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Show Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1969 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal Newt Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Entered at the postoffice at Salt Lake City as second class matter August 23, 1923 under the act of March 8, 1S79 711 South West Temple Telephone GLENN BJO&NN, Publisher 364-846- 4 "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clou, clique, faction or corporation." Volume 49 Number 35 Help Locate Historic Sites (Contained tea Pa(p Ons) Items may qualify, for example, by being old, first or last, unique, associated with important historic persons or events, or typical of an era or facet of our culture or the only or best example left. The span of interest covers everything from pioneer furniture or buildings to whole historic districts, such as a small community or a section of a city, to Indian rules or historic Indian sites. Because of limited funds, the professional staff is minimal. Primarily it will serve to coordinate the findings and recommendations of volunteers in the field ings. Once this latter step is completed, items will be recommended to the Governor s Review Committee, consisting of professional architects, archaeologists, and historians, who will evalute them and make recommendations that may lead to their being listed on the National Register (where applicabile), or on a hoped-fo- r State Register, yet to be established. Such listings will permit federal and state support both to avoid the destruction to such sites and to restore and preserve them. What can you do to help? 1. Locate and identify, as precisely as you can, such sites or objects in your community, by county, town, street numbers, or valley, river or township and range. 2. Obtani pictures (old and new) or the sites; give us as many statistics as possible, size, age, ownership, state of repair, present use, etc. 8. Indicate its significance, historical, archaeological, cultural or even some of all of these. Be as definite as you can. 4. Document your information by naming people interviewed by citing diaries or other pertinent records. 5. Send as much of this information as you can to Melvin T. Smith, Preservation Officer, Utah Historical Sites Survey, Utah Hist orical Society, 603 East South Temple Salt Lake City, Utah 84102. Income Tax Illegal? Anyone who has been around for a few years may recall Miss Vivien Kellems, the Connecticut industrialist, who for years has carried on a long battle against the inequities of the national income 'tax. By and large, it has ben a losing battle, but undaunted at 72 years of age, she is again standing up for her convictions and her rights. She is fighting for the return of more than $73,000 which she feels is due her as a result of taxes collected illegally from her because she has no husband. Says Miss Kellems, There is no law that says single people must pay at a higher rate than married, people. Congress never has, nor does it dare pass such a law; even the Supreme Court would have to declare it If you can tax me because I am single, you can t ax me because my eyes are gray, my hair is white, or I am 72 years old. I have no more control over these conditions than I have over my marital status. How many eligible single men, age 72, do you know? Miss Kellems has raised an issue that will arouse the sympathy of a great many taxpayers. As the Turlock, California, Journal says, We salute a brave fighter for a cause she believes to be right." uncon-constitutoin- &L oOo The new jet age can be defined as breakfast in London, lunch in New York, dinner in San Francisco and baggage in Buenos Aires. Utah Travel Council To iFocus on TO THE EDITOR Holding Visitors to LETTERS Anyone not obviously under 18 is now no questions asked free to purchase any ammunition ofr rifles and shotguns except .22 rimfire ammunition (useable for both handguns and long guns). He may be a criminal, a drug addict, or fall into any other category disqualifying him from legally acquiring guns from licensed dealers (or in a few jurisdictions from any source). But no matter; he can now get all the ammunition he needs for long guns, without any need to identify himself. Long guns are, to be sure, less frequently used on crime than handguns, but they are used illegally in more instances than a civilized society should tolerate. If those who had their way in getting Congress to discontinue these identification requirements of the Gun Control Act of 1968 have their way further, .22 rimfire ammunition will also be excluded from the identification requirements of the 1968 Act. Which sections of the Act will be next on the block for repeal? Large numbers of sportsmen claimed, the recordkeeping identification proced ures were a burden on them, on retailers and on government, and were not useful in preventing crime. They drew this conclusion almost immediately after the 1968 Act was passed. Of course, they had opposed the Act in the first place. They grossly exaggerated the burden of the identification procedures, and grossly underestimated the usefulness of these procedures as a deterrent ammunition purchases by so-calle- d . nst irresponsible persons. This weakening of the 1968 Act took the for mof a rider, to a completely unrelated bill. The Senate Finance Committee attached the amendment to a House-passe- d bill extending the Interest Equalization Tax, a measure the Administration urgently wanted. The Senate accepted the rider by a 4 to 1 margin.. The House voted by a 9 to 1 margin to seek a conference to reconcile the Senate-passe- d bill with that of the House. It did so 'knowing that the House conferees would accept the ammunition amendment. The ammunition identification procedures might have been improved upon. But the whole issue should have been studied in an orderly way, including the public hearings we requested. Instead, the Senate and the House refused to