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Show Former Special Aide lo Nixon The Sail Lake Tribune. Sitndav, August Inferior LDS Man in White House By Thom.i- - i) I -- iUl,ie Win. Human Program and had served on the National Ta k Inrce for Youth De veiapii't nt and Juvenile Delinquency By all accounts Huntsman woiked ha id at his job often 0 30 unld at He night screened all the paperwoik on its way 10 President Nixon acting a a filter for Halde man es t " thinl, anuaie ubo ha enftl i tpuial ui iitant ta the I'rrii'l, nt anil hat a fairly flood hnotilvdffr of the uorfiiiij! of "m minimt touil i'a fit 111 zi3 hit tarn-iitfin that tfn rinti e mam tinioi out." t' Jon Meaa- t5n 0 , wnie Hou'.f stott e.rcr ar a .oecial , assistant tu rr0. Mixon Feo s ts to s en i ,972 - ASHING- ON When Jim Huntsman id me to Washing ton front lulifn:ii, thtee years ago he asked I, s , nter employer to advance his AA t piotit sharing so he could on the make a down house he bought in Bethesda Md . a Washington suburb The 3b-- ear-olHuntsman has no such money worries now He owns and runs two one a businesses, thriving merchandiser of promotional recordings and the othei a maker of plastic egg cartons with factories in California and Ohio pa.-me- y His assets hae risen to more than $3 million including $2 6 million m stock in Continental Dynamics Corp (his record company) and Huntsman Container Corp. He also holds about $500, OM in Salt Lake City, where he and his brother Blane are building ad jacent and identical homes Huntsman ( irele The homes are located in the exclusive east bench section of Salt Lake City, whore the builder estimates theyll cost as much as $200 000 when finished this fall The homes are located on a named Huntsman street Circle The tale of Jon Huntsmans climb up the money tree is an interesting one It mixes his Mormon beginnings, a heady ambition and a quick and easy charm, a conviviality that even his enemies admire And then there was the White House connection after minutes Fifteen you've met him for the first time," recalls a Huntsman acquaintance, "hes convinced you that you're both the best of fnends " his Consider relationship with Julius Goldman, a California Poultryman whose Egg City is one of the worlds largest egg producers White House Tour While leading' Goldman on a hite House tour one day last year. Huntsman agreed to arrange a meeting between W Goldman and officials of the Agriculture Department. Out of the subsequent meetings, Goldman obtained $8.8 million in indemmty payments for chickens stricken with an ailment called Newcastle Dis- ease Humn His carton factory in Ohio now does business with the Kroger Co., which is the majority stockholder in Egg City also Huntsman's Consider relations with onetime White House aides Alexander P Butterfield and Fred Malek. who played key roles in Huntsmans tenure at the hired Malek White House supervised him, Butterfield him Before leaving the White House, Huntsman offered gifts He offered to both men Butterfield an option to buy 1,000 shares of stock in his record firm at $1 a share, the same pnce Huntsman gave He gave his own officers Malek the option to buy 2,500 shares at $1 a share Gets White House Job Jon Huntsman was brought into the White House by dmmistrative He ort of set himself up as the Mormons man m the White House one senior Nixon aide recalls of Huntsman ,s tenure on the job "It was nothing unusual to see Jon walling eight to 10 people through on a private White House lour -- Private White House tours were apparently an obsession with Huntsman Hed been at the White House five months when he reiommended a young man named Patrick Pme foi the job of deputy in tlie visitors office, which runs all pi iv ate and public tours in the White House Knew Huntsman Price had worked for Huntsman in California and works for him today m Norwalk. Conn , where Huntsmans record company has a with the New York Times m a firm called Family Circle Crafts, Inc. Pnce came to Washington m June of 1971 to work for then Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson, but he got the call for the White House job a month