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FOREST SERVICE

     The United States Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture administers the nation's 154 national forests and 18 national grasslands that are distributed among 39 states, and Puerto Rico. The Forest Service is responsible for the protection, conservation, development and use of these lands. While protection and conservation are paramount, the lands are managed for multiple uses including watershed protection, timber and forage production, wildlife production, recreation, and other uses.

     The Forest Service is also responsible for furthering protection, management, and wise use of other forest lands in the 50 states that are in state and private ownership. It carries out these responsibilities by cooperative arrangements with state forestry agencies.

     Nine Regional Forest and Range Experiment Stations, 1 Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, and 1 in Hawaii, and 64 field research centers of the Forest Service carry on studies and investigations in forest management, range management, and watershed management; fire control, insect, and disease control; the utilization of forest products and other fields.

     The Nebraska National Forest was established by Proclamation of President Theodore Roosevelt on April 16, 1902, largely as a result of the efforts of Dr. Charles E. Bessey for many years Professor of Botany at the University of Nebraska. The Forest consists of three divisions, the Bessey Division and tree nursery near Halsey, the Niobrara Division near Nenzel and the Pine Ridge Division near Chadron. It is the largest man-made National Forest in the United States.

     Since 1902, about 30,000 acres of coniferous trees have been planted. The techniques and knowledge learned from these plantings have been of much value in the establishment of windbreak plantings on countless farms and were also used extensively by the Forest Service in the shelterbelt program during the period 1935-42.

     In the Bessey Nursery about 7,000,000 trees are produced annually. Many of these trees are distributed to farmers and ranchers by the State Forester on a cost of production basis under provision of the Clarke-McNary Law. This distribution program has been continuous since 1926.

     In addition to this tree distribution program, the Forest Service cooperates with the Nebraska State Forester enabling him to make available on a limited scale technical assistance for the 53,800 owners of about 1,000,000 acres of native woodland and in fire protection, and other activities. Forest Service responsibilities for forestry aspects of the watershed program and the A.C.P. program are administered through the State Forester.

     The Central Plains Forestry Office also administers the Oglala National Grasslands formerly the Sugarloaf Land Utilization Project.

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     It is located in the extreme northwest corner of Nebraska near the Pine Ridge district and this unit is administered through a grazing agreement with the Soil and Water Conservation District.

     The Nebraska National Forest and Grasslands are administered by Clayton B. Pierce, the Supervisor, who has offices in the Post Office Building in Lincoln. The Supervisor is responsible to the Regional Forester in Denver, Colorado, for administration of the Nebraska National Forest and Oglala National Grasslands, and is his principal representative for other Forest Service activities, except research, in the States of Nebraska and Kansas. There are two resident Forest Rangers. One is located in the Post Office Building in Chadron and is responsible for the Pine Ridge Division of the forest and Oglala National Grasslands. The other Ranger is located at Halsey and is responsible for the Bessey and Niobrara Divisions. There is also a resident Nurseryman at the Bessey Division at Halsey.

     A field Research Center headed by Ralph A. Read of the Forest Service is located at Lincoln with offices in the Plant Industry Building of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics. This Research Center is attached to the Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station of the Forest Service at Fort Collins, Colorado, and is operated in cooperation with the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station.

     The Soil Conservation Service promotes the scientific application of soil and water conservation and erosion control practices on agricultural land by providing technical assistance to soil conservation districts. Soil conservation districts are legal subdivisions of government organized under state law and operated under the direction of a board of supervisors elected by landowners in the district. The Soil Conservation Service is also responsible for the administration of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act, Public Law 566 of the Eighty-third Congress. Through this law, assistance is provided to local organizations that make application to the Governor of the state for assistance and meet specified requirements for cost sharing and assume the operation and maintenance costs of the completed projects. The Soil Conservation Service also is responsible for the administration of the Great Plains Conservation Program, Public Law 1021 of the Eighty-fifth Congress. This law provides for cost-sharing in the soil and water conservation plan on farms and ranches in the Great Plains Area.

