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Presbyterian Church Officers Named for 1974

McGRAW — The Presbyterian Church annual meeting and a family dinner were held following the morning church service Sunday.

Reports for the 1973 year were given by the moderator, the Session, the Women's Auxiliary, the church treasurer and the financial secretary.

The church budget for 1974 was presented and adopted.

Elders named for tne 1974 year are Mrs. Myra Van Epps. Arnold Bilodeau and Edward Bilodeau. Mrs Dorothy Silvero was named trustee, and the deacons are Mrs. Margery Alexander and Mrs. Dorothy Bilodeau.

Church treasurer will be Rudolfs Krauklis and the financial secretary is Mrs. Carol LaVancha. The church school treasurer for the coming year is Miss Renee Bilodeau.

BRIEF MENTION McGRAW — The tickets for

the basektball game at McGraw with Union Springs Friday will be on sale at the high school today and tomorrow.

Mrs. Robert Leach is recuperating at her home following surgery at the Cortland Memorial Hospital.

Marine Cpl. George A. Weeks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley West of McGraw. RD 1. was promoted to his present rank while serving at the Marine Corps Air Station. New River. N.C.. where he is assigned to duties in group supply. He is a former student at McGraw Central High School.

Lions Club Will Hold Pancake Supper Saturday

McGRAW - Members of the McGraw Lions Club met last night at the Alpine Restaurant and completed plans for th'eir pancake supper that will be held Saturday night at the Fire Station, beginning at 5:30.

Chairman for the supper is James Locke and all members of the McGraw Club will be working. Tickets are available from Max Torrey. Rudolfs Krauklis, Joe Bree. James Geddes. G. Edward Kelsen. Warren Barth. Walter Goodale. Robert War field, Frank Ferris, Ted Doty, and Fred Bieler.

Proceeds from the pancake supper will go for the Lions' projects of ^sight conservation, eye banks, seeing eye dogs, and the new hearing program.

MEETING NOTICES

McGRAW - The Cub Scout Pack meeting will be held at 7:30 tonight at the elementary school for all Cub Scouts and their families.

McGRAW - High school students in grades 9-12. will hold a recreation night at the high school gym from 7 to 9 tonight.

The Baptist Church women will hold a work meeting tomorrow afternoon from 2 to 4.

School Mergers Chicago — One consolidated

school usually takes the place of four smaller districts.

Fire Department Auxiliary Meets

McGRAW - The McGraw Firemen's Women's Auxiliary held their January meeting Monday night at the Fire Station. Two guests. Mrs. Caroline Niver and Mrs. Phyllis Jacobi. were welcomed.

On fire call for the month will be Mrs. Jean Roe and Mrs. Thelma Stevens. Mrs. Lonna Maxson reported that the Cort­land County Auxiliary will hold its installation dinner Jan. 28 at Cuzin's 3.

Mrs. Edith Benedict made a motion to place a $5 ad­vertisement in the Women's Auxiliary of Central New York Firemen's Association year­book. . Mrs. Helen Sherwood reported

on the new dishes that she and Mrs. Sharon Bordwell recently purchased in Syracuse for the Auxiliary's use.

The president. Mrs Sherwood, appointed a committee to read and study the constitution and by-laws for possible revision. They are Mrs. Benedict. Mrs. Sherwood. Mrs. Jean Roe and Mrs JoAnn Roe.

Mrs. Sherwood asked for volunteers to inventory the dishes at the Fire Station and they are Mrs. Bordwell. Mrs. Carole Connelly, and Mrs. Thelma Stevens.

Next month's meeting will be a membership dinner meeting at 7 p.m. Monday. Feb. 18. at the Fire Station. Members are asked to take a guest, if possible, and their own table service. A lasagna dinner is being planned.

At the close of the meeting Mrs. Mary Berean and Mrs. Carole Connelly served refresh­ments.

