Evening star., 1951-03-18
RFC Controller Quits,
Says Administrative
Mess Wrecks Morale
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NSOAitIiuCu rlou rnot EdSCD
under these circumstances could
be my. best single individual con-
tribution to RFC."
He said that in his final talk
with Chairman Harber he offered
to accept the responsibilities OF
RFC Controller without the title
But he stipulated, he said, that
those responsibilities should be
Immediately defined in writing"
He also requested, he said, that
he be given authority to conduct
the entire Office of Controller
without undue interference" His
third suggestion, he said, was that
he have a free hand" in selecting
an assistant, subject to RFC law
and civil service regulations.
The offer apparently was not
satisfactory because Mr.. Harber
accepted the resignation, he
added.
Although he grew up with
RFC, Mr.. Unzicker told The Star
last night that the personnel sit
uation is so bad now that aboli-
tion of the agency may be the
only remedy"
Need for Perfect Administrator.
THE only alternative see," he
commented, sis that an admin
istrator be appointed but only if
he possessed almost perfect quail
fications and complete public con-
fidence, and was willing to take
sweeping, drastic and dramatic
action to restore orderly, business
like operations and personnel
morale. Such a man might be
impossible to find now in view
of the Investigations"
Mr. Unzicker declared, however,
that RIGS morale and admins
trative troubles began before the
Senate subcommittee's current in
quiry.
The advent of the new board"
OF directors last summer started
many of the present difficulties,
he asserted.
They were like "schoolboys"
and acted so fast" in trying to
revamp fiscal and other admin
istrative procedures that on one
occasion last November they
gcrapped complete regional
agency plan almost overnight, he
charged.
Assistant Treasurer Many Years.
Mr.. Unzicker had been Assistant
Controller since 1947 and pre-
viously for many years was As
siStant Treasurer. AS a practical
matter, he performed essentially
the same budgetary functions I'M
both jobs. An RFC reorganization
In 1947 on recommendation of
the General Accounting Office
survey made by Mr.. Kenyon, then
with GAO, recommended setting
up the Controllers office.
During the war Mr.. Unzicker
was treasurer of the Defense Sup
plies Corp, vice president of the
War Damage Corp, and assistant
treasurer of the United States
Commercial Co., all RFC subsidi-
aries.
Before joining RFC in 1882, Mr..
Unzicker was chief auditor of the
Federal Loan Bank at Houston,
Tex. for IL years. He said he did
not know Jesse Jones. former RFc
chairman. until many years later,
and that Mr.. Jones did not get him
the job here.
Mr.. Kenyon's resignation as
RFC controller on March 2 did not
result from the current investiga-
ton of RFC, Mr.. Unzicker said.
Mr.. Kenyon had planned for SOME
time to return to GAO and, even
while RFC controller, had to spend
most of his time on other duties,
Mr.. Unzicker said.
Directors to Testify.
Tomorrow RFC Directors C.. Ed
ward Rowe and Walter E. Cosgriff
are to testify at what Chairman
Fulbright says will be the end of
his subcommittee investigation
into influence in and on that
Government lending agency.
But the three Republican mem
bers-Senators Capehart of In
diana, Bricker of Ohio and Ben
nett of Utah-pushed for a test
vote of the subcommittee in an
effort to keep the hearings going.
Senator Bennett said they par
ticularly want to bring back
former Representative Joseph E.
Casey of Massachusetts, as wit
ness to determine why he holds a
"liaison" job between the Eco