     C. Dale Jaedicke, State Conservationist; A. H. Marquardt, Assistant State Conservationist; Room 604, 134 South 12th Street, Lincoln.

     Soil survey involves the mapping and classification of the soils in sufficient detail for predicting their best use, conservation and manage-

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ment. This is done acre by acre in each county. Soil survey maps have a number of uses, some of which are land appraisal for loans or tax assessment, planning for irrigation or drainage, planning for erosion control, moisture conservation and soil management.

     The Soil Conservation Service provides the soil survey leadership for the United States Department of Agriculture. Lincoln is the Regional Technical Service Center of the Soil Conservation Service for the Midwest States consisting of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

     A. R. Aandahl, Principal Soil Correlator; R. W. Elkleberry, Soil Correlator for Interpretation; R. K. Jackson, Soil Scientist, Soil Survey Reports; B. D. Seay, Research Soil Scientist; R. I. Turner, Soil Correlator; W. E. McKinzie, Soil Correlator; Midwest Region Technical Service Center, 6th Floor, 134 South 12th Street, Lincoln.

     The Department of Commerce was created in 1903 as the Department of Commerce and Labor, and it was not until 1913 that it was divided into two separate departments. The following agencies comprise the main units of the department: Bureau of International Commerce, Business and Defense Services Administration, Maritime Administration, Bureau of Public Roads, Office of Business Economics, Bureau of the Census, National Bureau of Standards, Patent Office, Environmental Science Services Administration (includes Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Weather Bureau), Economic Development Administration, St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, and United States Travel Service.

     The Bureau of Public Roads administers the provisions of the Federal-aid Highway Acts and cooperates with the several states in the construction and improvement of highways, comprising the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, the federal-aid primary system, the federal-aid secondary system, and urban extensions thereof. The provisions of the acts also pertain to the expenditure of federal funds on the following classes of highways: Forest highways, forest development roads and trails, park roads and trails, parkways, Indian reservation roads, public lands highways, and defense access roads. Such activity in Nebraska is under the direction of a division engineer.

     E. Robert Anderson, Division Engineer, 300 South 17th Street, Lincoln.

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE SERVICES ADMINISTRATION WEATHER BUREAU

     The Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) Weather Bureau maintains seven airport stations and a state climatological office in the State of Nebraska. The airport stations make weather observations, furnish weather information and forecasts for the benefit of the general public, aviation, industrial and agricultural interests. At Lincoln, there is also located the office of the state climatologist which collects and disseminates weather data from hundreds of cooperative weather observers in the state. The stations located at Omaha and North Platte make upper-air observations and are also equipped with specially modified weather radar as are Scottsbluff and Norfolk.

     Stephen T. Fleharty, Meteorologist in Charge, Grand Island Airport.

     Harold Alexander, Meteorologist in Charge, Norfolk Airport.

     Guy H. Gray, Meteorologist in Charge, North Platte Airport.

     Edward F. Stapowich, Meteorologist in Charge, Omaha Airport.

     Edgar L. Van Tassel, Meteorologist in Charge, Scottsbluff Airport.

     Earl E. Nicholas, Meteorologist in Charge, Valentine Airport.

     Gordon Lippert, Meteorologist in Charge, Lincoln Airport.

     Richard E. Myers, State Climatologist, Lincoln.

     The Department of Labor was established as an executive department of the government in 1913. It is charged with the duty of fostering, promoting and developing the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, improving their working conditions, and advancing their opportunities for profitable employment. It gives special attention to manpower problems and the need for improved skills in the face of technological change.

     The Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, United States Department of Labor, has four major functions: It provides assistance to industry (management and labor) in the development of apprenticeship standards for skilled trade training; it assists industry in developing training procedures for occupations not considered within the skilled trade category; it acts in consultant capacity to industry on the labor relations aspect of industrial training and maintains statistics, or permanent inventory, of skilled labor force.

     The Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training has the responsibility of promoting and developing On-the-Job Training under the Manpower Development and Training Act.

