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Show ' fterielu Ordsr University mm Maor Dgrtmnt of Utah 8U2 Utah wit uokeCity, I SALT LAKE VOLUME 16, NUMBER 87 Utah Supreme Court Decisions Capsule On Advice GUILTY PLEA INTELLIGENTLY GUGLIELMETTI . STATE PRISON WARDEN Strict Illinois Disclosure Law Held Invalid - Cook County (UPI) Circuit Court Judge Daniel A. Covelli has ruled that Illinois new ethics legislation, hailed as one of the toughest economic disclosure laws in the nation, is unconstitutional. Covelli ruled, April 23, that the ethics bill passed by the legislature last January, and signed into law a short time later by Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie, oversteps the bounds of the constitutional right to privacy. The bill was to take effect, July 1, and require that by that date all Kleindienst Warns Justice Attorneys To Follow Policy - WASHINGTON (UPI) Acting Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst has told protesting Justice Department attorneys that if they cannot carry out administration civil rights policies they should resign or face dismissal. Kleindienst made the statement in responding to criticism of President Nixon's school busing proposals by more than 100 Justice Department lawyers. About 95 white attorneys in the Departments civil rights division signed a letter to Congressional leaders protesting Nixons request for legislation that would limit the power of federal courts to order busing as a means to achieve desegregation. Ten of the divisions black lawyers signed a letter to the Washington Post on the same subject. The two groups represented about 75 per cent of the division's lawyers. Neither of the letters expressed a threat to refuse to enforce laws enacted by Congress, but the Kleindienst statement said: . "It is one thing for a Department attorney to personally oppose legislation proposed by the administration; it is another matter to assert that if such legislation were validly enacted by the Congress, he would not, as an attorney of the Department, enforce it. In such a case he should, as a matter of professional ethics, resign his employment; failing such a resignation he would be dismissed. The black attorneys in their letter described agitation over school busing as "nothing more than a thinly-veile- d attempt to sacrifice the rights of minority children to racist pressure groups and political expediency. The politicians most vocal about the efficacy of using children to cure society's ills were among those most shamefully silent when black children were bused to perpetuate the same ills, the letter said. elected state and local government officials, plus judges and candidates for public office, file financial disclosure statements. The bill also covered appointed government officials and school administrators earning more than $20,000 a year, plus all state officials whose appointment requires confirmation by the state senate. Although the filing deadline was July 1, many candidates and public officials, including Ogilvie, have filed their financial statements with the secretary of already states office. In key points of the ruling, Covelli held that the bill was unconstitutional because it required that the holdings of wives and children of public officials be revealed. also declared that by for income disclosure of calling judges, the General Assembly was illegally attempting to regulate the Covelli judiciary. The judge noted that the bill did not require a candidate to reveal the sources of campaign contributions nor did it require that public officials spell out any possible conflicts of interest between their financial holdings and government jobs. "They (the legislature) omitted what I think is most important and that is the campaign contributions. Thats one big source where I think they might find conflict of interest, Covelli told newsmen. In Springfield, Ogilvie, who signed the ethics bill, January 24, although stating he thought it did not go far enough, said he regretted the court action that On 6-Pl- us has upset ethics legislation in Illinois. I am confident this decision will be appealed, and I am hopeful the higher court will sustain the Legislation," Ogilvie said. Ford Foundation Will Subsidize Energy Study - NEW YORK (ACCN) The Ford Foundation has established a $2 million Energy Policy Project a to of the on focus studies . program complex issues of creating a national energy policy. The Project will be headed by S. David Freeman, former head of the Energy Policy Staff in the Executive Office of the President. The Project, expected to be completed over the next fifteen months, will attempt to analyze and explain how energy policy is made in the United States and where present policies may lead during the next two or three decades in terms of shortages, pollution, fuel prices, life styles, the balance of payments, and national security. WASHINGTON FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1972 'Panic Selling 56 Cities Now Drives Down Salt Lake Penny Market Sell-o- ff Jobless List ENTERED Supreme Court: Affirmed Judgment . . . trial judge properly refused to release petitioner on writ of habeas corpus. Plaintiff counsel: Galen Ross, Mitsunaga & Ross, 731 E S. Temple Defendant counsel: Vernon B. Romney, David S. Young See details page 3 CHICAGO CITY, UTAH (UPI) - Stam- ford, Conn,, was added in April to the list of major metropolitan areas with substantial unemployment of 6 per cent or more, raising the total to 56, the Labor Department reported, May 1. April was the 14th consecutive month that a third or more of the 150 major labor areas In the nation have had jobless rates of at least 6 per cent. The high point was reached last October when 65 cities were on the list. Seattle continued to have the highest unemployment rate of any major city in the 50 states, with 13.7 per cent joblessness due mainly to cutbacks in the aerospace industry. Two Puerto Rican cities were worse off, however: Ponce with 17.5 per cent, and Mayaguez with 14.1 per dent. The Department said 15 smaller labor areas were added to th substantial unemployment list anc six others were removed in April raising the total to 835. Smaller areas added to the lisl were Enterprise, Ala.; Jackson, Loyal ton, and Visalia, Calif.; Jasper, Ga.;' London and Murray, Ky.; Mechanic Falls, Me.; Federalsburg, Md.; Chandler and Pawnee, Okla.; Ontario, Ore.; Summerville, S.C.; Logan, Utah, on the and Marinette-Menomine- e Wisconsin and Michigan border. Officials said that Dallas Tex., and Va., Newport improved their unemployment rate