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...Long Beach, nervous housewives traded rumors of new eruptions. Most citizens stayed home, and the thrumming, garish metropolis seemed unnervingly still. In neighborhoods surrounding the riot center, frightened whites-and some Negroes-were queuing up at sporting-goods stores to buy guns. At an Inglewood store, Owner Bob Ketcham reported selling 75 shotguns and rifles in one day, added: "They're buying every kind of weapon-guns, knives, bows and arrows, even slingshots." Though they now risked being shot, gangs of looters were still burning stores and houses. The Fire Department announced that 1,000 fires had been...
...American cars and are very serious." Chairman Galbraith, who works for a French subsidiary of Morgan Guaranty Trust, is aided by Co-Chairman Colleen Moore, a star of silent movies, and both were pleased last week to have found a Goldwater chairman for Switzerland, Comic Strip Artist Hank Ketcham (Dennis the Menace). Many Goldwaterites from the U.S. have made the trip to Paris to give Galbraith and Moore a helping hand with their task...
Errant children cannot be committed as juvenile delinquents beyond the age of 21. Yet they can be held for weeks or months without a hearing. According to Washington, D.C.'s Judge Orman Ketcham, U.S. county jails hold as many as 100,000 children per year. Moreover, because they can be held to 21, juveniles often get longer sentences than adults do for the same offense...
Solomon to 225,000. No one knows all this better than the country's 3,000 juvenile court judges, a quarter of them non-lawyers and most of them overworked. In 1957, Washington's Judge Ketcham found himself the low-paid Solomon in sole charge of the city's 225,000 juvenile cases, plus all of its paternity suits and nonsupport cases. By contrast, 31 other judges handled the city's 550,000 adult cases. "I had to hear 197 cases in my first three days of court," recalls Ketcham. "I don't want that...
President-elect of the National Council of Juvenile Court Judges, Judge Ketcham is a blunt advocate of defense lawyers in juvenile courts. Right now, lawyers represent less than 10% of juvenile delinquents in the country's 75 largest cities, where 69% of juvenile crime is concentrated...