Monday, Nov. 23, 1964
University Daily Kansan
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Study Recommends Judge Redistricting
The Kansas Legislature should reapportion the state judicial districts and increase the workload of those district court judges with light caseloads, a study here recommends.
The study finds that in most cases the present policy of adding more judges to heavily burdened districts solely on the basis of district population has not succeeded in holding down the workload per individual judge.
This would be a better solution to the problem of gross caseload disparities among the districts, it concludes, than the method now employed—merely adding more judges to the heavily burdened districts.
The study, "District Courts in Kansas," is published by the Governmental Research Center at KU.
HOW GREAT IS the workload disparity between districts? As an extreme example, the study finds that the average annual caseload per district judge in the 29th district (Wyandotte County) is more than four times as great as in the 35th district (Wabausee and Osage counties). This finding is based upon a 20-year average, 1942 to 1962.
Other heavily burdened districts are the 3rd (Shawnee County) and the 18th (Sedwick County), the study points out.
IT HAS WORKED in the 10th district (Johnson County), it states. By increasing the divisions there from
However, the policy has not worked well in the 3rd and 18th districts (Sedgwick and Shawnee counties). Additional judges in these two districts only slowed—but did not reverse—the trend toward more and more work per individual judge.
one to four between 1952 and 1962 the caseload per judge was kept nearly constant.
THE STUDY NOTES, however, that "in spite of making overtures in the direction of judicial reapportionment, the Legislature has not approved a major redistricting bill within the last 69 years."
"The Legislature," it notes, "has in recent years always used the single factor of total population of the district when devising district division formulas to attack the problem of rapidly increasing caseloads in the more populous judicial districts."
THE STUDY reached this conclusion after comparing the total caseload for 1962 in three populous counties: Johnson, Wyandotte and Shawnee. Both Wyandotte and Shawnee counties had more than twice as many cases as Johnson County during the year.
Realignment of the judicial district boundary lines, the study concludes, is thus a better solution because it would attack both aspects of the caseload problem: the overworked and the underworked judges.
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Miss Lawrence said she was bringing Marabou out of the lingerie field because "It's a pretty and feminine item" and has "its place with many other colors" besides the traditional white and pastels.
She used cranberry colored Marabou to cover the entire overblouse of an at-home trousers outfit in cranberry silk. As an alternate to a fur wrap, she showed all-feather evening shrugs in red and other colors.
A turkey red jersey, floor length dinner dress with neckline scooped out fore and aft had its soft skirt decorated with oversize red feather pompoms. Gray feathers made the entire sleeves of a floor length coachman-style evening coat in pewter.
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And, she made a feather-bodied top for another red evening crepe
NEW YORK —(UPI) Elizabeth Lawrence, a model turned fashion designer, trotted out the turkey feathers in her holiday clothes collection.
The young New Yorker called the feather trimmings Marabou, which once was an item strictly for the bouoir, now turned by her into at-home and formal wear. She explained that the source of Marabou has changed—it used to be made from feathers of storks. Now, it's made from turkey feathers.
She explained the "why" of the new source for the fluffy stuff that movie sirens such as Jean Harlow always were being photographed in—"the feather industry turned to turkies," she said, "because of the import restrictions on the stork to protect the bird."
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dress, with empire bodice, slim skirt and floating back panel. The feathers again were pewter.
The turkey Marabous highlighted the custom and "custom fitted, ready-to-wear" holiday clothes from the designer whose firm is less than five years old.
Miss Lawrence, a native New Yorker, got into dressing everyone from debutantes to dowagers through her interest in restoring ancient fabrics.
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