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Show -- v r r r Review DOUBLE TA1 By Jim Baldwin Mfeg!'REHEW c'r- - that was nondescript! , H appy Birthday Another Denial, Phil? Any Nondescript Secretaies? No Merit For Negroes, jndiansl Here's One Beats All ToUs ' Two years ago this week the Mountain Review was born. first issue cant speak for our readers havent recovered yet. We Whole Sky's of the Rocky for ourselves we You wanna see a pair o calloused knees? Well.... I got em! My knees is so calloused, some folks think I got knee warts.. ..And all because of how apologetic I been for the past week toward our Attorney General, Phil Hansen. Last week, you may remember, I put across the silly idea that our Phil was out to put the quietus on the May 2 Special Session of the State Legislature the one being set up to look at the recommends of the Lil Hoover Bunch. Now, theres a lesson for yuh in that column I did last week! You folks should never put no faith in anything that sprouts from one o them 'usually Although much has happened in this valley during those rapid two years it is interesting to look at some of the. headlines from that first issue: Theyre Off, Crowded Field Seeks Office - Political Scramble Beginning. Not Invited or Just Thrifty? City Ignores Drainage Session State Property Tax Figures Reveal Businessmen Pick Up Largest Share. Local Property Owners Due A Sock in The Pocketbook. Senate Candidate Warns Watch For More Health Expend- itures and headlines in todays issue. What difference has the Review made in the life of this valley? The final judges must be the readers. But with a tenuous degree of immodesty we can help point out a few specifics: Such as helping Intensify an awareness within citizens of the importance of their local government. Such as reporting and interpreting local events 'and institutions with some greater depth than is available otherwise. I The publishers of the Review are grateful and take this opportunity., to e.xpress thanks Jcupur., advertisers our carriers andto a magnificent staff in all readers departments. Someone once asked js what our long range goals are. The answer - and its not such a bad one at that - getting out the next issue and striving to make it a good one. THE MORNING AFTER Room To Let, No Dogs Please "Other Folks livin' here dont even like dogs around... So, its for sure, theyre not going to want any Negroes. This wasnt the first time theyd been turned away. It wont be the last They want to rent a place.. .or to buy a place. '"I kin see you're real deceit people, declared..and they are ...real decent.. .and theyre people. But hes black. Shes a rich smooth chocolate with classic Caucasian feaal tures. Even those with deep prejudices...even the bigots... they think shes real pretty. Shes smart as a whip.. .one of a select group of 4 --point students in her West High School graduating class. lips with lies...the wife said: "GoUy, be proud to let you have the place, but my husband...hes prejudiced... he wont let me rent to Negroes.. ..and the husband said later, "If it was me, Id be glad to let you have it.. .but my wife wont let me rent to Negroes. Theyre both liars. Id Its hard even to find places that arent sold, the young mother said. They wont quote prices over the telephone., we have to look at the llace first., and that settles that. "Were told that theres no discrimination in Utah, she said. "Its worse at least, we simply Between them they earn $700 per month.. .and they cant rent a home, except a dump, in the slums of Salt Lake City...Do you mind being reminded that you have slums in Salt Lake City...that theyre slums you save to house Negroes? They cant purchase a home. ..except one in the slums of Salt Lake City... But, thats not true. They can purchase a home elsewhere...lf they will pay the premium. Being black, or brown, or rich, smooth chocolate merits a penalty. They can buy a nice 512,000 home for $15,000...the $3,000 is the price of being Negro. There was a home offered whites for can have it for $18,000. He's 21.. .has a typical Negro job...the kind of Job that offers long-ter- m security. ..hes a railroad carman. She, too, has job security...shes hired by an agency dedicated to just V, among She's year old. 18 races. and their baby girl is one That, too, is a barrier.. .that one year old baby girl. There was a fine rent was $95 per month, and they would have paid it. ..on each front step at each of the other three dwelling units were baby carriages, strollers, and other symbols of parenthood ...but they were turned away because, "Sorry, we don't take couples with children. "Some folks are quite honest..."we don't rent for sell) to Negroes. Other folks stumble over their lower four-plex...