EAST GRINSTEAD Urban Council Planning Committee heard that well over 500 letters had had to be sent out to say that the inquiry into the appeal by the Church of Scientology, East Grinstead, against the Council's refusal to allow large-scale development at Saint Hill, had been postponed. The inquiry has been postponed by the Ministry because of the indisposition of Mr. Howard Sharp, who is representing the appellants. The new date for the inquiry is July 16. Labour councillor Mrs. C. ...

DESPITE a protest from East Crinstead Urban Council to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, an appeal concerning the Church of Scientology has been postponed from May 29, and arrangements are being made to try and hold the hearing in July. When the Planning Committee of East Grinstead Urban Council met on Tuesday, Mr. H. C. Jones, clerk, reported that he had made representations opposing the postponement on the grounds that the December 1966 inquiry had been cancelled at short ...

THE APPEAL BY THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY AGAINST EAST GRINSTEAD URBAN COUNCIL'S REFUSAL TO GRANT PLANNING PERMISSION FOR LARGE-SCALE DEVELOPMENT AT THEIR HEADQUARTERS AT SAINT HILL MAY LAST TWO DAYS. A petition signed by over 460 people objecting to the development, in addition to individual objections, was sent to the Urban Council at the time they discussed the application and notices of the local inquiry have been sent to them. The inquiry, which will be conducted by an Inspector of the ...

Push for recruits L. Ron Hubbard, chief of the discredited Scientology cult, is pushing as hard as ever for recruits in Sydney. So far, no action has been taken to suppress the cult's activities in New South Wales. Scientology was banned in Victoria in 1965 after a royal commissioner reported that its practice was a medical, moral and social threat to the community. The inquiry, which lasted 17 months, found the techniques and principles of Scientology "perverted, debased and harmful." It ...

The only time Hubbard allowed an outside crew to interview him.

A U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered the destruction of a collection of electric devices seized by the federal government from the Founding Church of Scientology. A jury ruled earlier that more than 100 "Hubbard E Meters" were misbranded because of labeling claims that they were effective for diagnosis, prevention, detection and elimination of the causes of all mental and nervous disorders (The AMA News, May 15, 1967). Federal attorneys said the only demonstrated effect of the machines ...

A proposal that scientology should be banned throughout Australia will be made by the Minister for Health, Mr. MacKinnon, at the annual Health Ministers' Conference in Perth on April 12. The conference will be attended by the Federal Minister for Health, Dr. Forbes, and by health ministers of all States. Strong support Mr. MacKinnon's proposal is likely to receive strong support from Mr. V. O. Dickie, the Health Minister in the Victorian Government which banned scientology as a "depraved and fraudulent ...

Scientology - or ratbagology as it has often been dubbed - made a bid to get started in Sydney this week, at a public meeting. The Hubbard Scientology Organisation is the mob of hustlers run out of Victoria last year and described in the British House of Commons two weeks ago as a group "extracting money from the weak and mentally ill." Boss of the show is L. Ron Hubbard - referred to as "L Ron, Mr Hubbard, Our Ron, Old ...

LEGISLATION TO OUTLAW SCIENTOLOGY IN THIS COUNTRY WAS RULED OUT BY THE MINISTER OF HEALTH (MR. KENNETH ROBINSON) IN AN ADJOURNMENT DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON MONDAY. Mr. Robinson said he had no evidence that scientology was strictly and exclusively responsible for mental breakdown or physical deterioration. Nevertheless, he intended to continue to watch the position. Mr. Peter Hordern (M.P. for Horsham) had called for an inquiry into the organisation which he accused of 'exacting money ...

Public will pay high price for its apathy — if even government agencies become electronic snoops. MOST AMERICANS take religious freedom for granted. Some may be vaguely aware that it is guaranteed by the first amendment to the Constitution because some of the very early settlers on this continent came in search of just this freedom, but their general attitude is one of indifference. Unfortunately their lofty assumption that churches never are harassed in this country is incorrect. Even more unfortunately, ...

Twelve rag dolls found buried under a Melbourne house are thought to symbolise the death sentence against 12 people who helped outlaw the cult of scientology in Victoria. High on the list of the 12 is the Premier of Victoria, Sir Henry Bolte. The dolls were discovered in a box hidden under floorboards which had been ripped up and then nailed down again to make a tomb. They were unearthed by workmen renovating the building, formerly the headquarters of scientology in ...

The subject of philosophy is very ancient. The word means: 'The love, study or pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes; whether theoretical or practical. All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use. For long regarded as a subject reserved for halls of learning and the intellectual, the subject, to a remarkable degree, has been denied the man in the street. Surrounded ...

His name is John McMaster. Once he was a mess like the rest of us. Now he's a "clear", one of the saints of a new cult called Scientology — without a single "engram" left to bug him. SOMETHING VERY ODD is going on in Toronto. People are leaving the country, changing their occupations, giving up their children, leaving their husbands, wives, or lovers, changing their whole lives. All in the name of something called Scientology. The whole thing got started ...

THE MINISTER of Health has been asked to order an inquiry into Scientology, the pseudo-psychological cult, following the mental breakdown of a woman "student." The woman, who has a ten-year history of mental illness, is now compulsorily detained in hospital under a 28-day order. Her psychiatric background was known to the "highly qualified" Scientologist who recruited her to the cult and gave her forms of psychological "processing." Scientology practitioners and their "qualifications" have no official medical or academic recognition. Among the ...

SALISBURY, July 14 — Mr. Lafayette Hubbard, founder of the scientology health cult, said today that the Rhodesian Government had ordered him to leave the country by July 18.—Reuter.