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Oregon Democrats Plan To Divide PO Appointments By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington - Oregon's four Democrats in Congress have agreed (o a rjlan by which they have divided the re sponsibility for screening new postmaster appointees. Because of the traditional practice of giving their presi dential appointees political clearance by the party in power. Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.) for the past four years had to handle the entire Etate. Now Rep. Edith Green will handle any vacancies in her congressional district, which includes only Multonomah county; Rep. Al Ullman will handle his district, all of the slate east of the Cascades; Sen. Maurine Neuberger will handle those in the first con gressional district (Norblad's district), and Sen Wavne Morse will cover the fourth district. Won't Replace All There is to be no whole sale replacement of existing postmasters just because the administration has changed parties. Permanently appoint ed postmasters holding office are not subject to replace ment, except for due cause like any other government official. In communities where an acting postmaster is in office, new postmasters can be in stalled. But first the civil service commission conducts an examination of applicants to rate their suitability. At Corvallis, for example, an examination was held last fall but the results have yet to be made known. Normally, those results would be con veyed to Sen. Neuberger and she could indicate which one of the top three the president should appoint. Review of Eligibility However, on orders of Post master General J. Edward Day, all work on' examina tions and standards of judging new postmaster applicants have been suspended until April 30. This will delay fur ther appointments while a re view of eligibility criteria is jnade. "We are most anxious to Insure that we recruit for these positions only persons with the experience and train ing necessary to manage and operate modern postal estab lishments," Day wrote the civil service commission. "Our preliminary considerations of this problem lead us to the conclusion that the present qualifications standards may not be producing the kind of personnel necessary to meet this objective." The Oregon Democrats re port that they are receiving BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF NEWARK, N.J. announces its MAN OF THE YEAR . . . f I J 1 Mr. Ted Holmes Mutual Benefit, one ot America's oldest and larqcst life insurance companies, with over 116 years of service, announced recently that Tod Holmes, of Ashland, Oregon, has been named Man of the Year in Oregon. This award was made in recognition of his high standard of service to his policyholders, and of outstanding achievement in business produced last year. Congratulations, Wm. J. McGowan C.LU. GENERAL AGENT 412 Oregon Bank Bldg. Portland, Oregon , 7 f ' I i numerous letters from local persons, many of them party workers, expressing their con victions about who should be appointed to various post of fices. Rep. Ullman said he was aware of vacancies to be fill ed at The Dalles, Vale and Sprague River, a fourth class post office in Klamath county. But thus far he had not taken any action toward filling these offices. Apparently the most deli cate post office situation con cerns Roseburg, where an act ing postmaster has held office for some months. He is a 30 year civil servant who served as assistant postmaster for six years before his designation as acting postmaster during the Eisenhower administra tion. Recently some local Demo cratic party officials recom mended to the Oregon delega tion that he be replaced by the husband of a local Demo cratic stalwart. The replace ment has been a logging truck operator. This is Sen. Morse's hot po- NEW DESIGNS! 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