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Newspaper Page Text4 A "Everyone i n"So u t her n O reVon Reaili TheMilTrlbune' Pubiisnca Daily except Saturday by MKUKORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir Jit.. Ph. 772-0141 ROBERT W RUHX. Editor HERB GllEY Advurtislin Manner GERALD 1 LATHAM. Bui. Mr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR.. Mni. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRV CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ER1CKSON. circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered at second class matter at Medtnrd. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 18117 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance, Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 moa. 800 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa. 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford. AshUnd. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er, Talent and on motor routea Dally and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Dallv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.30 Carrie, and Dealers Copy 10c Alt JTernisjCash In Advance "Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leaied Wire U.P.I Telephoto Newipicturea ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU- Advertising Repreaentative; NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC1. ATES. Offices in New York, Chl caco Detroit. San Franclico, Lol Angelca Seattle. Portland. Denver NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION EDITORIAL jfmnnn.'.iiiiiti Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the (ilea of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Julv 17. 1952 (Thursday) California-Oregon Pipeline announces it will lay a new 1113-mile oil ' pipeline from Crescent City, Calif., to Med ford. A 21-year-old Jacksonville man confined to a hospital at Corvallis as a result of an en counter with a huge black bear in Lobster valley. 20 YEARS AGO July 17, 1942 (Friday) New buildings at Camp White are completed for the use of Col. Owen R.' Mere dith, commanding officer. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The stale is willing to contribute the old battleship Oregon to the scrap metal drive, under certain conditions. It the same avid passion to collect scrap iron for our own use, as was expended In harvest ing it for avid sale to Japan a few years back, can be mustered, maybe the hal lowed hull can be spared such an inglorious fate." 30 YEARS AGO July 17, 1932 (Sunday) Local man is jailed for Operating a "beer joint" In the Bcrrydale district; 20 gallons of beer mash, 170 pint bot ties and 100 empty bottles seized by prohibition agents. Lloyd Osburn, author and the son-in-law of Robert Louis Stevenson, visits In Medford en route to a Rogue river fishing trip. 40 YEARS AGO July 17, 1922 (Monday) Funeral services are set for Miss Julia Fielder, a long time teacher in the Medford school system. Ashland man promoting construction of sight-seeking road to top of Mt. Ashland. SO YEARS AGO July 17. 1912 (Wednesday) The Indian Refining com pany of California, Standard Oil's greatest rival, purchases a site near the Crater Lake junction for a distributing plant in ilir Medford vicinity. The city council decides to pnvc West 1 1th st. Whal's Your I.Q.7 Nina or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five of six is good. 1. What country recently declared 1 1 s independence from France? 2. What was the first ma jor leacue team to win a World Series'.' 3. Was Becky Thatcher the sweetheart of lluck Finn, or of Tom Sawyer'' 4. Complete this tillp wilh lha name of a city; "Lloyd's of " 5. On which side of a man's hat Is (he bow? 6. Roes the term open hearth suggest to you copper refining, steel making, or mead making? 7. Lobsters are correctly classified as fish, mammals or crustaceans? 8. Israel compares In ie to which U. S. State? 9. In what city is the Uni versity of Colorado? 10. Generals Meade and Lee, respectively, command ed the Union and Confeder ate armies at what great bat tle? Answers: 1, Algeria. 2. Red Sox (Over Pittsburgh in 1903). 3. Tom Sawyer. 4. London. S. Lefl. 8, Steel. 7. Crustaceans. . New Jersey. 8. Boulder. 10, Gettysburg. NATIONAL TUESDAY. JULY 17. 1962 The Biggest Broadcast The wires hummed with the technical data involved in the launching of the world's first ac tive repeater communications satellite. The politi cal considerations, centering on whether owner ship of a communications satellite system should be public or private, were discussed at length in Congress. Transcending either the technical or the po litical stories of Telstar as the American Tele phone and Telegraph satellite which the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched from Cape Canaveral is known is the real sig nificance of space communications. President Kennedy may have put it as well as any one can when he told the United Nations General Assembly in 1961 that "linking the whole world in telegraph, telephone, radio and