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Show 1 XJOUBLE opinion, rieaseif iteview jaitoriais ASSUMING THAT A WRONG-DOIN- G COULD NOT HAVE BEEN EXPOSED WITHOUT THE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMA TICK OF AN INFORMANT, DO YOU THINK THAT A NEWSPAPER REPORT W-KEVEl- ? ER SHOULD DIVULGE TO A COURT THE IDENTITY OF HIS SOURCE FOR A STORY THAT LEADS TO AN EXPOSE AND A COURT ACTION AT WHICH THE REPORTER IS CALLED TO TESTIFY? by Jim Baldwin A4 July 7, 1966 Its Snowing Three Musky Tears: George V1' . Mr. Trimble . t The Review was truly inspired this week by the words of encouragement attributed by the daily press to Byron $20 -- thousand per year manTrimble, our new eager-beavSalt Palace convention center. ager of the If what is attributed to Mr. Trimble can be relied upon. The Review will begin at once to pluck black feathers in anticipation of eating much crow. Said Mr. Trimble, according to the daily press, the Salt on Palace will - WITHIN THREE YEARS -- bring in must kind of milthat have a word for per year. Now, they lions in native Hawaiian. In English, it's: WOW! But, before we gorge ourselves on all that green not yet received, lets do a bit of arithmetic. Were told in a Sunday Tribune editorial that the Mining Engineers Congress of some 5,000 delegates (one of the really big ones) will be coming to our Valley in 1975. Now, thats not Mr. Trimbles THREE years away; thats NINE . er, yet-to-be-b- uilt $50-milli- years V a 4 m t Mrs. Paul Niemann Janet Kearl i 1226 Parkway Cir. I the strongly disapprove of anybody being I think the reporter should have right to withhold information if he feels he required to teU on other persons. If lawyers, doctors and ministers can keep inshould. formation secret, I feel reporters have the same right If they are forced to tell on their sources, people will soon not trust anyone. It would be like Communist tactics. 7886 Brady $50-milli- on $50-milli- on e.. free-spendi- .Woodrow Wilson put some clinchers mi it.. .and since that time, its its been swarming all around you., the of industry, George, that graduate students are smarter than you and me, And if they (the colleges) turn them out so they aint smarter, wed darned soon better get rid ourselves of some 5,000-delegat- CHALLENGE I Vital to the life blood of any Mr. Anderson, 23, is founder an exchange of and chairman of Citizens for Honcommunity is an ideas on vital issues. Often the est Government, a exchange consists of unconven- organization working for Contional ideas and from the ideas stitutionalist candidates and prooften spring significant develop- grams. CHG programs Include ments. In an effort to give voice repeal of urban renewal legislato cnsMMBity dialogue the Reviews tion, 1 passage of : the' liberty begins in this issue a new series Amendment 'and also die placing1 called 'Challenge. The view of a ceiling on property taxes. expressed may or may not be those Anders, a BYU political of the editors of the Review - they science graduate, is studying Jourmight oft be far different - we nalism at the U. of U. He was a present them to stimulate thought. 1965 candidate for the Salt Lake To start off Challenge is Byron City Commissi. Cannon Anderson. non-partis- 3 $ 3 ? Cann Anders Nothing is so sure as death and taxes, but at least death doesnt get worse every time the County commissi approve a yearly budget. But theres e thing you can say for the fellows in charge of our government. Theyre running it like nobodys busi- ness. If Patrick Henry thought taxati without representati was bad, he should see it WITH representati. '1 But we cant blame it all the boys and County building. The , at the City Infernal Revenue Service is getting as : much as it canbefore the Liberty Amendment passes and puts the government 5 , of the income tax business and out , out of competiti with private enterprise. a What the IRS people are doing may not be right, but youve got to hand it to them. Right now in Salt Lake we are going through political campaigns to decide who will spend our money for the next few years. In government it seems that a milli is only a drop in die budget. If we elect the right fellows they can save a milli here and a milli there, and the first thing we know it adds up. Two delegates to the coming Demowere discussing cratic comity the candidates last week. The first want to vote for any of said, 1 the candidates, I dontknowany ofthem. cvti dt rs 245 South 'hts t Temple, 'tty, Utah 84115 Salt Lake Phone: Rosenblatt C publisher and Managing Editor Norman Rosenblatt Newspaper Hepresectatlve Entered at second class matter at the Post Office at Salt Lake City, Utah under the act of March 9, 1878 -- Subscription $5 20 per year from daylight, George, executives (Kennecott would be a fair start, since they indulge in all sorts of industry, including street building and yoq!re mvolved in) that the kin$ you ridiculed studentsat the budget hearing, students seeking Masters and Doctorate degrees-ar- e being paid millions of dollars annually; are being subsidized in our universities to do precisely what you say cant be done at all. George, for your information, private industry most certainly