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Show ?So Far, So Good New Criminal Code Presents No Problems By Douglas L Parker vanous degrees of misdemeanor' and Tribune Staff Writer After three weeks of use, the states new criminal code has presented no major alterations in the justice system, according to judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officers I've heard no massive complaints about it, said 3rd District Judge D Frank Wilkins But tneres not really been a chance to get the flavor or a sense of the code, and if any incongruities will develop " Judge Wilkins is the states presiding d tnct ludge and since the new code has Some point to a quirk or two in the switchover from the old to the new code, but mainly it's "so far so good," although all emphasize the trial period is too short to measure the code's impact been effective he has been assigned to criminal cases within his district The cases to be bound over from city court jurisdiction for trial haven t really hit us yet, he explained It has been determined, he added, that the lesser sentence, whether under the new code or the old code, would be No Complaints The new code, passed by the last Itah Legislature, became effective July 1 It revamps classifications of crimes under new designations of offenses including Dan Valentines MONDXY WASH LINE: A new ruling allows employes of the City of Milwaukee to play during their lunch hour and during coffee breaks' Judge Croft, who participated in recommending certain sections of the new code, pointed to the desirabilitv of reducing the number of sentences available to the judge for purposes of uniformity as the new code does Too Fariy Spencer L Haycock, chief deputy county attorney in charge of criminal prosecution, called the extortion case See Page 20, Column r Valentine to you, sir. Show me a man who doesnt mind the price of meat and ID show you a veg- - etarian! Monday Morning, July 23, 1973 Second Section percent Iage 17 p So far in July, the precipitation recorded at the airport has been .89 mch, 49 inch above normal for the period And the annual water year precipitaand far above normal tion is a full 16 85 inchts, 4 48 inches above normal Oddly, the heavy rams were mostly along the bench areas For example, the airport only had 12 inch from the thunderstorm, while bench areas had considerably higher reports. Then, when the storm clouds hit Alta, Brighton and even Park City, the ram was light. ... June By JoAnn Jacobsen Tnbune Staff Wnter The fact there has never been a woman on the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Governors doesnt there probmean there will not be one according to ably will be one soon Fred S Ball, executive vice president of the chamber The main reason so far has been that not enough women have been eligible to join the chamber Salt Lake just doesnt have that' many professional busmess women. Its an area of small businesses which are not conducive to woman executives, Ball said. Mr But, Mr Ball says be "wouldn't mind 30, 1973. Gov. Calvin L. Rampton immediately opposed two of the proposed regulations, saying he would take to court any restrictions on building of parking lots or any indefinite rationing of gasoline. Salt Lake City Mayor Jake Gam, in a letter to Mr. Green, declared, Salt Lake City cannot and will not comply with your proposals. City Commissioner Conrad B. HarriI cant understand the son commented, people in Washington coming out here and putting us in a straight jacket. It is far beyond comprehension. It looked threatening over Salt Lake Citys line as viewed from 7th South and 11th East Tribune staff photo by Lynn R. Johnson sky- Sun- - I J ust Another and the threat panned thunderstorm struck valley. day just before g out whei 6 p.m., fast-movin- Bolt Outa Blue (Moon) (AP) - It a blue Victor Says Thanks for the $1,000 Check, Mate chess player took top honors Sunday during the final day of the Days of 47 Chess Tournament at the Hotel Utah Walter Browne, an mtornatnnal grandmaster and the fourth ranked player m the United States, was the overall winner He received $1,000 in prize money. event began last ThursThe four-dahotels the Lafayette and Junior day in ballrooms. Some 163 entrants tned to checkmate vanous opponents during the event Total prize money awarded vanous winners totaled $5,000, according to Gordon Siegel, tournament organizer A New York City Renowned chess authonty George Koltanowski acted as director for the activities, which were sponsored by the Utah Chess Assn Aside from the overall winner, Mr Browne, six other participants were awarded cash prizes y Mr Siegel explained that, in many m one divicategones, there were ties tie for first sion there was an eight-waplace. The ties are broken, Mr Seigel said, by adding up the total scores of a players vanous opponents. y The trophy is thpn awarded to the player who beat the strongest opponents. The cash pnze, however, is distnbuted evenly among all the players, tn a tie situation , Winners are First Expert, Clark Harmon, Oregon, first A, Ramesh Rahalkar, Salt Lake City, first B. D Jellison, New York City, first C, Rick Craig, Bngham Marvin Bradshaw, first D-City, Granger; first unrated, Lome Houten, Salt Lake City, Jumor Trophy (15 18), Peter Winston, New York City; Junior Trophy (under 15), James Bagley, New CalJersey, first woman, Betty Roberts, ifornia, and the brilliancy pnze for the best played game went to Robert Bneg-e-r, Texas Someday Theyll Prove It Who Said percent Prohibition of any parking, after next Jan. 10, in downtown Salt Lake City . . . between South Temple and 5th South