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The specific time or date of the plant of the Father were not to be announced beforehand to the apoitlet. They were toon to be baptized with the Holy tIhot, and then they would know all they needed to know to carry on the work for which they had been called. Family finances tight for ex-Chief Executive By CLAY F. RICHARDS WASHINGTON (UP1) As a private citizen Richard M. Nixon faces major financial problems.

He wss badly hurt by having to pay 134.74 In back taxes last spring. He facet a further tax bill, substantial mortgage payments on his San Clement and Key Biscay ne homes and could have costly legal expenses In the coming months. His resignation, however, will save a SC2.200 yearly pension he would have lost had the House Impeached him and had he been convicted and removed from office by the Senate. Last winter the White House disclosed that Nixon's net worth was just over tl million, Including POtfili in cash savlngi In the Key Biscayne Bank and Trust headed by his close friend Charles G. "Bebe" Reboro.

Presumably a Urge chunk of the savings was eaten up In April, when Nixon was forced to pay (34,706 In back taxes after the Internal Revenue Service ruled against the controversial deduction of the gift of his vice presidential papers. Ford must first off select Nixon, tense, somber, a half-smile crowing his face only once, acknowledged his dilenv ma. His confession Monday had robbed him of his political power and public trust. Still, It was hard to resign. have never been a quitter," he said.

"To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every Instinct In my body. "But as President I must put the Interest of America first' By resigning, he retained the right to collect a tC2j500-a year pension and the emoluments of office-free office space, secretarial help, Secret Service protection, the franking privilege and the like. He would have lost these and have been stripped of the right to hold future civil federal office if he had been Impeached by the House and removed by a two-thirds majority vote of the Senate, events which seemed unavoidable after this week's Republican defections in Congress. Nixon's critics had hoped he would spell out his Watergate role in full detail during his speech. He did not.

He barely mentioned Watergate. Ford, as Pre' Went, will have to face the problem of deciding whether to make certain that Nixon is not prosecuted. After Jaworskl earlier this year had convinced a grand jury that an MEMBERS OF NIXON'S family were happier before he wat elected President. This photograph was made in 1967, when the former vice president's daughter Julie and David Eisenhower announced their engagement. They were only 18 and 19 years old at the time, and the grandson of the late President Elsenhower gave Julie his great-grandmother's ring to mark their engagement.

Kilitorial TYPICALLY MORGAN COUNTY A Martinsville boy to look in a Fori store window last week, and out popped Morgan County. We don't know whether the incident ha any lijmificanee tvyond coincidence, but the boy, in a letter to his parents, Pr. and Mrt. Gordon Gray, commented that it was "all too typically Morgan County." And it was. Thil Gray in spending the summer attending the Miami University Extension in Luxembourg, and he and a friend, Mike Brown of Iowa, were visiting Pari.

They had been strolling on the Champi d'Elysee and had stopped to look at a television set in a store window. Gray writes: "Some guy was interviewing an American farmer-type. I jested about how it was all too typically Morgan County. Lo and behold they flashed (Are you ready for this?) to the courthouse in Martinsville. I Anally realized it was a story on Dillinger in Delaware; Treasury Secretary William Simon, and Rep.

Albert Pule of Minnesota. Paris." And that, sure enough, typically Morgan County. Morgan County people have found themselves in the most sophisticated and cosmopolitan circles in the world. We have, alas, been the home of the most famous, or infamous, American; and we have also supplied the country with some of its outstanding political, moral, and military leaders. The county has some of the most beautiful scenery in Indiana and some of its most dilapidated houes.

It has some of the finest people in the world and some of the worst, some of the smartest, and some of the stupidest. So seeing a shot of the Morgan County Courthouse in a Paris shop window is not bizarre. It's just normal, although it's remarkable, too. Maybe it was no coincidence that the great-great-great, etc. grandson of a Morgan County founder should find himself looking at a French television program just as the Martinsville courthouse was flashed on the screen.

