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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
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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.
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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
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Into a $4 million a year busi
ness in six years.
The 49-year-old president of
"42" Products Inc., manufac
turer of hair dressings, sham
poos and lotions, said "we
were driven by necessity to
bring well-trained men into
our company to give us a sta
bility of experience."
Running the Company
"Now," he said, "the young
men are running our com
pany. 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.
India To Receive
Air Defense Help
Washington-flJPD-Thc United
States and Britain have an
nounced agreement on means
of helping India prepare for
possible air attacK oy me
Chinese Communists.
The agreement, under
which the United States will
provide India with radar and
related communications equip
ment, was announced Monday.
It also provides for Joint air
exercises by U.S. and British
air units with the Indian air
force.
The State Department,
which made the announce
ment, stressed that the accord
does not involve a U.S. com
mitment to go to India's aid
In case of attack. The agree
ment grows out of last year's
border warfare between the
Indians and the Red Chinese
and U.S. officials hope it will
have a deterrent effect on
PelDins.
The State Department said
the Joint air exercises would
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