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Show University of Utah pelt lake City, BM12 Utah i VOLUME 15 NUMBER 180 AKE CITY, UTAH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1971 Nader Asks Tax Package Rejection - WASHINGTON (UPI) Ralph Nader asked Congress to reject the tax reduction package in President Nixons new economic program and instead pass a $4 billion temporary tax refund for all cunsumers. The consumer advocate told the House Ways & Means Committee for business would lead to that Nixons proposals for tax relief ex- and pensive permanently cuts. tax inequitable Nader said Nixons proposed 10 per cent tax credit for industrial equipment this year and a permanent S per cent credit for industrial equipment this year and a permanent 5 per cent credit next year, coupled with his other tax proposals, amounted to $9.3 billion to make 1971 the year of the greatest business tax cut in our history. Instead, Nader said, there should be a $50 individual tax refund. He said the $50 refund would amount to a $4 billion temporary refund for all consumers, while the $2.2 billion personal tax cut advocated by the I $960 Million Question Enforcement President would benefit higher income taxpayers more than average and low income persons. The personal tax cuts are a poor mask for the administrations attempt to permanently cut corporate taxes by 20 per cent, Nader said. Spokesmen for industrial groups told the House Committee the investment tax credit should be increased. They said new plants and equipment the credit would make possible would help lift the sluggish economy. Nader said his proposed $50 consumer tax refund should let consumers spend money where they wanted. He said Nixon's proposed repeal of the 7 per cent auto tax to stimulate auto sales was a poor choice because it would merely add to air pollution and traffic congestion. I Prison Uprising Blamed on Penal Dehumanization WASHINGTON (UPI) Three Black members of the U.S. House blamed the uprising at Attica Correctional Facility on the dehumanizing conditions they said are present in prisons throughout the country. Reps. Shirley Chisholm and and Charles B. Rangel, both Ronald V. Dellums, said in a joint statement that the need for has been prison reform dramatically brought to our atD-N.- tention. When a system of penal stitutions that is in- created dehumanizes people to such an extent that life has no value within the prison, they said. Then surely this should shake the conscience of this nation to move towards the eradication of treatment that tinues to perpetuate con- man's inhumanity to man. The congressmen said the American society must ask itself why a system of penal justice has created men who become killers of their fellow men and place so little value on human life? The answer is because the entire emphasis of our correctional system has not been one of rehabilitation. It has been consistently one where the prisoner is regarded as an individual whose basic personal freedoms as a human been have being minimized. By Daniel K. Cunningham Daily Record Columnist This scenic KANE COUNTY desert land seems an unlikely battleground. But it is a battleground of sorts as conservationist and electric power interests have clashed repeatedly over a generating unit that would be the largest in the world. For now, there is a lull in the battle because of a federally-ordere- d years morta-M- r. Cunningham torium on authorization of the Kaiparowits project. The peace is deceptive, for both sides are preparing for future attacks and counter attacks. In any event, the forthcoming Kaiparowits decision is of vital importance to Utah. If built, the thermal generating unit would cost $960 million. This amount is about half the estimated total retail sales in all of Utah last year. Issuing a staff study it terms an "attempt at objectivity, the State Republican Party has conditionally endorsed the project. Republicans stress that all proposed and technically possible pollution controls should be built into the plant and periodic reviews of new technological pollution controls should be implemented into the plant as a continuing policy. If all pollution controls are implemented and updated when feasible, Utah Republicans say: "Utahns should be able to enjoy the best of both worlds. That is we could have economic benefits without destroying the general character and beauty of the Kaiparowits Plateau. In the study, its noted that the fossil-fuplant is ideally located, from the standpoint of investment. Kaioarowits meets the criteria of fuel, water and proximity to a transmission corridor. The plant would be built on Nipple Bench, some seven miles northeast of Glen Canvon City. This site is immediately adjacent