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Show 4 ) ' Page Eight FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1958 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Political Tempo Picks Up; 400 Offices Go On Block (Continued from Page 1) Democratic State Senators whose terms expire this year in-clude the veteran Alonzo Hop-ki- n, the party's candidate for the U. S. Senate in 1956; J. Francis Fowles, Eugene N. Davie, and Donald T. Adams. Republicans include Reed Bullen, Merrill K. Davis, Elias L. Day, Sherman P. Lloyd, Luke Clegg, Grant S. Thorn and R. Clair Anderson. The entire House membership of 64 is elected every two years, which eliminates any holdover advantage of either party. In 1957 the party division was 15 Republicans to 10 Democrats in the Senate and 39 Republicans to 24 Democrats and one inde-pendent in the House. In the Supreme Court vote the seat now held by Chief Justice Roger I. McDonough is to be filled. District Judges whose terms expire include Judge Parley E. Norseth in the Second; Judge Aldon J. Anderson in the Third; and Judge Joseph Nelson in the Fourth. Party mass meetings will get under way in several weeks and are expected to give some indi-cation of the relative strength of various possible candidates. While none have announced publicly for the Senate or House jobs it is assumed that all in-cumbents will seek reelection. A number of well known Demo-crats are reportedly considering making the race against Senator Watkins. Only a handful have indicated they would be interest-ed in the two House openings. n Utah Power Plans To Acquire Telluride Power Co. Utah Power & Light Company will acquire control of Telluride Power Company and operate it as a subsidiary under terms of a plan filed Jan. 21 with the Public Service Commission of Utah. The move will add 7,000 sq. miles of Central and Southern , Utah agricultural, industrial and mining area to the territory al-- j ready served by the Utah Power & Light Company. Acquisition of Telluride by i Utah will extend the advantages and opportunities of larger com-pany to the Telluride system. j It sets forth that six Telluride stockholders who. hold 80 per cent of that company's stock al-ready have accepted the UP&L ofer and that the same proposal will be extended to remaining Telluride stockholders. The pro-posal is subject to approval of regulatory authorities. President E. M. Naughton of Utah Power & Light pointed out the Telluride company's service lies adjacent to and south of the UP&L service area and that Telluride for many years has received the bulk of its electrical energy from UP&L. "The two companies for some timeihave been working on plans for a large capacity, high voltage transmission line through the heart of the Telluride territory, which eventually may be used to bring Glen Canyon power to the citizens of Utah. "This proposed corporate con-nection between the two com-panies will expedite the building of this important link in the marketing of the Glen Canyon power," he said. ' Death Claims William Waterfall A well known Utah Democrat, William Waterfall, 86, passed away Wednesday at his home, 1173 Illinois Ave., of a heart ail-ment. Active for more than 50 years in the Utah Democratic Party, Mr. Waterfall was instrumental in forming various party organi-zations, including a State Demo-cratic Committee, in which he was secretary from 1901 to 1902, the Jackson Democratic League, formed in 1924, and the Sage-brush Democratic Club, formed in 1934. He was elected Honorary Life President of the Sagebrush Democratic Club, in which he served continually since its for-mation. He was born June 10, 1871, in Kent, England, a son of John and Susannah Bacon Waterfall. Funeral services will be Satur-day noon at 36 E. 7th South. Burial will be in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park. Committee Finds Mixups in Mental Services A recent meeting of the gover-nor's committee on defective de-linquents has brought out that there is serious lack of coordi-nation among state institutions and agencies dealing with the mentally ill and mentally retard-ed. David G. Roberts, director of social services, Salt Lake Gen-eral Hospital, cited two examples to illustrate the point. He told the committee of a 15 year old boy who was shown by examination to be feeble-minded with some psychotic ten-dencies. The District Court in Salt Lake City committed him to the State Hospital at Provo. The hospital authorities thought the youth should not have been sent to the intstitution and the case was re-opened in Second District court The boy was sent to the State Training School at American Fork, which accepted him only reluctantly. The other case was that of an 18 year old, retarded mentally, who has not yet been accepted by any institution. He now is at large and it is the opinion of Mr. Roberts that he might be-come aggressive and exhibit criminal tendencies. Committee members voiced the opinion that one of the state's major needs in the field is an overall authority that can decide where certain individuals are to be placed either for treatment or care. It was pointed out it also would be helpful if records of experts examining the indivi-duals would be made available to the courts. Committee member Col. How-ard Bennion observed that "the spirit of cooperation is most im-portant. "No matter how good our laws might be," he added, "we must have on between our agencies and institutions." Committee Chairman D. A. Skeen said he hoped the com-mittee would be able to make some kind of recommendation that would take "care of lapse of performance by the institu-tions." 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