THERAPY PHONES NEW YORK (AP1- - A 24-

hour telephone counseling serv­ice is part of the increased service for discharged mental patients in Queens County.

The counseling will bepr-ovided by the New York Psy­chotherapy and Counseling Cen­ter, whose incorporation has been approved by the New-York State Board of Social Wel­fare.

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demonstrators in New York State joined a series of nation­wide protests Tuesday on the first anniversary of a U.S. Su­preme Court decision per­mitting abortions.

But supporters of the high court ruling turned out, too.

Rallies were held at Syr­acuse, Albany. New York City and elsewhere. They included a memorial mass at a Roman Catholic Church, a motorcade and the music of a 20-piece marching band.

In Syracuse, about 750 dem­onstrators marched on the Onondaga County courthouse. The marchers, many wearing black armbands and carrying red roses as the symbol of life, included housewives, business­men and high school students.

Several speakers urged mem­bers of the anti-abortion Syr­acuse Right to Life organ­ization to write letters support­ing a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion.

In Albany, about 400 persons gathered at the Capitol steps to call for such an amendment. The rally was interrupted brief­ly when two women holding a ""Support Legal Abortion" sign sat in front of the crowd. A middle-aged man ran up the steps, grabbed the sign and be­gan to tear it up. Joseph O'Leary, 45. an Albany sales­man, was charged with harass­ment after a pro-abortion dem­onstrator filed a complaint.

A 20-piece uniformed march­ing band from St. Peter's Academy in Troy provided en­tertainment. Groups of children from several other Albany-area Roman Catholic schools were scattered throughout the crowd. Albany Mayor Erastus Corning declared Tuesday "Right to Life Day" in the city.

In Waterloo in Seneca Coun­ty, a memorial was held at St. Mary's Catholic Church, follow­ed by a motorcade that trav­eled to Geneva That event also was sponsored by the Right to Life group.

In New York City, feminists

crowned a woman "pope" in a pro-abortion demonstration and Terence Cardinal Cooke repeat­ed his call for a constitutional amendment that would ban abortion.

About 30 members of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Wom­en demonstrated outside .the of­fice of U.S. Sen. James L. Buckley. R-C. to protest Buck­ley's anti-abortion position.

A year ago Tuesday, the Su­preme Court ruled that states may not prohibit abortions In the first six months of preg­nancy. The Right to Life groups since have diverted their ef­forts to the national level, seek­ing a constitutional amendment banning abortions

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Showers, Thunderstorms Spill Over Midlands Today By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Showers and thunderstorms spilled over a broad stretch of the nation's midlands from Texas to Michigan today, turn­ing to heavy snow in the upper reaches.

Up to four inches of snow fell in northeastern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan.

Flood conditions in the Mis­souri. Mississippi and Ohio val­leys were aggravated by the snow melt, rain and ice jams.

Near blizzard conditions struck the upper Plains. North Dakota and the northern Rock­ies. Snow with winds up to 40 miles an hour was expected in North Dakota.

Dense fog shrouded parts of Louisiana. Mississippi. Ala­bama and northwestern Flori­da, bringing travel advisories.

Fair skies prevailed over most of the Atlantic coastal re­gion and from California east through the central and south­ern Plains.

Temperatures before dawn ranged from -1 at Hibbing. Minn., to 74 at Key West. Fla.

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News Notes There are an estimated 300,-

000 wild or unowned cats in Rome, most of them living in or around ancient Roman ruins. Cat lovers feed them and they are credited with keeping the Roman rat population down.

Italy produces nearly a thou­sand different types of wine. Every region has one or more red or white wine specialties.

Florida Club Has No WFL Home Field

JACKSONVILLE. Fla. (AP) — Florida of the World Foot­ball League has an owner, a coach and some prospective players But it's still looking for a place to call home.

Owner is Fran Monaco of De-land, who has a chain of medical laboratories.

Head coach is Baron "Bud" Asher of New Smyrna Beach, who has a high school coaching record of 167-29-6 and has been a part time pro scout the past decade.

