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By David Anable Christian Science Monitor News Service New York State is trying to clean up some of the more sordid, seedy, y or noisy aspects of living. new Setting standards, some of which could well be followed nationally, the Legislature recently has passed bills to: Ban topless entertainment in bars licensed by the State Liquor Authority. Midtown New York City has some 30 to 35 such bars, many of them in the Times Square area. Slap $100 fines on dog owners in New York and Buffalo who fail to clean up after their dogs. New York alone is home to about 600,000 dogs, whose depredations of the streets, sidewalks, and parks are a cause of dismay to pedestrians. Impose severe penalties on those w'ho assault the elderly or disabled. Anyone 16 or over who is convicted of committing a felony against a person over 62, or against a disabled person of any age, must serve a mandatory prison sentence. Permit property owners near Kennedy and LaGuardia airports to sue airlines or the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (which owns the airports) for damages due to aircraft noise exceeding the authoritys own standards. A similar bill would enable municipalities to NEW YORK big-cit- . . . obtain injunctions against airlines exceeding the noise standards. Both bills have passed New Yorks state Assembly and are expected to get tlirough the Senate shortly. They appear aimed mainly at the Anglo-Frenc-h supersonic Concorde. New York Gov. Carey said June 27 that he would sign both the topless-ba- r and dog-littbills. He also is expected to sign bill. His the attitude toward the airport noise bill is uncertain, although his spokesmen say he agrees with the general concept. lit addition, the state Assembly has passed a compromise bill to decriminalize' possession of small amounts of marijuana. The bill, which would impose noncriminal fines of up to $100 for possession of up to 25 of an ounce) of grams (seven-eightmarijuana, now goes to the Senate. The ban on topless entertainment will apply to bars, cabarets, and dinner theaters where patrons drink and watch at the same time. Establishments that violate the law will be liable to have their liquor licenses suspended or revoked. Officials hope that this administrative penalty, rather than criminal sanction, w ill improve the laws chances of surviving the constitutional challenges that are almost certain to be brought against it In his press conference, Gov. Carey indicated that he thought the ban would withstand any such challenges not It safeguards the public from what is entertainment, something that has no redeeming social value, he said. The topless bars are a small but noticeable part of the total sex business. For instance, it has been estimated that the Times Square area contains about 46 adult bookstores and peep shows, 63 massage parlors, 46 pornographic-movi- e theaters, and 27 hotels used for prostitution, as well as 18 topless bars. The mythological Greek hero Hercules, in cleaning out the accumulated filth of the Augean stables, faced no greater task than New York City and state authorities in controlling the highly profitable sex business here, some say. So far nearly every effort to rout out the sex entrepreneurs has been thwarted. The liquor license approach is but the latest of but many attacks on the problem seriously lacks state enforcement agents. Another matter of growing concern is how to cope with muggings and other assaults on the elderly and disabled. The media have been full of accounts of senior citizens robbed, mugged, terrorized, or afraid to leave the safety of their homes. The new bill would set mandatory penalties for murder, manslaughter, assault, kidnaping, burglary and robbery. It also would deny the nsual youthful-offendconvicted of treatment to 16- - to such crimes against the elderly and disabled ly er By Brad Knickerbocker SAN FRANCISCO one-wa- ... applesauce to zippers at the local supermarket may still be surprised at the latest addition money. Eight savings and loan associations, with 42 percent of the areas savings and loan business, are operating Moneymatic machines m 42 stores of the Schnucks supermarket chain. So far. the system seems to be working well for everyone. "Customers are really enthused d ! a' t J Ervil LeBaron We began investigating the LeBaron cult a year ago, lured by rumors of religious executions and mysterious disappear- - ances. We visited LeBa-ron- s desolate habitat; we spoke to confidential sources who are in contact with the cult ; we have also had access to government investigative files. By all accounts, Ervil LeBaron is a bulldozer of a man, with a temperament as volatile as nitroglycerin. According to the wanted posters, he is and weighs 220 pounds. He is darkly handsome, with strong features and deep-se- t, blazing black eyes. He is given to Vesuvian outbursts when thmgs dont go his way. LeBaron believes in the vengeful God of the Old Testament and claims the authority to carry out Gods wrath. He can quote scriptures and order executions in the same breath. He refers to the latter as military orders from God. Yet those who know the bloodthirsty LeBaron describe him as extremely intelligent, with charismatic powers. His fanatical followers are ready to kill at his command. Even the children are taught to kill as soon as they can handle weapons. One child told our sources that he had lain awake at nights thinking how he could murder for Ervil. And a woman told us that her own sister had warned she would kill her if Ervil decreed it. The cult practices polygamy, and rebellious wives have been known to vanish. One of Ervil's wives, Montsie, became disenchanted in 1974. Thats the last her relatives have heard of her. Ervils first wife, Delphina, used to correspond with her relatives regularly. They are now worried; they haven't heard from her for six months. Sources with pipelines into the cult also report that Naomi Zarate, one of the wives of a loyal disciple, was murdered along with her son. Their bodies allegedly were dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. Here are other murder stories from government files: Erv il quarreled with his elder brother, Joel, over the leadership of the cult. On August 20, 1972, Joel was brutally beaten with a chair and then shot to death in Ensenada, Mexico. Mexi-ca- n authorities named Ervil as the intellectual author of his brothers murder. But according to our sources, he bribed his way out of prison after serving only a year. He reportedly paid $80,000. Ervil called upon the t followers of his slain Joel LeBaron brother to repent and accept his leadership. Those who refused lived in the tiny Mexican town cf Los Molinos. Ervil dispatched a band of women, led by one man, to shoot up the place From ambush, they burned down the town with firebombs and shot haphazardly at the panicky people. Miraculously, only