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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1953 WARREN URGES SAVING MONEY FOR GOV’MENT Comptroller General Cites Examples for Congress men Where Savings Are Possible* ———— x Congress knows little about the General Accounting Office, presid ed over by Comptroller General Lindsay Warren. It often forgets fchat this office has pointed the 'way to huge eliminations of Gov ernment waste. In fact this is what it was set up to do. Mr. Warren last week called at tention of Congressmen and Sen ators to some of the important phases of this office. He said: My dear Senator: A few years ago, during a con versation with several Members of Congress, I was amazed to learn how little information Congress as a whole had about the General Ac counting Office and its place in our Government. At the suggestion of those Members I sent a short let ter to the Congress pointing up certain facts about the Office which I thought every Member would want to know. Since that time, I have sent a similar letter at the beginning of each new Con gress. That is the reason for this letter which requires no reply. The General Accounting Office is in the Legislative branch. It is the agency of the Congress to audit and settle accounts and claims of the Government, and to advise and assist the Congress and the departments and agencies on matters relating to public expendi tures. The Comptroller General is appointed for a term of 15 years and cannot be reappointed. He can be removed from office only by the Congress. I have said on a number of oc casions, and I have no hesitancy in repeating it at this time of intense discussion of budgets and expendi tures, there is not a department or agency in the Government that cannot reduce the number of its employees, providing there is a will to do so. It is not an easy job, even if you have the will, but I think the results we have achieved in the GAO without any mandate from the Congress furnish ample proof that it can be done. In April 1946, the number of our employees reached a peak of 14,904. There were 6,204 employees on January 1, 1953. This is a reduction of 8,700 or nearly 60% in the last seven years. Os this number, 779 were transferred to the Post Office De partment. Our accomplishments in reduc- T»mg personnel have been brought about by constant surveys of our work and the elimination of pro cedures which serve no useful pur pose under present-day conditions. In cases where changes were need ed, but legal obstacles precluded them, we asked and received from the Congress revisions in the law. In bringing about changes we have always tried to make sure there would be no loss of control of pub lic funds. There has not been. In fact, the revised procedures are enabling the GAO and the Govern ment generally to do a far more competent job. I know statistics are dull but these will give some idea of the volume of our work last year: 21,- 000,000 vouchers audited; 508,000 claims settled; 264,000,000 checks reconciled; 12,000 decisions render ed to departments, agencies, claim ants and others; inspections made by investigators of 691 different Government offices; 28 audit re ports submitted to the Congress, including reports of 1951 audits of all Government corporations; work on accounting systems done in nearly every department and agen cy of the Government; 820 reports made to the Congress and its com mittees; and 3,500 replies made to individual members of Congress. The GAO has continued to make collections of amounts illegally or otherwise improperly paid out far in excess of the cost of operating the Office. The GAO is one of the few agencies in the Government that more than pays its way. Col- Retail Price 1 *2.10 1 pent/ 1 pint. 1 1*3.35 1 1 Fifths B 86 Proof M THtAIOHT WHISKEY! IN THJJ AM 4 YEAM Ol MOtB OLD »S% rntAKM •MIKEY. MS NEUTKAL IPIUTA DBUU< L “ - MOM MAN. ~~ V - I eean a era tann. on. use lections from 1941 through De cember 31, 1952 total over $816,- 000,000. It is 'a fair statement to 1 say that little of this amount would have ever been recovered, except for the work of the GAO. 1 Naturally, I am proud of this rec ord. But, I feel of greater impor tance is the work the Office is do ing to prevent illegal or improvi dent use of funds by the improve ment of accounting and auditing throughout the Government. In the past few years the GAO has placed a great deal of em phasis on the joint program of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Di rector, Bureau of the Budget, and the Comptroller General for the improvement of