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COURTS
Wright
By IEIF ERICKSON
Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO AP
"The courts should not be beg-
gars for crumbe," California
Supreme Court Chief Justice
Donald R. Wright said Wednes-
day.
He declared that state and
county budget officers block
adequate financing for the judi-
cial system's fundamental
needs.
"The judicial system cannot
effectively function without
adequate staffing and sufficient
financial support," Wright told
a joint luncheon of san Tran-
cisco bar associations.
The meeting marked the first
anniversary of a joint bench
and bar Ir ogram to clear the
backlogged trial calendare in
san Francisco's Superior
Courts.
Wright said the san Fran-
cisco courts were under f1-
ranced. He said the related of
fices of the district attorney,
public defender and the staffs
of the probation office and
county clerk also were under-
financed.
The problem is not confined
to san Francisco, O9 he said.
cost the state level, we find
that the fundamental needs of
the judicial system are also
being routinely ignored or blue-
penciled by the budget officers
of the executive department,"
Wright said.
"Insofar as state financing is
concerned, the Judicial Council
has taken the position that the
financial needs of the judicial
branch of government should
be placed before the legislature
without advance restrictions or
deletions imposed by the execu-
tive branch in advance of legis-
lative action.
03-29-72 06.57pps
For information contact:
Legat
National Center for State Courts
Courts
1616 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
Alice O'Donnell, Acting Secretary
(202) 393-1640, ext. 501-502
For release September 27, 1971
WASHINGTON, D. C.
JUSTICE WINSLOW CHRISTIAN NAMED DIRECTOR OF
NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS
Justice Winslow Christian of the California Court of
Appeal has been named the first Executive Director of the new
at its temporary headquarters
National Center for State Courts/in Washington, D. C., it was
announced today by Justice Paul C. Reardon, of the Supreme
Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Center. Justice Christian will serve on
leave of absence from his present post.
The new organization was established, at the urging
of United States Chief Justice Warren Burger at the National
Conference on the Judiciary held at Williamsburg, Virginia
earlier this year, to develop proposals for reform of state
court systems.
"The critical question facing our judicial system today
is how we can provide justice, promptly and fairly, to the in-
creasing numbers of citizens who are bringing their disputes to
the courts, " said Justice Reardon, who was active in founding
the Center.
"We must reduce delays in the courts and improve the
administration of justice, in both criminal and civil cases, if
our state courts are to continue to serve effectively as insti-
tutions for the peaceful and rational settlement of disputes in
this time of turmoil.
"The purpose of the National Center is to provide
assistance to state courts in planning and carrying out changes
that are urgently needed."
Prior to his appointment to the Court of Appeal in
1966, Christian served as Administrator of the State Health
and Welfare Agency of California. Christian also served as
a trial judge and as a state prosecutor.
He received his bachelor's and law degrees from
Stanford University and taught law in Rangoon, Burma, on a
Fulbright Fellowship after graduation from law school. He
is married and has three children.
Christian is presently a member of the California
Judicial Council, the rulemaking body for the California courts,
and is on the Board of Directors of the American Judicature
Society and the Executive Board of the Appellate Justices'
Conference of the American Bar Association.
The National Center for State Courts will be funded
by private foundation grants and federal funds appropriated for
improvement of state courts. A Ford Foundation grant financed
the establishment of the Center. Justice Reardon is chairman
and Justice Louis H. Burke of the Supreme Court of California
is vice-chairman of the Center's governing board. The members
of the Board, all of whom are state court judges selected on nomi-
nation of the eighteen national organizations active in state
court administration and reform, are representative of the nation's
state courts of every level. They are:
Hon. David Brofman, Judge of the Denver Probate
Court, Denver, Colorado.
- 2 -
Hon. Louis H. Burke, Associate Justice, Supreme
Court of California, San Francisco, California,
Vice-Chairman.
Hon. James A. Finch, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme
Court of Missouri, Jefferson City, Missouri.
Hon. M. Michael Gordon, Judge of the Municipal
Court of Houston, Houston, Texas.
Hon. Frank R. Kenison, Chief Justice, Supreme
Court of New Hampshire, Concord, New Hampshire.
Hon. Bernard S. Meyer, Judge of the Supreme
Court of New York, Mineola, New York.
