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Show Page rour FRIDAY, OCTOBER THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Self Lake Mining 6 Legal Newt Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Second Class Postage paid at Salt Lake City, Utah 4 South West Temple Telephone Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 GLENN BJORNN, Pohliafaet "This publication is not owned or controlled by aay party, clan, clique, faction or corporation." 7 1 i 564-846- Number 26 Volume 55 Newspapers Spirit Of Freedom (Continued from page one) protected big newspapers and small newspapers . . . good newspapers and bad ones . . . responsible journalists and irresponsible hacks. During this period of time, the American press has had . . . and does have . . . an overwhelming majority of competent and responsible members. To be sure, the dissidents, and rabble rouses, the kooks have been around and have had the opportunity to be heard. But the voices of reason, of responsibility and good judgment have prevailed . . . and will continue to prevail so long the press is free. They have prevailed because the citizens have been informed, because vital issues have had full public examination and discussion. Perhaps Benjamin Franklin expressed it best with these words : Tis my belief . . . that when men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage or being heard in public. When the truth and error have fair play - truth is always an overmatch. During this Bicentennial year, it will be well for all of us to remember that the free discussion of public business is the prerequisite of liberty. We must keep in mind that any limitation placed on the right of free exno matter how repression of any person or group pugnant their cause may be . . is an infringement on the rights of all of us. F reedom of speech and of the press have made us a free people. May we, as a nation, have the wisdom to recognize and perpetuate that truth. ... . Sun's Brightness Varies Observations since 1950 suggest that the suns brightness is not constant but mav van- measurably from time to time, astronomers at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, - Arizona, reported to the National Science Foundation (XSF' recently. Fstil new. astronomers have assumed that the suns brightness was essentially without change The finding, the Lowell astronomers said, could cause long-rang- e forecasters to change their inputs to climate models that use data on global air circulation and solar radiation. Dr. W es Lockwood, principal investigator in the project, said his observations show that the reflected sunlight from the planets Uranus and Neptune as well as Titan, the largest of Saturns nine satellites, has definitely become brighter since at least 1972. On metrod of monitoring the sun s brightness involves measuring the reflected sunlight from the outer planets and comparing it with light from stars that are nearby in the sky. When one compares the brightness of a planet with that of nearby stars, two uncertainties that are encountered in direct measurements of solar radiation are avoided. First, the long-terstability of the receiver is not a significant factor in the accuracy of results since different sets of comparison stars can be used from time to time to cancel the effects of planetary motion. Second, the effect of absorption of light bv the earths atmosphere. which is a serious limiting factor in direct measurements. cancels out to a large degree in differential measurements, such as are used in comparing the planets with stars. brightness measurements of Uranus and Neptune m r THE SALT LAKE TIMES State Auditor Stirs Controversy Resists Attorney General Opinion the LEASED the Board of Examiners By tradition most state encies follow the opinion writ- lowed Monson only per dien for ten by the Utah Attorney the trips. GRHPEVIKt The board policy on out of eral Office citing the constitudiem and of state state travel calls for so ag- al- Gen- per validity tionality law. Now comes the Utah State only but the legislature a few Auditor David S. Monson who is years ago passed a law saying legislators can receive actual and stirring controversy by not fol-lwi- l as 10, 1975 ng an opinion issued several necessary expenses. weeks concerning out of state On Sept. 11 Monson wrote a state travel request of legislators. letter to the Legislative ManageThe opinion written by Paul ment Committee urging legislaTinker assistant Utah attorney tors to file a suit to settle the general and released by Utah At- question but in the meantime torney General Vernon Romney he wouldnt withhold payment say out of state travel request for on any expense vouchers that legislators must be channeled havent gone before the Board through the state Board of Ex- of Examiners. Thus Monson apaminers. parently wont challenge sev-- I Tinker cited that the board as eral vouchers to be sent through the authority to rule on all jhis office for legislators attendclaims against the state provided ing the National Conference of State