-Lawyers, Courts Aim To
Make Jury Dufy Easier On People
Both lawyers and court administrators are campaigning to
make jury duty pleasanter and more profitable.
Court administrators report in a recent study they favor upping
the average juror pay from $6.00 c
a day plus expenses to at least
$10.00 daily. Many believe the
fees should be upped as much as
$15. $20 or even $25. And a large
legal association has opened a
drive to get more businesses to
pay wage earners during jury serv
ice.
At the same time efforts are
underway to make jury service
easier on the more than 1,000,000
Americans who serve each year, in
state and Federal courts on both
civil damage and criminal cases.
One court, in Santa Barbara,
Calif, has even installed rocking
chairs in the jury box. Through
out the nation, courts are install
ing desks, telephones, pen, paper,
ink, magazines, radio and tele
vision in the waiting rooms so
citizens can conduct their regular
business affairs—or just relax and
enjoy themselves while waiting to
hear cases.
National Association of Claim
ants’ Counsel of America
(NACCA), the nation’s second
largest bar association, is cam
paigning for the continuation of
the traditional rights of trial by
jury in the face of attempts by
some groups to curb this basic
American freedom.
The association is urging indi
vidual firms to give wage earners
their normal pay during the aver
age two week jury duty. A person
is eligible to serve each 2-4 years.
John J. Lane, president of the
12,000 man NACCA group, says
the trend toward making jury duty
more attractive is gaining momen
tum. More people are actually
seeking jury service, especially
women.
Selection of jurors varies st::e
by state, and even county by
county, according to NACCA ex
perts, hut panels are gene;:, v
drawn from voter, taxpayer, prr p
erty owner and city register lists.
At times even telephone directo; ies
are used.
“In one county,” says Lane, “the
judge selects a small child who
can neither read nor write and
ten juror names are picked from
a hat by the youngster.”
AH persons — except ex-con
victs— are eligible to serve as
jurors in most states, but the ma
jority of courts regularly excuse
persons in certain occupations.
Some states have laws specifying
who can and cannot serve.
“While actually in the jury box,”
says NACCA President Lane,
“there are certain restrictions. Ju
rors usually can’t smoke, and of
course, talking, reading or writing
letters is forbidden. But many
judges allow women to knit, un
obstrusively.”
The jury system is now more
than 1,000 years old and has
served society well during this
millenium. In each era it has been
modified or expanded to suit the
times. But English Lord Broug
ham perhaps best summed up the
value of the jury system in 1828
i when he said “juries are the most
I wholesome, wise and almost per
I feet invention.”
RED CROSS AIDS FLOOD
VICTIMS IN THREE STATES
More than 2,500 families are
expected to register for Red Cross
rehabilitation assistance in the
flooded areas of Ohio, West Vir
ginia, Pennslyvania, and Indiana.
According to Carrie McLain, chair
man of the Nome Chapter, this esti
mate is based on reports from 33
Red Cross chapters currently pro
viding shelter, food and other
emergency aid to thousands of flood
victims.
Red Cross disaster headquarters
for the four-state area has been
opened in Columbus, Ohio, with
Milton Jackson, Director of Dis
aster Services for the Red Cross
eastern area, in charge.
A man will cheerfully admit he
is homely, but few women will.
Auto Windows Ordered
Quick Delivery — Also Installed
$10 Deposit on Each Glass Ordered
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CITED FOR EXCELLENCE
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NY.
— Channel Light, an offset
newspaper published by the Mount
Edgecumbe, Alaska, School was
cited for excellence today by the
Columbia Scholastic Press Assn.
The newspaper was rated a first
place in the offset newspaper
classification for vocational, agri
cultural and trade schools. A first
place is the second highest rating
given in the contest, exceeded only
by the medalist award.
THE
BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH
• SERVICES •
Sunday School 10:00
Morning Worship 11:00
Evangelistic Service 7:00 p.m.
Bible Study and Prayer Service
Wednesday — 7 p.m.
Boys and Girls Good News Club
Every Thursday at 4:00
Teen-Age Fellowship Every
Saturday Night at 7:30
Bob Leight — Missionary Pastor
i Venerable “Old
Lady*" Comes Out
Of Retirement
)From the National Geographic)
An 89-year-old fighting lady
will soon come out of retirement
—for the third time.
She is the celebrated ship Bear,
heroine of Arctic ice battles and
Antarctic service with the late Rear
Admiral Richard E. Byrd.
Now docked in Dartmouth, Nova
Scotia, the versatile bark will be
restored and towed to Philadel
phia for conversion to a maritime
museum and restaurant.
When the 198-foot three-master
was launched in Greenock, Scot
land, in 1874, sails were giving
away to steam. Bear had both.
For hazardous duty among ice
floes, she was built of oak sheath
ed with Australian ironbark, the
toughest wood known. A steel
plate covered the bow. She was
called the “stoutest ship ever
built.”
Operating out of St. John’s, New
foundland, the Bear made 11 an
nual trips to the icy sealing
grounds of the North Atlantic.
When members of the Greely Ex
pedition were starving on ice
blocked Ellesmere Island in 1883,
the United States bought the Bear
and sent her north on the rescue
mission. After a grinding battle
with the floes, she rescued the
party—reduced from 25 to seven
by hardship and starvation.
The United States Revenue Ma
rine, forerunner of the Coast
Guard, then sent the Bear to Alas
kan waters where she became a
legend.
