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December-January
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COLORADCI SHORIHAND REPORTERS ASSOCTATION
OFTICERS AND COMMITTEHS, )-974-75
Eleited Officers
President
Earl E. Meek, Colorado Springs
President-E1ect
Marjorie A. Whit.e, LaJunta
Vice*President
Gary R. Blando, Longmont
Secretary
Ruth Dresie, Lamar
Treasurer
Fred H. Blackett,
Executive Committee
ffiA1amosa
Viola J" Lundberg
Auleen H. tau
eSR Board
*Tr-eFftl€nt
Denver
Denver
Gilbert I. Davenport
Forrest W. Calkins
charline scoggin
Thos. H" cavanagh, sr.
Membershi
Marjorie e. White
Ruth Dresie
Lee Harms
John Spera
Yvonne Diekman
Secretary
Member
CSR
Board Chairman
Dar].ene Armbeck, Denver
James Kalanar AJ-amosa
Area Representatives
F.t
Grand Junction
Boulder
Lamar
spera
Denv€r
Diekman Durango
Marjorie A. whlte LaJunLa
EarL fi. Meek
col"o. springs
Yvonne
islative
otto ulrlch
Auleen H. Lau
Fred V{. Trachte
Charline, Scoggin
'Thomas Rooklidge
Forrest W. Calkins Reporting Technigues
Editorial
Gary R. Blando
Nan Fbrnst
Auleen tI. tau
Kathleen L. Doy3-e
James Kalana
Debra K. Perdue
Betsy Wal-lace
Reporters Hbndbook
Consti-tution & Bv-Laws
Viola J. Lundberg
Thos. H. Cavanagh, Jr.
Carol Kerr
Earl E. Meek
Leo & Laura Koenig Placement
Vesta Wine
Necrology & Historian
John A. Pritchard
Banquet
Qe4g{gl-84pqr!rqs
Dee Helfrich
Ken Avery
Viola J. Lundberg Resolutions
-ffiFffiilEtess
Beverlee Hedrick
Dan F. l,tahady
Pat Galloway
Law School- Speaker
Bert Naster
Bill Jenki-ns
Scholarshi
Ethics e Grievance
ffind
Col"orado Springs
Nominatin
enrietta
t.
Denni.s
Brenner
SLaven
Darlene Armbeck
Dorothy Fankhauser
Lee Harills
State tiaison
ffihte
4q4lllps
Lance C. BJella
8i11 Price
Karen Longworth
Museum
--fffi'spera
John E. Barnes
VT&ER
*%fi-Every
Perry Goldstein
Fred W. Trachte
George fencich
Darlene Armbeck
(1 Yr. )
(2
Thos. H. Cavanagh, Sr,
Yrs . )
(3 Yrs. )
Gary R. Blando
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December-January, rgf
PRESIDENTIS MESSAGE
By the time you receive this issue of the RAMblings there will be
approximatefy two months left before our annual convention. I personally
fllf it is important for every member of this Association, whether official or freelance, to attend every convention possible, but especiallyme
so this year. So that this last statement doesn't sound holl-ow, Iet
expound on the reasons for just a moment.
First of all, this year we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the
Colorado CSR, and that is to be the theme of the banquet on Saturday
thern
night. This year, as before, we will honor our judges by inviting judge
each
to
be
sent
wiII
to be our gueits. Before l-ong an invitation
informing ftim of our banquet, but it is up to you individuall-y to invite
your judqe as your guest. And if you have always wanted to, but just
never got aroun-d.- to it, what better year to do so?
Secondly, there are a number of matters of utmost interest and
importance to be discussed at the meeting. You wil-l find contained in
the next issue of the ReMbi-ings the suggested revlsion of our CSRA Constitution and Byl-aws. I urge your suggestions and crJ-ticisms. This
effort is being made in order that we might not be out of conformity
with the new NSRA Constitution and Bylaws.
There will be di-scussion on the feasibility of a CSRA Executive
Secretary. A committee is working on this now gathering informatLon
from around the country. However, your input and ideas will- be needed.
Last October it was voted that future mid-Winter meetings would
be muJ-ti-day affairs, not just one day business sessions, and would
lncl-ude seminars and workshops of various types. We need your suggestions as to what you would like to see along this 1ine. (Through the
fine efforts of Uarjorie Allen White we have received permission from the
through Harry Lawson, for officials to attend these
Chief Justice,
,'during
a day when
the;udicill Conference, as long as it is on
seminars
judge
to
a
assigned
any reporter
the court is noL in session
hearing emergency matters should femain at the court.")
