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2-A Owcmboro, MnMfljw A Inquiff Aug. 22, 1970 Senator Charaes Relation Of Anti-Social Acts To Obscenity Denied In Report r-' 1 -X. the joint efforts of parents. Evangelistic Series To Begin Sunday At Church Of Christ A series of evangelistic services will be conducted at the Southside Church of Christ, 2920 New Hartford Road, Sunday through Friday, Aug. 28.

Robert Jackson of Nashville, will be in charge of the services. The Sunday services will be held at 10:45 a.m. and 7 p.m., with week-day services at 7:30 p.m. There will be congregational singing at each service and no nightly collection will be taken, according to A. C.

Grider, local evangelist. The public is welcome. WASHINGTON Exposure to pornographic materials does not alter conduct or attitudes relative to sexual morality or crime, the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography has concluded. In a report due to be released soon, the commission will recommend that laws be repealed which restrict the availability of such materials for adults. Laws protecting the young from obscene material should be kept, according to a draft of the commission's final report.

The recommendations, however, are reportedly not unanimous. The copy of the commission's findings and recommendations, which was leaked to the press, reportedly has been approved by the commission. The report has been received here amid criticism of the commission itself, the staff preparing the report, the methodology of its research The commission also noted its own limitations in making the report called for by Congress. It said it was "limited by time, ancial resources and the paucity of existing research." In an "overview of the report stated that American public opinion in 1970 indicates that pornography generally is noC regarded as one of the country's most serious problems. Also, the report "public opinion in America doesj; not demand that legal prohibit tion be imposed upon the distri-I bution of explicit sexual materi-; als to adults." The commission, however, did-, declare that legislation should be enacted to prevent indiscriml--nate mailing of sex-oriented" materials to people who have not; requested them.

"We affirmatively recommendT adoption of legislation to protect -the young," the commission de clared, "but this should not achieved at the expense of totally denying adults the right to of their choice." a I IRS With Policy Of Deception WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Walter F. Mondale, charged the Internal Revenue Service Friday with "a policy of deliberate public deception and circumvention of a federal court order" on tax exemption for private academies. Mondale, chairman of a special Senate Committee on iqual Educational Opportunity, called on President Nixon to order IRS to obey the court order "and put an end to the deceptive pronouncements that have led the public to believe these segregation academies are being denied tax support." A federal district court in the District of Columbia in June directed IRS to suspend income tax exemptions of 41 Mississippi academies until it could determine whether they were racially segregated private schools. "Instead of determining, as the court ordered, whether these schools are in fact operated on a racially segregated basis to permit white students to avoid public school desegregation, the IRS has asked them simply to announce an open admissions policy," Mondale said in a statement.

"It waited until September school enrollments were closed and classes were filled without a single black admission and then suspended exemptions of only those 11 schools which refused to promise they would open their doors to black students. "Both the timing of the IRS actions and the substitution of its own freedom-of-choice open-admissions criteria for those ordered by the court have assured 30 Mississippi segregation acad churches and schools. "A pivotal findings," the report stated, is "widespread voluntary convert exposure to explicit sexual materials, especially among young people." The commission blamed some of this on "the conspiracy of silence about sex" on the part of adults. It also maintained that such curiosity about sexual materials "is a usual part of the process fo growing up in our socie-ty." In denying a relationship between pornography and anti-social behavior, the report stated that, according to studies, "sex offenders are generally less experienced and less interested in erotic materials during both adolescence and adulthood." "There is no the report continued, "that exposure to sexual stimuli operates as a cause of misconduct in either youth or adults." Such exposure "has no detrimental impact upon moral character, sexual orientation or attitudes about sexuality among youth," it concluded. Actually, the report noted, continued or repeated exposure to erotic stimuli results in a "satiation of sexual arousal and interest" in such materials.

A study made on a group of college students at the- University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill was cited as a part of the data leading to this conclusion. One of the recommendations of the commission asks for continued open discussion of the issues surrounding the availability of explicit pornographic materials. This discussion should be "based on facts rather than on fears," the commission said. In the past, such discussion has been "in an almost total vacuum of information," it declared. Messenger and Inquirer Photo tics School accepts the check from Guild officers Donna Billings, treasurer, Mary Bickwer-mert, secretary; Suz-annah Hennessee, president; and Rhonda Foster, vice-president.

