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Show ijJjtvJ O.jut li Fariuli Univ?rity t'f , Uth lit'h triU calt LUkeCity VOLUME 17, NUMBER 36 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Gulf Utah Supreme Court Decisions & Credit Women Plan Meeting This Saturday Western Offer For A&P Stocker Held - Capsule - Up By Court Order NO CAUSE IN PERSONAL INJURY CLAIM - NEW YORK (UPI) U.S. District Court Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy has enjoined Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. from proceeding with its tender offer for a 19 per cent interest in Great Atlantic & Pacific HOWARD WILLIAMS, Plaintiff & Apellant v. MARK H. GREENE, M.D., Defendant & Respondent Plaintiff previously settled a claim with oil company for injuries sustained while an employee for $70,000 and signed a full release. Appellant now says that the release was not Intended to in dude full compensation for the injuries and that he did not inthe tend to include a dalm against the defendant doctor facts of the case mirror some kind of an abortive double payment that the law cannot tolerate. Plaintiff counsel: Spafford & Young, 2188 Highland Drive Defendant counsel: John H. Snow, 7th Floor, Continental Bank .... .... FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1973 Tea Co. Duffy said theTJJ & W tender offer of $20 a share foft'A & P stock could have a serious and destructive effect on the supermarket chain. He issued a formal preliminary injunction, February 13, pending trial of the case on its merits. NACM. Dr. Joseph S. Peery, director of graduate studies at University of Utah, will talk on the economy and President Richard M. Nixon at 11 Bldg. See details page 3 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH The Intermountain Assn, of Credit Women will meet Saturday, Feb. 24, at Prudential Plaza for a daylong workshop. Lenore Koski, association president, will welcome participants in the third annual workshop at TO a.mM immediately followed by Vi Irwin, association vice president and workshop chairman. The first guest speaker will be W. J. Parsons, director central service department, National Assn. Credit Management. Hie topic will be the services offered by the Bail Cornfeld . a.m. A widely traveled professor of economics and finance at the University, Dr. Peery has estab-lisre- d MBA programs at in this counbases Air Force many and in and Germany. England try The luncheon speaker will be LONDON (UPI) Bernard Corn Utah Supreme Court Justice A. H. talk on "How a Held, the American financier who Ellett, who will " Works Judge once ran a multimillion-dolla- r Ms. Irwin said the workshop will mutual fond, appeared in court, conclude about 3 p.m. following "n February 9, on a diarge of a - presentation 0f awards and a rape. He was released on $2,300 bail. Ms. Irwin, who is credit manager Cornfeld said nothing as he was for Pole-Lin-e Distributing Co., Inc., charged with attempting to rape said the other members of her Miss Valli Davis, 19, an American, workshop committee include: at his London home, the night Jenalyn Fox, Foulger Equipment; before. Cornfeld also was charged Carol Jordan, Westinghouse Elec-wit- h Supply; Lois Rogers, Dixwi indecent assault and causing Paper Co.; Yank Dangerfield, ITT bodilv harm The bearded Cornfeld, 45. founded "termountan. Assn, of Investors Overseas Services (IOS) g-- fc and built it into an international company worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He left it in 1970, when the company began to lose its luster. At that time Cornfeld had a fleet of personal jets, a villa in Geneva, a chateau in France, a home in Londons Mayfair and a permanent New York hotel suite. He has lived lately in Hollywood, in a mansion About L7 million- - dlaabled peobought for actor George Hamilton, but he spends much time in London. ple can get Medicare health Insurance under a change In the social . nominated by the local bar. security law the first people unLangford thinks that an increase der 65 to become eligible for this in the fee scale, coupled with the protection since the Medicare propanel-typ- e program, will help cure gram began In 1966. many of Californias problems in the Starting In July 1978, disabled defense of indigent criminal, who have received social people defendants. or railroad retirement dissecurity Prospective panel attorneys could ability payments for 24 consecube told, 'Now look, this is tive month or more .can get help something you can doas part of your from Medicare In paying for their practice through die years, hospital and doctor bills and other You wont get rich covered services, according to Roy Langford said. on it but at least theyll be fair with I Swift, social security district manager in San Antonio. you about the kind of money you get. If we could talk that way we Those eligible will Include diswould be able to get a lot of very fine abled workers, disabled widows lawyers, and a lot of very