- the dont exist There was one home owner, .another didn't want Negroes because 'they fight all die time...we dont want the cops here all the time. If that landlord only blew the truth.. Negroes cant get police even when they want them. This young family lives, unwillingly, in the slums...and "when we need police help, .when anyone in this area calls police, it takes them a half hour to get here, and its little more than spittin distance fronvpolice headquarters. ...probably no place here for coffee breaks, so the cops are all in another of town. Its hard to reason with such stupid folks as white folks... and whats to show theyre stupid? before she was married, this much difficulty, mangirls tofolks, after obtain a home in a white neighaged Well, borhood. Hers, working family. was a decent hard- - ' "In time, tney seemed to forget we were Negro. We played with their children. We went in and out of their homes. And in time another Negro family tried to buy a home in the block. Horrorsl Property would depreciate in value. "They were so mad at those other people (the other Negroes) that they forgot what color we are...they even asked us to sign a petition. ..to keep the other family outI..Jim Baldwin. here. Anyhow, I want Phil to know how proud we are hes done categorically denied all that stuff about him goto to the federal cdurts to stop our legislature from sittto come May. A categorical denial - generally speakto - is about as best as you can buy especially from an attorney general. Generally speakto, that is! Sometime, they aint worth as much as they lode like! Sometimes a cate- gorical denial is the worst kind! It gets all tangled up in one category! And that leaves other categories that ato Ft been denied at alL and when a categorical denial comes from a law- yer as clever as our a.g.- - well, we wonder what category Phil mighthave up his sleeve undenied! Were right proud of him that he aint thinkln q tubing our Special Session but we wonder if Phil would extend that denial o his to just one more category as a special favor to The Review. . After all. The Review does manage to ned by Normal Rosenblatt While many Utahns are aware that the new election laws passed by the 1965 legislature require party affiliation at the primaries for the first time this year, the full implications of this probably wont be clear for some time. One shock that will occur to many new registrants. As they register they will be asked their party affiliation. They might say, 'Independent, which the registration agent will duly record. The hapless voter will then go to the primary election, and will march in only to hear that he cant vote since he has registered as an indeHe cant make a change pendent. there and then on the spot.. ..he has to file an affidavit for change ten days in advance of the primary election. The voter who is already registered will walk into the polling place on primary day and be asked his party affiliation. If he says 'Independent and sticks to it, he wont be able to vote. He must say oae party or another. If he does his statement then goes onto the record.....and his party affiliation. If he should decide to change his mind by the time of the next primary and saunter into the polling place in 1968 and expect to simply name the opposite party hell be in for a shock It will be denied him unless hes declared a change at least ten days in advance by reregistering. Unless of course the law is changed in the next session... .Which it well might be. The county manager of Maricopa County, Arizona came to town last week. He impressed me as being a very likeable chap. We are certain of one thing, die Democrats in Maricopa County like him. He noted that the manager system has worked suc. cessfully in his county for 13 years. Democrats have held the majority of Board of Supervisors (same as our County Commission) for 13 years. Also of interest....there is no statutory merit system, the supervisors are all paid close to $10,000 per year, and he gets $24,000 and was originally in die Maricopa County government Oh gosh!!! Spring... Thank You Too Dear Sir; Please use enclosed check for a yearns subscription to your most interesting paper. Friends have passed their REVIEWS on to me but I find I miss many articles they have cut out and I must have a paper of my own. enjoy your articles cm the activities of our garden clubs, especially those held at our new Garden Coiter. Many thanks for your conscientious reporting on all subjects. We especially Sincerely, Mrs. Kenneth P. Burbidge H28 Yale Avenue Salt Lake City 84105 Sr. I I & II I I a tical whim of a particular commissioner couldnt dislodge him. ' His fear about the currently proposed the manager would be be concept holden to the two majority commissioners and would be sure to run things in a way that would please them. His diesis concerning a board elected by area representation is based cm his desire to see elected officials represent a specific portico of the people rather than specific departments within the governmental structure. Commissioner Marvin G. Jenson is becoming more and more enthusiastic about the idea. He is looking into it quite carefully and discussing the proposal with citizens all around the community. Rumors....rumors....rumors. ComWilliam G. Larson as missioner rumored, will not seek the two year post. When questioned about rumors concerning his