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Offbeat One View Of Death Penalty Bv SAM KINDRICK Regarding abolishment of the death penalty by the U.S. Supreme Court, here is a letter from Robert E. Smith. 0 Box 17719, S.A. comments probably 1 the sentiment of all Americans who still feel that the death penalty should be imposed under extreme circumstances.

He writes: on the heels of the Supreme latest decision that the death penalty constitutes and treatment, three young men in California celebrated the decision by slaughtering a 4-year-old girl in front of her own home for wonder if the five Democrats who voted to abolish the death penalty would feel any Kindrick today if Joyce Ann Huff had been their own child. Now the State of California and the rest of the country can spend about a million dollars on a trial. And if by some rare accident these three are convicted. and much later sentenced, then we can spend some $280,000 each over the next 15 years to rehabilitate Smith adds, than likely some militant group will champion their cause and try to convince us they are political prisoners." Charged in the shotgunning of the Los Angeles, child are Donald Paul Antel, 21, Michael Ramirez, 18. and Oscar Hernandez, 22.

C'ANDEE LAND, THE little 10-year-old girl in Seguin with the big, booming voice, has been booked to do four shows on the most popular syndicated television show in Western Tennessee. She is being managed by San Antonio tub-thumper Don Dailey. will make four appearences this fall on The Rhodes show out of Dailey reports. a family- country and western singing group which consists of a mother, father, two daughters and a son. This show has the top rating in western NOW WE MAY never learn the identity of those hippopoto- mus-proportioned masked men who held up the Schlitz distributorship here.

Police Robbery Sgt. Jerry Gutierrez, who was hot on the case, will resign the S.A. P.D. to become police chief of Kingsville. THIS LITTLE TABLEAU transpired last week in the Hula Hut Club on upper San Pedro Avenue.

Four or five gentlemen were sitting at the dimly-lighted bar in mid-afternoon, all quenching their thirst with double shots of tequila. Suddenly, the door flew open, and with a blinding rush of bright sunlight, in stormed a woman clutching a little girl by the hand. Just as the woman hit the Hula Hut threshhold, one of the tequila-soppers dropped like a pole-axed steer from his bar stool, and scooted crab-like on hands and knees right past the woman and out of the joint. It was a beautifully-executed display in split-second timing, for he got out the "door before it even swung shut, and all but slipped between the woman's legs without her even seeing him. is my the lady demanded.

know in here because his car is parked right in front of the place." The other members of the tequila party shrugged and maintained stoic silence. Mama searched the bar. She even looked beneath the pool tables. When she finally raged out of the place, hubby and car were gone. Willie Sutton have made a more dramatic escape than that husband.

Houdini himself probably have zipped by that wife without her even feeling the breeze as he exited. With eight double tequilas under his belt, you figure this dude could see through a But he dropped from that bar stool with grace and agility, and he made it through the door like a rifle shot. The others finished the afternoon toasting to his success, and one member of the party was heard to comment: always wondered what the kids mean when they say they're going to Now I Your Health Disease And How It Acts By GEORGE C. THOSTESON. M.D.

DEAR DOCTOR: We have a friend who has a little trembling in her hands. We were told it could be disease. What is it. what causes it, can it be cured? T.Y. DEAR DOCTOR: Is disease hereditary? Are strokes disease or Parkinsonism (once called paralysis agitans) is a disorder of the nervous system that affects 1 or 2 per cent of people over 50.

It involves a combination of shakiness and a rigidity of the muscles the hands shake, the fingers characteristically make what is called a motion. Gait becomes awkward, the patient tends to lean forward and posture becomes stooped. The face may develop a masklike expression. Drooling Thosteson sometimes occurs. The cause always clear, but' it heredity.