Florida has also drafted six players, including Nat Moore of the Unversity of Florida and Ohio State's .John Hicks.

But Florida still doesn't have a hometown. That was one ma­jor decision that wasn't made Tuesday.

Monaco said it probably will settle in the city which wants it most — Tampa. Orlando or Jacksonville.

He said he won't decide for two or three weeks, which means it will be after the Na­tional Football League says whether it will put an ex­pansion club in Tampa, as a group in that city expects.

If the NFL moves into Tam­pa, the new WFL is likely to take Jacksonville, with its 70.-000-seat Gator Bowl. Orlando has only the Tangerine Bowl, which holds 22.000 at most.

Asher. who took part in the WFL college player draft at New York City, will also have the title of executive vice presi­dent in charge of football oper­ations.

SPORTS SHORTS PITTSBURGH (AP) - Left­

hander Jim Rooker: perhaps Pittsburgh's most consistent pitcher last year, has signed his 1974 baseball contract with the Pirates.

The 31-year-old lef'-hander. equally effective as a starter and reliever in 1973. had a 10-6 record with five saves and an earned run average of 2.86.

The Pirates said Tuesday he is the 10th player to sign a new-contract.

ST LOCKS 'AP'» - Defending champion Stan Smith will lead a field of 32 players into the third annual Holton Tennis Gassic here April 22-28, spon­sors said Tuesday

James O Holton Jr., presi­dent of the bank and insurance compajiy which sponsors the tourney, said the $50,000 World Championship Tennis event will be held indoors at Kiel Audito­rium for the second straight year.

Holton said the top singles prize in the tournament will be $10,000. with $5,000 to go to the runnerup and $2,500 to the oth­er semifinalists.

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TERRORISTS STAND TRIAL — Khantouran Palaal, 21 flashes victory sign to newsmen in a courtroom in Athens, Greece, Thursday as he and Arid el Shafik. 22. left, began their trial on charges of killing five airline passengers and wounding 55 at the Athens airport last August.

The two Palestinians born in Jordan are members of the Black September terrorist organization. The defendants said they "com­mitted a political act in compliance with political orders." CAP Wirephoto via cable from Athens;

Rebozo To Testify About Hughes laign Contribution When The

Watergate Panel Hearings Re-Open Campi

WASHINGTON (AP) - The $100,000 campaign gift from bil­lionaire Howard R. Hughes and a subsequent reversal of posi­tion by the Justice Department to let Hughes buy a Las Vegas hotel are expected to take cen­ter stage as the Senate Water­gate committee reopens hear­ings next week.

Sources said the donation, which was held and later re­turned to Hughes by President Nixon's friend C.G. "Bete" Re­

bozo. came as Hughes was seeking approval to purchase the Dunes hotel and casino.

The Justice Department's an­titrust division had blocked the purchase, but sources said then-Atty. Gen. John N. Mit­chell overruled the division after a meeting with Hughes aide Richard G. Danner.

But the sources added that the Senate investigators have been unable to prove Mitchell knew about the $100,000 gift and

Jalloud: Oil Embargo Must Continue Against

U.S. and Netherlands Bv EDWARD MAORI

TRIPOLI. Libya (AP) - Lib­yan Premier Abdessalam Jal­loud has vowed to fight Egyp­tian President Anwar Sadat's reported proposal to ease the Arab oil boycott against the United States.

He also threatened further, nationalization of American oil interests in his country

The premier told a news con­ference on Wednesday the oil embargo against the United States and the Netherlands must be continued. He called for "measures to be taken against those who may be breaking it."

He warned that the Libyan government might add to the punishment of the United States for its support of Israel by ac­celerating its nationalization of oil production and marketing. The Libyan government has al­ready nationalized the holdings of the American Bunker-Hunt firm and taken over 51 per cent of the holdings of all other ma­jor oil companies.

