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The 'district attorney's, asked the 'Civil District Court today to padlock for yer a N. ' t st locinge where the Rampar bare-boioRied waitresses were arrested last .night. ' , Judge ' S.'. Sanford ''Lavy'-Was asked 9'3 order that the Clizb, the .Jamai;aa_ illage be "not used for any purpose", during the Year. In , DA's office asks...that the..defendants be enjoined from operating under,. siiidlar conditions "anywhere in the;state." These reqUests will be heard by Judge Levy Aug. 11, at which time the, defendants are or(isll'etito w sho cause'vtity a perr. Mine& in*Ction *add not be

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13Oolied night were ,Holanda Calzaba; 19, and Charlotte French, 35,, both of wit,* measure 34-33-36. They .:were: arrested at the club,4 SOO N. Raniparpsf:4: lidge Levy today issueij a a temporary Injunction .prohibithtg the ware/Iles from again ti appearing in the costumes they fc wore last night. Vice equadsmen said they had nI th Wormed ':the two waitresses they conk( 'avoid obscenity if a they continued wearing "pa- be Jc Sties." ' A barteaider, Paul Beeitel, was cc booked" witsallowing obscenity fis in an ,alcOholic beverage outlet. 19'

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Topless Duo Broke, Scared But Clothed--Prison Gray

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By JACK DEMPSEY Two 19-year-old girls have exchanged their gaudy topless nightclub costumes for the drab gray of New Orleans' Parish Prison. The beauties who bared their bosoms at the Jamaican Village Wednesday night were behind bars today, broke, forlorn and more than a little scared. THEY WERE SENTENCED TO 10 days in jail or $50 fines by Municipal Court Judge Joseph R. Bossetta yesterday afternoon. "We pleaded guilty," Charlotte French said. "We were topless. What else was there to do?" Miss French and her friend, Yolanda Calzaba, were booked with public obscenity after the vice squad raided the Carribbean-style night spot at 800 N. Rampart. They said they took off their "pasties" at the request of manager Sonny Bennett, who wanted to test the constitutionality of the obscenity laws. "He told us to be in court at 4 o'clock yesterday," Charlotte said. "HE, SAID THERE'D BE a lawyer there and to let him do the talking." Somehow, the girls got mixed up on the way to Municipal Court: They were almost an hour, late arriving, and there was no lawyer waiting for them. Judge Bosssetta asked them how they pleaded. They looked at each other and said, "Guilty." Then came the choice of $50 fines or 10 days behind bars. "I didn't make more than $10 in tips," Charlotte said. "Isn't that about what you made?" she asked Yolanda, who nodded. "SO WE JUST DIDN'T HAVE the money." The girls, who said they've never been in trouble with the law before, told a reporter they arrived in New Orleans from Houston a few days ago. They were almost broke. "This man said we could make $30 or $40 a night
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doing legitimate work," Charlotte recalled, "and that's why we went for it." When they are released, the girls said they plan to stay around New Orleans and find work. "As topless waitresses?" they were asked. "Never," Charlotte declared. "Never again," Yolanda echoed. MEANWHILE, THE DISTRICT attorney's office is pressing to have the nightclub padlocked for at least a year. Judge Sanford S. Levy yesterday granted a temporary injunction against further bare-breasted table serving. The DA's office wants the club closed and the operators banned from further topless operations.. Meanwhile, Edward Centa, owner of the Jamaican Inn, ..-,filed suit -today against 'lessees who permitted Ithe breast , baring. Centa's attorney said today of the Civil District Court action Centa "has never been on the premises. He knew nothing of what was going on and never approved Bennett as sub-lessee."
JAY "SONNY" BENNETT was the manager there when the two waitresses were arrested. Bennett was arrested for permitting obscenity in an alcoholic beverage outlet. Centa is attempting, to break the lease, alleging that Bennett was operating the business without his consent. In an affidavit with the, suit, Centa says that he leased the business last year to Gordon Novel and Robert Songy. Novel is the man DA Jim Garrison has tried to have extradited from Ohio for questioning in his Kennedy assassination probe. Centa claims Novel sold his interest in the business without Centa's knowledge and that Songy promised to "straighten the Novel matter out" but did not.

