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Show Periulb Ord:r D3urtflv:nfc University of Utah Fait LQkeClty, Utnh 8112 WtTCPN. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOLUME 16, NUMBER 164 fflh Disallowed Dower Exclusion FRIDAY, AUGUST 25. 1972 Living Costs Up Again; Utah Supreme Court Decisions m i; m INHERITANCE TAX ASSESSMENT UPHELD Gets Sale of Real Property ESTATE OF RAYMOND H. WILLSON, Deceased EDNA R. WILLSON, Executrix, Plaintiff & Appellant aba Nod STATE TAX COMMISSION, Defendant - WASHINGTON (UPI) The cost of living rose 0.4 per cent in July, its biggest jump in five months, the Labor Department said Tuesday. Sharply higher food prices, especially for meat, were blamed. The departments Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said almost of the increase in its Consumer Price Index (CPI) was caused by a 1.2 per cent jump in the cost of food in grocery stores. wholesale food prices. Meats, poultry and fish showed a 2.8 per cent increase. The overall increase in July was exceeded this year only by a 0.5 per cent jump in February. It left the torneys. index 3 per cent above a year ago. House Hie ABA's policy-makin- g But the BLS said average weekly of Delegates adopted on a voice vote earnings of workers increased more a resolution recognizing "the need to than enough in July to keep up with encourage more women to enter and the rising cost of living, with the realize their full peotential within purchasing power of their gross the legal profession. The higher grocery prices weekly earnings increasing 0.4 per reflected recent sharp upturns in cent. It urged law shcools to make Actual average gross weekly substantial efforts to recruit and earnings increased $1.09 in July to admit women, to hire and promote increase in $136.47, due to a women professors, and to make a hourly earnings and longer work week. After adjustment for changes in consumer prices, real The resolution called on law frims weekly earnings were 0.4 per cent and other employers to regain from above June and 3.5 per cent above a discriminating against women ,atr ' CHICAGO (UPI) year earlier. The National torneys with regard to hiring, While food prices were shooting Association of Real Estate Boards assignment and promotion prices for commodities Supporters of the resolution said (NAREB) is seeking permission to upward, other than food remained unchanged women make up only 2.8 percent of i establish an agency to regulate real in July, the first time in six months the legal profession, 7.8 percent of estate securities offerings, it said there had not been an increase. die law school students and,4. Nonfood commodity prices, !Er spokesman said the j percent of the law faculty. in July. decline however, normally will be filed with the Doris L Sassower, past president request Prices for services went up 0.3 per of the New York Women's Bar Securities and Exchange Comcent, above average for the past Association, urged approval of the mission (SEC). year. Such an agency is needed because resolution on grounds voluntary In nonfood items, prices rose for action by the profession would head of the growing volume of real estate gasoline, houses, used cars, off federal compliance orders issued offerings in recent years, according alcoholic beverages and some house to H. Jackson Pontius, NAREB in sex discrimination suits. furnishings such as carpets, table executive vice president. lamps and dinnerware. But while used car prices were SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES increasing 0.6 per cent, new car prices declined 0.3 per cent although this was a smaller decline than usual Syllabus in July. An administration spokesman, Assistant Treasury Secretary Edgar UNITED STATES v. BREWSTER R. Fiedler, called the July report "a mixed bag of information on recent APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-T- he American Bar Association, meeting here, has urged law shcools and legal firms to end discrimination against women students and at- v. July Boost 0.4 Percent two-thir- Supreme Court: 'The fact that the seller retains bare legal title, does not have possession, use or control of the property, the transfer of legal title and record title being dependent only upon the acts and conduct of the buyer, it would appear that the interest of the seller was properly taxed. . . In re Madsens Estate this court held widow had no dower right in property where she had executed, with her husband, a contract to sell the property. Third District Judge Ernest F. Baldwin Jr. wrote the opinion. Plaintiff counsel: Glen E. Fuller, Orval C. Harrison, 15 E. 4 S. Defendant counsel: Vernon B. Romney, G. Blaine Davis See details page 3 ... ds On Real Estate Stocks Sought LEAA WASHINGTON Grant Will Help (ACCN) - ABA Court The LEAA grant is supporting the ABA'S efforts to promote nationwide implementation of its Standards for Ad- ministrator Jerris Leonard has reported that the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) the Administration of Criminal recently awarded $103,467 to the Justice. The Standards embrace all American Bar Association for a phases of the criminal process-- , project to modernize court from investigation through judicial proceedings, sentencing, appeal, procedures. and parole. "The Standards are not intended to be a model code, Mr. Leonard said. Rather, they represent the best in current procedures and practices and can serve as a useful guide which can be adapted to meet die particular needs and problems bn each court. The Standards are the result of intensive study and debate by members of the American Bar have been endorsed BOSTON (UPI) More than 40 per Association, and g