And last but not leasti we have an outstanding speaker lined up
for the banquet. Dr. John Sterrgtt is the former Scientific Advisor to
the North American Air Defense C6hunand; he is a very entertaining and
educational speaker, and his speaking engagements carry him around the
wor1d.
In conclusion, let tne urge you to make your reservations now.
Attend the meeting -- get involved; escort your Judge and his or her
spouse to the banquet -- get to know them better and J-et them get to
fnow you better, ind your rel-ationshlp wil-l be richer f or the experience.
See you there.
Gene
WHIP INFLATION
NOW:
In Arkansas it means Wilbur Is Naughty.
A tt{iami button manuf acturer couldn't unload his WIN buttons. He
changed the wording to "Stop Inflation Now" SIN - and j-s doing well.
***
Medical doctors and chiropractors are arguing about acupuncture but,
a profession, neither has the delicate touch with a needl-e shown by
as
lawyers
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WELCOME TO THE WOOLSACK
Governor Vanderhoof selected Hon. Richard Dana, Boulder County
Court, to succeed Hon. Howard O. Ashton, District Judge, who retired
January I, L975.
Judge Dana is a CU graduate, has served as a Deputy District
Attorney in Arapahoe and B5ulder Counties, and is one irf ifre youngest
judges appointed to the Boulder County Court.
Judge Dana has appointed Sharon Levi, CSRr ds his reporter in
District Court.
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Steve Dugger, a recent student at Mile-Hi, was killed in an automobile accident December 19 near Oklahoma City.
Steve reported briefly in Colorado Springs for his uncJ-e, Kenneth
Kirkpatrick and, at the time of his death, was ieporting for another
uncle, Howard E. Kirkpatrick, in Oklahoma City.
CSRA extends its sympathy to Steve's famlly.
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CSRA
President Earl E. Meek has been named a member of the
Nominating Committee.
NSRA
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John Spera reports he now has exhibits honoring Evel-yn Brenner
and Leonard and Lois Russo in the CSRA Muserrn in the Clty-County Building
in Denver.
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er-Januar
IN DENVER
The National Shorthand Reporters Association's tests for Certificates of
profj-ciency and Merit will be conducted April 5 | L975, dt Mile Hi Reporting Schooll 6301 West 44th Avenue, Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Warmup dictaa'm'
ti5n will begin at 9:00 a.m., with the tests to start at l-0:00applicant
each
however,
furnished;
be
paper
will
Typewriters ind typing
should bring a typing eraser and a dictionary.
For those interested in serious practice before the testsr dh attempt
will be made to provide dictation practice in the evenings during the
week prior to the tests. For information about practice schedules,
794-928L; home 798-2240) '
contact JOHN BOVERIE, CSR, Littleton (office
Under the new NSRA Bylawsr any NSRA member who has attained the CP or CM
by June 30, 1"975, is eligible for listing in the new.NSRA Registry of
Rlgistered Professional Reporters. You are also reminded that following
tfrit date these tests will- be so1eLy conducted by the new NSRA Academy
of Professional Reporters.
CSRA encourages atl of its members to try their hand at these tests - The
Cp and CM are nationally-recognized standards of reporting competency
and are respected by the bench, bar, and reporters al-ike.
A $10 test fee, payable to NSRA, is charged all applicants taking the
tests. NSRA memLeiship is now a requisite, but membership appl-ication
blanks will be avaj-lable for non-members wishing to participate.
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NSRA CP-C}I TESTS TO BE CONDUCTED
MODEL DEMONSTRATES BRA
IN
COURT SUIT
of the
(Ap)
"It,s the construction of the combination
sat
Conner
Conner.
C.
William
Judge
told
whole that counts," a lawyer
the
of
judge
characteristics
the
to
in the witness box, the better
NEW YORK
modelrs 348 brassiere.
clini-cal, in Federal courtroom, where lawyers
It was all very
-design,
q"u'blity control, straps, points, creeping,
spoke of function of
manufacturerst tolerances and "tti'e crossing point""
What made the scene unusual was brunette model Paula Mann, strj-pped
to the waist except for a "cross your heart" bra, standing against the
wood-panell-ed wall while tlt" lawyers argued across her torso.
