March 4, 1972

US Sup Ct Justice G P Culkin sentences WBAI gen mgr E A Goodman to 30 days in jail for refusing to turn over tapes of its broadcast of uprising at Manhattan House of Detention for Men to Manhattan Dist Atty office; Goodman claims 'newsman's privilege' should exempt station from having to turn over tapes; says tapes have same significance for broadcasters as original material gathered by newspaper; Culkin says WBAI forfeited rights to consider tapes privileged since they were broadcast to gen public; WBAI asserts nature of airwaves makes comments public only for moment during which they are actually broadcast; says transitory perishable quality of broadcast news encourages broadcasters to speak freely and spontaneously over air waves; holds ruling will create severe self‐censorship effect on broadcasters; WBAI atty R C Schoenbrod says ruling will be appealed; Goodman por; asst Dist Atty J Fine also subpoenas riot tapes from WNET and radio station WLIB

Broadstreet's and Weber & Heilbroner announce they are going out of business, marking another major failure on NYC retailing scene; sale at 2 stores will begin in wk, with closing scheduled for end of Apr; in '71, stores had sales vol of approximately $10‐million and employed 170 people; parent co Botany Industries chmn Daroff cites high rentals in Manhattan, shortages of mdse, sales and alteration personnel and gen overhead costs; pres Schwartz says co, which is operating its own stores as well as selling to independent merchants, will go back to becoming just a mfr, rather than compete with retail stores

Investors Funding Corp will sell its Ballantine Brewing business to Falstaff Brewing Corp; Falstaff will continue to sell Ballantine beer and ale but will mfr products at 7 breweries it maintains elsewhere in US; details of sale outlined

Mar 4: Some 20 surrogates for Pres Nixon, including 2 Cabinet Secs, 1 Equal Employment Opportunities Comr, 4 US Sens, 5 US Reprs, 4 Govs, 1 singer and 1 baseball player campaign in NH for Nixon in keeping with his pledge that he will not involve himself directly in pol until he has been renominated; 20 get more exposure in several hrs than other Pres aspirants have recd in 1 wk; key to effort is work of advance men who planned schedule of surrogates; Gov Rockefeller is keynote speaker at rally where he lauds Nixon's trip to Communist China, his proposals pending in Cong for family assistance and revenue‐sharing; others who campaigned for Nixon include singer L Kazan, baseball player J Torre, A Linkletter, and HEW Dept Sec Richardson; Richardson illus; Transportation Sec Volpe, in Manchester, makes surprise announcement of grant for city's airport and cites possibility of Fed funds for its bus system; NH ex‐Gov Dwinell, chmn of Com to Re‐elect the Pres, says he does not intend to follow Repr McCloskey's example and disclose financing of primary campaign; Becker Research Corp poll published in Boston Globe reveals Nixon has support of 69% of NH's Repubs; finds Repr McCloskey has backing of 14%, Repr Ashbrook has backing of 5% and comedian P Paulsen has backing of 1%

Nassau County Dist Atty Cahn repts arrest of B G Lipsky on charges he murdered P Parks to prevent her from testifying as key witness in Fed narcotics case; Parks was scheduled to testify in trial of V Pacelli and D Papadakos but was stabbed and burned to death in Massapequa, NY, on Feb 4; Cahn charges Parks was murdered by Lipsky 'with the help and assistance of a John Doe,' adding that additional arrests are forthcoming