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)