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Page Two RwaU, Portsmouth, N. Monday Inmlmt, July It, r952 H. For Federal Employes By JOHN CRAMER WASHINGTON--A new appeals system for federal employes who dismissed from their jobs has begun to take-form In the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee. Before Congress adjourned, Chairman Tom Murray (D-Tenn.) ordered the committee staff to undertake a thorough study of the present appeals system, and draft recommendations for possible changes. The staff probably will propose: 1.

That non-veterans with five or more years of federal service be given the right to'appeal dismissals to Civil Service Commission's Board of Appeals and Review. At present, only veterans have this right. .3. That present appeals system for non-veterans with less than five years service continue unchanged. Their only right of appeal would be to an appeals body In their own agencies.

8. That the appeals system for both veterans and non-veterans be streamlined by a requirement that there be only one hearing on each appeai. This hearing would be conducted in the employe's agency. Any subsequent appeal to the Civil Service Commission would involve only a review of the formal record of the hearing. At present, as many as three hearings are possible--one in the agency, one before the Board of Appeals and Review, and a third before the three Civil Service commissioners.

Meantime, the committee staff soon will send a questionnaire to all agency asking questions such at these: Does the present appeals system it overly-difficult to fire incompetent employes? What proportion of fired employes file appeals? If the appeals system is costly and cumbersome, as many federal officials have, charged, how can it be improved? About the postal order: President Truman has signed the long-delayed executive order for post offices to resume the granting of permanent job appointments. The order also authorizes permanent appointments for so-called Indefinite employes who compose about a fifth of the postal service. Among other things, this means they'll get Civil Service status, which they now lack. Since Sept. 1, 1950, all postal appointments, and most of those in other U.S.

agencies have been Indefinite rather than permanent. The new order will take effect Aug. 17. Under it: 1. Indefinite employes appointed from Civil Service eligible lists (ranked lists of persons who have passed Civil Service exams) will become eligible for permanent appointments immediately.

They will get them, however, only if there are sufficient vacancies in the permanent staffs of their own offices. The new appointments will be granted in the same order in which the employes originally were hired. Those who fail of immediate permanent appointments because the complements of their oitices already are full, will be placed on reserve lists, and will be made permanent as fast as vacancies occur. This part of the order applies to all Indefinites appointed since Feb. 4, 1946.

2. Many Indefinites weren't appointed from eligible lists, and were discouraged by their superiors from taking Civil Service exams which opened up later. Under the new order, those in this group will be requir- ed to take the first Civil Service postal exams which become available in i their own communities. If they obtain marks of 75 or better, they then will be eligible for permanent appointment, provided there are vacancies. Here Is an example of how the order will operate for this second group: James Jones entered the postal service in January, 1951, but not from Civil Service register.

In June, 1951, a Civil Service postal exam was offered In his city, but he didn't take it, because the Civil Service Commission told him he had nothing to gain by doing so. Under the new order. Mr. Jones will take the first exam which opens up. If he passes with a 75 or better, he then will get his permanent appointment retroactive to the date he would have received it had he passed the June, 1951, exam with the same mark.

One provision of the new order is certain to produce heated employe protests. Under It. employes converted from Indefinite to permanent automatically will be switched from the Social Security System to the Civil Service Retirement System. And this will reduce their take-home pay by almost 5 per cent. For Social Security benefits, employes pay Wi per cent of their salaries up to a maximum of $54 per year.

For Civil Service Retirement, however, they must pay a flat 6 per cent. -f- New Pay Plan: A new pay system for Army and Air Force supervi- sors of per diem (blue collar) workers apparently is in the offing. If It comes, it will follow the pattern of the newly-announced Navy system, which gave supervisors flat percentage differentials over the pay of those they supervise--as a substitute for the previous dollars-and- cents differentials. Under the Navy plan, leadingmen get 25 per cent more than those they supervise; quartermen, 40 per cent; and chief quartermen, 55 per cent, with corresponding differentials for four smaller groups of supervisors. Army and Air Force officials say frankly that they want to put in a similar plan.

Their problem is complicated, however, by the fact that both have 15 different grades of supervisors, as against the Navy's seven. if Unique: A second Federal Court has held-that the small group of government officials known as hearing examiners can't be touched in a layoff--can't be dismissed even though their agencies and their work vanish completely. This second decision came last week from the District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which upheld an earlier ruling by a lower court. Hearing examiners, who number fewer than 500 all told, sit as preliminary judges when government administrative rules are challenged. Their jobs are controlled by the Administrative Procedures Act, which specifies that they may be dismissed only on orders of the Civil Service Commission and only "for cause." Several months ago, a group of examiners filed suit to set aside Civil Service rules which make them subject to layoffs on the same basis as other workers.

