  Recent analyses of Cepheid distances to spiral galaxies have led to an
announcement of a Hubble constant of $H_0 = 72 \pm 8$ km/sec/Mpc. The new
Cepheid distances, however, show that there are numerous redshift distances
with large excesses which cannot be due to peculiar velocities. Ignoring these
discordant redshifts, if the Hubble constant is calibrated with Cepheid
distances of low redshift spirals a value near $H_0$ = 55 is obtained. Use of
independent distance criteria such as Tully-Fisher and group membership
verifies this value and leads to three conclusions: 1) The peculiar velocities
of galaxies in space are characteristically small. 2) Sc companions to normal
Sb's tend to be less luminous, with younger stellar populations and small
amounts non velocity redshift. 3) ScI and other purportedly over luminous
spirals have large amounts of intrinsic redshift.
