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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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