tele vision" would help to prevent "the cold reaches of the universe" from becoming a new area of "an even colder war." CUROPE will be given an early preview of what " a world-wide communciations satellite system will mean. With the experimental satellite in orbit, and after domestic demonstrations and technical tests have been completed, the over seas program begins. U. S. television networks will send to the satellite, live, about 12 minutes of news events from this country, Canada, and possibly Mexico. Telstar in turn will reamplify the transmission powerfully and beam it to Europe. The Eurovision network will send a similar program to this continent through Telstar. Both telecasts are possible because Telstar is an "ac tive" satellite, carrying both reception and trans mission eouinment. Previous passive satellites, like Echo, acted as sound "mirrors," bouncing radio signals from one point to another. ...... THERE is no argument as to the desirability of a oifctom nf north, cnfnllitne r'unnhln nf rolnv- C Ky.JI.WIll V Will VI, ing voice messages and earth, linking the nations communications system. telephone facilities alone 1965, if not before. Nor is there any basic argu ment about the feasibility, or the cost. But there is a dark side to space communica tions which was hinted at in President Kennedy's U. N. message. As few as three so-called syn chronous satellites, orbiting high in space at the same speed as the earth's rotation, would supply ground military forces with relatively jam-proof communications. There are great potential profits in a space communications network. This is the logical reason that A. T. & T. is willing to pay NASA $6 million for two launhces, the second probably in the autumn. , . But there also are those important military considerations. This is certainly one reason for Russia's willingness to sign a recent U.S.-U.S.S.R. agreement on a five-part program of space coop eration. E.R.R. Pensions and Punishment Technically at least, Court justice who has spiracy in an attempt to comes eligible tor pension at the close or business hours on Wednesday. The bizarre courtroom farce goes like this: Justice ,1. Vincent Keogli June lb was con victed by a Manhattan federal court jury of con spiring to obstruct justice by a attempting to in fluence the sentencing of a Brooklyn federal court defendant. A $22,500 bribe was involved. Two days later Judge Keogh who is still draw ing his '$3-1,500 a year salary filed for retire ment. Unless the courts hold that he automatical ly forfeited his office when the jury brought in its guilty verdict, he becomes eligible for a pen sion, variously estimated at from $S,30() to up wards of $20,000 a year, 30 days after filing. The New York Board of Estimate is expected to rule on the pension July 26. IDOOH's sentencing was postponed to Aug. 2, "well after the qualifying date for the pension, on the plea that his trial attorney was exhausted. He faces a five-year prison term and a $10,000 fine. One question is whether Keogh automatically loses his rights at the time of the verdict or at the time of the sentencing. Ironically, one of his attorneys, as a former city corporation counsel, presented an opinion in another case that "the forfeiture of office automatically occurred when the jury returned its verdict of conviction." State Controller Arthur Levitt has said that the pension is a contractual obligation ami that the state must pay its share of the pension Keogh is paid by both state and city regardless of whether Keogh was in or out of office at the time of conviction. Levitt is a Democrat. So is Keogh. So is Keogh 's brother, Hep. Eugene J. Keogh, powerful Brooklyn Democrat and friend of President Kennedy. A FEDERAL employee under the so-called 'Alger Hiss Act loses pension rights upon conviction of a felony or a crime against the gov ernment. The crime of which Keogh was convict ed is a felony under federal law, but is only a misdemeanor under the state code. Bills to deny pensions to officials convicted of violation of their trust have been introduced in the New York legislature in recent sessions but never have pass ed. If the court rules Keogh is not entitled to a pension, he would receive, with interest, pay ments he male to the pension fund. E.R.R. , images to any point on ot the world in a space Existing transatlantic will be overloaded by a New York Supreme been convicted of con fix a federal judge be "You Think We'll ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although " under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is oilen the case. Offer a Prayer To the Editor: Spiritual Void, Friday, June 20. Thank you, G.H.B., from ihe heart of one out f 180 million, for your summation of the Chi cago meetings of Billy Gra ham. It seems to me the percent age declaring their intentions to surrender their lives to Christ was gratifying indeed. In the days of the Apostles, after the Holy Spirit had come upon them, 3,000 were con verted at one time and 5,000 at another time (Acts 2:41 4:4). But