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The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 54

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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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i na uaili UALAHOMAN 'Saturday, July 1972 Bigger War ALTative to death penalty called poor Budget Asked Life Term Without Parole Criticized as Game lotiations WASHINGTON (AP) 'ogressing The joint committee, he said, has been studying recodification of state criminal law and punishment but there was no thought of repealing the death crimes, wc will find it." "Two years ago the House judiciary committee was almost unanimous in voting down a bill to completely eliminate capitol pushiment," he said. McCune said It. is possible the death penalty could be reinstated by establishing several degrees of murder, with a mandatory death sentence for first degree murder. YKJAVIK. Iceland A Organizers of the chess championship ported considerable' grcss Friday night in A if fijr negotiations with Boby Fischer's lawyer oSjeryi last minute demand JfflR'more moncv bv the exactly what that decision means.

He said it is wrong to analyze the court's decision as one between appointees of President Nixon and non-appointees of Nixon. "It most of the judiciary were asked by the man who appointed them how they would vote on an issue they probably would resign," Grantham said. McCune, who is chairman oi Use Kouse-Senata judiciary committee, said his group is laying plans to blunt the supreme court order banning the death penalty. "My committee is going to study the opinion and see what we can do," the Tulsa Democrat said. "If there is any way we can impose the death penalty lor horrible, terrible id Craighead Sfisican challenger.

owever, after an hour a hair session with An- Davis, Fischer's at- officials of the ring Icelandic Chess eration said they had given no assurances SIZZLIN' SUMMER SALE STARTS WITH SUMPTUOUS SAVINGS 25 to 50 OFF IMChcr would appear for e-oeginning of uie match laay wiui Kussia for the fed- President Nixon asked Congress Friday for an additional 52.25 billion primarily for Vietnam war operations including bombing and mining in North Vietnam. The request is part of vvhaL Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird told Congress June 5 would be an additional S5 billion war cost if U.S. forces continued bombing and other operations at the present rate through the end of this year. The estimate of what the war uoud have cost for the fiscal scar beginning July 1 without the increase was never publicly disclosed.

But Pentagon officials have said the estimate was under ST billion for the fiscal year ending this month before the resumption of U.S. bombing in response to Hanoi's offensive in South Vietnam and later U.S. mining of North Vietnamese harbors. The Pentagon said the $541 million figure; in the new request for planes includes combat loss replacement of 1S1 fighter planes and 172 helicopters, the bulk. of them apparently going to South Vietnamese units.

The request was released at the White House as simply a request for increased defense funds. But an accompanying summary concluded with the statement that "the increased level of enemy tivity in Southeast Asia cessitatcs an increase of The head of the House of Representatives' judiciary committee Friday said a life -sentence without parole is a poor alternative to the death penalty because it increases the chances of murders wilhin prisons. Slate Rep. John Mc-Cune, D-Tulsa, said he could not agree with theories advanced by some Thursday to lock up a murderer for life. "A man locked up for can cither wait unlit he dies lo gel out of prison or try to shoot his way out every lime he gets a a McCune told members of a municipal court committee at the state Capitol.

McCune called the U. S. Supreme Court decision on abolishment of the death penalty "terrible" but said life sentences without parole would be no deterrent to murderers inside prisons. "A man facing only a life sentence if he murders again has nothing to lose by trying to kill to escape," McCune said. McCune said he favors the death penally especially for persons who plant bombs which explode and injure innocent people and the death penalty lor treason during war time.

Slate Sen. Roy Grantham, D-Ponca City, chairman of the municipal court committee, said the death penalty is justified in instances of murder. lie said the effect of the supreme court decision may be over-emphasized because no one is sure vet aon said he got the mi llion Davis was seek- compromise in the over the new finan- Metl Your Friendi conditions posed by Youth Fashions Farewell Visit Paid WASHINGTON (AP) Departing Chief of Protocol Emil Mosbacher paid a farewell call on President Nixon Friday as his resignation went into effect, Javis, Fischer's confi- rtt as well as legal advis- infants Thru Junior High 7600 N. MAY 843-9505 arrived here Friday on 'Ikght from New York riich was to have carried 29-year-old chess ge- JOHN A. BROWN District 95 Seat Sought By Newsman News reporter a i Craighead announced Friday his candidacy for the state House of Representatives in District 95 in Midwest City.

Craighead, 41, will run in the Democratic primary against incumbent Rep. A. J. Clemens. Craighead said an unwillingness and inability to grapple effectively with problems at the state level has led to an assumption of power by the federal government.

Craighead said state government is developing a huge bureaucracy of its own. acting on the theory that bigness cures problems. The legislature appropriates money for new boards, agencies and schools each time it meets and they mus: be funded at the taxpayer's expense. Craighead, siaie capiiol reporter for The Oklahoma Journal, is married and has three children. He has resigned his post at the newspaper.

He was born in Europe and has lived in Midwest City for five years where he served as president of the linker Toastmasters Club. He also is a member of the Midwest City Rotary Club and the First Baptist Church, where he is a deacon. Craighead is a graduate of Baylor University and served two years in the Army during the Korean War. Vacation Planned WASHINGTON (API President Nixon is expected to depart sometime Saturday for California where he plans a two-week stay at the Western Whita House. $2.79 billion." EMMER I BUDGET BASEMENT DOWNTOWN 305 W.

MAIN tbjis. to Ihe site of his 24-gpne match. Suddenly Disappeared KFischer had reserved sEace on the plane and cjjecked his luggage on be-ijrre he changed his mind. He suddenly called for his bstgs from the aircraft and disappeared Irom New rk's Kennedy airport after holding up the flight ijtr more than two hours. jSWhat Davis and officiais of the Icelandic Chess.

Federation had to sort out was sjfresh demand by Fischer fjtr 30 per cent of the gate receipts collected during tple match. Without the extra mon-y, he threatened to boycott the match scheduled begin on Sunday. jS Heated Conversation ft was learned that Gut-nder Thorarisson, the eration president, spent iJSost of the night hi sometimes heated telephone conversation with Fisch- representatives in the nited States. Thorarisson said late griday.that "nothing has Seen settled." Until the new demand a share of the gate. Igscher and Spassky had Speed to compete for the Suggest prize in chess history: a division of With five-eights going to fje winner, and an even Split of 60 per cent of the and TV rights sold to promoter.

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