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Show SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH House Speaker Assures New Auditor Generals Office Not Political FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1975 United States Senate Rises to Controversy over Campaign Reform County Clerk Receives Authority For performance audits to succeed, the auditing staff must not be associated with any political identification, Dr. Knighton said. The standard sought is fairness and impartiality, he added. Its not an adequate analogy to describe the auditor generals role as that of a watchdog, he said. The office has a preventive role of contributing to conditions for better controls and efficiency by state agencies, he explained. Dr. Knightons post was endorsed by the public in 1972 voter approval of a constitutional amendment permitting the office. The legislative general session last March created the post. Dr. Knighton said Utah joins about 35 other states in having legislative audit systems. Rep. Rencher is chairman of the audit subcommittee of the bipartisan legislative committee" which Sterling W. Evans, County Clerk House Speaker Ron Rencher, appointed the auditor general. In a letter this week 3rd District assured department in the Over the theory, years, heads this week that the new Judge Bryant H. Croft authorized controlled has Salt Lake County Clerk Sterling W. budgetary legislature Legislative Auditor Generals Office said. Rencher Evans to issue marriage licenses to purse strings, Rep. will not be used for political purposfiscal has lacked the males without parental oversight es or to embarrass you in any But it after appropriations are made. He consent ; way. The letter was in response to a He commented at an orientation assured departmental heads that office wouldnt auditor the generals request from Mr. Evans as to session of more than 100 executive tool a used as be by legislative whether his office should begin branch department directors and for leaders gains. political any issuing the licenses to assistants to the House of Repre- men. - - Judge Croft ruled Oct. 8 that the Utah law requiring men between 18 and 21 to obtain parental consent to marry was unconstitutional. This weeks letter okayed the Zion Park in September. Itold Mr. issuance of licenses since, it is Everhardt that the neither the Salt Lake extension of the overnight apparent nor the Attorney concessions is, in my judgment, the County Attorney Generals office intends to appeal best answer to the question of decision," Judge Croft wrote. whether or not the privately oper- myMrs. Geradine Martin, marriage ated cabins should remain in Zion license clerk, said her office will Park, Rep. Howe stated. If the issue a marriage license to an cabins are retained for this period of man without consent as time," the Congressman explained, soon as one shows up. it will give TWA Services, Inc., the present concessioner, or Another concessioner that the Park Service might find acceptable, time to make improvements in the cabins, which frankly are needed, and time to recover the investment made in those improvements. It will also E. Barney Gesas has been named of town the Springdale director of the Salt Lake County Bar give nearby time to build additional accommoda- Legal Services, it was announced tions and improve its sewer and this week by B. L. Dard Jr., board water systems so that it will be of directors chairman. better able to handle an increased Gesas has been serving as "deputy visitor load if, at the end of the director. He has been employed by extension period, a decision is made Salt Lake County Bar Legal Servicout or reduce the number es since 1971 and formerly served as to Congressman Allan T. Howe of phase overnight cabins in Zion Park. I dark and staff attorney. asked National Park Service DirectA 1972 graduate of the University or Gary E. Everhardt to decide in think this additional development beneeded for time is of Springdale Utah College of Law, Gesas favor of the Congressmans proposal is I believe cause dont Springdale earned his undergraduate degree at to retain overnight accommodations of accommodating the University of Idaho. in Zion National Park for seven to currently capable it would be new all tourists the He has served on the Utah State ten years. if cabins handle called on are to the Bar Law and Poverty Committee During a meeting this week in of end out this the at and has participated in U.S. Senate year, Congressman Howes office, the phased now Service Park as the plans. hearings on special legislation.. His Congressman restated the proposal Service Park the since Also, plans courtroom activities for indigent he originally made during testimony if even services the clients include public utilities cases some to retain at a hearing on the Zion Park and federal suits. (Continued on page 5) master plan at a public hearing in. 18-year-- ld Howe Asks for 7 to 10 year Extension Of Zion Park Concessions seven-to-ten-ye- This past week the Senate, responding to a proposal to reform its won campaign practices, made loud overtones on Capitol Hill. The question before the Senate was whether it would permit the Federal Election Commission to require an accounting, as campaign funds, of the maney that goes into and out of the privately-raise"constituent service funds maintained by many senators and House members. The answer, after all the oratory ended, was, No. The reason? The Senate complained that the proposed regulation favored the House, the President, the Vice President and everybody else who harbors ideas about landing one of those $45,000 jobs in Washington. These demands had their irony because the only Such funds known to exist are maintained by members of Congress., They are irreverently called slush funds and last got attention when Sen. Richard Nixons became a campaign issue in 1952. This disclosure prompted Nixon's "Checkers speech but did not change the congressional prac d Salt Lake County Bar Legal Service Names Director . ed after Watergate. This raised such a fuss that thefec proposed regulating the funds as campaign accounts only in the last two years of Senate terms r and the last year of House terms. That is what the Senate rejected, insisting on the same r control period as the House even though that would give a senator five years of unrestricted six-ye- ar two-yea- one-yea- use compared to a House member's one year. And, despite documented evidence that incumbents in Congress have built-icampaign advantages worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and are able to raise three times as much campaign money as challengers, the Senate demanded that potential political rivals also report their service funds, if any. TOD AY n S EDITORIAL Some Die a Little ar ld tice of maintaining private funds for unofficial purposes. The funds can be and are used for political purposes. The REC, made up mostly of former members of Congres.s knew that and proposed to require incumbents to report all receipts and expenditures under the federal campaign finance law enact- Each Day With Veterans Day upon us, whether it be a long weekend in October or the traditional November 11, it is time to take a serious look at the meaning of the day, and not the day on which it may fall. It is a day dedicated to those who have served us in times of need, not only in World War I or World War II, Korea or Vietnam, but those who have serve America since 1776. Traditionally, veterans have been willing to look beyond public recognition or the lack of it and have postponed their careers and risked their lives whenever they were called. While they were taking their chances on foreign battlegrounds, they were not thinking about the parades, or medals or ceremonies that would accompany their homecoming. They were still facing them worrying about the after the medals started to tarnish. Whether or not there would be wreaths on their graves each year was not as much of a concern as whether there would be a life worth returning to after the war. The question facing Vietnam veterans today is the same question that nagged previous re-adjustm- ent (Continued on page 4) |