December 19, 1979

Commerce Dept reports income of Americans rose strong 1.1% in Nov to nearly $2,000 billion on annual basis following rise of nine-tenths of 1% in Oct; also says that, after taxes, money available for Americans to spend was up $16.9 billion, on annual basis, from Oct to Nov; graph on personsl income, Apr '78 to Nov '79 (M)

Vatican, in a stern move to uphold traditional doctrine, censures leading liberal theologian Rev Hans Kung and bars him from teaching; he is professor of theology at University of Tubingen, West Ger, and is head of its Institute of Ecumenical Research; Vatican declaration says some of Kung's works have been found to deviate from dogma of infallibility of church and other basic Catholic beliefs; Kung portrait (M)

Article on LeRoy Scholtz of North Pole, NY, who uses name Santa C Claus and assumes role of Christmas character on year-round basis; Scholtz's attempts to legally change his name discussed; map; illus (M)

Comptroller Harrison J Goldin is exonerated, in letter from Investigation Commissioner Stanley N Lupkin, of any 'improprieties' in connection with contracts for new water tunnel; Goldin por (S)

OPEC economic commission recommends benchmark oil price of $24 to $25 a bbl, but half the OPEC oil ministers meeting in Caracas refuse to accept recommendation, and it is decided to continue meeting into 3d day in effort to work out uniform pricing system; Humberto Calderon Berti, Venezuelan oil minister and president of OPEC, comments; Sheik Abdelaziz bin Khalifa al-Thani of Qatar says his country's oil price, now at $27.42 a bbl, will not be raised in '80; Tayeh Abdul Karim of Iran takes moderate stance on both price and production; illus of Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani of Saudi Arabia (M)