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Show Ferialb Ordr Oijartmnt Univeroity of Utah 8ill2 Utah calt LakeCity Supreme Court Upholds Gun Search Statute Utah Supreme Court Decisions - Capsule - act. In an opinion by Justice Byron R. White, the court held that the warrantless inspection provision of the law does not violate the illegal search and seizure protections of the Fourth Amendment. - Murder Conviction The WASHINGTON (UPI) to 8 Court 1, ruled, May 15, Supreme that federal agents may search business premises for unlicensed firearms without a warrant under provisions of the 1968 gun control Justice William 0. Douglas dissented. Large interests are at stake, and inspection is a crucial part of the regulatory scheme," the court majority declared.4 Death Penally Stands STATE OF UTAH, Plaintiff - intended to make sure everyone who works eight years at me job gets at least a portion of the pension fund to which he contributed. "That would be a big im- provement over the present situation, in which only one worker in eight of the 30 million enrolled in private pension funds can expect to receive retirement income. The reason so few collect is that must stay with the same employer a long time before they are vested" that is, before they have an irrevocable right to a pension. The legislation would increase they EAST LANSING, MICH (ACCN) What will business have to do to satisfy the American consumer in What products will the consumer demand and how much will he .be able to pay for them? How will his tastes and values change during the 1970s? How will urbanization, pollution control, and other social issues affect the marketplace? Will certain alternate life styles replace the nuclear family as the principal market for consumer goods and services? In the upcoming May issue of MSU Trial Court: Convicted of first degree murder without leniency and sentenced to death. Supreme Court: Affirmed. Plaintiff counsel: Vernon B. Romney, David S. Young Defendant counsel: Robert Van Sdver, 321 S. 6 E. . 84102 See details page 3. deductibility to any pension fund which fails, to grant irrevocable pension rights to any worker whose agq plus his years of service add up to 50. In contrast, the Williams-Javit- s bill would fully vest workers after 15 years of service. They would be entitled to 30 per cent of a full pension after eight years and to an additional 10 per cent for every year thereafter. A labor committee survey of 51 pension plans in 1970 showed that of 6.9 million workers covered since 1950, 4.8 million had forfeited all New York Lawmakers Business Topics, published by Michigan State Universitys Graduate School of Business Administration, five distinguished scholars and a marketing executive report on an 18 month study designed to answer these and other Consumer Enquestions about vironments fc Life Styles of the 1980s." The object was to synthesize data from several key disciplines into a coherent picture of American consumerism a decade hence. When finished, this picture revealed a stable consumer environment marked by some sur- prising even paradoxical-developme- nts. Despite all the attention being given to changes and technological developments, the most striking indication is that life styles and values of various social classes will demonstrate great stabiltiy," the report says. "Increases in affluence will not result in the purchase of different kinds of products, entirely new life styles or different product associations and meanings," it continues. employer payroll costs by about per cent. The bill was introduced, May 11, by Harrison A. Williams, Jr., chairman of the Senate labor committee; and by Sen. Jacob K. Javits of New York, the committees ranking Republican. It had the backing of 12 of the 15 other members of the panel. It will compete with President Nixons pension reform bill, which would move in a different direction. Nixons bill would allow "self-reliaworkers to take a tax deduction of up to $1,500 a year if they invest that much of their earnings for their own retirement. Opponents label that bill a new loophole for the rich," arguing that the average working man cannot afford to set aside $1,500 a year for his retirement. Nixons bill also would deny tax- - Give First Passage To Gambling Bill D-N.- J., ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) - The New York State legislature gave first passage, May ll, to a state constitutional amendment that could nt . lead to casino-typ- e gambling in New York by 1974. The lawmakers adjourned May 12. Next years legislature must give the proposal second passage, and it must then win a referendum at the polls before roulette wheels spin. The measure, approved in 8 the Assembly, and earlier in the Senate, would remove all constitutional restrictions on gambling. Instead, the legislature could decide by statute what forms of gambling to legalize. The measure directs that the state set up a public benefit corporation to regulate legalized gambling, much like the authorities that now run horse race betting. New York already has legalized betting on horse racing on and off the track, a statewide lottery and bingo. Wearing a green eyeshade given him by a colleague, Assembly Majority Leader John E1. Kingston summed up the debate by predicting that legalized gambling would double the 40 million tourists that New York State receives every year. 83-5- Ford Foundation Funds Students As Jail Counsel v - NEW YORK (ACCN) Courts in thirty-eigstates now allow students to counsel prisoners in Federal civil rights actions, the Ford Foundation notes, with the United States District Court for the law-scho- Savings Bankers Told CLARK JAMES BEDFORD, Defendant and Appellant pension rights. 1 ht Cheap Housing Vital, 1980? Would Vest Pension Rights After 8 Years ByMikeFelnsilber Fourteen members of the Senate labor committee have introduced a bill Consumer Taste Likely to Stay Same in 1970s v. Bill WASHINGTON (UPI) ol Eastern District of Pennsylvania being the most recent to approve the practice. Foundation grants to the University of Pennsylvania ($11,767) and Temple University ($11,270) will enable fifty-fiv- e second-- and third-yestudents to participate in prisoners rights litigation projects at both schools this year. ar MONDAY, MAY 22, 1972 SAIT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOLUME 16, NUMBER 98 Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chairman Willis H. Stephens, who gave Kingston the eyeshade, voted against the proposal. "Perhaps some day well have Howard Hughes residing in New York State, he said. Its a poor way to raise revenue." "Rather, consumers will purchase what they have always wanted but could not afford. The result will not be a major change in life style, but an accumulation