Thursday, November 10, 1977
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Death of blue law opens stores
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Residents of the Kansas City metropolitan area voted more than 24-0 to repeal the state blue law that prohibits restaurants from serving first taste of Sunday shopping this week.
Editor says sex tabloids have value
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - Publisher Al Goldstein's defense against federal obscurity gets a boost yesterday from a veteran Kansas newsman.
Don Granger, a reporter and editor at the Wichita Eagle and Beacon for 31 years, supported the literary and political value of *The Adventures of Squint* and Smut, and downplayed their offensiveness.
"I don't think community standards of Kansas or anywhere else are monolithic or homogenous," Granger tested in U.S. schools. "They depend on circumstances."
Goldstein, his former partner, Jim Buckley, and their Milky Way productions, are charged with mailing obscene issues of the tabloids into Kansas.
A jury of seven women and five men is to determine whether the magazines are obscene to an average Kansan under contemporary community standards.
THE GOVERNMENT and defense at-
munes are scheduled to make their closing
and reopening calls.
"I think the material we read and see as individuals in our own privacy is permissible." Granger, now director of community affairs for the Wichita papers said. "We have a right to look at it as long as we don't force it on anyone else."
Granger said that whether something had serious literary value depended on whether it was a work by an artist or writer.
"It must have some comment and develop some theme of information, some viewpoint," he said, adding that he felt comfortable with publications met those requirements.
This trial is the second for Goldstein, who with the other defendants was convicted last year by a Wichita jury. That verdict was overturned when U.S. District Court Judge Frank G. Theis ruled that the prosecutor made inflammatory remarks to the jury.
Delegates settle 25-year dispute over boundary
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (UPI) - Missouri and Kansas legislature delegates reached agreement yesterday in a 25-year-old dispute over the French Bottons area.
Concluding a four-hour discussion, Rep. Mark Youngdahl, chairman of the Missouri delegation, said a two-pronged solution was hammered out with Kansas delegates.
According to the proposal, the boundary would follow the old deep-water channel line. Landowners in the area have wanted the border to follow the center of the channel between the banks of the old Missouri River oxbow channel.
In return for having the land go to Kansas, current landowners would be offered the first chance to buy the new Kansas land for their share of the survey costs.
Youngdahl said the next step would be for the joint legislative group to approve spending of money that Kansas has earned for surveying the property. On completion of the survey, Missouri delegates will approve the boundary.
The solution, he said, will help Missouri and Kansas avoid a lengthy court battle over the question.
FILMS
Thursday, Nov. 10
Films by San Francisco film-
makers..BRICE CONNER
A MOVIE, COSMIC RAY,
MARILYN TIMES FIVE
ROBERT NELSON
GRATEFUL DEAD,BLEU SHUT
$2.93 7:38 AM Weekday
Sunday, Nov. 13
Pogo's Birthday
All of Walt Kelly's characters
The Golden Fish
Academy Award Winner 75c, 2:30
Pumu, Woodrow Auditionum
Monday, Nov. 14
CURSE OF THE DEMON
Director Jacques Tourneur with
Dan Andrews
CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF
Director Teree Fischer with Oliver
Reed. $10.00 7 p.m., Woodruff Auditorium
The results of the election in Jackson, Clay and Platte Counties were gathered in Liberty, Mo., yesterday and were to be relayed to Jefferson City, Mo. during the night.
The results must be certified today by the secretary of state's office if Sunday shopping in the three counties is to begin this week and close tomorrow because of Veterans Day.
OFFICIALS OF most shopping centers and major chain stores said they planned to open their stores Sunday if the election results were certified in time.
J. Burke Gelling, a vice president of Montgomery Ward & Co., said stores in the three counties would be open from noon to 6 p.m. on Sundays.
"On the Kansas side, we do not foresee any loss of revenue because we will have a promotion program geared to compensate customers for any changes in customer customers on the Kansas side," he said.
THE TWO STATES had similar blue laws—which prohibit items other than food and other necessities from being sold on Sundays—until the state supreme courts in both states ruled the laws void during the early 1960s.
Thousands of Missouri residents fled to Kansas on Sundays to purchase furniture, hardware and other non-necessities. Officials estimated the blue law cost Kansas City, Mo., more than $2 million a year in lost sales tax and other revenues. Neighboring Independence, Mo., estimated its loss at $500,000 a year.
Missouri responded by adopting a revised form of the law, but Kansas rejected repeated attempts in its legislature to reenact such a law.
THE MISSouri Legislature agreed earlier this year to allow the Kansas City-area counties to hold a local option vote on the blue law. The legislative action came at the end of Rep. Philip Segalla, D-Kansas City, who had campaigned for repeal six years.
Voters in the three county backed Scaglia's campaign by a vote of 119,869 to 40,496, and Scaglia said his campaign was not over. He already has drafted bills for statewide repeal, which will be introduced in the upcoming session.
"I hate to see a job half-done," Scaglia said after the election Tuesday night, "but that'll be a real tough one." He gave me the answer at 50 per cent chance of passing next year.
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