On Feb. 16, Press-Chronicle writer Benny C. Sands waded into the issue, posing the question: “Is Johnson City as vice-ridden as it has been pictured?”
“Our big problem in Johnson City is not commercialized prostitution, bootlegging and gambling,” answered Police Chief Tom Howell to Sands’ question. “Our big problem is the streetwalkers, transients and youngsters who hang out at a few shady beer taverns and end up breaking into homes and robbing people.”
Howell said over the years the police had had little trouble from “established” bootleggers, prostitutes and gamblers.
He said the conscientious bootleggers avoided sales to drunks, juveniles and “persons of questionable character” since such sales might lead to police attention. Bootleggers preferred dealing with “the better class of people.”
One bootlegger was quoted as saying, “You’d be surprised to know I’ve sold liquor to preachers here.”
The police said before they established a vice squad the previous November they had known of about 25 prostitutes doing business in the city. Now, they said, only one or two remained.
But the prostitutes had never been involved in much mayhem or larceny, the police believed. “Like the cautious bootlegger, the professional prostitute guards against being caught … and concentrates on her monetary goal. Accordingly, she doesn’t have time to walk streets, meet male companions at shady taverns, drink beer and liquor for several hours during the night. It’s too much time to waste on one person, and she depends on the quick turnover ….”
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