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by w.e.g. mcintire

PERVERSION IN THE PARK

THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL reports that County Judge Christ T. Seraphim has called on police to conduct what he called a "war on perversion" in Juneau Park. The Judge acted after hearing the 20th recent case involving men in "abnormal" sexual acts in the park. The Judge said that when he was a boy in Milwaukee, Juneau was the only park in which he played. Now, he said, he was afraid to take his children there. "Let's make it safe for the children again," he declared. The park now has more light and more patrolmen.

If anyone wonders how ONE feels about this type of sex activity, the answer can be found in the editorial of the September, 1962 issue.

SOUTH OF THE BORDER

THE LOS ANGELES TIMES reports on the U.S. Supreme Court's direction to the Federal Court in California to consider the question of whether an afternoon's visit to Mexico can, under the immigration

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laws, be considered "a departure to a foreign port or place." The court thus gives notice that it is not even willing to discuss the question of whether the party concerned, George E. M. Fleuti, is homosexual. It is doubtful that the Justice Department will enforce the clause since to do so against this party, whom they are after for being homosexual, would mean that they would have to enforce it against everyone. The same paper, in Paul Coates' Column, has documented proof of how crooked the cops are and how unjustly the laws are enforced in Mexico.

From three different sources we find notice that men are still trying to commit crimes while dressed as women. The ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL reports that Carrol Wade Paris, 24, of Hobbs, was disguised as a woman when arrested, had been employed as a waitress in a Roswell cafe, but was sentenced as a man after pleading guilty to a charge of grand larceny. The INDIANAPOLIS NEWS reports that William H.

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