Jalloud also threatened "very serious results" if the oil-con­suming nations form a bloc against the oil-producing coun­tries. He warned Japan and the _bowever. West European nations not to Overnight lows Friday were attend the energy conference forecast to be in the teens with President Nixon has called the highs Friday about 40. the Feb 11 in Washington, and report said.

urged them to discuss their problems directly with the Arab producers.

Remarks attributed to Sadat also threw cold water on Secre­tary of State Henry A. Kissin­ger's statement Tuesday that he expected the oil embargo to be lifted before March 5, the deadline for Israeli forces to complete their withdrawal from the Suez Canal.

An official in Cairo of the oil-producing United Arab Emi­rates said Sadat in his tour of the Arab oil nations last week­end did call for a partial re­sumption of oil shipments to the United States.

Skies Clear Over NY State

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Skies cleared over New York

State today as a weak high pressure system took hold. It was the first relief from freez­ing rain, sleet and snow in three days.

The National Weather Service said low pressure might bring more snow flurries to northern and western sections Friday.

they pointed out that the hotel purchase plan later fell through for other reasons.

Deputy Counsel Rufus Edmis-ten said Rebozo will be among the witnesses called in next week's hearings;

The sources said there is also a good chance that Herbert W. Kalmbach, Nixon's former per­sonal lawyer and campaign fundraiser, would be recalled to discuss receipt of a donation from the dairy industry in 1969.

The decision to reopen the committee hearings after two months came Wednesday on a 4-3 party line vote.

The committee, noting that Nixon had never responded to its various requests for a meet­ing with him. also renewed its request for a face-to-face meet­ing.

All three Republican mem­bers of the committee urged shutting down the probe.

Export Quota Action Taken WASHINGTON (AP) - Re­

sponding to congressional criti­cism, the Nixon administration placed export quotas on gaso­line and other key fuel oil prod­ucts Wednesday.

Commerce Secretary Fred­erick B. Dent, announcing the action, said the allowable ex­ports will amount to less" than four-tenths of one per cent of daily domestic consumption.

The decision applies to gaso­line and blending agents, avia­tion gasoline, distillate fuel oils and residual fuel oils.

Dent said that the govern­ment may put quotas on other oil products, such as kerosene, jet fuel, propane and natural gas liquids, if exports exceed historical levels.

During hearings on energy legislation last year, several congressmen criticized export of petroleum products during the energy crisis and called on the administration to make sure exports did not get out of hand.

By RANDOLPH E. SCIIMII) WASHINGTON 'AP) - Pres­

ident Nixon will fight impeach­ment "right dowa to the wire," according to a group of con­gressmen who,met with him on Wednesday.

Truckers Join In Stoppage

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Some Ohio truck drivers said

they would begin a work stop­page at midnight Wednesday, but a coalition of 21 organ­izations representing independ­ent truckers said they would not participate.

The action came as Team­sters Union President Frank FitzsimmoRS announced in Washington that the Nixon ad­ministration favors higher freight rates to pass truckers' increased costs on to the con­sumer in the form of higher prices for truck-transported goods.

Fitzsimmons does not repre­sent the nonunion truckers who are generally pushing calls for a shutdown, but an agreement by the administration to ap­prove higher freight rates would go some distance toward solving all truckers' griev­ances.

Independent truckers, who claim to be hardest hit by high fuel prices and low speed lim­its, are split as to how and when they should protest.

In East Liverpool. Ohio, about a dozen truckers camped near Ohio 170 and vowed to shut down until demands for a fuel price ceiling, release of diesel fuel stocks and a freight rates increase are met.

British Coal Miners Suggest All-Out Stoppage

LONDON (AP) - Leaders of Britain's 280.000 coal miners are recommending today that their men stop all production with a strike for higher pay that could bring British in­dustry to a halt this spring.

The general secretary of the miners' union. Lawrence Daly, told newsmen he and the un­ion's president and vice presi­dent would recommend a strike vote at a meeting today of the executive board of the National Union of Mineworkers.

