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By CARL P. LEUBSDORF Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice Resident-designate Nelson A.

Rockefeller said today that former President Richard M. Nixon's acceptance of a presidential pardon was in his view .‘ tantamount to admitting

guilt.”

Rockefeller made the comment as his vice presidential confirmation hearings before the Senate Rules Committee

went through a second day. AU indications were that the panel would overwhelmingly approve the former New York governor for the nation’s va-

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He backed off slightly from his insistence Monday that the Rockefeller family's economic

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Under questioning by Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.va., he conceded that Rockefeller wealth did involve a potential

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NEW YORK (AP) - Pollster Louis Harris says Americans approve of the House of Representatives' handling of impeachment by a 59-37 per cent margin. But when Harris’ organization earlier this month polled 1,527 households across the nation’on three economic

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On the pardon, Rockefeller repeated his earlier support of Ford’s action as “the right thing at the right time,” considering all the circumstances.

NELSON ft ROCKEFELLER In summing up the climax of the events of the past two years, Rockefeller said: “The President accepted a pardon which, in my opinion, is tantamount to admitting guilt.”

issues — keeping the economy healthy, controlling inflation and handling taxes and spending — at least 80 per cent of the respondents voiced disapproval of Congress. Only 10 to 14 per cent of those queried voiced their approval of Congress’ performance, Harris said on Monday.

By FRANK CORMIER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - President Ford told the nation’s police chiefs today high priority should be placed on combating violent crime and street crime in the inner city because “there’s where crime most hurts the poor who already suffer enough.” In remarks prepared for the annual convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Ford said law enforcement authorities “first have to make some hard decisions on priorities.” He suggested that as a starter greater attention be given to the inner city, “where crime does the most damage to our whole urban structure.” • Ford asked his audience to stand in silent tribute to Washington, D.C. patrolwoman Gail Cobb, first American policewoman killed in the line of duty. Miss Cobb, whose funeral was being held as Ford spoke, was shot to death last week while chasing a suspect. Declaring that the time has come to act, Ford said “the' point in dispute is precisely

how crime can be reduced.” He promised to come up with “proposals which I will sped out later both to the nation and to the Congress.” The President also urged priority for a program to deal with habitual offenders or career criminals. “We must take the criminal out of circulation,” he said. “We mu3t make crime hazardous and costly. We must ensure that swift and prolonged imprisonment will inevitably follow each offense. Only then will we deter others from pursuing careers of crime." Ford went on to describe a pilot program to deal with habitual criminals that was discussed at the convention Monday by Atty. Gen. William B. Saxbe. The President urged police and the courts to take more positive steps to ensure public cooperation in law enforcement, saying too much crime goes unreported and witnesses often do not show up in court. A survey in the nation’s capital, he said, showed that victims are frustrated, fearful and pessimistic about seeing

Striking Some Quotas In Package

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Ford said: “Fast action and better conviction rate on major crimes can help restore public confidence in the system. Better scheduling, better notification of witnesses, and few continuances will serve to cut dow n the terribly frustrating waste of the witness' time.”

Appraises Role Played By Health in President s’ Actions

markets. —Prohibiting resale price maintenance to encourage competition at the retail level. Another Blow

By GORDON HANSON Associated Press Writer BOONE, Iowa (AP) — An early killing frost has dealt weather-stricken Midwest corn and soybean producers another blow and may mean higher consumer prices on meat, milk and eggs. Officials say freezing temperatures which settled across the Upper Midwest on Saturday and Sunday nights may have caused the loss of another 200 million bushels of corn, and the figure on soybean loss could be twice as great. One result may be consumers paying “still higher prices for meat, milk and eggs,” says Walter Goeppinger. chief administrative officer of the National Corn Growers Association in Boone. •American farmers would probably have raised a record 6.1 billion oushel corn crop this year,” he said on Monday. “After the spring storms and summer drought, it was looking like a crop of 5 billion bushels. ' But the frost damage has covered such a wide area that 4.8 billion bushels is the maximum that can be expected. It could be less.” Severe spring storms washed away much newly planted corn and soybean seed or delayed plantings, then a summer drought laid waste to thousands of acres of prime cropland. Now the unseasonably early frost has taken its toll of immature corn stands in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Illinois and Michigan, Goeppinger said. Delayed plantings of corn resulted in later-maturing plants which were more susceptible to frost. For that corn to develop “it needed a later-than-average killing frost date, instead of an earlier one,” Goeppinger said. Dr. Harvey Thompson, an Iowa State University agronomist, estimated the Iowa corn loss from frost alone at 40 million bushels, or 4 per cent of a predicted one billion bushel harvest. “The percentage loss on soybeans will be more than double the loss on corn,” Thompson said. “Because of the spring rain, hardly any beans were planted on time, and a lot were replanted a couple of times.” Goeppinger said corn producers in the seven-state Upper Midwest area who were hit by the drought and then the frost “are really paying the biggest price. Probably in many cases they may not get 15 to 20 bushels to an acre. And in some cases there is complete failure.” Corn producers in recent years have consistently harvested more than 100 bushels an acre. Goeppinger said higher prices for corn will cause beef, poultry and hog producers — who use the grain for fattening livestock — to reduce the amounts they send to market.

