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Show ' r ' ' REVIEW RHONE Rocky Mountain NUMBERS Advertising, News, Office 4(7-740- 1 Action Ads 4(7-229 Circulation 7( ) --wRIPTION 417-1(1- i OUR CARRIER Vol.l No. J4 FARGROUND RACING The Weekly Newspaper Serving The Salt Lake City Community CITY EDITION V 1 : During the primary campaign of 1962 the Democratic Salt Lake County chairman, Wayne Carlson, came out for Marvin Jenson against Bill Larson. It caused a bit of a ruckus within party ranks. This year the Democrats are facing several public relations problems as they go into battle with Republicans -while not completely unified themselves. After the 1962 experience central committee heads wont even hint in private who they like for various offices. Hampton Speech Backs Report Governor Calvin L. Rampton raised another banner for consolidation in an address to the Cottonwood Mall Merchant Association Wednesday morning. He assured listeners that the Little Hoover Commission recommendations would not result in more power for the governor as some believe. "It wouldn't put any power in my hands that 1 dont now have, Mr. Rampton said: It would organize the state government so that he could exercise the power he already has, the governor explained. The executive branch is divided into 157 separate departments each operating "almost like an independent state government, Gov. Rampton said. When the Road and Bridges alone takes four or five hours a week, it is impossible to keep track of the people and projects of each department. "There are at least 40 departments where I dont even know the people concerned in them," he confessed. Gov. Rampton said that he felt like a "commander with 157 squads and no battalion assistant. Magazines criticize the Federal Governments growing role in state government, the "commander said,' but state governments fail to realize that this reflects on the states Inability to 'cope with changing times. Our present organization is "slow, unyielding and expensive," the governor declared. Every cme who studies Utahs governmental organization agrees that we need consolidation, he continued; Only the details are argued. For this reason Gov. Rampton urged the audience to consider the overall plan. "Do not focus your attention on details , he emphasized. The details will work themselves out. ( u II Bil IN ! ! i "Democrats for Responsible Government is headed by Justin C. Stewart. Mr. Stewart, a lawyer, is also chairman of a county committee to seek out good legislative candidates for the party. He made it clear in his letter - and in a conversation with the Review Wednesday that hes not acting as head of this legislative committee or as chairman of the partys organization in Senatorial District One. The group came out for two candidates by name - Jacob Weiler, clerk; and Clifford S. Cockayne, assesor. It came out against two possible candidates by position - David P. Jones, auditor; and Grover Giles, attorney. In its comments on the county attorneys office the letter said "Deputies have apparently found it rewarding to make bad jokes about our Democratic Governor. Deputies in the county attorneys office contacted by the Review found it difficult to recall very many jokes in the office at all - including d ones about the Governor. good As expected the Republicans took advantage of the groups letter to make some political hay of their own. In a Wednesday statement county chairman Willis H. Muse said the letter shouldnt be allowed to "mislead our aroused and concerned populace. a patent It is, Mr. Muse said attempt by the Democratic heirarchy to delude the public into the thought that their party is capable of cleansing itself. It cannot, for the irresponsibility, inefficiency and bickering of the Democrats is too deep seeded to be corrected by anything short of an outright repudiation of their party as such. - "The aura of Democratic irresponsibility is too extensive, reaching all the way to Governor Rampton s Statehouse the present nerve-cent- er of Demo- era tic power," the Republican statement Qn the record, the Demcontinued, ocrats deserve to be thrown out one and all. And no number of committees with fancy names can change that record. The Stewart letter started out by explaining that it was written at no expense to the party by individual Democrats deeply concerned about our This is party in Salt Lake County. not written by any official or unofficial committee of the party, nor is it written to advance the cause of any particular candidate. It is written solely to invite (Continued on page 2) The evidence is clear - members of the Salt Lake City Commission are a company of theatrical hams! A group of residents from the northwest section of the city guessed as much and turned out en masse fairgrounds or well slap at you with an injunction! A capable, friendly 4th North Street jeweler, I. K. Luker, appeared as spokesman for the unhappy taxpayers and moulded themselves a unanimous city commission with the fortitude to take on the State Fair Board and Attorney General Phil L. Hansen. The city commission edict: Get those blankety-blan- k racing cars out of the Our people are in trouble! Our people have had it. We want something done about it! That was the message. Racing cars on Friday and Saturday nights throughout the summer months, the citizens complained make patio parties impossible they make parties inside impossible they make sleep for children impossible up to 11 P.M. Sound engineers have been brought in to show sound increases more than 4,000 times that of an illegal muffler when racers skid around the blacktop track, installed to keep the dust out of Rose Park eyes. They have been to the city commission before they have been to the Fair Board... ..they have been to governors and the attorney general. The state authorities Sorry, folks! concluded that money for the fair board is more important than people more more imimportant than taxpayers more portant than property owners important than sick persons or children deprived of sleep and normal social