MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
MONDAY, JANUARY 2. 1981
Patronage Is Problem In Oregon Due to Lack of Demo Leadership
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Washington
Correspondent
Washington - Oregon Dem
ocrats have yet to settle on a
means of clearing persons for
new patronage jobs with the
new Kennedy administration
because there is no single
Democrat whose leadership is
now recognized by all others.
Many job seekers are com
municating their wishes to
members of the Oregon con
gressional delegation. They
want to be appointed to every
thing from United States At
torney for Oregon to post
master of their home town.
Both of these jobs, as well as
a number of others, are tech.
nically presidential appoint
ments, requiring confirmation
by the Senate.
An apparent" question still
to be resolved is whether Sen.
Wayne Morse or Sen. Maurine
Newberger or Rep. Edith
Green is going to have top au
thority to decide who gets
what positions. Inasmuch as
relations among these three
top Democrats are not close in
the personal sense, there is
now understood to be no
agreement and some anxiety
about how the patronage mat
ter will be handled.
Rep. Green Emerges
Congresswoman Green, in
some ways, has emerged as
the state's most influential
Democrat because of her early
and close association with the
successful presidential aspira
tion of President-elect John
F. Kennedy.
Neither Sens. Morse or Neu-
berger were Kennedy sup
porters before the Democratic
National convention, and
neither attended the conven
tion. But Sen. Morse, the senior
senator, could exert his will
upon any appointments which
require Senate confirmation
simply by refusing to grant
clearance when their names
were dispatched to the Senate.
By mntter of Senate courtesy,
this is all it takes to stymie
such an appointment.
Illustrates Power
Several years ago, as an il
lustration of this senatorial
power, Morse quietly let it be
known that he would never
clear for a judicial appoint
ment Wendell Wyatt of As
toria when Wyatt had been
all set to receive such a post
from the Eisenhower admin
istration. The late Son. Rich
ard L. Neuberger was willing
to support Wyatt, but Morse's
attitude stopped the White
House from even nominating
the Oregon Republican leader.
The best rewards in the
form of well paying political
positions are few, and so their
allocation will become in the
next few weeks a matter of
deep concern to these Oregon
Democrats, each with an eye
to favoring his own particular
supporters and favorites.
The Senate Post Office and
Civil Service committee has
published a book listing all
the possible government jobs,
some 5,000 of them, which the
Kennedy administration could
fill if it wished to use patron-
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Announcer Denies Hit-Run Charges
r Medway, Mass. - IUPII - A
radio disc jockey appeared in
court Saturday accused of
killing a 12-year-old boy in a
liit-run accident and then go
ing on the air with repealed
appeals for the guilty driver
to surrender. ,
Friday Ciight police stood
outside a broadcasting booth
at station WMRC-while the
disc joakey, Ronald C. Greene.
26, broadcast for several
hours, interrupting his "Stars
in the Night" jazz and mood
music program frequently to
read the appeal.
- "A 12-year-old boy, Dominic
de'Fazio, was killed in Med
way this afternoon," the disc
jockey announced. "Medway
police say the boy was killed
by a hit-and-run car.'
"AnyonS have information
concerning the Identity of the
car or the driver should con
tact Medway police."
Recites Prayer
, Greene ended his program
by reciting the Lord's, "'rayer.
Then he walked into the arms
of waiting police. He pleaded
innoncent at his arrignment.
Almost exactly five hours
before Greene's arrest Friday
night, Dominic was killed as
he pushed his bicycle along a
Medway street. Carl Villeaux,
11, was with him.
Villeaux said he narrowly
missed being hit by the car,
which slammed into Dominic
with such 'force that his body
was hurled 60 feet through the
air.
A policeman noted a few
minutes later that Greene'
car, parked in the radio sta
tion lot, was minus part of a
fender ornament. A piece of
ornament had been found at
the accident scene, only a
short distance away. Investi
gators were summoned and
found bits of clothing identi
fied as De Fazio's caught on
the ornament section still on
the car fentler.
