Evening star., 1952-03-30
6. 0. P. Meeting
10 Consider
Precinct Issues
Committee Convening
Next Week at Hotel,
McGurrughy Says


local Eisenhower for President
hackers are to come up for action
lat a meeting next week Of the
District Republican State COM
mittee, according to Chairman
Joseph C. McGarraghy.
The day of the session was not
certain last night but Mr.. No
|Garraghy said the location prob-
ably would be the Willard Hotel.
He said he hoped that at this
session decisions might be reached
on the whole program of precinct
boundaries. precinct captains, the
time and place of registration and
the time and place of precinct
meetings where delegates are
elected to District convention
one of the steps toward selection
or the District delegates to the
Republican National Convention
to be held in Chicago July z.
To Give Advance Notice.
Mr.. McGarraghy gave assur-
ances he would do his best to
arrange for the advance publica-
ton of the time and place for the
meetings of the 43 District pre-.
cinct groups.
| One of the complaints of the
Eisenhower hackers has been that
lRepubl1canS in general did not
know when and where these would
be held. In the past some pre-
cinct meetings have been held at
the homes of the precinct captains
at times selected by the captains.
chairman McCarraghy said the
only question about advance no..
tice for the precinct meetings was
whether he would be able to know
IN time all of the names and
places of the precinct captains
meetings. Sometimes, he has ex-
planned. 1t has been difficult I'D to
the last minute to establish such
arrangements for some of the
precincts.
Public to See Maps.
| Changes in precinct boundaries
from. what prevailed in 1948, Mr..
McGarraghy said, would be con-
'iSidered at next weeks meeting.
Changes. he added, are to be pro-
posed in keeping with shifts in
population as revealed in the last
census reports.
AS soon as the new precinct
boundaries are determined, Mr..
McGarraghy said, the new maps
will be made public. There is no
; question about that" he said.
The Eisenhower hackers had
protested there were some sudden
|, and unannounced shifts in pre-
cinct boundary lines in past quad
{ rennial elections.
Adverse Action Expected.
: An adverse action, however, Is
expected on the local Eisenhower
Club demand for access to tho
1948 registration lists here. The
Eisenhower group said it wanted
the list so 1t could make contacts
, with prospective voters for con-
vention delegates.
!, Otherwise, the Eisenhower Club
, spokesman have indicated they
feared the Republican delegates
| would be pledged to back Ohio's
Senator Taft.
| Spokesman for the Republican
) State Committee have insisted
that their convention delegates
should be left uninstricted or un-
pledged for any Presidential
candidate.
Mr.. McGarraghy said he
PLANNED to bring up at next weeks
Injecting the question of giving the
l948 Republican registration list
to the Eisenhower Club. But he
lsaid an adverse recommendation
had come from James c. Wilkes,
: who in 1948 was chairman of the
State Committee here.
, To Require Hearings.
He said Mr.. Wilkes opposed any
release of the list because various
Republican registrants had been
! promised the registrations would
be kept private.
Meanwhile. the Senate District
Committee will resume its hear
lings Tuesday at 8 pm. on the
! Neely-Duff bill to set up official,
'Iopen and regulated primaries here
!. for the election of convention
delegates and other local party
officials.
More than a dozen witnesses
, are listed including Mrs. Harvey
w. Wiley for the Federation Of
: Citizens Associations: former
Municipal Court Judge James A.
Cobb, an Eisenhower backer;; L.
!. Corrin Strong; Maynard Dewitt
Iof the American Veterans Com
mittee and Mrs. Harold N. Marsh.