and told he was to get a ticket, sighed, "Thank God, I thought you were going to rob me." Noise led this Spring to importing of a Univ. Calif. criminologist to head Dept....

MILWAUKEE: After sex-slaying in 1959 of 6 yr. old boy, the head of Wisconsin's Motor Vehicles Dept. asked for and legislators introduced a bill to revoke driving licenses of all convicted sex deviates. MVD administrator Karns wanted more: a driving ban on all "known" deviates, using underhanded means to list such persons . . . John L. Doyne, acting chairman of County Bd. of Supervisors, later proposed plan for county to hold all suspected deviates in jail till they could be examined by private psychologists (at $150 per), bypassing the state hospital for mental diseases... Dr. John Ehrmann, senior psychologist at Waupun state prison, described (to Central States Corrections Assn.) the "typical" sex deviate as a man between 25 and 35, who comes from limited socio-economic background, has quit school early, has less than normal intelligence, is likely to be white and almost certain to be Catholic or Protestant. To which we say, "Bull"...

Early 1960: Sup. Doyne announced plans to confer with county officials to find ways "to keep sex deviates off the streets." Due to lack of staff, county hosp. for mental diseases had stopped screening suspected sex deviates arrested on misdemeanors. Attempts made to pass buck to state institutions . . . Vice cops, in contempt of U.S. topcourt, but under heavy Catholic pressure, arrested newsdealers for selling "obscene" magazines already cleared

.. Usual personal stories: a South Milwaukee alderman robbed and beaten by man he met in tavern and accompanied home for a drink ... a Church of the Open Door pastor arrested for persistently phoning

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youth, suggesting indecent acts Brewery worker Elroy Schulz, picked up in Juneau Park by vicecop Thomas Thelen, who claimed Schulz made indecent proposal. At the jail, Schulz had to be treated for injuries to his eye, mouth, dentures and side. Examination and treatment superficial as usual. Thelen claimed Schulz had attacked him. Schulz, previously imprisoned on sodomy charge, was bailed out by a friend. He died of severe internal injuries, fractured ribs and brain hemorrhage an hour later. And who here was the criminal? ...

Hi-school teacher dismissed for discussing abortion, homosexuality, etc., in class . . . In January, with strong religious pressure (Protestant and Catholic) and over objections of many jurists, a new law passed toughening marriage and divorce conditions . . . Editor of a Lutheran youth magazine which has same name we have, objected loudly to prettified paintings of Jesus, and "bathroom" religious drama that accompany so much religious thinking today... July: 6 Milwaukee bar owners arrested for "inadequate lighting" (typical harrassment action where authorities have no legitimate complaint)-3 bars reputed to be "gay."

Sept: After some damned fool told cops that Frame Park and Cutler Park in nearby Waukeesha had reputations all the way to Chicago. and Detroit as homosexual meeting places, cops began a roundup which arrested the dean of a local men's college, a Roman Catholic priest, a dentist, the vice president of an oil company, and several others, on charges of sex perversion -with possible prison sentences. As usual, several of the men pleaded guilty. Several other arrests made in following weeks, with police showing little regard for proper arrest methods.