MILK MONEY Members of the Junior Guild for Spastic Children donated the $260 they collected from their booth at the Daviess County Fair to the Spastic Home's milk fund. Wendell Foster, executive director of the Spas- Priest's Senate Candidacy Is Illegal Says Catholic Bishop as well as some of its conclusions. President Nixon, through his press secretary, Ronald Ziegler, has washed his hands of any responsibility for the report. Ziegler, in a regular press briefing here, said the commission's recommendations "are not those of this administration." Ziegler also pointed out that the commission members, except for one, were appointed by former President Lyndon B. Johnson, and that "this is not Nixon's commission." According to a spokesman for the House Subcommittee on postal operations, however, President Nixon was warned last fall and early this year by the one member he did appoint of the direction the commission's report was headed.

He was urged Local Pastor To Show Slides On Holy Land At Thruston Church The Rev. James Thurmond, pastor of the Wesleyan Heights United Methodist Church in Owensboro, will present a slide lecture on the Holy Land at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Thruston United Methodist Church. The slide lecture will be presented in the new sanctuary of the church. The public is welcome.

Homecoming To Be Held At Macedonia General Baptist Members of the New Macedonia General Baptist Church, located near Panther, will hold the church's annual homecoming Sunday. Prior to and following the noon basket dinner special services will be held, beginning at 10 a.m. The Rev. Claud Threlkeld, pastor, welcomes the public. 500 Men Have Moon Craters Named For Them 160th Anniversary, Homecoming To Be Celebrated Sunday Members of the Pleasant Grove United Methodist near Philpot, will hold the I church's annual homecoming and 160th anniversary celebra- tion Sunday, Aug.

30. The Rev. Howard T. Mat- thews, district superintendent, will be the guest speaker for thw 10:30 a.m. worship service, I which will be followed with a wasket lunch at 11 :30 a.m.

The Veterans Quartet and oth- er local gospel singing groups will be featured on the 1:30 p.m. -program. The Rev. Billy Glover, pastor, welcomes the public. By HOWARD I'LMAN Associated Press Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I.

(AP) -The Roman Catholic bishop of Providence says a Jesuit priest is running for the U.S. Senate without having obtained the bishop's permission, a violation of church law. A spokesman for the Jesuit says the candidate needs permission from the bishop to preach and hear confessions, but not to run for the Senate. The Rev. John J.

McLaughlin, a Republican, is running against Sen. John O. Pastore, a Democrat. The Most Rev. Russell J.

MfVinney said Friday in the announced his candidacy and is now conducting his campaign for public office without permission from me and without endorsement of any kind from the Diocese of Providence." Don Wyatt, a spokesman for the priest, said Bishop Mc-Vinney's jurisdiction over Father McLaughlin "is limited to granting him faculties within the diocese." This includes permission to preach and hear confessions. Father McLaughlin said at a news conference he was surprised at the bishop's statement. He said it was "a possibility, but it is unlikely" he would withdraw from the race. Father McLaughlin voted that when he announced in June his intention to oppose Pastore, he emies that they will be able to operate all-white schools without admitting black students during the coming school year." Mondale said IRS now has Baptists To Host Anniversary Service For Rev. McFarland in rovidence Visitor, the diocesan pending 136 applications for tax weekly: exemption from private acad Anniversary To Be "I wish to make it patently clear that Father McLaughlin mies and has announced it Anniversary services for the flhcprVPfl At Mt Eden 1 Rev.

R. L. McFarland, pastor of VUMHJGU Ml I II. LUCII the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church.

Ranfirl CUurrVi willing to grant the applications of all which simply would announce an open admissions said "the superior general of the Jesuits finds no difficulty in qualified members getting involved in politics in various ways." McLaughlin's candidacy "has caused a great deal of confusion and misunderstanding in this state," Bishop McVinney said. Father McLaughlin said he has tried several times to meet with the bishop to discuss his candidacy, but has been unsuccessful. On at least two occasions firm dates were set, but both he and the bishop each had to cancel the engagements once because of conflicting dates, the priest said. "I also made it clear to the bishop through his aides, that I did not want the bishop to make any public comment on my candidacy, because I felt that this would be embroiling the church in politics, and would not be in the best interests of the church and state," the candidate said. "My understanding from those conversations," he continued, "and from others with people close to him, was that he would take no official stand." "It is true," the priest noted, "that Bishop McVinney and Sen.

Pastore have been lifelong friends." He added that he did not know whether the bishop's statement had anything to do with political preference. "He did say, in all fairness to him, he is trying to avoid politics in the utterance," Father McLaughlin said. Several other ranking Catholic clergymen have granted their tacit approval to priests desiring political office, Father McLaughlin said. He said he considers the issue Yesterday's Markets by his appointee, Charles H. Keating to replace several of the commission members.

