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Show Testify In Vote Machines Probe After At" s Probe 1 By JACK MONSON Deseret News Staff ..ter STATE PRISON-T- wo Utah State Prison guards were fired Wednesday following an investigation of drug smuggling and a search for guns inside the prison fences. UTAH Bv JOSEPH T. LIDDELL . Deseret News Staff Writer There was nothing unethical in their tactics no one offered me any bribe.- - (Blom-quisl- ). There was an attempt to influence my decision with an trip to Hawaii. (McClure). In the that sequence, Salt Lake County Commissioners Philip R. Blornquist and Ralph Y. niiCiure sharply oppose each other's views of voting machine manufacturer's sales tactics a year ago. Them contradictory statereiterated ments, today, explained the purpose of a Buffalo, N.Y., trip from which they returned Wednesday. Both underwent questioning Tuesday as friendly witnesses of the Department of Jus tice in a federal grand jury investigation. The trip also brought reco! lections to Salt Lake City Commissioner Jennings Phillips Jr. of a $2,000 bnbe offer made to me before last year's city election. Blornquist testified two and a half hours and McClure 30 minutes, according to their reports of the appearances before the Buffalo grand jury. Neither was allowed to hear the others testimony m the voting machine questioning. The two Utahns learned at' Buifalo tnat the Justice Department is investigating alleged illegalities in obtaining contracts for sale of voting machines. Information at the grand jury proceedings indicated that representatives of American Machine Voting Corp., Jamestown, N.Y., are alleged to have sent checks through U.S. mails for bribery purposes in voting machine deals. Nothing the commissioners learned indicated any possible mailed involving bribery Utahns. Warden John W. Turner said the guards were fired following the investigation by Salt Lake County deputy sheriffs of reports that pnson personnel were taking drugs in to the pnson and selling them to inmates. n Blornquist said he described three occasions in which Salt Lake County dealt with voting machme manufacturers during the past six years. Turner said not enough evidence has been obtained to file criminal charges against the two guards, but investigation Ls continuing. He told how the county issued written specifications for competitive bidding by two major voting machine companies despite ones device listing of election candidates horizontally, the other vertically. considered in recent years purchasing 750 automatic mechanical voting machines to cost about $1.5 million. In December, 1970, Blornquist and Royal K. Hunt, a former county commissioner, voted to call for the bids on the machines. However, when newly elected commissioners William E. Dunn and McClure took office in January, 1971 they rescinded the previous bid action and bids received were filed. The Meanwhile, pnson officials shake-dow- n continuing to vanous sections of the pnson since vanous items have been found this week. are county In the medium secuntv boiler room Wednesday afternoon, of'icers found a meat mallet, a .'eat cleaver, a table knife, a homemade knife, part of a svnnge and a manjuana plant just beginning to grow. cell-blo- Dennis Couch displays homemade pistol and fake license found at prison. Also discussed during Blom-quisquestioning were contributions cf over $500, but somewhat less than $2,000 from Amencan Voting Machine to the commissioners A hop and jump south of Kanab where the sagebrush battles the red soil and pulls itself up the sloping side of a high mesa, stands a gaunt looking windmill. Its the kind with a steel frame body like an oil rig, and stands like a lonely sentry over a herd of white faced cattle. When a breeze blows up from Arizona, the blades of the windmill spin and water from an underground source is pumped to the thirsty animals. It was the only windmill I saw between our valley and Kane County, but there must be a few around. At the turn of the century, there were more than 20 mills turning out Americas windmills. In 1935, factories were turning out 100,000 windmills for farms where the long lines of electricity had not yet reached. I did a bit of homework. 1968 Before electricity took over much of the farm work like sawing fence posts, ' inter wood, and operating the cream separators and pumping of water, windmills dotted the Plain States like oil rigs around Roosevelt. The prairie land was alive with them. year. PRAIRIE LULLABY After a day of choking in clouds of tail dust, or breathing the chaff from the hay harvest, all hands would head for the windmill on arrival home. The attraction was a plunge ino the stock tank and the water it stored. When the night winds blew, and set the windmill blades to turning, the rhythmical; creaking played a prairie lullaby to comfort a lonely life amid the wide open spaces. One. of the biggest of windmills had two blades each 70 feet long and 11 feet wide. It was set up near Rutland, Vermont during World War II. It was capable of generating 1,500 windmill threw a kilowatts of electric power. The blade 700 feet down a mountain. And like my Uncle Shank, after his accident, it hasn't worked since. 