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Show THE PAGE EIGHT Justice Department Synthetic Gas NEW YORK FMC is Corporation has confirmed discussing with several major energy companies the organization of a consortium to complete development and to engineer a plant for the jxroduction of synthetic synpipeline gas and thetic crude oil from coal. The company indicated that a number of the energy companies have expressed a deep interest in the COGAS process, which essentially converts coal into gas and oil by known and proven technology. Development of the COGAS process comes at a time when reserves of natural gas are dwindling critically and requirements are increasing. In making the announcement, Raymond C. Tower, FMC Executive i Vice President and General Manager of the Chemical Group, said that several years of procesi development leads the company to believe that a 250 million cubic feet per day plant (80 billion per year) can deliver gas at from 0 cents per thousand cubic feet as well as 24,000 barrels of synthetic crude oil per day at $4 per barrel. He estimates that the COGAS gas price will be at least 15 cents per thousand cubic feet lower than that produced by any other available process known today. by-prod- 75-8- career William OConnor, government attorney, has been appointed a Deputy Asaistant torney General in the Civil Rights Division, Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell has announced. OConnor, 40, has been chief of the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division since June, 1870. He Joined the Department of Justice in 1861. Asst. Atty. Gen. David L. Norman said OConnor will supervise the Divisions sections which handle Criminal matters, Legislation and At- ployment cases. Robert A. Murphy, 64, a Civil Rights Division attorney since 1866, was named as Acting Chief of the Criminal Section. The Divisions other two Deputy Assistant Attorneys General are Frank M. Dunbaugh, who super- vises the Education and Employment Sections, and James P. Turner, who supervises the Housing and Voting and Public Accomodations Sections. 60.2 Million record attend A WASHINGTON (UPI) 60.2 million Americana will - WASHINGTON (UPI) Delays in handling 2 per cent of the nation's "notorious" or "spectacular" federal criminal cases have undermined public confidence in the whole judicial system, according to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. "To a large extent what people think is shaped by what we do or fail to do with less than 2 per cent of the criminal cases in the federal system," Burger told the 2nd Circuit Judicial Conference at Manchester, Vl., September 10. "Not all of the 2 per cent factor are 2 per but within that newsworthy cent are those cases that drag for two, three, four and more years and are often the 'notorious', the 'spectacular cases because of the crime factor involved, the identity of the accused or his counsel, or all three factors," he said. Also within the 2 per cent, Burger said, "are the cases in which delay gives rise to public anxiety and concern and even anger. These are the cases that undermine public confidence in the system." He told the judges, "Our problem is to see to it that the disposition time of that 2 per cent group is reduced and brought as nearly as possible into line with the general run of criminal cases. "This is not a matter of giving special treatment or special priority but rather of making sure that no cases are delayed by special treatment or by inertia or indifference or by someone exploiting procedure for the sole purpose of delay whether it be the prosecutor or defense counsel. These delays must stop." Burger said he had asked the chairman of the U.S. Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration to propose a method of identifying cases in which delay must not be permitted. 'jail-cas"Obviously the is one of these," Burger said. He referred to cases in which accused persons are subjected to long periods of detention before trial. "The developments in recent years assuring counsel to all accused persons and enlarged release on bail pending trial do not alter the basic proposition that the more serious criminal cases must not be allowed to languish whether by the action of the prosecutor, the defense counsel, or both," he said. e' school this year at an average coat of $1,413 each, the U.S. Office of Education predicted September 8, despite the second straight year of school elementary declining enrollment. The enrollment figure, covering through grades graduate school, is up 1 per cent from last fall's 58.7 million. The total cost estimate of $85.1 billion is a 8.7 per cent hike from last years $77.6 billion. The cost figure is based on school systems' operating budgets and capital outlays. Education Commissioner Sidney P. Marland Jr., said enrollment would increase 6 per cent at colleges and graduate schools, 2 per cent for the high school grades 8 through 12, and decline less than 1 per cent for elementary grades 1 through 8. A declining birth rate during the elementary mid-186- 0s is responsible for the school elementary The said. Marland enrollment, lower decline in enrollment this year and last followed 25 years of steady increase. Marland said this years student 1 1 IfAWiBR New Jersey Bar Picks Member As Historian NEWARK (ACCN) Atty. James D. Carpenter, a Montclair resident, has been reappointed Chairman of the committee