Last spring President Nixon sent Congress a message asking for curbs on unsolicited smut sent through the mails. The President also declared that the ultimate answer for the problems of obscenity "lies not with the government but with the people." Nixon, according to Ziegler "believes that pornography and obscenity related to adverse social conduct." Nixon has called for a Citizens' Crusade against Pornography. "When indecent books no longer find a market, when pornographic films can no longer draw an audience, when obscene plays open to empty houses, then the tide will turn. Government can maintain the dikes against obscenity but only people can eldSuridav. wiu.wi held Sunday will be OWENSBORO CORN, WHEAT New yellow corn, $1.42.

White corn, $1.40. Wheat, $1.36. OWENSBORO SOYBEANS Yellow beans, $2.73. Black beans. $2.48.

HOGS; .25 lower. Field Select 200-220 lbs. 21.70; No. 1 200-225 Speaking at the 11 a.m. worship service will be the Rev.

L. Thurston. The Rev. Andrew Johnson, associate pastor of the McFarland Baptist Church in Evansville, will speak at the 3 p.m. service.

Co-chairmen of the anniversary celebration, Mrs. Archie Leak and Mrs. William Jackson, welcome the public. turn back the tides," the Presi- i dent declared in his message to AnilOCll PreSDyferian Congress last May. The commission members AniUVerSdry jUnfJaV FEEDER HEIFERS: Choice 300-500 lbs.

29.00-31.25; mixed Good and Choice 27.00-29.00; Good 25.25-27.00; mixed Good and Choice 500-700 lbs. 27.00-28.50; Good 24.25-27.00. STOCK COWS AND CALVES: Choice 225.00-252.00 per pair. Good pairs 180.00-217.00. HOGS: U.

S. 1-3 200-240 lbs. 21.25-22.00; U.S. 2-3 240-260 lbs. 20.50-21.25; U.S.

3-4 260-280 lbs. 20.00-20.50. SOWS: 1-3 250-400 lbs. 17.00-18.00; U.S. 2-4 400-600 lbs.

16.00-17.00. EVANSVILLE. Ind. (AP) -(USDA) Hogs 500; barrows and gilts 25 lower; 1-3 210-250 lb 21.25-21.50 2-3 210-260 lb 21 sows steady; 1-3 300-400 lb 17.75-19.00; 2-3 400-550 lb 17.00-18.00; boars 11.50-12.50. LOUISVILLE.

Ky. (AP) -Broilers 12. Eggs large 41-42; medium 30-31; small 19. BRIGHTON. ENGLAND (AP) More than 500 men had moon craters named after them Friday, including a Persian poet, a Roman philosopher and the three astronauts on the Apollo 11 moon landing mission.

A group of world astronomers assigned the names of astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, the first men to walk on the moon, to small craters near the Sea of Tranquillity where they touched down more than a year ago. A nearby crater was named for Michael Collins, who orbited above them. The Apollo 11 crew were among six American astronauts and six Russian cosmonauts to become the first men to have places on the moon named for them during their lifetime. Only dead men were so honored in the past. A committee-approved list of 513 new lunar place names, representing the first large-scale naming of features on the far side, was distributed at the 14th general assembly of the International Astronomical Union.

Donald H. Menzel, a Harvard astronomer who guided preparation of the list, said officials were scheduled to endorse the names next Thursday. AU the craters named are on the far side of the moon except the three named for the Apollo 11 astronauts. The other three living Americans honored are Frank Bor-man, William Anders and James Lovell the Apollo 8 crew who flew around the moon for the first time. Members of the Antioch Presbyterian Church will celebrate the church's 150th anniversary Sunday with a potluck dinner, followed by special service.

The public is welcome. Asbury Methodists Dinner To Be Sunday An all-day program to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Mt. Eden Baptist Church in Hawesville is planned for Sun- day. Prior to a pot luck dinner at p.m., there will be a wor-T ship service at 11 a.m., following; the regular Sunday School ses--sion at 10 a.m. '1 The Rev.

Wallace Morris, a former pastor of the church who -is now serving in a Bowling" Green church, will be the guest speaker for the afternoon ser- -vice, which begins at 2 p.m. The Ambassadors Quartet of Owens- boro will be featured on the af- -ternoon program. The Rev. Ralph Voyles, pas-; tor, welcomes the public. Homecoming To Be Held At Barnetts Creek Baptist Members of the Barnetts" Creek Baptist Church will hold-their annual church homecoming Sunday.