David had this to say In his examination of the hearts of men: "Of men I have found one in a thou sand," Keel. 7:28. Then again, Noah, in the days before the flood, preached that genera tion though only his own fam ily were saved because of faith. So we understand it takes faith beside hearing to accomplish Salvation, 2nd. Pet. 2:5. If Mr. Graham was used of the Lord in the Salvation of one soul, a miracle has been performed and we should glorify God, and praise His name. Instead of one Billy Gra ham, there should be thou sands of holy men sounding the alarm and preparing the people for the coming of the Lord, Jesus Christ, for the day is drawing near: "Blow the trumpet in Zion, sound the alarm in my holy moun tain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand. Joel 2:1. The prophet Isaiah pictures our day this way: "The earth is defiled under the Inhabi tants thereof: because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, brok en the everlasting covenant." What a witness this nation could be if we were working with the "Faith once deliver ed unto the Saints." That faith is now so clouded with per fidy and shrouded in error, lhat It has no power when propounded. Failure is the re sult, and defeat, Ihe end. Isaiah says further, "My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me, Ihe treacherous deal ers have dealt treacherously: yea the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously Fear and the pit and the snare are upon thee. O inhahi- j tants of the earth." j Lot us offer a prayer for , Billy Graham and all others who show their love for us by effort. .lames J. Williams, P.O. Box 441. Jacksonville, Ore. Indicate Real Progress To the Editor: Sugarbects are grown on several of writ er's ranches. Report comes: "Sugar tonnage per acre, 195H, 400 lbs.. HIS!). 6910 lbs." One reason: better-bred seed. I Simultaneously from an Al- j lantic Coast company in which ! wriler is stockholder: "Now j every twelfth employee Is In research. " Do not above two items Indicate real progress ' j Of course, there is danger in overconfidence. One recalls a j golfer that blames fate (or all I else, but feels personally re- ! sponsible when he makes a hole in one I r.ni ill. leiii. v . kind be costlv?: "Mv Bonnie re- ,hr"' lm,d nish Premature membered her g.istank. She , graves. If Russia should drop unscrewed the cap for to see. I b0l" "'i murder 36.000 She 'lighted a match to dis-' Americans, quick and sure re cover. Oh! Bring back my 1 P"al would be Ihe result Bonnie to me." , ct ,na ninny Americans who Can any kind of illiteracy wre smokers died last year be more costly than the liio- of lung cancer logical Illiteracy of some ill j Some who read this letter high office'' Our lawmakers j will scoff and belittle the increase taxes yearly. Howl wriler. If our Lord were to often do they question why walk our streets todiiy and wr breed so many social adequate?? One here recently ! Ever Get Together?" jailed was father of 24, some by his own daughter. Man survive in business only by breeding from the best - certainly not from the worst. C. M. Goethe, 3731 Tea st Sacramento, Calif. Expresses Appreciation To the Editor: Please allow me to express my apprecia tion and thanks to O.S. and Mr. Vroman for the generous and factual story of the pub lic schools of over 50 years ago, especially the one at Crawfordsville, Ore. To say I was proud of the work prepared for the World's Fair by the pupils of that school and that I am proud to possess that work in book form today, is putting it mildly. To correct what might he a wrong impression, let me say the primary grades were taught by a very efficient teacher, Miss Edna Robnett, and the exhibit work of those grades was prepared under her training. The number of pupils in grades 5-8 inclusive was near 40 not 20 as stated in the story, through no fault of the reporter. The fault was all mine. Again, thanks! J. W. Shirley, 247 South Second si., Central Point Cause of Wreck To the Editor: The facts have now come to light re garding the cause of the tragic Northern Pacific passenger train wreck in Montana. One life, lhat of a child, was snuffed out. ' But God in Heaven who sees even a sparrow fall docs not turn a deaf car to the ones left to sorrow. There is a day of reckoning coming. The more than 200 passengers who were injured know by now the true cause of the wreck. A (UPI) dispatch published in a July 12 Ashland news paper tells us that the en gineer and fireman had been drinking. One witness said ''' vneincer had a "repu tation o: being a consistent drinker." In fact one witness sairj she 'advised Ihe engineer al a bar lo go home and sober up " She quoted him as savins "We don't have to steer it (the train) just push the buttons. I could do it In my sleep." It seems that we Americans are becoming hardened and calloused. Tragedies like the one I've mentioned cause little concern. There are some who read these linos who will per haps shortly be drinking in front of their children. Too many are like the onng man to whom I had just shown a cancerous hu man lung in a glass jar. He gave a sneer, flinned out aiKiii f.