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Show Zbe lit Zribune .(11t Free Sh le: Fighting Fat With Fonda. Fettucine Da Ittinner la, Talent. Dedication and St le South Valley Edition Salt Lake City, UtahVol. 233, No. 19 Wednesday MorningApril 1 30, 1906 UHP Claims Edge in Radar- - Detector Game Should Items Be illegal? ;10.00: '.. "44.,.00,01114, Jriti - , ,. ., Katherine Kapos Tribune Staff Writer Everyone 1.4s done it driving along thinking about everything but the road. while the needle on the speedometer slowly creeps past 55 Then a white car. looking suspiciously slips into sight. The first instinct is to hit the brakes, but it's too late. You've been caught by a radar gun. So you run out and buy a radar detector for prow( Hon, Honking it will protect against the patrol, But Utah's radar-totintroopers assure that in the endless game of highway cat and mouse, they can always spring the trap. ''People pay $2011 or even $306 Ifor a radar detector to save themselves two or three speeding tickets a year,' Utah Highway Patrol trooper Lane -Ogden said. There's nothing more frustrating than to have a radar detector and still get caught." Radar detectors have become a $200 million-a-yea- r industry. Manufacturers now advertise in national magazines and the product is sold in stores nationwide. The opposing technology the police radar gun makes many people question whether the detector can repureally live up to its ticket-proo- f tation The radar gun sends out a wave that bounces off a car and then returns to the gun. all in a matter of milliseconds. A radar detector. depending on its quality, can pick up the wave several miles from where it was sent. Radar detectors work on the assumption that the gun is running at See Page 2, Column I ..,,,;' ,' 9 , ., ...., , ts , .? 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But police ha e pro en that the detectors are not ticket-proof- . of Marriage Still a Legal 'Sin' in Utah Tribune Staff Writer In the debate over "legislating morality" through Utah's cable TV laws, it went largely unnoticed that the state code already extends traditional sexual mores into the criminal statutes. In fact, although the sexual revolution began two decades ago, it remains a legal "sin" to commit any sex act outside the bonds of monogamous marriage. But one case in the state courts, one in federal court here and another before the U.S. Supreme Court, which could affect a Utah law, raise the question of whether its time Utah decriminalized its unenforced laws on sex. those against fornication. adultery. Four Utah laws make "living together," affairs, hosodomy and bigamy mosexual relations and fundamentalist Mormon polygamy. illegal. The potential punishment ranges from up six months in jail and a $299 fine for sex between two unmarried people to a prison term of up to five years for polygamy Vet, while no accurate statistics are available on the number of Utahns violating one of the four laws, its generally assumed they constitute a large portion of the population. "At varying periods of time, there have been members of i hi! Salt Lake County Attorneys Office, male and female, who were living with people they were not married to," said local civil rights attorney Brian Barnard The laws against "immorality" haen't been prosecuted in years. or at least they hadn't been until Davis County Attorney Loren Martin filed charges of fornication and adultery against three county residents in February Ile maintains he's seeking to clear up the legal questions surrounding the laws and, by filing the case on w hich they can be overturned. -aiming to keep children out of the custodN of promiscuous" diorced parents. ,t : '''''"ItJ,1,-..'-..,- , 1 'it ,ta ... 4 rl'-'4A.IV- .,..; ri, :,r, I - , , . I '1, ' t Highway Patrol Trooper Lane Ogden monitors traffic with a radar gun. Many people spend hundreds of along i - ,. ' , I ,,...,04.,-, 4 . i , '141.1641"....1106.4v ow - 1 .... j Lit , 4,, At .. 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'sum in alidating taat statute for pm ate, adult. consensual relations between homosexuals sex between tonsenting of the Itah's four laws goy adult partners, currently only the prohibition against bigamy is not threatened wah being takt n Oil the books That law was affirmed as recently as last year. w Len poly ganost and former Murray police officer Royston Potter lost a court battle to regain his Job with the department. Questioning of the fornication and adultery statutes began Svc Page 2. Column I .j |
