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3 Jailed For Nude Dancing




Detroit Free Press, June 5, 1959



Nothing spices up a summer carnival like a little nude dancing from
some southern gals. Or so thought two members of the Wayne County
rackets squad (tennis? I guess that I should have read this better since
one was a cop and the other a prosecutor) who treated 16 teenage boys
to the show at the Harris-Kehrer post of the VFW in Inkster. Which sounds like a grooming ritual of sorts and one father,
after hearing of the episode from his son, thought so, too, and called the cops.




The men, Alfred A. Goldfarb, assistant prosecutor, and Harry Sparks, deputy sheriff, I'm assuming, were sent to DeHoCo (or did they claim that it was
a sting?) along with the dancers and others involved in the illegal
activity.



The arrested dancers and their accomplices are listed as Nellie B. Jones, Gastonia, North Carolina, Dorothy Gentry, Maryville, Tennessee, Lucy Jude, Stirrat, West Virginia and Robert E. Miller, Tampa, Florida were all sent to the Detroit House of Correction.



Gerald West, 27443 Kurtsell, ticket taker for the event was fined $70.



Personally, I agree with the late Kay Beard who
thought that all strip clubs should be abolished. They are a blight to
the community and force legitimate business to suffer from the clientele
of their neighbors. Bars aren't far behind on that same account. Not
that I'm some teetotaler or religionist, because I don't even believe in
man let alone deities (or deer, sharks & alligators, to name a
few), but if you're going to set up a society that supposedly looks out
for the betterment of the public at large then these are illegitimate
enterprises. Of course, I'm a Libertarian at heart and believe that
people should be allowed to do what they want so go ahead and kill
yourselves with a million stabs of stupidity to your own person.

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