Police Chief William Gial-
PUC Grants Request From Courtesy Cab
Public Utility Commissioner
Jonel C. Hill Friday approved
part the application by
John H. Hill of Courtesy Cab,
Mcdford, for authority to pro
vide service .beyond the ex
empt three-mile limit provided
for in the motor transporta
tion code.
Courtesy Cab, operating In
arj area having a radius three
miles beyond the Medford city
limits, had applied for a per
m i t authorizing operations
within and from and to 25
miles of Medford. .
Hill said that evidence pre
sented at a recent public hear
ing did not indicate the need
tfor such a broad authority,
but that it wasin the public
interest for Courtesy Cab to
prpvide service from and to
the area in which it was now
operating.,
GALES DEFINED
Winds of 28 to 34 miles an
hour are called moderate
gales. ,
ilonardo and three other po
licemen then went to the
broadcasting studio and wait
ed for Greene.
Denies Accident
He denied he had struck
anyone with his car, but ad
mitted he had driven past the
accident scenes at about the
time the boy was hit..
The accident occurred
around 5 p.m., police said,
and Greene went on the air
at 6 p.m. Before the pro
gram, he helped Cliarlcs Fitz
gerald, the station's radio
newswriter, prepare the hit
run appeal by telephoning po
lice for information, Giallon
ardo said.
Fitzgerald then wrote the
announcement, which he gave
Greene to read, police said.
"I couldn't have gone on
the air and read those an
nouncements, if I knew I was
the man responsible for that
boy's death," Fitzgerald, said.
Greene pleaded innocent to
a manslaughter charge and
two charges of driving viola
tions in Wrentham district
court. Bail was set at $1,500.
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pected to be the case, for only
a smaller number are expect
ed to change hands.
Many Obscure Jobs
' This list, for example, con
sists of many obscure posi
tions, such as director of U.S.
Savings Bonds for the Treas
ury department, which is now
held by George W. Minmaugh
and pays $12,210.
Among those that won't
change hands is director of
Selective Service for Oregon,
who is traditionally always
recommended by the gover
nor. Sprague H. Carter, Gov.
Mark Hatfield's man, presum
ably will retain this $10,635 Corvallis, Roseburg, The
post
U.S. Attorney pays $17,500,
U.S. Marshall $10,895 and Col
lector of Customs $12,210, all
of them traditionally going to
the party in power.
Postmasterships cannot be
handed out on a wide scale.
Only places with existing va
cancies or acting postmasters
are currently open to new ..p
pointments. Otherwise, a duly
appointed postmaster serves
until he is 70 S'cars of age or
until he retires earlier or is
discovered to be removable
for some wrong-doing in of
fice. Acting postmasters at
Dalles, Canby and some other
places can be replaced if the
Democrats wish.
Pay Is Low
Postmasterships are not
considered high paying jobs,
considering that the job re
quires meeting civil service
qualifications and often en
tails great administrative re
sponsibility. The state's larg
est post office at Portland
does a $12 million a year bus
iness, and the postmaster's
salary is $12,205. The next
two largest postmasterships,
at Salem and Eugene, pay
$9,160.
The Corvallis and Roseburg
jobs, where a permanent post
master has yet to be nominat
ed and confirmed, pays $7,560.
Postmaster appointments
are a combination of politics
and civil service fitness. When
a vacancy occurs, an acting
postmaster is designated by
the Post Office department.
The Civil Service commission
then is asked to interview or
examine Job applicants, and
the commission then certifies
the top three as fit for the job.
Politics Enters
At this point politics enters
the picture. The Post Office
department asks the local con
gressman or senator which of
these three persons he would
prefer for the appointment.
Local party, workers usually
are consulted, and in time tho
appointment is made and con
firmed by the Senate. -
Since 1956, Rep. Walter
! Norblad has been handling
this task for the whole state,
simply because he was the
only Republican in Congress
from Oregon while the GOP
controlled the Post Office de
partment. How this assignment wilt
now be divided among Sens.
Morse and Neuberger and
Mrs. Green and Rep. Al Ull.
man is one of the matters the
newly empowered Oregon
Democrats will have to decide.
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