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Pressing fher case in the capital By STEVE LAWRENCE The State Liquor Authority has begun checking stores, in-the metropolitan area for illegal price cutting-, after a News survey-showed several, apparent violations of the state minimum liquor, price regulations. The News chcokJ prices en 12 brands liquor in 100 stores in the five boroughs, Long Island, New Jersey and Westchester Prices varied consid-'; erablybut the lowest prices for seven of the 12 brands were below SLA-au-thorized minim urns. Tne authority posts minimum prices each month that include a 12 markup. Those are the lowest legal prices any store can charge. But it is common knowledge in the industry that some stores routinely violate the law.

In part, the state's minimum price law was designed to keep large chains from putting smaller neighborhood znfthnts out of business. But after The News price survey appeared last Sunday, nearly -a dozen small storeown-era from all over the metropolitan area called to complain that the SLA had not been adequately enforcing the law. "We complain and complain about these guys cutting prices, but the SLA just says 'We'll look into it," said one Brooklyn store owner who didn't want his name used. "Going to check prices" "We have gotten many similar calls end we are going to check out these prices," said Lawrence Gedda chief of the SLA's city office. Stores in violation can be fined, have their licenses suspended or can be closed completely.

News reporters found fifths of Beef-aters Gin, for example, selling for $6.89. 20 cents below the state minimum of $7.09. Dewar's scotch was selling for $7.25 a fifth when tne legal minimum was $7.75. -Koch: ffiie fabrenbeaf or else D'll foible ttlie pool i 7 iff Jwf -v-v AP photo Farmers burn copies of Washington Post outside newspaper's offices yesterday after tractorcade snarled traf fic in drive from Mall to building. The 100-tractor, two-hour demonstration protested Post editorials critical of farmer tactics and demands for higher produce prices.

John Glover 12 years with the bureau too expensive. I will ask the commissioner about this." The pool, now temporarily closed for boiler repairs, is housed in a run-down building more than 30 years old. Community leaders jEnd residents, including Manhattan Republican Chairman Vincent Albano have been fighting for more than two years to have conditions in the building corrected. "I've gotten hundreds of complaints about the pool and I've brought them to the city, oat they've always fallen, on deaf ears," said Albano. ''I talked to the mayor about this-directly and he was cooperative, but I always got slowed down in the Parks Department.

Can you imagine a business being conducted this way? I'd sell my stock right away." Albano objected to the possibility that the pool might be closed and said that it should be fixed properly. According to Davis, the city has obtained federal matching funds to overhaul the pool completely. "They should get the job done quickly," Albano said. "The pool Is too valuable a facility to just sit there dosed. There are many people in this community, especially elderly people, who jould just love to use it.

They should be able to." By ARTHUR BROWNE Declaring that "we are not going to run pools for polar bears," Mayor Koch said yesterday that he will order a city indoor swimming pool in Manhattan closed if it can't be heated and maintained properly. Since December, constant boiler problems have kept the Asser Levy Pool at 23d, St. east of First Ave. so cold that virtually no swimmers have dared to take the plunge. Yet the Parks Department has kept a fully paid staff of eight on duty there a staff that passes much of its time bundled up around heaters.

On Thursday, Parks Commissioner Gordon Davis said that the pool had been kept open and staffed until then because its water temperature has generally not dropped below 50 degrees. To the mayor, however, 50 degrees seemed more than just a bit cold for the Australian crawl. A two-year fight "Polar bears have got to get their own oceans," Koch said "If, for whatever reasons, we are not able to provide a temperature fit for normal people to swim, we won't keep the pool open. It is Pick 1st black to head FBI field office Find few victims need heroin 2q kill Guard on hand for Mardi Gras if cops strike New Orleans (AP) Hundreds of riot-trained guardsmen and state police moved into New Orleans yesterday in case police struck for the second time in a week. The move was made on the eve of the start of the Mardi Gras festival As 500 guardsmen and state police arrived and set up camp on orders of Louisiana Gov.