150-fo- In 1854, Daniel Halladay, an inventor and owner of a village machine shop in Connecticut, built a windmill that would be safe from destruction in most violent windstorms. His product was good, but his selling and promotion was poor. I dont know would want one. a single solitary person in the world w'ho NEAR PERFECT Stewart Udall, the former Secretary of the Interior, thinks the windmill is ecologically one of the world's near-- , perfect devices. Windmills are much, much more than relics, he claims. They are symbols of sanity for a world that is increasingly hooked on machines that have an inordinate hunger for fuel and with a prodigious capacity to pollute. I think along those lines. I believe that some day, the windmill will sit on top of our larger buildings like television aerials to catch the high winds. They will not only solve the a lot of polgrowing nationwide energy shortage, but abolish lution. That is the picture I imagined when I saw that lonely windmill near Kanab. I might just be blowing in the wind! WITS END One thing about most of the new television shows. easier to get the kids at them homework. Its DESERET reelection campaign. said his campaign expenses totaled $33,000. add st NEWS The commissioner said he didnt consider the political unethical contributions that same salesman undoubtedly made many pobtical contributions over the years ?rous to candidates for nume political offices lo The commissioner said he knew of one $50 check from a salesman to another unsuccessful candiaate for the Salt Lake City Commission last recalled offers of a boat trip and an airplane made to him by the flight salesman but, I turned them down because I knew he neither owned a yacht or a plane. He said interrogators asked him at Buffalo if his testimony was that he had never been offered anything considered to be a bribe by personnel of the firm and said he answered, Blornquist Thats correct. McClure also acknowledged $50 political contribution from the same Salt Lake salesman towards his election a See COUNTY on Page B-- 2 State Code Protested Officers of the Utah Nursing Home Association told Gov. Calvin L. Rampton Wednesday afternoon that they are not being treated consistently by the state fire marshal and other state officers. . Mrs. Elame Redd, association president, said a nursing home on Center Street had been closed down because it could not provide sprinklers to prevent fires, but had reopened immediately as a foster home. Rampton replied that foster children presumably are more self sufficient and do not require as much care as nursing home patients. He asked for specific cases and dates so these could be investigated. Environmental Editor . Citizen committees in Summit, Wasatch and Duchesne counties disagreed sharply with state air quality and county zoning officials today over potential effects of proposed oil burning stations. Land has been cleared for the stations near Kimball's Junction. Summit Countv. east of Woodland in Wasatch County, and at Hanna, Duchesne County. Building permits have already been issued by all three counties for the burning units, but Chevron Oil Company officials have voluntarily halted de- - construction until it can be discussed with the citizens pact statement, dined. groups. Chevror.s application to the state health division says the units are needed to heat paraffin-based oil so it can be pumped from Uintah Basin fields into North Salt Lake refineries. They add that oil volume is growing steadily and that further trucking just can't handle the burning units is now before the Utah Division of Health. Air Quality Section. Wasatch Countys An application for planning commission indicated the building permit for the Woodland unit would be retracted only if the state fails to approve the burning unit appli- UUUV11 Siate health officials said a decision should be reached sometime during the next week. Summit County officials said they had asked Chevron for voluntary environmental im but they the load. of stacks has been shortened from an original 120 feet above ground down to 30 feet, Chevron officials state, to Height alleviate complaints. However, Ken Williams, Woodland, says the major issue Deseret News Staff Wnter Administrative costs in- curred by Blue Cross of Utah under the Medicare program were overstated by $26,502 for r a penod, an audit from a federal agency indicat- B 1 two-yea- ed today. Blue Cross defended its claims in statements m the audit and in a separate statement to the Deseret News. S.L. County Files Suit On Building Along The Jordan Salt Lake County today sought a District Court injunction to stop Salt Lake City from issuing building permits along the banks of the Jordan River. Two commissioners told Carl J. County Attorney Nemelka to ask the court to enjoin the citys building and inspection department from issuing the permits. The county flood control de partment is planning a river parkway on both banks of the stream and must prevent enc- roachment in areas abutting the river, the commissioners explained. Also, they called for imme- diate preparation of an ordinance through which Salt Lake County will assert its jurisdiction over flood The city has issued permits for a warehouse near 1700 South at the nver and a pair of four-pleapartment buildings between 8th and 9th North on the east bank of the x river. Construction will seriously jeopardize the highly planted corridor concept in developing the nver parkway, Commissioner Philip R. Blornquist said. The gun was found in a stool in the cell occupied by Orlando Morfin who is serving a sentence for second degree burglary and assault on a fellow convict. The search was instituted when the sheriffs office received a report there were five guns hidden at the prison. The gun found in Morfins cell was similar to two weapons used by two prison inmates in an unsuccessful escape attempt in Davis County a few weeks ago. , . Capt. Nicholas G. Morgan, Salt Lake County Sheriffs Office, said that through his Investigation of drugs at the prison it was determined there may be four more guns hidden at the facility, but the searches so far