communication within the sound of the impenetrable din. Mayor Lee got a unanimous commission vote for a motion that calls upon the city attorney first to approach the Fair Board and ask that they refuse to renew the contract with the auto racing people. If the board is not impressed by polite request, the city attorney is directed to bring an action to abate a nuisance created by' racing cars that distrub the peace of literally thousands of residents in a wide area extending away from the State Fairgrounds for as much as one and one-hmiles. their own Victory in their hands little local problem aimed in the direction of solution and the PEOPLE rush- ed out of the city commission chambers crff caught for what else the commission might wrought...,. and the commission wrought angrily and confusedly. It bad no New Aid In Flood War Salt Lake County is : cock-fight- ; Cock Fighting j j' cock-fighte- rs. er in "They fed them laying mash! said one disgust. Every one of those birds had lost a pound or more, said another man, who is so concerned over th'e weight and health of his cocks that he concerns himself with fractions of ounces in weight loss or gain. Their feathers were broken, one man complained, as he old cock that has won three caressed a lovely one-ye- ar fights, lost one, and appeared to be less the worse for the wear. A special emotion was reserved for theHumaneSociety. In order to get to our place, every day they walked past cock-own- - alf well-organi- citizens to direct it. Jini Barker had beeij told sometime ago by Lou Holley (who is cavorting with the peculiar antics of an uncertain political candidate) that there was a four man police department out at the airport that shouldnt be there. Eliminating that airport security squad and letting police officers do policemen's had been assured, was the only right thing to do apparently, however, that was before Lou decided that 65 was too young to retire from city politics.,...and even the aged on his airport police force were (Continued on page 2) jobs, Jim Barker ' & -- A r f rvpri'fciTnfrii IN A COUPLE OF months, these baby chicks, hatched in a local hatchery, will become victims of an uncontrollable a horse, tied to a telephone pole, not fed a bale of hay aU winter, his ribs sharp and almost cutting through the hide," said an indignant cock" fighter. Somewhere out of history, these birds, as mysteriously as humans, derived from a jungle habitat. A brood is hatched.... for five, sometimes up to six months, the hatched brood lives in one familial community. Beginning at about five months, the males (only) get jealous. Instinctively they seek flock superiority. The son fights the father and is killed or kills,,.. nr one runs away, banished from a specific area of control. One or more brothers in the brood reached the fighting age.... instinctively, both birds know it. They fight until one dies or flees.. ..most often until one dies Their spurs are sharp, and dense, and are thrust downward from above in hurried flight.... vicious, brutal, bruising, flesh-tearin- g. Theyre bom this way.. ..like man, they grow to kill. Unlike man, they grow only to kill the males in a given territory. The natural spurs, the say, are more cruel than the tournament spurs (or gaffs). The gaff is a 1 14 to 2 12 inch long thin, curved length of needle sharp, needle thin steel. It may be thrust intoabrain. The bird is dead. But see this as less brutal than a rigged boxing match in which a human male has his brain jolted from his skull-pa..its something the bird was bom to do. The needle-sha- rp gaff may be thrust into the heart.... and like a bullet or a knife thrust in the human heart,' the cock-fight- ers cock-fight- ers n.. urge to kill any male of the might come into their view. cock-fighti- ng breeds which bird is dead. The gaff may be thrust into a lung and death follows shortly afterwards. other than avid fans of such Witnesses to cock-fighfights, attest to bloody slashings which may continue for a single second or extend for up to two hours. Two birds are held facing each other across a fighting pit. They are released and instinctively they go at each other. They tear at one another with sharp, strong beaks. They leap into the air to drum onto the back of the adversary with the long, curved gaffs. There may be clean, seemingly harmless penetrations which do not touch vital inner organs. The birds respond , as though they do not suffer. They want to fight. They want to kill. They do not even have the sense to think of the final reward for victory (in the jungle, sole access to the entire flock of hens). We allow no drinking in or around the pits; not like you see at bull fights, or at human boxing matches, will boast. We allow no profanity, for children are generally present. There is no segregation in or around the pits - not even in the south. g, they declare, is the only sport that cant be "fixed. Even a doped cock, on one leap, could deal a fatal blow to the most healthy and i:oler fighting cock, they observe, so there is no inclination to cheat. is against the law - but, they They know ts, cock-fight- Cock-fightin- cock-fighti- an cock-fightin- g. , , 3 point out, the last sheriff in our county raised fighting cocks for sale. The loudest protest heard at the recent (and only recent) raid on a cock fight in Salt Lake County, was raised because the pit was not tipped off on the raid before it occurred. had been common practice for years locally. The tip-o- ff These birds are not trained to fight or to kill. They are matched one against the other wearing cushioned pads.... to give the expert idea of which of his birds has the most "professional attack - defense is unknown in the instincts of these feathered creatures. They always attack. They may be lying exhausted.. ..too tired to close their wings. ...too tired to drawup their legs under them., ..but, if they remain conscious, they will peck - on the attack. And So its cruel, say the opponents of cock -- fighters teU how local hatchery people sex chickens (separate male from femaleamongbaby