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Show Statehouse Report ... Legal Sldrmlslies Flare Out on Hill Preparatory to '68 Presidential Vote MY C SHARP Legal skirmirhes contin-ue contin-ue to flare on Capitol Hill with ofCce holders keeping keep-ing a wary eye on political politi-cal issues prior to the 1968 presidential election. Gov. Calvin L. Hampton announced July 11 that he will run again for governor gover-nor "if the . Democratic Party want me." He said he would ar nounce his political pJans "after the first of the year and after an informal poll of party workers." Some observers interpreted interpre-ted this to mean that Gov. Hampton would like to run against Republican Wallace F. Bennett for a seat in the U. S. Senate or against the Republican nominee, no-minee, whomever he is. Wants Monument Gov. Ramjpton hit back hard at Sen. Bennett's criticism cri-ticism of Antelope Island as a site for a . national monument as 'championed by Sen.'- Frank E. Moss, D-Utah D-Utah . "The state park to be opened on the north 2,000 acres of . the island next year would be enhanced by national monument status sta-tus for the whole island," Gov. Hampton said. The 1 governor said 'hat nowhere else can one observe ob-serve such clear evidence of the rise and fall of the level of a great body of water through past geologic geolo-gic periods. The U. S. Senate passed Sen. Moss' bill 46 to 35 on July 13. Vigorous sponsorship sponsor-ship of the bill in the House will be required to obtain enactment there. Hits "Watchdog" Unit Atty. . Gen. Phil L. Hansen Han-sen hit the , headlines again ag-ain by threatening to seek a court injunction to stop the Legislative Investigations Investiga-tions (Citizens' Complaint) Commlittee from boring into executive department operations. . "If the comimlttee persists per-sists in this line of activity activ-ity I will see to it that directives are sent to department de-partment heads advising them not to appear before it," he said. Mr. Hansen said this after the so-called Watchdog Watch-dog committee questioned John H. Klas, Liquor Control Con-trol Commission chairman concerning . policies and regulations. The chief state legal officer, of-ficer, confident after winning win-ning a State Supreme Court decision July 10 that the Legislature may not employ its own legal counsel, coun-sel, . said the committee had departed from a gentlemen's gen-tlemen's agreement. Set Guidelines ; ' Under this agreement, Mr. Hansen said, the committee com-mittee had agreed to confine con-fine itself to 'perfunctory matters such as setting up guidelines for operations if the courts hold that the committee is constitutional.' constitution-al.' Rep. Allan E. . Mecham, R-SaLt Lake, committee chairman, and John Snow, special assistant attorney general employed to defend de-fend the, committee, said they knew of no such agreement. The Utah Wool Growers filed suit in Third District Court July 11 seeking to compel Gov. Rampton to appoint Veigh Cumimings, wool growers official and nominee of the association, to the Board of Big Game Control. Gov. Rampton declared that the suit was politically political-ly motivated. He said he would not appoint Mr. Cummings to the board un- less the court orders him to do this. Supersede Lew The power of appointment, appoint-ment, he claims, is vested by the constitution in the governor. This supersedes a law authorizing the wool grower to name a representative repre-sentative on the board, he said. In the court petition, written by Rep. Ray M. Harding, R-Salt Lake, attorney at-torney for the wool growers, grow-ers, he claims that Gov. Ramjpton is refusing to appoint Mr. Cummings for political reasons, "to wit: The nominee's contrary opinion regarding state executive ex-ecutive reorganization." The State Building board is to submit findings on (possilbtte consolidated regional re-gional centers of state operations op-erations in Price, Moab, Cedar City, Richfield and other centers by mid-August. Sen. Dixie Leavitt, R-Cedar R-Cedar City, made this report re-port July 13 to the Legislative Legis-lative Council committee on planning and goals of Which he is chairman. Walter G. Smith, former form-er associate director of the (Industrial Promotion commission, com-mission, was appointed director di-rector of the new Industrial Indus-trial Promotion Division, .'and Daniel F. Lawrence, former assistant director of the Water & Power Board, was appointed director dir-ector of the Water Resources Re-sources Division at reorganization reor-ganization meetings last week. They succeed Milton L. Weilenmann and Jay R. Bingham, new department executive directors. : The Board of Welfare was still hanging fire on appointing a successor to Ward C. Holbrook, new executive ex-ecutive director of the Health and Welfare Department. De-partment. Mrs. Algie E. Ballif, Provo .acting director, dir-ector, is a former member of the Welfare Commission. |
