Graham Whipple; Ex-President of Lockheed Firm

G. Graham Whipple, former president of the Lockheed-California Co. and the executive credited with phasing out the L-1011 TriStar jetliner program, is dead of cancer at 64.

Whipple, who joined Lockheed in 1970 after helping guide production of the Polaris missile propulsion system, died Tuesday at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena.

He was chief of three Lockheed subsidiaries before becoming company president in 1983. Whipple played a leading role in coordinating the production line that produced the L-1011 and then oversaw the dismantling of the program after a lack of orders for the plane. He retired in May, 1984.

Survivors include his wife, Joanne, two daughters and three grandchildren, who ask donations in his name to the USC Comprehensive Cancer Center, P.O. Box 33804, Los Angeles, 90003.