Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-05

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The issue came up at a rec
Commissions Inter-Agency Advi
disclosure Of the White House
letter. The inter-agency group
is composed of the Govern
ment's personnel officials who
advise the csc on various Fed
eral personnel matters.
One Federal personnel Of
ficer declared the letter could
be interpreted as an open in
vitation to politicians to get
their hands on the choicest civil
service jobs for political pa
tronage purposes"
Another personnel officer
charged that, If top civil service
career jobs remain constantly
vulnerable to political inroads,
lit will destroy the incentive of
the career service by discourage
ing employees from aspiring to-
top civil service jobs"
John w. Macy, the CSC's ex-
ecutive director. tried to placate
the personnel officials, declaring
that the White House letter was
not designed to raid civil service
jobs but merely to carry out the
Hoover Commission proposals.
The Hoover group urged more
political executive jobs and the
removal of jobs from civil serv-I
ice when the position is involved
with policy matters.
Many Of the personnel off,
cials. however. still expressed
apprehension. They said that
politically minded agency heads
could use the White House let
ter as an excuse to try and grab
of more civil service jobs. Also,
they declared. the Hoover pro-
posals, II fully carried out, would
severely limit the opportunities
of Federal civil servants to
aspire to the choicest jobs in
the Government service, which
heretofore have been under civil
service.
The White House letter has
also been sharply criticized by
Chairmen Johnston and Muir.
ray Of the Senate and House
Civil Service Committees and by
such groups as the American
Federation of Government Com
mittees and by such groups as
the American Federation Of
Federal Employees and tn e
Americans for Democratic Ac-
ton.
POSTAL ANNUAL LEAVE
In addition to the 10000 Job
.layoff facing postal workers If
"a SAT million deficiency appro-
Ipriations is not voted the Post
ONCE Department. postal off,
cials say that all annual leave
for postal workers will be can
celled until at least after July / !.
NEW MEMBERS-Ralph Var
borough. who will take his seat
next week as the new Senator
from Texas. is scheduled to fill
the existing vacancy on the Sem
ate Civil Service Committee. Sem
ator Marlborough is regarded as
a liberal and Federal employee
leaders are pleased that he is
scheduled to become a member
of the Senate civil service group.
SLOGAN-Dynamic and hard
driving Carter Burgess did an
excellent job as Assistant Secre-
tary Of Defense. Many improve
ments in civilian and military
personnel practices were put
into effect during Mr.. Burgess
regime.
However. Mr.. Burgess ex-
pected all Of his subordinates to
keep up the same tireless pace
he did at all times. This caused
some resentment and consider
able fatigue on the part OF some
of them and might explain why.
when Mr.. Burgess left to become
president OF Trans World Air
lines. some Of the boys coined
the slogan: Fly American"
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KICKOFF DRIVE-The Gov
eminent Division OF the Jewish
Appeal Drive will stage a kick
of rally at 8 pm. Wednesday in
the Adas Israel Synagogue, Con-
necticut avenue and Porter street
NV. Helen Gahagan Douglas,
actress and former member of
Congress from California. will
speak. Max Rabb. White House
secretary to the cabinet. is chair
man. There will be no solicita-
ton Of funds at the meeting.
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JOBS-The Civil Service Com
mission has announced job ex-
ans for equipment specialists.
S4.525 to $3.50 a year: head and
staff nurses. $3.50 to $4.970 an
nually; commodity industry
analysts minerals. $3.50 to
$3.50. and airways operations
specialists (for duty in Alaska a.
$4,000. Walter Reed Army
Medical Center has job openings
for general engineers. Grade IL:
refrigeration and air-condition-
ing mechanic. wage board Level
l6; electrician, WB-l5; mechani-
cal engineer. Grade IL. and an
assistant supervisor OF heating
plant. $3.50 an hour.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-Lewis
Sneed Sasser has been elected