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Still, an important question about reliance on police remains. The failure of the L.E.A.A. police transfusion to lower the crime rate suggests that more money for the nation's 500,000 men in blue will not help much. Says Assistant Chief Herb Hartz of Tulsa, Okla.: "If the police could somehow become 20% more efficient, can you imagine what would happen? The courts are not equipped to handle that kind of load, and the prisons aren't equipped to handle it either." Indeed they are not. At this point, the President's new L.E.A.A. funds for improvement and innovation...
...column had a wide following for almost three decades. ∙ Died. Bob Wills, 70, "Western Swing" bandleader-composer; of pneumonia; in Fort Worth. Wills turned out dance tunes that are now called country rock, introducing with his Texas Playboys such C & W classics as Take Me Back to Tulsa and New San Antonio Rose...
...Dean Brown, director of the State Department's refugee program, said that some 60% of the refugees are children and only about 30%-roughly 35,000 people-are heads of households and will need jobs. Concluded the conservative Tulsa World: "There will be no long-term problem with the immigration of Vietnamese unless we want to make a problem." Said AFL-CIO President George Meany: "If this great country can't absorb another 30,000 people and help them find a way to make a living, it will be denying its heritage." Added House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter...
...uprising, organized the town to sponsor two Vietnamese brothers, their wives and eight children, who were warmly welcomed there last week. In Faribault, Minn., John and Margaret Kennedy had eleven new Vietnamese faces-two adults and nine children -around the kitchen table in their small, two-bedroom house. In Tulsa, Okla., a gas-station owner, E.A. Stehle, set off with his wife in their Cadillac Eldorado for Fort Chaffee, determined to do what he could to help a Vietnamese family. Before the day was out, they returned with Colonel Nguyen Bang and eight members of his family wedged...