6 MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Or.,
Comptroller General
Save Large
Washington - TPD - Comp
troller General Joseph Camp
bell is a public paradox. He
spends money and saves more
than he spends.
This year, Campbell, a 58
year - old accountant, will
s pend about $33 million of the
taxpayers' money. By doing so
he will recapture perhaps
three times that amount for
the Treasury.
Campbell heads the General
Accounting Office. His agency,
functioning as an arm of Con
gress, is chief auditor for the
government's $79 - billion -a-year
spending budget.
Cast by capital cliche as the
Congressional "watchdog" on
spending, Campbell belongs to
the breed which muzzles the
bark the better to apply the
bite.
From a shiny modern head
quarters building here, Camp
bell directs the activities of
some 5,300 GAO employees.
He runs 19 field office in the
Village in Connecticut
Is Childhood Fantasy
During Christmas Time
Christmas Village, Torring-
ton, Conn. -(UPD- When Christ
mas time rolls around, Tor-
rington ceases to be an indus
trial center and becomes s
little world of childhood fan
tasy instead.
The Yuletide spirit took
hold this year on Sunday, Dec
7, with the opening of Christ
mas Village, where Santa
Claus and his elves are greet
ins thousands of kids and
grownups from near and far.
Every day, until Santa
leaves Christmas Eve on his
Very Important Journey, the
jolly old gentleman is "at
home" to all.
He sits on a glittering
throne near a crackling fire
place surrounded by all kinds
of toys and stuffed animals.
He chats gaily with the young
sters who call on him, and
listens sympathetically to
their secrets.
Talk With Children
In a nearby room are his
elves, hammering, painting
and decorating thousands and
thousands of the toys that
must be ready for delivery by
Christmas Eve.
As they work, they talk
with the children, answer
their endless questions, show
them where they sleep and
eat. The walls and ceiling of
the workshop fairly drip with
toys, gay decorations and tin
sel. The elves, with their stock
ing caps, pointed green shoes
and fuzzy beards, look the
same as they do in the story
- books.
From the workshop, it's
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Wednesday, December 17, 1958
Amount
United States plus offices in
Paris, London, Frankfurt,
Rome, Madrid and Tokyo.
Ride Herd
Accountants and investiga
tors from those offices ride
herd on the expenditures of
most government agencies
Only a few, such as the super
secret Central Intelligence
Agency and the Federal Re
serve System - otherwise au
dited - close their doors to
Campbell's men.
But Campbell, watchdog-
ging in Washington where few
hesitate to blow their own
horns, makes little noise. His
agency has no press officers
and no newsroom. He shuns
interviews and makes few
public speeches.
When his accountants put
the bite on a defense contrac
tor for a refund or take the
hide off a government official
for an administrative lapsi
some congressional committee
usually discloses Campbell's
only a stone's throw to the
Christmas Village corral
That's where Santa's reindeer
- all eight of them - are kept
in readiness for Dec. 24.
In a little pink house there's
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rein
deer and in a smaller pink
house a baby reindeer-Snow-
flake.
Scene Depicted
A muted carillon arrange
ment of "Joy to the World"
leads the children to the
creche, where the nativity
scene is depicted with nearly
life-size figures of the Holy
Family. The animals, the
Three Wise Men, the Angels
and the Guiding Star - all are
there.
This year more than 50,000
youngsters and adults are ex
pected to visit Christmas Vil
lage. Only local residents are
permitted during the first
week. But after that, every
one Is welcome.
A special day Telephone
Day is set aside for children
who canot visit Santa in per
son. And there's also a "Hospi
tal Day," when Santa and his
elves visit the shut - ins at
Chralotte - Hungerf ord Hospi
tal here.'
Christmas Village is In its
11th year. It is a project of
the Torrington Park and Rec
reation Department and was
conceived by program director
John Borzenski.
He thought of the idea to
show the people his gratitude
for their many kindnesses
while he was seriously ill in a
hospital.
Auto Tools Reported
Taken from Garage
Auto tools valued at $12.85
were taken from Kaye's Tex
aco Service, 1207 Courrt st.,
last Wednesday evening, ac
cording to a report to Med
ford police this week by Rich
ard Brayshaw Kaye, the pro
prietor. Kaye stated that three men
and two women were in a ve
hicle driven into his lube
room. He said they asked him
if they could use his tools to
tighten a valve cover. While
he was taking care of other
customers, Kaye related, the
vehicle with all five occup
ants and three of his tools
disappeared.
GORE-SLIP-ON with
BELTED STRAP by
SHERBROOKE
f midforo
Spends Millions To
for National Treasury
findings and steals the GAO's
thunder.
That suits Campbell. He be
lieves that his agency speaks
best to the Congress and the
agencies it audits through its
carefully detailed reports
which are prepared at the rate
of several hundred a year.
Single Term
Appointed by the President
and confirmed by the Senate
for a single 15-year term, the
comptroller general can only
be removed from his $22,500-a-year
post by congressional
action. Thus insulated from
the partisan ressures which
beset other public officials,
Campbell can well afford to
issue his reports and let the
chips fall where they may.
Generally the views of the
GAO are much respected
throughout government-even
when those views are highly
critical. Traditionally GAO
auditors give first priority to
getting mistakes adjusted, pre
ferring correction to criticism.
Campbell and his aides are
sometimes criticized, however,
for pushing their audit in
quiries into policy questions.
The Air Force, for example,
recently refused to give the
GAO a full copy of an inspec
tor general s report criticizing
missile activities on grounds
that such action would be
against the nation's best inter
ests.
