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Show SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Peter F. Leary Named To Third District Judges Post Rep. Wayne Owens Announces Candidacy for U.S. Senate Seat Rep. Wayne Owens, announced this past week that he will seek the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated next year by Sen. Wallace F. Bennett; Rep. Owens, who defeated the veteran Congressman Sherman P. Lloyd two years ago to win the Second District seat, said his sole commitment is to the people. He invited them to carefully scrutinize his qualifications and his performance in Congress. Known as the Walking Congressman, due to his 689 mile campaign hike in the Second District two years ago, Owens said he plans to continue his neighborhood walks and people-t- o people contacts during his coming campaign. Owens, a native of Panguitch, graduated from the University of Utah Law School in 1964. Fie has been an assistant to Senator Frank E. Moss and Senator Edward Kennedy, when the latter was majority whip of the Senate. In his announcement state- D-Ut- Salt Lake Attorney Peter F. Leary this week was named by Utahs Governor Calvin L. Rampton as a Third District Court Judge to succeed Judge Frank Wilkins, who has resigned effective Feb. 1. ah, s., Mr. Leary was one of three persons selected as qualified for the opening by the Third Judicial District Nominating Commission. The commissions are activated to provide the governor with the names of those qualified for appointment when a judgeship become vacant. Mr. Leary is a 1949 University of Utah law graduate. He has served both as a deputy 3rd District attorney and a Deputy Salt Lake County Attorney. Mr. Leary will serve until the first Monday in January, 1975. At that time his successor, which Rep. Wayne Ownes must be elected in the 1974 genment Owens recalled that as a eral election, will take office. student at Panguitch High he ac- Mr. Leary can choose to run for quired a deep and abiding be- an elected term at that time. lief in the strength of the constitutional system of self gov- City Auditor Says ernment. Almost Impossible to (Continued on page 8 Check Travel Monies Salt Lake City Auditor Lawrence A. Jones told the Salt Lake City Commission that they had approved some 331 employe travel vouchers or authorizations during a single year, 1973. The auditor said tha the figures he has on travel expenditures for the last fiscal year show that $15,377 in city money was used for travel. This is only the tip of the problem, according to the auditor, because most of the travel money came from a large amount of federally funded programs. Mr. Jones said that it would be almost impossible to determine how many tax dollars were spent by city employees for travel because the travel budgets are buried in the hundreds of federal funds. The deparment with the largest expenditures was the airport, which spent some $4,063. The second largest was the public safety department including police and fireman, which spent $2,685 in city money. Demo Sagebrush Club Outlines Plans for 1974 Activities Robert Zeto C. B. Smurthwaite, President of the Dembocratic Sagebrush Club, has announced new 1974 activities and committee assignments. Robert Bob Zeto, administrative assistant to Commissioner Ralph McClure, was appointed chairman for the 1974 membership drive. Assisting Bob will be Dr. Lynn Athay, and members State Rep. George W. Black, A1 Olson, Marilyn Mayfield, Leone Sullivan, Zina McDonald, Carl Alder and Ernest Scheffrohn. The committee plans to reach out to all district organizations. Mr. Zeto said the committee has set a goal of 1000 new members for 1974. Other committee assignments: Entertainment, Bob Olson, chairman; social committee, I vie L. Mitchell, chairman. Each chairman will select his own assist- co-chair- FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1974 Dr. Lynn Athay ants. Vice Chairman Ann Penrose Brown and the Sagebrush Club ladies are planning an Elected Official and Candidate yith their ladies social for March, which promises to be a sparkling affair. The annual summer outing under the direction of Hugh Bring-hurwill select the committee at the February Executive officers meeting. President Smurthwaite said the object of this years activities is to prepare for total victory st in 1974. Central Utah Water Project Hearings To Be Continued Chief Judge Willis Ritter has continued a hearing dealing with the civil suit in U. S. District Court which seeks to halt construction on the Central Utah Project has been continued until February. The suit alleges that the defendants have not complied with the National Environmental Policy in that the environmental impact state on the Bonneville Unit of the CUP is inadequate under the law. McCarty Seeks Nomination For Second Congressional Post Daryl J. McCarty announced this week he will seek the Democratic nomination for Utahs Second District Congressional seat, declaring that Americans need strong, reasonable advocates in Washington. McCarty is executive secretary of the Utah Education Association and a resident of Salt Lake County's East Millcreek area. Im basing my hopes on the idea that people will vote for a man who gets alarmed when he sees people in trouble, gets angry when he sees people being wronged and gets busy when he sees difficulties arise, McCarty said. Thats what Id try to be as I try to deal with difficulties in terms of how a Congressman. they affect people. Instead of looking at a cold statistic that tells aboutl unemployment percentages for instance, I think we should consider the number of families doing without pay checks because of unemployment, he said. For them, its tough, darn tough. McCarty said that when difficulties are viewed in human terms theres more urgency to Daryl J. McCarty do something about them. One who represents people I was elected a delegate to should be candid, open and ac- the Democratic state and county cessible to his constituents Mc- conventions, he recalled. Carty said. He noted that he has Since then he has served as represented people all his adult a legislative and voting district life. chairman, a member of the DemThe Salt Lake Democrat said ocratic state and Central he entered political activity at Committees and county several state 21. A Magna neighbor asked him to attend a mass meeting. (Continued on page 4) TODAY'S EDITORIAL Youth Changes Outlook In the (iOs a meeting of the minds between business and young people would have been unthinkable in the view of the young. The generation gap had become a yawning chasm, and business was loudly criticized for marches everything from profits to pollution. Sits-inand riots swirled around the college campuses. Schools wooed students away from their parents and the establishment. Clustered around seminar tables and student unions, the young were urged to dissect, criticize and often reject the tenets of modern society. It was an emotional, intellectually turbulent time, and one which encouraged revolt and disenchantment, business, because it is an integral part of American life and the free enterprise system, became a favorite scapegoat. 'Today the situation lias changed. Tens of thousands s, ( Continued on page 41 |