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UIT7 & LOWRT ST. - ' C-. LUS3I- . V KG. 65201 ST. 12- 5-- 74 1 3- c- ent postal stamp could go to 17 cents this year WASHINGTON ( UPI) The Postal Rate Commission Wednesday recommended making the now temporary 13- ce- nt mail rate " permanent," setting the stage for a possible increase to 17 cents late this year or early in 1977. Congress has made increases possible under a complex, two- ste- p procedure: Each time the commission approves new " permanent" rates, the Postal Service, after a delay, can impose " temporary" rates one third higher. The commission's recommendations must be approved by its board of governors. Approval is expected, possibly going into effect in 10 days. The new rate for a one- ounc- e, first class letter could go from 13 to 17 cents, but some insiders bet on 15 cents. The greeting card industry urged Americans to write their congressmen now before the postal rates go up. " The only way to stop postal officials from heaping another postal increase on the average mailer is to let our lawmakers know we can't tolerate higher costs," said Harry Cooper, executive director of the National Association of Greetiig Card Publishers in a statement " The cost of a first class letter is going from ridiculous to absurd." A Postal Service spokesman said the service probably would wait until 1977 before asking for more from mail- use- rs because " we first have to see what happens to pending legislation for additional temporary subsidies and weigh the impact a rate increase might have on mail volume." The present temporary rates imposed since Dec. 31 were based on breaking even under last September's costs, eroded since then by inflation. The Postal Service has an annual . budget of $ 14 billion. When the 13- ce- nt rate became effective last December, the deficit was $ 2.4 billion, and the service is losing money. Each penny of increase in the postal rate is said to generate $ 650 million in revenue. The changes in the Postal Commission's " permanent" recommendations would raise $ 19 million by shifting costs to bring revenue for each class and "" Mpfft of mail in line with the cost of handling, Board Chairman Clyde S. DuPont said. Some of the commission's increases were greater than Postal Service requested for COD., insurance, money orders, registered mail and special delivery. C. O. D., now ranging at $ 1.2041.65, would increase to $ 1.25-$ 1.8- 5; insurance, 25- 8- 0 cents to 40 cent$ 1.20; money orders, 3040 ceats to 5040 cents; registered mail $ 1.25-$ 6.0- 0 to $ 2.1046.20; and special delivery 80 cents-$ 1.40to$ 1.25-$ 2.- 15. The commission also proposed new permanent rates for second, third and fourth class, but none is expected to have immediate effect. The Postal Service will put new rates into effect next Tuesday on a different basis. The Postal Service also announced it is suspending closings and consolidations of smaller post offices after July 1 while Congress considers legislation to authorize temporary increases -- in appropriations. The suspension affects 231 post offices. Insight State test for students developing Annual check for competency could be crucial JEFFERSON CITY ( AP) Public school students across Missouri will take a competency test next April if the state Board of Education accepts the examination now being developed by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Some officials also say that passing the annual test could become as important as graduating from high school. " We're going to have all kinds of debate on this and we won't have unanimity on the specific details," said Arthur Mallory, department director, who will present the proposed test to the hoard in September. " But I don't think there will be any disagreement on the basic concept" Education officials have expressed rising concern over the competency of students after they graduate from high school because of increasing evidence that they are " unable to apply what they have learned to real life, everyday situations." ( Although students in Columbia public schools consistently have scored higher than the national average on tests measuring basic skills perform-ance, local educators and pargs& have reflected the nationwide concern for competency. ( In February, the Columbia Board of Education passed a resolution making basic reading and arithmetic skills mandatory for high school graduation. Introduced by board member James Oglesby, the policy states that high school diplomas will not be awarded to students who can not read and do simple mathematics. ( Implementation of the policy is under consideration by the board. ( School board members and principals have said the resolution merely stated formally the existing practice of emphasizing basic skills in Columbia schools. ( Commenting on the possible statewide implementation of a competency test, school board President Ray Lewis said Wednesday, " Competency testing is a continual process in the Columbia school system to determine the skill level of students. But we have asked the