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TUESDAY, HAY 7, 1953 MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Lecture Is Planned For Area Brokers Bill Healy, education super, visor for the Oregon real es tate department, will conduct a lecture for Jackson county real estate brokers and sales men In the little theater of Hedrick Junior High school at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 8. The class, last of the spring certificate classes, will discuss "the law of agency." Patronage Jobs Prove Headache For Congressional Oregonians Lions Clubs Name Officers for Year Grants Pass - Two local Lions Clubs have elected of ficers for. the coming year. Grants Pass builder Guy Page win head the Grants Pass Lions club. New presi dent, of 'the Redwood Lions club is real estate man Don Erickson.- , Elected to serve with Page in the -Grants Pass club were Carl Stein, Dave Staley and Bill Ausland, first, second and third vice presidents, respectively;- Jim Swaggerty, Tail Twister; Bill Spencer, Lion Tamer; Herb Vcssey and Wal ter Krebs,' directors for two yejr terms; Chet TompkinB, past president director; ana Ed O'Connor, treasurer. War ren Cook was reelected secre tary; Jim Wilson is a holdover director. The Redwood club elected Bill Lowe, Sandy McGregor and Wally Olander as first, second and third vice presi dents; Bob Hill, Tail Twister; Ralph Boss. Lion Tamer: Dean Anderson, secretary treasurer; Mel Atkins and Pat O'Connell, two-year directors; and Mike GBrner, one-year director. New officers of both clubs will be installed next month and take office July 1. By A. ROBERT SMITH bert C. Gragg reaches the ger, who would have Jurlsdlc nedy administration for jobs al loyalists. She thinks the central committee should have submitted a slate of ac ed more assertive. He told an editor of the Oregon Journal last week that he thought he. as senior senator, should have veto power over the majority choice of the delegation. This caused some wry joking among delegation - members about- Morse's assumption of leadership through the press but the senator has yet to demonstrate that he can carry through his ideas and either clear up or compound the headache over patronage which throbs on. The congressional delega tion after one indecisive meeting last Wednesday, plans to try again soon. Mill Tribune Washington Correspondent ' Washington - (Special) -Oregon'! congressional Demo crats are suffering from a col mandatory retirement age of 70 next January. He took of fice during the last months of the Roosevelt administra tion and got his permanent appointment from President Truman. There are reports circulat ing here that E. D. Spencer, chairman of the Democratic state Central Committee, may be the next Salem postmaster. Spencer already deals in stamps the kind that house wives collect from grocery stores. The Job would pay close to $10,000. Presumably, Spencer would be agreeable to Sen. Neuber- tion over this appointment unless Sen. Morse insists on sharing or assuming that re sponsibility. Contentious Factor Any legislation to remove the political screening from postmaster Jobs would pro vide a fresh talking point, possibly even a contentious factor, in the Oregon delega tion's patronage meetings. But Congress shows no sign of washing its hands of this patronage privilege, at least not soon. The big bone of contention is how to arrive at recommen dations to make t- the Ken other than' postmasterships, notably statc-w i d e offices such as U. S. marshal, which is still held by a GOP hold over from the Eisenhower days, Paul Kearney. The state Central Commit tee recommended Burdett F. Emery, a Portland probation officer, who also was Mrs. Neuberger's choice. Mrs. Green, however, has declined to endorse. Emery not be cause of any opposition to him but because she doesn't want to hand over the power for patronage choice to a party agency whose members currently are not her person ceptable candidates from which the delegation might select, one by majority vote. Morse's Hoi Enigmatic Sen. Morse's role in patron age continues to be enigma tic. During the first two years of the Kennedy administra tion, he tried to avoid taking sides between Mrs. Neuber ger and Mrs. Green. He had an election campaign coming up in 1962 and wanted to maintain harmony wherever possible among party loyal ists of both ladies. Recently Morse has sound lective head ache over what used to be called po litical spoil' The civil LOG ENDS Quick Delivery MEDFORD FUEL CO. S t H Green Stmp PHONE 772-21 1 1 J W1VIUC J e 2 tern has ellm- inated all but a few federal jobs which i i .j 10 6 m . . 1 1 Kobu m.U 1 ' out to those who can secure the necessary backing of the party in power in Washing ton. But patience wears notice ably thin and irritations break to the surface when the Oregon "ins" try to reach ac cord on these few Jobs. Reps. Edith Green and Rob ert B. Duncan are seriously considering introducing legis lation to narrow the field of patronage even further by abolishing the political rec ommendation that for years has accompanied presidential appointment of postmasters. Under the present system, when a vacancy occurs in a postmastership, a political ap pointee is installed until a permanent postmaster is se , lccted through a combination of civil service and political screening. Slat Carved Up The Oregon Democrats have the state carved up so that Rep. Al Ullman handles tne postmasters in his distiict, which covers all eastern Ore gon: Mrs. Green handles those in Multnomah county; Sen. Maurine B. Nouberger hand les those in the district rep resented by Republican Rep. Walter Norblad; and Con gressman Duncan has as sumed responsibility for his district, which for the past ' two years had been handled by Sen. Wayne Morse when it was represented in Congre.'S by a Republican, Edwin Durno. Duncan inherited a post master problem in the most sensitive place, his home town of Medford, where the local party committee recom mended Marvin Madden for the political appointment as acting postmaster. Duncan risked party 111 will at home bv declining to approve Mad den on grounds that he al ready held a public office, Jackson county clerk, to which the voters had duly elected him last fall. Duncan tolH the Post Office Depart. ment to install Al Bradford, a Medford barber and person al supporter of the congress man. Bradford had served for ome years on the Medford city council, a non-paying post. The postmastership pays nearly $9,000 to start. . While Bradford serves as acting postmaster, the Civil Service Commission will eval uate qualifications of appli cants for the permanent ap pointment, certify three qual ified applicants, and Duncan's choice of the three will In evitably get the president's nomination. Senate confirma tion for his lifetime appoint ment would follow almost automatically under this sys tem. Major Job in Offing Another major Oregon post mastership in the offing is at Salem, where Postmaster Al- Davis Elected Head Of Jackson Club Lcwellyn Davis, Medford, was elected president of the Jackson county chapter, Chin Up club, at meeting at the blind center on East Stewart ave. Friday. He will be in stalled at the chapter's next meeting June 7. Other officers elected are Clyde Richardson, vice presi dent; Bill Hedrick, secretary; Harry Chipman, treasurer, and L. E. 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