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Tuesday, June 21, 1977
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Skinny dipping—take it off, take it all off
Staff Writer
By HANNES DEAR
The temperature rises above 90 degrees, and it's a Saturday afternoon. Or perhaps it's a weekday and the temperature may have risen to slightly above 75 degrees. The tensions of the week may be heavy, or perhaps it's just that boredom is setting in.
At any time, on any day, it's that time—it's time to tear the confining clothes from the body and let it breathe. It's time to go skinny dipping.
Annoug dictionary defines this summer pastime simply as "to swim in the nude," fans of skinny dipping describe the experience more vividly.
"SKINNY DIPPING TO ME is a means of releasing all my tensions and inhibitions, by baptizing my body in a cool pool of water." one ardent student skinny dipper said. "It's the best therapy I can have; it's the ultimate back-to-trip trip."
everyone interviewed agreed that the only equipment necessary for skinny dipping is a large body of water. Concrete swimming pools, secluded ponds or arrays in the backyard? Have you ever the local favorite place of the skimmers seemed to be Lake Henry.
Although there be many fans of skinny dipping, they also seem to want to remain an anonymous group. In the in-person museum, the upper would allow his name to be printed.
The interviews were conducted with several people between the ages of 18 and 38. They included students, a KU professor, two businessmen and a housewife.
OWNED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT and leased to the state, Lake Henry's popularity began sometime in the early 1960s. The lake is located west of Clinton Reservoir, just off of Highway 40 west. It provides the recreational setting similar to the other area lakes, but its guests allow anyone to swim in the mude.
According to one of the businessmen,age
Staff photo by KENT VAN HOESEN
32. Lake Henry is a favorite because it isn't as crowded as other lakes in the nearby area.
"Henry is also beautiful and peaceful" the businessman said. "To be able to walk under the trees, to swim under the trees, stimulates every nerve in my body."
Meeting people is no problem for most people at Lake Henry, the housewife, age 40.
The atmosphere is congenial and no one seems to notice that the people have no clothes on, or if they do notice, they don't let on, she added.
E OFFERTHAS BEEN MADE recently to stop the skinny dipping at Lake Henry. A student, age 19, said it was nice to be able to skinny dip without hassle from the lake.
"I think they realize that we aren't burting anything," she said.
Until two months ago, the city's ordinance against indecent exposure, which included skimmy dancing, was very vague, according to Darell Stephens, assistant chief of police. However, he said that a new ordinance now in effect is well-defined.
The ordinance states that "For the purpose of this section, the phrase, 'personal or private parts,' shall include male genitalia, buttocks, and female breast."
Over exposure
The new ordinance has yet to face a test case, but it will June 28 when a 37-year-old Lawrence woman arrested for indecent exposure in Potter Lake last Friday afternoon appears in Douglas County District Court for a preliminary hearing. The woman was arrested by KU police after she was discovered swimming made.
however, skinny dipping isn't just a problem to speak of, Stephens said.
expert inquiries by fishermen or photographer. Lake Henry offers seclusion to those who want that overall tan.
"That can be solved easily enough," the professor, age 67, said. "Use a lot of sun tan cream and keep your little expire well."
The fate of Lake Henry is questionable.
When the Clinton Reservoir becomes
operable, which is expected in the next two to three years, Lake Henry will be turned into a state park and farm area. It is also one of the skinny dippers will be welcome then.
Smut surveys get dirty delivery
CLEVELAND (AP)—Dennis Bertrand, a supervisor with the city Waste Collection Department, parked his white pickup on Easterbrook Street, unpacked a box of 3,200 pornography questionnaires and dispatched co-workers co-workers on their morning missions.
"You two older guys take this apartment building right here. Grab a handful of envelopes, grab a handful of questionnaires," Bertrand said, as several residents of the
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BERTRAND AND THE FOUR others, who dutifully began stuffing the forms in mailboxes, were carrying out the first stage of Mayor Ralph Perk's campaign to banish seismic activity and create a community standard that the courts could use to convict pornographers.
Perk, a Republican seeking his third term this fall, has declared that Cleveland is "under continual siege by the purveyors of pornography." He is having the questionnaires deleted by the garbage superstores till the city's 240th birthday this week and he hoped he had a substantial number of people would fill them out and return them.
"I THINK IT'S a good idea," said Mrs. Cone Hole, who had a questionnaire delivered to her as she sat on her front steps.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that pornography be judged under con- dictionary laws, a decision t
"It'll stop a lot of kids . . . from getting rained."
