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Show t 4 . , I .r EIGHT PAGE In San Francisco: UTAH AND THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1971 RECORD THE DAILY California Bar Exam e Will Try - THE WEST Prepared by Utah Foundation Chinatown's Establishment Condemns U.N. Multi-Choic- PERSONAL INCOME PERCAPITAl 1970 The SACRAMENTO (ACCN) Committee of Bar Examiners of the California Slate Bar has decided to go ahead with plans for an objective, multiple choice portion of the State Bar examination to be administered for the first time next February. By Robert Strand SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) The Chinese Six Companies, the voice of - Chinatowns establishment here, has denounced the United Nations as The decision was announced and "decadent cynical and said it was organization" a October 27 from the Bars offices in San Francisco. There had been much speculation as to whether the Bar would go ahead with its plan for an objective lest in light of the doomed to follow the League of Nations into extinction. The Six Companies called a rare news conference, held on teakwood tables under tassled lamps, in its pagodb style headquarters building, to express its opposition to the U.N.'s admission of Red China and expulsion of Nationalist China. organizations failure to obtain legislation necessary to enable the California examination to comply with a basic requirement of the national plan. The legislative measure which the Bar failed to obtain was AB 1557, by Assemblyman Ken Maddy, The Maddy bill, which died before the Senate Judiciary Committee, would have precluded an unsuccessful applicant to the Bar from seeing the objective questions and comparing them with his answers after the test. Under existing law an applicant who fails the exam may obtain a copy of his test and review his essay answers so that he can prepare himself for subsequent examinations. With the failure of the Maddy bill, unsuccessful Bar candidates will now be able to obtain copies of any objective tests given in the state -- Its spokesmen also strongly criticized President Nixon for his forthcoming trip to visit Peking and said his actions had lost him the n vote in 1972. The Six Companies represent the large family associations of Chinese-America- Chinatown. Its leaders for generations have greatly influenced the communitys business and cultural life, although their leadership recently has been challenged by rival groups and rebellious young people. John Wong, one of the family association presidents, said the Six Companies wished to express their uncompromising loyalty to the Nationalist government in Taiwan. He said practically all Chinese in Chinatown were flying the flag of the Nationalist government. President Nixon is a political opportunist. We Chinese now have no respect for his integrity," said Dr. Alfred Dip Lum. None of the in the U.S. will vote for him in the next election. The Rev. Tsu Tin Taam, who said he had been an interpreter for Nixon in the past, called the expulsion of Taiwan the beginning of the end of the U.N. as a moral force in world Chinese-America- which will follow in the footsteps of the League of Nations because it has violated its own principles." a Ling Chi Wang, 32, of East-Wes- t, Chinese-America- n weekly, a the admission of Red China, was ejected publication supporting from the news conference. This is the kind of intimidation that's been going on in Chinatown for a long time, he said. Although the Six Companies have long insisted they are the sole voice of Chinatown, a number of rival groups have developed in the community in recent years, and various young radical groups, one Red Guards, called the have on daubed walls. slogans Some Red Chinese flags were seen in Chinatown following the U.N. action. pro-Maoi- st Title Search Cost Pass-O- n WASHINGTON - (UPI) William Proxmire, s., Sen. in- troduced a bill October 29 to prohibit money lenders from charging the cost of title search and insurance to home buyers. The high costs of title search and title insurance have prevented many people from buying homes, Proxmire said in a speech prepared for introduction of his measure. A government survey, he said, showed that closing costs on an $18,000 house range from an average of $332 in the Boston area to $847 in Newark, N.J. Lawyers get forwarding fees, real estate agents get commissions, lenders get compensating balances and the homebuyers get taken, Proxmire said. His bill would require lenders to absorb as part of their overhead the cost of title search and any title insurance they require as a condition for granting a loan. 13r-:- " ; ; . ; : . . . I ! '.I J Higher as well. than Utah Lower than Utah AVERAGES: Eight Mountain States Eleven Western States Fifty United States 5.1 of Viet Vets Listed As Drug Users $3,556 4, 124 3,921 Study Suggests Students May Err On Drug Popularity - A BROOKLINE, MASS. (UPI) school indicates survey here figures from the Pentagons public student that overestimates of screening program reveal that 5.1 be creating an narcotics usage may per cent of GIs leaving Vietnam are which in it is connarcotics users, Congress has been atomosphere to sidered normal take drugs. told. WASHINGTON (UPI) Latest However, Dr. Jerome Jaffe, coordinator of the administrations drug prevention program, said probably up to 15 pr cent of the servicemen taking the ur inanalysis tests have experimented with or occasionally tried such hard drugs as heroin. This category, Jaffee told a House armed service subcommittee, can usually escape detection if they stop taking drugs shortly before they must go through the screening all servicemen are subject to before leaving Vietnam. Between the beginning of the program on June 18 of this year and Bill Would Ban . : : : ; : : : : : . $3, ns affairs. a He called the world body decadent and cynical organization ':' : : According to the survey, 46 per cent of high school students repented that they had smoked iparijuana during the past year, while 54 per cent estimated that more than 70 per cent of their fellows had smoked marijuana. Similarly, 64 per cent of the students estimated that more than 30 per cent had used amphetamines (pep pills) while 12 per cent reported they had used them; 41 per cent estimated that mure than 30 per cent of their peers had used LSD while 8 per cent said they had used it; and 20 per cent estimated that more than 30 per cent had used heroin while 2 per cent said they had used it. The findings strongly suggest September 29, said Jaffee, 103,279 men have been tested. Of that number, he added, 5,214, or 5.1 per that students may hold quite cent, registered positive. ideas unrealistic concerning the A plateau seems to have been