Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 3

Enquirer and News, Battle Creek. June 1 0, 1 973 A-3 Milliken hits referendum idea Baffle looms over vacancy on U.S. court Ms -all -riSS Students work, help U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids Of the nine U.S. appellate judges (including Kent), four were U.S.

District Court judges prior to the appellate appointment, two were serving on state supreme courts and three were in special appointive positions including the Ohio Tax Commission, the Tennessee Code commission and secre-welfare (Anthony J. Cele-brezze Brown indicated that the various questions involved with the Circuit Court of Appeals appointment will be worked out between presidential and senate representatives. Kent, 57, who died in his Kalamazoo home May 27, served 17 years on the Western Michigan U.S. District Court bench, before being named to the appelate court in 1971. The recent death of Judge Wallace Kent, Kalamazoo, a member of the 6th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals, may have opened the doors for a battle over representation. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Cincinnati, consists of nine judges from a four-state area. Until Kent's death, there were three judges from Ohio, three from Michigan, two from Tennessee and one from Kentucky. The remaining Michigan judges are George C.

Edwards Jr. and Wade H. McCrea both of Wayne County. The vacancy created by Kent's death must be filled by presidential appointment, with senate cofirmation. U.S.

Rep. Gary Brown, R-Schoolcraft, said, "The question now is 'Will Michigan get to fill the vacancy or will Kentucky, which always has insisted it should have one If it is decided that the representation ratio is to remain the same, then it must be decided whether the appointment should come from the eastern or western district of Michigan. Brown said. The most likely possiblities to be considered from the western district are Judges Noel P. Fox and Albert J.

Engel of the the governor told newsmen when asked why he no longer supported the new Capitol project. But the tiebar would lump the office buildings and the new Capitol in a single appropriation item on the basis of "take itallorget nothing." "It's a blackjack approach," Milliken said. "I strongly object to that. I think each (office buildings and Capitol) should be considered on its merits. I want the record to show I strongly object to the tiebar approach." Even so, he declined to say whether he would or wouldn't veto it if it goes through the Legislature in that fashion and ends up on his desk.

Last week's skirmishing over the new Capitol provided some other curious sidelights. Ballenger's news release quoted Pittenger as saying the state has already spent $9 million to renovate and remodel the existing Capitol, a figure considerably higher than anyone else had publicly claimed. Pittenger didn't see the release until it was in reporters' hands. Only three months ago he had issued a press statement in which he then said that "in recent years we have put over $3 million to $4 million in remodeling into the Capitol, and unfortunately it still isn't adequate for the needs." But rather than create a public fuss over the Ballenger release, Pittenger let it stand. Ballenger said later that he hadn't checked the $9 million figure with Pittenger but had obtained it from DeMaso "who got it from the Appropriations Committee." "I take the blame for that," said Ballenger.

"I should have checked with Sen. Pittenger before I put that out." Actually, the $9 million remodeling price could be close to right. Senate Appropriations Chairman Charles O. Zollar, R-Benton Harbor, says it's his best estimate, although he hasn't pulled the spending records together to prove it. Ballenger also floated a $200 million estimate as the possible ultimate cost of building a new Capitol.

That's twice as high as any estimate previously heard, and $120 million over the estimate quoted by House Appropriations Chairman William Copeland, D-Wyandotte. Latest architects' estimate was $80.2 million. But that was two years ago. Prices have gone up considerably in the meantime. This group of fourth graders from Harper Creek Sonoma Elementary School and a Springhill Manor Nursing Home resident watch proudly as classmate N'ich Rouch fills the bird feeders that the youngsters donated to the home.

The two Sonoma fourth grade classes, led by teachers Mrs. Audrey Hunter and Manny Karosas. formed competitive companies, The 4th Grade Mfg. and The Try It, You'll Like It and sold products. The companies earned enough profits to donate $50 to their Building Beautification Project.

$10 to the PTA. $10 to the American Cancer Society and the bird feeder to Springhill Manor. With the remaining money they held a picnic and made a trip to the Dutch Village in Holland. Photo by Don Nelson) By WILLARDBAIRD Our Capitol Bureau Chief LANSING Republicans opposing a new state Capital found themselves working at cross purposes last week. Gov.

Milliken, for example, quickly doused cold water on an idea advanced by four GOP senators who, like the governor, contend there is no urgency about replacing the existing 95-year-old Capitol. The four senators figured a sure way to kill the new Capitol project is to submit the question to the voters. They reasoned that, faced with the prospect of spending $80 million to $100 million over an eight-year period to build a new Capitol, the voters would surely turn in a negative verdict. The referendum idea was introduced in a press release issued by Sen. William S.

