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Nov 19, 1969
Marching against psychiatry — Detroit Free Press
Nov 15, 1969
British court rejects Scientologists' chapel — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
LONDON (AP) — The High Court rejected Friday an application by Scientologists in Britain to set up a legally recognized chapel for their cult. Justice John Percy Ashworth said in the Queen's Bench Divisional Court: "While Scientology may be wholly admirable I find it difficult to reach the conclusion that it is a religion." "The idea presented to my mind is of an organization serving as a meeting point or clearing house for persons of all religious beliefs through which people ...
Nov 9, 1969
Scientology -- Cult with millions of followers led by man who claims he's visited heaven twice — National Enquirer
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Ralph Lee Smith
Source: National Enquirer
How profitable Scientology has become is one of the organization's most closely guarded secrets, but estimates of the personal worth of founder L. Ron Hubbard have ranged up to $7 million. In 1963 the Internal Revenue Service claimed the church earned more than $750,000 in the United States from 1955 through 1959, the year Hubbard moved international headquarters from Washington, D.C., to England. There, according to the Los Angeles Times, world receipts rose to $140,000 weekly in 1968. —– In New ...
Nov 7, 1969
CT Classic: Scientology: Religion or Racket? — Christianity Today
Type: Press
Author(s): Joseph Martin Hopkins
Source: Christianity Today
Offices of the American Psychiatric Association are located in the seventeen hundred block of Eighteenth Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. The Founding Church of Scientology is at 1812 Nineteenth Street, one block farther out. Figuratively speaking, the world's largest mental-health organization is considerably farther out than that.Even its members will concede that it is far out. After a hurried interview with Miss Anne Ursprung, top executive of the Founding Church, I managed an extension of time by driving her and fellow staff ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 18, 1969
[Placeholder for a news article presumably from East Grinstead Observer, cited in "Scandal of Scientology", Chapter 10, note 14] — East Grinstead Observer
Oct 5, 1969
Scientology: Revealed for the first time / The odd beginning of Ron Hubbard's career — The Sunday Times (UK)
More: link
Sep 29, 1969
Scientology: Total freedom and beyond — The Nation
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Donovan Bess
Source: The Nation
DONOVAN BESS Mr. Bess is on the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco This is the year of Apollo 11. It is also the year in which that psychological sophisticate, Richard Alpert, came back from his guru in India to reap a big following of inner-space explorers with his story of spiritual conversion. It is a lime of burgeoning meditation societies on the college campuses, and of passionate rebellion against the amorality of our technology. Thus it ...
Sep 1, 1969
Allen Kapuler — Business (Sparks, Nevada)
Aug 25, 1969
Scientology boom // A disputed religion growth — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Donovan Bess
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Today and tonight hundreds — perhaps thousands — of Californians will sit down in pairs and stare at one another. One of them will give the other commands such as "Tell me something you wouldn't mind forgetting." The one who is commanded will hold two tin cans attached by wires to an E-meter, a device that measures electrical resistance in the body. The commander will watch a needle on the device's circuit board in the belief that it measures emotional charge. ...
Aug 12, 1969
Church of Scientology said 'Menace to Mental Health' — Evening Independent (Florida)
More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Walter C. Alvarez
Source: Evening Independent (Florida)
In that fine journal published by the American Medical Association, "Today's Health," for December, 1968, there is a splendid article by Ralph Lee Smith on Scientology, which he calls a "menace to mental health." "Couched in [pseudoscientific] terms and rites, this dangerous cult claims to help mentally or emotionally disturbed persons — for sizable fees. Scientology has grown into a very profitable worldwide enterprise . . . and a serious threat to health." Anyone who wants to learn something about ...
Item contributed by: Martin Poulter
Aug 11, 1969
They'll break and set up the pickets — The Age (Australia)
More: suburbia.net
Type: Press
Source: The Age (Australia)
Victoria's scientologists plan to break the law soon when they hold a meeting at which scientology will be taught. Yesterday the president of the Church of Scientology of California in Victoria (Mr. Ian K. Tampion) said members would continue to press for the repeal of the Psychological Practices Act. About 70 people attended a fellowship day held by the Church in Dickens Street, Elwood. Mr. Tampion told the meeting that he had postponed committing an offence against the act. He had ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Aug 6, 1969
Scientology brings in legal chief on Vic. ban — The Age (Australia)
Aug 3, 1969
Religion or business? // Practices of Scientology being investigated again — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link, pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s): John Dart
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
RELIGION OR BUSINESS? Practices of Scientology Being Investigated Again By John Dart Times Religion Writer [Picture / Caption: YOUNG INITIATES — The Rev. Robert Bobo talks with two children who are taking Scientology courses. The photo on the wall is of the founder of the worldwide group, L. Ron Hubbard.] The mimeographed notice looked more like a secret police communique than a church message. It informed "those concerned" that a certain 20-year-old girl "is hereby declared a Suppressive Person and assigned ...
Aug 1, 1969
Screen star Stephen Boyd, since that chariot race — Detroit Free Press
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Bruce Vilanch
Source: Detroit Free Press
[...] THE WHOLE idea of moral obligation and responsibility for one's fellow man, as well as responsibility to oneself, fills up a great deal of Boyd's conversation. He speaks of co-workers as if they were close relatives, not just contractual partners. "I was a guest on one of those New York radio panel shows and they were talking about Judy Garland," he says, "one fellow, I won't mention his name it's so sickening, was carrying on about how she was a ...
