May 17, 1969

Dr. Buell G. Gallagher said yesterday that the state should take over the City University, a move that would mean the end of 122 years of tuition-free higher education here. He called for the establishment of a State University in New York City, with its own governing board.

Commerce Dept repts personal income rose $2.8-billion, Apr, notably less than in other recent mos; rept seen as additional evidence that econ boom may be slowing

Lodge, after 17th plenary session of Paris talks, says N Vietnamese and Vietcong delegations indicate they will consider Nixon's program as part of search for settlement

5 boro presidents to meet with City Council to set pay and working conditions for interim bd members; Badillo says he asked Assemblyman Steingut to intercede with Bklyn Boro Pres Start to help achieve ethnic balance on bd: reptdly is reluctant to appt Puerto Rican to bd but is anxious that another boro pres do so; SI Boro Pres Connor says he discussed his apptmt with pol leaders but that final decision will be his own; sit-in continues at Boro Pres Sutton's office; another sit-in begins at Stark's office; illus; parent of ps child files suit, State Sup Ct, charging new law violates 'one-man, one-vote' US Sup Ct ruling by giving all boros equal representation under decentralization law

Small fires on the elevated tracks of the West Side IRT subway line yesterday sent dozens of panicked rush-hour passengers scrambling through the broken windows of an eightcar train and delayed thousands of homeward-bound people.