Playground Daily News (Newspaper) - August 23, 1973, Fort Walton Beach, Florida 6 i Good Today is Thursday August 23 1973 Vol XXVIII No 176 ews A Florida Freedom Newspaper When you affirm big believe big and pray big big happen Vincent Five Sections Ft Walton Bead Florida 44 Pages Single Copy 10 Cents ROGERS RESIGNS STATE POST Nixon Names Kissinger New Secretary Watergate Questions Answered KISSINGER SAN CLEMENTE Calif upi Nixon ted Wednesday to scandalous conduct within his tion in the past but said he resigning and was determined to move on from Watergate to the business of the people In his first news conference since March 15 before the Watergate dam broke the President's voice trembled as lie defended his refusal to release the Watergate tapes and lashed out with barely con- anger at his critics in the press and Congress and those who would use the Watergate affair lo me Last Of Original Crew Leaves Post SAN CLEMENTE CALIF i UPI President Nixon Wednesday accepted with sonal regret the resignation of Secretary of State William P Rogers and said he would nominate Henry A Kissinger to succeed him at the Stale Department Kissinger's nomination will be submitted lo the Senate after the congressional recess ends Sept 5 The foreign Relations Committee Is expected to him closely on his role in wiretapping bis own aides for national security purposes and the secret bombing in bodia Although most members of Congress were out of ton Sen John C Slennis D- Rliss chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee praised Kissinger as an lent choice for Rogers job and predicted he would be con- firmed Nixon recalled lie and Rogers had weathered together for two decades and he hoped that Rogers would continue to offer him counsel and friendship although he was leaving the administration after 56 months II is with deep sense of not only personal regret lhat I accepted resignation of William Rogers as Secretary of Pentagon Eying More Base Cuts WASHINGTON UPIl Faced with congressional sure for deep cuts in the defense budget the Pentagon said Wednesday it may order a closure ol U.S home and abroad by next spring Gas District Sets Trailer Installing Fee Hv Emma Goggin Okaloosa Gas District board Wednesday night approved a flat service charge for connecting each mobile borne to the gas system It will become district's new budget year which begins October 1 Karl Taloot district manager told the directors that because of the big turnover in mobile home residents it costs the district an average of to service each one of customers He cited instances of mobile homes moving from one lot to another in a day's lime Our records show we are losing money on Talbot said Gas district figures indicated there were mobile homes gas customers at the end of June Ed Manson of Duff Chicago the district's management consultants reported on curtailment program in connection with natural gas supply He said the supplier United Gas Pipeline Company of Texas would allow the district lo accumulate its take of gas He cautioned however that it is very im- portant the district control ils lake because of a penalty of per cubic feet of gas being imposed According to Manson the curtailment program will nol in any way residential and small industrial customers predicted Wednesday night thai the gas district would end the fiscal year with in its surplus fund df this aboul is expected he distributed among the district's four member cities as vin franchise payments It may be necessary to sacrifice installations rather than forces to maintain he kind of force necessary for our said Lt Gen Daniel James a Defense Department spokesman But James indicated the tentative reduction which would be the second in about a year and the fourth since President Nixon took office would occur only in the event of cuts lo the budget which we hope will nol come In April the Pentagon closed reduced or consolidated 274 bases in the United States eliminating civilian de- fense jobs and military positions for an anticipated saving of million a year The politically explosive sub- ject of base cuts plays a traditional role in the budget battles This year House voted a reduction of more lhan billion in the administration's billion defense procurement request and the Senate is ex- to seek deeper culs Pentagon sources said and officials confirmed that De- fense Secretary James R has ordered the Army Navy and Air Force lo provide him by mid-December with lists of all their sary bases Kaeh of the services has bases il would like lo gel rid of which have been kepi open largely as a resull of political pressure sources said They said he total number of bases included in the next cutback plan could run in the hundreds No decisions have been reached and none arc expected immediately the Pentagon said in a statement Nixon said at the opening of his first news con- ference in five months But during his service there were recurring rumors that Nixon was displeased wilh Rogers and wanted a more dynamic secretary state Those reports were frequently accompanied by speculation that Kissinger would replace him Administration officials who have been critical of Rogers said in Washington before Nixon's announcement that the last straw so far as he President was concerned came al Rogers believe il is important for the United States not to become so obsessed with security matters that laws are freely violated in the name of national security Rogers also complained that he was so far removed from Indochina policy decisions that he knew nothing