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8 A. THURSDAY, JANUARY 19. 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Kennedy's Men Dean Rusk Said To Believe in Effectiveness of Sound Staff Work f ii U: i h s i : a Psychological Testing Of Executives Becoming Popular With Companies New York-IUPD-The execU' tlve who shies away irom elaborate psychological test ing may be slamming the door of promotion against himself, a vice president of a SSO-mll-llon-a-year California com pany says. "Psychological testing with lengthy interviews is being used by more and more com panies," said Joseph Kieiman of Telecomputing Corp. "It isn't used, as some older ex ecutives insist on believing, to screen people out and fire them, at least not by compa nies that know what they're doing. Bad performance tells you when to fire a man-the tests will only tell you if he's likely to do well in a higher job or in some other depart ment." Rarely are the tests compul sory and some capable men shy away from taking them. "That's a grave mistake," Kieiman said. "The fellow who dodges the tests often is Just 'forgotten' after that by the front office." . . The testing procedures are comparatively now and still somewhat experimental, Kiel man said, but already some important things have been learned. Good for Screening "We have found out the tests are only good for screen . Ing-they don't suggest cures. If they reveal serious weak nesses in a man, he just can't be hired or promoted. That's because personality and moti vational traits can't be chang ed quickly-it takes many years, and those are more Im portant than intelligence, or even than aptitudes." Kieiman said Telecomputing also found out a corporation should do its own testing hiring its own psychologists for the purpose. "We started out by using an outside agency, but we found the procedure wasn't nearly thorough enough to be' . efficient or fair," he said. "It wasn't a matter of people-In fact the psychologists, who do the work for us now were originally with the outside agency." . But to do a good testing job, the psychologists should be with the company all the time, studying Its problems and its personnel. 150 to 200 lb. EASTERN SCALLOPS Pravns Polish Rings Beef Stew Cubes Beet Cube Steaks T-Bone Steaks - We Invite You To See Our Plant CHRYSTAL MEATS 4th and Fir 0 SP 2-7315 Next, Kieiman said, that while intelligence tests still are used, they have been found to turn out wrong al most half the time. Aptitude tests are quite im-portant-a man can't do a job for which he hasn't any apti tude. "But personality and moli vatipn tests are the most im portant," Kieiman said. "In personality, we test for 10 factors. The more important are drive and energy, frustra tion tolerance, confidence in people-a chap who doesn't work or authority-that means ability to resist impulses-and sociability." Critical T.iti But the really interesting and critical tests are for mo tivation. "A general executive must have a strong financial moti vation, an engineering or sci entific executive a strong theoretical dedication," he said. "We also test for religi ous and social motivation and the all important power mo tivation. Its nccesary to get a pretty fair balance in these motivations. The chap who has only power motivation may be unscrupulous or he may flare up like a meteor and fade out. It's also important not to get men with strong power motivations in spots wliere they are sure to clash One sad thing about the testing, Kieiman said, is that, among those rejected, the psy chologists always encounter men-they feel sure are headed for serious-psychiatric trou-ble-because their ambitious motivations far outrun their abilities and aptitudes. Cost of Viewing TV Is 6 Cents an Hour New York-IUPD-Average cost estimates, based on industry figures show that it costs about 6 cents an hour to watch TV. The average set costs $20.80 per year (based on average original price of $260 and an estimated 0-year life). Elec tricity costs an average $8.16 a year for the set and repairs $40.36 a year. San Francisco's Chinatown has a population of about 35,000. 