MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
THURSDAY. APRIL IS. 1N3
'Congressmen Overworked' Defenders Say in Attempt To Lessen Modern Demands
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son Longresi doesn t do more I to 90 Der cent nf a memher ! work ol his office staff-in , bills.
! time.
Improved
communications
is tnat it is overworked
1 CdUJ .
mat at least, is thp . . T", . .
of mam- m r- . " " 6'""inS pupuiauon ana
in. tn V c"S"-ess. Accord- daily to this burden of -'case
lag to Sen. Hubert H. Hum-1 work .'
phrey (D-Minn.) -a common .Meanwhile, the increasine
remssP ta'ThJ.' i.'CmrS f KCn-1 nUmbCr 01 P'-oblcms vvhlch
gress is that they don't have face Coneress. ranain.. from
the House 8 to 10 workers; in
naturalization i for floor action and ?ommit
I tee business, docking the pay
Suggestions to improve ; of absent Congressmen, and
the Senate, 15 to 30 or more. Congressional schedules have installing an electronic votmg
ganization. for instance) he
would have additional duties
and demands on his time.
Manage Time
Most proposals to ease the
wh ? le6'slatrs'-" ; nuclear test ban treaties to committee or held some lead-
While most peoDle think nf orariiraiin. ; i t-,; ershin office (in the whin nr-
p - - . i -"""a ".-vua jii liiu uis-; r -
wi, uPrlma"'y asitrict of Columbia, from pro-
T T,l ,he actual de- tecting waterfowl refuges to
mands of the job put as much the federal income lax struc--lf
not more-stress on serving ture, add to the legislative
constituents - being "errand ; burden
u0's An artivo Mnmhr r r I burden on Congressmen fall
Members are acutely aware ! gress may frequently spend a ! inl ll,rce categories: delegat
of the need to maintain good 1 10-to 12-hour day at the of-1 'nS many chores and duties to
relations with their constiu- fice before going home to ' administrative agencies; int
ents. They know that the j catch up on reading related to proving schedules to provide
chances of defeat are high fori his work. a more efficient use of time;
any member who neglects his j During the day. he might i and improving office and staff
mail and turns a deaf ear to 1 spend time talkin'o with a lob- aids.
the troubles which eonstim. i bvist nr twn anH with ulalHna
constituents, possibly conduct
ing a tour of the Capitol for
tourists from his slate or dis
trict, reading and answering
some of the large amount of adopt
daily mail-200 to 600 letters a : several
By far the majority of his I included: fixing definite holi
staff would be concerned with I days on which speaking en
constituent mail and case ! gagemcnts could be filled, re
work, quiring Senate debate to be
If, moreover, he were chair-' germane, fixing separate days
man of a committee or sub-
system in the House
Suggestions to improve of
fice and staff aids have in
cluded: increasing staff al
lowances where needed; pur
chasing modern reproducing,
addressing and mailing equip
ment; and expanding avail
able office space. (However,
the high cost of the most re
cent office building - the Ray
burn House Office Building,
estimated to cost between $80
million and $100 million -
makes construction of yet an
other building doubtful at
present.)
If any reform takes place
it is unlikely that Congress
will give to administrative of
fices very much of its case
work burden, or indeed any
other prerequisites which give
it a claim on the voters -such
as immigration bills,
small claims bills, public
works bills, and appointment
of postmasters and candidates
to the service academies.
Of the "nonessential" func
tions performed by Congress,
only governing the District of
Columbia has little to do with
helping the constituents. But
even if Congress were willing
to give up this job by living
the District home rule, it
would make little overall dif
ference in the workload.
(CcpTrifhl IMS. Congies
sional Quarterly Inc.)
relations with their conslitu
lederal bureaucracy.
Serious Problems
Social Security cases, Vet
erans Administration cases,
treatment and discharges in
Perhaps the most far-reaching
proposal to delegate
; chores has been made by Rep.
