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Show the-LEASED the-LEASED GRAPEVINE Third District Court this week had a serious backlog of criminal crim-inal cases on its calendar despite extra work during the summer by judges and the office of Third District Attorney. District Attorney Jay E. Banks reported that examination of accomplishments ac-complishments of his office and the court in Salt Lake County pointed only to the fact that Salt Lake County must have an additional ad-ditional judge to handle criminal cases," if not right now, within the year." Members of the Utah Association Associa-tion of Certified Public Accountants Accoun-tants have installed Paul G. Tanner, Tan-ner, Salt Lake City, as new association as-sociation president. Salt Lake City Commission meetings, at 5 p.m. on Mondays, which were discontinued during the summer months, are expected ex-pected to be resumed on Sept. 17, Mayor J. Bracken Lee announced an-nounced this week. He said the Monday evening meetings are of benefit to citizens who are unable un-able to appear before the 10 a.m. commission sessions Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Construction of an Elder Citizens Citi-zens Center at 237-1000 East is expected to start about Oct. 15. The building is scheduled to be opened in May. Construction was assured when the Salt Lake County Recreation Rec-reation Department board of directors met and voted for the center. Cost of the building is estimated at $225,000. Hi Fifty-five officers of the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Department Depart-ment were instructed in do-it-yourself infant delivery, modern techniques of artificial respiration respira-tion and how to move injured persons during a session at Salt Lake General Hospital directed by University of Utah Medical School. The Democratic Party is in safe control of a state Senate seat from Wasatch and Duchesne counties, the Utah attorney general gen-eral ruled this week. Certification Certifica-tion of a Republican candidate for the seat was mere wheel spinning, Atty. Gen. A. Pratt Kesler ruled. But the attorney general observed that the Democrat Demo-crat incumbent is probably violating vio-lating the Utah Constitution by retaining his membership in the Senate after moving out of the district. But until the incumbent, Ben-nie Ben-nie Schmiett, resigns or the Senate Sen-ate declares the seat vacant, according ac-cording to the opinion, the seat is not vacant. One stroke of lightning made history when it hit the table of electrical genius Charles Stein-metz, Stein-metz, a four foot dwafr with a giant's brain, on an August after noon in 1920. Deciding that man could make his own lightning, Steinmetz built the first artificial artifi-cial lightning generator. The machine had glass plates, coated with metal foil, where electricity accumulated. When they could hold no more, artificial lightning leaped across the discharge path, accompanied by artificial thunder. thun-der. Men give counsel, but they give not the wisdom to profit by it. Eddy. |