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Show PAGE EIGHT ABA Meetin- g- NEW LAWYERS Law Schools WASHINGTON i - When the country was eleven years old, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter commenting on Shay's Rebellion, an armed uprising of poor Massachusetts farmers against government policies that threatened the livelihood and freedom of the small farmer. Jefferson wrote that the way to prevent such events was to give the people full information of their affairs through the channel of the public papers, and to contrive that these papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The most frequently quoted sentence of this letter is: The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people the first objective should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." These were strong words for a man soon to become the third president to help preserve and defend a young government. . . . from America Goes To Press by Louis Solomon The Ad- to identify personality characteristics relevant to police job performance and develop of Minneapolis, standards that will aid police Those who .expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it. Unknown statesman Eari J. Peck Nielsen, Conder, Hansen tk Henriod Eari "Jay Peck, a winner of the Justice Traynor Memorial award for outstanding legal writing, is associated with the law firm of Nielsen, Conder, Hansen & Henriod in the Newhouse Building. Following his graduation from the Bear River schools he attended Utah State for two years. He graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Science degree and received his J.D. in June. He was elected to the Order of Coif and the Bar and Gavel Society. Other scholastic achievements the Herbert M. Schiller Memorial Scholarship; Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough Scholarship as well as serving on the Board of Editors of the Utah Law Review. Mr. Peck and his wife Joan have one child, Jennifer, age 8 months and make their home at 35 F St He served as a missionary in Germany. ... SALT LAKE COUNTY COMMISSION ACTION Wednesday, June 38 1171 Merrill K. Davis HEARING Premium Oil Appeal No. Co., 6170 So. 13th East Three entrances approved. Masonry wall denied. Grapestick with brick pillars approved. HEARING DATE SET Aug. 11th 1572 Rodney Peck, 3176 So. 900 Inrecation Indicts in Mine Disaster U.S. - A WASHINGTON (ACCN) federal grand jury has indicted a coal mining company and one of its officials as a result of an investigation of a mine explosion that killed 38 miners in Hyden, Kentucky, last December. Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell said E., 1578 R-- M -5 5900 So. Prudential-Pine- s, 1500 E. A-- l R-- M Aug. 18th 1601 Scott Watkins, 3180 So. Redwood Rd., 5,: & A-l 1604 Brockbank & Sons, 1360 R-W. 2300 So. 8 1608 Pioneer Land Co., 4100 So. R-2- -6 .5 the indictment was returned in U.S. District Court in 24-cou- nt R-l-- Grads Get Jobs trying to obtain jobs because of gloomy predictions. She also notes that in previous years many Law School graduates (ACCN) Columbia. This represents the widest geographic distribution of U-law graduates in five years, the placement director says. Eighty-fou- r of the graduates will take jobs in Michigan. Also significant, according to Miss Ransford, is the fact that only 43 per cent of the 1971 graduates chose to accept jobs in their hometowns or home states, while the figure has been as high as 46 percent in 1969, 65 per cent in 1968, and 81 per cent in M 1967. The low 1971 figure is surprising, she observed, because in times of sluggish employment students often try to take advantage of personal contacts and family associations in their home states. Two law graduates set a precedent this year by deciding to set up their own law offices rather than joining established firms. One of the new firms will be in Ann Arbor and the other in Traverse City, Mich. 3600 W. A--l R-l- M So. 700 E. !1600 4012 R-- M Lamar Williamen, 1968 E. C-- 2 4800 So. R-F.A. Mackay Estates, W. 5400 So. M 1607 1951-212- A-- 5 l 5 R-4- -8 So. 1609 Weidenbacher, 1610 Allens Auto Inc., 4435 W. 1030 E. 3500 So. 1611 3950 R-- M R-l- -8 R-l-- C-- 2 8 20th Century Housing (Approx) 11245 So. 1700 E. Rl-- 8 A--2 County Attorney received approval for round trip airfare from S.L. to Los Angeles, departure date June 30, agencies in using psychiatric tests. The grant will finance the first year year of the three and one-half project. Clarence M. Coster, LEAA associate administrator, said the project goal is to provide police departments and sheriffs offices with new techniques for screening and selecting applicants. Although personality characteristics are a critical factor in officers success or failure, no comprehensive study of these factors has been made, he said. "The improved screening devices will help to assure equal employment opportunities in law enforcement for persona of differing backrace, sex, and ground. The project team will begin by from police and determining citizens job performance deemed successful or unsuccessful. It will then measure the relationship of successful performance to personality characteristics including: control of anger, reaction to frustration and stress, ability to cope with fear and with prejudicial socio-econom- ic attitudes. The project team will determine which psychiatric or personality assessment tests most accurately measure the identified