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Show byJensen Some Thoughts By An Orem Man Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah Page 26—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah Sunday, January 16, 1972, Judicial Building: It’sNeeded million in bonds for constructionof a new judicial security building. Final word apparently won't be knownuntil after a Monday hearing in Fourth District Court on a suit filed bya group ofcitizens seeking to delaythevote at least 60 days. Utah County officials plan the new structure just east of the existing County Building — modern of design, yet harmonizing with the neo-classic architecture of the latter. A corridor will connect the two buildings. The newstructure would house the sheriff's department, county clerk, county attorney, covrtrooms, judges’ offices, etc., with ine third floor reserved for county jail plus rehabilitation and other related facilities The bond also would provide for updating facilities in the existing County Building, whose space would be reaiiocated, grouping all county offices which today overflow into five or so other buildings. County Officials call the expansion a “‘must’’ to relieve over-crowdedness. The opposition citizens group, organized less than two weeks ago in an 11th hour bid to block the project as proposed, pins its court case primarily on the allegation that the county acted illegally in hiring a public relations firm to promote “only the affirmative side” of the case, and on a claim that the notice of election was defective. Opposers say they favor new jail facilities but feel these should be located elsewhere, separate from the county offices; they also object to. ° {the proposed bond and dispute county claims that the new facility would deter crime. The Herald has endeavored to keep the public informed on all developments, pro and con, in connection with the proposed , oject. As for our own view, we bu ‘eve the new Lcilding is needed, and thatthe need will get more acute with the years. Utah County, secondlargest in the state, is destined for continued growth. requiring more agencies, space, andfacilities. In our opinion, to merely reshuffle existing space would be a stop-gap measureatbest, only delaying the inevitable — a building program. The 1.9 mills allocated three years agofor building purposes will not be increased, county commissioners havepledged. This has been used to date to purchase landeast of First Eastfor parking, and for architect's fees. It is calculated to rover the annual bond payments over the 20- a Just thought I'd write and let you know, Just thought Ta write and let you know, didn't you know. You sure put up a fuss about a we k ago. By the way,if you don’t is among the lowest in the state, thanks to good planning und economy-minded county officials When they said you might haveto go. —_| burned mydraft card, "ll never make over the years.Only five of Utah's 29 Many men have died today, Utah County currently 1s debtfree, and its total tax levy of 11 mills cae cent pay boost would add another Approximately the same time this report went to the Labor Department, COPE submitted figures to the Clerk of the House of Representatives on what the AFi-CIO political organization spent in the 1970 Congressional and state elections — a whooping $969,328. Two significant unreported facts stand out regarding this hefty clectioneering ex(1) 1970 was not a national election year; “he races were entirely local. (2) The nearly one million dollars spent for labor-backed candidates does notinclude COPE’s bountiful payroll — approximately one-half million for the 19 top executives and an unknown amount for an unknown number of lesser employees. Knowledgeable union sources say COPE’s total payroll tops $750,000. ‘That would mean thatin 1970, a so-called “bi-election” year, the AFL-CIO spent upwards of $1.7 raillion in politicking. JustaStarter me ’sa ' highly indicative tip-off on what 4 It sure gets cold and dark over here. counties have a lower levy — Box Elder, Millard, Sevier, Summit and I'm afraid mytimeis near. mills; Weber's, 19.65. Neighboring Something's moving — I can't quite see, Uintah. Salt Lake’s levy is 21.82 I wonder what or who Wasatch County’s levy is 18.75, Juab’s 13 mills. Perhaps we'll never have a more favorable opportunity to build, tax levy-wise. We oppose debt without pose at an early date. If word comes thatthe election is still on, then be sure to vote Tuesday. The polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. A heavy vote will insure that the outcomewill be the true will of the people. ES p organized labor can be expected to spend in this year’stense national election — with both the Presidency and control of the next Congress at stake. Unionites estimate the amount conservatively at around $5 million — — almost all of it in behelf of Democrats! Revealingly illustrative of organized labor’s determination to exert a powerful financial cloutin this year’s campaign are the fund-raising drives for this purpose. les: The 800,000-member Machinists union is tapping its ranks for a $5 “voluntary” contribution; and the American Federation of State, County ard Municipal Employees is doing the samething for thefirst time. Betweenthese two unions alone, well over a half milliondollars is sure to flood into the political kitty — to be spent as the organizations’ leaders decide. Sen. Paul Fannin, R.-Ariz., indignantly charges that’s illegal, on the ground it is “involuntary use of union dues for political purposes.” The formerArizona governoralso assials cope for not includingits full payroll in the 1970report on its political expenditures to the House of Representatives. “Just where are the funds coming from to paythe salaries of the 19 high-salaried COPE officials, to say nothing about the other employees who earn less than $10,000 a year?” demanded Fannin. “One can only assume the money camefrom the AFL-CIO general fund. And that func comes from the dues of union members — most of whose dues are compulsory. Workers are being forced Oe if they wantto work and support eir system.” 4 my right, God help me, don’t let me die tonight. T'm moving now,it’s time Consolidation ofCity, to fight, By PAULHARVEY Will they run school buses to School busing for the and from suburbia next? of race mixing cannot acWe're going to find out. complish that purpose if the Richmond is the capital of whole city is one color. Virginia, geographically and Letters to Editor GoodFacilities Figure In Control of Crime Editor Herald: Some of our fellow Utah County citizens have asked how anew security building can to contro} crime. We could ask the same gro to time are designi pet) protection to the efforts to comply with Something’s moving, I can’t quite see, Oh yes, we turned the lights out for a che I see them now, ‘what. a sight, aid fi real T'm joining them now,the is right, The pot is working fast Heart Catheter Samples Blood it crime control device complish the purpose of that law, that all they did was to As for the courts, certainly the “hastenthe flight of whites to inadequate and crowded con- the suburbs.” Give Proposal Much Study People Should SeekFull Facts on County Proposal money to build an access road members of the United States between the pipe mill road and suoreme Court is Lewis Powell, Save your money. It's aboutall you can do with the stuff any more. " ee Dr. Lawrence Lamb there? It isan the law have failed to ac- hemeetlipopwih od i eo 8 nice back here, black. provide proper to protect us, to isolate ditions in which these people So now that city’s board of reoteCae to Tust perform their duties does education is court-testing a provide speedy handling of Dear Dr. Lamb — Would criminal hice T feel that the p every city and suburb in the you explain heart cathimportant to demon: eterization? What are the intion: consolidation. provides a proper ” strate that will not building dications for having it done? solution not only to the above ie au nae cals for te law! Does it act as a treatment? mentic” problems but also to consolidating city subur Dear Reader—A catheter those of many other depart- schools, This accomplished, the fleet of yellow buses would then is a hollow tube. The end of ments of our county hollow tube is slipped as well. I urge my fellow citizens Tisscross county lines, bringing the a vein, usually in the help do something about it white suburban students into the into mostly black city and vice versa. arm. ne the ynget increasingly larger as they a) Johnson Louis Lucas, an attorney with proach the heat rt the tube if Certainly our present jail Is 1941S, 250E. the NAACP’slegal defense fund, easily advanced along with not capable of containing Orem,Utah 84057 says, “It’s time to break down the bloodstream to top all walls and get all people of the heart where the two main veins enter the heart. together. Other cities are seeking, on The catheter can then their own, to consolidate city and pass,still in the direction of suburban schools. Detroit has the blood flow,into the right been court-ordered to devise lower chamber that pumps blood to the lungs. Still folsuch a plan. flow, the An Indianapolis judge is lowing the bl challenging the separateness of eatheter can be passed out the main arteryto the lungs. city and suburban schools. This artery continues to zs But Richmond,V2.,is the first