You Oughfa Try Weitem Auto for FANS Other names mentioned this week Include: GOP Sens. Charles Percy of Illinois, and Lowell Welcker of Connecticut; Reps. John Anderson of Illinois and John J. Rhodes of Arizona; former deputy attorney general William Ruckelshaus, and former Sen. Charles Goodetl of New York.

Among those persons endorsed by the Senate conservatives was Rep. Edith Green, who Is retiring from Congress. Sen. Barry Goldwater was the first name on the list, which also included Republican Sens. James Buckley, iniimhnt nrMnt miiM nnt be indicted, the jury named 1PA PrPClflPFlt MIvah linlnrtifltAi lVV A 1 VOlUtllV Nixon an unindicted co-con -IP at William Brock, Howard Baker, Dewey Bartlett, Marlow Cook, and Hugh Scott; Govs.

Ronald Reagan of California and 3 eh of I t- Thomas Mesklll of Connecticut; former Sen. John Williams WASHINGTON (UPI) Ge-raid R. Ford, thrust Into the presidency through appointment, must now face the delicate task of appointing a vice president When he does, the nation will, for the first time, have a president and vice president who gained office without a national election. Ford's immediate problem is to name a vice president who not only will help heal the wounds of the nation but also those of the shattered Republican party. Former New York Gov.

Nelson Rockefeller, former Attorney General Elliot Richardson and former Congressman Melvin Laird are considered leading contenders. But a group of conservative Republican senators excluded them from a list given to Ford of 12 men and one woman that it could support "America's In trouble today not because her people have failed but because her leaders have failed." By MIKE FEINSILBER WASHINGTON (UPI)-Tht American presidency changes hands today to shed Itself of scandal. Richard Nixon resigns to avoid removal from office and Gerald R. Ford, an unsullied and plainsnoken Mid-westerner, assumes power he never sought. Nothing likt this has ever happened before.

It amounts to a constitutional coup. It hap pened suddenly-withln five working days after Nixon admitted intimate and early Involvement in the Watergate scandal. It came after his last hope of avoiding Impeachment and removal from office by Congress had collapsed. It brought a sense of relief to the people and to Congress and a national feeling of good will toward the President-designate. Nixon, re-elected two years ago carrying 49 states, becomes the first president to resign.

Ford becomes the 38th president, but the first to assume that office without running on a national ballot. He will take the oath at noon today in a simple ceremony either inside or outside the White House, depending upon the weather. There will be none of the trappings of the normal quadrennial inauguration but none of the grief and mourning that have accompanied other oath-takings by other vice presidents. Chief Justice. Warren E.

Burger flew back from a vacation in Amsterdam, Hoi' land, to administer the oath. At noon, Nixon and his heartbroken family will be flying to San Clemen te, in an Air Force plane almost as opulent as Air Force One Like millions of his countrymen. Ford sat in his living room Thursday night and watched Nixon on television somberly announce that he would give up the struggle to retain office. He admitted he had lost that measure of public respect that is vital to hold office in a republic. Then Ford went outside into the clammy air and stood in the street in front of his wooden and brick suburban home in Alexandria, across the Potomac from Washington.

Addressing the television cameras and 100 neighbors, newsmen, children, sightseers-even the neighborhood ice cream vendor Ford pledged in his customary simple words that he would try to achieve "what's best for America and the world." He said Nixon's speech was "one of the very saddest moments that I've ever witnessed." Ford, 61, a former college football center whose highest political ambition had been to lead the Republican party as speaker of the House, was hand-picked by Nixon last October to be vice president. Spiro T. Agnew had just resigned in disgrace in a deal worked out with the attorney general to avoid a trial on the charge of evading taxes and accepting bribes throughout his public life. Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon JaworUsi said there had been no such deal with Nixon. But it seemed unlikely that Nixon would be prosecuted for Watergate.

The country had no stomach for further punishment for a disgraced president. Hundreds stood outside the, black iron fence around the White House while Nixon spoke for 17 minutes, delivering the 3Sth televised address to the -nation of his five year and seven month presidency. Some wept when he finished. Some, very much like the young crowds which had forced Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 to renounce intentions to seek reelection, stormed the gates shouting, "Jail to the chief!" Some sang "America." Nixon was forced out by the Republican elders in Congress.

