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flot. Ennio Cribt-Dtmorrat June 30, 1960 2W dnimilb Non-Partisan Plan Six Judges Want Schools to Cost $19.5 Million Continued From Precedit4 Page school addition which' includes an auditorium, cafeteria, band, art and physics rooms. Cost: $627,000. PATTONVILLE: An $175,000 elementary school in Chatham Village. UNIVERSITY CITY: Cafeterias will be moderntzed at Flynn Park ($51,000) and Per 1 Candidates Differ on Court Plan shing A new velltclft storage building, costing $80,000, will be constructed.

HANCOCK PLACE: Additiolii to junior high and elemeiitir schools. Combined cost: $325,000. KINLOCH: An eight-classroom elementary school will be cam: pleted by September. school costs $200,000. Continued From Preceding Page )9 I 10 MARYLAND PLAZA MEM AMINNIEMENEMEM.11.11 fabulous SALE Whatever the suggested change, it's evident that a majority of the county's circuit judges ard the one probate judge would like to see a change in the present elective setup.

And it goes beyond a mere selfish desire to secure permanent tenure for themselves, one judge said. Judge Michael Carroll said he favors relieving the judges from the pressures of campaigning. "When he takes office, he should drop his political role," he said in an interview. "But we're expected to do many things that a regular political candidate has to do. We have to buy advertisements, attend meetings and make contributions.

There's no definite percentage on the contribution, but we are expected to make a contribution which is comparable to that given by other office-holders." Judge Carroll said he makes less money today than when he was a lawyer. He added that more lawyers would make themselves available for public service if they did not have to run for office. Judge Douglas L. C. Jones terms the non-partisan plan as a "good idea for better administration of justice." "The pressure on us is extremely demanding," he said.

"I have to go out every night for political appearances. I'm hit all the time for political donations, and during election time I spend way over 10 per cent of my salary. "I definitely feel I have an obligation when it comes to making court appointments. You wind up appointing the older lawyers, when the younger lawyers, who need the experience and money, are left out in the cold because they don't have as much influence." Judge Franklin Ferriss said it's impossible for a voter in an area the size of the county to know the caliber of work a judge is doing. He also said there's no Republican or Democratic way of administer justice.

"The distinction that should be made is willingness to work hard, judicial temperament and legal training," he said. He said he has to contribute donations to the party every time the hat is passed. "There's not a Republican card party but what I'm asked to pitch in for it. I spend about five per cent of my salary on this." Judge Robert G. J.

Hoester said he's always been in favor of the non-partisan system. He cited as reasons the costs of campaigning for re-election, the constant political pressure and the great deal of time necessary for politicking. "These committee people feel they have a hold on you," Judge Hoester said. "Failure on my part to contribute to one of their dances, for example, carries the implied threat that they won't indorse me." He said he spent one-third of his annual $15,000 salary for re-election in 1958. Judge Hoester called for an alternating panel of commissioners to make sure the system is non-partisan.

Judge Virgil A. Poelker indicated he would favor the nonpartisan court plan. Probate Judge David R. Hensley favors adoption of the plan to eliminate the time-consuming campaigning, to assure a higher quality type of judge and to remove politics from the bench. He suggests a simple amendment to the State Constitution to extend the system to the county.

Judge Fred E. Mueller, who retires this year after 24 years on the bench, expressed fear that the plan "freezes man in office. You don't know what the judge is going to be like." He favors, however, a separate judicial election. appoint certain individuals as commissioners, appraisers or to other positions filled by the court. "We're expected to do the things that a regular candidate is expected to do," one judge said "We're expected to make comparable contributions to the organization.

There's no compulsion, it's just that we feel we're under obligation to the groups that backed us and will, we hope, back us again." One judge, who asked to remain anonymous, said: "The politicians put on a tremendous amount of pressure. Once or twice it's come close to asking me to fix a case." St. Louis County lawyers and judicial experts have been debating the merits of the non-partisan proposal since 1940, when the City of St. Louis and Jackson County (Kansas City) ads-pted it. The proposal removes circuit and probate judges from the rigors of politics by having a bar-lay commission submit three nominees to the Governor.

