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Old guard dwindled away The Pocono Record, The Stroudsburgs, Pa. Jan. 10, 1967 Johnson's 'inner circle' built around new faces By.Donald R. Larrabee Record Washington Bureau WASHINGTON President Johnson faces a new Congress and a New Year of mounting political disaffection without the benefit of any of the men who served him in the early days of his presidency. The "inner circle" at the While House has been virtually decimated.

Worse than losing such hardworking assistants as Press Secretary Bill D. Moyers and Legislative Counsel Jake Jacobsen is the apparent difficulty of finding solid replacements. For, a President needs at his immediate site a special breed of men with dedication, commitment, loyalty and both physical and mental stamina. And the men who will join him in the next few months must figure on remaining by the Boss for the next two years and into the highly uncertain period of the 1968 elections. Two of the stabilizing forces around Johnson Moyers and Jacobsen -will be gone and a drastic shakeup in the White House Staff is now inevitable.

The major business of the immediate executive office will fall on seven men who have come to work for the President in the past year or so: Joseph Califano, 35, a Brooklyn native who moved to the White House last year from the Defense Department. Marvin Watson, 42, the Texan who has devoted most of his life to politics and who now serves as the appointments secretary. S. Douglass Cater, 43-year-old Alabaman, a journalist who does much for Johnson in the education field and helps with speech writing. Harry C.

McPherson, 37, another Texan who got to know Mr. Johnson at the Capitol and who is special counsel to the President. Walt W. Rostow, 50, who only this year shifted over to the White House itself from the State Department. He is Number One national security affairs adviser.

George W. Christian, 40, the new press secretary, a former press aide to Ihc Texas governors. (At the moment, Christian is recovering from minor surgery and Bill Moyers is doubling in the job, helping to write the State of the Union Address, and attending to other chores during his final days on the White House staff.) And Robert W. Kintrier, 57, the "old man" of the group, former New York broadcasting executive who acts as' secretary of the Cabinet, among other things. Johnson can also continue to lean heavily on Lawrence O'Brien, who maintains an office in the White House while serving as Postmaster General.

O'Brien still directs a team of legislative liaison specialists wlien the going gets tough on Capitol Hill. The President has lost a number of lesser officials whose departure has been less publicized than that of Moyers, McGeorge Bundy, Horace Busby and Jack Valenti, the "rocks" of his early days. But all of the Johnson men who have quit will tell you that it has nothing to do with any "falling out" over policy or personality. The official excuses, in every case, is "personal family obligations." What this means, of course, is that they have found out that their White House background qualifies them for $75,000 to $100,000 a year instead of the $30,000 salary they've been drawing. This is obviously a consideration that borders on a "personal family obligation." The heavy pressures of While House staff work, the personal demands the President makes on his associates and the tempting private business offers available to them are the factors cited most often to explain the heavy staff turnover.

As one close puts It: "The hours are wicked and whsn a man can't even have a Sunday in peace with his family, the whole thing becomes unbearable after a while. There's not much thanks in it and, when the novelty Of working for the President wears off, those outside opportunities at fabulous salaries are very tempting." "White House staffers are unquestionably of top calibre but I he fact remains that private industry in willing to pay a handsome salary to anyone who knows' the Chief in the White House or has entree through the switchboard to the planners. Unsettled rail mergers still giving ICC hangover Record Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The Inter- slate Commerce Commission enters a new year still nursing a huge hangover of unsettled railroad mergers. But the ICC also has a new jet-propelled chairman who hopes to devise a formula to get rid of the agency's chronic headaches or, at least, provide faster relief for everyone concerned. William H.

Tucker, a licensed private pilot and sport parachutist, took over the chairmanship January 1 under the ICC's rotation procedures. The stocky Athol, Mass, attorney is a six- year veteran named to the regulatory agency by President Kennedy to fill a Northeastern regional vacancy. The 43-year-old Tucker is determined to re-evaluate and perhaps streamline the Commission's sometimes creaky legal operations to meet the demands of modern rail, highway and waterway technology. He hopes the time will come when the eleven-member Commission can devote itself to broader policy considerations beyond its routine regulatory activities. 'In the past few years, the ICC has been knee-deep in about ten merger cases in what amounts to a restructuring of the eastern rail system.

