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-B 9 -r4 -A. V J i V -a 4 NOZZLE SHOOTS FLAMES-Exhaust flames sucge 200 feet from the nozzle of a 250-ton solid-propellant rocket motor In a static test at the United Technology Test Center at Coyote, Calif. The motor, believed the largest solid-propellant rocket ever fired, produced a peak thrust of one million pounds. Two of the rockets, 75 feet tall, will make up the first stage of the USAF Titan III-C space booster. - (UPI) Opposition to Death Penalty Virtually Ends Executions By Jtann Kuabler Washington - Execution as punishment for crime is be coming increasingly rare in the United States. During the past two decades, disuse of the death penalty has virtu ally abolished capital punish ment in many states in which the law still allows it. In 1962 executions were carried out in only 18 of the 44 jurisdic tions having laws authorizing the death penalty; in 1961 there were executions m only 11 jurisdictions. Three states - California, Texas and Florida-accounted for more than half of the 47 executions carried out last year. Although the 1962 total marked an in crease over the record low of 42, it continued the declining trend evident since the U. S. Bureau of Prisions began compiling detailed statistics in 1930. In the 1930's an annual av erage of 167 evecutions took place in the United States; in the 1940's, 128; and in the 1950's, 72. The highest annual to tal in the past five years was registered in 1960, when 56 persons were exe cuted. Despite the falling off in executions, the debate be tween opponents and defend ers of capital punishment continues unabated. This bit terly contested issue, a feder al criminologist, James A, McCafferty, has charged, "di verts society's attention from the over-riding problems of crime control and crime pre vention." More attention is paid to the fewer than 300 prisoners on death row, Mc Cafferty says, than to the more than 200,000 others in state and federal prisons and reformatories. California Leads Debate on the sjbject has been particularly vigorous in California, where resort to the death penalty has not fol lowed the nationwide declin ing trend. Now the most pop ulous state in the country, California has led in the past three years in the number of persons put to death; the 38 executions it carried out in that period made up more than one-fourth of the nation al total. Repeated requests by Gov. Edmund G. Brown, who is "strongly opposed to capi tal punishment," that the leg islature abolish the death pen alty have been rebuffed. His requests early this year that a moratorium on executions be declared pending study of the effectiveness of capital punishment as a crime deter rent was allowed to die in the state Senate. Legislatures in other states have shown similar reluctance to abolish the penalty outright. However, with very limited exception, state laws have been shorn of provisions that the death penalty be mandatory. A leading objection to auto matic application is the re luctance of juries to enter a verdict of guilty in cap ital cases. A study of the cases of 276 persons indict ed for first-degree murder over a 10-year period under the District of Columbia's formerly mandatory statute showed that almost half of them were convicted of a lesser offense. Only 28 were sentenced to death and or'y 10 actually executed. Be cause of hesitancy to con demn a man to death, man datory provisions were re moved from the D.C. law in 1962 and from New York law in 1963. Application of the death penalty has been increasingly restricted to first-degree mur der, although other capital crimes remain on the statute books. Some legal authorities der such a plan wiuld be sentence be limited further to certain types of first-degree murder, as was done in Great Britain in 1957. Among crimes for which punishment by death would be retained un der such a plan would be the murder of a police officer during the performance of his duty. Retention of the penal ty for murder of a policeman would remove objections from many law enforcement offi cials who fear an increase in "cop killings": 48 police offi cers were killed as a result of criminal activity last year. Soviat Union Exception A notable exception to the worH-wide trend toward re stricing application of the death penalty to murderers is the Soviet Union. In the past two years the U.S.S.R. has broadened the coverage of capital punishment to include a new classification of crime -the so - called economic crimes of embezzlement of state property, brobery, spec ulation and counterfeiting. Offenses of this kind apparent ly have become so widespread as to damage seriously the Soviet economy. Premier Khrushchev said last Febru ary that "It is for the sake of justice that our people have to punish those, who want to live at the expense of others, to rob our society." International tensions have Company President Staked Success On Hiring Venture added to the number of crimes liable to punishment by death in this country under federal law. Peacetime espionage, as well as espionage in time of war, was made subject to the death penalty in 1954; anger over Cuban seizures of Amer ican planes was responsible for a 1961 act authorizing the death penalty for hijack ing an aircraft in flight. Of greater concern to law enforcement officers .ind the public are the penalties met ed out for the violent crimes that have long been punisha ble by death. Such crimes are on the increase. F.B.I, data re leased this month show that murder, forcible rape, or as sault to kill was committed every three minutes last year.' Many officials concerned with law enforcement, including F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoov er, feel that retention of the death penalty Hps to keep crime rates from rising still higher. It is also believed that the public as a whole accepts their arguments and supports capital punishment. This the sis will be put to a popular test in November 1964, When Oregon's voters will decide by referendum whether to add that state to the eight others which now forbid capital pun ishment. - (Editorial Research Reports.) Ceremony Speaker For University Noted Eugene Lawrence A. Ap. pley, president of the Amer. lean Management association, one of the nation's largest management consulting or ganizations, will be speaker at the University of Oregon sum-: mer commencement exercises Aug. 10. Commencement exercises will begin at 10 a.m. in the garden amphitheatre of the school of music. Over S0O un dergraduate and g raduate candidates will be presented for degrees. There are 20 states In the United States of Brazil. HEAP BIG SAVINGS at BUM'S DURING By JAMES BLANKENSHIP Los Angeles -fllPD- A busi nessman who staked his chances of, success on hiring retired executives to direct his company has no doubts he made the best possible deci sion, i "Experience was the biggest factor in our success," said Paul Klein who has trans formed a $300,000 investment Save Much Wampum Here! ""V y'Downtown Medford J I I At p 3 BIG . CV VS ' DAYS! ' ;. X W j&f pff. X Thurs., Fri. and Sat. NrX . $ ''ft Ot ,,. 1 x V stp u X Prices Really Scalped Fcr This Event! 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The retired men were looking for someone to inher it their knowledge and by passing it on they gave us a stronger foundation." Since he lacked both exper ience and capital, Klein sought the help of two execu tives who had been with top national firms and had them train the young men who would soon take over their jobs. Tapped for the positions were 65-year-old Cris Nelson, a chemist, and 75-year-old Kirklcy Sinclair, a comptrol ler, who were both eager to return to work. The "old guys at once proved they still were quite capable of producing. Klein estimated the inheritance of the business-wise pair saved him five years in his training program. "Our executives ac complished the same result In about six months." i News of Klein's policy of hiring older talent quickly sot around and soon he was re ceiving letters from persons all over the world who were interested In employing old sters and from men who were seeking to return to work af ter forced retirement. "We had to set up a trans fer bureau and hire an extra girl to handle the requests for information about the pro gram," Klein said. "We felt sure that hundreds oi men were placed during that period." Now that "42" Products Is firmly established and has plans for even greater expan sion, does Klein feels the serv ices of his "young-old" team of Nelson and Sinclair are no longer needed? Indeed he doesn t. Likt To Rtlira Nelson last year said he would like to retire, and he did," Klein said, "but he con tinues as a consultant and a member of the board. Cris moved to Sun City, Ariz., but he found he was not content to live a life of leisure and took on the duties of a bank manager in nearby Phoe nix." And Kirkley Sinclair, still as active as at the start of his second career, now is assist ant to the president. Sinclair, who appears to have the energy of a man 25 years younger, said "this is only the start-there are some more yet that we will train. 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