On Decision Making
McNamara
Talks Back
WASHINGTON L Secretary
of Defense Robert S. McNa
mara, whose decisions have
been challenged in some con
gressional quarters, Saturday
night defended his decision
making philosophy.
"The secretary of defense
and I am talking about any
secretary of defense must
make certain kinds of decisions,
not because he presumes his
judgment to be superior to his
advisers, military or civilian,
but because his, position is the
best place from which to make
those decisions," he said.
In a speech prepared for the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors, McNamara continued:
"This same kind of argument
applies when economic interests
affected by defense decisions
generate, as they inevitably
will, political pressures on de
fense officials. Such pressures
are an intrinsic and necessary
part of a democratic political
process.
'Duly ... to Stand Up'
"There are a good many ad
vantages in forcing public offi
cials to listen to people outside
their own staffs who do not
chare their views and assump
tions. But it is the duty of gov
ernment officials, representing
the national interest rather than
any smaller interest, to stand
up to these pressures where
what is asked cannot be recon
ciled with the national inter
est." At another point, McNamara
said "You cannot make deci
sions simply by asking yourself
whether something might be
nice to have. You have to make
a judgment on how much is
enough. I emphasize judgment
because you can't even be sure
yourself, much less prove to
others, that your decision was
precisely right to the last dol
lar even to the last billion
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be made."
In his prepared text, McNa
mara made no reference to the
debate over charges of news
management by the Pentagon.
In talking about "the problem
of decision-making in the De
fense Department," McNamara
touched upon such controversial
decisions as that in the contract
award for the TFX warplane,
the cancellation of the Skybolt
missile program and the with
ered RS70 reconnaissance-strike
airplane.
He discussed also some of the
results of his management and
rearranging of the Pentagon's
military and procurement pro
grams. More Competitive Contracts
Among other things, McNa
mara said actions in his cost-reduction
program so far would
bring about an ultimate saving
of over SI. 9 billion and that by
fiscal 1967 these reforms would
save $3.4 billion a year.
He included in the predicted
over-all $1.9 billion a saving of
over $300 million through in
creased use of competitive in
stead of negotiated contract
awards; more than $300 million
by shifting from cost-plus-fixed-fee
awards to fixed-price, incentive-type
contracts; over $300
million through tighter manage
ment of inventories and nearly
$300 million through closing or
reducing the size of 330 mili
tary installations.
In the TFX controversy, a
Senate committee is inquiring
into McNamara's decision to
award the $6.5-billion job for
the standard fighter-bomber for
the Air Force and Navy to Gen
eral Dynamics Corp., although
the low bidder was the Boeing
Co. and although military offi
cers of the Air Force and Navy
initially favored the Boeing proposal.
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EUGENE REGISTER GUARD, Sunday, April 21, 1963 Page SA
That Day of Confusion
Is Coming Up Again
By NORMAN RUNNION
Of the United frets International
WASHINGTON Whit
time is it?
You're eating breakfast and
your watch says 10 o'clock
but the 11 a.m. news is on the
radio and you've just missed
church.
Y'ou take i plane from
Washington, D.C., to Norfolk,
Va., and arrive five minutes
before the hour you left.
Your train pulls into New
York's Grand Central Station
at 3 p.m. But outside on 42nd
Street it's 4.
What time is it? Next Sun
day, April 28, it will depend
entirely on where you are.
That is the semi-annual day
of confusion marking the
switchover in some places
to daylight saving time.
The trouble is that it's only
In some places.
Twenty-eight states and the
District of Columbia observe
daylight saving time during
the year.
Fourteen of these have it in
operation throughout the
state; the other 14 have dif
ferent rules for different
areas. Elcvch of the 28 have
daylight time from April to
the end of October; the re
mainder terminate it in other
months.
Private groups and somo
branches of the federal gov
ernment would like to see
somo of this confusion ended.
The House Commerce and
Finance Subcommittee has
several bills before it which
it hopes to merge into one ac
ceptable piece of legislation
dealing with uniform time
standards.
Twice before, the federal
government has regulated
daylight and standard time,
in the first and second world
wars.
Daylight saving timo lasted
for only two years in the First
World War. The law was re
pealed partly because of tho
violent protests of farmers,
who said their cows were giv
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ing milk an hour after the
milk trains passed by.
The idea for daylight time
actually stemmed from the
days before there were any
trains at all. Benjamin Frank
lin, who thought of so many
things, came up with the idea
of daylight saving time when
he was U.S. minister to
France just after the Ameri
can revolution.
He figured that Parisians
unnecessarily burned candles
for 1,281 hours in spring and
summer. He wrote that "it is
impossible that a wise people
make use of unhealthy and ex
pensive candles when they can
have for nothing the beauti
ful and pure light of the sun."
Parisians laughed him down.
With the exception of the
two wars, control of daylight
time has been left up to the
states, with resulting nation
wide confusion.
Convicts Win
By Holding Guard Hostage
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.
Ifl Three mutinous convicts
bargained with authorities for
the life of a hostage guard in
riot-torn British Columbia Peni
tentiary S a t u rd a y and won
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in return for his release.
Tho guard, Pat Dennis, was
held at knifepoint with arms
and back bound with wire dur
ing a night of wild rioting.
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11 a.m. when the riot leaders
were whisked off by plane to
Eastern prisons after negotia
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dozens of tear gas shells into
tho gray stone prison and many
of the 670 men inmates smashed
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The Transport Assn. of
America is one group actively
working to end the confusion.
The association estimated that
railroads could save a great
deal of money just in time
tables alone. Since federal
law requires the trains to
operate on standard time,
there must be two sets of
timetables for the traveling
public.
Then it cites the case of one
bus which operates over a
35-mile highway distance be
tween Steubenville, Ohio, and
M o u n d s v i 1 1 e, W.Va., and
passes through stops with
seven different time changes.
The association's solution is
this: "There should be uni
formity of time, whether
standard or daylight, and uni
formity in the change dates
within each time zone."
Ben Franklin would say
amen.
Fast Transfer
The commotion began at 9:13
p.m. Friday when the three con
victs, Gerald Caissey, 28; Wayne
Carlson, 21, and Nelson Wood,
broko a window in the prison
auditorium and headed for the
wall.
An officer spotted them and
fired three shots in the air. The
convicts ran back to the build
ing, grabbed Dennis and hauled
him into the auditorium wash
room, holding makeshift knives
at his throat.
Rioting began and extra po
lice were called to help the
guards.
Then Jack Webster, 44, com
mentator for New Westminster
radio station CKNW, was called
in with Warden Tom Hall's ap
proval at request of the convict
trio. They said they wanted
maximum publicity for alleged
grievances and transfer from,
the prison.
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