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Show Supreme Court Strikes Down Long Vote Requirement WASHINGTON (UPI) --The Supreme Court declared today that all lengthy state and local residency requirements for voting are unconstitutional and suggested that 30 days should be enough. The ruling came in a 1 decision which struck down Tennessee's requirement of a year's residency to vote in state elections and three months at the county level. The lone dissenter was Chief Warren E. Burger. . It was estimated in briefs filed in the case that state requirements disqualify an estimated 8 per cent of otherwise eligible voters. Justice Harry A. Blackmun ar 99TH 1 pi jj.l if ,1,,'t . i. STUDYING A REPORT on Fourth District Court criminal cases handled in Utah County are the three district judges, from left, George E. Ballif , Maurice Harding, and Alien - ' II & Sorensen. The report refutes current opinion that there are long deoiys and backlogs in the criminal justice system In Utah County. District Judges Dispute those polled. How valid are these attitudes? The three judges of the Fourth Judicial District, Allen B. Sorensen, Maurice Harding, and Geroge E. Ballif, have just completed a study of criminal cases handled by the district court within Utah County in the past six months. date The judges set the cut-off INDEX Amusements Classified Comics Editorial Obituaries Society Sports Stocks 16-1- NED BRINER Orem Gets Assistant Manager The appointment of Ned Briner, 28, to fill the vacancy created with the resignation of Odell Miner as assistant city manager, was announced today Earl by City Manager Wengreen. Mr. Briner has been serving as 'a graduate assistant and staff instructor of the political science department at BYU. He recently completed his master's degree in political science, concentrating in public ad11 ministration. He will also assume the 9 If responsibilities of director of 14 4 13 9 12 personnel. Mr. Briner, and his wife Isabelle, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, are the parents of two daughters. are concentrated in two directions and will be handled the new Provo through Redevelopment Agency and the was Provo Housing Authority. The adopted Monday night by the two programs will be staffed by the same people and coordinated Provo City Commission. The members of the City through the same office. Efforts to implement the Commission, Mayor Verl G. Development Dixon and Commissioners Ray Neighborhood Murdock and Russell Grange, Program (NDP) have been will constitute the redevelop- under way for several months ment board. Their responsibility now, with many meetings will be to coordinate the efforts having been held with citizens of citizens and the city in the and business groups to formulate proposals and prepare development of plans and the necessary applications for of programs supervision federal assistance. designed to resolve current Local citizens will be active in commercial and residential the the of core the supervision of programs problems in undertaken through the new community. (Continued On Page 2) Provo 's improvement efforts Development Program year, or three months, that durational residence too much." Marshall noted that Congress set 30 days when in 1970 it abolished long term residence re- quirements will exclude some people from voting who are totally uninformed." "But," the opinion said, "as devices to limit the francise to minimally knowledgeable res- requirements as a to voting in presidential and vice presidential elections. The court said it might be true that new residents as a group know less about state and local issues than older residents, "and it is surely true PROVO, UTAH, TUESDAY, MAKCH 21, 1972 idents, the conclusive presumption of durational residence requirements are much too crude. They exclude too many people who should not, and need not, be excluded." Rockets, enjoying my work at the department. Transportation is a new executive department and I find the task of representing the department with my former Congressional colleagues both challenging and interesting." "At some future time," Mr. Burton said, "I plan to return to Utah and I am, of course, still interested in politics and wish to do everything I can to enhance the future effort of the Republican party, both within the state and throughout the nation. I appreciate the opportunity which I had of serving the people of Utah in the House of Representatives for eight years. They honored me with an important charge for which I am grateful." Mr. Burton and his wife, Janice, presently reside in Captain's Cove, Md. Bond Vote Set April 1 1 Waontrh Cniintv residents will the polls on Tuesday, April 11, to decide a Wasatch County School District bond election issue. The voters will be asked to decide whether the school board should sell $2.93 million of bonds for a repayment schedule of up o 25 years with a maximum annual interest rate of 7 per cent. School officials explained the bonds are to raise $2,930,000 to buy school sites, construction and