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Show WESTERN AMERICANA Sorials Order D .partment University of Utah -- City okilZ Ill mm SALT LAKtfCITY, UTAH VOLUME 17, NUMBER 250 Just too much exposure to the sun. Here's what we mean: If a 'REFRESHING'??? in Dade Florida County, lawyer contributes funds to the candidate for judicial office whom he believes is best suited to the post, that lawyer isn't playing the game right. In order to be a "good Joe" in the eyes of the local bar association, he is supposed to pay his money to a "judicial trust fund." Hie collections are divied up evenly among all candidates for the post who are - rated "qualified" in a bar association poll conducted among its members. This communized system of campaign financing is brought to light in the current issue of The American Bar Association Journal. The author of the article, former Dade County Bar Assn. President Robert A. White, calls the plan "refreshing." b it Indeed "refreshing" when a bar association urges its members to relinquish their rights, as citizens, to support the candidates of their choice? Sure, the elective system for judges is bad ... but in those states By 1 Per Cent first step in gaining a reversal of the Florida Supreme Court's "First-Amendment-- damned" -- be decision. Six misfits of the state high court upheld a 1913 statute requiring newspapers to give equal space to candidates they attack. As the Herald's brief points out : "This appeal involves the constitutionality of a novel form of governmental regulation of the press which is obstensibly designed to promote fairness in elections, but which in fact represents a severe restraint upon the exercise of journalistic discretion by putting the government in the editor's chair. "... Censorship of newspapers in fairness the guise of promoting by requiring a right of 'reply' or 'access' is, nevertheless, censorship. As such, it is the exact opposite of the freedom of speech and press guaranteed by the First Amend- Bv Bernard Brenner WASHINGTON (UPI) tinuing a long decline 2,821,000, mistake. The 'EXACT OPPOSITE' Miami Herald has filed a Jurisdictional Statement with the United States Supreme Court as the - Not Too Many (UPI) Figures compiled by the Texas Women's Political Caucus show. that women hold 6.4 per cent of the elective offices in the state. Of the 18,309 elected officials, 1,174 are women. Con- began the Agriculture Depart- ment reports. A similar one per cent decline had been reported between Jan. 1, 1972, were when farm numbers estimated at 2,870,000 and Jan. 1. 1973. when the estimate was 2,844.000. Compared with a decade ago, farm numbers were down 18 per cent. The annual report, based on a sampling survey, showed the total amount of land in farms has been declining much more slowly than farm numbers. As a result, the average farm size has been growing steadily. From an average of 332 acres per farm in 1964, average farm size rose to 383 acres in 1973 and 385 acres at the beginning of this year, ment." the report showed. It estimated there were nearly 1.087.000.000 acres of land in farms on Jan. 1, 1974 compared with 1.090.000.000 a year earlier and 1,146.000.000 a decade earlier. Despite the continuing downtrend farm units. U.S. in the number of agricultural has productivity continued to increase as farms prow fewer and bigger. For 1974. agriculture officials have predicted farmers will set new crop production records if adequate all-tim- e - An increase SALT LAKE CITY in the cost of Canadian gas which has been passed along to Mountain Fuel Supply Company by El Paso Natural Gas Company has made it necessary for Mountain Fuel to apply to the Utah Public Service Commission for an adjustment in Utah natural gas rates, Company officials announced Y PER CENT HIGHER YORK Estimates indicate holiday spending seven per cent ahead of last year a disappointing averaged only showing. Retailing economists say consumers didn't buy as many items as last year; that the increase in dollar, volume can be traced to the sharp increase in prices. As one bank economist put it: We get reports that shoppers this year looked for bargains and quality, whereas last year they splurged on "big ticket" items. This year there was more emphasis on necessities. NEW The word from Washington is that when Congress reconvenes in January it will give immediate attention to a bill raising the maximum insurance on individual savings accounts from the present $20,000 to.$50,000, and provide 100 per cent insurance on funds of state and local governments. The bill has the support of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. That makes its enactment a near certainty. identify his confidential sources . . . not withstanding a section of the says specifically that a reporter cannot be compelled to reveal such - sources. But Florida won away the title for its anti-preconduct, in 1973. The abovementioned "right of reply" decision was probably the most ss and stinging tly unconstitutional Setose CHRISTMAS SALES it was the California courts that put reporter Bill Farr in jail for contempt because he refused to which Lot 10 1973). And code Wednesday. "Because the Canadian supplier has increased the cost of gas furnished to El Paso Natural Gas Company from HlfUUb UIA kW WAV LJt. 1 J ,UUU V UUlk ICVIi and El Paso in turn has been permitted (by the Federal Power Commission) to increase the price of this gas' to its customers, including Mountain Fuel, by 17.29 cents per 1.000 cubic feet. effective January 1, we are asking the Utah Public Service Commission for authority to increase Mountain Fuel's rates to Utah customers to recover Utah's share of the El Paso increase," said Mountain Fuel executives, M. M. Fidlar. chairman, and R. Z. Kastler, president. judge, who apparently had not bothered to read the controlling United States Supreme Court case, Maxwell v. Sheppard, laid down a gag order which applied