have failed to find them. He said there is a possibility charges will be filed against See WARDEN on Page 2 B-- . The costs included a $1,000 country club membership for .he president, a $500 social club membership, golfing fees and liquor expenses, according to the report from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare Audit Agency. In the audit addition, claimed Blue Cross paid $61,600 in claims not fully documented that skilled services were provided under Medicare. through Dec. 31, 1969, and benefit payments from Jan. 1, 1968, through June 30, 1970. Copies of the audit have been sent to Robert L. John-- son, president of Blue Cross of Utah, and the Blue Cmss As- Chicago, 111. Johnson said! People have to recognize today, this is an exception report. He said it consider the . total of the program and highlights only the negative and not the positive. He said this method of audit- ing has caused some concern with the careers ard other agencies and in the past four has been changed to include a full reporting Johnson said Blue Cross of. FrTIHKI JkV ttached to the audit report were the comments made by Blue Cross to the audit agency to justify the administrative expenses charged to the Med- icare program. The audit report covered administrative costs incurred to Medicare for Jan. 1, 1968, City, Regional. ..1-Our Man Jones Entertainment Theater R 5, 10, 12, 13 Highiights'3.3.'.'.''."''.''', Financial ZZZ!!!"l8 snt This membership is an or- dinary and necessary cost of conducting business in this area and should be considered in Ihe same light as other ministrative expenses. The country club is used for ministrative meetings as well as business oriented transac- .. tj0ns According to the audif, these are examples of travel expens- es the federal agency didnt believe benefited Medicare: 1 ZZZZZ&7 TV Utah has been in the top 25 percent of all performing plans in the U.S. in conneotion with the administration tofl Medicare. This information is oontained in a report that goes periodically to the Senate nance Committee. its rebuttal of the audit report on the country club membership, Blue Cross said,-doe'We do not agree v.ith the allowance of the country club membership of the president. ! 8 14 19 .0n,a 1S69. travel claim for an additional cos of 7 a day for five das was incurre(t for a double rather than a single room- This claim. also cIufled $15 in unidentif-April See BLUE on Page B-l- ft Scout's Project At Library By ELIZABETH SCHOENFELD Deseret News Staff Wnter plain management, maintaining a restricted zone of 190 feet on each side of the Jordan River." What the library needs is a bike rack, one of David J. McLeans younger brothers said Ias spnng. The ordinance wuuld firmly our right for Salt Lake City to discontinue issuing the permits, the county comn..ssioners said. Although the city intended to hoid construction permits back of a protective line, a city attorneys opinion this week held that suen action was not legal. A group of boys had returned home from the library after taking turns watching their bicycles. There was no place to lock them up. establish 150-fo- Oil Heaters Spark Protest By HARTT WIXOM By ROGER PUSEY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Thursday, October 5, 1972 Earlier this week, officers found a homemade gun and-sifake Montana driver's li censes in the prison. Blue Cross Rebuts Critical HEW Audit ts Turn For The Better In the maximum security facility, about 10 gallons of. home blew-- ' were confiscated, according to Deputy Warden Sam Smith. He said the shakedowns will continue. . David, 15, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert J. McLean, 1174 Denver St., who was looking for a service project to help qualify him for the Eagle rank m Boy Scouting accepted the challenge. Wednesday, five months after his project began, the rack was delivered is effect on vegetation of burning 232 gallons ofoiladay.We are dairy farmer? hpre and we have to rely on conditions remaining as they are, with sufficient vegetation to sustain dairy herds, Williams said. Williams added he was speaking for everyone in the area, not just daily farmers: We had a meeting Tuesday night to discuss it. It isnt just a matter of air pollution Property values are already dropping here, and many people who came out here to enjoy natural conditions and country scenery' dont like the idea at all of a burning unit." Lawyers Ed Clyde and Curtis See PROTEST on Page 0 to the Salt Lake City Public Library, 209 E. 5th South. It was accepted by Richard Rademacher, librarian, and . his assistant, Lucille Harris. Before the actual work began, David, presented his idea to his Boy Scout commissioner and to the library board. After approval, he talked to a welder and decided the cost would be loo mgn. he aiso investigated the idea that perhaps county funds might be available. They werent. With the encouragement of family and friends the project began. The rack was first de-- . David McLean, left, presents bike rack to Clair King, custodian, and Richard Rademacher, librarian of the Salt Lake Public Library. on nsmpv npttomoH r r -- j after one at Hogle Zoo. Then David, a sophomore at siPTlPd w - South High, asked for help. pnijipmpnt gjv 9 Ptoy Held, assisted with the cuttmg of the pipes. But David did most of the a summer Central Pipe and Supply Co. work himself donated pipe, Chemopharm project watched over by famiLabs loaned him welding ly and friends. To many, this was an tious undertaking. But being minded is not community unique with Davids family an older brother made a flag pole for his Boy Scout service;, project. It was donated to the Liberty-Well- s Stake Center. |