two died in the guntire and flames. A LeBaron defector, named Dean Vest, wax gunned down on June 16, 1975, at a house near ban Diego. Our sources say LeBaron ordered two women from his flock to commit the murder. Police picked them up but couldnt get a word out of thein Ihc murder weapon, meanwhile, had been wiped clean ol fingerprints. So the women were released for lack ol ev idence. L. i Francisco, the city that shops around Union Square. Several key Supreme Court obscenity decisions in recent years have sprung from California cases, but "topless entertainment and films and literature persist here, as they do in many other communities. The obscenity laws are a quagmire," noted one San Francisco prosecutor, who Is unsure whether juries would allow the new live shows as a constitutionally protected form of free expression, an argument accepted in other obscenity cusos. Meanwhile, across the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, citizens have taken to the streets to protest growing prostitution there. The Berkeley Neighborhood Patrol posts small groups of residents near the prostitutes to discourage both the women and their customers. The importance of the action, says City Council member Gitda Feller, is to show that "Berkeley is no longer the marketplace for this. Certainly the girls leave the corners where people are, she said. If this can be kept going for lour to six weeks, it may have an impact on the customers. (c) W77 Christian Science Publishing Society Instant potatoes, milk, and novs. . .instant cash ST. LOUIS (UPI) Shoppers who expect to find everything from family. Ervil LeBaron, who believes he is God's executioner, is responsible for at least 20 murders. This is the conservative estimate of investigators vvIk) have been following his trail. On one occasion, he sent a band of 'women to bushwack a Mexican commumty. Wild West style, because its residents had rejected him. Yet neither federal nor local authorities have been able to find the elusive LeBaron, whose trail invariably disappears into I the desert. He maintains xj hideouts in the same rugged j terrain where the legen-ydary outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid once ? eluded the law. J as San Francisco battles sex for sale The city that began the topless movement in the United States and prides itself on liberality is cracking down on sex for sale. At a time when several other big American cities are trying to limit pornography under the Supreme Courts community standards mandate, adult" bookstores still abound in San Francisco. But officials here apparently have decided that the most recent oflerings of commercial sex are too much even for this city. The Board of Supervisory (city council) has adopted regulations aimed at curtailing encounter studios, the subject of growing complaints, especially from tourists. Such establishments, it is charged, promise sexual activity in return for repeated (and increasing) payments. However, officials say, customers more often than not finally leave having spent large sums for nothing. In some cases, police say, customers complain of having been beaten. The city is responding in three ways: stricter enforcement of prostitution laws, new ordinances to prevent fraud in such establishments, and a criminal investigation of owners of encounter studios. Under a new law, which went into effect this month, the studios have to close at 10 p.m. and post multilingual signs warning customers that sex acts are prohibited. Customers have to record their names and addresses with the proprietor. Law enforcement officials here also are moving against a relatively new form of sex trade, live "Peeping Tom shows featuring y mirrors women who perform behind tor customers in individual booths. The first such business opened in. San Francisco six months ago and others have (ol lowed. Police recently raided the establishments, arresting performers and other employes for to elicit vicious or indecent exposure lewd thoughts or acts. Such shows reportedly included simulated masochistic activities and had been picketed by a group called Women Against Violence in Pornography and the Media. LES WHITTEN about it," said Ed True, managing director of the company that set up the system. It opens up new areas for them to do business and extends the hours of their savings and loans Its a tremendous convenience factor," Schnncks also is happv w Ph tile system, which liegan full operation this spring. It brings in new customers and helps us give new service to existing customers, said Madeleine Tatum, director of communications and consumer information for the supermarket i hum in the program are issued Moneymatic cards with their names and account numbers "The store managers are very customer-orientebecause ours is a retail business, and the terminals themselves offer an additional service to the customer. They look at it trom that point of view." They also are assigned a personal identification number not on the that they must plastm card furnish with each transaction to act as a sateguard against misuse of their card. The system works simply Cusan account at one of the eight savings and loans taking part All transactions must be for at least $25, and all withdrawals are for cash, with a maximum of $200. Once d tomers with ) a deposit slip is filled out and the is entered on a keyboard that looks like customers identification numtxr a calculator, the transaction takes six seconds, with a printed receipt provided True said similar systems have been operating in other cities, but the St. Louis area system is a pioneer in the number of savings institutions and retail outlets available to customers. Expansion is expected in the future i A polygamist leader, Dr. Rulon Allred, received several threats from the LeBaron cult. Oil May 10, 1977, two women walked into his office outside Salt Lake City and fired six bullets into hi body, killing him instantly. A LoBaron disciple. Nancy Chynoweth, has been arrested and charged w ith the murder. There have been a number of strange disappearances. For example, a Utah polygamist named Robert Simons vanished on April 23, 1975 He w us last seen south of Salt Lake City with some IcBaron associates. Investigators claim that LeBaron.x hard-cor- e followers number at least 40, most of them women, all of them fanatics. But a wavering member of the men and sect told us that no more than two dozen women could be classified as fanatical followers half-a-doze- n IxBaron was last sources, about 75 miles has also been reported An Both reports could move. seen, according to reliable south of Mexico City. But he in the vicinity of Phoenix, be true, since he keeps on the Footnote : We have sent word to LeBaron through our contacts that we are eager to hear his side ot the story. At this writing, we have received no response (C) 1977, United Feature Syndtcle. Inc i |