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Panlagraph A-9 Bloomington- Normal, III. Sept. I. 1 TP jk ft Cut in reruns gets Nixon OK TbTsll Aou. 7 fa ,5 V1- Whitehead told the San Francisco chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

"From what I've seen already, this will be a good profit year in the TV industry," Whitehead said. "I've also heard that the Hollywood studios are on the ropes that at any one time there are many craft unions with 50 per cent to 75 per cent of their members out of work. "It is not clear whether there is a relationship between either of facts and the spreading blight of reruns, but this is a matter that requires some close scrutiny." Whitehead said a study by Hollywood unions "hardhit by reruns claims that reruns constitute 60 per cent of network prime time as a nationwide average. "This has happened slowly, but it is now getting to critical proportions," he said. "I've read that the networks are working with a 44-week schedule, which contemplates 20 to 22 weeks of reruns, and this doesn't even take the summer weeks into account," Whitehead said.

"We are going to look at the rerun problem carefully and make our recommendations to the (FCC) Federal Communications Commission if necessary or urge the networks to take whatever action is deemed appropriate," he said. LOS ANGELES (AP)-President Nixon has backed a move to cut the number of reruns on prime time television, saying unless networks act voluntarily "we will explore whatever regulatory recommendations are in order." Nixon, in a letter to the Screen Actors Guild released Thursday, said he agrees with SAG complaints that the increasing use of reruns poses an economic threat to the television industry. He promised an investigation into the situation. "I am convinced that in cutting the amount of original programming the TV networks are failing io serve their own best Interests as well as those of the public," the President wrote Guild President John Gavin. Nixon said he has instructed Clay T.

Whitehead, director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy, to "thoroughly investigate the problem" with an eye to a voluntary solution by the networks before any "regulatory recommendations" are studied. Whitehead said Thursday that the "spreading blight" of television reruns could be solved by creation of a fourth commercial television network. "Creation of a new network may well be the only way to meet the needs of program diversity and audience choice," ls 5f Jf 'M, 1'. tiff J- -J Wf1 Host GARRY MOORE with Bill Cutlen. Ffgcy Cass, Gene Raybum, Kitty Carlljla Gainesville, Fla.

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Portable device unveiled to detect boozy drivers Rufus passes first tests, but still acts like sissy friendly nudge. Rufus snapped at her. Then Lily, said to have been the favorite of the 19-year-old (human equivalent 85) Frasier, gave him an affectionate push with her head and Rufus accepted it with bored indifference. "He has been accepted by the pride," proclaimed Quinn. But there was yet one more test.

Frasier's two-year-old son, Jonah (teen-age equivalent), had been trying for weeks without success to work his wiles upon the pride only to get a severe mauling in return. Jonah and Rufus had been roaring through a fence at each other ever since Rufus was brought here two weeks ago when the Wichita zoo closed down. The rangers released Jonah from his cage and the young lion ran directly toward the interloper. The two beasts were eyeball to eyeball for a few tense moments and then Jonah walked slowly away. at least two other recently developed commercial devices.

The testing device was shown at the annual convention of Kemper Insurance. States involved In the testing are North and South Dakota, Vermont, Maine, New York, Indiana, Nebraska, Minnesota and Virginia. Ballot printing to be held up SPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) Secretary of State John W. Lewis has ordered county clerks to withhold printing of ballots for the Nov.

7 general election until a federal court decides whether Communist and Socialist Worker party slates get ballot places. The legal deadline for county clerks to mail ballots to absentee voters in the military service abroad is Sept 23. This is the first of such legal deadlines in the election calendar. CHICAGO (AP) The Department of Transportation on Thursday unveiled a portable automatic breath testing device for measuring the blood alcohol concentration of drivers. The device, about the size of a transistor radio, was described as a "breakthrough in highway safety technology." The alcohol detection device will allow police to test motorists suspected of drunk driving at the roadside, rather than having to take them to police stations.

The unit will be tested beginning in January 1973 in nine states which allow pre-arrest screening. Those states allow police to administer sobriety tests to motorists without making an arrest. Drivers refusing to take the test would lose their licenses. The results of the tests, to be conducted by 10 police departments, will be compared to results with breath or blood testing procedures now in effect to compare reliability. Also to be tested will be Sivy hclll Uganda warns Asians of concentration camp MiniLL Youn FATHER GETS LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.

(UPI)-Rufus the reluctant lion was accepted by the seven widows of the late, great Frasier Thursday but it appeared the shy veteran of the Wichita, zoo would be a slow starter, sensuality-wise. The 15-year-old Rufus (age 65 in human equivalent) had to be herded like a stray cow by rangers at Lion Country Safari in four-wheel drive vehicles before he could be induced to join the females on the grassy knoll where Frasier held sway before his death last July 13. It was Rufus' first experience with freedom after being caged all his life and as park zoological director Pat Quinn put it, "he's far more interested in security than sex." As a matter of fact, Rufus declined even to leave his cage when the pride of females was released and strolled to their familiar turf as television cameras ground and publicity conscious park vice president Jerry Kobrin groaned. Finally, Rufus did emerge. He paced up and down and then tried to re-enter his cage but the door had been shut.

Park rangers carrying tranquilizer guns and shotsguns in case of emergency drove him toward the females. His first experience was frightening. Three of the lionesses -Linda, Jane and Stompy suddenly turned upon him and bit him squarely on the haunches whereupon Rufus retreated into some bushes. He was finally flushed and herded to the knoll. There he flopped down on the ground and gazed around in apprehension.

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