     While the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training was established by Act of Congress, participation in the National Apprenticeship Pro-

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gram or the Skill Improvement Program is voluntary on the part of management and labor. Further, the Bureau of Apprenticeship does not maintain any regulatory authority.

     There is one office in Nebraska under the general supervision of the Regional Office in Kansas City, Missouri.

     John C. Connelly, State Supervisor, 2412 Federal Building, 215 North 17th Street, Omaha 68102.
     Taylor F. Custer, Regional Director, 2811 Federal Office Building, 911 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106.

     The Veterans Employment Service is an agency created by law, primarily for the purpose of promoting employment for veterans. It is responsible for the veterans' placement policies and effective operation of the veterans' employment program, including functional supervision over such Department of Labor, Division of Employment local office services related to the placement of veterans as are required by federal law. Evaluates work of local State Employment Service offices to assure compliance with veterans' preference laws and regulations in job placement activities. Develops job opportunities for and promotes programs to stimulate employment of veterans. The Veterans Employment Service maintains close relationship with numerous federal and state agencies, state and local veterans' and other civic organizations relating to matters of veterans' employment and rehabilitation and serves in a liaison capacity with these agencies and the Nebraska Employment Service. The Department of Labor assigns one representative to each state.

     Robert P. Manifold, Veterans Employment Representative for Nebraska, Department of Labor Building, 550 South 16th Street, Lincoln 68509.

     The Office of Labor-Management and Welfare-Pension Reports administers Title II through VI of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (Landrum-Griffin Act). The act establishes standards for the election of the union officers, regulates trusteeships, details the fiduciary responsibility of union officials and requires bonding of union officers and employees handling union funds. Unions are required to file annual financial reports and under certain specified conditions employers, labor relation consultants, officers and employees of labor organizations must also file financial reports. These reports are public information.

     The office also administers the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act as amended, wherein information reports listing specific

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benefits and annual financial reports are required from administrators controlling funds in which employees participate.

     The office gives technical assistance to organizations and persons required to make reports under both acts and investigates complaints concerning alleged violations of the acts.

     A representative is present on the first Wednesday of each month.

     Omaha Field Office, Room 3004, Federal Building, 215 North 17th Street, Omaha 68102. Phone 402-221-4666.

     The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the statistical and research agency of the United States Department of Labor. It gathers, analyzes, and reports on matters of interest to labor and students of economic activity generally, including information relating to prices and cost of living; employment, hours of work, and hourly and weekly earnings, by industry, for the United States, individual states, and major metropolitan areas; occupational wage rates by industry; industrial hazards; labor turnover; work stoppages; and productivity.

     Statistical programs in the fields of employment, hours of work, and hourly and weekly earnings are carried out in cooperation with an agency of the state government in each state.

     Melvin L. Breeden, Cooperating Representative of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor and Chief of Research and Statistics, Nebraska Division of Employment, 550 So. 16th, Lincoln.
     Adolph O. Berger, Regional Director, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor, 219 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60604.

     The objectives of the office are: One, to ensure reemployment and seniority protection for men and women who interrupt their civilian careers for training or service in the Armed Forces of the United States; Two, to aid all persons covered by the veterans reemployment statutes in obtaining the reemployment rights and benefits to which they are entitled; and Three, to assist employers, labor organizations and other interested parties in resolving problems arising under reemployment rights statutes.

     James W. Higgins, Regional Director, 911 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106.

     All County Veterans Service Officers in the State of Nebraska and all Local Veterans Employment Representatives with the State Employment Service offices.

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WAGE AND HOUR AND PUBLIC CONTRACTS DIVISIONS

     Enforces the wage, hour and child-labor, equal pay, and safety and health provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act, and the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act.

     Robert M. Kelley, Regional Director, Region No. VII, 911 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106.
     Floyd L. Wilson, Investigation Supervisor, 2118 Federal Building, Omaha 68102.

