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JX. NOVEMBER 20. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Reeder Savs Trial Dates Up to Court Jackson rv..4.. m-j.::, . lomey Thomas Reeder said ouraay that "It is the re sponsibility of the circuit court to set trial dates for all civil and criminal cases" in Jackson county, and that the two circuit Judges are able nd responsible and fulfill this responsibility, as well as their other duties, in a fair and judicious manner." Reeder said his statement was in answer to a letter from Floyd McCabe, Butte Falls, in which McCabe criticized the district attorney for a delay in scheduling a trial for Leon ard Nelson; the "possible il legal detainment of the de fendant; and the totally un necessary detention of the two material witnesses to the crime." McCabe's letter to Reeder was published in the Mail Tribune's communications col umn Friday. Nelson is charged with first degree murder in connection with the death of William Car ley Campbell, 55, in Medford Aug. 13, this year. Witnesses Being Held Two material witnesses are being held in the Medford city jail awaiting the trial, which is scheduled to start in circuit court Uec. 5 that a judge, in setting a trial date "must take into conside ration many factors including the orderly sequence of other cases which are ready for trial. In this particular case, Leonard Nelson has been in dicted for first degree murder. "The court has appointed an able and responsible attor ney to defend Mr. Nelson. His attorney is in a far better po sition, I believe, to represent the rights of his client than is Mr. McCabe. The trial date of the Nelson case has been en tirely agreeable to his attor ney and indeed, was scheduled as such in part upon the urg ing of his attorney." Are Grateful Reeder noted that the two material witnesses being held pending the trial of Nelson are the two men who witness ed the crime. "They were of considerable assistance to the police in solving this crime, and the immediate arrest of Nelson. We are grateful to them for this," the district at torney said. "However, it is imperative mat tnese men be available when this case is tried. These two men are transients and have no permanent residence. iney are in tne habit of drift ing aimlessly about the coun dj :.T V. a""'-35iy aooui tne coun- Reeder said in his statement 1 try. It is also a fact that each WU Debating Team In National Finals Salem, Ore. - IUPI) - Willam ette university defeated Mon tana State university Satur day in finals of the Pacific Northwest Regional Moot court competition. Willamette, which won the national championship last year, will send its team to the national finals in New York Dec. 7-9. Friday the Willamette team defeated the University of Washington to gain the finals here and Montana made the runoff by beating University of Idaho. The Willamette team in cludes Harl A. Haas, Salem; William Crowe, Eugene; Brent W. Bates of Bakers field, Calif., and the faculty advisor, Alister McAlister. has a long record of arrests and neither is a stranger to jail. "In this situation I had no reasonable alternative except to request the court to have them held as material witness es. A murder case is not a trivial matter. "I would be derelict in my responsibility to the people of this county and this state if I permitted these witnesses to leave this area and not be able to produce them for the trial," Reeder said. Thorough Research Stressed At Clinic on Countv Charter Reports given by represen tatives of various county char ter committees at last week's county charter clinic meeting in Portland stressed thorough research, study of present county government and out lines of goals. Tuberculosis Is Subject of Show Common misconceptions and fallacies about tuberculosis will be discussed on "Adven tures in Medicine" over KBES-TV at 5 o'clock this af ternoon, according to the Jackson County Tuberculosis and Health association, spon sors of the program. Mrs. C. Ivan Burton, mo derator of the bi-weekly medi cal panel series, who attended the annual meeting of the Ore gon Tuberculosis and Health association last May, quoted one of the speakers, Dr. J. Arthur Myers, Professor of In ternal Medicine and Public Health, from the University of Minnesota's Medical Grad uate Schools, in stating "there is no quick solution to the problem of tuberculosis. Peo ple living with the disease are A Benton county charter committee member said his group started by studying legislation, held numerous conferences with various pub lic officials and investigated what the county is doing now with its governmental powers. The Benton county group decided it would have to make a number of basic decisions. These include: Is any change needed and is it desirable? Should the county have the power to legislate? What are the departmentalization and compartmcntalization of coun ty functions? Who would run still spreading it. Our prob lem is how many people are harboring the germ - not how many die of the disease." Jackson county has had fif teen new cases of TB so far this year, compared to eleven cases for all of 1959, accord ing to the county health de partment. . Appearing on the panel this afternoon will be Dr. John T. Brandenburg, internist, D r . Russell G. Barnes, general practitioner, and Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public health phy sician, recently returned to Medford from California. county government under a charter system? Follows Procedurt A Washington county rep resentative said his committee followed Benton county pro cedure. It discussed present governmental processes, re viewed county offices and is trying to determine if county government would function better with one department head or two or three. The Hood River county com mittee is following two plans. They are a procedural outline and timetable. It has estab lished a "hearing group" sep arate from the study group Hood River set April 6, 1962, as it target date for completing the study. The charter would be submitted to the county clerk in May, 1962, for vote in the Novem ber, 1962, election. Listens to Officials The Hood river hearing group listens to various coun ty officials and employees. Reports from these hearings are presented regularly to the study committee for Its cotv sideration and incorporation Into its study results. A projected schedule has been drawn up setting deadlines for studying various phases of the program making recommen dations, the Hood River coun ty committee member said. Marion county reported it has just started. A Lane county committee started in May. After some study, committee members de cided they needed some ex pert help in research. The county court provided a bud get of $1,700 and furnished the committee with a deputy district attorney to make le gal studies. The group has studied ad ministrative r c o r ganization and other particular questions of legislative powers which may be granted under the charter. One particular ques tion studied is the possible ef fect of home rule county legis lation on schools, the Lane county spokesman said. The committee was split into two sections - adminis t r a 1 1 v e reorganization and legislation. Reports are made to a general committee. The group has a salaried research assistant, has charters of all U.S. counties and holds in formal conferences with coun ty officials and ex-county of ficials and county employees on a confidential basis. 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