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Show H -- Cm. V K VoL2CS.No. sp5 fl t r ,, A i VI sA Salt Lake City, Utah 148 W r c' (s Sunday Kr Price 11, 1971 Morning-Ma- rch Cents Thirty-fiv- e 71 Tribune Details Session Events It was a busy ' 69 days, but now. uaiMil its over By Warren Weaver Jr. New York Times Writer The 40th Utah State Legislature adjourned early Friday. The Tribunes political reporters sift the highlights of the session in a special section on pages 4 and A-- A-- For the reader who wants to know what happened to the myriad of measures, a complete listing" of those bills and resolutions passed along with the governors action is included. o featured are special stones Also which help explain school financing, budget outlooks and mass transit assistance. Some of the more important acts were tax cuts, which allow new income tax exemptions and changes in sales tax. A special story on that legislation is also included. Utah Session Chalks Up Major Gains , - WASHINGTON President Nixon called on Congress Saturday to restore the death penalty for certain federal dimes and enact a stringent new program of minimum jail sentences for heroin pushers. In a rav-- speech scornful of softheaded judges" and the permissive philosophy" that says social injustice breeds enme, the President announced he had asked Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst to draft a capital punishment law that would survive review by the Supreme Court. two-mont- would be mandatory, or merely available to a sentencing judge or punishment Nixon said the proposal would revive the death penalty for assassination, treason, kidnaping, skyjacking and the murder of law enforcement officials and prison pards. He did not say whether the jury. As part of a new crackdown on drug traffic, the President proposed that a narcotics seller convicted of a second felony be given a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment with no right to parole. Throughout his speech, the sixth in a series of his domestic programs, Nixon took a stiffly uncompromising attitude of the need for heavier penalties and stronger public weapons against crime and on the deterrent effect of threatening criminals with harsher laws. Americans in the last decade, Jie said, "were often told that the criminal was not responsible for his crimes against society, but that society was responsible. I totally disagree with this drug-relate- d "Society is guilty of crime only when we fail to bring the criminal to justice. When we fail to make the criminal pay for his crime, we encourge him to think that crime will pay. Such an attitude will never be reflected in the laws supported by this administration, nor in the manner in which we enforce those laws. they spelled out In detail the conditions that would justify the death penalty or if they made death mandatory for certain When the Supreme Court outlawed capital punishment as then administered, in a landmark decision last June, it divided 5 to 4. Two members of the majority indicated that their objection was based on discretionary imposition of the the erratic manner in which penalty some defendants were spared and others specified crimes. Contrary o tne views of some social Nixon said Saturday, theorists, I am convinced that the death penalty can be an effective deterrent against specific crimes. The death penalty is not a deterrent so long as there is doubt whether it can be applied. The law I will propose would remove this doubt. executed. In his dissent Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, said that capital punishment statutes could be judged constitutional if Moves on Drugs Nixon also indicated that his proposed legislation would attempt to apply the practice of preventive detention to persons accused of narcotics violations, trying to keep them in jail between their arrest and the time they are convicted or freed by a triaL In his taped radio address, broadcast f a By In Utah, the legislature just this past week adopted a new criminal code allowing the death penalty upon recommendation of a jury but permitting life imprisonment for capital, felonies if no recommendation is forthcoming. The code provides for two trials, one to determine guilt and one to determine the penalty. measures still need the gover- nors approval. He saw many of his legislative recommendations enacted, but said he was disappointed particularly with the failure to enact environmental protection laws that would have provided for land use planning and reclamation of strip ' mining. Expires in House J- . Associated Press Wirephoto ' Bobby Riley pokes through the ruins of his shop In Burnet, Tex., which was struck radiator by ear- - lymorning tornado Saturday. Several fives were lost in the twister which hit a number of communities. Five Killed, 141 Suffer Injuries In Twister Sweep Over Texas 4.6-mi- tax, , Lawmakers chose instead to slice three mills off the property tax and permit a $6 income tax credit for each personal exemption. Future action may have to be taken on the bills due to a possible legal flaw by finally acting upon them after the session ending constitutional deadline. United Press International Tornadoes heavy rain roared through the heart of Texas Saturday, bringing death and injury to more than 140 persons and damaging or destroying hundreds of homes in eight cities and and Can Provide Cut But the governor, if he chooses to veto them, said he can provide the property tax cut administratively, and get of the income tax credit before 1974 tax returns are filed. towns. Five persons were killed and at least were injured. Damage to businesses, homes, farm buildings and vehicles was estimated at $2.5 million in one community alone. The two worst twisters struck Hubbard, a town of 1,500 in the black dirt 141 The estimate of the budget surplus' was increased a session-startin$45 million