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Page 24-THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Tuesday, May 24, 1977 Exhibit Presents New High Court Picture of Aaron Burr Rules on Obscenity 1 5 'a i WASHINGTON (UPI) For 170 years, Aaron Burr has been lumped with the worst of American villains, but an exhibit by the famed Smithsonian Institution proclaims he was more a hapless victim of history than a Benedict Arnold. This new view is espoused in an exhibit "Aaron Burr Acquitted" which opened Friday and runs through Oct. 28 at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Burr is portrayed as having been charged with treason because he was on Thomas Jefferson's enemies list. Jefferson philosopher-king of American history is pictured as a conniving politician.

He charged Burr with plotting to seize the west, conquer Mexico and declare himself emperor of a new country. And this exhibit is in a town which has a national monument to Jefferson and a statue of Alexander Hamilton the man Burr killed in a duel. "I'm a Jefferson historian but until I looked into this I had the traditional perception of Burr, who has always been a difficult man to track down," says Amy Henderson, gallery historian who laid out this new interpretation: Burr ran against Jefferson for president in 1800. The election was so close it was thrown to the House. -After 36 ballots the House elected Jefferson president and Burr vice president.

Four years later, still in office, Burr, thinking himself maligned, killed Hamilton in a duel and was denounced in the Hamiltonian press. Finished in the east, Burr outfitted himself in a 60-foot houseboat and went to New Orleans. He was hailed everywhere as the man to oust the Spanish from their western territory. Burr gathered a band to settle a tract in the Orleans Territory, a group which would be in position to seize Spanish lands, should war come. His thinking dovetailed with Jefferson's foreign policy.

Jefferson near- if1 WASHINGTON (UPI) The Supreme Court ruled Monday that individuals are subject to the federal ban on sending obscenity through the mail even though the state where they are acting has more permissive standards. Justice Harry Blackmun's opinion for a five-man majority upheld the conviction of Jerry Lee Smith in Des Moines, Iowa, federal court for mailing various issues of "Intrigue" magazine and other pamphlets from Des Moines to Ml. Ayr and Guthrie; and for mailing films entitled "Lovelace" and "Terrorized Virgin" to Mt. Ayr. Iowa in 1974 decriminalized distribution of arguably obscene material to adults, and forbids only distribution to minors.

The American Library Association and the Iowa Library Association supported Smith's appeal. They said the lower federal court opinions permit jurors to substitute their own, wholly subjective standard of obscenity for the standard established by the legislature. But Blackmun said in federal prosecutions, community standards are matters for the jury and the fact that the mailings were wholly within a state is irrelevant. The opinion said state law is a factor to be brought to the jury's aiiention but is not conclusive. Blackmun noted that the state is not limited in designing its statutes to carry out its own laws within the framework of the Supreme Court's 1973 opinion giving states more leeway to control hard-core pornography.

But these standards do not apply to federal proceedings. Smith was sentenced to three years in prison with all but six months suspended and three years' probation. He appealed to the Supreme Court after the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction. Dissenters were Justices William Brennan, Potter Stewart, Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens.

Stevens said Smith's acts did not even constitute a nuisance and "cannot provide the basis for a criminal prosecution." The other three cited their previously stated views that the law is throughout most of the Lower Peninsula, with temperatures in the high 80s. (UPI Telephoto.) KNEE-DEEP in early mist covering Lincoln Lake in Ludington, a lone fisherman patiently waits for prize catch. Warm, humid weather continued Monday AARON BURR ly declared war against Spain in 1805 before acquiring Spanish land through diplomacy instead. A Burr ally, Gen. James Wilkinson, secretly in the pay of Spain, betrayed Burr.

He sent Jefferson a coded letter from Burr, interpreting it to show that Burr plotted revolution. Jefferson, never having forgiven Burr for nearly winning in 1800. ordered his arrest on charges of plotting "to separate the western from the Atlantic states." In the anti-Burr climate, Chief Justice John Marshall, who presided at the Richmond trial, speculated it would be difficult for a jury to acquit Burr, "however innocent they might think him." But Burr was acquitted in the courtroom, if not in the popular mind or in history. His reputation shattered, he sailed for four years' exile in Europe. He returned and practiced law uneventfully for 20 years in New York.

Two Released From Hospital Debating Starts in Senate On Proposed Crop Supports WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Herman E. Talmadge, chairman of the Agriculture Commit SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Two of six Wyoming men burned in an oil field fire last week have been released from the University of Utah Medical tee, said Monday the Senate might have Center's Burn Unit. And the other four to back down on its proposed crop price men are now all in satisfactory condi- supports which face a veto by Presi- tion. dent Carter.

