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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand January 29, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 7 the SALT LAKE CITYS NEW ART CENTER CHAPTER 2 by Thomas O. Breitling In the old days professional wrestling was quite a show. Oh, it was rough and tough. No question about that. And you had to be rough and tough to participate. But even so, the old wrestlers themselves will tell you that things were not always what they seemed. Redevelopment Agency, defined in Rules and Regulations however. That agency, in a letter of for Issuers and in compliance with 1974 20, admits September paying Utah Uniform Securities Act as 5405,828 for the properties where amended. Title 61, Chapter 1, SesArrow Press Square now is and sion Laws of Utah, 1963. Under selling same to Arrow Press Square the heading of Prospectus" the and Skaggs Companies. Inc. for first paragraph says: 5250.000. Every applicant to register securities for sale in Utah must NOT OPPOSED TO ART furnish the investor a complete CENTER or prospectus offering circular Neither The Utah which makes a full disclosure. Independent nor I as an individual The rules than go on to desis opposed to the building of an art cribe in detail the type of disclosure center. We are opposed to the use required. In addition to the of general obligations bonds for securities rules, we have a uniform such purpose, and we are opposed consumer credit code, which reto a group of promoters of such quires full disclosure, including bond vote selling the vote before disclosure of true, total cost of the loose ends are tied up. A couple interest. of brothers who wanted to buy the Many other things should Utah Stars were severely criticized have been made clear to voters when they tried to do so without before the election. We have made having all the loose ends tied, but a list of 16 relevant items, which the same thing is happening on the will be brought out at a future time. art center. The Salt Lake Tribune for January 16 said, Gov. Calvin HELP NEEDED L. Rampton asked for an attorney Have you ever noticed that generals opinion on using the 51 when the taxpayer. million State Building Board Constitutionalist position wins a revolving fund to provide battle, the battle is always rejoined immediate financing, until the by the bond sellers, the and the regionalists? county receives money from the bonds. Because we are generally trying to the Attorney prevent something bad from However, office General's says that no one happening, we are usually on the has asked that office for such an defensive. The art center bond vote We checked this on failed in August 1974. so its opinion. 19. January promoters brought it back again on December 16, 1975. They LAW SUIT JUSTIFIED would not have the vote at a We believe there is justifiable general election, and they would cause for a lawsuit to stop issuance not reveal all the special interests of 58,675 million in general that are now know, nor would they obligation bonds by Salt Lake reveal that ownership of the facility was a matter of question. County. Based on memory at this After the masterful marketing point, it seems to me that a ma- job that was done on selling this jority of property owners along vote, how often can we expect this Main Street in the Salt Lake Gty trick to be repeated? There is only downtown area had to vote in one way that I can think of to put a Main Street stop to it; a lawsuit seeking a favor of the four-bloc- k beautification before the permanent injunction. If we are going to file a suit, we Redevelopment agency could raise work. need to win it. Our lawyer and the needed funds and begin This was brought to my attention several of us believe we have a winby the newspaper accounts of ning case. To win in this case we Richard Schubacks efforts to stop need the help of some dedicated Utahns. Remember, 57.5 million the redevelopment project. If it is true that a majority of of the 5 16.5 million total will come property owners had to favor the from state taxes, if the facility is project before the agency could built with the funds planned. We proceed with work, then an ine- need at least 20 individuals who quity has been committed in the will donate 5100 apiece for this recent bond election for the arts cause. If you will help, write or center. This is so because in the phone The Utah Independent right arts center election there was no re- (phone number We is essence. the of of Time away. quirement that a majority will be property owners favor the bond, must act now or the courts of because but only a requirement that a ma- forced to rule against us, will have jority of persons voting should the many obligations that favor the bond. There is inequity been made. on two counts: (1) owners were allowed to vote a general obligation on property owners, and (2) a majority of only the total number voting was required rather than a majority of registered voters or a majority of ART CENTER PROMOTION LIKE WRESTLING It now begins to appear that the Salt Lake City Art Center promotion was somewhat like the old game of professional wrestling. Things were not always what they seemed. For instance, do you have a copy of page B- -l of the October 20 issue of Deseret News? If you do, look in the lower left corner at the article on uArts bond vote wins approval.' In that article the third paragraph says, The 59 million, an approximate figure with a leeway of 5300,000 either way, should be used to match 57.5 million in a state Bicentennial matching grant. (Emphasis added.) Now all of us know what a grant is. My dictionary says that a grant is something conferred, as land or rights." Conferred means to bestow upon. So, from the news article and remarks made by promoters of the December 16 bond issue we might have thought that the state was going to make a grant to Salt Lake City (later it was upped to Sa It Lake County) to help pay for the citys art center. But