Hon. Paul C. Reardon, Associate Justice, Supreme Judicial
Court of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts,
Chairman.
Hon. William S. Richardson, Chief Justice, Supreme
Court of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Hon. Morell E. Sharp, Associate Justice, Supreme
Court of Washington, Olympia, Washington.
Hon. Harold Stevens, Presiding Judge, Appellate
Division, Supreme Court of New York, First Judicial
Department, New York, New York.
Hon. Joseph A. Sullivan, Presiding Judge, Wayne County
Circuit Court, Detroit, Michigan.
Hon. Curtis V. Tillman, Judge of the Dekalb County
Juvenile Court, Decatur, Georgia.
- 3
CRIMINAL JUSTICE DIVERSION SYSTEM
Detoxification
Hospital
Arrest
and
Non-Hospital
Residential
Care
Arraignment
and/or
Referral
Outpatient
Care
Criminal
and
Justice
SYSTEM
Rehabilitation
DIVERSION
FAILURES
SYSTEM
Court
Plea Guilty -
Found Guilty
Methadone
Treatment
CYA
Special
County Jail
Treatment
or
CDC
CYA
Probation
Program
-
Courts
Lieutenant Governor Urges
State Bar to Work for Reform RECEIVED
GOVERNOR'S OFFICE
Excerpts from CALIFORNIA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION speech delivered by
Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke
SEP
20
9
24
San Diego, California
AM
'71
September 15, 1971
The State Bar of California is recognized throughout the
Crime prevention, I feel, has been neglected. As members of
nation as one of the most prestigious, and the innovations of
the legal profession you have been and must be leaders in
our system of justice are envied by most of the other states.
solving the problems of inadequate housing, inferior educa-
tion, corrupt government, unemployment, discrimination, and
My own professional education was in engineering. My
dispair. Take on responsibility in the community to aid and
experience is in business and engineering - only recently in
assist and help self-help projects.
government. As a citizen and elected official, I am nevertheless
deeply concerned that our system of justice and law is working
One area in which the organized Bar might be of greater
to serve the people of California in protecting those rights and
assistance and support to our police force would be a volun-
freedoms granted to all of us under the Constitution.
tary plan of instruction for police officers in procedures
permitted under our legal decisions.
It is a cornerstone of our society that government and law
are ordained and enacted to insure protection of rights of
Perhaps the most important problem is the operation of the
property and of the individual. We protect property rights by
criminal courts. It takes twice as long to try the average
punishment for theft; protection against confiscation by the
criminal case as it did a decade ago. More defendents seek jury
State without due compensation; provision for the orderly
trials. The staffing and planning for our courts have always
transfer of property from generation to generation; and pro-
been predicated on a premise that 90% of the defendants in
vide rules by which we may exchange goods and services. The
criminal cases will plead guilty, thus obviating the necessity for
law further provides a mechanism for the compensation for
trial. That premise is no longer reliable. This means that only a
damage. However, the thing most unique about our American
reduction of 10% in the number of guilty pleas would require
system of law is the protection and extension of personal
the assignment of twice the judicial manpower and facilities
liberty through law.
that we now plan for. Expansion of our system is not the total
answer. The system itself must be made more efficient.
As stewards of this responsibility, how has the legal profes-
sion done? What is your record of accountability?
It would appear to me proper that traffic violations and
public drunkenness could be totally eliminated from the
I speak now as one looking at the system, not a part of it. I
criminal system without jeopardizing our basic constitutional
speak as a layman involved in government who has the
safeguards. Serious study should be given to the restructuring
opportunity to talk and correspond with people throughout
of our court system by the abolishment of the distinction
this State. I speak as one sincerely interested and concerned in
between Justice, Municipal and Superior Courts and the
the operation of an orderly and just society. In talking to
consolidation into a single unified court. We should study the
people, I have heard expressed this common concern: Has
departmentalization of courts by responsibility and the selec-
something gone wrong with our society? Is there a malfunction
tion and training of judges in accordance with these depart-
in the machinery of government? And, especially, they are
ments.
deeply distressed by problems involving the administration of
justice both criminal and civil.
