Daily News from New York, New York • 209

DAILY NEWS. SATURDAY. JANUARY 1, 1966 A The Transit Strike is STTQJFE Court rder Quill Defies By JACK METCALFE Washingtoo, Dec. 31 A flood of glowing year-end reports is pouring out. As might be expected, government agencies crow over how much and how well they've been doing.

How they're saving more while, paradoxically, more. How much rosier everything will be in the new year. So far as we know, only one federal outfit (except, naturally, the CIA) has kept discreetly mum. This self-effacing paragon is the General Accounting Office, which doesn't even have a press agent. far a the aid union the w- lea iiil oH-rti defiance, res', t-ited the iri In ghi deadline fe-ea rjr pff the trey were getting nowhere -a 'd a ttrk s'rategy hud-.

Vsed doo With artis. irt that A' cffer. re- fc mm that th as begun. News-n cheers ar.ti ap- TWU TAKES WALK, WE'LL TAKE BOAT As th issue cf a transit strike hung in the balance. The Ns along mixh other employers in the city formulated emer-Kty plans yesterday to assist its emnlnjrM in retting to work.

For employes living in Queens. Brooklyn and Long Island, The es will make available parking land it owns in Long Island City. The site is on the East Kiver just north of Newtown Creek and south of the Qjeens Mid town Tunnel. Parking there wi'I he restricted to News rm-ployes, provided with special identification cards and organized car pool. Workers leaving their cars will be ferried over the river on a chartered -15-foot party boat to the Municipal Yacht rUin.

cf E. 27th St. Company cars and trucks then 'r -g to The News 220 E. 42d St, a fre-w the rr.eet;rg. at a rews con- '-rdav a't In a seven-page the ft -fry He re- as such, on its roster.

Such modesty alone rates a respectful doff of the Capitol Stuff derby. But there's another reason for a salute to the GAO. Year in and year out the GAO doggedly keeps tabs on federal operations and churns out repeated suggestions to its boss Congress on how to save taxpayers' money. Not every piece advice is heeded, so it's impossible to say how many millions are not wasted annually through GAO recommendations. Nor is there any way to put a dollar value on what's saved simply because bureaucrats know that the GAO watchdog is on the job.

In this regard, it will be interesting to see what Congress does with the latest GAO report. This st jdy found that the armed forces are using about 9.000 enlisted n.en for such "non-military activities" as working at clubs for cffirers and NCOs. hobby shops, l-uwhng alleys, commissaries and coif courses. These men, whom tne GAO could mostly be V-1' sad. when asked tr they i.i.r.i 'or rre.

I''! ti Pi -r 5-it I a tv rr w. i r. ire Hj- 1 Mi he that even if frr-rd to "nm. J' absence cT the iMir.n- ouak ar.l a "iuvm!" a ca ras been uied a "lit-hlx-rate he" to get arct-rd to li com- way trf. te negotiations to at- precepts." lent! i t-ariru: m.

rni-n Fa Tslier reartfd alJ l.ind-ay olvi- i na 1 ut that he I a.r.ta-red and aiy t- in tb nan e- I Sme time later, (J.ll en b. ti a'k the regt.ati4r if Lin. Nay left. 1 91 i Norman S. Paul anpou.

it hit problem Lindsay Goes In as No. 103 (ContmutJ frm pt' 3) erlal On TKars.iay Q'ii'l tore Irgai raf-r rs serv-J on him in with tre cw proceeding Ye-tertiy Ti ler commerted tf-a: the leader "rhii.i i- the groue.il K-'a 1 cf ii -ary (rculafe oa Offer Lytr the Trar.it an --ier cal'ed urn Vuill and Ji. 'rr. ar.d the Amalgamated Tra- to direct their net to observe the ra'l. I.ir.

a--d members cf the pane! resumed talks un r. eff a at 9:45 P.M. r. a baenier.t n.eetir.g rwm a. t.x there was a'-, an tffer was to rr.i.'t- t.

the r- replaced by civilians, draw about $40.5 million a year in pay. Pentagon policy is to assign uniformed personnel to military duties wherever possible. Civilians are supposed to be hired for oiT.cers cljbs and the like and 1 paid out of the enterprises' receipts. Norman S. Paul, the Asitart Defence Secretary for Manpower, told the GAO that so far as possible this was being done.

