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Show S'i 1 . i Salt Lk City, Ut-- h WESTERN AMERICANA 8 H12 VOLUME 15, NUMBER 81 IIGAL NOTKB: tm TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1971 (ACCN) - defense of the present tort liability syspresent tort system would be limited to victims suffering catastrophic harm tem at the opening of Senate Commerce Committee hearings on S. 945, the through permanent disability or disUniform Motor Vehicle Insurance figurement and the survivors of fatally Act of 1971. injured The first witness on the bill was Sen. Howard H. Baker, Jr. is that all not said the present system Secretary of Transportation John A. bad but its execution has been very Volpe, testifying on behalf of the Nixon administration. He also called for a shift poor. The fact that so many persons lt to a comprehensive system but are willing to abandon the system he a on said it should be adopted said, is a sad, sad commentary on the a basis, allowing for broad basis of failure of the judicial system in America. experience. He submitted a concurrent The Senator also said it is important resolution to that effect, but with the that neither side become so inflexible admonition that Congress cannot, and and dogmatic that it loses sight of the will not, long ignore the need for evolvobvious problems with both the ing new and updated approaches to lt fault and systems,. insurance and accident compensation." S. 945, bySens. Philip ( . The resolution also calls on the A. Hart and Warren Magnuson Council of State Governments, using the Commerce Committee appropriate instrumentalities, to develop chairman, would create a comprehensive lt model legislation for submission lt system of compenA states. the to step in this direction accident federal auto victims under is sating underway by the National already standards administered the Depart- Conference of Commissioners on Uniment of Transportation. It would provide v form State Laws which recently named a for all medical and incidental expenses Special Committee on a Uniform Autolost a maximum income of to mobile Accident Claims Act. up plus The issuers of unregistered securities. The SEC said in announcing the proposed move that its staff is continuously faced with requests as to when such unregistered securities may be sold without registration. It feels that this data will be of material assistance in interpreting the Securities Act of 1933. Forms Affected Affected would be Item 6 of the SECs Form 10-- and also its Form 10-Form 10-- is a general form for annual reports by companies having securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Act of 1933 and Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Form 10-- is the general quarterly form filed by the same companies. A statement would now be required under the proposed rules as to sales of unregistered securities for the past fiscal year in the case of and the past fiscal Form 10-10-Form for quarter Some of this information is already furnished by registrants with respect to equity securities on and by registrants under Form 10-1933 Act in another return, Form the K 10-- Q. All interested persons are invited to submit their views and comments on the proposed changes to Mrs. Rose F. Jaffin, Attorney, Division of 20549, such communications will be available for public May 14. All Man of Vision - Robert Mills of in 1819 Virginia suggested to a Congress railway linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. This was 10 years before the beginning of steam locomotion in the U.S., 27 years before the U.S. had any Pacific coastline, and 50 years before the driving of the Golden Spike in Promontory, Utah, in fact completed the first transcontinental railroad. Mills was not gifted with ESP. He apparently foresaw the possibilities inherent in the first prototypes of the steam locomotive developed in England in the early 1800s, though these early models were no more appreciated generally at the time than the first rockets of Robert Goddard in the 1930's. (ACCN) Tiny Possession The Swan Islands, of Great and Little Swan, consisting are an unincorporated territory of (ACCN) the United States, lying 97 miles northeast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea. They have a population of about 30 persons, chiefly employees of the U.S. National Weather Service (formerly, the Weather Bureau). Supreme Court: no-fau- Sustained OBRAY vs. MALMBERG, Sheriff ALLEGING FAILURE TO INVESTIGATE BURGLARY Trial Court: Dismissed state-bysta- te Supreme Court: Aiirmed see page 6 no-fau- Bar Public (D-Mic- h.) .), Relation Held Complex Task no-fau- first-part- y, no-fau- . Church Buildings Need Force Over Form, Architect Says By Kenyon Roberta ACCN News Service Editor New Day Dawning new day for church architecture seems to be coming, Dirlam indicated. The U.S. Department of Labor has estimated that by 1900 construction of all types will expand by 50 per cent and money for new building will rise from 90 to 135 billion. The physical church will inevitably participate in this boom. Now is the time, he pointed out, for architects and church builders church committees concerned with to take stock. Many the problem years back, I waded John Ruskins Seven through of a book Architecture, Lamps thought highly of by our grandfathers. The 19th century English critic believed that good building should exemplify moral virtues simplicity, sincerity, strength, honesty and the like and used various churches to illustrate his thesis. The attempt to wed Victorian propriety to art was a taxing enterprise. It may be one reason Ruskin eventually went mad. In our day, we have gone to the other extreme. Everyone has stood or knelt in churches and temples monstrosities were put up as religious structures in the last big church construction spree 10 to 15 years ago. Most of them, he ab- of worof an promoting atmosphere ship as the imitation Gothic of our forebears. It may be a fair question to ask whether the world has not gone mad. An Optimist Since the level of church building is at such a low ebb, it is stimulating to find someone who thinks the future may be rosier. One such is Dr. Arland A. Dirlam, a member of the American Institute of Architects, (A.I.A.) who addressed the 32nd National Conference on Religious Architecture in Los Angeles, April se one-stor- 20. The conference was sponsored by the Guild for Religious Architecture, an A.I.A. affiliate formed a generation ago by artists, architects and religious leaders concerned about the future of church building in America. The group sought, Dr. Dirlam told the Los Angeles conference at its opening session, to rescue ec- clesiastical architecture from regurgitated Gothic with its pointed arches, cute little bell cotes. and form . .golden organ pipes fitting pews. The theory of modern church building, he stressed, is