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Show i I I The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand February 15, 1973 Bills Before The Utah Newman, Local Vehicle Registration Fee Repeal. This act, which has already passed in both houses, repeals the $5.00 automobile tax which was levied in Salt Lake County last year. It was unpopular and the county commission had previously voted to discontinue levying the The tax. Salt Lake City Commission complained about the loss in revenue and is seeking to find another tax to make up the loss. HB 40 County Taylor, Officers Salaries of and City Commissioners. This bill would prevent elected local officials from raising their own salaries during their ' term of office. HB39 Continued From Page 9 This bill, which was defeated in the House, would have eliminated the provision that when a candidate receives 70 per cent or more of the delegate vote in the party convention he does not have to run in a primary election. The percentage used to be 80 per cent, but was lowered to 70 after Mark Anderson and Reese Hunter narrowly passed the convention votes in 1968. Rep. Taylor wanted to let the voters choose party candidates more directly. The majority of successful party candidates disagreed. HB98 Davis, First Degree Murder HB112 This bill would prevent elected local officials from raising their own salaries during their term of Commissioners could office. change the pay but would have to be before they could collect the extra money. re-elec- HBI39 Buckner, Elected & City Officers Salaries. County local This would prevent officials from setting their own salaries. The legislature would set the salaries of all the eleced local officials in the state. J. Hansen, Penalties for Murder. These two bills are very similar. Both would make the death penalty mandatory for certain classes of 1st degree murder. The Davis bill includes a few more offences than does the Hansen bill. HB99 Davis, Parole for Murderers. This bill would deny parole to anyone imprisoned for 1st decree murder. They are now elegible for parole after 15 years. STOP INFLATION Buy An employer can be penalized for violating an O.S.H.A. requirement, even when he can Taylor, Nominations for Primary Elections. tomorrows food at todays prices. Latest wholesale food price reports showed increase in a rate, December of 5.2 which if maintained for a year would amount to 64.2. BEEHIVE DEHYDRATED FOODS have been tested to last 25 years. Maintains nutritional value and flavor. Be prepared for riots, strikes, prices and even government rationing when food prove easy-openi- ng er non-complia- CHOCOLATES' the ultimate in fine... BEAUTIFUL WEDDING CANDIES CREATED ESPECIALLY FOR YOU. FABULOUS BUTTER ROASTED NUTS. PARTY CANDIES SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED Pho". gets scarce. As Snoopy says: Security is having a few bones stacked away. For more information phone: 297-546- 5 or write: Joseph Stumph 3167 South 7945 West fine candies Kay Cummings 6:30 P.M. DAILY CLOSED SUNDAY Put Your Money to Work. Down to Earth . 1959 So. 1 100 E. P.O. Box 542 Provo, Utah 84601 Investment Program Write care of Utah Independent 2459 Major St S.L.C., Utah 84115 or use coupon ninety-fiv- e injuries ed and for which O aims to punish illnesses, O.S.H.A. employers, are not the fault of employers. They result from carelessness on the part of those who become injured or ill. Because of the high cost involved, most employers covered by O.S.H.A. are already doing everything possible to curtail work-causinjuries and illness: and conditions in their plants cannot be improved by anything else that government requires. Costs And Trampled Liberties The stated statutory purpose of O.S.H.A. is to ease the economic burden imposed on commerce by work-causinjuries and illnesses. But the burdens which O.S.H.A. itself imposes on commerce are much greater than the burdens it is supposed to ease. Prices which consumers pay lor goods and services must rise ; cordingly. The shocking part is tl. t Congress was aware of the liirdcns it was imposing on American employers when it passed O.S.H.A. One section of the Act says: Any information obtained...under this Act shall be obtained with a minimum burden upon employers, especially those operating small ed ed Another section Small Business businesses. authorizes Administration loans to employers likely to suffer substantial economic injury from making costly changes to comply with O.S.H.A. orders. Bad as all this is, there is something even worse about O.S.H.A. Congress claims - constitutional authority to enact Health and the Occupational Safety Act of 190 through the exercise of its powers to regulate commerce among the several States and with foreign nations and to promote the general welfare." This corruption of constitutional principles is the worst aspect of The general-welfa- re O.S.H.A. clause, which Congress cites as one source of its constitutional authority, makes no grant of power to Congress. The interstate-commerc- Continued On Page 12 CONTRARY to what you may have heard, the American Independent Party of Utah is alive and GROWING. With your assistance, we can win in 1974. If you would like to help, write: American Please send additional information Independent Party I Name Address. I City P.O.Box 38 Woods Cross, Utah 84087 State. e clause was intended only to give Congress such power as necessary to keep states from creating barriers to the free flow of trade among the states, and to enable Congress to impose such .Zip. If you would like to get involved in helping the Utah Independent grow and are willing to contribute some of your time to this great 3 and ask for Carl, he can tell you where we weekly paper, call can use your help. limn 11 .Not to Sleep Analytical Investment SILVER safely guess that percent of all work-caus- 466-191- Magna, Utah 84044 nrfF 9A.M. TO BROCHURE 487-103- 1 wr sky-rocketi- ng that the requirement contributes nothing to the health and safety of his employees. Here are a few examples: Employers are required to color-code certain switches red and cans with outlaw the pull-to- p rings. Rep. Lindsay wants green, although they may already to eliminate litter from the have their equipment coded with roadside by eliminating cans rather other colors which employees laws understand through years of use. than by enforcing anti-littFarmers must install roll bars already on the books. The even though admitted effect of this bill would be on their tractors are to make the selling of canned there many tractors on which . bars roll cannot possibly be drinks unprofitable. attached; even though roll bars HBI03 Davis, Utah cost $200, which, in many Occupational Safety and Health instances, is more than a tractor is Act. worth; and even though, in the This bill would set up a state major farming region of the Great organization similar to the federal Plains, farm tractors are never one by the same name. It would driven anywhere except on level give appointed state officials the randadflatblacktop'roads. power to make rules and set A half-inc- h protective mesh is standards for all business in the required by O.S.H.A. on all state where one or more motors and power ventilating individuals are employed. All the in the vast poultry but, equipment; rules would be made y business, for instance, feathers rather than the bureaucrats completely plug such screen outlets legislature. Fines would be levied within aftw days. Other industries by the bureaucrats for have similar problems. with the rules. The The owner of a printing plant officials would be granted power to was compelled by O.S.H.A. to enter private property wit out repjace more than $300 worth of 7 toilet ; permission from the owners and new seats because they did Wlth0ut search warrants. The not have open fronts. He was in INDEPENDENT has violation of Subsection 3ii of UTAH published many articles on the Section 1910.141 of O.S.H.A. federal organization. The regulations which says: Every proposed state organization is water closet shall have a hinged almost a duplicate. made'of seat substantial open front material having a nonabsorbent This bill has passed the House finish." Openfront toilet seats are without any opposition. It is now required because, theoretically, before the Senate. Please contact they provide better sanitation; but, your senators and representatives jn reality, they do not provide it. and let them know how you feel Toilet seats cannot be kept sanitary about these bills. if people use them carelessly, A regardless of construction. comparable assertion can be made with regard to all other sanitation facilities, and with regard to plant sanitation and safety generally. Legalize free enterprise. Remembering that O.S.H.A. does not cover workers in mines and atomic-energ- y plants, one can . C. Page O.S.H.A. Legislature HB 31 I The UTAH INDEPENDENT Typing and Layout experience very helpful. ' |