| Show Logan Utah Wednesday August 6 1924 hud ‘ ' open Demo Utah-ldah- o news roundup y - SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Third District Court Judge Jay Banks says he will not close pretrial hearings in the case of accused killer John M Calhoun until he is convinced such closures are vital to protect the defendant’s right to a fair trial Attorneys for the Calhoun for several news agencies and for the prosecution argued the closure motions Tuesday before Banks Defense lawyer Brack Lubeck said some portions of the pretrial proceedings should be closed to reporters and the public since publicity about evidence in the case could prejudice potential jurors That evidence concerns blood samples eyewitness identification items seized at the defendant’s home and statements allegedly made by Calhoun to police officers he said Calhoun and Larry Scott Webb are accused of killing Salt Lake City businessman 0 Thayne Acord and his wife Lorraine at their Granger home on March 23 Acord was part-ownof the Salt Lake Golden Eagles of the Central Hockey League Attorneys representing the news agencies said lawyers could argue the suppression motions in open court without revealing any specifics of the evidence For example they said arguments on the admissibility of blood samples could be made without discussing the actual results of those blood tests Gardeners grow spuds - MOSCOW Idaho (UPI) In the marketplace of Idaho potatoes there are few men like Kirk McClarnan and Bill Peterson both armed with time in one hand a hoe in the other and a conviction to grow the best spud possible “You can’t beat the potatoes raised up here’’ said Peterson gazing around from the middle of McClarnan’s six-acvegetable patch four miles north of Moscow The two insist their garden is no more than a hobby adding that there’s a big difference between regular Idaho potatoes — grown in the state’s irrigated southern region — and their northern “dry land" spud The northern potato said McClarnan is bigger firmer and tastier Much rhetoric has been mouthed over the years about what constitutes a real Idaho potato There have been many imitations of the Gem State spud with stories about potatoes grown in other states and passed off in distant markets as Idaho’s finest re Voters may decide - (UPI) The Salt Lake has reluctantly office Attorney's County agreed to draft a resolution calling for elimination of the county commission in favor of a council form of government Commissioners William Hutchinson and members of Robert Salter both lame-duc- k the three-ma- n panel Tuesday asked for the resolution the first step in sending the proposal to the voters for approval Chief Deputy County Attorney Roger Livingston said it would be drafted but warned that a hastily written proposal might be rejected by the voters Hutchinson and Salter said a elected council which would work with an appointed county manager would give people a greater say in how the county is governed The council members would come from specific areas The present commissioners are elected at large SALT LAKE CITY five-memb-er Lambert levels charge - SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) State Democratic Chairman Dale Lambert says GOP gubernatorial candidate Robert Wright is “trying to blow the lid off reasonable limits on campaign spending Lambert Tuesday said Wright’s successful legal effort to have the Utah campaign spending law declared invalid is “certainly inconsistent with his claim to be a fiscal conservative" A Third District Court judge Monday agreed with the Republican tandidate that the spending law is unconstitutional because it violates guarantees of free speech Judge Dean Conder’s ruling means Wright can spend more than the $110000 allowed for media expenses under the statute “In a year when everyone is talking about holding down spending it is incredible to me that the Republican candidate for governor has sought to blow the lid off the campaijpi media spending limitation" Lambert said He said Wright’s lawsuit was “a Republican effort to buy the election" Lambert said the Legislature adopted the limit on media expenditures in order to “put a rational lid on spending and to limit the influence of large money interests on state-wid- e races” (UPI) -- NEW YORK The Judge refuses to close trial 'S’ convention the last time Party had Democratic national an "open" convention it only took 17 days to nominate a presidential candidate and he turned out to be one of the all time big losers of the 20th century An Eastern Catholic governor was the leading i0WJ-ff®l?-FGfl- PROVO Utan rufl) — A recent near riot at the Saragota Resort has prompted Utah orCounty Sheriff Mac Holley to ask for an in beer of sale the kegs dinance outlawing Holley said Tuesday that “free flowing kegslielped fuel a fracas beer" from at out broke that Saratoga last month after a power failure halted a rock concert Angry concert-goer- s hurled rocks and bottles at the about $4000 damage to the caused and stage resort The Utah County Attorney’s office is studying a similar ordinance passed in Cache County a year ago and a beer keg ban imposed in Weber County this summer DD contender for the nomination when that convention began in steaming weather on June main His 24 sorry no mail or phone orders opposition came from the Protestant candidate of the agricultural states especially the rural and small town South After two weeks the convention realized it was deadlocked and all delegates were released from their commitments beginning with the 83rd ballot The "open" convention that followed needed 21 more ballots and another week to settle on a candidate It ended July 10 The beneficiary of this exercise in self-mutilati- went on to win 28 percent of the popular vote carrying 12 states with 136 electoral votes The Republican 35 candidate carried states with 382 electoral votes and 54 percent of the popular vote John W Davis of West Virginia was the unlucky winner that year A1 Smith of New York and William Gibbs McAdoo of California were the contenders who caused the deadlock which really was rooted in a struggle for party supremacy between Democrats representing the conflicting interests of Eastern and Northern big cities and Southern and Western small towns and farms It is only a coincidence that the 103-ball- ot Democratic convention 56 summers ago was held in New York City's Madison Square Garden and that the 1980 meeting will be held in the same city in an arena of the same name The present glossy Garden is twice removed from the rococo steam chamber in which 1098 delegates sweated from June 24 through July 10 in 1924 And New York which then was in its prime now is struggling for survival in a sea of debt The Democratic Party also has undergone some extensive renovation — patching up its classic urban-rur- al North-Sout- h split in 1932 and holding the White House in all but 16 of the ensuing 48 years That patch job known as the Roosevelt has shown some serious cracks in recent years but the Democrats still were able to elect a Roman Catholic president in 1960 and a Southern farmer in 1976 All of that being said there is an element of deja vu in the 1980 situation In 1924 there was a deadlock because vote it took a coalition two-thir- ds to nominate a presidential candidate If that was the rule today President Carter would not have enough votes to win By trying to defeat a proposed rale that would compel delegates to rote for the candidate to whom they were pledged in the party caucuses and primaries last spring Sen Edward Kennedy hopes to create a situation in which Carter loses the majority votes he has of 300-pl- Holley asks beer ban zomi coming into the convention If he can deny Carter a first ballot victory Kennedy feels he can win on the second or later ballot But some of the Democrats who have rallied to the “open convention" banner are saying they aren't for Kennedy Names like Secretary of State Edmund Muskie Sen Henry Jackson and Rep Morris Udall have been as mentioned to both the alternatives president and the senator 1980 The Herald Journal —3 |