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Temporary Injunction Is Issued by Judge' Under a court order signet Thursday, 'nudity froin thi waist up is ; taboo for t,h], Waitresses at the Jamaica] Village inn; 800 N. Rampart=, at least for now. Two waitresses in topless at tire served drinks there Wednesi y night for 20 minutes before being arrested by the police vice squad and booked with obscenity. Civil District Court Judge S. Sanford Levy granted a temporary injunction requested Thursday in e suit filed by the district attorney's office. His order also said that the defendants are not to remove "any personal or other moveable ,property from the premises." PADLOCKING SOUGHT The DA is further seeking dloriting of the place against tiny use for one year and also permanent prevention of the defendants' "practice of obscenity the'said pratises or elsewhere in the state of Louisiana!" 4\ The main defendant, Edward Cents, 884 Crystal, identified as the owner, is ordered to ap; pear before Judge Levy at 10:30 a. m. Aug. 11 to show cause why the permanent Injunction should not be ordered. :Five persons, identified as licensees, are also listed in the suit, One of them is Gordon Novel, whom DA Jim Garrison is seeking for questioning in his Kennedy assassination probe. In the order signed Thursday, Cents is "enjoined and restrained .. from permitting females on the premises with bare breasts until further orders of this court." The suit states: "On the night of Aug. 2, 1987, waitresses were employed in the said 'Jamaican Village and allowed to serve customers with their breasts completely bare

and further were allowed to walk about the establishment with inich bare breasts.
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"These acts were allowed to take place by the employees and pal:tilted of the said Jamaican Village after having been advised by the superintendent of police and the trict attorney that said acts woeld amount to ;violations of our state and city laws." The suit , was signed by Garrison, First Asst. D. A. Charles R. Ward and Asst. D. A. John
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Other than Novel, other licensees in the suit are Robert Songy, 2805- Bell; Jay Bennett, 211 Jules aye.; Frank Testerman, 5301 Canal blvd., and Xatia A. Terri, 1980 S. Forest Lawn dr. All were to be served with papers with the exception On Wednesday night; the arrests weren't made until the wEdtresket 4Snt9yed , "pasties" from thalr.breaids. Bennett; the manager, consulted his -attorney just before this and said he would make a test case of the legal issue.

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Police Close Jamaican Inn

Club Was Stage for Topless Waitresses
Police closed the Jamaican Village Inn, 800 N. Rampart, Friday night, the lounge which had been the scene of New Orleans' first topless waitress act Wednesday night. Detectives confiscated four loaded revolvers and various tools' from I the establishment after Robert Songy, licensee for the lounge, found them while removing his personal effects. The goods were discovered while members of the alcoholic beverage division of the police department were in process of supervising the closing. Besides the four pistols,' officers confiscated several pairs of gloves, a large pair of bolt cutters, a sledge hammer and a crowbar. Songy told officers he didn't know the property was there nor did he know the owner or owners of the goods. Officers closed the establishment at 7 p. m. after its alcoholic beverage permits were surrendered. Police Supt. Joseph I. Giarrusso said the outlet will remain closed until proper permits are applied for and granted by the city revenue department. Meanwhile, the two waitresses who bared their breasts have begun serving 10-day sentences in Parish Prison. Yolanda- Calzada, 19, and Charlotte French, 25, both of 716 Dauphine, pleaded guilty to obscenity charges Thursday night in Judge Joseph R. Bosetta's section of Municipal Court and were sentenced to $50 fines or 10 days in jail. Not having the fine money, they were sent to the prison. "The judge asked us. We just told the truth," said Miss French describing their plea Friday morning in the prison. As they sat together glumly in their prison-gray outfits, they explained that neither was represented by counsel in Municipal Court. "We don't know anything. They didn't tell us anything," said Miss Calzada. Both women were arrested by district attorney's men and vicesquadsmen Wednesday Night after they removed their pasties in the lounge. The operator of the business, Jay "Sonny" Bennett, said he ordered the girls to do so for a test case of their arrests. Miss Calzada said that Bennett told her Thursday night he would attempt to have a lawyer get them out, but the girls said no one contacted them Friday. "It's not very, nice," complained Miss French, who added, "He got all the publicity. All we get is a jail term.', Both girls arrived in New Orleans about one week before their arrest, and decided to room together. The Jamaican Village was their first job, they said. The next battle looms in Civil District Court, where the district attorney's office has instituted padlocking proceedings on the basis of the alleged obscenity violations. The owner of the property, two lessees, and the three liquor licensees, including Ben. nett, have been ordered to appear in Judge Walter F. Marcus' section of court to show cause why a preliminary injunction prohibiting the bare breast act should not be issued. en were arrested and booked S.' Sanford 'Levy issued a with obscenity. temporary injunction preventBennett was booked with per- ing topless waitresses at the mitting obscenity in a alcoholic Jamaican Village. beverage outlet. He further ordered Cents and Centa wants to break the the 'other defendants to show lease, alleging that Bennett was cause in an Aug. 11 hearing operating the lounge without his why the lounge should not be padlocked for one year. consent. In an affidavit, Centa says he At this hearing, the D.A. is leased the premises to Songy also trying to get a permanent and also Gordon Novel. The lat- injunction against the deter has been sought by DA Jim fendants' alleged practice of Garrison in the Kennedy assas- obscenity. sination probe. Without his knowledge, Cents alleges, Novel sold his interest in the Jamaican Village, with Songy promising to "straighten the Novel matter out" but failing to do this. After Novel's interest was sold, three other persons, Bennett, Frank Testerman and Mario Terri became-sublessees, Centa says. In addition to the illegal selling of an interest in the lounge, Songy also made interior renovations without permission and failed to carry sufficient insurance. Centa says. Centa said he knew nothing of the topless waitresses at the f Jamaican Village until reading I The Times-Picayune story Thursday morning about the (arrests there. The D.A.'s suit wants to close the Jamaican Village and keep 0 it locked against -any use for a one year, but Cents opposes d j, this. I Centa's suit seeks $2,000 in p attorney's fees from Novel and Songy and another $15,000 in a damages. r Following the filing of the D.A.'s suit on Thursday, Judge t