Miss Mann, also weari-ng black stretch pants, _and a black cloche
hat with gold sequins, stood poker-faced as the trained fltting modelshe isr nitif a recess was dellared and she retrieved her blouse. Then
she smiled.
Court stenographer Morris Kligman suffered some frustration, having
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to turn his back to write shorthand on a table.
Judge Conner reserved decision on a motion by Splendor Form Bra,
Inc. and Forever Yours, Inc. to declare a Rapid American Corp. patent on
the Playtex bra invalid or to find that the patent was not infringed.
?t
TO:
HARRY LAWSON, STATE
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JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATOR
FROM: JAMES P. FORD, SECRETARY, STATE
BOARD OF SHORTHAND REPORTERS
SUBJECT: THOSE PASSING CERTIFIED SHORTHAND REPORTER EXAMINATION GIVEN
NOVEMBER
30, L974
FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF THOSE PERSONS WHO PASSED THE CSR EXAMINATTON
crvEN 1l_-3 0-7 4.
NANCY ELLEN FAUST | 6640 E. Arizona #152, Denver, Col-orado 80222
BARBARA DAHL BAILEY, 4200 Yarrow #2, Wheatridge, CoJ-orado 80033
MARY JEAN MERKLING, Route 2, Clearwater, Minnesota 55320
@703BrassieDrive,GrandJunction,Co1.orado81501NADIA STELLARS, 1914 Mt. Zj-on Drive, Go1den, Colorado 8040L
DEBRA POWELL, 3060 E. Bridge Street, #255, Brighton, Colorado
DEBRA KAY GOODWIN, 2216 7th Avenue, 8-210, Pueblo, Colorado 81-003
JANET McCLEARY, 690 Birch, Denver, Col-orado
MONICA MARTIN, 4530 N. 23rd Avenue, Phoenj-x, Arizona
CHERYL ANN AUTOTTE, 2808 Davie Boulevard, Ft. Lauderdal-e, Florida 33312
SHARON ZEPPELIN, 1675 S. Birch, Denver, Colorado
CONGRATULATIONS:
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CALENDAR:
February L2, 1975
Lincoln's Birthday and Ash Wednesday
February L7, Ig75
whdhington's Birthday
March 17, 1975
St. "*'Patrick's
March 22, l-975
CSR GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
Meeting,
Day
BROWN
Celebration and Annual
PALACE, Denver
March 30, Lg75
Easter
April 5, l-975
August I I97 5
Tests, Mile Hi, 9:00 a.m.
NSRA Convention, Kansas City, Missouri, at
CP-CM
fabul-ous Crown Center
inqs
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December-January,
Ronald ldeaver, husband of Lorraine Fankhouser Weaver, was killed
in an employment accident in early November. He had previously attended
Baptist Bible College j-n Denver and Lorraine is Judge Lawrltson's
reporter in Denver Juvenile Court.
CSRA extends its sympathy to the famil-ies.
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NSRA President Kosky has accepted our invitation and will be in
attendance at our annual meetinq March 22.
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MiIe Hi was lucky to have four visitors last month. Viol-a Lundberg directed a deposition workshop, Robble Griggs conducted the speed
cl-asses for two weeks prior to the CSR test; Ann Makowsky from troison
Laboratories, who spoke at the midyear CSRA meeting, and Doug Monsoor,
They genLakewood Pol-ice Laboratory, whose speciaLty is fingerprints.
erated a lot of interest among the students.
Jack Regensberger has left the teaching staff to join Bil-l
Jenkens' firm. Charles Jarstfer has been appoi-nted head of our reporting
department and Debbie Leavitt (CSR) will be back from a maternity leave
to take over some of the advanced classes.
Terri Malkin and Nancy Newton, two recent graduates of Mile Hi'
completed the course j-n a record thirteen months. Barbara Bailey (a
job-out) received her CSR twelve months from the time she entered Mile
Hi. Kitty Lovejoy joined others from Mile Hi working as a freeLance
reporter in Phoenix, Arizona. December 20 will see Denise Nelson,
Theresa Coffman, Jane OfBrien and Kitty Lovejoy receiving their graudaIf anyone has a job available, l-et us know.
tion certificates.
