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Show Farlau niJU,( University f ut,,h Falt LnkeClty, utih Uy? ttrrnr P VOLUME 17, NUMBER 23 Senator Would w Tax Cigarettes On Tar Content WASHINGTON (UPI)-Follo- wingi the governments latest warning to cigarette smokers about possible health hazards, Sen. Frank E. Moss, said he would introduce a bill today to tax cigarettes according to tar content. Surely at this time, when we talk of imposing differential taxes on leaded and unleaded gasolines, we should be prepared to move in a similar manner on this personal health program, Moss said in a statement, January 18. The heavy smoker of high tar and nicotin cigarettes is the (me who demands hospitalization so a higher premium should be established for him in financing municipal services, the chairman of the Senate consumer subcommittee said. In a repent to Congress, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) told cigarette smokers that the increasingly popular little cigars may be as dangerous to their health as cigarettes. It is reasonable to conclude that smoking little cigars may result in health effects similar to those associated with smoking cigarettes if little cigars are smoked in amounts and with patterns of inhalation similar to those used by cigarette smokers," said Dr. Marlin K. Duval who wrote the report before resigning recently as assistant secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Moss had also announced, January 4, that he will introduce legislation to .include little cigars, including those marketed under the Winchester brand, in the year-el-d congressional ban on television and radio commercials for cigarettes. Winchesters are cigarettes in brown paper, Moss said. h, -- . Several States UPI)-T- he WASHINGTON National Endowment for the Humanities has announced operational grants to three states Mississippi, and Montana as part 6T.; jts new state-base- d acprogram of public ' tivities in the humanities. Mississippi received a grant of $157,000, Montana $155,000, and Washington Washington $150,000. ifn addition, each of these states received a offer of $50,000 which means the Endowment offers to match dollar for dollar up to $25,000 gifts or pledges of gifts which it receives on behalf of a particular gifts-and-matchi- ng state. The is designed to develop effective ways for state and local organizations and institutions to mount projects which relate the knowledge, perspectives, and methods of analysis of the professional humanist to general adult audiences in thoughtful public discussion of public issues pertinent to a particular state. The endowment also announced ttie awarding of 4 planning grants: $10,000 each to Idaho, New Hamp-- . shire and Vermont, with an additional $5,000 to each state as a future posisibility, and a total of $15,000 to North Dakota, as part of itr state-base- d state-base- d program program. " AH t SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1973 Halts Court Michigan Sale of Divorce Kits SAN FRANCISCO - A red flag for said the State Bar, to proliferation of divorces unlicensed, the has just been hoisted in Michigan divorce consultants and dissolution Califorfor with clear warnings advisers in both states. nians, says the State Bar. The Bar, in a statement released yesterday, said the Michigan Bar has brought a successful suit against a group of offering divorce plans. A spokesman for the California Bar, however, declined to say whether the Bar plans similar action against sellers of such kits in (UPI)-For- mer WASHINGTON California. newsman for court The circuit Wayne Stanley Scott will become County has permanently enjoined special assistant to President Nixon Harold Graham, Michael Gordon and the highest ranking black on the Cramer from White House Staff, officials report. and Virginia in the unauthorized Scott, 39, will succeed Robert J. engaging furBrown who has served as a link practice of law, and from between to furnish the White House and the or kits, offering nishing forms or documents with assistance black community for four years. Brown plans to leave after the in their completion or execution... It held them guilty of contempt of inauguration and will be returning to court, but withheld punishment if his public relations business in high the defendants complied in good point, N.C. For the past 18 months, Scott has faith with die courts orders. The California Bar, in its been serving as an assistant to statement yesterday, said that Herbert G. Klein, White House Michigan, like California, recently director of communications. Scott is a native of Atlanta and eased its marriage dissolution laws. The paper work became simpler, previously worked for United Press but the problems multiplied. It led, International in New York. elf so-call- ed non-lawye- non-professio- White House News Staff Shakeup Seen rs Utah Supreme Court Decisions - Capsule - QUESTION OF AUTHORITY SETTLED AS HIGHER EDUCATIONAL ACT OF CONSIDERED CONSTITUTIONAL Decision Reverses Lower Court STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, Plaintiff & 3-- Get Humanities Fund Grants rr 2 Respondent V. STATE BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION, Defendant and Appellant, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH and UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND APPLIED SCIENCE, Plaintiffs in Intervention and Respondents. Trial Court: arid Higher Education Act of 1969 unconstitutional void. In view of the long interpretation of Supreme Court: Reversed. 