Prior to a basket lunch at noon, Sunday School and the regular worship service will be! held at 10 and 11 a.m. respective-" ly. Featured on the program, which will begin at 1: 30 p.m., will be the Gospel Seekers of Owensboro and the Singing! Parsons. The Rev. Stewart Hines, pas--tor, welcomes the public.

needed. They urged in the report that "citizens should organize" at the local and national levels to fight the floods of smut that are available. But, the commission warned in its recommendations, "it is exceedingly unwise for government to attempt to legislate individual moral values and standards especially by restrictions upon consensual significant to the church so and the state in Rhode Island and to the nation" that he is arranging a Sept. 12 meeting of priests and nuns to discuss it. lbs.

2140; No. 2 190-240 lbs. 21.10: No. 3 190-240 lbs. 20.85; 240-280 lbs.

20.10-21.10; Sows 16.25-18.75. CALVES: Steady. Prime 38 00; Choice 34.00-37.00; Good 31.00-33.00; Commercial 27.00-29.00; Utility 23.00-26.00; Heavy slaughter calves 33 00 down. CATTLE: Steady. Choice steers and heifers 27.50-29.50; Good steers and heifers 26 00-28 00; Standard steers and heifers 22.00-24 00; Commercial steers and heifers 17.00-20.50; Utility steers, heifers and cows 17.00-22.00; Canners and cutters 15.00-21 00; Bulls 19.00-25 00.

KENTl'CKIANA LIVESTOCK MARKET All cattle weighed at time of sale. CATTLE 723. CALVES 69. Compared to last week's close: All represented classes steadv. SLAUGHTER STEERS: Choice 950-1100 lbs.

29 mixed Good and Choice 28 SLAUGHTER HEIFERS: mixed GikkI and Choice 830-900 lbs. 27.60-28 50 SLAUGHTER COWS: Commercial 18.50-21.50; Utility 19 50-2150; Cutters 18 25-19 50; Canners 16 50-18 25 SLAUGHTER HULLS: Utility to Good over I (XX) lbs. 24 SLAUGHTER CALVES AND The women of the Asbury United Methodist Church will have a chicken dinner at noon Sunday at the church. The public is welcome. "Sound moral values are of the greatest importance," the report reads, "but they must be College Official Warns Of Campus Bloodshed MADISON, Wis.

(AP) A vice chancellor at the University of Wisconsin said Friday "there will be bloodshed" on the Madison campus unless steps are taken to ease tensions between students and much of society. Robert H. At well, who is resigning as vice chancellor Sept. i. to assume the presidency of Pifcter College at Claremont, said the "mutual distrust and hostility" between the UW administration and the regents '4s a grave and disturbing omen for the university's future." "One need not defend the stupid, vicious and destructive acts of a few young people in order to be critical of the absence of any serious administration or regent tactic other than massive police action," Atwell said.

Police and National Guard troops have been called to the 34.000-student campus on a number of occasion since 1967 to maintain or restore order on the protest-prone campus. Atwell, in a seven page statement, was critical of the regents and administration. "For two years there has not been any really serious, systematic, or continuing efforts by regents and high-level administrators to engage with large numbers of students in a serious discussions and planning on subjects of mutual concern," Atwell said. Atwell has been vice chancellor at the UW for four years. "Those who share power in the university are remote, aloof, and defensive," the vice chancellor said.

"They have accommodated to the forces of reaction to the point where I believe they have lost the confidence of a majority of its actively concerned students of all political persuasions." based upon deep personal commitment following from values Gospel Program To Be insiaueu in uie nome, in eauca- LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -(USDA) Cattle 50; calves 10; sheep none; not enough for price test; hogs 500; barrows and gilts 25-50 lower; few lots US 1-2 215-225 lb 21.50; 1-3 200-240 lb 2 1.00-21.50; 2-3 235-250 lb 20.50-21.00; 2-3 250-270 lb 20.25-20.50; sows steadv; 1-2 270-350 lb 17.50-18.00; 1-3 350-500 lb 17.00-17.50; 2-3 400-600 lb 16.50-17.00; boars over 300 lb 13.00. At Church Of Living God The Gospel Soul Burners will present a program of gospel music at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Church of the Living God, Fifth and Maple streets. The Rev.

B. A. Black, pastor, welcomes the public. New York StocK Prices At TV Om YrtlrrJay PurWwJ by j. I HMm4 lym MAW till till Vol IM turn Ind up Trim up up 11 woono York Stork (- mm UN Marelhnn Mw4l MiflMAM MuMhl Mini to Murmf (HliK'ofp IHrkrl) Stock Market Makes Surge By DAVID BURKE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) The stock market surged ahead Friday, sending the widely-watched Dow Jones average to its highest closing level in nearly four months.

