European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday october 29, 1967 clues to attitudes expected 1967 elections Are scanty but significant Washington a the scattered elections on nov. 7 will draw Only a fraction of  to the polls but should produce a significant sampling of moods and attitudes just a year before the 1968 presidential Electron. Wrapped into the contests Are such potent questions for 1968 As the reaction of White voters to last summer s riots and racial disorders and the extent to which negroes Are ready to exercise their potential ballot Box Power. Numerous cities will choose mayors and two Large one Cleveland Ohio an Gary ind. Have negro Candi dates. Kentucky and Mississippi will elect governors and negroes May have the balance of powering Kentucky. In san Francisco the voters will ballot on the question shall the United states with draw from Vietnam another major referendum is in Newyork state on a proposed new Constitution. Controversy has developed Over provisions Deal ing with fiscal policy welfare financing and Church state relations. One article perhaps the most controversial would repeal a 73 year old Law that bars Public Aid to parochial and other Pri vate schools. Gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller i asking referendum approval of commissioner and Republican Louie b. Nunn of Glasgow. Registration in the state is overwhelmingly democratic but the state s . Senators Are Republican and the republicans Are optimistic about Nunn s  contenders for the governorship Are Democrat John Bell Williams a member of Congress since 1946. And Republican Rubel l. Phillips Jackson attorney. Williams political posture is americans shift funeral attitudes to simpler non religious burials Atlantic City . A americans Are beginning to change their attitude toward funerals a nationwide Survey by funeral directors has  shift particularly in Large cities on the East and West coasts is toward simpler non religious and less expensive funerals the Survey said. But in Rural areas particularly in the Middle West and South the overwhelming prefer ence is still for the traditional funeral with its Public viewing of the body religious service and Public burial. The findings were based on year Long Survey of 3,500 funeral directors. It was sponsored bythe National funeral directors association and made Public atthe annual convention. Or. Robert Fulton professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota who directed the sur vey said Many americans i metropolitan cities View Funer als As a utilitarian  funeral has become for some merely a Means of disposing of the dead he said in an  the changing attitudes which have been most pronounced in the past decade Fulton said More than 80 percent of americans will have a traditional funeral. Red escalation More signs sought none detected a $2 billion Bond Issue for improvement of transportation. The outcome will be assessed inthe Light of a feeling among some in Congress that the american people want a reduction in spending at All govern ment Levels. Carl b. Stokes a negro and a member of the legislature won the democratic Nomina Tion for mayor of Cleveland in an oct. 3 primary beating mayor Ralph Locher. His Republican opponent for leadership of the nation s eighth largest City is Seth Taft a son of Charles p. Taft grandson of former president William Howard Taft. Taft was unopposed in the primary. In Gary ind., negro Richardd. Hatcher beat the incumbent mayor to win the democratic nomination in the May primary. Hatcher has been on the Cit Council for four years. His re publican opponent is Joseph , a furniture store owner who has never before run for Public office. There is also something of racial overtone in Boston s mayoralty election which pits pair of democrats. They Are mrs. Louise Day Hicks lawyer and member of the school committee and Kevin. White now Secretary of state. Mrs. Hicks disavows racial prejudice but has opposed moves for integration in the schools. She led a 10-candidate Field in the preliminary election in september and the Strong support she received in Irish wards was generally interpreted As including a substantial Back lash vote caused by racial Dis orders. The contest for  Kentucky is Between demo crat Henry Ward now roads Laws mail order smut complaints drop Washington up the United states is keeping close tabs on shipments for North Vietnam contracted by Hanoi under 1968 communist Ai agreements to spot Early signs of any military  August and mid october North Vietnam concluded a whole round of agreements with its allies Russia communist China the Eastern european communist countries and even Cuba and Albania. . Officials believe that this Aid most of which is being Given free is similar to that rendered in 1967. They expect that the soviet Union will continue to ship modern weapons systems while China and the other allies will provide other basics which the loosely term the sinews of , Moscow declared in its sept. 23 communique wit North vietnamese negotiator be Thanh Nghi that it would suppl surface to air Sam missiles antiaircraft guns artillery Small arms and ammunition. Total value is estimated . Sources to be in the neighbourhood of $1 billion but exact details Are still missing. Through Aerial surveillance and other Means . Authorities Are particularly looking Tosee if the soviet shipments contain any of the following items that would spell an escalation for the communist Side surface to surface missiles. Komar class guided mis Sile patrol boats similar to the egyptian Craft which destroyed the israeli destroyer Elath. Ship to ship missiles onshore to ship missiles.  