hold hearings, and proceeded to throw out the baby with the bath water. There is a better, simpler way to check the credentials of ammunition buyers than the recording of names, addss, age, drivers license and .'er details in a ledger. The ;icter way is through the licensing of all legitimate gun owners. They would merely flash a license (with photograph), and that would be that. But licensing was turned down last year by huge majorities in both houses, and stands no chance in Congress for the foreseeable future. The previous Administration urged licensing. The present Adminisone examtration, opposes it ple of the massive negligence it has displayed on the overall question of firearms policies needed to protect the overall public interest, including the enof relightened owners. sponsible gun America seems tragically to . self-intere- st Utah Getting the traveler is only half the work. That will be the main theme of the Utah Travel Council as it prepares for next years summer market. According to Lee Jorgensen, Travel Council director, the survey of the motor vehicle summer travelers market pointed out that we are able to get more people into the state, but not for very long. What this says is that the services industry is not doing an adequate job of keeping visitors an extra day, said Jorgensen. The ideal situation is to have each hotel clerk, service station attendant, waitress and so on know about his area in detail. They are the people that visitors will ask about a certain area. If the waitress says she's never been there or reacts negatively, the traveler isnt going to want to go there either. Hell move on to another area or state and the restaurant owner has lost a second night customer. The same goes for a gas station or a motel owner whos employees dont even know about attractions in their city. Thats why we are joining forces with Utah State Universitys Outdoor and Recreational Studies Institute, in an effort to help employees understand the needs and wants of travelers. Because once the tourist comes to Utah, everybody must be well enough informed and enough of a salesman to keep him here another night of another week. Beginning early in 1970, the seminars will be scheduled periodically around the state so that employers - and employees can take advantage of the traveler education. non-reside- nt ; For every dollar donated by Americans in 1968, CARE delivered $6.5 in aid to the needy people of the world. To multiply the public contributions, the U.S. donates farm abundance and local governments share the operating costs of CAREs food, self help and medical programs. th-eSA SIB l GRAPEVINE v f - Crime is becoming a problem of such magnitude in the Salt Lake area that some form of direct action must be taken to check its growth. This was the conclusion of city, officials and area law enforcement officers who attended a one day meeting in Salt Lake City this week. Two viewpoints were laid down by Mayor J. Bracken Lee and the Public Safety Commissioner James L. Barker Jr. Mayor Lee blamed the courts and Commissioner Barker blamed the crime increase on a shortage of policemen. Others participating included Salt Lake Police Chief Dewey J. Fillis, Salt Lake County Sheriff Delmar L. Larson and Captain N. D. (Pete) Hayward, commander of the sheriffs detective division. The Jordan River in Salt Lake Valley is a serious cause of concern, with both health and poor loan values creating a problem along the entire river. This was the opinion of Millard Penney, coordinator of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Denver, who recently made an inspection of the river. Mr. Penney said HUD is impressed with the plan that Salt Lake Model Cities directors have drawn up to help solve the problem. The states attorney generals office has completed drafting a drug control law which Gov. Calvin L. Hampton will ask Utah Legislature to consider during its budget session starting on Jan. 12. The bills would set up a State Drugs Division under the Department of Social Services with be waiting for another massive an advisory board, and modify assassination to wake it up to present statutes with regard to what needs to be done in this enforcement of narcotics laws. field. The growing number of The proposed legislation is the little assassinations and other crimes with guns are appar- result of recommendations made ently of no consequence to the by the Governors Citizen Adgreat majority of government visory Committee on Drugs. A two thirds vote of both officials and legislators at all levels of government who jump houses is necessary before the bills can be introduced in the to the tune of special-intereto the pressures neglect and budget session. detriment' of the overall public interest. Utah ought to change its splintered system of prosecuting the Soundly conceived mandatory sentences on those guilty of com- criminal cases and adopt a program similar to that used in mitting crimes with firearms a special sentence in addition to Colorado. This was the recommendation the sentence for the crime itself may help deter the criminal of James D. McKevitt, district use of guns. But such laws fall attorney for Colorados Second far short of what is needed to Judicial District. McKevitts views were concope effectively with this probin response to a letter tained lem. written When will America wake up? by him by the Region Nine Law Enforcement Planning Sincerely yours, David J. Steinberg, Agency which is studying all Executive Director phases of the states law enforceNational Council for a ment system. D. Dan Detton, cordinator of Responsible Firearms the agency, has written a letter Policy. to McKevitt because Utah officials consider the problem of a splintered prosecution system as one of the states priority law enforcement problems. st . . Salt Lake City Commissioner George B. Catmull will supervise construction the first of the year on a new building to house Central Citys $100,00 'Commu-- |