The 27-man executive was ex­pected to approve the recom­mendation and order the con­tinuation, meanwhile, of the 11-week-old slowdown in the mines that has cut production 40 per cent.

It will take about two weeks to organize a strike vote. Union President Joe Gormley esti­mates that more than 70 per cent of the men favor a walk­out. 15 per cent more than are needed.

The demands for a strike came after Prime Minister Ed­ward Heath told Parliament on Tuesday he would not raise his anti-inflation ceiling on wage increases to meet the miners' demands. He rejected an offer by the Trades Union Congress to check the wage demands of other unions if the miners were given what they are asking

Meanwhile, leading members of Heath's Conservative party-were talking less and less about the possibility that their leader would take his case to the vot­ers by calling a general elec­tion next month.

Rep. G.V. "Sonny" Montgom­ery, D-Miss., quoted the Presi­dent as saying: "It's unthin­kable that I will resign; I'll fight it right down to the wire."

Rep. Ray Roberts. D-Tex.. said Nixon "said flatly he won't resign, but they could kick him out if they wanted to."

Montgomery said the con-"I got the impression that he gressmen at the meeting

is on the offensive and that he Wednesday generally have sup-wants to get his message ported Nixon in the past and in-across," said Rep. Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., who was a member of a group of con­gressmen who met with Nixon Tuesday.

Montgomery, commenting on the Wednesday meeting with 18 congressmen from southern and south-central states, said he "got the impression he (Nix­on; is going to bore in more and more on doing his job."

Frelinghuysen quoted Nixon as saying that "under no cir­cumstances could I consider resignation though it might not be a bad life to live" on a pen­sion.

"In this country we could not allow the government to be overturned by a mass assault on the President," he quoted Nixon as saying.

He said^ Nixon told the con­gressmen that he has deter­mined that "now is a time to fight and to fight like hell."

Jackson: Exxon Cut Oil Supplies To Military Forces

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By JOE HALL Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Con­gress appears ready to take up promptly President Nixon's re­quest to reduce tax breaks available to U.S. oil companies on their overseas production.

In his energy message Wednesday. Nixon cited two such breaks but not a third.

He asked Congress to elimi­nate the 22 per cent depletion allowance on foreign production and to cut the foreign tax cred­it on such business. The credit is the amount of foreign tax they can subtract from their U.S. levies.

President Reportedly To Ask For Softened Version of Drug Bill By MARGARET GENTRY

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Bv DAVID C. MARTIN WASHINGTON (AP) - Ex­

xon, the nation's largest oil company, last fall cut off sup­plies of certain Arab oil prod­ucts to U.S. military forces, savs Sen. Henry If. Jackson. D-Wash.

Jackson, chairman of the Senate investigations subcom­mittee, indicated Wednesday that the cutoff may have come in response to orders issued by the Saudi Arabian government.

He cited a Dec. 1 article in Business Week, which quoted a confidential wire sent from Ex­xon headquarters in New York to the company's senior repre­sentatives in Europe. The wire described a Nov. 4 meeting at which American oil companies drilling for oil in Saudi Arabia "were ordered to cut off supply of products derived from Saudi oil to U.S. forces stationed around the world."

According to Business Week. the Exxon wire also said that Saudi Arabia had warned it would retaliate against any breach in the cutoff. The retali­ation would consist of extension of the oil embargo already or­dered against the United States to some foreign operations of the company.

Exxon sent out the cutoff or­der on Nov. 5. one day after the meeting in Jiddah. Saudi Arabia, which also involved representatives of Standard Oil of California. Mobil and Te­xaco, the magazine said.

The cutoff forced the United States to supply the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean by a mas­sive air and sea lift at a time when U.S. forces were on alert in response to the Middle East fighting. Business Week said.

There was no indication whether the cutoff is still in ef­fect.