A medical center spokesman said to- As debate opened on the omnibus day Herbert Marsden, 45, Riverton, farm and food stamp legislation, and John Daws, 46, Shoshoni, were Talmadge backed the target prices and released bv the hosDital over the loan support figures for wheat, corn and other crops as "sound and defen weekend to return to Wyoming. Bundy Pleads Innocent "The federal government will have to do much more than they are thinking about now if they are to avert another economic disaster not unlike the 1930s," Young said. Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland warned Carter would veto the bill because the costs of the crop support program virtually doubled the $2 billion proposed by the administration. "The administration's cost estimates are based on the most favorable assumptions concerning the weather," Talmadge said. "We don't know what the weather, the demand or the production levels will be for the next five years.

"Our committee developed cost estimates on the basis of both favorable and variable weather," Talmadge added. "The annual cost of the commodity support programs which are the main point of concern could range from $2 billion up to $3.9 billion." sible." But he noted the House Agriculture Committee approved a bill with lower figures and added, "We may have to make some compromises when we go to conference." Two farm state senators, Milton Young, and Robert Dole, defended the bill and charged, as did Talmadge, the administration's estimate of the cost of the Senate bill of $4 billion a year were based on five years of favorable weather. The six men were flown by air ambulance to the hospital May 16 after they suffered burns in a flash fire at a Field Rocky Mountain Drilling Co. rig, 15 miles north of Shoshoni, Wyo. Alden Johnson, 26, and Vern Castoe, 34.

were admitted to the hospital in critical condition. Jessie Wilson, 32, and Roland Baker, 45, were admitted in stable condition. All four are from Riverton. Their conditions have been upgraded to satisfactory. Utah State Prison before he was transferred to Colorado.

Bundy, a former law student at the University of Utah, last year was convicted of the attempted abduction of a Utah teen-ager from a shopping center outside Salt Lake City. Effective June 1, persons enrolled in Veterans Administration educational programs will receive allowances at completion of the month's enrollment, ending prepayment procedures. E73 inUUKILI I World of Sew SEWING Qs CENTER BIGGEST SAVINGS OF THE YEAR 6 P.M. -10 P.M. NORTHEAST WING, UNIVERSITY MALL, OREM peared close to tears while describing conditions at the jail where he was moved after the Aspen jail was closed for health reasons.

Bundy said he had lost 20 pounds since being imprisoned and was receiving only two meals per day. He said the only exercise he had was in walking back and forth to the law library in the county courthouse while preparing his defense. lA)hr left a decision on an extra meal to Sheriff Ed Hogue but said Bundy should be provided with vitamins. He refused Bundy's request for sheets as bedding in the prisoner's cell. Bundy called Aspen Valley Hospital nutritionist Mary McCartney in efforts to gain a third meal, saying his weight loss interfered with his ability to prepare his defense.

Miss McCartney said two meals was sufficient unless weight loss was substantial. Bundy also complained of an abscessed tooth he said was the result of improper dental care at the ASPEN, Colo. (UPI) -Theodore Bundy pleaded innocent Monday to the slaying more than two years ago of a Michigan nurse abducted from her resort hotel. The beared Bundy, dressed in a yellow t-shirt and beige slacks, entered the plea during a hearing on motions ranging from a request for more meals to more bedding in his jail cell at nearby Glenwood Springs. Bundy, 30, is accused of the kidnaping and slaying of Caryn Campbell during a ski vacation the Michigan nurse took with her fiance in January, 1975.

Her body was found in a snowbank outside Aspen one month after her disappearance. U.S. District Judge George Lohr agreed with a request by Bundy to have an expert from a forensic science laboratory at Oakland, help him prepare a defense. Authorities have said they found strands of hair similar to Miss Campbell's in Bundy's car. Bundy, acting in his own defense, at times ap la i WHITE AND ELM SEWING MACHINES DESKS CABINETS CHAIRS NOTIONS- SPECIAL ORDERS TAKEN LIMITED STOCK ALL BRAND NEW 1977 MODELS LOWEST PRICES EVER -elna open arm A i Jr If- 0531 yjHiTE OPEN ARM Full Rotary Spin-A-Dial, Biggeit Selling Rated 1 Swin made.

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"One of the most inhumanejnethods involves the use of a large treble hook attached to a spring steel wire which is pushed down into the den ana twisted to snag the pups out by the skin," said the animal protection group's vice president John Grandy in a letter to Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus. "Whatever the method, the young coyotes are eliminated at a very early age, well before they can individually become part of our natural wildlife ecosystems and without any evidence that depredating behavior would be manifested." said Grandy. "Economically, denning is wasteful and inefficient," said Grandy. Western state livestockmen seek controls on coyote which they say are resonsible for killing young sheep and cattle. The Defenders of Wildlife contend that without artificial controls.

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