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Show WESTERMERi 'N Serials P'1 Order Oepartaent f Utah University 84112 'l City VOLUME 17, NUMBER 175 Oil To i SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Institute Calls on Nader Mount Suit The consumer WASHINGTON (UPI) oil industry has urged vocate Ralph Nader to back up in a court of. law his charge that the oil industry has deliberately created a short-terenergy crisis in order to get what it wants out of Washington." The American Petroleum Institute, a major oil industry trade association, on September 10 termed Can the Government Tell a Newspaper What to Publish ? Supreme Court Decisions Environmental opposition to such necessary projects as the Alaska pipeline, offshore drilling and refinery construction is one of the factors responsible for the current situation, but the basic cause has been years of indecision over national energy policies. Nader said the short-terenergy shortage was a clearly political crisis. and nonsense If the restrictions on the imNaders charge stale nonsense, at that. portation of cheap foreign oil were "If Mr. Nader has facts to back lifted there would not be a shortup his charge as a citizen he should term energy crisis, Nader said. present the information to a grand jury. If he has no such proof, he is doing the public a disservice by adding to the confusion surrounding the energy issue. In a UPI interview, September 9, Nader said there is no question that the oil industry has been New-Mad- e calculatively developing a short term energy crisis in order to get what it wants out of Washington. The industry hoped ,tq use the crisis to open the Alaskan oil fields to development, drive out independent refineries and gasoline LOS ANGELES (ACCN) The retailers, and win the right to standing of adult students, those develop offshore oil on its own newly enfranchised by terms, Nader said. Constitutional amendments and The API said the energy shortage state law, is the subject of revisions is real and it will not go away to the Los Angeles student handbook anytime soon." "Student Rights and ResponHie present shortage is the result sibilities." of skyrocketing consumer demand for oil products at a time when the Hie revisions were approved, to increase efforts supindustrys September 6, by the city board of plies of oil and natural gas are being education and included other thwarted by forces outside the in- revisions dealing with police on dustry. campus and student body funds. ad- m i i. r.- - ' School Handbook Covers ii Adult Students - V "We view these revisions as a Welfare Mothers Must Reveal Other Parent - A three-judg-e (UPI) in federal court Connecticut HARTFORD furtherance of the handbook's ultimate goal namely the greatest amount of freedom commensurate said with adult responsiblity, Superintendent of Schools William J. Johnston. The student handbook, adopted last year after two years of study, did not take into account the effects of recent legislation granting limited has ruled that unwed welfare adulthood to persons ;i 5 ' i ; I? ft Si 1 See details page 3. m or mothers must disclose the identity of older, said Dr. Johnston. the childs father or be held in The new guidelines would clarify contempt of court. the relationship between the school In a majority opinion written by Chief U.S. District Court Judge M. and the adult student, although there is no significant change beJoseph Blumenfeld, the court, tween the two. September 6, upheld the validity of a state law wherein a mother can be Four of the ten guidelines held in contempt of court, fined $200 recognize the emancipated status of and jailed up to one year if she does the These four are as not identify her childs father. follows: "It is essential to make certain 1. Adult students that all legally responsible parents may sign field waivers and consent slips.' of sufficient means make their trip Parental is no longer approval appropriate contribution to the required. support to their children, Blumenfeld said, in quoting the U.S. 2. Adult students may sign their Senate finance committee. own verification of absence. Lawyers representing 15 mothers 3. An adult student "may threatened with the laws sanctions authorize release of personal inhad argued that in many cases the formation about himself pursuant to welfare department was after the Education Code. fathers who could not possibly 4. Adult students are financially provide support for their children. law the was responsible for loss or damage to They charged that forcing mothers off the welfare rolls. books and equipment. The lawyers also said a similar The other six points restate the mothers from statute preventing relationships between the school and getting state aid unless they first all students regarding such items as revealed the paternity of their smoking, parental notification and illegitimate child had been ruled conference, suspension, on and off unconstitutional by another three-judg-e campus movement and physical federal panel. education. Training Group Sues Brennan Over U.S. Funds BOSTON (UPI) A non-prof- it manpower training organization has filed suit in U.S. District Court against Labor Secretary Peter J, Brennan, charging him and his regional administrator for New England with misallocation of. $4 million in federal manpower funds. The suit against Brennan and Lawrence W. Rogers, assistant regional manpower director for the Department of Labor, was announced, September 6, by Robert M. Coard, executive director of Action for Boston Community Development. The suit alleges that Brennan and Rogers misallocated funds intended by Congressional appropriation for urban and rural poor areas of Massachusetts by earmarking the money for the affluent suburbs. said the formulas Coard "represent a cheap and blatant search