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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-28

bility Of the merit system hav
steps to be excepted from civil
service and Congress to agree
with these requests.
In a report to a House Civil
Service subcommittee which
had asked for an appraisal Of
civil service procedures, the
csc noted:
1.-THE inflexibility and COM
plexity which have grown
around the competitive service
have prevented it from serving
a number Of legitimate person.
mel needs of the Government.
Other employment system S
have had TO be created to serve
other needs.
1.-THE existence of employ
rnent systems in the Federal
civilian service other than the
civil service system implies
some criticism of that system,
and the regulations, policies
and practices established under
it. What is wrong with it that
has required the establishment
of these other systems? Why
do agencies with the same en-
ployment goals as the civil
Service-of attracting compe-
tent applicants, ranking them
in order of merit and selecting
the best---seek to establish
separate systems, and why does
the Congress occasionally find
1t in the public interest to per-
nit them to do so, as 1t has
done in the case of Atomic
Energy Commission, the Ten
nessee Valley Authority and
the department of medicine
and surgery in the Veterans
Administration?
1.-THE answer is simple. Agen-
sizes believe that the compete
tive service has been hemmed
in by too many restrictions and
that the excepted service offers
them greater opportunity to do
a good job in relation to their
own needs.
This is not to propose that
anything be done to put other
systems into the civil service.
The concern is only with the
future-that the system will
prove adaptable enough to
serve new agencies and pro-
grams without the need for
further exceptions. When leg
islation is proposed for any
new personnel system or addi-
tional exceptions. it is Sug-
.geSted that consideration be
given first to authorizing the
steps necessary for the CON-
petitive service to meet the
new needs"
X X X
WHAT is WRONG?-Among
the things that the CSC cited
as being in need of improve
lnent are the Governments re-
eruitment and examining pro-
grams. Greater coordination
of college recruitment and
greater adaptibility in antic-
ipating individual agency ex-
aiming and recruitment needs
were cited as problems that the
csc is working on.
Inability to make timely
changes in the pay scales Of the
Classification Act to meet COM
petitive changes in industry was
cited by the CSC as a great
handicap. Where Federal pay
scales lag behind those of COM
peting employers, the Govern
Inent fails to hire its fair share
of qualified people, stands 10
lose some of it's most able en-
ployeS and runs the risk of Sc
rious damage to governmental
functions" the csc noted. The
present system whereby Con-
gress alone sets the pay scales
often prevents quick salary adj
tuStments as the need arises,
the commission said. 1t in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-28
Error Admitted by U. S.
In Steel Output Report
~ the Associated Press

The Labor Department admitted today 1t had made an
arithmecal error In steel productivity said
rection Is being made in the permanent record
The original report had drawn sharp criticism from the
United Seeworkers Union whose researchers discovered the
mistake The steel industry had been expected 70 make
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-28
Presbyterions' Vote
Reps Church Council
By CASPAR NAMES
Star Stan Writer

ATLANTA, Ga, Ari 28.-The General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church United States yesterday voted to
the National Council of Churches but turned down
that might have led the denomination to withdraw from the
Protestant agency.
The first action stemmed from statements the Fifth World
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-28
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Merit System Flaws
Spelled Out byCSC
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
star star Writer

The Civil Service Commission in unusually candid report
Congress many things seriously with the Govern
ments merit system.
The csc acknowledges that the restrictions and comple
by Of the merit system caused agencies
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04

and echnicans have been able to reconstruct almost
all that happened They have been able to follow the
hopeful pitifu trail left by the nine crewmen they
rudged an incredible 38 miles from the zone into
which they parachuted.
The adventures of these nine flyers began in the
spring of 1913. They left from Morrison Field, West
Palm Beach, Fla, for overseas duty. Their BOA
was only 100 hours out of the factory when they
painted the name Lady Be Good" across her
Dubious nose.
LADY Be Good" was assigned to the 376th Bomb
Group, which few out of Soluch, miserable sand
and shale strip, outermost of complex of war
pocked bases from which Allied heavies struck at
Axis air6elds in Italy. Losses were not light.
On April 4 the ''Lady's" crewmen were alerted for
their first combat MISSION strike the air6elds at
Naples, $50 miles to the northwest.
They set out on their irss mission
They were briefed for target, weather. navigation,
enemy defenses, and warned not to break radio
silence except in emergency First Lieutenant
William j. Hatton, the pilot, led them out to the
plane The hot wind - the gIibi - was blowing of
the DESERT 1t would speed their up to Italy, but
its sand wouldn't do their engines any good.
twenty-five Eberators of the 376th Group got of
Soluch between 80 and so O'Clock that after
noon. Lady Be Good " since it her first combat
mission, was one of the last The planes hoped to
be over target at dusk, back in Africa by midnight.
The mission was hardly success. Only ii planes
got through to the primary target The others either
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04

