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Show REVIEW Editorials Page 4 April 8 , IV6 Firemen Stretch For Vital Water The latest example of deficiency in the administration of Salt Lake County literally blazed forth Tuesday night. Three different residences all unoccuburned while desperate county firemen stretched lines for as far as a pied block to reach fire hydrants. In the past, the fire chief has complained to the county's governing body that a regulation requiring the installation of fire hydrants within 400 feet of any multiple dwelling or group of homes was being ignored. And asked that the same bonding agreement which now requires developers to install curbs and gutters be adopted to guarantee this vital safety provision in commercial building. In their wisdom, the commissioners refer the matter to the county attorneys and in the meantime, three more homes went up in flames. office The commission is now sure to face an indignant citizenry who will demand that this lapse be corrected. And we' re certain that as the pressure of outraged voters is applied, theyll react appropriately. THE IMPORTANT QUESTION, unfortunately, is why has the present ordinance been ignored up to now in so many instances? Have building inspectors simply ignored the requirement when they okayed projects? Or is the ordinance buried in the huge stack of uncoded ordinances cluttering the county attorneys office. This is not a suspicion or a rumor. Look around, the fire hydrants just are not there. While our county government has been preoccupied with building baseball diamonds and lining creeks with concrete, a simple precaution to protect life and property has been ignored. Why? Now theres a good, meaty question for a county grand jury. Letters To The Editor What Does It Mean? Stamp Out Lucas Move Swells its a horrible, awesome thing to behold. Lake Salt The two, huge daily newspapers agree that the county scene is a on Just what little brown around the edges. Trouble is, they dont see would best freshen the atmosphere. The Tribune wants a grand Jury investigation now ... while the Deseret News has magnanimously said it will play along with the county attorneys gang. The way they re going at it, weUsoonbe back to the days when rival publishers used to cane each other in the streets. Whoopee! Okay, heres an interesting rumor. The Tribune, it seems, has already complied with the investigators request to turn over all data for official perusal. But The Deseret News has refused to do likewise. That organization Intends to hang onto the extensive material it has collected in its own probe of county When brothers collide, eye-to-e- ye On the days when I bother to take your newspaper out of the mud, bushes, etc., I skip over the editoral page only to grow ill with the tripe that consists of the Will Lucas column. For several years Will Lucas has been flooding the airways with his self -- adoring "causes" and his tainted views on the news. (Indeed, he should be imjoeached!) affairs. It is most saddening to see his slants and smears being now classified as printed matter. During the past few months, he has manufactured attacks on Barry Gold-watGoldwater supportors (The "riot" Thus , The Tribune expresses no confidence in the county -- sponsored invesbut has cooperated. And the Deseret News likes the arrangement but tigation wont flay ball. So now .. what does it all mean? And if we knew anything, wed tell you first. No er, Jury Then , Either You will godown in the annals of Time. as one thing its Editors found worth a full-sca- AND NOW WERE ALL BACK on a familiar plateau. Mr. Barker says that Judge Hanson first agreed that a grand jury was warranted but he wanted a consensus of his fellow judges. He said that other Judges felt a grand Jury would be too costly. Other law enforcement agencies of the county should handle the matter. There shouldn t be a grand Jury, they said unless there was a breakdown In these Secrets (Continued from Page 1) as a part of the investigation: 1.) The filing of criminal charges where merited 2 ) Reports to the district judges as noted above. 3 ) A report to the commission on ' areas of inefficiency, waste or . misman- agement of county governmen not amounting to criminal acts wherein a "Little Hoover Commission or other study of county government might be of value. The report states: "U me county attorney or any of the other principals in the investigation, deems it in the pub- lic interest that further stud- or Livesigabon, whether by grand jury, "Little HoocerCo-mmissio- n or otherwise, be conducted absolutely .. no reluctance will be exhibited in making such a recommend to the appropriate body Mr McCulloch s report dethe dramatic protailed cedures which are utihxed in the process of the investigation Complaints are received by all of the principals in the investigation including County Attorney Grover A Giles. Mr. McCulloch, special investigators Delmar L Larson and Charles F. Hemphill, their assistant H Wright Volker or Beth Page the secretary If a complainant requests to talk to any particular principal, he may do so. Lf the complainant is shy about goi ig o the office an appointment is made else!: re. such as his home of the Attorney Generals office The Investigators w,,ltryto acknowledge every comp a i tri'h"! ?i n.rs after it is Mr McCulloch received, said. "Brief meetings are held earh it doesn't morning, Interfere with the investscheduled appoint- igators' meats, with either Mr Giles or Mr. McCulloch to insure constant coordination when offices. The story, as reported by the July 1, 1961 Salt Lake Tribune is hauntingly familiar. "Third district Judges have decided not to call a Salt Lake County Grand Jury." that issue said,' Presiding