Dallas Notes was a biweekly underground newspaper published in Dallas, Texas from 1967 to 1970, and edited by Stoney Burns (penname of Brent Lasalle Stein; 1942–2011), whose father owned a printing company in Dallas. Initially founded by Doug Baker at Southern Methodist University in March 1967, under the title NOTES from the Underground, the first issues were run off after hours on a copy machine at Texas Instruments. History With a blend of New Left political activism, hippie/drug counterculture, and underground comix and graphics, the paper developed a growing citywide and regional readership, and starting with Vol. 1, No. 26 (Feb. 16-29, 1968) the paper changed its banner to Dallas Notes and is sometimes confused with the competing weekly publication published by Doug Baker, first called "Dallas News", later, when the U.S. Post Office delivered their mail to "The Dallas Morning News" and the big morning paper's mail to them, Baker renamed it "The Iconoclast". Eventually circulation peaked at 20,000 copies after Stony Burns quit. Roy Appleton wrote in the Dallas Morning News that Dallas Notes "covered the local scene — from music and drug arrests to demonstrations and the men in blue." He reported that the paper "decried war, intolerance and hypocrisy with a playful aggression and a cutting edge." The paper's 85-issue run came to an end with the issue of Sept. 16-30, 1970. It was subsequently revived and carried forward under the name H.O.O.K.A. (The Humanitarian Order of Kosmic Awareness, organized as a church, whose purpose was the overthrow of the U.S. Government). When Stoney Burns left, citing he'd "dropped acid and flipped out three times, but only came back twice," he introduced J.R. Compton to the staff as the new editor and publisher, from late 1970 to 1972. During its existence Dallas Notes was subjected to repeated police raids and harassment. Thorne Dreyer wrote at The Rag Blog that Notes editor Burns "was incessantly harassed by the Dallas authorities, who charged him with obscenity, beat him mercilessly, tore up his offices, and confiscated his equipment." Burns later learned that many of the office tear-ups and equipment thefts were carried out by his father and his father's trusted assistant. The obscenity case against the paper "went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court where Justice William O. Douglas commented on the cops' ransacking of the Dallas Notes offices: 'It would be difficult to find in our