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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 29, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday june 29, 1968 report James overhaul Al of . Bureaucracy London special owns the top ranks of the British civil service Are to be More expert and less Remote. This is the essential upshot of a voluminous report of the Fulton committee set up by prime minister Harold Wilson More than two years ago to advise on what to be done to bring the British bureaucracy up to Date. The government is resolved to carry out most of the recommendations which will involve a Complete transformation of the internal organization of the civil service and a different Choice of new recruits. The tendency until now has been to select the very Best brains from the very Best universities mostly Oxford and Cambridge isolate them All through their lives from the hurly Burly of business and politics and let them in due course Rise to the top of government departments and thus control an Ever widening area of human activities. Above them of course Are the ministers selected by the prime minister for political reasons. But these come and go so often that although in theory they Are the masters mainly they leave the running of their department and often also the formulations of their policies to the behind the scene civil serv ants who have earned them selves the Well deserved Nick names of the Whitehall Mand Arins. The committee was not asked to re examine this Basic relationship Between the minister and his staff. It has however tried to suggest ways of making departments More responsive to current needs. It recommends that each should have a Bright and mainly Young team of policy planners and that their chief should be the minister s policy adviser. The minister would thus have two people to turn not Only the Perman ent Secretary who Heads the department but also someone who takes time off to consider the Long term aspects of government policy. Or. Wilson had instructed the committee to examine the Structure recruitment and of the civil serv ice and some critics Reading the report regret that the committee has interpreted management s o narrowly that it excludes asking the Basic and essential question of what the civil service does. How things could be done better but not whether the vast concentration of work piling up at Whitehall could be bandied by any bureaucracy however Well equipped and up to Date. Travel to Sweden some members of the. Com Mittee travelled to Sweden and came Back evidently impressed by the system in which the Small and tightly knit swedish ministries formulate Public policy while separate govern ment agencies Are entrusted with the non political and managerial Side of Public Busin Ess. Many members of the Fulton committee privately believe this having off of tasks is Essen tial. They foresee that some functions could be devolved upon separate agencies and others to local or regional bodies which should not need As at present to bring All their problems to London. The committee however decided this was not its pro service should seek the intellects available and Blem and though it suggested a new investigation on having off tasks it has limited itself to suggesting ways of reorganizing the civil service to meet its current Mammoth obligations. Starling from the View that a civil service is fundamentally the product of a 19th-Century philosophy the members of the committee claim it must now be totally reshaped to meet the tasks of the second half of the 20th. They repudiate the old British tradition that the civil Best recommend instead they should seek those Best trained for particular functions. This however is not a unanimous View one committee member a former civil servant lord Simey has published a minority View that the service still needs the Best minds and once these Are selected they can learn their speciality on the Job. He claims that big employers in British Industry Are coming around to this View themselves and Are no longer specially interested subject a Man has read for a degree. But the committee members no longer want to see Man Darins with mainly classical training and say the emphasis on the humanities has been misguided future civil servants should be numerate As Well they want prefer ence in initial recruitment to be Given to men who have specialized in the subjects for which they will be needed. They also insist on specialization within the service. They note that at present anyone in Johnson to visit Degaulle Paris Reuters Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson will meet French president de Gaulle during a., visit to France july 12-20, diplomatic sources said thursday. The sources said discussions will include plans for cultural economic scientific and technical co operation Between France and Quebec in the Wake of Canadian prime minister Trudeau s sweeping Victory in tuesday s elections. Johnson also will attend Bas Tille Day ceremonies july 14 Here reviewing the traditional champs Parade with de Gaulle. The sources said the Johnson visit will be announced soon after sunday s second round of French elections. Johnson first officially visited France last May and a compar Nied de Gaulle to the football