directly to the press, and another issued a decree forbidding the reporting of testimony given in open court. (Both orders were struck down in evidence supplies of fuel and fertilizer are available. The 1974 report showed there was no decline from 1973 in farm numbers in 16 states, including two of the nation's leading agricultural producers. Texas and California. The other states which had as many farms Jan. 1 as a year earlier included Alaska. Delaware. Georgia. Hawaii. Kansas. Kentucky. Minnesota. Missouri. Nevada, New Jersey. Ohio. Pennsylvania. West Virginia and Wyoming. Fuel Supply Company to File for Rate Adjustment FLORIDA v. CALIFORNIA -There is a perennial rivalry between Florida and California. So, it's of interest to note that California has lost a title to its adversary of the South. In 1972, California did more than any other state to oppress the Fourth' Estate. One superior court By Roger M.Grace office-seeker- that nearly four decades ago, the number of farms in the United States on Jan. 1 dropped another one per cent to an estimated C Perspectives where it exists, should not lawyers be the most active of all citizens in pressing for the election of those s whom they judicial believe to be the best qualified of the pack? It's fine for the butcher, the baker, the tinker and the tailor to but an exercise political rights to in is between asked chip attorney ISO and $150 (depending on how long he has practiced) and sign a pledge that he will make no further contributions to judicial candidates. A part of his contribution might well go to aspirants whom he personally believes to be unfit for the bench. What if members of labor unions were "asked" to sign a pledge not to contribute to any political funds . . . other than the union's fund? No one would call that "refreshing." The article in the ABA Journal lauds the Dade County plan, and Chesterfield Smith, a Floridian and the head of the ABA, is quoted as endorsing it. It is likely other bar associations throughout the nation will consider adopting it. In our view, that would be a THURSDAY. JANUARY 17. 1974 1973 Saw Farms In U.S. Decline Foggy Thinking In Sunny Florida? Florida is called the "Sunshine State." It's ironic that there's so much foggy thinking there among Judges and lawyers. Maybe there's V Not much is said about it in the news media but the collapse of the United States National Bank of San Diego, Calif., in has created a major transatlantic financial dispute, part of which is already in the hands of the Federal Court in San Francisco. European and British banks are anxious to recover close to $100 million in loans made to or through the San Diego bank. These weren't included in liabilities assumed by the Crocker National Bank of San Francisco and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The loans in dispute were made to businesses associated with California financier C.A. Smith, who then controlled the San Diego bank. The foreign bankers claim these were "interbank" loans and the FDIC should cover them. FDIC is expected to reply the loans were made to the Smith firms, using the San Diego bank merely as a European bankers are pressing their claims in Washington. Many are already cutting their credit lines to smaller banks. One thing is certain, say New York bankers, hereafter there will be tougher scrutiny of foreign bank lending to smaller and medium-sireU.S. banks when they get applications for bait requests. mid-Octob- blatan attack by government on the press since the Sedition Act of 1798. Also: the federal judge presiding over the Gainsville Eight trial found CBS News in contempt because its artists drew sketches of court proceedings after the session and from memory (how could that possibly interfere with the judicial process?); a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times was sentenced to five months in jail for contempt for refusing to divulge her sources (she later named the primary source . . . the DA who was prosecuting her); and former Florida Gov. Farris Bryant has been touting the idea of government licensing of reporters. d. I er "However, Mountain Fuel is asking an increase in Utah of onlv about 2.95 cents per 1.000 cubic feet which would be applicable to all customers, resider lial and industrial alike," they contir ued. "This would result in an averafi increase of 45 cents per month for the" typical residential customer. The total amount of the El Paso increase which Mountain Fuel must pay is S4.529.298, of which Utah's share is approximately $3,900,000 they said. Mountain Fuel will seek to recover the remaining amount of approximately $600,000 in Wyoming where it also serves. , "We regret the fact that the costs of pipeline gas are increasing so rapidly that a new increase in Utah rates must be sought before a decision has been rendered by the Utah Public Service Commission on the general rate increase we have had before the Commission since November 1972," the Company officials said. "However, the supply of gas we purchase from Kl Paso, which constitutes 2(W of our total supply, is very important to Utah, and if it is to be retained the higher prices must be paid." U& Announces New Director I - SALT LAKE CITY Sugar Company announced appointment of Carl H. Decker as Director of Public Relations. Mr. Decker succeeds Keith J. who recently was named Vice Utah-Idah- o Wall-enlin- President-Corporat- e e. Relations and Secretary, for the sugar company. Mr. Decker will direct public relations activities of the company in all of its operating areas. A resident of Bountiful, Utah, Mr. Decker will be headquartered at the U and I general offices in Salt take City. U and I is a major beet sugar processor with factories located at Moses take and Toppenish in Washington: Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Garland, Utah. The firm also is engaged in diversified irrigated farming activities in Idaho and Washington. |