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Show y Editorials Just Ask For A Little Brand X the Granite School District puts up a or when it buys equipment or supplies, architects or purchasing people often feel the need, through their own personal preference or through the urgings of school administrative personnel to specify brand names. Often its justified, but sometimes we get the feeling the specification comes from a quirk of preference, where economy might assume secondary importance. The case of the locks on the Carl Sandberg Elementary School may or may not be a point in question, but it is an example of some of the complexity. For the most part the district has used two brands of locks in its schools. About 50 people require access to schools at one time or another, so that 50 master keys must be made up. The district has preferred to limit the brands and master key sets - to two. On September 28 the Westmetal Hollow Metal Co. of Salt Lake wrote to the architect of the proposed Carl Sandberg elementary school asking his permission to bid another brand of lock on that school besides the two The architect, J. Leonard Harman turned specified. them down. Mr. Harman told the Review that his action was based on instructions from the district, and came from the policy on standard master keys. Mr. Harman said he preferred other brands anyway. Just for kicks Westmetal bid on the job anyway. Their bid was $1700 lower than the one accepted by the district. The puuler Is that the district had already put that particular lock, as sold by Westmetal, in three schools, and had accepted that master key prior to September 28 -Including on the new Kearns High School. The architect, Mr. Harman, says that Westmetal has no business kicking up a fuss about this matter. We disagree. He maintains that the overall job was economical and points out the square foot price. When ever anyone connected with the district Is criticised or questioned about school costs they always bring up the square foot price . . . which Is usually pretty good, but which can often be a dodge to the question. Weve seen situations where one. or at least a very limited number of typewriters would be acceptable at a given school. For years the District used only one make of bus because It gave them less trouble. We dont claim that the board must always insiston . the lorbi(i 11 has an. obligation Jto. obtain the best value. But we do think it reasonable to demand that purchasing and bid jsicatioQ b accomplished with thp same dogged insistence on' economy that any frugal business would use. ce Sometimes the savings might mean some small to a few - like carrying three or four master keys, Instead of two, or adjusting to the touch and idiosyn-craci- es of a particular typewriter. To the boards credit, certain of its members, particularly Dr. J. 0. Brinton, have consistently pushed for broader specifications and a decreased use of brand name. We think this must be a matter of constant scrutiny by the board. We are, of course, aware that this is no simple matter, and that both staff and board are subject to constant pressure to use this or that brand. Sometimes these- pressures are legitimate, sometimes not . . . but as long as the district insists on the wide use of brand name purchasing it must expect this kind of pressure. With such vast quantities of tax money pouring into the district there is a natural tendancy to let the strict demands of economy lapse. The more money the district has, the more diligence we as taxpayers deserve in regards to its use. When b'-'in- incon-venien- Health Official Cites Smog Cause The people of Salt Lake County are m and a lot of it is their own a smog fault. Dr. J. 0. Brewerton, Salt Lake County Health Department told the Salt Lake County Commission that at least 50 per cent of the smog that is inundating Salt Lake County can be traced to backyard And backyard burning can be burning. traced to a conflict in county ordinances, which enable the Health Department to deny a burning permit and the County Fire Department to issue such a permit. Support of the County Commission was solicited by a delegation of members of the Salt Lake County Health, who warned that increased motor vehicle population, industrial growth, combined with continued backyard burning presents a threat of serious air pollution. Salt Lake City and County Dumps came in for a portion of the blame for smog in the county, and in this connection Dr. Carl Clark, board member, appeared representing a segment of the county population who resent treatment they have received at the countys dump in Magna. Dr. Clark said he went to the dump Sunday afternoon with some refuse and was ordered out with the explanation that weekend dumping is not permitted. It has previously been settled. Dr. Clark explained to the dump attendant and the County Commission, that the public will be permitted to take refuse there on weekends. What irritated Dr. Clark most, however, he told the commissioners, was the response be received this past weekend when he