final. Johnson was with de Gaulle in Montreal last july when the French president created a Public uproar with his cry of Vive be Quebec Johnson was to have visited France Early this year but the trip was first postponed to easter and then postponed again until the summer. Meanwhile French newspapers today hailed Trudeau a the great Victor of the Cana Dian some newspapers predicted a confrontation Between him and Johnson. Attention the higher administrative Grade does a Little bit of everything and suggest that on the contrary Leach official should be encouraged to master one particular Branch agriculture pensions housing aircraft or any other speciality and stay with it throughout his career. The committee men were evidently embarrassed by the desire on the one Side to get the Best possible professionals into the service and on the other to meet some of the resentment which is Felt in Britain against having an elite. The committee published Sev eral volumes of testimony along with recommendations and the one from the trades Union movement objected that the civil service is As snobbish and Remote now As it was in the Days before the 19th-Century reformers replaced patronage by open Competition. The tradition is one which derives from the notion of Hierarchy although this Hierarchy is now ostensibly based on Merit rather than on birth 1 the committee therefore wants to abolish the three grades or classes into which the service is now divided administrative executive and and proposes a single establishment graded from top to Bottom according to jobs but open to All talents. On the other hand it recommends a move towards further selectivity and elitism by Sug Gesting that Britain follows the French example and sets up a special College of administration. This would provide graduates with additional training in their own specialities and also be open to give senior officers refresher courses later in their career. Commenting on the French establishment which it visited the committee recommends the High elite professionalism and adds we of did the not guaranteed Trust certificates for terms of 5 years Only. Interest paid Jan. 1st and july 1st you receive 72.50 interest per thousand per year. For 1 year get yours now at Fidelity Trust since head office 291 Garry St pm. 947-0211 branches 417 Academy re. Pm. 474-245? 1355 main St. Pm. 5s6-9687 minimum Deposit member Canada Deposit insurance corporation investigate the Middle and lower level of the services and therefore cannot form a judg ment on the extent to which a Price has to be paid in the Quality of the services at these Levels for the methods by which the elite Are for Britain however the committee Hopes to have it both ways More professionalism but also More Equality. Having visited the United states besides Sweden Anc France the committee Mem Bers note that the British civil service seems to be the most Remote and secretive of the lot. To bring it closer to the world outside they suggest far More coming and going Between the civil service and other careers whether in business academic life or local government. They urge recruitment of experts Anc specialists at High level and to encourage departures As Well As arrivals they want civil serv ants to be allowed to carry their pension rights with them. One essential attribute o Britain s mandarin civil serv ants is their inbred secretive Ness and the belief that every tiling must stay confidential unless proved otherwise. The committee compares Brit air unfavourably with Sweden in this respect and asserts that mat ure democracy rightly demands that secrecy should be kept to an absolute it Calls on the governments to set up an investigation on How govern ment business could be opened up. The trouble is that secrecy makes life easier not Only for i the anti secrecy chapter of the the official but often also for the harassed minister and that is Why nobody would be surprised report is the. Last to be Carrier out. London ont., Sisters Karen left 15, and Sylvia Reinhardt 12, hold their pet duckling Lucky after Sylvia revived it with Mouth to Mouth resuscitation through a Straw Friday when Karen found it at the Bottom of a pail full of water. Medicare begins monday Ottawa up medical care insurance As a co operative Federal provincial venture starts monday with Only Saskatchewan and British Columbia participating. But by Early 1969 five More provinces Are expected to join. They Are Nova Scotia new Brunswick Newfoundland Manitoba and Alberta. The remaining Edward Island Quebec and on follow closely on their heels. Federal and provincial authorities Are confident All prov inces will be participating in the program by 1970. Some doctor opposition to the program has been toned Down by general provincial accept Ance of the principle that Doc tors May practise inside or out Side the plans without their pa-1 tents losing insurance benefits. Main area of doctor concern now centres on periodic negotiation of schedules of fees and on recognition that doctors May Bill for that part of their fee not covered by insurance benefits. The two starting Saskatchewan and British co poles apart in their approach to medical care insurance while still qualifying for the Federal Money involved. Federal payments Are made to provincial