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Show ': ' ' Serials Order Dpnrtaent flhiversity 'of Utah City , 84112 . ' WESTERN. AMERICANA mm SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOLUME 17, NUMBER 270 Prepaid Plans Issues Marked ABA Meeting 1st Tax Returns Show Campaign Checkoffs Rise WASHINGTON returns, indicate might - Early taxpayers (UPI) that provide as much as $50 to finance million the 1976 Presidential campaigns, Sens. and Edward Hugh Scott, have Kennedy, reported. They "based the estimate on the who number of early checked a box on their returns to allow $1 each of their taxes to be used for public financing of the R-P- s., tax-file- rs general election campaign for President. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tabulations showed that 13 per cent cf the taxpayers who filed returns through January 25 marked the checkoff box for a total of $232,050. Last year, when the box was buried in the tax form and only 3.1 per cent marked it, raising $3.9 million. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1974 This year's tax form had the box on the front. It also provides an opportunity to make a checkoff for' last year. IRS figures showed that so far 6.4 per cent of the taxpayers have taken advantage of the 1973 provision, raising $116,459. Kennedy and Scott said in a joint statement; "if the present rate, of use continues for the rest of the current filings and for future tax years, the Treasury fund will contain about $50 million by April, 1976 enough to make the 1976 Presidential election a historic first paid for entirely out of public . By Charlotte G.Moulton A Justice HOUSTON (UPI) - Department spokesman has told the organized bar that it must change disciplinary rules for lawyers before sponsoring prepaid plans for legal services to middle-incom- e Americans. ' The rules generally prohibit lawyers from advertising their services or soliciting their business. Lewis Bernstein, chief of the speciar litigation section of the Department's antitrust division, said obviously no plan can be promoted unless people are told about it. He said the rules should permit advertising and soliciting except where they are intended to dollars, thereby relieving the candidates of both political parties from the need to resort to large private contributions to finance their campaigns.". ; Hotel Utah's New Food Manager Uses Psychology "create a false expectation of success" in the mind of a client or to "promote litigation." The Department for some time has taken the position that the fixing of fees received by lawyers in prepaid plans constitutes illegal price fixing. But Bernstein insisted that this viewpoint is not going to Bar impede the American Association's efforts. Beverly C. Moore of Greensboro, N.C., chairman of the Association's special committee on prepaid legal services, said the antitrust problem is extremely serious. He said if the Department persists in its present attitude, then plans where a member can choose his own attorney "are completely bar-sponsor- dead." William B. Pugh of Philadelphia, chairman of a committee which advises the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, brought up another problem whether prepaid legal schemes are "insurance" and therefore subject to state regulatory laws requiring licensing and practices. barring unfair Pugh said many states have already taken steps toward such regulation but he added "opportunities under state regulation exist." He said his committee is preparing a model law on the subject. At the midyear meeting, also, ABA president Chesterfield Smith of the American Bar Association today challenged the practice of g licenses to atgranting torneys. "No longer should we as life-lon- The remarks were made a session of the National Conference of Bar Presidents, meeting in with the midyear session of the ABA, February 1. professionals allow marginal lawyers repeatedly to accept cases that they cannot competently and proficiently handle." he said. Traffic Deaths conjunction Fell Last Year, Colorado Company Convicted on Criminal Charges Construction willful violations of the Occupational DENVER - The Safety and Health law. a Colorado Council Says Dye. - Co., Springs corporation, was convicted in U.S. District Court on Feb. 6, 1974, on two counts of CHICAGO (UPI) The National Safety Council has reported that the traffic death count in the United States for 1973 dropped by more Supreme Court Takes Prison Counsel Issue than 1,000 persons over 1972, with the largest reduction in December when the energy crisis reach(?d its peak for the year. NSC President Vincent Tofany said the December fatality figures were 19 per cent lower than for December, 1972, or 3,940 deaths compared to 4,860. For the past year, the Council recorded 55,600 traffic deaths to 56,600 in 1972. "The 19 per cent reduction for December, 1973, corresponds with the Council's closely November estimate of a per cent reduction due to reduced speeds and less driving brought on by the energy crisis," Tofany said. Tofany said the 24 states that had adopted reduced speed limits, effective December 10, had recorded a 22 per cent reduction in traffic deaths, while other states had only a 16 per cent reduction. The NSC said rural traffic accidents accounted for 37,400 deaths in 1973 and 38,400 in 1972, Urban traffic deaths were set at 18,200 for both years. The NSC said most traffic deaths in rural areas occurred on access state roads and the greatest number of urban traffic fatalities, 8,200, occurred in metropolitan areas under 50,000 20-to-- 25 non-controll- ed population. The New England and Mountain regions were listed as areas where there were slight increases in traffic deaths. Fatalities were down four per cent in the Pacific region, two per cent in the Middle Atlantic area, and one per cent each in the South Atlantic, North Central and South Central regions. The national motor vehicle death rate for 1973 dropped to 4i2 deaths per compared to 100-milli- vehicle miles 4.5 deaths in 1972. The 4.2 figure is the lowest on record. 