July 10, 1975

Financial impact of recently passed state school aid pkg on suburban and NYC school dists discussed; despite fact suburban dists supposedly prime beneficiaries of bill, some dists face substantial rises in school taxes because of combination of actions by NYS Legis and local decisions not to reduce levels of school spending; school supts J A Jungheer (Yonkers) and Robert E Neidich (Levittown) score bill as inadequate; provisions of school aid bill revd; NYC schools seen shortchanged by school aid pkg, even though total funds will be increased from $46-million to some $50-million, since city gets only 27% of $200-million-plus state school aid, although its ps enrollment is some 30% of state total, and will get less than 25% of additional aid authorized under compromise bill (S)

Pres Ford on July 9 accepts compromise bill on partial lifting of US embargo on arms aid to Turkey that would authorize Ford Adm to start planning mil and econ aid for Greece: also reaffirms friendly relations with Greece (S)

coal miners, refraining from demanding immediate 60% wage increase in forthcoming labor negotiations, instruct natl coal leaders to start immediate negotiations for 4-day wk, demand that Natl Coal Bd is expected to oppose firmly (S)

Mayor Beame announces he is suspending summer work hrs for city workers because of city's budget crisis and large number of city layoffs (S)

Paramount Pictures leases to TV networks for about $76-million rights to 42 recent motion pictures, including The Godfather and The Godfather Part II; Francis Ford Coppola, dir of Godfather films, says he will incorporate into TV version numerous scenes cut from both films; NBC-TV, which paid around $7-million for single showing of The Godfather, reptdly has paid $15-million for 2 films; Paramount sells ABC rights to 21 movies and to CBS 19; transactions are among largest made by networks for packages of movies; most films are being leased for multiple showings, but few, like Murder on the Orient Express and Chinatown are being issued for single showing; NBC-TV pres Robert Howard comments (M)