Trogie error: "LGdy Be Cood''
radiOed it soas OUeF Mediterranean
and wanted a bearing. Benina
tosOer took flyers ,cord they ~erc
oUer sea, gaze bearing Of 800.
actually, toner sOas reading off
the back Of The loop" on radio
direction finder. The bomber had
0UeJaOWn base and tOas headed on
l5Oo course to her doom in desert
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04

bombed a secondary target, or
jettisoned their 50O-pound
bombs in the sea.
A number were Jared by FAX,
and almost all experienced seri-
Gus trouble because of the sand
sucked into the engines at Sol
UGH. Three made emergency
landings in Malta. BY midnight
all but one were accounted for,
safely down somewhere.
Twelve minutes past mid
night, Lady Be Good broke
radio silence. She called Benina,
the master field at Benghazi, to
report she was still over the
Mediterranean. She asked for a
fix. Benina used its radio direc-
ton finder interpreted to Lady
Be Good that her bearing was
$50 degrees, north-northwest,
true magnetic, apparently on
course.
But we know now that when
Lady Be Good reported her
self over the sea, northwest of
Benghazi, she had already
crossed the coast and was south
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04
The nine who flew the ghost plane

The nine young Americans who vanished into the Sahara
the night of April l943 shown in this photograph
leased by brother of Of the 1t taken
the tail turet of the mystery plane the North African base
Left to right, they
LIST Lieut.. William j. HattOn Pilot milestone, L. l.
End Lieut. Robert Toner, Copilot North AnborO, Mass
End Lieut.. D. r. Hays, Navigator. Lees Summit, NO.
End Lieut.. John S. Woraoka, Bombarder. Cleveland Ohio
Tech Sgt Harold s. RipsngeT, Engineer. Saginaw, M'ch
Tech Sgt Robert LoMotte, Radoman Lake Linden, Mich
Staff Sgt Guy Shelley, Asst Engineer, Nec Cumberland Pd
Staff Sgt Vernon L. Moore Asst Radoman, NeW Boston" Mass
Staff Sgt Samuel r. Adams. Tail Gunner Eureka. Ill.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04

With radio silence the crew
of Lady Be Good had no way
ofknowing the wind had shifted.
They had not been long in
North Africa, and this was their
first mission. With a tail wind
going north, and again a tail
wind to speed them back, their
reckoning was thrown off. They
overflow Soluch.
A coll for help
They missed the homing ra-
do beacon at SOluch, because it
was set on very low power SO
that it could not be used by the
enemy. That is why they called
the Benina tower for a fix.
But why had the Benina
tower assured LADY Be Good
that it was directly over the sea?
An explanation was given me
by Major Bill Rubertus, veteran
of World War II and 20 years of
desert and Arctic flying. Ruber.
tus talked as we flew the precise
route taken by LADY Be Good"
on that Hateful day. He was
[ CA on a re-supply mission
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04

plotting an ancient CAT on a re-supply mission
to the ground search party.
THE old-style radio direction finders" he said,
had built-in invitation to error. We called it
reading off the back of the loop When the people
at Benina tower rotated their loop antenna to bear
on Lady Be Good the B-24's signal would sound
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04

east of her base, headed straight for her doom,
40 miles deep in the dark desert
At takeoff the soaring ghibi had been blowing of
the desert, but at nightfall the wind swung $50
degrees and began to blow from the sea, gustly at
first, and then steadily. Soon heavy overcast
BACKED out the whole North African coast
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-09-10
OUR BUDGET TALKS BACK
BY HAROLD ROLSETH