do business and I've had to wait city to initiate a metro plan and branch out like a tree until Editor Herald: the arteries are so small the T’ve read quite a bit onthe pros from 20 minutes to a half hour then let the challengers catheter can go no farther. Count while the girls got their hair challenge in court. Uitiniately, I Anywhere along the route straightened up or manicured expect a Supreme Court decision a blood sample can be drawn outof the hollow tube, or the tube can be connected to a Had we been waited on so we theschool systems could complete our business, the boring counties would be device to measure the blood pressure at the tip of the t city the with crowd would have thinned out merged Also they profess that it will considerably. The total of 144,000 students catheter. Since the right heart practically stop all crime in the About white. percent 66 be would admit to first . I'm one of the umps only blue venous Countty. that we do reed a new county 35 percent of all students would hi , the amount of oxygen T'm one of the first to admit be bused toacross Ee be the icity line. Id be in the blood will be small. pletely inadequate, but 1 If there is a hole between chosen by a birthday lottery, the right and left heart (the ee thm com ene lar to the military draft. left heart pumps only red Tax rates would be deteroxygenated blood) the red update the one we have. The mill levy on your taxes nied ons a blood will squirt into the By PHIL PASTORET right heart and increase the probably not to for S¥bur! One debt we'd rather not theteldingTetwl jutrae more,city dwellers paying less. amount of oxygen in the blood. These problems and collect is from the guy who the evaluation on your property. Whenthe changes in the heart valves says he owes us a visit. ee 8 can cause changes in the Teen-agers uct foolishly blood pressure within only after you cease to be heart. ‘fle changes in the one. building when the cOM- “Angthis is interestingif not blood pressure and amount of oxygen in the blood ensay they haven't the ' icant: One of the newest able the doctor to determine the location and size of a hole that shouldn’t be there the Springville North exit. a formerchairman of the Rich- or the amount of damage. As for the new building mond, Va., board of sducaticn. To catheterize the left side In his home town, both sides of the heart, the catheter Boater a building say they are “counting on him.” must be passed through an We're getting our midwinter vacation. The boss is It isn’t the building. It is the going away for two weeks. A wise man is a fellow who doesn’t throw his weight around when it’s all he can do to carry it. to 6 The boss wouldn't raise us, even in the office poker game. eo If you have a soft job, don’t lie down on it. me go. It's warm & sunny all around, around, Men dying, have you People Grugged, ave you heard that sound? heard that sound? philosophically South if not Deep God, what's that burning Wha! What’s that burning South. But the school buses in my chest? pain in my arp, move back and forth across I'm dying now, with all Theysaidit’s heroin, Richmond without getting rest, fear no harm. burned or bombed. T've got blood on my T’ve got blood on my arm Nearlyhalf of the city’s 47,000 from where the needle public school-agers take a ride came out, twice a day. You see brave hero,that’s But Richmond’s schools whatmy life’s about. cannot be integreate 50-50 because only 30 percent of the I dunno, maybe Karl should have been a writer rather than a city’s population is white and fireman. On the other hand, why not both? Whatever, I'dlike to that percentage is shrinking. thank him for allowing me to reprinthis prose in today’s column. I Richmond lost 22 percentof its thought it was good! white student enrollment this year. Within three years atthis Have a nice day. rate the city will be 100 percent hardened type. an, it even Sealoffic expan ta at best. We marched on a 1 peas Ge Leeder % “Unions are not living upto the letter or the spirit of the laws regulating the use of dues and the reporting of funds spentin political activities. The reporting system is a sham. Union membersare being denied the right to know howtheir contributio.s are being spent. This is a very grave threat to ovr political it could be. I see them now, to Paul Harvey good andjustifiable reason, but with this project, bonding appears the mostlogical course. Waiting to save the money would be a doubtful alternative in view of spiraling building costs and the immediate need for the added space. To be sure there are somequalms. tor example, we feel that the emphasis on crime control in the campaign, while certainly a worthy objective, has been given