withdrawal commission race entirely, neither confirm nor deny. he says his intention is to four year post. from toe he would Right now go for toe Of 17111 Isecca Mcap Moods am wonaerful things are happening all over. How can anyone demonstrate against or voice opposition to anything to the Spring? Its Just beautiful. Spring skiing to our mountains is a paradise. I was up at Alta last Sunday (no, all the family drank was coke) and there were dozens of lovelies skiing to short shorts and swim suits! What could be lovelier? And as you walk around downtown, ou are just surrounded by a multi-u- de of femininity. Its Just amazing what happens when the sun comes out. I see where the Gallup polsters took a thing CDwhat city was rated as having i system. Certainly we wouldnt have to adopt Maricopa County all the way. Some doubts have been expressed, by at least one member of our county commission about the system. John Preston Creer is caught in a delicate dilemma. Basically he likes! the idea of a manager, but isnt sure it could work well under our kind of system. Mostly Creer fears the Installation of a manager as a stopgap that would deter the attention of die public and the legislature from what he considers to be the main problem. ...a total reorganization of the structure of county government. He would prefer aboard-manag- er system, where board members are elected from particular districts or areas around the county and the manager appointment would not be a political one, where the manager or employees under him would have allegiances to particular board mem-- 1 bers. He would also like to see a' system where the manager had some assurance of tenure, so that the poli- toe most beauuiul women... and Salt Lake City was third to the nation. New York and Los Angeles came to first and second. I dont agree. Spring is made for females. The spring fashions are a little overwhelming to me.. Brilliant colors and short skirts and something else is out cm toe market now. A New York designer has come out with a very brief bikini and it only costs five hundred dollars. Its made of 23,000 That's hardly tiny cultured pearls. enough to cover all that has to be covered. And I see where another enterprising fashion designer has come up with a garter watch. Its made to be worn around the thigh? Its functional with short skirts. Its true. AH a girl has to do to tell the time is to pull up her skirt. And while shes sitting down its visible. That should turn a few heads. I can just imagine what would happen if I saw some little lady lifting up her skirt to teU me the time...Id walk right into the side of a building. Who needs book banners and smut hunters and paperback books and girlie magazines when all you have to do to get 'turned on is ask for the time of day. Exposd for toe day: I was reading Baldwins column to toe Review last week and I know who that old man was who was escorting that young 'tiling' to private likker locker clubs.. .It was me. I greyed my hair and walked with a slower gait.. And that young thing' on my arm was Lolita Humbert, a 75 year old female physical eulturalist from Slenderform...So there Baldwin eat your heart out. Its Spring. t - Understand he has access to some pictures that could make toe Demos think like they was stuttertog....time and again..... before theyd risk a ign mud-slin- at one big race. Lucy Redd! How well do you know our fine state M. Phyl Poulsen? Maybe hed let you have toe name of that there Indian feller, who has some interestin' photos of a Indian lad. But too, not knowto who the Demos might be pickin to run against some of toe known candidates maybe the information Won't be needed. And if it is needed, Ill bet some Republicans will be for lookin up that Indian feller. well-beat-- " up r?Yoti been reedin that stuff about them flyto saucers? Makes you won- der whos seen things.r...toe coedsor the military feUers. ! : I usta get excited when someone One o them hollered:. Lookie! flyto saucers! A city editor I No more, though had once cured me. Hes still around. to toe public relations field with guy named Jim heavy egaipmeet, England from BeuntiM tired of me passto ontofor- Jim matioB that they seen another one of them things flyto aroimd. Said Jim: 1 dont wanna hear no more about them flyto saucers.... lessen you kto get me an interview.... with the pilot! Fvt got tow o a 1 dont even look at the start aor the moon, anymore! Everytime Fd look, theyd be movin! an apology up my about the profoundest you Anyway..l got sleeve thats and its all for our Phil ever heard if hell categorically deny I hate even to think such rottea thinkln could it be that Our Phil considers gettin an injunction to cancel out the work of the Special Session..,, ff after the legislators, 89 of em, have gone home could it be hes gonna try aa injunction against the work they do after they've gone? this new information from toe new contest to gto least camera. Last weeks column, to fact, got him lead spot ahead of Hubert Horatio Humphrey! ( reliable source said it was easy for Phil to deny categorically that he was thinkln subversive thoughts about toe p ?eat getljhll soma or the best sound-o- n iilm spots on. Mike Millers Big Two . Now, heres another one o them atrocious things you get from them usually reliable sources. And, like last week,, this reliable source is right pure and clean of body and soul (but if Pm gonna hafta go with a source, Ill stick with them I had last week.) Anyhow - rememberin what I said about how unreliable reliable sources can get . Speakto of Indians....before toe local Democrats decide on all their candidates for next November, maybe they fcSI fhrtitfflarly totelli- India! from a tribe west of our . stand..here four-plex..