: Henry S. Reuss (D-Wis.) who
i believes that Congress could
practice followed in
Scandinavian coun-
the military services, claims day in some offices; talking I ll'ies- There, a special adminis
of discrimination in defense I to the rJistrii-i nr iaio nffino trator. called an "ombuds
contracts, and immigration on the telephone; and meeting man.'' is appointed by the leg-
matters are among the more
senuus prooiems winch peo
ple bring their Congressmen.
So important is voter-relationship
to them that mem
bers and their equally over
worked staffs even perform
such time-consuming tasks as
helping to find information
for students writing school as
signments, congrat u 1 a t i n g
newlyweds and winners of
major scholarship awards in
the state or district and taking
visiting lugn school classes on ! during the day
tours of the Capitol. should attend
newsmen. lslaturc to handle constituent
Meetings Many complaints concerning the op-
He would probably have a erations of the executive
morning committee meeting, branch and to conduct invesi
and possibly one in the afler- j gations of wrongdoing by of
noon. He would find lime to I ficials.
discuss pending bills and poli- . According In Reuss. Con
tics with other Members, or to I gi'ess should set up a special
read a newspaper. He might officer lo handle much of the
take part in floor debate, and case work now done by Con
would take time to vote when gressmcn. However, conslitu
called to the floor by (he bells. onts would still have to ap
There might be sonic party or j proach this officer through
regional meeting of Members their Congressman.
which he Many observers say mat
other chores which Congress
According to Humphrey, "It
is a conservative estimate that
every member of Congress
spends more than half his
time in direct service to con
stituents'' Some estimates
Finally, he might lake an j could give up are; governing
hour or two to work on a the District of Columbia,
speech or a newsletter to con-1 handling applications to the
slituents, or to develop some service academies, settling
pet project. j small claims against the gov-
In addition In this personal ernment and handling immc-
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SHRINE OFFICIALS-A delegation of more
than 100 Shriners was at the Medford Muni
cipal airport this week when Imperial
Potentate George M. Klepper. second from
right head of the Ancient Arbaic Order of
the Nobles o the Mystic Shrine for North
America, and Mrs. Klepper, arrived in the
valley for an official visit. Heading the local
delegation was Hillah Temple's Illustrious
Potentate Sen. Lynn Newbry, (right). Gen
eral chairman for the entertainment during
Ihe visit was Raymond R. Peter, member
of the board of governors of the Portland
Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children.
The Kleppers are from Memphis, Tenn.
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Michael Whinihan To
Give Mathematics Paper
Michael .1 Whinihan. son : Northwest section of the
four feet wide, eight long and of Mr and Mrs whinihan. 109 ' Mathematical Association of
25 miles high - 32.760 stan-, ....i .., j Amrira
imwiluiHi ui .. mciuwiu ,
school student who was re- The meeting will be held
ccnlly awarded a scholarship
by Harvard university, has
wood required to produce the
paper for the 15 billion checks
written by the Americans in
1962 would make a stack
dard cords of woods, accord
ing to American Forest Pro
ducts industries.
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was a 10-seater, made in Wall- per on mathematics at the
ham, Mass., in 1898. annual meeting of the Pacific
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on the campus nf Western
Washington Slate college. Bel
lingham, Wash., on June 21.
The invitation was extend
ed Whinihan by Harvey M.
Gclder, associate professor of
the department of mathema
tics at Western Washington
State college. It is an out
growth of his attendance at
the summer institute in sci
ence and mathematics at Ore
gon Slate University last
year.
While attending that sum
mer session. Whinihan wrote
the paper entitled "Fibonacci
Nim." This is the paper he
will give in June.
Invitation Cited
The membership of the
Mathematical Association of
America has been instrumen
tal in the creation of new pro-
: grams in mathematics at all
I levels, Dr. Gelder explained
H in presenting the invitation
to the Medford youth, "and
would look upon the inclu
sion of your presentation as a
new high in program selec
tion." Whinihan has been invited
to remain in Bcllingham for
the full meeting of the Mathe
matical Association of Ameri
ca, which will follow the
Pacific Northwest section.
His paper has been de
scribed as "A generalization
of mm which I believe is
entirely new.''
Nim, according to Webster,
is a game in which counters
arc laid out in one or more
piles of agreed numbers.
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