The Governor makes the final selection, in theory on a non-partisan basis. Judges run without opposition for retention in office. The St. Louis County Bar Association is almost evenly divided on the proposal, according to a poll of its members taken last year. Twenty years ago, the plan was opposed almost 10 to 1.

The St. Louis Bar Association has advocated extending the system to the county. What's behind the opposition? Generally, it's a sincere fear over the difficulty of removing judges once they're appointed. Only one judge has ever been ousted by voters. Also, Republicans feel, with some justification, that recent Democratic governors have tended to select judges of the same political party, even though the system is supposed to he nonpartisan.

Their basic belief is that judges shouldn't be too far removed from the electorate. The only problem is that it's the party leaders, and not the- voters, who call the plays after election day. And on the basis of this week's poll, that's the case In St. Louis County. Advocates of the plan cite the fact that the average voter can't be expected to know the qualifications of judicial candidates as well as lawyers.

Hence, the possibility of obtaining topnotch judges is increased under the non-partisan plan. Why pin a party tag on a judge, advocates of the non-partisan plan ask? Isn't the law to be administered without party label? The few county legislators who have attempted to extend the system to the county have run into stiff opposition from fellow county legislators, not to mention the implacable opposition of rural representatives. The State Legislature' has to pass enabling legislation permitting a certain percentage of voters to petition for a referendum on the proposal. If the referendum is successful, then the system would go into effect. Possible modifications which have been suggested in the St.

Louis and Kansas CitY plan are raising the number of votes needed for judges to retain their seat from a simple Majority to two-thirds or even ithree-fourths, requiring equal representation of the political parties on the bench and rotating the makeup of the commissions which select the nominees. famed District has awarded the contract for its $1,400,000 junior high school on Parker road and Waterford drive. The Hazelwood School District Is building a new junior high wing and a 26-room elementary school on Humes road out of a 0,400,000 bond issue approved by the voters in March. The district also is improving the sites at Larimore and Russell schools. In the Ritenouro district, three additions totaling $1,500,000 are planned.

An addition of 25 classrooms will be constricted on the senior high school grounds and classrooms will be added to Home Heights and Midland Elementary Schools. The Parkway district begins construction this summer of the first unit of its proposed senior high schonl on Woods Mill road. Total cost will be about 000. About $800,000 is being spent on construction work in the Kirkwood district. Four schools will get additions.

They are Rose Hill, Pittman elementary and Nipher and North Kirkweod junior high schools. The Lindbergh district is completing a classroom addition to the junior high school and is building a 21-room elementary school. Combined cost of the two projects is $955,000. Three projects are under construction in the Mehlville School District. They are a 20-room addition to the senior high school a seven-room addition and remodeling at Oakville School ($246,000) and new assembly room at Point School 000).

A smaller amount of construction is going on in seven other districts: AFFTON: A $675,000 intermediate school for seventh and eighth graders. This project will require another bond issue for completion. BAYLESS: A $350,000 intermediate school building with closed circuit television. BERKELEY: A senior high How do the candidates themselves for county circuit judge feel about the non-partisan court plan? A poll by The Globe-Democrat showed wide divergence of opinion. All the candidates in Division Three In both parties declined to comment.

They are present incumbent Judge Noah Weinstein and Magistrate Judge James J. Eagan on the Democratic side, and Robert J. Callahan on the Republican side. CONDITIONAL OK In Division Four here's what the Democratic candidates said: Thomas R. McGinnis favors the plan if a majority of county voters and the members of the bar association want it.

When asked if he would call for a county-wide vote to determine voters' feelings, he declined to comment. Magistrate Judge Joseph Wynne Murphy said that he favors a study of the proposal before deciding. Isadore Sober, an attorney, is opposed to the plan because "it makes no difference in the quality of the judges, and it permanently enscounces judges in office." He does approve, however, of a seperate judicial election. Former Congressman Raymond W. Karst said there are fallacies to both the appointive and the elective processes.

Magistrate A. Bertram Elam said all office-holders should be elected. MODIFY PRESENT PLAN "This is a democracy, and we're fast getting away from it," he said. "The non-partisan plan is a foreign idea, which doesn't result in better judges." Magistrate Elam said he does favor a separate -judicial election with candidates running without party designation. JOLLES BAGS totes satchels handbags 950 orig.

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