May 22, 1976

Mins Council conf ends; communique (m)

Parents and physicians of Karen Anne Quinlan are moving cautiously toward removal of her respirator 7 wks after NJ Sup Ct ruled she be allowed to die; repts of strained relations between family and Drs Robert Morse and Arshad Javed were confirmed last wk when principals in case met privately with Superior Ct Judge Robert Muir Jr, reptdly to improve communications between family and drs rather than to discuss removal of respirator (M)

NJ Bd of Med Examiners temporarily suspends Dr Jascalevich's license; NJ Atty Gen William F Hyland says bd issued complaint charging Jascalevich with malpractice related to Riverdell deaths and from his behavior as surgeon in case in Jersey City in '74-75; patient in latter case did not die; his atty Ray A Brown says his client will oppose any effort to suspend or revoke his license; Jascalevich illus (M)

survey of US retail stores shows trend toward 7-day week and round-the-clock selling because of increasing customer demand; in many cases, this conflicts with blue laws that govern Sunday selling; 30 states still have some form of Sun selling laws (L)

Flow of Fed subsidies to Pres candidates resumes May 21 with approval by reconstituted Fed Election Comm of $3.2-million in retroactive matching funds to 9 candidates plus $500,000 each to Repub and Dem Natls Coms to help finance nominating coms; resumption was made possible by day's swift Cong and Pres action; 1st Sen Rules Com and then full Sen confirmed William L Springer as new member; Pres Ford swore in Springer and 5 reapptd members; comm met, elected Vernon W Thomson as new chmn, approved most pending subsidy payments and dispatched necessary authorization papers to Treas; Pres Ford receives $1.3-million, Reagan $500,000, Carter $437,000 and Udall $312,000; comm declines payments to Bayh and Shriver because they failed to file state-by-state breakdowns; Springer's testimony before Sen Rules Com noted (M)

Fed probe of 3,955 'problem welds' on Alaska oil pipeline and corrective work on defective pipe could cost tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars and delay by mos the mid-'77 start-up date for line; Alyeska Pipeline Service official John F Ratterman says that only 28 of problem welds uncovered in co audit need replacing and that this will cost only $5- to $10-million and will entail no delay; Interior official John E Latz says all problem welds must be checked; Reprs John D Dingell and John E Moss urge Sec Kleppe not to grant waivers of tech standards or take other risks with Alaska's environment to save money or avoid delay; hold cost of replacements should not be reflected in what pipeline is allowed to charge for moving crude oil, but should come out of profits; expected impact of pipeline rupture on tundra or river noted; Alyeska has discharged Ketchbaw Industries, which was responsible for radiographic inspection; Arthur Andersen & Co will verify Alyeska audit; Alyeska holds, and Interior officials appear to concur, that API standards required of pipeline are out of date and unnecessarily stringent (M)

preliminary NYS rev of Mayor Beame's proposed $12.5-billion fiscal '77 expense budget contends that NYC's deficit for next fiscal yr has neen underestimated by more than $255-million; rev, by Deputy Comptroller Sidney Schwartz, has been circulated among city fiscal officials in preparation of rept to Munic Assistance Corp, which, by law, must present critique of budget by May 30 (L)

William Cahn, former Nassau County (NY) Dist Atty, is found guilty by Fed ct jury, Bklyn, of mail fraud in billing county and various law enforcement assns for trips he took to convs; conviction ends Cahn's 2d trial on double-billing charges; 1st trial ended Feb 27 with hung jury that had voted 11-1 for conviction; Cahn pledges that he will spend rest of his life seeking out secret informant, code-named 'Sam Houston,' on whose existence he had based his defense; insisted throughout trial that he had given Sam Houston money--nearly $20,000--that he had been accused of pocketing through double-billing; faces 2 more trials as result of double-billing charges; had been indicted for perjury before grand jury; faces charges of income tax evasion in not reptg as income money he recd from double-billing; por (L)

28 members of Yuba City HS choir are killed and over 20 others seriously injured when school bus smashes through guard rail on Martinez-Benecia Bridge ramp

Labor Dept repts food prices on Consumer Price Index were up 0.6% in Apr; graph (S)

pound sterling falls to record low of $1.7782 on May 21; closes at $1.781 after Bank of England raises discount rate; Healey says Bank of England intervention totaled $2.5-billion; graph depicting decline of pound since Jan '75 (M)

Giscard, in New Orleans, holds talks with reporters on French role in Lebanon peace effort (M)