beand West Temple and 2nd East tween 6 and 10 a m. and 4 and 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Gasoline sales would be limited to the amount sold between July 1, 1972, and He warned that visitors in the forest areas should not relax their caution in the use of matches, cigarettes, campfires or any other fire use. Utah-Nevad- 46 Special lanes for car pools (three or more passengers) and buses from 6 to 9am and 4 to 6 30 p m weekdays. EPA permits to be required for construction or expansion of parking lots after Aug 15. underbrush which provides fuel for any fire. Should a period of dry, hot weather follow the thunderstorm activity, the fire danger can almost immediately erupt into a high fire danger One of Series the Provo area and Noting that requirements of the Clean Air Act of 1970 leave EPA no altema-Uv- e, John A Green, Denver, regional EPA administrator, announced on July 6 the following proposed regulations: Installation of emission control equipment on existing ca's, mandatory ($5) inspecby July 1, 1975, and tions. However, the storm Sunday did not cause any damage as have the last three thunderstorm fronts which passed through the region. The senes of thunderstorms have been beneficial in several ways. Chandler P. St John, superintendent of the Wasatch National Forest, for example, noted that fire danger in the forest was now listed as condition 3, a median fire danger listing. However, he warned, the early spnng an snows and rains have caused and of grasses growth heavy extremely The storm which briefly hit the Salt Lake Valley was one of a senr, of thunderstorms along a line which moved in from the west, dropping vaned amounts of ram over Utah beginning at noon a border and along the spreading to the Wasatch Front by 6 p m. in in Ogden. TODAYS VALENTINE SAM, THE SAD CYNIC, SAYS: Sports Proposed air quality control regulations on the Wasatch Front by Environmental Protection Agency, which have aroused a storm of local official protest, will be presented at an initial public hearing next Friday at 10 a.m in State Office Building auditonum. federal regulations The proposed would affect Salt tveher, Dazis and Utah counties, designed to reduce pollution 54 percent m Salt Lake City, 51 No Damage color. And Page 20 Proposals Due For Discussion All-tim- The theory of the thumpers is that If the melon sounds hollow, It isnt so good if it feels solid, its a buy. However, the watermelon experts say the thumps dont mean a thing when it comes to watermelon buying. Experts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture say the way to teU a good watermelon from a bad watermelon is to look at its beUy. A good watermelon has a rounded belly . . . and should have a creamy And eariy tomonow morning he will at the starting gate making sure that every parade entry is in the proper place it the proper time Without a man like Oscar, the parade would be a mess Local News Hearing Scheduled The minimum was only 58 degrees, no Many vouch for the thump method They stand around the produce departments of the local supermarkets and thump the melons with then fingers. be TV Today Air Quality record, but two degrees below normal for the date The high reading was a full 21 degrees below the normal 55 degrees expected for the date The unusual cool period for July followed a senes of extremely high readings in the early part of the month when temperatures hit some record readings for each day of from 100 to 104 degrees e record for the Salt Lake International Airport is 107 degrees, not yet hit this year. Rain on the east bench area of the Wasatch Front was heavier, but no official reports of amounts could be found. Estimates indicated that a quarter to a half inch fell. MOBILE HOME owners in the Salt Lake area are getting restive. They dont like paying sales taxes on their mobile homes when buyers of regular homes dont have to pay sales taxes . . . and they also dont like paying yearly house taxes and a license fee in addition big law suit coming up . . . We are right smack in the middle of and it if still a watermelon season mystery how to ten a good watermelon from a bad melon when it isnt cut. who keeps everything in order fa Oscar He Drake, and hes the man who lines up all the floats and the bands and the other attractions in so they all go down the proper order the street in their proper place. Oscar fa an old hand at Days of f47 Parades . . . fab 4 Record High The high temperature which was a at the airport was 74 degrees, record record for the lowest beating the e high temperature for the date of 78 degrees set m 1954 . . The big Days of 47" Parade is tomorrow and this is a good time to give an extra special Valentine to the fellow Halt to Tell Other than that it s a little too early to tell about the code The whole things up for grabs m the testing of legal points, and 1 doubt if it 11 be coming One more hit the Salt Lake Valley Sunday at just a coupie of minutes after 6pm, dumping 12 inch of ram in less than 10 minutes g A Varney Aar Lines plane took off or. New Code And it is all due to the rash of thunderstorms which have been plaguing the Intermountain Region for the past week or more g that date m Pasco, Wash, stopped at Boise and ended the flight at the Elko Airport . . . That was 47 years ago . . . My, my, how time flies . . . In the past the enme would have been a felony with hf possibility of several years m prison included in the sentence But under the new code, because the enme is scaled on the amount of money actually involved, it was determined the offender was guilty of a misdemeanor enme carrying only