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A-2 THE EVENING STAR WosbrngtM, 0. C, Tuesday, March 31. 1959 TH f FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT Methods Outlined For Job Transfers . By JOSEPH YOUNG Stir Stiff Writer -* Donald Harvey, chief of the Civil Service Commission's examining division, today answers the questions of Government employes as to how they can beet find jobs in other Federal agencies. . Here are some of the questions and Mr. Harvey's comment: How can I get a job in another agency? Does the Civil Service Commission keep a list 6f vacancies in Federal agen cies? Do I have to take another civil service examination and get on a register in order to transfer to another agency? These are frequent questions the Examlnating Division of the Civil Service Commission receives from Federal employes. The frequency of such in quiries by no means indicates that great numbers of Federal workers are dissatisfied with their present situations—but it does reflect the fact that there are times and situations in which a change of agencies may be in order—not because the employe is unsatisfactory, but for one reason or another things have just not worked out. Perhaps personalities have not clicked or conditions under which he was employed have changed through no fault of anyone. While the commission feels that employes normally will find it advantageous to seek advancement within their agen cies, when circumstances do in dicate a change of agencies is desirable there are several ave nues open to career and career conditional employes. The best method, of course, is the old trled-and-true one of finding a vacancy for which you are qualiflled and selling yourself to the employing of ficer of the agency. Career and career-conditional employes (after 90 days of service) can be given a noncompetitive ap pointment in another agency —they need not take an open competitive examination and come within reach on a list of eligibles. However, for some jobs agencies do require the passing of a written test, but these are noncompetitive ex aminations in which only a passing mark is necessary: competitive ranking is not. In this “shop and sell’’ ap proach the employe relies com pletely on his own efforts to find an appropriate opening and to convince the hiring of ficer that he is the right man for the job. Before looking for opportu nities elsewhere, however, the employe should make certain that he isn’t overlooking bet ter prospects in his own agency. When an employe finds himself at a dead end or feels that he should broaden his ex perience. his first step should be to discuss his situation and jrfbspects with his superiors and representatives of his agency’s personnel office. Mem bers of the personnel staffs in agencies are professionally trained and have the common 1 objective of seeking the bestl utilization of personnel, and mast agencies conduct pro grams to identify and develop promising employes for more challenging assignments. Those who do decide to make a change usually look to the commission as a clearinghouse of information on opportuni ties elsewhere in Government. But the commission does not— cannot maintain lists of agency vacancies. The job would be too big for its limited TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT District and vicinity—Fair to night; low about 44. Variable cloudiness and warmer tomor row with chance of afternoon or evening showers. Maryland—Fair tonight with some patchy fog; low. 34-40 in the west and 38-45 in the east. Partly cloudy and warmer to morrow with scattered after noon or evening showers; high in the 60s. Virginia—Fair tonight with scattered areas of fog; low, 40- 46 except 35-40 in the moun tains. Variable cloudiness and warm tomorrow with scattered showers and thunderstorms in (he afternoon or night. Lower Potomac and Chesa peake Bay—Mostly southerly winds of 8-12 miles per hour tonight Increasing to 10-20 miles per hour tomorrow. Partly cloudy with possible scattered thundershowers tomorrow aft ernoon or night. Visibility 5-8 miles per hour lowering locally y C. 1.1.. I ........ Until Wtdnttdoy Morning ■* Pigvrt* show low Ttn-porctu-*, Exotrto * WEATHER FORECAST—Showers are expected tonight in the north eastern States, the Upper Ohio Valley, the Central Mississippi Valley, Western Kentucky ana Tennessee, .West Virginia, Southern Minnesota and from Western Idaho westward to the Pacific. Rain is forecast for the North Central Lakes region and for Northern California.