-.-,,,, nmutH QhHrinn cigarette and said. "I got to i die some riav anvw;iv By the way, In 1914. 3 bil lion cigarettes wire manu factured in tin- U.S. In 1959. 485 billion were made, well over a billion a day. In spite of the fact that Eng land is warning its citizens of ' the terrible consequences of continued smoking, An.eri- ",p coo.mumg on in ir-iraiM His voice againl Ihe I evils of the day, the majority I MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Congo Crisis Off Front Pages, Refuses To Go Away; Tshombe By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst With only occasional excep tions, the Congo crisis for many weeks had been off the front pages. But despite the hopes of prac tically all of those involv ed it refused to go away. So f a r as the United Nations was the fly in the o i n t - Ntw.om ment contin ued to be Moise Tshombe, the talkative and changeable president of secessionist Ka tanga Province. Two military attempts to force Katanga's reunion with the Congo's central govern ment in Leopoldville had failed. So also had many months of diplomatic negotiations in which the wily Tshombe would make promises and then blithely denounce them would fail to heed His plead ing voice. Our Blessed Saviour is now preparing a Home for all who will heed his entreaties. God grant that It will be our pray er to so order our lives so as to be ready to meet our Redeemer unashamed. Henry Johnson Jr., 2315 Highway 66, Ashland, Ore. Reply to Letter To the Editor: In the June 29 issue of the M.M.T., you published my letter of the pensioners aid plan. At the same time I sent a similar let ter to Edwin R. Durno in Washington. Enclosed is his reply to me. I thought this might interest your readers and show them that our representatives do care. Mrs. Owen L. Hardcsty Route I, Box 240 Rogue River, Ore. -O- Dcar Mrs. Hardcsty: I appreciate receiving your letter of June 25 and to know that you approve of my vote in opposition to the adminis tration's farm bill. I have noted with much in terest your suggestion that surplus agricultural commo dities be made available to our older citizens who are trying to make ends meet on Social Security income. I am taking the liberty of forward ing your idea to the appropri ate government authorities in the administrative branch, and will also discuss it with col leagues who are on the agri culture committee and great ly concerned about the sur plus problem. Again, thank you r tak ing the time to write to me, and with all good wishes I am Edwin R. Durno, M.C. I 1 : In the Day's News By FRANK What's the news today? Here's a sample: WASHINGTON: Rcpre ' sentative John P. Saylor (R-Pa.) doesn't think it's nec essary to send American co medians overseas on good-will trips. He said in a statement: "Foreign nations already arc laughing at America's foreign aid program." Congressman Saylor was referring to the recent con troversial trip to Afghanistan by a troupe of American en tertainers led by comedian Joey Adams. ANOTHER sample: Crystal Lake, 111: Mc- Henry county state's attorney Richard Cross admitted to an angry county board of super visors today that he spent S3. 190 Irving to collect a SI 17.07 personal properly tax wn( has moved to Madison. I Wis. ! Thai guy is wasting his tal enls, He deserves a place in JFK's New Frontiers brain trust - - which is burning the midnight oil hatching up fas cinating new ways to spend ourselves rich JjROM Tokyo: Shigeru Yoshida-Japan's elder statesman, age 83. re ' garded as the most powerful behind the scenes figure in ' Japan - is Just back from a j world tour. He says: ! "Japan should quit grum bling about atomic weapons land be prepared to ACQUIRE iTHEM HERSELF, if neces sary " 'IM1ATS at least realistic rca 1 sontng The bombs wr dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were terrible, to be 1 once back in the safety of his own capital at Elisabethville. There the situation stood as of the 11th of this month. Illegal Parade On the 11th, C.000 of Tshombe's soldiers marched in an Elisabethville parade marking the second anniver sary of Katanga's secession. In the months of negotia Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald THE PRESIDENT'S PREDICAMENT Washington - The present state of the argument about heavy, immediate tax cuts speaks vol umes about President Ken nedy's diffi cult political p r edicament. Here we have a national economy that is worrisome 1 y lagging . Here we have Alsop a remedy for the lag which has strong support on the right as well as on the left, and also offers a most agree able divident to the voters in an election year. Here we have an Adminis tration daily more inclined to adopt this remedy, and a President daily more willing to listen to those around him who urge tax cuts, despite his own inbred liscal conserva tism. What then is the obsta cle? qiHE obstacle is the Con gress. If the President now recommends tax cuts whether for one year or to