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Show Page 20-T- HERALD, Prove, UteS, Sunday, Marc HE LDS 23, 1S75 Industrial School Head Church Denies Illegal Recordings SALT LAKE CITY (UPI The Mormon Church, warned by the JuSice Department against in its using illegal recordings ezranmuriicatian courts, Friday denied ever indulging ia wire tapping. A sfjokesrmn for the Church of Jpsus Christ of Latter day Saints said ii has never used "wiretapping or any other illegal means" in proceedings against m excommuricaied for practicing or advocating polygamy or for othet reasons The Justice Department wrote the church's legal office last year warning it "of the dangers involved in the use of materials Disputes Claim - The Ameri OGDEN tUPIi can Ovil Liberties VnM says solitary cjruiiiemeri used at the State Industrial School threatens said Lockhart, The individual did do some bugging and, at a ister point, he attempted to turn over the product of his work to local church officials. But it is not dear what use the officials made of it " "But there was no reason to the bugging was believe instigated or taken advantage of by the local church leaders." he were involved," the civil rights of the students,but the school's superintendent says recent descrip-tiofi- s of the program are misleading. Utah ACLU President Michael Rudick wrote te Superintendent Claud H. Pratt after an article appeared, in s Salt Lake added, The federal prosecutor said newspaper quoting SIS'g chief there was no basis for charges psychologist Richard C. Sowies against the church officials. on a "behavior modification" None was brought against the program involving isolation of man because the incident "was students in a room devoid of sound, color and furniture. nni part of a pattern," he said. "Some of the questions and Ite said the second case involved comments made by Dr. Sowies in produced by private parties in "totally unrelated" violation of the wiretapping charges by a third party that a discussing the problems and am J Lflrichart, man as jxvr"munirated on the practices with the news reportlaws." said er should not fee accepted as basis of illegal phone taps. US, attorney for Utah. "Neither the alleged tapper or fact," said Pratt Friday. He said the cautionary letter was sent after an individual victim brought the complaint. It The newspaper story March 3, turned over an illegally obtained came from a third party with a indicated that unruly youths are tape recording to his locsr strong personal ax to grind. By put in small, bare rooms and Mormon leaders. No charges that, however, I'm not deprived of sound and were filed in the case, he added. characterizing the truth of the communication with others. Lockhart said the Federal accusation," Lockhart said Sowies was quoted as saying the Bureau of Investigation was still "We are still tracking down "time out" making inquiries in a second leads, but quite frankly, the trail confinement made the youths case, involving charges the looks bleak as far as establishing "more persuasive., they conchurch used illegally recorded facts demonstrating a violation," template more. You turn off all conversations in he continued. external stimulation so that telephone Lockhart said the FBI had now. tlit--j can attend to 'why did excommunicating a man for advocating polygamy. completed its preliminary I get in this spot." The U.S. attorney indicated it investigation In a letter to the ACLU Friday, and turned its was unlikely any charges would findings over to his office, "We Pratt wrote, "As administrator be filed in that case either. have asked for further of this institution, I have well Wendell Ashton, the church's investis&Uon of a few additional defined policies regarding the use of 'time out or any other public communications director, factors by the FBI," he said issued a statement denying any form of removal of students from wiretapping or illegal gathering group and placing them in rooms of information. of isolation." "Further, local officials of the Pratt said dangerous students church have been instructed "to are usually put in time out for 15 refrain from using any minutes but admitted some tape recorded communications particularly vicious youths may unless the party whose stay in the rooms for as long as conversation was recorded two days. He said SIS faces unique clearly has given express consent in writing for its use,' " problems because it is forced to A deal with all he said. PHOENIX, Ariz. (UPI) types of youngTne warning was issued in a Navajo woman has filed a suit sters, ranging in age from 9 church "priesthood bulletin" last against her former employer and in offenses from runfall after the Justice saying she was ordered to flush away to attempted murder, "Since physical punishment is Department's letter was her sacred and traditional Indian medicine down a toilet, because strictly forbidden," Pratt said, received "other alternatives must be Ashton noted that the church they thought it was marijuana. used. Isolating a serious aggave up polygamy in 5890 and Elsie Nez filed the $250,003 suit initiates excommunication in Federal District Court here gressor at times becomes necessary."' proceedings against members against Bechtel Power Corp., her But he said the students placed advocating or practicing plural 8 when last until July employer in time out are checked at least marriage. she was falsely accused by her 15 minutes and ar? fed, The case prompting the federal of possessing every showered and allowed to use letter involved a Prove, Utah, superiors latrine facilities. woman who complained to the marijuana. ACLU's Rudick said, "The U.S. attorney that her husband The woman said she suffered had put a tape recorder under humiliation and severe emotionimposition of solitary confinetheir bed 10 gather evidence of al distress and that the action ment under conditions of sensory adultery and later turned tapes constituted slander, invasion of deprivation raises problems of over to their local Mormon privacy and violation of her civil both a legal and moral nature." leaders. rights. According to she suit, the Superintendent Pratt said the use of the term "sensory "Tne illegal action was wholly Navajos consider the destruction deprivation" was "unfortunate." personal and no church officials of the sacred sage sacrilegious. raters being President Of Snow installed - il'Pll Dr KIgbee has taken over as president of Snow Cdi-g-e, Higbee was inaugurated during ceremonies Friday as the 11th president of the school Friday. In his inaugural address, Kghee called on the school to offer programs gaited to "those individuals and community needs not best served by a college degree or certificate programs," and to remain small so as to "provide a more personalized educational erperi-ent- e for students." He also said the school should strengthen its vocational and te&eaal offerings, but not at hc expense of its liberal arts curriculum. Higbee, an Idaho native, is a graduate of Brigham Young University aid earned his doctorate at the University of Southern California. EPHRAIMUUh J, Marvin Storm Sweeps Over Utah Poll Flanned On Proposed Cache Highway Ptt bteraatioeai spring storm swept across Utah Saturday, dumping LOGAN (UPI) The Utah heavy snow on northers areas Commission is pollmg the state and kicking up of all Highway blowing dust is the Cache County rrvors on its things south. from proposed express highway The National Weather Service Brigham City to the Idaho torder. reported heavy snowt in northern Utah mountains early The commission says it Saturday, and snow falling along . will ask the mayors what they the entire WasaUh Front. think the highway's impact on PredictirjRS were vaA the storm the county would be and, if they would leave up to six inches of favor the road, what route it snow in Its wake as it swept should take: on the east or west southeast across the state. side of the county or through the The cold front, accompanied center. by winds lasting as high as 65 h near Snowbird Ski Resort, The commission, will conduct mp moved across the Salt Lake an economic impact study on the Intematjonai Airport at about S proposal to deteruvnt its cost. By felted A Strang - a.m., plummeting from tenperati're Logan Mayor Desmond Andhas said he would oppose such a highway because "Cache Valley is s frsp'fvalley, ana this type of road would ntt be conducive to the future growth of the valley." 50 to wen. expected to create blowing-an- last night, bti with rrtounUa drifting sno. The southwest siow flurries eoriimang through area of site state was expected to Sunday, The long range ooUook is the gp( some blowing dust as a result same the Weather Service has of the high winds. Temperatures will drop be- been issuing for iays hind the storm, with daytime "typically unsettled March which apparently highs dipping to the 5 range, weather," and lows Saturday night means a Utile of everything from dropping into the 20s and low 30. stow storms to dear, Partial clearing was forecast days. d 45-5- mj H0VJ AGENT FOR the 35 r United degrees. erson COO Y! 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