administration to devise further means to put emphasis on basic skills." ( In tests administered to Columbia elementary school children in the middle of the 1974- 7- 5 school term, scores were above the national average and showed a small overall improvement compared with performances two years earlier. ( Additionally, junior high and high school students in Columbia have scored above the national average in various basic skills tests.) The state's competency examination, if adopted, will be given to studeats in the eighth grade rather than in high But the state's competency examination, if adopted, will be given to students in the eighth grade rather than to high school, Mallory said. That will insure that students either have the " basic tools needed for a lifetime of learning" as they enter high school or can take remedial courses to obtain those skills by the time theygraduate. Those passing the test will receive a Certificate of Competency when they get their high school diploma; at ( SeeTEST. PageHA) 68th Year - No. 238 Good Morning! It's Thursday, July J, 1 976 2 Sections 22 Page- s- 15 Cents . Tact orrfpijoto by Mary Koliatb Reflections on America Leijah Lamb, 80, says, " I don't think this country is run just right, but I wouldn't live anywhere else. " I drove a truck for 26 years and been in just about every state. I've been in five na-tions, and America is the most wonderful country in the world. " I love America. Oh, we growl and grumble. I think they should do away with inflation. Still I think a whole lot of America. We all do," t says Lamb, a World War I veteran and a resident of the Nursing Care Unit of the Veterans' Hospital in Columbia. " I think the most important thing about America is that we see our people are taken care of like these veterans' homes and hospitals," says Lamb. " All of us boys in here couldn't afford to go to a regular hospital. But we receive wonderful care here. We have an A-- l group of doctors and nurses." 6no closer to settlement9 By Don Cooper Missourian staff writer The resigned members of the Community Services Council do not appear ready to withdraw their resignations after meeting for nearly two hours Wednesday. One resigned member, who asked not to be named, said, " In my opinion we are no closer to a settlement now than we were when we resigned a month ago." Acting Community Services Director Dwight Collins met with eight of the resigned council members in the Columbia Public Library. The meeting was closed to the public and a Columbia Missourian reporter was refusedadmit- tanc- e. Dick Doyle, former council chairman, said the meeting was of public interest but did not come under the Missouri open meetings law because the resigned council members were no longer a governmental organization. The resignations, given to the city -- and the Boone County Court last month, have not been accepted by either body. Ron Galloway, a resigned council member, said " It turned out to be a general rap session. Nothing specific was decided and nothing was settled." The members of the services council turned in their resignations last month to protest City Manager Terry Novak's proposal to make the council staff city employes and the services council an advisory board to the City Council. The services council members have said they fear the council will lose its independence if it becomes a city agency. They have expressed concern over the proposal because they say it does not take the interests of the county into account. A compromise proposal was made last week to the services council by Mayor Bob Pugh over the appointment of an executive director, one of the issues prompting the resignations. Pugh proposed to' make the appointment of director a joint project of the services council and the city manager. The city manager would recommend an appointment and the services council would ratify the choice. Both would give the director instructions. Galloway said the Pugh proposal was " briefly discussed" but no final decision was made. Doyle would not comment on the specifics of the meeting but said the county role in the services council is still a major issue to resigned members. Doyle said he was concerned about the lack of county participation in the negotiations. " Mayor Pugh has been chosen to represent the city, but we have not had any contact with county officials." Last week Doyle said he was " optimistic" the services council would be back on the job this week. But Wednesday Doyle said " it will be some time" before the issue is settled. " There are a lot of things that still have to be discussed and we haven't got anything on paper yet." Doyle said he did not know what the next step in the negotiations would be. Library to get A& S' $ 70,000 By Chris Coaway Sffltssonrias staff writer Nearly half of the late- arrivin- g state funds budgeted to the University's College of Arts and Science will go to Elmer Ellis library instead because the college was unable to meet Wednesday's deadline to spend or commit the funds. ' Although warned last December to start planning, college