half-intere- later Prue remembers Huntsman to influence his get him using the job, though Huntsman insists Price got the job through no influence of his at all .He worked fur Peterson and was already familiar with the White House" Hunstm.111 That'-whsaid the other day he was accepted for the y lb Price Whatever the rea-o- n was btill at the White House late last year when Julius Goldman was taken on a private tour by Huntsman, who had already lett the White House Goldmans enterprise is one of the largest producers of eggs in the world rranges Meeting Huntsman says that Goldman got a private White House tour because it was either a Sunday or a Monday, when no public tours are scheduled But Goldman that day also asked Huntsman if he could get him in to see two men at ot the AgriDepartment culture They were Ernest E Saulmon and R E who happened at the tune to be looking into a poultry disease called Exotic Newcastle that had stricken more than 101)0 chicken flocks in Goldmans Egg California City flocks were among those afflicted Huntsman arranged the Oniohundre admits meeting to meeting with Goldman several times, both with and without lus boss Saulmon Meetings were even held at Goldman's huge Egg City lanch in Ventura County, just at the edge of the San Fernando Valley No fewei than 3 4 million chickens had to be destroyed at Egg City to prevpnt spread disease of thp Newcastle Chicken feed and eggs al-- o had tu be destroyed, for fear that the disease might have contaminated them Omo-hundr- onetime Malek, pel wnnel scout for President Nixon and currently deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget He was one of six candidates for the job of staif secretary, which is a kind 0! Gets Paid More office manager and major (When poultry 01 animals domn in the White House are suspected of disease and H R 'Bob' Haldeman. then are destroyed on orders of the White House chief of staff federal government, compenhave liked Hunt-mamay sation to the owners is providwas but he thought Huntsman ed by federal law ) overqualified for the job of Goldman insists he wasn't staff secretary and told him paid enough for what he lost, so. He pointed out that Huntsbut the records suggest differCaliman had run a The Agriculture Departently. (Dolco fornia corporation ment paid him '$'2 for every was and Corp) Packaging bird he lost which added up then an associate administrato $6 8 million of tor at the Department Wei He was also paid s2 million and Health. Education fm the feed and eggs he lost fare the highest Huntsman persisted and was Both ligures ate ever paid by the Agriculture hired at a salarv of $10 000 a c cat of Dept fur indemnity hums yeai, which was a lie Goldman gut tot JtiOnO from what lie made at was 'he each bud top price He had spent five HEW owner fm his months at IILW, whete he paid any poultry dead buds The pine paid the helped to dtied programs like rest of the chicken farmers that welfare and Medicaid $1 50 to $1 Ml a bird was spend $10 billion a yeai He 10 $2 millmn Wlmt s more of bad been in n. fair-size- d I A - NightmareAll the White House paper woik umt through the staff secMt.itv." said Butterfisid who served as Huntsmans boss Huntsman s job was an administrative nightmare ' Ni'.htmare or not. Huntsman seemed to enjoy his White House year, so much so that he was frequently seen giving Mormon fnends tojrs through the White House ihge I nifed Motion Secs Better Job Goldman got fer his feed and made up almost 50 percent of the "supplemem.il indemnities paid out a- - a lesull of the Newcastle eptde mu The $8 8 million paid lo Fgg City was fully one tlmd of the money paid to 140 ejg ranchers in 14 counties of southern California By Changes sEATTlE, WASH (I PI)-- The resignations of presiden- tial aides H R Haldeman and John Fhrlichtnan have improved the administration of the Interior Department hi giving it more freedom, Interi-0B Secret ary Rogers Morton said Saturday Morton was asked by a reporter if the powerful aides' departure (torn the White lloii-- e had enahled the depat t merit to function more effec Did He Benefit Did Huntsman benefit from his role m the Fgg City