European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday november 23, 1973 the stars and stripes Page 5 adventure with the marines Brian Warner a senior at West High school in Topeka kan., manages a Broad smile despite rain and cold which ouster Calls Stop greeted him and 19 other students who went on bivouac with he Marine corps Reserve. The Outing was part of the High school s interim adventure program of career education and recreation and lasted three Days. A photo Nixon popularity revives in South by Roy Reed Montgomery ala., not presi Dent Nixon s popularity is reviving markedly in the South. The resurgence of his standing in this Region which has steadily been the source of his greatest strength began even before his Southern tour last weekend. His visit to Florida Georgia and Tennessee is sex writer refuses to Tell source of article on Cia Washington a a new York writer persisted wednesday in refusing to Tell . Senators the source of published information linking the Central Intelli gence Agency to the watergate burglary of democratic Headquarters on june 17,1972.andrew St Georee said h petted to boost it further. Southerners have practically stopped calling for the president s resignation or impeachment and a number of conservative Southern democrats have eve begun to defend him. There was a fever for impeachment that peaked after the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox but fevers Don t last forever the moderately conservative Montgomery advertiser said in an editorial. We expect to see this one subside just As we expect to see Nixon remain in office and try to glue together the shattered pieces of his that opinion is now widespread in the South especially in the smaller cities and Rural areas. Many observers believe that the South which was the last Region to clamor for the president s ouster will now become the first to Patch up with him As he mounts his watergate counteroffensive. According to the Gallup poll Nixon has consistently been More popular in the South than in the rest of the country. In although no scientific polls have been taken in recent Days it is reasonably certain that his standing Here has begun to climb again. A number of informal polls across the South have indicated a reversal of his declining popularity. Radio station we do in Jackson miss., asked its listeners one Day last week to Call and say whether they favored Nixon s remaining in office. Of 377 Calls 340 said yes. The Jackson daily newspaper asked a similar question and got an even higher return in Nixon s favor. An informal poll by the Republican party in fort Smith ark., last week showed Nixon with a solid majority in that City. A Coupon poll by the Nashville tenn., Banner gave Nixon a 2-to-l majority a few Days ago. The Banner has a conservative readership and fort Smith is one of the More conservative cities of Arkansas. Except in a few Liberal metropolitan Cen ters such As Atlanta letters to the editor across the South have begun to run heavily in Nixon s favor. Accident shuts a Plant near san Clemente los Angeles a the san Onofre nuclear Power Plant near the Western White House has been closed since oct. 21, when a mechanical breakdown damaged an integral safety feature a Utility spokes Man says. The spokesman for Southern California Edison co., principal operator of the Facil Ity in Orange county said a Blade flew off a Turbine at the Plant causing vibrations that damaged a pipe and valve on the emergency Cooling system. The damage was very minor however and did t interfere with the safety function of the system the spokesman said wednesday. The Cooling system is vital to the opera Tion of the Plant because of the intense heat generated during the nuclear process. Failure to Cool the reactor could cause its Core to melt possibly releasing radio Active materials into the atmosphere. The Accident was not made Public before wednesday. When asked Why one Edison spokesman said i just Don t have an answer for however another Edison spokesman said there was no Point in it. No one was Hurt and there was no problem in the serv ice of Edison reported the problem to the atomic Energy commission on oct. 21 by Telephone and sent a letter the next Day. The dec did t make the problem Public even though it is required by Law to do so. Carl Welti spokesman for san Diego Gas & electric co., 20 per cent owner of the san Onofre Plant said officials Hope to reopen the Plant next month. The Plant was shut Down for six months by two electrical fires Only a week after it opened in january 1968. In june 1969 a radiation leak from two valves was detected but company engineers said the leak was so Small it did t pose any danger to the sparsely populated area surrounding the facility. The $87-million Plant is situated 53 Miles North of san Diego and about five Miles South of the Western White House in san Clemente. President Nixon referred to the Plant at his televised meeting with the associated press managing editors association on saturday. Advocating nuclear Power As a Way to make the . Self sufficient in Energy by 1980, Nixon spoke of the nearby nuclear Plant. It s Safe it produces Good Power it is clean Power and the United states which first found the secret of the atom is behind where it ought to be in the development of nuclear Magazine but was unable to obtain from his sources a release from a Promise of confidentiality. St. George appeared for a second time before a closed meeting of the Senate armed services committee to answer questions about his report of a Telephone conversation Between Richard Helms then Cia director and a Cia Young watch officer on the morning of tiebreak in. The article quoted Helms when in formed of the burglary As responding a Well. They finally did Helms now ambassador to Iran said in a statement presented to the committee nov. 16 by Cia director William e. Colby that he had no recollection of the Conversa Tion and was prepared to swear that it never took place. St. George told the committee nov. 16 that Frank Sturgis one of the five men arrested in the watergate burglary was the source of his assertion that Eugenio Martinez another member of the break in team had reported to the Cia in Advance. Colby denied that the Cia had Advance knowledge of the burglary. Way Nixon was handling his Job compared to 68 per cent of the nation As a whole. When his National approval dropped to 45 per cent last june the South still gave him 50 per cent. And during the first week of november when his National standing fell to 27 per cent he still commanded 34 per cent approval in the South. Priests investigated in alleged payoff to cops Boston up the District attorney s office and police said wednesday they Are investigating alleged payoffs to policemen by roman Catholic priests to ignore illegal gambling at functions held by churches. The inquiry involves payments at two churches in excess of the permissible $6 per hour fee paid off duty officers. The Boston Globe said the inquiry May involve 40 or 50 officers regarding their perform Ance of duties at Church functions primarily carnivals. Members of the clergy also Are being interrogated. . Times will refer to most felons As or new York a the new York times said thursday that with very rare exceptions it would now Accord convicted felons the Small Honor of being although it has been customary for the times to refer to most men in its news columns As or. Smith or or. Jones convicted felons have been named Only As Smith and Jones after initial use of their full names. . Rosenthal managing editor of the times said in a memorandum to the news paper s staff that beginning with the Issue of dec. 3 we will no longer omit the or before the names of those who As the pre sent style states have been convicted of crime or who have unsavoury reputations known without question to be deserved.". Under the old practice of dropping the honorific he said we have constantly run into the problem of appearing to make social and political judgments about Dif Ferent types of Rosenthal added that we agree with prominent figures in Law and criminology who have argued against dropping Honor Ifica pointing out that increasingly in their Fields the trend is to recognize that even convicted criminals remain entitled to the dignity connoted by among exceptions to the new Rule Edi tors will have the discretion to drop in stories reporting particularly gruesome crimes such As an a murder where the use of before the criminal s name would be ludicrously out of place Rosenthal said. Many newspapers do not use for the second reference to any Man and thereby avoid the problem of choosing who rates it