accounting, bud- ] geting, financial reporting and aud iting in the Government. Equal I emphasis has been placed on the 1 adoption by the GAO of compre hensive and other on-site audits of the departments and agencies. The * concepts of these two programs i were unanimously adopted by the 1 Congress in the Budget and Ac- 1 counting Procedures Act of 1950. Remarkable results are being ' achieved. Although we who are ’ working with the programs every day know we are just commencing to get beneath the surface of many of the problems involved, actual savings already accomplished run into millions of dollars each year. In addition, improved efficiency of operations in the accounting and auditing fields, which cannot al ways be estimated dollar-wise, has been of great significance. With the tremendous growth of Government activities and their supporting appropriations, we in the GAO are keenly aware of the financial problems facing the Con gress. The magnitude of expendi tures makes it of utmost impor tance that the Government seek every possible means of obtaining full value for each taxpayer’s dol lar spent. In our work, we are mak ing an all-out effort to create a greater cost consciousness on the part of every department, agency, and bureau. This goes not only to keeping the public spending within the laws enacted by the Congress, but to exposing or bet ter yet preventing extravagances which, although legal, cannot be tolerated under present-day condi tions. Yet you and I both know that economy in government can not be accomplished by any one agency or individual. Each and every officer and employee of the Government and each and every citizen must make his contribution, for real results can only be achiev ed through a day-by-day, continu ing attack by all of us. Sincerely yours, LINDSAY WARREN, Comptroller General of the United States BATTLE (Continued from Page One) owned by Stockard and Company ' provided one of the many very hu man interest stories of the sink- 1 ings. Ripped open by a torpedo north of Cape Lookout and near Core Banks on March 11, the little Caribsea sank in less than two min utes. Ocracoke-born Jim Baugham Gaskill, mate aboard the vessel, ' had told his skipper that he was tired and thought he would turn ' in at the end of his watch instead 1 of remaining on the bridge to see the glow of Ocracoke Light on his native island which was soon to ' come in view. The Caribsea never raised Ocracoke light that night, ' and Gaskill and all the crew, ex cept the five on watch including the skipper, were lost. The Atlantic Refining Company ' tanker John D. Gill was torpedoed off Cape Fear on March 12 and three days late a Socony Vacuum tanker, the Ario, got between Lookout and Hatteras. Hatteras Incident Next day, after the Ario, the , Texas Company’s 11,682-ton Aus tralia was attacked in broad day , light and crippled so badly she be . gan sinking within sight of the . Cape here. Before she finally sank beneath , the quicksands of Diamond Shoals several days later, Hatteras fish ermen went aboard the ship and , started salvaging various types of gear ranging from hawsers and cables to foods and paints. They were doing what their’ ancestors were famous for doing when ships were wrecked along this coast. The modern day wreckers ran into difficulty however, when they carried their gear to Norfolk for selling. Wrecking was not the same as it had been in days gone by, and especially during early World War-II days. Coast Guard, Customs, Navy, and" the Depart ment of Justice made much of the salvaging operation by the Hat terasmen, and the Hatterasmen profited little for their efforts and work. On the same day the Australia was torpedoed, another ship, the San Demetrio was sunk off the Virginia Capes. Greek Freighter Sunk A ship flying the colors of Greece, the Kassandra Louloudis, was torpedoed in the same general area off Cape Hatteras where an other Greek, the Tzenny Chandris had broken up and gone to the bottom five years earlier. The Tzenny Chandris was one of the dozens of ships which haul ed scrap iron to North Sea ports prior to the War, from the new port of Morehead City. In those I days as the scrap metal left More- head City for “ports” on the North Sea, there were many prognosti cators who opined that it would be only a matter of time until the metal made into bullets would be coming back at us, which no doubt was the case as Hitler tried to take over in the early 40’s, doing a good job of it for awhile. The Tzenny Chandris disaster made big handlines in the newspapers, but the Kassandra Louloudis got hard ly a mention