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3 Am. B. News 1 (1958)

handle is hein.journals/ambrnw3 and id is 1 raw text is: American Bar News a montbly news bulletin of the American Bar Association LAW UbIARY Vol. 3 No. 1 January 15, 1958 Bar Interest Hioigh In Midyear Meetings An array of distinguished speakers for events linked With the Midyear meetings of the American Bar Association, and all unusually important agenda of the House of Delegates, will focus the attention of the legal profession on Atlanta, Ga., next month. Starting with the nine-state Southern Regional meet- ing Feb. 19-22, and continuing with a crowded Mid- year calendar embracing meetings of the ABA Board of Governors, the National Conference of Bar Presi- dents and The Fellows of the American Bar Founda- tion, the series of events will wind up Feb. 24-25 with sessions of the House of Delegates. Among other things, the House will receive the widely debated re- port of the American Bar Foundation recommending revision of Judicial Canon 35, but retention of its present ban against news or television cameras and radio microphones in courtrooms during trials. Indications are a special hearing will be held before the House on the Canon 35 report, with representa- tives of the press, radio and television industries being given an opportunity to be heard before any final House action is taken. It's expected that this will be one of the largest Midyear meetings in many years. The regional meet- ing too will have an exceptionally full program. There will be seminars and panel discussions on no fewer than 23 subjects of current interest to practicing lawyers. And, for the first time at a regional meeting, there will be a special program on the Law of Outer Space. Speakers on that panel will be Thomas E. Dewey, chairman of ABA's new Committee on In- ternational Law Planning; Dr. Ernest Stuhlinger, re- search chief of the Army Ballistic Missiles Agency, and John Cobb Cooper, professor of international air law at McGill University, Montreal. Well over 60 speakers and panel participants will take part in the various regional meeting programs. The speakers will include John Davis Lodge, U. S. Ambassador to Spain and former governor of Con- necticut; David Sarnoff, chairman of the board of Radio Corporation of America; Sir Leslie Munro, New Zealand's ambassador to the U. S. and President of (Contitued on Page 3) Perpetual Care Plan For Memorial At Runnymede An arrangement has been concluded between the American Bar Association and the trustees of the Magna Carta Trust in England for the perpetual care of the ABA memorial to Magna Carta dedicated at Runnymede last July 28. Under this arrangement the site of the memorial is to be modestly landscaped and a footpath built to allow visitors to reach the memorial from the highway that borders the famous meadow near London. In addition a trust fund is being established, the income from which is calculated to be sufficient for the perma- nent maintenance of the memorial itself and the im- mediate area on which it stands. Both of these steps are being financed out of the donations which members of the Association made last year to build the Magna Carta memorial, the dedica- tion of which was one of the high points of the ABA meeting in London. These donations, after mail solic- itation costs, amounted to about $34,000. That sum was sufficient not only for the erection of the impres- sive stone memorial, at a cost of approximately $28,000, but to leave a balance which is being devoted to the landscaping and perpetual care trust. Lord Evershed, Master of the Rolls and President of the Magna Carta Trust, advised Executive Director Joseph D. Stecher that the trustees of the Trust as well as the British Bar generally were gratified by the ar- rangement through which the memorial will be properly maintained on a permanent basis. He said the trustees of the Trust had agreed to raise an additional fund for use in case of any emergency need in the future. Recently in the U. S. press, and on a national radio newscast, a news report was publicized to the effect that vandals had damaged the ABA memorial. Lord Evershed found upon investigation that the report was exaggerated-that the vandalism consisted mostly of initial writing by small boys, and that all traces have been easily removed. With the conclusion of the memorial care plan the financial books on the London meeting have now been virtually closed. All expenses in connection with the meeting were paid for out of registration fees.

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