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Delegates to Convention Should Abide by People's Will-McKay Salem (U.R) Gov. Douglas McKay believes Oregon dele gates to the national conventions should abide by the will of the people as expressed at the pri mary polls and he vigorously takes to task a small group who have filed by petition instead of declaration with the reported In tention of voting for Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio for Republican presidential nominee, Taft Not on Ballot The name of Sen. Taft will not appear in the Oregon primary. But eight Portlanders, including Lowell Padget and former State Sen. Irving Rand have filed Dy netitlon Instead of declaration and hence are not legally bound to abide by the people's express ed choice although, Gov. McKay implied, they are morally bound The Bovernor said: "It is possible that on May 16th the Republican voters of this state may overwhelmingly endorse the nomination of rwioht n. Eisenhower: at the same time, Oregon may send del egates to the Republican conven tion who will vote for an opposi tion candidate on the very ursi ballot. The reason for this pos sibility is important to every citi zen of the state. Direct Preference Expressed "We think of Oregon as having a presidential primary in which the people directly express their preference for President and choose convention delegates le gally bound to work in the con vention for the choice of the people. "This Oregon system of a pres idential primary was set up by law enacted in 1915. This law specifically requires that all can- didates for delegates sign an davit that they will, in the con vention, work for the candidate for president who receives the Wopst number of votes in the primary. Of the candidates for delegate to the Republican con vention, 77 candiaaies nave iueu tht 1915 law. -They are therefore legally bound to sup port the choice of Oregon voters. In the past 30 years, no candi date to a Republican convention has been elected who nas noi ac cepted this binding obligation. Oversight in Law "When the 1915 law was enacted, the legislature, through an oversight, failed to repeal that Dart of a 1905 law which had nermitted candidates for del egate to file by the petition of 500 qualified electors. Under this 1905 law no allldavrt was re quired for candidates that they would support the choice of the people There is a legal question as i their motive to whether the 1915 law did not by implication repeal the con flicting provisions of the 1905 act. That question is for the courts. The important fact for us is that certain candidates this year found this questionable loophole in our presidential pri mary law. They propose to take advantage of it irrespective of the results to the state." Gov. McKay said the eight candidates who filed by peti tion are not legally bound to support the choice of the voters for president. He said: "I will not assume to appraise in making use of this supposed loophole In the law to avoid such a proper legal commitment. But I think that we may fairly draw a conclusion in our own minds trom the fact that this procedure was urged by the chairman of the state com mittee for Sen. Robert A. Taft. The state Taft chairman, himself (Paget) filed as a candidate for delegate under this 1905 law." Will Be Shown At Mock GOP Meet Ashland An Indication of po litical thinking by Oregon Re publicans will be aired next Friday and Saturday when a mock Republican national con vention is held at Willamette university. Robert J. Hilliard Seattle, senior student in teacher education at Southern Oregon college is chairman of the mock national committee planning the program. Representatives of 12 state colleges and universities will take part in the program, which is patterned after the regular nominating sessions. The Salem meeting will be the first of its type held in the west coast and will be similar to the program held Saturday at Oberlin college in Ohio. 15 From SOC Delegates from each of the schools to be represented at the meeting have been assigned sev eral of the 48 states which they will represent and whose politi cal commitments they will re spect. Fifteen students from Southern Oregon will take part and will be divided into groups representing the states of Mis souri, Tennessee, Louisiana, Ar kansas and Mississippi. Prior to the climaxing namlna ting session Saturday night, the 241 delegates will be addressed by several Republican leaders. Sen. Frank Carlson (R. Kans.), campaigning on behalf of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, will de liver the keynote address. Sen. Wayne L. Morse (R. Ore.) will act as honorary chairman of the final meeting. Denver Court Bows To Wishes of Women Denver (U.R) Denver's District Court finally has given in to the ladies. Jury Commissioner Joseph Horgan said women have ob jected to having their ages made a matter of public record on jury panel lists. So, from now on the lists will show name, address, sex and oc cupation but not age. Superior, Neb. (U.R) George King, 85, bought advertising space in the Superior Express to tell "the city and, the rest of the cockeyed world that as a water diviner competing with modern well-digging crews I can still find water without drilling the earth full of holes." Slate Librarians To Meet in Ashland Ashland Members of the Oregon Library association will meet here next Friday and Satur day, according to Miss Cora Ma son, Ashland librarian. The con ference will open with a dinner meeting at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Elks temple dining room. Mrs. Pauline C. Howard, act ing librarian of Reed college, Portland, will act as toastmis tress for the dining meeting. Speakers on the program will in clude Mrs. Robert Y. Thornton, Tillamook, a member of the asso ciation executive board; Dr. Lau rence Tomlinson, Portland, Lew- Is and Clark college librarian Dr. Arthur Kreisman, Ashland, Southern Oregon college profes sor of English, and Miss Lesley Heathcote, president of the Pa cific Northwest Library associa tion and librarian at Montana State college. Persons desiring to attend the meeting are requested to make reservations by calling Ashland 6561 through Tuesday. n-LL!l!l-l HI , Sunday. Mar 4. 1951 Kenamniaiion nan For Woman Told THAT MEAN THIEF AGAIN Jacksonville, Fla. (U.R) A mean thief broke into a gram mar school here and stole a Swiss watch brought to class by one of the young pupils for an i exhibit on Switzerland. Mrs. Maxine Doney, 26, Cen tral Point, will be taken 'to Portland on Monday afternoon for training at Good Samaritan hospital under the program of the State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. Mrs. Doney, who suffered a fractured back in an auto acci dent last December and is bed ridden at Sacred Heart hospital, will be taken north by the Buck air ambulance. The Portland ser vice reportedly is making Its first flight. Don D. Davis, rehabilitation counsellor here for the division, said that Mrs. Doney will be under the care of specialists and will be trained in order that she may perfrom at least the duties of a housewife. She probably will need leg and back braces, a wheel chair and crutches, he said. Surgery, if necessary, will be provided. When physically able, Davis stated, Mrs. Doney will be given training in some vocation. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Jacksonville Pioneer Woman Dies Thursday PortlandMolly Louise Kubli, 79, a native of Jacksonville and widow of the late K. K, Kubli, died at hci' Campbell Court hotel apartment here Thursday. She had been in declining health for a year. Born May 10, 1872, at Jackson ville, she was the daughter of John and Mary Miller, who came to southern Oregon across the plains in 1851. Her late husband, who died in 1943, was a former speaker of the Oregon house of represents tives, and was a senior member of the Portland printing and stationery firm of Kubli, Howell and Company. Funeral services will be con ducted at the J. P. Finley and Son mortuary. Survivors include two daugh ters, Mrs. Norman L. Robinson, Portland, and Mrs. Richard C. Gordon, San Francisco, and two grandchildren. New Jersey Officials Oppose "One for Road" South Amboy, N.J (U.R) A state official Ut It b. known that the old alcoholic tradition of having "on for th road" won't b honor.d on lha Naw Jtriay iurnpika. Acting Alcoholic Baveraga Commiitioner Edward J. Bor ton ordartd a tavern naar lha uper-hlghway to take down a .sign which ramindtd motor litis "Last bar bafora tha turnpike." McCarthy Has Comment On Truman Statement Milwaukee, Wis. (U.R) Sen. 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