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Show Page Four - The Springville Herald - May 18, 1978 Gunn McKay speaKs The Springville Herald Published Weekly at Springville, Utah 84663 by Art City Publishing Co., Inc. 161 South Main Street Phone 489-5651 Martin W. Conover . Publisher Oneita Sumsion Associate Editor LorenWebb Editor Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Springville, Utah 84663 under the act of Congress, March 3, 1897. Subscriptions in Advance per year $7.00 Per copy 20. Delivered by carrier, per month 70? Member Utah Press Association Weekly Press Association National Newspaper Association W t . J Ji ii 3i3 J3 J83 3 J 3 J J3W Circuit court system replacing district structure , In connection with the appointment of Robert J. Sumsion as eighth circuit judge, the function of the curcuit court system in Utah to go into effect July .1, 1978, will provide for a misdemeanor court system to replace the city courts in serving the entire state. The circuit court system is organized in a pattern similar to the present district courts. The circuit court system is a court of record with simplified appeal procedure to the district ;court on questions of law above and the Trial denovo is eliminated. ' The newly created court system has expanded ex-panded jurisdiction in that it handles all misdemeanors and civil cases up to $5,000. The state is divided into 12 circuits within the present seven judicial districts and all city courts are to become circuit court locations ' while the court is to be held at regular times and places in each circuit as the need dictates. City judges are to become circuit judges plus eight additional will be added for a total of 33. Future judges are to be selected in the same manner as the district courts except the circuit court nominating commissions com-missions will include local officials. The circuit court is to handle both state statutes and local ordinances. There will be a local option to use either the circuit court or justices of the peace for ordinances. Justice courts will not be abolished. Other important items of the system say that all circuit court judges must be lawyers same as district judges and they must be paid a uniform salary fixed at 90 percent of the salary of district judges. The rules of civil and cirminal procedure are to apply uniformly while the financial burden for support of the circuit courts is to be shared equitably between state and localities on the basis of an acceptable formula for distribution of fines, fees and forefeitures. Circuit judges must serve the circuit from which they are elected but are able to sit anywhere in the state as needed. A summary of circuit court locations are listed as follows: The first ' judicial district includes circuits one and two of which Box Elder County is in the first circuit with Brigham City as the primary location. Cache County is in the second circuit with Logan the primary city and Randolph, the secondary location. The second judicial district includes circuit three, Weber County which lists Ogden and Roy as the primary locations. Also included in the same circuit is Morgan County with Morgan the primary city. Circut four includes Davis and has Clearfield, Layton, and Bountiful as the primary cities. The third judicial district includes circuits five and six. Circuit five includes Salt Lake and Summit counties with Salt Lake City, Murray, and Sandy in Salt Lake County, being the primary locations and Coalville the primary city in Summit County. Circuit six includes Tooele, Tooele County. ' The fourth judicial district includes Utah, Juab and Wasatch counties. Orem, Provo, and Spanish Fork are the primary cities in Utah County. Nephi and Heber cities are the primary locations for Juab and Wasatch Counties. The fifth judicial district includes circuit nine which includes Iron, Washington, Millard and Beaver counties. Cedar City, and St. George are the primary locations for Iron and Washington counties, with Fillmore and Beaver filling the primary spots in Millard and Beaver counties. The sixth judicial district includes circuit 10 in which the following counties fall into: Sevier, Sanpete, Piute, Wayne, Garfield, and Kane counties. The principal city for Sevier county is Richfield. Manti, Junction, Junc-tion, Loa, Panguitch and Kanab are all secondary Buy Four and get 1 FREE Qiyzip SHIN ft Qiyzip STAIN ft Qiy2ip ft when you buy 4 of any one of the above Olympic products pro-ducts the 4th is FREE Sale Ends May 24 (olob lumber Co. Utah Congressman Gunn McKay co-sponsored co-sponsored legislation he says will help take the locally owned hometown newspaper "off the end-nagered end-nagered species list." McKay said the Independent In-dependent Local Newspaper Act of 1978 would ease the pressure on family-owned newspaper publishers to trade their papers to newspaper chains. He said many newspaper publishers, rather than will their newspapers to their children who are then liable for heavy estate taxes, opt to sell their papers in tax-free exchanges for sock in a newspaper chain. "Chains own almost two-thirds of the nation's daily newspapers," said McKay, "and the weeklies are going down, too. Bigness and absentee ownership don't always foster the same kind of community spirit as a family-run newspaper published by someone with real roots in the neighborhood." According to McKay, his bill would permit independent newspaper publishers to set aside money during their lives to pay off their estate taxes and, if necessary, to defer payment of estate taxes for reasonable periods. Specifically, he explained, ex-plained, the bill would allow the owner of an independent local newspaper or local chain to establish a tax-exempt estate-tax payment trust. It would be funded by the newspaper's earnings, but no more than 50 percent of the newspaper's pretax income in-come could go into the fund in any year. The trust funds could be invested