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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
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WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
By Dr. George S. Benson, Director, National Education Program
A wise philosopher once said, “Waste not, want
not is a law of nature.” Thinking people readily accept
this truth. I one heard a great “fireball” baseball
pitcher, who had retired from the game at a relatively
young age, put it in these words: “Apparently there
are just so many fast ball tosses in a man’s arm. I’ve
thrown mine all in a bunch, and I’m through too early.”
There are just so many tons of iron ore, so many
barrels of petroleum, so many cubic yards of topsoil
available in our nation, and if we use them up waste
fully, and without developing other resources to re
place them, we are selfish and shortsighted, and our
children may experience want. It is good to know that
we have conservation programs working effectively
toward prolonging the life and production capacity of
most of our natural resources. But it is disturbing to
realize that few of us have given any real support to
a conservation program in Federal government spend
ing.
The Hoover Commission task force which studied
the Federal medical services reports that many mil
lions of dollars, coming out of our stockpile of natural
resources (and our pocketbooks), are being wasted in
the hodgepodge of Federal medical services—costing
taxpayers $4,149,000,000 in 1954!
Not far from my home the Veterans Administra
tion built a $20 million hospital a few years ago, al
though just five miles away was a huge VA hospital
facility and 50 miles distance was one of the finest
Army-Navy hospitals in the nation. Today the Army
Navy hospital is being closed down. The Defense De
partment says there is no need for it. This single
incident represents a waste of perhaps $50 to $100
million in all. And it is a tiny isolated droplet in the
great tide of wasteful spending.
What is the remedy? The Hoover Commission
recommended the appointment of a Federal Advisory
Council of Health composed of distinguished laymen
and physicians; and it sets forth specific measures to
lighten up on veterans’ medical services and the whole
structure of Federal health programs. These recom
mendations, however, will be worthless unless citizens
support them through the use of their influence with
their congressmen, and with other less interested
citizens. But perhaps your tax bill isn’t burdensome!
Two Men Held in
$160,000 Robbery
Of Armored Car
BUFFALO, N.Y., U!)—Two men
were held without charge today
in connection with the armed
robbery of a Brink’s armored car
carrying racetrack receipts.
The two were captured after a
gun battle following the robbery
last night. A third man was hunt
ed by police. The loot of $160,
000 was recovered.
The bandits, clad in silk-stock
ing masks and armed with a sub
machinegun, broke into the gar
age and vault of Brink’s, Inc.,
before the car arrived. It was
carrying almost $498,000 in re
ceipts from the Fort Erie Race
Track just across the Niagara
River in Canada. Three Brink’s
employes were on the truck.
Two men were captured a half
hour later after an 11-block run
ning gun battle down the narrow
streets of Buffalo’s densely popu
lated lower West Side.
“I thought I was a dead man,”
said Eugene Clohessy, 27, the
wounded guard.
“I saw ’em and pulled my .38
but before I could fire a shot the
guy with the tommygun got me in
the shoulder.
The bandits were identified by
police as Anthony Pettinato, 39, of
Baltimore, Md., and Sylvester
Mazella of the Bronx. Police said
all three had records. An alarm
was sent out for James Sheridan,
alias Jim Salemerio, of New York.
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10,000 Civil Service Jobs in Alaska
To Be Put Under Competive System
WASHINGTON, W—'The Civil’
Service Commission announced
yesterday that about 10,000 civil
ian federal positions in Alaska
were put under the competitive
Civil Service System this week.
Most of the jobs are in the
Depts. of Defense, Interior, Com
merce, Agriculture & Post Office.
Incumbent employes who are
recommended to the commission
by their agency and who can meet
the qualifications will be given
their proper status under the
career - conditional appointment
system which went into effect last
January.
Employes who previously had
earned competitive status in oth
er federal employment may be
come career employes in their
positions solely by action of the
employing agency.
Those employes who are not
given career status through either
of those methods will become
“status quo” employes. They will
retain their positions and grades
but will not have full job reten
tion rights of career or career
conditional employes in the event
of reductions in force.
Future job vacancies will be
filled under the competitive sys
tem. A Civil Service Commission
branch office has already been set
up in Anchorage, the commission
said. It added that boards of Civil
Service examiners have been cre
ated in Juneau, at Ladd Air Force
Base in Fairbanks, and in An
chorage.
The commission said the action
in Alaska was a major step in
putting into effect plans an
nounced months ago for extend
ing competitive Civil Service to
about 35,000 federal civilian posi
tions in Alaska, Guam, and for
eign countries.
Demo Senators Object
To Proposed Dams
WASHINGTON UP)—The Feder
al Power Commission yesterday
granted the Idaho Power Co. per
mission to build three dams and
thereby brought the condemna
tion of Democratic Sens. Kerr
(Okla), Monroney (Okla), and
Humphrey (Minn). The dams
would flood the site of the pro
posed federal Hells Canyon proj
ect on the Idaho-Oregon border.
All three senators called this
action a blow to water resource
development and suggested that
Congress may act to rescind the
order.
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