does rely upon the advice of young college men who never before have been exposed to industry... ...and if these young men came out of college unable to tell private industry how to do it better and cheaper, big business would stop putting its money into scholarships; into university grants; big business would look to new pastures for university regents and professors. Last week, at budget hearing, George Catmull defied any businessman present to say that he would let some college student come into his office and tell him how to run his business. I observed that at least three businessmen seated Stan Darger and the Retail Merchants thrust their hands into the air in immediate response to the challenge.. .but chairman, Brack Lee, didnt call on them. Those businessmen could have told George, if George cared to listen, that every kind of business, including the streets and heavy equipment business; including seasonal businesses; including the business of government, in all parts of the nation all around George Catmull, do in fact hire masters and doctorate degree students" to tell them how to run every facet of their business. You got lost somewhere along the line, George. Theyre turning out snot-noskids by the gross, any one of whom can tell you or me how to do our jobs better. Those college kids, George, can smother you and me in their superior knowledge.... and they will smother us if we dont haul them into our folds and put their superior talents to our own uses. If only youd realize it, George Catmull...It's no sin to acknowledge that these sniveling college brats business any-thmg-- else - lia 4 X ' Jj( I jP V & ' W fj o- - Jalene Gre 364 W. 7th North that the reporter should Persally I feelsecret be able to such informati keep he feels so required. I think this is our right under the cstituti and otherwise would be an invasi of privacy. Political Comme- nt- Ruby Jacobs 305 S. 5th East I think it should be released to the courts. The informati of the reporter, that is. Could It Be That Creers Hands Are Tied ? by Norman Rosenblatt The results of the race for the four John Creers campaign will be a little year commissi post in the Democratic less hard hitting than Larsms until the Lars Comfy Cmvmtim surprised almost primary. figures his real the West everyme. John Creer didnt expect that strmgth in the campaign is much support - and Bill Lars expected side of the valley - since there are more. more Democrats there, and since he In explaining the results in which feels he ran drum up some degree of Creer received about 60 percent of the loyalty. vote - Bill Lars blamed most of it If voters could cross parties in the m the "East side where all that flood primaries - as in past years - Creer cmtrol trouble was plus two or three figures many Republicans would cross mysterious areas (mysterious in that and vote for him m the East side. But Lars wasnt explicit about what they they wont do so this year because they were) that he now has cleared up." are Republicans and wmt cross over Larsms campaign betwem now and for this purpose, requiring registratim the primary will be based the eemomy as Democrats. moves he has effected for the county. Thus Creer s philosophy until SeptemHes already fixed the County Complex ber is to play it cool. There are five possibilities in the (the old hospital) as the focal point for his campaign... .showing how an old build- November elections: two- Republicans, ing, which the county once thought of two Democrats, or me Democrat and proselling, is now being used to almost max- me Republican (in either post imum capacity, His point is that If he viding two alternatives). hadnt tak the lead m using that old An intriguing possibility is the elecbuilding the county would be paying high tion of John Creer and a Republican -rentals all over the valley for space for either Mills Crenshaw or Phil Blom-quihealth functis, planning, zoning etc. What will happen then? Will the feud To illustrate the point guided tours are now being cducted of the complex -- between Jens and Creer emtinue, guided by Gerald Denkers, employed as siding Creer in some instances with a an assistant at the complex, but who In Republican? In many rases - noneffect has become a PR man for Bill political In nature - this wouldnt be too Lars. Denkers has developed a com- hard to c template. But what would happen, say, to the plete and hard hitting sales campaign for the complex, which is a thinly dis- patronage at the Comfy Highway Deguised campaign pitch for his boss. partment - would it stay with the DemLars will probably hit hard at Creer ocrats go to the Republicans? really are smarter than we are. - Implying or stating that Creer hasnt Theres another intriguing possibility. The sin is ours in government done anything solid for the comfy but The hiring of persmnel throughout the only If we fail to leech onto that sit around and publicly cry. What comfy political terms might be elimyoung, fresh knowledge before It Lars forgets to menti is that Creer inated - a reasonable sysbecomes submerged in private inhasnt been able to do much because tem might be set up and flower funds dustry. everything he tried to do was voted might be eliminated! down by Lars and Jenson. ' And, George, if you keep stating Lars can probably go a platform publicly that such studies cant be with the candidate - Joe L. The rumor mills at the and are not being done to the treChristens - without too much difficulty. building have be quiet lately .....me mendous savings of government and Its doubtful that Creer can. 