administrators did not decide until June 23 how to spend the money. That did not leave them enough time. Owen Koeppe, provost for administration, said Wednesday that $ 70,410 of the $ 150,228 the college received will go for book and journal acquisitions for the library. Koeppe said the library has standing purchase orders for such acquisitions, which allowed library administrators to commit the funds by Wednesday's deadline, the end of the 1975- 7- 6 fiscal year. " Those funds have to be encumbered by this evening ( Wednesday) and there was no way A& S could spend the money," Koeppe said. " A& S had the first crack at it and encumbered what it could. The rules are you've got to get it encumbered." Koeppe said that to his knowledge, the College of Arts and Science is the only school or college at the Columbia campus which could not meet the deadline. The college is the largest academic division on the campus. The money is part of $ 3.58 million in withheld University funds released by Gov. Christopher S. Bond June 10. State law requires that the money be spent or committed before the end of the fiscal year. The Columbia Missourian reported June 18 that administrators in the college were unsure how they were going to spend the funds. College administrators said Friday they were under the assumption ( See A& S, Page 13A) Korshak's business friends embarrassed By Seymour M. Heron N. Y. Times Service NEW YORK Sidney R. Korshak has also become deeply involved with many large public corporations that have no Las Vegas interests. They, too, have sometimes been embarrassed when his activities were disclosed. For example, Gulf & Western's real estate subsidiary was stung by a political payoff scandal in Chicago during the early 1970s, while Korshak was serving as labor counsel. Further embarrassment resulted when the real estate subsidiary purchased, with the aid of Korshak, a small Mexican hotel that was notorious among law- enforcem- ent officers as a meeting place for high- leve- l members of the mob. Gulf & Western's troubles began in 19S7, shortly after Philip J. Levin, a New Jersey real estate entrepreneur and a friend of Korshak, purchased $ 22 million worm of the corporation's stock. Levin became president of Gulf & Western's real estate subsidiary, purchased two Chicago racetracks and named Sidney Korshak as labor tracks, Marjorie Lindheimer Everett, a prominent Chicago sportswoman, A prominent Chicago sportswoman, had fired Korshak as labor counsel In 1969, Gulf & Western decided to turn the subsidiary headed by Levin into an independent company, which eventually became known as Transnation. A year later, during bearings before the Illinois Racing Board, agents for the Illinois Bureau of Investigation testified that Transition had purchased the Mexican hotel, Acapulco Towers, which they said had been used by Meyer Lanaky, the underworld leader, to hide from law- enforcem- ent officers. Sidney Korshak is a successful labor lawyer, a multimillionaire with immense influence and con-nections and a friend of top Hollywood stars and executives. But he is also the most important link between organized crime and legitimate business in the na-tion, according to federal and state law enforcement officials. This is another in a series of ar-ticles on the double life led by Korshak. The hotel was described by the Illinois investigators as being under the management of " a nationally known gambling figure." The racing board's hearings produced unfavorable publicity in Chicago, but the board ruled that it had found no grounds to deny Levin a license to operate the two racetracks, although another state agency ultimately moved against Transnation for illegal activities linked to Korshak. In 1971, The Wall Street Journal reported that Transnation had contributed $ 100,000 in campaign gifts to various Illinois Republicans. The gifts were made while the racing board, whose members were appointed by Republican officials, was considering Levin's application for a license. After The Journal's disclosures, board members convened another hearing, and Levin testified that Korshak had been responsible for determining which Republicans were to receive the funds and for delivering the money. After a grand jury inquiry, the Illinois Liquor Control Commission ruled that some of the Transnation contributions had been illegal and fined the company $ 25,000. In his appearance before the racing ( See KORSHAK, Page 13A ) ByLyteDena& fcn Washington Star WASHINGTON The Supreme Court Wednesday reduced almost to the vanishing point the power of judges to control what the press may publish about criminal cases. Its unanimous ruling, striking down a judge's order in a mass murder case in Nebraska, made It doubtful that judges ever could issue a " gag order" that would be upheld. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger issued an opinion that spoke for a bare majority of the court, and some of its language suggested that a case might arise in which an order against so- call- ed " prejudicial publicity" would be allowed to stand. He said that the court was not " ruling out the possibility that some kinds of publicity might create such a threat to an accused person's right to a fair trial that some restraint on news stories could be Justified." However, much of- th- e rest of the opinion indicated that any such orders could be used only as a last resort, and even then only if a threat to a fair trial wats almost beyond debate. The decision dealt only with judges' attempts to control what the press may say about criminal cases before they go to trial. However, judges' power to control what the press may say about a case once a trial has started has always been considered to be more limited, if it exists at all, since criminal cases are conducted in opencourt Although there were hints in the ruling that judges might be allowed to keep the press out of any pretrial hearings in criminal cases, the court did not rule on that issue, leaving it for another time. Even while ruling mostly in favor of the press in the Nebraska case, the justices took two other actions Wednesday against newsmen: They declined to rule upon the contempt convictions of- fou- r members of the staff of the Fresno ( Calif.) Bee for their refusal to tell a trial judge where they got information that the Bee published about a grand jury investigation. Convicted of 73 counts of contempt, the two reporters and their city editor and managing editor face sentences of " unlimited duration," they said in the appeal that the justices turned aside. The court also declined to rule on an appeal by a California reporter, William T. Farr, who faces five days in jail for refusing to tell where he got information that he published about the Manson " Family" murder trial. In the Nebraska case, the Burger opinion did not spell out in any specific terms what " Jlidges would have to consider before they could get by with an order telling the press what it could or could not say about a criminal case. However, a short, separate opinion by Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. did offer a specific description of the steps a judge would have to go through before banning any kind of publicity. Since Powell's vote was necessary to make a majority of the court, his opinion presumably could control future Supreme Court rulings in this field. Powell suggested that a judge could issue an order forbidding some kinds of stories about a case before the trial opens only if he finds that the publicity " poses a high likelihood of preventing, ( See GAG, Page HA)
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Item.Transcript | UIT7 & LOWRT ST. - ' C-. LUS3I- . V KG. 65201 ST. 12- 5-- 74 1 3- c- ent postal stamp could go to 17 cents this year WASHINGTON ( UPI) The Postal Rate Commission Wednesday recommended making the now temporary 13- ce- nt mail rate " permanent," setting the stage for a possible increase to 17 cents late this year or early in 1977. Congress has made increases possible under a complex, two- ste- p procedure: Each time the commission approves new " permanent" rates, the Postal Service, after a delay, can impose " temporary" rates one third higher. The commission's recommendations must be approved by its board of governors. Approval is expected, possibly going into effect in 10 days. The new rate for a one- ounc- e, first class letter could go from 13 to 17 cents, but some insiders bet on 15 cents. The greeting card industry urged Americans to write their congressmen now before the postal rates go up. " The only way to stop postal officials from heaping another postal increase on the average mailer is to let our lawmakers know we can't tolerate higher costs," said Harry Cooper, executive director of the National Association of Greetiig Card Publishers in a statement " The cost of a first class letter is going from ridiculous to absurd." A Postal Service spokesman said the service probably would wait until 1977 before asking for more from mail- use- rs because " we first have to see what happens to pending legislation for additional temporary subsidies and weigh the impact a rate increase might have on mail volume." The present temporary rates imposed since Dec. 31 were based on breaking even under last September's costs, eroded since then by inflation. The Postal Service has an annual . budget of $ 14 billion. When the 13- ce- nt rate became effective last December, the deficit was $ 2.4 billion, and the service is losing money. Each penny of increase in the postal rate is said to generate $ 650 million in revenue. The changes in the Postal Commission's " permanent" recommendations would raise $ 19 million by shifting costs to bring revenue for each class and "" Mpfft of mail in line with the cost of handling, Board Chairman Clyde S. DuPont said. Some of the commission's increases were greater than Postal Service requested for COD., insurance, money orders, registered mail and special delivery. C. O. D., now ranging at $ 1.2041.65, would increase to $ 1.25-$ 1.8- 5; insurance, 25- 8- 0 cents to 40 cent$ 1.20; money orders, 3040 ceats to 5040 cents; registered mail $ 1.25-$ 6.0- 0 to $ 2.1046.20; and special delivery 80 cents-$ 1.40to$ 1.25-$ 2.