Piggins Proposes Modernization
of Court Procedure and Nominations
In a basic program for the
modernization of Michigan courts
and legal procedures, Judge Ed-
ward S. Piggins, candidate for the
Michigan Supreme Court in the
November election, proposed that:
1. The present method of partisan
nomination of candidates for elec-
tion as Supreme Court justices
be scrapped, and replaced by se-
lection of candidates on a genu-
inely nonpartisan basis.
2. Justices of the Supreme Court
Muskie, Hart Back
Scholle for Congress
commence at once to exercise to
the full their "complete authority"
to improve the efficiency of Michi-
gan's entire judicial system.
3. Establishment of "a joint execu-
tive, legislative and judicial admin-
istrative council" to meet regu-
larly for conference on admini-
strative matters concerning the
courts.
4. Establishment of mandatory
time limitations between arraign-
ment and trial in criminal cases.
5. Amendment of the State Consti-
tution to require that a convicted
criminal prove that he has been
denied a fair trial before permitted
appeal to a higher court.
Judge Piggins pointed out that
the Supreme Court is the only
Michigan court for which candi-
dates are nominated by political
parties.
"The present system of nominat-
ing candidates for Supreme Court
justices by political parties, and
then electing them as nonpartisan
candidates, is worse than ludi-
crous; it could be dangerous," he
declared. "It is no secret that in
the past, on close questions of ad-
ministration and substantive mat-
ters, where logic and reason could
well justify alternative decisions,
some Supreme Court justices have
leaned toward the source of their
political nomination. All courts,r
but above all the Supreme Court, I
should be unmistakably above the
slightest partisanship, or of lean-
ing toward any special interest."
August Scholle, 18th Congres-
sional District candidate, has been
endorsed by Senators Edmund
Muskie of Maine, Edward Kennedy
of Massachusetts, George McGov-
ern of South Dakota and Michigan's
Philip Hart.
The four United States senators
cited Scholle's conservation
achievements.
Scholle is a three-term member
of the state's department of natural
resources and was its chairman for
one term. He is a member of the
Michigan United Conservation
Clubs and the Wilderness Society.
In remarks at Southfield High
School Wednesday, Scholle said:
"I think the federal government
should wholeheartedly get into the
fight against air and water pollu-
tion by providing increased funds
and strict enforcement of antipollu-
tion laws."
Sen. McGovern will be in Detroit
Monday evening at the Pontiac George Bashara Seeks
Civic Center to speak on behalf of Return to Bench
Scholle, and Sen. Harold Hughes
George N. Bashara Jr., a candi-
of Iowa was here Monday night at date for election as Wayne
the 18th Congressional dinner for County judge of probate, is at 35
Scholle.
the youngest county or state judge
in the state of Michigan.
Judge Bashara was graduated
from the University of Michigan
in 1956 and the Detroit College of
Law in 1960, when he commenced
law practice.
In 1963, Gov. George Romney
appointed him to the Michigan
Realtor Ralph Miller is a candi-
Employment
Security Appeal
date for state representative in
Board, and in 1965 he was pro-
the 65th District. At a recent can-
moted
to
the
chairmanship
of
didates' meeting in Bloomfield
that board, a position he held
Hills, Miller said that there has
until
his
appointment
to
the
never been a Democrat elected to
Wayne County Probate Court.
a state office in the 65th District.
According to attorney Herman
"With unemployment at a record
August,
an active supporter, the
level, the stock market in the worst
condition since 1929, crime rising, judge has long been interested and
active
in
civic, charitable and reli-
with recession and inflation at the
same time for the first time in gious affairs. He is on the board of
history, it is time that we get rid trustees of the Big Brother-Little
of this Republican prosperity and Brother Organization and of the
change the 65th District to a two Michigan Cancer Foundation. He
party system," Miller told the is a member of the Lions Club, the
Grosse Pointe Human Relations
gathering.
Council, the Players Club, the
Crisis Club and the Goodfellows
Leonard Baruch Backs
of Detroit. He is a 32nd degree
State Consumer Council Mason and a Knight Templar and
Shriner, and has also been a Little
Leonard P. Baruch, Democratic League football and baseball
candidate for state representative coach.
in the 64th District, stressed his
The judge lives in Grosse Pointe
belief that the Michigan Consum- Woods with his wife and two chil-
ers Council is a crucial state agen- dren.
cy that needs to be expanded.
The nine-member council was
created in 1966, in part to formu- Thomas Roumell Eyes
late and direct a program to pro-
tect individual consumers from Circuit Court Term
Thomas Roumell of Dearborn,
harmful products and merchan-
dise, false advertising and decep- who was appointed judge of the
Wayne County Circuit Court by
tive sales practices.
"I believe that Michigan must Gov. Romney in December 1968,
increase substantially the capabil- is campaigning for election to fill
ity of the council to do research, an unexpired term on the Circuit
produce consumer information Court bench.
Roumell, who holds and LLB
materials and handle successfully
the complaints of Michigan consu- degree fro DePaul University,
Chicago, has been a member of
mer," Baruch said.
the Michigan Bar for 24 years.
He practiced extensively before
Youth Center to Open the
National Labor Relations
in Judean Hills of Israel Board, State Labor Mediation
JERUSALEM — A religious-ori- Board and in state and federal
ented youth center will be opened courts on matters involving labor
In three months next to the "Mas- disputes.
For four years, he was sub-
rek" nature reserve in the Judean
stitute professor of labor law at
Hills.
Judge Rodgers Seeks
Circuit Court Post
Judge Julian P. Rodgers Jr.,
appointed to the Common Pleas
bench in September 1963, is a
candidate for Wayne County Cir-
cuit Court judge.
In gaining election to a six-year
term in 1968, Judge Rodgers re-
ceived top ratings from major or-
ganizations throughout the metro-
politan area. He was rated "pre-
ferred and well qualified" by the
Civic Searchlight. "Outstanding"
was the verdict of the Detroit Bar
Association, all Republican . and
Democratic District organizations
and many labor, religious and civ-
ic groups.
The judge recently concluded
a stint as Common Pleas Court
presiding officer.
He has served as an assistant
Wayne County prosecutor and on
the State Bar grievance commit-
tee.
Judge Rodgers' community activ-
ity has included two terms as
president of the Detroit Urban
League.
What, then, is the right way of
living? Life must be lived as a
play, playing certain games, mak-
ing sacrifices, singing and dancing,
and then a man will be able to
propitiate the gods, and defend
himself against his enemies, and
win in the contest. —Plato,
TIE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Osteier 23, 1970-25
Sidney Spitz Running for Education Board
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the Wayne County Board of Su-
pervisors, is seeking election to
the Detroit Central Board of Edu-
cation.
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1917, owner of several furniture
companies and a business consult-
ant, has served on the Mayor's
Rehabilitation Committee on Skid
Row Problems and on the Wayne
County Board of Institutiont He
was appointed by Gov. Milliken to
be state delegate to the National
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