European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Germans have Long been Able to indulge in nude bathing at beaches like this one on the North sea Island of Sylt. Ide no Baleen risked arrest Baxandall decided to atop the cause of free beaches on a broader of. At the time i involved myself in 1975 1 had no idea x were organized groups anywhere he said then i had Calls from los Angeles saying. Terrific must get together i d had a lot of experience in writ and publishing so i put out a paper. There Are 32aps around the country be beaches a tabloid sized Roundup of information what enthusiasts Call clothes optional recreation is recently appeared in its third annual edition fired Bax Andani Hopes by the $2 contribution re i bed on its front Page. Its 52 pages give directions to he optional areas in All but eight of the 50 states Asi As tips on nude beaches in numerous foreign coun n it s a very grass roots kind of thing said Baxandall. " i strongest in California but it s getting stronger where. Minneapolis has a Strong free Beach now. Pm which was very repressive is getting stronger. In it s really at the local level that these out of Date anti g Ity Laws Are still being kept up i and the courts do everything possible to avoid Legal because they know damned Well they re going to the National Park service is now saying Regula against nudity can t be upheld in a serious courts Wilson a spokesman for the National Park t in Washington. D.c., said in a recent is no Federal policy regarding nude bathing. We re it to the discretion of local superintendents. It s not a to keep jails full. Our Job is to protect the Environ and insure maximum happiness for recalling the Cape cod uproar of two Yean ago Wei the problem appears to have evaporated be " the summer Sun. Al occasionally there will be complaints he says re a to the entire National Park system but there s to Large volume nothing like at Cape cod when it philosophical View of the free Beach phenomenon. In my opinion its very necessary for a sane free society to do away with these artificial the phrase clothes optional spells the differ ence Between most free teachers and nudists. I Don t consider myself a nudist Baxandall Camps were founded generations ago by people who tended to ghetto ize themselves. This is a much More free society relive in lot of people want to make their own decisions. They want to Wear clothes to keep warm for adornment for Protection. But there Are a lot of situations where clothes Don t seem a plus that nudist campers and free teachers Are in opposition. Bacon 46, a crusader for free teachers in the Milwaukee area also is an Active he says he got into nudism 25 years ago when figure modelling at the University of Wisconsin led to nude White Stripe from a bathing suit was t very Good for nude modelling he , arrested two years ago for a new year s Day Skinny dip into icy Lake Michigan before members of the local Polar Bear club is familiar with objections to Public wish people could accept the body for what it is in Stead of making a big thing about it. It s everybody put Ting in their minds that when you re nude you be got to have sex. That s not ," Bacon says Are the biggest problem not the nudists. They accept it As a natural thing. The Voy eurs Are the ones that can t handle nudity themselves they like to look but Don t like to be Baxandall spends part of the year travelling around the country checking on free beaches. One recent trip took him to san Diego calif., where an warns against any impression that everywhere we Beach people Are bathing nude. But Park super is Are supposed to be sophisticated enough to Deal 3cin