Judge Stewart M. Hanson made this announcement after he said six of the seven district Judges had met and discussed certain information furnished by James L. Barker, former city attorney. Mr. Barker recently appeared before the Salt Lake City Commissioners concerning the purchase of 1,700 parking meters by the city in 1957. He said he investigated the matter on the grounds there was an overcharge and had interrogated several persons. There was enough fire and smoke to make me convinced that a grand Jury investigation should be made. "After fully considering all matters presented" the newspaper account continues,"there was no indication law enforcement officers were lax in any of their duties and that any matters presented could be handled by the district attorney or county attorney," said Judge Hanson." Also in July, 1961, Mayor Lee began fretting over the messy financial condition of the city. In studying the operation of city government for 10 years prior to his term, he concluded that the previous administrations' deficit spending policy for eight of the 10 years was against the law and asked Judge Merrill C. Faux tc convene a grand Jury to investigate. On July 11, a headline appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune again bearing startling resemblance to those weve been reading during the past month "Judge Avers Jury Call Premature. The following 30 days saw a bitter dispute rage between Ma or Lee and County Attorney Grover A Giles. The mayor's grand jury pleas during that month centered on fiscal "malfeasance and misfeasance Mayor Lee charged that county attorney Giles was not performing his duty Giles steadfastly managed to ignore the prods. August 13, the mayor said, It was my feeling that it would be futile to require politicians who have been intimately associated with each other to investigate and Sound familiar? prosecute each other ASKED to ap;ear before the judges to offer testimony on money maters as well as the parking meter purchase, and other matters On September 12, Mayor Lee appeared before the judges in an open then closed session Again, he asked for a grand The judges said no, citing great expense to the jury public and turning the maf'er over to normal law enforcement channels Again claiming that ordinary law enforcement channels could handle the problem THE MAYOR And that was the end To this day. a large f.le on the parking meter mater no normal sits in the files of the city attorney s office law enforcement channel has ever asked to examine it Mayor J Bracken Lee has a similar collection of evidence which allegedly, at least, hints at official misconduct and, although the normal law enforcement pr are still considered sturdy no request to view his evidence has ever been heard Three and a half years la'er, no public official m a position Jo investigate or prosecute has exhibited the sl.ght-e- st curiosity about the accumulation of testimony and fact accumulated by 1 ee. Barker and Knudson W wider what will happen thus time'1 Dear Sir: There Is a tradition, REmt BLAINE ELSWOOD 1018 Lorraine Avenue PubUsbcd by Great Western News. Inc , 2265 Esst 4100 South, P O Box 17377, Salt Lake City, Utah 84U7, Phone Member of Utah State Press Association dime This A is a feat for you, the Review feat that few have succeeded to do. Many have tried it only to find that "Time behind. has turned their "front' 278-266- 6 MANAGING EDITOR JOHN B. LUNSFORD its blow is felt triumphs well placed abit below the belt. Yet ' Time", the master of reprobate to educate. succeeds in its purpose Thus it hails in proper prose The honest theories men propose. So they placed you among the "Ins with Birth Control and the Gemini Twins The Burtons, Bardot, and the Klan were taught that the fires they light are not so hot! Three cheers for Time for once is PRO UTAH So it was with Medicare Barrys Boys and the New York Congratulations! Fair. when Time" spiked Utahns punch they found Lee, and the Teachers, out to lunch. VIEW may be added upon many fold in the years ahead. Please accept my heartiest Entered as second class matter at the post office st Salt Lake City, Utah, under the act of March 9, 1878 Published every Thursday Time congratulations for your journalistic accomplishments to date, and for the deserved recognition cf these accomplishments that TIME magazine has given to you. SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUTSIDE CARRIER DELIVERY -AREA $5 00 per year SUBSCRIPTION RATE WITH-I- N CARRIER DELIVERY AREA- - - - -- S3 00 per year ... LAURENCE Congressman The Many Mood of fire chief said He also hit at the lack of fire hydrants in the area. If we had hydrants, we could have gotten in much quic er and easier. We laid 900 feet of line and brought in other trucks to make sure we had water. Chief Jones said that in his two annual reports he has asked for a means to guarantee enforcement of regulations requiring fire hydrants in commercial and residential developments as they are built last As it now stands, the fire department decides where hydrants will be located and a development project is not supposed to be approved by the county building department unless they are installed Chief Jones had asked for the same bond arrangement in commercial areas whirh n w installathe guarantees tion of curbs and rubers ,n residentail subdivisions The rules now say that no home shall be more than 270 feet from a hydrant and in commercial areas, no building should be over 200 feet from a hydrant In the wake of latest heavy fire damage, county commissioner John Preston Creer who is assigned respons.bil.ty for the fire department movod to remedy the lac t of hydrants Sincerely. BURTON of United States DONALD Chief Jones and I Inspected several