Commerce Dept reports July retail sales were up 0.4% over June, ending 3-month slide; Evans Economics official David Ernst and Data Resources Inc economist Chris Probyn comment; chart (M)

Retail Sales; Up by 0.4%; From June; Retail Sales; Up By 0.4%; From June

Harlem Urban Development Corp announces $122 million project to redevelop Central Park North and blocks surrounding it; area has been designated Harlem Gateway Neighborhood Strategy Area under Federal program to redevelop neighborhoods in 5 years by preserving buildings used as housing; Federal Government has agreed to subsidize 750 housing units and funds must be sought from city and state to encourage involvement by private investors; Repr Charles Rangel and Harlem Urban Development Corp president Donald Cogsville comment; map; illus (M)

A Plan to Aid South Harlem Is Announced

Superior Oil says it participated in highest bids submitted on 4 tracts in Gulf of Mexico at Federal offshore lease sale held on July 31 (S)

Superior Oil Sets 5-for-1 Stock Split

US Attorney Robert B Fiske Jr announces arrests of 8 men on Federal charges involving series of robberies of master keys for letter boxes in NYC; among those arrested is Benjamin Mackey, suspect in July 21 shooting of city mailman Alonzo Hollis; Shirah Neiman, Federal prosecutor in charge of case, says ringleader in mail-key robberies was James Norman Ross; names of those arrested listed (M)

8 CHARGED IN THEFTS OF MASTER MAIL KEYS OVER LAST 9 MONTHS

Article on US use of satellites, ground stations, ships and aircraft to monitor Soviet strategic arsenal and verify its compliance with terms of strategic arms limitation pact; illus of Soviet missile (L)

Technology Is Essential To Arms Verification

Asherman convicted of first-degree manslaughter; case reviewed; Asherman portrait (L)

Columbia Student's Slayer Guilty Of Manslaughter in Connecticut

Pres Carter tells group of food retailers and trade association officials that Government, including Justice Dept's antitrust division, will scrutinize its operations to be sure that consumers reap benefits of lower farm prices; says that in last 3 months farm prices have declined 17%, while retail spread--difference between farm and retail prices--rose 29% (S)

CARTER GIVES STORES FOOD‐PRICE WARNING

Exxon president Howard C Kaufmann says company will withdraw its offer to buy Reliance Electric if FTC wins temporary injunction delaying purchase, Aug 13 court hearing; rejects FTC proposal for new restraining order that would permit Reliance shareholders to be paid for company, but keep Reliance apart from Exxon while separate FTC case is heard (S)

Exxon Will Drop Its Bid if Delayed

leftist demonstrators in Teheran protest press law (S)

KHOMEINI'S BACKERS RAID HEADQUARTERS OF IRANIAN LEFTISTS

Dow Jones industrial average rises 8.20 points to 875.26; NYSE trading volume totals 42 million shares (M)

BUSINESS Digest

Institutional buying again sent the stock market higher yesterday in heavy volume, with some of the special&#8208;situation issues scoring the best gains.

Dow Jumps 8.20 in Burst Of Trading

News Summary

Comment on problems faced by scholars who conduct research, write paper on it and submit paper to be reviewed by journal for possible publication; notes that most of nation's 2,700 scholarly journals receive hundreds more articles than can possibly be included on their pages and thus elaborate process of refereeing has evolved to select what are supposedly best of papers; there is increasing interest in system of anonymous submissions that some scholarly journals are adopting to shield identities of authors from reviewers; Irwin Neter (State University of NY at Buffalo), Gisella Pollock (American Society of Microbiologists) and Robert K Merton and Harriet Zuckerman comment (M)

EDUCATION

Group of black residents, adopting tactic that has substantially altered political structure of number of Southern cities, asks Federal courts to abolish system of electing members of Town Board at large because, they maintain, at-large elections exclude blacks from town government (M)

Blacks’ Suit Attacks Voting in L. I. Town

Article on booming demand for corporate aircraft; Aviation Data Service reports 514 of country's 1,000 largest corporations operate own aircraft, some maintaining fleets of 20 or more, illus; graphs show dollar value of aircraft sales and of unit sales, '74 to present; leading manufacturers noted; illus of assembly lines (L)

Demand Is Booming For Business Planes

Gantz barricades himself in Gardiner home with Lester Cossano Sr, sole remaining hostage; Gantz is reported armed and has access to hunting rifles and ammunition; illus of freed hostage; map (M)

Escapee Holds Out With Hostage

Prof Waldemar H Lehn, University of Manitoba, concludes that water and air temperatures resulting in atmospheric conditions that cause optical trickery, are cause for many sightings of 'monsters' in lakes; explains that when temperature inversion is present--usually during spring and summer months--air just above surface of water refracts light rays to such an extent that a familiar stationary object can be perceived as an unfamiliar mobile shape; illus (L)

About That Monster You Sighted . . .

ROSEMONT, III., Aug. 13 (AP) Five workmen were killed and 15 were injured today when the roof of an $8 million stadium under construction near O'Hare International Airport collapsed moments after a jetliner reportedly roared overhead.

5 Killed as Stadium Roof Collapses in Construction

Psychoanalysts and others attending International Psychoanalytic Assn congress feel that while Freudian psychoanalysis as method of treatment has lost popularity, psychoanalysis as a theory, a means of explaining human behavior, is flourishing within psychiatry, psychology, social work, history, social sciences and the arts (M)

Freud's Work Thrives as Theory, Not Therapy

Comment on Valley News, suburban Los Angeles newspaper, which may pose serious challenge to Los Angeles Times; paper has established itself as dominant in San Fernando Valley; emphasizes local news; paper will begin publishing 7 days a week on Sept 10; illus of editor Bruce Winters, president J Scott Schmidt and executive vice president Thomas J Culligan; map; graph of circulation (M)

Coast Shopper's Paper Stakes Out Turf as Daily

article explains how scientists find these traces; drawing (L)

How Tiny Chemical Traces Are Found

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13 - Frank L. Rizzo, who used his reputation as a tough cop to win two elections for Mayor of Philadelphia, pledged today to wage one more fight for his embattled, 8,500-member Police Department.

Rizzo Calls Suit On Police Abuse A Political Move

NYC Bureau of Franchises Dir Morris Tarshis asks Board of Estimate for permission to seek bids to bring cable TV to Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island; says bureau will appeal NYS Sup Ct ruling rejecting Knickerbocker Communications Corp bid for cable franchise in Queens; Cable TV Information Center regional dir David Owen Korte comments (M)

Tarshis Seeks Cable TV in 3 Boroughs

Federal grand jury investigates charges that employees of Pullman Standard Company bribed NYC Transit Authority personnel to accept defective R-46 subway cars; company awyers argue that Pullman should not have to comply with grand jury's subpoena of 'tens of thousands' of documents because US Attorney is improperly sharing 'secret' grand jury material with city's Investigation Department (M)

Bribe Charges in Subway‐Car Sale Under Inquiry by U.S. Grand Jury

CORRECTION

Paul Burgess is an Australian pole vaulter who became the thirteenth pole vaulter in the world to vault over 6 metres.

August 14, 1979

Headlines from August 14, 1979

Retail Sales; Up by 0.4%; From June; Retail Sales; Up By 0.4%; From June

A Plan to Aid South Harlem Is Announced

Superior Oil Sets 5-for-1 Stock Split

8 CHARGED IN THEFTS OF MASTER MAIL KEYS OVER LAST 9 MONTHS

Technology Is Essential To Arms Verification

Billboard 200

Get The Knack

Bad Girls

Breakfast In America

Candy-O

Teddy

Notable Births

Historical Context for August 14, 1979