Of the 43 new students who enrolled for the fall quarter we have
lost one student and gained one student. We had eight mal-es (18%) jo+n
us in September and the student body is made up of 24 males (19%) and
101 females. We have two brothers and one sister from one famil-y enrolled
and one set of triplets.
We were sorry to see the cbnceftation of National's Video Tape
Workshop, p3-anned for Denver. We have been working with the Colorado VT
committee and Gene Satler to reschedule the workshop for mid-spring, We
hope to have a positive date within a few weeks.
Mil-e Hi will start the holiday on December 21, and wil.L open the
doors on January 6,1-975, with new classes. At the present time we have
twenty-one new students enrolled for the winter quarter.
Charles Tatman
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December-Januaryr 1975
the EI Paso County Legal Secretaries "Certiorari":
If a lawyer had written the first line of the Lord's Prayer,
"Gj-ve us this day our daily breadr" it might have read l-ike t.his:
"We respectfully petition, request and entreat that due and adequate provision be made, this day and date first above inscribed, for
the satisfying of Petitioners' nut.ritional requirements and for the
organizing of such methods of allocat,ion and distributlon as may be
deemed necessary and proper to assure the reception by and for said
Petitioners of such quantity of cereal products (hereinafter ca1led
'breadr) as shall, in the judgment of the aforesaj-d Petitioners, constitute a sufficient ... "
,***
From
SEE YOUR JANUARY,
1974, NSR, page 6:
Carol Ann White, CSR, formerly with Richard & Casey B. Smith,
Chattanoogd, Tennessee, came to Denver in July to join the Naster &
Tomko fi-rm.
WELCOME
meeting.
to Colorado.
We hope
to meet you at the March
22nd
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A dilemma is
snow
when you're trying
go to Florida.
tires or
to decide whether to buy a new set of
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Hoping to generate a little business for Jack Dennis, CSRA historian,
we have permission to print the followj-ng:
LIFE HISTORY OF E.
WENDELL MORTON
323L Ammona Court
Wheat Ridge, Co3-orado 80033
February 22, L974
Born March 16n 1910, New Concord, Ohio. Gregg System.
I graduated from the University of Denver in the year 1932, which
was at the bottom of the great depression. At that time those with
engineeri-ng degrees couldn't get jobs. I had no particul-ar skills
except high school- shorthand and typing, which did l-ead to a coupl-e of
uninteresting jobs. Then I spent seven years in an excitlng business
as a steel salesman with CF&I Steel Corporation in Denver, Portland'
Oregon, and EI Paso, Texas. The vice president who hired me was involved
ngs
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December-JanuarY'
in a running feud with others in the company. After he died in 1940 I
quit before somebody fired me.
Then there was a happy discovery: somebody tol-d me that shorthand
reporters made $101000 a year (the job I had l-eft paid $11800 a year).
Also I was tol-d there was a scarcity of reporters and al-ways had been,
that reporters were rarely ever fired, that a freelance reporter need
never be fired by all his customers at once. I says, "Thatrs for me,"
and that's how come in reporting.
After four years acquiring shorthand skill, ftY first job was with
the Industrial Commission of Colorado for four more years. The next
six years, from 1948 to L954, I was Official Reporter for Judge Harold
H. Davies of the First Judicial DistricL. The district covered the
countj-es of Jefferson, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Adams and Arapahoe. My PaI,
Jack Dennis, was Official Reporter for Judge Osmer E. Smith, the one
other judge in the d.istrict. Today in L974 there are fourteen district
judges and fourteen reporters serving the same territory.
From Lg54 to ]-964 I freelanced. That was exciting and satisfying,
but the work load was hard to control. When I got a cal-I to take a
deposition, I never did learn how to S&Y, "No. " A1so, after a threehour deposition on a Friday, the lawyers would saYr "Oh, we forgot to
tetl you this case goes to trial next Tuesday." There goes another
weekend.
On December 1st, I964t I closed my freelance office and went to
work for Judge George G. Priest at Golden, Colorado. In Junet I972t I
retired. llavenft written a fine of verbatim shorthand since. I am
enjoying working at varj-ous projects at ry, own speed for a change, not
the pace set for me by someone else's mouth. My wife, Esther' was the
most expensive transcriber in town. I had to pay her all- the money I
took in. We have a son, Edward, who is an executive with Safeway Storest
Inc., and a. daughter, Judy, who is a conmercial artist and advertising
director with King Soopers. Three grandchil-dren. Colorado Certificate
No. 77. Hobby photography.
