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The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-04-21

New Lexington - The $50 en-
ployes of Evans Reamer & Ma
chine Co., started back to work
at the 3rd shift, Tuesday night,
after three day strike. The
members accepted a 5 cent an
hour increase in wages plus
improvements in vacation, hos
pital and insurance plans.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-04-21

Brown County - County Supt.
Richard Slusher announced
today the Brown County Board
of Education has approved a new
salary increase for teachers in
the county system, that will run
from $100 to 200. Coaches with
over two years of experience
will receive an increase of 5000
Eaton - Mrs. Russell Smith
has been selected by the Recrea-
ton Board to organize the house
toulouse drive for the two tennis
courts that are to be built at the
elementary school building. The
estimated cost iof the court is
$4,000. 1t was stressed that this
drive is no way connected with
the proposed swimming pool
which will be built this year.
New Lexington-Nine couples
took out marriage license in
March, probate court records
showed this week and eleven
couples sought divorces during
the month.
Evening star., 1955-02-14

liShed under which the super
visor reports at least once a
year only on those
/. Employees with potential ca
pacity for further development
and higher responsibilities;
2. Employees deserving merito-
rious awards:
3. Employees miscast in their
present assignments and who
should be reassigned to other
work and/or retrained for other
work;
4. Employees undeserving of pc
riodic pay increase because Of
unsatisfactory service temployes
not so designated would receive
Evening star., 1955-02-14
U.S.. Held Obligated to Defend
Employees UnjustIy Accused

terms are commendable and use-
full. So also are the professional
codes which set ethical stand
ards.
"2. Political leaders who set
the tone in the discussion of pub
lie affairs have a peculiar obli-
cation in their references to pub
lie servants to make sure. when
adverse criticism of the public
service is called for. that the crit
icisrn is both specific and accu-
rate. Criticism is essential; but
sweeping accusations and unsup-
ported charges can damage the
public service in way that more
than Offsets the benefits of
criticism.
"3. Public servants who are un-
fairly attacked deserve to be de-
Tended, and the public interest
also requires it. Ranking political
executives should defend them
selves and also their employees
from untruths. Career civil serv-
ants are not in a position to
defend themselves and must de-
pend on their political chiefs to
do so. Defense is the corollary Of
| discipline. Both are essential"
Evening star., 1955-02-14

The Government has an obli-
cation to defend its faithful en-
ployes who are unjustly accused.
the Hoover Commission said in
its personnel report.
Prestige attached to Govern
ment service is the most impor-
tant intangible which can at
tract to the public service the
type of men who are so much
needed" it said. This is partic-
ularly important in view of the
Government inability to offer
the same financial rewards in
the top grades of the civil serv-
ice, as are offered by private
business. Our Task Force has
been much concerned with this
problem. They suggest the fol-
lowing principles:
81. Constant attention should
be given to maintaining high
standards of personal conduct
on the part of officers and en-
ployes of the Government. Legal
ity is not enough. The depart
mental rules and regulations
which have been issued defining
improper conduct in specific
Evening star., 1955-02-14
What It's All About

ORIGIN: The Commission Organization of the Ex-
ecutive of the Government oover Commson) was
approved Congress and signed into law by President
Eisenhower July TO- 1853 1t is the second Government re-
organization commission headed by the former President
PURPOSE: The Commission was authorized to study all
Of Government operations and to report to the Con-
its findings and recommendations for improvements
PROGRESS: Its report to Congress today the Fed
eral personnel system is the first of series reports will
make on all phases of Government operations.
PREPARATION: The Commission appointed task forces
composed Of leading experts educators political figures bus
and labor officials to conduct studies the various
subjects considered.
MEMBERS: The Hoover Commission is headed by for
President Hoover The Personnel Task Force
posed of Dr. Harold W. Dodds president of Princeton Uni
versity Frank w. Abrams retired chairman Of the Board
of Standard Oil Company New jersey Chester Barnard
New York engineer and president of the Rockefeller Fouda
on Lewis B. Cuyer banker; Robert Ramspeck, vice pre
of Air Lines former member of and
former chairman of the Civil Service Commission; William
Hallam Tuck, business executive; and Leonard D. White
Professor of Public administration University of Chicago
and former member Of the Civil Service Commission.
NEXT? Some of the Hoover Commissions proposals for
civil service changes would require legislation Congress-
other changes could be made through presidential executive
orders For example changes in Government layof rules
modification veterans preference aboshment pres
performance rating system and establishment
civil service would require legislation Drawing the line be-
tween and jobs could be done by the
President and the Civil Service Commission.
Evening star., 1955-02-14

