Friday, October 7,1977
University Daily Kansan
Burglaries baffle police
By WALT BRAUN Staff Writer
Several times each week, the University of Kansas or one or more of its on-campus residences is burglarized. Most of the burglaries are reported and investigated. However, not one burglary committed this year led to a police stol. Police John Mullens said Wednesday.
Police statistics show that 27 burglaries have been committed on University property during the first five weeks of this semester.
Mullens, who is the supervisor of detectives for the KU Police Department, said
"We really can't be too optimistic about solving burglaries because of the nature of the crime," he said. "We need some concrete lead to go on."
Mullens said the lack of good leads was one of the main problems in solving burglaries. Although burglaries were sometimes careless, he said, their victims inadvertently often helped them conceal their identity.
MULLENS All burglaries were by nature curses of stealth, committed usually in front of homeowner.
"It. not unusual for victims to clean their rooms or offices between the incident and the time the police arrive," he said. "Sometimes the victims check everything in their rooms to determine what is missing and destroy whatever clues might exist."
Mullens said that, occasionally, people saw crimes committed but did not realize what was happening and never reported what they saw to police.
"We can't spend the time we would like on burglars because little else will get done."
THE NUMBER OF burglaries that occur
problems for police investigators, Murdock said.
Mullens said that detectives were not sent to the scene of every burglary because of their heavy caseload. The department has hired one officer and two other officers are used when necessary.
"We can't handle the volume as well as we would like," he said.
In addition to the volume of burglaries, the type of goods stolen are difficult to trace, but many have been linked to theft.
televisions, common targets for burglaries,
are sold and traced quickly and often.
"If we get the proper break, we can trace stolen equipment through a sale and improve the chances of apprehending the burglar," he said. "Sometimes, though, when we catch up with stolen equipment, it is in the hands of its third or fourth owner."
MULLEN'S SAID that pawnshops, garage sales and used merchandise stores sometimes handled stolen goods without knowing it. Then they sell it cheaply to students, and when students leave town, they sell it again.
"Sometimes, when we recover stolen goods, the person who originally owned them has graduated and is long gone," he said.
Mullens said recovery chances increased when owners knew serial numbers of had engraved identification of some kind on the property. He also said students should look for identification on used goods before they buy it.
"It is against the law to buy, sell, trade or own equipment which has marred or caused injury."
Mullens said that KU police treated each
burglary seriously, regardless of the dollar amount.
He said that burglaries often used the same methods in their crimes, and that often, the similarity of several burglaries became the best clue to solving them.
Mullens said that the KU Police Department filed each incident separately and then reported it to the police.
"The methods and missing property from our burglaries may match up with the methods used somewhere else or the ones found anywhere," he said. "It has happeped."
Despite the national network of information, many burglaries go unsolved, Mullens said. He said the statute of limitations lamps barriers police in some old clerks.
The statute prohibits the arrest of individuals for burglaries more than two years old unless a warrant had been issued within the two-year period.
"The statue works against us," Mullens said. "But the chances are good that an individual who committed an unsolved burglary two years ago is still in business, and may be caught for a more recent incident."
City of Brotherly Love passes anti-obscenity law
PHILADELPHIA    (UP1)—The Philadelphia City Council yesterday passed a tough ant-obesity bill that could make it easier for the city "the new catchword for prudence."
Only two of the 17 councilmen voted against the ordinance, an amendment to the city's charter, and it goes to Mayor Frank Rizzo today for his signature.
The bill makes it an offense, punishable by up to $30 in fines and 90 days in jail, to display or advertise, publish or produce any movies, plays, books or magazines found to be without "serious literary, artistic or scientific value," or those involving uncovered sexual organs of either sex or a sexual sexual acts, or bared female breasts.
model studies "used for the purpose of lewdness, assignment or prostitution."
City Solicitor Sheldon Albert said he had been drafted using U.S. Supreme Court decisions as guidelines and avoids the chief pitfall, that of prior restraint.
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Under the act, police could issue a summons on a simple complaint and take the alleged offender to court. But only after the material is ruled to be obscene and the defendant is convicted can it be confiscated and prohibited from sale.
Councilman Cecil Moore, one of the more vocal opponents of the bill, argued against it.
"It leaves too much to the police department and too much to the judges, where you'll have 22 people with different concepts of what obscurity ought to be."
