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Couldn't take a hint Eisenhower tried to ease Nixon off 1956 ticket

PITTSBURGH (AP) Richard Nixon didn’t take the hint when President Dwight Eisenhower tried to ease him off the 1956 Republican ticket, says a Camegie-Mellon University professor who has a gotten a look at Eisenhower’s private papers. Eisenhower stopped short of asking Nixon to step aside, said Dr. John P. Crecine, dean of CMU’s college of humanities and social sciences. “He didn’t want to fire him outright.. .but Nixon didn’t take the hint.” Crecine said he discovered the anti-Nixon sentiment, plus a little-known intellectual side to the one-time military hero, in Eisenhower’s diaries, memos and presidential correspondence. The papers were made available through the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kan. In a transcript of a Feb. 9,1956, conversation with Republican National Chairman Len Hall, Eisenhower said, “I think that at this moment, if I could have my favorite fellow, my first choice would be Bob Anderson.” Anderson was undersecretary of Treasury. The transcript also shows Eisenhower and Hall discussed how to persuade Nixon to accept a cabinet post instead of running again. “The easiest thing (would be) to get Nixon out of the picture willingly,” Hall is quoted as telling the president. Eisenhower concluded by telling Hall, “Talk to him, but be very, very gentle.” While Nixon impressed Eisenhower as bright and very loyal early in his 1952-56 term, he later irked the president by his arrogant behavior abroad, said Crecine. Nixon is rarely mentioned in Eisenhower’s writings during the second administration, Crecine said. Eisenhower also did not campaign for Nixon in 1960, when Nixon was beaten by John F. Kennedy. Nixon reached the White House in 1968. In a follow-up conversation on April 9,1956, Eisenhower recounted to Hall a talk with Nixon in which he gave the vice president the choice of staying on the ticket or dropping off, according to a transcript. “I still insist you must make your decision as to what you want to do,” Eisenhower is recorded as telling Nixon. “If the answer is yes, I will be happy to have you on the ticket.” The Nixon episode was a sidelight to Crecine’s five years of research into fiscal policymaking from 1948-1972. Crecine said he and two assistants examined “half a million” documents.

Americans eat less but grow fatter

WASHINGTON (AP) - Eat less and grow slim? Not necessarily so, scientists warn. As a matter of fact, Americans as a group are eating less and growing fatter at the same time, concludes an Agriculture Department study released Tuesday. The catch seems to be that while we are consuming fewer calories, we also are getting less exercise. The findings are based on a survey of information compiled from 1965 to 1977. “If further analysis of distributions within groups does not explain what is going on, then we probably have to conclude that there have been Juvenile code much better INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana’s new juvenile code has some serious gaps the 1980 legislature must address, but the head of the state Prosecuting Attorney’s Council says it is a major improvement over the old laws governing crimes by children. Richard P. Good, the council’s executive director, said the new code, which took effect Monday, lets courts consider the public safety, as well as the needs of a child, in delinquency hearings. Good said Tuesday the major loophole in the code involves the status of a youth who commits a crime after reaching age 17, but does not go to court until he is 18. “There is absolutely no place you can send him,” Good said. Under state law, the institutions for juvenile delinquents the Indiana Boys School and the Indiana Girls School cannot accept inmates 18 or over because that is the age of legal adulthood. But since the offense was committed while the youngster was a juvenile, he cannot be sent to an adult prison, Good said. The exception would be a 17-year-old who committed a very serious crime, such as murder or armed robbery. In those cases, Good said, the youth could be tried as an adult. But he said transferring a case to adult court is much more difficult for less serious crimes, such as theft or simple assault. The code, in many instances, will require youthful offenders to be treated more like adults when they are taken to court, Good said.

rather large decreases in physical activity shifts to more sedentary work that the national jogging kick has not balanced,” said D. Mark Hegstead, administrator of the Agriculture Department’s Human Nutrition Center. Hegstead told a conference on nutrition and the American food system that the decline in calorie consumption is making it more difficult for some segments of the population to consume the “recommended daily allowances” of nutrients. “Indeed, a ‘well-balanced’ diet by most definitions will not meet the recommended daily allowance for several nutrients,” he said.

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RICHARD NIXON: Given a choice

He also learned from Eisenhower’s extensive diaries, that the former supreme Allied commander of World War II was far from a benign, ineffectual administrator, as he has been portrayed. “The image of Eisenhower as non-assertive, ineffectual and someone who didn’t do his homework is not sustained in the documents,” he said. “He was articulate, forceful and a damned good politician.” Crecine said the diaries reveal a reflective side to Eisenhower that doesn’t emerge from his public statements. “It’s surprising the number of occasions he found to write down his thoughts about the direction of society and the role of government and its role in the military,” the professor said.