apparently this is not the case. In a conversation with one of Utahs elected executives on January 19 1 asked him if the Deseret News story of January 13 was correct when it quoted Bicentennial Commission leaders as saying, We are not about to turn over a 56.5 million state grant to the county. The executive said that is correct, and it was never intended that the state would make a grant as such. He went on to say that when the center is built the state will own the fraction of the center that it pays for and the county will own property owners. Another problem area arises the fraction that its bonds pay for. And the Same January 13 article in in the inequity that exists between the News said, The county, by the person who buys the bond and law, cannot surrender control of the persons who pay the costs of " This confirms the the bond. For example, the law rebond money executives statement. Who, then, quires that all bonds be sold will have control of this 516.5 through the prospectus, and the million facility? prospectus must disclose all things that are required by law. On the BUY FOR 5800,000. SELL FOR other hand there is, to my knowledge, no law requiring dis5400,000 inWc have also learned that the closure of eminently relevant the persons who pay plan calls for Salt Lake City formation to the bond, the voters Redevelopment Agency to buy the the cost of property-ownin- g Capitol Theater for 5800,000 or (especially more and sell to (either) the taxpayers). The type of relevant inBicentennial Commission or the 1 am referring to would county for 5400,000. The United formation is States taxpayer picks up the loss of be information similar to what securities as S400.000. This is nothing new for required in sale of . non-proper- . 466-191- 3) ty The Tastiest Buffet in Town 5 LOCATIONS IN UTAH 744 E. 4th South 2960 Highland Drive Fashion Place Mall THE CASTRO CAMPAIGN by SENATOR JESSE HELMS couple of weeks ago, I met with a group of Cuban A refugees who had miraculously managed to escape the clutches of the Communist tyrant, Fidel Castro. They had come to Washington in response to an invitation extended to them by Senator Dick Stone of Florida, Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia, and me. As they sat pouring out their souls, the sad thought came to my mind that there are so many in our government who are urging that the United States resume diplomatic relations with a brutal Communist dictator. You may recall n that a U.S. a Senator, once Presidential candidate, ' made a highly publicized trip to Cuba not well-know- long ago. He was photographed with Castro, and the purpose of his trip obviously was a prelude to a real push in the United to have our States government recognize the Castro regime. I wish all Americans could have heard the testimony offered by the pitiful refugees who visited with us. Several of them are women whose husbands and sons are still being held captive by Castro. The women themselves were tortured before they Unfortunately, thought to the appalling number of countries which fallen to the have Communists. Not much attention is focused on such events. But take note, if you will, of the great cry that -- went when up the Communist regime in Chile was overthrown! There is a constant, of criticism daily drum-fir- e of the new government in Chile. The same major news media, and the same liberal Senators, who never lift a finger about the atrocities of the known Communist, Fidel Castro, are constantly attacking Chile with questionable charges that reliable citizens of Chile have told me personally simply arc not true. I have never been to Chile but neither have the Senators and editors who so vehemently, criticize the new Chilean government. The point, I think, is this: Why do we hear no criticism of Communist dictators? liberal Why do the Senators and editors confine anti-commun- ist - - their criticism to countries? After all, Cuba is only 90 miles off our own shores. non-commun- ist escaped. The brutality they suffered is unthinkable in a civilized society. And there are reliable reports out of Cuba that it is still going on. There is no way to It is cruelty to the innocent not to punish the guilty. -- Old Proverb determine how Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. -- Gen. Douglas MacArthur many innocent people have been murdered in Cuba simply because they wanted their country to be free. Death rays, which were for a long time the dream weapon of the ionaries, the cranks and Buck Rogers, Y 1 1 are near. It is an immensely enlarged laser beam of watts (an ordinary electric bulb is 60 watts). The beam is emitted like a pulse and in this way the laser gun can be loaded for a short but powerful light shot. The aim is to produce 20 times stronger laser pulses 4 billion watt HFATH vis-D- A 200,-000,0- 00 shots. Intelligence from the Pentagon is that this weapon is on the way. This years U.S. budget devotes $150 million to the death ray and $1 billion will be spent on the project between now and 1978. Currently the U.S. Navy is experimenting at sea with the death ray and the U.S. Air Force has a aircraft, Boeing KC 133. A Stockholm scientist, Dr. Carl Larsen, recently came up with additional news along this line. Science, he warns, is on the verge of developing a new type of chemical warfare that will result in entire races being wiped from the face of laser-arme- d the earth. Dr. Larsen is a geneticist, and because the genes of all races are chemically different, it is just a matter of time before science will be able to develop chemicals that will kill members of one race without harming those of another race. Thus, a Red Chinese scientist could develop a poison that would kill all Whites and Negroes but be harmless to all Orientals. And vice-versa. (All in Salt Ixtke City) Orem Ogden not many Americans give much When . the capitalist world starts to trade with us, on that day they will begin to finance their own destruction. -- Attributed to V.I. Lenin |