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Show WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3. inLnCiiu"Ji,ii"', 1982 - Utah, Page 11 Bac Panther Families Utah Supreme Court Modifies Exemption Rules Win Millions of Dollars - CHICAGO (UPI) Surviving family members of two Black Panther Party leaders killed by police will receive $1.85 million in an settlement of a civil rights suit. fired by the Panthers, but the raid resulted in a bitter dispute between law enforcement and civil rights leaders. filed a Survivors million $47.7 suit, naming as defendants a wide The Cook County Board gave final range of government offices and approval to the settlement Monday. officials. The trial ran 320 days "I'm glad this matter is coming the longest in the history of the to an end," said Commissioner federal court system. John H. Stroger Jr. The defendants won the original The suit stemmed from a pre- trial, but an appeals court later dawn raid by 14 policemen seeking awarded the Panthers' relatives a an order upheld by the illegal weapons on Dec. 4, 1969, at new trial the Panthers' West Side headquar- U.S. Supreme Court. ters. The Cook County state's attorShooting began as the policemen, office recommended the ney's directed by Attorney settlement. then-State- - SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) The The ruling applies mostly to recUtah Supreme Court, in a unani- reational organizations like-h- c mous decision, has narrowed its Moose Club or the Elks Club that for interpretation of what charitable use a portion of their funds to and religious organizations can charitable purposes, according claim for property tax exemptions. State Tax Commissioner Douglas The ruling says tax exemptions Sonntag. Ironically, the ruling grants tax are to be granted only on properties "used exclusively" for religious or relief sought by Salt Lake Loyal Order of Moose, No. 259, the very charitable purposes. A court ruling several years ago type of organization that loses its determined that if an organization exemption from the J.ew court applied 7 percent of its funds to The Moose Club had appealed a charitable causes, its property denial of its requested exemptions could be exempted from property for 1977 and 1978. Justice Richard taxes. The new court ruling strikes C. Howe, who wrote the decision, said it would not be fair to deny the down most of its previous decisions on the subject and returns to a exemption retroactively, when the standard set down in 19C1. looser standards were prevailing. i 's Edward V. Hanrahan, converged on the building. Killed were Mark Clark and Fred Hampton. Four others in the apartment were wounded. It was never clearly resolved who fired first or how many shots were The county will pay $616,333.33 and the city and federal government each will provide an equal amount. The settlement includes attorneys' fees for the family Bell Explains Disvestiture To Callers; To Expand Project LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI) -American Telephone and Telegraph Company used its own telephone system to explain the break-u- p of the Bell System to callers in a trial with great "Let's Talk" program success. Now the program has been implemented by each of the 22 companies being divested by AT&T. "It has far and above exceeded what our research people told us would be successful," said Bob Sells, who coordinated the trial in the Little Rock area. AT&T is divesting itself of the local telephone companies and reoperation taining its and Western Electric as the result of federal regulatory rulings and an antitrust settlement with the Justice Department. In the "Let's Talk" program, customers of the local companies are encouraged, through an advertising campaign, to contact the phone company with any questions they have about the major changes underway in the Bell System. "We thought we had a tremendous responsibility to let our customers know there were some changes taking place in the Bell long-distan- System locally and nationally," areas earlier this year, surveys showed that 75 percent of people interviewed knew "there were going to be some changes in the way the phone company was going to do business with its customers," he said. There was a dual approach to the test. Broadcast and print advertisements told customers in Portland Paul to call a and Minneapolis-St- . toll-fre- e number for information on the breakup. In Little Rock, the ads advised customers to call the local office during business hours or else mail in a published coupon to receive a booklet explaining the changes. 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