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Show Mr Jkll t?r rr BOX CITY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Congressmen Ask Veterans Are Responsive To The Majority Allan Howe Allan T. Howe from Utahs Second District is ask- ing We the younger members of Congress havent said all the od guys are bad, but asked rather if those selected are re-sponsive to the majority. Congressional reform would have come about regardlesh of the antics of Rep. Mills. This was the feeling which came about in the first of a series of press breakfasts to discuss such items. Overturning seniority practice in selecting committee and subcommittee chairman was well on its way before Rep. Mills encountered his problems. The change would have happened anyway, Rep. Howe said. The newly elected congressman then asked whether he thought there was need of a congressional investigation of the federal judicial system. Rep. Howe answered with, There might be some abuses and I suppose we ought to look at that. He was not referring to anyone In particular The Utah representative citic-Reized any boost on the gasoline prices saying such hikes would only eliminate frivolous trips. For the guy who must drive to Kennecott, every day there is no alternative but to pay the He cant just higher prices. drive half way. p. County Let Legislators Know What Needs Doing For Counties SL Special items from the Salt Lake County Commission such as safe walkways act, fireman retirement, county court system to repace juhtice of the peace and state standard concerning the county are but a few of the items which the commission fees that the egisators must be made aware of. Although the 41st session of the Legislature will hear hundreds of bills and pass on many, few will have impact on county government. But legislators should know how the states largest county feels about those proposals before action is taken. With goal before the commission they ordered Finance Director John Delaney to work with them to draft a ist of their stands on various measures. One example of the proposal to help county firemen to lobby for county participation in a retirement program for county firemen. County attorney Paul Van Dam believes that in the light of recent Supreme court rulings that the defendants rights . . . siicrsfidjiug CORP. 2603 3-- 71 84101 FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1975 State Judicial System Vetos Endorsement Of Court System If af Most Utahns Unaware Of $1 Political Contribution On Tax paign Fund Act states that each taxpayer may designate that $1 of his state taxes be transferred from the State Tax Commission to the political party that the taxpayer designates on his state tax return, John Klas, Democrat State Chairman, and T. William Cockayne, Republican State Chairman, said in a joint statement Tuesday. The 1974 Utah Tax Forms have a box for the taxpayer to Paul Van Dam County Attorney The State ' Judicial Council voted this week to veto any endorsement to proposed legislation to establish a system of county courts to supplement justice of the peace courts. But Mr. Paul Van Dam, Salt Lake County Attorney, said that he would introduce the bill to the legislature anyway. The legislation would set up a county court to handle justice of the peace cases which might involve a jail hentence. The judge would be the lawyer. Mr. Van Dam said challenges are being raised as to the legality of jail sentences imposed by JPs who are not lawyers. Of the 11 Justice of the Peace within Salt Lake County only one is a lawyer. The Salt Lake County Legal Defenders iff ice has filed a suit in Third District Court asking for a writ of prohibition against the justices who are not lawyers being allowed to impose iail sentences. Mr. Van Dam went on to say that the California Supreme Court has ruled that judges cannot impose ail sentences. The council which is made up of representatives from city and district courts, the Utah Su-- i Continued on page 8) John Klas Most Utahns apparently are unaware that the last Utah State Legislature passed a law similar to the federal law enabling taxpayers to direct $1 of their taxes be used for political purposes, the chairmen of the Utah Republican and Democratic parties said Tuesday. The 1973 Utah Election Cam check if he wishes $1 of his taxes to be given to a political party and then the four political parties legally recognized in Utah are listed. The taxpayeh then checks which of the American, Democrat, Libertarian or Republican parties he wants to receive the $1. Designating $1 to go to a political party does not increase the individual taxpayer's taxes. The new law further provides that of the $1 given by the taxpayer, half of it goes to the partys state organization and the other half goes to the partys county organization of the county in which the taxpayer resides. The Utah Republican and Democratic parties have formed (Continued on page 8) TODAYS EDITORIALf T Toxic Particles Escape Control Devices On Power Plants The most toxic particles in stack gas from coal-fire- d power plants bypass present particle control devices, it reported in Environmental Science $ Technology . Certain toxic elements in coal vaporize and preferentially collect on the smallest emitted partiejes, which "scape capture by particle precipitators, report Drs. Daniel K. S. Natusch, John It. Wallace. Charles A. Kraus, Jr., and Mr. Richard L. Davison of the UniTo County Employees versity of Illinois. Urhana. Stop Monopolizing 'rims, the effectiveness of present particle control Parking Meter Spaces devices is lowest against the most toxic particles, they non-lawy- er John Delaney Finance Director Salt Lake County employees vonclude. were told to stop monopoliz-n- g are violated when a non lawyer The Mnallest particles present the greatest health meter spaces parking a case carries hears that judge around the block containing the hazard because they deposit in the pulmonary (deepest) a possible jail term. Building. "cgion of the respiratory tract, which is highly efficient Commissioner have also longOfficials said in a directive :n extracting toxins for entry into the blood, they explain. ed for a boosted sidewilks act, the parking stalls are for the especially along busy streets and convenience of the public doing They studied 25 elements in fly ash as a function of around schools but said that business at the building. particles size. of The four s'des Washington Concentrations of lead, thallium, cadmium, nickel, there must be some way to fincontain 118 parking Square ance them outside the general meter soaces. The spaces were zinc, antimony, selenium, arsenic, chromium, and sulfur fund that pay for day to day op- checked hourly Monday by the (Continued on page 4) eration of county government. committee. City-Coun- ty 72 |