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Fire Destroys Home Hall Mail Order Sales Of Obscene Materials WED. JAN. 15, 1*969 - PLAINDEALER - PG. 3 x Firemen keep a ,close watch on the Art Sage] home at 2611 Orchard Beach drive as the flames are brought under control. By the time members of Companies I and II arrived on the scene Saturday, the blaze had gained such headway that it was impossible to save the residence in which the parents lived with their eight children. PLAINDEALER PHOTO FLUORIDATION Dismissal of the antifluoridation suit filed against the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Alton Water Department by the Illinois Pure Water Committee, Inc., will clear the way for the Department of Public Health to proceed with full-scale implementation of the 1967 Illinois Fluoridation Law, Dr. Franklin D. Yoder, director, has announced. Dr. Voder said the suit, which was filed in August, sought to prevent enforcement of the Illinois fluoridation act which makes the fluoridation of all public water supplies mandatory after July 1., 1968 Associate Circuit Judge I. H. Streeper of the Third Judicial Circuit, in Madison County court where the suit was filed, noted the case of Schuringa et al vs. City of Chicago in which the Supreme Court held that fluoridation of public water is not subject to Constitutional objections. FILES SUIT A $33,000 suit, $25,000 td? porsonal injuries and $5,000 for property damage, has been filed, ninvng M-il.^nry County and County Supt. of Highways Wayne Montzer as defen^mfs. Jesuit arises from ni accident in which Robert Ramela, a minor, alleged'y Nie.ceived permanent injuries susfoined when he was driving souttKon^iver road in Nunda township, near McHenry, and struck a guard rail as he rounded a curve. Negligence in failing to have the road properly maintained and signs erected on the highway is charged by the youth's mother, Lillian Nordtredt. SWISS CAT ... A high point of the winter season in L u c e r n e , S w i t z e r l a n d comes at Carnival time, the week before Ash Wednesday. The week is filled with colorf u l p a r a d e s and m a s k e d balls and while the activities are not as wild and tempestuous as New Orleans or Rio, all the color and charm are present. Mar-Ray Dance Studio NEW STUDENTS ARE WELCOME DURING > THE MONTH OF JANUARY Please call to register ;; 385-6077 3919 W. Main Tax Tips Jan. 15, 1969, is the deadline for the final payment of 1968 estimated federal incorru tax, E. C. Coyle, Jr., Chicago's District Director of Internal Revenue Service, has announced. Somo persons may have to make an amended 1968estimate by Ian. 15, 1969, if income changed substantially during the last quarter of 1968. Space to amend the estimate is provided on the notice of installment received by taxpayers or on a Form 1040-ES(Amonded), "Declaration of Estimated Income Tax for Individuals", which can ')C obtained from any IRS office. Others may have to file on Form 1U4U-ES by Jan. 15, if they just met the filing requiremc- nts during the fourth quarter. Payment of' the last installment or. the filing of an original or amended declaration otherwise due Jan. 15, 1969, is not required if the taxpayer files his 1968 income ta.c return and pays in full the balance of tax due by Jan. 31, 1969. Due dates are different for farmers and commercial fishermen. Publication 5057 "Tax Withholding and Declaration of Estimated Tax", furnishes additional information on this subject and may be obtained by dropping a post card to District Director, Tax Forms, P. 0. Box 1193, Chicago, 111., 60690. ITEM: If you must borrow money, borrow wisely. Borrow no more than you need, "shop" lending agencies for the best deal; be sure you understand all details and alrcharges. MUSEUM ATTENDANCE In 1968, for the fourth year in a row, attendance at the Museum of Science and Industry, often referred to as Chicagoland's leading tourist attraction, exceeded the three-million mark. The actual count was 3,160,429 with an impressive guest list frO'ti nations all oyer the globe, according to Daniel M. Ma^- Master, the Museum's presP" dent. Normally closed only on Christmas Day, the Museum was closed two additional days in 1968. They were Sunday, April 7, the national day of mourning for the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and Tuesday, April 9, the day of his funeral. In 1937, the Museum was host to 3,333^-Hterked "unlawful." In a case which could result in a test of the Postmaster Genefkl's authority to administratively halt mail-order sales of obscene materials, the Department denied Tuesday a Southern California firm the right to receive funds through the mail! for* magazines found obscene. Acting under a civil statute authorizing the Department to bar mail-order sales of obscene matter (Title 39 U.S.C., Section 4006), Judicial Officer Peter R0 Rosenblatt found seven magazines sold by The Mail Box of North Hollywood appeal "to the prurient interest in sex, are patently offensive to contemporary community standards... and are utterly without redeeming social importance." Concerned by the increasing shocking nature of the materials now sen|: through the mails, Postmaster JSeneral W. Marvin Watson says: "Certain dealers have cast aside all restraints and are indiscriminately flooding the mails with Qffensive, sexually oriented materials by means of mailing lists to millions of young and old alike." Mr. Watson expressed the hope that