fiance of the law." The case, brought by a young student accused of "conducting himself in a lewd manner and using filthy language" has already voided one city ordinance and threatens to oust others. ...

Authorities were nonplussed when first-graders at Williams Township School in North Carolina unanimously chose for their "Hallowe'en Queen" 7-year-old Bill Ward. "We want Bill because he's the prettiest." It took considerable palaver to budge them. . . . John Murphy Goodshot, was arrested recently in Denver and charged with defrauding the government. The 21-year-old with a 21inch waist described how he had been married in East Greenwich two years. earlier to a Navy Seebee. He had been living for four years as a female, and wanted to have an operation. "You know what I mean? Change over. But that sort of thing is illegal here so I'll have to go to some foreign country. Goodshot, raised on a South Dakota Indian reservation, told how the children used to shun him and poke fun at him, til he decided to become a woman. Cox, Goodshot's husband, had naturally signed up for a dependency allowance for his wife, and Goodshot had cashed several checks ..

New Orleans juvenile bureau officers told how the apprehension of a 15-year-old runaway boy led to the arrest of 13 adult men in connection with alleged sex offenses.

A so-called "call-boy ring" involving three 16-year-old boys, led to arrests in Newark of a social worker, a jewelry manufacturer, and two other New Jersey men.... Big stink earlier in Trenton, N. J., about the Shell Bar. Surprisingly, in this case, 3 cops testified for the defense, denied that they'd seen anything offensive at the bar. . . . In

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Miami a hi-school teacher was arrested on disorderly conduct at a Hallowe'en party. Disclosed that at least 6 school employees have been recently fired or resigned following arrests on morals charges. ... Group of Okla. psychiatrists recommended sex perverts be committed to state prison in a special ward for treatment....

Husky N.Y.C. butcher-boy admitted strangling a slightly-built artist who "made an indecent proposal." He kicked the body off top of a building.... Community project, labelled "Control of Sex Offenders" launched in Jamestown, N.Y., under sponsorship of Area Community Council, Medical Society, Jr. C. of C., Beta Sigma Phil Sorority, Union Rescue Mission and American Legion. "Without wishing to get a witch hunt started," they aimed at study of the problem, facilitating the reporting of sex crimes, and censoring "salacious literature," sponsoring educational films and dealing directly with convicted offenders, "with kindness and a friendly atmosphere."

Testifying before a Calif. Interim Committee on mental illness recently, Dr. Pumpian-Mindlin said that some of the symptoms of mental hospital patients may be due to their hospitalization, separating them from friends and community. He widely attacked the growing practice of dumping all sorts of neurotics and the aged as well into mental hospitals . . . In a House of Commons debate on disarmament sometime back Duncan Sandys said Swedish scientists have found that the unnatural heat caused by wearing trousers could effect up to 1,000 times more genetic damage to men than radiation"They conclude by recommending the general adoption of the Scottish kilt.'

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