to an estimated one billion tons of relatively Kaiparowits Facts Utah GOP studies have determined the Kaiparowits cost-benef- proj- ect would represent a $960 million investment. rIhe construction payroll would total $95 million over 15 years, while the annual operating payroll would total $23 million and provide about 2,500 jobs. Other findings: Property Taxes. Annual revenue from property taxes on the plant, mine and transmission lines would be approximately SI 2.3 million, of which only $1.3 million would go directly to the state. Kane Countys assessed valuation would increase 40 times its present value. Mine and plant workers would probably live in Arizona rather than Utah. Coal Production: This would triple in Utah. During the construction period, this would approximate $117,000 annually and $444,733 in the operational phase. This money would be taxed in Utah, where it was earned, rather than in Arizona, which would not tax these wage earners twice. Vehicle Registration Tax. Based on experience at the Glen Canyon Dam project and the Kaibab lumber mill in Fredonia, Ariz., they would be required to register vehicles in both Utah : and Arizona, giving Utah a net gain of almost $50,000 annually. Mining Leases. The Kaiparowits would return to Utah $1 million a year, 25 percent more than state revenues from all present leases. State Income Tax. Utah Supreme Court Decision Capsule claim. State Republicans believe there is a realistic middleground that allows development of Kaiparowits if the environmental controls stipulated if all contracts are stringently enforced. To accomplish this, Utah Re- Natural Drainage Changed HOMEOWNER RECOVERS FOR FLOOD DAMAGE el high-qualit- y, low-sulnh- ur coni that would be mined underground. The Kaioarowits easily provides the 35 coal supplv needed for to an installation this size. Water would be obtained from nearby Lake Powell. Water extracted from the lake would eventuallv be evaporated, none would return to the lake as a pollutant. As for proximity, the site is rela- 50-ve- ar tively close to existing power transmission lines. it "From the standdeem we desireable it to point, establish the plant (on the Kaiparowits Plateau)," the staff study states. However Republicans concede the plant would be established in an area noted for its clear skies and aesthetic beauty." This raises the question whether economic benefits are worth lost beauty. Agreements with the developers indicate pollution abatement equipment would trap 99.5 percent of the particulate stack emission, 80 percent of the sulphur dioxide emissions and keep Nitrogen oxide emissions well below established minimum, standards. Pollution from the plant, then, would be of two types escaped emissions and aesthetic pollution created by the actual physical presence of the plant, mine and transmission lines. The Republican staff study shows that escaping stack emissions will eventually create some photochemical smog that will decrease visibility in the area to a degree. Preliminary studies indicate there will be no damage to plant or animal life in the surrounding area due to this air pollution, however. Noting that the state would financially benefit from the development, the staff study claims that the environment would not be as badly desecrated as conservationists 1 HAZEL O. SANFORD, Plaintiff V. UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, Defendant Trial Court: publicans have suggested that the Secretary of Interior appoint a Citizens committee comprised of conservationists, d e v e opmentalists, scientists and concerned citizens to review contracts and consider all new technological developments to environmental forestall damage. This committee would operate as an adjunct to the Four Corners Regional Commission. & Appellant Awarded plaintiff damages for personal property destroyed, home and yard repair and for decreased market value of property. Rule of "reasonable use" applied. Supreme Court: Affirmed. Justice A. H. Ellelt dissenting: . . . trial court erred in instructing jury. Justice J. Alan Crockett dissenting: . . . "burden can be shifted to another only if he has been guilty of a wrongful invasion of the plaintiff's rights which caused the damage." Plaintiff counsel: Frederick S. Prince Jr., 206 El Paso Gas Bldg. Defendant counsel: Worsley, Snow & Christensen Continental Bank Building 84101 Raymond M. Berry See decision In detail page 4 . - A $2.5 (UPI) billion bonanza at the bottom of the Red Sea awaits anybody who can think up some way of exploiting it, an ocean engineer says. The potential bonanza consists of a layer of mud, a sort of slurry of metal ores, under more than a mile of sea water. 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