members of the cent of students in the ninth to 12th by Chief Justice including grades in Massachusetts have used judiciary, E. Warren Burger. illegal drugs in the past year, acNational implementation of die cording to a survey conducted by the Standards was also recommended State Department of Mental Health. Conference on National the First by Marijuana, the most prevalent the in held May 1971, drug, was used by 38.9 per cent of the whichJudiciary than more brought together students surveyed. "Ups, "downs adand LSD also were widely used, the 500 judges, lawyers, court ministrators, including the majority report said. of State Chief Justices. Amphetamines (stimulents) were used by 13 per cent of the students surveyed. Hie same percentage used barbituates and 12 per cent of the students had used LSD. Heroin use was reported by 1.8 per cent of the students. of The Division Drug Rehabilitation in the Dep&rtment of Mental Health said its data indicated there are between 6,000 and 8,000 heroin users of all ages in Massachusetts. About 3,000 persons were described as "hard core BOSTON (UPD Nobel Prize-Winnin-g addicts. Economist Paul Samuelson had The department said it says federal taxes will rise again treated more than 6,500 next year, regardless of who is In last year. elected president. persons addition, it said more than 92,000 But, overall, he predicted, "1973 visits were made to will be a good year economically. centers and another 160,000 drop-i- n "There will be a tax increase 58 to made were calls whoever wins in November. It can't telephone d hotlines. be avoided, said Samuelson, head ComDr. Milton Greenblatt, of the Economics Department at of missioner for Drug Rehabilitation, Massachusetts Institute admitted the with 541 of interview in an "a people said, study Technology, residential Sunday Herald Traveler and Sunday to five self-hel- p programs showed that 56 had Advertiser. "There will always be trouble with graduated and 160 more were still in treatment after a year for retention the economy. Things usually get rate of 40 per cent." rough a year or two after a recovery Their report said Bostons period but there is reason to believe methadone maintenance program that 1973 will be a good year and that had a similar retention rate of 40 per whoever is elected will keep going cent right to the end of 1973. Student Drug Users Set at 40 Percent - rV DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT high-rankin- Tax Boost Said Sure By Economist drug-depende- No. 70-4- 5. Argued October 18, 1971 Reargued March 20, 192 Decided June 29, 1972 Appellee, a former United States Senator, was charged with the solicitation and acceptance of bribes in violation of IS U. S. C. 201 (c)(1) and 201 (g). The District Court, on appellees pretrial motion, dismissed the indictment on the ground that the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution shielded him "from any prosecution for alleged bribery to perform a legislative act. The United States filed a direct appeal to this Court under 18 U. S. C. 8 3731, which appellee contends this Court does not have jurisdiction to entertain because the District Court's action was not "a decision or judgment setting aside, or dismissing the indictment but was instead a summary judgment on the merits based on the facts of the case. Held: Court lias jurisdiction under IS U. S. C. 3731 to hear the appeal, since the District Courts order was based upon its determination of the constitutional invalidity of 18 U. S. C. 201 (c) (1) and 201 (g) on the facts as alleged in the indictment. Pp. 1. This price developments. Fiedler said at a news conference that the 0.4 per cent increase was higher than recent months and too high to meet President Nixon's goal of reducing inflation to 3 per cent or less by the end of this year. But taking a longer view, he said, consumer prices have increased at an annual rate of only 3.3 per cent during the past three months and at a 2.4 per cent rale over the past five months, compared with a 6.1 per cent increase in 1969, 5.5 per cent in 1970 and a 3.8 per cent annual rate for the first eight months of 1971. "Thus, oyer the past three years the inflation rate for prices paid by the consumer has been cut in half, Fiedler said., "Looking ahead over the remainder of 1972, we expect to see further signs of a cutback in the pace of inflation, he said. 3--6. 2. The prosecution of appellee is not prohibited by the Speech or Debate Clause. Although that provision protects members of Congress from inquiry into legislative acts or the motivation for .performance of such acts, United States v. Johnson, 383 U. S. 169, 185, it does not protect all conduct relating to the legislative process. Since in this case prosecution of the bribery charges does not necessitate inquiry into legislative acts or motivation, the District Court erred in holding that the Speech or Debate Clause required dismissal of the indictment. Pp. 7. nt state-support- ed state-supporte- 6-2- Reversed and remanded. i Burger, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Stewart, Marshall, Blacxmun, Powell, and Rehnquist, JJ., joined. Brennan, J.. filed a dissenting opinion, in which Douglas, J., joined. filed a dissenting opinion, in which Douglas and Bren- White, J., nan, JJ., joined. I HUD to Eye Recreation Land Sales HUD WASHINGTON (UPI)-T- he nationwide a has begun Department investigation to uncover shady tactics of land developers to sale of promote interstate and retirement recreational property. continue "As long as the con-me- n to mulch tiie life savings of the aged and other innocent victims...we will continue to exert every effort to turn this industry around. |