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Show Periuiu Urd3r Bj Univorwity of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah G4112 v O rf SALT LAKE VOLUME 15, NUMBER 210 UTAH UTAH ATTY. GEN. MAJOR RACKETEERS UNTOUCHABLES' 'NEW Attorney General Vernon B. Romney told the Provo Rotary Club tljat the "major racketeers in organized crime are the new un- touchables. successful attack on crime must provide for designation of targets and must concentrate on the activities from which criminals get their main sources of money. He said "this can be done by getting adequate intelligence; obstatutes in which taining all serious crimes are made felonies and which use current language; obtaining improved procedural statutes, including provision for wire tapping and witness immunity; and the developing of accomplice witnesses willing to testify." Romney said some reasons organized crime has not yet made big inroads in Utah are the relatively small population, the lack of great concentrations of money, and primarily, the fact that few state and city government officials have succumbed to pay-off- s from organized crime. He said, "Organized crime can only exist where it has the power to corrupt public officials on all levels. A ed up-to-d- Utah Supreme Court Decisions - Capsules - Labor and Material Obligation Affirmed PONS & DAVIS, INC., Plaintiff v. PERUVIAN LODGE, INC., et al, Defendant & Appellant Trial Court: Judgment for plaintiff. Plaintiff counsel: Irwin Amovitz Alvin I. Smith 1309 Deseret Bldg. Defendant counsel: Edwin R. Gibbs Rt. 1, Box 36B Lehi, 84043 In v. TURNER, Utah State Prison SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (ACCN) Gov. Ronald Reagan has signed into law a bill that would require the posting of a Spanish ballot in at least one conspicuous place in the precinct during California elections. The measure, AB 1469, by Assemblyman Alister McAlister, Jose, would further provide for the posting of such foreign language facsimile ballots in other languages where the county clerk deems there is a need. Under terms of the legislation, the precinct board would be required to give the foreign language ballot to a voter on the voters request so that it could be taken into the voting booth. D-S- an President Says Insurance Industry Fails UAW WASHINGTON (UPI) Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers Union, said October "It is time to cancel the insurance industry and impose a national health insurance program operated by the government. 28, Appearing before the House Ways and Means Committee, Woodcock opposed the administrations proposal to require employers to provide employes with health in- surance from private firms. "But the private health insurance industry has failed, Woodcock said. "It has failed to control costs. It has failed to provide adequate benefits even for those with some form of coverage. After 30 years of effort, all private health insurance combined still covers only a little more than d of private personal health care expenses. Woodcock said the Nixon plan would not regulate the insurance industry although it would require purchase of $30 billion of private one-thir- insurance. He supported legislation that would have the federal government set up its own health insurance plan financed with tax dollars. Plywood Plant Brigham City and Union Pacific Railroad have jointly landed Cardinal of Adrian, a subsidiary of Champion Home Builders. The firm, which manufactures mobile homes and motorized travel vehicles, will establish a p plywood plant in Brigham City. ed Plaintiff counsel: Thomas R. Blomquist Kennecott Bldg., 84111 State counsel: Vernon B. Romney Lauren N. Beasley (See details page 6) United Airlines Earnings Reported for 3rd Quarter Third quarter consolidated net warnings of 97 cents per share, were reported by Edward E. Carlson, President of UAL, Inc., parent company of United Air Lines and Western International Hotels. In the corresponding quarter a year ago, UALs net earnings were equal to 48 cents per share. Carlson pointed out that United Air Lines had received a refund in August of $6 million in development funds which the company had advanced in 1968 for U.S. Supersonic Transport plane. Reversal of the portion of these advances charged off to expense in prior years added $2,603,000 to net earnings for the third quarter of 1971. Third quarter earnings reduced UALs net loss for the nine months equal to 50 cents per share. This compares with a net loss of 96 cents per share, for the first nine months of 1970. He attributed the uptrend to a combination of intensive cost reduction programs and the general fare increase which became effective last May. Revenue passenger miles for the third quarter were down 9.1 per cent from the 1970 corresponding quarter. Cargo ton miles (freight, mail and express) were up 7 per cent. For the nine months passenger miles decreased 7.5 per cent compared with 1970. Cargo ton miles were down 2.7 per cent Apart from general business conditions, Carlson said that Uniteds traffic declines reflected unilateral schedule reductions in uneconomic markets and the fragmentation of certain important markets, owing to route awards made to competing carriers in recent years. As a further factor, he said that traffic in the third quarter of last year was increased by a prolonged strike against a competing carrier. UALs other operating subsidiary, Western International Hotels Company, report nine month net earnings of $1,595,000 and $2,384,000 for the same period in 1970. I Michigan Court Backs Judicial Finance Power Court has LANSING, MICH. (ACCN) cases involving disputes between judges and county officials. One case was a rehearing of the Third Judicial Circuit v. the Wayne County Board of Supervisors, Wayne County Auditor and Treasurer. The other, involved the judges of the 74th Judicial District v. Bay County officials, the Michigan Employment The Michigan Supreme declared that under Michigans "one Mountain Gear Firm court of justice concept, judges in Mountaineer Products Internalhe states courts have inherent tional has grown into a manufactur- powers under the Stale Constitution ing company with more than 100 to compel local units of government employees in Manti, Utah. :to pay the necessary costs of court In addition to sleeping bags, tents, hiking packs, down parkas operations. The Court, however, to guard and down vests, Mountaineer now against all possibility of abuse of the gears a large percent of its prowill require judges to contracts authority duction to fill government chutes. obtain for aircraft deacceleration approval of the Supreme is of the company Court Administrator of any writ or President Ellsworth. K. other orders of expenditure of public Stephen