patterns, but we can't accept them. forcing them on our children." (Who's forcing?) Several speakers pontificated on "psychological effects of pornography," and a "command and staff school" was set up (with Pitirim Sorokin's senile pamphlet, "The American Sex Revolution" as basic text) to instruct parents in gentle art of 'persuading' newsvendors. Dr. Duncan, head of Okla. State U. Sociology Dept., said pornography is but part of wider disease in American life, including comic strips, unscrupulous business practices, progressive education, divorces, soap operas, schizophrenic religious attitudes, and the decay of two-party system-all so resembling what St Paul predicted for the last days that "Gabriel's liable to blow his horn anytime according to that." O.S.U. must have a topnotch sociology dept!

Oklahoma City TIMES editorial ized: "It will take a vast amount of study and research to determine the most effective methods of counteracting the flood of pornography that permeates many channels of psychology." Yup! Probably will...

Indianapolis: Gov. Harold Handley announces state-wide drive against 'trash literature." Denying he was advocating a witchhunt (no one advocates that by name) he said surveys show that juvenile delinquency drops when smut is taken. off newsstands (didn't say what surveys). Pressure groups to be set up to 'urge' local officials to appoint "literature review boards," and volunteers will be organized to police magazine stands . . .

Marion County Criminal Court Judge Richard Salb recently deconstitutionalized Indiana's antiobscene literature law, in light of U. S. Top-Court's ruling that booksellers weren't responsible for contents of all books they had. His opinion read to packed courtroom

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audience, including Citizens Committee for Decent Literature vigilantes, whose efforts he criticized sharply. Case involved local mag distributor and 18 druggists who'd been hit in showpiece raid on June 17th, staged jointly by cops, county prosecutor, CCDL and press and TV fotogs. Distributor said dealers had since returned many titles they feared might later be seized. Other local cases (same day, lower court: bookstore clerk fined $500) will no doubt hinge on this decision. Indianapolis STAR approved, felt state had no business trying to direct minds of young people. Scripps' Indianapolis TIMES agreed, yet felt new law was needed...

Wooster, Ohio: George Bradford, 39 years a Wooster College English professor, died mysteriously one week after cops invaded house where he lived with sister, arrested him for possession of 'trunkful' of "obscene photographs." Bradford argued he used pics for sketching. Cops got his name from authorities in Tucson, Ariz., who had illegally seized mailing lists of Ron Picture Co., and passed on names to other police depts...

Wash., D. C.: Fairfax county cops arrested 2 Alexandria men on charge of selling 'indecent' fotos of Hi-School boys to 'pornographic' magazines. Connecticut officials had seized a letter from one of men...

Rumor had it D.C. vicecops were egging on toughs to go after homosexuals in Lafayette Park and such places-bethatasitmay, police weren't amused when 5 youths mistook a plainclothes vicecop for a homosexual, and gave him a severe beating, despite his "But I'm a policeman!" Three other dicks came running, and 3 more toughs joined the fray. Reporting the case, in which toughs and vicecops were after same prey, Washington POST