The new law was brought before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency by John E. Ingersell, director of the Justice Department's Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.

Under the present law, first offenses for possession are a felony, and convictions call for mandatory jailings of 5-20 years and possible $25,000 fines. The new law would substitute a possible jailing of one year and a maximum fine of up to two years and possible $10,000 fines.

Sellers would be faced with five-year terms and $15,000 fines for a first offense. Should they be identified as "professional criminals," they would incur mandatory sentences of 5-20 years for a first offense and 10-40 years for a second offense.

Baby Suit Backfires

MILWAUKEE, Wise.- The mother of a baby girl, a woman whose birth control pills turned out to be cold tablets, had her $250,000 lawsuit dismissed by a judge who said the result was "a joyous event."

In dismissing the suit Judge Ronald A. Drechsler declared, "The natural birth of a healthy child, with no injury to the mother, is universally considered as a joyous event." He added that he was convinced that the child "certainly is not unloved."

The proud parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Szczerbiak, said that they had not wanted any more children and charged in their suit that the druggist filled the birth control prescription incorrectly.

Built-In Bias

BOSTON-"The Peace Corps is lily-white, and we've got to change that," Peace Corps director Joe Blatchford said in a radio interview Monday.

Negroes applying for the Peace Corps have been three times less likely to be selected than whites, Blatchford said. He cited both the elaborate 16-page application form and the written reference system as unintentionally discriminating against minority group members who haven't made a career of filling out forms."

Application forms are now being simplified, and in the future, references will be obtained in person or by phone when necessary, Blatchford said.

He will be leading a discussion on Peace Corps problems in Leverett House at 8 p.m. tonight.