     On April 11, 1953, the Federal Security Agency became the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Reorganization Plan 1 of 1953, which created the department, abolished the agency and transferred all functions of the Federal Security Administrator to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. The department's major responsibilities are to promote the general welfare in the fields of health, education and economic security. The major units of the department are the Social Security Administration, Public Health Service, Office of Education, Food and Drug Administration, Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, Welfare Administration, and Administration on Aging. The department's regional office in Kansas City, Missouri; serves Nebraska, and Social Security district offices are located in Grand Island, Lincoln, Norfolk, North Platte, Omaha, and Scottsbluff.

     The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for enforcing the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, the Hazardous Substances Labeling Act, the Tea Importation Act, the Import Milk Act, the Caustic Poison Act, and the Filled Milk Act.

     Carl A. Larrick, John W. McGrath, Resident Inspectors, Room 108, 1709 Jackson Street, Omaha.

     District office is located at 1009 Cherry, Kansas City, Missouri.

     The Social Security Administration carries out the duties imposed

     by the Social Security Act, which include administration of a national system of old-age, survivors, and disability insurance; administration of a national program of health insurance for the aged, popularly known as "Medicare;" and administration of federal participation in the state-administered public assistance plans and maternal and child health and welfare plans for conformity and compliance with the mandatory requirements of the Social Security Act and standards established by the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The

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Social Security Administration maintains 620 district offices. There are six of these offices located in Nebraska, at Grand Island, Lincoln, Norfolk, North Platte, Omaha, and Scottsbluff.

     The Department of Housing and Urban Development was established by the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act of September 9, 1965, effective as of November 9, 1965. The act transferred to the Secretary of HUD all the functions, powers and duties of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (including the Community Facilities Administration and the Urban Renewal Administration), of the Federal Housing Administration, and the Public Housing Administration. The act also transferred to the department the Federal National Mortgage Association, together with its functions, powers and duties.

     The department administers the principal programs of the federal government which provide assistance for housing and promote sound development of the nation's communities and metropolitan areas. The major units of the department are the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Mortgage Credit and Federal Housing Commissioner, the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Renewal and Housing Assistance, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Metropolitan Development, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Demonstrations and Intergovernmental Relations.

     The State of Nebraska is included in the department's Region IV, with headquarters in Chicago, Illinois.

     John P. McCollum, Regional Administrator, 360 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601.

     Nebraska is in the area assigned to the Chicago Agency Office of the Federal National Mortgage Association, which provides supplementary assistance to the secondary market for insured and guaranteed mortgages as well as other special assistance functions.

     Frank H. Bauman, Agency Manager, 1112 Commonwealth Edison Building, 72 West Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603.

     The Community Facilities Administration directs the college housing program which provides long-term loans to public and private institutions of higher learning to finance the construction of student and faculty housing, dining and service buildings. Other functions include the supervision of the construction of schools in areas of federal impact; administration of a program of advance loans for non-federal public works planning, direction of a program of loans for the con-

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struction of non-federal public works, supervision of Senior Citizens Housing Loan Program which provides direct loans to nonprofit corporations under Section 202 of the Housing Act of 1961, and construction management of the Grant Program for basic sewer and water facilities, P.L. 89-117.

     L. J. Williams, Field Engineer, 3413 New Federal Building, 215 North 17th Street, Omaha 68102.

     The Federal Housing Administration under Title II of the National Housing Act insures mortgages on residential and multifamily properties, and under Title I improvements and repairs on all types of real property.

     Russell M. Bailey, Director, Federal Building, 215 No. 17th Street, Omaha 68102.

     The Eighty-ninth Congress on October 15, 1966, approved legislation which established the Department of Transportation. As of January, 1967, the Department is in the process of being organized and staffed, therefore, a description of the Department of Transportation and its offices in Nebraska will be carried in the next issue of the Nebraska Blue Book.

     The Farm Credit Banks of Omaha consist of three banks providing credit for farmers and stockmen and their cooperative organizations. The Federal Land Bank, through farmer-owned Federal Land Bank Associations, provides long-term farm and ranch loans. The Federal Intermediate Credit Bank discounts loan funds to Production Credit Associations and other agricultural lending institutions. The Bank for Cooperatives specializes in loans to farmer-owned cooperative marketing and purchasing associations. Nebraska is a part of the Eighth Farm Credit District, with the Farm Credit Banks located in Omaha.