characteristics, and will develop standards for the use of these tests by law enforcement agencies. In addition to selecting paper and pencil tests, the project team will develop "job simulation situational tests which will be tested and evaluated by the Minneapolis Police Department. Law enforcement agencies of 17 other Minnesota cities including will be invited St. Paul and Duluth to participate in the project; Aposhian Nursery, low bidder at for Tree Planting at various County Parks Contract between Harper-Jack-so- n Sand & Gravel Co. and Salt Lake County. Purchasing to Implement rebidding Canyon Rim Park project and waivingo f the advertising period. Letter from William T. South regarding Fire Insurance for period beginning July 1, 1971 through July 1, 1975. Purchase of Developer Solution, Fix Solution & Microfilm Print Paper for the Clerks office. A.H. Pembroke only source available. Price is $669.73. Tax Deed property located at approx. 6400 West South of 2400 South. Don R. Parker was the high bidder in the amount of Purchasing recommended awarding the bid. Referred to Finance Dept received Recreation Department permisison to use the main hallway of the City and County Building for setting up an exhibit of Arts and Crafts projects, made by the children attending the Recreation summer playground programs on the dates of July 12th through 16th, 1971. Escrow in the amount of $2,639.62 be released on the Cherrywood Estates Subdivision and accepted by Salt Lake County. Letter regarding the Single Prosecution space in the Metropolitan Hall of Justice. Request to appoint a member for board to plan a resia two-ma- n dent employment program for the Model Cities area. Motion made to appoint someone from personnel department to serve. Parking lot at the S.L. Co. Complex. Low bid of $54,213.00 by Z. P. Smith Construction Co. Certain items deducted. Contract reduced $11,202.00 R-20- 7. -8 ZONING DENIALS 1594 James E. Hamilton, 1971. $5,-126.- Budget hearing date for the County Attorneys office in order that they may present evidence to sustain an increase in their operating budget for the year 1971. For the record. Approval for installation of street lighting at 10 locations in the County. Installation will be by Utah Power & Light at the rate of $3.30 per light Approval for Chief Deputy County Clerk to attend a Data Processing School, oriented to judicial ad1971. ministrators, July 26-3of the Application for the Approval Continuation of the Granite Com0, munity Mental Health Centers Federal Staffing Grant. Offer of $275.00 by Aluminum Manufacturing and Supply Co. for the Countys interest in and to the property designated as serial the Finance Ofnumber 13A-7fice recommends approval of this sale. Abate the penalty and interest charges on Real Property 9; 21A-9-9- 1. Contract between Salt Lake County and Taylorsville Memorial Cemetery concerning bronze markers for indigent grave sites. Payment to Interstate Electric Co., the amount of $11,286.73. CONTRACTS Aposhian Nursery, low bidder at $3099.00, for the David Gour-le- y Sign to $46,213.00. Seasonal Beer License for the Millcreek Inn, Mr. Alan D. Frand-se- n. Purchase of 80 acres of property at Dimple Dell area. County Attorney recommends condemnation of property. Attorney's office to prepare necessary 5. i Press LESSONS ON FREEDOM ministration has awarded $116,823 to Personnel Decisions, Incorporated, Pikeville, Kentucky. Named in the indictment was the Finley Coal Company and its managing partner, Charles Finley. Finley managed numbers 15 and 16 a ANN ARBOR (ACCN) Despite underground coal mines operated national employment pic- by the company in Hyden. The ingloomy of cent the University of dictment charged that on various ture, 70 per Michigan's 1971 Law School dates from June 19, 1970 to graduates have already been placed December 30, 1970, there were 24 in jobs. Another 6 per cent are violations of the Federal Coal Mine committed to graduate study, Health and Safety Act. fellowhips or legal work in the Finley and the company were both in ail 24 counts of the innamed military. 1970-71 the 343 for of Out dictment. graduates academic year, 260 (or 76 per cent) by May 31 were listed as having "definite plans for the future, were subject to the draft and did not according to Miss Ann Ransford, the actively seek employment. By Law Schools placement director. contrast, with the dropping of This is a "surprisingly high graduate student deferments, most figure, she says, in light of predicstudents now attending the Law for tions of a depressed job market School are either veterans or have recent law graduates. In fact, the been from the draft for disqualified 1971 figure is higher than those of the or reasons. other physical past several years, Miss Ransford Placement figures show the 1971 notes. law graduates obtained jobs in a Lat year 71 per cent of the of 29 states and the District of total class were listed as graduating having "definite plans; in 1969 the figure was 72 per cent; and in 1968 the total was 73 per cent. Each year the Law School ccm-pile- s its placement statistics at the end of May, after most of the class has graduated. Of this years 83 graduates who have not been placed in legal or academic positions, five will enter the military, 12 have failed to contact the Law School about their employment status and 67 continue to receive placement assistance. Miss Ransford expects that some of these will receive job offers