GOO.D EVENING: Januar 5, 1973 Mike Wallace Preside,it Nixon me/ toda with Congressio,aal leaders· a session originall} ' set 11/) - to discuss wage and price controls; one that ended up - with a Preside,atial briefing on Vietnam. Details were later disclosed - by White Hotlse Press Secretary Ron Ziegler. The President was quoted as saying lae had ordered 1·estrictions on U.S. military operations - when t,eace tall•• appeared to be goi,rg well; he ltad removed tltose restrictlo•• - lie ::;aid - when it became ar,pare11t tlte Comm1111ist side was stalli,ag. The Preside11t was said to have discussed - Monday's scheduled resum/)tio11 of lite peace talks; sayi,ag lie was neither optimistic - nor t,essimistic. A11d Ire stressed that Congressional opposition - would not deter ht,,. from seeking, quote, "a prof,er ki11d of settlement." ATLANTA Influenza 01 1' 1tf>f>e1 " re Pi · rator ~ diseases ha e been reported now in se en teen :, tates, the National Center for Disease Co11 trol reported Friday. Georgia llnd Nortli Carolitia were added Friday to Ille growing list of states where influenza or similar rest,if"atory illnesses ha e been reported. At San Jose, California, the coroner's office said Englislt, or London Flu, ha . contributed to at least fourteen deaths in Santa Clara County. A public laealtll spokesman said the virus outbreak reached epidemic proportions in the San Jose area during Chri$lmas week. Dr. Robert J. Rubin, an epidemiologist at the National Center here, said there are at present otttbreaks of influenza in Bos ton, Net" York, the Baltimore-Washi,igton area, San Francisco Bay area and in Memphis, Tenn . "It cannot now be determined if the English Flua' will b e,c om e wides fJ read through o u t the c o II n try . " he s aid. Those stales where London Fllle pre vio1tsly was reported incli,de ATLANTA - 2 New York, Maryland, California, Hawaii, Arizona, Colorado, Kan as, Texas, Pen,is y lvania, Massachusetts, Connecttcut, T e nn e ee , Illinois, Washington and Net Jersey. TEL AVIV After two weeks of intense cold - warm and sunny t e ather 1 ' el11rned to Israel today. For many tho11gh - it was too late. Go v ernment officials estimate crop damage - more than Twel e Millio,i dollars - calling it the worst loss - since the founding of the state twenty-Jive years ago. A spokesman adding: "If we don't have rain in lite next wee" or ten days - it ioill be terrible." TRUMAN Historic Washington Cathedral was tire site of a final tribute toda y to the late Harry Truman; with those in attendance including Margaret Tr11man Daniel a,ed her l,i,sba" - Vice President Spiro Agnew - and a lrost of dig11itaries from around tire world. The eulogy - from the Reverend Francis Sayre, D••• of the Cathedral; who said that Mr. Truman was "eartl,y """ plain" - and "there were no wrinkles in Iris ltonesty,·" addhtg that thus he ,oas "ready" - when the "mantle of greatness" was thrust upon him. "He s te1'1'ed to tlle anvil" - said lite Reverend Mr. Sayre - "humble but nnt afraid - relyi,tg ah ays in his indel'e,.dent way upon the good11ess of Ille Lord - in wlaose hands is the hammer of our fate." HOUSTON At the U.S. Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston the me,i of Apollo-Se e nteen toda y lield a traditional post- flight ne w s conference; disclosing little new, but pledging to spend as much time as possible - telling the American people of their ad v entures i,i space, in an effort to bolster the interest in continrdng ;. u. S. space program. Miss ion Commander Gene Cernan claimed that sclence - "is probably the most important part of this program." He asserted that everyone from the "poor farmer in So,,tll Dakota to the orange grove plantation owner in Florida" - has benefited from lunar exploration. Then - a brief summation from the first U.S. spacema11-scientist. Geologist Jack Schmitt - ioho observing /hat "something different has happe,1.ed in /he last ten years." "What excites the whole world" - said he - "that man has shown he can go so - me1 here away from earth - and show he can li v e there." Schmitt ad d ing that man - ''now has s ta ,. t e d to ex/Jan d h is ex Pe r i e u c es . " JOBS The U . S. unemployment rate u as 11,nchanged last month II remained at Ji e-poi,il-tt( o Per cent, a two-year low - fl ro1 • dhag to go ernment figi,res announced today. B ette , , still, the number of persons with jobs jumped to a record high of nearly eiglrty-lhree millioN. A11 impro ement - Chairma,, Herbert Stein of th.e PresideNt's Council of Economic Advisers called "one of th.e best 011 record." Stein added that "all indications - /Joint to continuing strong eco,romic expansion in Ni11etee,e-Seve11ty- T1lree." DOMESTIC FOLLOW WHITE HOUSE The President appare,ztly got tired of waiting; at any rate, h is lryi'1g to accomplish by Executive Order - his long-sought government reorganization Plan : Today lte named three so-called "super bureaucrats." These include Agriculture Secretary Earl But2 - Health, Education and Welfare Secretary-designate CaBt,ar Weinberger - and Housing and Urban Development Secreta,., -designate James Lynn; each of whom will now have the responsibility for coordinating programs - in a b,.oad ariety of departments and agencies. They join in tllat category - Treasury Secretary George Shultz. TII e President also ar.~efJ led today - the res igna tlon of Robert Ball, tJeteran head of the Social Security System. No successor - as ) ' et. AARRHUS This last - froni Aa · rrhtis, Denmark; where gamekeeper Hans Nielsen says he has just turned down an offer of Twenty-Three H111zdred Dollars - for his favorite /Jointer; an offer - supposedly coming from Jacqueline Ken . ned) ' Onassis. Nielsen ext,lai,a'fl!"" "He's a good dog an . d I'm not sure a life as Mrs. Onassis' pet would suit laim. Nielsen adds, in any event the dog is now workht better than ever. "When he makes a mistake - said the gamekeeper - "all I have to do is yell, 'get moving or I'll sell yo11 to Onassis' - and he's back on the scent." All of which - you can believe it or not. Mike Wallace for Lowell Thomas.