inde- 1 C lie -- ay- he mnity payment set Goldman up with the rignt people in agncultuie because he knew Goldman back in California hefore coming lo Washington He admits tli it Huntsman Container Coip is in 'he competitive business of making plastic egg cartons and that Egg City uses as many as 2 million cartons a day, but he denies he e.en has the promise of anv fgg City business lively we have bad a lot fieedom to carry nut polo ies,' Morton replied Weakens I flerluenejS Acs mote "We've never sold Egg City egg carton," Huntsman said Julius Goldman never even anv us promised business one That might be true but tin company in partnership vvitn Goldman has done more than promise Huntsman some busi ness Egg Citys majonlv stock interest is held by tin Korger Co , which buys thousands of egg cartons a week from Huntsmans plant in Ttoy, Ohm lust how many cat tons Kro ger buys from the Ohio plant is a mystery and depends on who is asked The managet ot the plant is a man named Gene Dempsey, who savs Kroger buys 25 percent ot the plants output of 3 million car tons a week That adds up to a little more than 700 000 cartons Activist Mormon with Huntsman disagrees that figure, saying that Kro ger buys no more than 4(i.00ii cartons a week "They (Kroger) egg cartons against other egg cartons, said Our cartons be the best n 19, 197.7 tested out six five 01 Huntsman pi cried lo Bloomin' Rain Brings Umbrellas S!I. BLRLINGION. his prize dahlias with By Oswald Washington W Johnston Wntei Star-New- s ASHING ION - In a dec with major imputations fot the national security, the Nison admmisti at ion has ot dered a radii al 01 0; haul ol Ihe Central Intelligence Agencys method of analyzing and evaluating foreign intelligence According to authoritative sources in the intelligence community, William E Colby, the newly installed director of the CIA has reached a "firm decision" to abolish the Olfue of National Estimates, the office that since elite. 1050 has prepared tht top ret and definitive national inthe pa toll, gem e estimates a siuteitm ninth spun pels nf pi I 'lien's m- - h si i ( nt l.d pom dt t -- v Ini 111 lm-verstt- y - 31) Clarence Otis protected umbrellas during recent rain storms, August, usually dry in this region, brought heavv rains, which brought out umbrellas. Nixon Orders Radical Overhaul of CIA -- e-' The history of Hunt-ma- n Container Corp sheds l:Jit on Huntsman s b kgrmmd committed and aMivi-- t Mormon, Jon Hunt-m.- n grew Palo Alto Cal.f , but untip like his Mormon fnends who went to Brigham Young ot and the Inr.ei-it- i I tah he went east to college to the Wharton School of i ot nance at the Ctmersitv Pennsylvania His first job was m 11 with Dudley Swim, a conservative and wealthy California Republican with huge stock interests in National Airlines and Del Monte Foods Three months later, he went to work for the Olson brothers, a North Hollywood egg landung firm producing and selling eggs In all the Western states so oted Prist, vvireohoto A '1 V. It a , n,i t 10 a ell - di'i- - an ol dit 'i.d i, A -mates and chief "f 1' intelligence .mill sis resigned tiom the agent y ,d t'u end "t June He will not be replaced t v I Ntd Anniiunied mi-sd- es Distrusted. Ignored Partlv because of Ihe-- e controversies. N1F.S came to be distrusted and ignored in the latter part of lie Jolm-o- n .1 nmi-- ti atom and t! rough al tiio-- t a whole Nixe'i joi mil Nixon is known to have he erne ''.eiled with d rig pet tm mam the ABM contioveisv and ,! is . n open sei ot that hi- - n tional eumly advise' ilciuy Kissingi'i has tended to deride and disiegat cl MEx sttue he joined the alliums ti ation di-e- t't A A National Intelligence Estimates, generallv referred -- A Ihe decision to abolish the O.tue of National Estimates is ieit,.m to revive pecii'j -- th.it the CIA - until attack fiom the administration for having failed to produce the kind of intelligence estimates that would support its politic turn White with the CIA is ceiieialli be lieiod by sources dose to the agency and the administration to have been a major factoi in the resigna'ton ol Richard M Helms as Cl duel lot re atler Nixons shortly