EI Paso County Legal Secr6taries "Certiorari":
WILL ROGERS -. THE LEGAL PROFESSION'S BEST CRITIC
Will smiled as he said, "The minute you read something and you
can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer' Thent
if you gJ-ve it to another lawyer to read and he dont know jrrlt what it
means, Lhen you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If its in a
few words and is plain, and understandabJe only one way, it was written
by a non-Iawyer.
"Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writi-ng for
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posteritlz. He is writing so endless others of his craft can make a living
out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he hadnt really
said anything, thats what makes it hard to explain.
"Anyhow, they are like a lot more of the crafts that many of us
live by, great but really useless. One leveJ headed smart man could
interpret every law there is. If you commit a crirne, either you did or
you dident, without Habeus Corpus, change of venue r or any other 1ega1
shindig. . . .
"There is two types of larceny, petty and grand, and the courts
will rea11y give you a longer sentence for petty than they do for grand.
They are suppose to be treated equal in the eyes of the 1aw, but the
judges always put a littl-e extra on for petty, as a kind of a fine for
stupidness. If thats all you 9ot, you ought to go to jail l-onger. r..r'
Commenting on defense attorneys, Idil-l smiled as he drawled, "They
should recommend a law' that every case that went on trial, the lawyer
defending shoul-d be tried first, then if he came clear, he was eligible
to defend. As it is now they are trying the wrong man."
One of Wilt's favorite pastimes was attending the American Bar
Association annual meetings. He wrote from a meeting in Los Angeles j-n
1935, "...We11, the lawyers are leaving us. They had a good time, Like
all- conventions, dident do anything. No convention ever did anything.
If thls country ever becomes civil-ized, the first thing eliminated would
be people trapsing around to get a convention, and the humorous thing
about them is they always want and hol-d em in the hottest weather. Convention sl-ogans shoul-d be 'lets meet and perspire together.r Anyhow,
they was a good bunch and they had a good convention and it was good to
mmet t m. tt
- American Bar Association Journal
(Sa. Note: The author of the above article was SANDY F. KRAEMER, Attorney
at Law, ASHER, KRAEMER & KENDALL, 430 North Tejon, Colorado Springs,
Colorado.
)
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Snatched:
Definition of a consuftint: A man who borrows your watch to
answer your question of what tinie it i-s.
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p. Ford has resigned as CSR board SecreLary and Pl-acement Officer
for CSRA. Governor Lamm will- appoint a new CSR board Secretary shortly,
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James
Yvonne Diekman, CSR, has accepted the position as
Sedgwick County District Court, Wichita.
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roving reporter in the
l].
RAMblings
December-January, I975
Enlightening information from the Dirty Thirties:
DEPRESSION JOKE
Anybody Can Make a Mistake
Whenever our brilliant
correspondent from Cabot, Ark., finds
herself completely out of patience she wrltes us about it, says the
Kansas City, Mo., Times. This time her penetrating mind enlightens us
with:
"When the government appointed a man who never saw a silo to
supervise our community garden, I never said a word. When he had the
men cut out willows and stake the forty acres of bush peas -- which
require no staking
I maintained silence. When the entj-re project
consumed $21800 and the plot produced but two and one half bushels of
shelled peas last year when there was no drought, I kept my own counsel.
But now with the government killing little piglets and shooting bony
bulIs, I feel that capable persons should be in charge of the s1-ar.rghter.
The guy they sent here didnrt know a steer from a gelding. When the
embittered farmers led their stock in for the sacrifice before this
modern Abraham, they sensed at once how uninformed he was and sent him
seeking aid from his indexed reference book from the start.
"When an old bil1y goat was paraded by for his approval he failed
to find such an animal among his diagrams and bl-ue printsr so he followed
the usual custom and gave Washington a ring. The home offj-ce wasted two
hours locating a man on the force who had ever seen a farm.
"The Arkansas representative of the livestock destruction committee then desperately described the animal as having hairy, 3-ooped
ears, a 1ong, sad face, a meek €ye, a strong odor and l-engthy chin
But he got no farther. The office boy interrupted with:
whiskers.
rDonrt shoot him: thatrs one of the farmers. "'
*****
Marge Goodenough and Beverly Howard are now reporting for the
Industrial- Commission.