     Herman W. Frerichs, Jr., Chairman, President's Committee, Farm Credit Banks of Omaha, and President, Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Omaha.

     Thomas A. Maxwell, Jr., President, Federal Land Bank of Omaha.

     John E. Eidam, President, Omaha Bank for Cooperatives.

     R. Edward Baur, Chairman, Farm Credit Board of Omaha, Van Meter, Iowa.

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     Ralph Raikes, Member, Farm Credit Board of Omaha, Ashland.
     Walter W. Peterson, Member, Farm Credit Board of Omaha, Chappell.

     The Federal Aviation Agency was established on January 1, 1959, replacing the Civil Aeronautics Administration, the Airways Modernization Board and certain functions of the Civil Aeronautics Board. Created by the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, the FAA is charged with the responsibility for fairly apportioning the use of the airspace among all its users, civil and military. The FAA is responsible for expanding, modernizing and for improving the Federal Airways System.

     The safe flight of all aircraft and airmen is the responsibility of the Federal Aviation Agency. To improve safety in aviation, is the primary goal of the FAA. The FAA (1) sets standards of safety; (2) maintains a close watch to ensure that these standards are being followed; (3) investigates and initiates corrective, and when necessary, punitive action when these standards are violated.

     The FAA sets the standards for certification of airmen and others such as traffic controllers whose health has a bearing on safety in flight. The FAA also provides standards and conducts inspection as well as certification of aircraft and their components as related to airworthiness.

     As part of the civil airways (air highways), in Nebraska there are: eight Flight Service Stations at Chadron, Grand Island, Imperial, Lincoln, North Platte, Omaha, Scottsbluff and Sidney; and an Airport Traffic Control Tower at Omaha and Lincoln. A Radar Approach Facility is operated by the FAA at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha. All civil and military air traffic in Nebraska using the civil airways is regulated through these facilities. These facilities transmit weather and flight information necessary for private, military, and commercial aviation, and the Weather Bureau.

     Also included in the Federal Airways system in Nebraska are a number of radio aids to air navigation to assist in moving large volumes of air traffic regularly in bad weather as well as in good weather. Radio aids to air navigation include two Instrument Landing Systems at Lincoln and Omaha; twelve Very High Frequency Omniranges at Chadron, Grand Island, Hayes Center, North Platte, Omaha, Norfolk, O'Neill, Pawnee City, Raymond, Scottsbluff, Sidney and Wolbach; and five low frequency homing facilities at Omaha (2), Lincoln, North Platte, and Jackson. Peripheral transmitter and receiver sites, used by Air Route Traffic Control Centers are operated at Grand Island, Ogallala, Crawford, O'Neill, and Omaha. There is one Flight Standards District Office at Lincoln and one Airports District Office at Lincoln. These Federal Airway Facilities and District Offices are under the jurisdiction

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of the Kansas City Area Office in Kansas City, Missouri 64110. The Kansas City Area is part of the Central Region, also in Kansas City.

     Robert I. Gale, FAA Area Manager, 4747 Troost Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64110.
     Edward C. Marsh, FAA Regional Director, 601 E. 12th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106.

     The Federal Communications Commission enforces the Communications Act of 1934 as amended which applies to all interstate and foreign communications by wire, submarine cable and radio; licenses commercial and privately-owned radio stations on land, shipboard, aircraft and land vehicles; licenses persons operating radio transmitters; guards against interference to regular radio services; locates unlawful radio transmitters; also renders aid to lost aircraft and ships through direction finding. The commission operates a radio monitoring station in Nebraska.

     One of the commission's mobile television enforcement units operates over a twenty-one state area from headquarters in Nebraska.

     Arthur A. Johnson, Engineer in Charge, Federal Communications Commission, Monitoring Station, Grand Island.
     John McKinney, Jr., Engineer in Charge, Federal Communications Commission, Central Television Enforcement Unit, Grand Island.