Soon, the Commission is likely to deal with proposed amalgamations from Chicago west which probably will exceed the New York Central- Pennsylvania Railroad merger case in sheer complexity. As for the latter, Tucker predicts the ICC will take final action "a lot sooner than many people expect." The ultimate merger has been delayed four times. While declining to comment on specifics in the case, Massachusetts man says, with some emphasis, that the parties involved and the public "shouldn't have to wait half a generation for a railroad merger to be decided." Tucker feels the ICC should remain independent. He expects the Commission to move into a more activist role as some of its functions which involve some Department of Transportation. In the coming months, the ICC's accident investigative Functions which involve some 18 per cent of the Commission's operations will move to the new cabinet transportation department.

Tucker said, in a recent interview, that this should be a good time to re-examine the Commission's approach to complex cases so that they may be speeded up. In recent years, the ICC has adopted some of Tucker's ideas, such as assigning individual commissioners to specific mergers and conducting what amounts to pre-trial hearings. These measures have help to accelerate procedings. are some of the problems Tucker believes will confront the ICC in the coming months: A severe freight car shortage which won't be solved in 1967 but which will cause the ICC to use "100 per cent of every tool the law gives." The need for new legislation governing rail passenger service discontinuance. The idea would be to help the Commission makes a broader assessment of ending certain passenger trains during a period when the nation appears to be moving into a new technology to move people by rail.

Small shipments by rail and transport which, Tucker believes, are not being properly handled by carriers and may call for new regulations. --Advances in containerization moving by several transport modes which call for new approaches by the ICC. Tucker expects the Commission will seek fresh legislation in this area from Congress. Tucker doesn't like to be considered a "regional" man on the Interstate Commission, even though he filled a "New Eng land vacancy" when he was named in April, 1961 by President Kennedy. He's convinced that the New England area's transportation ills, which are substantial, cannot be solved by a geographically-limited approach.

"I have no sectional philosophy," he says, "except that I believe no section is less important to the national transportation system than any other." 'Chutist Tucker, who jumped with the 82nd Airborne Division in World War two's famed invasion assaults in Europe, looks like a man poised and ready to leap into a tangle of national transportation problems. A. F. swings to England LONDON U.S. Air Force has announced it will reopen three storage sites in England for American supplies and equipment being moved out of France.

President Charles de Gaulle has ordered that foreign troops leave French soil. The three slorage sites were used by the Air Force until 1964 and then placed on standby basis. Skiing beauties from D. C. Members of the winter carnival committee from the Washington, D.

C. Ski Club visited the Poconos over the weekend as guests of club is looking for a site for a convention next year. The ski princesses and their queen, are, from the left: Mary Bonner; Barbara Payne; Julie Languoseo; Helen Talbot; Diane Williams; Diana Ingrick, queen; Sandra Ryan; Donna Hayworth; Barbara Cohen; and Clare Nuss. (Photo by Arnold) Maurice Bobst Principal to receive FFA award NEWFOUNDLAND Maurice Bobst, supervising principal of the Wallenpaupack School District, has been elected to receive the Honorary Keystone Farmer -Degree, awarded by the Pennsylvania Future Farmers of America Association. The Future Farmers of America Chapter at the Wallenpau- School recommended and nominated Bobst for the highest degree awarded by Ihe state association.

has been helpful in vocational agriculture and the F.F.A. in the Wallenpaupack School and in the counties of Wayne and Pike, and he has encouraged F.F.'A. members to be active in local, county, arid state activities. The Honorary Keystone Farmer Degree will be presented Bobst at the 38th convention of the Pennsylvania F.F.A. Association at the Forum of Education Building, Wednesday, Jan.

11. Honors given to '95' Cubs SWIFTWATER At a Christmas meeting of Cub Scout Pack 95 of Swiftwater, several scouts received badges and awards. Jeff Ross, Joseph Kuchinski were awarded one-year; service stars; John Oldmixon received a two-year service star and Lion's badge; and John Bowman and Gregory Batzel were awarded bobcat pins. Other awards were: Jeff Ross, John Landi, Tad Newman, Richard Breymeier and William Kuchinski, wolf badges; Gerald Slye and Harold Metzgar, bear badges; and John Landi, Gerald Slye and William Kuchinski, gold arrows. Sun Ship signs contract CHESTER, Pa.

(AP)--Some 4,000 employes at the Sun Ship Building and Drydock Co. ratified a new three-year contract Sunday. The vote was nearly overwhelming by members of Local 822 of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Shipbuilders, Amcio, a union official said. The contract calls for a 21- eents-an-hour wage boost over the next three years. The-union also won Its first pension plan and improved an insurance plan already In effect, a spokesman said.

