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1	verdict is not a realistic picture of what this Commission
2	has been trying to do.
3	This Commission has been trying to do a
4	job that I think you gentlemen want to approach in the
5	same spirit. That is how to get the best state court
6	system possible. For myself, I had heard a good deal
7	about the abolition of the Orphans Court from the time
8	my father sat on it. He was privately in favor of it
9	and he never expressed himself publicly one way or another
10	because of his colleagues on the one hand and because
11	he didn't want to be regarded as having a personal
12	interest on the other in case the court was elevated.
13	The term abolition of the Orphans Court
14	is a very unfortunate thing.
15	THE CHAIRMAN: I think Judge Friedman
16	used much the better terra which was consolidation or
17	merger which, I think, i s much more what we had in nind.
18	JUDGE FRIEDMAN: I think that is the proper
19	word .
20	MR. SYKES: The reason for the recommendation
21	was, I can testify, precisely because we thought the Orphan