the reactivation of the D3partment's enforcement pro-4 £edures under the civil obscenity law (Section 4006) will bring about further clarification of the Department's authority to administratively curb allegedly obscene materials. The Department will move in two ways against the firm, Gen-* eral .Counsel Timothy J. May explained: -- Its incoming mail containing payments and new orders will be returned to senders 242 visitors. Attendance totaled 3,107,658, in 1966, and 31044, 307, in 1965. SHOP IN MCHENRY here and there in BUSINESS EXPLANATION TO NEW COURSE WILL BE GIVEN A nine-session Gabriel Richard course to help those enrolled gain confidence and be more effective at work, in the home, in apostolic activities and in school is being offered again locally. A free explanation session will be held Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in St. Patrick's church hall. Graduates of the . fall 1968 class at the local church were Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Henry of Elgin, Mrs. Carol Quandt of Woodstock, Mrs. Eleanor Foley. Mrs. Ju\ia Huska, Miss Genevieve Knox, Mrs. EileenMauer, Mrs. Gertrude Murphy and Sister Mary Kathleen of Mc Henry. SEMINAR COUNSELOR Carl Nordeen, Rt. 2, Mc- Henry, who is with Abbott Laboratories , served as a counselor for the Chenr cal Industries council's annual high school chemistry Career Seminar, which was held on Saturday, Jan. 11, at the Pick-Congress Hotel, Chicago. The senv.nar featured person-to-person counseling by m^n and women from chemical and pharmaceutical companies in the Chicago area. The men outlined the requirements for a career in chemistry and covered all major career areas. Representatives from Chicago area colleges and universities will counsel students on educational requirements. Over 600 students from Chicago areapublic, private and parochial schools attended. -- Postmasters will refuse to cash money orders the firm has received. General Counsel May also moved quickly to stop the mailorder sales of this obscene material by requesting Attorney General Ramsey Clark to seek an order to impound all receipts for the questionable materials pending the administrative decision. This restraining order wis granted by a U. S. district court December 3. An administrative hearing was held in Los Angeles Dec. 3- 5 before the judicial officer and attorneys for the mailer andthe Departm? it. In his decision the Judicial Officer noted that: The Congress has also long imposed upon this Department the right and duty of exercising a certain limited scrutiny over materials distributed through the mails, and the Supreme Court has not specifically re? lieved us of that function. Since the concept of obscenity as an offense to society's standards and best interests yet remains in "our system of law, it would be logically inconsistent to deprive it of any meaningful content. No fair-minded observer could possibly conclude that these Magazines with their page upon endless page of pictures of naked women with spread thighs, are designed for any purpose other than as an appeal to the prurient interest; and one would have to be prepared to conclude that the prurient appeal is of itself socially important in order to discern the element of redeeming social value in the Magazines,., The evidence as a whole amply established the fact that Americans as a whole arenotyetprepared to 'grant such grossly commercial, artistically worthless socially unexpressive and otherwise valueless erotica an accepted place in the panoply of diverse utterances which flourish in a free society. Hence until such time as the concept of obscenity has been abandoned for good and all ... or until this Department is conclusively stripped D? its legal duties in regard to obscenity, there can be no doubt that prevailing norms require the findings and conclusions contained herein. Postmaster General Watson said the Department is also moving vigorously in two other areas to curb a rising flow of questionably obscene material through the mails: -- Possible criminal violations of anti-obscenity statutes are being presented constantly by postal inspectors to U. S. attorneys and local authorities. -- Citizens receiving pandering advertisements are obtaining prohibitory orders against mailers in large numbers. In the first area, postal inspector investigations in fiscal 1968 led to 263 convictions in Federal and state courts. Inspectors are handling citizen complaints at the rate of about 150,000 a year. In the second area^-under the "Anti-Pandering Act" of last April--the Department already has issued more than 95,000 prohibitory orders through its general counsel's office and 100,000 more are expected dur\ ing the current 1969 fiscal year.^ In enforcing the prohibitory order the Department has referred several hundred casesto the Department of Justice to obtain federal court orders commanding mailers to comply. Violators of the court order are subject to criminal contempt proceedings. The Scorpion The scorpion uses its poisonous stinger both to defend itself and deliver a lethal blow to i n s e c t p r e y . The p o i s o n causes a painful wound in man, but generally has no serious effect. In 1966, 1808 persons, about one quarter of all those whose death certificates listed tuberculosis as a primary or contributory cause of death, had never been reported as having tuberculosis ivhile alive. 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