Marge I s successor in County Court, Littleton, is Rosemary De
Martini.
Jan Cinocco is reporting "fn Arapahoe County Court at 15400 East
t4th Place, Aurora.
Debbie Perdue, Colorado Springs, is in South America for two
months holiday
Maureen
for Debbie.
Schultz, Madi.son, Wisconsinr freelancer, is substituting
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of an opj-nion:
District Court, Essex County, New Jersey
Decided April 13, 1970
109 N.J. Super 594
Roberts, Wash & Co. vs. Trugman
"Action by court reporter against husband, wife, and wife's
attorney for cost of depositions in a divorce action. Attorney crossclaimed against both husband and wife. The Essex County Dj-strict Court,
Yanoff, J.D.C., held that where client, if known to court reporter prior
to taking of depositions, was at most only a name, and reporter came at
attorneyrs request, not clientrs, and there was uncontradicted evidence
that it was practice and custom in court reporter-attorney deal-ings that
the attorney, not the client, be responsible for payment for depositions'
court reporter was entitled to judgment against attorney for cost of
SYNOPSIS
depositions.
"
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Another cutie from E1 Paso County Legal Secretaries "Certiorari":
My son's not dumb and wanted to know how come there was more than
one Santa" So I had to tel-l him the truth about subordinate Clauses.
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REMINISCENCES
T
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The Judge had just sente4rced the crimlnal to umpteen years in the
State Penitentiary and the poor Eellow was standing there mumbJ-ing to
himself. Sure that he was bei-ng threatened, the Judge insisted on a
repeat of the mumblings, and the future convict said, "Judge, I just said
that you were being mighty free with my time."
***
This year I overheard what one youngster told the department store
Santa. "My folks are getting all the toysr you just bring the batteries!"
***
1ate. Please keep us up to date on your addresses.
HAPPY NEW YEAR a little
Nan J. Ernst
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1975
POTPOURET
From
California "Caligrams" :
Solomon Halpern, CSR, formerly of Denver, has been elected Treasurer of the San Francisco Official Court Reporters Association.
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NEW ''CRAFTS PAY'' RATES
From the San Francisco Chronicle
Board of Supervisors, under the present system of
setting City Hal1 wages the "crafts pay" law -- wil-I have to pay these
minimum wage rates next April for the f iscal year beginning on Ju1-y l-.
LABORER - $171059 a year ($328 a week), going up to $19,075
($367) the following June.
GARDENER - A pay range of about $15,300 to $1-8,650 ($295 to $300
a week), depending on Lime in grade. The supervisors also wilL be
Iegally obligated to set a range of about $171100 to $20r832 t$330 to
$400) beginning in Ju1-y , 1976.
STREET CLEANER - The shovel men on street cleaning crews get a
laborer's pay. Under a court ruling, which is being appealed, sweepers
will get the same. Tf sweepers lose the suit, their pay range will- be
roughly $12r000 to $15,300 next year ($240 to $295 a week), and $1-4,100
to $17,100 ($270 to $330) beginning in Ju1-y, L976.
LIGHT TRUCK DRIVER - $20,800 a year ($400 a week), going up to
$22,730 ($437) the following June. This rate is for drivers of pickups
and sma11 dump trucks.
HEAVY TRUCK DRTVER - $22,IOO a year ($425)' rising to $25t25A
($485) the following June
SURVEYOR'S ROD HOLDER - $20,700 a year ($395 a week), going up to
$22,500 ($435 a week) the foll-swing June.
pAINTER - $19,900 a year "'t$:eO a week), rising to $20r600 on
January L, L976.
Under the current crafts pay law, tentative wage rates will- have
to be set for carpenters, 'pl-umbers and electrj-cians next ApriL. These
interim rates will be increased in July by whatever raises unions negotiate with private industry contractors next spring.
SAN FRANCTSCO: The
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Ponder this:
"An empty bag cannot stand upright."
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B. Franklin.
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ngs
December-January'
The Caligrams edj-tors says: "I'11 print all the news thatrs fit to
print. wfro, what, when, where, how and wElT No 'why' on wedding
stories. "
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California's annual dues are now $60 per year.
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other operations?
o
Have you had any
A
Oh, just when I had my autopsy.
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Most good lawyers live well, work hard, and die poor.
Danie] Webster , IB47 .