that the congregation should be seen as active participants in the church's life and not as merely spectators to its rituals. The structure should conduce to this end. The former United (ACCN) States Weather Bureau became the National Weather Service in October, 1970, when it was in- declared, were vulgar buildings containing little art worthy of a religious theme. We must avoid these errors in the palmier times which may lie ahead. We must also avoid the utilitarian error, Dirlam stressed. This is exemplified today by the structure which is meant to serve many uses and fully satisfies none, even if it meets some sparse church construction budgets. Methodist Experience The Methodists in New England back in the 1920s discovered this fallacy, Dirlam said, when they y erected many platform-typ- e structures which could easily accomodate a gymnasium floor and on which upper stories for worship could be added later. . i Pollution Price Tag NEW YORK (ACCN) While a vast amount of pollution control activity is evident and innumerable solutions have been offered 600 measures appeared in last Congress year ultimately everyone will bear the brunt of the cost of control, either through higher prices or higher taxes, Tax Foundation, Inc., reports. In a new study, Pollution Control: Perspectives on the Governanti-polluti- ment Role, the Foundation pointed out that it is possible that price increases stemming from pollution control efforts may have been a significant factor aggravating general inflationary pressures. In recent years, according to the research organization, private corporated into the Commerce Federal and state governments have Department's National Oceanic and turned increasingly to the use of tax Atmospheric Administration. Continued on page 8. . Experts Warn - An at(UPI) modern a evacuate to high tempt rise office building or apartment house in case of fire is frequently little more than an open invitation to panic, injury and death, federal safety experts have warned. Arthur F. Sampson, commissioner of public building safety, told newsmen here April 19 that new safety procedures are needed for buildings higher than 15 stories to replace existing evacuation plans. He suggested selective evacuation of endangered parts of buildings, either to the outside or to safe areas of the building. But he said persons in relatively safe areas should stay put to avoid overcrowding stair wells. WASHINGTON Modem (ACCN) a is relations complex enpublic is both vital to that one and terprise and in many ways parallel to the work of the legal profession, the president of the Public Relations Society of America told the recent midyear meeting of the American Bar Association here. Speaking at a PR Institute lunCHICAGO High Rises Can Be Firetraps, A Several embodying cold, tortured Corporation Finance, Securities and stractions, as incapable ExchangeD.C. Commission, on or before MASON v. TOOELE CITY SEWER and WATER FEES CONTESTED. see page 7 Trial Court: Dismissed .), Q New Coverage Information will now be requested for transactions in all unregistered securities, those representing debt as well as equity, within the stated period of time. It is also proposed that an additional statement (an EDP attachment) will be required of the registrant for statistical purposes as an Exhibit I with the reports on Forms 10-- and Capsule wage-earner- s. K S-- l. 4S7-S- Supreme Court Decisions $30,000. Further recovery under the Only one voice was raised in clear of its forms to provide for information on recent transactions by Washington, LKAl NOTKB: Mm Senate Begins Auto Insurance Hearings Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed changes in two Q. CITT, UTAH SALT LAKI 417-O- Unregistered Stock Data WASHINGTON l' Harold E. Nelson, Sampsons assistant for fire safety, said it usually takes as much as 45 or 50 minutes to evacuate a 40 or 50 story office building, usually far more ime than is available. He said as a rule of thumb, it usually takes one minute per story plus the amount of time actually required to walk down the stairs. the described Sampson of a conference preliminary report on high rise fire safety which his agency sponsored last week at Warrenton, Va. He said new buildings often pose greater danger from fire, heat and d War II smoke than the windows because skyscrapers fit tighter, they are fully air conditioned and most offices are loaded with foam rubber that pre-Worl- produces a Mack smoke when it burns. Census Reports More Indians WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A total of 791,839 American Indians were counted in the 1970 census, 268,248 more than 10 years ago, the Census Bureau has reported. The increase was the largest since Indians were added to census figures in 1890. That year 248,253 were counted. More than half of the Indians live in five states: Oklahoma, 97,731; Arizona, 95,812; California, 91,018; New Mexico, 72,788; and North Carolina, 43,487. cheon during the convention sessions, Jon B. Riffel, vice president for public and government relations with the Pacific Lighting Service and Supply Company in Los Angeles, stressed the problems inherent in promoting a sound public image. Defines Nature According to the ABA Coordinator issue, newsletters February-Marc- h which carried an account of Riffels remarks, the expert defined PR as the management function which evaluates public attitudes, identifies the policies and procedures of an individual or an organization with the public interest, and executes a program of action to earn public understanding and acceptance. The definition is enlightening, he noted, because it enunciates the three steps that trained PR prac- titioners take in approaching a problem or project: Evaluation of public attitudes involves a knowledge of statistical research and psychology, and the use of various tools ranging from running news media accounts to conducting and analyzing opinion research surveys. Riffel pointed out that public relations and the practice of law are similar and interrelated. Both, he said, are concerned with communication. The legal profession concerns itself with representing men and women before the bar of the public relations profession concerns itself with representing its clients before that equally inexorable supreme court, justice; the court of public opinion. Mutual Effort The two professions need each other, he noted, because laws require public support to be effective. "Laws unsupported by public opinion become Volstead Acts. Law, unsupported by the respect of men and women, becomes repression. And men and women, no matter how misguided, foolish, ignorant, or abrasive, are the ultimate power in this or any other society. CONGRESSMEN introduced licensing tax preparers not bill law- yers or CPAs. Golf carts . . . more hazardous than the regular course hazards. W.S.J. |