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7 Miss. Law. 1 (1960)

handle is hein.barjournals/misly0007 and id is 1 raw text is: The MISSISSIPPI LAWYER Official Monthly Publication of the Mississippi State Bar VOLUME 7 JANUARY, 1960 NUMBER 1 Early Start Needed On Law Day USA Planning President Hugh N. Clayton of the Mississippi State Bar has urged every Bar Associa- tion in the State to participate in Law Day U.S.A. by conducting programs to make the citizens of the State aware of Law Day U.S.A. This program is the Free World's Answer to the Communist May Day Program. Members needing information should contact E. C. Ward (Natchez) or Mrs. Alice Nevels, Secretary of the Mississippi State Bar (Jackson). The following reprint from the American Bar News gives valuable information: Because Law Day USA next May 1 falls on Sunday, with a resultant separation of church and secular observances, it is especially urgent that local bar association com- mittees get an early start on their planning for the 1960 event. Many local bar com- mittees already are at work. For the most part observances in the schools, courts and before civic organizations will take place on Monday, May 2. Apart from the fact that the focal point of the 1960 Law Day USA will be the churches, because of the affinity of our religious and legal traditions, there are strong indications that the observance will be considerably broadened next year. For example, the U. S. Naturalization Service has endorsed the American Bar Association proposal that U. S. district courts arrange, where possible, to hold special naturalization hearings. Also, the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, the national organization of more than 700 local outdoor advertising companies, has approved a Law Day USA billboard design to be displayed on billboard space donated by member companies where this is requested by bar associations. (See illustration.) As a service to state and local bars, the American Bar Association is making the billboards available to bar associations at actual lithographing and shipping cost ($3.00 per billboard). Similarly, the ABA is producing window display posters and newspaper advertising designs. At the request of the ABA, the Pitney-Bowes company has designed a special Law Day USA postage meter stamp for use of law firms, bar associations or business firms such as banks during the period preceding May first. Any law firm which has a postage meter cancellation machine may obtain this stamp by writing direct to Pitney-Bowes, Inc., Stamford, Conn. The price is $12 for the R line type of meter, and $9.00 for the smaller DM (desk) type. The American Bar Association again will produce a Law Day USA pamphlet type manual for the guidance of all persons having to do with arrangements for observances. It will include statements of approbation as to the objectives of the observance from leading churchmen of each of the three major religious faiths. It is hoped that the manual will be available for distribution by Feb. 1. With respect to the special naturalization hearings in the federal courts, the ABA Committee on American Citizenship already has received letters from many of the district court judges in the nation stating that plans are being- made to schedule such hearings near May 1 next year. May 1st LAW DAY U.S.A. The Nation's Tribute to Freedom Under Law LAW DAY USA BILLBOARD DESIGN This poster designed in red, white and blue for use on billboard space donated by outdoor advertising companies has been approved as a public service project by the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, in cooperati6n with the American Bar Association. The posters will be furnished at actual cost to bar associations. Those wish- ing the billboards in their communities may arrange through local outdoor advertising firms for their display during April, 1960. A small reproduction of the poster will be furnished by ABA for window displays. JUSTICE GILLESPIE ADDRESSES HINDS COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION Justice Robert G. Gillespie addressed the Hinds County Bar Association at its regular meeting held on January 14, 1960, at the Hotel Heidelberg. Justice Gillespie gave a very interesting talk concerning Oral Argu- ment before the Supreme Court. The meet- ing was attended by 115 members of the Hinds County Bar. Mr. Dave Cottrell, Jr., (Gulfport), First Vice-President of the Mis- sissippi State Bar represented the Miss. State Bar. A Criminal Law Seminar was conducted recently by the students of the Ole Miss Law School. Included in the seminar was several Mississippi lawyers including Boyce Holloman (Wiggins), Fred Smith, (Ripley), Hugh Cunningham, (Jackson), Earl Wingo, (Hattiesburg), and Dr. Robert Farley, (University). Miss. State Bar Commissioners Hold Winter Meeting The Commissioners of the Miss. State Bar held their winter meeting in the Walnut Room of the King Edward Hotel on December 3, 1959, with the following members attending. Cason Rankin, Tupelo; George E. Morse, Gulfport; Lester F. Sumners, New Albany; Stanny Sanders, Greenwood; Herman C. Glazier, Jr., Rolling Fork; James S. Finch, Hattiesburg; Singleton B. Watkins, Tyler- town; James R. Davis, Columbia; C. Sid- ney Carlton, Sumner; E. K. Collins, Laurel; Hugh N. Clayton, New Albany, President; David Cottrell, Gulfport, First Vice-Pres ident; Breed 0. Mounger, Tylertown, Past President; W. S. Henley, Hazlehurst, Past President; K. Hayes Callicutt, Jackson, Sec- ond Vice-President; James F. Noble, Jr., Brookhaven, President Junior Bar Section; Thos. H. Watkins, Jackson, Chairman of Committee on Judicial Retirement; and Mrs. Alice Nevels, Jackson, Secretary. (Continued on page eight) NOTICES ABA Mid-Winter Meeting in Chicago -Feb. 18-23, 1960. Mississippi Traffic Court Conference in Jackson-March 2-4, 1960. Mississippi State Bar Annual Conven- * tion - June 16-18, 1960 - Hotel King Edward, Jackson.

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