Evening star., 1948-11-08

mission on reorganization of Gov
ernment. The feeling was that the
personnel committee was concerned
only with personnel practices, and
that the Hoover Commission, after
studying the reports Of all Its task
forces and advisory committees, was
the only agency to be i'm a posi-
tion to make the final recommenda
tion regarding the size Of the Fed
eral payroll.
ACCEPTANCE INDICATED OF
course, this personnel report still
has to be adopted by the full Hoover
Commission. But it is a good bet it
will be approved
Former President Hoover is known
to be in general sympathy with the
personnel committees recommended
tions.
Then, too, the personnel advisory
committee is composed of some OF
the outstanding men in Government
and business. One of them is Ar
thur S. Flemming, a member of the
Hoover Commission and president
OF Ohio Wesleyan University. Mr..
Flemming until recently was a Civil
Service Commissioner.
The advisory committee is headed
by John Stevenson, president of the
Penn Mutual Insurance Co. Also
among its members are Atomic En-
ergy Commissioner David Lilien-
thai; Robert L. Johnston, president
of Temple University; and Robert
Ramspeck. former chairman of the
House Civil Service Committee.
The original task force report
called for abolishing the three-mem-
ber Civil Service Commission setup
in favor of a single Federal person.
mel administrator in the commission.
But Mr.. RamSpeck persuaded the ad-
visory group not to accept this phase
of the preliminary report. He pointed
out that Congress never would &C
cept such a change and pointed out
the merit system was founded on a
Civil Service Commis-
sion setup. Not more than two men,
bers may be from the majority party
in power.
Instead, the group adopted a COM
promise accommodation that the
president of the three COM
be given final overall au-
thority in running the commissions
affairs and the absolute authority
In making administrative decisions.
.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP - Roy M.
North, the third assistant Post
master General, seems set now to
become Washington's new post
master. Mr.. North's nomination
was held up earlier this year by
the Republican Senate, but it seems
virtually certain the new Demo-
cratic Senate will approve the
nomination. Also, the more than
800 postmaster nominations held up
by the Eightieth Congress will be ap-
proved by the Eighty-f1rst Congress.
The Civil Service Commission
soon will announce exams for person
mel officer jobs, with starting salaries
of $3,727 to S4,479 a year. No writ
ten exam will be given. Applicants
will be rated on previous personnel
The commission
later this month also will announce
exams for apprenticeship repre-
sentative jobs in the Labor De-
partment. The positions will pay
OF s3,727 to s7,432 a year.
Also coming up in the near
future are exams for Government
printers-hand compositors and
junior hand compoSitors, with sal
aries of SLIT to $2.12 an hour. E.
Oliver c. Murray Of the Civil Serv-
Ice Commission personnel classifi-
cation division is resigning after 80
years of service.
(Be sure to listen in every Sum
day at u:15 am. oDer WMAL, The
Star station, for Joseph Young's
broadcast Uersion of the Federal
Spotlight, featuring additional
neUs and uteps OF the Gouern-
n1ent Scene.I