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'TV-addicted' youth found guilty
MIAMI (UP1) - A jury of nine men three women last night rejected 15-year-old Ronny Zamora's defense that "television addiction" made him kill his elderly neighbor and convicted him of first-degree murder and robbery.
The jurors deliberated for only one hour and 56 minutes, reporting to Circuit Court Judge Paul Baker at 10:29 p.m. CDT that they had reached a verdict. The judgment—guyly as charged on all four counts—by a court clerk 25 minutes later.
pailed visibly when the verdict was read.
DEFENSE LAWYER Ellis Rubin had the jurors polled to prove the verdict was unanimous as required by law. Then he asked for a pre-sentence investigation.
Zamora, who had showed little emotion through the nine days he sat in court.
In addition to the charge of first-degree murder, Zamora was found guilty of armed robbery, burglary and possession of a fire arm in the commission of a felony. He be sentenced up to life with without a chance for parole for 28 years.
Baker gave a 57-minute charge to the jury earlier yesterday, the 11th day of the
trial that marked the first time a murder defendant pleaded insanity because of "voluntary subliminal television intoxication."
THE JUDGE TOLD the jury, "Even an accidental killing during the commission of a felony is first-degree murder," the court ordered. "The application need 'exist only a few moments.'"
Sentencing was scheduled for Nov 7. Rubin told reporters he would appeal but said his first move would be to request a new trial.
"WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?" Psalms 2:1 and Acts 4:25
This question is the opening words of the 2nd Psalm. It is asked and answered by God Almighty. The heathen are revealed as those who resist and seek to get rid of God's Law, and His Ten Commandments. Only do they the beaten rage, resist, and seek to get rid of God's Law, but also they resist the commandment to deliver him from the "estate of sin and misery." He came down and was born of the Virgin Mary, and so became God and man. The God-man substituted Himself for fallen man and kept God's Commands perfectly in his stead. Then. He again resisted and put forth the order and curse of God's judgment upon rebellion and disobedience, and was put to death on The Cross. After three days He arose from the grave. "The Mighty Conqueror" of death! He appeared to His disciples and believing followers, and sent them to tell the world if they would repent of their sins — disobedience to God's Commandments — believe, and resisted and bring forth fruit worthy of repentance. They were called to God and receive the gift of Eternal Life.
This is the Gospel, this is the Good News of the grace of God to all men. Hear the testimony of the man God raised up and testified that he was made a slave on behalf of believers on the Son of God hath Everlasting life, but that believer not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth of him! If you leave this life without being reconciled with you, then there is the "wrath of God" for you to face in the next life!
After telling who the heathen are, and why they rage, God points out in this Psalm the results of this rage is the visitation of God's anger and wrath, and vexation with all sorts of trouble, just such as we find plaguing the earth after the fall of Noah. That is why death, by passing the grave, said to King Ahab: "I have not troubled Israel; but thou and thy father's house in that we have forsaken The Commandments of God." "In the first of these articles the statement was made: 'Our trouble, the world's trouble, is that we have a corrupt form of Christianly' that man has shown off its base, off its foundation: The Law of God."
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Consider how in recent years the Protestant Nations have forsaken God's *C_commandment* regarding The Sabbath Day. Even before The Bible records God's *Commandment to Adam* for adbodining the eating of "the tree of knowledge of good and evil," he has demanded that — "Remember The Sabbath Day to keep it holy" — given at Ml. Sinal much later in time. This implication appears in the 2nd chapter of Genesis, verses 2 and 3: "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; when it he restored from all his work which God created and made, 'God诫它什你要 do you do with it' as you would bless the seventh day, and sanctified it." The Sabbath Day. The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath: 'Was it made for man to float and profane by working, requiring others to work for profit, pleasure, sports, etc.'? Surely the "great usurper of The Lordship of The Sabbath, the devil, will answer this question in the affirmative. What would be the answer of the true "Lord of the Sabbath," to save him from the seven days of life?" This: "Did you never read in the Scriptures, it thou turn away thy foot from The Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call The Sabbah a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and honorable him, Honor not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then shall thou delight myself in The Lord; and I will hear you, and praise the earth of the earth, and feed THE LORD HATH SPoken IT."
"I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth" "The reason our nation is "riding so high" today is tracelable to our forefathers' "ear of The Lord, and obedience to His Commandments." Such were a small percentage of the total population, yet their faith and influence laid the foundations for our institutions, and wrote many of God's laws upon our statue books!
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