Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1952 — Page 24

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£“" House-Senate ve ‘approved revision ‘of so-called I°% Whitten rider restrictions on proSoamotions of federal workers.

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_ by ‘its staff, The employees are Indefinite workers who won their jobs by regular Civil . Service

, with its 1% jp sunt gal deductions mum per year), and placa the Civil Service

\ The Commission soon will anpounce a new-type job appoint- ! ment, to be known as Reserve, { tor Indefinite workers who won {thelr jobs through regular exams. These workers now are under “Boclal Security. But without a change in the Jaw, CSC will be forced to bring m under the Civil Service Re“tirement System. 5 Up .until recently, it had planned to seek such a change.

| ing t System, with its flat {8 cent deduction.

g It's staff, however, has recom"mended against this and against $ “giving employees the option of 5" eontinuing as Indefinites to avoid po to the CB System.

Easier Promotions conferees have

"That leaves only the formality ‘of final congressional action and ‘presidential signature before the ‘yevision, with its drastic easing {of the restrictions, become law, ©" Under the new rider: { ONE—Permanent jcb appointments in government would con“$inue to be limited to the level of Sept. 1, 1950. . TWO — Permanent promotions

“for ‘which Civil Service Com{ssion permits permanent appointments. All promotions now

temporary. are Ok on request of

He 80, uld authorize : cy heads, co a then only after they've served a 3 i promotions in exceptionally|p year in a lower grade — do

sritorious cases,

* FOUR—Employees now musti "7". Teron a continuous year in gradeie,, .. gonate conferees on the 3d

re they can be promoted. Under the rider, this service would not have to be continuous. . FIVE~The general rule now is employees can be promoted only one grade at a time, An exception is made for those who qualify for bigger promotions by passing regular Civil Service 3 exams, The rider would extend this exemption to those who pass agency (as distinet from Civil Service) exams for promotion.

Insurance Plan

A new bill by Rep. George Miller (D. Cal.) would let federal

employees buy life, health, accl- Gefjantists Find

dent, hospital and medical insur-

ance on the payroll deduction plan. Only cost to the government would be the bookkeeping

costs.

Overtime Pay

The Senate Post Office and Service Committee will

Civil

make a new effort late this month to reach agreement on the Administration bill to increase over-

Classified (white collar) Federal

employees.

These employees now get time-and-one-hAlf overtime pay only(in a short time. on the first $2980 of their basic

salaries. Under the Administration bill, this would be raised to $5350.

And a few special groups, including FBI and narcotics agents, from automobiles, would get flat sums, up to 15 per cent of base pay, in lieu of over-|alone.

time. ' The

if the measure became law, Under the Customs

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WASHINGTON, May 17—Up to 400,000 federal employees, including reany in the Indianapolis area, will get - what would amount to a 5 per cent cut in take-home pay if Civil Service Commission approves a new recommendation

Committee unanimously approved the bill last fall, At the start of the present session, however, it recalled the measure because of the protest of approximately 3000 customs inspectors whose overtime would be reduced

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shown some inspectors over fairly long periods have earned five times as much in overtime as in base pay. Chances of final congressional action at this session are con sidered poor,

Leave Rider The Senate Appropriations Bubcommittee on independent offices almost certainly will recommend

use-it-or-lose-it leave rider, restricting annual leave privileges of Washington area and’ other federal employees. That became apparent this week after employee union representatives went before the subcommittee to urge elimination of the rider. Only three Senators were present. : But all three—Chairman Burnet R, Maybank (D, 8. C.), A, Willis Robertson Jr. (D. Va.), and Edward J, Thye (R. N, Y.) = made plain they will vote against the rider.

Roundup Robert Ramspeck says he will decide next month whether to resign as Civil Bervice Commission Chairman, or continue to the end of the year. He's on leave from the Air Transport Association. . . . House Post Office and Civil Service Committee Chairman Tom Murray (D., Tenn.), says his committee will. open hearings the week of May 18 on legislation to liberalize Civil Service retirement benefits. . . . A new bill by Rep. Murray would as-

ernment jobs to all persons called

sion formally has ruled Whitten rider restrictions on promotions ~at least those prohibiting employees {from being promoted more than one grade at time, and

not apply to postal and per diem employees, . .

supplemental appropriation bill have voted to edse the 10 per cent slash which both House and Senate previously had approved in funds non-defense agencies re-

of last year's Classified (white collar) pay raises, Without the easing, some agencies would have been forced to order payless fur-

June 30 end of the current government year.

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rejection of the House-approved|:

. sure veterans preference for gov- Brain Waves

to military duty before July 2 Forecast Reform Id be authorized for any obi, op. ©" "Stel ice Commis.

those hardened personalities who

City Seaman Saw Hobson Sea Disaster

A 17-year-old Indianapolis sea-

man apprentice of five months

| witnessed one of the worst ducted by Budget Bureau and e rst sea Civil Service Comission, have disasters in recent history.

“It was awful—I hope I never see anything like it again,” SA wus. James Howell “phoned his ‘mother, Mrs, Mildred Hum-

dyke Ave. after the carrier Wasp docked in New York for repairs. .He was aboard the Wasp Apr. 27 when it ; knifed = through { the middle of the SA Howell destroyer Hobson. The Hobson went down with 176 seamen.

“I was awake when we crashed and rushed topside,” SA Howell sald, “The boys were already lowering seven lifeboats. They did tin 32 minutes; halt the normal e.

“There were boys flailing in the water, screaming for help, but most of them didn’t get off before she sank. Six of my buddies, who had just been transferred off the

could have been me.”

ington High School and worked at Bryant Gas Heater Service, Inc., before entering the Navy last November. He took his boot training-at Great Lakes, and had been aboard the Wasp two weeks, ““His father, Dallas Howell, lives in Bloomington.

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By Science Service

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. May 17--Convicts' who might be remade into good citizens by careful medical and psychiatric treatment can be distinguished by their brain wave patterns from

will always have to be kept in prison. Contrary to what might be expected, those who can be helped are the ones with relatively unstable personalities which are

wave patterns. The psychopathic deviates who are repeatedly in collisions with the law and can-

Wasp, went down with her. It|

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