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Show Serial, 0rd UnivarBity of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah B$112 i '. u. u 1 - . : L , orh ;i 9 o -J ) 3 v iP VOLUME 15, NUMBER 135 S A mpariahjMKjmr riaiwn Imuries On The Job CAUSE OF ACTION LOS ANGELES (ACCN) Proper business attire, once a matter taken pretty much for granted, is now being spelled out in formal dress codes by many manufacturers, at least in California, the annual survey of personnel practices conducted by this states Merchants and Manufacturers Association has uncovered. iOi'jViUi A. WILLIAMSON, Plaintiff & Appellant I v. T!;7, grande western RIO 1VALROAD, Defendant d::;jver & No cause of action judgment on jury verdict. Doctors testify . . . symptoms of disc injury occur soon after the injury (second injury)." Court: Affirmed. . . . no accident no compensable negligence." ... vr-rc;.:- This years study included business attitudes on dress for the first time in the survey, John R. Milch, the Associations director of administration and research, pointed out. The 1971 data also indicated businesses in this industrial state still cling to the five-da- y (but not necessarily, week, while at the same time trending toward longer vacations. As to dress, the study showed that Plaintiff Counsel: Patterson, Foley, Phillips & Gridley Defendant Counsel: Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy Justice Ilcnriod wrote the decision See details page 4 40-hou- r) June Wholesale Price Rise v;a:jh!ngton (Upd - .Yhaksale prices rose 0.4 per cent in the same as May, and 8bout no average monthly pace for the first five months of this year, the ::or department has reported. The report indicated a little rfitmge in the nations inflation rioblcms. There was no marked :;:rovernent, but there also was no lerioration. Increases in wholesale prices liy for eih.dow boosts in retail "rices after a leg of about a month. .'Yi.hsrxlc prices of groceries and h'C. ready for sale to the ' ' r rccr: 0.7 per cent in June, . r ,vjnEj for this time ol ye ; . .AC. rr r:: asonal adjustment, ::r ccr.rumer food prices from May. 1 i . 1: i: c: .. . i ;:'Ccx advanced to of the 12S7 average in it cost $114.39 to ti c :'.nsc assortment of :aic- gocd3 that could have cA.ri .ed for $113.80 in May, 1, - Bus Companies ILIVV i YORK (UPI) Ci uers - The many smbriancs have failed to spur n: :r: for producers of school 1 i: t::i, iho school bus construction 3iry is somewhat depressed and uidy the prospect of a very annual increase in the next yews, Charles Bartlett of Body Company of Fort Valley, Ga., told United Press In--J dirtier:'!. Bluebird, which also a plant in Ioya, is (me of five -- inter bull&rs of school bus bodies. The others are Ward School Bus : '.iufacturicg Company, of Con-.y, Ark., Superior Coach Company :i Lima, Ohio, and Kosciusko, Miss., Carpenter Body Works Inc. of e of Mitchell, Ini, and T7".yne, Ind. rJarllett said the decline in the Intebys fortunes set in when the lu.:: in The increase in the overall index was 0.4 per cent with and without seasonal adjustment. The mmI factors affecting wholesale prices are the same in May and June. The index was up 3.6 per cent from June, 1970. However, the pace of Inflation in wholesale prices has Increased more than that this year. For the period from December through June, the index rose at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5 per cent. six-mon- th Mitchell Says Wiretaps Are Constitutional dential authorization Presi- security wiretapping meets the -' v. Divco-Wayn- pyte.tioa explosion began to : ;:L zii2 several years ago. 4 he court busing orders can't ! dp i s much for two reasons: first, clthcigh the courts can order the cchrol districts to bus more pupils, they can't order the voters to vote head icsucs to buy more buses to pay that national security wiretaps are necessary to permit the President to fulfill the obligations of his office. Has Broader View The President, by virtue of his office and sources of information, is in a far better position than any magistrate to determine the need to initiate surveillance where the national security is at stake, Mitchell declared. To deny the President the means of obtaining intelligence on which to base actions in defense of the Government would be denying him powers essential to the discharge of his oath, he said, pointing out that all major countries use electronic surveillance for national security. The Attorney General stressed that the Fourth Amendment does not proscribe all searches and seizures, "but only those which are found to be unreasonable. If it meets this test of reasonableness, wiretapping is a permissible governmental tool, he asserted. Compelling Considerations' It is our position, he said, that compelling considerations exist when the President, acting through the Attorney General, has determined that a particular surveillance is necessary to protect the national security and that under these cir- cumstances the manufacturing firms seem less concerned about what their employees wear than do other types of enterprises, with less than 15 per cent of the manufacturing companies having formal rules applying to such matters as pants suits, miniskirts, long hair and beards. While increased emphasis on leisure time is revealed by survey results, Milich noted that in spite of all the current discussion about a four day workweek, none of the 449 firms surveyed observe less than a five day week. Nearly of the nonmanufacturing firms reported workweeks less than 40 hours foi their office employees as contrasted to an M & M survey of 20 years ago of comwhen only on less were firms surveyed parable than a 40 hour week. The trend toward longer vacations continues, although there is still a requirement of many years of service with the same employer in order to qualify. A few firms are now granting annual vacations as long as six weeks to employees with unusually long service. A shift toward longer holiday weekends is also continuing, with more than half of the manufacturing firms granting a four day weekend at Thanksgiving this year and a significant number granting extra days to extend the Christmas holiday. The popularity of Good Friday and Washingtons Birthday (now a Monday holiday) has grown in both manufacturing and companies. The impact of the new stale and federal Monday holidays,' which became effective this year could, according to Milich, bring about even greater change in this area in the coming one-four- one-seven- of national ROANOKE, VA. (ACCN) added to school districts to bus : wire children in order to curb racial I? $100 Constitutional test of reasonable search and seizure, U.S. Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell told the Virginia Bar Association at its convention here recently. The nations chief law officer School Bussing to Spur wu!.u a year earlier and .' v;-;- J $110.30 1967. warrant th th year. requirement does not apply. The Attorney General said there were sound reasons for confining the authority to order electronic surveillance in national security cases to the President rather than to a mulitude of lower court judges. He said the sensitive nature of the information involved in national security cases would not allow persons untrained in such matters to properly evaluate it. Cant Separate THURSDAY' JULY UTAH Business Warms To Dress Codes, Long Vacations Capsule ill! LAKE1 CITY, Coast Study Finds: Supreme -Court- Decision ..lc-go- L Referring to a recent 6th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that a warrant is required for electronic surveillance in cases of domestic threats to national security, he said you cannot separate foreign from domestic threats to the Government and say that we should meet one less decisively than the other. 15, 1971 Probate Bill Would Slash Attorney Fees SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (ACCN ) Legislation aimed at a major revamping of probate procedures in has undergone major amending by the State Bar in an effort to salvage the bill. other things, the Among legislation would reduce attorneys fees in probate by 50 percent. The amended version of the bill reads that executors, administrators and attorneys shall be entitled to reasonable compensation for their services in connection with the administration of estates. . . but then goes on to say "the compensation payable to the executor, administrator or attorney for his services. . . shall in no event exceed 50 percent of the statutory commissions or fees that would be allowed under Sections 901 and 910 (of the Probate Code). Generally speaking, the measure, sponsored by Assemblyman William Rafael, establishes a Bagley, California last-minu- te R-S- an Conservation Groups Endorse Pollution Tax WASHINGTON (UPI) - Con- servationists argued July 12 that the nations pollution problem will grow more severe until the government makes it through a pollution tax to stop polluting cheaper for Arms than to continue. The tax rate should be fixed so that the firm which pays the tax and continues polluting would have to sell its products at a higher price than the firm that avoids the tax by installing abatement equipment, they said. The pollution tax concept was endorsed at a hearing of the House-Senat- e subcommittee on priorities and economy in government by representatives of four conthe National servationist groups Wildlife Federation, the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and the Audubon Society. The organizations said the governments present strategy of requiring firms to install abatement equipment and offering tax writeoffs and subsidies to cover part of the cost has proven ineffective. The tax benefits do not cover the cost of abatement equipment, they said, and therefore industry shies away from taking .advantage of them. Enforcement of laws requiring firms to stop pollution is too spotty to do much good, they said. Moreover, contended Michael McCloskey, executive director of the Sierra Club, a tax break for firms which stop polluting imposes the burden on the public, which already has been wronged by the polluter. In the Ruhr valley of Germany, where a pollution tax is imposed, it takes only 3.6 cubic yards of water to manufacture a ton of steel as compared to 130 cubic yards in the United States, Thomas L. Kimball of the Wildlife Federation testified. STOLEN CREDIT BANKARDS WHEELER, Jane Walker Bankard 41-1587- and simplified procedure for the administration of estates by decedents personal representative, under reduced court supervision. As amended, the legislation continues to be sweeping in its provisions. Among other things, the measure would call for the administration of estates without prob. e proceedings where the gross estate does not exceed $10,000 in personal property or $30,000 in personal and real property. One who has expressed serious concern regarding the reduction in fees is Los Angeles County Public Administrator Baldo Kristovich. Kristovich stated that the bill, to his knowledge, does not lessen the work of the administrators but does reduce the compensation. He said that the reduced revenue, as the result of the 50 percent cut could mean serious problems for his office. It was estimated by the Public Administrator that 85 percent of the estates handled in his office involve property within the limits set forth in the bill. The amended bill calls for an elaborate procedure to be followed by administrators in small estates. The proposal provides that where the estate limits are within the $10,000 - $30,000 limits, the executor files with the county clerk a verified petition stating the amount of the estate. If a will is available it is to be attached to the petition. If the petitioner is not the person having priority entitlement to letters testamentary or letters of administration, written notice must be served on such person. Notice to creditors would be published, but several other forms of published notice would be abolished. The bill was first introduced under the sponsorship of the Bar following lengthy work on the subject by the Bars ad hoc committee on probate. $10,000-$30,00- 0 Women's Caucus Wants Females In More Races - WASHINGTON (UPI) Until now, says Liz Carpenter, when it came to politics women generally were asked to do one of two things Write a check or lick stamps. Were getting a little weary of that, says Mrs. Carpenter, press secretary to Mrs. Lyndon Johnson during the Johnson administration. We want to be in on the decisionmaking. So with an eye on next years elections, a group running the gamut from Betty Friedan, author of "Hie Feminine Mystique and an early leader in the women's lib movement, to Mrs. Lucy Wilson Benson, national president of the league of women voters, are getting together in what's being called the National Women's Political Caucus. Their clear-cu- t objective: to recruit, train and encourage women to become candidates for office at local, state and national levels. Women make up 53 per cent of the population and turn out at the polls in larger numbers than men. But a women's caucus report noted there are no goyeroors, only one senator and a mere 12 U.S. representatives who are women. We ought to triple our number in Congress in 1972. |