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Show ' Rampton Plans Liquor Law Changes If By the Drink Proposition Fails BY C. SHARP y in . I'.iU m 1.. K.mipiou :ui ivmvi'd l V t i; that ho will .iA t!'.c' l'V'1 I v.i-l.itiiiv i i-!i.:!'.;;f :i'mi:! luUu- l.iu-i it ho is tiv'.ivli'd and t!u p,'. til ion to allow liquor by tu, drink is defeated. Ho said ho will iveomiiiend that either regulation ami rontrol of private elubs ho p'.aeed with oitios ami enmi ties or that fuiuls lie provld-oil provld-oil for Mate onl'oiTomt'iit. A change In liquor laws up-poar.s up-poar.s almost certain In any I'VOllt. Hotli Cov. Kanipton and liis Hcpiihlli aii opponent ihtshm-ally ihtshm-ally arc (ipposlnj; cnaotiucnt of llio Irnnlhy now law to approve ap-prove hiiior by Hit! tlrlnk tin-tlor tin-tlor lifonso ami control of the Stale Liquor Control Coiiiinb-sion. Coiiiinb-sion. Akt Rehearing Meaiiwlule Salt Lake (Mly has asked the Stale Supifine Court to rehear thf case it decided Sept. 2-1 by a 3-2 votu against city control of locker cliihii. Leaders of both houses of the 1fnlslalure contend that the court acted contrary to the Intent of lh' 17 Legislature Legisla-ture which plainly had been to allow local control. The State Supreme Court ruled Sept. 11 that the 17 Industrial Facilities Act permitting per-mitting Tooele County to join in Issuing bonds to finance a S1 million plant is constitutional. constitu-tional. A .spokesman for the Magnesium Mag-nesium l'roject said: Plod led at Decision "We are pleased with the decision and are hopeful it has come In time to permit issuing the bonds before the Dec. 31 federal deadline established es-tablished for bond issues iu excess of $5 million. "In any event, the decisftm will bo must helpful fur development de-velopment in the stato cf Utah." Money from the sale of bonds would be used to build an electrolytic reduction pla-it on the shores of Great Salt Lake. Magnesium Project is a joint venture consisting of National Lead Co. and H-K tllogle-Kearns) Inc., fur production pro-duction of magnesium and other products from lake brines. Us of Credit Clyde J. Allen, a taxpayer had sought to have the law declared unconstitutional because be-cause it would use Die credit of the county fur a private enterprise. Chief Justice J. Allan Crockett Cro-ckett wrote the controlling opinion. He pointed out that the bonds can be repaid only from income derived from leasing the plant and there is no possibility of them becoming becom-ing a debt against the county- "The establishment of a working industrial plant with its properties and the income it produces, should result in increasing the taxes collectible collect-ible by the county in several ways," he declared. Justice E. It. Callister, wri ting a concurring opinion, damned the act faintly by terming it "a gimmick" by which a private concern is able to finance with cheap money due to a lophole in the federal income tax." Justice F. Henri Henroid dissented strongly. He wrote, in part: "This is why you and I have to pay more taxes, so that rich corporations, etc., buying bonds are exempt and lieeil not hweat too hard U fill out tax return;! showing no taxable liieome, conio April Ap-ril l!i of each year. "The county commissioners obviously art; blind to the fact that this project can rob the euinily of revenue security secur-ity and at the same time Increase In-crease their own Income tax hiirden by relieving others of that saint! obligation." Two other justices concurred concur-red In Justice Crockett's opinion. op-inion. Utah district judges were again shaken up in their assignments as-signments Oct. 14 because the two Seventh District judges jud-ges had been prevented from taking over new assignments to cover cases In Duchesne, Uintah anil Daggett counties. Sheya if III Illness and hospitalization of Judge- Ktlward Sheya, Jr., Price, ami closure of the Indian In-dian Canyon road from Castle Cas-tle (late to Duchesne by tha sloughing off of the highway caused the change. As soon as Judge Sheya recovers re-covers from his illness, he and Judge Henry Kuggeri, also of Price, will take Tooele Too-ele County away from the Third District. Sanpete County, originally In the Seventh District will be taken by Judge Ferdinand Krickson, Monroe, who will continue to serve Sevier, Piute, Pi-ute, Wayne, Garfield and Kane counties. Fifth District Judge C. Nelson Nel-son Day of Fillmore was to have much of his district taken ta-ken over by the three Fourth District judges at Provo. According Ac-cording to a Sept. 17 order Judge Day was to spend four days a week in the Third District Dis-trict in Salt Lake City. Instead, one of the three Fourth District judges will alternate beginning Nov. 1 in spending four days a week in Salt Lake City. The Fourth District judges also will resume their coverage cover-age of Duchesne and Uintah counties. Daggett county will remain in its original legal assignment as-signment to the Third District. Dis-trict. Judges of the Second District, Dis-trict, Ogden, will take over Summit County from the Third District as in the Sept. 17 order. Judge Day will resume re-sume his original assignment of covering Juab, Millard, I'.eaver, lion and Washington fOlllilies. |