OFFICIAL REQUIREMENTS, ASST. FOREMAN, SANITATION 642 NYC PROMOTIONS The Board of Estimate unanimously voted budget modifications to permit 642 promotions in 35 NYC departments. This was fewer than first expected. A money snag curtailed the number. Li r The promotions are to be retroactive to July 1. They are in addition to the 1,200 promotions put into effect when Grade 1 Clerk title was abolished, and Clerks in Grade Americans Larsest Weekly for Puhfie Fmn/nvep® I automo'^ically went Into Grade 2. The promotion eligible lists will have to be canvassed by the Budget Director's of- fice, in conjunction with tihe departments, to detennine who will get the promotions. Vol. 7—No. 46 Tuesday, July 30, 1946 Price Five Cents POLICE ELIGIBLES LISTED ORDER OF APPOINTMENT Final U. 5. Instructions Patrolman List For Postal Candidates 96.6 P.O. Vets Examinations That Start August 1 Terminate by End of The eligible list for NYC Patrolman (P.D.), in That Month—Ail Aspirants Assured of Sufficient Notice the order of possible appointment, is publishpd exclu- sively today in The LEADER. It represents the re- The U. S. examination for Substitute Clerk-Carrier, which starts on Thursday, arrangement of the general list as issued by the NYC August 1, will be completed by the end of August. It is being held mainly at the offices of the Second Regional U. S. Civil Service Commission at 641 Washington Civil Service Commission, to give effect to veteran Street, where sessions will be held daily except Saturday and Sunday. preference. Candidates to be examined there As issued by the Commission, the list of the 3,000 are ordered to report at 8:30 a.m. The examination starts aroimd 9 eligibles gave the names in the relative order of the a.m., sometimes as much as 10 final score on the examination. However, disabled minutes before. State Pay Begins to Lag The Commission asks that all veterans would go to the top of the list in their rela- candidates who are notified should tive order among themselves, non-disabled veterans (1) be at the designated place a little before, but not after, the Behind Rise In next and non-veterans last. Of the 3,000 eligibles, announced time; (2) bring their Special to The LEADER Following the meeting the com- only 102 were non-veterans, hence 2,898 were vet- admission cards with them, and ALBANY, July 30—Charles M. mittee issued the following state- erans, and of these 182 put in disability claims. Thus should have them ready when Armstrong, Chairman of the State ment: they enter the building, and (3) Association's Salary Committee, "Real wages are going down and 96.6 per cent of those on the list are veterans, and use the entrance on Barrow presiding over a meeting of the going down fast. It will be nine the general list underwent sweeping changes to pro- Street. committee, expressed grave coa- months before State employees Must Bring Card cern as to the State workers' can hope for any wage adjust- duce the assumed appointment list. ability to meet rising living costs. (Continued on Page 2) The Commission warned that (Continued on Page 10) under no circumstances will any- body be admitted to the examina- tion who has failed to produce the admission card. There will be Plans were begun today to form a Patrolman Eligibles As- positively no exceptions. Sanitation Exam Bars^ sociation. The object of such As more than 45,000 persons an association is to protect have applied for the examination, and advance the rights of elig- and of these almost all of the ibles. All Patrolman eligibles 11,000 incumbents of temporary Auto 'Enginemen Again who desire to join such an as- jobs, the Commission is under- sociation may obtain details by taking another big task in examin- The official notice of examina- Civil Service Commission today, in-service training course at Hun- writing to Box PE, Civil Service ing so many within a month. tion for promotion to Assistant after approval by Budget Direc- ter College, 68th Street and Lex- LEADER, 97 Duane Street. New James E. Rossell, Director of the Foreman, NYC Department of tor Thomas J. Patterson. The ington Avenue, beginning on York 7, N. Y. (Continued on Page 8) Sanitation, was released by the publication of the official notice, (Continued on Page 8) with dates missing in copy re- leased supplied, is expected to be made in September. The exam- ination will be held on October 17. Truman Vetoes The eligible titles are Sanitation Much Due to Luck^ Man, Class B or Class C, and Junior Sanitation Man. Auto Engineman is not included, Says Top Eligible New Board Rules In-Service