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Show Thursday, January Environ men talis ts Give Up Fight On Pipeline WASHINGTON Logan Mayor Cracks Down On Nepotism For Now - En(UPI) vironmentalists have allowed a y deadline to pass without raising a court challenge to construction of the Alaska oil pipeline. Bif spokesmen for environmental groups said Wednesday they would keep a watchful eye on the project and that it could still face legal challenges if environmental safeguards are violated. "Hie deadline for contesting the project on constitutional grounds was set by Congress when it passed legislation directum the Interior Department to grant a peimit for the 789-mi- right-of-wa- pipeline. LOGAN further legal action if it's in the public interest" Assistant Attorney General Wallace Johnson, who heads the Justice Department's land and natural resources division, said the way had been cleared for immediate issuance of construction permits. However, an Interior Department spokesman said it would be "at least a week" before Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton can issue the permits. the project was Although originally challenged on environmental grounds, the iniunc-tio- n blocking its construction was based on a 1920 taw limiting its to 54 feet much less than needed. The Trans-Alask- a Pipeline Act passed by Congress authorizes a wider right-of-wa- y James Dean, a spokesman for the Wilderness Society, said plans for challenging the law were dropped on the advice of lawyers who felt such a challenge would fail. The decision not to challenge the project was announced in a letter from lawyers for environmental groups to U.S. District Judge George L. Hart Jr., who had granted them an injunction of the construction blocking pipeline. Despite the action, Dean said the Wilderness Society and other environmental groups still felt the decision to build the pipeline through Alaska rather than Canada was "a mistake" and that they would carefully study any permit issued by the Interior Department. "We haven't made any commitment not to do anything," Dean said. "We're not ruling out (LTD Logan's new mayor announced t'crackdown on nepotism in city government. Wednesday and said it would cost the city recorder's son his job at the end of the current fiscal year. Mayor Desmond Anderson, who took office last week, said Jerry Jones. 21, son of City Recorder Venal Jones, had agreed to leave his post in June as city taxi driver and assistant in the computer programming office. Anderson, who issued a policy statement vowing there wil! be no nepotism ia city hiring, said the younger Jones was not fired and his termination comes through "mutual agreement." He added that the young man was eligible for jobs in other city departments, but that his present job puts him under his father's supervision. He was hired last month. right-of-wa- Sad, Sad Story of Los Angeles - George Alderson, a consultant for Friends of the Earth, said environmentalist groups particularly the Alaska Conservawere planning tion Society independent inspections of their own to assure that environmental damage would be held to a minimum. Alderson said he had talked By JACK V. FOX The LOS ANGELES (UPI) with officials of the Alaskan Pipeline Service Co., formed by first enthusiastic estimates were oil companies to build the that 100,000 people would pipeline, and had been told they overflow the huge Los Angeles would not object to such Memorial Coliseum. The occasion was to be a rally independent inspection. Congress already has appro- acpressing citizen support for involvement in combatting priated funds for government inspectors who will observe crime and terrorism on the city's construction to assure that tough, streets and particularly in the on whose environmental standards will be black community northern edge the Coliseum met. stands. It had the backing of a council of black churches in Watts and other black areas and the support of county and city officials. The Police Department looked at the 100,000 figure with some By RICHARD C. LONGWORTH cooperation in three skepticism and lowered the EuroBRUSSELS (UPI) security and "human crowd estimate U pean diplomats said today the contacts." assigning the necessary number Soviet government risks the The working groups are of officers to handle traffic and the of collapse European meeting now in Geneva. But security. Security Conference, if it arrests conference sources said the The sponsors had talked the novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Soviets have refused any Coliseum management into The Soviet Union worked for concessions at all in the area of them the stadium free for giving years to get the Security "human contacts" the area in the day. Concessionares set up Conference started and, by all which greatest Western interest their hot dog and refreshment accounts, was still devoted to its lies. stands. Parking charges were success. waived. Extra city buses were The diplomats said one reason provided to handle the crowds. why it has not moved against The great day dawned last Solzhenitsyn yet is its fear that Sunday, Jan. 13. It was bright the West would retaliate by and sunny and warm. calling off the meeting. And 350 people showed up in the 92,000 seat Coliseum. That fear is justified, the A picture in the Los Angeles diplomats said. If the Nobel Times told the story better, as g novelist is punithey say, than a 'housand words. shed, they said, Holland and MOSCOW (UPI) Soviet It showed a well dressed black nations several Scandinavian dissident Anatoly Marchenko man in his 30s sitting in the probably will pull out of thf said today secret police have stands with his arm conference and other larger draped searched his home, confiscated ccrtries will be forced to go his protectively around the shouland indirectnotes personal ders of his son, a boy around 10 or along, leading to its collapse. ly advised him to leave the 11. They