went out to the dump to take pictures. The law prohibits any burning after 3 pm, Dr. Clark noted, so he went out to the Magna dump to take pictures late in the evening of soaring flames and smoke. The dump attendant after telling Dr. Clark on his first visit never to show up there again, on the second visit ordered him not to take pictures. Commissioner Marvin G. Jenson told Dr. Clark that the commission presently is preparing to call forbids to have supervision and ownership of the dump brought under complete control of the county. The Magna dump now operates. Commissioner Jensen said, on a basis of letting salvage rights to the dump attend- ant. Dr. Brewerton, meanwhile, called upon the commission to "go all the way in adopting needed ordinances to control home, dump and commercial burning and air pollution. He proposed creation of a citizens group to study all phases of the problem. The committee, he emphasized, should be assigned specific responsibilities and a definite time limit should be set for it to report on its recommendations. Dr. Brewerton also urged that a representative of the County Commission undertake to be present in the future at meetings of the Board of Health. He warned of the Increased health hazard from Increased industrial air pollution, noting that commerical contributors to pollution know what theyr putting in the air, but they wont tell us. Citing sulfides, fluorides and other chemical contaminants as part of the overall problem. Dr. Brewerton warned that controls must be established before new Industries are permitted to add to toe problem. Baldwin Joins Review The Review takes pleasure In announcing the addition to its news staff of Jim G. Baldwin, one of Salt Lakes most experienced and able newspapermen. Mr. Baldwin has served on the staff of the Salt Lake Tribune since May 1948. Prior to that he was with radio statioo KALL for two years. , During World War n Mr. Baldwin served as Pacific Overseas News Manager for the American Broadcasting Company In San Francisco where he also was an accredited correspondent to the United Nations Conference for the establishment of the U. N. A native of Eastern Pennsylvania, Mr. Baldwin attended the University of Utah In both undergraduate and graduate law schools. In 1962 Mr. Baldwin conducted a stuuj of police and traffic court administrations in several western cities. Articles from Oils study eemed hit end the Tribune the 1962 News Media Award of the Utah State Bar Association for a series on the need for traffic court reform In the Salt Lake area. Another series of articles on police functions led to major changes in organization and procedure of the Salt Lake City Police Department. Early this year a series published In the Tribune by Mr. Baldwin led to complete reorganisation and streamlining of the adminlstra- tion of the Salt Lake County Sheriffs Department. Mr. Baldwin is known in newspaper knowledge of police administration and law enforcement techniques and for his Interest In the development of court reform. He Is married to the former Arcilee B. Allred. They live at 815 North 13th West and are the parents at five children. The Review feels that Mr. Baldwins addition to Its editorial staff will strengthen and further the reporting of events in Salt Lake County, particularly in regards to government and law. tlreles for his - You Cant Learn It All On TV Robert Schroeder, president, The Missouri Bar, writing in the October, 1965 issue of the Journal of The American Judicature Society, said; "Not only is the man in the street functionally illiterate about how the judicial branch of government operates; but civic leaders of local, state and national stature are uninformed on the subject. It is also true, he wrote, "that many members of the lega! Tofesrion, both bench and bar,, are shamefully ill infor i d or they just dont know. Our cchools and universities, he continued, teach much about the executive and legislative branches of government, but "they teach little, if anything, about the courts. They know 0 little about it that they avoid it. The press, too, we believe, has been generally amiss in its Uilure to extend itself to make knowledge of Utah court and bar functions and responsibilities readily available to the public. The press bears responsibility for difficulties the Bar Association, the courts and our law school have had in making the public more receptive to sorely needed adjustments in the Judiciary. Apart from the recent reorganization of the state's Juvenile Court system, the press responds with nearsilence to the sidetracking of effective reform proposals, while the bar and courts are silenced by salary adjustments, leaving Utah more than 25 years behind California in court administrative reform. The Review has taken inventory of its role in this area and is determined to shape up. So. that the judiciary can be more effective by being more meaningful to the public, we will bring to Salt Lake County residents articles of praise, criticism and explanation of the Utah Judiciary and A. -- bar. We Invite