Edwin Edwards, the police union said arbitration had become the central issue. It warned that a strike vote would be taken if the city did not agree to submit the dispute to arbitration. "It is arbitration or nothing," said Vincent Bruno, president of the police union, the Policemen's" Association of Louisiana, which is affiliated with the Teamsters. The union has offered a no-strike guarantee for the whole Carnival season if the city agrees to take any deadlocked issue to arbitration, but city officials said that would be illegal. Keflect another demand Mayor Ernest Morial also rejected a union demand that the City Council and the Civil Service Commission meet with union negotiators to discuss matters they control.

Previous meetings have been with officials under the mayor. Morial had said Thursday that he would cancel this year's Mardi Gras pa-" rades but later said he would wait before making a decision on whether to caned the first parades of the festival, scheduled to begin today. Sources close to the bargaining said the main issues are salaries, fringe benefits and requirement that policemen take lie detector tests as part of investigations into official conduct. A police strike last weekend lasted 30 hours, and fewer than 300 of the city's 1,500 policemen were on their jobs. It ended only after the city agreed to recognize the teamsters-affiliated onion as the sole bargaining agent for officers.

fl result of the success of St. Christopher's. Heroin cannot now be prescribed legally in this country. However, government-funded studies are being conducted at the Memorial Sloane-Ket-tering Hospital in New York and Georgetown University Hospital in Washington to determine whether this policy should be changed. By JOSEPH VOLZ Washington (News Bureau) The FBI, frequently criticized by civil rights leaders in the days when J.

Edgar Hoover headed the bureau, has named the first black to head an FBI field office. He is John D. Glover, 40, an FBI agent for 12 years will take charge of the Milwaukee office replacing J. Gerard Hogan, 48, who recently completed a 30-day suspension imposed for supervising illegal FBI break-ins against Weather Underground figures in New York City. Hogan will become a section chief in the records management division at FBI Headquarters here.

Once worked in Newark Glover, now an inspector at FBI headquarters, is one of 171 blacks out of 7,700 FBI agents. He was assistant special agent In charge of the Newark office before being assigned to headquarters. FBI Director William Webster has made a concerted effort in his year in office to increase the number of blacks in the bureau. Hoover, who died in 1972, failed to adopt a minority recruitment program throughout his 48 years as director. Hoover, angered by the civil rights activities of the Rev.

Martin Luther King ordered a years-long campaign of wiretaps, buggings and harassment against King, who was slain in 1968. Office in charge of state No one was ever disciplined for that campaign, which was part of the FBI's counterintelligence program during the 1960s and early 1970s. The Milwaukee office, one of 59 FBI field offices, covers the entire state of Wisconsin. The promotion makes Glover the first black on the career path for an executive post at ters. fv'f By JUDITH RANDAL Of The News Washington Bureau Bethesda, Md.

(Special) Only a few of the many terminal cancer patients in need of pain killers require heroin, while the vast majority are made just as comfortable by morphine, a British study has shown. The study "was conducted at St. Christopher's Hospice, a London institution for the dying, and was discussed here yesterday at a meeting held by the National Institute on Aging. The institute is a part of the government's National Institutes of Health. No difference noted Dr.

Thomas West, deputy medical director at St. Christopher's, told the meeting that 45 of his patients, who had been switched from heroin to morphine" as an experiment had experienced no ill -effects. When the patients were given enough medication to prevent pain, neither they, nor the nurses caring for them, noticed any difference, he said. West emphasized, however, that there are cancer patients for whom the "biological and pharmacological properties" of heroin are preferable. Dr.

William Fische, deputy medical director of Hospice Inc. of New Haven, agreed that "in rare cases heroin is better'Mhaa its derivative morphine. Hospice. Inc. is one of several facilities in this that Opened as a Indict Bronx mom in death of tots A pregnant Bronx mother was Indicted yesterday for criminally negligent homicide in the deaths of three of her children, who were scalded last Jan.

14 by radiator steam in a room she allegedly locked them in so she could attend a party. The mother, Luz Cruz, 24. of 163 W. 170th allegedly left the children aged 1, 2 and 5 unattended in a locked room for eight hours while she and her husband, Raymun-do, 28, attended a party at a friend's house 10 blocks away. Police said that while the parents were gone one of the children played with a radiator steam valve, causing an explosion that turned the small room into a chamber "worse than a Turkish bath.".