Training By CHARLES SULLIVAN Commissions and to some unions, Auto Enginemen have made re- The No. 1 eligible on the Pat- test were: written, 96.33; and Special to The LEADEK and confidential comment was peated efforts to be declared elig- rolman list issued by the NYC physical, 98.833. He did not get WASHINGTON, July 30—New readily forthcoming, but whether ible for promotion to Assistant Civil Service Commission is Frank the highest mark in either. Five Rules and Regulations of the U. S. any changes resulted could not be Foreman every time the examina- J. Cox, 23, of 1506 Harding Park, candidates got 100 per cent in Civil Service Commission, which learned. Subsequently President tion came up for the past dozen Bronx 61, N. Y., who served three the physical—and all told seven were all set to go, lacking only Truman got his copy. years, but without avail. This years in the Army Air Forces. He candidates got a higher physical the approval of President Truman One object of the rules was to time, according to Henry B^ein- was a pilot. mark than Mr. Cox. In the written to put them into effect, will have achieve simplification. This tein. President of the AFL District A very modest fellow, he said, he tied with two other candidates, to be revised, because White House streamlining is said to have been Council, assurances were given in reply to a question as to how while four additional candidates approval was withheld. The well accomplished. But some pro- that they would be included. he came to head the list: got higher written marks than the President's advisers strongly ob- visions that were included raised The department will conduct an "I had a lot of luck." tied three. The highest written jected to some of the provisions serious objections. Pressed,, he admitted that he mark was 97.5, for which two tied. and convinced Mr. Truman. All hands have been pledged to had studied for the examination Mr. Cox was born in The Bronx The Rules and Regulations had secrecy. How long the revision from books published for Patrol- and at an early age moved into gone through preliminary stages will take and when the Rules m^y More Sfafe News man candidates. the Holy Cross paiish, where he of checkup. They had been sub- possibly go into effect nobody His ffnal average was 97.566. His now lives. He was graduated from lUltted to regional offices of the knows now. pp. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 14. marks m the two parts of the (Continued on Page 13) •STATEt NSmS CIVIL SiUIVICE LEADER Pruning It A<flyls«d State Pay Lags To Safeguard Trees Job Recruitment Hard Special to Tht LEADER SYRACUSE, July SO—There are many forest plantations in New In U,5. Zone in Germany Behind Price Rise York State that need pruning to The civil service situation in the method Is to bring In civil ser- (Continued from Page D adjustment bill had been passed save a large volume otf high-grade U. S. occupied zone in Germany vants for a brief course at a ment through the Appropriation last year the workers would not timber that will otherwise be lost, is difficult, says a report of the central point, and upon comple- Act. Before many weeks the cost now be facing a further cut In says Professor Ralph O. Unger of Military GoverncM: of the U. S. tion to send them back to their of living promises to be at least real wages. Instead they would the New York State College of zone in Germany. own offices to help train the per- 10 to 25 per cent higher than in be receiving or about to receive Forestry at Syracuse University. The shortage of competent sonnel there. Throughout the June. This would mean a 10 to an Increase In pay equal to the These plantations are In all German civil service personnel U. S. Zone, various plans for pre- 25 per cent cut in real wages for increase in the cost of loving. sections of the State, on farins in the zone and non-existence of job training are being worked on. State workers. "The sharp uprush in prices of and other privately and publicly a central civil service agency have Courses are being arranged in "The increase in wholesale the last few weeks is just a sam- owned property, and together made necessary much emergency schools and other training oppor- prices will doubtless soon be re- ple of what may happen repeat- cover a vast acreage. They have field recruiting and training to fill tunities are in prospect. flected in retail prices and this edly in the months and years been established during the past civil service jobs with politically "Denazification of the civil would bring a further reduction ahead.