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Show A' KOREA: WHAT PRICE WITHDRAWAL? PAGE 7 S ' A N Dedicated-T- &fr&"fr-ft"frrt"fr-fr! i A A SALTER SAYS: States United been 67-billi- on. . 57 Omkfamd Avenue : S94-billio- . By Thomas O. Breitling UTAH INDEPENDEBT Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 One Master one-eigh- th so Calvin L. Rampton held the position of Governor of Utah for longer than any other person, 12 years. Some people feel that he , could have Had it for another four ' years, if he had wished it. Others disagree with this viewpoint, but and DOVES Have July 14, 1977 CA? A number, had nearly 40 of the industrial sales. More than 68 of the workers in the 340,000 industrial corporations worked for the biggest 500 in 1968. A similar state of affairs existed in other branches of the The 50 biggest economy. merchandising chains had a net income, of over a billion dollars in 1966; 62.5 of that net income went to the ten largest chains. The three biggest commercial banks In 1965 there were some owned of the assets of 340,000 industrial corporations in the some 13,000 banks in 'the the United States. The biggest 500 country. There were 11,718 life of these, amounting to .15 of the insurance companies in the total, had 60.2 of the industrial country with total, assets of SI sales and 71 of the industrial The ten biggest of these n, 1969 200 In held the or 56 biggest profits. controlled well over 60 of the of the life insurance assets. Even industrial assets. The biggest 100 more striking; the two biggest, ' industrials, only '.03 of the total Prudential and Metropolitan Life. concentrated. Today in the hands of an extremely small number of financiere run the threads of the entire tanperialist economy. From . REALLY 'Hawks A-fr--A-fr 25C the corner gas station to a copper mine in Chile extends an empire controlled by a handful of closely allied financial groups that directly control the bulk of bask domestic industry, the bulk of domestic finance and aHthe overseas empire of American capital; indirectly the rest of the economy is under their sway. These are the real rulers; they have all the power and they ' share it with no one. , At following article is super-secre- t. least, it was supposed to be until I got hold of it. It was researched and prepared by an economics professor at a leading university and, for obvious reasons, I wont name him. Only a limited number of copies exist. The author is on the other side of the political fence' from me, but I believe his research is honest and accurate.. How did I get it? If I told you, heads would roll. Ladies and gentlemen, here is your conspiracy! And, as you can see, we havea common enemy. Never has capital in the ,-- A Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 The A- - The Constitution, Liberty. Morality, and Truth Vol. 8, No. 28 m , o & Rampton has apparently been able for the last 13 years to skip from peak to peak. He may have even begun to think of himself as the sovereign of Utah. In the Salt Lake Tribune on June 24, he is alleged to SANDBAGGED CREER The first exhibit of his power feel that Utah voters should have appeared at the primary election in the right to elect only two 1976 when he officeholders in state government. September John With respect to the position of effectively sandbagged Preston Creer in the Democrat elected Attorney. General, the Tribune quoted Rampton: A man primary election. Rampton belittled a major position of Creer ought to have the right to hire his regarding removal of sales taxes on own lawyer. And so he should, if items an idea which he is willing to pay for the lawyers some Rampton had espoused himself on services with his own money. But contrary to Ramptons other occasions. .Creer has always been a loyal Democrat who,-tmisguided beliefs, the State his own Attorney General .is not the some extent, sacrificed political credibility by- pushing governors lawyer. .Rather, the bill, Attorney General is lawyer for the Ramptons state land-us- e which was strongly defeated in a sovereign, that is, the people. 'I doubt that a document could be referendum. any more clear on this point than is the Utah Constitution. MALIGNED ROMNEY Article I, Section 2 of that The next Rampton exhibition document he of power was when says, uAll political maligned Vernon B. Romney just before the. power is inherent in the people; and general election last fall. There is all free governments are fpunded no way of knowing how the on their authority for their equal election would have come out, if protection and benefit, and they Rampton had not made his untrue have the right to alter or reform accusation, but we do know that their government as the public one of the most popular elected welfare may require. A person has to be a officials in Utah was defeated by Ramptons protege on his first try compulsive .. submissive or collectivist to be willing to for elected pqblic office. voluntarily give up such an act of NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE free agency as the right to vote for SUCCESS public officials. As things now Since (it is said) that nothing stand, the government of Utah has like success, Calvin better checks and balances than succeeds owned 36 of the life insurance assets. American Tel & Tel owned 84 of the telephones in the country, while General Telephone, its competition, owned 50 of the remainder. (3) Atlantic Refining combined with Richfield Oil and then merging with Sinclair Oil; (4) Sunshine Biscuits acquired by American Tobacco; (5) North American Aviation merge with While' the telephone Rockwell Standard; (6) Signal Oil industry like auto, steel, oil and & Gas taking over Mack Trucks; some others has for some time (7) Gulf A Western Industries been highly monopolized, the digesting Consolidated Ggar, then recent period has seen a sharp E W Bliss A Co., and finally increase in mergers in other sectors Universal-America(8) Container America of of the economy. The food, textiles, Corporation bought by retail trade, aircraft and electronics Montgomery Ward; (9) Kern industries are increasingly being County Land merge with Tenneco controlled by two or three Oil Co.; (10) Sunray DX Coil by corporations. Just since 1965 we Sun Oil; (11) Peabody Coal by have seen: (1) Consolidation Coal.Kennecott Copper; (12) Hooker itself the biggest amalgamation of Chemical by Occidental bv coal mines, taken over --Petroleum: (13) Crucible Steel by Continental Cftl; (2) Douglas Colt Industries; (14) General Sncratt, maker of the DC-- 8, Precision by Singer; (15) Continued on page 4 merged with McDonnell Aviation; n; there is no denying the impact he had on the election - of Scott Matheson to that office last November. y . . t CaftUfa Cftr. UtsS - , x- 'i - C' rt i- - it z: H h M tO M X- - UlAH . O . . -i .- O -- M a it v t CVN wJ .i: in m O . CALVIN L RAMPTON. exist in the government of the United States DISPENSER STATE OF LARGESSE Another example Rampton sense of the of .royal prerogative is the way he dispensed favors to the chosen ones. Elsewhere in this newspaper is an exact reproduction of a letter to from Robert E. Merriam, Chairman of Advisory on Commission Relations Intergovernmental Rampton (ACIR). the United Nations cell in our federal government. In the letter, Merriam thanks Rampton for a "$1,000 contribution to ACIR on behalf of the' State of Utah. The letter is dated August 25, 1976, when Rampton was still Governor of Utah. On what basis does a governor have the right to give $1,000 of state money, derived from taxes, to the 1313 Center controlled ACIR: or any other such agency? Was this an illegal act? Was it a payoff to the ACIR for helping in the effort to change Utah's Constitution, so as Continued on page 10 |