Some of the known causes, however, are encephalitis (brain inflammation head injuries, carbon monoxide or manganese poisoning, and some known drugs if overdosed or the person has undue sensitivity. Evidently there are other causes, not identified. The thought was once held that hardening of the arteries of the brain was the cause, but that idea has been discarded. Strokes don't cause the tremor, either, although it would be possible for a person to have both Parkinsonism and a stroke since that's the general age bracket. One possible clue was the discovery that Parkinson patients had less than the normal amount of a substance called dopamine.

This led to a drug called L-dopa in 1959, and after extensive testing and learning how to use it, it is now in general use. Reports are that from 70 to 80 per cent of patients are helped to varying degrees sometimes markedly, as in the case of carpenters, unable to work, going back to their jobs. Prior to L-dopa, drugs of the atropine family were used but had the disadvantages of dryness of the mouth and visual disturbances. Brain surgery, cutting certain nerve patterns, has been tried; this reduced the tremor but not the muscle rigidity. For patients who helped by L-dopa, another drug, Symmetrol, may help.

Discovery of the newer methods of treating Parkinsonism is a blessing to a great many people the disease is an annoying and sometimes disabling one, but not fatal. Studies are continuing to try to make L-dopa even more effective than it now is. "You Can Stop Sinus Trouble is the title of Or. Thosteson's newly revised booklet explaining what sinus trouble really is and encouraging sinus sufferers to do something bout It. For a copy write to him in care of tie San Antonio Express, enclosing a long, self-addressed (use zip code), stamped envelope and J5 cents In coin to cover cost of printing and handling.

fan Antonio (Express Monday, July 10, 1972 Page 7-D Washington Merry-Go-Round Did Judge Have Conflict Man in the News: Pierre Messrner New Premier By CLYDE H. FARNSWORTH 'NEW YORK TIMES SERVICE morning for nearly 10 years a lithe, graying, lone figure bounded into the courtyard of the French Defense Ministry on Boulevard Saint Germain at precisely 7 a.m. After precisely a half hour of jogging, the man wiped his forehead with a towel and went back upstairs to the private apartment of the minister. Pierre Auguste Joseph Messrner, new- premier, was a defense minister who believed in keeping fit. He was also rather astute in what was one of the most challenging jobs of the early Gaullist administration.

THE YEAR WAS I960 The French army was restive and many top officers were strongly anti-De Gaulle in the aftermath of the Algerian European revolt. Bitter over France's previous expulsions from Indochina and Morocco, many of the generals and colonels were determined not to surrender their privileges in Algeria. Two years later Algeria won its independence and Messrner, as a lieutenant colonel had fought in Algeria, was the man who as defense minister had to hold the army together and imbue it with fresh fighting spirit during that difficult, violent period. HE ASSIGNED about 100 of the anti-Gaullist generals to higher-ranking positions. But these were all positions of lesser power, such as military attache in Caracas.

Messrner, who continued as defense minister until Gen. De Gaulle resigned in 1969, is credited with modernizing the French army. He created the force de frappe, the nuclear strike force that De Gaulle wanted both to support an independent foreign policy and to build up French grandeur. DEEPLY loyal to his chief, Messrner was one of the last public figures to be received by De Gaulle before his death in November, 1970. Jean Mauriac, a Gaullist biographer, wrote that De Gaulle told Messrner: to me well because better than another you can understand w-hat I will tell you.

In France the legitimacy of power is born from the victory of arms. It is this legitimacy which I incarnated, even in the eyes of my adversaries. To you and those who were with me in the war and the resistance comes the task to represent if after me, even after I 6RAFFITI TRAINED as a colonial administrator. the new premier rejoined the government, after his withdrawal from public life following De Gaulle's death, as the minister in charge of France's few remaining colonies. A quiet, well balanced, calm (some say dull) man who shuns the Paris salons, Messrner was born in the Paris suburb of Vincennes on March 20.

1916. His family was Alsatian. The young Messrner graduated from the now defunct School for Colonies and the National School for Oriental Languages and also acquired a law degree. WHEN WAR broke out in 1939 the 23-year-old Messrner was a lieutenant in a colonial infantry regiment and upon the fall of France the following June he joined the free French forces under De Gaulle. A man of great physical courage, he went to Marseilles and boarded a freighter bound for French North Africa, then forced the ship to sail to Gibraltar where he joined the De Gaulle forces.

