March 2, 1976

US Sup Ct on Mar 1 accepts Miss case involving both const right to associate with whom one pleases and ban against racial discrimination in schools (S)

Joseph Treaster article on Goshen (NY) Center for Boys, described as 'dumping ground' for worst juvenile criminal offenders; says that offenders at Goshen are usually sentenced to maximum of 18 mos and are eligible for home visits after 6 mos and release after 1 yr; finds that Goshen, like most juvenile centers in state, neither punishes nor rehabilitates and that discipline is not particularly stringent and even such basic therapy as group counseling has all but faded away; notes that state pays about $28,000 per yr for each juvenile defendant at Goshen; plans by NYS Youth Div Dir Peter B Eldman to upgrade rehabilitation and educ programs at center noted; Eldman comments; illus (M)

NYS Assembly Speaker Stanley Steingut and other Assembly leaders call for 'complete overhaul' of Mental Hygiene Dept to shift focus of mental health care from state-operated insts to centers operated by local govts and community groups, news conf; Steingut proposals call for breaking up 'dual' system of separate state and local mental health systems and creating unified arrangement under which functions for each would be defined and financed; Sen majority leader Warren M Anderson voices cautious support for Steingut proposals; Sen James R Donovan, chmn of Sen Com on Mental Hygiene and Addiction Controls, says he has introduced legis asking for master plan for state mental health efforts similar to Steingut proposals; press conf is also attended by Assemblymen James W McCabe Sr and John C Dearie; there is some criticism of performance of Mental Hygiene Dept under Comr Lawrence C Kolb (M)

Ford Adm's efforts to reduce foreign-aid costs for fiscal '77 may be defeated if Israeli supporters succeed in getting Cong to appropriate for transitional qr, period between old and new fiscal yrs, $1.1-billion additional in econ and mil aid, of which Israel would receive $556-million (M)

Repr Morris K Udall asks for Sen Birch Bayh's vote as 2 men attend ADA cocktail party at Boston Univ on eve of Mass primary; Bayh says Udall is his 2d choice; soc, ethnic and ideological composition of Boston Dem party discussed; Fred R Harris excoriates 'privilege' in Post Office Sq; Udall charges Vice Pres Rockefeller made $3-million and did not pay any taxes; Sen Henry Jackson campaigns among drivers of tow trucks from gasoline stations; Harris and Jackson score oil cos; Jackson says ex-Amb Daniel Patrick Moynihan would be offered very high position in his adm Udall illus; Jackson and Moynihan illus (M)