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Ford Could Be Possible GOP Candidate In 3 Years Judge Rules Question

WASHINGTON(AP>- When Gerald R. Ford becomes Vice President Ford, he becomes an important figure in Republican presidential politics, whatever his personal intentions. The Michigan congressman has said repeatedly that he does not plan to run for President in 1976. In politics, such disclaimers often prove fragile as election time approaches. Furthermore, few politicians purposely remove all suspense about the electoral future. That can make a man a lame duck at the outset, and undercut his effectiveness. The House scheduled action on Ford’s vice presidential nomination for today. So certain was the approval of his

colleagues that a joint session w , as scheduled for later in the day for his oath-taking. Ford, who has been House Republican leader for nine years, says he wants to become a conciliator and communicator between Congress and the White House. A modern vice president has other, more public functions, too. He is in demand as a speaker and party fund-raiser. Ford certainly will be a leading figure in the Republican congressional election campaign next year. As the first appointed vice president. Ford will be in for constant public attention during the next three years. The office, the assignments

and the attention provide a perfect launching platform for a 1976 presidential prospect. Ford, who will be 63 in that election year, says no. He has said he is “very definitely ruling myself out as a presidential candidate.” But he added that represented his present thinking, and “I can’t speculate beyond saying what my present intention is.” Ford is no political spellbinder, no new Republican star, but a familiar and comfortable figure to his GOP colleagues. Even Democrats who disagree vehemently with his political philosophy describe him as solid and reliable. President Nixon’s Watergate problems, and the continuing

House impeachment inquiry, add another imponderable to Ford’s future. As congressional committees and the Senate acted on his nomination, there were repeated references to the possibility that he might succeed to the White House during

the next three years. If that happened, under any circumstances, the entire picture would be changed, for there would be a GOP incumbent eligible to run in 1976. His name would be Ford.

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Lower Speed Could Be Lower Insurance Rates

Lower speed limits may also mean lower auto insurance rates for some American motorists. Officials in 12 states are actively studying the possibility of a rate reduction and the insurance commissioner in a 13th state Louisiana already has ordered companies to cut back rates it lower speed limits become law. An Associated Press survey showed the issue was under discussion in almost every state. In addition, the National Asso-

ciation of Insurance Commissioners, meeting in Las Vegas, Nev., this week, appointed a special task force to study the energy crisis and insurance rates. The House has passed and sent to the Senate a bill requiring states to lower the speed limit to 55 miles an hour or lose federal highway funds. In some states, the limit already has been set even lower — 50 miles per hour — for cars. Insurance officials said it will take some time to tell whether

the lower speed limit, combined with less driving because of the gasoline shortage, results in fewer accidents. They agreed, however, that if the accident rate goes down, so should insurance bills. Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Herbert S. Denenberg said. “With the near certainty of gas rationing and lower speeds on the highways, automobile insurance premium reductions of as much as 40 to 50 per cent may be indicated. This is what happened in World

WORRY CLINIC George W. Crane, PIU)., M.D.

Dr. Hulse cites the example of a famous preacher who voluntarily asked to be paid on a commission basis. It looked like such a good deal, the church jumped at such a bargain. This same preacher was a superb dramatist! See below!

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CASE Y-589: Dr. E. Duane Hulse is the famous pastor of St. Paul’s Church at Green Bay, Wisconsin. “Dr. Crane,” he began, “I was interested in your recent column about paying clergymen on a commission basis. "That made me think of one of the greatest pulpiteers of this 20th century. “He was Dr. William Stidger, Boston homiletics professor. ‘ He was once asked to serve a large church in the East. “When it came time to discuss salary, he surprised the committee by saying he didn’t want any salary “All he requested was merely the cash collection at his Sunday night sermon. “Well, Sunday night was a poorly attended meeting, so they were glad to accept him at such bargain terms. “But they didn’t realize what a promotional genius and superb orator he was. “For Dr Stidger would have rated 100 percent as a consummate Applied Psychologist and public relations genius. “He would thus interview famous stage and movie personalities. visiting them at their hotels “He explained that he wished to laud their great contributions to American art and culture at his Sunday night church service “And, apparently as an after thought, he would ask them if they’d care to come and sit on

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the platform with him Sunday evening. “Naturally, they were delighted, for Dr Stidger had a noted church. “Then he would announce the visit by this famous personality, both in his church bulletins and from the Sunday morning

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“Crowds began to fill the evening sanctuary to overflowing so there was standing room only (SRO). “And Dr Stidger thus

pocketed the cash collections, which gave him a goodly income and on your piecework method, too, Dr. Crane.” PSYCHOLOGY AT WORK Dr. Hulse then told me that Dr. Stidger had been specially invited to come to Allegheny College for the Founder’s Day address while Dr. Hulse was a student there. “And he thrilled us college students by telling us he had been expelled from our college while an undergraduate so he felt doubly excited to be invited back by the faculty. “Then he confessed just why he had been expelled! "During a stodgy Audubon lecture about birds in the high vaulted chapel, he and a few buddies decided to liven things up. “So they waited till the middle of the lecture; then released from the rafters some old hens who fluttered down, squawking in protest. “This merely put the culprits on probation but their next caper caused complete expulsion. “For a dignified, special chapel service was called. The faculty, as usual, marched down and occupied the front pews. “But when it came time to rise for the opening prayer, as well as for the hymns, the faculty didn’t stand up. "This violation of precedent caused all eyes to be focussed on the professors. "Dr Stidger and his cronies had painted the pews with a transparent glue, which held the faculty as very irate prisoners!” (Always writ* to Or Crone in core ot this newspaper oaclosing a long stamped, addressed envelope and 25 cents to cover typing and printing costs when you send tor one ot his booklets.)