—AP Wire photo map. staff In the Washington area ' alone there are some 228,000 ' Federal employes: even with 1 annual turnover of nearly 20 per cent, the commission can i not keep abreast of the chang ing job-vacancy picture. However) the commission does facilitate interagency movement of personnel through the Interdepartmental i Placement Committee. The committee, composed of repre ' sentatives of the placement of fices of majpr agencies, meets 1 weekly at the commission for the purpose of bringing the needs of individual agencies to gether with known available qualified personnel already on i the Federal rolls. Finally, there are times when the answer may be to file in a new competitive civil-service examination and get on a list of eligibles. The commission sometimes recommends this step as a means of expanding : an employer’s placement op portunities. Federal employes may take any competitive examination for which they meet the en trance requirements, and the fact that they are already em ployed in Government has no bearing on their standing on a list of eligibles or on their chances for appointment from the list. Those who became in terested in filing in an exami nation should read the exami nation announcement carefully to determine whether they meet the qualification stand ards. The standards are stated in the announcement. They will save themselves consider able useless work if they will realistically appraise their own experience background in the terms of the announcement language. ** * * WELFARE -PENSION FARMS—Virtually every em ployer of more than 25 workers is required to file a description of welfare and pension plans with the Labor Department by tomorrow. This requirement is contained in a new law passed in the closing days of the iast Congress as.a means of protect ing beneficiaries against abuses, waste and mismanagement. There is estimated to be more than 90 million workers and de pendents covered by the act. ** * * CAPITAL ROUNDUP—Mrs. Vera D. White retires today from the Selective Service office. . . . Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, draft director, has. approved suggestion awards to Walter F. Halleck and Miss Nan Hedet nieml. . . . Forty-year service emblems have been presented |to Miss Jean Campbell, Mrs. Chqmpie Dury, Ollie Hayden Carl Hehley, Samuel Kobren 1 and Daniel Lambert at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Thirty-year emblems went to Charles Adams, Roosevelt An ' derson. Homer Batton. Mrs. 1 Maybelle Carriss, Charles Car ter, Henry Duerst, Mesba Fields, Ralph Green, Walter • Jackson, Charles Jennings, Mrs. ' Frances Kline. Raymond Lee, ► James Lewis, Fred Loskill, I James Melton, Robert Neal, ■ to less than a mile late tonight 1 and improving to 8 miles or more tomorrow. ROAD CONDITIONS—AAA West: District of Columbia to Penn-' sylvanla turnpike, clear. Pennsylvania* turnpike, clear. Ohio turnpike, wet.: U. 8. 40 west to Ohio. wet. U. 8. 50 west to Ohio clear. South: U. 8. 1 to Richmond, clear. Shirley highway (U. 8. 350). clear. ; Richmond south, clear. District of Co lumbia to Charlottesville, clear. North and East: District of Columbia ito Delaware Memorial Bridge, clear. New Jersey turnpike, clear. New Eng land. clear. District of Columbia to Harrisburg. Pa . clear Temperatures for Yesterday Midnight 41 Noon 41 i 4 a.m. 39 4 p.m. 43 8a m. 40 8 p.m. 44 Record Temperatures Tbit Tear Highest 79. on March 25 Lowest 11 on January 8 and 17. I High and Low of Last 24 Hours I High 45. at 8:45 p.m. 1 Low. 39, at 8:00 a.m. i River Report Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry and clear at Great Falls. Shenan • doah clear at Harpers Ferry. Tide Tables ; (Furnished by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey) Today Tomorrow 1 High 1:06 a.m. 2:16 a.m. r Low 8:00 a.m. 9:06 a.m. . High 1:33 p.m. 2:43 p.m. I Low B:4opm. 9:42 p.m. The Sun and Mooa Rises Bets I Sun today 5:54 a m. 6:31 p.m. . Sun tomorrow 5:54 a m. 6:31 p.m. 1 Moon today 1:07a.m. 11:28a.m. |;r- jjJMlifc. Jr Ik mjrjjg,. s ■ VlWin jm A .is f V\ ■■ j® V I f mT '"XML *■ \ l JB? 1 W JBr ; 9 J Jg xMIL. Jr J % # A Big H 4; k «JB X• i m CHRISTINE PLANS MARRIAGE Christine Jorgensen, the boy turned girl, and Howard J. Knox, 33, of Waukegan, 111., stand in New York’s Municipal Building after failing to get a marriage license because Mr. Knox couldn’t produce an Illinois divorce decree which ended a previous marriage. He said he’ll arrange to obtain one.