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Show uncommonsenI NJSSS" by Thomas Bofli often enough, this CQmes from the home front: It seems that for 40 (yes, that's forty) years there has been conducted an experiment in which treatment for syphilis was withheld from more than 450 black men from Alabama in order to judge the results. According to a recent AP release, 28 have died as a result of the untreated syphilis. We don't need to worry about it though. The pathologist who had been performing the autopsies finally fi-nally got sick of the work and refused re-fused to do any more of them. In an expansive move to prohibit the proliferation of obscenity, the city of Murray has established an all-inclusive ordinance limiting the production, sales and ownership of any form of obscenity. One part even forbids "assisting any person to act in a lewd or obscene manner." man-ner." One wonders if this law could be extendedtoTS medical experiment Finally, according, well-informed friends finished celebra ing ' alias Lief Ericso; aC H:; Congress has just 3 Norwegian's nam tional hero's as the J. 5 America. Buttha,TS eryone knows here long before h And, according ,0 ,JH legend, there were em. Where wi,;; Pr Lief probably,,," ashore here in a 1" k Columbus, with his5? andmeaningfulfe failed .n finding that i1 the East-let's let hal WorldasaiSi Here are a few comments on what is current in the news: Salt Lake City Streets Commissioner Com-missioner Stephen M. Harmsen said that the traffic mess at the University looked like an ant hill, and after he was quoted spent quite a while apologizing for the comparison. Saying that he hadn't meant to offend anyone by it, he noted that the Streets Department tries to consider citizens' concerns on an individual and human level. That's very nice, Stephen, but I doubt that those who actually attned the University could become terribly excited about being compared to an ant after feeling like one while they trying to find a place to park their autos every morning. The American Way of Death is back in the news this time from Des Moines, Iowa. Douglas and Cynthia Frederick, a young Army family stationed there recently buried their two children, Benjamin James and Christa Ann, who had died just after birth from a lung disorder. The young couple had little money, and spent 100 hours preparing a concrete gravestone for the children, sanding, pouring, and polishing. At first, the local "show-place" "show-place" cemetery refused to admit the stone into the cemetery, then after it was placed officials removed it. There is, you see, in Des Moines, a city ordinance that forbids any but marble (granite) or bronze markers in the cemetery. However, things are looking up for the couples' cou-ples' case. An enterprising city commissioner championed their cause and vows to change the ordinance ordi-nance if necessary in order to permit per-mit the concrete marker. A man with such a soft heart certainly deserves de-serves re-election in this election year. Not only that, but over 15 different businesses have volunteered volun-teered to supply one of their own markers for the destitute couple. Only in America could politics and business cooperate so well to help us bury our dead. For those of us who don't get exposed to the grisly stories of the Hitler-encouraged human "medical experiments" during World War II KANAN LURIE IN LITE MAGAZINE i |