And. Paul added, the department was trying to free mote men for lighting by looking for ways to hire more civilians for non-military jobs in view- of increased draft requirements. Urg Congress fo Draw the Lines The head of the GAO. Acting Controller General Frank H. Weitzel.

answered that more ought to be done and suggested that Congress fix guidelines fur using servicemen in non-military pots. Ever since alius Caesar's onierlv irrired about havinir to spot- Happed Jutie "'w a ieirption riKti acrf'ss frcm tre present office of the Mayor. The rew sia to have ta'rn i a t- a ill iay ff ftie ar-rea-am each the five five the a chance to see their mayor. i T-an- he ta. throughout the day -v- rf irrseii bv vitrler Princess' Crowning GJory lie evjcte.j to appearj to plirs to jial the a- rtati' I crisis Lindsay was srrour.detl ly Mary; Kath- arine, 14; Ma'naret.

12. and. nre, 'j. an 1 Jthn hi 'if i their faiillic a tTOth-: Dav e'1 children an ar 1 hr hi wife ar.ii f'-ir Gf irjre ar.d his -gr ft-chitjren. Outgoing -r rai li.mn i in tr I tion.

After r.rre than mir.utes cf I the preet- ay left the HaM at Jr car I rr the An-ierirara Hotel and the JT' a f-f' i the Caesar's toga, there have been flans our assigning troops ti. that others could fill. Most pa-t squawks that the jobs were P.jt the GAO, a coiintant didn't raie the qMtion cf whether it was proper for a rifleman to sweep out an officers' barroom. Ar.d eivept indirectly did not say that 9.000 men in assignments might be better employed djrirg the Vict Nam manpower shortage. But the report cited three casts where TenUigi-n policy seemingly was ignored.

First was an airman who had been intcnsivelv trained to orer-ate, install, tH and maintain gio ind rn inications equipment. Tr.s qualified, he was finally given a job in an air base hi-fi hobby hcp. "The serviceman adivsed that he did not know how he was 'elected for the assignment." the (i Ml "but that he wa tut-t-s fur the ccr.veniente of the Individ jaN who patronized the shop." Soft Spots for Draff Card Burners? was a ailcr who never trot any training after he boot camp. Instead, he spent his time cleaning up an officeis' bowling alley and making minor repa.is to machinery. A soldier was mentioned third.

After three years experience as a motor maintenance sergeant woiking with tanks, weapons carriers and other tracked vehicles, he became a "recreation specialist." Dryly, the GAO report commented, 'we interviewed the serviceman to determine what duties he was performing and found that he was assigned to the rod and gun club at Fort Hood (Tex.) as a game warden." The GAO did not imply that any serviceman it found in rear-echelon jobs were there by choice or, for that matter, preferred them to active duty. But the fact that there are so many non-military billets available could give the draft-card burners second thouthts. Are the ar.ti-war demonstrators wasting their time and risking prison sentences for nothing when they might be able to wangle a "civilian" job in uniform? That way they could do as little for the war effort in service as out. Its fy and Nose flonge for The GAO, of course, has during this past year probed a lot of other government activities to the taxpayers benefit. Among other recent GAO disclosures along with respectful suggestions that Congress do something about them was the fact that some Navy shore patrolmen in Hong Kong padded their expense accounts and otherwise spent $94,000 more than necessary between June, 1963, and December, 1964.

As a result scores of sailors can expect to pay hack the difference between what hotels actually charged them for room and board and the per diem allowances they claimed, and future shore patrols in Hong Kong may have to bunk on a Navy station ship and est Navy chow. Another GAO finding was more odorous. The auditors discovered that District of Columbia garbage collectors have been working an average of 64 hours a day. Their fellow ash collectors put in an average 7 hours daily, and trash men picked up for seven hours daily. tranit He arrived there at Her ReM New Tear's 1 Mrs.

Ijnday. whoe plain green dress matched a green stripe in a tie that her husband wore with a dark pin-stripe s.iit and bl je shirt, described last right as -the harpiest, most ex- citing New Year's ever." Bjt she said she and the youngsters would hld to the family tradi- tion of not staying up to greet the New Year. I i Her husband, she said, "may stay Bp I with the transit hag-rlinr), but I won't" She said the family would "be living out of the hotel (Roosevelt) for a month," while Gracie Mansion is readied for their occupancy. At 7 tonight the pubUe twear-ing-in ceremony will take place on the steps of City HalL The ceremony will opened with music by the Sanitation Department Band and Manhattan Drum and Bugle Corps. Ethel Merman will sing the national anthem.

Lindsay will speat, at will O'Connor and Procaccino. Appointees of the Mayor will also be swovft 1 priocest Mickik preseata ae soa- Prince aubti it Priace Aya Is secand of craw princess a ad hus-fcanrf. Crea Priace Akihit..