of objects already valued." Within that framework of overall stability, however, the scholars recognized a number of significant trends. The most notable they call A New Poverty of Time." The report states: "The major constraint on consumption may be shifting from money to time. Time will become a 'more significant factor in product selection and use. Paradoxically increasing affluence will result in less rather than more free or uncommitted time. Consumers discretionary time will not be appreciably increased by a shorter work week (where shorter hours have occurred so has moonlighting), the researchers say, and more goods and services will be competing for the limited time . available. Meditation Against Drugs CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (ACCN) Two Harvard researchers may have found a quiet, safe weapon with which to fight drug abuse: transcendental meditation. According to medical professor Herbert Benson and physiologist R. Keith Wallace, the longer a person practices meditation the less he has to do with just about any kind of drug marijuana , the amphetamines, hallucinogens, barbiturates, narcotics, or even liquor and cigarettes. ATLANTA (ACCN) - A com- mitment to finance housing is fully as necessary as support for other types of housing, the leadership of the $94 billion low-inco- mutual savings bank industry was told here today by Alfred S. Mills, of the National president Association of Mutual Savings Banks. Addressing the 52nd Annual Conference of NAMSB, Mills, who is also chairman of The New York Bank for Savings, New York City, assessed the industrys progress over the past 12 months and described it as a showing of which we can all be proud." He singled out the Report of the Presidents Commission on Financial Structurend Regulation as of p amount importance, and called for the industry to press untiringly for legislative action to implement the Commissions recommendations. In this connection, he emphasized that savings banks can prove that they work primarily in the public interest by continuing to work to assist their communities, especially in the area of housing. "We have the expertise in housing, we have the expertise in finance, he said, and both are absolutely essential to the success of any low-inco- realistic housing low-inco- We should not withhold program. that expertise in fear of the potential difficulties and problems that can y partemerge from in urban lending." icipation Noting that all housing subsidy .'I ''Mi programs have come under increasing attack in recent months, the NAMSB president admitted that the present operation of the programs is not perfect, but added that it is too much to expect perfection in any. endeavor of this size. Savings bankers have traveled to NEW YORK (ACCN) Legal Washington to testify, to offer advice efforts to implement or analyze he noted, all and suggestions, school to financial reform are with the goal of making these subpublic be aided through two new Ford sidy programs as efficient and Foundation grants one of $225,000 productive as possible. to the Lawyers Committee for Civil But perhaps we should speak Under the other of and a louder voice, Mills conLaw, with Rights to Rand the $179,875 Corporation. tinued, for if these programs are The Lawyers abandoned the only alternative is Committee, headquartered in Washington, D.C., housing built and owned directly by the Government. We oppose this provides legal assistance to individuals and groups engaged in concept and believe that private school finance litigation. In most industry can and will make a major states, school quality is a reflection contribution toward providing of school district wealth, a condition decent housing for all American that discriminates against poor and families." for that reason has led to court day-to-da- Founded jqn. Aids .School Finance Legal - rulings invalidating financing setups of long standing in California, Minnesota, Texas, New Jersey, Arizona and Wyoming. The school finance law reform project of the Lawyer's Committee, e staffed by two attorneys, full-tim- will serve primarily as an in- formation and documentation center for private and publicly funded attorneys who are already involved in school finance cases. It will also assist and advise, when appropriate, individuals and groups who otherwise cannot get legal representation. Two types of reform efforts will be assisted: Continuing assistance to groups involved in cases like the Serrano v. Priest decision of August 1971. In this case, the California Supreme Court found that the state system of financing schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because of the wide il expenditures disparities in per-pup- among school districts. Similar decisions in other states are being appealed to higher courts by groups defending present methods of financing education. Assistance to' individuals and groups that seek through litigation to clarify and apply the Serrano principle to other states and regions. The project will document present inequities in school finance systems, explore situations where litigation may be appropriate, and offer technical assistance, where requested, to local attorneys on legal tactics and theories. An eighteen-mont- h study by the Rand Corporation will survey opinion and knowledge about the Serrano decision in California and outline alternative strategies that seek to comply with it. National Gypsum Contempt Charge Brought by U.S. WASHINGTON - The (UPI) Justice Department has asked a federal court to charge National Gypsum Company, one of the nations leading gypsum producers, with contempt for obstructing proceedings of a federal grand jury investigating operations in the industry. Acting Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst said a petition was filed in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh asking the court to order National Gypsum to show cause why it should not be held in criminal contempt. The company was accused of improperly refusing to comply with a grand jury subpoena calling for it to produce desk calendars of its board chairman and chief executive officer, Colon Brown. The grand jury is investigating "possible criminal stemming from a antitrust violations in the manufacture and sale of gypsum products, Kleindienst said. Last December 30, the government filed a civil damage suit against National Gypsum and six other makers of Gypsum building products to recover overcharges price-fixin- g conspiracy between 1960 and 1968. Dep. Asst. Atty, Gen. Bruce B. Wilson of the antitrust division said the company submitted a false affidavit concerning the origin, use, number, and custody of Brown desk calendars. At issue is whethei they were for Browns personal rather than business, use. , |