October 3, 1972

Article on effect on Turkish farmers of recent Govt ban on cultivation of opium poppies, move enacted to halt internatl flow of heroin; Turkish poppy farmer illus

3-judge Fed Ct on Oct 2 strikes down as unconst, new NYS statute to provide state tuition grants to parents of private-school students; ct also reiterates earlier ban against state payments for maintenance and repair of nonpublic schools; ct, by 2-1 vote, leaves way open for further hearings on proposed state income tax benefits for families with less than $5,000 annual income who send their children to private schools; Sen majority leader Brydges says he plans to confer with NYS Atty Gen Lefkowitz on whether to appeal decisions; suit against law was filed by Com for Public Educ and Religious Liberty (PEARL); judges M L Gurfein and J M Cannella, authors of majority opinion, voted to strike down both maintenance and tuition clauses in law; Judge P R Hays concurred on these issues, but wrote dissenting opinion saying that proposed income-tax benefits were also unconst; law; if upheld, would have provided as much as $4-million a yr for maintenance and repairs, up to $25-million in tuition assistance payments and $15-million in tax benefits to low-income parents of private school students

The Detroit Tigers defeated the Boston Red Sox, 4‐1, last night in Detroit and took first place in the Eastern Division of the American League. In Montreal, Bill Stoneman of the Expos pitch ed a no‐hit game in beating the Mets, 7‐0. Details, Page 55.

key Adm officials J D Ehrlichman and C W Weinberger on Oct 2 say that enactment of Fed spending ceiling will constitute 'insurance' against tax increase in next yr; Ehrlichman, in attempt to allay Cong fears that some soc programs would be severely cut, says ceiling does not involve drastic elimination of programs but simply limitation of excessive growth of Fed programs; notes ceiling is designed to hold expenditures to $18.5-billion increase over prior fiscal yr; Weinberger says enactment of spending ceiling would not only help prevent tax increase during present fiscal yr but would enable Govt to get good start with respect to '74 so that there would be same kind of offer of insurance against higher taxation for that and succeeding fiscal yr; prospects for Cong passage of spending ceiling continue to be uncertain, and HR Ways and Means Com is scheduled to meet Oct 3 to reconsider its action; growing number of HR members expresses doubts about wisdom of ceiling since it would give Pres unltd authority to cut spending in whatever programs he chooses; opponents of HR Ways and Means version want requirement that Nixon rept in advance to Cong on where he will make spending cuts to give Cong chance to veto his plans; com chmn Mills says he opposes such requirement; speculation is that com might decide to propose single amendment substituting opposition version of spending ceiling and giving Cong some control over where cuts are made, but neither side seems confident of outcome

article discusses inequities in recent 20% Soc Security increase with regard to state welfare payments; notes US HEW Dept calculates that nationwide, 187,000 people will become ineligible for welfare; several bills to eliminate resulting hardship for elderly are pending in Cong; notes US Sen passed on Sept 29 measure that would force states to raise eligible income limits for welfare by same dollar amt as Soc Security increases; prospects for bill in HR are uncertain; individual cases and state efforts to alleviate problem discussed