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Show 8A DESERET NEWS, Thursday, PROVO Circumstances an surrounding study project" during which a Bngham Young University honors student was recruited to spy in the campaign olln.es of two Democratic presidential candidates, were under study today by the BYL ad- ministration. Dr. Keith Melville, BYl professor of political science and adviser for the project, is, ironically, a worker and supporter of the Demo- cratic Party He said today he would prefer not to comment further on the case until he has met with Dr Dallin Oaks, president of BYU. and other members of the administration Melville did indicate that the question of whether Thomas J. Gregory. 28, a BYU history major, will receive the normal 16 credit hours for the course will be by the university U axhington Wednesday, Gregory was named in the opening statement of Assistant U S. Arty Ea-- 1 J. Silbert at the W atergate trial as the man hired to spy on the offices of Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, and Sen, George S. D. McGovern, D-- Melville had said Wednesday interview from Provo that he had never been aw are that Gregory may have been functioning as a political in a telephone spy. paper that A WATERGATE DEFENDANT Examines Student's Role Y. In Januoryll; 1973 Grego- ry submitted to Melville in November, describing his volunteer campaign work for university credit, contains nothing to intimate any knowledge about the Watergate affair, Melville said. In his testimony, Silbert said Gregory met with E. Howard Hunt, a former White House aide, at a Washington, D C. drug store every Friday to supply mformation and re ceiv e his salarv. Under Hunt's direction, Gregory signed on as a volunteer in the offices of Muskie and later McGovern, Silbert said. His job was to funnel information to Hunt of advance data on the candidates schedules, on speeches, any dissension" in the offices, names of lop staff leaders and names of financial contributors. Hunt, a former White House aide, entered a guilty plea Wednesday to charges of bug- - ging, conspiracy anu ourglary m the Watergate Inal. Gregory will be a prosecution witness in the case. Silbert said Wednesday that Gregory attempted to divert attention in the McGovern office m go that James W. McCord Jr., another Watergate defendant and chief security coordinator for President Nixon's committee at the time, could plant a bugging device m the offire of Frank Mankiewicz, one of McGovern's top aides. mid-Ma- y McCord didnt have the three minutes he needed, however, and the attempt was unsuccesful, Silbert testified. Court Accepts Guilty Plea Gregory was also asked to obtain floor plans for the offices of Mankiewicz and Gary Hart, McGovern's campaign manager, including information on where heating ducts were located and pictures hung. He was also asked to turn over keys for the McGovern offices, but didnt do so. Silbert said. The prosecutor also charged that Gregory helped in an aborted effort to burglarize McGovern headquarters about that time, May 29. Abou Gregory decided to quit espionage activities and did so two days before the Watergate break-in- Thomas J. Gregory 'project' backfired . Continued from First Page ines after the trial resumed, presumably tc be locked up until the S 100,000 bund was posted. Bittman said Hunts answers might prejudice his position in that investigation and that his answers might prejudice the judges own view regarding the other six defendants still standing trial Hunt was led out of the courtroom by a marshal 45 minutes after the trial reto be sumed, presumably locked up until the $100,000 bond was posted. Sinca indicated he was setting the bond unusually high Bittman, talking to reporters during a bnef recess follow mg the dramatic development, said he was totally unprepared for Siricas insistence that Hunt post the $100,000 surety bond. Such a bond requires posting an equivalent amount in collateral. Hunt appeared gray and haggard but composed as he was led away by a marshal. . Utah Legislature work on a resolution that will be sent to President Nixon asking that a moratorium on housing construction be lifted Representatives Housing of the Utah Coalition asked W ednestldy that such a resolution be passed m a meeting wPh Gov. Galvin L Rampton. The governor said he would be w tiling to sign a concurrent resoluUon with the Legislature. but it should originate with the House or Senate and suggested the group contact a sponsor. He then summoned Rep. John P. Redd, and Mrs. Milly O. Bernard, who said they would bring the subject of a resolution up during party caucuses late Wednesday and Thursday. Chuck coalition Brenner, said the sudden suspension of all subsidized housing programs without any substitutions will have a detrimental effect on the state. Members of the coalition feel that since these programs have been voted on by their representatives it is wrong for the President to suspend them w ithout Congress approval. The coalition is composed of various individuals and groups banded together in an attempt at tmpioving housing conditions in Utah. terest subsidy and rent supple- ment rental housing and public housing rent supplement programs. The President has ordered a reduction or freeze on Model Cities programs and urban renewal programs. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has placed a suspension on water and sewer grants. The Farmers Home Administration under executiv e order has placed a suspension on all subsidized programs commonly known as interest subsidy, repair grants and loans, cooperative housing interest subsidy, domestic farm labor grants and loans and disaster loans Estimates indicate the need for 50.000 new or rehabilitated housing units are needed in Utah. Rampton said that figure is overstated and it should be about 35.000 units of which 15,000 should be for e families. The vacancy rate among low income housing in Utah is less than .05 percent which in dicates people have a small number of houses to move into. 1 housands of uidiv iduals and families are living m condemned or dilapidated housing which is unsafe and should not be inhabited. The group also asked that if President Nixon doesnt respond by Jan. 15, the governor and the Legislature combine to resolve the housing problems. Rampton said he is bound by the Utah Constitution not to spend any money on housing. r In a opening statement to the jury earlier, prosecutor Bari J Silbert alleged that Hunt was the chief recruiter for the political which he said was funded by $235,000 from Presicamdent Nixons and directed by Liddy paign two-hou- Judge Sirica, in first refus- iag to accept the surprise guilty plea made by Hunt Wednesday to three charges against him. observed that the government appeared to have "an case strong exceptionally Hunt. against Solons To Ask Nixon To Lift Building Ban Te lie nave an interest m the just of criminal administration law This court believes that must encompass both the substance of justice and also the appearance of justice. Given the nature of this case, the court is compelled to conclude that both the substance and appearance of justice require that the plea be refused." because Hunt fled government investigations shortly after the break-in- , had fnends and acquaintances in foreign countries and was not employed. Bittman argued that Hunt was employed as a writer and had written 46 books. Hunt and another former White House aide, G. Gordon Liddy, are alleged by the prosecution to be central figures in an alleged elaborate scheme by supporters and workers for President Nixon to infiltrate the camps of Democratic officials and possible presidential candidates last year In denying the Hunt ofer tc plead guilty to half the charges against him, Sirica said: The court and the pub- - One of the espionage agents. Silbert said, was a student from Brigham Young University who was hired to infiltrate the staffs of Democratic presidential hopeful Edmund S Muskie and George S. McGovwork for which he said ern the student got credit for "off campus studies. was a political There motive, Silbert told the jury There was a political presidential campaign. The operation was directed against the Democratic Party, particularly against Sen. George S. McGovern because of his alviews." leged But Silbert made no attempt to tie any high administration officials into the spy plot left-win- g In a proposed resolution, the coalition suggested the following items: -P- resident Nixon has sus- pended all subsidized housing programs including interest subsidy home ownership, in- - Utah Legislators Turn To Committee Sessions Continued from First Page legislation during the first two days of the session. With well over 100 measures now m the pipeline, the most pressing need is for standing committee work to funnel some of the bills and resolutions to the calendars for floor action. pre-file- d No general session was scheduled today until 2 p.m. the Meanwhile, legislators were meeting in appropriation subcommittee meetings to get Squared away for intesnsive study of the various departmental budgets. of business i One bit left hanging before organizational functions are complete is adoption of joint rules. The Senate considered this matter Wednesday but came to a temporary halt as a controversy arose over the composition of the vital Executive Committee of the Joint Appropriations Committee. Outnumbered Democrats objected to the ratio of Republicans to Democrats, insisting the figure is out of proportion to the partisan makeup of the House and Senate. ; The issue was left unsettled when the Senate adjourned to hear the governor's budget message. The new bills introduced Wednesday included only one of any major significance. This is SB45 which, if passed, will set the stage for state legal action against the Southern Pacific Railroad in an effort to provide a remedy for the migration of brines in Great Sal. Lake, The measure, sponsored by Senators Karl Swan W. Hughes Brockbank and Allan Mecham, both Salt Lake Republicans, designates the State Land Board as the agency to take the bit in its teeth. The bills langugae does not mention S P. But it speaks of impediments to navigation and interference with free flow of minerals. 