He said researchers are beginning “to see some response” to advice to reduce consumption of fat, sugar and salt and to increase consumption of fruits, vegetables and grain products. But he said the increase in obesity and higher levels of sweeteners and alcohol were discouraging. In another dietary development, scientists raised the possibility Tuesday that the nation’s eating habits could be linked to cancer. That warning came during a hearing by the Senate Agriculture subcommittee on nutrition.

Dr. Arthur C. Upton, head of the National Cancer Institute, told senators the agency will begin studying that possibility, and said some cancer-causing substances already have been found in smoked and grilled meat. Upton suggested that one way to help avoid cancer would be to keep weight down while eating fruits and vegetables and low fat, high fiber foods. The subcommittee’s chairman, Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., said the government has put too much emphasis on finding cures to cancer rather than ways to prevent the disease.

Dispute submitted to arbitration

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Striking Indianapolis teachers voted overwhelmingly today to return to work and submit the monthold dispute to binding arbitration. Teachers gathered at 7 a.m. EST in the Indiana Exposition and Convention Center in the city’s downtown and were asked by their leaders to stand up if they favored returning to work. It appeared approval was unanimous and the decision was greeted with applause and cheers. An agreement on binding arbitration was forged Tuesday afternoon in a meeting of negotiators for Indianapolis Public School and the Indianapolis Education Association, which struck the opening day of school, Sept. 4. Negotiators met at a secret location with stateappointed mediator Donald G. Russell. Kathleen Orrison, president of the lEA said negotiators would have preferred to work out their own settlement but arbitration is fair to both sides. She said 27 issues would be submitted to the arbitrator who will make his decision within 30 days, subject to appeal by the school board only if it is forced into deficit spending. If the board appeals and loses, it will be required to pay interest on any money withheld from the teachers. “We’re very relieved and glad its over,” Miss Orrison said. Bargainers continued talks for several hours in a bid to lighten the arbitrator’s load by resolving as many issues as possible. Details of the negotiations were not released. The flurry of activity came on the eve of a hearing scheduled at 9 a m. today in Morgan Circuit Court at Martinsville on a parents’ suit seeking to force teachers back to their classrooms. Many members of the lEA were in their classrooms Tuesday. School officials said teacher attendance rose to nearly 65 percent of the work force—2,l7l out of 3,356. Pupil attendance dim-

Appeals judge retires INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Joe W. Lowdermilk has announced his retirement, and his decision means appointees of Gov. Otis R. Bowen will constitute a majority on the state’s second highest court. Lowdermilk, 68, submitted his resignation to the governor Tuesday, saying he wished to “lay my gavel down and retire from the judiciary.” Lowdermilk set Dec. 31 as the effective date of his retirement to give Bowen a chance to appoint a successor so the court can remain at full strength. That will bring the number of Bowen appointees on state courts to eight since the governor took office in 1973. Bowen now has chosen six of the 12 appellate judges, including three additional ones added last year, plus Supreme Court Justice Alfred J. Pivarnik. Lowdermilk’s replacement will be selected by Bowen from a list of candidates submitted by the state’s Judicial Nominating Commission, a group of judges, lawyers and laymen who screen candidates for state judgeships.

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bed to 42,500 of the 69,000 enrolled, an increase of 2,500 over Monday, officials reported. An effort to reach an agreement on ground rules for binding arbitration faltered Monday, reportedly on the board’s insistence of the right to appeal an illegal contract, for example one that forced deficit spending. After Tuesday’s agreement, Schools Superintendent Karl RKalp and five school board members said they felt they finally could satisfy the lEA concerning conditions for binding arbitration. At a news conference, they would not discuss details of their new offer but indicated they believed they had removed the obstacle while still protecting themselves legally. The Martinsville hearing was postponed from Monday when lEA lawyers requested more time to try to bring the matter to binding arbitration. School board president Lillian M. Davis told the news confer-, ence hundreds of striking teachers flocked to board members’ homes Monday night when the snag in binding arbitration developed. She said “a mob of over 100 teachers,” demanding that bargaining resume, pounded on walls and doors at board member Mary E. Busch’s home while her elderly mother was home alone. » Police were called to dispere the shouting crowd, and investi- ■, gators described Ms. Busch’s mother as hysterical with fear, Mrs. Davis said. Blaming the episode on the teachers’ desire for more money, she said IPS teachers are “paid very well in comparison with anyone else in the state.”

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