Balle-nger, R-Lansing. Ballenger said it had the support of fellow Republican Sens. Philip O. Pit-tengerof Lansing, Harry A. De-Maso of Battle Creek and Carl Pursell of Plymouth.

In fact, said Ballenger, the idea originated with DeMaso. Milliken, who favored starting on a new Capitol four years ago but has since changed his mind, didn't like the referendum idea. To go that route, he said, would be "an abrogation of executive and legislative responsibility." It may be a tough decision to make, but that's what legislators and governors are elected for. he told newsmen. "We ought not to have to retreat by sending it to the voters.

"hesaid. But the thought of ducking the issue by referring it to the voters doesn't bother Milliken nearly as much as a tiebar device developed in the legislature's Joint Capital Outlay Subcommittee. The joint House-Senate subcommittee, which in recent years has been in the forefront of the push for a new Capitol, wants to weld the new Capitol project to a separate proposal to erect three new state office buildings. In his February budget message, Milliken recommended a start on the office buildings which he believes the state currently Lansing's biggest renter of office space should have for its constantly expanding bureaucracy. But his budget didn't ask for any money to resume work on a new Capitol.

"We have higher priorities," 1 1 mil uujjp mwww white Time to end narrow Justice role: Richardson very much. And I do expect that as attorney general I will make this an arm of particular interest and responsibility for the front office, working closely with LEAA (Law Enforcement Assistance Administration), the new drug agency, the Bureau of Prisons and other components of the Department. That doesn't mean that we won't continue to try to do the first departmental function, the law job, as well as possible, and there are, of course, an awful lot of people in this department who have been doing that job very well for a long time, and so far as they are concerned, I think the most valuable contribution I can make is to demonstrate my confidence in them and to back them up on the tough calls on a basis that is totally nonpolitical." or what we know only in part. We should be forced to answer the tough questions yes. no, or don't know.

And to develop means of getting better answers. And I think that a considerable part of what I can do here is to bring this sort of approach to the problems of judicial administration and criminal justice. We need to ask questions that start with what it is we're trying to do. what we know about how to get there from here, how do we know whether or not we're getting there from here, and whether or not we ha ve arrived. "The tendency in departments all over the government, and not only at the federal level but at all levels, is to think in terms of input measures: How much spent, how many grants awarded, how many indictments returned, convictions won, people sent to i Harper 4th, 7th graders do well on state tests WASHINGTON (AP) -Atty.

Gen. Elliot L. Richardson says he wants to emphasize the Justice Department's role of a national agency concerned with responding to social needs and social problems. Richardson, sworn in May 27 after serving as secretary of health, education and welfare and secretary of defense, said previous attorneys general have tended to concentrate on the department's role as a lawyer for the govern ment Under his leadership, he promised that the department will be concerned with its role as prosecutor and investigator but also with problems such as crime prevention and rehabilitation. President Nixon's first two attorney generals and Richardson's predecessors.

John N. Mitchell and Richard G. Kleindienst. became known as strict "law and order" officials during their terms in office. In fact.

Kleindienst used to delight audiences with his criticism of Ramsey Clark, last attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson before the Nixon administration took over in 1969, for his refusal to use electronic surveillance. "Clark should have been a social worker," said Kleindienst. Richardson, 52, made his views on the direction he would like the Justice Department to go in his first meeting with newsmen last week. The following is an excerpt of his opening statement at the news conference: "Of course, I have to talk about Watergate, and you have to ask about it.

There are some limitations on what I can say in reply. But certainly, all of us are aware that the darkness of Watergate is pervasive. A growing cloud of cynicism threatens the land. And we who are charged with responsibilities for the administration of justice find our way toward the renewal and reaffirmation of the basic values of this society. "Now, while I would not in.

I ill a ccuiur. rcsiTcn IE I I i 2 banks raise rates DETROIT (AP)-The Bank of the Commonweatlh in Detroit and the National Bank of Detroit have announced they are raising their prime interest rates from ll to 7 per cent, effective todav. any way want to understate the seriousness of Watergate, I feel bound, nevertheless, to affirm the conviction that America's fundamental institutions, both legal and governmental, will survive this period of stress. At best we can hope for a clearing of the air. A clearing of the air that will enable us to better appreciate the vital place of a responsible legal system in a free society.

