Frances X Clines interview with 7 year-old Markita Andrews, who sold 1,148 boxes of girl scout cookies; Markita to be proclaimed best cookie seller in Manhattan for '79; illus (M)

About New York

Snyder and Silberman agree that damage to bus shelters was work of organized vandals; Snyder says co will begin $15,000 emergency repair program and is offering $1,000 reward for information leading to identification of people responsible for damage; NYC Asst Corp Counsel James G Greilsheimer to go before Justice Bentley Kassal to request order directing Bustop to transfer contract to city; illus of Snyder and workmen working to replace shattered panels (S)

Sunday Bus‐Shelter Damage Spree Called Work of Organized Vandals

reports 1st-quarter '79 net income of $108.1 million, compared with $45.2 million in '78 first quarter, annual meeting, Seattle; 75% sales rise, principally in commercial aircraft, cited (S)

Boeing Earnings Double On 75% Advance in Sales

NYS and NYC plan to save $450 million worth of troubled housing projects is thrown into jeopardy by new bill in Congress, sponsored by Reprs Al Ullman and Barber B Conable Jr, that is designed to curtail ability of state and local governments to finance and construct middle-income housing; refinancing of $12 million in NYS Housing Finance Agency short-term notes falling due May 15 is jeopardized (M)

Middle‐Income Housing Endangered by New Bill

Article on discovery of deposits of copper, iron, zinc, cobalt, lead, silver and cadmium, often combined with sulfur, on ocean floor during study of East Pacific Rise; submarine dives by Drs Roger L Larson and Robert D Ballard and othes described; scientists witnessed 'hydrothermal' activity, which caused eruptions of extremely hot metal-laden water from ocean floor; research submarine Alvin illus (M)

Sea‐Floor Geysers May Be Key to Ore Deposits

Article on health hazards of many widely used art supplies; artists and occupational health experts contend most labels on art materials contain general warnings which are meaningless to anyone but chemists; drawing (L)

Hazards Cited in Widely Used Art Supplies

Transportation Dept Sec Brock Adams says undercover investigators have found in survey of 62 automobile repair shops in 7 cities that 53c of every service dollar is wasted on needless repairs; says investigators, in $66,000 survey under auspices of Alabama University, found that customer stands 50-50 chance of getting his car repaired and at right price; offices of District Attorneys in Brooklyn and White Plains, NY, where some of tests were conducted, could find no evidence of crime that could be charged against shops; tests were also conducted in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Miami, Nashville and Houston; Jonathan Z Friedman, chief of frauds bureau in White Plains District Attorney's office, Bklyn Assistant District Atty Michael Hammerman and National Assn of Automobile Dealers spokesman Jack Neal comment; Adams illus (M)

FAULTY CAR REPAIRS FOUND WIDESPREAD

Dow Jones industrial average drops 14.12 points to 833.42; trading volume was 30.5 million shares; market profile (M)

Stocks Fall To Low for 2 Months

The U.S. intensified efforts to conclude negotiations this week with the Soviet Union for a strategic arms limitation treaty. Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance and Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin met twice, in the morning and briefly in the afternoon after Mr. Vance had conferred with President Carter. Mr. Vance annnounced that he would go to London May 20 for talks with members of the new Conservative Government on coordinating British and American policy on issues of mutual interest. [Page A1, Columns 3&#8208;4.]

News Summary

As Deidre Chiocarelli's first&#8208;grade class trooped outdoors for exercises &#8212; in single file, marching in time &#8212; at Epiphany School on East 22d Street yesterday, one young fellow sneaked a peek through a window next door. Small wonder that his attention wandered as thoughts of summer vacation distracted even the most studious in balmy sunshine and temperatures in the mid 70's. Forecast is for more of the same today.

Curiosity Sidesteps ‘Follow the Leader’

Negotiators for NYS legislative leaders and Gov Hugh Carey reach agreement on eliminating some mandatory, harsh prison sentences for sale and possession of small quantities of narcotics required by Rockefeller Drug Law; changes would sharply cut sentences for sale of less than half an ounce of narcotics or possession of less than 2 ounces; other provisions; negotiators still seek to resolve differences over whether and how to resentence some of 1,800 persons now serving terms under present law; 6-yr controversy over present law reviewed (M)

ALBANY ACTS TO CUT MANDATORY TERMS IN NARCOTICS CASES

Malcolm W Browne compares impressions of Peking, Hanoi and Pyongyang after accompanying UN Sec Gen Kurt Waldheim and group of UN officials during 2-wk tour; notes they are capitals of Asian Communist countries, but to visitor 'they seem in different worlds'; says Peking is relaxed but bustling, Hanoi appears Spartan and Pyongyang is like an architect's model, 'sparkling new out devoid of people'; cities described; illus; map (M)