a sentence of three months in jail because less than $100 was actually involved 1 incident a "free rule." although he granted that s the prosecutor in him talking He said mere is a case pending involving the break in and theft of si cars that points to another free ride available under the code Second degree burglary could be charged before, carrying 1 to 20 years penalty, but the new code provides a separate classification for vehicle burglary carrying op to one vear imprisonment he said But it must have been Which brings up obv.ous question- Are Salt Lake City employes allowed to play ping-pon-g during their lunch and coffee breaks? And if not, why not? 4"n Vauentiiie I imagine Salt Lakes mayor, Jake Gam, would be in favor of playing ping-ponduring lunch breaks after all, when Jake attended the University of Utah, he was the campus ping-ponchampion for three years 1926. The county proecjting office described one quirk young man was found guilty of extortion He asked for a large sum of money But he was caught picking up only $12 used as bait to stop the extortion riot The situation sort of offended my thinking when I heard about it " sa.j 3rd Distnct Judge Bryant H Croft, although he had no connection with the case He said the instance suggests that maybe not all possibilities of criminal circumstances have been in the code It has to be a cold day in July for a g The surface should be smooth, and the rind should have a slight dullness, neither shiny or dull. ACTUALLY, its safer to buy waterbut be sure they melons already cut with no white are nice and red inside streaks! The reason lots of the young people m the smaller Utah communities are looking so happy these days is because there is a definite possibility that the gasoline shortage may curtail the use of school buses, and school could be a little late this September. Actually, I doubt if there is anything to the idea, but the rural kids are in there hoping . . . A recent survey reveals it is almost Impossible for a human being to sleep 1 longer than 16 boars at one time pess the folks making the survey have never met my brother-in-law- ! You learn something every day. Like, for instance, I traveled to Elko, Nev., and discovered that the city last week of Elko was on the tail end of the first scheduled commercial aviation flight in the history of the United States. The histone event iok place April 6, 1 record to be set for the coldest day the running. applicable in cases initiated before July if there is any disci epanev July Chill? Sure Storms Aid Nothing Serious ping-pon- fel- onies. Its Mans World? Not the C. of C. a woman on the board at all And, hes sure that, because women participation in the chamber is increasing, there will be a woman elected to the Board of Governors next year or the year after Mr Ball said women membership m the chamber has doubled in the past two years. Today, of the 1,600 members, 55 are women Two years ago Mr Ball said he formed the Women's Council, to get women involvement and input. Today he says its the most active group m the chamber Mrs Dons Taggert, public relations officer, Zions First Notional Bank, and first pres.dent of the Women's Council agrees Mrs. Taggert said that until the formed there was Womens Council never a woman active enough to serve s on the Board of Governors In the past we have bee l tailends on Mrs Taggart committees, But today, for the first time, we said have an Idea of whats going on chamber Members of the Womens Council are encouraged to belong to at least one other committee in the chamber, Mr. Ball said, and 90 percent cf them do And, seven women are serving m majr capacities on other committees. Mr Ball said these figures proe two that women want to become things involved, and that more women are starting to serve in top coiporate capacities Mr Ball explained that Board of Governors members are elected by the entire chamber membership from a slate of eight nominees drawn up by the past five immediate presidents of the board. However, Mr Ball said anyones name can be petitioned to the ballot with the signatures of 25 council members. FREEDOM, WYO. could only happen once in moon, an insurance agent reassured dairymen Rex Wolfley and Merrill McNeel after lightning killed a bull and three of their cows here last year And, besides, the agent told them, cost of insuring against such freak losses w ould be prohibitiv e. No one reported a blue moon over Wyoming last week, but less than a mile from the site of the year-aglightning strike, nature's electrical fury lashed out again, downing a pine tree. The falling tree killed 17 Holstein cows, 2 spnng heifers and a steer, resulting in a $10,000 loss, the two men said. o 100-fo- abanNow theyre contemplating doning the dairy business, they added. Brigham Youth, 17, Injured by Pistol Eight Board of Governors members are elected each year to serve three-yea- r terms Special to The Tribune A BRIGHAM CITY Bngham City youth was in satisfactory condition at the McKay-De- e Hospital, Ogden, Sunday following an accidental shooting here. Lt. Charles Earl, Brigham City Police Although the names of several women have been suggested to the nominating committee, Mr Ball s?'d the past presidents decided the men were more de- Department, reported that George son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Kennmgton, 652 Shamrock, was apparently cleaning an automatic, pistol when U discharged, about 2.40 pjn. - Ken-rnngto- serving In the past the odds have been against women, Mr Ball said y V Earl said the bullet entered the youths stomach and exited above bis LL right pelvis. |