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Medford Tribune millj IV I IUIU ITICII Even in Atomic, Missile Age 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1958 Pages 1 to 6 Postal Officials Plan Punch At Mail Order Filth Merchants By LOUIS CASSELS . UPI Correspondent Washington - (UP&- The Post Office department is winding up to throw a Sunday punch at mail order filth merchants who prey on America's teen age children. The department is armed with a tough new law enacted at the last session of Congress, And it is counting on a lot of help from outraged parents in breaking up what one post al official calls "the most dis gusting racket we've ever un covered. The racket brings in an es timated $350,000,000 a year to 12 or 15 major smut peddlers who have been-until now-be-yond the effective reach of the law. They operate mostly out of Los Angeles and New York. Their stock-in-trade is obscenity-photographs of nude mod els in provocative poses, "ac tion movies" of indescribable vulgarity, pornographic "com ic books." Their targets are teen-age boys. Solicit Customers The racketeers are not con tent with pandering to the prurient curiosity of young sters who seek out filthy liter ature. They solicit customers among decent, well-reared kids-some as young as 12 or 13 whose names and ad dresses they obtain by buying sucker lists from mail order firms which sell juvenile mer chandise. A boy's involvement in the racket usually begins with the innocent act of writing off for a packet of stamps, a model airplane or a camping knife that he has seen advertised in a youth magazine or comic book. A few weeks later, he re ceives a letter. It may be ad dressed in a girl's handwrit ing and marked "personal." Inside will be a small "sam ple" photograph of a nude model. The accompanying let ter, purportedly signed by the model herself, offers him a set of "very special poses" of "me and my girl friends" for $3. Thorough Exposure Usually the solicitation it self is far more lurid than the pornographic material which is for sale. Even if a youth never becomes a purchaser, the circular that he receives through the mail constitutes a thorough exposure to sexual perversion and depravity. The Post Office department estimates that the smut ped dlers have been sending out Annette Dionne Gives Birth to Son Montreal - (UPD - Annette, one of the four surviving Dionne quintuplets, gave birth Sunday to a boy weighing eight pounds and an ounce. The 24-year-old wife of Germain Allard, a finance company executive, was the first of the quints to be mar ried. Her child was born at 8 a.m. Sunday, nine hours after she entered Sacred Heart hospital. Allard said today that both Annette and the baby were doing fine. He said Annette's first words to him after the birth were "Gerry, we've got a very nice boy." about 50,000,000 circulars a year. Parents by the tens of thousands have been writing to the department demanding that something be done to halt the flood obscenity. The department has been seriously handicapped in the past by a court ruling which held that the government can prosecute a dealer in obscen ity only in the city where the material is dropped into the mail -not in the community where the objectionable letter is received. Prosecution Evaded Hence the filth merchants were able to evade successful prosecution by operating out of big cities where Federal courts take a broad-minded view of obscenity. This year, at the urging of postal authorities and church groups, Congress passed a new law. It authorizes the government to prosecute mail ers of obscene material in any community where letters have been received. This means that any parent who finds mail order porno graphy coming into his home has a simple remedy: Forward the obscene mate rial immediately to your local postmaster. He will turn it over to the local U.S. district attorney for prosecution before a local jury. The law provides a maxi mum penalty of $5,000 fine and five years in prison for first offenders; $10,000 fine and 10 years in prison for sec ond offenders. "All we need now," said a post office spokesman, "is a little cooperation from citi zens who find this stuff in their mail boxes." 5fi REPORTING to Chicago doctors on hypnosis, Dr. B. B. Raginsky, Montreal, says airline pilot in hyp notic trance admitted blame for major plane crash be cause he did not understand how to read instruments. Planners Urge Continued Talks Washington - (UPD - A pri vate planning group has called on U. S. officials to keep plug ging at the current East-West talks on outlawing nuclear tests even if they drag on for two years. The "Committee on Secur ity Through Arms Control" of the National Planning Asso ciation also urged Sunday that this country stop testing nuclear weapons for the next two years. The government has said it will stop for one year - provided Russia does the same. Southern Peru has reported the end of a two-year drought. (What TOle will th. loot toldier . Will,"-, tt tt i . ;j tllav in thi. n. of nlils and Juuuiu Mm, satellites? What awaits American boyi who face Army service in the immediate future? To get the answers, UPI reporter Ira Lurvey accompanied Fifth Army Com mander Lt. Gen. WiUiam H. (Hap) Arnold on a tour of one of the nation's largest training centers. This is thefirst of two dispatches telling what he found.) By IRA LURVEY UPI Correspondent Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. -(UPD - On a remote chunk of Ozark rock, a spit of South Carolina sand, a stub of Cali fornia hill, the Army quietly goes on-even in this atomic and missile age-molding its ultimate weapon: man. "Fire all the missiles and rockets "you want," a captain said. "In the long run, what will count will be the men who hold the land under them." It starts here at Ft. Leon ard Wood. Or at Fort Jack son, S. C; Fort Ord, Calif.; Fort Dix, N. J.; Fort Chaffee, Ark.; Fort Knox, Ky.; Fort Carson, Colo.; Fort Hood, Tex.; or a handful of other basic combat training centers. Every inductee no matter what his eventual assignment - first completes basic train ing. It hasn't changed too much since the days of Wprld War II. "What good is a cook who can't fire a rifle?" a major asked. "What'll he do if the enemy slips through? Give him a bowl of spiked soup?" Training Begins Training begins, usually on a Sunday. They line up by roster stakes and march -eternally out of step - for three sets of fatigues, a jacket and some caps. Nine weeks later, the Army hopes, they'll be soldiers, capable of fighting a nuclear age war. What's it like, this train ing? "Basic attempts to accom plish three things: instill mili tary discipline, teach basic combat skills and train men to live within groups," Fifty Army commander Lt. Gen. The first days are "Zero Week," filled with equipment issue, processing and testing. Between tests are the lec tures: Achievements and Tra ditions, Military Courtesy and Customs, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, un der whose law the trainee now must live. "There's nothing strange or terrifying about the code," said Lt. Col. Roger Currier, staff judge advocate general. It's quite similar to Federal law. We find most trainees in trouble have civilian police records." N Three days into "zero week," the trainee, usually sweating with newly experi enced exercises, lugs his filled duffel bag and proceeds into "Cycle." N - Should Be Captain . His immediate leader now is a company commander. The Army says the leader should be a captain. Due to person nel shortages, it's often a sec ond lieutenant. The first week of "Cycle" is heavy on lectures. There are Chaplain directed Char- Duty. In the field, the trainee gets his first taste of Physical Training - Army calisthenics. Officers unanimously agreed P.T. is perhaps the most vital part of basic. "There's not enough of it," a major' said. "It should be scheduled daily, not just a few times weekly. A man in 1p physical shape is in top men tal shape, too." It's riflery, however, which occupies most of the first four weeks. ("There's no such thing in the infantry as a 'gun' trooper." "Drop that rifle, son, and you'll sleep with it.") By the fifth week, empha sis shifts to the field. The company marches out after breakfast, maybe one milo, or two or three rarely more -and learns about gas, bivou acs, forced marches, ;atomic blasts and night warfare. "Night is no more than day without light," a captain said. "We show them there's noth ing to fear." Learn About Foxholes The sixth week is bivouac. They sleep in pup tents and learn about foxholes and bud- acter Guidance, Troop Infor-1 dies. ("You got a shovel, your mation, Drills and Cere- buddy a pick. Swap. 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