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Show It J.r P:l -- i Uth Unlv?r,ity PoriMl'.-- calt WESTERN . Lt:keCity P Wsl, AMER1CM ApRl6 t ..112 H 1973 teKlALi tiLa, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOLUME 17, NUMBER 71 Economic Periscope Mail Rates Utah Supreme Court Decision Capsule FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1973 Said Threat ByLeeRuwttch Miami Review PREMIUMS: THE GAME Bank executives have a dim view of taken generally as being undignified. On premiums -PWASHINGTON (UPI) the other hand, S&Ls have used second-clas- s rate postage roposed premiums as a way of offsetting increases for publications could deposit account losses to d full service" banks. Hence, price daily newspapers out of the reach of rural customers," a. a ban on premiums would be more newspaper organization official said devastating to S&Ls. Wednesday. Ralph Roth, president of the People have moved their money Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald and around in pursuit of housewares. officer of the American Newspaper GIVE-AWA- Y Press To U.S. retail-minde- Gasoline Market, Defendant and Respondent Trial Court: Plaintiff failed to show delivery of oil. purport to be recSupreme Court: Affirmed. . . . Exihibits Union of Railroad Pacific ords the but the exhibits are illegible and have no value as a part of the record. Plaintiff counsel: Golden W. Robins, Newhouse Bldg. Defendant counsel: Paul M. Cotro-ManeJudge Bldg. See details page .... s, 1 2 Law Teachers Differ on Limit Mental Plea To . ANN ARBOR A University of Michigan authority on criminal law maintains that President Nixon's proposal to abolish insanity as a defense against murder and related federal crimes is a shallow appeal to the public." But another U-law the professor says proposal may have some merit. Prof. Yale Kamisar, the criminal law authority, said the Presidents proposal would have little effect on the large number of defendants who are declared incompetent to stand trial and who spend many years in mental institutions before they are found mentally competent. Kamisar said President Nixons proposal also lacks substance because the insanity defense has emerged largely as an alternative to M the death penalty, which was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1972 U-- M ruling. In many jurisdictions," said the it makes little professor, difference whether a convicted murderer is sent to a prism or a mental institution, since both settings offer equally restrictive environments. But David Chambers, a U-- M law professor who has written extensively on legal rights of the mentally ill, said he would support the Presidents proposal if it were accompanied by a plan to upgrade psychiatric programs at the nations prisons. major effect of the insanity defense over the years, according to Chambers, is that some of the most dangerous criminals have been incarcerated in mental hospitals rather than in prisons." Both Chambers and Kamisar agree it is unlikely that President TV Nixons proposal would be upheld by todays Supreme Court, in light of a previous Supreme Court ruling maintaining that a defendant could not be subject to criminal sanctions ATLANTA (UPI) Police here if he could prove he was not have requested that a responsible for his actions at the boy admitted killing a time of the crime. of a woman in television murder mystery he had seen two weeks earlier. Robert Earl Thompson was charged March 31, with the murder of Cathy Louise Freer, whose nude body was found on her bed, bludgeoned and with her throat slashed. Detective W.F. Perkins said Thompson told him he replayed the whole movie. He remembered it down to the last detail, including the AMSTERDAM (UPI) Eugene suspect calling police. V. Rostow, undersecretary of state I saw the picture myself, and the in the Johnson Administration, told crime scene looked exactly like the a conference on the Western one in the picture. And he told me I Alliance, March 27, that the world is reminded him of Telly Savalas, the not splitting into blocks but' is actor who played the detective," becoming so tightly integrated that Perkins said. it may soon have no alternative but a As in the movie, he said, Thompgenuine peace." son called police to report he had Rostow, now a law professor at He was discovered the body. Yale University, cited the new charged with murder a few hours friendship between mainland later. China and the United States "the In the movie, "The Marcus-Nelso- n most fundamental and most hopeful Murders, a man kills two girls and development in the world political an effort is made to convict an insystem since 1949. who is a convicted nocent man Striking a more pessimistic note, rapist of the murders. an adviser to President Nixon and a Miss Freer, a psychiatric aide, British professor warned the had recently moved to a new apartdelegates that the West faces a ment after a murder took place on .serious problem in maintaining its the street in front of her former supplies of oil from Middle East, residence. Boy A Publishers Association (ANPA), said that in many cases newspapers destined for mail delivery to rural customers dont even see the inside of a post office. The U.S. Postal Service has proposed rate increases in excess of 170 per cent" over a period of five years, Roth said, at a time when there is very definitely" a deterioration in mail service. He testified at a House Post Office Subcommittee hearing. "Service is so poor we wont have any circulation (beyond the locality) in a short period of time, Roth - said. Through the.. ANPA, he comes in contact with representatives of 90 to 95 per cent of the newspapers and he has never heard a statement that the mail service has improved, he said. im--medi- ate - World Not Due For Bloc Era, Rostow