tations, consisting largely of authorizations
understood only by my wife:
But it is not so much the form of our
budget which gives it the personality il
has. Rather, it is the interpretations which
my wife has breathed into it. 1t is highly
temperamental and will tolerate nothing
in the way of bossing around. At times
a twenty-6ve-cent purchase of cigars will
cause it to boil into a state of chaotic
disruption; at other times it will with
stand the shock of an unexpected outlay
of one hundred dollars for a woman's
dress without so much as a CULVER.
1t is exceedingly sensitive to family talk
on anything pertaining to money. One
evening while reading the newspaper l
called my wife's attention to a sale of
fishing tackle which sporting goods store
was advertising. The budget Immediately
went into violent convulsion and only
frantic work on the part of my wife saved
us from serious trouble.
Later that same evening while looking
at the fashion section, my wife put her
paper down and said, Its brooding."
What's brooding?" asked.
The budget" she answered. Il think
I'll have to buy new hat tomorrow. That
always perks it up"
Knowing the budget as l do, didn't
dare protest. Sometimes it gets upset even
when the spending of money isn't in
volved. Not long ago, without bothering
to inform my wife, cashed twenty-five
dollar government bond which had ma
tured. When l placed the money in her
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-09-10

hands, could see by her expression that
] had created problem.
Nov how am ever going to get this
in the budget" she demanded.
why, just put it in MONEY COMING
IN" l said. That's where it would natu-
rally CO."
'Oh, no." my wife said. The money
that bought the bond already went
through MONEY COMING IN when
you earned it. 1t can't go through again"
But it certainly can't go into MONEY
GOING OUT" said.
NO." my wife agreed, 1T went through
there when you paid for the bond"
II was tight situation. suggested that
we secretly hide the money and not let
the budget know about it, but my wife
turned this down as both cowardly and
unethical.
She worked at the problem for some
time and finally came up with Solu-
ton. She set up temporary column in
the budget labeled MONEY UNEx-
planned and placed S1S.75 of the
bond money in there. The other $6.25,
which was interest, legitimately went into
MONEY COMING IN.
i expected the budget to act up about
it, but it took it very agreeably. Person
ally, was not so sure that it was good
idea to have third column in the budget
until my wife pointed out that since
money placed in this column could not
be explained, the manner in which il was
spent would not have TO be explained
either. Now love to have money land
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-09-10

in this column. 1t gives me a feeling of
reckless abandon when spend it.
A little off to one side of MONEY
GOING OUT, but not really a column
in itself is a cryptic Pkt. M. This means
pocket money. 1t is my wife's practice to
give me forty or fifty dollars each month
to carry in my billfold. This is not money
] am free TO squander as wish. In fact,
am held strictly accountable for it. Pkt.
M. is actually little budget offspring of
the big budget. The big budget regards it
indulgently. My position is mainly that of
a mobile purse.
TTERE is how it works: On payday my
Ill wife turns fifty dollars over to me.
Your pocket money" she explains I'M
necessarily. Maybe few minutes or few
days later she will say, Dear, l need
five dollars" Then respond with five
dollars from the fifty she gave me.
Sometimes the plan annoys me. but
my wife thinks lot of it. | believe it gives
her the comforting feeling that in me she
has reserve financial pool. In way !
benefit too. 1t has established for me
among our friends fiattering reputation
for generosity AS kindly gesture toward
me my wife encourages this view.
Dear" she will say when we are in
a group. I'm going shopping with Jane
tomorrow and I'll need about twenty
dollars"
will nod my approval and, reaching
for my billfold, will say, Better let ne
make it thirty just to be safe" This act
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-09-10

r KNOW men who cheerfully go home
after a hard days work to NOW the
lawn or paint the house, but have never
known one to go cheerfully home to work
on a budget. AS matter of fact, several
of my acquaintance fatty refuse to 60
home at all on the nights set aside for
family budget work. They would love
to throw their budgets out. but lack the
courage to do so.
Our family budget isn't like that at all.
Ours has all the hues of technicolor pic
ture and all the exciting qualities of a
stick of dynamite with the fuse sputter-
ing. If we even so much as limited at
throwing it out, am quite sure it would
throw ms out.
Our family budget has personality, not
always a warm and lovable one, to be
sure. hut distinct personality.
1t can best be compared to pet which
has been with the family for long time.
Let us say huge tiger, docile and affec-
tomato for the most part, but demanding
constant watchfulness lest il turn suddenly
and wreak savage destruction upon us.
My wife is the tigers trainer, the keeper
of the budget, and over period of years
she has developed system that is unique.
On the surface ii is deceptively simple. II
consists of two columns, one labeled
MONEY GOING OUT and the other
MONEY COMING IN. This latter col
umn is a slender thing conspicuous for
numerous huge white gaps. MONEY
GOING OUT, on the other hand, is broad
and denseIy covered with figures and no
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-09-10

