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Show CfSCPtT 2g Ntw, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1975 Van Dam 55 cut from S.L Jr ticket probe Class action suit filed against JPs attorney, and therefore is qualified to hear criminal cases, said Stephen MeCaughcy, an attorney front the Salt Lake Legal Defenders Office, who represents the plaintiffs By Hal Spencer Deseret News staff writer Two Salt Lake County residents Tuesday filed a class action suit in Third District Court challenging the practice of allowing non attorney judges the power to preside At cording to the suit, the plaintiffs are challenging the practice on grounds that it v lolates plaintiffs right to due pror ess of law us guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, and that such practice violates plaintiffs right to Equal Protection of the Law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment over cnmmal trials involving possible jail sentences Larry J Shelmuhne and John F Reeves, boh scheduled for justice of the peace trials on drunk anving charges, brought the suit against 10 of 11 Sail !ake County JPs George Scarle a South Sit Lake JP, was mt named as a defendant becau-- e he is an The -- rnt seeks to enjoin the defendants from presiduig over crunuial Inals without a Suit alleges Housing repairs given priority price-fixin- g Price fixing m an attempt to monopolize the sale of light bulbs in Utah and nearby states is charged m a US District C 'ufi suit Wed Tuesday by a Utah man. Saturday afternoon met with city officials and they pointed out projects m need funding Community Development the citv that Citizens Adv isory Committee $7 75 million worth VVo dont hav at Sumner School ha mix h More than 12s citizens, money available right no .o we will have to pare down representing dozens of comthose requests munity groups, said they What is going to happen, thought home repair was one of the most important pro- Horroeks explained, is that jects to be undertaken with citizens representing, hopethe $4 6 million available fully, community organunoor tne now Community izations will express their Development Act. opinions about how the funds Other projects citizens should be spent solving probthought important include lems m the city Senior Next week we will start uildmg a West S. Citizens Center, road repairs workshops two or three ami development and water nights a week to formulate a improvements in the lower plan. When that is completed we will meet with city comAvenues and west and north-weareas of the city st missioners and other officials L, Wayne Horroeks, chai- to get their input. rman of the citizens advisory Finally, we wilt arrive at Another 2 pldii incorporating the best .committee, 4&Wdting will be held Thurs-af;a- t of both plans, but still v ithin 7 p.m at Sunuier the boundaries of our availaSchool for more citizen input. ble funds Gary Guomoty. rs address usted in the suit, claims Daycoa, toe., a foreign company which previously employed him as a distributor, has attempted to eliminate competition in marketing light bulbs. Guernsey claims the company eliminated him as an independent distributor It had attempted to prevent him and others from maikctmg bulbs sold by competitors, he ,v ( Saims Guernsey also alleges Day-co- a has filed a gioundiess legal suit against him in a malicious attempt to get him on fraud charges The suit assigned to Associate Judge Aldon J Anderson, asks for $25 000 actual damages delivery money in their Brigham City home Bamhi has her own bed room and her only responsibility is to maintain it She Cats breakfast and dinner from Page B-- l 'negUim necessary for at those grade levels," bv ib&Uid. ?44aws also explained the without a retool because we heheve immunity can do a .better job educating its by sending them to a school away from to a small school than Jome, 'armiud the corner compensate for tne (.travel and hvmg expenses children who live in homes. Haw s said par-fiiiti receive a per diem Stipend per child ($3 50' which is usually paid to the foster parents An annual allowance TSTfPark Valley, $150 Grouse GCrepki is also allotted anid is by parents at thur ehil-Jdre- n studied by S.L A petition to change the to zoning of some property " along Emigration Creek 17th and 18th East has Mrs Thompson said that her daughter travels home on weekends, she If she isnt her "times 5 tdisiretion 165-rru- the despiteof eduea 'improved quality siilow and the financial repay merit both students and theres lute -- par-agre- e no subsu-- C for home puss my parents most of xJsiU'I, want to be home every night, said Bambt Thomp-- a Bear River High vT School senior from Grouse to Greek Its hard to go from to week to week never knowing C when 1 11 be abto to get 7 home .''