Here and There

Miss Jesso Margaret Cook, a firm believer in equal rights for women, left in her will a $25,000 trust fund to aid any woman who suffers because of inequalities under the law. Additional grants, according to Associated Press under a Baltimore dateline, were made to support the equal rights amendment to the U. S. Constitution and further equality for women in civil and economic rights.

Earlier this year some 360 delegates to the YMCA's annual model legislaturo met in Sacramento, California. 17-year old Terry Wade of San Rafael as acting Governor signed the first bill of the three-day ses cion a measure to release sex offenders from registration requirement after 10 years without convictions.

In Hollywood, the Kotion Picture Association, representing most of the important movie makers, changed its production code to permit the subject of sex deviation on the screen. To which Hedda Hopper, Hollywood columnist, promptly replied, "Well, all I've got to say is that our producers shouldn't have any trouble with casting."

The "Medicolegal Digest" reports that a husband sought a divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty consisting of his wife's maintenance of an active homosexual relationship. In H. vs. H., 157 A.2 721 (1960), the Superior Court of New Jersey found as a fact that the wife engaged in such activities and that hor conduct had a harmful effect upon the husband. The Court said:

"While the question as to whether active and continuous homosexuality constitutes extreme cruelty is new to our courts, wo have no doubt about it on principle, granted a justified factual basis in the

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