- 15. The commission also proposed new permanent rates for second, third and fourth class, but none is expected to have immediate effect. The Postal Service will put new rates into effect next Tuesday on a different basis. The Postal Service also announced it is suspending closings and consolidations of smaller post offices after July 1 while Congress considers legislation to authorize temporary increases -- in appropriations. The suspension affects 231 post offices. Insight State test for students developing Annual check for competency could be crucial JEFFERSON CITY ( AP) Public school students across Missouri will take a competency test next April if the state Board of Education accepts the examination now being developed by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Some officials also say that passing the annual test could become as important as graduating from high school. " We're going to have all kinds of debate on this and we won't have unanimity on the specific details," said Arthur Mallory, department director, who will present the proposed test to the hoard in September. " But I don't think there will be any disagreement on the basic concept" Education officials have expressed rising concern over the competency of students after they graduate from high school because of increasing evidence that they are " unable to apply what they have learned to real life, everyday situations." ( Although students in Columbia public schools consistently have scored higher than the national average on tests measuring basic skills perform-ance, local educators and pargs& have reflected the nationwide concern for competency. ( In February, the Columbia Board of Education passed a resolution making basic reading and arithmetic skills mandatory for high school graduation. Introduced by board member James Oglesby, the policy states that high school diplomas will not be awarded to students who can not read and do simple mathematics. ( Implementation of the policy is under consideration by the board. ( School board members and principals have said the resolution merely stated formally the existing practice of emphasizing basic skills in Columbia schools. ( Commenting on the possible statewide implementation of a competency test, school board President Ray Lewis said Wednesday, " Competency testing is a continual process in the Columbia school system to determine the skill level of students. But we have asked the administration to devise further means to put emphasis on basic skills." ( In tests administered to Columbia elementary school children in the middle of the 1974- 7- 5 school term, scores were above the national average and showed a small overall improvement compared with performances two years earlier. ( Additionally, junior high and high school students in Columbia have scored above the national average in various basic skills tests.) The state's competency examination, if adopted, will be given to studeats in the eighth grade rather than in high But the state's competency examination, if adopted, will be given to students in the eighth grade rather than to high school, Mallory said. That will insure that students either have the " basic tools needed for a lifetime of learning" as they enter high school or can take remedial courses to obtain those skills by the time theygraduate. Those passing the test will receive a Certificate of Competency when they get their high school diploma; at ( SeeTEST. PageHA) 68th Year - No. 238 Good Morning! It's Thursday, July J, 1 976 2 Sections 22 Page- s- 15 Cents . Tact orrfpijoto by Mary Koliatb Reflections on America Leijah Lamb, 80, says, " I don't think this country is run just right, but I wouldn't live anywhere else. " I drove a truck for 26 years and been in just about every state. I've been in five na-tions, and America is the most wonderful country in the world. " I love America. Oh, we growl and grumble. I think they should do away with inflation. Still I think a whole lot of America. We all do," t says Lamb, a World War I veteran and a resident of the Nursing Care Unit of the Veterans' Hospital in Columbia. " I think the most important thing about America is that we see our people are taken care of like these veterans' homes and hospitals," says Lamb. " All of us boys in here couldn't afford to go to a regular hospital. But we receive wonderful care here. We have an A-- l group of doctors and nurses." 