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Show r ; r i X t t .' a " V - -7, :"' J L.J sr. ; - - - " t i Native retires as judge in Oakland, Calif, From Oakland, California, this week came a story of a former resident who is retiring 5 at the age of 67 as Oakland j municipal judge. He is James ; S. Blaine, who acvcording to a s newspaper clipping in -the Oak- j land Tribune, has presided over j hundreds of cases in his 17 j years on the bench. Judge Blaine spent his early years in Idaho, Ogden, Spring-ville Spring-ville and Salt Lake City. He studied at the University of Utah and received a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1923. He practiced prac-ticed law in Salt Lake City and Coose Bay, Oregon, before going to Oakland in 1927. Judge James S. Blaine, a former for-mer resident of Springville, sends greetings to friends here on his retirement soon. Since the formation of the municipal court for the Oakland-Piedmont Judicial District in 1952, he has served in all departments jury, civil and criminal, as well as several terms in traffic court. In 1953 and 1960 he was the presiding judge. In 1931 he married Laura Rifberg of Oakland. They have a daughter and a son and four grandchildren. Upon retiring Judge and Mrs. Blaine plan a tour to the New England States and will perhaps per-haps stop in Springville briefly to visit relatives and friends. He will be remembered in this city as Blaine Selleck, a son of the late Sarah Elizabeth Kelly Selleck. His grandfather, Joseph Kelly, homesteaded the Kelly Ranch in Hobble Creek Canyon. He is a cousin of Paul Kelly of this city and of Mel Kelly in Oakland. A note accompanying ac-companying the newspaper clipping clip-ping stated that some of his teachers when he attended the Lincoln, Grant and Washington Schools here were Minnie Men-ery, Men-ery, Margaret Johnson (Miner) Dora Coffman, Euphemia Johnson John-son and that one of his fine friends in the legal profession is County Attorney Arnold Roylance. |