endure permanently, his rec ommendation must first go to the House Ways and Means Committee; it then must be approved by the House; it then must work its way through the already overload ed Senate Finance Commit tee; after that it must be ap proved by the Senate; and it will only become law when the conference report is voted by both chambers. Congress as a whole is will ing enough to cut taxes. But the all-powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, is far from eager to receive a tax cutting rec ommendation from the White House at this time. As for the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Harry F. Byrd of Vir ginia, he has just called the U. S. Chamber of Commerce names usually reserved for Americans for Democratic Action, because the U. S. Chamber came out for tax cuts. In fact, Sen. Byrd, in person, is the principal obsta cle to a Presidential decision to ask for tax cuts now. TITOST probably such a de 'cision will be made in the end; and after considerable fuss, the tax cuts will most probably be voted. But con sider the implications of the mere fact that President Ken nedy is now hesitating to rec ommend an economic cure which is pure jam with no JENKINS sure. Tut, for that matter, so were the conventional bombs the Japs dropped on us at Pearl Harbor. The difference is a question of degree. The atom bombs killed mnrp nnnrtln Ac In II,, inhumanity of it, it's pretty hard to say which is worse being killed bv an atom bomb or by a conventional bomb. We'll never have any direct evidence, because nobody can ever come back from t h e shadowy other side of the river to testify. BUT if Because we were bombed at Pearl Harbor we had re nounced the use of bombs We would be in a bad way. War is grim business. That is what elder statesman and former premier Yoshida is trying to say to his country- mrn SPEAKING of war. here's a couole of statistics' In World War I, it cost us S12.000 to kill one enemy. By World War II. the cost of killing one enemy had risen to $75,000. The authority for these fig- ,irf- i WlM-H-V T T,flfl, nn. of the better of our syndicat- mo"e unit parked In front ed columnist j. ' of the Central Point city hall' !an(j jjbrarv CONCLUSION: ! " ' A ,, . The cost of living has! f5'"8 U"J risen fantastically. But, if I m" 1' D" r?,Kn!.pJ Taylor's figures are accurate. the cost of dying has risen even more rapidly. HASSAN PLArTrviSIT Rabat. Morocco -4'PI1- King Hassan II will visit the United States in March, according to a foreign ministry announce ment, here. An official com- munioue said the exact date i for the visit will be set later. I tions, the U.N. command had seemed to lean over back ward to protect Katangese sensibilities. It had given permission for token Kantangese forces to march in the parade even though the celebration itself seemed a mischievous nose thumbing gesture aimed at undermining the very reasons By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate pill at all in political terms, mainly because he is worried about the Congressional re sponse to the recommenda tion! This means, in reality, that the President and the Con gress have reached a state of almost complete impasse, at least on domestic legislative matters. Defense and foreign policy measures and the trade bill, which affects our power to compete in the modern world, may still receive ser ious Congressional considera tion. But the impasse, as this session has abundantly shown, covers almost every thing else. President Kennedy means to try to escape from the im passe by taking the stump in the off-year Congressional elections in a most intensive manner. He will thus risk his prestige on the outcome in a way that no President has done since Woodrow Wilson, in the ill-fated League of Na tions election of 1918. Kennedy is ready lo take this risk because he believes he can intensify and clarify the national debate, and thus win votes for the candidates of his party, even though his own name will not be on the ballot. He may well be right. But if the economic lag con tinues it will still be a major miracle if the Republicans do not gain a number of seats in the House of Representa tives. OUCH a Republican gain will give House Republi can leader Charles Halleck of Indiana and his Southern Democratic allies an even more complete legislative stranglehold than they now enjoy. The impasse will thus become more total rather than less total, if the econom ic slow-down wins votes for the party out of power, as almost always happens. Today, moreover, such an impasse is quite different in character and effect from the impasse on domestic issues which also existed at the end of the Truman administra tion. At that time, the nation al economy was still operat ing on the banked-up fuel of demand left over from the second World War, with the additional stimulus of the Korean war. While the econ omy was surging forward albeit wilh accompanying in flation, the White House-Con-gross impasse did not matter very much. rjiODAY, in contrast, the - banked-up economic fuel of