SHburbiG Today, September 1859
Kodiak mirror., 1959-03-21
Billion Dollars Spent Annually '. On Pleasure Boats In United States

boat purchasers appeared to be getting. lower, with the strongest desire present in the 25-to-34 year-old level .a
 The flood Of new boat. owners has brought with it many of the aspects of mass consumer buying familiar to other fields.
 One example is installment buy ing. 15 per cent of those contacted m the survey have financed their purchases of boats and boating equipment on the installment plan
Kodiak mirror., 1959-03-21

The first comprehensive survey ever taken of Americas fast growing pleasure boat market conducted by Sindlinger & Go. for the. Zff- Davis magazine Popular Boating" has revealed that more boats are being bought by more Americans than ever before; owners are spending a billion dol lars annually; more than 83 per cent of all leisure-time boats in America are power driven
 This survey, the result of a year long series of interviews with more than 34,OOO persons, in cluded the three major boating magazines. Popular Boating. 1 Motor Boating," and Yachting in its analysis of the boating market. f~~ r'
 Ine DHllon dollars spent are for related services and items other than boats, making today's the biggest boating market ever. The report showed the following amounts spent yearly on items other than boat purchases: (a) $I56.9 million for gasoline and oil; (b) s5sS.6 million for main tenance and repair; tc) $363.3 million for entertainment; ta) $138.a million for storage.
 The Sindlinger report indicated that the average age. of potential
Kodiak mirror., 1959-03-21
NOTICE

The CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SO- CIETY holds services each Sun day at II am, Sunday School at 9:30 am, and Testimonial meetings the third Wednesday Of each naonth at 8 pm. Reading Room spdnS Friday Ito pm, and Satcr-
Kodiak mirror., 1959-03-21


 The film ''Tarantu1a." Also cartoons.
 Sunday and Monday
 An outstanding outdoors drama with top names in leading roles, magnificent photography in Cine nnaScope and color and a power fu1ly-motivated plot-these add up to good screen fare in The BravadoS.''' . Gregory Peck has the lead role in this screen version of Frank OsRourke's novel. The story. stres- ses character deiineation, but there Is plenty. of action as well as real violence as the vengeful hero hunts down and kills three out of four criminals.
 Joan Collins supplies the TO- nance in the story. Others who play supporting roles are Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva, Barry COe and Kathleen Gallant.
 Tuesday and Wednesday
 Too Much, Too Soon" is the daring story of Diana Barrymore, and stars Dorothy Malone as Miss Barrymore, and Errol Flynn as her father, the late John Barry more.
 Efrem Zimbalist, IT., co-Stars as Diana's first husband in the film which is based on Diana BMrymore's best selling autobi- ography
 The cast is filled with we'll known players, some of them enacting actual persons. Flynn portrays Barrymore in his later years. when his film career was coming to close. "T00 Much, Too Soon" is Warmer Bros. Pic ture.
 Thursday and Friday
 A screen adoption of the suc- cessful Broadway play, Time Limit" deals with the betrayal of American soldiers in a Red prison camp in North Korea. Richard Basehart is co-starred with Wid- mark, and the top-featured cast includes such players as Dolores Michaels, June Lockhart, Carl Ben ton Reid, Martin BalSam and Rip Torn.
 Several of the sequences were made at Fort Jay, Headquarters of the First Army, on Governors Island, in the bay off the lower tip of Manhattan.
 Widmark's role is that of an officer Investigating charges of collaboration with the Reds by U. s. Army personnel. BaSehart appears as the accused officer; June Lockhart as his wife.
Kodiak mirror., 1959-03-21
NOTICE

Easter services will be held al the Masonic Temple at 2 pm. Sunday, March 29. The public is invited to attend. 142n
Kodiak mirror., 1959-03-21

day 2 to 4 pm. NEW LOCATION: Corner of Mission Road and Alaska Way, across from the Post Office.
 -=,.-.. tin
Kodiak mirror., 1959-03-21