2 Article X, Sections and 8, by the Legislature, with the acquiescence of the people, as well as the State Board of Education, and the administrators of the institutions of higher learning, we are of the opinion that Chapter 48, Title 53, UCA 1953 is valid. Justice Tuckett wrote the majority opinion. Justice Ellctt: 4The authority of various Boards of Regents was given by statute that authority can be statute be and taken away from them given to another board, without conflicting with any constitutional provision. The court in performing its separate funcJustice Crockett: tion, and exercising proper judicial restraint therein, should not reach out to declare an act of the legislative branch unconstitutional. Justice Henroid dissenting: I believe the main opinion constitutes judicial legislation and represents the employment of an authority hot reserved to the court. I think the . . . .. question as to the State Board of Educations authority should be left Chief Justice Callister conto the decision of the people. . . curs in dissent Plaintiff counsel: Attorney Generals office, Verl R. Topham, G. Blaine Davis, Bruce M. Hale University of Utah counsel: Clyde, Mecham & Pratt, Edward W. Clyde, 351 S. State, Henry S. Nygaard Utah State University: Mark Madsen, Asst. Attorney General Appellant counsel: VanCott Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy, Dennis McCarthy, 141 E. 1st South Worsley, Snow & Christensen John H. Snow, 7th Floor, Continental Bank Bldg. . See details page .... .... These consultants sell divorce kits affect the lives of others, not to and services for prices up to $100 mention the adverse effect it can plus court costs of $30 to $50 which have upon the administration of is normally less than most lawyers law... charge for a dissolution case, the For example, defendants plan Bar said. places emphasis only on the terThe Michigan court considered the mination of the martial relationship claims that their conduct between two persons without regard involves sale of the legal to other considerations.. .(they) simply forms and clerical services, but, profess to give neither consideration according to the California Bar, the nor advice on marriage counseling, kit-selle- rs court declared the courts and legislature are constitutionally child custody i visitation, child . empowered to regulate the practice of law. Those regulations prohibit any unlicensed person, other than while representing himself, to engage in the practice of law. The case handed down a few days ago is the State Bar of Michigan v. Harold Graham, Michael Gordon, Virginia Cramer, dba Gordon-Graha& Cramer Associates, in the Circuit Court of Wayne County, m Michigan. Civil Action Dec. 18, 1972. The court said, The fact that defendants do not actually represent clients at judicial hearings does not preclude the characterization of their services as the practice of law. It quoted an earlier case to the effect that law practice includes preparing pleadings and other papers, and legal instruments of all kinds whereby a legal right is secured (and) the rendering jof opinions as to the validity...of the title to real estate or personal property, the giving of legal advice in any action... The Michigan court added, Lay persons, like defendants, who believe that the matter of obtaining a divorce in this state is simply a matter of completing and filing forms are greatly mistaken. Unfortunately, the consequences of their misdirection can and does Doctors Agree Role Is Key In Health Cost Several (UPI) of representatives physicians organizations have acknowledged that the doctor is the key factor in the cost of health care. WASHINGTON The Houses health benefits subcommittee hejd a one-da- y hearing, January 16, on the role of the physician in reforming the nations health delivery system. Doctors control the medical schools, nurses, hospitals and certainly their relationships with the patient, Rep. Jerome R. Waldie, the chairman, said in an opening statement. Indeed, doctors have direct control over about 80 per cent of the health dollar. Testifying were Drs. Joseph L. Dorsey, Harvard Community Health Plan; Philip Hampton, Tampa, Fla., chairman of legislation for the American Medical Association (AMA); Robert Jaggard, Oelwein, Iowa, president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons ; and Bernard Challenor, chairman of the Physicians Forum and assistant dean at Columbia University, New York support, alimony, separate maintenance, real and personal property ! rights, pension funds and benefits, social security benefits or insurance coverage and benefits. Yet, these are subjects that cannot be generally ignored by persons contemplating divorce proceedings if there is to be a proper termination of their marriage. The court reviewed its files on people who had handled their own divorces and found numerous irregularities. Among these were cases where one spouse tried to take a default against the other before the date on which the other was served with papers. In another case, a false affidavit was filed In another, the names of the people getting the dissolution werent even mentioned in the complaint. And still another was neither sworn to, nor dated. John S. Malone, secretary to the State Bar of California, commenting on these errors, said that un- discovered errors may be more harmful. People think theyrf! divorced; they may re-marr- y, acquire property, or take other important steps. Then they find out that because of the errors, they were never really divorced at all. Unscrambling some of these messes can be a lot more costly than having gotten competent legal counselling in the first place, he said. Some of the imply they're on some sort of to help people escape the clutches of kit-selle- rs holy-crusa- high-price- de avaricious' lawyers. d, We're a little inclined to doubt their good faith when we find these sellers marketing five dollar books for fifty dollars, and giving out questionable and often harmful advice for even higher prices, Malone said. Its a. bit like a witch doctor charging you fifty dollars for a headache charm, when what you really need is a brain surgeon. The average California lawyer does charge between for the average $300 and $400 marriage dissolution. But that doesnt mean a dissolution cant cost less than the average. Most practicing lawyers will tailin' their charges to fit the individuals needs, Malone added. 'A number of legal assistance programs throughout the state will refer people to lawyers who have agreed to accept reduced fee cases. And, he added, the State Bar is now engaged in a major program to set up prepaid legal services similar to Blue Cross and Blue Shield for average-incom- e people. He said he could not comment at this time as to whether or not the State Bar of California was contemplating legal action similar to that just concluded in Michigan. |