CHIEF MURRAY, 9 OTHERS GET AWARDS FROM NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200260002-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 15, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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APR 15 1964
Chief Murray, 9 Others Get Awards
CPYRGHT
From National Civil Service League
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Uncle Sam's vast vineyar
got glad-handed respites las
night. from workaday potion
pressed mostly from t h
gripes of wrath.
Ap i4t . F ii j*A?,W
Robert V. Murray prominen k
ly among them, stood up i ,
the Sheraton Park Hotel to
be counted at the behest of
the National Civil Service
League. The League, a Now,
York City group, does its best
annually to "encourage and;
recognize competence in the`,
public service," regardless of
where within the Civil Serv-
ice ranks At is encountered.
Historically, it has been en-
countered at or close to the
top, among men or women,
-who got there the hard way-
.through the ranks.
Murray, only the third Dis.
trict ' Government man to win,
in the award's ten-year his-`
tory, proved no exception to`
the rule of those who've.
earned the accolade. A private
in 1930, he has headed the
local constabulary since 1952;
Former Postmaster Generale
J. Edward Day, who present
ed the plaques, cited Murray
for his "faithfulness to public!
trust, sincerity, integrity and
sense of community responsi-
bility." I
John W. Macy Jr., C i v ii
Service Commission chair-
man, read a Presidential mes-
sage of congratulations to the
winners. Chairman of the
League's executive committee,
Bernard L. Gladieux presided
and Peace Corps Director Sar-
gent Shriver dwelt, as the
evening's speaker, on the
t r i a l s, tribulations and re-
awards of effective public serv
ice. x
Co-winners with Murray of
the 1964 awards for merito='
!rous public service, above and l
,beyond the demands of Form.
57, were:
t John 0. Crow, deputy eom-'
(missioner of the Bureau of In
than Affairs;- Smith J. De
Trance, director of the Nation..
al Aeronautics and Space Ad-
The civil servants, as
ington's own Police Chic
J. Driver, deputy administra- Securities and Exchange Cc,m-
tor of the Veterans Adminis- mission.
ration; U. Alexis Johnson, Also, G. Lewis Schmidt, as-I
eputy. Under Secretary of
Mate for Political Affairs;
ames S. Lay Jr., executive
ecretary of the Central In-
elligence Agency's U.S. Intel-
igence Board, and Philip A.
oomis, genecal.codnsel of the
sistant director Of the U.S. In-'
formation Agency; F. Joachim i
We,yl, deputy chief of the Of-
fice of Naval Research, and
B. Frank White, Regional Com-
missioner of the Internal Rev
enue, Service at Dallas.
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