-- - Unlike some of her friends, g ; - Bambl had Lt'le trouble a home for the school to yepr. This is her second year with the Denrus Spi nee family who also housed her r sister vtral ytai ao fm--di- .3kWS,t l ' For tne other 12 Park and Grouse Creek parents with children atted-inschool m larger areas, foster home finding a poses a major problem "Finding a good home m Tremonton for Burt was a problem unlike any other we had faced before, recalled Mrs Max Kurnier of Park Valley g City ' Bambl is like a daughter to us. said Colleen Spence "We feel very close to each other Because were taking the place of her parents, she has to abide by our rules But Bambi has never been a problem, she said Bamhi often babysits the couples daughter For Bambis mother, Mrs Hughie Thompson, the distance between she and her daughter is her biggest concern Bambl lr really a homebody so she tries to come home on weekends every ume she can gt a ride, she sal i It s not so bad in the warm weather, but the roads are treacherous m the winter and the usual three hour drive can easily run any where from five to six hours "Of course we want to see Bambl as often as possible, but it s rea'ly a torment sometimes, she said, adding the worst part of the trip is Hie last 75 miles between Park Valley and Grouse Creek. It s just complete desola tion m that stretch of land There s nothing out there If a tar bruke down out there, it tuuld take hours before anyone would even know it," she Ut home within four hours, we go out searching, she said with the family and generally has the run of the couples home Because she doesn't get home to Grouse Creek regularly, Bambl has become one of the family in Brigham 5Yost students are t fCreek rezoning -f- The $380,009 federal borrowed gram to hire additional workers is being used o bridge the gap- - County TiCasuief Atmif Monsrn said the morty bor rowed would be used mostly to operate county depart ments until sufficient particulai ly property taxes in Novemoer are received to cover government expenses The notes will be repaid Dec 31 with interest accruing commencing Feb 10, date for fe judge-shoppin- judge-shoppin- g, 1 e, fire Tuesday afternoon caused an estimated $1,300 damage at a Salt Lake residence according to Salt Lake Battalion Chief G L Ferns Mrs Annie Harns, 121 Jeremy St , called the fire department about 4 50 p m. A Students and foster homes k guards, kitchen help, relief phone operators, custodians and a vehicle inspector are out of work for 30 days. Ms. Peterson also said all the workers will be with federal money at the end y of the period. The reason for the furlough is that the new federal money available to the city can only be ued to hire people who have been unemployed for 30 days. City Auditor Lawrence Jones said the city is facing a $1 million deficit next fiscal year unless payrolls are reduced or additional revenue found The county Dorrowed $14 In addition to the Public million for temporary operations a year ago at 4 32 Safety Department furlough, 12 percent interest. More was blue slips were issued to needed this year during the workers in the Streets Detwo m the Parks eufiy iisuiiths. chiefly to partment, cover the costs of buses under Department; five in the the r.c ,v quarter cent sales Water Department and nine tax, which the county im- in the Fmance Department. posed the first of this year The county wii! pay the Film looks at future Utah Transit Authority its COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS share wnen it receives the A fJm that looks at today s borrowed money, then will be and predicts future society reimbursed by the State Tax trends will be shows at the Commission when sales tax Whitmore Library, 2187 E, receipts are distributed after 70th South, Thursday at 7 30 the first quarter of the year p.m. County Building S.L house of tne l She indicated security McCaughey said tne case could significantly change the JP system m Salt Lake County as far as umutmi cases are " Sail Lake County Commissioners today called for bids to borrow $16 5 million in tax anticipation notes, scheduling the bid epemng Jan 27 at 10 a m in Room 404, City and B-- Continued frets Page 8-- 1 issued by the sheriffs offu-e- , Utah High organizations such as Animal Control Even though the Deseret News only checked a of portion of these, it still took a reporter 50 hours tedious work to examine the 7,310 sheriffs tiaffie tickets issued r in 197 4 He noted the location of the crime, w tuch precinct it was in, and which JP the case was referred to. A cert am margin for mistakes was allowed m the News investigations Cards were usually ignored if the crime location was close to a precinct bolder. About 2,('4$ tickets were not tabulated because oi that allowance or-- , because they were w arnrng tickets sent to juvenile cr city v courts, or if the cards were too smudged or faded to be - read accurately. forwarded were 4 tickets News found Deseret The to the wrong court. The majority of those '346' vent toone, Judge Rult h Child Eighteen , , justice of the peace percent of tus tickets were improper. Sheriff Delmar I arson again iFnred Way that his- - i g deputies were involved in "Theres no deliberate referring of people to any one ' My men have their justice of the jieace, he said instructions in