We should be willing to explore and experiment with every
innovation produced by modern technology. Electrical tran-
In the area of crime, the decade last passed has seen its
scribers, video tapes, systems analysis, and computerization. In
greatest increase in the history of this or any other nation.
our fast moving age, we can no longer say that the methods of
Crimes of violence against individuals are on the increase.
the past give greater assurrances of promoting justice. I would
Crimes against public property, until recently almost non-
suggest that the State Bar of California respond to Chief
existent, are the order of the day. In an era when government
Justice Berger's recommendation for the establishment of a
finds it increasingly difficult to finance services, we must
national research center for the improvement in court adminis-
expend millions to repair broken school windows, reconstruc-
tration. With a history of excellence in court administration
tion of hundreds of public offices and buildings and tremen-
here, we should seek to have it located in California.
dously increased security costs to protect public property
from destruction.
I know that your Bar is actively working in the area of
improving the standards of practice in the criminal courts. I
The man in the street is unable to fathom the turning back
feel it imperative that some system of special training and
on society those charged with theft, murder and the sale of
certification be instituted for those who so serve.
narcotics because of some action of a policeman who is not
trained in the intricacies of the law has made a technical
You must be ever watchful and deal harshly with those few
mistake.
in your profession who would use the criminal court for the
espousal of their particular political philosophy or who intimi-
People are frustrated when they read of criminal trials that
date the judicial process with a conscious plan of bringing our
last for months which appear to have as their objective not the
legal system to its knees.
determination of truth but rather to bring the whole judicial
process to a grinding halt.
Also involved in the system of justice is the problem of
corrections. The penal institution and the system of probation
When we look at the system of criminal justice we must
and parole.
include everything from the causes of crime, to the detection
of crime, to the arrest of the accused, to the operation of the
Incarceration too often means a degrading experience with-
courts, to the operation of our penal institutions and parole
out any meaningful type of rehabilitation leading to increased
system.
recidivism.
While the causes of crime are complex, the solutions are
Only this year the American Bar Association has taken
monumental and insoluble without the participation of men
action to deal with the specific problems of corrections. The
like yourselves.
State Bar of California should be a leader in penal reform.
The numbers of shocking and violent crimes committed by
The public is displeased with the court congestion and the
those under the probation and parole system brings into sharp
interminable time in obtaining audience. The Bar can ill afford
question the present criteria for releasing from custody those
to indiscriminently block legislative change of the judicial
who remain unrepentent without rehabilitation and bent on
system and the method of compensation for those injured by
further careers of crime and violence.
the automobile. If you do not take the leadership and promote
meaningful changes in these areas in the near future, public
That part of our judicial system which has its greatest
pressure will result in a proliferation of hastily conceived and
exposure to the largest numbers of its citizenry is the civil side.
ill thought-out legislation which may, rather than improve,
It is especially troubling to find among our citizens the
destroy the means of civil justice as we now know it.
conviction that equality of justice does not exist. There are
those who believe that adequate legal services are available
Ladies and gentlemen, your profession is very much a part
only to the wealthy and that the interminable delay in
of this State's future. You are a part of a system which
bringing a grievance to trial prevents any true and proper
demands change and improvement in the resolution of conflict
resolution.
and the preservation of order-not tomorrow, but today. The
protection and improvement of the rights of the individual has
Competent civil legal assistance should be available to all
been cast upon you and you cannot shy away. Now, as never
within the means of their ability to pay.
before in our history the very foundations of our society are
being challenged. I urge you, who are a part of the high calling
It would appear to me that certain quasi legal areas might
known as the legal profession, to be willing to take the risk of
well and more inexpensively be handled by para-professionals
leadership in improving our system of criminal justice and
under the direction of lawyers and that law students be
assuring that means of legal redress are available to all, swiftly
required to engage in an apprentice or internship type of
and without regard to economic station. I think that I speak
program.
for the people of this State that we look to you, the lawyer, to
provide the wisdom, experience, insight, competence and
In our highly complex and urbanized society the role of the
dedicated committment of your time to the preservation and
family lawyer, like the family doctor, has been greatly dimin-
improvement of this form of government which gives to each
ished. You are required to have a high degree of expertise
individual the hope for dignity and security never before
training and knowledge to handle specialized areas of the law.
attained in the history of mankind.
