MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
SUNDAY. MARCH 17, 1963
8
Members of Legislature Declared Too Busy to Write Press Releases
By
MARY JANE DELLENBACK
Salem - I have written a
number of times about my
own schedule, but I have not
dwelt at any length upon the
most important part of our
stay in Salem, and that is the
schedule of the Representa
tive himself, and that is John
Dellenback, my husband and
boss.
Every once in a while I be
come disturbed over a fact
which by now I should real
ize is inevitable, and that is
the fact of hov news is re
ported from (he legislature.
With so many people involved
and with all going in separate
directions most of the day, it
is easy to sec that it would be
impossible for the press to
report all that is of interest
about all the members of the
legislature. This is true even
of the newspapers and radio
people who are on the scene,
but it is even a more diffi
cult task for those who do not
have a representative of their
organization present and must
therefore rely on the news
services or on press releases
for their reports of what is
newsworthy at the legislature.
Now if you analyze it fur
ther, you will realize that the
place where a news release
comes from must generally
be from the one who is most
directly concerned with its
publication. So when you
read that Congressman so-and-so
has done such-and-such, or
that Senator so-and-so has in
troduced such and such a
bill, generally it is the legis
lator himself who has wanted
to be sure that the people
back home know that he has
done something and so sent
a press release to the home
town newspaper to be printed.
Possibly this is a respon
sibility that John and I have
not' taken seriously enough.
Perhaps it is part of his job
to send regular press releases
to the news media. We would
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be interested in an expression
of public opinion on this sub
ject. I am sure that in many
cases the press release is nec
essary and helpful. But we
who are on the scene see that
very often a choice must be
made between taking time to
get out a news report and
continuing to do the other
parts of the job here.
Releases Rare
Therefore, only on a rare
occasion when he deemed it
really important has my boss
asked me to make a stencil
and get out a press release.
It is for this reason that I
have developed a concern that
the people back home - the
ones who sent him here-might
have the idea that he isn't
doing very much that is news
worthy. So I wanted to tell
you something about what I
feci is a most conscientious
piece of work being done for
you.
All representatives have a
certain number of committee
appointments which require
their attendance at a number
of meetings each week. Some
committees have more bills
assigned to them for work
than others, and some sched
ules are more complicated
than others. This is a factor
which is worked out by the
Speaker. John finds that al
coholic Control has a certain
number of bills - only an av
erage work load as commit
tees go. There are this session
a number of fairly important
matters in this committee for
determination - the matter of
I.D. cards for liquor buyers
and whether there will be a
change in the way they are
issued, for instance. Elections
and R e a pporlionment, of
course, is always a matter of
concern. This session they are
wrestling with a number of
matters which are controver
sial and have factors in favor
of many different sides of the
issues. One of these U the pos
sibility of changing the way
Multnomah County is dis
tricted, with the possibility
that the districts will be made
smaller, with more of a man-against-man
type of cam
paign being the result there.
Constitutional Revision, as
you might realize, could take
all the time one could give
it. John often goes back to
the Capitol at night in order
to read further in the docu
ment itself, as well as to read
the report of the Constitu
tional Revision commission to
familiarize himself with their
thinking and conclusions on
various sections. I am hoping
that he will write a rundown
for your reading of what they
are doing in that committee,
as they are following a some
what different system than
some of the others, due to
the preliminary work which
has been done by the :.
mission. In addition to his regular
duties in the committees to
which he has been assigned,
John has worked out his
schedule to include attend
ance at several other commit
tees. This he has done for
several reasons. He is anxious
to educate himself in various
phases of state operations, and
has developed a particular in
terest in some areas through
his work on committees last
session and on interim com
mittees. He attends the Edu
cation committee regularly,
which is a committee with
a great many matters to con
sider. He is intensely inter
ested in this field, since this
is the 'interim committe of
which he was a member last
year, and he has a wealth of
background information
which is very helpful to thei
committee, since a number
of the members of it are
freshmen, and do not have
the benefit of the study done
by the interim committee. He
is very glad that his schedule
will permit this attendance,
and I suspect that the other
members of the committee are
glad for this fill-in informa
tion, too. Then, he attends on
a regular basis, as regularly
as his other duties will per
mit, the Judiciary committee,
which is concerned with many
matters which need the un
derstanding of a legally train
ed mind. He, naturally, is
interested in these matters.
He has wanted to follow the
activities .of the Ways and
Means committee, also, and
finds it impossible to follow
all they are doing by virtue
of lack of time. He has, there
fore, settled on the Sub-corn-
Dinner Slated By
Veterans of World War I,
barracks 540 and auxiliary,
will hold a covered dish din
ner Wednesday. March 20, at
7 p.m. in the Girls' Commu
nity club, 229 North Bartlett
street. A social evening will
follow.
Mrs. S. R. Hale and commit-
miltce on Higher Education
as the place where he -ould
learn more about the matters
with which he is already con
versant. You can see that all this
docs not leave much idle, time,
and I often wonder here he
is! I know he is attending a
committee meeting, but he
attends so many, that it is
hard to keep track. You can
also see that he is using his
lime beneficially, and perhaps
you can understand, too, why
there are not many press re
leases being sent out by Rep.
Dellenback!
Two Groups
tee arc in charge of dinner
arrangements.
At the business meeting on
March 6, Mrs. Thomas Lynch,
VAVS representative of the
auxiliary, announced that sev.
eral members had received
awards for their volunteer
work at the Veterans' Admin
istration Domiciliary, White
City, during the "Turnabout
Party" held there recently.
Those named were Mrs,
Ray Newman, Mrs. F. B. Otis,
Mrs. J. H. Gindling, Mrs. Fred
Clark, Mrs. N. R. Walters,
Mrs. J. A. Dalton, Mrs. Lit'
lian Austin arid Mrs. Thomas
B. Lynch.
The National Society for
Crippled Children and Adults,
with 1,400 affiliates, is the
oldest voluntary agency serv.
ing the physically handicap
ped. Contributions to the an
nual Easter Seal Campaign,
now under way, finance ils
work.
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