operating the elaborate appeals
machinery.
AS it now operates, the per-
Torrance rating system is a
burdensome process of making
largely perfunctory judgments.
It falls far short of the objective
of creating a friendly and help
full human relationship between
supervisor and employe.
II a performance rating sys-
TEN is to be useful, it must be an
adjunct of good supervision and
a means for improving the subor-
dinate. 1t should not be an end
in itself.
We recommend that:
A. The present performance
rating system be abolished.
B. A new system be estab-
Evening star., 1955-02-14
Commission Urges
Performance Rating
system Be Abolished

TeIt of the Hooper COM
mission report on Government
senploye ratings follotos::
Formal performance rating
systems are essentially an at
teAlpt to restore In a big organi-
zation, where individuals some
times fear that they will be lost
in the mass. some of the recogni-
ton of the individual employe.
In a civil service of 2 million
persons, where it is a constant
battle to keep red tape under
control, the rating system takes
more out of the organization in
effort than it puts back in eff
cheney and morale. Because Of
its broad coverage. the rating
system is rarely treated In any
thing more than a perfunctory
manner. Actually, the supervisor
who treats this subject consci-
entiously would find that: d)
He would spend a disproportion-
ate amount of his time in this
activity, and t2) he might over
penalize his own subordinates.
The supervisor who hands out
an unsatisfactory rating after
conscientious evaluation of per-
formance puts his unsatisfactory
subordinate at a complete dis
advantage in respect to other
employees who may also be un-
satisfactory but who escape this
classification because their SUI
pervisors don't take the system
seriously.
This is roughly the situation
in the Federal Government to-
day. in administering the rating
system prescribed by the Per-
formance Rating Act of 1850.
Not an Accurate Appraisal.
/. The performance ratings
are not in fact today a means
of measuring the relative merits
Of employees. Approximately SO
per cent of all those rated are
Jumped together in the "satis-
factory" category. The remain-
ing 2 per cent fall into the
"outstanding" or 'unsatisfac-
tory" categories.
2. The standards set for an
"outstanding" rating are SO high
that a supervisor practically has
to establish that a man is both
a genius and a paragon of virtue.
8. The procedural safeguards
surrounding an unsatisfactory"
rating, to protect the employe
against errors, are elaborate. A
90-day warning is required, and
there are several levels of review
and appeal from a judgment of
unsatisfactory. In consequence,
it is simpler and more effective
to remove an unsatisfactory en-
ploye for cause rather than to
use the rating system. It also
avoids the expense involved in
Evening star., 1955-02-14

Representative Clarence Brown.
Republican, of Ohio opposed the
creation Of a Senior Civil Serv-
ice and the plan to give civil
service status to United States
Marshals and others. James A.
Farley, former Postmaster Gem
eral and Democratic National
Chairman and now an executive
of the Coca Cola Co., also OBJ
jected to the plan for eliminating
political clearance of rural mail
carriers and for civil service sta
tus for United States marshals
and other groups.
Representative Chet Holifield.
Democrat, of California opposed
the plan to provide a greater
number Of non-career executives
| in Government. He also declared
that a Senior Civil Service was
not necessary. And Mr., Holifield
opposed the conflict of inter-
ests" recommendation. saying
that "if anything" it needed
strengthening.
In addition to the security and
political Job clearance issues. the
Hoover group also ignored It's
personnel task force recommen-
dation that the Chairman of the
Civil Service Commission no
longer continue as top personnel
adviser to the President. The
task force said the commissions
chairman had too much work
and responsibility in providing
leadership and guidance in civil
service matters to justify con-
tinuing in a dual role at the
White House.
Security Program Hit.
On the security problem, the
task force said that the present
program has damaged employe
morale. "There is fear that
honest and loyal employees can
be destroyed by unsupported
charges; there is fear that se<
curity authorities can be stam-
peded; and there is fear that
security charges are at times a
means of making political re-
movals." the task force said.
1t declared it was making no
judgment on the validity of these
fears. But the task force said,
in recommending an investiga-
ton of the security program by
a group Of distinguished citizens:
Such a thorough study of the
security system and it's admins
tration is needed to clear the
air, to get the security problem
separated from political con-
troversy, to relieve the tensions
of public servants, and to allay
the anxieties of the public"
Regarding political job clear
ances, the task force made no
direct mention of the White
House order, but it's wording left
no doubt what it meant. 1t said
such a system sis a quick and
sure way to subvert the merit
system. When men who are
otherwise qualified for promotion
within the classified service are
cleared with Senators, Congress-
men, or party committees. the
career service begins to lose its
character"
Evening star., 1955-02-14