6no closer to settlement9 By Don Cooper Missourian staff writer The resigned members of the Community Services Council do not appear ready to withdraw their resignations after meeting for nearly two hours Wednesday. One resigned member, who asked not to be named, said, " In my opinion we are no closer to a settlement now than we were when we resigned a month ago." Acting Community Services Director Dwight Collins met with eight of the resigned council members in the Columbia Public Library. The meeting was closed to the public and a Columbia Missourian reporter was refusedadmit- tanc- e. Dick Doyle, former council chairman, said the meeting was of public interest but did not come under the Missouri open meetings law because the resigned council members were no longer a governmental organization. The resignations, given to the city -- and the Boone County Court last month, have not been accepted by either body. Ron Galloway, a resigned council member, said " It turned out to be a general rap session. Nothing specific was decided and nothing was settled." The members of the services council turned in their resignations last month to protest City Manager Terry Novak's proposal to make the council staff city employes and the services council an advisory board to the City Council. The services council members have said they fear the council will lose its independence if it becomes a city agency. They have expressed concern over the proposal because they say it does not take the interests of the county into account. A compromise proposal was made last week to the services council by Mayor Bob Pugh over the appointment of an executive director, one of the issues prompting the resignations. Pugh proposed to' make the appointment of director a joint project of the services council and the city manager. The city manager would recommend an appointment and the services council would ratify the choice. Both would give the director instructions. Galloway said the Pugh proposal was " briefly discussed" but no final decision was made. Doyle would not comment on the specifics of the meeting but said the county role in the services council is still a major issue to resigned members. Doyle said he was concerned about the lack of county participation in the negotiations. " Mayor Pugh has been chosen to represent the city, but we have not had any contact with county officials." Last week Doyle said he was " optimistic" the services council would be back on the job this week. But Wednesday Doyle said " it will be some time" before the issue is settled. " There are a lot of things that still have to be discussed and we haven't got anything on paper yet." Doyle said he did not know what the next step in the negotiations would be. Library to get A& S' $ 70,000 By Chris Coaway Sffltssonrias staff writer Nearly half of the late- arrivin- g state funds budgeted to the University's College of Arts and Science will go to Elmer Ellis library instead because the college was unable to meet Wednesday's deadline to spend or commit the funds. ' Although warned last December to start planning, college administrators did not decide until June 23 how to spend the money. That did not leave them enough time. Owen Koeppe, provost for administration, said Wednesday that $ 70,410 of the $ 150,228 the college received will go for book and journal acquisitions for the library. Koeppe said the library has standing purchase orders for such acquisitions, which allowed library administrators to commit the funds by Wednesday's deadline, the end of the 1975- 7- 6 fiscal year. " Those funds have to be encumbered by this evening ( Wednesday) and there was no way A& S could spend the money," Koeppe said. " A& S had the first crack at it and encumbered what it could. The rules are you've got to get it encumbered." Koeppe said that to his knowledge, the College of Arts and Science is the only school or college at the Columbia campus which could not meet the deadline. The college is the largest academic division on the campus. The money is part of $ 3.58 million in withheld University funds released by Gov. Christopher S. Bond June 10. State law requires that the money be spent or committed before the end of the fiscal year. The Columbia Missourian reported June 18 that administrators in the college were unsure how they were going to spend the funds. College administrators said Friday they were under the assumption ( See A& S, Page 13A) Korshak's business friends embarrassed By Seymour M. Heron N. Y. Times Service NEW YORK Sidney R. Korshak has also become deeply involved with many large public corporations that have no Las Vegas interests. They, too, have sometimes been embarrassed when his activities were disclosed. For example, Gulf & Western's real estate subsidiary was stung by a political payoff scandal in Chicago during the early 1970s, while Korshak was serving as labor counsel. Further embarrassment resulted when the real estate subsidiary purchased, with the aid of Korshak, a small Mexican hotel that was notorious among law- enforcem- ent officers as a meeting place for high- leve- l members of the mob. Gulf & Western's troubles began in 19S7, shortly after Philip J. Levin, a New Jersey real estate entrepreneur and a friend of Korshak, purchased $ 22 million worm of the corporation's stock. Levin became president of Gulf & Western's real estate subsidiary, purchased two Chicago racetracks and named Sidney Korshak as labor tracks, Marjorie Lindheimer Everett, a prominent Chicago sportswoman, A prominent Chicago sportswoman, had fired Korshak as labor counsel In 1969, Gulf & Western decided to turn