Jul 30, 1969
New York ignores protest against 'Hitler in Australia' — The Australian
Type: Press
Author(s): Fred Knight
Source: The Australian
About 80 demonstrators picketed the Australian consulate office in New York today carrying signs reading: "Hitler lives in Australia," and "Australia has crimes against God." The demonstration, against the banning of Scientology in Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia, was peaceful. New Yorkers paid scant attention to the placard-bearers, who marched in a circle outside the building for two hours. The banner signs were puzzling: "Repeal Australia's anti-religion laws," "God? No," and "Australia, The British Alcatraz." But perhaps the most puzzling ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Jul 28, 1969
Bolte home to protest — The Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): IAN HAMILTON
Source: The Herald (Australia)
A group of 20 scientologists demonstrated against the Premier, Sir Henry Bolte, at Essendon Airport today. Sir Henry and Lady Bolte arrived back in Melbourne after a 96-day world trip. The demonstrators held placards. Some said: "What's the next religion to be banned, Sir Henry?" The State Government has banned scientology. One of the demonstrators, Mr I. K. Tampion, wearing a clerical collar and a metal cross around his neck, said the demonstration was by the Church of Scientology of California ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Jul 19, 1969
RYLAH ORDERS PROBE INTO SCIENTOLOGY — The Herald (Australia)
Jul 19, 1969
Scientology back again — The Age (Australia)
Jun 1, 1969
The Dangerous New Cult of Scientology — Parents' Magazine
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Arlene Eisenberg, Howard Eisenberg
Source: Parents' Magazine
When ministers of the Founding Church of Scientology told a Falls Church, Virginia couple that could teach the couple's defective son to talk and raise his IQ at same time, the man and wife, understandably in search of a miracle, willingly paid—in advance—the sum of $3,000 as a "contribution for spiritual guidance." The husband cashed a life insurance policy, sold some bonds, added the proceeds of a small bequest and "scraped around in various places." And then his son Paul's "processing" ...
May 14, 1969
SECT'S PHONES DISCONNECTED — The West Australian
Type: Press
Source: The West Australian
The P.M.G. Department yesterday disconnected telephones at the headquarters of the Hubbard Association of Scientology Inc. in Hay-street, Perth. Two telephone technicians removed the 11 telephones and a telex machine from the building. Deputy Police Commissioner Wedd said that his department had asked the P.M.G. to disconnect the telephones. It was routine to make the request when a telephone was being used to contravene the law. Similar action had been taken against S.P. bookmakers who had used their telephones for taking ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
May 4, 1969
Bid to muzzle us fails — News of the World
Type: Press
Source: News of the World
An attempt by a section of the Scientologists to muzzle the News of the World has failed. Last week, more than three years after issuing a writ against us for alleged libel concerning its "Mind Cult," the Hubbard Association of Scientologists dropped the action. They are to pay a considerable sum to cover the legal costs we incurred in preparing to defend the action. The Scientologist [text not readable] their action was heard before Master Bickford Smith in chambers. He approved ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 12, 1969
Scientology Sect Fined — The West Australian
Type: Press
Source: The West Australian
The Hubbard Association of Scientologists International Inc. yesterday was fined $200 on a charge of having practiced scientology. Magistrate D. J. O'Dea granted a stay of execution. It was the first prosecution against scientology since a bill banning its practice was passed by the W.A. parliament last November. Mr O'Dea, giving a reserved decision in the Perth Court of Petty Sessions, said: "I am satisfied on the evidence that the defendant did between the relevant dates practise scientology as charged and ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Apr 1, 1969
Scientology: Is there anything you don't understand — Eye (New York)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): George Malko
Source: Eye (New York)
Scientology begins with Dianetic Release, leads up through Grade O, SOLO and eventually CLEAR. And, if you're among the lucky few, you might even emerge an auditor... one of the most valuable beings on the planet. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND? BY GEORGE MALKO Leonard Cohen's in it, and so is Tennessee Williams, read William Burroughs, and Cass Elliot got her Grades down in St. Thomas, and there's the rumor that's been around for years that Truman or Kennedy or ...
Mar 20, 1969
[Church of Scientology of Michigan press release / never published]
Mar 19, 1969
Greece orders cult's founder, followers away — Detroit News
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Detroit News
CORFU, Greece — (Reuters) — Lafayette Ron Hubbard, American founder of the Scientology cult, and 200 of his followers aboard a ship docked off this Ionian island received Greek government orders last night to leave the island. Hubbard, who started the movement which is considered psychotherapy with religious overtones, claimed his ship is unseaworthy. A Corfu spokesman said "the ship requires some minor repairs which can be done within a few hours." The controversial movement has been banned in several countries. ...
Mar 19, 1969
Greeks expel scientology group — The Times (UK)
Mar 16, 1969
Ex-science fiction writer typed out Scientology plan — Detroit Free Press
Mar 16, 1969
How to confront in Scientology / Can you stare for 2 hours and not blink? — Detroit Free Press
Mar 16, 1969
What the words mean — Detroit Free Press
Mar 9, 1969
Scientology – Help? Hindrance? — Pacific Stars & Stripes
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