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Show Sarialb Ord.r &jWttB3nt Univerwlty of Utah Salt lake City, Utah 84112 ' SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOLUME 15, NUMBER 156 n aV V' T - ! W I . INJURY LOSSES VICTORIA HOUSE SQUARE Auto AcckU Act DrcTvc-i A CHICAGO (ACCM draft of a typ Motor" Vehicle Acciduir. Act" is being tUv no-fau- ll i wm-im1 lit j r.' f i' : r . : National Conference of i missioners on Uniform bem Law-Iseeks to provide primp: efficient reparation of Lis r.e- - at ,v i i.: from accidental injury ; s m n. a the maintenance or use . ; 1 t ' f . l- 1 !. i.o ("" f Grant Aids Criminal j J 1 i it E,S.- - it Project - The Nan.;:) CHICAGO (ACCN) al Institute of Law Enforcement i.n-- ' to speed , J!1 i Criminal Justice has grji.cd $121,000 ' i . i1 LEAA Law . i tv-- . : : deveU.pfiv.-- Rules of Cd.: Uniform Procedure for state ct.uris National Conference ot t " i. missioners on Uniform L'L u La , which received the grant, have the new rules ready for " m sideration by state logislaiu; . ) r'.-v..- s The first of 108 units are completed or close to ccmp.ciion at Victoria House Square, Northwest 3rd Last and 7th South. A pool, tennis court, and club j 1973. house will be part of the complex. Victoria House I NCCUSL is an organi?!i:u it Apartments are joint ventures of contractor Boyd Brown and Realtor Jerry Mooney. about 250 of the nations lead-nprofessors, judges and praciir.:: "lawyers which drafts and or;;.-enactment of legislation designed simplify the legal problems if QUOTES increasingly complex soviMy. Commissioners are appouded their state governors. In its application for t: r t . i i i t , SALT LAKE CITY OTC Ihursdny, a.m., Aug. 12, 1S71 Bid Asktd Pacific Eng. Jury Charges Fraud in Vote Machine Sales WASHINGTON (ACCN) - Enforcement A federal grand jury today indicted one of the nation's two major voting machine companies and nine individuals, including the president of a Florida bank, on charges of bribery, mail fraud and conspiracy in connection with the sale of voting machines in Florida and Texas. Attorney General John N. Mitchell said the two indictments were returned in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. One indictment contained five counts of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. The other indictment contained two counts of bribery and one count of conspiracy to commit bribery. According to the indictments, which named the Shoup Voting of Machine Corporation Philadelphia, the basic scheme - The SAN FRANCISCO (ACCN) California Supreme Court agreed to hear three cases involving nine unmarried minors who want to register to vote at addresses claimed to be their actual permanent residences and not at their parents home addresses. In each instance the registrar of voters refused the registration and relied instead on an opinion issued by the Attorney General advising that "for voting purposes the residence of an unmarried person . . will normally be his parents home. Counties where voter registration as attempted include Alameda, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Santa Barbara. involved the bribery of local persons to insure the purchase of the voting machines by Hillsborough County, which includes the city of Tampa. The county was later defrauded by the defendants in order to buy the machines back as scrap at a low price. An official in Harris County, Texas, was then bribed, the indictment said, and the machines were purchased from Shoup as being in working condition. Houston is in Harris County. One indictment said officials of the Shoup Corporation conspired to sell 200 machines to Hillsborough County for $530,700 through bribery of local persons. Later, the indictment said, the company defrauded Hillsborough County by buying back 180 of the machines for scrap. The company paid $5,400 for the machines when the true value was in excess of $150,000 and the machines were in working order, the indictment said. The second indictment said Shoup officials arranged for Harris County to purchase 100 of the machines for $150,000 by bribing a countv officer. s ' i Assistance Ad i a sv NCCUSL ministration grant, number of U.S. Supreme lower court decisions, along wr.'. .. flood of research in the a tea a criminal law, have obsolocd iv Uniform Rules of Crum mu Procedure it approved in I1??? The federal funds will be n retain a project director and con sultants to work with the NCCUSL Special Committee on Uniform Rules of Criminal Procedure Members of that committee aie. chairman Maynard E. Pirsir. a J.:.!1 i r w s I - .3- 'i j : ' r . ' i . 'il .1 h. id professor al the University Law School; Judge William C. Callow, Waukesha. V, :. . James F. Coakley, Oakland, former district attorney of Alameda County, r Calif.; Richard Cosway, a ; at University of Washing! ni and Judge Alfred C. Hrv ov Boise. The NCCUSL drafting commit e will select an advisory committee : provide additional expertise for the Minnesota 'axicah . Tj.r i Law-School- project. That committee will of of Cnc-- Rights I.I. : .mi. organizations as the American Association sections Law and Individual ..., m IL.-vl and Responsibilities; the Naim::;;: Association of Attorneys (kmi-rd- ; and the U.S. Department of Just..NCCUSL recently received from ire another federal grant U.S. Department of Transports kii to develop slate ir.i.'nr vehicle insurance legislation. Major projects of NCClbL m recent years have inch'd ci development of the Uniform Pivh .ie Code; Uniform Marriage a .l Divorce Act; Uniform O'.v.imer Credit Code; and the Undi-ri:- ' - no-fault- " Anatomical Gift Act. Scheduled for consideration al the 1971 annua) meeting of the National Cnnfmr.re in Vail, Colo., Aug. are drafts of legislation dealing wiih alor'i landlord-tenan- t problems, a..; alcoholism. 21-2- I J i ( i V., 'Si; i i in i ri o , 1 s - I, L-- ; . Si::i Riel..:--1! : . -- re :: - h 1 ' v I i 8. : i.i'. ' . ' - i I i i i |