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6 Wash. St. B. News 1 (1952)

handle is hein.barjournals/wasbn0006 and id is 1 raw text is: vaojitngton 6tate JIar IIe1vu Vol. 6, No. 1 JANUARY, 1952 SCHWELLENBACH SPEAKS IN SPOKANE Chief Justice E. W. Schwellenbach ad- dressed the Spokane County Bar Associ- ation at its weekly luncheon on Decem- ber 14. The Chief Justice went into consider- able detail explaining subjects discussed at the recent convention in New York attended by chief justices from each of the state supreme courts. Explaining the convention session, on traffic courts, Justice Schwellenbach asked the group, You may wonder why we chief justices of appellate courts spent our time talking of traffic courts? But of all persons appearing in courts in the United States in a year, 40 per cent appear in traffic courts to every one person appear- ing in other types of courts. Many of the people have knowledge of the judicial system based solely on what they learned in traffic courts. Spokane County attorneys enjoyed the address and hope the Chief Justice re- turns to the east side of the mountains in the near future. SEATON M. DALY. NEWS FROM ELLENSBURG Richard C. (Dick) Smith, partner in the law firm of Steensland & Smith of Ellens- burg, has been recalled to active duty with the U. S. Navy, and at last report was headed for Pearl Harbor to escape the heavy Pacific Northwest snows. Dick is a very fine person, and all members of the Kittitas County Bar hope that he will be able to rejoin us soon. Cleary S. Cone is now associated with the law firm of Kern & Dano at Ellens- burg. Mr. Cone received his B.A. in 1949 and his Ll.B. in 1951 from the University of Washington. Since hs graduatiou and prior to association with Kern & Dano, he was law clerk to Justice Charles Don- worth of the Washington Supreme Court. His home town is Ferndale, Wash. We are all happy to note that the new Revised Code of Washington is now in print in handy loose leaf form. JoHN MCSHERRY, JR. WINTER SPORTS DEPARTMENT (Brittle Bones Division) The Hon. Frank D. James, farmer, sail- or, cook, skier and King County Superior Court judge, contrived to break his right leg in a skiing accident at Stevens Pass on December 27. He is up and about now, however, and on the bench carrying his full load, although he will probably refuse to hear any broken leg cases for awhile. We have not interviewed Judge James about this matter, but the Seattle papers REPORT OF PUBLIC SERVICE COMMITTEE Efforts of the Public Service Committee to keep all portions of the state supplied with radio transcriptions of the series You and the Law ran into a snag last month. Although six radio stations in the state were using the series, at least that many more were clamoring for it, and the demand could not be satisfied. Meanwhile, members of the committee shuffled the records back and forth across the state as rapidly as they were available. At the first meeting of the committee in Seattle in November, Chairman Eu- gene A. Wright announced that he had received two requests from public school superintendents for sets of the records to be used in high school civics classes. These requests, from Battleground and Kelso, were supplemented when the Spo- kane school system indicated a like inter- est in the broadcasts. Joseph W. Green- ough of the Spokane Bar has announced that his county bar association has appro- priated funds to supply one complete set of the You and the Law series for use in schools, churches, service clubs and other organizations. R. M. White of Prosser has been desig- nated chairman of the Public Service Com- mittee of the Benton-Franklin County Bar Association and is having Ed Critchlow and Dean Loney of Kennewick make ar- rangements with one of the radio stations in the tri-city area for regular broadcasts of the series. From there the records will go to Walla Walla, where H. H. Hahner of the Walla Walla Bar is in charge. At a recent meeting the state bar com- mittee reviewed the system instituted by the Minnesota State Bar several years ago and recommended its adoption here. Lawyers in Minnesota have financed the publication of pamphlets on twenty dif- ferent phases of the law and the position of lawyers in connection with each. Banks, title companies and public offices have as- sisted the attorneys themselves in dis- tributing the pamphlets to the public. The pamphlet idea is believed suited to this state, but financing is the chief obstacle. In Spokane, Charles Scanlan and a com- mittee are assembling articles for a pro- posed weekly newspaper column on varied features of the law, to be published by one of the local newspapers as a public serv- ice. James R. Ellis of the Seattle Bar heads a special editorial committee which will adapt the Spokane articles and other material for possible statewide distribu- tion. printed some hospital-bed pictures of him in which he looked almost as happy as he did the time he picked the Homecoming Queen. Stout fellow! OLYMPIA NEWS The Board of Governors 3f the State Bar Association held -,heir December meeting in Olympia on December 15. Un- der the auspices of the Board, a panel dis- cussion on trial procedure was conducted during the afternoon, in the courtroom of Judge Raymond W. Clifford, by Clarence Coleman of Everett, former member of the Board, and Alfred McBee of Mt. Vern- on. The seminar conducted by Mr. Coleman and Mr. McBee was well attended and was both instructive and entertaining. The Thurston-Mason County Bar is great- ly indebted to the Board of Governors and to Mr. Coleman and Mr. McBee for this very helpful program. The Olympia meeting of the Board was concluded at a banquet given in their honor by the Thurston-Mason County Bar. Del Cary Smith of Spokane, presi- dent of the State Bar Association, was the principal speaker. The members of the local -bar look forward to the privilege of again having the Board as their guests. Neil J. Lynch, of the Olympia Bar, has been returned to his home from the hos- pital to complete convalescence from a recent attack of the disabilities he car- ried away from World War II. Olympia Attorney Jerome K. Kuyken- dall, now chairman of the Washington Public Service Commission, on behalf of Alfred W, Leach Post No. 3, American Legion, presented a gold engraved mem- bership card to Judge Walter B. Beals in Olympia on January 8, in recognition of the life-long contributions of Judge Beals to his community, state and nation. The ceremony was attended by eight of the judges of the Supreme Court, Attorney General Smith Troy, and a large delega- tion from Seattle Post No. 1, including several King County Superior Court judges and lawyers. The Seattle Post also pre- sented a certificate to the judge acknowl- edging his outstanding service. Judge Beals, now retired, lives in Olympia. Editor-in-Chief John N. Rupp is ad- vised of the arrival of Volume 1 of the Revised Code of Washington. How about a short book review, John?* STANBERY FoSTEa. I Editor's Note: Mr. Foster's thoughtful suggestion is duly noted, although we think he would have been kinder had he omitted the suggestion contained in the adjective short. We decline the invita- tion, however. We may be a bit eccentric at times, when the wind is north-north- west, but we do not intend to use these columns, now, to pile any more pebbles on the cairn of commentary about the Re- vised Code of Washington. I Page 1

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