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o O o Pffirt TEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, Fabruary 17, 1937 Ex-Congressmen Have Hard Time Getting High Caliber Positions o V - If. or ROBERT SMITH Tribune Correspondent O Washington Ex-congress men are having a tough time of it in Washington these days O tPSm&SXi trying to latch sjonto nigh calj- Eisenhower ad ministration. Defeat at the polls has turned some of them into those be ings they fre quently lambast- a. Robt. smith sa in meir nign riding da;. in Congress bu reaucrats. And others are anx iously hoping to join the gov ernment's swivel-chair ranks. u Bub the Eisenhower admin istration, which has been stung a few times by its selection of ex-congressmen for high federal office, isn't exactly opening the back door and saying, "Come on in. boys, there's room enough for all." Law Background One congressman with a law background figured a legal post maybe a judgeship would be about right for his talents. But he couldn't even g'et an ap pointment with Attorney Gen eral Herbert Brownell. "Ex-congiessmen don't get any priority around here," he was informed by a secretary. This prevailing attitude ap plies mostly to Republicans, of course, because it is they who have hopes of getting appoint ments fromothe Republican ad ministration. Curiously, two of the highest posts offered to ex lawmakers went to Democrats Sen. Walter George and Rep. James P. Richards, who have be come special ambassadors. The reason is that they headed the foreign relations committees of OSenate and House, respectively, before resigning from Congress last fall, and the president snap ped them up for a popular way O f making his foreign policy bi partisan. Biggest Plum Otherwise, the biggest plum to date has gone to Oregon's Harris Ellsworth, who has been appoint ed to the Civil Service commis si, possibly to become its chairman. Dewey Short, who was top Republican on the House Armed Services commit tee before his defeat in Missouri, may become assistant secretary of defense. Appointing just the right con gressman in just the right fed eral post is often figured to of fer the administration solid ad vantages, especially in the good relations it is presumed he will have in dealing with his old col leagues in Congress. The admin istration figured it that way in appointing Wesley D'Ewart of Montana to become assistant secretary of interior. The way this appointment backfired reveals the handicap of this philosophy about appoint ing ex-congressmen. All of them have public records which some one can take potshots at. In D'Ewart's case the barrage of opposition was so great the Sen ate never confirmed his appoint ment last year, and he had to bow out. Under Fire Another ex-congressman who became assistant secretary of de fense is Robert Tripp Ross, who is now under fire for approving contracts between the military and his family's business. This has been a costly appointment, and he's on "the way out. One veteran congressman who got the brush off has gone to Florida to become a carpenter there in the winter. Summers he will carpenter in Maine. Anoth er has gone home to open a law office in Waukesha, Wis., which is the equivalent of going home to Pocatello, the one thing ex- members of Congress usually like least to do. A veteran Californian, Leroy Johnson, is still trying to hook onto something. One of the ironies that pops up in these situations is reveal ed in the probability that two conservative essentially isola tionists. Republicans, Sam Coon of Oregon and James Dolliver of Iowa, will wind up working for the government agency that is giving financial assistance to pro jects in foreign lands scattered all over the globe. Coon is try ing to get the job of assistant ad ministrator at Lima, Peru, which will probably pay about 59,000, which is less than half a con gressional salary. Business Burglaries Reported Cracked Portland XI.R) Police Sat urday announced the arrest of 10 suspects and appeared confi dent their crackdown had solved much of the rash 'of business burglaries that have plagued the city for months. A roundup of suspects began Thursday with the arrest of three men. BEER LOSES FIGHT Chicago U.R) Beer has lost a fight to medicine. The Keeley Brewery, an 80-year-old Chicago landmark, will be torn down to make way for medical and research buildings of Mi chael Reese Hospital. Man Killed Puffing On License Plates Portland U.R) A man died Saturday from injuries suffered Friday night when his parked car was struck by another while he was putting license plated on his vehicle. The victim was Clarence EI ston Cubbage, 32. His son, Clar ence Eugene, 12, was hospital ized