THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1954
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE THREE
News Analysi Reviews K.F. Circuit Court Records
(Ed. Note: Hie following is the
transcript of Floyd Wynne's Wed
nesday night commentary on toe
current law enforcement situation
' In Klamath County. Wynne, news
' analyst for KFLW, has complied
these figures with a view to pre
senting the public with a full back
ground on the situation.'
By FLOYD WYNNE
Let us give the Circuit
Court record of criminal cases a
close examination. Let us, in all
fairness to the present District At
torney compare his record for the
22 months he has been District
Attorney with the preceding 22
months record of his predecessor
D. E. Van Vactor, now District
Judge.
During his 22 months in office
dating from September 1, 1852 to
July 1 of this year. Alderson had
148 cases registered in the Circuit
Court criminal records. Of these
148, 84 pleaded guilty; indictments
against 36 were dismissed, 9 in
dictments were re-submitted to the
Grand Jury and 14 cases were
taken to conclusion by jury trial.
Of the 14 cases tried . . . eight
decisions of "not guilty" were re
turned and six decisions of
"guilty."
During the 22 months Just prior
to Aldersons taking office, the
period from November 1950 to
September 1952, D. E. Van Vactor
j handled 145 cases. They were dis
posed of in this manner: 120
pleaded guilty, 17 indictments
were dismissed, three indictments
re-submitted to the Grand Jury
and only five cases went to a jury
decision. Ol those live cases de
cided by jury lour were declared
'guilty" and only one was de
clared "not guilty."
Now let us contrast these two
records even more closely: The
number of cases handled were ap
proximately the same, 146 for Al
derson 145 for Van Vactor. Van
Vactor, however, had almost 50
per cent more that plead guilty
than did Alderson, 120 against 84.
FHA Scandal
Investigated
WASHINGTON J Senators In
vestigating housing scandals today
summoned William Levitt, one of
the builders of Levitttown, Long
Island, for questioning on the fi
nancing of rental homes built with
government-insured loans.
Levitt and Alfred Gross, one of
the sponsors of the huge Glen Oaks
apartment project In Jamaica,
were two of several witnesses
scheduled before the Senate Bank
ing Committee, which is investi
gating alleged irregularities In government-backed
housing construction.
One of the principal targets of
inquiry to date has been alleged
windfall profits reaped by apart
ment builders who got government
insured mortgages larger than con
struction costs, then pocketed the
difference. .
Levitt is a member of the firm
of Levitt and Sons, builder of Lev-
it town. The community is consid
ered by some a model operation
for new building techniques.
Some 6,000 homes in the planned
community, It was reported, were
built for rental and the balance for
outright sale under sections of the
National Housing Act.
OaKe it from m
Sfirl...stay
Smarten
Healthy
By BESSY. The Basin Bossy
Vacationland, U.S.A., ha It own
code of styles for the vagabond
gals. Simple, colorful shorts are
among the most popular travel
wear visible In national parks and
other public playgrounds out of
doors. But the slickest, neatest and
the "does-most-for" of all are the
new pedal-pushers the modified
Matador type.
And, as usual,
there is the .... . ...
sprinkling o f
slack-clad gals,
and quite fre
quently a far
more trim fig
ure in blue
jeans.
-The
best,
dressed femme
along a vaca
tionland fishing
stream is the
one dressed most practically
for the occasion. And it's surpris
ing it is how sweet and lovely
they look in gear suited to "rough
ing" it. And, after all, who is to
see you on a really good fishing
hole unless it is really good but
the fish himself, who doesn't much
care whether the fisher-girl Is in
mink or mackinaw.
Of course there are lets of
clothes available for the out-of-doors
girls, designed with a femin
ity built in. And, should the bud
get be able to stand it, they are
mighty nice to sport before the
eyes of the admiring wader-clad
clan along the creek.
--
Vacation often means skimping
on proper foods and naturally va
cation is the time to do Just that.
Helax. and for a wild two weeks
eat what you wouldn't or couldn't
the previous 50 weeks of the year.
But, just to stay on the safe side,
a glass of milk with each meal
will keep the diet somewhere clos-
er to balance, you can take it
from me. Bessy. I
BESSY
Van Vactor had less than half as
many indictments dismissed, only
17 as against 36 for Alderson. He
had only about one-third as many
cases that went to decision ly
Jury, five as against 14 for Aider
son. Van Vactor had only a third
as many re-submitted to the
Grand Jury as Alderson, three
against nine for Alderson.
Clearly the Tecord indicates that
under District Attorney Prank Al
derson prosecution has not been as
efficient.
Now, what has been the differ
ence In Circuit Court costs? 'Al
derson took over approximately in
late August of 1952. Therefore the
biggest share of circuit court ex
penses for the fiscal year July 1,
1952, to July 1, 1953, were in
curred under his administration.
During that fiscal year July 1,
1952, to July 1, 1953, the budget
for Circuit Court expenses and
this Includes only the money paid
out for juries, witnesses and Grand
Jury expenses and incidental court
costs, the budget was for $7,000 for
that year and expenses amounted
to Just $5,658.48, or some $1350
under the proposed budget. How
ever for the following fiscal year
the proposed budget was also
$7,000, but the expenses have
amounted to $8,690.44 t . , or about
$1890 over the budget. In other
words . . . circuit court costs in
the year just concluded have in
creased over the previous year by
some $3,031.96. Clearly the court
costs have shown a marked in
crease in Just one year's time, in
dicating much more court activity
since the initial base of court costs
has not increased in that one
year's time.
A check of the records also re
veals that this Ss the first year
in the 14 years that David Van
denberg has been Circuit Judge
that the proposed budget has been
exceeded. .
A check of the records also re
veals that ordinarily criminal
cases comprise only about 10 per
oent of the circuit court activity
during a normal year and that
about 90 per cent of the court's
activity is dealing with civil cases.
Yet during the year just concluded
on July 1 only one small civil
case was disposed of. The remain
der of the entire circuit court budg
et went to defray costs of criminal
prosecution which Is only 10 per
cent of the court's activity. In
other words, approximately 90
per cent of the cases on the docket
for the past year in Circuit Court
are still to be disposed of yet
the budcet for the year was ex
ceeded by some $1690.
These figures do not include Dis
trict Court costs or District Court
records which we shall present
next week.
Also next week we intend to give
closer scrutiny to the 36 indict
ments which have been dismissed
under the administration of Dis
trict Attorney Frank Alderson,
In the meantime the Klamath
County Bar Association has been
taking steps also in an effort to de
termine just how serious is the
breakdown of Jaw enforcements in
Klamath County and just what can
be done or recommended about
It. We shall hear more from them
and from the State Bar Association,
as well as Chief Justice Latour-
ette in the near future on this
problem.
However, in the final analysis,
the problem is of vital concern to
every resident of Klamath
County and that's the reason I
have gone ahead compiling and
presenting the facts- in the ease.
Past history of our country has
proven that If the facts are com
pletely and truthfully given to the
American people, they, themselves.
will come up with the right solu
tion.
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