The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks jumped 15.81 points to close at 745 51, a 2.16 per cent gain. This is the highest level since April 24, when the Dow closed at 747.29. In explaining the market's strength, Charles M. Lewis, a partner with the brokerage house of Treves said: "I see many positives and no negatives." One of the positives mentioned by analysts was the Labor Department report that the cost of living rise last month indicated a slight easing of inflation. Other factors brokers cited In explaining the rally were recent assurances from the Nixon administration that the economy will turn around in the second half and signs that the Federal Reserve Is continuing to ease its monetary policy.

"The 740 level of the Dow was considered to be a great psychological barrier," said Bradbury K. Thurlow, an analyst with Hoppin Bros. He said the market might be entering a period of sustained growth now that it succeeded In penetrating this barrier, which it failed to crack for about four months. Of the 1,628 stocks traded on VKALKRS: Choice 180-240 lbs. Vealers 38 0041 50; Good 34 Choice 240-350 lbs Calves 34.00-38 00; Good 30 00-34 00.

FEEDER STEERS: Choice 300-400 lbs. 35 Choice 400-550 lbs. 32 50-35 00; mixed Good and Choice 30.00-32.50; Good 28.00-30.00; Choice 550-700 lbs. 30 0O33 00; mixed Good and Choice 28 25-30 00, mixed Good and Choice 700900 lbs. 27.00-28 50.

SUPER SPECIALS ON AIR CONDITIONERS! The six living Russians are Alexei Leonov, Valentina Niko-layevna Tereshkova, Gherman Titov, Vladimir Shatalov, And-rian Nikolayev and Konstantin Feoktistov. Mrs. Tereshkova-Nikolayeva is the only woman who has flown in space. Leonov was the first man to walk in space and Titov made the first day-long flight in space. Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee, killed In a ground fire in an Apollo craft in 1967, were on the list.

Menzel, associated with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Harvard College Observatory, said a random naming system was sued, although larger craters were generally assigned to persons of higher distinction. Americans, with more than 130 names, and Russians, with nearly 100, dominated the list. One crater was named Apollo to commemorate the U.S. moon program. Other selections from names proposed by many nations Included: Omar Khayyam, the medieval Persian astrono IVnnH fltm ItiiUI Pmr HCA Hjlh HnTnfc Srmry ShIK MhrnC tion, in religious training and through individual resolutions of personal confrontations with human experience." In an earlier testimony before the commission, a Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission staff member.

Harry N. Hollis of Nashville, urged a coordinated effort by the home, school and church to provide a "positive" education program as the best way to oppose obscenity. "In the long run the most effective way to check pornography will be for churches and synagogues to teach a wholesome appreciation of sexuality as a good gift of God, for schools to offer correct information about sexuality, for businesses to reject erotic exploitation in advertising, and for citizens to use pocket-book power to oppose the obscene," Hollis declared. The Baptist leader also asked that the commission consider "common sense arguments" in reaching conclusions about the problem, and appealed for more stringent obscenity laws which would not abridge freedom but provide a stable moral climate in which freedom can be enjoyed. Hollis observed that the ultimate solutions to the problems of pornography "will be found not in laws but in people." The best way to handle this Is "through the home, the schools and the churches," Hollis urged.

He told the commission that though it is difficult to provide documentation of a casual relation between pornography and anti-social behavior, he personally believed that "pornograpny can serve as a trigger to set off acts In troubled individuals." In Its report the commission calls for an extensive program of sex education that will require Read The Want Ads as MS 38 7S MS 5IS MS ITS its 4IS ts MS II ITS its 4IS MS MS IIS MS MS MS IIS MS IIS MS MS I4S TPS IS ITS IIS MS MS IKS IIS Ml MS as 141. as as IIS at IM ss ISS us MS IIS 7 ns TIH its ITS ms lS ft HiS US MS lS es us AM-MI Ak-na AmOifl Amllpd AniMnt AiriTAT Amttmti Amnn AM and Armro A.hCHI Avro iMnMI Hixt.Ho film t'fab Cnrnf tlm llnwtlim 11 Pnftf ford (lil)ll rti (imMnt (iwiTir (iraoVr (irtr Himt Hnfl IHM IncH.r lntlpr Jnnnl. Kmnd Ml I imM LMim OB THIS SUNDAY Many, Many Cars Arriving PKHDOOQ SO I VI Ind SO NJ Vihm hnllf Mudr Tpur TntiM T41 pid TKiSul Tnlm Trill If I'M irk IK Ml t'nlntai M' CMMIh mm at DOUG EVANS Aarrfc-M Start t.w IIS IIS UlrniRI MP AUTO SALES, INC. mer and poet; Lucretius, the Roman philosopher who expounded atomic theory 2,000 years ago; J. Robert Oppcnhel-mcr, the American physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb; Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet cosmonaut who was the first man in space.

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