A Federal District Court sustained their contention, holding they couldn't be laid off even though there was no work for them to do. The Appeals Court upheld this ruling. CSC says it will appeal to the Supreme Court. Speedup Sought: Army, Navy and Air Force again have asked Wage Stabilization Board for a delegation of authority permitting them to handle wage controls over the pay of their 700,000 per diem (blue collar) employes. And this time, there's a better than fair chance WSB will consent-mainly because its reduced budget requires a sharp curtailment of its staff and program.

For employes, the switch would mean that future pay increases would come much more promptly. Here's why: Per diem pay rates are adjusted periodically to conform to prevailing local industrial rates with adjustments sometimes coming as often as twice a year. For the past 18 months, however, the military agencies have had to submit most increases to WSB for prior approval to make sure they didn't violate the national wage policy. WSB has taken an average of 3 to 4 months to handle these cases, with resulting delays in Ihs actual granting ot the raises. Recently, the military agencies announced that future raises, if approved, would be retroactive to the date of their submission to WSB.

And, as a further speedup step, they've now requested that they be relieved of the necessity of submitting future wage proposals to WSB. Their proposal is that they should follow WSB regulations: that all increases be subject to "policing" by WSB; but that the long delays involved in getting WSB approval be eliminated. Several similar requests in the past were turned down by WSB. Surveys Ordered: Army, Navy and Air Force have launched a new round of full-dress wage surveys, which eventually are expected to lead to pay raises for all of their 700,000 per diem workers thru-out the country. Changes in per diem pay rates are based on surveys of local industrial rates.

Most surveys in the past year have been what the military agencies call spot-check surveys, which cover only the high spots. The planned new full-dress surveys, similar to those customary before Korea, will be far more detailed. Plane Door Flies Open; Draft Drags Woman to Death RIO DE JANEIRO. Brazil LW-The door of a Pan American Airlines Stratocruiser blew open in flight yesterday and the sudden draft sucked an American-born woman out of her seat and to her death in the Atlantic Ocean 1,200 feet below. The victim was identified as Mrs.

Marie Elizabeth Westbrook Capellaro, daughter of Mrs. Bessie Ma- chrij of Los Angeles, and wife of Emllio Capellaro, a banker of Rome, Italy. She was accompanying Capellaro on a business trip. Los Angeles, a spokesman for the woman's family said her mother knew she had planned to marry Capellaro but did not know the ceremony had taken place. He said the woman talked by telephone with her mother on Saturday and "did not say anything at that time about being married.

I am sure she would have told her mother if she were." He identified the victim as the widow of U.S. Air Force Col. Robert B. Westbrook, who was shot down during World War II. The plane door blew off ahortly after the takeoff from Rio De Janeiro, when the aircraft was 27 miles out on a flight to Montevideo, Uruguay.

Passengers and crew members said they did not see the woman disappear. Capellaro, sitting next to her, said he was not looking in her direction. The woman's seat, next to a window and just forward of the door, was twisted and part of the cloth lining the ceiling of the cabin was ripped off. The plane returned to Rio and three Brazilian Air Force planes were sent to search the area of the disappearance. William Sears Baha'i Speaker ELIOT William Sears, playwright, radio and television writer and commentator from Philadelphia, was guest speaker at a Baha'i public meeting yesterday afternoon at Fellowship House in Eliot.

His subject was "A Spiritual Declaration of Independence." Sears, chairman of the National Baha'i Radio Committee was two years with the United Press, has nine published plays, and has been awarded the University of Wiscon sin Playwrighting Award. Youthful Gunmen Hold Family Hostage HOLYOKE, Colo. (fl--Sixteen persons, seven of them children, were Imprisoned for hours in a farmhouse on the Eastern Colorado sandhills by two gun-brandishing youths during a short-lived Sunday flight from jail. The pair, identified by Highway Patrolman Darold Hartsook as Glenn Maynard, IB, of Amherst, and Ronald Davey, 17, of Indianapolis, apparently believed they had killed Sheriff Harry Clements they broke tail One of their hostages said they From November to April the Yalu River is usually frozen solid except at its salt water mouth. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our relatives, friends and neighbors; also the nurses and Dr.

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