Before the turn of the % century. buried treasure was discovered.at the <. little town of Turnwaterp in Washington State. The treasure was wateri 4 most u5lusu0E ,.nter. A water so fresh and pure,
 that it was naturally perfect for brewing just
 as 1t flowed from the
 earth. It was here that
 the Olympia Brewing Company was founded. And today, over sixty
 years later, the water
 continues to flow in unlimited quantity from deep artesian wells with the precise character for perfect brewing. Rarely, in all the world, has such a water been discovered. It Is this extraordinary brewing water that blends in and brings out the more delicate fiavors of choice hops and grains ..- creating a refreshingly
 different beer of
 unchanging excellence
 and rare good taste.
Kodiak mirror., 1959-03-21
.1FE s>=. NJ: ..H4~s <st.rzET .*.<%=
 Mr. Merchont:
' X ;'.i :.:'''. <: .is::,ls&F:3.s.,'

{. Do you grab potential customer by the arm and pull him into your store?
 There's easier way. | Ask yourself one question: How valuable is advertising to me?
 Here's what the president of a Montana De- partment store has to say: "lf were suddenly restricted to one and only one advertising me diun1, would board up the display windows, \ discontinue all interior and departmental selling displays, eliminate all informative show cards, discontinue all sales meetings and sales ncen- tives stop all telephone seIing-and continue an aggressive ness-building advertising investment in the newspapers
 This merchant also terms newspapers ''the total selling medium.' What advertiser could ask for more?
 Phone 3123
 THE KODIAK MIRROR
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0,yzk9 !
 SClEEN
Today

Today
 The film 'sTarantula." Also
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-04-25
Court Action
Awaited In Haiti
Election Dispute

-PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Apr.
14.-The Haitian Chamber of Dep
uties has decided against having
any contact with Deputy Franck
Seraphin, an Opposition member,
until the Supreme Court rules on
a charge of infamy against him.
Elected in September, 1857, on
a ticket headed by Louis Dejoie,
who lost a race for President, M.
Seraphin was jailed last May. He
prisonment by a military court last
was sentenced to three years i'm
prisonment by military court last
January for having plotted
against internal security, but was
released a few days later in a
Presidential amnesty for all po-
litical prisoners.
M. Seraphin did not attend when
Congress reconvened yesteday
CONTINUED on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-04-25
TOM MB0YA, kENYA, CHAIRMAN
ALL-AFRICAN PEOPLES PARTY
OUTLINES ASPIRATIONS OF
AFRICANS IN new YORK SPEECH
Say Africans Want Democracy
Gov. G. Mennen Williams OF Michigan Is
Also African Freedom Day Speaker

New York, April Is. - Tom
Mboya of Kenya, chairman of the
All-African Peoples Conference,
called last night for an "interna-
tionalism of democracy" dedicated
to freedom, independence and the
elimination of disease, poverty and
ignorance all over the world.
He keyed his plea to freedom
for Africa but said the course he
charted would match the inter
nationalism of communism" and
deliver death blow to the root
causes of mots of the 'isms' that
currently bedevil the world"
Deriding concern about the "risk
of communism" that some see in
African freedom, the Kenya polit-
ical and labor leader declared that
if those who talked this way spent
all their efforts in practicing the
democracy that they preach they
would have nothing to fear from
communism"
Here for a five-week stay, Mr..
Mboya shared speaking honors at
an Africa Freedom Day rally at
Carnegie Hall with Governor G.
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-04-25
AFRICAN FREEDOM DAY OBSERVANCE IN SPOTLIGHT
Freedom Day
Demonstration Is
Held On Steps Of
johannesburg
City Hall
Whites And Other
Groups Join Negro
Demonstrators

johannesburg, South Africa, Apr
Is - Fifty silent demonstrators,
including half a dozen whites, OBJ
served African Freedom Day today
on the steps of City Hall.
A permit for speeches was de-
MED. The hour-long demonstration
was under the auspices of the At
rican National Congress.
Harassed but unproscribed, t h e
congress was started in 1912 in
South Africa.
In other meetings throughout
the city today and tonight the
newly formed Pan-Africanist Con-
Continued on Page Four)