chickens to be sold to egg farmers): The females they place carefully In boxes. The males they put in a barrel.. ..up to 2,000 ina single barrel and the ones cm top suffocate or crush to death the ones on the bottom. Folks in our neighborhood follow them out to the dump and rescue some of those that are stiU alive cm the tops of the barrels! And the Humane Society never lifts an eyebrow, say the cock-fighter- & er. ng For what? For cruelty! i f Vj; 4 ng Cock-fighti- voters. The Only N on1 Fixed Sport? cock-fighti- fund-raisi- by ed - agriculture. As suburban development moves farming out the canals become less Important for their intended use, but primarily through the guidance and insistence of engineer David I. Gardner these canals will take on a new and important use in the future - flood control. Agreements were signed Wednesday morning between the county and give canal companies allowing the county to do what it has been doing for two years anyway without permission - dump flood waters into the canals. In return for this permission the county will pay the five canal companies $2000 per year to help pay maintenance costs. The five canal companies are the East Jordan Irrigation Company, the Utah and Salt Lake Canal Company, the North Jordan Irrigation Company, the South Jordan Canal Company and Salt Lake Citys Jordan and Salt Lake Canal. Negotiations win be undertaken on the use of a sixth canal owned by the Upper Canal Co. in the near future. The five agreements allow the county to regular flood waters in the canals by the countys use of the canal com- panies lift gates On all five canals the county contemplates improvements ranging in cost from a few thousand dollars to a $600,000 These project in the Midvale area. improvements will become an Important part of the county's overall flood control system. Mr. Gardner noted that the signing of the contract culminates a four .year proThe agreements have been in ject. process for slightly over a year. He said that Salt Lake County is unusually fortunate in having the canals available for flood control use - and noted that serious flood damage would have been felt in Reams last year if the canals had not been available. of-ba- baby them along, They love these fighting roosters beginning while theyre still in the eggs later they might make fishing flies out of the feathers of a dead (killed) fighting cock. As one veteran cock --fighter puts it: "We baby em.. ..we use penicillin.. ..antibiotics so they don't get infected. Sometimes they put boxing gloves cm these birds.... the cocks squawk like Cassius Clays in professional boxing bouts conducted to raise funds for ward chapel carnivals; for a bereaved family needing economic help.... or to provide an Easter or a Christmas for an unfortunate neighbor. This is the story of the dissent - its the other side of the coin - this is the point of view of the No one will write our story, they told The Review. The nor does The Re- -. Review does not condone view condone the violation of the law that prohibits cock- -: fighting, even when it is done in the name of a ward chapel project. Nevertheless - there is the dissenting voice! This is it! is the favorite sport of up to 500 persons in Salt Lake County alone! It is a favorite sport of several thousand people throughout Utah! Cock-figh- ts are conducted in Salt Lake County within the knowledge of ward level church authorities. They are conducted within the knowledge of some.. ..but by nomeans all ....deputy sheriffs, who respond cmly to formal complaints. Cock -- fighters, surprising as it may seemconsider themselves very concerned with the health ana the welfare of those very beautifully feathered fowl which inherently, among the males, seek to kill one another. Recently, when sheriffs deputies conducted an abortive raid and confiscated more than 40 fighting cocks, the authorities drew upon themselves the wrath and contempt of several professional f criss-cross- irrigation canals once used exlusively to water for the prime activity in Srovide By Jim Baldwin ; 1966. 00(5 1909 MADAME ZEBRISKI told fortunes here, then Salt Lake t county built a two story house for Joseph C. Sharp. Mr. Sharp 1 was the first of seven George ; County Sheriffs to live there. Tuesday a group of Democrats came I Beckstead tore the was the house down Monday. The out on their own with a partial attempt last...they 1 orienal cost of the house was $15,000, the jail behind it which mute on the most controversial county wj s00n be torn down was built in 1911 at a cost of $200,000.: race - the four year commission post. Democrats have lived there since 1932. The group, taking the auspicious title 0 0 0 ! 14, ; ; Demos Stand Up : .April CONTROVERSY Kflirf0K? ; C ng ers cock-fighte- rs. Its a two way story. One man had a brood cock that won three fights and lost one before he was a year old. Hes four now and for the last three years hes been a brood cock without having ever to defend his position as king of the flock. cant comprehend On the other hand, these permittmg a man with a high powered rifle to fire a bullet through the belly of a fawn or doe.. ..leaving the animal to die hidden in the brush, in long agony.... or the courageous and die slowbuck with leg shatteredbybuUettolimpaway ly of loss of blood or starvation. They point to the idea that hunters kill men - but "a fighting cock has never been known to hurt a man. ...our children handle them as pets. The law in all but two or three states says there shall be no cock -- fighting. . . .but there is. ... it s com monplace in every state in which it is unlawful.... "like selling liquor over the bar, a cock -- fighter observed ....and he shared a glass of milk with his barely baby daughter in one hand while he held a proud fighting cock in another. This is their side of the coin.. ..they believe the law is unjust. And they call upon the sanction of the people of cock-fight- ers ble-to-walk their church.. ..the people in their sheriffs department to demonstrate that their side is not without strong support. |