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...Philadelphia, where the annual cost of graffiti pollution is now estimated at $4,000,000, the police have organized a 25-man "graffiti squad." Aided by handwriting experts, it has caught and prosecuted 330 offenders, nearly all teenagers. A standard punishment: several hours at hard labor, scouring walls...
Prolific. There are still an estimated 10,000 graffitists on the loose in the City of Brotherly Love, and some people profess to see an aesthetic value in their obsession. "We sense that there is a lot of creativity in these graffiti." says the Philadelphia Art Museum's David Katzive. "Most interesting, the trend is away from profanity and toward simple signatures -a kind of identity thing...
...Graffiti Alternative Workshop. After "recruiting" some prolific vandals, who had been caught in the act, the workshop commissioned several at $2 an hour to candy-stripe a dilapidated transit-authority bus. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. hired yet another group to decorate the plywood fence surrounding its new Philadelphia office. One graffitist was even paid to paint a mural on the wall of Art Patron Ben Bernstein's town house...
Still, Pop art is never without its detractors. Isadore Bellis, a member of Philadelphia's city council, went so far as to propose an ordinance that would solve the problem by banning the sale of spray paint. Says he of the graffiti workshop: "Unbelievable...
CONVICTED. EDGAR RAY KILLEN, 80, former Ku Klux Klansman accused of orchestrating the 1964 murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Mississippi, of manslaughter; on the 41st anniversary of the crime that helped speed passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act; in Philadelphia, Miss. The first person to face murder charges in the case--a jury deadlocked over his conviction on civil rights violations in a 1967 federal trial--Killen was sentenced to the maximum of 60 years in prison...