fine and disabled On LEGAL Attempted Rape Charge BRIEFS... SUNDAY CLOSING LAW off-camp- us draw-tempt- WHAT HAPPENED? McGowan owned a small discount store in Baltimore which did a thriving business on weekends. One Sunday afternoon two policemen entered the store and placed him under arrest "You violated the States Sunday dosing law by selling toys and car care products, they informed McGowan. "State law permits only food, gasoline, and medicine to be sold on Sunday. McGowan found himself in court the next day. muttered "Guilty as charged, the judge, as he fined him $500. McGowan fearing for his business, hired a lawyer and vowed to fight his conviction all the way to the Supreme Court "This Sunday Blue law is religiously inspired, argued the lawyer on appeal. "It is therefore unconstitutional for failing to observe separation of church and state. WHO WON? McGowans conviction stands, ruled the U.S. Supreme Court. Sunday originally had a religious buds, said the justice. However, the first day of the week has come to have special significance day of rest in this country. People of all religions and people with no religion regard Sunday as a time plain-cloth- es for family activity, for visiting friends and relatives, for late sleeping, and for dining out "Therefore, the forty states which have Sunday Gosing Laws arent violating the constitutional requirement of separation of church and state. (Based on a UJS. Supreme Court decision as retold by John Ritter and Paul Levine of the University of Miami School of Law. WALL STREET CHATTER New York (UPI) The recent dollar devaluation must be seen as bullish because uncertainty and crises are almost invariably abhorred by the stock market, E. F. Hutton says. More concretely, the news came at a time when the market was no longer technically oversold, and had "moved into that large grey area between being oversold and overbought, the firm added. At that point, technical fac- tors needed an assist flf "bringing about a rally, and this fundamental news may have been just what the market needed. da ABA Official Skeptical of Indicator Digest stresses the "importance of watching the broad market as well as the Dow Jones A previous look at Industrials. various composite averages revealed a technically troubled market even when the Dow blue chips soared past 1,000. With the way still blocked for any substantial recovery, "Investors should restrict new commitments to natural resource stocks and fundamentally sound, low P-- E defensive issues, in the opinion of the letter. - Shield Law well-situat- ed - SEATTLE (UPI) Proposed shield laws for newsmen could erode constitutional freedoms, according to the president-elec- t of the American Bar Association. The press might be better off without a shield law, Chesterfield Smtih told the Seattle-KinCounty Bar Association meeting jointly with the Seattle Rotary. Legislation could not go further than the Constitution provides, and we have to make sure that any new law is a broadening rather than a channeling of the right to dig into stories in the public interest and. protect sources, he said. Smith said he was nervous about proposed shield laws, g ' "In its own persuasive way, the stock market has been doing whatever has been necessary to make the majority look wrong since January 11, Reynolds Investment Commentary says. Bat at least for Investors In agriculturally-oriente- d issues, a reliable indicator may be found in the book review section of your newspaper. The immense popularity of books related to personal nutrition seems related to the upward flight of most food prices. This new 'fat lighters indicator1 and all other evidence at hand point to agribusiness being in an uptrend at least through 1974, the Investment Letter says. VI Irwia Dr. Pw? ed . jc representation. By Charlotte Moulton WASHINGTON (UPI)-T- he Supreme Court rejected Tuesday an appeal by Sirhan Sirhan, convicted assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, that he was denied a fair trial and that new evidence would show his innocence. Without comment and by a 0 vote, the court refused to grant a hearing to Sirhan who was found guilty of fatally shooting Kennedy in a Lbs Angeles hotel kitchen during 7-- the 1968 presidential primary campaign. Sirhan was initially sentenced to death but this was commuted to life imprisonment when the California Supreme Court abolished capital punishment. dependent widowers between 50 and 05, disabled mothers 50 or older who get social security benefits because they have young or disabled children In their care, and people who get benefits because they were dlaabled before age 22. Facts You Should Know About Social Security Widows and dependent widow- ers whose entitlement to social security started at or after age 60, will range from 71.5 of the wage earner's retirement rate (factual or computed at 60, to 100 at age 6& with graduated amounts In between, effective with check duPeb. 3, 1973. Mr. Parsons |