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Show CG1-3332- E5 -- -k "arriot library serials orccr r.iv SPECIAL CQ1.LECTIOHS Were not pom shops Bookstores outraged by vice squad tactics by James M. Schutz Enterprise Staff Writer wiHt could be a major civil rights battle is shaping . i 0 h 7 fjf. - Utah accounts for 20 percent of the counterfeit seized in the U.S. From banker to banker Plenty of funny money circulating in SLC An innocent got stuck with a floater, but the bank ate the loss. Thats law enforcement jargon with a mild touch of hyperbole, describing a set of events which occurred in late April. Lloyd Simons, the regional manager for All Car Leasing Service Co., 424 So. Main, cashed a check at a Zions Bank branch. Part of the cash was paid to a friend and business associate, Steve Crowley, of Steve Crowley In- surance, for an insurance premium. Simons said, He saw one of the bills, which was a $100 note, and asked if Id run it through a washing machine! We joked about it for some time. Funny money The joke got better. Later that day, Crowlev took the bill to Walker Bank to make a deposit. Bank employees immediately spotted it as counterfeit. The Secret Service got into the act at that point, with Anthony Sherman taking charge of the case. As it turned out, the bill was a floater which Sherman describes as a bill from a batch that just shows up. It has no further history, as we say, because all we can do is take it out of circulation. According to Sherman, each of production run counterfeit bills is assigned a VOLUME 7 NUMBER 48 up in Salt Lake as city law enforcement officers aggressively police local bookstores for pornography. Meanwhile the book sellers claim police har- number by the Secret Service, and descriptions of the series are sent to Secret Service offices across the country. This particular floater appears to come from a batch with an active history. Bank ate the loss This series first showed up in New York. There have been a number of arrests since 1975, when it first came to our attention, including one passer who was arrested holding $90,000 of the stuff. Weve seen this stuff in New York, New Jersey, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Little Rock, and many other cities. (See FUNNY MONEY, pg. 3) assment. According to Bob Madsen, owner of Bobs Magazine Corner at 360 So. State, The vice squad is always in here telling me where to put my books. Bob Nelson, of the Magazine Shop on We 228 So. Main agrees. never know what theyll want next, and I personally dont think the stuff we sell is pornography. Madsen and Nelson are not the only ones fearful of the citys new crusade. Ken Sanders, manager of the Cosmic Aeroplane, 258 E. 100 So., I feel we should get said, together all the bookdealers in the area and try to do something, if for no other reason than to let them know well not be picked off one by one. Willoughby behind it? The enforcement authorities, on the other hand, claim there has been no harassment. Chief Bud Willoughby said, The Salt Lake police do not harass. He also denied the big drive to push porno off owner-manag- er the streets came at his initiative. Sanders disagrees. I noticed that about the time he took office we started getting visits from the vice squad. For quite a while, they were our best customers for books on human sexuality and Nordstrom coming with 3 stores James Nordstroms recent visit to Salt Lake City has cinched his companys plans to open three quality apparel stores in the valley within three years. Nordstrom, of Nordstrom, Inc., was in town two weeks ago talking with developers and potential landlords in hopes of securing two locations for the clothing company, already slated to open a 100,000 square foot store in the Crossroads Center. Sales at Crossroads will exceed $10 million the first year, he predicted. The Brickyard Mall is another location being investigated. Nordstrom Inc., a public (See NORDSTROM, page 11) an Madsen too thinks Willoughby is behind the aggressive Our new police initiative. police chief is trying his best to keep certain groups happy, and if Readers Digest was the worst thing we had on our shelves, theyd come after that. The police produced some of the literature they bought in local stores. Some was clearly pornographic, according to some sources, while others were quite mild. Prestigious publisher A good example, according to Madsen, was a fairly new release entitled Xavieras Supersex , which contained some illustrations and drawings, depicting sexual acts. Madsen says, This book is on the national distribution list. Its published by a prestigious house. When I informed New American Library, the publisher, that I was being charged with selling obscene material, they were really shocked. Indeed, New American Library, a subsidiary of Times Mirror ; was shocked to hear them tell it. Legal counsel Alan Kaufman said, When we first heard about it, we didnt really know what to make of the information. We simply couldnt believe it! (See SELLERS, page 7) Tax commission in city dump Employees at the state tax commission were literally in the dumps last week when they discovered a boxful of unopened returns and checks had been mistaken for trash and taken to the Salt Lake City garbage dump. It was a combustible situation Monday when Tax Commissioner David Duncan See DUMPS, page 2 MONDAY, MAY 29, 1978 50 CENTS |