individual is a moral rather than a legal problem."

A 3 year program of family planning (birth control) was announced for parts of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx by Dr. Alan F. Guttmacher, President of Planned Parenthood-World Population. Chicago, with 40,000 families already on Aid to Dependent Children relief programs also hopes to initiate a bold new program for birth control next year. The information and devices will be given to both married and unwed mothers.

The Checkmate Bar, 17 East 31st St. and the 227 York Restaurant (Brooklyn) were closed by the SLA, the former for allowing homosexuals to "conduct themselves in an indecent manner on the premises," and the latter for allegedly refusing to allow a policeman to inspect the premises. Another cop, Patrolman Victor Velez, 25, of Atlantic Ave. station was identified by 2 women as the man who "indecently exposed himself" to them.

The American Social Health Association, a crusading group that has opposed red light districts, urges a uniform law to make customers as well as the prostitute guilty. Proposed penalties: jail for not less than 15 days and fines of not more than $250. Crusaders always do keep us on our toes.

In Bridgeport, Connecticut, Circuit Judge J. Allen O'Connor, Jr., was arrested on breach of the peace charges with two counts of indecent assault against Richard Spiro, 25, of Westport, who had appeared before O'Connor as a defendant on a theft charge. HOMOSEXUALS AND OTHERS

In DeKalb County, Georgia, the County grand jury indicted 14 persons on charges of sodomy. Solici-

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tor Gen. Richard Bell said all 14 had been arrested by county police at a "rest room in a neighborhood shopping center." The newspapers proceeded to print the names and addresses of all 14 men. It goes without saying that none of these 14 men were subscribers to ONE, because, they would say, "I can't afford to have my name on the mailing list of a homosexual organization." So, instead of being on a mailing list that is protected by law, they are listed as practicing homosexuals in the paper for all their friends and employers to

see.

Others in trouble around the globe include the Rev. Russell D. Horsburgh, 44, pastor of the Park St. United Church in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, who has been convicted of contributing to the (heterosexual) delinquency of teen-age parishioners who testified that he encouraged them to engage in sex in the parish house.

An all-woman Arizona jury found Douglas McDonald guilty of the death of Scottsdale music teacher Dale McConnell (see September Tangents). McDonald admitted that he had shot McConnell, after the victim allegedly made improper advances.

A substitute music teacher was being held on $1500 bail in Philadelphia on charges of indecent assault and corrupting the morals of a 9 year old student at Darrah School, 17th 17th and Folsom Sts. Arthur Webb, 40, of Tioga St. was immediately suspended by the Board, the 4th person involved in such charges in a year. The others were Robert Whiting, 46, Harold Cohen, 25 and Nathaniel Davis, 40.

Aid Rev. Raymond C. Broshears, 29, of Belleville, III., CORE chapter was sentenced to six