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
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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. The added strength eame
when President Joseph Beirne
of the CIO Communications
Workers union pledged the
support of his union. Beirne also
offered a name for the new or
ganization, "The American Con
gress of Labor." ,
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U.S. Tolerance Said
Facing Two Tests
Chicago (U.R) - Two tests
of the nation's racial and re
ligious tolerance face the nation
today, the vice-president of the
National Conference of Christ
ians and Jews said Friday.
Led K. Bishop addressed cere
monies here at which Boy
Scouts honored George Wash
ington. Bishdp said the tests are: ,
1 How the nation handles ap
plication of the U. S. 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
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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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