WASHINGTON(AP> — Saudi phased Israeli withdrawal from Arabia has proposed a resump- lands occupied during the 1967

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The offer to Secretary of State Henry' A. Kissinger came from Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the Saudi Arabian oil minister who is touring western Europe and this country to explain the Arabs’ use of oil as a political lever against Israel. “If Israel decides to withdraw and agrees to a timetable there could be a timetable to relax the embargo.” Yamani told newsmen. Belaid Abdessalam, the Algerian energy minister, accompanied Yamani to the 90-minute meeting with Kis-

singer.

George S. Vest, the State Department spokesman, confirmed that the proposal had been made. But he declined to discuss Kissinger’s response or such details as whether Israel would have to indicate the extent of its total withdrawal before the embargo would be re-

laxed.

Vest described the discussion as “very frank, serious and useful.” William E. Simon, the new chief of the government’s energy programs. Secretary of the Treasury George P. Shultz, Commerce Secretary Frederick B. Dent, and William E. Donaldson, the top state department official for energy problems, attended. King Faisal imposed the oil boycott on the United States to protest its support of Israel during the October war. Saudi Arabia, which helped finance Egypt and Syria in its attack against the Jewish state, has taken the lead in Arab militancy against Israel. Deliveries to Western Europe and Japan were also cut. Kissinger will call on Faisal toward the end of next week. The secretary will stop first in Egypt for a meeting with President Anwar Sadat and go on from Saudi Arabia to Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel before attending the opening of the Middle East peace conference in Geneva. Yamani, the leading negotiator for the Arab oil-producing countries, told newsmen that Saudi Arabia would not resume the suspended oil shipments simply because the conference was taking place. He said results were what counted. “It is not a question of Israel’s existence,” he said. “The Arab states generally are prepared to recognize the Jewish state and sign a peace treaty.”

War II with gas rationing.” A spokesman for the commissioner said Denenberg had asked insurance companies to review their rates and apply for a reduction if warranted. Denenberg also said he was asking auto insurance companies to add a provision to every policy calling for refunds of any excess profits. “State legislatures across the nation should pass laws mandating a return of such excess profits,” he said. In New Hampshire, Insurance Commissioner Frank Whaland told the Insurance Service Office to resubmit an automobile rating plan to take the energy crisis into effect. He said he was withdrawing his approval of a plan he okayed earlier. Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Sherman Bernard ordered 473 insurance companies based in the state to cut their rates if the 50 miles per hour speed limit becomes law. He did not specify how much of a reduction would be required. Studies of possible insurance rate reductions also were under way in Georgia, Hawaii, Rhode Island. North Carolina, Missouri, Mississippi, New Jersey, Florida, Maine and Massachu-

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Winter Here For Good? Hoosiers who have had trouble getting the Christmas spirit had only to stick their heads out of the door to realize winter is on the doors-

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The National Weather Service reported about one inch of snow on the ground at South Bend and most portions of Indiana had some snow during the night or early this morning, although few had much accumulation on the ground. Overnight temperatures were mostly in the low and middle 20s. The Indiana State Police reported roads in northeastern and southwestern Indiana were wet and slick in spots with some light snow falling early this morning. Road conditions in central Indiana and the northwestern and southeastern sections were reported normal. The snow flurries continued over the state today as a cold trough of low pressure continued over the Great Lakes region. The weather service said high pressure to the south and west would spread over Indiana late today and tonight, with temperatures dropping into the teens by Friday morning. Skies are expected to clear in southern and central Indiana, but snow flurries should continue near Lake Michigan until Friday. Lows tonight were forecast for the low 20s and the teens in northern and central Indiana and in the low 20s in the south. Highs were forecast for the middle and upper 30s, and into the low 40s in the south. The extended outlook called for increasing cloudiness and much warmer temperatures Saturday. Cloudy skies with a chance of showers were forecast for Sunday and Sundav night, with a chance of showers in the north Monday. Highs were forecast for the 50s Saturday, cooling to the upper 30s and 40s Sunday and Monday. Lows were expected in the 20s Saturday morning, in the 30s Sunday, and cooling to the upper 20s and low 30s Monday.

