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Show ( f'" I I r .7. I . M J " ' i- PERIODICAL DIVISION 1 1 u?n:vEn3iiY library BeJrl ' ' .' SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1962 Bryant Croft Announces Decision To Seek Attorney General Post , i Si'-- : ? , ' , x? i 4 - ' x ! ' 4 V l fin i i null I'" r iw ... VfiiiiiiiiiiiliMMBi iiii imimi m J District Attorney. For the past 12 years he has engaged in private law practice as a member of the firm of Boy-- , den, Tibbals, Staten and Croft. He was graduated from the University of Utah and George Washington University School of Law. He is a former missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. Mr. Croft has long been active in the Democrtic Party. He was a voting district officer and a member of the Salt Lake County Central Committee. In his announcement Mr. Croft said he would advocate adoption of uniform rules for criminal procedure; a well-traine- d inves-tigative organization to coope-rate with local law enforcement officers, particularly in murder cases, a continuing law enforce- - BRYANT II. CROFT A Salt Lake attorney, Bryant H. Croft, this week became the second candidate for the Demo-cratic nomination for Utah at-torney general. Already in the race is William H. Henderson, also a Salt Lake attorney. Mr. Croft is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent and former assistant U.S. ment educational program. A careful study of penal code land criminal procedure to speed up administration of justice; im-provement in the system of rep-resenting indigent persons in courts of law, and recognition by public officials that there is a limit to the tax dollars people should be called upon to pay. Mr. Croft is married to the former Gene Hubbard. They have two children and live at 2223 Logan Ave. July 10 Filing Deadline Looming But Candidates Are Scarce With filing date for candidates i in the fall primary and general f elections less than two weeks off 1 there still were some districts in Salt Lake County where no con- - tests are looming. The filing deadline is July 10. Election officials urged pros-pective candidates to come for-ward soon with their announce-ments. It was pointed out that open-ings for national office have drawn a good supply of candi-dates from both parties. But on the district level this is not the case. It was reported that in some districts only one party is rep-resented by an announced can-didate for nomination. In a num-ber there is only one candidate from each party. Observers point out that where there are no contests for office interest in the election runs low. This, they continue, is not good for the political party nor for the country. Democrats Schedule Hearings on 1962 Stare Platform State Chairman Stephen P. Smoot this week announced that a series of public hearings will be conducted this month to help formulate the 1962 Democratic state platform. Mr. Smoot said the-hearing- s are patterned after the 1960 pub-lic hearings conducted by the National Democratic Party. It will be th first time the proce-dure has been used at the state level, he said. At the same time Mr. Smoot announced the appointment of Glen M. Hatch, former state sen-ator and Heber City attorney, as platform committee chairman to replace Lyman F. Smart, Provo, who will be out of the state part of the summer. Hearings are scheduled as fol-lows: Education, June 23 at 10 a.m. in Salt Lake County Com-mission Chambers civil rights, June 23 at 2 p.m. in Salt Lake County Commission Chambers; county and city government, June 27 ta 7:30 p.m. in Salt Lake County Commission Chambers. Hearings on state government were held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Provo in the courthouse. Hearings on health and wel-fare and on natural resources have been tentatively scheduled in Provo and Prive at dates to be announced later. Richard C Dibblee is Installed As S.L County Bar President Salt Lake County Bar Assn. Wednesday night installed Rich-ard C. Dibblee, chief criminal deputy for the Salt Lake County Attorney, as president succeed-ing John H. Snow. Other officers include Francis C. Gibbons, vice president; Don-ald B. Holbrook, secretary; and Verl C. Ritchie, treasurer. Mr. Dibblee, at installation ceremonies at the Fort Douglas Country Club, declared that the County Bar would vigorously' support the Utah State Bar in its effort to obtain legislation re-lating to the justice of the peace courts in the state. Mr. Snow gave an annual re-port and was awarded a plaque for his year of service to the or-ganization. Mr. Dibblee is a member of the firm of Rawlins, Robbins & Black. He is a past president of the Utah Junior Bar and was a member of the Utah Junior Bar executive committee, American Bar Association Section. He is a graduate of the University of Utah School of Law. Charles W. Claybaugh Elected President of News Association ,r-- ( Charles W. Claybaugh, pub-lisher of the Box Elder News and Journal, Brigham City, Utah, was elected President of the National Editorial Association Thursday morning, June 21, rep-resenting 7,000 weekly and small daily newspapers in the United States. The election took place at the 77th annual convention of NEA in Hershey, Pa. On Tuesday of this week, Mr. Claybaugh had a thirty-minut- e private interview with Presi-dent John F. Kennedy in Wash-ington, D.C., discussing legisla-tive problems as they apply to the nation's newspapers. Mr. Claybaugh has served on the Board of Directors of the National Editorial Association since 1955 and this past year was vice president of NEA when the 76th annual convention of the association was held in Salt Lake City. He has spent a lifetime in the newspaper business, starting on his father's newspaper the Pretty Prairie Times, Pretty Prairie, Kansas, and graduating from the Kansas State College at Man-hattan, Kansas, with a degree in journalism. He came to Utah in 1942 and purchased the Box CHARLES W. CLAYBAUGH Elder News and Journal. Since that time he has never ceased to be active in the Utah State Press Association, serving on its Board of Directors and as sec-retary, vice president and now as president. He is currently on the USPA Board of Directors. (Continued on page 4) TODAY'S EDITORIAL v ' I News Preview - I Heavy U.S. foreign aid willf be sought for Algeria if anti- - Moslem terrorism gives way to peace and semi independ- - ence from France . . . The U.S. now expects Laotian and South Vietnamese crises to be followed by strong Red Chi- - nese pressure on "Neutralist"! India and Cambodia , . . The U.S. is trying to stop Great Britain from selling aircraft! developed with U.S. technical a.ss.is.tance to the Red Chinese A North African Eco-- nomic Common Market is ex-- 1 jipected to develop next year . . . President Kennedy may cancel plans to campaign for Democrats in Illinois . . . . Former President Eisenhower has scrapped an earlier plan to sit out the congressional campaign and will stump for teh GOP after several trips abroad. ihu t :thi LiiiiLMUiJiiJ Jnnu u inn w :ni;n n tj nui m : ;n n j n m j ri n;.'?f i ri m tu;?; Rep. Boggs Urges Reform of Tariff Jungle Depending on its material and how it is sewn, a handkerchief being imported into this country may be assessed at any of 100 different tariff rates, writes Rep. Hale Hoggs of Louisiana, chairman of the House-Senat- e Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy, in the late Header's Digest. In an article, "How Not to Lower Tariff Harriers," he urges reform of the current tariff "jungle" of rates on 5000 different items if the United States is to hold its own in negotiations with Common Market countries aimed at lowering tariffs. "The job will be impossible if our basic approach is grain by grain, brick by brick, item by item." A chocolate bunny with a sugar ribbon around its neck is labeled "con feet ionery" and takes a 20 per cent rate; without the ribbon, it is "sweetened chocolate," at ten per cent. An electronic tube can take rates of 8, 12, 15 or 17 per cent depending on whether it is to be used in an X-ra- y machine, radio transmitter, radar set or tele-continu- ed on Page Four) |