the Utah State Bar, the Salt Lake County Bar Association, the courts and prosecution staffs to assist and encourage us in this direction. natal day if I couldnt receive those wonderfully sentimental cards that say, Have a Merry Christmas on Your Birthday. No, it wouldnt be the same. Then we come to those wonderful holidays in November . . . Veterans Day (today!) and Thanksgiving. Imagine Veterans Day if we couldn't walk down the street and be stopped by children selling those cute little poinsettias that you wear on your lapel. It saddens me to think of spending a Thanksgiving without the green Christmas the whole are spirit . . . there they the Christmas tree family gathered around singing turkey carols while the Yule log bunts in the fire place and the gifts all gaily wrapped waiting under the tree waiting to be opened in less than a So you see why we cant stop month. celebrating the do your Christmas shopWe have got tc ping early campaign. stop this movement thats growing in our the movement to put December valley back in Christmas . . . there are lots of people who are advocating toe starting of Christmas shopping and decorating and card sending in December . . . after Thanksgiving !!!! Weve got to make them realise that it's important to all the department store owners to start the Christmas promotional and while were campaign in July at it, lets get the Santa Claus parade moved up to August. Humbug!!!!!!!! Morning After Murray Slates Some people have the most ridiculous ideas. Just the other day someone had the audacity to suggest we put December Can you imagine back in Christmas. that??? Why, with the economy the way it is today, it just cant be done. What would happen to our capitalistic system if we didnt start promoting Christmas We shopping in the middle of July? might get an opportunity to celebrate Independance Day and Pioneer Day without the tinsel on the Christmas trees in the store windows. What would Labor Day be in September if we couldnt get some of the early Christmas specials on display in the department stores??? And look at could we how in the sam-hi- ll October do justice to Columbus on his day if we couldnt dress up in red Santa Claus outfits. And the great pumpkin and my birththink of the mass hysteria if day we couldnt go out collecting early Christmas cookies and candies in our little at sacks??? And my birthday it just wouldn't be the same on my ... ... ... ... . trick-or-tre- ... (Continued from i ) select semesters on the campus of the Utah State Industrial School, he was promoted from stuffing to burglary. Then he got caught. So What? So he stood before Third District Judge Merrill C. Faux and entered a plea of guilty to grand larceny. Hes not a first offender, but its his first command performance before a judge, so probation's a cinch. The plea was entered November 1963. one to 10 in the joint In June, 1964 (Utah State Prison), then probation. Probation to what? He cant read, cant sign his name. But hes got buddies . . . who don't stand in his way during toe course of the several burglaries, several grand larcenies, several forgeries. Everythings going for him friends, a ninth grade education, credit for only one of several felonies, and Illiteracy. Then in January, 1965, Mr. Ross -president of the criminal law section of the Utah State Bar stands up for his guy in court when the adult probation department revokes his probation and calls him into court for committment to prison. Mr. Ross has an idea with nothing to back it up, just an idea . . .but Judge Faux is fascinated by it. Instead of prison gate6, they send him across the street to the Salt Lake County Jail. Galen Ross has one week to prepare a rehabilitation program. Mr. Ross talks the guy's parents out of It will cost $200 $100 for a tutor. eventually, but the rest can come later. He talks to a speech therapist who values his time at $7.50 per half hour. The guy belonged back in first grade tha minute he entered second. Re dropped out of ninth grade to qualify for toe Induhe belonged back in strial school . first grade but he was getting too big for ,; ... Hearing The Murray City Commission is happy decision to open up a with Kresges multi-millidollar self service store because the city will garnish many thousands of dollars via toe tax route. But many residents living along Namba Way, near 790 East and 4650 South, have bombarded the Review this week with calls wanting to know what is going on. Some residents living along Namba Way expressed concern as to how the traffic flow along toe Cottonwood diagonal might be affected. The developers site have submitted their plans and had them approved by the State Department of on Highways. . - . the clairs. And now hes 20, and for two hundred bucks hes reading nursery rhymes, grade school primers and is thrilled at a first exposure to fairy tales. By May. 1965 he had progressed, at $7.50 per half hour, from lower third grade literacy standard to ninth gnde . . . just where he dropped out. And there be was, his 5 feet 11 inches sprawled on his belly, directing