to write the history of the New Jersey State Bar Association by Joseph T. Grause, Red Bank, President of the professional organization. Carpenter, who practices in Newark, "has long been a central figure in our Association, including a 8,000-memb- term as president in 1833-34- ," President Grause said in making the appointment. "We will benefit from his experience and personal insight in recording our history." i 1971 killers, the rapists, the thugs and the Wasp in Your Car - By Joseph W. Grlgg LONDON (UPI) Violent Myrtle was driving a neighbor to the market when a wasp flew into the car, zoomed up her sleeve, and stung her under the arm. Myrtle hit the brakes so hard that the car landed in a roadside ditch. The neighbor, injured, lost no time in suing for damages. brutes. The tabloid The Sun, while crime rejecting return to the death is on the upsurge in Britain A which itself on the country prides fact that its police normally go penalty, also called for wider powers for police and courts and stiffer sentences without parojie, The Daily Telegraph said editorially "No one wants London and Britains other cities to .become unarmed. Armed holdups, bank robberies and muggings have increased at a rate which police and press have said could make British streets as dangerous in five years as those of 1 like New York or Washington in terms of violent crime. Yet on the present trend that is the way they may be going...the first need is for longer sentences, seved longer." The killing of police superin- New York or Washington. So far there have been no serious demands for restoration of the death penalty, which Britain abolished in tendent 1865. Anybody who panics at the wheel," she said in court, has no business driving at all. A driver has to be able to keep cool in a pinch." However, the court disagreed. The judge said Myrtle could not be held liable for reacting the way any average driver might react in a similar situation. The need to keep cool in a pinch" arises all too often in driving a car. As a rule, the law will forgive a mistake caused by urgent and unusual circumstances. But even in an emergency, a driver must retain some degree of discretion. Another motorist faced a dilemma when the car ahead of him stopped suddenly. Although the right lane was dear, the motorist chose to swing out to the left where he collided with a car coming the other way. This time, the driver was held liable for the accident. The court said that even in an emergency, he should have had enough judgment to take the right lane. Nor is a motorist excused by an emergency that he himself has created. In another case, a small boy was struck down when he suddenly dashed from the shoulder of a highway into the path of an oncoming car. When the motorist was sued for damages, he protested that he had been unable to stop in time. But at the court hearing, these further facts came to light: 1) that the boy had been facing away from the car; 2) that he had been in plain sight of the driver for a considerable time; and 3) that the driver had neither slowed down nor sounded his horn as he approached. Finding him liable, court said: The presence of a very young child on the shoulder of a highway is, in itself, a danger signal." Bill Wolf Ban Exam Post-Ba- r body will include 8.4 million students in higher education, 15.1 million in high schools and 36.7 million in True-Fals- e elementary schools. Of todays teenagers, Marland said, about 78 per cent will graduate from high school, 48 per cent will enter a college or university, 25 per cent will earn a bachelors degree, 8 per cent a masters degree and 1.5 per cent a doctorate. 15, Violent Crime Curve Mounts In Britain Special Projects, Planning and Special Appeals, and enforcement of the 1864 Act requiring nondiscrimination in federally assisted programs. O'Connor has had extensive experience in complex criminal and civil litigation, including the Bethlehem Steel and motion picture and television industry equal em- Answering School Bells Burger Scores Delay In Prime Criminal Cases so-call- K. (ACCN) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER a -that it (ACCN) h A'm Rights Division WASHINGTON Near Reality mm Promotes in Civil From Coal Said DAILY RECORD Look - Plans SACRAMENTO (ACCN) to implement an objective (nonessay) portion of the California Bar Examination next February were stalled September 8 when a .special subcommittee of the State Senate Judiciary Committee refused passage of legislation dealing with the plan. The subcommittee refused to grant a "do pass" recommendation upon the bill by Assemblyman Ken Maddy (Rep.; Fresno). The bill would prohibit an applicant from reviewing questions and answers on y the proposed portion of the examination. Currently an unsuccessful applicant to the bar may review his essay answers if he seeks copies of those answers within four months following the posting of examination records. The Maddy bill would continue to allow such review in the ' essay portion of the examination but would preclude any second look at answers and questions in the objective - multiple choice, true-fals- e area. A candidate would be allowed to inspect the grading procedure of these objective questions. non-essa- . But police and public concern has sparked demands for much tougher sentences by courts for crimes of violence. The government has not yet reacted to the outcry. But politicos predict that the