a disproportionate amount of emphasis — overshadowingthe very vital need of more space for county operations. And the ‘‘$2.39” slogan, well-meaning asit was, has resulted in misconceptions, including an incorrect assumption by some that the individualcitizen's share of the cost would be an added tax, over and above the 1.9 mills already on the books. However, these do not obscure the basic need for the new building. We believe it would be the farsighted thing and in the public interest for the electorate to authorize.the bond. Refinements of the building plans and utilization of the space canstill be discussed. We have been assured that the commissioners would still welcome any constructive suggestions that are practicable at this point, and think it would be a healthy thing for the commission to hold one or more meetings specifically for this pur- ‘Money Tree’ Gives COPE Pay Hike, Report Claims $443,062.95. I'min Vietnam or year period. Inside Washington By ROBERTS. ALLEN WASHINGTON — AFL-CIO officials are refusing to commenton inside reports that a sizable pay raise was given a small armyof high-salaried executives of the labor organization’s political arm — the Committee on Political Education (COPE). According to backstage accounts, 19 COPE officials, with salaries ranging from $10,786 to $30,510, got pay boosts up to 10 per cent. Also that equally fat hikes went to numerous other lesser salaried employees. Latest authoritative information on COPE’slush “monev tree” — a 1970 report filed with the Labor Department lists only officials receiving more than $10,000. Not included were those getiing less than that. ~ Butthe and expense “take” of the 19 named came to the eye-popping total of soldier toa from the . Hopefully, I can reproduce them in this column the way Karl had intended. He titles them, “Dead Letters.” ] gs Barring a possible court ruling to the contrary, Utah County voters will go to the polls Tuesday to authorize or reject issuance of $4 elected and appointed person personnel and the interest and dedication of such personnel that help determine it. open alot et athoughadind County LawLibraryIn Constant Use by Courts MTi eoncore Wt it, Editor Herald: out all we can ebontit. They have already admitted that the 2.39 figure was not accurate, but just something to catch the eye of the voters. I wonder how much ofthe other information is just to catch the voter. wee Byron Pace Springville openings of coronary arteries that supply the heart muscle with bi and then injecting dye into the arteries, X-ray pictures can show if the arteries are obstructed cr not. A heart catheterization then is used to locate holes in the walls of the ueart, define structural changes, to identify changes in heart valves, or even to evaluate the pumping strength and function of the heart. They are mostuseful in cases of birth defects of the heart and in patients who have a heart condition that may require heart surgery. In specialized use they are eon in deter- mining the degree of ob- struction of the arteries to the heart muscle. It is not a treatment,It is used only to provide a more accurate diagnosis of how the heart functions. This is often necessary to know be. fore deciding if surgery should or should not be done. TedayIn History By United Press International Today is Sunday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 1972. The moon is full. The morning stars Mercury and Jupiter. are The evening stars are Venus, Mars and Saturn. Those born on this day are under the sign of Capricorn. American designer Samuel Moire was born Jan. 16, On this day in history: In 1833 the United States Civil Service was estal blished. . . In 1920 saloons in the United intended for building mainfopopesxeric properly monitorwd protect pete before we vote on it. The COST group have comI don’t think we should let the pletely: misunderstood the it, that are for it cram it function and reason for down throats without: existence of the Utah law artery backward into the left heart. By slipping the end of the calieiet into the a substantial number of are j Hopefully, the board of county military installa~ . The library is for the use ners can make some of the courts, and for that pur- provision whereby this sub- ions, In 1961 a “Texas Tower” pose it is in constant use.It is to can radar station sank in the the courts what laboratories be properly prot , Atlantic Ocean killing 28 men. x-ray equipment are to a Allen B. Sorensen oe It must be readily George E. Ballif available, Others,including lawyers,use Judges, Fourth ‘udicial District Court, in and for because the library is misearbly Utah County housed in e oo it by permission. Unforiunately, |