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Show Order Department trials University of Utah City WESTERN AMERICANA 4112 iretap Errors Harmless, Court Told by U.S. - said in argument, January 8, that what the government did was at worst "harmless error" with "no malevolent purpose." He therefore urged that the prosecutions be allowed to proceed. But defense attorneys H. Russell Smouse of Baltimore and James F. Ilewlitt of San Francisco said Justice Department officials, when John R. Mitchell was attorney general, had clearly violated the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1968, Supreme Court Fails to Void Work Programs - The (UPI) on Court Supreme January 14 a challenge to two rejected federally approved work relief experiments in New York State which opponents say violate federal law and place an unfair burden on certain welfare families. The High Court in a brief order denied a petition to review a ruling made on Jan. 18, 1973, by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals which that the pilot social security the violate projects act. The lawsuit was filed by several welfare rights organizations both in New York City and upstate, by the city itself and by some of the welfare recipients involved. Defendants were the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and the New York State Department of refused .to find Social Services. Opponents said the state and federal agencies are compelling "destitute families to submit to being used as guinea pigs." One program is public service work opportunities, which requires recipients to work off their grants in public agencies on pain of having their aid reduced. The conditions apply to mothers of children age 6 or older and to children 16 or older who are not in school. About 88,000 families are affected in 14 counties, 60,000 of which live in New York City. and the evidence should be suppressed. The law provides that the government may ask for a court order to tap telephones after the attorney general himself or a attorney general has given his authorization. The point in many of the pending cases is that Mitchell never "specially designated" anyone to perform this duty. Sometimes he did it himself but other times it was carried out by his executive assistant, Sol Lindenbaum, who according to Bork was so familiar with his boss wiretap policies that he could act in Mitchell's stead. A second issue focused on what has become known as "Will Wilson Letters" wiretap authorizations to U.S. attorneys in the field which former Asst. Atty. Gen. Will Wilson under the law should have signed but instead were signed by deputies. Bork agreed that Wilson had "minimal involvement" in the cases at stake. But he said they had been thoroughly researched by his deputies and the line of respon- Tracy-Collin- 1971. Miss Carlisle, a Democrat, served as memlMT of the Utah House of She has Kepresentatives in 1971-7employed in the legul profession ii nd in locul, state, and national governments. She servwl five years overseas wilh the Foreign Service of the a iM-e- A Utah Supreme Court Decisions (See details page 4)' magazine said. attorney general. Bork and the defense attorneys disagreed over whether the statute itself requires suppression of the wiretap evidence. When wiretapping is used, the tapes are likely to constitute the backbone of the prosecution's case. The court will hand down an opinion in the test cases sometime before the end of the term in June. Oil Firm Can Refuse Renewal of Franchise - In a NEWARK, N.J. (UPI) decision which could affect some service stations across the country, a federal judge has ruled that a company has the right to refuse a contract with an individual holding a franchise. The decision came, January 15, in an opinion by U.S. District Court Judge James Coolahan, who overturned a unanimous State Supreme Court ruling that Shell Oil Co. could not refuse to renew its franchise with the operator of a service station in Palisades Park, N.J. 200,000 11-pa- ge State Department in Manila, Rome, and Bermuda. She is Vice Chairman of the Salt Lake County Democratic Party, and President of the Utah Order of Women legislators. She is a memlxr of the Salt Ijake Business and Professional Womens Club, Utah Historical Society, the Salt Iake Chamltcr of Commerce, the Utah Heritage1 Foundation, the league of Utah Consumers, and is working with the Salt Ijike County Bicentennial Committee. Among the investment needs in 1 the U.S. between now and the year 2000 are: Steel industry, $70 billion;.' copper industry, $16.5 billion; aluminum industry, $30 billion; oil refineries, $770 billion; and coal industry, $175 billion. ' Some of the funds will come from profits and some will come from bond and equity markets, but these sources will not be able to supply all " of the capital needed, To help fill the need for funds, the '' international market might be tapped to some extent, but the competition there will be strong v every developed country shortage of capital stems from a lack of opportunity to make The a profit ! To Grow Worse on investment, the magazine said, giving the oil in- dustry as an enmple. In 1956, the Si industry drilled some 16,000 new wells; in 1972, the total was only 4,500. Yet demand for both oil and gas had more than doubled. Similarly, there was a shortage of refining capacity. The combined capacity of the nation's 250 refineries is only 13 million barrels per day, some four million barrels per day less than the nation consumes. When 1973 began, not one new refinery was under : . j-.'