European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 29, 1967 the stars and stripes Page thousands of new police needed Nixon says Washington up warn ing that America has become one of the most Lawless nation sin history former vice presi Dent Richard m. Nixon said tuesday that thousands of new police should be hired to keep order in City slums. In a copyrighted readers digest article the gop presiden tial contender deplored the sum Mer s ghetto riots As senseless and declared the nation Vannotte Morize or equivocate in this showdown with  he said More better trained better paid policemen should be dispatched to bring the physical presence of the Law into those communities where the writ of authority has ceased to  some will argue he wrote that dispatching thousands of police into the slums will no solve the problems of jobs and housing and schools or alleviate the conditions that Breed crime and violence. No it will not but the first requisite of Progress is peace and the purpose of these police is to ensure that , the republicans unsuccessful 1960 candidate for presi Dent said it would be a com pounded injustice to penalize Law abiding negroes for the crimes of the criminal negro minority. But he said the extremists who threaten riots and Long hot sum mers to exact millions of Dol Lars from society Are gravely mistaken to think that the threat of pillage is the Way to sell americans on social  before Rushing into massive new programs he declared Congress should find out Why the welfare programs of the past have  blamed the shocking crime and disorder in the United states in part on court decisions which have weak ened the Law and encouraged the  is it he asked that in a few Short years a nation which enjoys the Freedom and material abundance of America has become among the most Lawless and violent in the his tory of free Peoples one of the answers he said is the permissiveness applied to those who defy the Law in Pur suit of civil  he said the riots were the most virulent symptoms to Date of the decline in respect for Public authority and the Rule of Law in America. Far from being a great society ours is becoming a Law less  look Washington up  Charles Percy criticizing the i crime Ridden and litter filled streets of american cities said wednesday the United state should look to Europe for Solu j tons to Urban problems i i m. Constantly struck by cities i far older than ours that Are be coming much nicer places to \ live Percy said during House Senate economic committee hearings on Urban goals an problems. Percy said he recently toured new York with mayor John v. Lindsay. The town goes to seed every weekend when trash col lectors Are off duty. But the next weekend i was in Spain where the streets were  life seems to be better i England Spain and in cities of other european nations the Illinois Republican said. He told of a Chicago Friend who had lived in England for a year. He was thrilled to be Able to walk the streets of London at night without fear something he just can t do in  but members of a panel of Urban experts testifying before the committee said european cities had their own problems. France for example is Fol lowing the United states in be coming a throw away society that leaves More and More wrap pers and tin cans wherever peo ple live said Percival Good of Man professor of architecture at Columbia University. Goodman said new York suffered from puerto Picans and Southern negroes who had a heritage of throwing garbage out the  Werner Hirsch economics pro Fessor at the University of Cali fornia also told the joint pane that Street crime was becoming a serious problem in a number of european capitals. Living costs climb a bit during August Washington a Liv ing costs climbed three tenths of one per cent last month the labor department reported wednesday and a government spokesman predicted that 1967 May see a total increase of nearly three per cent. At the same time the usually stable Index of wholesale Indus trial prices Rose  Arthur m. Ross of the Bureau of labor Statis tics said a tax increase would mitigate Price  officials have been trying to bolster the Ca Sefor president Johnson s pro posed 10 per cent income tax surcharge which is having rough going in Congress. Food costs Pace Rise food prices which usually Godown in August led the Rise in consumer prices up five tenths of one per  other major categories of living costs also went up including a four tenths of one per cent jump in medical care costs three tenths for housing two tenths for transportation Andone tenth for clothing. The Price rises brought the government s consumer Price Index to 116.9, meaning it took$11.69 to Purchase goods Worth $10 in the 1957-59 base  Rise so far this year is 2.7 per  officials earlier this year had forecast a 2.5 per centrist in Over All living costs for 1967, but Ross said i think will be closer to three per cent living costs last year climbed 3.3 per cent for the biggest