The legal profession is still behind in establishing specializa-
tions and setting standards and requiring certification for
practice in these highly sophisticated areas.
file
Comita
28 June 68
from RHP by phone, re: statements made by him on Supreme Court
1gg
he did not put out any statement
when he was at Lincoln University in San Francisco last Sunday, June 23,
to make commencement address and receive honorary degree, media people
were there, and he was asked the question
did he think there was political motivation behind Warren sub-
mitting his resignation at this time
in response, "Apart from any difference I may have with the Court
and their decisions, I think it is a great mistake, particularly with
the climate ve have now, to inject partisan politics as far as the
judiciary is concerned." He went on to say he didn't want to engage
in questioning President Johnson's motives, but he felt "we need now
more than ever to uphold the Court as an institution," and Johnson
should handle himself and his actions with that responsibility in
mind.
...
attached copies of press stories are all that we have seen with
regard to the interview in San Francisco: we have received no
inquiries from the sacramento bee, or anyone else, concerning the
statements attributed to RHF in the articles.
San Jose, Calif.
News
(Cir. D. 73,322)
11111 7 4 1968
Allon's P.C.B.
Est. 1888
Reagan, Finch, Murphy
All Critical Of Warren
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gov. Murphy said he is "shocked"
Ronald Reagan has criticized
that Warren would step down
Chief Justice Earl Warren for
now.
Murphy said he would vote
reportedly retiring from the Su-
against a Johnson appointee as
preme Court at this time to al-
a matter of principle, even if he
low President Johnson to name
might approve of the choice
his successor.
personally.
"I don't really think he has
that right," Reagan, a Repub-
lican favorite son presidential
candidate, said Sunday.
In San Francisco Lt. Gov.
Robert Finch says it's a mistake
to inject partisan politics into
the question of who will be
chosen to succeed' Chief Justice
Earl Warren when he leaves the
U.S. Supreme Court.
"We need now more than ever
to uphold the court as an
institution," Finch declared
Sunday.
Whoever President Johnson
selects to replace Warren, he
will not get the backing of
California Sen. George Murphy.
So far the chairman, Vice
Negroes had made in recent
er the average citizen wants to
Watsonville.
Mayor Albert J. Talkin, has not
years and the more favorable
be free to be a guinea pig for
"The plan sets up a judicial
set a date for such a meet-
attitude toward them that he
inadequately tested, overpriced
oligarchy by transferring t h e
ing.
said had developed in the white
drugs of questionable value.
power of appointment from the
Asks For Help
community.
Disservice To People
elected governor, who is respon-
He said today City Atty. Jo-
What he feared, the governor
"To constantly attack, as Rea-
sible to the people to a face-
seph E. Coomes has been asked
said, was that a lack of
gan does, the very concept of
less commission responsible to
to research the case and pre-
restraint among the Negroes
regulation in the public inter-
no one," said the trio in a joint
pare a summary for councilmen
would set off violence between
est - regulation designed by
statement.
who will conduct the review. He
the races, in which case the 20
duly-elected lawmakers to pro-
Claims Strong Backing
said he will set the date for
million Negroes would have lit-
tect the average citizen from
Alquist charged the Reagan
the review after Coomes is fin-
tle chance against the 180 mil-
dangerous drugs, excessive util-
plan is getting strong backing
ished.
lion whites.
ity rates or whatever - is a
from the oil, insurance, utility
Johnson, a Negro, was dis-
This could happen, he said,
clear disservice to the people
and a number of other corpor-
charged from his position as a
because "there is a limit be-
of California and to the high
ate bodies, plus "ultra-conserva-
patrolman by the unanimous
yond which any people will be
office of public trust Reagan
tive Texas oil men," whom none
vote of the City Council in 1962
provoked." But SO far, he said
holds."
of the opponents named.
on a recommendation of the
incidents of violence had not
Pitts also noted that the AFL-
Cartwright said both the Sac-
then city manager, Bartley W.
been true "race riots" because
CIO supports a proposal to in-
ramento and San Mateo County
Cavanaugh, and the then police
whites had not been fighting
clude prescription drugs under
Bar Associations opposed t h e
chief, James V. Hicks.
with Negroes.