because of war-time censorship. More Tankers Hit The E. M. Clark, another Stand ard tanker, was sent to the bot tom off Ocracoke on March 18 not far from the location of the Pa poose and W. E. Hutton sinkings on the same date in the general area of Cape Lookout. On the 19th the sulphur laden Lykes Brothers Liberator was hit near Diamond Shoals, a total loss for ship and cargo but most of her crew were rescued and landed first at Ocra coke and then in Morehead City for briefing. Only half of the Standard tank er Esso Nashville went to the bot tom when decapitated by a torpe do between Cape Fear and Cape Lookout. Her afterhalf with cargo still intact was towed into More head City. Later, the stern, reliev ed of its cargo was taken to a northern port, welded to another half ship and was hauling wartime cargoes before it was all over. The Naeco, Dixie Arrow and Ti ger were three more tankers sent to the bottom before the end of March, and a tug boat with three barges intow got it between Cape Henry and Cape May during the same month. Off Nags Head during late March of 1942 the Panamanian freighter Equipoise was attacked and sunk in less than 300 feet of water. Her cargo of manganese ore may in time be salvaged according to stories from Washington some time ago. April Warfare It was not until April of 1942 that our offensive forces made a score. On the 14th, the USS Roper, a destroyer sailing south off Nags Head contacted and killed the U -85, between Oregon Inlet and Wim ble Shoals. That brought a slight turn in events, despite the fact that during April along the mid- Atlantic Capes, the following ships were lost: David D. Atwater, Ortho, Byron Benson, British Splendour. Lan sing, Atlas, Malchase, Tamaulip as, San Delfine, Ulysses, Empire Thrush, Rio Blanco, Alcoa Guide, Desert Light, Empire Drum and Chemango. More millions in ships and cargoes, and more heavy loss of lives. Only a few ships were sunk dur ing May. The Lady Drake was sunk on May 5 off Oregon Inlet. The Senateur Duhamel, a British armed trawler was a casualty dur ing the month, but not as result of enemy submarine. It was ram med by one of our destroyers and sunk off Cape Lookout. May 9th was a lucky day off Cape Lookout. On that day the CG Icarus sank the German sub marine U-352. Mystery sinking of the month in volved the HMS Bedfordshire. On convoy duty between Morehead City and the net enclosed anchor age at Cape Lookout, and the Vir ginia Capes, the Bedfordshire was returning to the Carteret coast during mid-May when last heard from. The vessel’s name plate washed ashore on Core Banks sev eral days later. No one survived, but bodies found floating at sea or washing ashore along the Outer Banks and as far inland as Swan Quarter Bay were definitely iden tified by Naval Intelligence as members of this little British war ships’ crew. Among the bodies was that of Sub-Lieutenant Thomas Cunningham who with some of his shipmates are buried on Ocracoke Island. Largest ship sunk during June of ’42 was the William Rockefel ler, a Standard tanker, shortly after she had left the Hatteras- Ocracoke minefield anchorage. Oth er ships lost during the month of June included the Santore, Ljub ica Matkovic, Nordal, Manuela and the Moldanger. After mid-summer less than a score of ships were sunk off North Carolina until the War ended in 1945—that was be cause our offensive forces; surface and aircraft began successful op erations, and also because of the Axis Powers were learning that the United States was taking an important role in the global war fare. AUTHORITY (Continued from Page One) offered to pay any expenses in volved in putting the proposal before the legislature, such as attorney fees. Although Avalon Beach, with in the Kill Devil Hills area, has its own building restrictions, residents of that section who are eligible to> do so have been as quick to sign the petition as any other persons living in the com munity, Mr. Lewark said. POLIO (Continued from Page One) sued.” Scientific research programs sponsored by the National Foun dation are financed entirely by the March of Dimes. This annual ap peal is now on and will be contin ued until Jan. 31. , THE COASTLAND TIMES. MANTEO, N. C. BUSINESSMEN OF ELIZABETH CITY Invite the People of the Coastland to Visit Them When in Elizabeth City Their merchandise and their services are the best to be found. No matter the re quirements or the season, customers may be assured of new stocks, complete sat isfaction and prices as reasonable as may be found anywhere in the country. 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