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The Washington Notebook
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON.— (NEA) —Not the chief cook
and bottle-washer, but the chief bottleneck
breaker of the now year-old defense production
business is a hefty, tough-talking gent of not quite
50 named W. Walter Watts. His official title is dep
uty administrator of the Defense Production Ad
ministration. Mr. Watts says yes, we've got bottle
necks this time just like the last, only maybe not
as bad now as peiore.
Chief cooks of defense production this time are,
of course, C. E. Wilson as Defense Mobilization
director and Manly Fleischmann, smart young Buf
falo lawyer, who is Defense Production administra
tor.
Under Mr. Fleischmann in DPA, as bottleneck
breaker, is Walter Watts. He heads the Office of
Procurement and Production. He is a production
man in private life, a vice-president in charge of
engineering production for Radio Corporation of
Anrerica at Camden, N. J. He has been in Wash
ington about six months but hopes to get out in an
other six months. Let somebody else have the
privilege of beating his brains out on these tough
defense production problems,
¢« Chicago-born Mr. Watts' first job was a tele
graph operator. He got into radio as an amateur
experimenter, Without any formal engineering ed
ucation, he became a production and sales execu
tive for Zenith, then Montgomery Watd and finally
RCA. In World War II he was a colonel in charge
of Signal Corps procurement, under General Har
rison, who persuaded him to come to Washington.
ARMS ORDERED, ONLY HALF DELIVERED
: Mobilization Director C. E. Wilson’s second quar
terly report was frank in admitting that deliveries
of arms are still low. Though defense orders were
placed at the rate of mrore than three billion dol
lars a month, deliveries are half that. This is dou
ble the pre-Korea rate. But deliveries won't be
up to the $4 piilion-a-month level much before
June, 1952.
The reason is principally that it takes this long
to tool up for full production. And here is where the
bottlenecks are encountered. Walter Watts lists
them principally as bottlenecks in materials, in en
gineering design, in paperwork, in facilities and
machine tools. .
e _ So far, he says, Army, Navy and Air Force have
“€not had any lack of deliveries because of shortages
of materials, This situation may not last, because
production is still low.
When jet engine production gets really rolling,
tha demend for heat-resistant alloys like the 80 per
cent nickel turbine blades will be way up. Only
reason the tungsten shortage has not had worse
effects is that comparatively few armor-piercing
shells have been used in Korea.
Under full demand, there won’t be enough of
these alloys unless they are taken away from the
civilian econonry 100 percent. That's one way to
break a bottleneck. Cobalt demands have been met
that way.
Another method is to develop substitutes for
critical materials, Many of the big research labora
tories of the country are now trying to develop
such substitutes, But they have passed no miracles
yet.
MONTHS LOST ON MACHINE TOOL ORDERS
Facilities bottlenecks are gradually disappearing
as new plants are brought into production or ex
isting plants are converted to defense output. Three
or four months may have been lost over getting
machine tool orders placed. This was a problem of
price adjustment and government financing which
has just now been licked.
Many of the bottleneck problems in defense pro
duction are simply paperwork. Somebody forgot to
order sonrething on time. Somebody also failed to
translate engineering design into orders for parts.
The result is planes without electronic equipment,
ships without navigation aids or tanks without fire
controls. Mistakes of this kind can’'t be remedied
overnight.
The job of Walter Watts and the many produc
tion committees which his office runs is not to
solve these bottlenecks but to identify them. Then
after the problems are identified, the job becomes
one of goading the proper people into doing what’s
needed,
C. E. Wilson is not running the defense produc
tion show this time with an all-powerful War Pro
duction Board of 40,000 government employes.
DPA and NPA now have about 5,000 people. Pri
mary responsibility is left with the armed services,
who are assumed ot know what they want and how
to get it. So tere s mruch less conflict between the
~ military and clvilian agencles. That was perhaps
~ the biggest bottleneck of all in World War 11.
T e ——
% Asia today is impatient (to cateh up with tech
~ nological advances); she is not in & mood to wait,
~ Asia is a field that is almost asking for an enemy
to come by might and sow taves in it. The enemy
has, of course, twrned up.—Arnocld Toynbee, Brit
historian,
.
Sanitary Department Here
G'velzl orlt)lmen ation
iven C dat
The Public Works Committee of the Athens City
Council, with Owen Roberts, jr., as chairman, re
cently completed and released a report on the San
itary Department of the City of Athens in com
pliance with the Council request of April, 1951
The Committe reached the decision that the Athens
Sanitary Department is efficient as compared with
those operated in similar sized cities in Georgia.
The committee based its decisions on the latest
available figures as found in a University of Geor
gia study entitled “Collection and Disposal of Gar
bage and refuse in Georgia Cities.” That study was
released in 1949. From the University study it was
found that the Athens Sanitary Department was
well below the average in per capita cost of collec
tion and disposal (the average was $3.60 and the
Athens per capita cost was $2.75).
