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Show t IVIIW .10c WONI NUMBERS Advertising, News, 1 Office 417-740- Action Adi Circulation 4I7-227- 550 B As 4B7-1t- lf City Edition- - The Weekly Newspaper Serving The llNo.18 Vo! u'l'"" LSI USCRIPTION )UH C ARRJ E F Salt lake City Community May 5, 1966 Promises, Promises, Promises... s8 faOO 1? eo D Investigation Into Records... Bad Bookkeeping? x $'"' yr' 7 How About The Other Side By Jim Baldwin The Civic Auditorium Board look. They re asking if this dream, planned on a two block lot of expensive downtown property Is really a dream, if it will live up to expectations, or if there are other alternatives. Tuesday morning the City Commission approved for filing with the City Recorder a report from Commissioner Jim Barker indicating that the quickie investigation of the Streets Department revealed no unlawful or improper con- Inquiries made by the Review in recent weeks reveal fears of economic collapse for a wide area of private enterprise... ...and these fears seem rooted soundly hazards which may well impose upon the backs of vaUey residents a dead weight cost of at least per year for the next 20 years. Some business Interests are near panic as they view potential ruin in the face of open competition from a local entertainment enterprise government geared far beyond the capacity of our inland island empire to accommodate. This government project, they fear, will bite too deeply into the flesh of profits for such local enterprises as Valley Music Hall, Lagoon Resort and The Terrace Ballroom. duct in ....but Commissioner Barkers letter backed into his failure to comment on the bookkeeping practices of the streets department. Last Thursday morning the suspicion of something unusual in the techniques used by the streets department in recording the amount of mulch used in tax-we- ary road repairs, was at a peak. The investigation by JJr. Barker, the city attorney, the city auditor and city police was barely hours old. be investigation There 'was no informato indicate that it is irregular to pad the Records by 25 or 50 tons per crew per day of mulch. The padding, the investigation showed, was. done to eliminate the need to keep records cm small repair Jobs done on Class C Roads. j was complete. tion provided privately-own- ' The buildings topple between South and West Temple to Second South... site of the new Salt Palace." Goof :Boy Nabbed For Solved Heist and communication between city police and the office of the county sheriff. Mr. O Day said that Ails son was held incommunicado along with a companion by officers who arrested them for auto theft; forced them to submit to fingerprinting; then released them only after they signed an agreement protecting the officers from suit for false arrest. The teen-agPatrick O'Day, first became involved in the situation about 2:40 P.M. on April 22, when he reported to the sheriffs office the theft of his automobile from Alta. The theft report was relayed by the sheriffs department to other police agencies. On the same day about 5 P.M., the stolen auto was located at Salt Lake Municipal Airport parking lot. It was er, Kids, Police Soon To Choose Sides, Play Ball React! vatlcm of the Salt Lake City Police Cops League baseball program to ue softball teams under involve ' police sponsorship in the citys major poverty areas was begun Tuesday. The program was begun with conver- between City Commissioner Barker Jr., Police Chief L. (sations t pre-leag- J. Fillis and John Floret, co- ordinator, Central City Community Center. I The athletic program, to begin at i once and continue throughout the summer with volunteer police officer particlpa- -I tlon, will be developed in conjunction with the proposed development of multi- -: purpose social center facilities in the Central City. and Rose Park Community Action areas. Police officers will attempt to obtain the sponsorship of business establishments to provide uniforms and equipment for the youthful poor anyone old enough to play softball. The softball program, with a minimum of four teams in the Central City square mile sector, will be developed at once as & nucleus from which police will, by next year, reactivate their former Cops League baseball league, dissolved about three years Ac-iti- I f.rfpt-sny.S'-r- on profit Touting motion of-st- ate 2 an apparent breakdown in cooperation structures. ed picture offerings... ...these operators shuddered to hear-Salt Palace authorities boast that an out ' promoter may be expected to rent the Salt Palace and produce these same extravaganzas in competition with the locally established motion picture industry... ...and the promoter will take his profits out of state when he leaves. Just two weeks ago, J. Howard Dunn, titled "What is Loyalty in a Democracy?" to follow procedures for the protection of rights, was reported Tuesday to The Review. The incident, as related to The Review by Ted O Day, 567 Vine Street, Murray, apparently developed at all because of will expose the "other side" of convention expectations for the complex. We will define the competitive bidding that will be faced by the Salt Palace, the I niversity of Utah, the State Fairgrounds and several private enterprise interests , . . all soon to seek the same athletic, cultural, industrial or trades programs. We will focus public attention on heretofore ignored or subdued accounts of criticism of the auditorium site location . . . the problems that will arise in park-ingtraffic movement. We will make comparisons of invest nients in similar undertakings in other cities, emphasizing the exhorbitant cost being imposed on the Salt Lake County Motion picture operators, dependent upon the occasional extravaganza (like the Agony and the Ecstacy) to provide -- the needed to cover- - losses-- ! Dr. Waldemar Read engaged in a debate failed cility. The Review Others dread the prospect of competition from a Salt palace designed to siphon off the small convention, the small group meetbanquet, and those organization in accommodated ings readily Last Sunday Commissioner Barker and who ... taxpayer. 