Government Hopes To
Cut Transportation
Costs With Car Pools
Washington (U.R) The gov
ernment is hoping to cut the
rising cost of transportation by
increasing automobile pools and
by using newer, fewer and small
er cars.
A car pool program, probably
to take effect this June or July,'
was instituted bv executive and
congressional order.
Outlined by the General ser
vices Administration, the plan
calls for certain agencies to pool
their cars. These cars would then
be dispatched wherever needed.
However, GSA said ths plan
would be very flexible. It said
many agencies will still have cars
assigned to them for economical
reasons. Some cars will also be
dispersed over the city and not
necessarily kept in a centrally
located yard.
Three Points
Some cities with many agen
cics also may rate a fleet of
radio-dispatched vehicles.
The GSA said costs could be
reduced by this method.
1. The pools will use fewer
cars. Each car costs the taxpapers
$500 a year to keep up.
2. Cars will be newer. They
will be sold before major repairs
are needed.
3. Civil service employees will
use smaller cars instead of the
larger makes. This will save on
initial cost and operation.
Under the direction of the
GSA, various departments have
already reduced costs by putting
a tentative pool plan in opera-
tiori.
An experimental interagency
car pool here cut expenses by
Oil-Rich Bahrein
Claimed by Iran
Tehran, Iran (U.R)Iran laid
formal claim Saturday to the
tiny oil-rich British protectorate
of Bahrein as an "inseparable
part of Iran." The action threat
ened new headaches for Britain
who is already involved in a
bitter dispute with Greece over
Cyprus.
The Iranian action was dis
closed by Foreign Minister
Aligholi Ardelan at a news con
ference. A few hours later Premier
Hussein Ala announced that
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
and Queen Soraya will leave for
a visit to Moscow on June 1.
Officials said the Shah's ac
ceptance of a long-standing in
vitation followed the recent dis
continuance of inflammatory
broadcasts by radio Moscow.
"Iran cannot remain inactive
and silent any longer in view
of recent events," Ardelan said.
The foreign minister said the
Iranian position toward Bahrein
in the Persian gulf was made
clear to British Foreign Secre
tary Selwy Lloyd on his visit to
Tehran last Month. Bahrein has
been under British protection
for more than 100 years.
Officers Ordered
Ou! of British Army
Nicosia, Cyprus (U.R) A
British Army court martial Sat
urday cashiered two officers
from the service for beating a
Greek Cypriot prisoner with a
length of chain.
Elsewhere across this terror
stricken island, Cypdiot turned
on Cypriot. Extremist gunmen
shot and killed one Cypriot
Greek in a coffee shop at Plat
anistassa, a village 32 miles
southwest of Nicosia, the capital.
Another was shot and seriously
$500. 00& last year. Employees
were urged to use a shuttle bus
service, public transportation
and taxicabs.
Other Plans
Other methods of tightening
the purse strings are oftn plan
ned by the GSA. Last year, a
"drive less" campaign helped to
save the government $11,000,000.
Couriers drove 75,000,000 miles
less than in the previous year.
The saving was made despite an
increase in gasoline prices.
GSA also is continuously seek
ing ways of reducing the govern
ment's motor pool. The govern
ment now owns 211,198 auto
mobiles, trucks and jeeps. This
total does not include any com
bat vehicles.
Of the total, 116,276 are oper
ated by the Defense Department,
21,731 by the Post Office De
partment, 21,467 by the Agri
culture Department, 19,181 by
the Interior Department, and
9,034 by the Atomic Energy
Commission.
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Eden Finishes First Year on Job
Found To Be BundSe Of Troubles
London (U.R) Sir Anthony
Eden completed his first year as
prime minister late last week to
opposition jibes that" Churchill
made the shoes too big."
Eden's friends say he has done
a workmanlike job and his ene
mies claim he has dithered. No
body claims he has achieved Sir
Winston Churchill's reputation
for inspirational leadership but
few seriously call him a failure.
If the first year is the hardest,
Eden must be glad. For after
waiting 15 years to inherit the
job, he has found it a bundle
of trouble.
His friends say it was simply
the dice roll of history. His
critics blame his crapshooting.
Mixed Assessments
These mixed assessments of
the handsome Eden's first year
as Britain's leader stem from
the following blows -that have
shaken this kingdom since
Churchill stepped down and
virtually out of sight last April
April 5:
1. An optimistic, tax-cutting
budget that helped Eden win the
general election last May turned
sour. An emergency budget had
to be introduced in the autumn,
raising taxes again.
2. Inflation that forced the
budget revision staggered the
economy. A remedial series of
credit squeezs and spending cuts
hit the purse of the workingman.
The Labor party raged that it
was too little, too late. The
economic crisis continues. Polls
show Eden's political strength
has dropped.
3. Back bench Conservative
members of Parliament who nev
er would have dared defy
wounded by extremists as he
cycled through a street in the
city of Famagusta.
At the court martial in Nico
sia, uaptams rvODin Jiinzee ana
Gerald O Driscoll were ordered
dismissed from the service for
brutlaity toward a prisoner. Sen
tence is subject to review by
higher authorities.
Both had denied the charges.
Churchil started muttering
against Eden's leadership in Jan
uary, due largely to the econ
omic crisis. There was a flurry
of speculation that he would be
ditched but Eden rode out the
tempest.
4. Then things came unstuck
in foreign affairs. Eden's special
ty. Britain's backing of the Bagh
dad pact backfired. Jordan
wouldn't join and instead dis
owned its foster mother, Britain,
by expelling Gen. John Glubb
Pasha. Egypt seemed to be shak
ing the Bristish hold in the Mid
east. Shooting started in the
Cyprus colony and Eden deport
ed Archbishop Makarios. It split
Britain into angry factions with
varying views on how to handle
Active Hear Gaza
Jerusalem, Israeli Sector
;U,R) Egyptian "suicide squads"
invaded Israeli territory Satur
day near the Gaza strip waste
land in the fourth straight day
of border warfare, Israel
charged. The fighting also
spread to the Syrian and Jordan
iani borders.
An Israeli military spokesman
reported several Israelis killed
or wounded by t h e Egyptian
raiders who, Israel said, were
spreading terror north of the
bloody strip. A general alarm
was sounded throughout the Is
raeli western Negev desert.
The report was the first one
to mention infantry attacks in
the sporadic fighting which each
side accused the other of starting
across the, C-aza demarcation
line. The danger area spread
beyond that of the past three
days when artillery shelling
killed at least 67 persons and
wounded 108.
Israeli army spokesman Col.
Nehemia Brosh said the Egypt
ian "fidaeen" (suicide) squads
attacked a dozen settlements on
the Israeli side of the border.
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Critics claim Eden's touch has
been wooden in these crises.
They accuse him of changing
from thi timid to the belligerent
without thinking things through.
Yet Eden has hit peaks of
popularity. The British people
by and large' approved his trip
to Washington to see President
Eisenhower and the pleasant im
pact of his speeches on Amer
icans pleased most Britons.
Nobody here believes that any
thing short of a general calamity
can unhorse him anytime soon.
Vocal Approval for
Tax Clause Measure
Salem (U.R) A November
ballot measure to allow the Leg-,
islature to put the emergeny
clause on tax measures in Ore
gon received vocal approval by
a group attending an all-day tax
clinic Friday.
William Bade, manager of Ore
gon Tax Research, said the state
could not expect to have a well
planned tax program so long as
"a small minority" could block
the Legislature's laws until they
came to a vote.
The emergency clause would
allow the Legislature to pass tax
measures without their being
subject to a vote of the people.
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