Dade county sheriff's office and MIAMI HERALD busy campaigning to harass child molesters-and potential molesters-while up in Ft. Lauderdale, a 16-yr.-old boy, described as a "confirmed homosexual," was sentenced to a brutal (the judge's expression) 15-yr. prison term. Son of a thrice-wed mother and a father waiting sexcrime trial, the boy's sentence contrasted sharply to that of a Miami man ordered to move out of neighborhood after molesting 3 young girls 6 times.

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In printing letter signed W. R. Westphal commenting on Wolfenden Report, TIME 10-7-57, neglected to mention the letter was from Los Angeles Mattachine Society. . . . In same issue a clumsy account of Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Fisher's attitude on Report...

Memphis is famed for films that don't show there. Police faces were red recently over sex movies J. H. Bobo ran at stag shows for cops. He "picked up" films while chief counsel for Kefauver's bluenose Senate Juvenile Delinquency subcommittee. In the ensuing clamor, various officials resigned and 20 cops were placed on probation. Bobo (and ex Sen. Henderson, R., N. J.) once charged falsely, that a Los Angeles sex-deviate organization doped youngsters with benzedrine and barbiturates, inducing them to perform or submit to unnatural sex acts." . .

When recent ugly Nash case (Stephen Nash cockily admitted murder of several homosexuals, panhandlers, small boys-as revenge against society) was agitating Hollywood and Santa Monica papers into hysterical frontpage editorials to "get tough with the

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homosexuals"-"bust them in the nose if necessary," the shortlived liberal Los Angeles FREE PRESS editorialized against such nonsense, pointing out that all sex deviates aren't homicidal, that Nash's vengeful murders weren't due merely to a sex condition, and that such illegal police rousting methods as proposed would only create more anti-social reactions and increase crime. . . .

More recently the HOLLYWOOD CITIZEN-NEWS editorialized: "The organization of a committee headed by George Murphy to safeguard the welfare of the motion picture industry in a step which... might be applied on a broader scale for the entire Los Angeles area. The immediate concern of Murphy's committee. is to deal with the possible damage to the industry resulting from the Confidential Magazine trial. Not only the motion picture industry but Los Angeles as a whole has reason to take steps to protect itself against undesirable people, incidents and publicity. Los Angeles police indicate that this area seems to be attracting more than its share of undesirable characters. The police are unable to cope with them until they commit crimes and are detected and arrested. But the presence of undesirable characters in an industry is often known to that industry long before arrests, trials and bad publicity take place. Currently the police are alarmed over the presence in Los Angeles of an abnormal percentage of the country's total number of homosexuals. They frequent certain saloon and eating places, parks and streets, creating situations that are obnoxious and alarming to normal people. But legally it is difficult to correct this situation. A county-wide committee similar to the one Murphy heads for the film