The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-13
FARM UNIT NET
STARS FIGHT
FOR TITLE
By ]. EARLE MOsER

SportS-minded workers Of Farm
Credit Administration are roofing
hard for their tennis team, which
bids fair to wreck the supremacy
of the Departmental Tennis League
that for the past six years has
been divided between Treasury
and Patent office.
Recent figures issued by Win.
free johnson, secretary Of the
league and popular director Of well
fare activity in Government Serv-
ice, reveal that Farm Credit tops
the organization with 80 victories
in IS engagements since tennis &C
tivity started early in the sum-
mer.
Treasury which won the Gov
eminent championship five con-
secutive times until Patent Office
scored last year, is in third place
with II wins and six losses, while
the Patent squad is almost out o.
the running. If Farm Credit does
no better than break even in its
remaining games it still has an
excellent chance to emerge with
the title.
The team, which also includes
several members from General
Accounting Office, is led by John
Fox, president of the FCA Ath-
letic Association, who is consid-
cred its number one player along
with Sam Mcconnell, Of GAO.
Another standout performer is
Gene Allen.
"A written assembled exanina-
ton for substitute clerk.carrier,
to serve in the Washington City
Post Office. was announced today
by the Civil Service Commission.
The basic rate of pay for sub
stituteS is IS cents per hour, and
those who are regularly employed
may receive an annual salary of
$1,7O0 as basic entrance pay.
The closing date is July II, ap-
plicantS must be 18, but not As,
by that time, all must be at
least five feet four inches in
height without shoes, and men
must weigh 125 and women 100
at the time of appointment.
Further information is available
at the Civil Service Commission,
seventh and F. Streets Northwest.
In addition, the commission has
announced test for student en-
glneers to work on highways for
Cne Department of Agriculture.
The post pays $1,000 annually.
The examination will be assem-.
b1ed and will be held at designated
places in Washington, Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina and
West Virginia.
Applicants must have had three
years Of engineering study at a
recognized college since May,
1882, and must not have reached
their twenty-sixth birthday by the
closing date, July 80.
One Year Ago in Federaldom
Local II, colored unit of the
NFFE, had decided to organize
branches, the first one being the
press wiperS unit of the Bureau
OF Engraving and Printing. . Mrs.
Lois Sullivan, Accounts and Collec-
tons Division of Treasury, en-
joyed a birthday. >. Lefty Jewett
struck out IA batterS as he pitched
PWA to a 13-5 victory over
FERA in the Government base
ball league. . Julialyn Ockerman,
War Department, had returned
from a weekend at Rehoboth
Beach with a mahogany coat of
tan.
Chiefs at General Accounting
Office are allowed to excuse
hardness ten times during any
leave year. Unexcused lateneSs,
however, is charged to annual
leave with a minimum charge of
80 minutes for each absence of
30 minutes or less.
Lyman Lewis has resigned his
position with the Tabulation
Division. AAA. to accept a post
with the Beltsville Experimental
Farm Division of Agriculture, it
was learned today. Mr.. Lewis,
who had made many friends dur
ing his stay at AAA, was rendered
q luncheon by colleagues before
shifting 70 his new appointment.
Who Remembers-When most
of the Government calculating
machines were the old hand
type, with a crank that had to
be turned, backward and for
ward, for each operation?
DR.. Sirovich's omnibus bill is
unqueStionably an excellent piece
of beneficial legislation for en-
ployes, but it does seem as if &C
ton would be more desirable than
the continued hearings that now
reveal no new facts of benefit in
proving the measures deSirability.
Moving toward a goal of 100000
members, Secretary-treasurer Ger
trude M. McNally, of the NFFE,
has announced organization Of
five new local unions, located at
Biloxi, Miss, East Hartford, Conn.
Monte Vista, Colorado, Batavia,
N. Y. and Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
It was learned today that Miss
Catherine Virginia Robinson. Rec
ords Section, Technical Staff, In
ternal Revenue, has been ap-
pointed and commissioned by
Gov. Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky |
as an aide-de-camp on his staff |
of Cha