THE Summer Daily Vol LXXXIII, No. 22-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, June 8, 1973 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Watergate witness admits perjw y no0 report4 i II I. on bii ging WASHINGTON l-H. R. Haldeman has testified that ousted White House counsel John Dean never was asked to investigate the Watergate.. ,, raid, never made a written report, and never spoke directly to President Nixon about it until this year. F The former White House chief of staff said the President's principal source of information about the wiretapping last year were reports relayed by himself or John Ebrlichman, who was Nixon's chief domestic advisor. ON AUGUST 29 of last year, Nixon had indicated that an investigation conducted by Dean had cleared all administration employes of involve- ment in Watergate. Dean denies making the probe. Tn the testimony, taken during the course of a civil suit filed by the Demo- cratic National Committee in the after- math of the bugging, Haldeman said that Nixon never talked to Dean face-to-face about Watergate until a series of meetings beginning last February. Haldeman testified further that Nixon did not ask for a formal investigation or report on the scandal until March 20, eight months after the break-in at Demo- cratic National Committee headquarters. IN A RELATED development yesterday, the Senate Watergate committee heard former Nixon campaign official Herbert Porter testify that he gave the FBI, a grand jury and the first Watergate trial a false account of how $100,000 went to G. Gordon Liddy. Porter said that Jeb Magruder, former deputy director of the Committee to Re- elect the President, asked him to relate a false story that Liddy was given the money to check the infiltration of "radical elements" into the campaign. Porter said that shortly after the June 17, 1972 Watergate break-in, Magruder called him into a meeting and asked him to cooperate in telling investigators a false story about the money. BOTH PORTER and Magruder later told the story under oath in January at the trial that resulted in the conviction of Liidy and James McCord Jr. Porter is the first witness from the original Water- gate trial to publicly admit that he perjured himself. MEANWHILE, President Nixon yester- #ay nominated Kansas City Police Chief Clarence Kelley to be permanent director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Nixon said that Kelley would offer the FBI, "strong and independent leadership." The 61-year-old Kelley spent 21 years with the FBI before becoming police chief of the Missouri city in 1961. Atty. Gen. Elliot Richardson told reporters he felt Kelley's FBI service would satisfy the many senior officials of the agency who had urged Nixon to pick a director from their own ranks. WILLIAM RUCKELSHAUS now is care- taker chief of the agency and will remain until the new nominee is confirmed by the Senate. Kelley, credited with helping to produce a 25 per cent drop in Kansas City's crime See HALDEMAN, Page 8 AP Photo H. R. HALDEMAN, who has testified that contrary to statements by President Nixon, the White House did not undertake an investigation of the Watergate affair until March of this year. HARVEY BLASTED Washtenaw County pays $8100 for jail haircuts, How much is a head of hair worth? Nine hundred dollars, according to the County Board of Commissioners. That is the sum they agreed to pay each of nine persons who filed suit against Washtenaw County and then-Sheriff Doug Harvey two years ago. THE BOARD voted to grant the $8100 out-of-court settlement after two years of haggling about the legality of mandatory haircuts in the jail. The plaintiffs were shaved bald after being arrested during a 1970 demonstration protesting GE recruitment on campus. They originally named former Sheriff Douglas Harvey in the suit; his name was later dropped because it could not be proved that he had ordered the haircuts. Harvey came in for some harsh words at the Board iheeting. Commissioner Bent Nielsen (R-Ann Arbor) said the actions of one man had produced an '$8100 bill for the taxpayer.' "IT WAS HIS personal pleasure to shave the hair off those guys . . . now the tax- payers are having to pay $8100 for his pe sonal pleasure," he said. Mandatory haircuts are no longer re- quired at the jail. The plaintiffs decided not to take their case to trial because the settlement was mutually acceptable to both parties in the case. "HAIR IS NOT a major political issue," Glenn Mitchell, one of the $900 winners, said. "After two and a half years, it doesn't seem worth it to pursue this case any further." "It was a good settlement," said Paul Wilson, another plaintiff. "If we had taken this to court and won, though, it would have been a legal pre- cedent. No sheriff could cut off some- one's hair." THE SUIT originally asked for $200,000 in damages. "You know how these law- suits go," Wilson said. "You ask for a million and you get a dollar." Others receiving $900 in the settlement are:. Mark Wellman, Robert Parsons, Mark Moss, Frederick Miller, James Kirk, James Forester and Gerald Shlifer.