4 - The (UPI) Court has agreed in a Nebraska case to decide whether a state prison must provide attorneys for inmates at disciplinary hearings and set up other protections of their constitutional rights. The court will schedule oral arguments later this term on the prison's appeal of an 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judgment that the "due process" clause of the 14th Amendment requires broad WASHINGTON Supreme Lee M. James, left, executive chef at the Hotel Utah, looks over a menu plan with William B. Bekedam, new manager of food operations at the hotel. Willem B. Bekedam, manager of food operations care the hotel's cooks already Bhare. "I want to bring out, to heighten the hotel's already famous reputation for fine food and service. "That's where the psychology comes in. I've always been interested in psychology, especially the way people feel about eating and dining out. There is a special psychology about eating out that fascinates me. "For instance, what do you suppose goes on in the mind of a typical businessman or housewife when he or she dines out? "What do they expect from a ld at the Hotel Utah, brings a keen sense of psychology as well as years of experience to his new job. At the hotel just three weeks, Bekedam comes from Florida where he was general manager of the Maison et Jardin Restaurant in Altamonte Springs. Prior to that he was food and beverage supervisor for the Walt Disney World Company in Lke Buena Vista, Florida. In the United States since 1965, Bekedam grew up in Holland- and decided he wanted to be a chef and food supervisor in his teens. After high school and college he went to Switzerland where he attended a hotel school in Lucerne. Then he went to Belgium to another hotel school and finally to Holland and a hotel school in Amsterdam. "This is a great hotel, one of the finest in America," said Bekedam, visibly proud of his new surroundings. "Of course I will stamp, my own personality on the menus, on the service and on .the food preparation, and I hope soon, to make some important changes in the food program here. "I think the main thing I will try to do right away is emphasize the old world cooking skill and patient, loving; restaurant? ' "It amounts to putting yourself in their place, I suppose, and trying to produce menus and service and even atmosphere that you believe they'd expect and enjoy." i ''Actually, I suppose it is really just a matter of trying to make people happy trying to please them and make them want to come back again." Bekedam believes you don't have to spend a fortune for real gourmet dining. "I hope to offer many gourmet dishes, both French and European, Continental, if you will, that will be especially enjoyable to Americans and Salt Lake City area residents and their guests. "And, I promise the prices won't be well, out of this world." reforms. The case arose in a class action suit filed by an inmate of the' Nebraska penal complex at Lincoln on behalf of himself and other inmates claiming disciplinary procedures and other policies did not meet requirements of the "due process" clause. A federal district court agreed in part and ordered some changes. The appeals court last August remanded the case with orders that the lower court draw up additional guides for the prison officials, including censorship of prisoners' mail. In an appeal to the Supreme Court, Nebraska, Atty. Gen. Clarence A. H. Meyer said requiring lawyers for inmates being disciplined would have a wide impact on state and federal prisons nationally. "Even if a requirement of counsel would only result in limited use of lawyers, the fact of such a requirement would lead to untold thousands of new civil rights ac- Hons in hearings where counsel was denied," Meyer said. This is only the second conviction in the country on criminal charges under the 1970 Act, according to Curtis A. Foster, Acting Assistant Regional Director for OSHA in Denver.'1 In an indictment handed down Nov. 15, 1973, by a Federal grand jury' in Denver, the corporation allegedly willfully failed to shore slope and support trenches and willfully failed to inintervals to stall ladders at of to exit means employees provide working in the trenches. The charges stemmed from a cave-i- n on Aug. 11, 1972, that resulted in the death of one employee. The investigation leading to these charges was conducted by Region 8's OSHA staff, and the case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's of25-fo- ot fice in Denver. Vote Fraud Can Be Impeachment Cause Per Judge ruled that WICHITA. KAN. (UPI) A U.S. District Court has constitutional provision for peachment of a President the imcon- ceivably could include illegal election practices. The opinion came in an order, February 5, by U.S. District Judge Frank G. Theis dismissing a suit which challenged the reelection of President Nixon and former Vice President Spiro Agnew. Theis held that the suit failed to state a cause of action on which the court could rule. "No power of this court exists to examine the validity of the election of the President and Vice President indeed there of the United States is no special statute governing the same," Theis said in his order. However, it added that the Constitution does provide for im- peachment of a President, on grounds which "conceivably, could include illegal election practices. , |