furnishing of need school facilities. go to PER MONTH - PRICE 10 CENTS Mortars Hit City rn ut free-for-- all Tornadoes Damage Texas Coast By United Press International A dozen tornadoes and monsoon-lik- e rains beat up the Texas Gulf Coast Monday night, causing damage through a wide portion of southeast Texas and leaving 300 persons homeless by dawn today. No injuries were reported. The worst of the twisters demolished the farmhouse of R. L. Sees, six miles southeast of Wharton, Tex. "It just scattered the home all over five acres," said a Department of Public Safety Threat Eases Illinois Primary Test For Both Muskie, Daley Cong. Mr. Burton serves presently as director of Congressional Relations in the Office of the Secretary of Transportation, a post he has held since January, 1971. In discussing this year "out of office" Mr. Burton said, "I am $2.50 itedsUp Attacks, Capita f Cmbdli Umidleir For Utah congressman, announced The estimated 150 rounds of today from Washington, D.C., mortar, 122mm rockets, and that he will not be a candidate 75mm recoilless rifle fire that for office this year. poured into the city touched off The Ogden Republican served a number of fires that burned as Utah's representative to the hundreds of houses and turned U.S. Congress from 1963 through some areas into smouldering rubble. 1970. He did not seek reelection Although Communist forces to his House seat in 1970. He have attacked Phnom Penh opposed Senator Frank E. Moss I Continued On Paw 2) for election to the Senate but was unsuccessful in his bid. Provo Redevelopment Agency Law Passed Wasatch An ordinance setting up a Provo Redevelopment Agency as a preliminary step in preparing for the Neighborhood 167 Laurence J. Burton, former Burton 60-3- YEAR, NO. Won't Be Candidate at six months because that lower, or magistrate court, (2) period reflects the district court the date when the case was as presently constituted. bound over to the District Court for trial, and (3) the date when Critical Dates tht guilt or innocense was Three critical dates were determined in each case: (1) determined, either through a The date when the criminal case plea by the defendant or by trial. From this information, two (limited to a felony or indictable (Continued On Page 2) misdemeanor) was filed in the 78-2- Termed Serious Recently released, the study showed that 85 percent of Utahns felt the large backlog of cases is "very or somewhat ' serious," and the length of time ' takes to reach a final decision was termed "serious" by 84 percent of Marshall'!i decision did not rule out residency requirement altogether. He said 'fixing a ally acceptable (waiting) period is surely a matter of degree" and added: "It is sufficient to note here that 30 days appears to be an ample period of time for the state to complete whatever administrative tasks are necessary to prevent fraud and a naCHICAGO (UPI)-T- he PHNOM PENH (UPI)-Co- mtion's third 1972 primary-Illin- ois crucial munist forces carried out their today posed first major attack against risks to the presidential hopes Phnom Penh early today, of Sen. Edmund S. Muskie and smashing the capital with to the power of one of tie last rocket and mortar fire and of the Democratic kingmakers, overrunning the radio station Chicago Mayor Richard J. six miles from the city center. Daley. The battle of three DemocraThe Interior Ministry said tha tic presidential contenders 75 bodies had been found and that 112 persons were seriously Muskie, Sen. George S. and former Sen. Eusaid they injured. Police was J. McCarthy gene to toll rise expected the death as the search through burned-o- matched by a spirited fight over who will stand for houses continued. governor for the Democrats on went President Lon Nol over and a Chicago the national radio to condemn the office of state's attorney. he which was said the attack, prestige was on the line He said he Daley's races. "barbarous." in both believed there was "some from within" by connivance some Cambodians but said the attack was carried out by the North Vietnamese and Viet Derogatory Court Claims By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN Are criminals being coddled with long court delays on prosecution? Is there a heavy backlog of cases in the courts? Local Fourth District Court judges give an emphatic "no" to these questions as they apply to Utah County. The attitude of Utahns towards crime and the criminal justice system in this state has been termed "alarming" by local district judges. These attitudes were outlined in a recently-publishe-d poll by Louis Harris and Associates, commissioned by the Utah Law Enforcement Planning Council. While the police in Utah received a 3 percent positive rating, the courts received a 7 percent negative rating from the public. The poll was commissioned by ULFPC as part of a statewide public education program about criminal justice,' after it was found that very little information on public attitudes existed. who concurred with the court's finding but did not join in Marsnaii s