NEW YORK, March 14 UPlÛÓStock market turnover was at about the lowest level of the year today in an indecisive session which found prices irregularly higher at the close.</br></br>The market was higher at the start, continuing yesterdayÛªs fair rise. But then profittaking got to work and many gains melted | away.</br></br>Prices were mixed most of the day and | trading was so quiet that it looked as if 1 sales would be at their lowest point in the year. Volume picked up in the last half hour, however, as coppers and other non-ferrous metals paced a rallying tendency which put the list definitely on the upside by the close, but not by much.</br></br>Turnover totaled 1,580,000 shares, about the same as on Feb. 26 which was the quietest session since 1,390,000 shares changed hands last Oct. 23.</br></br>Continued doubt about the Middle East and also about the prospects for cuts in the national budget kept many investors on the sidelines. Wall Street observers said.