of bombing of Cambodia although il began shortly afler the first inauguration Rogers who will return lo the private practice of rate law submitted his ion with a bit of sadness in a letter to Nixon last Thursday Rogers said he had accepted Continued on Page Said They want me to fail I'm not going lo fail I'm going to do best I can The President began the televised meeting with ers on the sunny lawn of his oceanfront estate by ing his selection of White House foreign policy adviser Henry A Kissinger lo take on a second dual assignment as secretary of state succeeding William P Rogers Sept 3 Hut the rest of the unusually long session was dominated almost exclusively by Watergate during which President said did nol recall then acting Director L Patrick Gray III warning him in a July C 1972 telephone call that some of Nixon's closest While House aides were trying to mortally wound him by refusing lo cooperate in the Waler gale investigation told former White House counsel John Dean III last March 21 Dean agreed lhat it would be wrong to raise as much as million for the Watergate conspirators or to grant executive clemency the period lowing he June 17.1972 in al Democratic headquarters I would have expected Mr Mitchell former Attorney eral John N Mitchell lo tell me if he was involved or if anyone else was involved He did nol lell me Nixon added he didn't blame Mitchell in retrospect because I would have blown my stack had lold him the full Watergate slory asked how much personal blame he accepted for the abuses he I accept it all any impropriety in having former aide John D Ehrlichman approach U.S Dis- Judge Matthew Byrne aboul the possibility of ing FBI while Byrne was presiding al Papers trial in Angeles His confidence in Vice President T Agnew's integrity was not only changed but Agnew's for possible criminal violations The President vigorously de- outrageous news leaks aboul the Agnew gation and promised to fire whoever was responsible He asked former White House chief of slaff H R lo listen early in July lo the tape of a conversation wilh Dean held Sept 15.1972 to make sure we were absolutely correct in our response lo Dean's allegation thai Nixon might have known aboul the Watergate coverup as early -as he date of the lember listened lo the tape ail I hs af I he left White House arid before he in rarly August before Senate Watergate committee which has been denied access to that and other White House lapes September 1971 of the Daniel Ellsberg psychiatrist's office by White House undercover agents was illegal unauthorized and com- deplorable But he said he and Assistant Attorney General Henry E Petersen agreed April 18 they were not required to inform the Pentagon Papers trial jury because no evidence had been obtained from break-in Nixon said he agreed 10 days later lo give the jury the un Pago Baffle for Tapes Opens in Court Deputy Julm Scay the Okaloosa Department displays one n the three sharks that lie shot at the Okaloosa Island Pier Wednesday after five hammerhead sharks were seen near swimmers This hammerhead weighed approximately 900 Ibs and was near 12 eel long Seay slated that this was one of only two thai were beached after three were shot Hon Branson WASHINGTON President Nixon's lawyer opening the historic legal bailie over Nixon's Watergate tapes argued Wednesday thai the sole check nn any abuse of presidential power lies not in courts but in Congress through impeachment Charles Alan Wright in a scholarly argument before Chief U.S District Judge John J Sirica contended the courts arc powerless to compel a president to reveal any secret communications once lie has determined i is not in the public interest to do so But Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox whose suit against the dent to force release of the critical tape recordings is unprecedented in American history contended the tion gives no man even a president right to withhold vital evidence from a grand jury He said the Watergate grand jury must have the tapes to weigh allegations of criminality in the f House whom is believe that the executive offices been said Cox although the extent of the rol is not yet clear But at his news conference in California later in the day Nixon again adamantly refused lo release the tapes or to compromise and let an in- dependent panel examine them For a President lo conduct affairs of this office he must be able to do so with the principle of con- intact he said Otherwise people talk to him they will always be speaking in a way rather than laying it on the line Nixon said he stood by but would nnl go beyond the statement of a White House press spokesman that the President would abide by a definitive ruling of the Supreme Court on the tapes dispute Cox and Wrighl both law professors squared off a a two- hour hearing before Sirica in the same huge ceremonial courtroom where he began the trial of original Watergate Seven last January More than members of the press lawyers and curious spectators were jammed into ils Sirica who has ordered Nixon lo show cause why he should not lie compelled lo release the tapes thanked both Cox and Wrighl for their masterful exposition of the issues and said he hoped to announce his ruling within a week from today His decision was expected lo be appealed quickly all the way lo the Supreme Court Two lawyers who have had extensive dealings with the judge said they expected Sirica lo side with Cox and order Nixon to release the lapes Cox had the better ar- said one lawyer who asked not to be identified