Jackson said he has received independent documentation that the Business Week story was "substantially correct."

Jackson ordered the seven oil executives testifying before his subcommittee to produce by-Monday documents he in­dicated would prove whether Exxon was acting in response to Saudi Arabian orders and whether any other companies were involved.

None of the seven executives, including representatives of Ex­xon and the other companies doing business in Saudi Arabia, had any immediate response to Jackson's charges.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres­ident Nixon plans to ask Con­gress for a softened version of last year's tough proposals to deal with suspected narcotics pushers, administration sources say.

the 1973 administration bill was widely opposed in Congress and never moved out of com­mittee. Consequently, the White House has chosen to back away from the toughest features though the skeleton of the bill remains intact, a White House source said Wednesday.

Nixon is preparing to offer the revised version in a mes­sage to Congress next month and may allude to it in his State of the Union address on Wednesday night.

The White House source and other officials said the modi­fication of last year's plan will be the only legislation Nixon re­quests in the heroin trafficking message, though he may de­scribe other administrative ef­forts dealing with drug pushing.

The White House source said the modified proposal reduces the minimum sentences and backs away to some degree from the stringent detention

Twenty-Five Schoolboys Die in Fire HEUSDEN. Belgium (AP) -

A fire swept through a dormito­ry of a Roman Catholic board­ing school in this small town during the night, killing 25 schoolboys, police said.

A priest raised the alarm, and other priests rushed to the dormitory but the heat and smoke made it impossible to enter.

"Anyone getting in would have never gotten out alive," one fire official said. He said a fireman wearing an oxygen mask and roped to other men had to retreat before the flames.

Henley May Be Last To Testify

HOUSTON. Tex. (AP) - El­mer Wayne Henley may be the last witness to testify at the pretrial hearing in the Texas mass murders case.

HenJey. 17, was to take the stand today to testify about the statements he made to author­ities concerning the slayings of 27 teen-aged youths.

The defense is attempting in the hearing to have thrown out of court the oral and written statements Henley made at the time the homosexual-torture slayings were uncovered.

Defense attorney Will Gray-said Wednesday a decision on whether to call additional wit­nesses would hinge on Henley's testimony.

Henley Is charged in six of the 27 deaths. He is due to go on trial next week in the killing of Charles R. Cobble. 17. a boy­hood friend.

Gray wants to have the trial delayed for six months to allow publicity generated by the pre­trial hearing to die down.

Henley was arrested last Aug. 8 after he shot and killed Dean A. Corll. 33, in what was later ruled self defense. After his arrest. Henley told officers that Corll had told him of kill­ing and burying youths The next day he gave police a writ­ten statement in which he told of killing at least six persons

Police said 47 other boys es­caped from the building, possi­bly through windows over­looking a terrace.

The blaze may have been caused by a youngster smoking in bed and failing asleep, police sources say. The electricity in the building was still working when the firemen arrived.

Most of the victims were as­phyxiated in their beds and ap­parently did not wake up before the flames caught them. Police said rescuers found the charred bodies of the children in the ruins of the red brick building.

A window between the dor­mitory and an exit staircase was found closed. It could have served as an escape route, but apparently no one tried to open it.

The dormitory building was one of a group of brick, con­crete and glass buildings at the School of the Sacred Heart, op­erated by the St. Francis Brothers.

One source said there were 225 other boarders in the school, but the fire did not spread to their dormitory build­ings.

The dormitory that burned was built in 1926 and had three stories. The fire broke out on the top floor, where the boys slept in cubicles, separated from each other by wooden partitions.

The children sleeping on oth­er floors fled by the building staircase.

Local authorities said it ap­peared the fire caught slowly at first, giving off thick fumes that asphyxiated the children, and then burst into flames

Some members of Congress say they also want to eliminate another tax benefit used by the oil firms.

This is the so-called in­tangibles — the right to deduct in one year all their drilling ex­penses on a successful well.