—AP Wirephoto. Storm Lashes Ships, Disrupts Schedules NEW YORK, Mar. 31 (AP). —A violent spring storm raged | unabated over a vast area of the North Atlantic today, pum meling even the biggest liners afloat Sailing schedules were l drastically slowed. The tempest was marked by gigantic waves and winds of as much as 100 miles per hour. Seas were on such a rampage along the American Eastern Seaboard that an Argentine liner, the Rio Tunuyan, had to ! return to New York yesterday after having sailed Friday on a voyage to South America. A passenger said it was “a horrible 48 hours,” before the vessel turned back. Furniture and woodwork were damaged in about 70 per cent of the vessel’s public areas. Four of the 99 passengers were injured, although none seriously, and nearly eU were seasick. Rolls 60 Degrees Capt. Jose Maria Dodero said that at one point ves sel rolled 60 degree*—just a few less than the capsizing point. From across the Atlantic the British liner Queen Mary re ported on docking at South- Caledonio Ordona, Claude Sptt zer, Mrs. Lottie Steele. Israel Stocks, Nathan Turner, Charles Veit, Arthur Weaver and Les lie Wood. ;' Precipitation Month 1959 1958 Ave Record i 'January 221 2.51 324 7.83 '37 1 February 151 4.14 244 884 84 March 2.20 5.85 3.03 8.84 .01 i April __ .. 4.82 3.08 9.13 89 ■May >_ 2.77 3.98 10 69 53 June 3.21 3.41 10 94 00 •July 7.15 4.26 11.06 ’45 -I August 649 475 14 41 28 •September 257 4.12 17.45 34 'October 235 2.85 8.81 37 ! November 2.04 273 718 77 December 1.62 2.61 7.66 .01 Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Temperatures in Various Cities H. L. H. L. ’ Abilene 87 58 Kansas City 67 43 ’ Albany 44 31 Knoxville 68 43 Albuquerque 71 46 Little Rock 74 51 Anchorage 38 20 Los Angeles 67 51 Atlanta 64 49 Louisville 66 51 l Atla'tic city 45 40 Memphis 70 54 t Baltimore 44 39 Miami 82 74 BUllngs 58 54 Milwaukee 43 38 Birmingham 70 47 Minneapolis 49 69 Bismarck 48 24 Montgomery 69 56 Boise 65 39 New Orleans 70 59 Boston 42 39 New York 44 39 Buffalo 44 36 Norfolk 58 45 Burlington 47 27 Okla. City 70 53 Charleston 70 54 Omaha 55 43 i Charlotte 69 41 Philadelphia 41 40 . Cheyenne 45 33 Phoenix 83 57 Chicago 49 41 Pittsburgh 47 36 Cincinnati 59 48 P'tland. Me. 47 31 . Cleveland 50 42 P’tland, Ore. 57 49 ' Columbus 53 43 Raleigh 54 42 . Dallas 80 59 Rapid City 59 38 Denver 54 33 Reno 57 26 Des Moines 51 10 Richmond 47 43 Detroit 42 36 8t Louis 63 47 *, Duluth 40 32 8. Lake City 51 37 , Fort Worth 82 60 San Antonio 78 60 Fresno 69 46 8. Francisco 60 50 Houston 76 57 Savannah 74 58 Huron 61 30 Seattle 50 45 Indianapolis 56 47 Tampa 74 65 . I Jackson 75 47 Wichita 69 47 ampton that in mid-ocean she had been hit by one wave of tremendous proportions. Despite underwater stabiliz ing fins, the huge vessel rolled 22 degrees in one direction and then 16 on the other side. Passengers and crew were thrown about, with several re ceiving cuts and bruises. The Queen Mary’s sister sliip, the Queen Elizabeth, was more than 12 hours behind schedule en route to New York. She is now due here late to night. U. S. Liners Slowed The America and the Con stitution of the American Ex port Lines were slowed as much as 24 hours in westward At lantic crossings. The America was due tomor- I row morning, but will nob dock until Thursday. The Constitution was sched uled yesterday, hut finally j pulled in today. Her skipper, I Capt. Hugh L. Switzer, said that during a 24-hour period Saturday and Sunday he had to reduce speed from the nor mal 22 knots to 14. 4 CREW MEMBERS SWEPT OVERBOARD BREMEN, Germany, Mar. 31 (AP).—Four crewmen of the 19,000-ton German liner Berlin were swept overboard Saturday while repairing a leak during a storm in the Atlantic, the North German Lloyd Line announced today. All four drowned. The line said the Berlin was forced to heave to for 24 hours 700 miles northeast of the Azores because of raging seas. A spokesman said the 3hip and its 500 passengers were in !no danger. The Berlin pro ceeded on its voyage to New York and is expected to arrive there on schedule next Satur | day. Lines Dodge Targets NEW YORK—Among the many miles of long-distance telephone circuits installed each year are many so-called ; “express” routes. These are | carefully guided around po | tential military targets. If the , targets should ever be at | tacked, emergency communica ! tions could still be maintained. STEUART MOTORS SAVES YOU 59 FORD GALAXIE CLUB SEDAN Regular Down Payment Cl.oo 36 MONTHS AT * J § This Is Possible Because of Our Special Price and Substantial Savings in Financing Extra Allowance for Your Trade-in, too! Both Parties Girding For Hawaii Election By J. A. O’LEARY Stir stiff Writer Both major parties are stren uously preparing for Hawaii’s first State election this sum mer. They are taking it for granted Hawaiians will ratify statehood in a referendum, which may be conducted simul taneously with the selection of nominees for Governor, two Senators and one House mem ber, probably sometime in June. The Democrats are optimistic over their chances of increas ing their already big majorities in Congress, largely because they have been running ahead of the Republicans in territorial elections during the last five years. Keating’s Plea But the Republicans, who were strong in the islands un til a few years ago, are obvi ously trying for a comeback. This was indicated by the fact that Senator Keating, Republi