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Court Upholds Conviction Of St. Petersburg Reporter

Date: 28 September 1975

Fla appeals ct upholds contempt of ct conviction of St Petersburg Times reporter, Lucy Ware Morgan, who refused to tell grand jury source of newspaper article; panel of judges sets aside 90-day jail terms imposed by Judge Robert Williams; Morgan was cited for contempt and sentenced to 5 mos in jail for refusing to tell state atty source of article dealing with grand jury deliberations; was later cited for 2d contempt charge by refusing to answer grand jury questions on source; 1st citation was overturned on ground that atty lacked authority to conduct such investigation (S)

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New Zealand Bars Press From Using Names of Accused

Date: 28 September 1975

Govt of New Zealand has banned publication of names of people accused of crimes but not convicted; hails law as major advance in protecting reputations of innocent; legis also forbids publication of details likely to lead to identification of accused; has been attacked by opposition Natl Party and by press as undermining basic concepts of law and press freedom and has been opposed by some police orgns on ground that it could prevent important evidence from coming to light; Lord Barneston, chmn of Commonwealth Press Union, sent appeal from London that Govt reconsider (S)

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Editorial and Craft Employes At Newsday Authorize a Strike

Date: 29 September 1975

Editorial and craft employes at Newsday vote on Sept 28 to authorize their union's exec com to call strike at its discretion; dispute between newspaper and Local 406 of Internatl Printing and Graphic Communications Union centers on wages, sick leave, union security and duration of contract; Local vp Edward Hershey and Jack Squire, dir of public relations for Newsday, comment; contract negotiations are to continue on Sept 29 (M)

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STATE EASES RULES ON AID FOR ELDERLY

Date: 28 September 1975

NYS liberalizes income eligibility requirements in programs for elderly and delays start of 'means' test until Apr 1; sr citizens with incomes of up to $8,530 and couples with incomes up to $11,155 will be eligible to participate in programs that use Fed funds for soc services for elderly; over-all final plan estimates that 1,048,980 NY residents will participate in 21 soc programs; 38,586 sr citizens are eligible to receive information and referral services without regard to income at cost of $10,743,676; total cost of all soc service programs is estimated at $22,157,151 (S)

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Hunt Is Said to Deny Report Of Order to Kill Columnist

Date: 29 September 1975

spokesman for Sen Select-Com on Intelligence investigating rept that sr official in Nixon Adm issued, then rescinded, order for assassination of columnist Jack Anderson, late in '71 or early in '72, says com could not ignore rept published on Sept 21 in Washington Post that Anderson had been marked for assassination; says that asserts that CIA should not be connected with alleged order to assassinate columnist Jack Anderson; says rept related him; Time repts that idea was to administer drug to Anderson before 1 of his live radio appearances and 'cause him to ramble incoherently'; Hunt was quoted as saying that drug idea came from Charles W Colson; Time says Colson denied charge (S)

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Soviet Official Affirms Ideological Curbs on Import of Western Publications

Date: 28 September 1975

By DAVID K. SHIPLER Special to The New York Times

David SHIPLER

Soviet Foreign Min official Yuri Kashlevin Sept edition of Zhurnalist, official Soviet Journalist magazine, has informed Soviet journalists that Govt will not permit influx of Western ideas and publications 'contradictory to Soviet legis and to morality of socialist soc'; declaration helps clarify extent of resistance to accelerated cross-cultural flow of information envisioned by Eur security document signed in Helsinki; Kashlev, predicting that imports of foreign publications will be expanded, makes it clear that Soviet Govt will permit such imports on same basis that it allows other forms of cultural and scientific exchanges--in such manner as to avoid material that contradicts Govt positions and policies (M)

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PUBLISHER CURBED ON AN ETHICS CODE; N.L.R.B. Judge Says Paper Must Bargain on Rules

Date: 29 September 1975

Stephen L Castner, investigative reporter for Milwaukee Journal, is dismissed on Sept 25 for buying stock in Amer Bancshares Corp, co he had written about, according to newspaper editor Richard H Leonard; Castner was only bidder on Sept 23 on 6,000 shares of stock in co (S)

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Why High Noon?

Date: 28 September 1975

ed holds Sept 24 meeting between Pres Ford and members of HR Select Intelligence Com is sensible effort to avert confrontation; notes State Dept's assertion that middle-level officials are ltd to giving com information about 'facts,' with all testimony about policy considerations reserved to officers at level of Asst Sec and above; says course com chmn Repr O G Pike is threatening to pursue would ultimately wind up in ct; notes history of Adm's dealings with com are not model of open cooperation; suggests less emotional and more patient approach to Adm's recalcitrance

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Assassination Attempts Spark Controversy Over News Media

Date: 28 September 1975

By MARTIN ARNOLD

Martin ARNOLD

Article on controversy over media coverage of sensational events sparked by coverage of 2 recent alleged assassination attempts against Pres Ford; remarks by Vice Pres Rockefeller, NY Times columnists W V Shannon and W Safire, CBS News TV commentator Eric Sevareid, Time (pub) managing ed Henry A Grunwald and Newsweek (pub) ed-in-chief Osborn Elliott noted; coverage by Time and Newsweek noted (M)

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The Nation; Miss Hearst's Latest Tape Undoes Her Nixon Swears On Tape Gap: 'Not Me' Now Boston's Teachers Strike Equal Time Is Canceled An Inquiry In Maryland

Date: 28 September 1975

Rev of FCC ruling striking long-standing equal time policy (S)

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