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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1971 Page Eight Zenda Hull Named To Bonds Position Moss Says Park Entrance Fees An 'Administrative Nightmare' up for another and perhaps a more irritating one to the public. Spot checks are distasteful to many. The American people do not like to be asked to prove their authenticity time and again, As I see it now, the $4 individual permit as a replacement for the Golden Eagle Passport is an ill conceived proposal and an additional revenue which it might raise very well be spent in administering it. He said the answer to camping costs may lie in a double or super Golden Eagle passport which admits a family carload not only into a park but into the park campgrounds. He said he hoped the hearings would explore that possibility. He also voiced repeated support for the proposal to allow citizens 65 years of age or more into parks and camp grounds without charging entrance fees. In closing, Senator Moss said, We must, of course, find ways to decrease crowding in some of our most heavily frequented parks, but increasing fees is not the answer. Instead we should be trying to attract visitors to our less frequented parks and to set aside and establish new parks and monuments and recreation areas and other facilities so we can spread the crowds out. If parks are truly to be for the people this is our best and most realistic answer, he said. Senator Frank E. Moss has defended the present Golden Eagle Passport System and said the Nixon Administrations proposed substitute would prove to be an administrative nightmare. He made the comment as the Interior Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation, of which he is a member, opened informational hearings on the Administration plan. The current Gold Eagle Pass port, at a cost of $10, allows an entire family to enter any and all national parks, monuments, and recreation areas for an entire year. Now the Interior Department suggests a complicated new system which requires a $4 annual individual recreation fee. This would be more expensive to the people particularly families with several teenagers, and for groups of friends traveling together, but more than that, it would be an administrative nightmare. Senator Moss said he could picture long lines of cars at entrances to popular parks while Park Service personnel attempt to find out who in a car full of people already has an annual permit and who does not. Then there is further delay while those who already have a permit produce them and those who do not pay for theirs. I can now also see the time consuming job of sorting out the young people in the car and deciding who is over 16 and who is under 16, and who is so close it is hard to tell, and I predict that additional park personnel will be require to service those long lines, personnel who will have to be endowed with more patience and good humor and balanced judgment than most people should be asked to muster through a hot day. He said the administration suggestion that spot checks be made throughout such parks to eliminate the long lines is not a satThis only isfactory solution. trades one administrative hang- . New Training Manual For Communities Is Now Available Eighteen Salt Lake Valley community and neighborhood councils this week are taking. a first look at a new training manual designed and edietd for their use by the Salt Lake Area Community Services Council. The book was distributed during an historic first meeting of all neighborhood and community councils, hosted by the Community Services Council. The informal new organization plans to meet quarterly to share mutual concerns, plans for action and possibly, to even offer support on individual neighborhoods specific concerns. A, B, Cs for Organizing the Communitites covers such topics as defining areas to be served and defining needs and outlining methods to bring about action. Former Utah Man Named to Steel Post Appointment of former Utahn Charles L. McDevitt as manager of sales, Salt Lake City District for U. S. Steel, was announced this week by Ralph W. Seely, vice president of sales for the western area at San Francisco. Mr. McDevitt succeeds Alex Walker Jr., who is retiring after 36 years of service with U. S. Steel, 15 of them in Salt Lake. Mr. McDevitt, a native of Salt Lake City, attended the University of Utah. He comes from Portland, where he served as manaegr of sales in that district from 1963. Mr. McDevitt began his steel career in 1933 as clerk for the then Columba Steel Co. He became service manager in 1948 and in 1949 was transferred in that capacity to the firms general offices in San Francisco. In 1951, Mr. McDevitt was appointed sales representative. He was named maanger of sales for manufacturing and