470 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS
Authority to impose the death penalty for murder by a person
serving "without possibility of parole" would be vested in the trial
judge who originally sentenced that person. Without this provision,
there would be no restraint against further acts of violence by a
prisoner already serving a mandatory life sentence.
This seems to me to be a logical and progressive step for the State
to take at this time. But I would like to reiterate here, and to empha-
size, that I do not think the subject matter belongs in the Constitution.
If the sense of the people is desired, as some convention delegates
have argued, it can just as well be taken through normal referendum
procedures after the Legislature has acted.
NEWS CONFERENCE
October 10, 1967
OPENING STATEMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR
Gentlemen, I have a few statements I would like to make before I
take your questions. First of all I want to take sharp exception to a
newspaper report published today indicating that the State's City
crash jobs program in Baltimore was a failure. A report I have just
received from Mr. Donald Lee, the Westinghouse executive who
headed this program at my request, indicates to the contrary that it
was very successful and that there was every justification to make it
a permanent operation.
The newspaper article quoting a report from a City anti-poverty
agency indicated that there were relatively few jobs provided in pri-
vate industry or even of a permanent nature in the State and City
governments.
Mr. Lee's report shows that a total of 2, 137 permanent type jobs
have been made available to City residents and that most of these were
rilled. Of the total, 1100 or more than half were in private industry.
Of the remainder, 400 were City jobs, 350 were State jobs, 70 were
Federal jobs, and 200 positions were made available in hospitals and
nursing homes.
In addition to these permanent type jobs, 1150 youths were put to
work on a temporary basis on a clean-up program, and 76 adults were
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