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THURSDAY, JANUARY 19. 1961
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Kennedy's Men
Dean Rusk Said To Believe in Effectiveness of Sound Staff Work
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Another bill would require.
95 per cent of a public con
tractors' employes to be Ore
gon residents if he hires more
than 50 persons, and 90 per
cent if he hires less than 50.
The Eastern Oregon timber
proposal, HB 1114, would
place a severance tax only on
harvested timber in place of
the value tax now levied
against standing timber.
Support Claimed
The bill was sponsored by
13 representatives, most of
them from Eastern Oregon,
who said it had the support
of virtually all Eastern Ore
gon timber operators.
The money would be return
ed to the counties on the basis
of timber stands.
Taxes would be removed up
to $3,000 in assessed value on
the homes of many persons
over 65 with no more than
$2,500 income, under a bill,
HB 1118, introduced by Rep.
Juanita Orr (D-Lake Grove)
and seven others.
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