They told him, during the week, that they could no longer dare support him not after his admission of complicity in the Watergate affair. This was unlike the public uproar last October after Nixon had ordered the firing of Archibald Cox as special prosecutor. This uproaar came from Congress, rather than an aroused nation. The nation seemed fed up with Watergate, tired beyond response. TJr spirator.

Most congressmen opposed any prosecution, although some said he should be treated like any other individual and that it was wrong for him to escape when so many of his former associates were going on trial. But the effort by Sen. Edward W. Brooke, to pass a congressional resolution urging amnesty was faltering. Nixon's downfall wasbrought about when he confessed Monday that there had been "omissions" in all his prior Watergate denials.

Under compulsion from an 8-0 Supreme Court ruling, he made public three transcripts which showed that six days after the Watergate break-in he issued orders designed to have the CIA obstruct the FBI's investigation. Aides said Nixon's wife and daughters had opposed resignation to the end. They said the Nixon women shed tears Thurday night, when the decision was irrevocably made. That was after the call from three old friends from Capitol Hill-Senate GOP leader Hugh Scott, House GOP Leader John J. Rhodes and Sen.

Barry M. Goldwater, his party's elder statesman to give Nixon the "gloomy" news that his support against impeachment had vanished. Nixon's announcement came exactly six years to the day that he stood triumphant before a cheering Republican National Convention in Miami Beach in 1968 and promised "a new day for America." In that acceptance speech, he had said. Tlio Iloosicr THE SUMMER doldrums hit the Statehouse newbeat, sometimes described at the period between the end of political convention and start of the state fair. Checking around.

I found many on vacations, preparing for the political campaign to hit full stride after Labor Day. Mott labor wat being performed by workmen making alterations to the building. Work is going forward, although it is difficult to see doily progress on the major renovation of the Senate chambers. The State Budget Agency has moved to u-porary quarters in the State O.Tice Building, with their twees torn up for major charge. One day last week, workmen the end of the lunch hour to move materials from the grcund to upper levels, uerj the only elevator in operation.

Needless to say, it cot the day to ask for irfonnation from disgruntled ecpioves, forced to use the stairs upon returning to work. The elevator near the governor office, site of a rape and of frequent breakdowns, including stranding legislators during the session, was again out of service. The General Assembly was quick to provide funds to renovate the antiquated elevators, and work was planned for the lax summer season. No one counted on shortage of parts which will delay the project until next year. Hunting news, I moved out into the center of the building to check the almost perfect match of the new stained glass in the nine repaired panels of the dome.

When they were being installed, it appeared they would not blend with the old. I was astonished to find two complete rows from the OMtit panela removed, giving a complete view of the steel braces and cement dome. Raymond Sanders, commissioner of administration, was coming out of the governor's office, and I asked him about the missing glass. He told me they had found all of the glass loose in replacing the panels, and elected to telead the entire dome. Glass falling to the floor from the great heighth was a danger.

Going in to check the boxes for news releases located in the governor's outer office, I ran into Administrative Assistant New drugs are discovered and refined in the laboratories of the world's foremost pharmaceutical companies the results of months and years of research arid work. To obtain just ONE safe, efficient drug, thousands of compounds are devised, tested and discarded. Visit I Schmalz's I CAMPUS SHOP For Authentic I I fouri dc PRESCRIPTION PHARMACISTS Phone 342-3321 North Side Square MARTINSVILLE, IND. it. Doi.i i.

mii i it: William Lloyd. He concentrated, trying to think of a lead on some story, but was unable to come up with any ideas. He admitted that fortunately for the administration, but not so good for newsmen, all had been relatively quiet. Lloyd, with his courtroom experience as a lawyer, has been one of the chief trouble shooters for the Bowen administration. Lloyd represented the governor in the change of insurance commissioners, played an important role in the investigation of charges at the Central State Mental Hospital and the Indiana State Prison, and sat in on the State Police board when Secretary of State Larry A.