for political support for the Nixon Administration in the suburbs at the expenses of the legitimate needs of the cities. According to Coard, the new Bostons reduced formulas allocation from $10 million to $6 million. At the same time, the allocation for the city of Newton increased from $63,000 to $630,000. "We have charged that Secretary of Labor Peter Brennan and his regional manpower administor, Lawrence W. Rogers, are illegally attempting to carry out this new Nixon game plan, Coard said, "and we seek immediate relief from this capricious, illegal and devious teamwork. Philadelphia Tax on Airline Travel Voided - The PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Pennsylvania Supreme Court, citing the federal governments con- stitutional authority over interstate commerce, has ruled un- constitutional Philadelphia's $3 tax on departing airline passengers. Hie court ruled on an appeal brought by 12 major airlines who maintained the city's tax ordinance was unjustifiable and THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1973 un- constitutional. The court's decision reversed a common pleas court ruling which struck down the levy on arriving passengers but permitted a tax on those departing the city. Can the government tell a newspaper what to publish? Any first year law student could answer that question. Crane to think of.il, most anyone could. . . including these fourth graders who pay attention to their civics lessons. The answer is no. The First Amendment provides for freedom of the press. Just as the First Amendment creates separation of Church and State, it creates separation of Press and Stale. Any reasonably intelligent person knows that. Unfortunately, six members of the Florida Supreme Court do not. The Tallahassee Six recently upheld a 1913 law which gives political candidates who are disfavored by a newspaper a right to equal space. As we commented in an earlier column, these six jurists, by voting in favor of the government telling a newspaper what it is to Perspectives. By Roger M. Grace publish, scrapped the First Amendment. Here follow some footnotes to that column. MASSACHUSETTS DISAGREES-T- he members of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, unlike six of their Florida brethren, are aware of the dictates of the First Amendment. The state legislature recently asked them if it could pass a law requiring a newspaper to publish any and all rebuttal political advertisements. (The newspapers would be paid for their space, hence thislaw would he considerably less objectionable than the Florida statute). Last month, the court gave its answer: no. Hie seven justices were in agreement that enactment of the bill "instead of achieving a fairer dissemination of political advertising, may produce the chilling effect of discouraging newspapers and the other affected publications from accepting any political advertisements. A newspaper or other publication of general circulation may decide to publish no political advertisements on an election issue rather than expose itself to a commitment to publish all responsive advertisements." This line of reasoning would be even more persuasive as applied to the Florida statute. Political coverage and endorsements would be curtailed sharply if the "equal space" ruling were to stand. (We doubt that it will). Incidentally, one of the seven members of the Massachusetts high court is Chief Justice Paul C. Reardon, author of the "Reardon Report." This report was a set of "fair trial-fre- e press" standards, adopted by the American Bar Assn, in 1968 and widely criticized for putting far too little emphasis on free press. CRANSTON COMMENTS One reader of our last column on the Florida Supreme Court ruling was U.S. Sen. Alan Cranston, He wrote: "We who have been watching recent developments are not a bit surprised by the Florida case. It is a logical reductio ad absurdum or should I say, reductio of the continuing violation of the spirit of the First Amendment that we have for years tolerated, and indeed encouraged, throqgh government regulation of radio and television. "We must get radio and television INTO the First Amendment and the government OUT of the First Amendment." Cranston said he Would "fully expect" intensified efforts "by the; government and the courts to control the press." In our earlier column, we mentioned that the chief CORRECTION of was Florida justice recently criticized by the Miami Herald for a letter he wrote to the stale? parole board. The Miami Herald was defendant in the "equal space" case. We identified the chief justice as Vassar Carlton. Carlton is the present' chief justice, but the letter-write- r was B.K. of the Roberts (who entered a specially-concurrin- g Justices opinion). Florida Supreme Court serve as chief justice on a rotating basis, and Roberts had his turn at the helm immediately preceding Carlton. TOP PRIORITY According io Editor & Publisher (trade magazine for the newspaper industry), the new National News Council will' undertake as its first order of business an examination of the Florida decision. William Arthur, executive director of the council, is quoted as saying he hopes this will allay journalists' concern that the panel's, sole function will be to judge the merits of complaints against the news media. Indeed there has been a concern that the council will be a "news media review board." In these times when the press is being bullied with gag orders and contempt citations, the press has enough to cope with without a review board Monday morning quarterbacking. If the council does, in fact, intend to concentrate equal attention on acts by the three branches of government, at the slate and federal levels, which pose a threat to freedom of the press, thats darned good news. once-controvers- if. anli-Constiluti- ial |