Shannon Abbey said, "Sure I'm going to send it in," waving the questionnaire and return envelope that had been handed to her. "I think a person should be able to sell whatever they want to. It's up to the parents to teach their kids what's right."
ONE YOUNG WOMAN studying her questionnaire said flatly: "They'll never stop it," but then she indicated she wasn't talking about pornography. She was concerned about prostitutes who walk the streets, few blocks from her eatslide apartment.
Said one of the distributors, who didn't want his name used: "They should be doing something about housing instead of wasting their time on stuff like this."
THE ORIGINAL PLAN was to have the questionnaires delivered by garbage collectors on their rounds. However, Perk said he decided to use the supervisory trucks instead of garbage trucks because he didn't want to get the questionnaires dirty.
The questionnaires, consisting of an introductory letter from Perk and 17 questions answerable by "Yes," "No" or "Don't Know," cost $4,800 for printing and 15 cents for each postage-paid envelope that is returned.
SOME MUNICIPAL COURT judges who got an advance look at the public questionnaires have said they lacked objectivity and not all attention be used in obscenity cases in their courts.
Perk's爪, addressed "Dear Neighbor," says he is asking Clevelandians to do something that "has not been done before in the city." He tells us it hard to discuss such private matters, but it must be done so that we can forbid the sale of pornography in Cleveland. Together, we must put down a clear set of moral rules and rules, telling out the enclosed questionnaire . . .
win God's help, we once again have a decent city in which to live and bring up our children," the letter continues. "In fact, you may lead this nation back down from the debt. This will result in this poll to the Supreme Court of the United States as well as to President Carter."
The questions are general in nature and do not describe specific sexual acts.
The first question reads: Books, magazines or films which describe or show only hard-core sexual conduct. Do these appeal to a shannon or morbid interest in
The second says : Books, magazines or films which are obviously designed to cater for young readers.
values, like literary, artistic, political or
moral, these appeal to a shameful
meridian belief.
A later question reads: Books, magazines or films which sexually cater to such persons as homosexuals or sadists. Should such people be kept from public sale or viewing?
The passage mentions above, Acts 4.25, tells of the fulfillment of this 2nd Psalm message in the eyes and experience of Christ's Disciples as they witnessed the death of Christ at the hands of the religious and secular leaders and rulers who were now threatening them because they bore witness that God had raised Him from the dead. Since that time this message has been fulfilled in every generation down through history. Where men "Feared God and kept His Commandments, the whole duty of man," there has followed the blessing of God upon individuals, cities, and nations; but the curse has followed anarchy and rebellion against God's Law and Rule.
Do you pray 'The Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven?' Do you pray that prayer? Do you mean it? If so, we suggest you examine The Ten Commandments in the light of this your prayer, every word and every sentence of it, in the light of the message of the 2nd Psalm. In 2nd Corinthians 13.5 we read, 'Be mine selves, whether ye be in the presence of your own selves. Know ye not your own selves; that Jesus Christ is in you, God's Ten Commandments are given us to be as a Schoolmaster to convince us of our need for The Saviour, and lead us to Christ.
"WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?"
Psalms 2:11 and Acts 4:25
'RISE UP, LORD, ANDLET THINE ENEMIESBE SCATTERED; ANDLET THEM HATE THATE FLEEBE BEFORE THEY. AND WHENIT RESTED. HE SAID,BEFORE THEY. AND
'RISE UP. LORD. AND LET THINE ENEMIES BY
AND LET THEM that HATE THE FLEE BEFEL
FOR THEIR EMPERORS.'
(In case you go forth on the Lord's Day and Holy Sabbath to eat and drink in the "leftovers" of the ball games, drag races, etc., would not advise you to pray this prayer test perhaps that be the day it boomerangs on you!)
in the above passage from Psalms. God reveals the anarchy and rebellion of men and kings and rulers as they set themselves to get rid of His Laws. Commandments. His Anointed King, The Lord Jesus Christ. Alas, he that sitteth in the Heavens shall laugh" In his Wrath and displeasure they are vexed in all manner of adversity. However, in mercy, lustsherification and forbearance He offers to forgive and bless them if they will turn to Him in repentance and return to His King. But when they shall be "dashed in His kingdom" vexed and perish from the way when His kingdom is kindled but a little." All these things are in the Second Psalm; read them, and face this 'Message from your Maker' "The heart in your bosom is a damn," a march for you to appointe the judgment of God for you to appoint unto man once to die, and after this the judgment." Hebrews 9:27.
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