European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                It fat 6 the stars and stripes sunday August 30, 1959 War on filth racketeers urged by Summerfield in seeking corrective Laws Washington a postmaster Arthur e. Summerfield has urged a War to the finish on what he called filth racketeers who prey on the nation s Young people. He said postal inspectors estimate that As Many As 1 million school age children will receive pornographic filth in the family Mailbox this year. This would be one of every 35 children of school age in most examiner asks rate hike for 4th class mail Washington a an inter state Commerce commission inc examiner recommended that the Post office be authorized to in crease rates on fourth class mail parcel Post and catalogues by $88 million annually. Increases proposed Range from35 per cent Down to 1 per cent and average 17.1 per cent. The percentage of increase diminishes within each zone other than local As weight increases. The inc will hear Oral argument on oct. 9. Request file postmaster general Arthur e. Summerfield filed a request nov.28, 1958, asking inc consent to the increased  Burton Fuller said the Post office department submitted data for fiscal 1958 showing a total deficit of $108.8 million for catalogues and parcel Post. This was $12.7 million More than show for fiscal 1957. During 13 Days of hearings Man Large users of fourth class mail appeared in opposition to the in creases. Fuller said a majority of the witnesses objecting to higher rates predicted a severe diversion from fourth class mail to competing Media of transportation thereby producing a substantial loss in anticipated Revenue. Unlike letter mail rates which must be approved by Congress parcel Post charges can be change Din inc action. Pm finances cancer study Detroit up general motors has announced a Grant of?50,000 to the Sloan Kettering Institute of new York to determine whether automotive gases Are a causative Factor in human  Institute will perform chem ical analyses on samples of tar collected from automotive gases under a variety of operating conditions. Tar samples extracted from representative City atmospheres will be studied in an Effort to identify the effect of Automo Tive exhaust gases in relation to other sources of air pollution. Monument site rapped Montgomery Ala. Up the Confederate Monument on the statehouse ground is in its present location not a fit memorial Ala Bama has decided. A legislative re port said it is obscured by tree Sand Brush and used mainly As a Pigeon Roost. Cases he told senators starting a investigation the material is not ordered but is received by the children because their names Landec on a mailing list. The sales volume of mail order obscenity has doubled in the last five years Summerfield said and unless vigorously checked can More than double again Over the next four  ,. This would mean he added that As Early As 1963 we could be expecting one school age child out of every 18 to be the target of these purveyors of  Summerfield asked for legislation to plug Legal loopholes which he said hamper efforts to crack Down on mailers of obscene  effective action also will re quire the cooperation of an arouse citizenry he said. The Cabinet officer was the Lead off witness before a joint hearing of the Senate subcommittees on juvenile delinquency and constitutional amendments. Subcommittees goal sen. Estes Kefauver a Tenn the chairman said the subcommittees hoped to make a frontal at tack on the serious and growing problem of control of traffic in obscene and pornographic material of All  he said the moral Fibre of the nation s youth is being under mined by a deluge of vile an filthy books pictures and other pornographic  Kefauver said that it has been variously estimated that the filth paddlers in this country Gros from one half to three billion dollars a  and worst of All most of it upward of 75 per  sold to youths Between the Ages of 12 and 18," he said. Close to censorship Kefauver said that in devising legislation to combat this tide of filth it must be kept in min that we Are treading very close to  i wish .0 emphasize very closet " he said because in my View we can curb the publication and dissemination of obscene material without engaging in any censor ship in its total  he said that Freedom of speech and press do not extend to obscenity or pornography adding that hard Core pornography has no social value and is entitled to  Liberty not Licens Summerfield said Liberty should not be confused with License. He said that the entrenched filth racketeers will fight with everything at their command against legislation and other Steps to crack Down on them adding this includes the use of Pawn who knowingly or unknowingly serve their cause by raising pious cries of censorship Freedom of the press civil liberties and so  drinking pay that is Oklahoma prepares for a Day Oklahoma City up after 52 years of prohibition liquor becomes Legal in Oklahoma at 10am tuesday. Thus will the furtive snort give Way to the leisurely  will be Many n Joyful Toast at the fateful hour. In two furious months of preparing for a Day Das in drinking the new state liquor Board has licensed More than 400 firms to re place Oklahoma s  Many whisky stores have blossomed out however officials say they May run out of the required Revenue Stamps. This should last Only a few Days but it Means some store shelves remain Bare for a will probably while. The vim and vigor displayed bythe Legal liquor Industry to get going tends to Bear out predictions made by Drys before Oklahoma voted wet last april 7. When the did incidentally they disproved the theory of will Rogers n native son that Oklahoma would remain dry As Long As the voters could stagger to the polls while approving repeal the legislature banned drinking in pub Lic cocktail lounges and sales by the drink but it appears the new system won t be quite As rigid As 1. Want my daddy Little Karen Roath 9, clings to her father George Roath 31, Ashe cries out i want my daddy. Leave me alone in a los Angeles courtroom. Her Mother mrs. Verna to Tatum left was awarded custody of the child after the judge ruled Roath had violated an earlier court order by keeping the child too Long. Dpi photo child screams Defiance at order to leave dad los Angeles a a 9 year old girl from a broken Home threw a courtroom into confusion when she screamed Defiance at a Edge s order she must return to Mother s custody. No no no she shouted. Iwon t go. I want my daddy. I want Rny  panamanian Bug Hunters count Washington Upp it turns oot there Are Many More types of no see us than anybody suspected no see us is the nickname for biting midges Mosquito like insects that make life miserable for Resi dents of Panama and. Other tropical sections of the Western hemisphere. Toy Are so Small they can Bare been with the naked Eye and they go through Ordinary window screens with room to spare. Willis w. Wirth entomologist for the department of agriculture and Fanklin s. Blanton a retired army lieutenant colonel decided to take a be see us census. They found 88 species compared to the16 previously believed to exist. T h 0 smithsonian institution which published a report on this research says not a.11 these species Are troublesome but those that Are Anthrop Ophilie Man Loving make life almost. Unbearable in some  the Man biting kind Are so num Erous in some coastal areas that they retard the development of re sorts. And in some sections of Panama women and children often require treatment of secondary in factions resulting from bites. Little Karen Roath nevertheless was taken from her father George c. H. Roath because the court order accompanying a divorce de Cree gave him custody for Only 45days during the summer. The time expired aug. J. Karen s Mother . Vera Jota Tum had asked for the child s return. The father told the court his daughter was terribly upset at having to leave him. When you people get a divorce like this the judge reminded him that s a Cross you have to  Karen had to be dragged screaming from the court by a Deputy and mrs. Tatum but late she quieted when she was assured that she would get to see her father at intervals. Tearfully she kissed him Good by. It sounded. So called private clubs Are springing up in Ninny neighbourhoods. Within two weeks after Oklahoma City Council unapproved a licensing system for such establishments 30 no Lioa tons were received. The legislature placed n $2.40 per gallon lax on whisky at the urging of gov. Howard Edmondson who anticipated up to $10 million in Revenue in the next two years fro Legal liquor. But More than $4 Mil lion Worth of Revenue Stamps were sold in just two weeks a it or frenzied printing Job Mado them available. The state s control Laws will l