a hose spray over the sheriff's front lawn digesting book after book after book. By July L hes finished as a high school senior. He takes tests and qualifies for admission to Salt Lake Trade Technical 0. Institute . . . still hes under a A psychological evaluation is next. Negative. This guy has none of what it takes to learn anything although he learned from lower third to upper twelfth grade in six months. He hates his family - but that dissolves later a bit, when he learns about the $200. for reading lessons. They told him at toe jail that he couldn't get math lessons, so he learned math on tus own enough to qualify him as a Trade Tech student of diesel mechanics. In July he's placed on probation in spite of the negative test. Judge Faux and Galen Ross still have confidence. Now he's doing fine at diesel mechanics. He's trying to cut it off with toe old and to make it go with a new friends girl. Two years ago he was stopped by a deputy sheriff for a traffic violation. He piled out of toe car cursing and swearing and spewing abuse. Last week, when he was testing a car he worked on, and he went a little too fast, he was stopped by the same deputy. The change was so great, I could-hardlbelieve it. He apologized for toe violation He said he deserved a ticket. Probe Merit System one-to-1- Attorneys Office Under Fire ( Continued from page 1 ) of one department or another to establish tacts of the case. communications with Mr. Giles himself. Mr. Giles said that action already is The cited complaints, commonplace in heard a to remedy complaint being taken from some officers, particularly Salt some areas of dissent, were not even Lake Police, that on certain types of known to Mr. Giles until brought to his offenses (notably robbery and the various attention Tuesday by The Review. He took immediate action to remedy the degrees of homicide) a complaint can be situation insofar as possible. obtained only from the chief deputy. Still of concern to law enforcement Recently an officer spent the most of a full day attempting to locate the chief agencies are those problems which arise from what Mr. Giles defined as inherent criminal deputy to obtain a complaint of law enforcement against two men sitting in City Jail In Officers and all local representatives of the bar agencies a robbery investigation. note both prosecution and defense officers of both departments have. In occasional cases, protested that they that low paid deputy county attorneys workwere denied complaints in felony cases ing only half day schedules have little in which the district attorney's office time to make professional case preparand-the attorney generals office has ations. Both bar and law enforcement members been consulted either before or after presentation of the case for prosecution. frequently cite the need for elimination of a county attorneys department, placing As recently as a representative of the sheriffs department protested full prosecution responsibility on an adedenial of an attempted rape complaint In quately staffed adequately paid district office. Others of these pro a case in which a woman was forcibly attorney's fessions cite toe Inevitable improvement undressed and molested Because of unofficial opinion and If even the present division of prosecution advise they have received in response to responsibility could be placed on fulltime, a given set of bets in each of several hlrhly professional status. Said one law enforcement officer: They cases, officers of both departments have expressed considerable chagrin over the are worried about adequate defense for reluctance of the county attorney's office the accused; at least be has the same to consider a complaint. lawyer following his case to its conclusion The Wednesday afternoon meeting with On numerous Instances, some of them Mr. Giles, Public Safety Commissioner observed by a representative of The Review, cases scheduled for preliminary Louis E. Holley, Police Chief Ralph C. hearing have been delayed, continued or Knudsoo and Chief Criminal Deputy County recessed because of failure of deputy Attorney Warren E. Weggeland, lasted county attorneys to have present the more than an hour. The talk, said Mr. Giles, resulted in physical evidence or witnesses necessary to assure that a case will be bound over a determination to resolve toe existing for trial problems as rapidly as possible In recent months, city police complained irs a rotten system, Mr. Giles said that a case was lost because a key witness again, subsequent to the meeting, and we are going, to take steps to correct it. In Arizona was asked to appear to testify but toe letter requesting his appearance Much of toe problem ct communications was dispatched so late that toe witness on problems, Mr. Giles said, will be received it in Phoenix the afternoon before 'resolved when toe two offices are more the scheduled hearing There have been favorably located in toe new Metropolitan instances in which prosecuting witnesses Hall o Justice. have been sent away as being unneeded Mr. Giles said that Police Chief Knudsoo for hearing, then had to be called beck had not been informed, either, of any of because it was determined that their his officers having problems, and the testimony is needed to assure a bind over. police chief added that be will not tolerate The embarrassment to toe ouny at- officers going around toe county attorney's torney in this situation, Mr Giles agreed office to consult with toe district attorneys or that of toe attorney gene raj. Wednesday, is largely due to toe failure t staff or mid-wee- k, Meetings of representatives of the Salt Lake County Attorney and the Merit Service Commission for Salt Lake County Deputy Sheriffs were begun this week to determine what amendments to toe state merit system law could be enacted to make toe law more functional The present merit law, said County Attorney Grover A. Giles, creates Impractical situations which, In turn, create troubles In application of the law. ; Because the merit law offers such knotty legal problems, Mr. Giles continued, representatives of the two offices will continue to meet to discuss possible modifications. Mr. Giles and Deputy County Attorney Gerald Nielsen met in the first meeting with Merit Commission Chairman Joe Mazuran, Tyler Vincent, member, and ... So, I didnt give him one toe deputy told Mr Ross. Maybe it won't work with this guy. But then Galen Ross is afried it might not have a chance to work. Except for satisfaction there's not much for a lawyer in a case like this. But, toe lawyer asks, Is $200 too much to rescue one illiterate? More than half of those in prison for burglary and grand larceny, Mr. Ross believes, are mere because of illiteracy; theyre the victims of minds like that of the deputy who told the lawyer: 'Teach him to read and write so we can get him to sign his confessions Except for a very few, most sheriffs deputies wished us luck and have cooperated, Mr. Ross reports But will toe public cooperate1 Will you keep him from getting a job; force him to go back to crime, then boast that you knew it would never work? w in the public approve of a tutor program at $200 per head for guys who have already shorn they cant learn by group teaching methods? State and federal authorities, in this case, have shared the confidence of Judge Faux and Mr Ross The State Department of Rehabilitation, with federal support funds, have paid tuition and books for Galen Ross's client The State Welfare Department, convince that economic pressure may play a role in family problems, contributes $50 per month welfare sustainance. It could all be a mistake. But this guy can read and write He left County Jail reading John Steinbeck and loving It. What else is there to try? J Ira Baldwin Almost all questioned the legality of the petition accepted last week by the commission which asked Murray to annex about 20 acres of land from Salt Lake County just west of the Cottonwood diagonal near 47th South and 9th East, and rezone it from residential to commercial. According to Title 10, chapter 9 of toe Utah Code dealing with cities 'zoning, building and planning,' the legislative body must hold a public hearing before enacting the zoning ordinance and advertise at least 15 days before the bearing riving notice of toe time and place of toe meeting. It must be advertised in a newspaper of general circulation in toe muncipality. However, Murray City voted to accept toe petition as submitted and pass toe ordinance confirming toe annexation after toe public hearing which is scheduled for Monday night Nov. 22 at 5:30 p.m. in the City Hall. Aay objections to this procedure will have to be raised then. lorus Pratt, secretary. Another Day Off ' (Continued from page 1 ) war having a hard time o( it alreadr ex- pliinlnr to his neighbors why be was home so much of the time. Commissioner Marvin G. Jenson reminded Mr. Holt that toe employees already benefit from 12 legal holidays annually. Commissioner William G. Larson announced three times that My people will work F riday, period. All of the commissioners warned that department heads had best have sufficient personnel on hand Friday to adequately serve the public. The door for four day weekends was left open by such suggestions as that of Deputy County Attorney Gerald Nlelse it that employees could take a day of their vacations to make up toe four day weekend. Commissioner Larson suggested anothr ir loophole in even his firm stand on die matter. They could sluff. Shopping Center (Continued n ,i pje ) 1 tnrougo the cooperative efforts offlremec in time tc nve toe roof and shops below. It was a hard fire to fight, the chief said, and I commend these mea for keeping toe fire down. It was a terrific Job. Damage to the building, owned by Keans Plaza Incorporated, was estimated by Chief Jones as ranging between $25,000 and $30,000. Fred Demman, president of the corporation, said no definite plans for reraodeling or rebuilding have yet beer made. The area has been earmarked for future shopping center to adjoin toe building to the west housing the Keans Plaza Theatre and several businesses. ' |