plans which meet four Basic requirements. A his motto is safety last Cayuga ont. Up Wayne Skye s 1955 Model car literally fell apart when nearby Hagersville police stopped the vehicle for a safety Check. N the 18-year-old Hagersville youth pleaded guilty in court thursday to driving an unsafe vehicle and was fined or five Days in jail. When police tested the brakes the car s a Frame snapped and dropped to the ground. But faulty brakes and a weak Chassis was just the beginning. A full inspection also revealed a wooden two by four bolted to the rear seat keep the front seat propped in place. A Hole in the front floor big enough for the Driver to put both feet through to the ground. A rotted door Post that allowed the whole Side of the car to pull out when the door was opened. No wheel bearings allowing the wheels to wobble four or five inches. Steering idling bars so Rotten they were just hanging there. Licence plates wired to the car too illegible to read through the coating of dirt. That s almost said magistrate Norman Young. I never heard of an automobile on the Road in that condition. I did t think it was pos Skye also said he did t have a Driver s licence. Provincial plan must cover 90 per cent of the population at the Start rising to 95 per cent in three years. It must cover All needed med ical services by physicians on equal terms and conditions. Benefits must be portable from one province to another and the program must be non profit with the province having the final word on Benefit payments which involve Large sums of Public Money. Saskatchewan s Pioneer government sponsored plan covered these conditions for some time before former prime minister Pearson offered in july 1966, to news blackout ends Montreal up the Csc resumed French language newscasts at 10 . Thursday its radio network and at . On television ending a blackout of regular news Broad casts in French it began at mid night tuesday night. Cause of the blackout was the refusal by reporters in the Montreal French language newsroom to participate in the corporation s planned television coverage of election results tuesday night. The Csc ran a movie film in place of election night coverage and reacted to the work Stopp age by suspending news Broad casts on its French language works until the dispute could be settled. The newsroom reporters voted 84 to 6 i favor of refusing to work on the election show Fol lowing the removal tuesday of Claude Jeah Devarieux a television reporter from the election staff. Or. Devarieux was removed after Csc management objected to his description on a news broadcast of bloody riots which followed separatist pro tests to the presence of prime minister Trudeau. At the St. Jean Baptiste Day Parade in downtown Montreal monday night. Talks were held All Day thursday Between management and the reporters Union which has claimed the dispute could have been avoided had the Csc assigned More men to cover the Devarieux was alone and had televised the riot Ive. Devarieux also was present at the talks but a management statement announcing resumption of regular news casts in French said the corporation would suspend judgment on the disciplinary measures it eels should be taken against he personnel responsible for the statement released thursday night said Laurent Picard Csc executive vice president will appoint a com Mittee composed of manage ment reporters and producers to evaluate the circumstances of the evening programming of june 24 of the and its consequences. The committee also had As its mandate an examination of the problems connected with news and Public affairs program however management maintained the correctness of its decision to withdraw Claude Jean Devarieux from his elec Tion night assignment As a re sult of his report on the 11 . Television newscast monday night. Prior to release of the management statement Marcel Pepin Leader of the confederation of National Trade and reporters on the election night staff of the Csc had called for a Complete and impartial inquiry into the re Moval of or. Devarieux. But an official of the Cana Dian wire service Guild bar gaining agent for the reporters said in an interview thursday night the Guild had no immedi ate comment on the manage ment statement and its proposal for an inquiry committee. Pay half the average per capita costs of acceptable provincial programs. Ninety eight per cent of Saskatchewan residents Are Cov _ ered 92 per cent of British co h j Lumbia s. A current question is negotiation of a new fee schedule be tween the Saskatchewan College of physicians and surgeons and tile provincial medical care insurance commission. The new schedule May in crease costs of the Saskatchewan program by Between 20 and 30 per cent an additional to for the rest of this year. Exclusive of the effect of a new fee schedule the Saskatchewan plan is expected to Cost Between and More this year than the Bill for 1967. The usual pattern is four to five per cent Cost increases. Not All the provincial costs can be shared under the Federal program. Ottawa s contribution to Saskatchewan without taking into account any fee schedule increase will be around to March 31, 1969, end of the current fiscal year. That represents 51 per cent of an estimated total Cost of in that period. The