election last veat A Colby's move to eliminate the oftice that has been re sponsible for the most ret tried product of the government s intelligent e gathering effort shows that he clearly intends to catry out the sweeping change- - m the agency undertaken bv his mi mediate picdeies-ii- t lames K Sc hlesmgei Ordered Im go Be'o'e X hb'MV o' over to the Pentagon tense senfu'-- dutieg the 01 House dissatMaitiun ill page pi 0,1 b' Mai a as im'iv wept from iiu'i-- - id aig po-- 's r in the ( I A v tuahy t" cry who had been e to Helm- -- oiti-ce- c !n-- the a me time In ought into the ageri'i Mat Gen Daniel O Giuham a control er-iPentagon intelligence analvst who has open-Iam tn atod stripping the Cl ol its authority to analyze sti.degic intcTugeme ! -- .xclile-mg-- and how much - also not clear what ('olbi has tn mind to replace the Oflue of National Estt mates Souiccs dose to the insist that there is no plan to make the NIEs direct Iv subservient to the policy makers in the White House It In Korean War The Office of National Esti mates was fir-- t organized earli in the Koiean uai, when the American intelligence apparatus was still tn its foimatiie stage diieetor Harvaid ilE.im langet, set ihe da.d stnu nee that still up ai tie and tE.it 11 lilesinger's fu- -l AA Alai, ne had nideied 111. t xt Colin s Its p sAAaterguic-hakc-l.- 11 , decision to abolish the Otlne of National Estimates has not been announced 11 is certain to pnivoke a reaction in Congics- - Hindi altcadv has been provoked bv revelations of the Watergate case to take a cl ser look at Cl than ever behue 'I lie The to as MES probably helped the CIA i ogam some public As 'rust in recent years levealed bv the Pentagon pa pets CIA estimates ot the A ictnam war set forth unpleas ant facts mien the Pentagon was still claiming a military victory was possible Fail in the Nixon administration CIA analysts produced estimates that ran counter to White House wishes dunng the bitter political debate over the anti ballistic ei al A mil-liar- It ts not dear how much ol the decision to abolish the Oftice of National Estimates is exists the III man Boaid ot National I'simi.iie- - and the Estimate-staf- f 20 man National which earned out the and collated reports horn intelligence gatheiing m the CIA and el-- e dial iic-- whole in the government estimates about 50 a wete prepatod almost as though they were -- clinhirlv dissertations on a vanotv of bv the Nasulqects ieque-te- d tional Security Council They were a consensus ol the whole I S intelligence community with dissents carefully repiste! ud in footnotes, but the board had responsibili-tfor their preparation 'I he leat When you construct a is tern to control power and tn to administer policy from the AAhitt House, it is not as ef fpetivo as giving authority to individual departments of gov ernment, he said Morton specifically men (toned efforts to cope with the eneigy crisis a an example of an ate.i in which Interim now has a better opporluntti to carry out its piograms He said the department now has a close working relation ship with the oil policy com mission and was in daily com municalmn with former Colo rado Gov John s Loie, row the national enorgy policy di rclnr 80 Million Acres Speaking at a news confer ence, Morton was en route to Alaska, where he will overfli portions of 80 million actes of land which are to be recom mended to Congress by Morton for parks and other uses Morton said he would recommend that Mt McKinley National Park be more than doubled m size when he re ports to Congress in Decem-be- i Inder the Alaska Native Claims Act, Morton is authoi-ter- i to recommend to ron up to 80 million giess land which should be witacres hdrawn for patks Hus is a mme dec Mon Ilian most otliei Inte-mr societal ics in history get to make I take ,! sort oii'lv. Alorton said long-iang- Colorado Youth Derby Champ AKRON. OHIO (L PI) James Gro nen 0! Bmildei, Colo steered his sleek green racer down the 93 track at derbi -Fo- urteen-year-old downs Saturday to win the Jwh running of the Soap Box Derby It was the second straight year that Boulder has produced the Soap Box Derby champion |