February 9, 1970

Assignment by NYC Mayor Lindsay of task force to study possible separation of Medicaid from other functions of NYC Soc Services Dept noted

Sen Finance com staff analysis of Medicare and Medicaid recommends prescribing drugs under their chem rather than usually more expensive trade names for Medicaid patients

Dem Cong leaders reply to Nixon's State of Union Message, TV program; picture him as man more concerned with weapons than educ, who gives pub rhetoric rather than solutions to problems and who has done nothing to stop inflation except to increase unemployment

St Mark's Ch in the Bowery converting its 300-yr-old cemetery into a community playground as part of beautification project for cemetery; ch rector Rev J C M Allen discusses project

NY Times survey, based on repts from cities and studies by Govt and private sources, finds racial polarization, disruption and racial tension plaguing schools in every part of country where there is substantial Negro enrollment; notes disruptions which hove occurred in major cities, particularly in North, are coming up increasingly in medium-size cities and in border states and South; says racial tensions appear to be moving down in grade levels and that admrs are becoming more 'color conscious' to meet problems; Urban Research Corp study finds racial incidents occurred in 39 cities, towns or counties from Sept to Jan; Dr A Westin finds 46% of 675 hs protests reptd in press were caused by racial problems and that 19.5% of incidents involved fighting between whites and blacks; situation at Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia schools described as examples of nationwide unrest in hss; illus