Legislatures this week. for by the Utah Constitution. A total of 27 persons are atThe opinion was requested by Lt. Governor Clyde L. Miller be- tending the conference at a cost cause Monson submitted out of of more than $14,000 Travel exstate travel request for actual penses for eight legislative staff and necessary expenses citing a employees and Monson were aplaw which allowed him to do so. proved by the Board of ExamMr. Tinker however ruled that iners but requests for the 18 legthe Utah Constitution supersedes islators havent been approved the law passel by the legislature by the Board. W Geologists are keeping a eye on the Manti Canyon slide this week after a small earthquake rumbled through the area. The quake wasnt felt by local residents but was picked up by seismic instruments. It was centered near Mayfield about 10 miles south of the slide. It is felt however that it was doubtful that the tremor would affect the massive slide which has been creeping into Manti Canyon for several months. A move is now underway that may result in a renovation of the weather beaten concrete lions at the east and west entrances of the State Capitol Building. Lt. Gov. Clyde L. Miller has an ap- pointment with Governor Calvin L. Rampton to discuss ways to raise some $35,000 that will be used to recast the four lions in a plastic material that resemble marble The lions are literally faing apart and do not reflect were made between 1050 and 1000 at Lowell Observat- the kings of beasts. The last -- inch d 21 ory' using Utah legislature appropriated telescopes. In the new series of studies. Titan, the largest of S75.000 to replace the lions but satellite the bill was vetoed by Rampton Saturns satellites and the onlv solar-svstebecause it named a specific known to have an atmosphere, was added to the program. sculptor to do the job. 42-an- m Observations between 1050 and 100(5 showed that the brightness of Uranus and Neptune varied in the same wav, suggesting the sun as the cause, Dr. Lockwood, who was made the principal investigator in 1070, said. It is obvious from our measurements since 1072 that Titan, Uranus, and Neptune have all brightened significantly and that the amount of brightening is not the same for each color. Titan has become bluer, Uranus appears marginallv redder, and Neptune is unchanged Gerald Hulbert Utah Liqour Control Commission chairman pleaded not guilty this week to four mre grand jury indictments. He appeared with his attorney-in the courtroom of Third District Judge Bryant Croft. Mr. Hulbert has been charged with 100 grand jury indictments in the past five months and is scheduled to go on trial Oct. 14 in color. on three involving alleged misof six cases of liquor this The big mystery at point, Dr. Lockwood said, handling counts of perjury. concerns the interpretation of the data. If we exclude and four Titan from the discussion pecause of the possible effects caused by its changes in seasons, then Uranus and Neptune suggest that the sun may be varying in the visible spectrum by one or two percent. Whether the number is one percent or 0.1 percent is of great importance both to climatologists and to people working on dynamic models of the terrestrial atmosphere. Bv extension, there is an input to the current climate and to its subsequent effects on world food production. An alternative explanation, he added, is that the sun is basically constant in the visible region, but varies in the ultraviolet, for example, in such a wav a to cause changes in the atmosphere of the planets that, in turn, changes the reflecting power of the planets. Future spacecraft observations of the suns radiation will help decide if one of these explanations is correct. Dr. Lockwood said. did! SQO Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! ? The Utah State Court Administrators office will propose that four new district judges be added in Utah in a meeting scheduled with Governor Rampton this week. Richard Peay. state court administrator and two Salt Lake attorneys will outline the need for the additional judge-ship- s because of heavy caseloads present judges are carrying. Under the proposal two of the new judges would go to the Third District which now has 10 judges one would be assigned to the Second Judicial District which now has four judges and on the fourth judicial district which presently has three judges. Salt Lake City this week filed a suit seeking to prevent Salt Lake city from charging it fees for filing court documents and having deputy sheriffs serve court papers about three weeks ago the court informed the city it was going to start charging to have deputies serve legal paper on the city. City attorney Roger Cutler advised the city commissioner that the county must serve these papers as a service to municipalities according to state law. The city commission directed that a sui the brought and it filed this week in Third District Court. It charges that the court is willfully refusing to fulfil . . statutory duties of fiing court documents and serving court papers free of charge to . |