     The chief purpose of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is to insure the deposits of all banks which are members of the Fund. Maximum insurance for each depositor, in the same right and capacity, is $15,000. The corporation pays off the depositors of closed insured banks. All banks which are members of the Federal Reserve System and all National banks are insured, and any state bank which is not a member of the Federal Reserve System may become insured upon application and examination and approval by the Board of Directors of the corporation.

     Stanley Pugh, Supervising Examiner, 1207 Federal Reserve Bank Building, Kansas City, Missouri.

     Howard C. Thedens, Assistant Supervising Examiner, 1207 Federal Reserve Bank Building, Kansas City, Missouri.

     Robert V. Shumway, Assistant Supervising Examiner, 1207 Federal Reserve Bank Building, Kansas City, Missouri.

     Francis B. Dougherty, Examiner, Norfolk.

     Norman K. Gentzler, Examiner, Kearney.

     Clarence Hansen, Examiner, Lincoln.

     Darrell A. Nelson, Examiner, Lincoln.

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     James A. Rotter, Examiner, North Platte.
     Bernard L. Wozny, Examiner, Grand Island.

     Upon application of management or labor, this agency provides the services of skilled conciliators, or arbitrators, for the purpose of forestalling or terminating work stoppages resulting from industrial disputes. This service is no longer a branch of the Department of Labor. It was set up as an independent agency in August of 1947 when the Labor-Management Act was enacted.

     W. F. White, Regional Director, Room 3266, Federal Building, 1520 Market Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63103.
     Edward H. Ries, Walter M. Hopkins, Commissioners. 3400 New Federal Building, 215 North 17th Street, Omaha 68102.

     The basic function of the Federal Reserve System is to make possible a flow of credit and money that will foster orderly economic growth and a stable dollar. An efficient monetary mechanism is indispensable to the steady development of the nation's resources and a rising standard of living.

     There are twelve Federal Reserve Banks in the United States and twenty-four branches. Nebraska is a part of the Tenth Federal Reserve District. Accordingly, the state is served by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and its Omaha Branch.

     Homer A. Scott, Chairman, Board of Directors and Federal Reserve Agent, Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City, Missouri.
     G. C. Rankin, Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in charge of the Omaha Branch, Omaha.

     Nebraska is one of seven states served from the regional office which is located at 1500 East Bannister Road, Kansas City, Missouri 64131. GSA is the business management agency for the Executive Branch of the Government. There are five operating services-Public Buildings Service, Federal Supply Service, National Archives and Records Service, Transportation and Communications Service, and Property Management and Disposal Service. Includes design, construction, maintenance and management of federally-owned office buildings; procurement of common use items of supply; preservation of U. S. Historical Documents; management of agencies' records and operation of Presidential Libraries; utilization or sale of Government surplus; operation of federal telecommunications network and interagency motor pools; operation of centralized field duplicating plants; and the Government's stockpile of strategic and critical materials.

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     The following General Services Administration offices are located in Nebraska:

     Marion A. Waller, Area Manager, 9405 Federal Building, 215 North 17th Street, Omaha 68102.

     Einar V. Mogensen, Buildings Manager, 1205 Federal Building, 215 North 17th Street, Omaha 68102.

     Earl G. McCoy, Manager, Interagency Motor Pool, 1707 Jackson Street, Omaha 68102.

     Ernest R. Mahan, Manager, Self-Service Store, 2120 Federal Building, 215 North 17th Street, Omaha 68102.

     Leola Day, Telephone Supervisor, 1311 Federal Building, 215 North 17th Street, Omaha 68102.

     Edgar J. Thien, Building Superintendent, Municipal Airport, Box 997, Grand Island 68801.

     Edgar A. Matthews, Manager, Interagency Motor Pool, 1712 West Third Street, McCook 69001.

     Robert Caffrey, Building Manager, 104 Federal Building, Third and Pine Streets, North Platte 69101.

     Glen E. Sprague, Building Superintendent, U. S. Post Office and Federal Building, Fifth Street and Broadway, Fullerton 68638.