A fellow conspirator in this hijacking, Jean Simon, is now a general. Promoted to captain and company commander, Messrner served in North Africa in 1942 with the 13th demi-brigade of the French Foreign Legion, part of the first free French division. He fought in the battles of Bir- Hakein and El Alamcin. LATER HE served in the Italian campaign before joining De Gaulle's personal staff. In 1945 as head of the French military mission in Calcutta, he parachuted behind Japanese lines in Indochina and met with the Nationalist Resistance loader, Ho Chi Minh.

After the Japanese surrender he was taken prisoner by the Viet Minh Communist forces. Messmer's mission had been to reestablish French rule in the area. With the common enemy defeated, the French and Communists began their long struggle. THIS WAS a period of high adventure in life. He tells of concealing himself from a Japanese patrol in the jungle by diving into a river and breathing through a reed.

Messrner is married to the former Gilberte Duprez. They have no children. Besides jogging, he likes to play tennis, an activity shared with his predecessor, Jacques Chaban- Delman, and to sail. He has a boat moored next to his country home in Brittany. Date Back to 12th Dynasty New Tombs Unearthed Mostly of Commoners LONDON TIMES SERVICE CAIRO A team of Egyptian archeologists have discovered a large number of tombs, some of which date back to the 12th Dynasty (1991-1778 B.C.), at Fayyum, about 55 miles southwest of Cairo.

The tombs, mostly of commoners, are located about 200 yards from the Pyramid of Amenemhet III. The archaeologists said the area had been the site of the Labyrinth Palace of 3,500 rooms built by Amenemhet to serve as an administrative center for Egypt. Reports reaching Cairo said that about 100 mummies, some well preserved, had been found at the site. A number of the mummies were kept in Sarcophagi of baked clay. Fathy Malek Wassef, chief inspector of archeology in central Egypt, said that a number of beautiful objects, including some rare statuettes of Bastet, the cat goddess, and the Goddess Tikhmetn, protectress of the dead, had been found in the tombs.

This indicated that their cults had been observed in Fayyum. The cat was worshipped in the Nile Delta during the late era of the 22d Dynasty. In one of the tombs a case containing three mummies, believed to be those of a man, his wife and daughter, was found. They had gold masks inscribed with prayers for their eternal life. In another of the tombs excavators found a mummy with a palm frond carefully and skillfully inserted into the spine.

The left jaw was stitched together with very fine flax. On the walls of one tomb there are engravings representing the goddess of birth and depicting life under the 19th Dynasty. Diggings are continuing in the area Erma Bom So Funny Bombeck Telling my kids a joke is like tickling Jane Fonda with an Indian feather. They sit there like a mask of tragedy with a migraine and demand, so funny about To me, it is rather lightening to imagine that if a poll were taken tomorrow a our young people, their fa vorite humorists would be Dan Rather and Pauline Frederick. My husband says I am an alarmist.

He says young people do too laugh. They are just a little more serious and involved in current affairs. To prove a point, he collared one of our sons the other night and snickered, son, why does a chicken cross the wants to asked my son, his eyes narrowing suspiciously. a question on the last census, is course said my husband kind of a chicken is he continued not Nader thinks chickens are important. He did an investigation that Droved has nothing to do with Ralph Nader.

a this a Polish he asked, if it is, ethnic humor is not a Polish chicken," said his lather patiently. to begin with, it's against the law to let a chicken run loose crying out loud." the second place, the chicken would never get across the road. Statistics show there were more i a deaths last year than you stop being so serious about a lousy shouted his father. be serious, he said, you were a poultry grower. Do you know chickens are cheaper than lunch meat? It hardly pays to grow them said his father, chicken is nothing special It was raised to be cheap, diseased, and dumb enough to cross the road just for the sake of the joke.