opinion said he suspected the court was leaving to the future a test of a waiting period of, say, 35 to 75 days in order to pinpoint the situation more exactly. Justices Lewis F. Powell Jr. and William H. Rehnquist, who were not on the court when the case was argued, did not participate in the ruling. , v; if days or Congress in enacting a 1970 voting rights law set 30 days as the residency requirement for voting in presidential and vice presidential contests. ' ' 90 three months. In the majority opinion, Thurgcod Marshall commented that a 30 day waiting period should be sufficient to prevent any voter fraud but "a year or three months too much." The court was told that 24 residenstates have a one-yecy requirement, 23 a waiting period of 180 days or six I r months, and three, Justice 6-- if Justice combination of these first election of delegates in a races and Illinois' first pres- primary. And he must look formidable idential primary of significance was expected to bring out a against McCarthy, the former vote of more than 2 Minnesota senator who is d million, despite the threat of making Illinois' separate, thundershowers in many areas. preferential primary The voting lasts from 6 a.m. to the first real test of his pulling 6 p.m. CST. power since he shook the in 1968. Muskie's task was to rebound Democratic party McGovern the up passed from his unimpressive win in contest. preferential New Hampshire and his distant Results of the fourth-plac- e finish behind Alafaceoff are likely to bama Gov. George C. Wallace be known tonight. An accurate in Florida. delegate count may take days Muskie must pull a signif- and about half of those elected icant number of the national are expected to be "unconvention delegates at stake committed," meaning comThe near-recor- non-bindi- Muskie-McCart- from McGovern, who is his mitted to Daley's eventual major opposition in Illinois' choice. Fury of Irish Turmoil Grows; 55th Soldier Dies, Bombings Up BELFAST, Northern Ireland Bomb explosions (UPI) smashed public buildings and a railway station today in Londonderry where Irish Republic Army (IRA) snipers shot and killed a British soldier Monday night 55th soldier to die in Ulster since the troops were (See Picture P. 6) warning that a bomb would explode shortly was described by police as a deliberate attempt to lure the victims to their deaths. The IRA so far has not said whether it planted the bomb. Like the blast in Belfast, two of today's Londonderry bombs were hidden in parked cars. The blasts ripped through the main railway station, then officer. through two downtown streets, five in is feet "Water deep some homes in northeastern one of them around the corner Harris County," Sheriff's Depu- from City Hall. One explosion in Shipquay Street wrecked four ty Bill Turner Jr. said today. and heavily damaged to boats bring shops "They're using on the block. building every them out, and they're still this them "At least this time they morning." rescuing authorities said phoned," an army spokesman was to many people were unable to said. The reference make it home from work telephone calls to police by the because of Gooding Monday militant provisional wing of the afternoon. outlawed IRA, warning of the Houston SAIGON (UPI) -C- ommunist attacks increased sharply today in Indochina with a devastating rocket attack against the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh and two daring raids against South Vietnamese sup- in But Laos bases. ply government forces were reported easing the threat to the Long Cheng CIA base. Military sources in Saigon said Vn.4 Cong commandos struck a major militia supply depot at Tay Ninh, 50 miles northwest of Saigon, killing 13 militiamen and wounding four others. The militiamen counterattacked and killed 47 guerrillas in a sharp clash. Commandos also raided a militia base near Qui Nhon, 250 miles northeast of Saigon, killing one South Vietnamese and wounding one. UPI correspondent Kate Webb reported from Phnom Penh that the rocket and mortar attack against the Cambodian capital Monday the air, damaging the night and early today killed 75 clockface in the tower of the persons, most of them civilian Guildhall, Londonderry's city refugees, and wounded 161. hall. It was the worst such attack A policeman wept Monday as of the Indochina war against a he surveyed the carnage in a d Belfast street major city although large parts of the ancient Vietnamese littered with the remains of the of Hue were destroyed capital severed a head dead, including in ground fighting there during in the gutter, a leg on the the Tet offensive of 1968. sidewalk and a hand in the UPI correspondent Pon Chan-tarwreckage of a shop window. reported from the Laotiar. capital of Vientiane that Meo tribesmen and Thai mercenaries defending Long Cheng, the big government base run and financed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), had scored some successes in it against North and defending (IRA) gunmen army Vietnamese attack. bombers. He said government troops Return