enough to move from a classification of moderate joblessness up to low unemployment. Moderate unemployment is from 3 to 5.9 per cent. Low unemployment is from 1.5 to 2.9 per cent. The only other major labor area with unemployment over 12 per cent was New Britain, Conn., with 12.8 per cent. News-Hampto- n, Appeals Ruling On Fathering Illegitimates - Glenn SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Miller Perkins, whom a judge threatened with jail if he fathers a seventh illegitimate child, has appealed to the California Supreme Court for the "right to procreate." Specifically, Perkins wants the court to call off Superior Judge James J. McCarthy of San Bernardino County, who placed him on probation in 1969 for failure to provide child support for two offspring The judge later added a special that Jenkins is "not requirement to procreate any illegitimate children he is not able to support so will become a welfare charge. they 99 Perkins has fathered six children by five women, according to court records. Perkins attorney took the case to the California Court of Appeal which denied a hearing without comment. He then appealed to the State Supreme Court ro require the intermediate appellate court to hear the case. "The right to procreate is fundamental, argued Public Defender Littleton Gunn. ward reaction next week, By Daniel K. Cunningham Daily Record Columnist he pre- dicted. "There usually is a market adjustment toward summer every year but this was earlier than expected and was due to consolidation," he explained. Mr. McBride said certain special 15 situations" the will do well while the percent first three days of rest cf the market will "drag the rest of the summer. the week, estiAbout 60 percent of his accounts mated Mike Mcesident local and Mr. McBride said are r Bride, p most of the selling action came of Equidyne, a from the Wasatch Front area. These Salt Lake City speculators are closer to the mar- -' brokerage firm with 8,000 ac- ket and they triggered what counts. amounted to "panic selling in "It was a pretty some instances. Mr. Cunningham severe swing, but Despite the panic, Mr. McBrides firm set no volume records as tradeverything seemed to stop Wednes- ing ranged from 800,000 to a million shares a day, which he described as normal. And some of the issues held up fairly well against the trend. Mr. McBride cited Micron as one example. This company, which went public last November, was quoted at down about 40 cents from the first of the week. SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. (ACCN) -Micron, a food retailing and fiThe president of the American Bar nance company, was first issued at Association has warned that four cents a share last November. progress in promoting and When the stock hit 25 cents a share a reverse 1 for 10 split was anprotecting the rights of the innounced in February, raising the dividual must not be at the cost of to value It had since climbed $2.50. weakening an effective social in value. 50 another percent community and our structure of Among the stocks which were government." hard hit by the sell-of- f, Mr. McABA President Leon Jaworski Bride cited Permaloy, down from said the "unbridled exercise of 32 to 18 cents; Amacan, down to 95 on the part of individuals cents from Autobale, from and groups cannot of itself bring $4.25 to $2.85 and Interwest Foods, about the more perfect union the from 36 to 30 cents. Autobale is a California company Constitution reminds us is our that produces a portable bale for g mutual endeavor. garbage, while Permaloy is a Salt action, unrestrained by concern for Lake City firm which has a metal the common good, can and often hardening process for signs. does degenerate into division, Mountain States Resources dropdissension and disunion. ped from around 60 cents to 53 as Speaking before a Law Day the glamour of its coal properties meeting of the Arizona State Bar apparently lost some luster. Association here, April 29, the Well still see some new issues, Mr. McBride said. "People are realHouston attorney said "the most izing that equity canital is better critical challenge facing America than debt capital. If a guy plans from an attitude today arises to involved in money, he realget formed in recent years among both izes that after the election interest young and old, of all races, that it is rates will go up. unnecessary . in our society to be (Neither Mr. Cunningham nor the unwaveringly respectful of the law. publisher have an Investment posiJaworski said "the stubborn truth tion In the companies mentioned requires us to acknowledge that above.) todays tendency in many segments of our society is to embrace unilateral approaches and to solutions." demand But, he said, "The law is an expression of the idea that the source of rules for everyday life is not to be CHICAGO (ACCN) There are made the subject of everyday no indications of widespread public disputation; we must discover anew interest in prepaid legal services, so the wisdom in the idea of liberty insurance companies have put a low under law. on the development of such The ABA president said the priority products, according to insurance prime responsibility of lawyers is executive C. R. Carpenter. to aid fairly and faithfully in Carpenter, senior vice president of weaving the fabric of law so that it Continental Casualty Co., voiced his will meet the needs of a free society sentiment at an American Bar dedicated to equality, justice and Association sponsored conference on un trammeled freedom. The task of Stock prices plummeted this week as a general sell-ohit local trading. The average stock value dropped SALT LAKE CITY ff over-the-count- er Jaworski Says Reform Needs -- $3-3- 8, . self-intere- st $1-5- 8; Self-servin- Services Leave. Insurers Cool self-servi- - the law and lawyers, he said, is to maintain "an ever-adjust- ed balance" between the power of government and that of the private citizen. In this regard, he cited the "imperative need to improve and modernize the nations court structures and procedures. As an example of progress being made, he d Standards pointed to of Criminal Administration for the Justice. newly-adopte- prepaid legal services in Washington, D.C., April 28. Its really priorities, there simply a question of Carpenter said, and arent enough man- power resources for insurance companies to innovate in all the ways they might like to. The average man does not see a great enough need for legal services to the extent that he would want protection against such a contingency and would be willing to pay for it, he indicated. |