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15 Or. St. B. Bull. 1 (1954-1955)

handle is hein.barjournals/osbb0015 and id is 1 raw text is: OREGON STATE BAR BULLETIN VOL. XV OCTOBER, 1954 No. 1 LAWYERS DISCLAIM YOKOM ELECTED TO SOLICITOR GENERAL BRICKER PROPOSAL (Note: For the convenience of the bar, page references to the publisi ed committee reports are given in the following article.) By a vote of 109 to 20, lawyers attend- ing the business session at the state con- vention at Gearhart on Friday approved the report of the special committee on the Bricker amendment (Pg. 29). The com- mittee headed by Verne Dusenbery, Port- land, recommended that the bar oppose the principle of the Bricker amendment, but Carl H. Francis, Dayton, filed a minor- ity report urging the Oregon bar to sup- port the position taken by the house of delegates of the American bar in support of the amendment. The majority report was adopted. Dusenbery, in opening the debate, which was spirited and extended, told the lawyers that the committee approached the subject without sentiment and without emotion, and advised that Senator Bricker on Aug- ust 5, had introduced a new proposed amendment which was somewhat different in language but which the committee had not had time to study. Justice James T. Brand supported the majority report and F. M. Sercombe, clerk of the supreme court, argued in support of Francis' position that the local bar should not repudiate the ABA stand. Hugh L. Biggs, and others, expressed concern that the action of the Oregon bar would be interpreted as opposition to any amend- ment of the constitution with reference to the treaty making power or the authority of the chief executive in dealing with for- eign governments. This latter concern was heard discussed even after the vote had been taken, but the adoption of the report was held by those supporting it to be limited by its language to the amendment as proposed by Senator Bricker and as revised and re- introduced in congress prior to Senator Bricker's latest proposal. Another report that attracted consider- able attention was not printed as the com- mittee was appointed too late to make a report for publication. This was the special committee in re habeas corpus proceed- ings and the lack of a pauper's oath under the Oregon statutes. The appointment of this committee followed comment by Fed- eral Judge Claude MeColloch on the lack of authority for filing a petition in Oregon by a person not able to pay the filing fee. The report was made by W. C. Winslow, Salem, and included a form of bill which would provide for proceedings to be in- stituted in the courts of Oregon in forma pauperis and defining the procedure and limitations with reference thereto. This (Continued on Page 6, Column 1) HEAD OREGON BAR SPEAKS AT BANQUET Orval D. Yokom, John Day, serving his third year on the board of governors, was elected president of the Oregon State Bar by the board at its meeting In Seaside September 22, and took office on the final day of the state bar convention at Gear- hart on September 25, at the eoard of governors luncheon at which Glenn R. Jack, Oregon City, retiring president, made his report upon his stewardship for the past year. Other officers who will serve the bar during the year include Thomas H. Tongue III, Portland, vice-president; W. Elmer Ramsey, Portland, treasurer, and John H. Holloway, Portland, reelected secretary. At the same time that the new officers offi- cially took over, the four new members of the board also assumed office. They are William H. Dashney, McMinnville; George H. Corey, Pendleton; Alen F. Davis, Port- land, and Frank J. VanDyke, Medford. At the luncheon on Saturday, at which President Jack presided, Walter J. Cos- grave, Portland, received the bar's award of merit for 1954. Cosgrave, vice-chairman of the committee on public service, received the award for his work on this committee as well as his untiring effort in directing the annual tent show, the concluding fun feature of the annual meeting, for the past three years. Looking back of the three years, Presi- dent Jack said In his report, it has been a marvelous experience for which I always will be grateful, and while there have been long hours of work, speaking personally, it has been a service that I have loved. In reviewing the events of the past year, we consider the most important first, and of course, in this case, for the first time in our history, the most important events were the tragedies. You will recall the sud- den death of our very able secretary. He was ranked as one of the outstanding secretaries of any state bar. The loss of Lee Karr was a tremendous one. Following Lee's death, the senior class of the board lost one of our most able men in the sudden and untimely death of Paul Farrens. He was a source of wisdom and good advice, and h-s loss was one which the board felt very severely. The retiring president then paid tribute to the members of the board for their work throughout the year, their special efforts following the vacancy in the office of secre- tary. In the latter regard, the retiring vice- president, Carl A. Dahl, Portland, who spent a great deal of time in the state bar office handling details of that office, was (Continued on Page 9, Column 1) Simon E. Sobeloff, solicitor general of the United States and former chief justice of the Maryland court of appeals, was the principal speaker at the annual banquet of the Oregon State bar at Gearhart on Friday night of the convention. In a limited sense Judge Sobeloff talked shop in that he talked about the work of his office and his own duties as the advo- cate before the supreme court of the United States and other appellate bodies for the department of justice and the vari- ous departments and agencies of the fed- eral government. One of the features mentioned by the speaker was the heavy duty of deciding for tile government which cases shall be approved for appeal, when a writ of certi- orari shall be sought, when an appeal shall, in the interest of justice, be abandoned and many other decisions frequently af- fecting the entire country which must be made from day to day. He Indicated that the government's batting average in get- ting a case before the supreme court is not any higher than that of private liti- gants. The majority of the some 575 lawyers who registered for the 20th annual meet- ing of the Oregon integrated bar were present for the dinner meeting, including Governor Paul L. Patterson, who with Mrs. Patterson were at the head table. Governor Patterson spoke briefly. Glenn R. Jack, president of the state bar, presided and before turning the meet- ing over to Herbert C. Hardy, Portland, who introduced Judge Sobeloff, introduced the others at the head table. They included Chief Justice and Mrs. Earl C. Latourette, hosts to Judge and Mrs. Sobeloff at Gear- hart; Mr. Carl A. Dahl, Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Wyatt, Mrs. Sobeloff, Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Jack. Harris, chairman of the board's conven- tion committee, thanked the members of the various committees who helped make the annual meeting a success and paid particular tribute to the lawyers and others in Clatsop county who again came forward to help with the convention. A special word of thanks went to the Oregon Land Title association whose annual cock- tail party preceded the dinner meeting. Judge Sobeloff, speaking of his days as a judge, quoted Henry L. Meneken's defini- tion of a judge as a law student who marks his own examination papers, but declared that he had found this not to be true as no man, high or low, marks his own examination papers; no one is above (Continued on Page 11, Column 2)

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