NOTICE
The annual Community Christ
mas Concert of the Community
Methodist Church will be held on
Sunday, Dec. 21.
There will be a matinee at 3:30
especially for the children. The
evening concert will be at 8 p.m.
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UNTIL CHRISTMAS
Around Nome
By HARRY LUDBROOK
City Manager System—III
City management has become
a profession made up of those
who have experience and special
training in municipal administra
tion. Like doctors and lawyers,
city managers have a rigorous
code of ethics and are obliged to
live up to fixed standards of per
formance.
Under the manager plan, lines
of authority are clearly drawn,
and responsibility is easily placed.
In the person of the manager is a
responsible single chief executive
to run the city government. He is
given express power to appoint
department heads and through
them to appoint all other city
employees. He is charged with
preparing for the council’s ap
| proval the financial plan for the
city, and with enforcing the budg
et after it has been enacted. He
coordinates all city activities, and
he is in a position to give the
council expert information on the
needs of the various governmen
tal activities and on their status
at any time. He can formulate
and carry out a plan of govern
mental activity which will allow
for regular, orderly development
of public work. Decisions can be
made with speed and facility,
j Because a manager does not
! owe his job to a machine-engin
| eered election whose basis is
! votes bought with jobs or con
tracts, he is in a position to put
the brakes on unnecessary spend
ing. He regulates the flow of de
i partmental spending and reports
I to the council on the real finan
I cial needs of each of the branches
j of government. Nor is the council
tempted to increase arbitrarily
i departmental allotments, since it
is barred from enjoying any poli- !
tical spoils which might other- ;
wise result from spending. Under
i such conditions, the council has
j no incentive to extravagance. The
j office of the manager is a wall
j which shields administration frcmj
the infiltration of the spoils sys
1 tem and consequent increase in
| governmental costs.
Many scientists believe that the
human race originated some place
in Central Asia about 3 million
! years ago and spread from there
to o.her parts of the world.
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Choir Girls Fainting
Termed Just A “Fad”
WARREN, O., (A5)—Girls in the
Harding High School a capella
choir have been fainting — in
groups as high as seven—right in
the middle of their song.
Just a “fad,” said school super
intendent Paul A. Miller today.
The first girl swoons, he said,
and the others follow suit.
Anyway, seven girls fainted
Tuesday, singing for the Ex
change Club. On Wednesday, six
swooned at the Rotary luncheon;
the Kiwanians were startled
Thursday to see five pass out.
Dr. Carl F. Scheig, the choir
director, thinks the girls should
eat something before a perform
ance—or maybe its “auto-sugges
tion.”
Yesterday, singing before the
school assembly, all of the girls
stayed on their feet.
Doctors have checked the girls
after each fainting spell and have
failed to find anything wrong
with them.
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