post-war demand shows signs of being about exhaust ed. More and more of the wisest analysts, both on the right and on the left, are now inclining to the view that this exhaustion of demand is the basic unfavorable factor in the economic equation. If these men are right, bold measures may well be needed to avoid the deflation which, so history shows, most com monly follows each post-war ! economic surge forward. But I l lhe lmPasse continues, bold ! mcasurcs will not be possible, i I,lstcad- somethhing very like M"'-".s "'a.v wen set m. at least until the 1964 election In this manner, unfortu nately, the President's pre dicament can too easily be come the nation's predica ment. 375 People Receive X-Rays af Clinic Central Point - A total of 375 persons were x-rayed here recently when the mobile x-ray unit sponsored by the Jackson Coun'y Tuberculosis and Health association visited this area for the first time, The x-rays are made possi- uiiuusi, toon minions io i the Christmas Seal fund. The ; n.- i i i,' a m airs, wrginia rv.vie. exec-1 JCT SeCre,ary Ior ,he j Residents w ho would like to ' have the mobile unit revisit 1 their particular arfa have! been asked to contact the 1 , ... ..... i Jackson County Tuberculosis and Health association in Medford But It Is Problem for the U.N. presence in Ka tanga. The demonstration went off peacefully but from thn U.N. it brought an angry charge lhat Tshombe's 2.000 military paraders created a "flagrant violation" of an agreement that only 300 would take part. U.N. roadblocks cut off all roads in and out of the city, and a note from Jean Back, U.N. civilian representativa in Elisabethville told Tshom be: "Under these conditions, it will be difficult for the Unit ed Nations lo accept your word in the future." Not Strong Enough Back's note seemed almos to verge on understatement. But it emphasized llm U.N.'s dilemma after I w a years in the Congo, and that violence in the Congo re mains at all times close to tha surf.ee. In every U.N. act, Tshomba saw a plot engineered by Wall Street capitalists seek ing to shut down the coppet mines of the Union Miniere, the mining combine from which Katanga draws most of its income. Central Government For eign Minister Justin Bokom bo failed in an appearance be fore the U.N. to win support for his demand that the U.N. use its 7,000 troops still in Katanga to force a military decision there. He lefl, threatening lo slif up northern Katanga tribei against Tshombe. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises Inc. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Not only do I believe that capital punishment is morally wrong and socially pointless as most pen ologists would agrea but it also selects tha wrong vic tims. In tha public mind, for instance, the word "murder" ist Harris a s s o cialed with carefully planned kill ings, usually by underworld types. But this is not al all the case. Gangland killings are a small minority, and lha culprits are rarely found. A new study of homicides conducted by the New York City police department "dis closes some strange, startling" and illuminating facts about the pattern of murder in a large city," according to tha National Council on Crima and Delinquency. According to this sludy, made in 1961, "most mur ders are not carefully plan ned nor are they of t h gangland type: most are spontaneous and the bulk of them are committed in homes and many' occur as the result of family dis putes." Last year there were 483 homicides in New York City. Of these. 206 occurred in homes (42 per cent), while only 4 per cent were committed by dope addicts, and a mere 1 per cent re sulted from teen-age con flicts Family squabbles result ed in 53 murders, in most of which husbands were slain by their wives, or wives by their husbands. Others in this large cate gory include killings by "friends," neighbors, and what the French so tactfully call crimes passionelle. meaning jilted sweethearts, outraged lovers, and so on. More than 90 per cent of the gangland murders in a city such as Chicago, for in stance, remain unsolved. These are perpetrated by hired professional killers, who do their neat job with dispatch and then vanish from the scene, and ofien from tha city. Their victims are usually other gangland figures wha have welched on bets or loans, or who have held out a larger share of loot than they wera entitled to. It is only the very poor, lha very stupid, or the sponta neous killer in a rage, who aia apprehended, convicted and I sometimes given the death sentence. This does absolutely notning to deter others from c0"ln,iu'"K similar crimes - - and. of course, has absolutely no effect upon the profession- al ""world killer, European countries, for ,ncsc reasons, have abol i'iv vi, nil, avtllv-IIV H, i murder, without the slightest rise in the homicide rate. S have many American states often followed by a decrease in homicide. 1 again urge you to read Warden Duffy s iiev book. "88 Men and 2 Women 1 to convince yourself of tha unjust folly of capital punishment. i