May 10, 1976

Article on controversy in auto indus over fact that many workers are putting in heavy overtime while 28,000 others are still laid off; situation of overtime amid unemployment exists in many other production industries; mgt will often use overtime to get higher production rather than recalling laid-off workers or hiring new workers; Ford vp Sidney McKenna comments; plight of Ford employee Don Brown and former Ford employee Bob Burkes cited; illus (M)

Gov Edmund G Brown Jr campaigns in NY, taking every opportunity to criticize Jimmy Carter; appears on CBS-TV program Face the Nation; claims there are discrepancies in Carter's statements on issues, and accuses Carter of speaking in broad generalities; meets with NJ Dem chmn James P Dugan; Brown and Dugan illus (M)

Yoshio Kodama is indicted on charges of violating Japan's foreign-currency control law by accepting secret payments, totaling almost $1.5-million, from Lockheed (S)

Fed Energy Admr Zarb, who is visiting Saudi Arabia and Iran, has not sought to negotiate toward purchase of oil for US strategic reserve (S)

Special deputy NYS comptroller's office finds that plan to reduce cost of NYC Police Dept's towing vehicles by increasing towing fees and number of cars towed was behind its projected savings by over $300,000 at end of Feb (S)