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Show SEE-SAW I, ON TOP OF OLD BAWLY ' Linda Sweeten wins top cowgirl cow-girl honors at the Sugar House Jaycec rodeo featuring Olympus Mounties and the Hi-Ridcrs this week. Linda's ride on this bcllcr- ! ing critter was one of the outstanding out-standing events of the great little j rodeo-horse show. j Well, sir, the clays of the old white wash in public office should be extinct by now but they're not. Too many questions go unanswered unanswer-ed or are answered with twists and riddles by men in public office when they're called on the carpet for one thing or another. ' I , But it seems the time has come to clean out the one mess that everyone disapproves of in Salt Lake City the police department. depart-ment. Better start at the top, by removing re-moving Lyle B. Nicholes from the public safety commissioner's assign- ... . -' I - - . r . . -;J i ri Jr'"i''f i-. : - tes-- - - S ' ' ssHWMrai m&sssu-.M I Is . , I " jm 'V . . -! ' -v . , - rA i : . ,; z A '. - -v 1 f - . ' t t , ;, . ., ; , '7 , ' . 7, . ' I - I r- . ? 1 ; "t ' E .'-.' . . . j f 1 ment. Because he was elected "with the idea he'd be public safety com-' missioner," doesn't mean if he's not getting results that he has to stay there. Mayor Glade can recommend the assignment change and from where we sit three other commissioners would approve it. If we don't have a commissioner commis-sioner who can handle the assignment, as-signment, we ought to shop carefully and elect one next vot ing day. Then a good, competent police chief should be named and held responsible. He should be given plenty of authority to enforce discipline, and he certainly should know police work, from the patrolman's beat to scientific crime prevention and detection. If we don't have such a qualified quali-fied man in the department, we should shop carefully on the outside out-side until we get such a police expert and then give him a salary commensurate with the job he has to do and we insist he must do. We don't believe it requires the services of the police commissioner, commission-er, a chief of police and three assistant as-sistant chiefs to administer the duties in a department the size of Salt Lake's. The element of human error must be forgiven often, and sometimes some-times especially in police work work where there are so many secretive and mysterious things in everyday work. However, the element of deliberate de-liberate misinformation, trickery or outright lieing must never be tolerated. Neither should the public sit by calmly and quietly while two fiendish murders remain unsolved, a half a dozen street bombings are still mysteries, or while the companion com-panion or companions who dumped the dead body of their fellow gunman gun-man out in the street go unapre-hended. |