the subsidiary headed by Levin into an independent company, which eventually became known as Transnation. A year later, during bearings before the Illinois Racing Board, agents for the Illinois Bureau of Investigation testified that Transition had purchased the Mexican hotel, Acapulco Towers, which they said had been used by Meyer Lanaky, the underworld leader, to hide from law- enforcem- ent officers. Sidney Korshak is a successful labor lawyer, a multimillionaire with immense influence and con-nections and a friend of top Hollywood stars and executives. But he is also the most important link between organized crime and legitimate business in the na-tion, according to federal and state law enforcement officials. This is another in a series of ar-ticles on the double life led by Korshak. The hotel was described by the Illinois investigators as being under the management of " a nationally known gambling figure." The racing board's hearings produced unfavorable publicity in Chicago, but the board ruled that it had found no grounds to deny Levin a license to operate the two racetracks, although another state agency ultimately moved against Transnation for illegal activities linked to Korshak. In 1971, The Wall Street Journal reported that Transnation had contributed $ 100,000 in campaign gifts to various Illinois Republicans. The gifts were made while the racing board, whose members were appointed by Republican officials, was considering Levin's application for a license. After The Journal's disclosures, board members convened another hearing, and Levin testified that Korshak had been responsible for determining which Republicans were to receive the funds and for delivering the money. After a grand jury inquiry, the Illinois Liquor Control Commission ruled that some of the Transnation contributions had been illegal and fined the company $ 25,000. In his appearance before the racing ( See KORSHAK, Page 13A ) ByLyteDena& fcn Washington Star WASHINGTON The Supreme Court Wednesday reduced almost to the vanishing point the power of judges to control what the press may publish about criminal cases. Its unanimous ruling, striking down a judge's order in a mass murder case in Nebraska, made It doubtful that judges ever could issue a " gag order" that would be upheld. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger issued an opinion that spoke for a bare majority of the court, and some of its language suggested that a case might arise in which an order against so- call- ed " prejudicial publicity" would be allowed to stand. He said that the court was not " ruling out the possibility that some kinds of publicity might create such a threat to an accused person's right to a fair trial that some restraint on news stories could be Justified." However, much of- th- e rest of the opinion indicated that any such orders could be used only as a last resort, and even then only if a threat to a fair trial wats almost beyond debate. The decision dealt only with judges' attempts to control what the press may say about criminal cases before they go to trial. However, judges' power to control what the press may say about a case once a trial has started has always been considered to be more limited, if it exists at all, since criminal cases are conducted in opencourt Although there were hints in the ruling that judges might be allowed to keep the press out of any pretrial hearings in criminal cases, the court did not rule on that issue, leaving it for another time. Even while ruling mostly in favor of the press in the Nebraska case, the justices took two other actions Wednesday against newsmen: They declined to rule upon the contempt convictions of- fou- r members of the staff of the Fresno ( Calif.) Bee for their refusal to tell a trial judge where they got information that the Bee published about a grand jury investigation. Convicted of 73 counts of contempt, the two reporters and their city editor and managing editor face sentences of " unlimited duration," they said in the appeal that the justices turned aside. The court also declined to rule on an appeal by a California reporter, William T. Farr, who faces five days in jail for refusing to tell where he got information that he published about the Manson " Family" murder trial. In the Nebraska case, the Burger opinion did not spell out in any specific terms what " Jlidges would have to consider before they could get by with an order telling the press what it could or could not say about a criminal case. However, a short, separate opinion by Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. did offer a specific description of the steps a judge would have to go through before banning any kind of publicity. Since Powell's vote was necessary to make a majority of the court, his opinion presumably could control future Supreme Court rulings in this field. Powell suggested that a judge could issue an order forbidding some kinds of stories about a case before the trial opens only if he finds that the publicity " poses a high likelihood of preventing, ( See GAG, Page HA) |