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
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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. McMurray, associate
representative.
Delegates to the national
convention at the Village
Green near Cottage Grove
June 9 are Mrs. Marry Chip-
man and Mrs. Clyde Richard
son. Alternate delegates are
Dorothy Galarneau and Nelda
' vary.
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