The history of the GAO
offers some insight into its
current role in government
and its attitude toward such
disputes. Although the govern
ment has had an auditing
agency almost from its crea
tion, the present General Ac
counting Office was not estab
lished until 1921. For years it
stressed paper audits in which
its Washington accountants
were satisfied to make sure
that each expenditure was
supported by a proper vouch
Emphasis Changed
With the advent of multi
billion - dollar budgets, how
ever, the emphasis has chang
ed. Since about 1950 the stress
has been on audits conducted
"on the site" where auditors
can go behind the paperwork.
The stupid as well as the cor
rupt have come increasingly
under GAO scrutiny.
So, while the GAO claims
no policy making authority -for
example - in deciding
whether to send U. S. military
aid to tropical nation X, it
would thoroughly air the
policy" behind any shipment
of arctic boots to troops who
might be stationed there.
Just how much money is
saved by GAO operations is
hard to estimate. The agency's
own collections run to about
$52 million annually but they
are primarily refunds claimed
on transportation.
Refunds Paid
Substantial refunds are paid
to other agencies too. The
GAO, in a 1957 report widely
publicized by a House armed
services committee, found that
General Motors Corp. over
estimated its costs under an
aircraft contract. The com
pany refunded $5 million to
the Air Force and has offered
to kick in an additional $4,-
700,000 if the case does not go
before the courts or the rene
gotiation board.
Moreover, the government
profits through undetermined
savings under contract im
provements demanded by
GAO and from the reports
made by Campbell and his
aides to Congress on pending
legislation. And some pay
ments to the government, won
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by the Justice Department in
court cases are based on data
supplied by GAO. .
Campbell himself, a greying
lean-faced man who chews on
a pipe like a professor, was
vice - president of Columbia
University supervising its
finances when Dwight D. Eis
enhower, a former president
of Columbia, tapped him for
a job as a member of the
Atomic Energy Commission in
1953.
Democrats Opposed
He had decided to leave the
commission to return to Co
lumbia late in 1954 when Eis
enhower named him comp
troller general to succeed the
much respected Lindsay C.
Warren, a former North Caro
lina Congressman.
Because Campbell had not
had legislative or legal ex
perience and because he had
voted, as an Atomic Energy
Commissioner for the con
troversial Dixon-Yates power
contract, some Democrats op
posed his appointment to head
the GAO.
One of the leaders in the
unsuccessful Democratic drive
against the appointment
Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) -has
since stated publicly that
he now believes his opposition
to the appointment was ill
advised. 3 Children Die
in House Fire
Meyersdale, Pa. - (UPD - Fire
men recovered the charred
bodies of three children early
today from the ashes of a
home on a Somerset county
chicken farm near here.
Ronald Ansell, 5; Robert, 3,
and Linda, IVz, burned to
death Tuesday night when
flames raced through the two
story frame house while their
father was feeding chickens
at a nearby farm building.
James Arnell, the father,
said he heard an explosion
and ran to the house to find
it engulfed in flames. Crawlng
on his hands and knees, he
tried to enter but was driven
back by heat, smoke and
flames.
The bodies of the young
sters were found huddled to
gether at the foot of a stair
case a few feet from the rear
door. Firemen believe the
boys, who had been watching
television downstairs, rushed
to an upstairs bedroom to get
Linda when the fire broke out.
But the flames closed in be
fore they could reach safety.
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STANDING OUTSIDE HOME in El Cajon, Calif., are Mrs. Lois Pendergast and her
four children, all of who were slashed to death, presumably by teen-age youth believed
to have fled to Mexico. Children, from left, are: David, 9: Diane, 4: Allen 2, and Thomas,
6. Father, Thomas J., 39, submitted to two lie detector tests as police sought clues.
Centennial Plans
Topic at Meeting
Cave Junction - Organiza
tion chairman appointed to
work with the Centennial
committee discussed the pro
grams planned for the 100
day observance at a meeting
of the Illinois Valley Centen
nial committee here recently.
Events being planned for
guests include a pony express
mail run over the old Cres
cent City-Waldo route by the
4-H Sage Saddleers; a Centen
nial flower show in June by
the local Garden club; a dis
play of minerals and rocks
will be shown daily by the
Minerals and Rock Hobby
club.
The HEU plan to have sun
bonnets and string ties for
sale as Illinois Valley Centen
nial souvenirs; Chod Hoover
of Kerby will offer horseback
trail riding; the Methodist
church is planning to stage a
chuck wagon dinner once a
week; tentative plans to have
special day showings of the
100-year-old Masonic records
are being considered.
OPERA CONDUCTOR DIES
Vienna (UPD Prof. Rudolf
Moralt, 56, first conductor of
the Vienna State Opera died
here Tuesday of a heart at
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a phonograph record salesman
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Frederick Othman
Has Heart Attack
Washington -CPD- Freder
ick C. Othman, Washington
columnist for the United
Feature Syndicate, suffered a
heart attack Tuesday.
Doctors reported his condi
tion Tuesday night as "pret
ty good."
The 53-year-old veteran
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after he had covered the mor
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Coya Knutson (D-Minn.), in
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Doctors said he suffered
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myocardial infarct."
Othman became ill during
lunch in the Senate restaur
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Washington home where he
was attended by a physician
and later removed to Doctors
hospital.
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jailed George A. Million Tues
day on a charge of passing
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quake shook tall buildings in
downtown Tokyo today but
there was no report of major
damage.
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