Hopefully it will also better ensure that there is fairness across the board, not one law for the rich and another for the poor, not one law for Washington and another for the country. This in turn may better equip us to carry out a quest for understanding beyond the narrowness of retribution, to the problems of crime prevention and criminal rehabilitation, as well as to those of criminal apprehension and incarceration. "Let me just develop for a few minutes the sort of approach I bring to this job. As all of you are well aware, I have a lot of time in the field of social problems, response generally to human needs. This is not only the two-and-a-half years I spent as Secretary of HEW in this administration, but three years at HEW in the Eisenhower administration, two years as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, with delegated responsibilities in this area.

"And I'm struck, returning again to an agency charged with legal responsibilities, by the fact that it has really two rather sharply distinguishable roles. The first as a lawyer for the government; a lawyer for the government in three respects: solicitor on civil matters, barrister in the representation of the United States court, and a crime-busting role also, as prosecutor, investigator, fact-finder. These are the roles of the department that have tended to be most emphasized by most of the people who have held my job, and by most of the people who have served in the department over the years, both in professional and in, that is in career, and in ap Hanson is president of the Battle Creek Area Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Battle Creek Unlimited board of directors. "I became involved in the chamber of commerce because I felt an obligation and responsibility to make a contribution, in my small way, to the area and, likewise, with the United Community Services, to improve the quality of life in the entire community. "The UCS ties in very closely with the tremendous progress that is being made the change of attitudes, the cooperative spirit of the local governments, the industrial development, the downtown area development and other strides throughout the area." An area resident 14 years, Hanson is a past president of the Administrative Management Society, Battle Creek- Harper Creek School District 4th and 7th graders scored "very favorably" on state assessment tests of basic academic skills earlier this year, according to Asst.

Supt. Donald Pobuda. Pobuda said a fuller report on the test results will be given at Monday's regular board meeting. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the administration offices.

835 Golden Ave. Board President Leland Talbot said he will report at the meeting on progress in selection of a successor to former Supt. Gordon Peckham, who resigned in March. Six candidates are being seriously considered after telephone interviews with several of the more than 40 applicants for the position, Talbot said. jail, when we ought to be looking at output measures such as the recidivism rate, the number of addicts rehabilitated.

We ought to have a sort of measure comparable to the one for can-cercures, which looks at where the individual who has been treated is at the end of five years from receiving the treatment. We need to look at things that are in between input and output measures but which are concerned with process, recognizing that the fairness of the svstem is in a sense an end in itself. "Well, I could go on at some length in this vein, but these are things that do interest me, they have interested me for a long time, they're things that I've been working on when I was in Massachusetts as attorney general. "And so I am returning to an area that has interested me Some of the candidates will be called in for interviews and a final selection may be made before said, the end of this month, Talbot Also on the board agenda are proposed salary schedules for administrators and secretaries for 1973-74. recommendations for new senior high English textbooks and a new junior high literature series, and bids on sale of a house constructed by high school vocational education students at 143 Humphrey Drive.

The board also will hear a progress report from the district's building needs planning, committee and may consider selection of an architect from among four firms which made presentations at recent special board meetings. B.C. Steachers CARE! pointed positions. "But there is another side that is becoming increasingly important, and increasingly visible, and this is the role of the department as the national agency concerned with responding to a inter-related set of social needs and social problems. These are the problems essentially of the administration of justice.

And, of course, you cannot be concerned with administering justice without also being concerned with why problems confronting investigative-prose-cutive agencies, legal institutions of government generally, arise. And so there is here a very clear and demonstrable link between what I've been doing in the field of health, and education, and welfare, and what I will be doing for whatever period of time, anywhere from three or four months to three or four years, in this department. "When you look at the role of this department in dealing with social problems of criminal justice, crime prevention, and rehabilitation, and enforcement of laws against pollution and against monopoly, representation of the consumer, responsiveness generally to the citizen in dealing with a more complex and more pervasive government, you have to ask the question "How much do we really know how to do in responding to these needs and problems?" "The problem we have in this department as well as in HEW is that we feel compelled to deal with problems we don't really know how to deal with very well, if at all. We are in a period of expectations rising at an exponentially increasing rate. And in my view, a considerable disappointment of these expectations, because the remedies that are put forward for various social ailments don't work very well.

And I think that there is no greater contribution that can be made, in this or any other department, than to level with people and to make clear what we can and cannot do. What we know and don't know, James D. Hanson leads advance forces Kalamazoo Chapter; a member of the Insurance, Accounting and Statistical Association: and a member and past board member of the Battle Creek Exchange Club. His wife, Patti, is president of the Battle Creek Music Teachers Association. They have six children and live at 506 Glendale Ave.

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