residential and commercial areas today, Mr Creer said Wednesday evenwhere residential and ing. commercial developers have failed to provide this vital safety precaution A Mr Creer said he was immediately asking the epunty attorney to: 1 ) Study the possibility of requiring hydrants in commercial and residentail areas already built-u- p 2 ) Draft an ordinance requiring all commercial developments to provide hydrants in accordance with fire safety standards and link the law with a 'bond as is now required of the residential subdivider. He noted, "It may be that special improvement districts will ned to be formed Updating fire' protection will undoubtedly call for the cooperation of residents and business interests However, a study of fire insurance rates will prove such measures to be simply good business The Utah Fire Rating Bureau ranks Salt Lake City relatively high in its catagories fire which help determine insurance rates The city in Class 3 The lowest catagory is Class 10 The built-u- p areas of Salt Lake County are ranked Class 7 or 8 by the fire underwriters and rural areas are des ignated as Class H ill Luca Ten Day Measles PENNY 3690 Mill Creek Roaa MRS Fire Bugs Hit Again 1) J. you RAH RAH RAH Likewise (Continued from page some factual foundation, that the people whose likenesses appear on thecover of TIME tre shortly thereafter visited by plagues and other horrible things. Whether people whose success stories are recounted between the covers, without benefit of being the cover subject, are similarly visited, I am not reliably Informed. Let me hasten to say, however, that I hope nothing unfortunate happens to you and your fine newspap because you've made TIME, and that the signal success you have already achieved with the ROCKY MOUNTAIN RE- without not Rocku Mountain Feat For Few (Continued from Pace 1) pile of information to District Judge Stewart M. Hanson le with a request for a formal, grand Jury query. Share Beware Of Jinx at the airport being the foremost. It is a cinch, judging from his "scholarly of the situation, that he ceranalysis tainly wasnt there!), and, of course, he has subtly ridiculed the FBI, and tried to equal patriotic Americans with Nazis and Klaners. The Many Moods of Will Lucas should by all means be changed to "The Many Shades of Will Lucas with everything from a faint pink to an Alizarin Crimson! by 9-- B. Insurance rates of an building is determined by six standards: 1 ) overall water system; 2 ) fire depart-- ? ment; 3 ) alarm system; 4 ) prevention program; 5.) the laws and their enforcement; and 6 ) structural conditions of the particular building to be insured indi-videu- al Be Calm, Get Desription "Watch for prowlers neighbor's property and report them promptly A clear discretion of the individual, the automobiles and. if possible, the license That was the adnumber vice of Sheriff's and Fire Department officials this week to break the string of fires plaguing the Cottonwood Holladay area Captain Ferris Andrus. Sheriff's Department, We hope residents will report anyone who looks We don't care if we go on a hundred dry-ruDon't panic,' headvis-e- d citizens "Keep your head and observe Any little scrap of incormation could help us " sus-peno- us ns You'll never guess where I've been for the past seven days No, not in jail No, not in Bermuda For the past seven days I have been horizontal ..flat on my back with my little body filled With a rare and horrible contagion It was so bad that I received what the American M ?d:cal Association calls, 'A House Call Now 1 had read in some pre 1920 journal that house calls were something that G P Doctors made for the benefit of folks. e Hollywood movies that were such a rage at that time But I did receive an authentic House Call' by an authenWhen my wife tic doctor called him 0 couldn t call him 'cause 1 was tip py -- toeing a tiny thread between life and dea:h) she told him that I was ..well, she really didn't know what I wo s excep' that I was kinda 'f mny' in ttie head And the good doctor sa d with Well. Mrs Lucas, your husband has always been a little fumy in the head Just give turn an asprin and call me if there's any change in his condit.on " Well, my w.fe wasnot gorn.a let the doc co that easily so she quickly added that I was 'frothing at the mouth too"! The geod d c'or calmly said, 'yes' And my wife, feelinjthe urgency of the si"iUon. said And tie jist Well, that did it paid, too"' The doctor said, "Maybe I better have look at him It sounds a W ill Luca serious So that's my first house call how I got The doc came and locked me over then stood at the foot of my bed wfth a grave look of concern about his face. Feeling the death rattle in n7 throat. I managed to gasp out, "What is it doc, tell me the truth". He looked at me and said, "Son, you have a contagious febrile disease, marked by small round politically oriented dots all over your body! I said, "Doc, what the hell He said. does that mean Red measles " Isthatall, I was absolutely defeated. Me Will Lucas, the pride of KALL Radio, stricken with a kiddies d sease Red measles, cad, what would the John Birch Society say??? 1 told the good doctor that 1 couldn't go around telling people that I was flat on my back for seven days with 'red I needed something measles ex itic a wild adult disease .. something that poope Just whisjoer about As the doc packed his little black bag and lef t.e said .' Tell 'em you've had a bad case of "Oscar Me Conkieosis or"J Brak-e- n Leezies" That did it It saved the day it was worth the price of a house call Friend.;, for the past 7 days I ve been sick with a bad case of Leegles w.th Me Conkieosis complications Please don t send flowers. Make contnbutio.is to... some . .beter government. . |