January 11, 1974

Encyclopaedia Britannica drops its current design and is coming out in new form, first major innovation in more than 200 yrs; plans for new version were in progress for about 25 yrs; first new complete set due Feb 22, with official publication date in mid‐March; will be a three‐part work consisting of a Propaedia, a Micropaedia and a Macropaedia; Britannica planning dir Mortimer J Adler comments; comment on Britannica history (M)

NY Times survey finds that 10 yrs after Surgeon Gen rept citing cigareHes as major hazard to life and health cigarette sales are at record high, per capita consumption is increasing and 3,000 teenagers are becoming new smokers each day; estimates about 40% of men and 30% of women smoke despite repeated scientific confirmation of Surgeon Gen's warnings, intense educ effort, restrictions on cigarette ad and growing nonsmokers movement seeking to limit smoking in public places; puts number of smokers at 52 million, 2 million above ‘64 level; estimates 10‐million Amers have quit; notes concern over findings has led to increasing use of filters, tobacco substitutes and 32% decline in tar and nicotine content; Dr Luther L Terry, former Surgeon Gen who issued rept, expresses optimism but is discouraged by failure to curb sharply smoking among young people; is now Amer Cancer Soc consultant; Tobacco Inst pres Horace R Kornegay denies that firm correlation between smoking and death and disability has been estab; survey notes cigarette smoking is now largest single avoidable cause of death and disability in US and GB; Brit chief med officer Sir George Godber's findings outlined; scientific findings on correlation between cigarette smoking and cancer, heart disease and various other health problems revd; graphs show US lung cancer death rates, ‘50‐73, per capita cigarette consumption, ‘60‐73, and percentage of smokers by sex and age in ‘66, ‘67, ‘68, ‘70 and ‘72 (L)

V Chitakin, operator of Central Flushing Mobil Station, Queens, is charged with bribing IRS agent to avoid enforcement of order to cut prices to make up for $2,057 alleged to have been overcharged in Nov and Dec; IRS compliance chief Arnold Alperin repts his office has issued 102 decisions and orders in gasoline price violations from Dec 29‐Jan 9, of which 7 called for rolling back prices until past overcharges are made up to customers (S)

EPA on Jan 10 makes public Jan 1 lr from Pres Nixon to agency head Russell E Train ordering impoundment of $3‐billion of $7‐billion authorized by Cong to help communities build waste treatment plants in fiscal ‘75; impoundment comes after Adm failed to allot $6‐billion of $11‐billion appropriated by Cong for similar water pollution control programs in last 2 fiscal yrs; Nixon holds impoundments are needed to curb inflation, lr; holds $4‐billion allocation provides for continued expansion of program; agency spokesman says impoundment will move US clean water effortback a yr or 2; HR Public Works Com chmn John A Blatnik, Sen E S Muskie and Environmental Defense Fund repr Ronald Outen critical of move; NYC repr says city anxiously awaits ruling by US Appeals Ct 3‐judge panel on Fed ct stand that Adm must spend entire $11‐billion authorized in fiscal ‘73 and ‘74; new impoundment will cost NYS almost $400‐million, NJ almost $200‐million and Conn over $54‐million; some observers see Nixon acting to reassert his exec prerogatives (M)

Jan 11‐12: UN Emergency Force spokesman Rudolf Stajduhar repts on Jan 10 restraints of movement of force's patrol to oversee cease‐fire between Egyptians and Israelis along Suez Canal front; says that tension at city of Suez has heightened because of advance of Egyptian troops to new position; says that UN vehicles were stopped by Egyptian troops at 2 points on Jan 8 and that Egyptians tried to persuade LN contingent force to abandon new observation post; holds that LN officers barely succeeded in dissuading Israeli troops from firing on Egyptians who moved forward; describes restraint of movement by LN forces, pointing out that Swedish continget was barred from entering Port Said and from using rd on eastern side of canal; tension is result of Egyptian refusal to pull back from position they occupied on Jan 7 on northwest outskirts; pattern of Egyptian local troop advances is interpreted as effort to take vantage points for use in event of renewed all‐out war; map of canal front (M)