AIRING AFFAIR President Nixon answers questions during first press con- ference he lias hold in five months The outdoor conference held on of the San Calif Western White House consisted mostly of questions regarding tKe Watergate Affair Photo Seven-Foot Wave of Water May Claim 300 Mexicans IRAPUATO Mexico President Luis Echeverria Wednesday flew to this city of 40.000 in Central Mexico where Army at persons were killed when burst arid engulfed city in a wall of water The Army said the death toll might rise to 300 After weeks of pounding rain the dam ruptured Monday military officials said the same day Hurricane Brenda struck Mexico's eastern Gulf Coast killing at least five persons It was really a cameraman who flew over the scene said It looked like Managua after the earthquake The large buildings held up but most of of destroyed The dam broke while people were sleeping and the water rushed seven feet high It covered town in a few minutes Now there is a lot of garbage and mud Hundreds of people were lined up waiting for army food he added There were fears of possible outbreaks of epidemics from thousands of rolling livestock drowned in the floods and from contaminated water The Army quoted a Roman Catholic priest Ine Rev Alfonso as saying as many as persons may have died in the area alone The said visited farms in the region afler the available flooding Mexico was in the of Echeverria toured the city 115 one ils worst rainy seasons miles of Mexico City years when Brenda roared in with Defense Secretary from the Gulf and Cuenca and raked the Gulf of coast early Tuesday floods from incessant rains which area across central Mexico Health Minister Jorge Jimenez Cantu Reports from the ern Mexican coastal cities of and Villahermosa put death toll from Brenda al five No comprehensive damage estimates were yet during the past several weeks have inflicted far greater damage than the brief but furious hurricane Newsstand Arrests Centered fn New Conspiracy Plot Investigated The Miracle Strip also known as the adult peep was busted by city police Wednesday for the sixth lime in as many days for a violation of Florida Statute 847.011 concerning sale and promoting of obscene literature Owner Arthur Sanders and Manager David Bush have been and found guilly of the same offense under a city and are appealing lo a higher court According to police sources trial for the offenses will come up in tember and until that lime and possibly after the shop will not be closed down However proprietors are subject o arrest cadi time an item is sold One undercover agent for the city police department remarked dial he was called into the office of Police Chief Mostly fair through Friday wilh winds northeasterly S to Highs low lows low 70s High low tide p.m Sunup sunset How's That Again? Many factors are involved in Hie rising cost of foods and but 1 assume the will eventually be traced to the Watergate affair Us Press International Secret Service centered on New Orleans Wednesday ils of a very real plot to assassinate President Nixon after a in a Nixon death Michael Jr surrendered in New Mexico The Service disclosed the conspiracy against Nixon about the same lime thai a warrant was announced for a former New Orleans policeman Hut tie Secret Service said correlation of facts did not indicate was a party to conspiracy to assassinate which was planned for Nixon's visit Monday o New Orleans Afler a manhunt lhat quickly centered in the United Slates surrendered Wednesday lo a posso of Secret Service agents and sheriff's deputies in ern New Mexico Sources told UPI in ton thai threat of an assassination by i group probably was a very real thing and thai the Secret Service and the were working intensively nn case The sources said authorities thai 30 was a lone in the New Orleans drama but can never rule out completely that he was a parl of il i conspiracy i A Service spokesman Louisiana investigation would probably for some lime A New Orleans television station said three persons were being sought in connection wilh conspiracy The station said Justice Department had the arrest of three persons and New Orleans police had authority In arrest two New Orleans police declined comment on the report The Secret Service said il was aggressively its investigation into the possibility nf H lo assassinate is no on what's going to happen ni what is going to Classified Comics Dear Abby Editorials Sports Women IE JA 54 1 SO 1 Bus Schedules Duo lo Ilic of year's Comity schools schedules only parl nf I lie is print in today's Playground Dally News on pages and will he in Hi a y Tommy Hay August 17 and was lold by Ray lhat he wanted that place closed down and lo bust them every lime they open their doors Chief Ray who in the past has said be has no personal ups aboul pornography said be will enforce the law so long as it's in the books Since that time there lias been a concentrated effort using auxiliary police officers lo make purchases and sign the complaints which enable a warrant for arrest lo be issued Payments lo bondsmen lo obtain the release after the arrests of newsstand employes has cost the management proximately SUM in Hie six days Shalimar Zoning Board Organizes The first meeting of Planning and Zoning Board held Wednesday night at I lit Shalimar City Hall sol for future on of their municipality Officers of the board chairman Hoy and Frances Clark are Carl Stanley uid Ki Hoard voted in and set the second anil Thursday ol cadi month as days A list uf liy hoard was also drawn up At ol Ihi list a of V