funds for court purposes. Hotel Construction has of The Court issued opinion in two Inns Inc., America, Royal broken ground for the $4.5 million complex that will rise south of the Salt Palace. The building is located on an site on the comer of Second South and West Temple. Completion is scheduled for January, 1972. Fishing Rod Firm and Appellant Spanish - Capsules - lV&-ac- re SCANDRETT, Plaintiff Must Post Ballot INDUSTRY 12-sto- ry Habeas Corpus Denied TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1971 CITY, UTAH Cache Valley Fishing Tackle Company is located at 50 East 10th North in Logan. The plant will be affiliated with a fiberglass fishing rod manufacturing firm headquartered in Loveland, Colorado. Production has started with 15 workers. An employment figure of about 85 is expected to be reached within two years.' ' V. M. Bennett will supervise the startup phase in Utah. Truck Wash Union. Unemployed Crisis Areas Reach High Three WASHINGTON (UPI) more major urban areas have been added to the list of cities with substantial unemployment of 6 per cent or more but two others were removed, raising the total to a high of 65. The labor department said October 28 that the job list rates of three metropolitan areas in Ohio 10-ye- Canton, ar and Lorain-Elyri- a went above Youngstown-Warrethe 6 per cent rate, but unemployment dropped below that mark South for two cities in Indiana Bend and Terre Haute. The unemployment decline in Teire Haute was credited to increased jobs in fabricated metals, machinery and other durables, plus a gradual decrease in the number of people in the work force of the area. The eight smaller areas added to the substantial unemployment list were McRae, Ga.; Farmington and Batten, Maine; Northumberland-StratforN.H.; Silver City, N.M.; Sulphur, Okla.; and Morgan and Vernal, Utah. n The first high speed truck washing facility in the Intermountain Region was announced by Truckers 66, Inc., to be located at 4255 S. 2nd West Lagoon Sets Record According to Lagoon Corporation officials, the season just ended was the greatest in Lagoons history. 20 percent of their patronage 200,000 persons) came from out of state. The company is now making plans for new attractions to be added for the 1972 season. 76-ye- ar Steel Costs Up After New Labor Contract n its WASHINGTON (ACCN) -Inew of first full month operation, the steel labor contract negotiated at the end of July boosted domestic steel employment costs by more than 82 cents an hour, according to American Iron and Steel Institute. But AISI also reported that the same month saw a drop of nearly 70,000 in total industry employment and those workers still on the job were averaging less than 30 hours of work per week. Highlights of the Institutes steel industry monthly employment report include: Total employment costs per hour by hourly employees: $8.77 per hour in August, 1971, compared with $5.68 average for 1970. The employee benefits included in the figure (pensions, insurance, supplemental unemployment benefits, the nonpayroll portion of savings and vacation plans and legally required payroll taxes) are partly estimated. Average hours worked per week by wage earners: 26.1 hours in August, 1971, compared with 35.0 hours in July and 38.2 hours in June. The above data cover only employees engaged in production and marketing of steel and exclude in companies mining and non-stesuch having operations. el Relations Commission, and the Allied and Technical Workers non-electric- al d, - A recent NEW YORK (ACCN) proposal to provide some of this con- trolled doses of heroin has set off a storm of controversy in the metropolis, Attack, the publication of the stale narcotic control program, reports. The initial plan proposed by the Vera Institute to the Mayors Narcotics Control Council would administer the drug to 300 hardtreatment-resistan- t adult addicts who could rot be reached by any other program. Both advocates and opponents of the plan have pointed to the British heroin clinics as evidence for their one side calling them a positions success and the other charging them a failure. The question of racism arose when Rep. Charles Rangel of Harlem called the proposed program a cruel hoax, a vicious conspiracy and a colonialist type of thinking in dealing with the native's problems. t an injunction preventing the Michigan Employment Relations Commission from holding hearings on unfair labor practice charges filed by the union against the judges and the county. The Supreme Court has upheld Judge Engels ruling, with modifications. The Court has ordered that the injunction against MERC be dissolved, on the basis that MERC, adwhile it has ministrative duties to perform, has no enforcement powers, and must rely on the courts for this. The Court said that state law fact-findin- g, establishing duties of MERC does not encroach upon the constitutional and inherent powers of the judiciary and, therefore, under the philsolphy of judicial restraint this Court accedes to the jurisdiction of the Michigan Employment Relations Commission. . . In addition, the opinion, written by E. Brennan, that the specified Bay County Board Proposal Stirs New York Storm core, under the collective bargaining agreement. Judge Engel also issued Justice Thomas Hecion Dosage citys narcotic addicts with In the Wayne County case, the circuit judges in 1968 asked for a court order to force the county to hire probation officers, research clerks and a judicial assistant. The Supreme Court's opinion gives county officials 60 days to follow through on the court's order. The Bay County case began in June, 1970 when the 74lh district judges went to circuit court on the issue of whether the county employees union could bargain for court employees. The then Muskegon Circuit Judge Albert Engel, assigned to Bay County to hear the case ruled that the court employees were not county employees, and were not covered of Commissioners had entered into an or closed shop agreement with the union, which is illegal. all-uni- on 25 of New York Hospital Patients Termed Alcoholics A Health NEW YORK (UPI) Services Administration official said October 28 that 25 per cent of the patients in New York City hospitals but few were were alcoholics being treated for their alcoholism. David Hapgood, special assistant c state to HSA, told an committee assembly hearing on "victimless" crimes that municipal ad-ho- hospitals turn away alcoholics seeking treatment, preferring instead to treat the "consequences of alcoholism cirrhosis of the liver, broken legs, stab wounds and tuberculosis at a cost of $100 million a year. He said programs for alcoholics at municipal hospitals and private institutions reach only two per cent of the estimated 300,000 alcoholics in the city. b |