     Ruth Morris, Communications Supervisor, 423 Post Office Building, Lincoln 68503.

     The Interstate Commerce Commission regulates in the public interest, common carriers engaged in transportation in interstate commerce. Two of its bureaus, the Bureau of Railroad Safety and Service and the Bureau of Operations and Compliance have offices in Nebraska.

     Keith P. Kohrs, District Supervisor, Federal Office Building, Omaha.

     Dale L. Meiner, Safety Inspector, Federal Office Building, Omaha.

     Max H. Johnston, District Supervisor, Post Office Building, Lincoln.

     R. Kitzmiller, Safety Inspector, Post Office Building, Lincoln.

     James E. Curry, District Inspector, Section of Locomotive Inspection, Federal Office Building, Omaha.

     G. C. Spears, Safety and Service Agent, Section of Car Service, Federal Office Building, Omaha.

     James D. Leeson, Safety and Service Agent, Section of Railroad Safety, Federal Office Building, Omaha.

     John J. Hacker, Inspector, RSTC, Section of Railroad Safety, Federal Office Building, Omaha.

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RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

     The Railroad Retirement Board was established in 1935. It administers a retirement system for the payment of annuities and pensions to the aged and disabled railroad employees, spouse annuities and survivor annuities and lump sum death benefit payments to the survivors of railroad employees, annuitants and pensioners; an unemployment insurance system for the payment of benefits to railroad employees who become unemployed due to lack of work or to sickness, including maternity sickness; a free employment service for unemployed railroad workers and others including ex-servicemen and women, interested in railroad employment; and administers the medicare program for railroad employees and their families.

     Kenneth R. Harbour, District Manager, Room 1010, New Federal Building, Omaha.
     Charles Devorak, Base Point Representative, P. O. Box 1103, Room 306, 300 East 3rd Street, North Platte.

     The Selective Service System, an agency of the executive branch of the federal government charged with the procurement of men for the Armed Forces and with determining the availability of Standby Reservists, functions under a program which calls for decentralization of its operations. In furtherance of this policy, each state Governor is charged with the enforcement of the Selective Service program in his state. He nominates and the President appoints the State Director of Selective Service.

     The Selective Service System in Nebraska consists of a State Headquarters, ninety-six Local Boards, a State Appeal Board, and a Scientific-Engineering Advisory Committee. The State Headquarters coordinates the operation of these subdivisions which administer 265,000 registrants in Nebraska, a number which increases at the rate of 1,000 per month, as well as 4,500 Standby Reservists.

     The members of the Local Boards and the Board of Appeal, the Medical Advisors, and the Government Appeal Agents for the respective local boards, are nominated by the Governor and appointed by the President. Members of the Scientific-Engineering Advisory Committee are nominated by the State Director and appointed by the National Director of Selective Service. All members of the local boards, Board of Appeal, Medical Advisory Boards, Examining Physicians, Government Appeal Agents and Scientific-Engineering Committee members serve without pay. In all, 517 patriotically motivated Nebraska citizens are involved, giving many thousands of man-hours of their time to the service of their country.

     Lieutenant General Guy N. Henninger, State Director of Selective Service, 208 North 11th Street, Lincoln 68508.

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     Colonel Francis S. Drath, Deputy for Operations, 208 North 11th Street, Lincoln 68508.

     Colonel Lee G. Liggett, Deputy for Administration, Finance and Procurement Officer, 208 North 11th Street, Lincoln 68508.

     Lieutenant Colonel Edwin A. Scott, Chief, Manpower Division, 208 North 11th Street, Lincoln 68508.

     The Small Business Administration was established by the Small Business Act of 1953. It is the first comprehensive peacetime governmental agency in history created for the sole purpose of advising, counselling, assisting and protecting small-business enterprises. The Small Business Administration makes business and disaster loans, furnishes management and technical assistance, assists small firms in participating in government procurement and Rural Development Programs. The Administration issues licenses to Small Business Investment Companies, makes loans to local and State Development Corporations for Small-Business Development, assists small business in research and development areas and awards Small Business Research Grants to States.