american sources who Are familiar with the pattern Faid shipments doubt that a significant military buildup i North Vietnam for an escalation is really  cite two reasons transportation bottlenecks wit particularly heavy congestion in the port of Haiphong and a Lac of trained North vietnamese to handle much More modern equipment. Washington a congressional clamor and a controversial supreme court ruling have put a big Dent in the mail order pornography Busi Ness the government s chief postal Sleuth says. Complaints about offensive mail have plunged 30 per cent since the supreme court ruled19 months ago that lurid advertising May be weighed against the defendant in obscenity trials chief postal in Spector Henry b. Montague said and 20 legislative proposals to combat pornography have sounded a further alarm to the commercial paddlers of smut. I think some of these dealers have had second thoughts since the Ginzburg Case Montagu Esaid in an interview. They re awaiting further developments but for now they be decided it might be Wiser to keep their stuff out of the  from 1962 to 1966, Montagu Esaid complaints about Offen Sive if not legally obscene mailings climbed from 52,000 to More than 197,000. The supreme court up holding the obscenity by mail conviction of publisher Ralph Ginzburg ruled in March 1966that advertising designed to titillate May be considered in deciding whether the advertised material itself is obscene. In the following year com dal plaints to postmasters dropped h nearly to 140,000. A Californi publisher of nudist magazines was convicted last february offending obscene matter into Iowa. And complaints during the first three months of the current fiscal year Are around17,000a 50 per cent drop from the corresponding period Las year. But if the postman is deliver ing less offensive material someone apparently is circulating More. It s the opinion of Montague a quiet solemn Man who Seldom laughs that there s More hard Core pornography in circulation today even if it s not moving by mail. Threads Are in Girlie magazines in Stead of mailboxes. The Maga Zines usually move by  and other Federal officials define hard Core pornography As that depicting actual sexual relations or perversions virtually All of the hard Core material is pictorial since the courts have All but eliminated the possibility of obscenity find Ings for printed matter. Montague believes congressional pressure also has had a dampening effect on would be mailers of sex oriented Advertis ing. Congress is considering number of Bills that would protect postal patrons from Offen Sive mailings. And president Johnson assigned into Law a Bill empower ing him to create an 18-membercommission to report by Janu Ary 1970 on a strategy against pornography. The commission won t be named for at least Sev eral weeks. The trend in commercialized mail order activity below the level of hard Core pornography Montague said is away from photos and film to Ward books magazines an pamphlets. Most of the mailings about which postal patrons complain Are not legally obscene Montague said. Many involve ads for sex Aid devices couched in pseudo medical terms. Some Are thinly veiled invitations to join correspondence clubs lending a lurid new meaning inthe postal inspection business to the Friendly old term pen pretty much the Standard states right one in Mississippi. He sup ported gop presidential Nom Inee Barry Goldwater in 1m4 and As a consequence the democrats in Congress took away his seniority rights. Phillips like Many other re publican contenders for political office in the South is a former Democrat. He describes himself As a segregationist but i preaching that economic advancement for White and negroes is inseparable he is push ing a line not commonly Hardin the state s politics. The vote in san Francisco on the question of withdrawing from Vietnam is not crowding the mayoralty election for at Tention but there is one. The Vietnam Issue got on the ballot incidentally through efforts Ofa citizens group which collected the necessary signatures an then won a court fight Over their move. San Francisco s mayor is officially nonpartisan. Mayor John Shelley a Democrat is no seeking re election. He has endorsed Joseph Alioto a lawyer and conservative Democrat. Also running for the office Are Jack Morrison a Liberal Democrat and Harold Dobbs Republican. Philadelphia s mayoralty elec Tion is one that could have Strong Impact on the 1968 situation. District attorney a r 1 e n Specter an sex Democrat i running As the Republican nominee against democratic mayor James h. J. Tate. Democratic registration runs 610,000 to 390,000 for the republicans but there Are fractional differences among the democrats and republicans Are. Optimistic of electing Specter. Control of City Hall and its patronage would boost gop Hopes of carrying Pennsylvania in 1968. Baltimore appears certainty have a party overturn. The Republican mayor and former governor Theodore r. Buckel Din is not seeking  gop nominee is Arthur w. Sherwood a wealthy attorney but political analysts expect an easy Victory by Democrat Thomas j. D Alesandro of known As Young Tommy to distinguish him from big father who was a two term mayor an former congressman. Demo cratic registration is 6-1 Over that of the gop. In new Haven conn., demo cratic mayor Richard c. Lee is running for an unprecedented eighth term. He is opposed by Republican Clarence m. Whit  head of a real estate firm. Lee is favored but some of his supporters Are concerned about possible effects on the voter sin predominantly negro neighbourhoods. \ the St is and stripes european edition col. James w. Campbell Usa r editor in chief it. Col. F. 8. Michael jr., Usan Deputy editor in chief Elmer d. Frank production Mana sep Henry 8. Epstein circulation Man Afler an unofficial newspaper of and for the . Armed Forest published by the commander in chief . European command and printed daily at Darmstadt Germany. Military address the stare and stripes Apo 09175. International mail the Star and stripes Postrach 1034, 61-Darmstadt, Germany. Tel Gale Shell c prefix 06165 2071 m Darmstadt air strip prefix 2376 741. Telex 04189-332. 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