- .he part Political Continent than in the South... there, we know where jre That information I had on Phil, I got from a couple o real reliable sources.... and if Phils right, yuh just caint rely cm that 'usually reliable stuff. I NEW ELECTION LAWS HOLD I A FEW BIG SURPRISES Such as initiating ideas for better ways of planning these events and shaping these institutions. Examples might be the introduction of a police cadet system, revelation of the CooperationAct, possibilities inherent in Utahs inter-loc- al suggestion of a flood control lake or resevoir on Big Cottonwood Creek, and editorials that helped spark the county manager concept and the reorganization of the city police department. landlord-potenti- red-blood- ed reliable sources. Suddenly, Its Spring1 Set As Theme Of Bookclub Lunch. With very slight changes, most would be appropriate one Something I picked up to the coffee shop twixt the State Capitol and the State Office building last week snags ; at me like a burr under the saddle.... seems hard to believe, but numbers make it lode like the whole truth. Someone noticed that except for a lawyer, a janitor and a couple of office workers, Negroes are as rare as Neanderthal artifacts on our capitol hill employment roster. That &ct alone aint near so annoy -some as toe reason I heard of why. Someone said that Negroes do try to get on toe state payroll.. ..includin (me who left toe state with a Weber College degree to business admtols- tration and a minor to economics....'' they try to get on toe payroll and they pass real good on toe written examinations. But.. ..and this Is where it hurts.... someone said they cant make it on merit system payroll because of a very, very narrow mind conducting some of the orals, which count for half of toe total score. With a certain someone. Pm told, a Negro could get a perfect score on toe written portion qf the merit exams and still be at toe bottom of the list.... and the pale faces around them Indian statues to our rotunda seem to confirm. But why pick onNegroes....howmany redskins we got on good our state payroll....from what I hear about Indians, they are the big shame of Utahs white masters. Seems over the years they could turn out a candidate for Cals Capitol Crew, at That special school north o , If they have a pretty stewardess aboard Satieaal O fl jta toats taking crew to Rome, Italy our Olympics-b- il next month . . . . and if that stewardess is as efficient as stewardesses are on those commercial airlines well, theyre apt to have aboard a supply of baby-bl- ue baby blankets maybe some fancy throw-awpaper could be a supply of rubber diapers tipples, plastic bottles and gaUons of formula. Ut -- .... .... .... .... ay .... Special Session because to fact, three GOP ed high-hand- of that legislature.... as this new source put. it.. ..was aH fixed to instigate this action to federal court.... members ned ....And with one of script secretaries tiff to toe case. to be Phils nonde- listed as plain- To show you I aint a sucker twice from reliable sources Jm warnin yuh, I don't expect anybody, not even Phil, to think I believe the report about not any mores I any Republicans expect anybody to believe that our Phil Hansen would ever hire a secretary Ptfcltabed erury Thursday by Great Westers Neva, Inc. 2245 South Weit Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Phene: Rosenblatt and Managing Editor Normal Roeeoblatt Editorial Staff: JeaaleKempe Gene Townsend Jim Advertising Mauagar-Wiltr- ad Baldwin Gee Now, why would you suppose theyd take such Utter as that on an Olympics-bi- d flight to Rome? Simple! When James L. was newborn -something intervened and there was some hesitation about calling him James L. Jr. Soy up at City Board of Health, Bureau of vital statistics, they have the record like it was filed by Mama ami Papa; And, unless they let Jim modify that birth certificate for visa and other travel nepers, that pretty stewardess is goto to look at toe list of passengers and stock up her shelves with toe paraphernalia to accommodate one: Baby Boy Barker! Clrculatlattaaigar-M- at Advertising Productia-Laig- h Production Maaagrr-Pi-pr Degi Stark Dykmaa . Eaterad a second clan matter at the Poet Office at Sett Lake City, Utah radar the act tt March 1, 1871 StAecrtptica $1.20 per year Member: Utah State Ptcm Aaaoci-tti- ra repneeated hy America Newspaper kepresratative . |