1 he economic hazard to established pri vate enterprise, forced into competition d facilities with a series of will he defined . . . how private enterprise would never dare to undertake such project only because it lacks a helpless public upon whom to impose consistent deficit operations. The Review will suggest alternatives to the central downtown complex . . . e at this late date. We will express the view of the promoter, the private operator and manager of events the public has been led to believe will compete successfully for the privilege of packing the seats of the third most expensive auditorium project in the western hemisphere. public-supporte- investigation! made no mention of reports of use of city personnel, equip- -, the repair of a ment and materialf-fo- r private road in the Industrial Center area. , & i'm f4 Mr. Barker said he is not certain that investigation of tfjat matter was any part of his assignment. In his letter to the Commission he did 1 mention that: The undersigned has no comment as to the adequacy of the bookkeeping procedures involved? in the streets department road repair process. Apparent violation of the individual Murray youth rights of a 17-- y ear-o- ld by a trio of Salt Lake Police officers, Ldiiors Note: This is tht first in a series of articles in which The Review takes a second look at the Salt Lake Counuditormm complex; present int; ty Civic for the first time the dissenting voice that has grown in opposition to this costly venture of county government into the entertainment business. After several weeks of investigation, study and interviews. The Review now focuses public attention on problems inherent in the project problems heretofore ignored in public accounts of exfapectations for the civic auditorium Dread Prospect The For Story see page teUing the nations convention planners that the Salt Palace will be ready for them In but as the ink dries on the plans 1968 the $17 million complex, a growing segment of Salt Lakers are asking a second A city investigation into the record keeping practices and road construction procedures for the Salt Lake City Streets DepartmenfJied last week, within hours after it wastTegun. By is ago. Mr. Barker and Mr. Floret, meanwhile, were progressing rapidly toward multirealization of the proposed purpose social and recreation center, Including a gymnasium for winter athletic activity, to be constructed In the core of Central City. Ronald Coleman, AFL-CI- O representative, was asked to lay the groundwork to have labor trades unions provide labor to erect the proposed facility. The Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Junior League are to be asked to adopt the project to assist in making it an early reality. Police will be assigned, also, to this project. Mr. Barker emphasized that both the summer softball-baseba- ll program and the social center facility will involve police in a delinquency prevention program. To expedite the project. Commissioner Barker contacted the Washington, D.C. offices of Senator Frank E. Moss and Senator Wallace F. Bennett to enlist their assistance in expediting availability of federal funds. It Is expected that federal recreation the total cost, can funds up to one-thi- rd picked up by the ODay family on April 23 rd. Then occurred the first indication -- in this case - of possible breakdown in cooperation and communications. Did the sheriffs office fail to report to police the recovery of the stolen car? Monday night, 10 days after the theft, Patrick ODay and his companion, Michael Peck, 19, parked the ODay auto and entered a coffee shop at 2nd West and North Temple. When they left the coffee shop Tuesday about 1 A.M, they acquired a police escort. A patrol vehicle closed hi from behind. A second patrol vehicle boxed them in from the front. A motorcycle officer motioned them to the side of the spokesman for the auditorium board, boasted to the Review that four television projection stations and a four-sid- ed mammoth screen banging from the center oi tne bait Palace, may be utilized by the outside promoter to produce a picture of a championship fight.. ...and the arena could seat crowds that would fill 15 local theaters. The Review study makes it clear, however, that not all the business will be taken from local private enterprise., and this fact accentuates the fear. Experienced managers and promoters are convinced the Salt Palace will succeed in competitive bidding only for the cream The auditorium, they fear, will come up with barely enough to deprive pri- vate enterprise of their profit margin., but not enough of the cream to make the Salt Palace itself a worthwhile venture. The Review, in its inquiries, heard that we were silent because of the get the OlymOlympics, but we didnt to get the Olympics not We are apt pics. It is only reasonably certain that we will continue to HOPE to get the Olympics. We heard from scores that they kept silent because they were threatened by the stigma of accusations that they are opposed to progress. fool- They are not certain yet that road. The youth showed the officers his It revealed his age license. and residence address. He showed them be obtained under the Housing Act of the vehicle registration papers, which 1965 for a project that may cost up to demonstrated that the vehicle was regis$100,000. tered in his name. Of the citys one-thi- rd