their increases in due course);
] 5. Employees requiring dis
| missal.
C. In each case the supervisor
should submit in writing to his
superiors the reasons for his
judgment and specific sugges-
tions as to action desired.
DE- The right to appeal adverse
decisions under the new system
should be limited to one appeal
to higher authority in the agency.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-09-14
Circle Considers
Refrigerator For
Church Kitchen

The purchase of a refrigerator
for the kitchen of the Lor.s Bap-
'ist Church was the main dis
cussion at the monthly meeting
of the Lila Watson Circle last
Tuesday afternoon.
This suggestion will he brought
up before the other three circles
at the next general meeting of
The Womens Missionary Union
rS to whether trey will assist in
the project. This circle now has
$500 which they are willing
to donate toward the pur base.
Mrs. r. c. Potts was elected
rs chairman Of the circle for the
next term during a brief business
period. Mrs. Harvey Graham is
the new co-chairman. Mrs. Rlanch
Holt, treasurer and Mrs. Brooks
/ Cox. secretary.
Mrs. Blanche Holt conducted
the program for the afternoon
with Mrs. Debbie Strickland. Mrs.
L. B. Dawes and Mrs. VI. p
Campbell assisting.
Mrs. Aston Prince. hostess for
THE ladies which met at her
home. served delightful refresh.
ments at the conclusion of the
meeting. Nine persons attended,
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-09-14
Loris Man Expects To Win In
Yam Festival Walking Contest

Another Loris man is going
,intC race to win.
Hoyt Byrd, n Loris painter,
says he will enter the walking
contest which will be a part OF
the Tabor City Yam Festival,
October li-l5. and he intends to
beat Handbook Simpson.
Byrd will be a real walker if
he does that. for Simpson wins
every walking contest he enters.
jusr like Harriet Ann Gerald
wins every beauty contest. The
difference is that he has been
winning for a longer time.
Simpson is a street mail car
rieI III Burlington N. c. and he
always celebrates his birthday
by walking as many miles as
there are years in his age.
On his last birthday, he walk
ed his 81 miles in eight hours
anC So minutes, and he won toe
Yam Festival walk last year
Ire course was 1874 miles, ana
Simpsons time was two hours
ard IS minutes.
Mac Gore. of Tabor City came
i'll second. lust nine minutes &c
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-09-14
Loris Garden Club
Has Guest Speaker

Sara Potts was feature speaker
last Monday afternoon at the
Loris Senior Garden Club meet
ing which held its first session
since its adjournment last spring.
Miss Potts, n member of the
Junior Garden Club. based her
talk on camp trip to Cberaw
State Park last spring. The camp
is held each year with Garden
Clubs from all over the state
sending representatives. Sara was
selected to represent the Loris
Garden Clubs. Her speech in
cluded the showing of pictures
10 represent what she saw and
did.
The club met at the home Of
Mrs. J. p. Potter at $3.50 pm
with % persons showing attend
ancc including three visitors.
Mrs. Van c. Annette, mother Of
Mrs. Potter. Mrs. Permenta Ais
brook and Mrs. Tom Roberts.
Mrs. j. r. Suggs presented n
very interesting program during
the afternoon of which she has I'd
her subject on Conservation. 4"
She gave the names Of flowers
and shrubs listed on their con-
scrvation list.
Mrs. Potter entertained during
a delightful social hour with re-
frcSAments.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-09-14
Mrs. BrO1Un FO1VIer
.EHterfains Circle

"Thailand" was the subject
for the program of the Grace
Wells Circle of the LoriS Baptis,
Women Missionary Union wnicn
met at the home of Mrs. Brown
Fowler Tuesday afternoon a,
200 p. m.
Mrs. j. d. Duncan Jr. render
ed a discussion on "a Dream
Come True" after which Mrs.
Fowler talked on "A Look At
Tnliland."
The business period was con-
Quoted by Mrs. Thurmond Boyd.
Nc important business was dis
cussed during this session. Mrs
w a. Webster and Mrs. 3. r.
Ragan led in prayers during the
meeting.
4 delightful social hour was
held at the conclusion of the
meeting.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-09-14
Minute Sermon
Prepared by Department Of
Bible
Presbyterian Junior College
MaXton, North Carolina