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From Ohio's Buckeye Record:
Martin Fincun, Fincun Court Reporters, Cleveland, passed away
October 26, L974. Marty had been nominated as a Fellow to the Academy
of Professional Reporters and had garnered innumerable honors during
his long career. Having co-authored the Phil-adelphia Cl-inic Course and
taught many seminars, Marty was well known ln the reporting field,
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Outline. Excerpts from the President's address to the Pennsylvania Stenographic Association in 1883:
linguist, able to report
". .. You must first be an accomplished(however
mispronounced)
not, only the classic Latin of the 1aw
hereafter to be
or
and Greek, but testimony in any tongue spoken
you
go
a1-on9.
spoken in America, translating as
,,. . . Next you must have a*.thorough acquaintance with the technical
terms of tle physician, b-'6tanistl ettgineer, tradesman' artisan
be quick to follow the scientific expert in any subject.
understand legat terms as well as the best
"... Of course you must(the
law being your specialty), and catch
of those who use them
them, half expressed or less, without hesitation or doubt.
draughts"... you must be a mathematician, practical surveyor,inand
cases
land
evidence
man, so as to make your own drafts from the
From The
15
RAMblings
Pecember-Jaluary,.
19 /5
the parties neglect to leave any papers with the court.
"... Physically, you must be able to 'sit' as long as 'the court'
can, say eleven hours a day in country districts, includj-ng about
four hours by lamplight; to work al-l night at transcription by pen
or typewriter, and Lo be fresh for notetaking at half-past eight
in the morning.
".. . Morally, you are to keep yourself clean in an atmosphere of
tobacco smoke, criminals, and politicj-ans mixed with officeholders'
saturated with the strong sme1l of whiskey and peculation."
Ed. note: How different is your situation in L975?
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when
From "Arizonotes":
From
the Illinois
Court Reporters Association bul-letin:
KNOCK,
KNOCK
A reporter knocked at the Pearly Gate,
His face was scarred and old;
He stood before the Man of Fate,
Asking admission to the fold.
"What have you done," Saint Peter asked,
"to gain admission here?"
"Itve been a reporter, Sirr" he said
"for many and many a year. "
The Pearly G"lu, swung open wide,
Saint Peter touched the bell;
"Come inr" he said, "and choose your harp.
Yourve had your share of hell."
- Wm. G. Haxby
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Kitty Lovejoy from Mile-Hi has joined a freel-ance firm in Fhoenix.
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l-6
ngs
December-January,
Sandra McFate, new NSRA director, is opening "McFate Reporting Services"
at 2333 North Third Street, Phoenix, as of January
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1.
From Oklahoma:
Excerpt from the Presidentrs Message:
to leave with each of you, especially the
younger reporter. As you do down through life, 'having in the
palm of your handr' the testimony which involves the life or
property of some litigant or defendant and you are in the process
of prepari-ng your transcript of said case, ask yourself : 'Am I
getting out the kind of record I would want a reporter to get
out in rny case, if the position were reversed?o If the answer
is oor diligently and laboriously work harder at your profession.
Strive to be the best court reporter there is. Treat your fellow
reporters and members of the bar with the proper respect and with
kindness as you continue your profession. "
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"One thought
A South Carol-ina state law forbids people to crawl around in the public
sewers without a written permi-t from the "proper authorities.
" .-
"
**tr
not wear a goatee in the State of Massachusetts unless he pays
fee or tax.
A man may
a
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result of Oklahoma's seminar in December is that they now have a
total of l-3 CP holders and 6 CM writers.
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One
GET YOUR APPLICATIONS IN NOW FOR 1975.
DUES ARE $2O.OO PAYABLE JANUARY L, T975.
COLORADO SHORTHAND REPORTERS ASSOCIATION
Ruth Dresie, Secretary
Courthouse
Lamar, CoJ-orado 8L052
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSH]P
..
'
'
I hereby apply for membership in the Col-orado Shorthand Reporters
o""ociation.
Name
Address
ZIP
Phone (Office)
(Residence)
Education and training:
Experience:
Signatures
Two endorsing NSRA-CSRA members:
1.
')
(Circle)
CSR What state?
I am presently employed by:
CP
(Annual dues $20.00)
is enclosed. ( )
for $
I am a CSR official reporter employed by the State of
eligible to have my dues paid by the state. ( )
My check
CoJ-orado and
Signature
Approved by the Executive Board: Date
CM