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NEWS-SOURCE BILL PASSED IN JERSEY; Protective Measure Called the Strongest in U.S. -Cahill Expected to Sign News-Source Bill Is Passed in Jersey

Date: 15 December 1972

By RONALD SULLIVANSpecial to The New York Times

Bill providing protection for news sources, sponsored by Sen J H Wallwork, wins final legis approval from NJ Sen and Assembly on Dec 14; bill would give reporters right to refuse to disclose any confidential news source to investigative body and would continue to protect newsman even if he left employ of news media at later date; Assembly passed bill 63 to 4 after amendment that would have limited its protection was rejected; bill was returned to Sen, which voted final approval, 32 to 0; amendment that prompted return of bill to Sen was that protection should apply to news source or information whether or not news was finally published; bill gained major momentum in Sen when reporter P J Bridge (Newark Evening News) was jailed for 20 days for refusing to disclose source of article; Assemblyman W K Dickey holds bill is 'strongest news-source protection law' in US; Gov Cahill is expected to sign bill into law; Assemblyman D J Friedland, in Dec 14 debate, says that free govt is only present when there is free press

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Why Grant Farr Immunity?

Date: 16 December 1972

MORTIMER H. SMOLKA

Mortimer SMOLKA

M H Smolka lr on Nov 17 ed on jailing of reporter W T Farr (Los Angeles Herald Examiner), who refused to disclose source of information for article he wrote on C Manson during Manson murder trial; holds that when reporter risks chance of causing mistrial and allowing 'reprehensible defendants like Manson & Company' to have opportunity to plead double jeopardy for 'sake of a lousy scoop,' reporter 'should rot in jail for at least 5 yrs, or talk'

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Government Discloses 2d Tap in Ellsberg Case

Date: 15 December 1972

By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times

US Govt on Dec 14 files updated electronic surveillance affidavit as it was ordered to do by Dist Ct Judge W M Byrne Jr in Pentagon papers case; affidavit reveals that Govt had 2d wiretap involving member of defense team; content of wiretap is given to judge in secret, as was content of 1st; Byrne will rule by Dec 19 on whether contents have relevance to case; content of 1st wiretap is believed to have been conversation between law firm of Rabinowitz, Boudin & Standard and either Chilean Govt or Cuban Govt; firm represents both govts in US and L B Boudin, 1 of its partners, is 1 of Ellsberg's defense attys; defense attys say that if Byrne tells them that 2d wiretap has no relevance to Pentagon papers case, they will not again attempt to bring matter to Sup Ct; have until 9:30 AM tomorrow to file motions challenging jury selection process in case

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Los Angeles Times Is Ordered To Give Court Tape of Interview

Date: 15 December 1972

By WALTER RUGABERSpecial to The New York Times

Los Angeles Times is ordered on Dec 14 to produce in ct its tape recordings of int with A C Baldwin 3d, principal Govt witness in Watergate bugging case; US Dist Ct Chief Judge J J Sirica approves subpoenas for paper's Washington reprs J Lawrence, J Nelson and R J Ostrow; Lawrence says Times will oppose making available tapes; holds policy has been to oppose subpoenas and that it will oppose this one on grounds of First Amendment's free press guarantee; E H Hunt Jr's attys argue that they need tapes for possible inpeachment of Baldwin when he appears as prosecution witness; reporters in recent cases have been found in contempt of ct for refusing to identify sources of articles, but in this case Baldwin was named in newspapers; Baldwin has said that on advice of counsel, he destroyed his own recordings of int, and defense argued it has been forced to seek evidence from only remaining source; Times is expected to file motion to quash subpoenas, giving it opportunity to speak for itself on matter because Judge Sirica has refused to hear its position before subpoenas were issued; pretrial conf coincides with return date, and 3 newspapermen could be held in contempt if judge refuses to quash subpoenas

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Struck New Haven Papers Stop Payment for Fringes

Date: 16 December 1972

Spokesman for striking pressmen at New Haven Register and Journal-Courier repts on Dec 14 that newspaper has stopped paying medical ins premiums for workers; Printing Pressmen Local 75 pres F Rak says union will pick up payment for for group life and med ins to keep policies in force

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Reporter in Contempt Case Being Held in Isolation

Date: 15 December 1972

By EARL CALDWELLSpecial to The New York Times

Officials at Los Angeles County jail rept on Dec 14 that state law demands that reporter W T Farr (Los Angeles Times), who was jailed for refusing to disclose source of information about C Manson 'family' murders that he used in article that appeared in Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, be separated from other prisoners because he is being held in civil contempt and not on criminal charge; Farr is being held in isolation in 8-ft by 12-ft room with no window and no bars; says in int that jailers have treated him well; Superior Ct Judge C H Older, who ordered Farr's jailing, has ordered that Farr be given no special privileges and as result he cannot have typewriter, mingle with any prisoners or have books unless they come directly from public library; Farr was not given specified jail term and unless Older relents Farr's incarceration could last for yrs

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News Source Law Drafted

Date: 15 December 1972

Repr S B McKinney says on Dec 14 that his staff is preparing draft of 'shield law' to protect newsmen and their sources

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Coast Newsmen File Suit To Free Jailed Reporter

Date: 16 December 1972

M L Lieder (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner), J A Barker (KABC) and R Villasener, retired Los Angeles Times reporter, file suit on Dec 14 contending that Los Angeles County is spending public funds illegally to keep reporter W T Farr in jail; contends money is being spent illegally because Farr was jailed in violation of his const rights for refusing to disclose source of article he wrote about C Manson murders

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Sicily Court's Ban on Newsman Brings Wide Protests in Italy

Date: 16 December 1972

By PAUL HOFMANNSpecial to The New York Times

Judge in Palermo, Italy, finds E Fidora, assoc ed of newspaper Lora, guilty of having libeled dead sulphur mine owner by writing that he whipped 10- to 12-yr-old boys who worked in his mines; mine owner, whose heirs brought suit, was investigated in '51 after child worker died allegedly as result of whippings and other brutality in his Sicilian mine; thousands of children in Southern Italy still reptdly work in mines illegally, rather than attending school; Fidora is sentenced to 1 yr in prison and prohibited from practicing his profession for same period

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One Candle and Three Colors; One Candle With Three Colors Among Ideas Patented in Week

Date: 16 December 1972

By STACY V. JONESSpecial to The New York Times

Stacy JONESSpecial

B E Dzevitsky and 3 other Soviet inventors are granted patent for method of producing diamonds synthetically by vapor deposits on seed crystals; process, which can be used to increase size and mass of diamond dust and to enlarge bigger crystals, described

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