9-- blame the S.P. causeway across the lake for a sigmfi-can- t change in the mineral solutions of the lake, with the south arm becoming more diluted and the north arm Hydrologists The other bill deals with the tecnnical college concept, since Utah has a great need establishment of Foreign Trade Zones in the state, a de- for aid to technical education velopment said to have an at this time, she added. impact on growth of freeport Rep. M. Byron Fisher, centers. of the Joint Sen. Brockbank, No. 1 legisAppropriations Committee, lator in the area of appropriapraised the governors protions, agreed with Rampton's posed use of surplus funds for e capital expenditures. philosophy on use of surplus funds, but took sharp differThe Salt Lake Republican ence with the latter's suggesfound fault, however, with tion that $9.2 million of the the governors recommended surplus be left uncommitted supplemental appropriation for until 1974. the Utah State Prison. It It should be budgeted so it should come from the goverwont become a political foot- nors emergency budget, said ball, with practically every Fisher. agency of the state out to get He characterized the goversome of it, he said. nors budget recommendation The Republican senator also for higher education as unreopposes the incorporation of alistic. revenue-sharinfunds into the The governor did an excelUniform School Fund. (The lent job of looking at the sur$12.8 million revenue sharing plus situation and putting the entitlement available for the money to comgood use, 1973-7fiscal year formed part mented Rep. Ronald Rencher, of the governor's proposed $23 House minority million increase for public whip. school support). The governor's keen interBrockbank said the revenue est in education and his prosharing money should be posal to fund the different e treated as a windfall school districts is good, and I due to is uncertainty. It expect that to be followed genshould go for capital improveerally by the Legislature," he ments or for some other nonstated. recurring use, he stated. Its Incumbent upon the LegThe senator also suggested to give the governors islature that the extra $1 million of serious consideraproposals liquor profits suggested by the Ogdcnite said. tion," Rampton as a possible solution The speaker of the House, to mass transit problems should be firmly earmarked Rep. Howard C. Nielson, characterized the for that use. as message basically conearRampton suggested and servative responsible. marking as the preferred of two alternatives, leaving it to He believes the surplus estithe Legislature or to the local mate of $45 million may be a governments to make a decicouple of million low and said sion. he thinks it will take at least Sen. Pugh noted that the $12 million instead of $10 milgovernor made no mention of lion to put the Provo trade the need for a new state office tech in business at the new building. The senator took no Orem campus. specific issue with the goverNielson praised the cash exnor on this but felt that the penditure for outdoor recreamatter should at least receive tion, instead of the bonding Illative consideration. approach, however he quesHouse Minority Leader Milly tioned whether the governor O. Bernard, praised could aeconmphsh all of his the governors comments on stated aims with his public edtax reduction, noting, it ucation budget. would have been easy to use The underesgovernor the surplus funds in other timated the needs of higher ways and forget tax reduceducation, and there should be tion. a higher percentage increase I am also the happy with the for technical colleges, governor's emphasis on the speaker added. one-tim- 4 -' Legislative Calendar l extraction industry on the shores of the lake is vitally affected by the phenomenon. Sen. Swan is chief sponsor of the other two new Senate bills, one of which is a,:nei. at the possibility of civil rights demonstrations m the vicinity of the state prison. BILLS INTRODUCED Pjblic safety Swon) Provides penalties for interference with peaceful and luwful activities at state orison. Stufs and Federal Affa.rs STI3 (Swan) Authorizes the state cr if poetical subdivision to acoiv to the U S government to establish a fore. on trade zone SB45 (Brockbank, Mecham) Au thories State Land Beard to initiate lego1 cction to correct imbalance ol mirers in Great Salt Lake and to SB44 M remove und prevent impediments to navigation. Creates HB34 (Irvine. Reed) state antiauihes section within the Division of State History to establish orchaeiogcal sites, collect specimens, and keep antiquities records Designation Changed A HJR2 resolution (Gvgi) reoutatmo the U.S. Dept, ot Labor and Congress to gront the states more latitude n chang. ng ch Id labor standards (Designation chonged from HB34) , BUYING POWER SAVES YOU MONEY ON VANITIES We agreed not to mention the famous brand name, but these beautiful, first quality vanities represent the full production of a leading manufacturer. 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