February 28, 1976

illus of former Repub Natl Com Chmn William E Miller and Pres Ford at White House; Miller, who was Repub Vice Pres nominee in '64, was detained at White House gate for 15 mins because of insufficient identification

Emergency Financial Control Bd formally approves austerity measure that will mean take‐home avg of about $6 a wk less for NYC's 250,000 workers starting Apr 1; action, taken with city's cooperation, rescinds fiscal device know as ‘increased take‐home pay’ that was considered ingenious when it was introduced in more solvent and free‐wheeling days for city; since then, it has been assailed as ‘gimmick’ that had to end in new era of emergency fiscal reform; retraction of device, referred to as ITHP, will mean $85‐million annual saving for city eventually; concept explained; was introduced late in adm of Mayor Robert F Wagner when straight salary increase was not immediately feasible (M)

Ital Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer, in speech to Soviet Communist Party Cong, asserts his party's support of Ital membership (S)

Responses from New Yorkers eager to offer their services to city in crisis have swamped Mayor's Voluntary Action Center in last 3 days; Winifred L Brown, who directs action center, comments; illus (L)

Fed epidemiologists say influenza has reached epidemic proportions in New England, Middle Atlantic, Pacific and Mountain regions but they do not expect nationwide epidemic because usual seasonal peak has been passed; A Victoria strain responsible for outbreak; Marr comments (M)