Jamaican Village Ownei Files Suit

On Friday, Edward Cents, 4 Crystal, named as defendant in the district attorney's suit against the Jamaican Village, sought legal action against licensee Robert Songy. In the Civil District Court suit, Jamaican Village owner Centa opposes serving by barebreasted waitresses but also is trying to prevent a one-year padlocking by the DA. Centa's attorney said Friday that Centa "has never been on the premises. He knew nothing of what was going on and never approved Bennett as sublessee." Sonny Bennett, or Jay Bennett, was' the manager Wednesday night when the young worn-

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unidentified benefactor has paid die 'Municipal Court fines NZ" for two jiinalcan Village Ing t) waitresses '4 oms in an who barer bos4 t, apparent test case of obscenity laws. But the two women, Yolanda Calsad a, 19, and Charlotte French, 25, both of 716 Dauphlne, still must face state ,9 charges of obscenity. Their bond on the latter charge has been paid by a professional bondslinen, it was learned. . They had been fined $50 or r t_ 10 days by Municipal Court Judge Joseph R. Bossetta. Meanwhile in a related matter, Sonny Bennett was incor' redly i dentified in Saturday's edition of The Times-Picayune (-%- as manager of the inn and it was' erroneously stated he had been booked with permitting ... obscenity. Bennett is a tornspecNa five purchaser of the establish, ment and has not been booked.

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DA Halts Jamaica Inn Padlocking Effort
At a brief session Friday in Civil District Court, there was agreement that topless waitress- 4 es won't return to the Jamaican Village Inn, 800 N. Rampart, if the lounge reopens. The district attorney's office withdrew its one-year riadlocking effort against the lounge, scene of two bare-breasted waitresses last week. In addition, the owner, 41ward Cents, agreed to keep out topless waitresses and any oth, er obscenity. After general agreement by attorneys, .Judge S. Sanford 1" Levy issued a permanent in: junction to prohibit topless at: tire there. NO LONGER VALID F In addition, he ruled that Ceni ta's lease with lessees Robert Songy and Gordon Novel is no 1; longer valid. la Centa went along with the DA's opposition to toplessness : but was trying to break the lease and prevent padlocking. Novel has been sought for sev eral months in the DA's Kennedy assassination probe. O Judge Levy also ruled that Cents is entitled to $750 in damg ages andlhat Jay "Sonny" Ben: nett, who permitted the toplessn ness, is entitled to remove his piano from the premises. a 'FREE FROM FAULT' Asst. DA John P. Volz testi: fled that Centa had no knowlg edge of what was happening at g the place and was "free from ! fault." . n Despite this, his license has .e been revoked and the bar closed ; by the Louisiana Alcoholic Bev: erage Control Board. First Assistant D. A. Charles R. Ward and Bill Lyons, vice: chairman of the board, erg plained to a reporter Friday that Cents will have to re-apply - if he wants to reopen the Ja maican Village Inn and that approval of both the ABC. Board '. and the DA's office will be necessary for any new lessees.