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Show r- - o i . i ; V . w I SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH U.S. District Court Judge Orders Names on Ballot U.S. District Court Judge Alton J. Anderson, this week ordered four new presidential candidates be placed on the Nov. 2 election ballot. Gus Hall, a member of the Communist Party USA who has run for president for many years but never before appeared on the Utah ballot. Peter Camejo, a memer of the Socialist Workers Party. Eugene McCarthy, former Minnesota senator who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968. And, Lester Maddoc, presidential candidate of the American Independent Party. Mike Deamer, Assistant Attorney General, said both the American Party of Utah already on the ballot with a gubernatorial had certified Maddox candidate as their candidate. This requires he be listed, said Deamer. Camejo, McCarthy and Hall will be on the ballot as a result of a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Utah Chapter. Lester Maddox w31 be listed as candidate of the Concerned Citizens Party, the other three will appear as independents, regardless of actual party affiliation. Camejo, McCarthy and Hall had all attempted to be listed as independents and been rebuffed by the office of Utah Secy, of State Clyde Miller. Representatives of the three were each told there was no way the candidates could be listed as independents, according to testimony during the te hearing last week, when they tried to file for the ballot in May. Recently federal suits decided in New York and Florida on the same issues raised by the Utah ACLU dealt with candidates for president not the U.S. Senate. Camejo, McCarthy and Hall won their cases when Assistant Utah Attorney General Joseph P. McCarthy told Anderson that in light of recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, the state must make provision for a person to run as an independent. He conceded the ACLUs argument was sound. Anderson said, Without any restrictions, anyone at any time can ask to be on the ballot". Like the Supreme Court says, it could become like a laundry list endless. Goal of Good Government Be Responsive to People the area. About 100 citizens, led by the Utah State Coalition of Senior Citizens protested the increase at hearings held in Cedar City in August.) A hearing with such direct consequences for the people of Washington and Iron counties should afford the citizens of those counties an opportunity to hear aU the background for any increase the PSC may approve," Matheson stated. The goal of good government is to be responsive to the people it serves, Scott Matheson, Democratic candidate for Governor said this week. Stressing his concern that those most affected by government decisions have imput into those ded? Matheson responded to sions, Southern Utah citizens' concern over the Utah Public Service Commission rescheduling further hearings on utility rate increases for Washington and Iron counties to be held in Salt Lake City. (The rate increases, totalling 54.7 percent, have been requested by California-Pacifi- c Utilities Co. to cover increased costs of delivering power to vJy C 'v J &) n( r. M i CM 10 Clean Air Bill May Fail for Joint Meeting Due to Adjournment Carrying language likely to restrict power plant and other development in Utah, the Clean Air Act amendments could die this week because Congress is anxious to adjourn. It will take cooperation and luck for the bill to be enacted before Congress goes home to campaign. Utah's two senators are giving no encourangement to the legislation's backers, and are hopeing the luck is bad. Senate and House conferees met this week in another attempt to reconcile differences between the two versions of the complicatd, controversial measure.there was no move toward a compromise at last week's meeting, and with adjournRalph Y. McClure ment set for the end of the week, opponents are dragging their feet County Commision Ralph Y. McClure this week sent Mayor Ted on the measure. Senator Jake Garn said he would Wilson a letter asking for a joint Lake Salt between County try to stall the bill either through a meeting filibuster or by a parliamentary and City Commissioners. maneuver. Senator Frank Moss double The The letter said, ini-'said through aides that he was " taxation issue is a consistent' tant causing unnecessary problems considering what he could do to and difficulties between the City delay the bill. Moss, a member of and County government. Both the the Democratic leadership is hesiCity side and County side have tant to filibuster because that tactic received considerable attention from the news media. It is time that we work together for a solution to this problem, said McClure. The Commissioner added, because of this, I am asking for a joint meeting between Salt Lake County Commissioners, the Salt Lake City Commission, and representatives from the City and County Attorney's Office and Auditors Office to meet this week for a luncheon to solve this persistent problem. I would appreciate your full cooperation in this mater. seems likely to make many of his colleagues angry. Representative Gunn McKay said he was confident that House conferees would fight to keep in the bill his amendment, which gives governors power to grant up to a 10 percent time variance in meeting sulfur dioxide standards. Some staff members indicated they would rather see a clean air bill enacted with the McKay amendment than to have the measure killed outright. The staff members said, having the bill would provide a legal standard not subject to the whims of the Environmental Protection Agency, which now inruling. terprets the Without passage of the bill, court non-degrati- interpretation of non-degradati- will remain in effect. The measures fate is subject to Auto makers strong and unions want it because the House version gives a two-yedelay for achieving the strict 1978 car emission standards. The White House would like to see the weaker House measure clear Congress since Ford probably could sign it. cross-current- s. ar TODAYS EDITORIAL j Researchers Disprove County Commissioner Ralph Y. McClure confirmed this week that Salt Lake City's $620,000 bail bill, owed the county since 1972, may be dropped if the city will agree to drop legal action against a 1.58 mill Matheson also addressed the un- emergency county property tax increase. derlying concern over the effect the Mayor Ted Wilson last week proposed increase would have on hinted at the possibility. The city citizens faced with higher electrictt allies and however, including ity bills. He pointed out that he has Copper Corp., filed a petiproposed utility rate relief through for tion extraordinary writ in the a change in rate structures andor Utah Supreme Court asking for a utility tax credits in a position and a temporary restrainpaper on senior citizens' concerns hearing order against the tax increase, ing released last month. which was passed after the statutory deadline for raising taxes. Extend Housing Loans Urged TV A M FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1976 Ken-neco- Scott M. Matheson - j 1 ' Mayors of five other valley cities this week told the county that they will likely not pay money they are to owe the county for Senator Frank E. Moss, said this purported use of the jail. In a letter addressed week he has joined with a number to County Director Bill Finney, the of his colleagues in the Senate to mayors of Midvale, South Salt urge Farmers Home Administra- Lake, Sandy, West Jordan and tion administrator, Frank Elliott, wrote that the financial to extend the deadline for commit- Murray and operational responsibility of ments on FmHA loans until the end maintaing the jail facility has been of the current fiscal year. law to the county. To Moss said this action is necessary given by volunteer our residents' tax dollars in light of the fct that the FmHA to assist the county in paying its has more than $800 million in loan lawful responsibility would appear authority for its home ownership to the undersigned to be a ultra and rental programs which was vires act. unspent as of Sept. 10. Genetic Behavior Link For several years, discoveries of extra Y chromosomes in the cells of men who had committed violent crimes or displayed behavior have been cited as evidence of a connection between anti-soci- al long-soug- ht genetic makeup and behavior. A recent study by 12 American and Danish researches, however, concludes that XYY chromosomal structure is not related to aggression, although it may be related to low intelligence. The report of the study, appearing in the 13 August 1976 issue of Science, the weekly journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, describes a survey designed to determine whether XYY men among the general population have a higher crime rate and to identify the role played by aggressiveness, height, and intelligence in anti-soci- al behavior. The population selected by the researchers for their study included all Danish male citizens living in Copenhagen who were born in that city between 1941 and 1947, and who were over 184 centimeters (approximately 6 feet) in height at the time of the study. (The neight criterion was used to help narrow down the identification of XYY men, who tend to be (continued on page 2) r |