contribution, Mr. ODay complained that the two however, labor, materials and equipwere taken to police headquarters, youths ment by city government or volunteer where they were fingerprinted like comlieu in contributed be agencies may mon thugs. The youths asked permission of cash contribution. to make a telephone call to their parents. Leon Halgren, assistant city attorney, Permission was denied, although it has has been assigned by City Attorney long been established police procedure to Homer Holmgren to keep apace with any permit a telephone call to a lawyer, a legal problems that may stand in the or a member of the family, way, or to help In expediting the process ! bondsman, is common police procedure to of finds acquisition. notify the parents of juveniles when they Mr. Barker said that he will ask the are in police custody overnight. City Commission to allot in the next if While the Peck youth protested that he actual Capital Improvements budget any to go to work soon, the police held had in above the matching funds cash needed M ... 5 contributions that might be acquired f the youths In custody until about A ....apparently until they could make from labor, the Jaycees and the Junior ; contact with someone in the Sheriffs League or other sources. to confirm recovery on The baseball program. Chief Fillis f Department 22 of the vehicle owned by and said, will involve police officers as I April to the youth they were holding. team managers, poverty area parents registered The youth said he urged officers to as coaches and other necessary per-- I his parents for confirmation of the call sonnel, with children of all ages as recovery of the auto. They refused. team members. So far as the youths could determine, By next year, it is expected that at was no one at the sheriffs office least four softball teams will be started, ; there to provide police with sheriffs records in the Park Rose area. also, information during overnight hours in .this mushrooming metropolis. fv7 drivers Itso A resolution in protest against LDS Church response to the civil rights problem and the status of the Negro will be sent to the 1966 National convention of the NAACP, to be held in Los Angeles in July. The resolution calls for circulation throughout the United States and abroad, to the public at large, the information that the representatives of the Mormon Church are to be regarded with some skepticism concerning any favorable support for Civil Rights and equal treatment under the law. The resolution noted that the LDS Church has maintained a rigid and continuous segregationist stand; that the LDS Church permits and by its policy implicitly encourages, widespread circulation of several theories of white supremacy among its membership. The church, the resolution continues, makes no effort to counteract the widespread discriminatory practices m education, in housing, in employment and other areas of life... practices which are occasioned by the official race policy of that church and the widespread adher-an- ce of the membership to the official ward. The church, the resolution notes, has come out with official policy statements cm such political issues as the reviAct and liquor sion of the Taft-Hartl- ey hardy investment is 'opposition to pro- gress. Statements made to the Review by auditorium board chairman McCown E. Hunt indicate that the accusation will continue against any who dare question areas of unexplained silence. Those most opposed.. .those having most to lose by competing with government, The Review learned, are most fearful of being identified with opposition. Some fear the economic squeeze -power pressures. Opposition Voices Nevertheless, the opposition is finding voices to speak for them. Among those voices: Willis H. Muse, chairman. Salt Lake County Republican Committee. Mr. Muse observed last week that 1 hear many reasons why they (the public) cant carry the load of financing the operation of the third most expensive auditorium in the world. 1 voted in favor of Civic Auditorium bonding, Mr. Muse explained, then told The Review of his suspicion that he may have voted, as did thousands of others, in response to misinformation. (Continued on page A 2) Thanks Lot Bill The countys got your number.... County Commissioner W. G. Bill Larson announces that house numbering for the county may now be obtained at the old Salt Lake County hospital complex. He also announced that building permits can be obtained at the same place. by the drink legislation . and has refused to take an official stand on the great moral issue of Civil Rights, labeling it as a political issue." Certain LDS officials have disseminated anti-cirights propaganda from the pulpits and publications of the church, the resolution notes. ...even to the extent of warnings at its general conferences of nature of the the communits-inspire- d civil rights movement. , Said the resolution: The church makes it manifest that members are to accept - without question the opinions of church authorities on secular as well as religious matters or be guilty of disobedience to constituted church authority and in danger of excommunication and the attending consequences." The possibility of picketing the May Special session of the state legislature because of the failure of Governor Ramp-to- n to carry out promises to put fair housing on special session agenda also was suggested Steve Holbrook observed that there is some reluctance in Washington to accept the proposed fair housing legislation of President Johnson on the premise that fair housing is a state problem. He suggested that word be forwarded to the Congress that Utah is unwilling to assume the responsibility of a state in actmg m fair housing legislation. vil |