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20 Miss. Law. 1 (1973-1974)

handle is hein.barjournals/misly0020 and id is 1 raw text is: Official Monthly Publication of the Mississippi State Bar VOLUME XX JANUARY, 1973 State Board of Health Makes Changes In Drug Schedules The Mississippi State Board of lHealth in regular session on December 7, 1972 voted to change Ritalin and Preludin from Schedule III to Schedule II of the Con- trolled Substances Act in order to con- form to the Federal Narcotics Law. Mississippi Implements Program For ABA Standards For Criminal Justice George Van Zant, Executive Director of the Mississippi State Bar, has announced the completion of the comparative analy- sis of the ABA Standards for Criinitml Justice with Mississippi law, rules and legal practice, the first step in a state's implementation program. Two University of Mississippi School of Law Professors, Michael Featherstone and Noah Sweat, made the comprehensive study. The study was generated as a result of an April 1972 Semim.ar on the ABA Stand- ards at which the ABA Section of Criminal Law supplied expert speakers, nccord- ing to Professor Sweat. lie said that there will 1)e continuing active coordination with the Section of Criminal Law on a series of seminars to orient members of the Bench and Bar on the Standards. The Sec- tion of Criminal Law has nationwide re- sponsibility for implementation of the ABA Standards for Criminal Justice. Mississippi is the 14th state to complete a comparative analysis, wholly or partial- ly, Criminal Law Section Chairman Keith Mossman noted in commenting on com- pletion of the comparative analysis. An equal number of states, he said, wve such projects underway. States that have completed the projects include Florida, Arkansas, Colorado, Min- nesota, Wisconsin, Washington, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Maryland, Arizona, Texas and Kansas. Biloxi Bar Association Elects Officers At the l)ecember, 1972 meeting of the Biloxi Bar Association, election of officers was held. The following are the officers elected: President - Thelna Zinner of Zinner and lawkins, Attorneys at Law. Vice-President - )on King of Ross and King, Attorneys at Law. Secretary- Treasurer - Billy Brown, Attorney at Law. Applicants For Bar Exam Forty Eight persons have applied to take the bar examination in March, announced Cason Rankin of Tupelo, chairman of the Mississippi Board of Bar Admissions. The applicants are: John Daniel Ains- worth, Jackson; William Iloytte Austin, Jr., Lake Cormorant; Mack Allen Bethea, Gulfport; Edward Blackmnon, Jr., Canton; Kay Francis Boackle, Jackson; John Jon- ior Brothers, IHolly Springs; Louis Lamar Butler, Florence; Patricia Ann Catchings, Jackson; Arthur Barnett Clark, III, In- dianola; Martin Lewis Claxton, Jackson; Gerald IHugh Gibson, Jackson; David Van Gillentine, Tupelo; Billy Joe Gilmore, Lex- ington; Christian Theodore Goeldner, Lake Cormorant; Jerome Charles Ilafter, Green- ville; Albert Wayne IHall, Jackson; Gerald Stuart lHartman, Ackerman; T o m m y Arthur Ilorne, Bonita; Bruce Leon John- son, Clarksdale; Gerald Milton J o n e s, Jackson; Frank Jordan, Jackson; Daniel Adam Kline, Greenwood; Harden King, Jr., Greenville; Leslie Darnell King, Greenville; Alfred Richard Koenenn, Long Beach; Donice Virgil Knight, Laurel; The-* odore James Lawyer, Jackson; Charles Jerry Lee, D'Lo; Larry Joseph Lee, Jack- son; Douglas Ray McKinley, Jackson; Jimmie Dewayne McNair, Jackson; Dewey Burl Miller, Jackson; IHouston James Patton, Jackson; Hubert Franklin Pilgrim, Laurel; James Edward Rainer, Decatur; Samuel Murle Reedy, Jackson; Kenneth Warner Richardson, Jackson; Charles Herbert Reid, Wiggins; Everett Timothy Sanders, Jackson; Mark Harold Shenfield, West Point; James Harrison, Swartzfager, III, Meridian; Judson Al- redge Thigpen, Jr., Cleveland; William Oscar Townsend, Jackson; John Raymond Tullos, Raleigh; Talmadge D e w itt Varnado, Jr., Gulfport; Robert Samuel Weir, Jackson; Richard l)evoe Vhite, Jackson and Henry Travillion Vingate, Jackson Anyone desiring to submit information on an applicant should contact the Board of liar Admissions, Post Office Box 1032, Jackson or telephone 948-4471. Serving with Rankin on the examining board are John T. Armstrong, Jr., llazie- hurst; Gerald A. Gafford, Oxford; Wil- lian A. Wiltshire, McComb; Earl Keyes and 11. 1). Miller, Jr., both of Jackson. Motion Picture Industry To Be Focus of PLI Workshop NEW YORK - Counsel to three major motion picture distributors will join forces with other motion picture executives and attorneys in Practising Law Institute's workshop, Legal and Business Problems of Motion Picture Industry, to be presented February 7-9, 1973, at the New York Ilil- ton Hotel, New York City. The packaging, financing and distribu- tion of feature motion pictures will be analyzed in detail from the conception of the idea to the distribution of the final film. Among the topics to be explored are procedures involved in the purchase of the properties on which the film is to ble bas- ed; developmental problems including agreement with stars and directors, prep- aration of budgets, foreign co - produc- tion agreements and step deal ar- rangements; and types of distribution ar- rangements including the mechanics of dis- tribution and effective auditing of distribu- tors. Paul A. Baumgarten, of Krause, Hirseh & Gross, New York City, will chair the program. Faculty members are: D. J. Edele, Vice President & General Sales Manager, Avco- Embassy Pictures Corporation, New York City; Sidney Kiwitt, Vice President, War- ner Brothers, Inc., New York City; Mor- ton L. Leavy, of Weissberger & Froseb, New York City; Paul A. Rosen, lHead of East Coast Motion Picture Department for International Famous Agency, New York; and Bernard R. Sorkin, Chief C o u n s e l, Warner Bros. Distributing Corporation, New York City. NUMBER 1 NUMBER I

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