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I 4 The Arizona Republic Phoenix, 4, 1961 Justice Lockwood Sworn Into Office For the first time in Arizona history yesterday a woman was inducted into office as a member of the state supreme court. Judge Lorna F. Lockwood. veteran Maricopa County superior court jurist, officially began the six-year term to which she was elected last fall. I Her inauguration featured cere- Fred C.

Struckmeyer now monies in the court's hearing starting his second elective term, chambers which also marked theMd Justice Jesse I'dall. The lat- beginning of oew six-year termsjter last fall won election in his for two other court members. wn aftpr serving by appointment since last June to fill The latter were Chief he vacancy occasioned by the i( jeath of his brother, the late Jus- GOP Bloc Huddles On Spcakcrsliip By BERNIE WYNN The Arizona political spotlight switched suddenly yesterday to the heated contest for speaker of jtice Levj S. Udall. I First official net of the court i after the inauguration was to an order designating Chief Struckrmyer to continue to iserve in that capacity.

Under constitutional amendment 'adopted by voters last November. the chief justice now is elected by the five court members and serves at the will of a majority. Struckmeyer now is the court's senior member in point of service. the Arizona House of Representatives while Governor Fannin's inaugural still was in progress. Representative John Haugh (R- Pima), GOP floor leader, summoned the 28-member Republican bloc into a closed session at noon to discuss the house reorganization next Monday, THE REPUBLICANS already have committed their votes to T.

C. (Doc) Rhodes (D-Maricopa) except for Maricopa County Rep. Gene B. McCIellan, who declared he favors the incumbent speaker, W. L.

(Tay) Cook. When McCIellan showed up at the caucus, Representative Haugh politely told him the session concerned the speakership and GOP MEANWHILE, Robert Pickrell yesterday became head man in the Arizona attorney general's office, where he once served as an assistant. Justice Struckmeyer administered the oath of office to Pickrell in ceremonies in the attorney gen-, eral's office. i Friends, associates, and members of Pickrell's family witnessed the swearing-in ceremony. It was followed by a buffet luncheon.

Republican Pickrell. who replaced Democrat Wade Church as chief legal officer of the state, served as an assistant attorney general during the early 1950s un-j der Attorney General Ross Jones. JUSTICE Lockwood was wel- Republic Photo Judge Lorna E. Lockwood Is Aided With Robes Judge Renz Jennings Watches As First Woman Ever Elected To Supreme Court Prepares For Induction Into Office support of Doc Rhodes. Haugh said McCIellan demanded corned to the supreme court by be allowed to remain, insisting Justice Renz L.

Jennings, who to he was entitled to attend anyijoined the high tribunal himself onlv last month for a four-year be his short term to round out a vacan- Republican caucus. (McCIellan could not reached for comment at home, 8307 N. 29th Dr.) Referring to her father, the late u. -j Supreme Court Justice Alfred C. Haugh and other members who served that they told McCIellan he had a right to support any candidate he wished, but could not expect toj be admitted to a caucus discussing Rhodes.

McCLELLAN was told he 1925, Miss Lockwood said: "I cannot fin my father's shoes. jl hope I can follow in his foot- left, the Re- agreed to meet at 1 welcome at any caucus dealing! "I am fully mindful and aware," with proposed zdministratioo leg- she added, "of the great challenges here. By the grace of God and the assistance of my colleagues, I hope my services in this court will be of benefit to the State of Arizona." Pickrell announced appointment of Ed Hughes as special assistant attorney general assigned to the state highway department. HUGHES ALSO served in that capacity under Church. Pickrell said he has not yet selected his chief assistant attorney general.

But he said Robert 0. Lesher, former state supreme court justice from Tucson, will serve under him as a special assistant attorney general assigned to highway right of way condemnation isiatien. or parry matters, Haugh said. Aftfflr McCtellaa pufcJictas p.ns_ Scaday in Governor Fan- run's home to discuss his legislative program. Meanwhile, the 52-member Democratic majority agreed to caucus, on the speakership at noon Sunday in the house chambers.

Several representatives said they feared no final decision could be "reached until the 25th legislature formally convenes at noon Monday, and perhaps not even then. SHOULD EITHER candidate fail to receive 41 votes, the balloting and maneuvering could go on Military Aid To Laos Hit BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) Members of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization want a political settlement of the civil war in Laos, SEATO Secretary-General Pole Sarasin said yesterday. One solution could be reactiva tion of the three-nation interna- 1 supervisory commission toj work out a truce. Informed sources in London said Premier Bonn' Outn of Laos is reported willing to allow the commission to re-, suinc work but under conditions that may be unacceptable to the Communists. Sarasin told newsmen that SEATO members feeJ military intervention in Laos to counter Communist aid to the rebels may spread the war outside of the jungle kingdom.

An indication of the chance came from top officials of Thailand, who earlier were among the most outspoken of SEATO's members in demanding firm action to help their Laotian neighbors. In Washington, President Eisenhower was reported hopeful that some solution can be worked out without military intervention. U.S. military units in the Pacific havej been ordered to take precaution-1 Have you had your morning pick-me-up? Read Big George in The Arizona Republic every morning. More About Laos Turmoil Worsens (Cotitiniied From Page 1) munist radio broadcasts were wasting of Soviet and Communist Chinese recognition of the Souvanna government.

One broadcast said the Reds Would set up a government in Xieng Khouang. (The Philippine government was reported in Manila to favor sending a U.N. "police force" into Laos to restore order before SEATO makes any direct military intervention against Communist-supplied forces there. (BROADCASTS from Hanoi, capital of Communist North Viet Nam, meanwhile were attacking the SEATO discussion of the Laos crisis as "intervention and aggression." (The U.S. State Department swept down from the Communist Viet Nam border 50 miles to the east.

