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Charging dope-use to trap teenagers into sex acts, Sen. Hendrickson (Rep.-N.J.) recently threatened to blast California homos and ONE. But hearings were tame and got slim publicity beyond Hearst press. Attempt to link homos and maligned Pachucor to dope smuggling. Law officials say homo-organization is small, ONE not lewd and juvenile problem distorted by hysteria and exaggeration. Witnesses ask return to McGUFFEY READER, a ban on WORLD FEDERALISTS and denounce dope, comics. juvenile drunks. S.F. grand jury upstaged Senator with claim of growing sex deviate problem: urged police vigilance. Police raid TOMMY'S PLACE, find one juvenile and one dope kit. Headline: TEENAGE GIRL SEX NARCOTIC RING. Some police itching to close Frisco gay bars detered by "unfortunate Supreme Court ruling" permitting homos to gather unless caught in immoral acts on premises. (Miami take note.) "Before, we could back the patrol wagons, and..."

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Help us keep in touch with your local conditions news clips and personal briefs. Your town may be the next Miami: Recently, Wichita, Columbus, Minneapolis, Montreal and Atlanta have seen start of Miami-type campaigns. New Zealand too after matricide-trial of young girls. Wichita officials threaten inquisition of homo suspects (Kansas law forces testimony.) Montreal vice cleanup: Mayor and police chief out. Minneapolice order heat on addicts, prostitutes, "perverts," fearing loss of town's pure repute. Usually intelligent ATLANTA CONSTITUTION runs full page report: 1,500 SEX DEVIATES ROAM STREETS HERE. Falsely equates homos and child molesters; calls for law reforms, some good, some bad.

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by dal mcintire

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Teenage killers who setoff Miami homohunt off easy. Few years maybe for one, other sure to go free. Jurors disagree whether victim's alleged inversion caused lenient verdict.

New Miami Beach law: special antimolester patrol in theatre aisles during kid matinees-at theatre expense.

MIAMI NEWS & MIAMI HERALD, both of which carried false statements referring to ONE seemed afraid to run a letter giving ONE's views.

ODD BITS

Noticed popsong WHITHER THOU GOEST? From Bible story of love between two women... L.A. Judge angered by suspicion psychiatrists trying to usurp judge and jury function . . . Dr. Wm. Menninger: "Well, nobody is really emotionally mature." . . California Assembly looking at changes in mentally-ill care to save cash . . . Despite press lies, state statistics deny increase in California sex crimes ... Various L.A. and California officials taking stand against police use of entrapment and wire tap... Novelist Mike Arlen, once being told by lady he looked almost like a woman, replied coolly, "So do you." Have U read ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE? How easily Mrs. could be considered a male ... In British comic strip: burglar warns the householder: "No tricks-I'm not a man to be trifled with." Got reply: "Don't worry I only trifle with women."

The "subject" getting more newsworthy by the day as papers scoop up implications in Provoo trial, plant them in Sheppard trial and insinuate them into other stories via psychologists who sell short their professional ethics for headline interviews. Worse is increase of blackmail type exposés of private lives in smut journals, with adroit innuendo phrasing

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