3 , -i Cut HALF BEEF a Aged, all-Trimmed rf, 1 fV! DEAN RUSK Affable Scholar May Be Better Photos of Moon New York - (Science Serv ice) - The Russians may have better pictures of the dark side of the moon than those they have made public, Dr. Edward Anders, University of Chicago scientist, told Science Service. Dr. Anders received the Newcomb Cleveland Prize at the', American Association for the Advancement of Sci ence meeting here for his new theory on the life and death of meteors. The rear-view pictures of the moon were taken from the lunar orbiting satellite launched by the Russians Oct. 4, 1059. Suspicion that the Soviets may have better na tures was brought to Anders' attention by Avram Katz of Rand Corporation, who made a detailed analysis of the So viet lunar photos. On the basis of this analysis, Anders said, it is believed the Soviets may have pictures of the dark side of the moon as good as those taken of the moon's face. If the Soviets have such detailed pictures, Dr. Anders was at a loss to explain why they .did not make the photos public. Other than the photos, the Soviet lunar probes revealed little new about the physical properties of the moon or the solar system, Anders said. United States railways op orate 25,000 trucks, trailers and buses. 0)c 98 2 ?iny.49c Lb. C 98c I I ' VW State Secretary Sees Position as 'Chief Agent' By United Prats International David Dean Rusk, an af fable scholar who becomes secretary of state under Pres ident Kennedy, distrusts the spectacular and believes in the effectiveness of good sound staff work.- He has no personal ambi tion to set the world on fire, believing instead that his new role is to serve as chief agent" of the president in formulating and executing foreign policy. Rusk's reputation among those with whom he has work ed in government and at the Rockefeller Foundation is that of an "idea man" who sparks new suggestions and believes in a constant search for bet ter methods of tackling old problems. His friends say he is de cisive. His critics claim he sometimes "shoots from the hip." Effective as Negotiator Rusk's effectiveness as a behind-the-scenes negotiator is attested by the fact that lib erals consider him one of their own, yet conservatives consider him a moderate man with a "sound" approach to controversial issues. He is an "egghead" who gets along well with congress men in the everyday realities of politics. He is a practical and tough-minded administra tive officer whose ideas are welcomed by ivory tower scholars on the best camp uses. The new secretary of state sees his job as that of an administrative officer carry ing out quietly and effectively the international policies de cided upon by the president. He acknowledges that his role entitles him to advise and "persuade" the chief ex ecutive when that seems call ed for. Rusk, 52 next month, was president of the philanthropic Rockefeller Foundation when Kennedy, who had never seen him before, decided to name him secretary of state. The president explained that ex haustive investigation had convinced him Rusk was "the best man available" for the Job. Rusk is returning to fa miliar surroundings. He was assistant secretary of stale for Far East affairs before taking the Rockefeller job. He is credited with having played a role In convincing Presi dent Truman that the United States had to take decisive action against the Communist invaders of South Korea. Escaped 'Disaster' Criticism He entered the Far East di vision late enough to escape the criticism leveled at the State Department for the loss of China to the Communists. He was not Identified with any particular "disaster" dur ing his previous service in government. Rusk, born Feb. 9, 1909, in Cherokee County, Georgia, has had a Horatio Alger ca reer. The fourth of five chil dren of a mail carrier, Rusk attended high school in At lanta and put himself through Davidson College in North Carolina by working as a bookkeeper and bank teller. At Davidson, he won a Phi Beta Kappa key and a Rhodes scholarship w h i c h enabled him to study at Oxford Uni versity in England. World War 11 gave him his opportunity to escape acad emic obscurity. A reserve of ficer, he was called Into mili tary service as an infantry captain. Chief of Staff Sent to the China-Burma-India theater, he participated 111 the tough Burma cam paigns under Lt. Gen. Joseph (Vinegar Joe) Stllwell and be came chief of staff in the area. After the war, Rusk went to Washington as assistant to the chief of the International Security Affairs Division in the State Department. He put In a short stint at the War Department and then return ed to state as director of the Office of United Nations Af fairs. In 1049, he was named as sistant secretary for Far East affairs. Vacuum Cleaner to Clear Runways Soon Colorado Springs, Colo. -(Vrii-Thc Air Defense Com mand will start using an oversized vacuum cleaner to clear its runways of such thinks as bricks and pop bot tles. The cleaner, eight feet in width, will be put Into use first at Tlnile Air Force Base. Others will be sent to Grand Forks. Selfrldge, Tyndall and Otii Air Force