     Norman A. Otto, Regional Director, 7425 Federal Building, 215 North 17th Street, Omaha 68102.

     The Civil Service Commission is the central personnel agency of the federal government. The commission provides services and leadership in personnel management. One of its best known activities is that of competitive testing of applicants for jobs in the federal Civil Service. The program in Nebraska is directed by the St. Louis Region, U. S. Civil Service Commission, St. Louis, Missouri. Albert H. Sonntag is Regional Director. John S. Anderson, Civil Service Representative, Omaha, services the State of Nebraska. The commission's examining programs are administered through the Omaha Interagency Board of United States Civil Service Examiners, which recruits for most federal agencies in the State of Nebraska, and through the Post Office Board of United States Civil Service Examiners, also located in Omaha, which services all post offices in Nebraska.

     Nebraska has 16,000 employees in the federal service. Each year, because of retirements and resignations, approximately 2,600 new employees are added to the federal payroll in Nebraska. This number does not include employees from Nebraska who are employed in other states.

     To facilitate examining, the Examiners-in-Charge are located at post offices easily accessible to all Nebraska citizens. Civil Service examinations are given in the following cities: Alliance, Beatrice, Broken Bow, Columbus, Falls City, Fremont, Grand Island, Hastings,

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Kearney, Lincoln, McCook, Norfolk, North Platte, Ogallala, Omaha, O'Neill, Scottsbluff, Sidney and Valentine.

     The Veterans Administration is a federal agency that administers most, but not all, of the benefits created by federal law for America's veterans and their dependents. Among its responsibilities are hospitalization and treatment of disabled veterans. For this purpose the VA operates hospitals at Lincoln, Omaha, and Grand Island.

     Other veterans benefits, which are administered by the VA Regional Office, 220 South 17th Street, Lincoln, include:

     1. Claims for disability compensation, pension and education benefits filed by veterans and their dependents; 2. Guaranteed, insured, and direct loans for purchase or construction of veterans homes, farms, or business property; 3. Special housing for certain seriously disabled veterans; 4. Guardianship program to protect the interests of incompetent veterans and the dependent children, widows and parents of veterans; and 5. Contact service to provide information and assistance to veterans and their dependents in preparation and filing of claims for benefits. 

Charles St. J. Chubb, Manager, Regional Office, Veterans Building, 220 South 17th Street, Lincoln.

Dr. J. Melvin Boykin, Director, Veterans Hospital, Lincoln.

Dr. Kenneth Brown, Director, Veterans Hospital, Omaha.

Dr. Lad J. Kucera, Director, Veterans Hospital, Grand Island.

     The judicial branch of the national government is headed by the Supreme Court of the United States.

     First Monday in October of each year and continues as long as the business before the Court requires, usually until about the middle of June.

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      For purposes of judicial administration, the nation is divided into eleven circuits, including the District of Columbia as a circuit, in each of which there is a United States court of appeals. Each of the 50 States is assigned to one of the circuits, and the Territories are assigned variously to the first, third, fifth and ninth circuits. The eleven circuits are subdivided into district courts, of which there are eighty-eight in the 50 States, plus the one in the District of Columbia. In addition, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has a United States district court with jurisdiction corresponding to that of district courts in the various states. There are altogether 316 district judgeships in the 50 States; 15 in the District of Columbia and 2 in Puerto Rico.

      Each district has, in addition to one or more judges, a clerk, a United States attorney,' a United States marshal,' one or more United States commissioners, referees in bankruptcy, probation officers, court reporters, and their assistants. Nebraska is within the Eighth circuit, and constitutes a single separate district

      The Hon. Byron R. White, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is assigned to the Eighth judicial circuit.

     1 For a list of U. S. Attorneys and U. S. Marshals in Nebraska, see the section on the Department of Justice.

     The court holds one general term annually. This term begins the first day of September. Sessions are at such times and places as the court orders.

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA

JUDGES

     The Commissioners are appointed by the district court.

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