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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 3, 1967
Criminal—
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One of the basic concerns of both the public and the lawyers is whether capital punishment should be abolished as the penalty for murder in Kansas. Hanging is currently the maximum penalty for murder.
Wilson said that the legislature is already working on this without the committee's help. A resolution to study the possibility of substituting life imprisonment was introduced last February and is still being discussed by the Legislative Council.
When asked how he felt about capital punishment, Wilson said, "Whether capital punishment is right or not stems from one's own ethical standards.
"This is a serious matter of state policy. It's hard to tell if capital punishment is a deterrent to crime, or not."
According to Wilson, other penalties besides the death penalty are being studied for their validity. Wilson cited the need for a change in some theft penalties.
The penalty for car theft in Kansas is 5 to 15 years in prison, while the penalty for grand larceny (theft of anything worth $50 or more) is only one to five years.
Points out quirk
"This means that a person could steal of $50 jalopy and get 15 years, while another person could steal a million dollars and only get five years," Wilson said.
The same thing applies to break-ins, Wilson said. A person can get 10 to 50 years for robbing a bank but only 5 to 10 years for robbing a store, regardless of the amount of the bank's loss.
The sanity test may also be amended, Wilson said. According to Wilson, this test is important because it helps decide the fate of some criminals, especially those accused of murder.
Seeks clearer guidelines
Commenting on the question of limited police action, Wilson said that the committee hoped to find more definite, clearer guideposts for policemen to follow in their investigations and arrests.
Another possible change might be that of prisoner employment. The possibility of "work release" programs is very feasible. In fact some have already been tried and have worked, Wilson said.
In this program the convicts are allowed to find jobs in the area of their imprisonment during the last few months of their terms. Under supervision they can go to these jobs during the day and come back to the prison at night. The purpose is to bridge the gap between prison life and re-entrance into society.
Can help others
These people can help society, as well as society helping them; Wilson said.
Reflecting upon some of the proposed changes, Wilson said that the ultimate objective of the criminal law is to protect society and social and personal values from the consequences of injurious acts. Therefore, the committee has endeavored to approach the task of redrafting realistically, with the overriding purpose of safeguarding and promoting the social, economic and moral objectives of Kansans.
Gavin, Goldwater differ on spectre of Red China
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —(UPI)— The United States should get out of South Vietnam "unless we intend to fight Red China," retired Gen. James Gavin said Monday night.
Gavin, speaking to an International Relations Council meeting, called for a rapid close of the war although "we should not make a run for the beaches.
"It is high time we turn this country around," the former Army chief of Research and Development said. "The environment brought about by Vietnam is poisoning our society at home and our relations abroad.
"Not only are we destroying the Vietnamese people, we are destroying ourselves by what we are doing out there. Democracy means schools, homes, buildings and medical care—not burning, destroying and killing noncombatants," he said.
Gavin said U.S. withdrawal should be accompanied with the creation of an established neutral Vietnam with international guarantees for continued peace.
NEW YORK —(UPI)— Mrs. John F. Kennedy has accepted an invitation from Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk to visit his Southeast Asian nation, it was announced Monday.
A spokesman for the former First Lady said Mrs. Kennedy would visit the country, long at odds with the United States, because of a 20-year ambition to visit the ruined temples of Angkor Wat.
Jackie to Cambodia
Gavin said that no more than eight divisions should have been committed to South Vietnam unless the U.S. intended to fight Communist China.
Speaking before 3,700 students in a packed auditorium at the University of Connecticut, Goldwater said, "Escalation is an order of war. It is a fact of war."
STORRS, Conn. —(UPI)—Former Arizona Senator Barry M. Goldwater said Monday night the U.S. should bomb Haiphong harbor and "if that's escalation, I'm for it."
The Republican 1964 presidential candidate said a loss in Vietnam would bring "so many outin-the-open-attacks against free countries by Communist organizations" that the U.S. would be hard put to fulfill its worldwide obligations.
If Red China "were foolish enough to get into this war," Goldwater said, "then our opportunity would be at hand. We could destroy her nuclear capability."
Police bust three of Grateful Dead at home in Haight
"Escalation is a word that is not understood," Goldwater said, advocating "changing our bombing targets. We should really involve the harbor of Haiphong, and if that's escalation, I'm for it."
Rosalind in sequel
HOLI.YWOOD —(UFI)— Rosalind Russell will next star in a sequel to "The Trouble With Angels"—this one titled "Where Angels Go . . . Trouble Follows!"
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — (UPI)— Three members of the popular rock-blues music group, The Grateful Dead, and their two managers were arrested Monday in narcotics raids in the hippie district of San Francisco.
State and local agents raided 710 Ashbury Street, a Victorian home which is the Grateful Dead's headquarters.
State narcotics agent Matthew O'Connor said over a pound of marijuana and hashish was found in the avocado green and pumpkin colored kitchen of the music group's residence.
O'Connor said 11 persons were taken to city prison and booked for either possession of marijuana or being in a house where marijuana was kept.
The arrested included Rod "Pig Pen" McKernan, 22, the Grateful Dead singer; guitarist Robert Weir, 19; Robert C. Mattjews, 18; and the group's two managers, Rock Scully, 26, and Daniel Rifkin, 23.
O'Connor said the raid was made because investigations "kept turning up the address of 710 Ashbury as a supply source.
"They were processing some marijuana in the kitchen by running it through a colander to get rid of the stems and seeds," O'-Connor said.
Grad students will meet tonight
The Association of Graduate Students in English will meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room to nominate officers for the coming year.
This is the first year of operation for the association. Nominations will be taken for chairman, secretary, and six committee chairmen. The committees are orientation, assistant instructors, curriculum, library, standards and grievances and scholarly exchange.
Elections will be Oct. 9 and 10 in Carruth-O'Leary Hall.
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Students will circulate petition on library hours
Three "interested" students have announced plans to circulate petitions "demanding that Watson Library remain open with full book service until midnight Sunday through Friday."
The students said they would circulate the petitions beginning today in front of the library and in the Kansas Union lobby. They said they would present the petitions to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe sometime Friday afternoon.
The students are John Stocker,
New York freshman, Lyle Fisher,
Bird City junior and Jean Saindon,
Concordia senior.
Fisher, who identified himself as coordinator of the effort to obtain about 2,500 signatures, said additional petitions would be circulated in residence halls, fraternity and sorority houses and among faculty members.
The library currently closes at 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, one hour earlier than last year. KU officials blame lack of funds for the earlier closing.
Christian Science to have lecture
"The New Morality" will be the subject of a Christian Science lecture to be presented tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room.
Lenore D. Hanks, of Portland, Ore., will be the speaker and is sponsored by the student Christian Science Organization.
Mrs. Hanks is a graduate of the University of Oregon with a degree in sociology. She is currently on a speaking tour of North America as a member of the Church's Board of Lectureship.
Lake Granite Shoals in Central Texas has been renamed for President Lyndon Johnson.
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