Bases, Soviets and Egyptians Work Together on Aswan Dam Aswan, United Arab Repub lic - IUPII - Grinning through two rows of gold teeth, Dmit ri Slipoukha of Stalingrad, a Hero of Socialist Labor, sur veyed the work site of the As wan High Dam - a huge, roar ing pit of black granite churning while - and said, "I like it here." Slipoukha, 44, stood on the rock bed of a canal being blast ed in the granite mountain to divert the Nile waters around the projected dam through steel floodgates. On both sides rose the vertical walls of the canal, as high as a seven-story building and wider apart than the sidelines of a football field. The black surface walls were crumbling down in white clouds of fine dust un der a blazing sun. The dyn amite blasts had left the out er walls lined with loose rocks and topped by uneasy boulders. Now a giant steel excavator, a tractor as big as a villa on caterpillar tracks was jabbing an iron clawed shovel at the walls shaking down the loose rocks and hauling them up in 10 lon bites and dumping them into 25-ton trucks. Slipoukha, browned and dressed in blue checkered shirt and dark gray pants, su pervises the assembling and operation of machinery. He has won the Gold Medal of Socialist Labor for having re moved five million cubic me ters of earth, and now is among the Soviet technicians helping the UAR build the long dreamed-of dam. .Behind Slipoukha stood a cluster of dark-skinned Egypt ian workers bending over a machine. "How do you like Egyptian workers?" he was asked. "They are excellent," he said, with sudden warmth. "This machine - I showed ' them how to use it only five i days ago. Now I don't even have to watch them." The man from Stalingrad has been here nine months. He had spent a fierce Aswan summer in the granite moun tains. "It was hot," he said, "but bearable." The Soviets have overcome language difficulty by bring ing Russian interpreters along to the work site. Almost every Russian engineer of technician has a Russian in terpreter by his side. A Soviet engineer who deals with the Egyptian workers has an in terDreter who translates Rus sian into colloquial Arabic. A boviet engineer dealing with Egyption engineers has an in terpreter who translates Rus sian into English. Alexei Boldvrev. 2R. a clean-shaven graduate of the Energy Colegc in Moscow, was talking with a eroun of EevDt-! ian workers over a whirring machine. 'I am taking Arabic les sons at Aswan," he said. "I can read, write and speak Arabic - a little." Boldyrev said the machine had been brought from Russia Dads Day Week End Set at University Eugene-Dad's Day, the an nual week end set aside by the University of Oregon for entertainment of students' fa thers, will bo held Feb. 11 through 13, with a full sched ule of events planned. Under the co-chairnianshin of Jerry L. Lewis of Port land, and Sharon Douglas of Merced, Calif., the program will include quartet contest, campus tours, a science show. an arclutecture show, the an nual Dad's Day luncheon, the business meeting, and a Uni-( versity theater play. j Two basketball games arc also on the schedule. On Fri-i day night the Oregon Ducks I will play the University of I Idaho, and on Saturday night the Washington Slate univer sity team. , Student committee chair men for the Dad's Day week end are Rosalie Brandon. Judith Halverson, Jeanne Knight. Kenneth Smith, and Carole Somrknwa, all of Port land; Diane Bressler, Barbara Calvin, and Stephen E. llintz,; all of Eugene Mary Allien, Albany Charles Peterson,; G res ham Wendell Smith,! Klamath Falls Kathleen R. Quainlance. Le Grande; Shar on Gcarhart, Oswego; Diana Boyd. Salem Jeanne Horn, The Dalles; and Mary Ann Dean, San Marino, Calif. Modern power plants arc able to generate one kilowatt hour with approximately oe pound oi cmI 15 days before, and that his Egyptian workers already knew how to operate it. Understand Russian Mikhail Zarif, 48, an Egypt ian driller from Aswan, said, "We understand everything the Russians have to tell us." On the site, the Russian en gineers and technicians dealt directly with Egyptian work ers. Along the lop edge of the Husband Blamed . For Wile's Death Bedford, Que. - IUPU - Abel Vosburgh, 63, jobless farm laborer, is being held crimi nally responsible for the death of his wife in a flash fire that killed her and 11 of the cou ple's 15 children three weeks ago. A six -man coroner's jury deliberated only nine minutes before finding Vosburgh crlm-, inally responsible for the death of Marjorie Vosburgh, 43, Dec. 29 in the family's one room shack at Noyan, Que., on the Quebec-Vermont border. The jury did not rule on the deaths