remaining problem in Saskatchewan is the imposition by the province earlier this year of deterrent fees aimed at pre venting unnecessary visits to doctors. By charging the patient a Basic for each visit to a doctor the province says use of the insurance plan is already slackening. But Ottawa is keeping a close Eye on this. Development. The Federal Law requires that Feder Al payments to the provinces be stopped if a province takes action that interferes with a Cess to needed medical service by the Public. After some months of experience with the deterrent fees ederal authorities will decide whether such fees interfered with Access to needed care. If they have the province could be disqualified from Federal contributions. Russia and . J nearly equal in missile race while the Guild cited itself from had the Disso work stoppage by the election night staff it called on the Csc Early thursday to resume news broadcasts because the Public had the right to the services for which it is paying strategic move Toronto up Ann Toppan 19-year-old clerk at a dry cleaning store told police an armed Man made her remove her Blouse so she would t follow him then took from the Cash Register thursday. He escaped with the Money and her Blouse. Washington special tons the mathematics of nuclear Exchange makes the United states and soviet Union nearly equal bar gainers in any negotiations to halt their missile race. After being behind in the Early. 1960s, the russians Are now thought to have around hard and ballistic missile icbms dispersed intercontinental launchers. That number is increasing while the . Figure of land based icbms s is for the moment at least a fixed one. There Are 656 missiles of the Polaris Type on 41 submarines and that figure too is a plateau. The russians have about 50 Sulci subs that carry far fewer missiles but their sub build ing program is going right ahead. The . Has Well Over 600 Long Range bombers almost half of them on an Alert status at All times. Or. Finn Larsen chief Deputy at the Pentagon for research and engineering recently figures that our Alert forces alone carry More than weapons averaging More than one megaton each and Only 400 one megaton weapons Are sufficient to destroy Over one third of the population of the soviet Union and one half her in megaton age the rus sians Are clearly ahead As their much stronger rocket boosters can put a larger payload into the air. And in time they will overtake the . In the number of launchers. However former defence Secretary Robert s. Mcnamara claimed this year that the . Could fire warheads through soviet defences As against soviet warheads Cap Able of penetrating . Defences. He said that Legato Page alone a poor basis of measurement and that what was much More important was the surviving number of separately targe table serviceable accurate reliable the . Is also reckoned to be Well ahead on re search on Mir multiple independently targeted re entry a system of putting Many nuclear Caps on one missile with the objective of overwhelming a defence system. Some defence sources said it was possible that the russians were concerned that Mir and other projects might Lead the . Toward the capability of launching a first strike so foreign news exclusive devastating that the victim could hit Back Only weakly. On their Side the soviets Are working to develop a fractional Orbital bombard ment system a. Means of launching Low trajectory and hard to spot projectiles against the . Bomber Fleet on the ground. If this were Ever coupled with More advanced Mir like multiple warheads than the russians Are credited with having the Pentagon would be far More worried than it is today. Sources there feel the . Is far ahead of the russians on developing Over the horizon radar which can spot such Laune hings and maintain a longer warning time. Around Moscow the rus sians Are deploying Galosh an area abm defence system not unlike the planned . I 11 i o n Sentinel. Galosh is thought Here to be the russians Only abm system the older Tallinn system not being thought to have any significant abm capability beyond its role of combat Ting bombers. Or. Mcnamara was reluctant to respond to this threat when he announced plans last september to build Sentinel but his Suc Cessor Clark m. Clifford. Clearly Felt the time was Ripe. If the soviets Are developing an abm he told a press conference last week and we know they Are develop ing it and we know that they Are deploying it i believe we Are in a better posture to reach agreement with them of an ultimate step toward disarming if we also go about the deployment of a that line of reasoning had much to do this week with. The Senate s approval of million to buy Sites for Sentinel despite Strong and continuing opposition. Now some Pentagon people at a High level Are concerned that or. Clifford May have been too Success Ful that he brought a response from the russians that will encourage the anti abm forces in Congress to fight even harder against the deployment of Sentinel. Annual 20% off recovering Sale starts july 2nd we have some of the Best Quality fabrics to choose from. Let Mary help you in choosing the right color and pattern to your individual needs. Prices to fit every budget. 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