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Show Parialu Drtnt Ordar Univorulty of Utah pelt Lake City, Utah Jlt BW2 Justice Lawyer Utahns Told Consumers Will Pay Pollution Clean-u- p Daily Record Columnist The increasing cost of pollution control will be financed ultimately by the consumer, Denver banker John H. Ferry told the Utah Petroleum Council Friday. Addressing the council's annual meeting, he estimated the eventual cost or environmental con trols would average 10 percent of capital investment. At present, 4.4 percent of new Eyes on Taps invest- capital ment goes for vironmental en- Mr. Cunningham 'Total spending for pollution controls will be $18 billion in the next five years, or about $3.6 billion a year. At the same time, $4.5 to $5 billion is being spent by all levels of government, which indicates to the public that private industry isn't shouldering its fair share of the burden. $20 Billion Needed "How much should we spend altogether. Should we spend $30 or $40 billion a year? We don't know, but the latest government report indicates $20 billion." Ferry noted that the $4.40 out cf every $100 being spent now seems like a modest amount. "But remember all this spending, with a few exceptions, doesn't add to the efficiency of a plant and decreases the return from investment." While the petroleum industry is under attack for polluting the environment, Ferry claimed more vigorous protest is aimed at the paper and electric power industries. The latter industry, has programmed $3.2 billion in the next five years to help clean up their plants and facil- ... ities. Complains of Handicaps Mr. Ferry said big industry basically agrees with William D. Ruckle-hau- s, who heads the federal Environmental Protection Agency. The managements of giant corporations realize they will remain in business 20 years from now or longer, so they do clean up their operations. But these efforts to conform to national standards are handicapped by still limited technology, the economics inherent in spending to upgrade existing facilities and "burdensome time frames" to meet deadlines, Ferry stated. "But the sincerity of the minerals extraction industry is shown in the cold, hard cash they are putting up for environmental protection." Cites Shale Costs efforts by Citing such companies as Standard Oil of Indiana and American Metal Climax, he singled out a company of local interest TOSCO, The Oil Shale Corp. 'TOSCO has long recognized that environmental controls are needed for producing oil from shale. They indicate seven percent of the total shale mining and processing costs is needed for environmental protection. An additional seven percent continuing expense is required after a plant is full operating. For a plant capable of producing 150,000 barrels of oil a day from shale, a $12 million investment is required for pollution controls. But these expenditures are necessary to forestall production closedowns forced by agencies and groups concerned about quality of environment Hits Small Business "The asset value of environmental controls will be thought of in terms of a pre-paintangible representing the cost of staying in business. Concern for environment means that as far as bankers are concerned, they will look more favorably on the industries that have the foresight and resources to combat pollution. "This is not a veiled threat from the banking industry," Ferry said. "Industry must do this or risk not getting credit extensions. This is purely an economic matter. "Pollution control will tend to discriminate against small business, which will find it more difficult to pay for the cost of pollution control due to a thinner financial base. "It will become harder for a new business to become established in the competitive arena of American business." anti-polluti- After Freeze (UPD-Bu- dget George Shultz, one of President Nixon's top advisers, predicts there will be wage and price Manager Business Heads In Netherlands Make It Young - AMSTERDAM (ACCN) Dutch Bosses are getting younger says The Netherlands Center for Directors In its annual report for 1970, issued in The Hague. Older heads of companies seem to be retiring earlier, enabling managers in the 0 year age range to take over. The organization, largest of its kind in Holland, noted that 40.9 per cent of its 2200 members were in the 9 year group, while only 9.1 per cent of the directors associated with the group were 60 years or older. The majority of its current members are younger than members associated with the group five years ago. A surprising 15.4 per cent of the directors belonging to The Netherlands Center for Directors are under 40, while 34.8 per cent are 9 in the year range. 40-5- 40-4- 50-5- restrictions backed with legal freeze when the authority ends November 13. Shultz, who runs the White House Office of Management and Budget, said, however, that any long-ru- n system of inflation control must be voluntary in nature and have broad support. In an interview and during congressional testimony, Shultz said Nixon would announce his new 90-d- ay post-free- ze program "considerably before the end of the 90 days" but declined to give a timetable. In line with his goal of getting popular support for a post-freepolicy, Nixon called seven leaders of organized labor to the White House today for conferences on what steps ze should be taken following the mandatory wage-pric- e ceilings. Labor leaders, in particular. AFL-CIPresident George Meany, have been some of the most vocal critics of Nixon's wage-pric- e order issued August 15, contending the restrictO ions are discriminatory against working people. - A De- 13,000 localities requiring them rose adalso in July to a 2,072,000-uni- t justed annual pace, up from June's levels of 1,849,000 units and the year-aglevels of 1,309,000 units. According to figures for mobile home manufacturers, such units were being delivered at an adjusted annual rate of 490,000 during June, 1971, the latest month for which figures are available. This level is up from the year ago rale of 3G9.000 units. o er Steel Imports At Flood as Surcharge Came WASHINGTON (ACCN) six-mon- th has successfully cases prosecuted arising under Title cautioned the III, investigators Whitten, who about two common misconceptions regarding activities prohibited by the Omnibus Crime Bill. He warned that many believe "that a telephone subscriber may intercept .communications on his own service without violating the law. The fact that a tap is put on the subscriber's own phone in his own house is an irrelevant matter under the statute." An exception does exist, he said, but it pertains to parties to a conversation, not to subscribers. The Justice Department attorney further cautioned the investigators that "another mistaken belief is that .merely providing a device and, or, instructors on how to operate it is not Allow Suit Against Judge Who Ordered Sterilization COLUMBUS, OHIO During pace. According to government data supplied