"rousting" bar) for months. Reesink denied all, said he went to Orrin's office to warn about behavior in bar, and money was likely planted on him when he stooped to pick up some keys. Changed his tune when he found his talk with Orrin was recorded.

May: AlcyBevComm agent Lawrence Cardelini nabbed by cops with marked $150 in pocket, received from Norman Tullis, co-owner of Castaway, lower Market St. "gay" bar. Tullis said he'd paid Cardelini monthly since July, then turned tables on cops by implicating 4 of them.

Chief Cahill and ABC super Norbert Falvey reacted by threats to close all 22 area "gay" bars. Many already have actions pending against licenses. Police bd. set up to investigate gayola charges. Meanwhile, Judge Harold Caulfield upheld ABC revocation of Handlebar license, saying a bar owner should know what was going on in his place (previously held unproven that management knew of immoral acts ABC bulls allegedly witnessed).

As the gayola reported soared over $3000, Internal Revenooers got interested. Jack's Waterfront Hangout and 585 Club on Post were also involved, and late in May, Sgt. Cecci, Patrolmen Edward Bigarani, Michael Sugrue, Telfred Slettvedt and Donald Murphy were indicted on bribery/conspiracy charges, which they denied. These was a "coverup" howl when certain officers (who were reprimanded and transferred-leading off a general shakeup in the force) tried to make arrests "delicately"-out of press fotog range. In July, Walter Reesink (first reported as Waldo) pleaded guilty to reduced charge of soliciting or accepting bribe. Sugrue, Bigarani, Cecchi and Rob't. McFarland came to trial 2 weeks later before Judge Levin. Defense attacked pros-

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ecution witnesses as homosexuals, charged bar owners tried to frame cops. Trials ended in whitewash, with accused cops back on force. ...

Sheriff Louis Mountanos, viceraiding kid's tree houses in San Rafael, found fotos of nude women, wine bottles, beer cans, 33 cigarette packs, cards, list of gambling debts & supplies stolen from parochial school . . . $20,000 missing from Police Widows and Orphans Fund. If you can't trust your policemen, who can you trust? . . . Operators of 3rd St. Palace Baths, which Deputy D. A. Varni called "nothing but a resort for homosexuals," asked permit to reopen in charge of another man, after their arrest on testimony of 17-yr-old who said he was hired as "male prostitute' . . . San Mateo English teacher "arrested" for improper conduct in Washington Park restroom, Burlingame, by a fake cop. Pretending sympathy outside police station, extortionist Don D. Lower, 39, told teacher to wait while he went in to "get the case fixed." At teacher's house, later, he asked and got $800 "bail." After Lower disappeared, victim realized he'd been had, went to police, identified Lower from file of 50 "mug-shots" of men who regularly worked that racket. Lower was found in LA jail on similar charge, with record 4 pages long ... San Quentin convict, 39, on indeterminate sex perversion sentence, was stabbed 3 times under arm by 19-yr.-old "incorrigible." Authorities assumed it was a sex fight... Fresno administrator Robert Klein ordered owners of Mid-Tower Pub. Co. (which put out a short-lived mag, SEX AND CENSORSHIP, and Dr. Maxey's book, MAN IS A SEXUAL BEING, plus a line of purple fiction) to get out of business, or out of town, or face obscenity prosecution....

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