The Washington times., 1938-09-09
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OF $4,000 employees at Com
merce approximately 5000 are
non Civil Service, and officials eX
pect to recommend almost all tol
inclusion under the June "a E. O.S
OF the 5000, 40 per cent are
part.timers, however, ana ClVlI
Service Commission may object. :. :.
The argument over moving lmml
Observation-Disclosures workers al
Labor to the Fourteenth street
garage is settled for the nonce;
they will be dispatched there IN
about three weeks Labor OIL
cials made a thorough PROBE, tney
saw. decided the sixth floor "cuooy-
holes" were unhealthy and unoe,
sirable. while the garage Is well
ventilated ard now being recondl
toned.
Most of Agriculture's Legal Dl-
vision will be recommended Tor
Civil Service status with a pros
pect of possible wage cuts for at
torneys affected (noW getting
more than Civil Service scales
More epics about Section 2l3'
and other Federalities, are due
from Bob Considine's gifted pen
ere long Tommy Valenza, the
former star infielder at State De
partment, is foreign Servlclng IN
Tokyo-but bankers to return
General Accounting's GAO
News, subsidized by NFFE, mas
been suspended in favor OF
News Letter, also edited by Lee
Shugar .Davey Lewis, OF Mary
land, has two appointments to the
Naval Academy next term, ana
plans filling 'em by competlCiVe
test.
Guards working for the D. c;
Government are hurt no end ana
wonder why they didn't get 80
raises like those of Interior, ana
the answer is that Congress appro,
priated the cash to Interlor-out
not elsewhere Henry -. bll.
lings, the interior pinstar, tlasheS
shaving a wonderful time" from
San Pedro Federal Trade Com
mish has whacked down on a
photo service" for implying ltS
Connected with the AP. Interior
has opened an Indian arts anu
crafts room.
"obiectives of Group Health"
will he the subject of Perry Taylor,
administrator of Group Healtn'
when he addresses UFWA's Aggle
Local Tuesday at UFWA mead,
quarters . Also the same local
will flash a beach party Sunday
at Woodland Beach, Md, leaving
headquarters at 10 a. m.' tarlI1
so cents each Wonder II any
Federalite can equal the teat OF
the local newSman who boasts q
briar pipe in tip-top condition he's
had since 1917 dts old enough toI
voteD.
Letter, sent Treasury Secretary
by a Commerce clerk:
Enclosed find Is cents to pay Tor
current used in operating my own
electric fan, Commerce Depart
ment -, where I am employed.
While, no doubt, the fan increased
my efficiency, yet everyone should
be fair with their Government ana
help the President balance the
budget" S. D. Flora, Govern
ment meteorologist recently tea-
tured in a Ripley cartoon, is an
NFFE officer way out west IN
Kansas Jennie Federal, who
recently made her debut here,
snapped today: Long is the road
that hasn't a WPA project!
Greenbelt'S Cooperator, new and
newsy little sheet being splashed
out that way, tells how Resident
Harry Bates has made, in his own
home, scales capable OF weighing
a human hair Thelma Bills,
the AAA popularette who con-
tinues to believe we edit the Fed
eral Diary, has switched to Rural
Identification She relates that
the late John G. Hardin, Texas
millionaire, who received thou
sands of requests for cash, found
much chuckle material in the
oldest of them all; a request for
a new wooden leg from an Okla
homa lass.
Robert D. Beeton will be elected
to commanderShip of the Treasury
Legion Post Tuesday, we predict,
and they couldn't get better lad
for the job >. The recent switch
of Wanda Powers from Loans and
Currency to Securities and Ex-
change brought her a compact
from mourning ex-colleagueS :.
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