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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand March 20. 1975 The Utah Independent Page 7 Tax Resistor Wins New Trial In Failure to File Case H. Byron Gaar, Jr., a Hargill. Texas crop-dustpilot, was a new trial granted today by G. Chief Gara. Reynaldo Judge. U.S. District Court. Southern District of Texas. Gaar was found guilty bv a jury on Sept. 6. 1974 of wilfull failure to file a 1040 income Crommeline when he told them tax form for the years 1967. 1968. 1969-- . 1970 and 1971. However. Judge Gara granted a new trial because he had refused to allow retired Admiral John G. Crommelin to examine and witnesses and make the opeinig and closing statements for Gaar in his trial. Admiral offormer executive Crommelin, ficer on the aircraft carrier Enterprise in World War II. is not a lawyer, but on January 18. 1974 Judge Gara told Gaar and judge finds error in his own case lawyer who represents individuals and takes steps to correct the error. xil'cr or gold as provided in the er cross-exami- Admiral Crommelin Barbara M. Morris a another saw federal revenue sharing as federal feudalism and Re: On the spot coverage of one.stout-hearte- d individual stood ACIR Conference on American up and said he feared we were Federalism in Action" moving to full scale socialism. Of course, that wasn't such an Three hundred elected and ap- independent observation either. pointed officials and other assorted President Cord made the same noises a couple of weeks before. bigwigs convened at a hush-hus- h invitation-onl- y in One of the high points of the meeting 20-2Washington. D.C. February meeting was a speech given by The purpose of the confab was to Robert B. Hawkins, Jr., Chairman discuss the new federalism, or ill of Governor Ronald Reagan's plain english. the dismantling of 1974 task force on Local our Constitutional Republic of SO Government Reform. He told the audience his task force found that sovereign states. It was a first of its kind local units of government were the federal more efficient and responsive to meeting sponsored by Advisory Commission on the people. His remarks were met Intergovernmental Relations with only polite acceptance. In out- (ACIR), the Congress-create- d private conversation Mr. Hawkins fit that has become a prime mover confided that Governor Reagan in the elimination of local tried to squash the report of the governments through regionalism task force, and he added with a wry. and consolidations. smile, that obviously he no longer Those who have been had a government job. But lest anyone think Mr. following the activities of the ACIR would not have been Hawkins is entirely on the side of shocked by the Orwellian rhetoric traditional forms of American and impassioned please for more government, he definitely is not. regionalism and predictions of He believes there are times when doom and gloom if we dont regionalism is the only solution to change our form of government. problems that go beyond local For the ACIR. it was business as government boundaries, and he usual. Our Constitutional recommends the formation of Republic, the sovereign states, and Councils of Governments (COGs). the rights of the citizens to control But in spite of his lack of comtheir government were given short mitment to traditional American shrift by the favored regionalists government, his remarks were invited to speak to fellow refreshing in that he dared to deviate from the typical ACIR metrocrats. If by chance there were any in cliches and pat solutions, the crowd who understood the The icing on the cake came structure and function of our from Harlan Cleveland, Director Constitutional representative form of International Programs. Aspen of government, an occasional. Institute for Humanistic Studies at was reference to made Princeton University and former placating George Washington, James U.S. Ambassador to NATO. Madison or some other early Scheduled as the last speaker patriot, in a feeble attempt to give before the closing luncheon. Mr. credence to the incredible. he Cleveland let it all hangout terms Speaker after speaker, which spelled out in included Washingtons Governor what regionalists are working Dan Evans. Senator Ed Muskic. toward world interdependence. Unigovs Richard Lugar and Coping with interdepend-GovernAnderson of Minnesota, ence. he began as he swung into sounded like oral print-out- s, his pitch for world unity, begins spit out of the same programmed com- - with public understanding of the putcr. All used the familiar words need for adjustments in practices and cliches used by those pushing and policies we Americans have' balkanied govern- - long regarded as essentially regionalism ments fragmented structures" private, personal decisions how anachronistic relics problem much to buy, what to eat. ..how units of government ad many children to have, whether to solving nauseum. On occasion a more pollute... how hard to work, what daring participant to aspire to. He hoped universities would showed signs of being able to think independently. One speaker found provide this needed understanding xub-staContinued on page 9 regions objectionable. 2. ne that Crommelin could ask questions of any witness..." At today's hearing Judge Gara volunteered that he had Gaar and surprised Massive Judicial System UNIONTOWN. I'A.. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, here. By Ml IN BRONSON AwcinlH Itrw TO SCORPA DIRECTORS AND FRIENDS OF SCORPA 1975-PA- GE h thick emu- Thc plaint alleges the American judiciary has overstepped its constitutional power by fixing pi ices, making laws instead of Writer two-inc- PITTSBURGH tAP)-Fifte- en prisons have lilt'd a $200 million nnlitrncl suit against viitnally all level of (ho U.S. judicial system, alleging a massive eonrpii m y to deprive ami interpreting them of church violating separation and slate. them of their rivii rights. The defendants have ai regaled attributes of the doily to themselves by setting them solves up as self 'appoint ed and high priosls with licensed attorneys as ministers of a religion all of their own... the suit said. One plaintiff, Dr. Raymond Hartman, 48, a vision Named in the "it are hundreds of federal judges, niem-bi- s of the II s Supreme Court. 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