Rise i in about a decade. Of deep concern the 40-foot Lockheed research submarine deep quest gets its final testing in san Diego Bay before beginning its deep sea probe off the Southern California  sub is expected to take two scientist observers to a depth of 8,000 feet. Up photo suspect linked by Palm print to 66 slaying new York a a blood Palm print was offered by the prosecution wednesday As Evi Dence that Stephen Kessler 32, was on the scene of his Mother in Law s murder in april 1966. Mrs. Florence Cooper 57-year-old English school teacher was stabbed 105 times in her Brook Lyn apartment on april 11, 1966. Sometime before her death Sheds reported to have telephoned her husband to complain about alleged harassment by Kessler. Kessler s first degree murder trial began tuesday. Detective Samuel l. Cham Bers a police fingerprint expert testified for the state that bloody Palm print on the Bath room door of mrs. Cooper apartment was identical with Kessler s left Palm print. Bloody clothing before the trial was adjourned until monday the jury heard detective William Fla Herty identify items of bloody clothing which he said were found in a Heap on the floor of Kessler s apartment after his Mother in Law s death. The state has made no men Tion thus far of the hallucinatory drug Ltd but defense attorney Maurice Edelbaum told the jury that Kessler was an experimenter with Ltd. At the time of his arrest Kessler was quoted by police As say ing he had been flying for three Days on  Kessler slender bespectacled and slightly stooped has been described As a former med ical student who showed Bril Liance in pathology. There s no business like no business red Hunting Saab gets year lease on life. I i a a _  a a Yilit of irn of Raf re a full Al to Washington a the subversive activities control Board termed by one senator a for political sinecure to ukr cronies apparently is going to remain in business for at Leas another year. What that business will be i another question. Sen. William p r o x m i r e,d-wis., said the Board does not have any. It has not held a hearing income two years. But the Senate appropriation committee announced tuesday it has approved a $295,000 budget for the five member Board during the year that ends next june 30. The House already has vote that sum and the full Senate is expected to go along. The boards ought $330,000. Proxmire rec Apollo project executives shuffled f Downey Calif. Up North american aviation wednesday shuffled jobs of some key Apollo spacecraft executives but indicated the move had Noth ing to do with an expected delay in the flight to the Moon prop ram. Shindy Falbaum was replaced by to he Lealy As manager of the Apollo 101 spacecraft and Floydt Vight replaced t. C. Harvey As assistant director of Apollo test operations. Healy formerly was with the Saturn program and twight was with North american s rocket Dyne division. The new assignments of fal Baum and Harvey weren t Given. Asked whether the personnel changes resulted from the Nasa announcement tuesday night that the first manned Apollo space shot scheduled for the Early Parton 1968 might be delayed until mid summer due to modification of the spacecraft a North Amer ican spokesman said i would t think so. We make several changes a Day. I never gave it a  the spokesman stressed tha Apollo 101 is Only one of 15 Apollo spacecrafts scheduled to rebuilt by North american. Commended it get no  and other critics of the Board were not expected topless that demand when the appropriations Bill reaches the floor. They were said to feel such a move challenging the potent appropriations commit tee would be Defeated and that this could Supply ammunition to senator who want to revive the Board with new exposure pow ers. Saab funds were approved bythe committee As part of a $2.2 billion appropriation for Testate Commerce and Justice departments the Federal Judi Ciary and other agencies. The Board has been under congressional fire for three months since president John son named Simon f. Sci Hugh or. Who married a former White House Secretary to a $26,000-a-year membership. That appointment focused at Tention on the panel and its in activity. Its authority to Force registration of people and organizations cited As communist Nas been overruled by the courts. The shameful fact is that each of these five Board Mem Bers has been collecting $500 week for the past two years for doing absolutely nothing an that they continue to draw Down that fat salary is a frightening waste of the taxpayers Money Proxmire said. This Board is a costly anachronism he said. Its Only serv ice is in providing sinecure for political  the appropriations commit tee said the withholding of funds would not solve the workload problem or determine whether the Board should be . Everett m. Dirksen lx-111., the Republican Leader has proposed legislation which would assign the Board a fact finding Job authorising it to publicly name communists and their fronts