.- will be going through a simiUrVL ' explosion in capital spending and placing persistent demands upon ' construction. the Arabs embargoed oil, the magazine pointed out, it was not a lack of petroleum but a lack of refining capacity that underlay the fuel shortage beginning to occur in the U.S. Until markets capital worldwide, Industry Week pointed out.. The concern of many , men industry, . according magazine is that this to recognize the materials planning undertaken soon if materials needs are tb'the' nation has yet fundamental that must be the country's to be met. " Construction Industry Cagy sibility could in keeping with the statute, be traced directly to the Of- s Hank and Trust, ficer of is seeking election to the House of Kepresentatives in District 4. She heads up the womens division of the hank., which started in December of - "specially designed" assistant Vee Carlisle Seeks Election w Carlisle, Consumer Services (ACCN) shortage basic materials will be more severe than the shortage of energy, Industry Week magazine has reported. The shortage of materials, like the shortage of energy, stems from a shortage of investment, the of evidence. Solicitor General Robert H. Bork WASHINGTON Business Media Says Shortages CLEVELAND The (UPI) Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to rescue 159 gambling and narcotics cases threatened by administrative procedures used to obtain wiretap WASHINGTON FRIDAY. JANUARY 25, 19?4 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOLUME 17. NUMBER 256 On 74 Outlook WASHINGTON (ACCN) Selective marketing is the "name of ' the game" for both commercial and . . . residential construction during 1974. HARRIS POLL: declares Robert W. Gaber,' president of Conco Mortgage Company, San Francisco, a national mortgage banking and brokerage organization with offices in principal cities throughout the United States. "The energy crisis will.be a dominant factor. Consequently, builders and developers must concentrate on specific market demands before launching cqn- struction projects in '74. So STOCK NO LURE In a recent speech especially compiled for a NEW YORK membership meeting of the securities industry, pollster Louis Harris reported that stocks are no lure these days. Only eight per cent of the people asked expressed a desire to purchase corporate common stocks. That figure compares with 17 per cent back in early 1972. And no more than 20 per cent of the high-incopeople exwas less than That stocks. common add to desire a figure pressed 1972. in 42 cent back half of the per As to mutual funds, no more than four per cent said they would buy in the next six months, against a nine per cent figure in 1972. What it all amounts to, said Harris, is that "this is not an optimistic story for Wall Street." Additional findsing by pollster Harris show that people are deeply worried and concerned for their own economic security; that a full 65 per cent now think inflation is running "out of con- trol." Also, that the public is not tired of hearing aMut Watergate and wants the hearings to go on. Watergate "is having a profound and deep impact on the American people." In total, by thumping 5 to 1, people think the country has been heading in the wrong direction recently; that there is something deeply wrong in the land; that they will not rest easy until it is corrected. Thus the mood of Americans at this time doesn't lend itself to optimism on stock market prices or improved business sentiment, according to managers of huge amounts of investment money. In a statement to the House Banking and Currency Committee, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns confirmed recent disclosures in this column. He said "the economic outlook has worsened and become clouded" as a result of the energy crisis "but there is little that the central bank can do to soften the blow." Word heard in corporate management inner offices is that the Watergate crisis is not over; that the heat on the President is not dissipating; that people are undeniably unhappy about the. new outburst of price inflation and are blaming Nixon. Word is also heard that when Congress resumes activity in AFL-CIJanuary it will give President Nixon a hard time, as will the which will be disturbing to the business and national economy. O, ; ' "The outlook for office buildings, ... for example, is bright supply has. ' lagging behind rapidly growing demand," Gaber observes., Shopping center construction4, e, ' adds, will continue strong in 1974, to keep pace with most areas where residential building has been at consistently high levels during the past 18 to 24 months. been "Present predictions are for 1974's overall residential construction start rates to sink below level established, the 2 million-plu- s y in the past few years. units will increase their share of the " market, but still will fall short of ' ' homes' starts. new single-famil- y The demand for condominiums will continue to climb, though not quite.''' as sharply as during 1973," Gaber Multi-famil- says. aware of rising con- struction and money costs, builders ' will need to watch market trends" closely and thoroughly, ,gaugev; housing preferences and demands before initiating new projects in any sector of residential construction," he forecasts. Gaber emphasizes that there will be a growing trend to rebuild existing structure both in cities and close-i- n suburbs as a result of fuel shortages. "Keenly . . |