Few weeks back: 2 chaplains from penal institution in large city back east visited us, discussed means of helping homosexuals who came to them for advice, particularly approaches that might be used thru their churches. Hope to have more to report on this.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo.: Kansas U, football star stabbed outside Colony Bar, advertised as Gayest Spot in Town', when he & 2 friends followed meatcutter Harold Beaver, 24, to bar's restroom (after drag race) & on way out, gridstar Lynn McCarthy knocked Beaver down at least twice. After threatening with knife, Beaver stabbed McCarthy 4 times & fled. McCarthy in fair condition, but unlikely to play ball this season. Former topcop, running for Sheriff, accuses incumbent of attempts to conceal rape charges against deputy, who forced 16-yrold girl, arrested in car with fiance, by threatening to send her & boyfriend to prison . . . . . Man beaten, robbed at 1 a.m., at Liberty Memorial when a man invited him to look at fountains & 5 men jumped him Police plan action against hoodlumism in Liberty Memorial mall area, described as gathering place for sex deviates, after another man died of gunshot wounds from holdup there . . . Police also seeking 3 youths for beating & taking car from salesman met in tavern . . . . SPRINGFIELD, Mo.: 13-yr-old boy who'd stabbed older girl cousin in sudden urge to kill someone, committed indefinitely to Fulton state mental hospital at parents' expense. . . .

NEW YORK: Magician Fred Keating & 81 other men, including music teachers, hairdressers & designers, arrested, fined $10 each in raid on private party given by 3 female impersonators & a church organist. The organist, host, released on $2,500 bail, charged with possessing lewd pictures, conducting unlicensedmasquerade, etc. Impersonators (one believed hurt) got out window, leaving one wig behind, when cops arrived on neighbor's complaint . . . Young man

walking along peaceably when 2 plainclothes cops demanded his name. "What's yours?" he asked, They arrested him for assault, after scuffle. Magistrate O. M. Martin dismissed case, said: "No officer is entitled to have these facts given him by the ordinary citizen walking along the streets.".. New Yorkers agog recently at middle aged man walking along Madison Ave. quite nude Queens Dist. Atty. appointed panel of 10 medical experts to assist his office in cases requiring medical opinion. Says panel to be neutral, replacing conflicting "expertese" that has long baffled juries.

MINEOLA, N. Y.: Young bank teller arrested for pretending to be plainclothesman & spanking over 40 boys he'd found doing annoying things.

From Long Island NEWSDAY, early 56: Patrick Quinn, 26, arrested in ash-tray killing of man he met by chance & attacked in man's apartment . . . 29-yr-old storm-window. salesman identified by children as man who exposed self as they were leaving schoolbus. Over 20 boys & girls said Cambridge, an Englishman, made indecent proposals. He pleaded guilty. . L.I. soldier apparent suicide in stolen car on deserted road. First, improperly identified cops found him wearing I.D. bracelet of man he lived with . . . Boy & 2 girls charge Medford beauty operator (who denied charges) of unnatural acts with them

LAWRENCE, MASS.: Mayor's brother & 4 other bartenders jailed for operating "gathering places for sex perverts," & contributing to delinquency of minors, at Club Tampa. 4 months for bartender Buckley, Police plan to padlock club.. PORTLAND, ORE.: Grand jury indicts Purcell for failure to report & prosecute vice & halt police bribetaking . . . FT. WORTH, TEX.: Man jailed 6 months without trial on sodomy charge, judged insane by Dist. Court jury

TAOS, N. M.: 19-yr-old Beverly Romney, on trial for year-old murder of artist Wm. Rowe, says Rowe lured him with liquor & food into de-