Forever growing" is a good
slogan for life. 1t is wise for
young people as they begin a
rev session in high school or in
college, to think of themselves
rs keeping on developing their
lives and seeking more ma'ur-
ity. ability, and understanding.
No matter what our age we can
still be young in spirit by set
ting our faces toward the future
IN an effort to grow still furth-
or. There is no limit to our in
tciiectual and spiritual growth,
as long as lie shall last.
A Christian is called to grow,
he never becomes a post-gradu-
ale Christian. There is ALWAYS
more for him to learn and more
Tor him to put into practic Elm
this matter Of growing in grace.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-09-14
Legion Head
Speaks Here
AT Ladies Night

The American Legion is built
around 4 great ideal. and tina;
ideal is the preservation Of the
free institutions Of America.
That is what the Legionaircs
Of Loris Post Al heard their
state commander, John A. May
Of Columbia, say in the feature
address as they celebrated lad
:ss night with Il barbecue sup
FER Monday night, at the Legion
Hut on West Patterson Street.
And, a Back to God" move
ment is necessary TO the accom-
plishment of that high ideal,
according to the chaplain. Rev.
Robert G.. Balnicky, who is
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of Ocean Drive Beach.
The chaplain urgSi regular
church attendance, daily family
prayers and dcvotionals and re-
ligious training of children.
The meeting was emcced by
Or. f. w. Stephens, post COM
mander.
Mrs. r. c. Potts, president of
the ladies auxiliary, Post Al,
expressed the thanks of the lad
les for the hospitality. She an
.nounced that campaign to en-
roll all eligible members will
be started.
Senator-clcct James p. Stew
ems was called upon for a
speech. He stated that he want
&c TO express his thanks for the
nrC vote he received and let
every body know that there will
be a regular election for Scnat-
or next year, and that he is
new ''politicinG" for re-elect-
ion.
State commander May was
Introduced by Q. d. Freeman,
and May presented Freeman
with a 30-ycar membership
card.
May said that the Legion is
n band OF men associated to-
lgetEcr Ito uphold and defeI.d
tic constitution of the JEited
Safes; to maintain law and ord
CT: to foster and perpetuate !
!OC per cent AmCricaniSm and
t. inculCatc a sense of indiyIdu-
ii responsibility 10 the commLn-
!ty, state and nation"
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-09-14

hind the worlds champion
yrd says Gore will be in the
r-cc this year, along with Sim,.-
son. and he intends to leave
both of them behind and CONS
in first.
He says that he was scheduled
10 walk in the Tabor City Yam
Festival race last fall, but had
TO cancel the engagement be-
cguSe he accidentally cut one OF
his feet with lawn mower Just
before time for the Festival.
Byrd. native of Tabor City
now living in LoriS. is 46 years
old, weighs l64 pounds and is
727s inches tall with his shoes
off
His plans are 10 wear comfort
able. Soft-soled canvass top
shoes, bathing trunks. a towel
en- his shoulder with which to
wipe perSpiration from his face,
end a light straw hat if the sun
is hot.
An attendant in a car WI
keep him supplied with cool
water. soft drings. chocolate
drops and such other refresh
mcntS as he may want. but he
will not stop for any of thSn.
lie will keep walking as he eats
or drinks.
Byrd says that he will not go
on any special diet, nor will he
do any practicing before the
event because he keeps himself
in trim. He says that he has
never had a car because lie can
valk about anywhere he wants
10 go.
Asked if he could keep walk
- : for so miles, like Simpson.
e replied that he does not care
+ the Yam Festival walkathon
course this year stretches as far
rom Tabor City as Myrtle
Beech.
Last year, during the North
Carolina prediction campaign
lng. w. Kerr Scott. former gov
NOR and candidate for the
u0!tcd States Senate, told in a
sictch al KinSton about q time
when he walked 20 miles, from
h-nston TO HargCtt'SS Cross
Roads to save a $50 taxi fare
md made tho trip in five
"oLrS. II any man could do it in
ny less time, he boastcd. he
would give him a bull calf frorI
his dairy farm al Haw River.
y time was set and about 81
mCr beat Senator SCOTS record
Tie branch head boy" as Scott
rallS himself. gave each orc OF
item a bull calf and n walking
Simpson, the champion walk.
or whom Byrd intends to beat
came in first in that race, anc
ven SCOTS number one cCrtIfi.
cate. (Scott was happy too, for
he won the senatorial race witt
the biggest vote North Carolin:
citizens ever gave any CandI,
datC.)
But. if Simpson enters tn,
Yam Festival this year. he vii
have a LoriS man TO cOutCn,
NTH, and Byrd intends 10 win
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-09-14
Farm Family Loses Home