Says - Unimportant ANN HARBOR, MICH. - about our high schools. Quite simply, the study found that after much effort spent measuring and analyzing them to changes in - peoples achievement, socialization, and personal growth, the resulting data failed to show that any of the characteristics of the schools seemed to make an appreciable difference for students. Syllabus SALYER LAND CO. et al. v. TULARE WATER DISTRICT APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA No. 71-14- 56. Argued January 8, 1973 Decided March 20, 1973 i Appellee district exists for the purpose of acquiring, storing, and distributing water for farming in the Tulare Lake Basin. Only landowners are qualified to elect the districts board of directors, votes being apportioned according to the assessed valuation of the lands. A three-judDistrict Court, against challenge by appellants, held that the limitation of the franchise to landowners comported with equal protection requirements. Held: 1. Restricting the voters to landowners who may or may not be residents does not violate the principle enunciated in such cases as Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U. S. 533, and Kramer v. Union School District, 395 U. S. 621, that governing bodies should be selected in a popular election in which every persons vote is equal. Pp. (a) The activities of appellee district fall so disproportionately on landowners as a group that it is not unreasonable that the statutory framework focuses on the land benefited, rather than on people as such. Pp. (b) Although appellee district has some governmental powers, it provides none of the general public services ordinarily attributed to a governing body. Pp. 0. 2. Since assessments against landowners are the sole means by which expenses of appellee district are paid, it is not irrational to repose the franchise in landowners but not residents. Pp. 11-3. The exclusion of lessees from voting does not violate the lessees interest may Equal Protection Clause since the short-terbe substantially less than that of a landowner and, the franchise being exercisable by proxy, other lessees may negotiate to have the franchise included in their leases. Pp. 4. 4. Weighing the vote according to assessed valuation of the land does not evade the principle that wealth has no relation to voter ge 6-- 11. 6-- 10. 9-1- 12. m 13-1- qualifications where, as here, the expense proportional to the lands assessed value. 342 F. Supp. 144, affirmed. a& well as Pp. 14-1- has succumbed to politically-servin- g economic controls. What hypocricy ! Phase III is not really voluntary. As a result, prime rate customers become customers. simply prime-plus- " S&Ls ARE BOUND to gain more first changes. Interest bearing Recent evidence gathered by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan raises some profound and disturbing questions young THE PRIME RATE is now more of a political yardstick than a credit standard. The free marketplace powers in the years ahead. Broader lending powers will be among the SUPBEME COUBT OF THE UNITED STATES Reenacted Murder Plot, Police Report School Factors The game of musical chairs sometimes becomes a game of musical money and the practice is counterproductive. Some customers would rather have a good premium than a higher rate on their savings account. Anyone likes something which seems to cost nothing. But do they respect this practice? the benefit is 5. to forbidden checking accounts, been launched by a Worcester, Mass, mutual saving bank. The Hunt Commission proposals will offer the S&Ls demand deposit, consumer lending and credit card powers. THE FEDERAL RESERVE said that Monetary expansion in 1973 will be more restrained than during 1972. This policy is likely to exert upward pressure on interest rates. DURING 1972 EXPORTS rose 14 percent but the value of imports rose 22 percent. Petroleum imports alone rose from $3.7 billion in 1971 to $4.7 billion in 1972. Inflation must be controlled if we are to improve our balance of trade. By 1960 we could be importing in excess of $25 billion in commercial banks, has HIGH INTEREST RATES and tight money theoretically should keep dollars at home and encourage inflow of dollars from overseas. But a credit crunch and recession will not solve the international payments deficit. Only improved productivity along with a sane monetary and fiscal policy will help. Inflation must be controlled if we are to prevent a boom-busequence. st PURCHASING AUTO TIRES is usually a frustrating, confusing experience with glib salesmen and puzzling price lists and labels. Now the Department of Transportation hopes to establish standards and rating to be molded on the tires sidewall. THE SUDDEN SURGE in rents is drawing heavy fire and now the Recontrol Rents". Some cry:: states and cities already are moving to impose local ceilings just weeks after federal regulations under Phase II were lifted. SPECULATION with little business become has big COMMODITY federal regulation. More unsophisticated investors go into commodity trading, where action is fast and furious. 'Far and Above Rubies Is the Price Thereof' - CLEVELAND (UPI) Cuyahoga Common Court Pleas County Judge Harry T. Marshall has told a former dishwasher charged with stealing 77 pounds of sirloin steak that meat has become jewels." more precious than William R. Symre, 54, a former employe of an Independence, Ohio, restaurant, was charged with Rehnquist, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Burger, C. J., and Stewart, White, Blackmun, and Powell, JJ., joined. Douglas, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Brennan and Marshall, JJ., joined. stealing the steaks from the restaurant. Society will not countenance the of meat which has apparently theft , become more precious thn jewels," |