BUFFALO, NY. (AP) - Were the best presidents of the United States the sickest ones 0 “Not necessarily." says Dr. Milton Plesur. professor of history at the State University of New York at Buffalo. But. he points out. of the 11 “great" and “near great" U.S. presidents listed by the 1962 Sehlesinger poll, eight had illnesses which affected their performance in office, and six died before their statistical life expectancy. Dr. Plesur. who bases his conclusions on his research for a recently published book. “The President) Reappraised." believes that "although presidents are not great' because they are sick, illness tends to elevate the president in the eyes of historians." Illness lias been prevalent among the presidents of this century, he notes, but the “most arresting medical story " is that of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was plagued all his life with a sensitive respiratory tract, contracted polio at age 39 and it was rumored that he might have suffered several minor strokes in 1938. "Despite the fact that the President was suffering from hypertension and fatigue, according to his last physician, he was able to perform his duties." adds Dr. Plesur, who feels that Roosevelt's “optimism in the face of severe economic depression and during the war years might have been due. in part, to his personal experiences in overcoming an illness that would have defeated a lesser man. Roosevelt was obviously ill, and this was known b> many even before his return from Yalta " However, asserts Dr. Plesur. the White House physicians insisted that Roosevelt was not even sick in 1944. and that the fatal stroke in 1945 was unforeseeable. “Roosevelt's case history raised many questions and highlighted the problem of presidential health," he observes. And linked to presidential health is the problem of disclosure. the history professor points out. “When does a physician s responsibility to the community supercede the traditional patient-physician relationship?" he asks.

Would Franklin D. Roosevelt have acted differently at Yalta if he had been completely well" If Woodrow Wilson had not suffered from the after-effects of a post-stroke syndrome, would he have compromised during the League of Nations debate "The course of history is irrevocably linked with presidential disorders An examination of the number of presidents who have been seriously ill. including at least six of thirteen 20th-century presidents, seems to uphold the public's feeling that it has the right to know more about presidential health than political bosses and White House physicians have disclosed." he continues. "This is especially true in an age when the future of civilization could depend upon a decision to use nuclear weapons. White Hou^e physicians and their presidential patients have too often maintained that health is a private matter.” Dr Plesur says he does not mean to imply that a president must be in perfect physical condition. The leader is elected “for his ability to deal with tin issues. If the president is 111 reasonably good health, that should be enough. "Intimate details of health are not as important as the general implications of how that health problem might affect an individual's performance if he were president." says the author, who feels these implications ought to be interpreted by a bipartisan panel of physicians. He suggests one way to implement this might be checkup, with any findings which the panel feels would affect the candidate's performance m office made public. Poor health, by itself, should not be the determining factor, he maintains, but only as "one test of a candidate's will, ability to make decisions, initiative and determination, rather than a formative force." However, he notes, it would seem that "sickness and even a personal struggle to avert death enhance a person’s strength of character and hence he becomes a better president, as in Roosevelt's case.”

Orchestra Seeking Commercial Sponsor

Bv GEOFFREY MILLER LONDON i AP 1 — A leading British symphony orchestra, feeling the chill wind of inflation, is asking commercial firms to sponsor its concerts. It could lead to a new era of music in Britain, where commercial sponsorship is at present confined almost entirely to sport. The Royal Philharmonic, in an appeal aimed at all British business firms, says it cannot fulfill all its artistic plans and remain solvent. London has five full-time orchestras — more than any other city in the world. Only one of these, the British Broadcasting Corporation 1 BBC) Symphony, is supported entirely by the state. The other four — the Royal Philharmonic, London Symphony, l/indon Philharmonic and New Philharmonia, each receive a subsidy of more than 100,000 pounds or $240,000 a year from the governmentbacked Arts Council. But the Royal Philharmonic is still not paying its way. A spokesman said it needs another 195,000 pounds or $468,000 a year to avoid bankruptcy without cutting its programs. The orchestra, founded in 1946 by the late Sir Thomas Beecharn, plays regularly at the Royal Festival Hall beside the River Thames, gives concerts in provincial towns, makes at least one overseas tour a year and gives special concerts for children and indus-

trial workers. Rudolf Kempe is its principal conductor, dividing his time between this orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic in Germany. The orchestra is appealing to businessmen’s hearts and heads. In a specially prepared booklet it asked firms to support its concerts "for reasons of social responsibility,” but also tried to sell the idea as an advertising proposition. A spokesman admitted that this is not easy. “If a commercial company sponsors a sports event, it can drape advertisements around the arena and get a lot of valuable publicity on television,” the spokesman said. “You can’t very well put advertisements around a concert platform, and symphony concerts are not television material anyway. “But we still think, quite genuinely, that a firm that gets its name on our concert programs would derive a lot of useful publicity. We received some prompt inquiries when we launched the appeal, which is promising.” The Royal Philharmonic says it needs 25,000 pounds or $60,000 a year for recording projects, 4,000 pounds or $9,600 to commission new works and 11,000 pounds or $24,600 for what it calls “rare and complex works.” Its programs for the Royal Festival Hall for this winter include new, specially commissioned works by British composers David Bedford, Justin Connolly and Gordon Crosse.