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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 16

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i 1 6-A THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Dec. 22, 1976 DEPUTY DEFENSE SECRETARY an as Texas Roustabout uncan Carter Will Implement Zero-Based Budgetings The Washington star WASHINGTON-President-elect Jimmy Carter of his first actions as President will be to issue an executive order requiring zero-based budgeting for all federal departments, bureaus and boards. Writing in the January issue of Nation's Business, Carter said there would be opposition to the concept, and "the; best creative energies are needed to work out a zero-based budget." However, he said introduction of zero-based budgeting during his term as governor of Georgia resulted in a 50 'per cent reduction in administrative costs. "I see no reason why benefits of the same magnitude can't be captured in the federal government," Carter The President-elect said that in contrast to traditional budgeting approach of incrementing the new on the old, zro-based budgeting demands a total rejustification of everything from zero. Texas to work with brother John Duncan in a number of business enterprises.

When Charles Duncan stepped down, Coca-Cola's profits were up 12 per cent for the first quarter of 1974 compared to the same period a year before. In leaving as president, Duncan said at the time he simply wanted to return to Texas "for personal reasons." He remains a director of the company and serves on the advisory board of the Trust Company of Georgia. Duncan is described by one Atlanta friend as an avid outdoorsman, the sort who likes "to climb on the back of a horse and go up into the mountains." The 50-year-old Duncan likes to break away from his numerous business commitments whenever he can to return to his horse ranch near Cody, the friend said. Duncan is affiliated as a director or advisor with the Southern Railway System, Texas Commerce Bancshares, Robertson Distribution Systems, and the Great Southern Corp. He maintains memberships in Atlanta's Commerce Club, Piedmont Driving Club and Peachtree Golf Club.

Carter assessed Duncan during the Plains press conference Tuesday as a "very fine manager" of corporations. Duncan told a reporter following the press conference that he is eager to help Defense Secretary-designate Howard Brown, By HENRY EASON and ANDREW MOLLISON Houston businessman Charles Duncan the former Coca-Cola Co. president named deputy defense secretary Tuesday by President-elect Jimmy Carter, is described by Atlanta friends as a "skilled entrepreneur" whose career began as a roustabout on a Texas oil rig. Duncan, chairman of the board of Houston-based Rotan Mosle Financial was elected president of the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. in 1971 after he made a name for himself by expanding the company's European operations.

He asked not to be reelected president of Coca-Cola in May, 1974, in order to return to 'ENTREPRENEUR' Charles Duncan Jr. FRI. Labor Chief Appointee Fled Orphanage at 15 fLru some papers graded for his classes. Marshall, 48, is an expert on unemployment and jobs for minorities and women. But his appointment is a setback for AFL-CIO President George Meany, who sought to have Harvard professor John Dunlop named to the post.

Women and minorities have opposed the naming of Dunlop, who served as President Ford's labor secretary. "If Dunlop is in labor's hip By United Press International Since he ran away from a Baptist orphanage at the age of 15, F. Ray Marshall has risen in the academic ranks. And he is unlikely to be awed by his job as Jimmy Carter's new labor secretary. The University of Texas economics professor took his teen-aged son to Dallas Sunday to watch the Dallas Cowboys lose a chance to play in the Super Bowl.

On Monday, he was worried about getting rrnf i run I mC OinvljlDliyO EXPERT ON JOBS F. Ray Marshall. HUD Nominee Harris Suggests 'Communities' and Not Ghettos pocket, then I'm probably in the Black Caucus' hip pocket," Marshall said. Chairman of the UT economics department from 1970-72, Marshall is now director of the university's Center for the Study of Human Resources. Marshall said his Labor department would be "program oriented" fighting unemployment through extensive apprenticeship and job training plans.

He said the government should shift its emphasis from supporting the unemployed to helping them learn how to handle new jobs. After running away from a Jackson, orphanage, Marshall went to work part time in 1943 at a dental laboratory, where he made false teeth. When the war began, he lied about his age to join the Navy and became a radio operator in the Pacific. He attended junior college in Mississippi on his G.I. Bill funds, then received a bachelor's degree in economics from Millsap College in Jackson, a master's from Louisiana State University in 1950 and a Ph.D.

from the University of California at Berkeley in 1954. He taught at the University of Mississippi until 1957, with a two-year absence to study in Finland as a Fulbright scholar. Marshall taught at LSU from CUnisonrc CUnisonjc 1. 3111 'rtwrrd. all PLAINS (UPI) Patricia Roberts Harris, named Tuesday to head the new administration's Housing and Urban Development Department, said the government should help build "communities" instead of "ghettos" for blacks, the old and the poor.

A black lawyer from Washington D.C. with impressive academic credentials, Mrs. Harris, 52, was nominated by Presidentelect Jimmy Carter Tuesday as the second woman in his cabinet. He picked Juanita Kreps, a Duke University vice president, as commerce secretary Monday. Carter noted Mrs.

Harris, a former Howard University law school dean, has 30 honorary degrees and is "a very distinguished leader in government, her profession and politics." She expressed confidence in his pledge to give high priority to "people services" and the future of America's cities. "I believe we ought to eliminate any notion of any kinds of ghettos in housing," she said when asked what can be done to help end racial segregation in cities. "I'm concerned that the federal programs that we deal with in housing look to the development of communities that includes communities that include people of different racial backgrounds that provide some mix of economic groups," she said. Past federal policy has tended to look at segments of society instead, she said, of expressing as much concern about "ghettos for the aging" created by housing projects for the elderly as about racial ghettos. Mrs.

Harris said people who wish to "pay a premium" to live in expensive housing may do so, "but that decision should not be one encouraged by government policy. "I would hope that by an effort to revitalize our cities, we will find people will naturally come into communities with mixes of races and economic groups and the vitality the city provides," she said. 1034 0 M'j "Q4 1 000Q0 SLIDE RULE WtlEEIORY AilD PARENTHESIS QdlSEi 8-DIGIT POGKETABLE CALCULATOR Square root key Squaring key Percent key Change sign key 4-Key addressable memory Floating decimal Change sign key Calculations of margins, etc. Reciprocal key. Clear entry key Pi key Also basic keys.

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