to a proportional representation system of voting had captured Charlie Charlie, in Northern Ireland to ensure one of three helicopter landing larger parliamentary represen- sites on Skyline Ridge overlooktation for the Roman Cahholic ing Long Cheng and that Gen. minority, which constitutes Vang Vao, the Meo tribesmen about majority, have commanding general, expressed dominated the Northern Ireland belief the base could be saved. Military sources in Vientiane parliament and government at Stormont (parliament) ever said heavy fighting was raging since the state was set up 50 along the ridge and two other landing pads, Charlie Whickey years ago. Guaranteed representation i vtinuedOnPage2) of the Roman Catholic minority in the Northern Ireland government. Government sources said the blueprint would involve major Increasing southerly winds concessions by the Protestant tonight; strong southerly winds majority. But they said Prime and gusty Wednesday win a Minister Edward Heath will put chance of showers late Wethem to Faulkner as the last dnesday; highs Wednesday and probably only alternative to around 70; lows tonight in the of direct control by Britain, which mid 408; probability officials here fear could plunge precipitation Increasing to 20 per cent late Wednesday. the province into civil war. explosions and giving residents in and businesses time to evacuate. Hoax calls Monday, warning of a bomb in a nearby street, led Belfast police to move shoppers into the street where the bomb actually went off. The army spokesman said sent here in 1969. today's Shipquay Street exploA bomb also ripped the sion was powerful enough to business district of Banbridge hurl fragments of metal 90 feet but there, and in Londonderry, there were telephoned warnings the bombs would go off and casualties were three wounded in Banbridge and 25 in Londonderry. In the explosion Monday in Belfast which killed six persons and injured 147 a telephoned hy In Laos blood-spattere- aj Britain Prepares Peace Plan for North Ireland LONDON (UPI)-T- he British government has completed its political peace package for Ulster and will present it to Northern Ireland Premier Brian Faulkner Wednesday, government sources said today. If Faulkner quickly approves it the government hopes to unveil it before the end of the week, the source said. If he insists on consulting his own government, publication may be delayad until next week, the sources said. Usually reliable political sources said the package is likely to include these main points: Appointment of a resident British government minister in the Northern Ire'and capital of to the Belfast, responsible British cabinet for security in the embattled province. Gradual phasing out of the policy of jailing without trial of suspected Irish Republican one-thir- WEATHER Spring Lake Area Rezoning to be Discussed By DARRELL BERKHEIMER A public meeting to discuss rezoning of the Spring Lake Planning District south of Payson will be held Thursday evening in the Spring Lake IDS Ward Chapel. The meeting, scheduled for 7:30 pjn., was arranged by the Utah County Planning Office to discuss rezoning proposals with area residents. County planners explained the purpose of the meeting is to determine what area residents desire for the area before county com missioners schedule a rezoning hearing. Two items in at stake in the rezoning are a boys' ranch proposal, submitted to the planiiifi& commission by James M. Revel, and expansion of the Nebo Stake Dairy Farm operations. Mr. Revel, who has a ranch at 11410 South Highway 91, has been helping boys on his ranch for the past three years and has had 48 boys living with him. In addition to the 51 acres operated by the Nebo Stake Dairy Farm, Payson Park Ward has 18 acres in the area while Payson Second Ward has another 12 acres. The area involved is generally RA-residential-agriculturzoned .which is more restrictive to agricultural expansion than the agricultural Aand A-- 2 zones. A planning commission recommendation should rerone all property south of Payson and essentially west of Spring Lake to from its present e, 1, -l classifications of RA-- 1 and the canal an north between the canal and 3970 West St., the land grazing to A- agriculture. This area, bounded on the west would be rezoned A--2 from the would be bounded by present classifications of by and Strawberry Highline Canal in residential-agricultur- e the southeast, Spring Lake grazing. It was noted the RA-- 1 zone proper on the east and 3970 West St. on the county's highway allows construction of a single system on the eastern side family dwelling on a minimum immediately south of Payson. of one acre and building of a The property surrounding dwelling on a minimum ' lf acres. Spring Lake propi would be of one and The A- zone allows building of rezoned to RA-- 1 from its present flood plain, commercial and a home on a minimum of 20 acres while the 2 zone requires grazing classifications. East of Spring Lake as far as at least five acres. -l two-fami- ly one-ha- -l A-- I |
