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LEGAL ACTION AGAINST HOLLYWOOD CITIZEN-NEWS
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Los Angeles Mattachine Society, Inc., Dane Mohler, disclosed to the Board of Directors in a special meeting in May that he has filed a legal action against the Citizen-News Company of Hollywood and the 22 companies it controls. The object of the law suit is to enjoin the Citizen-News from publishing, distributing and, or causing to be distributed, advertising throwaways throughout the Los Angeles area. Mr. Mohler, in his report to
the board disclosed that this company throws into yards, plantings and upon lawns over 1,500,000 of these throw-aways without the consent or subscription of the person receiving same. Further, these throw-aways contain the editorials of editor and publisher Dave Heyler which are offensive to Chairman Mohler and many others. M. Mohler further disclosed to the Board that a special hearing was held in the
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Law and Motion department of the California Superior Court at the instance of the defendant CitizenNews. At this hearing, Mohler won a decisive victory and the defendant Citizen-News Company was ordered to answer the complaint as filed by Mr. Mohler and to join issue for trial. It appears that this is the first time in the history of California that a suit of this nature-to enjoin a public nuisance against such a paper-has gone this far.
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Addressing the Class of 1963 at the University of Arizona in Tucson was a distinguished historian who pondered the future instead of the past and who warned of some nearing developments.
Dr. Lynn Townsend White Jr. of the University of Califomia shared with the graduating seniors his belief that the next two decades are going to produce a situation “in which the peril to all of us is going to require the surrender of a significant segment of national sovereignty to an international atomic energy authority."
Dealing philosophically with "The Uses of Freedom," Dr. White also somberly discussed such problems as the population explosion, birth control, and divorce.
Among other things, he said, "We must use our freedom to reexamine our own unconscious presupposi-
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mattachine REVIEW
Founded in 1954 First Issue January 1955
Volume IX
JUNE 1963
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Number 6
4 TOWARD A QUAKER VIEW OF SEX: PART III-HOMOSEXUALITY
21 VENEREAL DISEASE AND HOMOSEXUAL CONTACTS
29 LITERARY SCENE
31 BOOKS IN REVIEW
34 READERS WRITE
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