Nixon also asked the legisla­tors to ease clean air rules and announced he would budget $1.8 billion for energy research in the next year.

He ordered a tenfold increase in offshore oil leasing for petro­leum development and said there would be studies of addi­tional oil and gas pipelines from northern Alaska.

The President repeated ear­lier requests for mandatory la­beling of automobiles and ma­jor appliances, to show how ef­ficiently they use energy. And he called for quick passage of an emergency energy bill to au­thorize gas rationing and other measures.

The tax issues already have arisen in congressional hear­ings this week.

Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La., Finance Committee chairman, said after a hearing before his panel Tuesday that he would be willing to support eliminating the depletion allowance and in­tangibles on foreign production.

Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff. D-Conn., a committee member, said the foreign credit has helped the giant oil firms re­duce their U.S. corporate in­come taxes almost to zero.

The issues are sure to be raised when the House Ways and Means Committee opens its hearings on excess profits legis­lation Feb. 4.

Long said failure to deal with these issues over past years have contributed heavily to the nation's energy plight.-

The Nixon administration also placed export quotas on gasoline and other key fuel oil products. Several congressmen had criticized export of petro­leum products during the ener­gy crisis.

Meanwhile, the American Petroleum Institute reported crude oil imports last week were at their lowest level since earlv 1973.

Pipeline Permit

Approved WASHINGTON The

long-delayed federal right-of-way permit for the trans-Alaska pipeline has been is­sued, but more hurdles remain before oil can begin flowing from Alaska's North Slope.

"We have closed only the first chapter of the book." Sec­retary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton said in signing the document Wednesday. "Much work still lies ahead of us."

In Anchorage. Alaska. E. L. Patton. president of Alyeska Pipeline Service Corp.. said: "Today's significant action does not represent a crossing of the final hurdle on the way to our goal."

Morton said construction of the 789-mile pipeline probably would would begin in late spring.

"With a little cooperation from the weatherman. I am op­timistic that the oil of the North Slope will reach markets in the lower 48 states by 1977," he said.

The permit was signed on the same day that President Nixon said competing applications are expected soon on a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope, either through Alaska or through Canada.

Bv WALTER R WEARS Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP^ The State of the Union in 1974 will have a good deal to do with the state of the presidency Spoken or unspoken, that will be a ma­jor concern when President Nixon addresses a joint session of Congress next Wednesday

night The traditional ceremony of a

State of the Union address can­not obscure the fact thai the same Congress may be voting within a few months on im­peachment proceedings against the President

Meanwhile, the Senate Water­gate committee plans six more days of hearings on the financ­ing of Nixon's re-election cam­paign

And the case of the erasure in a key White House tape recording is before a federal grand jury

Against the background of those problems and more, the style and substance of Nixon's address may be crucial as he seeks to repair the ravages of Watergate.

The White House says Nixon now will concentrate on looking

ahead But the past will not go awav

A backward look, to the situ­ation one year ago, illustrates what has happened Then the President was the dominant fig­ure, even though Democrats controlled Congress Now, the crucial verdict, on the future of Nixon's presidency, is up to Congress.

Fresh from his landslide re­election. Nixon was on the of­fensive He cast the presidency as paramount: ". . There is only one place in this govern­ment where somebody has got to speak not for the special in

terests which the Congress rep­resents but for the general in­terest

Now. after a year of scandal, Nixon's spokesmen are insist­ing that he means to serve the balance of his term and will not resign

Then, he addressed the State of the Union in a series of writ­ten statements sent to Congress by messenger

Nixon outlined his goals, said he believed his second term could be "the best four years in American history "

Now. after a troubled year, it is time for another assessment.

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EARLY TRAILS - A surreal landscape with earlv morning dew faced this foursome at Tampa's Rocky Point Golf Course recently The scant tracks ahead tell them that few have

beaten them to the links, and those must have faced an even thicker shroud of morning fog. Fog has blanketed much of central Florida this we«k.

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