European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 19, 1987 the stars and stripes was Kansas City front Page nude lewd i y William bobbins new York times Sens sen ice Kansas City. To. Controversy a column sphere warned the other Day is threatening id rend the fabric of Kansas City civility and Divide  the responsibility for that As the columnist. George h. Gurley jr., and others have noted goes ultimately to Thomas Han Bemon inc american Painter who died in 1975, in 19j9, apparently in a mood for mischief Demon painted if Creek god Dess is phone nude line in a Gruic while an old Man leers from behind a tree. Many people regard h As inc Kansas City artist s Best work part of the responsibility can also be bid to the Nelson Atkins museum of Art and i s director March. Wilson. The museum has agreed to pay $2.5 Mil lion for the painting which was already hanging Inone of its corridors on loan from the trustees of Floc Benton estate. It was a bargain at thai Price Wilson said. But a Road pan of the responsibility also goes to James Hale As he acknowledges and to the Kansa City times which he Heads As. Chairman and pub Lisher. The acquisition of a painting by tic Kansas i y artist was news of course and the Price was the highest the museum Haj Ever paid. That was even belter a front Page article on dec. 2 after he Deal was closed. But was it al5q necessary Many letter writers Irav asked to run a reproduction of the nude in full color out there in till sight on the front Page with the article at that Point As the saying goes the  hit the tinder. Like Mii in pm her letter writers the Rev. Lore Green a Baptist minister was outraged. I was shocked he wrote. At first thought 1 was seeing picture out of  f. Russell millin a former United states attorney Here was moved to re pay in Limerick. With no pre tense Al civility he wrote there once was a preacher named Green who thought persephone obscene. He knew what was lewd this psalm singing rude. If it does t Wear clothes it Ain t  Hale offers no apology. He was told in Advance hat the editors were thinking of pulling the picture on Page 1, and he said "1 have teamed to accept the fact that this in a conservative Community i did pause a minute he added. But t thought if it � Good enough to hang in inc museum. Ii Igod enough to share with our readers " there is an irony in Aji this ammo icon Tymir t Mcmon in the City ? in Miu Eurott. Wilion noted. Tier artist in what he later tamed Bourbon to mired Inith. Once derided museums us graveyards of 3ft,saying he would Raiher soil. To Sii dans. Bawdy houses and Kiwa rus and rotary dubs Mcmon i truth was really in rash Gunnum inspired More by in tics Mth an an Dir Eeor Israr by Bourbon Wilson said. In 4ny Van. The Fri site Tion in i94i Coil Benton his sch As head of the paint ing and drawing Liepart ment Al the a Mai Gity Institute the Coutret Campti might be Over at this Point bad not Ourley attempted to play the peacemaker. In inc spin of Compromise he asked Why no give per phone Al least a. Bikini or some underwear1, " Gurley seems to be a chastened Man. Expressions of outrage have poured in he wrote in his Isiu Irlam column among the letters of constr ache ont scism he said was one from a. Writer who haps pasties such As burlesque Dai Ceis Ness might be enough. Go. Klansmen bar anti intimidation March gumming a. A hundreds of Kun flux ulan members and supporters saturday stopped a smaller group of people on an anti intimidation March through county uial has been ail White for decades. Several of the estimated 75 marchers were struck by bottles and rocks but no serious injuries were reported. Eight of those opposing the March we re arrested. The brotherhood anti intimidation March through Forsyth county to Mark thursday s birthday of the Laic Rev. Martin Luther King or. Was led by Atlanta City councilman Hosea Williams a former aide to the slain civil rights Leader. N response to the disturbance directors of he mar jilt Luther King Center for non violent social change in Atlanta asked supporters to be ready to mobilise for a major civil rights March in Forsyth county if i becomes necessary the trouble started when the marchers were met by several Hundred klan members supporters and spectators. Between 70 and 75 Law enforcement Oft cars were on hand As the March travelled through Forsyth county but officials said that was t enough the March began 45 minutes after us 10 . Starting Lime and that gave the waiting klan members and sup porters a longer Lime to get together and become More agitated said Forsyth county sheriff Wesley Walraven. Near the Halfway Point of the March As William spoke through a bullhorn Racks bottles cans and mud balls were thrown at the marchers. Williams had said the March was a natural thing to do for followers of King s dream of peace and jul slice. Gov. Joe Frank Harris in a statement saturday afternoon said he deplored the disturbance. We do Noi and will not tolerate a rabble rousing rouble making element which casts a negative image on a state whose race relations have been marked in Large measure by Harmony Good will and peaceful co existence he said. Forsyth county with a population of about 38,000. Has had no Black residents since 1911, when those living there were forced out after an 18-year-old White farm girl was raped and murdered. Before she died she named three Black men As her assailants. One was killed by a mob and the other two were hanged after a trial. Police thestle an unidentified Man to the pavement during no anti  March in Forayth Ora Oty Texas City again blocks return of Casino gambling Galveston Texas a voters on saturday rejected by a 3-Lo-2 margin a proposal to bring gambling Back to his Gulf coast City where casinos flourished until they were forced to close Ihrck decades ago. The Vole was 4,891 for gambling and 7.301 against it in an unusually heavy turn out More than 40 percent of the cily s 28,442 registered voters City officials said. It was the second time in three years that Casino gambling has been turned Down in Galveston. It was rejected by a Mol margin on Jan. 20. 1984. The referendum was Only a Straw vote a lawmaker bad indicated that he would introduce a Bill in the Texas legislature to legalize Casino gambling in the City if residents gave decisive approval to the proposal. Another City election would have bin required if Ihu legislature approved the proposal. This is a wonderful margin said . Shrub Kempner vice chairman of Galveston ans against Casino Gam bling. We re absolutely delighted. The real people of Galveston spoke no hut sum Clark a spokesman for a Punj Gamb Lilg group called bet or businesses encouraging tourism said the Issue in t dead yet. There is a very Good possibility of another vote he said. It gets closer and closer every  Galveston which is 50 Miles Southeast of Houston had j reputation Ai i wide open gambling and prostitution Lawn from 1925 until the mid-1950s. Texas attorney general will Wilson led a team of by  authorities who closed the casinos for Good. Many of Gaj Mcmon s Sutej operators were behind Ihu prop Orai to legalize gambling. Mule and Hoies rooms Etc booked up Only in the summer months � i n tourists fun Ali to the . Mayor Jan Gigg Mihall had predicted the proposition would in. Hul had expected the margin to be Dan in this  All the Economy Here is worse Ihan ii Ai three years ago she ssi ii. 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