construction accounts in 1956, the post he held until he moved to Portland. Discussion on recruiting mem- bership and soliicting funds are also found in the 54 page manual. The book was prepared by a task force from the Committee on Neighborhood Development of the Community Services council. The task force, under the leadership of Father Pete Winder, chairman, included Mrs. Jane Bebb, Mrs. Donald Blac, Mrs. Donald Lewon, Clarence L. Palmer, Mrs. Phyllis South-wicand Miss Loa Russell. k, Too much sleep can make a person the opposite of alert. The amount of sleep needed varies from person to person. Some may need eight hours, but six may be enough for others. Do not worry if you are not getting eight hours of sleep as normally the WALNUT CONSOLE SPINET body clock works well and it will PIANO. Like new, assume low tell you when you need sleep. mo. pyts. Also WALNUT ORor GAN. Phone Most of the time the shortest write Adjustor, 612 N. Orchard, distance between two points is Boise, Idaho 83704. (6-- 4 under construction. 208-343-56- 41 6-1- 1) I Mrs. Ora Roe, State Womens Chairman of the U. S. Savings Bond Committee for Utah, announces the appointment of Mrs Zenda Hull as chairman of the Mrs. Share in America Contest. The finals will be held in Salt Lake City on Sept. 30. This contest is open to all participants in the U. S. Savings Bond Drive for 1971, in the categories of industry and government, including federal, state and county employees. Participants must be married, have a family and be contributors to the Savings Bond program. Mrs. Hull was former chairman of the Womens Division of United Fund. She has been vice president of the Utah Safety Council, a Voluntary chairman for the Red Cross, former chairman of the Youth Parade for Days of 47, and a member of many civic organizations. She was recently appointed a member of the Shade Tree Commission. We will start immediately to appoint committees for the final selection of the winner and two runners up. The three finalists will receive U.S. Savings Bonds and the awards committee is now working on special prizes for the winner, she said. The winner will also compete in a national contest All Amer ica Family Search, to be held in Lehigh Acres in Florida, the winner of which will be the new Mrs. U.S. Savings Bonds as well. Others assisting Mrs. Hull are Mrs. Roe, Vee Carlisle, Glayde Watkins, Naomi Woolley, Arlene Gray and An Marie Boyden. Women interested in submitting entries should do so through the Savings Bond Chairman at their place of employment or bank. The chairman will then send the entries to Kathleen Meikle, U.S. Savings Bond Director for Utah, at the federal building in Salt Lake City. Entrants will be judged on poise, personality and patriotism. National Book Sparks Tourism in Utah The different world of Utah with enthusiasm and appeal in the just pubis communicated lished book Roaming the American West by Donald E. Bower. Highlighting 10 of the most exciting, spectacular and off the beaten track places to visit in each of 11 western states, Roaming the American West locates, pictures and describes the attractions for back packers, naturalists, campers and sightseers. The many towns around Logan Canyon should be seeing new faces as this family vacation guide brings tourists to enjoy the 32 mile drive through its picturesque gorges and to try for the legendary monster of Bear Lake, last sighted in 1868. Starting at Mirror Lake, visitors are guided through Kamas, Wanship, Silver Creek Junction, and Salt Lake City, along the highline trail of the High Uintas, Americas only mountain range running east and west. From Salt Lake City through Vernal and Jensen, visitors will stalk the fossils in Utahs part of Dinosaurland while fishermen limber their poles to try some 800 crystal clear lakes teeming with trout. A spectacular tour of Timpan-ogo- s Cave and the scenic area around it; an adventure tour to Ophir, Ghostown nestled in the Oquirrhs; the breathtaking view from Deadhorse point, and a review of the rainbow rocked region of Capitol Reef are just the skeletons of the tantalizing adventures suggested here. Lawyers Criticize New Pretrial Detention Law for District detention of individuals charged with certain crimes, as provided in the new District of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Procedure act may do society more harm than good through erroneous confine-me- n otf many who should be free on bail. This is the personal view expressed by three lawyers writing in an issue of the American Bar Association Journal. They point out that the District of Columbia act, if constitutional, could have national implications if the states use it as a model for their own legislation. In an article entitled Impris-onme- n Pre-tri- al tby Judicial Hunch, A. M. Dershowitz, a law professor at Harvard University, says the statutes wording is vague and ambiguous enough to allow wide Interpretation. The law authorizes the detention of defendants charged with certain crimes if this is considered necessary to assure the safety of any person or the community. Professor Derschowitz states (.hat the law might be used to hamper the activities of political activists. The statute could be applied to anticipated crimes of speech, advocacy and political organization. These are the traditional crimes against the community, he said. As this more restrictive legislation went into effect in the U.S., France liberalized its criminal justice system in which preventive detention was the rule for well over a century. French Experience with Preventive Detention is the subject of another article in the Journal. Authors W. Laurence Craig, a partner in an international law firm in Paris, and William A. Dobrovir, a Washington, D.C., French experi lawyer warn: ence illustrates that in a system in which preventive detention may lawfully be imposed, in fact no legal safeguard will keep it from being regularly imposed. Professor Dershowitz maintains that society does not have sufficient experience or information about criminal behavior to predict accurately which individuals would commit violent crimes if freed on bail. To prevent any significant number of such crimes by detaining potentially dangerous persons, he says, would require the incarceration of at least twice as many as others who should be freed. County to Offer Tennis Instruction Free tennis lessons are part of this years Fun in the Sun program offered to young Salt Lake County residents. Gary Swensen, superinendent of the County Recreation and Parks Department, has announced the location of some 27 tennis courts at which the annual tennis instruction will be given. Sam Moore, personable tennis veteran, will head up the program and oversee the staff of instructors. The program will begin on June 14 and run for six weeks. It will be held five days a week and will run from 7 till 1 p.m. Those enrolled in the program will be divided into age and ability groupings. This year a competitive program at each center has been designed by Mr. Moore. Best of all its free! Registration will begin at 7 a.m. on June 14. Participants must furnish their own rackets. The most serious danger in any system of preventive confinement is that it always seems to be working well, even when it is performing dismally, the professor warns. Unless the Justice Department is willing to undertake systemaic experimentation and every indication is that nof they have their statute they are not we shall never know how many defendants are being erroneously confined. As an alternative to preventive detention, he urges that defendants be granted speedier trials, preferably within 60 days of their arrest. Only after we have tried to determine whether that could be done and whether it would have a significant effect on the reduction of crime should we consider the radical surgery of preventive detention, he says. In France, they say, nearly 50 per cent of those accused of crimes have been detained in jail before trial, making up two fifths of the entire prison population. Of these, some 15 percent are not sentenced to a prison term upon trial. The authors state that widespread publicity concerning preventive detention abuses helped stir up enough public opinion to bring about reform. In July 1970 the French government sponsored legislation which stipulated that less severe measures be tried before preventive detention is invoked. Sharp M. Larsen Reelected Director At NABCA Meet Sharp M. Larsen, chairman and director of the Utah Liquor Control Commission, was re-elec- etd director of the National Alcoholic Beverage Control Association at its recent 34th annual conference in New York City and will serve in that capa- city during the 1971-7- 2 fiscal year. The NABCA represents Utah and the other 17 control states, which are responsible for control, purchase and sale of alcoholic beverages in their respective jurisdictions. The 18 control states represent a total population of some 62 million citizens and span the entire nation. Mr. Larsen was named chairman and director of the Utah Liquor Control Commission on Feb. 25, 1970, after serving as executive director of the commission since May, 1969. Prior to his appointment as executive director, he served as the Utah State Auditor, Utah State Treas- urer and as Salt Lake County Treasurer. Mr. Larsen is a past president of the National Association of County Treasurers and Finance Officers and from that association received an honorary plaque for being an outstanding president. GILLETTE RIGHT GUARD SiMaMf KSx y AMERICAS MOST POPULAR DEODORANT & PERFECT PEODORANT FMUIKMOUIII 2 PEISOUl |