Medicare but limit reimburse-
plan once they heard both sides
Johnson was accused of be-
As he has done repeatedly,
ment for them under federal
of the argument.
ing present at the home of a
Reagan ruled himself out of con-
programs to the price for the
"We continue to believe that
Caucasian woman whose neigh-
tention for the vice presidency
generic official product - not
bors complained of a dis'
be
he
id
he
by brand name.
bance by several men
to governor of California.
Such le islation would be of
Action
ficer was off duty RIC the time.
GOP Party Strength
obvious and enormous benefit
Seeks Counsel
He said he believed Repub-
to taxpayers in California and
On
Brown stated in a letter
Hean thity was strong
throughout the nation, yet Gov.
the council today his law
to
support
for
Reugan opposes it," said Pitts.
has been approached by John
Bills
any candidate nominated at the
son with a request that the firm
convention. For one thing,
he
represent the ex-officer.
Finch Says Keep
said, such issues as "law and
The Senate has approved:
However, Brown pointed out
order" had strengthenet the
Politics Out Of
DISTRICTS-SB 972, Rodda-To author-
that the ity attorney's office
Ize the treatment of employes of a dis-
conviction of Republicans that
trict as county employes for various in-
in March ubmitted an
surance and benefit purposes.
Sapty could recapture the
Top Court
SANITATION SCR 53, Cologne Re-
to the suncil hich ind
quests the Department of Housing and
presidency an this feeling, in
Community Development, in cooperation
the council is without power to
turn, strengthened then deter-
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Lt.
with the Department of Parks and Rec-
reation, to submit a report on minimum
reinstate Johnson. Bro said
mination to unite behind the
Gov. Robert Finch said it is a
sanitation standards in private and pub-
lic campgrounds and trailer parks.
he believes the city attorney's
BREAD-SB 896, Short-Would require
nominee.
mistake to inject partisan poli-
that a standard loaf of bread weigh 16
ruling is legally erroneous.
He described Nixon as "lar
tics into the question of who
ounces.
VETERANS-SB 1123, Whetmere-Would
Describing the present status
permit the Department of Velerans Af-
ahead" and said Gov. Nelson
will be chosen to succeed Chief
fairs to waive occupancy requirements
of the case as "confusing,"
A. Rockefeller of New York had
Justice Earl Warren when he
in Cal-Vet farm and home purchases
for a period not to exceed four years.
Brown suggests h e council
a "pretty uphill fight." Never-
leaves the U.S. Supreme Court.
AMBULANCES - SB 535, Dills-Would
require emergency ambulances to be
should ask the attorney gener-
theless, he said, the convention
"We need now more than ever
equipped with resuscitators.
Gov. Ronald Reagan has
al for a clarification of John-
would be open and the
to uphold the court as an in-
signed into law:
son's rights.
delegates would "look at me
stitution," Finch declared yes-
UNDERGROUND UTILITIES-AB 168,
and all the other favorite sons"
terday in a television interview.
Badham-Allows community services dis-
tricts to provide for conversion of exist-
Burglars With Torch
as well as at the two declared
"Apart from any difference I
ing overhead electric and telephone lines
of a public agency or utility, with Its
Get Cash, Valuables
candidates.
may have with the court and
consent, to undergroud locations.
RETIREMENT-AB 153, Barnes For
Reagan said the nomination
their decisions, I think it is a
advisors and recreation specialists in
forestry Job corps conservation centers
Reubin Ginsburg of the Ace
of Sen. Eugene McCarthy of
great mistake, particularly with
to be defined as forestry members for
retirement purposes.
Loan Co., 1214 J St., notified
Minnesota by the Democrats
the climate as we have now,
VOTING-AB 838, Cory-Requires that
a ballot pamphiet be sent with each
the police today that burglars
would cause the Republi-
to inject partisan politics as far
absentee ballot.
WINE AND BEER-AB 853, Belotti-
who used acetylene equipment
cans the most trouble because
as the judiciary is concerned."
