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week when Senate Civil SerV
on the measure.
The administration will dec
buttons are raised / per cent. i
Is per cent of the cost OF the
measure. The administration
will contend that the civil service
retirement fund cannot stand
any such additional financial
obligation.
Instead, the administration
will urge approval Of its co-ordi-
mated civil service retirement
social security proposal as the
Ionly feasible and economical
way to provide increased aTinu-
lily and family survivorship bene-
fits for Federal workers.
The administrators supple
mental social security coverage
proposal for Federal workers will
be sent to Congress tomorrow
The bill sponsored by Chair
man Johnston of the Senate Civil
Service Committee would in
crease the annuities of Federal
workers by 80 per cent and fam
lily survivorship benefits by 33
per cent. It would also permit
earlier retirement at lesser pen
alties and otherwise liberalize
the retirement system.
Although the bill, as intro
duced, contains no provision for
Ia greater employee contribution
for the increased benefits, Sem
Iator Johnston is ready to amend
lit to provide that employees pay
II per cent of their salaries for
retirement benefits instead Of the
present 6 per cent.
Chairman Murray of the
House Civil Service Committee.
the group that would have to act
ON such legislation in the House.
has maintained silence, so far on
the Johnston bill. However, it's
a good bet that Mr.. Murray
takes rather dim view Of 1t in
its present form. The Tennes-
see Democrat has always been
opposed to legislation which
would impose greater financial
obligations on the Civil Service
retirement system.
SENIOR INTERN PROGRAM
Ten Federal employees from the
Washington area have been Sc
Ilected by the Civil Service Com
mission to participate in its fifth
senior management intern pro-
gram which starts Friday and
continues to June IS. The pro-
gram is designed to train Fed
Ieral employees in grades 8 through
IL for higher executive jobs.
Thosesselected are Orville W.
zaStrows Rural Identification
Administration, Agriculture De-
partment; Lawrence L. Fisher,
Air Force; Norman Salkind.
Army; Emerson NJ. Tubbs, Cen
sus Bureau, Commerce; Theo-
dore r. Mccartney. Federal Com
munications Commission: John
u. Hanrahan. Naval Gun Factory;
Harold E. Sellers. Veterans Ad-
ministration; John S. Barker,
United States Information Agen-
cy: Kenneth K. Lawshe. General
Services Administration, and
Sanford Hordes. Labor Depart
ment.
INTERIOR-Acting Secretary
of Interior Clarence A. Davis has
announced the Department has
started program aimed at re-
ducing the accident rate among
its employees by Is per cent. Mr..
Davis announcement followed
the first meeting this week of
the departments Safety Council.
William Pope. the departments
safety engineer. was elected
chairman. Frank Ahern of the
National Park Servise was named
vice chairman. Mr.. Davis said
Administrative Assistant Secre-
tary D. Otis Beasley has taken
a leading part in getting the
safety program started and will
take active charge Of the pro-
grams progress.
GEOPHY SICISTS PAY
RAISED-The Civil Service Com
mission has authorized Federal
agencies to pay substantially
higher than normal starting sal
aries for three categories Of geo.
physicists hired in Grades S and
=. The categories are earth ply
sizes, geomagnetHS ana SelSmol-
ogy. The new rates will be $4,-
345 a year for Grade 5 entrants
and $4,930 a year for Grade 7
entrants.
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CAPITAL ROUNDUP-Army
Ordnance has presented sus-
tanned superior performance
awards to Robert w. Cuthill,
Edwin R. LusbY and Bruce E.