She delivered mail, supplies,
missionaries and stranded theatri
cal troops to isolated outposts and
Eskimo villages. Once she trans
ported an entire Eskimo village,
whose migrants pitched their tents
on deck.
Over much of the Bering Sec
patrol, the Bear was the onh
visible arm of the United State;
government. Her crew guardec
timber, game, and the seal herd
The ship’s doctor served remote
regions. Coasts were mapped.
Sometimes a native boat would
put out from a village flying z
pair of pants and a petticoat, a
signal that the captain would soon
be called upon to perform a mar
riage ceremony on the quarterdeck
When Alaska’s wild caribou suf
fered complete depletion, the Bear
ferried reindeer from Siberia tc
found the first North American
herd as a substitute source oi
meat and hide.
After 40 years on the Bering
Sea patrol, the Bear was decom
missioned and given to the City ol
Oakland, Calif., as a maritime
museum.
But she was called back into
service, as Bear of Oakland, when
Adm. Byrd needed a sturdy wood
en ship for his 1933 Antarctic
expedition.
It was a tough trip. “I know she
was never in worse ice,” Byre
wrote later. “It couldn’t have beer
worse.”
The Bear not only survived; she
brought the expedition home tc
a roaring welcome in Washington
D.C.
She retired again, but Worlc
War II called her out to patrn
the Atlantic. Once she towed z
captured German supply ship tc
Boston.
By next spring, Philadelphian;
should have their first look ai
the not very retiring 89-year-olc
lady.
POLET’S
imo Aits & Crafts
MUKLUKS
• FUR SLIPPERS
• AFTER-SKI BOOTS
• IVORY CARVINGS
• ESKIMO DOLLS
Otto & Kathie Schulz
Phone 26S1 Box 401
ESKIMO SCOUTS START
2ND V/EEK OF ENCAMPMENT
FT. RICHARDSON—The famed
! Eskimo Scouts of the 1st and 2nd
Scout Battalions, 297th Infantry,
Alaska National Guard, spent most
cf the first week of their ^innual
two week encampment at Camp
Denali on the rifle range and par
ticipating in special, guerilla war
fare training.
The Scout Battalions will con- !
tinue their specialized training
program during the second week
cf the encampment with courses i
in night reconnaissance patrols, ^
map reading, squad tactics, demo
lition and guerrilla warfare.
Grand Jury Completes Work
The Grand Jury completed their
work yesterday bringing in four
true bills, all of which were for
gery charges against Gordon
Dimmick. Their full report is
published elsewhere in this paper.'
The Petit Jury will convene next
Tuesday at 10:00 a.m.
BIA Officials Due Here Sunday
A group of BIA officials are ^
scheduled to arrive on Sunday to
spend a few days in this area.
They include Stephen Smith, as
sistant area director; Olive Tower,
personnel officer; William Davis,
area finance officer; and Robert
Davlin, area property and supply
officer.
The divorce rate usually rises
sharply during January and Feb
ruary. The reason: Many unhappy
couples can’t bring themselves to a
divorce during the peace of Christ
mas time. But love goes up the
chimney with Santa Claus, and
they head for lawyers.
IOUR SAVIOR'S
LUTHERAN CHURCH
5th and Bering St.
Reynold F. Wilson. Pastor
SATURDAY
Sr. Luther League 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY
; Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
I Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Hi Luther League Committee
2:30 p.m.
Evening Service. 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY
Jr. Hi Luther League 7:00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Mid-Week Meeting
and Prayer 7:30 p.m.
I
Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska
"THE FRIENDLY BANK”
Full Banking Services to N.W. Alaska Since 1904
BRANCHES IN KOTZEBUE and BARROW
Easter Seal Campaign
Gets Underway He re
I The Easter Seal Campaign is
] underway in Nome with the mail
! ing of letters to local people by
j the local chairman, Mrs. Donald
Lyle, who has been active in this
campaign for many years.
Heading the effort as 1963 Na
tional Easter Seal Campaign
Chairman is Si.irley Booth, one
of the brightest stars of stage and
screen and award winning central
j figure of the top ranked TV show
[“Hazel,” which appears weekly on
, KNOM-TV.
The army of volunteers, organ
ized in almost every community in
the naiion, seek to raise a total
for the year of $21 million to make
possible a comprehensive rehabili
tation program needed to open
new worlds to a quarter-million
Americans who are crippled. In
1362, according to figures, the
Easter Seals worked to help
201,315 children.
Last year the generous contri
butions in our state made it pos
sible for care and treatment to be
given to 2,169 handicapped persons
in Alaska through the Alaska
Crippled Children’s Assn.
Mr. John Burkhart, accompanied
by his wife and son, John, arrived
here this week to be attached to
the BIA staff as a second social
worker. Elsie Mae Smith has been
the only social worker in this area
for some time. The Burkharts will
live in the former FAA quarters
recently taken over by the BIA on
B St.
America now has 500,000 per
sons who keep bees for fun or pro
fit. Last year t.ieir unpaid little
slaves buzzed home to hive with a
record crop of 275 million pounds
1 of honey. ,
Community Church
METHODIST
SUNDAY, MARCH 17TH
Church School 10 a.m.
Divine Worship 11 a.m.
Lenten Service 7:30 p.m.
"Gethsemane"
Filmstrip and Sermon
Howard L. DeVore, Pastor
Phone 2865