were surrounded by The United States, although a country. seats. empty member of the conference, has In a statement made availaAnd you could almost hear the kept a low profile within its ble to Western newsmen, are we meetings so far. But U.S. sources Marchenko said he also was boy asking: "Dad, why here when hardly anybody else said Washington might also be questioned by the KGB secret showed up?" forced to react to Solzhenitsyn's police in connection with "Case The man who spearheaded the arrest, particularly if this was 24," the police case against coupled with an attack on the persons involved in production of campaign for the rally is the Radio Liberty, the Chronicle of Current Events. Rev. Claude Evans, black pastor which is broadcasting excerpts of the Garden of Gethsemane The Chronicle, an underground from his latest book, "The Gulag Church. Baptist on dissident activities, journal Archipelago," into Russia. not to be has not Evans since late 1972. A Arrest of Russ Writer Would Endanger Confab - areas-econo- mics, 25,000-50,00- Russ Writer Says Police Harass Him - Prize-winnin- st - In less than a MIAMI (UPI) year, Frank Joyce had won the praise of several Dade County judges and had established himself as one of the top prosecutors in State Attorney Richard Gerstein's office. Gerstein was so impressed by the Joyce that he in him charge of the placed County Courts Division. The word around the courthouse was that Joyce was a comer a man on the move upward. Last month, Joyce got another promotion. He was assigned to Circuit Court and promptly got convictions on his first, seven cases. Today, Joyce has no job. His law career came to a crashing halt and now he may find himself the target of another Gerstein Florida Bar this week that Joyce was unknown to them. The marine patrol officer relayed this information to assistant State Attorney Janet Reno. She summoned Joyce, asked him why he wasn't a member of the Florida Bar, and reported he was "evasive." Miss Reno then checked and Joyce's job application called Chicago's John Marshal Law School, where he claimed he received his law degree in 1968. Officials at the Marshal Law reported that Joyce had registered for classes in September of 1964 and had apparently dropped out of school the next day. School Gerstein suspended Joyce from his $14,000 a year job Tuesday and said he will decide soon whether to press charges against him. prosecutor. By accident, Gerstein learned Joyce is net a member of the Florida Bar and doesn't even County Judge Thomas have a lew degree. He may be O'Connell, who wrote a letter to charged with practicing law Gerstein praising Joyce as an without a license. "excellent prosecutor," said he T. J. Akey Jr., a Florida was "amazed" to learn Joyce had no law degree. Marine Patrol officer, discov"But I do pot regret having ered Joyce's lack of credentials when he filed a complaint written the letter," the judge against the prosecutor with the said. "He was cn excellent Florida Bar Association. prosecutor and was very Akey got wjrd from the knowledgeable in the law." 55 New C0nSffUCfOfl If) '74 Jail Can - 1974. I Says Official Administration Makes Progress Against Crime - WASHINGTON (UPI) Nixon administration has The made progress" in the government's battle against the underworld, the Justice Department's chief organized crime fighter says. William Lynch, chief of the organized crime section, said that intensified investigating and prosecuting staffs led to the convictions of "some pretty significant Mafia heads" in 1973. Overall, Lynch said in an "substantial d con'lctions to use of electronic surveillance, the department's establishment of 18 regional "strike forces" throughout the country and better intelligence gathering. in court-ordere- and maintain organization Beef Price Boost Seen by Retailers Vote For Wear Future' WASHLNGTON (UPI) The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that absentee ballots must be provided to citizens in jails who have not lost their right to vote. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, writing the majority decision, said opinion in the that a New York statute providing for absentee balloting applies equally to persons in jail, otherwise they are denied "equal protection of the laws" if unable to vote. New York law permits persons convicted of misdemeanors or awaiting trial to vote and the decision was not concerned with statutes suspending a felon's civil rights, including the right to vote. A New York appeals court had held that the state law on absentee balloting did net require government to provide voting facilities for jail inmates, although mobile voting and registration units are used in some New York county jails. The case was filed by 72 inmates at the Monroe County jail who tried to register and vote in the 1972 elections. 7-- 2 Reciting the convictions of underworld figures from 1970 through 1973, Lynch said, "I think you can say we're making crime syndicate members, the leaders, who were considered the "real impact cases" in the fight against the underworld. In this category, he said, there were 33 convictions in 1970, 61 in 1971, 60 in 1972 and 69 in 1973 a total of 223. June 30, 1973, there were attorneys assigned to the Justice Department's organized crime section, compared with 112 in 1971. Within two months this figure wil! rise to the authorized As of 140 - Con- National Association of Food Chains said in a statement to newsmen. "Retail have also prices moved up, but have not as yet reflected the very sharp wholek sale rise experienced in the period of Jan. However, because of the extremely tight profit situation at retail, it is to be expects that retail prices will soon advance sharply," the NAFC said. two-wee- NAFC traced the recent comeback in cattle and whole sale beef prices party to baJ weather in the Midwest which has held down sales, but mainly to a reduction in the number of cattle placed on feed last summer