuesday or Wednesday. The White House gave this account of the incident: The tipster, known only as "Mr. Long," contacted Buchen Boohs Bridge Dream Strett Footlights Gossip Jumble 1 28 6 8 2 18 Justice Movies Theater Quiz Travel 42 7 3 16 29 21 NeUon Rockefeller Chmrgmm are "absolutely antrum formation given Buchen had come -HiiwiiiiiiiiiitfiimHiimiJiiiiitiMN HHIUIIIIWIIWIIWHIIIIIWItHIHIIIIUIImmiWIimilHIItlHIIWIlWHIHIt HO CITIES FARED YESTERDAY TEMPERATURES IN NEW YORK Max. 14 at 1:16 p.m.) Win 72 at 3:50 a.m.

Highest this date, In 1944 lowest this date, 55 In ISM Teoweraivces Indies Today's Higti Low of Raie Weather DAILY ALMANAC SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1974 NATL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST SUNNY. BREEZY AND WARM Temperature range 66-84; winds west, 10-15 mod. Tomorrow, sunny and mild. AUGUST 1974 Sua Mm. Tut.

ftftf. Ttrnr. Fn. Sat. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 42 57 7 47 47 7 1 Aifcany Atlanta BoStVA ufsl Chiao Cincinnati Cleveland Denver Detroit Fort Woilh 1 am 75 2 m.m 74 3 a 74 4 a 73 5 a.m.

.73 6 a 72 7 a 73 I a.m 73 5 p.m 74 p.m 72 7 p.m 70 a p.m. 71 p.m 71 10 p.m 72 1 p.m 71 Midnight--71 a.m 73 10 a.m. 73 11 a.m 7 Nwn Vt 1 p.m 12 2 p.m 75 4 P.m 74 THE MOON Showers P. Cloudy .15 hewers Showers .55 Cloudy .83 P. Cleudy .17 Showers 1.04 Clear Clear 2.M Clear P.

Cloudy P. Cloudy TODAY'S FORECAST" VKuq. 17 Aug-24 Spt. 1 Sept. 5 Builinolon pu-'7V 5 93 SEPTEMBER SM.

Tut ti laiir. ftj. Si! o- is Houston New First Q. Full test MM 3 4 5 6 7 s-r i v1' r. Cloudy Clear P.

Cloudy P. Clcedy nvJB) Cleveland 5 40 5 7 72 -41 iS SB 72 73 73 SO 9 C7 54 31 41 75 sr-M i Pittsburgh Showers Showers Clear Yesterday: Air quality was rated acceptable tor the 24 hours' that ended at los Angeles Miami Beach ei Minneapolis 0 Montreal 77 Slew Orleans Orlando 91 Philadelphia Fhoenix iee Pitlsfeurgh 87 Salt LafceCily 4 San Francisco 63 San Juan P. R. Seattle St. Louis i5 Washington 89 Columbus r- phiiaitelohia Showers Readings up ta a p.m.

Aug. 17. Mean temperature, 7 normal. 75; average above below ncrai since Aug. 2.5 degrees.

PRECIPITATION Yesterday 1.43; total since Jan. 1, 2 52 inches. Total this date, )973, 36.50 inches. ItAtt sinre Aug. 1, 2.73 Inches.

TEMIMtUMIDriy INDEX 77 at 1 P.m 73 at 5 p.m. 10 of us ate attertd when Intiex bits 70; tax at 74, all at4. HUMiTSHYi -r at I a.m.; at a m. DAILY POtLEN COUNT (By long Island Jewish Hospital) (25 nntl abeve Is considered uncomfortable) 1974 7 19a 11 For Hours ended at 3 p.m. i i i- 3 p.m.

DavliBtot Savlne Time Sunrise a.m.) sunset 7:50 p.m. Aflccn rises 7:12 a.m.; sets 8:04 P.m. Morning stars: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn; evenings a1.ii si Mars, Mercury. TiCFS (By National Ocean Survey) Bandy Hook The Battery Mfillrts Ft. A.M.

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:51 08 :27 :4 1.5 Un 3:04 :32 i ll Today: Air acceptable. Quality Is Air expected Resource to be CtPt. fl P.C10UDV ClOUBV I Washington Clear Clear Clear P. Cloudy -SI P. Cloudy Showers The Sunday News Is Published each Sunday by New Yor News tflc, 2J0 East 49d New York, N.Y.

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