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This Judge
Wears Skirts
By HELEN HENNESSY
NEW YORK — (NEA)—Would
you beliexR a traffic judge who
wears a size 3? Or a size 5 if the
manufacturer cuts skimpy?
Blond, petite Judge Noel Can
non of the Los Angeles Munici
pal Court often has to find her
clothes in the children’s depart
ment of a store.
“See,” she said in her New
York hotel suite, holding up a
baby-blue dress with a white
collar, for all the world just
what you’d see at a Sunday Sc
hool party. “I bought this in the
children’s section.”
Yet, in black lace and a black
ostrich boa, the fragile Judge
Cannon looks like a diminutive
sexpot (to which anyone who
saw her on the CBS-TV To Tell
The Truth show recently will
testify). In either guise, as child
or blond bombshell, Noel looks
smashing.
She’s a fashion-conscious jud
ge. She is even having her judi-
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frontier cavalry post, gathered their families for an old-style family portrait. Cast
members, from left, include James Hampton, Ken Berry, Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch
and Joe Brooks.
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cial robes redesigned by movie
designer Donfeld.
“I’m not being vain or silly,”
she protested, holding up her re
gulation court robe and point
ing to the wide shoulders. “These
robes were all designed for
men. I look like a fullback in
them.” (On a pygmy team, I
assume, since she' weighs under
100 pounds soaking wet.)
“Don’t you think this will be
nice,” she asked, “when Don
feld gives it natural shoulders
and moves the tucks down fur
ther on the sleeves so they will
fall gracefully?” I pleaded guil
ty.
Judge Cannon works in pink
chambers furnished in antique
white and gold leaf. She furnish
ed them at her own expense. She
puts her official X on docu
ments with a blush-pink ostrich
plume pen.
“The rooms were bilious green
when I took them over,” she
recalled. “And they smelled of
tobacco and moths.”
When her colleagues laughed
at the girlish pink, she pointed
out that since color therapy
works on prisoners, why should
it not help judges? A fellow jud
ge suggested it would be a futile
thing to try because judges
couldn’t be rehabilitated.
“Judicial Cannons" is the ti
tle of a column the judge writes
for a legal newspaper and
she frequently takes verbal pot
shots at her own profession, not
omitting herself. “My critics,”
she recently wrote, “attribute
my new haircut to unsuccessful
brain surgery.”
But, although wolf whistles are
bound to follow a girl who looks
like Judge Cannon, she is sin
cerely devoted to her work in
traffic.
One defendant, passing her in
the corridor, asked: “Baby,
what’s a nice girl like you doing
in traffic court?” A little later
he learned that “Baby” was on
the bench.
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BENEATH THESE SOMBER COURT ROBES (left) beats the heart of a glamor girl.
Traffic Judge Noel Cannon of the Municipal Court of Los Angeles wears black lace
and ostrich feathers (right) for a recent appearance on CBS-TV To Tell the Truth
And the glad rags aren’t just for the show. The judge, when off duty, is a very
fashion-conscious lady.
When Noel Cannon sits in co
urt, guilty offenders, as part of
their sentence, are obliged to
stay after court to see a 20-min
ute color film on the hazards of
tail-gating, the chief cause of
accidents on the freeways.
“They’re reluctant to stay,” she
said. “But I’m sure that film
has saved many lives.”
She strongly believes that
traffic court should be televis
ed and, as senior traffic court
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judge, she recommends this be
done with unseen cameras, so
there will be no disruption.
“The solution to highway car
nage,” she said, “lies in public
education.”
The judge attended a day in
New York City traffic court on
her visit here. “I would never
yell at people the way that jud
ge did,” she said. “I always try
to be charming. No one will pl
ead guilty to a judge with a
mean face. They’ll all plead not
guilty and then your court
calendar rises.”
I asked her whether she had
any statistics on whether men
or women were better drivers.
“I don’t know for sure.” she
said, “but I do know that good
looking women are conspicuous
by their absence in my court.
Either they're good drivers or
the Los Angeles police are very
susceptible."
Thursday, March 30, 1967 Griffin Daily News
‘Self Help’ Best
Poverty Weapon,
Gov. Maddox Says
DUBLIN, Ga. (UPI) —“Self
help, not doles” is the way to
battle poverty, Gov, Lester
Maddox said Wednesday.
The governor addressed a 33
county organization called Co
ordinating Opportunities in
South-Central Georgia (COG).
“While it is true that some
poverty is self - imposed and
some is undeserved,” the gov
ernor said, “it remains that be
ing poor drains the spirit of
children who neither deserve
nor resist such a late.
“And the tragic thing about
it is that these are the parents
of tomorrow who will raise
their offspring in their own
image—the image of dependen
cy and despair.”
Maddox noted that in the 33
counties taking part in the proj
ect most families earn less than
$3,000 a year and half the resi
dents have an annual purchas
ing ' of less than $750.
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