in-vested only in U.S. securities. Overfunding would be expressly prohibited, said McKay, and the funds accumulated ac-cumulated in the trusts could be used only to pay the estate taxes of the newspaper owner. "The bill uses both carrot and stick approaches ap-proaches to assure the trust fund works as an incentive for continued local ownership, and no more," said McKay. -, , ' ' 4 . : :v$ v gS3 1 - f:; t I VVj" w f--i ft 0 : 1 Cj f Gifted, talented SHS students receive honors Springville High School gifted and talented students have been participating in a state grant to provide enrichment enrich-ment opportunities. These experiences have all been in a variety of fields and of the type Shauna Austin locations in the respective counties. Circuits 11 and 12 are in the seventh judicial district. Circuit 11 includes in-cludes Carbon, and Emery counties, with Price the primary city and Castle Dale as the secondary location. Circuit 12 includes Grand and San Juan counties with Moab the primary location and Monticello the secondary location. which are not provided by the regular school curriculum. Students were invited to present a project which would provide a meaningful experience in their chosen field of endeavor. en-deavor. The students who participated in the program were chosen by a committee consisting of faculty, counselors, school administrators and members of the community. Shauna Austin , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Austin, spent three days at the UCLA Elementary Lab School in Los Angeles. She had an opportunity to observe the methods used in individualizing in-dividualizing learning experiences and to confer with experts in the field of elementary education. Mark Carpenter, son of Mrs. Alice Carpenter and Scott Allred, son of Mr. and Mrs. Karl Allred have been invited to participate in the America's youth in Concert National Honor Orchestra. They will perform in Carnegie Hall with the orchestra and will participate in a concert tour of Europe. The Springville High School Class of '28 will hold their reunion at Springville Art Gallery May 27 at 6 p.m. Front row. Helen Diamond Beck, Jack Gar-be Gar-be tt, Louise Mendenhall Harmer, Emma Lee Cressal, Crede Kindred, (deceased) Quin Whiting. Second row, Arvid Jaderholm, Vernan Barrett, Howard Thorpe, Mildred Young Cutler, Dix Jones. Bert Gledhill, Mildred Jordon, Marie Allan. Third row, Alberta Mendenhall Hoover, Helen Alleman Ajax, Jay Madsen, Captola Cherrington Murdock, Beatrice Wheeler Evans, MerLyn Hall Prothero, Jake Gam speaks Taking action against abortions The Senate and the House will almost surely continue con-tinue to be faced with the issue of abortion during the coming months and years. Abortion is an issue that will not go away, particularly in view of the new insights into fetal life which research provides. Hardly a month goes by without the publication of an informative and fascinating study of life before birth. Unfortunately, our moral sensibilities are not keeping pace with our scientific advances. It is my earnest hope that the abortion ethic which now prevails in some sections of the country can be reversed. The best way to defeat it is through a Constitutional amendment. Last Thursday, I introduced an anti-abortion amendment which was added to a pending Constitutional Con-stitutional amendment allowing the District of Columbia full representation in Congress. The purpose pur-pose of including my amendment with one as ill-advised ill-advised as the District amendment is to expedite , action on abortion. I would prefer that abortion be ; considered alone. But time is of the essence, and I fear too much time will elapse before Congress is able to deal with it as a separate issue. In the meantime, the abortion situation is growing more critical by the day as ; thousands of unborn children are being killed. In my attempt to speed up debate on abortion, I hope to : bring an end to this kind of killing. The proposed anti -abortion article reads: "With : respect to the right to life, the word person,' as used in this article and the first and fourteenth articles of amdnement to the Constitution of the United States,.; applies to all human beings, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency, in-: eluding their unborn offspring at every stage of their , biological development." In addition to this Constitutional amendment, I have joined with Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C), an ardent supporter of the Right -to-Life movement, in sponsoring S. 2614, the Alternatives to Abortion Act of 1978. Berniece Tipton Rigtrup. Elsie McCurdy Allman, Doris Taylor Gay (Deceased). Fourth row, Hailey Bird, (deceased), John Duffy, Charles Straw. Nolan Weight, Maurine Olsen Hemingway, Ruth Johnson Huff. Fifth row, Edward Boyer, Gordon Hoffman, Emily Martain J en son, Ida Harmer Mattinson, Josephine Mower Conover, Virginia Simkins Qegg, Clara Nielson Doss. Back row, Leo Felix, Eldon Beardall, Jesse Bird, Lewis Harmer, Ira Taylor (deceased). Graduation Gift Headquarters Graduation Cards Typewriters Calculators Church Books Leather Bound Scriptures Stationery Gift Wrap Attache Cases 594 off UTAH Q 0FF,CE SUPPLY Ca 377-5170 3 69 East Cntr, Provo 225-9529 748 South State, Oram 489-7469 191 South Main, Springville 373-2430 3V3 ourn univertity, rrovo Warehouse Order Desk ( ' ' ' j,' ... L ' ' ' ' ' wmmmmm. You are cordially Invited to attend Dedication Ceremonies and an Open House at our new International Headquarters Friday, May 19, 1978 Dedication at 1:15 p.m. Plant tours from 2 until 8 p.m. The general public is invited to premiere Vl5 showings of The Claw of the Eagle, Valtek's new multimedia control value epic, on Friday, May 19, at ; VzLnS! 8p.m., 8:45 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Mountain Springs Parkway, Springville, Utah 84663 Valtek is located jive wiles south of Provo. 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