A Reporter's Notebook: Contrasts in Asia

Fears of gasoline shortages are again cutting into motor home sales, causing some manufacturers to shut down plants, shorten workweek and reduce work force (M)

Motor Home Sales Skid On Fear of Gas Shortage

Fred M Hechinger article on increasing censorship of school books; drawing (M)

ABOUT EDUCATION Wave of Censors Hits the Schools

Reaches $105 million revolving credit accord with 19 major banks including Chase Manhattan; says new agreement will be used to help finance its nonbanking activities (S)

Fidelcor Sets Credit Agreement

Fossils discovered in Burma by team of Burmese scientists working in collaboration with Amer anthropologists Drs Russell L Ciochon and Donald E Savage lead to suggestion that anthropoids may have originated more than 40 million yrs ago in SE Asia; preserved bones appear to have been from creatures that were transitional between primitive primates and more advanced apes and monkeys; similar fossils were found in Burma in '14 and '23 by Brit and Amer scientists, but were so badly preserved that little analysis was possible; Ciochon comments on finds (M)

Asia Find Indicates Origin Of Apes

Article on decline in US productivity growth rate notes that rapid rise in energy prices has cut sharply into business's ability to substitute energy-intensive machinery for people (S)

Productivity Rate Causes Worry

Pres Carter amends proposed standby gasoline rationing plan in last-minute attempt to keep it alive and meet objections of members of Congress from Western and rural areas (M)

CARTER ALTERS PLAN TO RATION GASOLINE IN BID TO RESCUE IT

Sec Cyrus Vance meets twice with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, Washington, on May 7 in effort to conclude SALT; Vance voices optimism; Carter Adm officials say talks could be concluded within day; remaining problems reportedly center on language to be contained in final treaty and on site for singing of treaty by Pres Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (M)

Vance and Dobrynin Meet Twice, Looking to Arms Pact This Week

NJ Sen approves bill to restore age of sexual consent to 16 yrs (S)

10. 75% Ceiling For Mortgages Voted in Jersey

Coast Guard tugboats began to haul incinerated garbage by barge yesterday from Manhattan transfer terminals to the Fresh Kills lan.afill on Staten Island as negotiations in the 37&#8208;day&#8208;old tug strike continued.

The New York Times/Neal Boenzi

Small amounts of radiation are leaking from Lewiston, NY, storage facility for uranium and radium-rich wastes left over from the Manhattan Project, causing concern to some members of public, who blame radiation for unusual number of cancer deaths and other diseases in area; Government radiation experts say not enough research has been done to connect health problems to radiation; members of committee of residents, town officials and scientists set up by Repr John J LaFalce seem generally calm about radiation leaks, but feel it needs to be cleaned up; site is operated by National Lead Industries for Energy Dept illus (M)

Town Is Worried by a Leaky Silo Containing Atomic‐Bomb Waste

Article on study by Dr Anne R Somers, specialist in family and community medicine, which finds that marriage is good for health and longevity; says high rate of illness or death can be found among persons who are separated or divorced and, in some circumstances, among those who remain single; Somers findings discussed (M)

Marriage Is Good for Health and Longevity, Studies Say

President Carter amended his proposed gasoline rationing plan in what was seen as an attempt to meet the objections of Western and rural members of Congress. A key provision of the ammendment would limit each household to three cars for which they could receive rationed gasoline. In addition., states would receive a monthly gasoline allotment equal to half of the &#8220;historic&#8221; amount they are used receiving. [Page A1.]

BUSINESS Digest

Jim Floyd, technician from 3 Mile Island nuclear power plant, says control room personnel and Federal inspectors knew on March 28 that there had been a hydrogen explosion in reactor vessel, although it was not until March 30 that damage was formally reported and seriousness of accident made public, comments to HR subcommittee members touring plant; Repr Morris K Udall and Victor Gilinsky, member of Nuclear Regulatory Commission, are disturbed by news; John G Herbein, Metropolitan Edison vice president, says there are about 400,000 gals of radioactive water in basement of containment building; Herman Dieckamp, president of General Public Utilities, parent company, reports 1 known instance in which human error contributed to accident (M)

May 8, 1979

Headlines from May 8, 1979

About New York

Sunday Bus‐Shelter Damage Spree Called Work of Organized Vandals

Boeing Earnings Double On 75% Advance in Sales

Middle‐Income Housing Endangered by New Bill

Sea‐Floor Geysers May Be Key to Ore Deposits

Billboard 200

Minute By Minute

2-hot

Spirits Having Flown

Breakfast In America

Desolation Angels

Historical Context for May 8, 1979