Now, why would he cross the road?" Our son shrugged his shoulders. GET TO THE OTHER said his father, slapping him on the back. you saying that the chicken is aiding and abetting the enemy by defecting to another His father slumped in a chair and buried his head in his hands. have to get so uptight about a chicken you even know, Dad. Just come on and tell me the end of the By JACK ANDERSON MIAMI Appeals Court judge who ruled in favor of George McGovern in the Democratic credentials fight sold his former home to McGovern for a reported $85,000, Judge David Bazelon cast the deciding vote in a dramatic, 2-to-l reversal of the lower court.

The presidential nomination, itself, was at stake. For ruling gave McGovern all of 271 delegates, whom he needed to win a first-ballot victory. Friends of the two men say the house sale was a routine real estate transaction. Judge Bazelon also has an impeccable reputation. But even the slightest appearance of conflict has been enough for judges to disqualify themselves.

After selling his home in the late 1960s, Judge Bazelon moved into an apartment in the fashionable Watergate West. A near neighbor and close friend, Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, is one of McGovern's staunchest supporters. For years, angry antagonist on the appeals Court was Warren Burger, now chief justice of the Supreme Court. The two jurists became bitter enemies, who often disagreed in open court and bad-mouthed one another in private.

After ruling in favor of McGovern, the chief justice even wait to be asked before he started to consider the Democratic credentials case. Even before the Democratic National Committee appealed the ruling, Burger sent to the Appeals court for the papers in the case. Those who know Burger say he w-ould have enjoyed nothing more than overruling his old rival Bazelon. This may have been the reason he was in such a hurry to review the case. Anderson Yippie Deal The madcap Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman has promised the Democrats to limit his followers in Miami to 4,000 this week.

But he also said he would rally 100,000 yelping Yippies to disrupt the GOP convention in August. The brash and bubbling Hoffman confirmed to us that he has met confidentially with Democratic National Committee officials and has agreed to try to keep things cool this week. have promised the Democrats no Hoffman conceded. all, they got us the campsite at Flamingo Park. Besides, their candidates are not what call a healthy show of For the Republicans, however, Hoffman had no such compassion.

have promised them Hoffman said. The Y'iddish word means trouble, woes and worries. told everybody to come if they want to, but if they can come to only one, to come for the Republicans in he told my associate Les Whitten. now, we're just paddling through, waiting for Big Earlier, Abbie made an unpublicized visit to Key Biscaynp where heard Pat Nixon was at the Nixon compound. believe he marveled.

that electronic security stuff, zurrrrn, wheeeee, eeeeeoho. I felt I had to get a look at the nests of these birds, to understand Hoffman is not limiting his harrassment of the GOP to Pat Nixon. His Phone Freak Convention will give a top prize to the man who places the first toll-free call to Vice President Spiro Agnew. Phone freaks whisper, wheeze, whistle and beep into telephones, duplicating the electronic mechanisms which trigger long distance calls. The telephone companies are apoplectic about the practice.

got unlisted number. We may even want to put a call through to Moscow. The greatest phone freaks in America will be convening right here in Miami said Hoffman. FOOTNOTE: Republicans are genuinely worried about Hoffman threat, but they point out that, despite tion publicity in 1968. Hoffman and more moderate leftists were able to turn out only about 10.000 demonstrators Political Potpourri Sen.

George McGovern's lieutenants have offered informally to pick up the campaign debts of his presidential rivals after the Democratic convention if he should win the has now promised over nationwide television, if he's nominated, to keep Larry as Democratic national chairman. But privately. McGovern happy with and originally planned to replace him. When word leaked out, however, the uproar among party regular forced McGovern to change his plans MARMADUKE WORLD CHESS (WIONW 'MR. FISCHER SEEMS TO BE READY 13EMT0 FCICWJS NOW SHALL WE COMMENCE, MR.

NATL, Nt. going to contact the Postmaster General necessary to get my route changed I.