The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-20
PRESIDENT HOOVER HAS PLANS TO AID GERMANY
NEW POLICY IS ANNOUNCEDFOR
 LOCAL FORESTS
Flory Announces Read justment of Personnel
 and Organization

SAA VI 6AAA%sAOAA Due to a reorganization and re- adjustment of personnel in the Alaska Region, additions will be made some time during the present calendar year to the local head quarters force of the United States Forest Service. it was announced today by 0. H. Flory, Regional For ester and ex-officio Commissioner for the Federal Department of Ag- riculture who returned this morn ing from Ketchikan.
 The new assignments were work ed out here recently in a confer ence of Regional officers and dis trict forestry men. No exact dates have been fixed for the changes which will be made as advantage ous occasions arise.
 Zcllcr to Advance
 One of the major moves, will be the transfer of R. A. Keller, Super visor of Tongass National Forest, from Ketchikan to Juneau. This is in the nature of a promotion as he will be assigned to have control of all project work in both the Chugach and Tongass Forests. To replace him at Ketchikan, an ex- perienced forestry man will be sent there. In the future there will be no forest supervisors" in Alas ka. This title has been dropped by the organization. Supervisors will be replaced by forest inspectors" who will make headquarters at Ketchikan, Petersburg and here.
 All authority will be centrally To- cated here at Regional headquar- ters, eliminating a lot of lost mo- tion occasioned in the past by cor respondence between districts.
 To Promote Efficiency
 "The entire purpose of our re- adjustment policy is to promote eff ficiency in the organization and thereby to render to the general public a better service" MT. Flory said. We want to wipe out every bit of red tape we can; speed up our field work; and bring our field organization into direct contact with the public with which we have business relations.
 "To this end we are concentrat- ing our clerical and administrative operations in local headquarters. This means removal of certain rec ords, clerks and officers to Ju- neau, and replacement of them by field men. This will permit us to utilize our appropriations to better advantage, build up real efficiency, eliminate Implications in Offic e work, make our entire organization more elastic and make it more re- sponsive to public needs.
 Work Where Needed
 "It is our intention to have more men doing the essential, outdoor work, sealing logs, cruising timber, opening up new districts where naturalization occurs, building trails for prospectors and others and performing other services of real value to the public, than was possible under our old system. | "The whole idea back of the new plan is to cut out lost motion We have studied the situation care fully for the past three years and have come to the conclusion that the national forests of Alaska can be best administered by dividing them into three major sections placing a competent man at the head of each.
 Each division head will have the same power and authority formerly possessed by the forest supervisors and certain additional power"
 Takes Nothing Away
 The move does not take any thing away from Ketchikan, MT Flory said. It will make it pos sible to concentrate field forces wherever they are needed, and al the time the need exists.
 Businss men there, when the new policy was explained to them by MT. Flory, were almost a unit ir expressing their approval.