Amarillo Daily News

GOVERNOR NEFF
INVITED HERE
BY LOCAL BAR

Governor Pat Neff of Texas will be invited to attend a banquet tendered to the chief executive by the Amarillo Bar on some date near the close of the present month, pursuant to action at the regular monthly meeting and lunch event of the organization on Tuesday noon in the Amarillo Hotel. Messrs. Ray C. Johns, D. Jamie Dley and Otis True were appointed as a committee to have charge of the details of arrangement for the banquet to which the wives of the attorneys will also be invited.

In unanimous vote a committee will be appointed by President Hurley of the association to be perpetuated from time to time as occasion may demand to have charge of questions of judicial reform before the State Legislature and other bodies that have interest and power to assist with the campaign for revision of certain existing undesirable conditions.

Another committee will later be appointed by the chair whose duty it shall be to confer with District Judge Henry Bishop as to the course of procedure in the local courts.

These two committees were the direct outgrowth of a brief talk made by C. E. Gustayus in which he contended that the court procedure now in vogue in this part of the country is antiquated and lacks number. He suggested that there might be relief from this condition of affairs found by adopting procedure after equity pleadings in the United States courts.

A special committee was appointed by the chair made up of Frank M. Ryburn, Hugh L. Umphries and Alex M. Mood to have charge of a campaign for the lower prices of law books. It was stated that these books were advanced during the war period and have not 'settled' since that time.

This matter it was proposed shall be carried to the state and thence to the national organization.

Judge W. E. Geeve made mention of the fact that Fremont H. West now in Arizona for his health, had suggested that the Amarillo Bar should offer its service in a campaign for increasing loyalty and Americanism among the school children of this city and section.

Those in attendance were R. W. Hall, Frank M. Ryburn, M. Cammack, H. C. Randolph Jr., Phanyk W. M. J. R. Jackson, Porter B. Underwood, W. E. Gee, Lon D. Marrs, Ray C. Johnson, Hugh L. Umphries, Earl Watts, Alex M. Mood, Joe L. Dosdey, P. F. Sapp, Ernest O. North, atty William Boyce, S. E. Fish, Alex L. Lumpkin, C. E. Gustavus, Lloyd Fletcher.