and fall because of uncertainties caused by price contiols and the later plunge in cattle prices. The supermarket group said that considering the current retail beef supply situation, prices for the next four to six months will have to be substantially above current levels unless consumer demand is cut back. The NAFC added that attempts to hold retail prices down by using ceilings would serve only to prolong the period of short supply which is expected to improve by about midyear. Alcohol and pills should not be mixed. Travelers Insurance Companies reports cold pills and a cocktail can make a sane driver act like the town drunk. r r m struc- echelon" (UPI) The price of beef at the farm and wholesale level has risen substantially since Dec. 1 after slumping sharply last fall, the vertical its substantial progress. "This is not to say that prior administrations were not equally concerned with organized crime," he said, "but the fact of the matter is there was an increased emphasis when this administration took office on the application of resources both investigative and prosecuting." Lynch said there were 418 underworld figures convicted in 1970, 679 in 1971, 993 in 1972, and 1,616 during 1973 a total of 3,706. But Lynch said it was the "high WASHINGTON sumers have been warned by food retailers to expect another round of beef price increase in the near future. At the same time, the retailers said if the government restored price controls it would only make the matter worse. anv interview with UPI, convictions have risen as the government has committed more resources to battling organized crime. "Continued application of the kind of pressure we have on is bound to have serious implications for organized crime groups," he said. "No organization can stand that kind of pressure efficient ture." 29 age Says People in Utah Power and Light Co. SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) plans to spend $93.5 million for new construction during UP&L's plans outlays for generation, transmission and distribution, plus environmental control equipment. The major portion of the budget will go to finish corcruction on the company's Huntington Plant in Southern Utah, which is scheduled to begin operation in June. Almost 10 percent of the expenditures will go for construction of environmental safeguards at plants, the firm' said Wednesday. The construction expenditures are the second largest in the company's history UP&L said. Utah-P- Thinking of buying a home freezer this year? Now is the time to do it. We have taken $20 off the price of every freezer in stock. You can choose from apartment size compacts to full size vertical and chest style models. Choose features like saBgsiMmaii ihiihw i n 1; i """ llY ll spring ejector type locks, defrost drains, bulk storage baskets end more. Some models are even available in color, and at Penneys color costs no more. A freezer can mean fewer trips to the store and foster, easier meal planning. It can help you be prepared for unexpected guests. Don't hesitate. Come in now for $20 savings on every freezer in stock. total of 159, Lynch said. Additionally, the FBI has e about 600 agents assigned to organized crime, a figure which Lynch described as a "substantial increase" since Nixon took office. Lynch attributed the increase full-tim- professes appeared The Security Conference is a at the Marchenko, 36, an engineer, deeply disappointed three-st3g-e affair. The first has served nine years in labor" turnout. stage, held at foreign minister camps since 1960. He is best Then you ask him why only a level in Helsinki last summer, set known abroad for his book, "My sprinkling of people attended. up working groups to write Testimony," which describes life "I'll tell you way," he says. "It in the camps. programs for closer East-Wewasn't apathy. It wasn't the fact the Super Bowl was on that day. It wasn't that the weather was so fine people wanted to do other Mighty Good Lawyer, But No Law Degree.. - i UP&L Plans & 17, 1974, THE HERALD, Provo, Supreme- Court ssss!ss5KasssmK$i U Ford's Seat At Stake in Coming Vote v L!,,,,,,.,,,!.,., things. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (UPI) "It wes fear. The people in our State Sen. Robert VanderLaan community are afraid to stand Tuesday won the Republican up against the loud voices of nomination to run for Vice ;: violence. Presiderit Gerald R. Ford's old "They are afraid of retalia- seat in Congress with 55 per cent tion from the militants. They of the vote in e spec'1 primary His democratic were afraid there might be election. deliberately staged altercations opponent, who ran unopposed, in the stadium and they were pledged to make the Dec. 18 afraid of how the police might generU election "a referendum on Nixon" and "the whole react. "The criminals and the gangs morality Nixon symbolizes." are laughing at the community because they have them scared. They are laughing at the Police Department because all they have to do is yell 'police brutality' and neutralize law enforcement." Promotion Halted Evans says he decided after the Watts riot in 1965 that responsible people in the black SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -community had as much or more Power & Light Co. anUtah of a duty to tackle some of its own nounced Wednesday it had suspersonal problems than pended all advertising intended depending on outside help. to increase the use of electric "Anthing except their own energy. be can That community. very "We took this action so that our dangerous." company could continue to be in Evans says he isn't step with national energy or or conservation efforts, and not beHe says he feels that the cause of any present or impendonly solution for blacks is to look ing shortage of electricity in our upoii themselves as Ameriservice area," said UP&L cans and entitled to all the rights President E. Allan Hunter. of Americans. 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