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Fear Of Major Recession To Reason Behind Stock Drop NEW YORK (AP) — Market analysts say fears of a major recession sparked by the energy crisis are behind plunging prices on the stock market. The widely watched DowJones average of 30 industrials dropped 14.90 points in Wednesday’s trading, closing at 788.31, the lowest level for the Dow since Nov. 27, 1970. Analysts said the enormous tumble of the Dow in less than six weeks is one of its largest drops for such a short period since the depression. “We’re watching history being made,” said Ralph Acampora, analyst with Harris, Upham & Co. “All we can do is laugh, because otherwise we’d cry.” The Dow has fallen 198.75 points since Oct. 29. a 20 per cent drop accompanied by an estimated $145 billion paper loss in New York Stock Ex-change-listed securities alone. The drop compares to a sixmonth, 23 per cent tumble in 1946, and a four-month, 19 per cent drop in 1957. Analysts said that energy crisis fears were continuing to plague the market. “It’s precisely the type of crisis the market dislikes strongly. It is an open-end crisis,” said Robert G. Wade, senior vice president of Drexel, Burnham & Co. Wade also said Watergate and other political issues were adding to the market uncertainties. He said some investors feared that the Nixon administration, under the pressure of defending itself on political issues, could not devote its full attention to dealing with energy problems. Declines on the Big Board outpaced gainers Wednesday 5 to 1 in moderately-active trad-

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Should Be Reworded

WASHINGTON (APj - A cryptic question left unanswered overnight awaited President Nixon’s top aide today upon resumption of the Watergate tapes hearing in federal court. Alexander M. Haig Jr.. White House staff chief, expressed puzzlement Wednesday when assistant special prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste asked: “Did you personally, in any way, become familiar with or involved in consideration being

Protesting truckers on the Ohio Turnpike ended their 24hour blockade of the highway early today as tieups continued on two other major roadways in the state. The massive rigs began rolling shortly before highway patrolmen accompanied by National Guard tow trucks assembled near the traffic jam, apparently ready to force movement by the 1,400 trucks. Sections of Ohio's other major east-west highway. Interstate 70, and the north-south Interstate 75, remained clogged, however. About 200 trucks were reported blocking 1-75 near the turnpike at Toledo. 1-70 was blocked for about 10 miles near Columbus. At daybreak, truckers also blocked U.S. 20 in the Elyria area, and U.S. 250 was closed near Ashland, the highway patrol said. On the turnpike. Walt LowNew Power Sources Planned In Building PROVIDENCE R.I. (AP>— A group of designers plans to use the sun, wind and water to provide power fora 19th century office building. When the renovation is completed next year, energy will be produced by solar panels on the roof, water-powered turbines in an adjacent river and a wind propeller towering over the building. Then an experiment begins: Will office workers be more conservative in consuming power if they watch it being collected and know the supply is limited? “You tend to husband your battery in your car, but we don’t have that energy consciousness in our buildings,” said Ronald Beckman, director of the Research and Design Institute of Providence. Institute architects and design planners are searching for the most sophisticated ins u 1 a t i o n , alternate energy sources and solar heating systems available for the threestory brick building, which will become the headquarters for the institute’s 25-member staff.

given to entering into a settlement with respect to the tapes litigation with the special prosecutor’s office?” White House lawyers objected the question had no bearing on the purpose of the hearing and U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica adjourned the session after suggesting that Ben-Veniste reword his query to clarify it. Ben-Veniste was referring to the President’s proposal last Oct. 19. to prepare summaries

ery, a trucker who met Wednesday night with representatives of the Transportation Department, said the drivers felt they had dramatized their complaints about higher fuel prices and lower speed limits. He said the truckers would wait 10 days to see what action was taken on their complaints in Washington. Another turnpike driver, who identified himself by the code name “Joker." said the drivers had decided to remove their rigs before patrolmen arrived. “We’ve had it closed long enough," he said. In Columbus, Gov. John Gilligan assembled his staff for an early morning meeting on the situation. He had threatened legal action if the truck blocks remained in place. Federal and state officials tried with little success throughout Wednesday to persuade. mollify or threaten the drivers in order to clear the highways.

of the subpoenaed tapes, have them verified by Sen. John C. Stennis, D-Miss., and submitted to the court and the Senate Watergate committee. When special prosecutor Archibald Cox refused to accept the proposal he was fired by Nixon. In his first day testifying at any of the Watergate proceedings in court or before the Watergate committee. Haig proved a self-assured witness. He sparred repeatedly, but usually good-naturedly, with Ben-Veniste. Haig smiled often, blushed occasionally, but generally seemed to enjoy matching wits with the 30-year-old prosecutor who had made earlier witnesses so uncomfortable when he caught them in inconsistencies. The closest Haig came to displaying anger was when he looked at Ben-Veniste at one point and said, “It’s very easy for you to pick at me and portray me as an expert. I’m not going to be." Earlier on Wednesday, Sirica recalled President Nixon’s personal secretary Rose Mary Woods to the stand and heard her flatly deny any knowledge that anybody had ever tampered with the subpoenaed tapes. “If I could offer any idea, any proof, any knowledge, of how that 18-minute gap happened, there is no one on earth who would rather.” Miss Woods said. She had testified last week that she may have been responsible for the first five minutes or so of the 18 minute and 15 second gap in the tape of a June 20, 1972. conversation between the President and H R. Haldeman, Haig’s predecessor as staff chief.

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