'J Chris" thats persisted for the last few weeks industry.. .being done by people who as he was often called during his tenure is that the final straw tor John Creer never before were exposed to the as Salt Lake City streets commissier will be for the other two commissioners - has clearly aligned himself with the to release his administrative assistant. industry they undertake to study, Jens ramp by taking a Job under Sam Moll is now on varatim, lets hope someone is going to embarrass you. Marv Jens at the Comfy Highway no surprises await him m his return Someone is going to say you're not next week. so smart as you make out to be. - ed st. two-ye- ar Utah State Press Association represented by A merieaa rs. which guarantee the right of priviledged failure to acknowledge some raised communication to newspapers which they hands saved your head from a basket should have. The absence of such a law of straw. abridges the first amendment and the You wouldn't have to look far in rights of a free press. to learn the 02 . secd delegate replied, 1 dont know what to do either. I know all of them. Some people calling themselves the ComRepublican Delegate Informati mittee recently held meetings at the Cottwood Mall and invited Republican delegates and candidates. I was a e of the meetdelegate so I went to ings. All candidates were given an opportunity to speak and then delegates were inivted to ask questions. I havent heard any complaints of unfairness from those who attended the meetings, but I did hear criticisms from GOP officials. Why are GOP officials afraid of such Could it be that they want meetings? to work behind the scenes and never give delegates an opportunity to meet the candidates and discuss the Issues? Could it be that the candidates are entirely uninformed about the issues and would rather campaign platitudes and club membership records? Mills Crenshaw was the only candidate who seemed to have studied metropolitan government, consolidati and the other issues involved. W. Garth Nuttall seemed to be the only candidate for county office to declare his stand urban renewal, the Liberty Amendment and a property tax ceiling. Yes, the GOP officials and "moderates were afraid to 'have the delegates meet and questi the candidates. But what about the Democrats? Not a soul in the whole party seems to be making any ef fort to invite the candidates and delegates to a meeting like the me sponsored by the Republican Delegate Informati Committee. Dr. J. D. Williams warned them to clean house, but maybe no me heard him, no wonder the passwords in politics have be inefficimcy and is it true that political plums graft. dont grow from seeds oLreason, but instead come from grafting? We need candidates who will study the issues and take a stand. We also need delegates and voters who will study the Issues and the candidates. Those who wmt take a stand deserve to take a fall. Do I hope in vain? I hear tell that George Washington could broad Jump 23 feet, a record in those days. Today we have politicians who can sidestep that far. If ignorance is bliss, why armt more politicians and voters happy? Member: b-c When Jim Barker, for the umpteenth time, again brought up the subject of efficiency studies at the Jim Schermer budget hearing, George, you stuck Peace Corps Trainee your neck out and under the blade Univ. of Utah No. Most states already have statutes of apolitical guillotine. Only Bracks non-politi- cal Published every Thursday by Great Western hews, Inc a-- per-fesso- Daniel Mann 322 University Stx I don't think the reporter should be exempt from having to divulge his or her sources. Such Information is not privileged information and it is the reporters responsibility to report his findings. Not necessarily in the newspaper, but he should give such information to the court as the court requires. The Byr Comes a meeting like the Salt Lake City budget hearing last Thursday, and you wonder if the Salt Lake City Commission realized that all those laughs from local businessmen we re not with. Some, of them were at. You get a powerful feeling that businessmen wont listen to this sort of thing three days a week (thats how often commissions meet in our big city and county); they wouldnt put up with some of it in their own business establishments overnight. Meanwhile, we wonder - When do you finally give up on a guy who won't try? How long do you remain patient with your elected representative who unqualifiedly denies the very existence of efficiency techniques and capabilities that are almost as commonplace as the typewriter and the push broom? At the city budget hearing the other day, George Catmull made it th clear for the time that he not only lacks basic knowledge of modern techniques of establishing performance efficiency in industrial ope