can of New York, took advan tage of the Easter recess to journey to Honolulu last night to address a G. O. P. fund raising dinner. The Senator pleaded frankly with Hawaiians to “please send more Republicans to Washing ton before the rest of us die of loneliness.” "Things are so uncrowded on the Republican side in the Sen ate these days that you have to send a note by page boy if you want to communicate with the Republican at the next desk,” Senator Keating continued. “The Democrats, on the other hand, are huddled so close together that they took like a herd of white-faced herefords rounded up on the Texas plains —which they are. Just ask Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas, the Democratic boss of the Senate.” Although a dozen or more names are mentioned as pos sible candidates for the top places in the Hawaiian election, neither party will make up slates until territorial Gov. Wil liam F. Quinn fixes the date for a primary. It is a safe assumption that Gov. Quinn will be on the Re publican ticket either for Gov ernor or Senator, and that the Czechs Balk Plea to Cut Gl'sTerm PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 31 (AP).—The parents of a Phila delphia soldier imprisoned in Czechoslovakia have received j word from the Ministry of Jus tice in that Communist na tion that there will be no clem ency for their son. A 14-month sentence was imposed on Specialist 3/c John Robert Kennedy after he in advertently crossed the border from Germany last August and was seized. His crossing was termed a "criminal and dan gerous action” by the Czech government. The soldier’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Kennedy, had ap pealed for clemency six months ago, pleading that their son meant no disrespect when he crossed the border. The reply, received last week from the Ministry of Justice, said young Kennedy had been given less than the minimum sentence for his “serious viola tion of the laws” of Czechoslo vakia. The letter said only the Czech government had “the sovereign right to decide whether . . . she will permit the visit of a foreign citizen.” It said the soldier’s crossing was "against national security.” Earlier this month the Ken nedy’s received a letter from i their son chiding them for not | writing and for not sending him packages. The Kennedys wrote the American Embassy in Prague that they had sent nu merous letters and packages. They asked that inquiries be made. Since then, the Kennedys said today, their son has been receiving letters and packages. But they have been further dis heartened by a letter John sent the Embassy acknowledging he was getting his mail. In that letter he wrote he was “begin ning to feel the strain and I hope that I will not crack un der it.” Democratic slats will include John A. Burns, the present Delegate in the House. Boras Raised Margin When Mr. Burns was elected Delegate In 1956, he was the first Democrat to win that of fice In 24 years. Last year Mr. Burns won re-election by more than 14.000 votes. The Republicans suffered a setback last week when Sam uel Wilder King, a former Governor and former Delegate, died. Although he was 72, he had recently announced he would be a candidate for Gov ernor. Mr. Burns said today he does not see any reason “why the people of Hawaii would not remain with the Democratic Party” In the coming election. He has not announced which office he will seek, but It Is be lieved he would like to serve in the Senate. Temporary Increase If the Democrats should elect two Senators in Hawaii, it would run their Senate totar to 66, wlt& only 34 Republicans. This would be only one short of two thirds of the 100 Senators. Under the statehood bill, Ha waii will get only one seat in the House temporarily, and this will raise the House total to 437. But after the 1960 census the size of the House will drop back to 435. Both Alaska and Hawaii will then have their House seats apportioned, like all other States, on the basis of popula tion. Hawaiians believe they will get two House seats after the new census. The present population of Hawaii is 613,000. In addition to having the Delegate in the House, the Democrats also control both branches of the Territorial Leg islature. In the Senate they have 16 out of 25 seats and in the House 33 of 51 seats. This Week's Item BLINDS I 15% OFF Finest Quality STORM SASH End-ot-Season Sole 15% Off PICKETS Clear Redwood Ix3—3-ft., only 16c paint’ Sherwin-Williams Save 20%! Special Lot 1320 Wilson llvd., AH. JA. 4-1214 i • ' ■ • * ‘ . » T InfoersHy^ 1318 3 STREET, N W I Jm 1% the world’s I wr » your oyster I \ lit our ' Barracuta OYSTER WHITE COAT 37 JO Here’s clear, sparkling oyster white—the most sublime shade that ever came to a coat. 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