interrogations as to why they visited known homosexual bars.

"I think we got our point across to them," bragged "Pattie" Patnode, though there might be some who would fail to see much difference between his methods and certain Communist brain-washing procedures. But then how unreasonable to expect "Pattie" or for that matter bossman "Blackie" Blackburn to be too concerned about American standards of civil rights when they had a job to do.

DISHONOR ROLL HONORS

With this latest in a long series of such reported operations Florida moves into the big-time not only as fastest growing state in U.S. but as a contender for the top spot on the law-enforcement Dishonor Roll.

IT'S NEVER DULL IN DALLAS

Dallas, home of Southern Methodist University and a good many other things too, has been favored by still one more of those standard injured-innocence murder pleas. Bobby Ray Corpney, 24-year-old barber, testified that he had strangled to death Frank McGuire Waddell, 42. Corpney broke Waddell's larynx and inflicted 12 to 20 cuts on each side of his neck with his fingernails," and took his watch and credit cards "after" he made immoral advances to him.

Justice may be blind, but is there. any reason courts cannot ask why these criminals don't merely decline unwanted advances and quietly leave, minus watches and credit cards? Or is Justice blind only to some things and gimlet-eyed toward others? One wonders.

When seven adults from Dallas suburb Oak Cliff were arrested the charge was sodomy involving four juveniles and set off an investigation that according to Detective D. E.

Bynum centered on a close-knit group alleged "to be preying on juveniles. As many as 5,000 people could be involved, some of them. leaders of youth groups," he said, with a truly Texan eye for seeing things on a big scale.

A downtown Dallas burlesque house began to sniff the winds of change in the air and felt the need for self-purification, so banished those real strippy femme pictures from out front, replacing them with gal shots chastely begowned from throat to toe. "Youth groups" might be festering with homosexuals but Dallas males were not going to be corrupted by looking at pictures of naked women. No sirree!

ART COMES TO BIG SPRINGS

Culture sprouts faster than oilwells in Texas these days, so they say. Unfortunately, Big Springs' $150,000 Degas pastel did not arrive according to the most approved methods of art-collecting and won't be staying for long . . . It was sent to mother for safe-keeping by actormodel Jimmie C. White who had taken it and two other art works from the New York home of his close friend, actor-singer David Daniels, in an attempt to somehow effect a reconciliation, after a falling out between them.

Psychiatrist Dr. John Train testified before Judge Thomas F. Murphy and an all-male jury that at the time of the taking of the pictures Jimmie was suffering from "situational reactive agitation, mental agitation, and was extremely distressed" because of the quarrel with his friend. A good scientific analysis of the situation if we ever saw one. Jimmie was given a 10-year suspended sentence so maybe things can now be patched up between the two of them. At any rate no one can ever say that Big Springs didn't have a

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