rati mis, ..he made it clear that he wont even try to find out if possibly he might be wrong. Teddy Roosevelt started it, Geor-giump-teen- off. in THREE years; so lets Mr. Trimble said in NINE years. AIMEs 5,000 delegates look at said The Tribune, will spend $40 -- $'50 each per day in our ng year and make it $50 vaUey. Lets figure on a per day. Thats $250,000 per day. Theyll be here four days (and well overlook the subsidizing costs to local industry). Thats a cool $1 -- million theyll spend. Now, if Mr. Trimble will put his millions where his mouth is, Mr. Trimble is telling us that within THREE YEARS, hell es convention of bring in the equivalent of one maximum spenders to remain here four days of each week for 50 out of the 52 weeks of each year. (Mr. Trimble must plan to vacation the other two weeks.) We would suggest that it is the function of convention center managers to heap snow jobs on conventioneers..., and leave it to the convention center board of directors and others to do a snow job on the local taxpayer. t. & iiinZ city-com- 1 fy , Byron, Dewy Please, Byron! Not Again! I worked for about 18 years in close c mi junction with police and in Salt Lake functions Valley, and I do declare, the juxtaposition (how you like that $20 word) made me more than middling suspicious. Now, a suspicious nature doesnt only suspect legality... it suspects just about everything. It suspects, for example, where the moneys & coming from. Like this fellow Trimble.. .the one we talk about in that editorial on the other side of this page.. .He says things that arouse my suspicions... things that appear to be from his packet of Sage Sayings For The Convention Center Manager When He Finds A New Home. For example, when Byron (Trimble) talks about Civic Pride causing a change in the depressed area surrounding the civic auditorium site.. .This scares me! By. says The public itself will not permit unattractive areas near the convention center." Shudder! sheriffs Shudder! Doesnt it disturb you a wee teensy bit when you recall that the two blocks on which were set to ' build the Taj Mahal of Salt was, until the wreckers got through with it, one of those depressed areas? That it was the public itself that wouldnt permit that depressed area to remain where it was? That that depressed area is costing us $17million plus? Id like to have a point made clear right now. I want it understood that were ready to raise H if By Trimble thinks the taxpaying public is going to be stuck for the cost of causing a change in the depressed area which presently surrounds" the Edifice To Lots Wife. By Far, Too Far, Fillis suggested that maybe Dewey Fillis, Salt Lake Citys Police Chief, should be prohibited henceforth from vacationing in West Coast cities. Most certainly, we would both to make Las Vegas Dewey and his boss, Jim Barker. Dewey took afjbriefAvacation in t1 San Francisco'-He-wa- s settling back i in his chair to order a bewhen Beach style, feast, North sh! sh! shocking! a female hold waitress in a male bikini. To be sure, our Dewey retained his poise. The FBI in Salt Lake , City would want details on this, so our Dewey stuck to his guns... and he stayed glued to his seat. He w made a detailed analysis of what would happen to the youth of our -community if such goins on.. .or re to such comings-off...weprevail SomeMie off-lim- its low-calo- rie at the Jocor Lounge. It was in the interest of youth, Tewey told us later, that he saw the necessity of his topless ordinance. It occurred to him (too late to halt the momentum) that teenagers arent sposed to be admitted into our beer lounges, with or without topless barmaids. Nevertheless, Dewey snuck his ordinance into City Commission meeting, and who would have the nerve to vote no?" I am like most cultural cowards... I must say (tongue in cheek and a bare-facliar) that I approve the topless waitress restrictions as effected in the Fillis ordinance. Anti --topless, Ill buy, but when Dewey Fillis sneaks by an ordinance that provides - as this one does - that patrons, including I and my family of seven, male and female, may not go dining at the Hotel Utah Dining Room or elsewhere stark .thats ed bare-nake- d.. going too danged far. Try The One Out Back! In the event you folks think I do all my own' leg work on this column.. .youve been right up to now. I ran into a sign and had to call on a perky blond, Ann Beetle Inside. Bailey, for a peek-a-bJust to show that Anns well ualified, she took her degree in Greek and Latin. Ann is trying to organize a chapter of the Ladies League for Lavatory Locks in our newer capitol office building. yhe joint for Eve Only" on the second floor., .Ill take Anns word for It if you will... has five cubicles, fone booth size. In three cubicles, the doors were bolted mi upside down, so that the bolts wmiI s I oo -q- like miniature : tap-roo- ms, with swinging gates. The fourth cubicle has holes bored in the right places, but another swinging door. The fifth ones the charm. It has a lock. And you can hear the screams all the way out into the outside corridor. That one has a lock, and it locks...but it doesnt have ahandle, and you cant unlock it once you're In. 1 |