On the question of the local sanitary departnrent
exceeding its budget the committee said, “The de
partment has consistently exceeded its budget. This
excess has varied from 1 percent to 14 percent dur
ing the last four and a half years. However, in the
expansion of the services of the City of Athens
which has necessitated the expansion of the budget
of the city, it should be noted that the Sanitary
Department’s budget has not kept pace with the
over-all increase in the cost of the City’s opera
tions. The City’s total budget has been increased by
21 percent since 1927. The budget for the Sanitary |
Department has been increased 10 percent. The
Sanitary Department has had a 10 percent decrease
in the portion of the City budget which it received.” ‘
In the several conclusions that the Public Works
Committee reached as a result of their extensive
investigation of the Sanitary Department’s func
tioning, the committee stated, “Our study leads us
to believe that the City of Athens Sanitary Depart
ment is efficiently operated. Of course, minor daily
improvements can be made, but as an over-all op
eration, we feel that the citizens of Athens are en
joying good service at as low a cost as possible.”
The committee report on the question of elimi
nating the department’s budget excesses said, “The
Sanitary Department will normally spend 75 per
cent of its entire expenditures on wages and sala
ries, therefore, if wages generally continue to in
crease the cost of the Sanitary Department opera
tions will continue to rise, even though the tonnage
(of garbage collected and disposed of) remains the
same. Consequently, the Mayor and Council must
adequately provide for it in the budget. As the city
grows and the total budget is increased the Sani
tary Department must receive its proportionate
share of the total budget, else the Sanitary Depart
ment will continue to exceed its budget.”
The report generally approved the entire set-up
of the Sanitary Department, and lauded it for the
good showing that Athens makes in comparison
with other Georgia cities, and offered several sug
gestions which might be practical in the future.
Among these suggestions was a 100 percent land
fill, and the use of packer trucks for collection.
In conclusion the report termed the Sanitary
Department’s operations as a necessary but costly
part of the City’'s services ot the citizens and stated
that the citizens of Athens are receiving as good or
better service in this line than any other city in
the state.
The pick-up of garbage and trash in Athens busi
ness and residential sections is more regular than
in several other Georgia cities of comparable size.
And in addition to the service given in the city
proper the University of Georgia is also given sani
tary service by the City Sanitary Department.
In the past The Banner-Herald has often pointed
out that there was entirely.too much paper on the
streets but did not blame the Sanitary Department
entirely for that situation. Thoughtless residents
have been responsible and continue to be respon
sible for old papers and trash on the sidewalks but
there is not as much of that as before. But as to the
matter of garbage collection we think that the San
itary Department is doing a fine job and the com
mittee’s findings are not out of line with the opin
ion of the citizens who receive the service.
Weaning The Chinese From
The Russian Circle
Harold Martin, associate editor of The Saturday
Evening Post and columnist of The Atlanta Consti
tution, has spent much time in the Orient in recent
years and has been on the job as a war correspond
ent in the Korean war perhaps longer than any
other newspaperman. Mr. Martin, recently returned
home, says he believes the United States can wean
Communist China from the Russians.
Ralph McGill, editor of The Atlanta Constitution,
points out that some years ago several experts
on China and Far Eastern affairs, believed that
China could be lured out of the sphere of Russian
influence. That has been the belief of the British
all along and their attitude toward Conmmunist
China has been based upon such belief.
Unfortunately, in this country, the China ques
tion has become a domestic political issue and the
State Department is not as free in dealing with it
as it should be, due to the attacks of McCarthy and
his crowd. United States diplomacy has been ham~
pered and hamstrung in the Far East by the Chiang
lobby and its spokesmen in the United States Sen
ate. It is tragic, but it is true,
My business, your business and the livestock
business is being run by a bunch of lawyers and
do-gooders who don’t know what they're talking
about.—Loren E. Bamert, president, American Na
tional Livestock Association, |
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proper feet-first method of jumping into water from a ship or
high barrier. It's part of the combat swimming course the Red
Cross is giving servicemen at Camp Kokura, Japan.
Red Cross Goes In For Combat
Training, Teaches U. S. Soldiers In
Far East How To Swim Under Fire
BY JAMES O’LEARY
Written for NEA Service
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combat training, |
In a chain of aquatic schools in
Japan, Fuam, Okinawa and the
Philippines, it's teaching Amer
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schools in the Far East and five
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troops in Korea.
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Korean fighting, shows how to swim into battle without getting
his carbine wet. He’s taking combat swimming course.
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Working in pools and in cgound
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Shirttails and trouser legs must
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swimming to avoid air pockets.
An inflated shirt also gives add
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soaked, and with knots in the legs,
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water.
A field pack should not be shed.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1951,
Properly packed it will keep a
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Improvised floats can be con
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sticks, or rifles, to transport crev -
served weapons such as heayy
machineguns and mortars,
Though the number of boll wee
vils in Georgia fields is smaller
this year than in 1950, these in
sects are now at work in all parts
of the state, say Extension cotton
specialists,
Accordin{ to the American Turt
Register of 1830 there were 45
race courses in the United States
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There are virtually no perman
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