The home of Kirby Suggs,
prosperous farmer Of the Beth
any section, was totally destroy
cd by fire last Friday morning.
Cause of the fire was not
known.
The only personal property
saved from the house was a few
clothes that were in the wash
house, and the electric water
pump.
Witnesses said that when the
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-09-14

fire was discovered the house
was full of flame. Suggs grab
bed an axe and chopped the
pipes loose from the pump and
saved it. The washing machine
was in an out building, and it
was saved.
a survey of the ruins indi-
cS,cS that the house had sever
al appliances, many Of which
could not be easily identified.
4 home freezer still had
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-09-14

spoiled food in it yesterday. The
freezer was said to have been
newly stocked.
Neither Suggs or his wife
could be reached for comment.
Their children reported that
nobody was hurt.
The Suggs were using the old
bethany schoolhouse for storing
Il bacco, and have been encamp-
cd there since the tragedy.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-09-14

Those who have made most PROV
sress toward great Christian
character, in the opinion OF their
fellows. are often those who are
most humble in their own est-
nation of their own spiritual
atiainmcnts. There remaineth
yet very much land to be pos
.Sessed."
The PSalmist said of a good
man:
land HE SHALL BE LIKE
A TREE PLANTED BY TIM
STREAMS OF WATER, THAT
BRINGETH FORTH ITS FRUIT
IN ITS SEASON" psalm l:3)
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-09-14

Guest soprano Roberta Pet
ers sings "I'll Follow My Secret
Heart" "A Mighty Fortress Is
Our God" Its A Grand Night
for Singing" and Loves Own
Sweet Song" on VOICE OF
FlRESTONE Monday at 7:30 pm
on Channel s. 4
Blazing action from the Old
West comes to channel 8 again
Monday at 6 pm when mo
Mans Law" will be the episode
in THE ADVENTURES OF KIT
CARSON.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-09-14

Want TO bet the Florida sun
wont shine?
That's a wager offered by c.
" Griffin. owner of the New
Sarasota Terrace Hotel in Sar-
lscta. Fla. yesterday.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-08-26

Narrowing Prune
which about the ccasing
in a -
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-08-26
Riohf To Work

notable that the which
these adopted
protect discrimination employment
noteworthy which passed
practices that limits the
right of employers and employees bargain collectively
Practically passed right
The only northern states adopt this vicious states
VIGOROUSLY aeonsy Among these North and South Dakota
Nebraska.
Nevada the that legaize professional
gambling right work" law does Utah and Arizona
Arkansas louisiana Mississippi Tennessee Alabama Geo
Virginia Carolina Flordaevery
a work" and
federal interference
with segregation OF the
Nevertheless proponents right work" statute in
every
protect the worker his right employment without
compelled dues union organization They
workers night to job
without having onform regulation through coec
tive bargaining.
the beloved Justify for the enact
to claim that
provisions who wanted
the passage
Job anywhere
certainly that recognized
right regardless creed color place
of origin
there thousands Of seemingly intelligent people
ministry fight Labor in devious and
pretex that they
fighting thing OF evil!-MinnesOta Union Advocate
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-08-26
Editors Slant On The Aim To Please

Part Of the price to be editor the pac
ing principle above friend must be in the midst of
almost week 1t deals with almost
problem public problem controversial So
to side take chance Of losing friends
look back the point to many
that been the newsthe widening
Presidential 1852 the
school bond the
district election. to mention a few
We find that nearly everybody town has been the opposite
other Yet correspond
hear indicate that not without friends
Why7
Swsher County big
though disagree This should
being able smoke out
their hands We would rather
half dozen that knew honest than 500 that
didn't know where to place
totally
to from other They have opinion They
challenge of right They please
they please anybodyTuiia Texas) Herald