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Hew System Speeds Circuit Court- Cases; More Help Said Needed in Jackson County Salem (U.R) Hearing of cases in the Circuit Courts of Oregon have been materially speeded ud in the 16 months the chief justice of the Supreme Court has been enpowered to f asign judges and administer the lower courts, Associate Justice Earl C. Latourette said Saturday In a report covering the time he served as chief justice. The 1353 Legislature created the office of administrative as ; sistant to the chief justice and at the same time provided for the appointment by the chief justice of pro tern judges to pro mote more speedy and efficient transaction of judicial business in the Circuit Courts of the state. "The program during the first 16 months has been one of analy sis, decisions and Implementa tion, followed by re-analysis," Justice Latourette said. The reports that have been fS?t: Mliftlt. Dress Up Your Horn PRE-KUT : ORNAMENTAL IRON F Estimates R Planning Service E Literature E immediate Delivery Medford Plate Glass & Mirror Co. "If It's Glass, Wt Hay It" 37 SO. BARTLETT - PH. 2-4471 required have, in some instances, turned up cases that were lost Of forgotten, but" which have now been disposed of." Justice Latourette said the practice of keeping matters un der advisement for great leng ths of time has been discourag ed, and largely eliminated. "For the first time," he said, "it is becoming possible to get an accurate idea of the amount of business in each judicial dis trict and to make over-all plans for its disposition. Help can now be given to the hard-pressed dis tricts on more than a shot in the dark basis. By the end of 1955 all reports should be absolutely accurate and thus an excellent picture of the business status and growth of the Circuit Courts will be available." Dockets Congested When the program was launch ed, it was found that dockets were congested in Multnomah, Jackson, . Douglas, Lincoln and Yamhill counties and were on the borderline in four other counties. The increase of busi ness, long cases, sickness and death tended to prolong the sit uation and also created delay in several other counties. During the 16 months from September, 1953, through De cember, 1954, Marion, Douglas, Jackson, Lane, Linn, Multno mah, Polk and Yamhill counties received the greatest aid through assignment of judges from other districts and from pro tem or temporary judges. Multnomah county received the bulk of the aid. In early 1953, Latourette said, cases were being tried there which had been filed 12 months before. By Ap ril, 1954, the time lag was re duced to six months. In Decem ber, 1954, it had slipped back to nine months. "Such backsliding is not ab normal," Justice Latourette noted, during the fall, due to vacations and holidays. Spring generally sees a whittling away at the backlog. Lawyers Named Judges "At the present, time," the justice said, "more help is in dicated for Douglas, . Jackson, Lane, Linn, Lincoln, Marion and Multnomah counties. The Linn county situationeems to be of a temporary basis, however. ' " The month of April, 1954," pro- Hughes Denies Any Facts Withheld on Dixon-Yates Pact Washington U.R) Budget Director Rowland R. Hughes de nied Friday that any important facts and circumstances concern ing the Dixon-Yates power con tract have been concealed by the budget bureau. ' He replied to a charge made by Sen. Lister Hill (D-Ala) that "certain essential facts" con cerning the conroversial con tract had been "deliberately concealed." , - Hill told the' Senate Adolphe W. Wenzell, vice-president Of the First Boston Corp., an in vestment bank, was advising the budget director on the contract while Wenzell's bank was ar ranging to finance construction of the proposed plant. Joseph M. Dodge, a - Detroit banker who is now a special ad viser to President Eisenhower, was budget director at the time. Hill said he was advised by Hughes himself that Wenzell had served . intermittently as a special consultant on Tennes see Valley authority matters. Hughes said he informed Hill: "Toward the end of Mr. Wen zell's service as a consultant on other matters, and after discus sions with the Dixon -Yates group were underway, he (W en zell sat in with others on a few early discussions of technical matters when they related to his field of finance." Hughes said Wenzell's ' ser vices were used off and on for a total of 34 days between May 20, 195, and March 2, 1954. Hughes said. Wenzell served without pay. In another development,, the Securities and Exchange com mission turned down a request by oppon ents of the Dixon Yates contract . for a rehearing on the SEC's Feb. 9 approval of financial plans for the project. vided a thorough and dramatie test of the value of the 1953 en actment authorizing the chief justice to appoint temporary jud ges. Illness caused four vacan cies on the circuit bench that month in Douglas, Lane, Mar ion, Polk and Yamhill counties. In order to replace the four cir cuit judges and proceed with plans to expedite the trial of cases in several counties, 11 pro tem judges were appointed to sit in eight counties. During the 21 months from March 30, 1953 through Decem ber 31, 1954, a total of 25 law yers were appointed pro tem judges for 1806 judicial days. Cost $40,700 . Multnomah eounty was aided by pro tem judges for a total of 1268 days by 19 different law yers. Douglas county was next with 182 days by five lawyers; Lane county with 116 days by seven lawyers; Marion - county 112 days by four lawyers; Linn count 60 days by three lawyers; Jackson county 27 days by one lawyer; Polk and Yamhill coun ties, 12 days by one lawyer; Lin coln county, 12 days by one lawyer; Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties, 10 days by one lawyer, and Clatsop and Til lamook counties, six days by one lawyer. The total cost of the pro tem judges during this. 21 months period was $40,700. Justice Latourette endorsed the plan of a judicial council. He said "when a judicial council works in conjunction with an administrative office, the prog ress has been even more marked. I believe that ' the creation of such a council will have a salu tary effect." AFL-CIO Merger Gains 300,000 More Supporters Washington U.R) The pro posed AFL-CIO merger has picked up 300,000 more sup porters. 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Supreme Court's decision banning segre gation in public schools. 2. mow the country's youth reacts in the non-segregated armed forces. Bishop noted that achieving a struggle, not a matter of racial and religious tolerance is sweetness and light. Learning to live together, he said, is not easy.. ... . , Alleged U.S. Agent Gets 15-Yeor Term Vienna, Austria -r- (U.R) An alleged "agent of the U. S. In telligence Service" has been sentenced to 15 years imprison ment by Communist Poland, ac cording to a Warsaw newspaper. The Gazeta Zielonogorska said Karol Kaiser "confessed his crimes" after beins cantured last June 6 by Polish border guards. Kaiser, it said ' admitted he was recruited by Americans in Berlin and turned over "state secrets" and other information he collected in Poland between 1947 and 1953. Sunday. February 20, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUITE XTKB New Drug Believed Possible Cure for Schizophrenics Galveston. Tex. (U.R) The American Psychiatric Associa tion, holding a two-day meeting here, planned Saturday to thoro ughly discuss a new drug called "frenquel" that is a possible cure for schizophrenia. Dr. Howard D. Fabing of Cin cinnati, president of the Amer ican Academy of Neurology and discoverer of "frenquel," was to read a paper on results of ex periments with! the new drug. Collective Term Schizophrenia is collective term for several types of insani ty, where the patient loses con tact with his environment. Dr. Fabing said he experi mented ?with the drug on two young students of psychiatry and then with 75 private psycho pathic patients. He said the tests were "by no means conclusive," but they "offer new hope 'and optimism." Good results were noted in more than half the 75 private patients. "We haven't found the peni cillin for all mental diseases yet," he said, "but we have found a cure for many of the victims of the schizophrenic types." 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