Permitting wine growers and beer manu-
facturers to give or sell their products
store $2,617 in cash and checks
McCarthy is a critic of the
Gov. Ronald Reagan and sev-
below established prices to a non profit
charitable corporation or non profit in-
from a safe and also took 30
Johnson administration and of-
eral other Republican officials
corporated trade association, the mem-
bers of which are alcoholic beverage
wedding rings a nd collector
fers a less inviting target than
have said Warren should not
licensees. In the second Instance the
wine or beer must be used solely for an
coins.
a candidate who defends it.
resign until a new president
association convention or meeting.
PAY RAISE-SB 115, Collier-Increas-
The value of the rings and
The governor was in Washing-
takes office.
Ing the salary of the Siskivou County
district attorney from $7,200 to $15,000 a
coins was undetermined. The
ton briefly to speak at
LEGAL NOTICE
year and prohibits him from engaging in
private law practice during his term of
safecrackers entered by drilling
a "school" for new Republican
NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR BIDS
office.
EQUAL PAY-SB 232, Grunsky-Ex-
holes in the room.
congressional candidates.
Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids. in triplicate, will be received
tending provisions of California's equal
pay law to all employes in a business
by the General Manager of Sacra-
establishment, rather than limiting its
mento Municipal Utility District,
application to women. The bill Is In-
State of California, at the Purchases
tended to prevent discrimination on the
IT'S TIME TO MOVE
and Stores Department Office of the
basis of sex where employes are doing
District, 1708 59th Street, Sacra-
work on lobs requiring equal skill, effort
and responsibility performed under sim-
mento, California, until 3:00 p.m.,
Har working conditions in the same
to the Bank that offers You More!
Pacific Daylight Saving Time, July
establishment.
30, 1968, for the purchase by this
CENTERS-SB 349, Short-Permitting
4% NEW AUTO LOANS
District of one Aerating Tank Sew-
use of funds from school override taxes
age Treatment Plant and one Hypo-
to purchase land, buildings and furniture
for development centers for handicapped
($4 per hundred per annum)
chlorinator and Accessories, for
minors.
Loon Lake Powerhouse, Upper
FEE INCREASE-SB 386, Sherman-
American River Project, In ac-
Increases lees paid by subdividers to the
THE NAME
cordance with Specification No. 2517
State Division, of Real Estate In connec-
llon with the filing of applications by
IS UNIQUE,
which may be obtained from the
subdividers for investigations and is.
Manager, Purchases and Stores
suance of public reports.
SERVICE
Department
The Senate has defeated:
SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL
COMPLETE
SUMITOMO BANK
UTILITY DISTRICT
TEACHERS - SB 1266, Richardson -
By: /s/ Paul E. Shaad,
Would have authorized the dismissal of
teachers for falsification or concealment
Broadway and 14th Street
Sacramento
443-5761
General Mgr. &
of material facts in applications for em.
Chief Engineer
ployment, assignment, or promotion.
(1 time, 6/24/68)
Warning on Naming Chief Justice
with KRON TV that: "Apar,
from any difference I may
have with the Court and their
Lieutenant Governor
resigning Supreme Court
view: "We need now more
ed since the Chief Justice's
decisions, I think it is agreat
Robert H. Finch declared
Justice Earl Warren.
than ever to uphold the Court
departure was disclosed Fri-
mistake, particularly with
here yesterday that "it's a
The Lieutenant Governor,
as an institution.
day that he should not resign
the climate we have now, to
mistake to inject par-
who was here to address the
Several Republican fig-
while President Johnson was
inject partisan politics as far
tisan politics" into the se-
graduating class at Lincoln
ures, including Governor
in office.
as the judiciary is con-
lection of a successor to
University, said in an inter-
Ronald Reagan, have indicat-
Finch said in an interview
cerned.'
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THE SACRAMENTO BEE
EDITORIA
THURSDAY 27 JUNE
Exposition Deserves
Finch Pulls Reagan
'The
Pill'
Support Of Everyone
Up Short On Court
There are several reasons
Lt. Gov. Robert Finch proved
for Californians, and particu-
a constructive countervailing
larly Sacramentans, to be
force to Gov. Ronald Reagan's
proud of the new California
purely partisan reaction to the
Exposition which will open at
resignation of Earl Warren as
TO UN TREATY
noon Monday on its new site
chief justice of the United
off the Elvas Freeway north of
States Supreme Court.
the American River.