this regard I can see w here there's a Ii.t of room for error. He added: Let's face it Wien there s a question as to who to refer what to they might reier to the most able , 7 judge in their opinion Larson has, in the past, issued a series of strong and provided eac h memorandums about officer with a detailed map outlining precinct bouiulat ics j Beyond that, the sheriff said he could not babysit J oliicers or "be stovra there rev v wing each utktl as d comes in. Larson concluded: "Well, I guest there sno'.fdnt have been that many (wrongly referred i tickets', but I , cant see its a problem. , , If the county attorney s office finds illegal judge-,- , shopping is going on, "we could prosecute somebody, or refer them to the sheriff for inter departmental disci-phuThere are half a dozcA Van Bam said. alternatives. Whatever happens, the county attorney said that ho , would not he concerned about his relations with the , sheriffs office during the investig ation tor fJ ss ' Continued from Page be furloughed in "phases. County invites bids on anticipation notes light bulb Housing rehabilitation received major emphasis Tuesday rught at a meeting of the payroll waiver from the person charged with an offense According to McCaughey. the 10 JPs w ere served with complaints and summonses today. They will have 20 days m which to respond, he said said the county attorney McCaughey would "normally defend the JPs in a case like this, but added that m this care there is some question as to who will represent them. Valley oftAiit UWU UaV J11uoct uuvul ko) 4a vu knock on doors, asking people if they could give our son a home during the school year Luckily, this was not something new to the people of Tremonton because I guess by now they're used to having borders, she said. We had no idea who to approach, much less who w culd give our son a good home Seventeen is still a young age to turn a child over to someone elses care Its a constant worry whether or not the foster parents can take your place as parents Mrs Kumzler explained that last year friends referred her to the Lester Wheat-le- y family in Tremonton where Burt, now a Bear River senior, lives from September through May For Burt however, the greatest adjustment to his new surroundings was the increased amount of free time At home on his fathers sheep and cattle ranch there not enough hours in the day, he said But now back m 7 eeai taken under advisement iCcn'f Corns in? mm 'mu 3 Living items & hull Room, Dining Room,. Bedroom and Half, up to 42 sq. yds. of Quality iSS3GPAT Nylon Broadloom in Your Choice of Decorator Colors. COMPLETELY INSTALLED 0VI1 ROYALAIRE FAD hall mm& daughter unpack her weekend suitcase, having your kids leave home is inevitable Most of them do it just after high school The problem here though is that we ( parents) lose them almost three years too soon Sure they get home on holidays and w eekends and m the summer, but somehow its just not the same. Its the everyday things that I feel Im missing I m not there when my daughter goes out on a date or cones home excited from a special football game Its really a shame I think Im missing something very important me Burt says theres just nothing to do. I ortie home after school and She only excitement around is homework and thats not very exciting." he complained I m luckier than most kids t aid when remonton CilMIfY piAVY iifY COMPLETE CAiPiTiiei PAB&flS IMSTMIATEQli Holley Sparkman, 15, a sophomore this year at Bear River, is one of Burts Park Valley neighbors who often rides home with him Sne lives with her grandmother, Mrs Nelley Barnard m Tremonton, and finds adjusting to the schools large student population a real challenge There were just three boys and me in my ninth grade class at Park Valley," said Holley, adding she started Bear River a year early so I could have some girls in my class My first day of school this year was really a surprise I went from a class of four to one with hundreds of kids in it . it really blew my mind, . she said. You know, said John Spackman, as he watched his because 1 have a car and can get home every weekend If it werent for that, Id go sUr clasj, he aa. j N by the Salt Lake City nntJ The zoning request was by L Burns Dun- ' lord, who asked that the city , allow the construction of five foui tout coiidoiiiiuinis on the This wtHild nxiuire a change ui the zomng front an R-Z allowing duplexes, to an iU-A- ; w'hich allows some planned developments. g The city planning and department asked for a hearing on the matter because it felt tine (My should decide on the iyjie of developnifnt in the 'sraa. Fciiowing that hearing m Thursday, commissioners M off a deciswo pending !jnrt " and analyiu. of l';' farther I apposii.g argusents ; - submitted -- 2i Memories ij STOP IN Display Ml CNR COS DISCOUNT FISiCES. ?cn-4a- f., Cnm-nussi- 1 fsf ffw SUSSESS OGorw 1365 50. Sait Lm v4R INSTALLATION MACHINES. INC. tm WAJHtHGTON sst Ift&miATI STATE CRT MODEL FB 122! AiaL f V !!? mi IfM r? 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