But conflicting claims made it clear the crucial battle was still undecided. Bouavan said the Red forces were fighting in the suburbs and still controlled the great savannah grass-covered plateau and the complex of airfields around it. Xieng Khouang is only 100 miles Hummel Urges NewU.S. Agency TUCSON (AP) Mayor Don Hummel yesterday said he will discuss the proposed creation of a madeTpublic' In'Washington "yes- department of urban affairs with Kl rvnt TnVt TT Ir northeast of the administrative capital of Vientiane and 85 miles southeast of the royal capital of Luang Prabang. A Communist victory would pose a threat to neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam.

THE BANGKOK (Thailand) Post, quoting informed military sources, said Communist North Viet Nam's 304th and 314th regi- mertts, victors over the French at Dien Bien Phu, were fighting alongside the Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas in Laos. Western diplomatic sources here said there were growing indications that Communist aid to the attacking forces under Kong Le was far greater than at first feared and that SEATO was terday what it called "firm information" that "substantial President-elect John F. concerned, in New York Jan. 9. numbers" of Communist North! Vietnamese troops were in Laos and of extensive Assoc a tj on will be accompanied and North Vietnamese airlifts of Ma or hardson Dilworth of president of the war materials into- Laos.

(It said the North Vietnamese troops were parachuted into Laos by the Communist planes and that the planes had made 184 trips into Laos since Dec. 15. Laos, like South Korea, is con- Hummel, newly elected presi-jsidered by the U.S. government as part of the Western detense perimeter beyond which the Communists must not be allowed Conference of Mayors. Hummel told the Tucson City Council that he and Dilworth will offer the services of the two organizations in setting up the new de- It listed the serial numbers artrnent nine Soviet planes involved and said five of them had been active in clandestine airlifts in the Congo more than a month ago.) SCHOOL FIRE CALLED ARSON INFORMATION Minister Boua-j BIRMINGHAM, Ala.

(UPf) van Norasing announced thatlpire Marshal Aarorj Rosenfeld loyal paratroops had dropped on yesterday said an arsonist set fire the Plain of Jars and wrested to the Hopper City Negro high trol of Xieng Khouang "from the school Monday night, but damage Communist-supplied troops who was less than $1,000. to pass. CADILLAC' APPROVED for depindablllty, beauty, economy SMTCqvEPS- FLOOR MAIS. urFpiofRATiciKi RADIOS' HUES BATTERIES iPARf liPf KITS COULTER CADILLAC 320 North Cintrll Avinut MIS1 indefinitely, thus blocking in southern Arizona. reorganization.

No other business can be considered until the house elects a speaker and sets up its committees. Another Tucsonan, William K. ary measures but nothing further has been announced. The United States is a member with Britain, Pakistan, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand. of SEATO along France, Thailand, LUNCHEON FOR VISITORS A winter visitors' luncheon has! been scheduled for noon today Richey, will be a special Phoenix Parks and Recrea- attorney general assigned to other legal work for the state at Tucson, Pickrell said.

tion Department's Senior Citizens Division. Group singing is planned. European Allies Oppose American Policy In Laos, Newspapers Report LONDON (UPI)-Britain and France are aligned with the Soviet Union in believing that the Laotian crisis should be settled by reconvening the three- nation international commission on Laos, it was reported yesterday. Europe's newspapers were pleading with the United States not to intervene in Laos for fear it might touch off a major war, There appeared to be a major effort by world powers to end the crisis through diplomacy rather than by military means. THE SOVIET Union has called for reconvening of the commission which was composed of Canada, Communist Poland, and India.

It was charged with overseeing the armistice that ended the French Jndochinese civil war and set up the states of Laos, Cambodia, North Viet Nam, and South Viet Nam. The United States has opposed calling the commission back into being because it believed Communist Poland hamstrung its activities and because the commission would favor a coalition Laotian government that would include the Communist Pathet Lao rebels. An official British spokesman said there is broad Anglo-American agreement on the need for finding a political solution in LAOS, but he said reports Britain is trying to restrain the United Stales from military intervention are "wide of the mark." The spokesman denied there is wide a measure of disagreement between the two pules as reported in London newspapers and said there is a much wider measure of agrce- ment than is generally believed." criticized Diplomatic quarters in Paris said President Charles de Gaulle personally is behind a government attempt to have the West tackle the problem of Laos through an application of Indo- Chinese agreements reached at Geneva in 1954. BUT THE French point out that to revive the commission its members would have to recognize the right-wing government of Prince Boun Oum, the American-supported leader now in power in Vientiane. The Poles and other Communist nations insist the ousted government of neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma is the legal Laotian government.

The French also are reported to accept the view that the United States is entitled to a major voice in the West's policy in Laos because of the American contribution of millions of dollars in recent years to the country's economy. THE LONDON Evening Standard reported Prime Minister Harold Macmillan so worried he plans to telephone President Eisenhower about the Laos situation. A foreign office spokesman refused to comment on this report. Much of the diplomatic activity centered in London where the government dispatched a note to Laos asking about the situation. Government officials said Britain has sided with the Soviet Union in urging the three-nation commission be reconvened to return Laos to neutrality.

A spokesman described as premature reports that Lacs had accepted the British suggestion. Many European newspapers what they called American intentions to inter- vene with force in the Laotian i crisis, but Spanish newspapers warned that "one cannot con- 1 sent to a new Communist gression." rn Phoenix afternoon Kqsources Over $600 Million Thanks to the courtesy of our fellow bankers back East, many newcomers are recommended to us before they ever leave home. Jn case you re new here, and looking for a banking connection, we cordially invite you to drop in at any Valley Bank office. Ask for the he'll be delighted to make your acquaintance and help you in any way he can! 67 FRIENDLY OFFICES MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION.