tangents continued

and the pinch was made. Hope lovers hadn't done any thing technically indecent while they were waiting

OKLAHOMA CITY: 10 men arrested in "morals investigation" at Lincoln Park zoo restroom. charged in state court with "committing crime against nature' trial pending, and also charged in municipal court with disorderly conduct. Duard Graves found guilty of disorderly conduct tho he denied accusation. 2 patrolmen testified to witnessing acts thru hole in wall, and 2 scoutcar officers said Graves, who was at first indignant at arrest, afterwards confessed "he was pervert." Graves, denying this was true, admitted making the confession, but only because officers told him if he confessed he would get off with a $20 fine. "I made the admission only to keep slander off my family and to preserve my reputation.." 2 of others arrested denied committing the acts charged or making the confessions reported by the cops. 3 defendents forfeited bail for failure to appear.

After year as L. A.'s D. A., Wm. McKesson bragged that organized crime and vice "just don't exist here. Generally McKesson soothed friction with Wm. Parker's police force which was bitter over former D. A. Roll's defense of citizens' rights. Regarding old payoff rumors, McKesson gave his department a clean bill-of-health.-"We investigated all the rumors and stories and found they weren't true

-aside from one man we fired. Also we've gotten rid of our vice squad, which I understand is where the problem of pay-offs come from.' Few days later, Bureau

of Criminal Statistics said L. A.

county led State in crime rate.

Oct. 11: L. A. cops seized prints of 4 experimental films being shown at CORONET THEATRE an artfilm house operated by Society of Cinema Arts. Police claimed films, CLOSED VISION, PLAGUE SUMMER, FIREWORKS and THE VOICES were obscene. (FIREWORKS, beautifully filmed in surrealist style, deals frankly with homosexual cruising in naval regions, with added sadistic and scatological elements this reporter didn't personally appreciate.) Police admitted they didn't know anything about experimental films -those in question show around country in universities, film museums, etc. CORONET management took to Courts and won ruling from Judge Younger that city ordinance prohibiting film exhibition whichwould-tend-to-corrupt-youth was unconstitutional. One count remains to be tried shortly. . . Local vice squad later closed French import FIRE UNDER HER SKIN at Vagabond theatre, but say they weren't acting as censors, just following up citizens' complaint... Recent Supreme Court ruling clearing GAME OF LOVE may end such nonsense. They pointed out that there was nothing obscene about the portrayal of sex as such.

STATIC

Psychologist Daniel G. Brown (Air Force Academy) notes it's fun for little boys to rouge up and dress in girls' clothes on Haloween, but when little boy shows too much pleasure in doing this-watch out. A little boy's desire to be a girl, he says has much more serious implications than girl's desire to be a boy, since stress in our culture is on

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