May 5, 1976

Fed Ct Judge Jack B Weinstein sentences nursing home operator Eugene Hollander to spend 5 nights a wk in jail for up to 6 mos and orders him to sever all connections with nursing homes for inflating Medicare reimbursement claims by more than $100,000; sentences Hollander to $10,000 fine, suspended 5-yr prison term and 5 yrs' probation; orders sentence stayed until May 18, date set for Hollander to be sentenced in State Sup Ct; Sup Ct Justice Milton Mollen agrees to postpone sentencing Hollander for Medicaid fraud until May 18 to give him time to divest himself of his holdings; Hollander por (M)

Henri Claude Shostel was appointed by Mayor Beame yesterday as Commissioner of Cultural Affairs. A Man in the News article appears on page 20.

Representative Ray J. Madden of Indiana, the 84‐year‐old chairman of the House Rules Committee, was defeated in the Democratic primary by State Senator Adam Benjamin Jr., 40. Mr. Madden's age was a major campaign issue. Page 24.

analysis of Reagan's Ind victory; Times/CBS News Poll shows that while Ford and Reagan fought roughly on equal grounds among those who describe themselves as Repubs, Reagan's found margin of victory among independents and Dem crossovers; shows Ind Repub electorate is more conservative than those in states that have already held primaries; shows Reagan benefiting from Tex victory, which made him appear electable, and from his stand on issues: voters' responses to questions on size of Fed Govt, defense spending, detente, role of US in world and Sec Kissinger noted (M)

Members of NYC Council's Finance Com, prodded by challenges from parent groups at public hearing on Mayor Beame's '76-77 budget, seek stronger voice in school spending; plan to shift as much as $27-million from central Educ Bd hqs to 32 community school dists in order to bolster instruction in 800 elementary and jhss; their plan will be 1st such action since ps system was decentralized 6 yrs ago; members, along with Beame and Estimate Bd, are exhorted by Public Educ Assn to abandon their heretofore sacrosanct treatment of allocations within annual school budgets (M)

Jimmy Carter takes 84% of vote in Go's nonbinding Dem Pres preference primary on May 4 and all of state's 50 delegates to Dem Natl Conv; Gov George Wallace takes 12% of preference vote, and Repr Morris Udall takes 2%; Ronald Reagan takes 70% of binding vote for state's 48 delegates to Repub Natl Conv (M)

Ex-Defense Sec Schlesinger declines to say which Pres aspirant he considers best qualified on natl security issues; says he has been 'in communication intimately' with staffs of Reagan and Jackson (S)

NJ Environmental Protection Comr David J Bardin says state will try to block construction of world's 1st floating nuclear plants off Atlantic City unless Fed Govt carefully analyzes all risks involved in event of major accident; says Nuclear Regulatory Comm's environmental impact statements ignore potential risks; mentions 2 generating plants planned by Public Service Electric and Gas Co (M)

Ronald Reagan defeats Pres Ford in May 4 Indiana Repub Pres primary, with 51% of vote; Jimmy Carter takes 68% of vote in Dem contest, with 15% of vote going to Gov George Wallace and 12% going to Sen Henry Jackson; procedures used by each party in choosing delegates to its natl conv noted; voter illus (M)

Sen, 62-29, approves legis to revive Fed Election Comm and its authority to subsidize Pres candidates; bill also curtails agency's ind decision-making power, restricts rights of corp pol coms to solicit contributions from employees and codifies some changes ordered by Sup Ct; Fred D Thompson and Charles E Goodell named as possible successors to comm chmn Curtis; $1.4-million of $3.8-million in undistributed subsidies has been requested by Pres Ford, $604,000 by Ronald Reagan, $521,000 by Jimmy Carter, $330,000 by Sen Henry Jackson and $386,000 by Repr Morris K Udall (M)

Treas Dept halts its probe of 'dumping' by foreign car mfrs in US and says that although 'dumping' exists, it will seek amicable solution with cos involved rather than impose penalty duties; Treas Sec William E Simon says dumping was found by all mfrs except Porsche, Rolls-Royce, Toyota and Nissan; antidumping case was initiated by Repr John H Dent and UAW; value of imports involved amounted to $7.4-billion in '75, making probe biggest antidumping investigation Govt has undertaken; Asst Treas Sec David R MacDonald comments; 28 foreign car mfrs that were investigated by Treas Dept listed (M)

Prime Min Smith s 'new initiative' of bringing 4 African chiefs into Cabinet has met with widespread opposition and appears unlikely to aid pol settlement of Rhodesian crisis; 2 of 4 chiefs attend 1st Cabinet meeting (M)