About 300 people rally at the Rock County Courthouse, where one of the speakers they hear is Phillip Parish, representing Veterans for Peace. Parrish is one of The Janesville 99. He survived the Bataan Death March and years in Japanese prison camps. Janesville police raid an erotic book store that opened on North Main Street and arrest two South Beloit, Ill., men on charges of selling obscene material. Three days later, the men, confident they are within their constitutional rights, reopen the store.
Police again raid the store and seize all material on display.
In December, Federal Judge Doyle orders police to return materials seized solely on the basis of obscenity. Shurtleff Ice Cream Co. was located on South Main Street. The company sells its ice cream business to Schoep's Ice Cream, Madison, and discontinues milk deliveries. The death of Shurtleff's leaves only one milk-processing dairy, Country Quality Dairy, Highway 14, in a city that once had five. When Shurtleff's started in 1878, it used a horse walking on a treadmill to power the ice cream-making machine.