The day before Reagan said
The first and foremost is
Warren would show lack of
that it represents a remark-
faith "in this system of ours"
able change from the old to
if he resigned SO Democratic
the new, a venture in fairs un-
President Lyndon B, Johnson
precedented in the United
could name his successor be-
States and a beginning toward
fore leaving the White House.
a future which will bring
Finch said we need now more
great economic benefits to the
than ever before to uphold the
local area and renown to all
court as an institution. Not a
of the Golden State.
Democratic or Republican insti-
It is not simply the old State
tution but one of the coequal
Fair lifted from the 100-year-
branches of the system of
old site on Stockton Boulevard
American government.
and moved to a different loca-
"Apart from any difference
tion. It is a brand new enter-
we may have with the court
prise, incorporating modern
and its decisions," Finch said,
design and adventuresome
"I think it is a great mistake,
planning which eventually will
particularly with the climate
rank the California Exposition
we now have, to inject parti-
as the best in the world. This
san politics as far as the ju-
is true because it is being built
diciary is concerned."
to the standards of a World's
Reagan was thinking the elec-
Fair.
tion should determine the com-
position of the court, that a
Already nearly $23 million
Republican would win and that
has been spent in capital out-
a chief justice of his own re-
lay to provide the nucleus of
actionary persuasion might get
this outstanding exposition. In
the nod. Finch was thinking
the short time since construc-
more broadly - about govern-
tion began, the once-dry sheep
ment as an institution, not as
pasture has been turned into a
a political playpen.
busy, bustling complex of ex-
citement.
It is a fact of American life
The modern race track and
that Johnson is President of
grandstand with air-condition-
the United States until January
ing and restaurant, the acres
1969, and has a right to fill
of convenient parking spaces, a
judicial openings
as
they
OC-
spectacular indoor-outdoor flo-
cur. It is equally true Warren
ral exhibit, a fair activities
has a right to resign when he
News Behind The N
area for the presentation of the
chooses. Nothing contrary to
wares of California's many
the American system, about
From Washington
state, has accused the United
which Reagan complains, is in-
States of "barefaced aggres-
counties, an amusement plaza,
By Clayton Fritchey
an animal compound and art
volved in the exercise of these
sion" against Rhodesia.
REAGAN - Some of our
show hall also will be on
two rights.
greatest presidents have been
view.
It is Reagan who needs ed-
known to stumble over their
QUESTION - Both Reagan
Later, the agricultural
ucation about the American
syntax from time to time (es-
and Goldwater have questioned
shows will be ready for the dis-
system, as Finch seems to im-
pecially in the give-and-take of
reports that they advocated the
plays of the 4-H Clubs and Fu-
ply. It is Reagan and others
who want the court to become
press conferences), but who
invasion of North Vietnam, but
ture Farmers of America.
would have dreamed that Ron-
they needn't be defensive
just another spoils of victory;
ald Reagan would ever be at
about it. After all, Vice Presi-
What the first visitors will
these need a refresher in Amer-
a loss for words? He may have
dent Ky of South Vietnam is
see represents the beginning of
ican history.
presidential qualities after all.
for invading the North and the
better things to come. They
If Reagan would read such
The usually glib governor of
United States government is
will be able to witness the birth
history he would discover the
California was asked (on
for Ky. The difference is that
of an exposition which will ful-
founding fathers never contem-
NBC's "Meet The Press") if
Ky wants to use United States
fill the dreams of countless
plated political parties. but did
there was any significant dif-
troops, while some adminstra-
people who fought many legis-
contemplate a court free
ference between his views and
tion officials think it would be
lative battles before the enter-
from political pressures.
those of former United States
unfair to deprive the South
prise was authorized.
If Reagan would just read
Sen. Barry Goldwater, the Re-
Vietnamese army of this hon-
Cal Expo, the place to go,
he might stop giving Califor-
publican presidential nominee
or.
will operate this year from
nians lectures on what the sys-
of 1964. It hardly seems pos-
Like President Johnson, Gold-
Monday through Sept. 10. It
tem of this nation is not.
sible that such an old, shop-
a pithy way of say-
promises to be one of the most
Speaking of the