with scalp cuts. The accident occurred almost in front of Cubbage's home. Po lice said he was standing in front of his vehicle and his son -apparently was lying under the front bumper helping on the job when a car driven by George Hillman, 43, struck the rear of the auto. Cubbage was hit by his own ve hicle. Cubbage was Portland's sixth 1957 traffic death. Police said Hillman was ar rested on a drunkenness charge and bailed out of jail before Cub bage died. Hillman was treated for mouth cuts and bruises. i Woman Named First Citizen of Salem Salem U.R) Mrs. Bern ard O. Agnes Schucking, 73, Friday night became the first woman in history to be named first citizen of Salem. Mrs. Schucking was chosen for her many community services. Editor Says Trivia Need in Newspapers Eugene U.R) Hodding Car ter, publisher and editor of the Delta Democrat-Times of Green ville, Miss., Saturday defended the publication of trivia In American news media as a dem onstration of the dignity of the individual. Carter spoke to Oregon news men as the 11th annnal Eric W. Allen Memorial Lecturer at the Oregon Press conference on the University of Oregon campus here. He said the Reporting of trivia was never more needed than in a mechanistic world populated by mass anonymous man. Referring to the racial con flicts in his own southland, Car ter said "I believe that, for the Negro, it is more important to day to seek unrestricted right to the ballot, equality in the courts and something approach ing job equality than to try to tear away the barricades erect ed against immediate, mass pub lic school integration." Prineville Man Dies Of Accident Injuries Portland (U.R) A 55-year-old Prineville man who was in jured in a car-truck collision on the Mt. Hood Loop highway Monday died in a Portland hos pital Thursday from injuries re ceived in the crash. Ridgeway C. Hendrie was driver of a car which apparently slid sideways into the rear of a truck. Driver of the truck was John Elmer Phelps of Prine ville. A vie Brdsong, a' passenger in the Hendrie vehicle was injured in the crash. NAMED TO GROUP Eugene Among new mem bers recently named to Student Union standing committees was Ben J. Trowbridge Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Trowbridge, 1625 East Main st., Medford. Trowbridge, a junior in pre-law, will serve as a member of the coffee hour committee. STEALS FOR HEALTH San Mateo, Calif. U.R) John T. Gravance, 6 foot, 200 pound warehouseman, was ar rested on a charge of stealing 1.- .iuu vitamin tablets. He explain ed they were needed "for mv health." Charles Woodrich to Speak At Meeting Here Monday Charles Woodrich, Douglas county circuit judge, will dis cuss a proposed forestry camp for juveniles in Douglas county at a meeting of the Jackson county juvenile advisory coun cil at 8 p.m. Monday. The meeting, which will be in the circuit court room in the court house, is open to the pub lic, Mrs. Kay Crowell, director of the Jackson county juvenile department, said. The proposed camp, which would help relieve crowded Malin Man Seeks To Prove Ownership Malin (U.R) A 65-year-old Malin man sought Saturday to prove that four cabins he owns rest on his own property and the city is mistaken in its survey. Charlie Peck staunchly refus ed to move the cabins the city says rest on its property and in the route of a planned road con struction. The landowner said the cabins would stay until he had a survey made himself. f Meanwhile, a bulldozer sat si lently beside the cabins, its road building job at a standstill until the dispute is resolved. Sheriff Murray Britton was called in by city officials Fri day to force Peck to move the disputed cabins and let the city continue its road project. Peck informed Britton that he expected his surveyor to be oil hand "within a day or two" and was sure that would prove the city was wrong. Britton declined to take any action against Peck until he ob tained further legal advice., conditions in state juvenile schools, would attempt to re habilitate delinquent juveniles. There is a possibility Jacksqn county youths might attend the camp, Mrs. Crowell said. How ever, the county juvenile de partment would finance board ing of local youths. Forestry, camps are operated in some California counties, but Douglas county is the only one in Oregon which has done con siderable research and proposed such a camp in the state. Judge Woodrich was appoint ed in July, 1955, when juvenile court cases and probate work came under the jurisdiction of the Douglas county circuit court. He is one of the youngest circuit court judges In Oregon. Suits Against Highway Commission to Start Fossil, Ore. 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