during the summer. The placement director attributes the relatively high 1971 job placement total to the fact that Michigan is a "major la school and that "students worked harder Probing Police Job Psych Traits Law Enforcement Assistance non-residen- ts. of Midwest The LEAA WRITERS LEGAL OUTSTANDING Craig S. Cook U.S. District Court Craig S. Cook has joined Judge Sherman Christensens office in the U.S. District Court. Raised In the Salt Lake City area, Mr. Cook attended the University of Utah where he graduated third in his class in the College of Law. Other honors included the Herbert M. Schiller Memorial Scholarship; the Justice Sutherland Memorial Scholarship and the Justice Traynor outstanding legal writing award. Cook the Utah Long Arm Statute with Earl Jay Peck. The statute allows jurisdiction over Whatever is controversy He also was Managing Editor of generated in New York is likely to the Utah Law Review. An avid follow the ABA to London where a skier, golfer and carpentry enthusconvention of radical lawyers, most iast, Mr. Cook is leaning toward a of them from Europe, is scheduled to criminal1 law practice as a U.S. meet at the same time and near the Attorney or District Attorneys ofsame place as the ABA. Already it is fice. He is single and residing at 1967 being called a "counter convention South 16th East. in radical circles. 70 FRIDAY, JULY 2. 1971 D Justice Traynor Award troops and two others asking the ABA to create special committees to investigate allegations of war crimes and to study the war making powers of the President and Congress. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War also has formally asked the ABA to be allowed to present testimony on war crimes. A spokesman for the lawyers committee said, "The ABA does not have the reputation of being a very receptive body to this kind of thing, and he promised a floor fight in the general sessions if committees to which the resolutions would be sent fail to approve them. Bar Admission Another area of possible conflict is in legal education and admission to the bar. A number of law students and young lawyers in various parts of the country are unhappy with present procedures. With the rising militancy of women and the creation of the new National Conference of Black Lawyers, civil rights and womens rights could be other problem areas for the ABA. Morning Press Weeks before the London meeting a minor controversy had been generated over an invitation to an ABA affair sent to British lawyers by a British law group. It read more like a military command than an invitation to a party: "Morning dress will be worn. Ladies will wear hats and gloves with afternoon dress . . . The American Bar Association hopes that each Inn (the British lawyer organizations) will produce about 150 members to attend. This number will be made up of a representative proportion of benchers (a special kind of lawyer) and barristers and their ladies. RECOR DAILY THE ST. LOUIS (ACCN) Barnard was installed Morton J. as 94th president of the Illinois State Bar Association at the close of the Associations annual meeting here recently. The Illinois bar group frequently holds its convention in this neighboring state to accommodate lawyers from rural southern Illinois. Barnard is a senior partner in a law firm in Chicagos Loop. He is an authority on probate law and helped draft the Illinois probate act enacted in 1939, as well as subsequent amendments. The new bar president has been active in the organization for two decades and steps up to his new post from the vice presidency. He has lectured at programs of the Practising Law Institute. Speck Case Now Puzzle For Illinois Richard F. of the 1966 Speck, 29, convicted slayings of eight student nurses in Chicago, is no longer sentenced to die. But he is not free from the shadow of death in the electric chair. The U.S. Supreme Court last CHICAGO (UPI) Monday overruled the death sentence given Speck for the 1966 mass murder. Specks lawyer, Public Defender Gerald Getty, said he believed the Supreme Court had in effect vacated the death penalty for Speck. "The judgment, insofar as the death penalty is imposed, is reversed," Getty said. However, Cook County States Attorney Edward V. Hanrahan said the case will be returned to the Illinois Supreme Court whch may reconsider its earlier decision or remand the case ti the Circuit Court. is "Whichever piocedure Hanrahan "either said, followed,' may still reimpose the death sentence or impose some lesser sentence. Hanrahan said his office would continue to seek the death penalty against Speck. The defendant, a drifter and merchant seaman, was convicted of the slayings April 15, 19G7, nine months after the massacre. He lias been on death row at the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet since June 5, 1967. He had heen scheduled to die in the electric chair Jan. 31, 1969, but his appeal to the Supreme Court prevented the execution. Theodore Fielos, chairman of the Illinois Parole Board, said Speck would remain on death row as long as the death penalty is legal in Illinois or until his sentence is changed. Speck, in his prison cell on death row, heard the news of the Supreme Court decision on a ne.ws broadcast and was later told by an assistant warden that his (mure depended on an interpretation of the U. S. Supreme Court opinion. "Thats all right, Speck was quoted as saying. "I'm in no hurry. I'll be here for a while. |