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“+ Bulletin #1700" The ACLU is conducting an intensive etuly of the problem, preparatery to tal . 8ppropriate legal action to test the Constitutionality of the Post Office's Power. to) ban material from abroad, . Dye MRT fot a! COUNTY OFFICIALS REBUKE GEORGIA NEWSPAPER FOR PHENTING OPINION - An outspoken Southern newspaper has been puni shed by three county newspape: for expressing its support of a civic measure which the officials opposed, The Gainsville, Georgia, Daily Times, through its editor, Sylvan Meyer, tool stand in February supporting a bill pending in the Georgia General Assenbly whic! would convert the "fee" system of paying courthouse officers to a salary" basis,. Under the fee system, the county clerk, sheriff and ordinary are paid on a piece work basis for the number of arrests and other law enforcement activities they carry’ on. Opponents of the system assert that it concentrates county law enforcement on: those crimes that yield the. biggest return and tends to ignore crime prevention a investigation where no revenue will be Produced, They advocate a straight salary for these officials, . . Stak When the Times came out for the straight salary bill, Hall County Sheriff “ilson and County Clerk W.D. Duncan voted to deny the Times its regular desi gnati as official legal organ for the county - the official printer of legal adverti sements: ~ and the revenue which goes with the designation, Ordinary Frank Wood did not along with the action of his two colleagues, ne : z. In attacking this exerci se_of _economic_pressure |»-the_Time s_said, "Thus, official: dom attempts, even on a level as local as our own courthouse, to challenge the opinion of the press and to deny that the people have the right to hear ideas contrary to, that of men in office,~ - : : : a "If these officeholders expect their punishment to force a change in the ed: ial policies of the Times, they have made an error, ‘Je had honestly hoped they w. be tolerant enough to recognize that in a democracy honest differences of opinion are not only the custom, but are permitted freedom by the Bill of Rights.” Since the controversy started, the General Assembly has passed the salary sy: bill and it will face a local referendum in November, The Daily Times has pointed out that the bill provides for incumbent officials to finish their present term: under the lucrative fee system. . The Times has also stated that it will go on printing legal notices as a fr e service to the community, eon CIVIL LIBERTIES BRIEFS... : a A Missouri state legislative committee rejected by a 20 to 5 vote an effort ti a bar nudism and nudist publications in the state...In its annual report, the Kew York: \ State Committee Against Discrimination describes the law which it administers as ai if Sccomplished "social fixture in New York State." On the law's tenth anniversary;: « it said, the impact of the law can be observed through the state and seen in "the general improvement in the status of the individual in the community."...eOne of th nation's largest chemical firms, the Monsanto Chemical Corporation, has been found guilty by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination of discriminating, against its Negro employees, in by-~passing them in making promotions to supervi so: > Jobs. It is believed that the decision will carry considerable weight in other’ states faced with similar cases, ultimately opening the way for ‘more. promotion, qualified Negroes,..Damages amounting to $25,000.06 have: been levied against Congress=, man James G, Donovan and three others in a libel suit growing out of a Ford ¢ 4 eB paign in New York's Yorkville section in 1951 Frank J; Stella and Anne K, Tooms; Democratic party leaders, charged that defendant's newspaper had pictured them as. Communists or Communist. sympathizers during the campaign. Donovan represents the, district fomerly held by the late Vito Marcantoniog 3 wT NOTE TO EDITORS: Enclosed in this week's issue of FEATUE PFESS SEIVICE is the ACLU's new pamphlet on censorship of comic books, The statement 3 which was, summarized in the May 23 issue of the SERVICE, has been filed with the Senate Judiciary subcommittee studying juvenile delinquency, - bake :