of the 11 children in the predawn blaze. Quebec provincial police, who held Vosburgh on a coro ner's warrant for 11 days, pre pared to charge Vosburgh formally with his wife's death. It was first believed that Mrs. Vosburgh had been kill ed by the flames as she tried to rescue her children, but medico-legal experts who later examined her body, ruled death was caused by a head injury. Vosburgh was the only sur vivor of the fire. VISIT OUR NEW WEARING APPAREL DEPARTMENT LADIES BIB APRONS Colorful Prints and Solid Colors. In 80 x 80 Percale. Regular Price 69c SALE PRICE 2 for 1 CLEARANCE LADIES & JR. MISSES DEPT. LADIES' DUSTERS 81 Only QQp $1.98 Regular Ladies Dirndl Dresses 27 Only, QQ. Regular S1.B8 GIRLS' CAR COATS 34 Only SO CC Regular $5.95 OiOO TODDLER'S DRESSES 47 Onlvi 1 J7 Regular S1.98 pliO' Store Hours: Daily 9:30 to 5:30 Mondays 9:30 to 9 00 fcaagwiyw Tjro tag si jj tl ' C''1l. rnm Jl canal wall an old man wear ing a colonial hat moved with walking stick. He was Dr. Hassan Zaki, the Egyptian cabinet minister in charge of the construction of the dam. He walked alone, surveying the work site. Present work on the Aswan High Dam is confined to blast ing the mile-long diversion canal through the granite mountain. The canal work has been going on for a year and It will need another two years to complete. , Two 65-ton dynamite blasts are set off every month to break the rock. Eight giant excacators haul up the rock and 85 trucks haul it off to a big dump where the stones will be picked up later for use in the rock-fill dam. The excavators and dump trucks were manufactured at Sverdlov, Russia and now be long to the UAR government. One truck carried the Arabic words Allah Akbar (God is Greatest) scribbled above the Russian initials CCCP (USSR). Something odd hangs in the air over the work site and finally it dawns upon you. There is no song. Egyptian workers always sing at their work. They hire special singers to help them heave and haul. It was the way their forefathers built the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza. Now these workers were building a dam 16 times as big as the Great Pyramid and they were not singing. There workers are no long er manual laborers. They are mechanics, they drive trucks, drill dynamite holes in the rock, operate machines. They do not pull together - and they do not sing. LADIES PANTIES Elastic or Band Leg Sizes 5 to 10 WOOLWORTH'S Regular 49c Prim Style Briefs SALE PRICE 00 Z7 GIRLS' DRESSES 90" Sweep Skirt Shirtwaist Style Sizes 7 to 14 . Solid Colors and Plaids $3.98 Value NOW Harvest Tax Bill For Eastern Oregon Introduced in House Salem - IUPII - A controvers ial harvest tax formula for Eastern Oregon timber and a proposal for home tax exemp tions for the elderly were among 26 measures intro duced in the House Wednes day. The House passed two measures, one congratulating President-elect John F. Ken nedy and Vice President-elect Business Meeting Slated in Portland Eugene - Business develop ments likely to occur during 1961, both on the regional and the national-international scene, will be considered in addresses and panel discus sions at a business confer ence Jan, 25 in Portland. The conclave, sponsored by the school of business admin istration of the University of Oregon and the general ex tension division's Portland center, will feature an address by Peter F. Drucker, profes sor of management of the graduate school, New York university. Drucker, who has written on economic subjects for lead ing magazines and who has been an adviser to many com panies and government agen cies on management policyj will discuss "Productivity Challenges of the New Ad ministration." American business saved an estimated $250 million last year by using photocopying machines, compared to the cost of typewritten copies. 27 ONLY Regular $7.95 19 ONLY Regular $6.95 $U17 for i $098 SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Or Your Money Refunded Lyndon Johnson, and the oili er permitting Mul t n o m a h county school district one lo pool polling spots for a special March 8 school levy election. The House also passed a resolution expressing sorrow at the death of seven seamen at the mouth of the Columbia river last week. Higher Judge's Salaries Other bills introduced Wed nesday would raise the salar ies of district judges from $9,000 to $11,000; provide for continuity of government in emergencies; authorize joint state-county -municipal work relief projects; and set a non resident fee of $75 for a fish guide license. Oregon resi dents pay $15 for the license. 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