annual convention of the governing Conservative Party in October will Police figures for the first there months of this year showed a 16.8 per cent increase over the same period in 1970. In London alone there were nearly 5,700 crimes of violence in the first six months of 1971 compared with 5,429 for the whole of 1970. le Appraisal Group To Participate In German Meet le CHICAGO (ACCN) They demanded severe treatment of violent criminals by the courts. The two events sparked a hue and cry that temporarily at least-pus-hed the dollar crisis and Northern Ireland violence out of British headlines. Virtually every nationally cir- newspaper reproduced the Times interview and followed it with demands of their own for tougher penalties for crimes of violence. The tabloid Daily Mirror, in a front page editorial, said "The Former police must be reassured that society is on their side against the Robert institute Appraisal Chicago, who is now associated with the development of Park Forest South, in Illinois, will discuss the site selection phase of new town development, and Willard Rouse, who is associated with James Rouse in developing the new town of Columbia, Maryland, will describe the role of private enterprise in the creation of these modern new communities. FIG is an international association the of leading composed professional societies of land and WASHINGTON The (UPI) chairman of a commission that drafted proposed new rules for the Democrats' 1972 convention has said TV viewers of the quadrennial spectacle will be hearing more talk but not necessarily enjoying it less. Rep. James G. OHara, said if the convention accepts the map makers, aerial photogranimertrist, building cost estimators, land title registrars and realty valuation specialists in more than 40 different nations. Its two United Stales members are the Appraisal Institute and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, and they are now making arrangements for the organization's next world oceanographic surveyors, h., be all but eliminated in favor of wide-ope- n debate on the burning social issues of the day. This, O'Hara predicted, will be of more interest to TV viewers and will satisfy the zest for debate among the 3,016 delegates who will gather at Miami Beach July 9. The OHara commission proposals were publicized as they were adopted piecemeal over the past two years. They were compiled into one report and sent earlier this month to the Democratic National Committee, Democratic governors and the Party's state chairmen. The proposals are subject to action by the convention as a whole. OHara predicted the proposals would be accepted with little, if any, change except for a controversial plan on the way delegates are allocated per state. The commission proposed a formula based on 50 per cent population and 50 per cent for the size of the statewide Democratic vote for president in 1968. C. President Percy E. Wagner, of Rules May Make For Sober 72 Dem Convention proposals of his commission on rules but those noisy and colorful on demonstrations prolonged behalf of favorite son candidates will - Boucher, of Washington, D.C., president of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, has left for Germany, where he will be one of the speakers and will lead a delegation of approximately 50 members of the Appraisal Institute who will attend a world congress of the Federation Internationale des Geometres (FIG) in Wiesbaden, September Boucher will deliver a paper on valuation problems connected with the development of new towns. He will speak at a session which also will be addressed by two other United States authorities on new towns and one from Great Britain. years. British at to 41,088 in 1970. off by two incidents recently. On August 23 the local police chief was shot to death and two other policemen wounded while trying to arrest armed gunmen who had held up a jewerly store at Blackpool, a beach resort big Atlantic City-styin Northern England. The following day the Times of London frontpaged an interview with two senior, though unnamed, London police officials. In it they asserted if violence continues at the present rate the streets of London will become as dangerous as those of New York and Washington in five culated Richardson Government figures published recently showed crimes of violence in Britain spurted from 26,716 in 1966 see energetic demands for a much tougher policy on the whole law and order issue. The present outcry was touched rank-and-fi- Gerald Blackpool and the. Times interview next day merely served to spotlight a trend that has been causing growing concern to Britons. , Congress, which will bo held in Washington, D C., in September, 1974. During the FIG Congress in Wiesbaden, President Boucher and a special committee of the Appraisal Institute also expect to hold a meeting with representatives of the Royal Institution of Chart tied Surveyors, of Great Britain, to explore the feasibility of a pl.n for acprofessional creditation. The Royal Instil ution is 103 years old and the membership of reciprocal its valuation section includes appraisers in t Gnat Britain. Other members of the Apptaisai Institute taking pari in the FIG congress in Wiesbaden at e Boyd T. Barnard, Philadelphia; Laurence Sando, Los Angeles; Larry Burke, Phoenix, Arizona; Herman W. I). 0. Walther, Chicago; Davis, Sr., Kansas City; Missouri; and Charles F. Seymour, Philadelphia. |