to more than $51 million at session end due to a variety of factors. g farmland near Waco, and 150 miles southwest at Burnet, a town of 3,200 in the southern Texas hills. The hardest hit was Hubbard, where five persons were killed and at least 10C were injured. The tornado, considered the largest of the 10 sighted Saturday, began southwest of the city and roared through the center of town,' not pulling up until it was 15 miles into the farmland beyond. It destroyed 45 homes, 30 other buildings and damaged scores more. A boy and three farm work- -' ers died when the tornado hit, and a woman died late Saturday at a Waco hospital. driver from Hillsboro said the three workers were all in a trailer home that was smashed against a tree by the twister. The bodies were all e from the trailer. One thrown a man lay dangling in barbed wire fencing. .My home is all over everywhere, said Bill Vardeman, who lived with his wife and children in a mobile home. His said the family was wife,- - Glenda, huddled in one room of their home listenAn ambulance half-mil- ing to it approach. It sounded like a whole big roll of thunder," she said. So legislators pretty well followed the governors recommendations for spend- U.S. Lifts Roadblocks Indians Claim 'Victory . - There was $8 million to start a new Utah County campus for the Utah Technical College at Provo and another $10 million to develop existing state parks in an overall budget initially calculated at approximately $648 million, but still being calculated by fiscal analysts. Passage of the income tax revision represented a particular achievement to The latest appliance cn the market is a combination stereo and air conditioner. cool for p:p!e who Its music. Ponder-Peatl- - WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. (AP) The federal government withdrew its roadblocks around Wounded Knee Saturday, and the militant Indians who seized the village 12 days ago said they, would remain there indefinitely. , The Indians began a drumbeating celebration as the roadblocks were pulled down. Leaders of the American Indian Movement declared they had won a moral victory, but Justice Department officials said they are ready to present evidence Monday seeking indictments from a federal grand jury which will investigate the Wounded Knee incident. The ring of 300 federal marshals and FBI agents which circled Wounded Knee since Feb. 28 was withdrawn at 5 p.m. The eight roadblocks at checkpoints around the village were dismantled, and the lawmen withdrew to the town of Pine Ridge, 12 miles southwest of Wounded Knee. Village Begins Celebration There was an immediate jubilant celebration in the tiny reservation village where 250 Indians have been entrenched since Feb. 27 to emphasize their demands for national reforms in Indian policy. was The withdrawal agreement worked out earlier Saturday by federal law enforcement officials, clergy men and an Indian leader who met in a school bus on a high hill where Indians previously had erected a teepee for peace talks, Ramon Roubideaux, who has been chief negotiator for AIM for more than a week cf peace dhrusa j.i3, had ansack a court nounced Friday he vrd order on Saturday to force the govern- ment to remove the roadblocks. But there was no hearing on Saturday, and Roubideaux could not be reached for f comment t Nevadan Applauded In Nevada, when Gov. Mike OCallaghan made his hour-lonState of the State Message to his legislature he was interrupted by applause just once, when he called for the death penalty for the killing of police officers or the killing of prison staff members by inmates. In Californa, where voters approved a restoration of the death penalty, Gov. Ronald Reagan told his legislature, The people of California gave us a mandate to restore capital punishment and asked for such laws. f To Investigate Charges? , leaders said they understood that t the Interior Department would send a representative to the Pine Ridge Reservation within 72 hours. They also were said they promised which that the Interior Department did not attend the session would inves-Se- e AIM 15, Column 1 Actual passage of such legislation may come harder, but the bills introduced, often backed by a governor, indicate that a sizable proportion of elected officials still consider the death penalty a strong crime deterrent. Court Ruling In June the Supreme Court ruled, in a to 4 decision, that capital punishment as administered in this country is unconstitutional cruel and unusual" punishment But Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, who voted against the majority, suggested that legislatures might overcome some of the majority's objections. The decision spared the lives of 631 sentenced to death in 32 states, but, in fact, there have been no such executions in the United States since June, 1967. i People are sick and tired of henious crimes being committed, said Keith Ashworth, a Las Vegas Democrat and speaker of Nevadas Assembly, and the criminal walking out of prison to commit the same crimes again. In Nevada, he said, two issues bother the citizens: drug abuse and capital punishment. and It is time that a for his murderer crime pay premeditated by suffering the death penalty, editorialized the Hawaii Catholic Herald, the official Catholic paper on the islands. The legislation offered generally tries to reinstate the death penalty for the killing of a policeman who is acting in the line of duty, but sometimes covers airplane hijacking, rape or murder tied to other criminal acts. Several state legislatures already have approved a new version of the death penalty, although no one has been executed under these new laws yet. In Ohio, for example, the legislature revised the criminal code last fall, effec 5 4 Voters Favor.; Fund Hike For Schools ; i - By J. Roy Bardsley A majority of Utahns favor Ramon Roubideaux Heads Negotiations for Tribe Assassins Kill Bermuda Governor, Aide - Bermuda HAMILTON, BERMUDA governor Richard Sharpies and his aide de camp were shot and killed on the grounds of government house in Hamilton Saturday, local police said. - Police said from the Bermuda apital in a telephone interview early Sunday the governor and his aide, Capt. Hugh Saver were gunned down at p.m. local time (8:45 MST). A police spokesman said authorities had no clues as to the identity of the ll-4- aroou'.a cr a"r2rrs. lie st J C e tv a men were outside an increase-i- n allocations to school districts to elimi- -' nate special charges for such items as laboratory-ustextbooks, and student bod activities. However, many approved of the allocation only if it means holding the tax line. As one; mother commented:-An- y kind of cut in our costs would be welcome, but only if it doesnt add to the tax load. Originally a provision for eliminating the cost of school accessones and activities was tucked into an educational finance measure, which passed the Utah' House but died in the Senate sifting com- -' mittee. H. The question and results follow: Would you favor or oppose j an state appropriations to locafcf school districts to eliminate special:; charges for such things as textbook, lab; oratory use and student body activities? in 6V Favor .331 Oppose Undecided "" Total... Percentagewise, support for eliminator of incidental charge was concentrated among adults most likely to have chik? dren of elementary or high school age. C r 'loci Here across) are the breakdowns: (Real j This is another of a series of polls oh educational issues sponsored by The Salt Lake Tribune. The study consists of 600, personal interviews which, mathematically, produce results within 4 percent of a complete census of Utah adults. Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page A-- 2 Page Combined Wire Services " d There was an obvious disagreement concerning terms of the withdrawal be- tween Indian leaders and Justice Depart- - - t ; ment officials. Page i tive Jan. 1, 1974, instituting a death pen- alty essentially for premeditated and fek : ony murders. : (Copyright) g The bills, passed by the Senate, expired in a House committee without getting an airing on the floor. The major divergence from the governors proposed budget was to split general tax relief between two taxes rather than putting all the tax savings into elim ination of the statewide property Todays Chuckle Flint for organized crime figures convicted of drug selling. - legislative staff members who have stud- ied, revised and submitted legislation M. Eearher this week New Yorks governor, Nelson Rockefeller, was given thunderous applause when he told a labor conference he was giving very serious consideration" to proposing the penalty lt ing the surplus on building developments. Lawmakers used up more of the unallocated surplus reserve than the governor recommended, put some into the onetime income tax credit and estimated there still would be at least a $3 million unspent cushion the governor urged. UTech, Parks Funds Jerry NEW YORK Legislatures in more than half the 50 states are considering a reinstitution of the death penalty. In between, lawmakers broke new I ground by enacting a partial automobile insurance law, an income tax I revision act to conform with the federal government, an almost completely re- - ; written penal code and a state school finance act described by some as revolu- lie To keep accused narcotics sellers ip jail while they are awaiting trial, Nixon said his legislation "will require federal judges to consider the danger to the community before freeing on bail a suspect for heroin trafficking . . . something See Page 22, Colun I New York Times Writer taxpayers. . -- Penalty Issue 60-d- - Separate Bill Restoration of the death penalty will come in a separate bill, he said, so that Congress can move more swiftly on this issue because there is an immediate need for this sanction. Half of States w Presented with a budgetary surplus which grew over the general session, the 4Gth Utah Legislature was able to adjourn with the enviable record of being able to cut taxes for virtually all All four . Bills Get Strong Backing By Douglas L. Parker Tribune Political Editor tionary." while he spent a short weekend at Camp David, Md., the President said he would send a complete revision of the Federal Criminal Code to Congress next week, a .tougher, tighter, harder law that would increase fines and "restrict the present ' absurd use of the insanity defense. muda from the retiring Lord Martonmere last August. Six months ago the British colonys police chief, George Duckett, was shot and killed at his home, and his daughter was This is a very quiet place politicalwounded. Scotland Yard is still investisaid when asked if the ly, spokesman, gating that killing. the assassinations could have been polimotivated. Bermuda, a colony of Great Britain, is tically an island about 570 miles off the coast of He said the governors wife was in North Carolina. government house at the time of the A futini.r member of the House of shooting, together with one of his four Commons, he was a graduate of Britains children. They were not injured. elite Sandhurst military academy. After Sm Richard, 53, tc.fi over the ts of milt ary r.rvke is Europe ar.d the Far East during Uorld War II. of Ber governor and ccm.m.under-in-ct.x- f government house when they were shot, and added it was not believed they were planning to leave the grounds at that time of night. Arts Business Classified Editorials Forgn 6 7, A-- at'l 29-2- 1 Obituaries Star Gazer Sports Television 9 1 Theaters Legislature Lifestyle N 12-1- 4 Page Natl 8 A-- 2 3, 6, 8 3 B? Valentine Hash. 4 AND MORE . . Full section ol Color Comics; Home and MagaOffer, zines; Money sworth National Home Life As uruH? Co. 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