Great Falls Tribune from Great Falls, Montana • Page 24

8B Great Falls Tribune Thursday, June 16, 1988 New chief takes over appeals court Weyerhaeuser rejects timber union's plan state of federal sentencing law leaves the trial courts "In the position of a baseball umpire not knowing where the strike zone is." After numerous conflicting rulings by lower federal courts on the validity of new federal sentencing guidelines, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide the issue In its next term, which starts this fall. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The new chief Judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday the court may soon be swamped by death penalty appeals, particularly from California. Alfred Goodwin, who took over leadership of the nation's largest federal appeals court Wednesday from James Browning, also expressed support for Browning's' position of keeping the court intact rather than splitting it in two, as some have suggested.

Through administrative efficiency, "Judge Browning has proved that an appellate court can function effectively with more than 30 judges," Goodwin said in an Inaugural speech to the Federal Bar Association. The 9th Circuit, which covers nine Western states, Guam and the Northern Marianas, has 25 active judges and three vacancies, nearly twice as many authorized positions as any of the other 11 circuits. The states are California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and Hawaii. Browning, 69, chief judge since 1976, will remain a full-time judge on the court but stepped aside as chief judge in favor of Goodwin, 64. Goodwin was a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court for nine years before being appointed to the U.S.

District Court in Portland by President Richard Nixon in 1968 and to the appeals court In 1971. His office will be in Pasadena. In his speech, Goodwin said one of the court's major workload problems Is likely to be the growing number of death penalty appeals, which often shift to the federal courts once a state Supreme Court affirms a death sentence. "More than 200 capital cases are temporarily impounded in the California courts," Goodwin said, noting that the state Supreme Court has been upholding a number of death sentences. "Some of these very soon may enter the (U.S.) District Courts where they can become a serious drain on federal judicial time and energy, leaving little of either for other federal litigation." Goodwin also said the unsettled Council begins study of school finance PORTLAND, Ore.

(AP) -Weyerhaeuser Co. rejected a union contract proposal Wednesday as a strike against three other Northwest timber companies continued. The Tacoma, wood-products company responded with a counterproposal that a union official said was inadequate. No further negotiations were scheduled, but negotiating subcommittees will meet in the next few days to discuss proposed changes in the company's profit-sharing plan, said Bill Hubbell, president of the International Woodworkers of The strike against Willamette Industries Champion International Corp. and DAW Forest Products Co.

began June 6, affecting 4,500 workers in Oregon, Washington and Montana. Weyerhaeuser has about 7,500 union employees. In Montana, about 1,500 workers have been idled at Champion mills in Missoula, Bonner and Libby. The woodworkers' union and the Western Council of Industrial Workers called the strike after the companies rejected a contract accepted earlier by Eugene-based Bohemia Inc. Weyerhaeuser also rejected that contract and made a counterproposal Wednesday.

It calls for a 4 percent increase in base pay over four years, Hubbell said. The company also offered improvements in its profit-sharing plan. "We're absolutely miles apart on base rates as it relates to the I SjLlli IS: tl HELENA (AP) A new council launched its effort to find solutions to the issue of public school financing Wednesday, with Gov. Ted Schwinden telling members he doesn't expect a single answer to the complicated problem. "I would hope that this council would make recommendations that would give the Legislature a different point of view," he told the Public School Financing Advisory Council at its first meeting here.

Schwinden created the council last week in response to a District Court decision in January that declared unconstitutional the state's system of funding schools. He charged the five-member group with developing proposals for him to consider in preparing the final executive budget for the 1990-91 biennium. The deadline for the council's report is Oct. 1, two months before the new budget is due. He urged the council to present a "dispassionate, unbiased, but informed and constructive set of rec- ONE OF LIFE'S LITTLE pmwm tcva acuta 10 mm, imdniyM Sat MM-lO (MM.

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Bohemia said. settlement," Hubbell The Bohemia contract reportedly provides a 5 percent raise in the first year and 4 percent in each of the following three years. Company spokesman Lee Bjorklund declined to comment on details of Wednesday's negotiations, but described them as constructive. "Both parties acknowledged the need for considerable discussion of detailed issues," he said. One of those issues is changes in the company's profit-sharing plan for sawmill workers.

The company adopted profit sharing in 1986, the same year Weyerhaeuser was hit by a 52-week strike by the two unions. "What they're proposing in profit sharing is 100 percent better than what they had last time around," Hubbell said. "There's just a lot of loose ends that we want to tie up before we can buy into the profit-sharing plan." Both sides already have agreed on changes in profit sharing for the company's lumber operations. That plan had run into less worker criticism than the one for sawmill operations, Hubbell said. Meanwhile, the unions plan to meet June 23 with Simpson Timber Co.

officials, who are expected to respond to the Bohemia proposal. Union contracts covering most of the region's 38,000 union woodworkers expired June 1. The unions are seeking restoration of wages and benefits cut in 1986 after a series of unsuccessful strikes. the secretary of agriculture and Congresss, would cover about 89.3 percent of the corridor being studied, prohibiting any development inside the area. However, it would also leave open the option of future development in the remaining 2.3 miles of the study corridor.

The alternative was one of three listed in the draft impact statement, with the other two calling for no "wild and scenic" designation and for the designation to cover all of the study corridor. The study was done after Little Horn Energy, a company that wants to build a pumped hydroelectric generator on the river, requested a permit to study the feasibility of the project. Arthur Bauer, project leader for the study, said if the Forest Service's recommendation is accepted, the company would be able to develop in the 2.3 miles of the river not covered by the designation. iBlAND Jazz Festivals RAINBOW HOTEb 9 Present a Pre-Montana Traditional Jazz Festival-Warm Up Party with the LAST CHANCE DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND and vocalist PAULA FILBY from London, England Friday, June 1 7 8 p.m. Rainbow Hotel Ballroom $3 per person $5 per couple Sleeping rooms for 1 or 2 people Great Musicl Great Dancing! Rainbow Hotel 1st Ave.

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