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Show FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1972 Page Eight THE SALT LAKE TIMES t Com. Jennings Phillips To Seek Land For Public Housing By Keynote speaker was the Honorable Robert H. Quinn, Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The agenda included election of national officers, selection of Mrs. Clara Lagow of Fort Worth, a legal secretary for 56 years, as National Legal Secretary of the year and the award of a $2000 scholarship. Selection of Hollywood, Fla., as the site of the 1973 national convention was announced with Houston, Texas hosting the 74 convention. Also in attendance from Utah was Mrs. Louise Wright of the Ogden Chapter, National Director. Legal Secretaries Return from National Convention Two Salt Lake legal secreta- ries were among the 500 delegates and alternates attending the 21st annual national convention of Legal Secretaries (International) recently held in Boston, Mass. Mrs. Kaye Aoki, president of the Salt Lake Chapter, served as delegate. Mrs. Aoki is with the law firm of Phil L. Hansen & Associates. Mrs. Lois Krause, the SLLSA employment chairman, with the law firm of Callister, Kesler & Callister was alternate. Auditor Says S.L. County Not Remitting Full Share of Fines The Utah State Auditor has said that Salt Lake County has been very lax in remitting to the state its full share of fines and forfeitures and in seeing that those fines are collected from defendants. In a rcpoit covering fiscal operations for 1971, it says that some defendants are going free from paying fines while others are held for their accounts. The report claims that the laxness is simply through apparently lax bookkeeping. Salt Lake County owes $26,334 cs the states share of fines. Some $15,000 accumulated just in the last two years. Some $10,000 in bail bonds issued by bondsmen are ordered forfeited have not yet been collected. The auditor said, It is evident that many of these fines due to the age of the accounts are uncollectible and some feasible action should be taken by the I ; Senator Frank E. Moss has announced of a bill introduced by Senator J. Caleb Boggs of Delaware, aimed at incurbing the intolerable crease in airplane hijacking. Hijacking in this country has Tcached crisis proportions. Current programs have failed, and there is increased threat to life and property. Far tougher action must be taken, he said. The bill Moss is supporting would require all passengers on regularly scheduled air flights who carry hand baggage aboard to be screened by weapons detecting devices before boarding, not just those who fit the hijackers profile as is the present policy. It would likewise take antihijacking responsibility from the Federal Aviation Administration and place enforcement in the hands of the Justice Department. Electronic devices would be furnished by the Attorney General and be under his direction. In nearly four years of dealing with the problem of hijackings the FAA has not found effective methods, Senator A & i J T m K . Committee Urged to Block Moratorium Senator Frank E. Moss, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Consumers, has urged the Senate Public Works Subcommittee not to put a moratorium on the government program to remove billboards from the nations highways. Senator Mess was author of legislation which set up systematic removal of billboards and provides federal reimbursement to signowners. I thought it would be in order to let you know how important I feel it is for the billboard removal program to continue unabated, Moss wrote the Committee Chairman Senator J. Jennings Randolph. I know that the Senate Public Works Committee shares this concern. With-- ( n Excellent Benefits: TZZZ Me::; cci, Dental, Mccie, 30 Days Fcid tion, Travel, Name Choice Of Training. Start Start Start Supply Cemrnvnicafions ....Start Electronic! ............Start Aircraft Maint Conitrudion FREE FREE Vaca- Your $288 $288 $288 $288 $288 ut attempting to intrude CONTACT: 524-402640- noA uiof oj SfuoM Auuy ! j 27 i ,Xopoj im- properly into your deliberations I felt compelled to express the hopes that no moratorium will be placed on any category of billboard removal, for any such change would seriously impair the efforts to establish fair and rapid removal. Mo. Mo. Mo. Mo. Mo. SFG WALTER D. O'lIARA Salt Lake City, Utah Jr. ng Salt Lake City Commissioner Jennings Phillips, Jr., chairman of the Salt Lake City Housing Citizens Advisory Authority Committee, has proposed that property on the west side of the Veterans Hospital be utilized as land for low cost housing. Mr. recommendation has Phillips to either purchase the been property or have the property Moss said. Moss noted that the number transferred to the city by the of now which federal government, hijackings has increased over the owns the land. years. To date 31 hijackAt a meeting of the committee ings have occurred this year two resolutions were brought up one more than in all of 1971. mawhich might iniluence the low Even more disturbing is the cost housing in the State, and liciousness which has attended which resolutions were adopted I the more recent hijackings. This five persons have lost their by the committee called for year lives as a result of hijacking at- public housing should be put in all neighborhoods, not concentrated on the west side, and suggested that the city use its general fund monies or Model City money to make up the difference in what the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban John Lattin, Utah United Fund Development can provide and the purchase price of the east president, and Alan E. Huish, side property. campaign chairman, announced The second resolution called that the United Fund goal would for the Authority to seek the be $1,774,000. this year. an This intransfer of the property or the years goal represents crease of $162,000 above the out-rigpurchase of such. collected by the United Commissioner Phillips said he for its member agencies planned to contact a Utah rep- Fund last year. resentative in Washington to beMr. Lattin pointed out that the gin an investigation of ideal increase would be needed to supproperty west of the hospital. Mr. Phillips said that the big- port the six new member agencies added to the United Fund gest problem facing the author- this to regain emergency ity is that the committee wants fundsyear, allocated to drug agencies to distribute housing equitably, disasetr and relief, and to combut that it has been difficult to costs of find land off the west side to pensate for the increased services offered by the agencies. meet HUD requirements. Mr. Lattin noted that the United Fund had advanced funds to several Salt Lake City drug prevenJob Offers Reach tion programs to enable them to High Weekly Total continue their services. Funds Utah employers placed 1,638 were also allocated to help the job openings with offices of the victims of the Rapid City flood. Mr. Huish, who will be responUtah Department of Employment Security during the week sible for direction of the camending August 5. This was the paign to collect the nearly $1.8 highest weekly total of job of- billion, stated that contribution fers for a week so far this year to the United Fund have, in the and was nearly double the num- past, often exceeded the goal set. ber received during the same Mr. Huish also said that contriweek a year ago, it was reported butions this year would need to by the employment security of- exceed the goal set even more fice. significantly than in the past in As was predicted a week ago order for the needs of the agencies to be met. continued claims for unemployNew agencies supported by the ment insurance dropped moderUtah United Fund this year inately to 8,497 from 8,649. If the normal trend occurs, clude the Utah Drdg Fodndation, continued claims will decline an organization designed to costeadily through late summer ordinate and plan drug programs and into mid autumn when the Project Reality, a drug addiction yearly low point is usually ex- treatment facility which pro-or perienced as seasonal activities vides methadone maintenance live-i- n facilities to heroin addicts both agricultural and exert their greatest and Odyssey House, a live-i- n facility working largely with ad impact on the economy. anti-hijacki- ng . When you determine what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it. Doug- las Lurtan. aac dcliU) Wc IlvCil 8 IlvW proach to deal with this increase. This bill would transfer enforcement and control to a new Office of Aviation Security within the Department of Justice. Increased emphasis would be firearm placed on screening rather than maintaining the present sky marshall pre-flig- ht system. The installation of new electronic walk through weapons detection systems would be done at the expense of the federal government. The tried and tested systems offer the best technology available without inconvenience to passengers and without time consuming baggage search. The bill would strengthen the federal statutes. Penalties for carrying an unauthorized weapon aboard aircraft would be increased substantially. Additionally, hijacking threats not now subject to prosecution under federal law would be covered by civil and criminal penalties. Senator Moss further noted that the President of the United States would be empowered under this act to break off air commerce between the U.S. and the foreign countries which refuse to extradite persons accused of air piracy. Only through increasing our effort to keep the unauthorized weapons off the planes and by strengthening penalties for hijacking can we hope to check this growing menace, Senator Moss said. anti-hijacki- ng Goal of $1,774,000 for Year Announced by United Fund $1,-607,0- ht MEN - WOMEN V L court to delete these cases from the list of accounts. The accounts which are determined to be collectible should be required to make immediate settlement. The report also claims that the state has overpaid the County S38.400 in criminal case juror and witness fees during the year due to over billings, and further payments will be withheld until this amount is balanced out. Com. Jennings Phillips, Co-sponso- red Senators Moss and Boggs anti-hijacki- Mrs. Kaye Aoki, President of the Salt Lake Legal Secretaries Association, served as delegate to the National Convention. Mrs. Lois Krause served as alternate. Bill Anti-hijacki- ng 50-mem- non-ag-ricultur- al, 00 dicts referred from the penal system, the Durg Crisis Center, an agency handling drug emergencies and providing health and counseling services, and Tooele Crisis Center, which provides crisis intervention, counseling and health services. In addition to the new drug agencies, the United Fund this year will support the Utah Association for Retarded Children, an organization providing educational and rehabilitative services for retarded persons, and the Greater Salt Lake Health Planning Council, an agency providing planning and coordination for health services. This years United Fund campaign will begin on Sept. 19 and last for nearly eight weeks. The Utah United Fund serves Salt Lake South Davis and also Tooele Counties. For information concerning this release contact the Utah United Fund. Tire Danger High In Utah Mountains Fire danger is presently high in Utah mountains, according to a Forestry and Fire Control spokesman, who cautioned deer archery hunters on the use of fire and disposal of cigarettes. Dick Klason, Deputy State Forester, said the fire hazard reading is upto nine on the ten point scale. This means the fire danger is very high, especially in the drought stricken southern part of the state. Open fires, if used at all, must be restricted to approved areas or carefully prepared fire pits, and smokers must be fully responsible for their activities. |