Conrad sought intervention to investigate authorship of the so-called Master Plan. Appointment of the new State Ethics Committee by the governor was completion of another responsibility for Lloyd. He assists the governor in screening applicants for the more than 1,526 appointments to commissions and boards. Bowen knows people from all areas of the state and makes his own final selections and appointments. The news boxes had little of interest.

Congressman David Dennis, Indiana's representative on the Judiciary Committee, had made available his change in attitude on the impeachment charges. It had been in newspapers, on television and radio, the night before. State Senator Rudolph Clay, Democrat from Gary, also had a release saying: "The House of Representatives should impeach Nixon." Other than the fact he had been in Indianapolis at the time, newsmen wondered why his views were more important than the 149 other state legislators. Returning home after a fruitless search for an idea, I found the governor had called a press conference for the afternoon, making another long trip necessary. Arriving late, I received a copy of a prepared statement being read by Bowen.

The governor pointed out that President Nixon's statement of Monday had been "a grave disappointment" He continued: "Like a great many Americans who believe in the President's right to due process of the law, I feel wounded by this revelation." Bowen went on to inform newsmen Nixon had four alternatives available, and not knowing the complete facts, he would not make any recommendations which Nixon should elect. Newsmen rushed over for a statement from Republican State Chairman Thomas Milligan, who said he agreed with the views of Congressman Dennis. Most agreed due process would require completion of the impeachment process by the Senate. Tri Reporter wtlcomei lttrs. PiatM htto thm snort potlibi.

Nmi will kept confidential if wnttrl otsir, but Tn Reporter mutt know Identities. Unieu personal safety or overriding public Interest IS Involved, names of writers must be published If tney criticize other persons by name or identity. What coor TV offers a full one year warranty on the parts and labor two years on the picture tube? RICK FRYE SAYS: UUOH XL-100 IS THE ANSWER rirr rrrr-v -r 'T MM 7 You good citizens of Morgan County, are you going to have your tax money spent like this? (Do not use my name in the paper) Mr. Kendall: The city park is without question the central family recreational facility in Martinsville. For residents of our city it is continually a source of relaxation and enjoyment.

A park facility, however, can only be as good as the administrators responsible for its upkeep and improvement, and in this regard Martinsville is certainly fortunate. A round of congratulations is due all those who have a hand in making our city park the pleasant place that it is, and I want to especially express appreciation to park manager Marvin Nash and his wife. In all their dealings with the public, Mr. and Mrs. Nash have consistently demonstrated the utmost in courtesy, concern, and cooperation.

During those instances when I have personally asked their assistance in planning a group function at the park, they have always gone overboard to be helpful and to meet whatever need the situation demands. I'm sure many others have had the same experience in working with the Nashes. A good old-fashioned "thanks" for making the city park such a pleasant place to be. Genuinely, Jim Brunnemer To the editor: What do you think about the Morgan County Welfare believe their procedures of placing children and also their ideas of what's best for a minor child should be investigated. For example, without one personal visit to our Christian home or one personal interview with us as parents, our children were picked up off the streets and placed in foster homes.

They took the word of a child of the rebellious age of 16, that he was getting treated unfairly because his parents want a little decency and respect. Since they left our home one has been in the hospital from side effects of drugs, the other picked up and put in jail twice from drug related instances. They were placed in homes with opposite moral convictions, where they are tree to drink, party and do things we object to very much. It doesn't seem that we have any say so about our children, or any right to complain. Taxpayers of Morgan County are paying for help forced on them when they don't need it.

I believe there is a better way to help people than to help corrupt their kids. If you tell them about some one you know that's eating put of a garbage can, they don't have the time to bother with it. Who does a person complain to to get fair results? sS ill '3 SIM AND BUY NOW OUR 74 CLOSE-OUT IS ON. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back thewhite A Ashirt Arrow. NUTTER'S MEN'S WEAR North Side Square PHONE 342-8483 ST.

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