American Iron and Steel Institute, 1,688,000 tons of imported steel landed at U.S. ports during the month despite a dockworkers strike which shut down all major harbors on the Pacific Coast. July's figure pushed total steel imports through the first seven months of 1971 to 10,744,000 tons. This was 4,163,000 tons more than the comparable period of last year six-mon- th . - July, the last full month before the present import surcharge went into effect, foreign steel was still entering the United States at a record six-mon- th id Shultz Predicts Some Controls (ACCN) partment of Justice attorney has WASHINGTON, D.C. (ACCN) warned a group of private in- Housing starts jumped to record vestigators that a private detective levels in July, posting an increase of who engages in illegal electronic or 11.2 per cent over June, 1971, levels. The Commerce Department rewiretap surveillance not only is to subject prosecution but jeoparported that starts were at a seadizes his client's case. sonally adjusted annual rate of James L. Whitten, an attorney in 2,218,000 units, topping June's the General Crimes Section of the revised rate of 1,995,000 and the Justice Department's Criminal year-earlirate of 1,603,000 units. Division, made the statement in a "The previous record rate was speech at the recent annual In2,121,000 nonfarm units recorded in ternational Investigation and August, 1950. Commerce also reported that July Security Conference, a private detective organization, in Seattle, starts of privately owned single-famil- y Washington. structures, on a seasonally amounted to Whitten's speech was on Federal adjusted basis, 1,177,000 units; structures with five prohibitions against the interception or more units accounted for 909,000 of wire and oral communications. units; and structures with two to He noted that regulation of the infour units accounted for 132,000 of terception of wire or oral comthe total. munications is now governed by In the period ending Title III of the Omnibus Crime 1971, the average of the July, Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. seasonally adjusted rates of private Discussing Title III, Whitten housing starts was 18 per cent above explained to the conference that "as the average for the preceding technology has contributed to more period ending January, 1971, sophisticated means of com- and 45 per cent above the munication, and hence more period a corresponding sophisticated means of interception, year ago. the law has become more comBuilding permits issued by the plicated in an effort to stay current." on WASHINGTON Commerce Data Shows Housing Start Upsurge Warns Private WASHINGTON By Daniel K. Cunningham TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1971 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOLUME 15, NUMBER 177 (UPI)- -A federal judge has ruled that a county judge can be sued for "acting wholly without jurisdiction" in ordering the sterilization of a mentally retarded girl in 1966. U.S. District Judge Joseph P. Kinneary declined September 8 to dismiss a $3 million suit filed by Carolyn T. Wade, now 23, or Covington, Ky., against Muskingum County Probate Judge Holland M. Nixon Names Judge WASHINGTON (UPD Gary. Gary, who ordered the operation after hearing evidence the mentally retarded girl had been sexually had sought dismissal promiscuous, a crime." of the suit, contending he was not Whitten also discussed immunity liable for prosecution because his provisions and pointed out that "if it judicial action was within the scope is necessary to grant immunity to of his jurisdiction. "Defendant Gary is not protected make a case because of the clandestine nature of the crime, we. by the doctrine of judicial imwould normally grant the immunity munity," Kinneary ruled. to the client and use his testimony "Because there was no set of or conditions under detective." the circumstances private against that would permit Ohio which further law III Title provides comto Plaintiff to order or oral defendant Gary intercepted wire munications or evidence derived submit to sterilization, the court therefrom may not be received in determines that Gary acted wholly evidence in any trial, proceeding or without jurisdiction in this matter," the federal judge said. hearing, be it Federal or state. Kinneary also said legislation has The sum and substance is quite introduced several times but been dear, Whitten said, "a private never passed, in the state legislature detective who engages in illegal to authorize sterilization of feeble interceptions not only exposes minded people. himself to prosecution but also that such bills have been fact "The jeopardizes his client's case. And he over the years is at least further exposes the client, as well as proposed evidence some that the legislature himself, to an action for civil does not believe that sterilization is damages." presently within the power of any Concerning prohibited devices, court," Kinneary said. Mr. Whitten explained that the Miss Wade was living at the crucial test is whether the design of Avondale Children's Home in Zanes-villthe device renders it primarily Ohio, when the operation was useful for surreptitious listening. performed March 9, 1966. of He listed as examples She also is suing the hospital prohibited devices "the martini the olive transmitter, the spike where she was sterilized, Muskingum County Children microphone, the infinity transWelfare Department, officials of the mitter, and the microphone children's home, the county school disguised as a wristwatch, picture psychologist, and several other frame, cuff link, tie clip, fountain individuals. pen, stop watch or cigarette pack." e, -P- resident Nixon nominated Judge John A. Field Jr., September 7, to serve on the U.S. 4th District Court of Appeals, succeeding retiring Judge Herbert S. Boreman. Field, 61 and a native of Charleston, W. Va., has been judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia since 1959. He formerly was tax commissioner for the state of West Virginia and was in the private practice of law in Charleston. Canadian Warns On Blaming U.S. As Scapegoat VANCOUVER B.C. (UPD -Opposition leader Robert Stanfield charges the Canadian government is covering up its own economic failures by blaming the country's financial troubles on the new U.S. import surcharge. "It is quite indecent, the haste with which the apologists of the government, including the Prime Minister himself, have taken up suggesting that if the Canadian economy is in trouble we can blame Washington," Stanfield said at a news conference here recently. "Long before the present situation developed, many Canadians and much of the economy were in serious difficulties, not because of anyone else's actions but because of the complacent policies of our own government." Stanfield, who is leader of the Conservative Party, said it was up to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau to make personal representations to President Nixon. |