extent of drug use among their reached with the 5.1 per cent figure, peers, perhaps because of the high according to Jaffe. of drug users and the Jaffe attempted to square the 5.1 visibility of drug culture, said Dr. salience per cent with a poll conducted last Henry Wechsler, research director spring which indicated a 16.5 per of the Medical Foundation of Boston. cent figure for heroin use in VietThese misperceptions may nam among Army men. to increased suscepcontribute The poll measured use and exto peer influence by creating perimentation as well as depen- tibility an atmosphere in which potential Jaffe explained. Apdence, users may be encouraged to try proximately half the users were drug in the erroneous belief that casuals' or experimental. We have drugs e is doing it'. never contended that we could 'every-ondetect those men who could voluntarily stop usage by means of our urine testing program at the Frank SinNEW YORK (UPI) point of debarkation from Vietlibel suit in million a filed $5 atra nam. 28 October So far, added Jaffe, there is no U.S. District Court here, scientific way of finding out how many men have experimented with heroin. He said an effort to do so was in progress. But experimentation is not Inhe contended. dependence, deed, dependence in Vietnam may not be what we have come to expect here. i in connection with newspaper ar- ticles alleging that he has cancer and is married. The suit names Midnight Publishing Corporation, publisher of the newspaper Midnight, and Fawcett Publications, Inc., and the Manhattan News Company, Inc., which distribute the newspaper. The fact that the National Conference of Bar Examiners authorized the one time use of the questions in California for the two 1972 examinations only, raises the question of whether the State Bar will seek legislation similar to the Maddy bill next year. Spokesmen for the Bar refused to speculate, but said that the State Bar will evaluate the effectiveness of the questions in California this year and go from there. The multistate Bar examination resulted from the appointment in the fall of 1968, by the National Conference of Bar Examiners, of a on Bar committee special examinations. The Special Committee composed of representatives from California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, after Absentee Ballot Bar for Mental Patients Upheld ' PHILADELPHIA (UPI) - U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals The here has upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania laws which bar ab- sentee ballots to persons confined in penal or mental institutions. The ruling written' by Judge Ruggerio Aldisert, October 26, upheld a lower court order which dismissed a complaint filed recently on behalf of about 2,000 persons who are in city prisons awaiting trial. The complaint by those jailed claimed that the state laws offended the equal protection clause and therefore were unconstitutional. Lose uses an objective using multiple choice questions since 1965, and in 1968 began using two-da- y examination with multiple choice questions making up one day of the testing and essay questions being used on the second day. As presently planned, the first objective examination will be administered nationally on February 23, 1972, with a subsequent test slated for July 26, 1972. The examinations will cover five areas of law contracts, criminal law, real evidence, property and torts. While the Educational Testing Service, the same organization that administers and grades the law school admissions test and the graduate record examination, will grade the exams, local state bar organizations will determine the passing and failing levels for students in their own states. Child Placement Changes With New Social Trends By Jane Hoyt SAN JOSE, CALIF. (ACCN) -- The time has come when there just are not enough babies to go around. Young marrieds today are told, Have just two children, and if you want more, adopt. But it doesnt work out quite that way, say adoption authorities. Last year the Childrens Home Society received 1450 requests for children. They placed 174. That is one child for every nine requests. It wasnt very long ago that the situation was reversed. Today orphanages are a thing of the past. All infants up for adoption are quickly claimed. This makes more popular the difficult-to-plac- e children older children, minority children, those racially mixed, and those medically handicapped. Traditionally, babies up for adoption come from unwed mothers. Yet despite higher and higher illegitimacy rates, fewer and fewer babies do make it to the adoption rolls. Social stigma is not what it used to be, adoption authorities say, and today three out of four single girls keep their babies. Last year over 46.000 babies were born to single girls in California. Of that number 37.000 were kept by the mother. Sex activity is increasing significantly, Ruth Canada of the Childrens Home Society says. Peer pressure, and fashions in behavior change. But despite the pill era, these girls think pregnancy is something that happens only to adults. It is part of their immaturity. Both the Childrens Home Society and Department of Social Services Adoption Bureau consider the plight services as the public needs To - A GETTYSBURG? PA. (UPI) judge has denied Gov. Milton J. Shapps attempt to halt construction observation tower overof a looking the historic Gettysburg battlefield. The ruling by Judge John A. MacPhail of Adams County would permit Thomas Ottenstein of Bethesda, Md., a real estate promoter, to erect a $1 million tourist tower at the battlefield. 307-fo- presently examination. That state has been of the unwed mother. We are changing the scope of our Battle Stop Tower At Gettysburg careful study recommended that a one-da- y lest of multiple choice questions be prepared and made available to all slates. Florida is the only state that ot Shapp and the Pennsylvania Justice department filed a suit last August charging the proposed tower would destroy the historic appeal of the battlefield. change, says Mrs. Canada. We used to be considered mainly an adoption agency. We are trying to be as innovative as possible as times change. Today Mrs. Canada sees the two agencies more and more as counseling services. Single girls in trouble are invited to come and talk over the situation. What is best in individual situations: their Abortion? Adoption? Marriage? Keep the child? If finances are needed for the abortion or birth these agencies If she can refer the girl to Medi-Ca- l. needs a place to live, they can place her in a home. If she needs to finish high school, they can arrange for a private teacher. And if she wants to give up her baby, they can place it up for adoption. K |
