October 20, 1974

Another in series of articles assessing world food situation notes that Amer grain traders view Pres Ford's recent moves to monitor grain and soybean exports as 1st steps toward apportioning food exports; points out that some traders foresee some forms of control on domestic food consumption if world hunger becomes widespread and US acts to alleviate it; notes that Rockefeller Foundation head Dr John H Knowles stated recently that there is now potential imbalance between world supply and demand, as large parts of world have become increasingly dependent on grain surplus in US, Canada and Australia; claims that US, as world's largest grain exporter, has been unable to increase surpluses and most leading commodity traders are resigned to rationalization of supplies around the world'; commodity traders view Ford's action in imposing export controls as move to persuade Amer farmers to sell record grain amts they have held off in expectation of rising prices; claim that controls hope to discourage foreign commodity speculators from buying up large quantities of scarce foodstuffs, thus exacerbating shortages and spurring inflation pressures; Ford's actions are expected to get Amer exporters to provide more information in order to keep track of flow of available food; commodity traders see actions as intended to get wealthier importing nations to reveal needs so as to prevent them from suddenly and secretly buying up some large amts of foodstuffs and to assure poorer nations that available Amer surpluses will be shared more equally; internatl grain dealings detailed (L)

J Herbers article on Pres Ford's 1st 2 mos in office discusses ups and downs of Ford's public image; notes Ford went from 71% to 50% in popularity polls from Aug to end of Sept; cites his pardon of Nixon as prime factor; notes other damaging incidents; notes Ford's admission to HR Judiciary Subcom on Criminal Justice that he had misled public when he denied knowledge a few days before Nixon's resignation that he had learned of evidence that Nixon had obstructed justice in Watergate case; says Ford is same man he always was but his views are not as narrowly partisan as they were when he was a Repr; drawing (L)

Ferrezza, Rudolph: Rudolph Ferrezza killed by 2 men who were attempting to rob his neighbor Dominick A Giarraputo; Ferezza came from his house in response to neighbor's shouts, Oct 19, Queens (M)

Vice Pres-designate N A Rockefeller discloses that over last 17 yrs he gave $24,712,245 in charitable donations to 193 orgns; gifts ranged from $10 to Phillips Academy to nearly $6.6-million to Museum of Primitive Art; donations to 'charitable, educational and other tax-exempt orgns' cover huge number of such insts throughout US and include $6,500 to US Govt and $656,393 to NYS; Rockefeller says he is making this public because of delay in reopening of Sen hearings on his confirmation; previous financial information released by Rockefeller noted; Rockefeller's press sec Hugh Morrow says gifts represent only those personal contributions of Rockefeller and his wife and do not include any contributions from the more than 6 family foundations that also dispense funds to similar orgns; says there was no adviser that made suggestions or selections of philanthropies and that other than tastes of Rockefeller or his wife there were no general criteria for selection; list includes 41 univs, 18 secondary schools, most of them private prepartory schools, 17 chs and ch orgns, 12 museums, 9 hospitals and 2 symphony orchestras; Morrow says gifts consisted not only of cash, stocks and bonds but also art objects, paintings, sculpture, furniture, 'almost anything you can think of to give away'; says Rockefeller did not donate any of his personal papers; highlights include: total of $656,393 to NYS; total of $6,500 to US Govt which Morrow cannot explain but speculates that it was 'probably some sort of art object'; total of $760,481 to Latin Amer Mission of which $400,000 was just reclassified by IRS; $1,874,996 to Dartmouth Coll; $251,766 to Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases; $2,563,420 to Museum of Modern Art; $959,721 to Jackson Hole Preserve; $132,312 to Ebeneezer Baptist Ch in Atlanta, Ga; $5,000 to Sixteenth St Baptist Ch in Birmingham, Ala; $29,596 to Union Ch of Pocantico Hills; $1,626,751 to Amer Internatl Assn for Econ and Social Development; $1,026,180 to Govt Affairs Foundation; others orgns receiving more than $1-million are Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Primitive Art and 3d Century Corp; only Rockefeller foundation gifts included in list are $880,510 to Rockefeller Bros fund and $13,463 to Rockefeller Univ; list of gifts made by Rockefeller to charities from Jan 1 '57 to June 30 '74 (L)

NY Times survey on crime problem at 3 NYS mental insts, Meyer-Manhattan, Dunlap-Manhattan and Kirby-Manhattan, on Wards Island, NYC; says fear has become pervasive at insts, where patients have been robbed, assaulted and raped, and where inadequate security enables criminals from outside with keys to wards to victimize inmates and employes; dirs and other top personnel at hosps contend that some violence is inevitable at mental insts because of instability of many patients; despite protestations by hosp dirs about exaggerated response to incidents of violence, dirs of the 3 hosps arc urging State Dept of Mental Hygiene to adopt sweeping security measures, including installation of fence around island and manned electronic gate at bridge that connects with Randalls Island; favor segregation of violence-prone patients in closed ward and want criminals awaiting trial for serious crimes to be sent to some special facility; use of closed wards will mark dramatic reversal of state policy that stresses need for more open wards and gradual elimination of closed wards