BROADER CAREERIST TRAINING URGED FOR ASSIGNMENT MOBILITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01826R000300070004-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 13, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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E~?ERA SPOTLIGHT March 1962
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Broader Careerist Training
Urged for Assignment Mobility
tar Staff Writer
14? morq, comprehensive train-
ing and promotion program for
Government careerists to per-
nit greater mobility and lati-
tude, in key Federal job assign-
ments was advocated last light
by Senator Jackson, Democrat
of Washington.
Addressing the a n n u a l
awards banquet of the National
Civil Service League, Senator
Jackson, chairman of the Sen-
Envoy Frances Willis Ong Women to
Receive Award Poge, c-2
ate Subcoilymittee,.9n., Itaol
Policy Mae Inery, said t h e
Government should "do tore
to prepare career ,people for
posts of hjgh responsibility."
The subco ttee has adye, n
intepsive y .of ,the situa-
tion during the last few years.
He said that mode ciyl an
generalists should be trained
to assume variety of posts: in
Government as national secur-
it interests require.
Government civilian general-
fists should have integrated
f0knowledge and understanding
of military, matters modern
weaponry and its capabilities,
technological development, pro-
curement,ppf intelligence
service, use and-limitation_of
prdtaganda and x political, war-
fad internationar relations
at~pther lq owledge relating, to
n onal security .m3itters, Sep-
atop Jackson said.
"No one is being rrainecl for
such jobs in n organized way,"
hedecl*Yost
4'For Par, career of-
ficers are forced to-- focus their
abilities and even their loyal-
tips ,on the interests, of
partic-
ular bureaus or services. TQ et
?alead, they may have to plan
their careers in terms of the
specialized concerns 'of o n e
a ency," the Senator said.
"In this respect .our civilian
ca,i"eer services have much to
learn from the__training and
promotion system of the armed
velop the general staff office ,"
Senator Jackson observed. 7 Jackson s the
challenge of the Communist
world must be faced by more
efficient Government.
"A century ago the failure
of Government officials to do
first-rate work may have
meant some waste of taxpayers'
money," he said. "But today
the cost of similar failure may
mean our national survival.
The free world will ot-be kept
free by the slovenly' or half-
hearted." He added that the
caliber of the career service
already is "very high," but that
it could and should be higher.
Senator Jackson also called
for higher salaries for career
employes at the top of the civil
service and for officials at the
sub-cabinet level.
Senator Jackson also declared
that there is too much over-
staffing in Government. There
are "too many people in it
doing work that does not really
need doing," he said. This not
only is costly to Government
but detracts from the impor-
tant work that needs to be
done, Senator Jackson said.
Top members of Congress
and Government officials were
among the more than 1,000
guests who attended the awards
dinner at the Sheraton-Park
Hotel.
This. year's winners honored
by the nonpartisan business-
supported National Civil Service
League were Frances Elizabeth
Willis, Ambassador to Ceylon;
Dr. Howard Andervont, Na-
tional Career Institute; David
Auld, District government; A.
Ross Eckler, Census Bureau;
William Godel, Defense; Dr.,
Wayne Grover, Archivist of the
United.States; Bertrand Hard-
ing, Internal Revenue Service;
Philip Hughes, Budget Bureau;
Leo Werts, Labor Department
and Dr. Abe Silverstein, Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
troller General has ruled that
Government employes driving
their cars on out-of-town of-
ficial business are entitled to
full mileage reimbursement
only if they take the most
direct routes to their destina-
tions.
The Controller General de-
clared that the Government
cannot pay full expenses for
trips which involve indirect
routes taken by employes for
personal reasons such as visit
ing ,relatives, taking other pas-
sengers to their destinations,
etc.
Assistant Controller General
Frank Weitzel said Federal em-
ployes are expected to exercise
the same care in incurring ex-
penses that a "prudent person
would exercise if traveling on
personal business." He added
that all travel should be per-
formed over usually traveled
routes and any extra expenses
caused by using indirect routes
must be borne by the traveler.
EXCLUSIVE RECOGNITION
-The Post Office Department
soon is expected to make a
decision regarding exclusive
recognition of postal employe
unions.
It's expected that the large
postal employe unions will be
given national exclusive recog-
nition in regards to the par-
ticular type of employes they
represent.
However, what's holding up
the final issuance of orders is
the situation involvislg postal
clerks. The United Federation
of Postal Clerks seeks exclusive
recognition in the field of
postal clerks, claiming that it
represents the majority of
postal clerks. However, the rival
National Postal Union disputes
this claim, declaring that the
UFPC does not represent the
majority.
NPU officials are threatening
to take the case to the Federal
courts if the Post Office Depart-
ment gives national exclusive
BEST ROUTE-The Con-'recognition to the UFPC,
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