April 22, 1971

Ch of Eng comm, apptd by Abp of Canterbury 3 yrs ago, proposes divorced persons be allowed to remarry in ch; findings in study of issue detailed; Prof H Root, who headed comm, comments on proposal

Govt confers formal title of natl hero on him, makes him a marshal, Cambodia's 1st

BLS Consumer Price Index at 119.8, Mar, up 0.3%, or 0.2% seasonally adjusted, continuing lessening inflation rate for 3 consecutive mos, for 1st time since '67; if trend confines for 71 as whole, rise will be little loss than 3%, a rote significantly reduced from 6.1% of '69 and 53% of 70; McCracken hails development as 'good news indeed'; cautions however that battle has not been won; Proxmire calls it most encouraging indication in many mos that Nixon's program of inflation control is beginning to work; says it is now more appropriate than ever to tackle unemployment through various types of manpower programs; graph; table

11 big-city Mayors tour NYC slums with Lindsay; are members of US Mayors Conf Legis Action Com; thrust of their comments is that cities are facing collapse, that they have reached limit of their taxing powers, and that Fed Govt must act now to prevent cities from becoming 'nothing more than repositories of poor'; Mayors Maier and Gribbs outline com's immediate goals as Cong passage of Fed revenue sharing and/or Fed takeover of welfare costs, more federally financed jobs and release by Nixon Adm of urban-aid funds that have been appropriated by Cong; Mayors comment on cities' plight at City Hall press conf and at luncheon of 100 media execs and eds at NY Times; NYC visit is 6th trip Mayors have made to publicize cities' plight; other Mayors making NYC visit are Landrieu, White, Gibson, Tate, Haskell, D'Alesandro, Uhlman, Massell, Flaherty; illus

consumer price index up 0.6%, Mar, twice increase for rest of US; Bienstock notes 6.3% rise since Mar '70 is higher than for other cities and for US; factors discussed