The old contract of the dock workers actually expired Jan. 3, but after a 24-hour session with a federal mediator, management and the union reached agreement to continue working under the old pact. Monroe Coin Club to meet STROUDSBURG The Monroe County Coin Club will meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the YMCA. Ted Wolverton will talk on "Wooden Coins." Art Meeting STROUDSBURG The semimonthly meeting of the Pocono Mountain Art Group will be held tonight starting at 7 at the Stroudsburg High School.

Dues are due and a work meeting will be held. Servicemen's Corner FT. JACKSON, S. Private Raymond E. Costenliad- er 18, son of Raymond E.

Costenbader, Route 2, Kunkletown, completed an eight-week wheeled vehicle mechanic's course at Ft. Jackson, S. Jan. 6. During the course, he was trained to repair Internal combustion engines and wheeled vehicle chassis components.

Instruction was given in the fundamentals of electrical and transmission systems. His mother, Mrs. Catherine F. Honshiko, lives at 927 Edgemont Palmerton. WITH U.

S. COMBAT AIR FORCES Vietnam Major Willis H. Bond, son of Barley S. Bond of Brodheadsville, is on duty at Bien Koa AB, Vietnam. Major 1 Bond is a C-123 Provider pilot.

He is a member of the Pacific Air Forces, the nation's combat-ready air arm guarding the Bamboo Curtain. Before his arrival in Southeast Asia, he was assigned to the 21st Air Force at McGulre AFB, N. J. The major, who was commissioned in 1944 through the aviation cadet program, served during World War II and the Korean War. The Chestnuthill High School graduate received a diploma from Churchmans Business College, Easton, Pa.

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Airman Apprentice Richard J. Jacob, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob of Route 1, Saylorsburg, has reported for duty aboard the U. S.

Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va. The Norfolk station is the aviation center of one of the largest military complexes in the USS ENTERPRISE Aviation Electronic's Mate Airman Michael A. Brutchak, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Brutchak of 94 Knob Road, Mt.

Pocono, is participating In combat operations in Vietnam as a member of Fighter Squadron 96 aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise. Squadron 96, nicknamed "the Fighting Falcons," flies the F4B Phantom II jet fighter-bomber. Square dancing is modernized Sergeant Ridgely won the drillmaster award. The sergeant, who received advanced military leadership and managing training, is an administrative supervisor at Robins AFB, Ga. He is a member of the Air Force Logistics Command which provides supplies, equipment and services to keep the USAF's combat units ready for immediate action.

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Registration is expected to come close to 30,000. Closer than that is the annual Farm Show in Harrisburg where about 480 dancers from all over the state compete for square dancing honors Tuesday. Although modern square dancing is rarely competitive-the dancers prefer having fun to competing the Centre Square of Centre County have taken a number of blue ribbons for their exhibitions at the state Farm Show and appeared there again this year. Carter Ackerman, caller and instructor for the modern square dancing classes co-sponsored each fall by the Centre Squares and the State College area schools' adult education department, says there are an estimated six million square dancers currently active in clubs through the nation with more than 10,000 callers and teachers handling some 250,000 new "students" annually. Caller Ackerman describes modern square dancing as a "relaxing, stimulating hobby for adult couples," requiring lessons to learn the maneuvers but calling for no special skills.

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POCONO, PA, HOURS BY APPOINTMENT PHONE 839-9)79 I A I A A of the EAST STROUDSBURG SAVINGS, BUILDING LOAN ASSN. East Stroudsburg, fa. November 30, 1966 ASSETS Cacsl 839,083.19 U.b. Government Bonds 1,642,105.01 Federal Home Loan Bank Stock 170,000.00 First Mortgage Loans 9 50o'378 97 Interest Due and Uncollected Members Share Loans Real Ettata Contract Real Estate Owned Office Building Equipment Prepaid Insurance TOTAL 11,187.66 23,333.73 13,784.30 13,301.48 367,027.31 44,717.42 $12,629,919.07 LIABILITIES Savings Due Shareholders 057 954 OS Loans in Process '275'99l'89 Advance for Taxes Insurance 06 Construction Contracts Payable Surplus Reserves TOTAL 1,286,023.93 Member of federal Home Loan Bank System AcounSs Insured to $15,000 by Fec'eral Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation Current Dividend Per Annum r. 1.