Hoover Urges Better Pay, Security,
And Prestige for Federal Jobholders
WASHINGTON, MP)—F ormer
President Hoover urged yesterday
the earmarking of 2,000 more top
government policy jobs for politi
cal appointment, together with
better “pay, security and pres
tige” for federal workers general
ly.
He declared inadequate budget
and bookkeeping practices have
cost Congress its “control of the
national purse” and are now cost
ing the taxpayers $4 billion a year
of needless spending.
Civil Service reforms are equal
ly urgent to prevent “government
talent from being constantly
grabbed by business,” Hoover
said in a speech to a conference
called by the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce to rally support for ad
option of the year-old recommen
dations of his Commission on Fed
eral Reorganization.
Hoover said the 25 percent
turnover of government personnel
—representing the loss and re
placement of 500,000 workers an
nually—“would bankrupt any pri
vate enterprise twice a year.”
“Promotion and pay fail to pro
duce or hold top executive talent,”
he said, “and there are not enough
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policy-making positions today that
are subject to party choice to
carry out the mandates of the
electorate.”
He added: “Do not get scared
that jve are proposing a spoils
system. We wish merely to change
less than one-tenth of 1 percent
of the total number.”
The President, Hoover said,
should have perhaps 2,000 addi
tional jobs subject to his appoint
ment, and nonpolitical career
workers “should not be required
to make policy or to defend ad
ministration policy.”
Alaska Science Conference
To Be Held in Juneau
September 27 to 30
COLLEGE, Alaska UP*—The sev
enth Alaskan Science Conference
will be held in Juneau Sept. 27-30
this year, Dr. Troy L. Pewe, pres
ident of the Alaska division of the
American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science has dis
closed.
Dr. Pewe is engineering geolo
gist for the U.S. Geological Sur
vey and associate professor of
geology at the University of Alas
ka. Last year more than 250 sci
entists from Alaska, continental
United States and Canada attend- j
ed the conference at the univer- j
sity.
“This annual conference em- j
braces research in all sciences and i
also constitutes a clearing house!
for discussion involving arctic i
and subarctic problems in sci
ence,” Dr. Pewe explained.
$250,000 Fire Set
By Youths to
Keep Chief Busy
SAVAGE, Md. WP>—Three young
callers on the fire chief’s daughter
today faced arson charges for a
fire state police said was set to
keep the chief busy so he would
not send them home early.
Detective Sgt. Wilton May said
the youths set fire to an expensive
horse training barn at nearby
Laurel a weec ago. The barn, with
an indoor track and 100 mahogany
stalls, was destroyed, as were two
thoroughbreds, a riding horse, a
trotter and a pony. The loss was
put at $250,000.
Investigation disclosed that the
youths, aged 16, 18 and 22, were
frequent callers on the 14-year
old daughter of Fire Chief Lewis
S. Redmond and the chief had
shooed them home on several oc
casions. There was a standing rule
in the Redmond home that the
boys had to leave by 9 p.m.
The boys got the idea that il
the chief had a fire to put out he
^buldn’t be home so early and
they could extend their visit with
his daughter and a 15-year-old
girlfriend.
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Captain Doesirt
Know Why Ship
i Broke in Two
SEATTLE, —The captain of
, the freighter Washington Mail
could give no answer Wednesday
l when asked at a Coast Guard
i hearing:
i “What caused your ship to
j break apart?”
A witness at an official inquiry
into the March 3 sinking in the
North Pacific, Capt. Dudley Dur
rant said he felt there was no ex
planation of the disaster.
Durrant and 59 other crewmen
and passengers were rescued after
the ship broke in two and sank
> in the Gulf of Alaska.
“I’ve thought of every possibil
ity,” Durrant told the board, “and
I cannot make any of them fit
into the events that happened.”
Recalling the hours preceding
the sinking, Durrant said the ship
had bucked heavy swells on the
morning of March 3 but was pick
ing up speed and logged 13 knots
just before the accident..
“I had felt no undue strain or
seas of consequence. Then sud
denly I felt a heavy impact. I
was on my feet, and it seemed to
me almost instantly after the first
impact I felt two more, not so
heavy.
“I made my way to the bridge |
in about five seconds. I knew at a !
glance the vessel had broken in
two.” .j
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Cloudy with intermittent snow
and easterly winds 10-20 mph
clearing tonight. Foggy and cold
er Saturday. Low temperature ex
pected tonight 7, high Saturday 10
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