Atlanta Daily World

Folding Of OPS Dooms Jobs Of Negro Officials

BY ALICE A. DUNNIGAN

WASHINGTON- (ANP) The lifting of price controls from all commodities means an immediate termination of the Office of Price Stablization.

All employees of OPS, including a number of Negroes, have either received, or expect to receive within two weeks, their notices of dismissal.

Among Negroes in top ranking positions affected by the liquidation of the agency are Russell DeBow, assistant to the administrator, and Jesse O. Thomas, information specialist.

DeBow says he has no plans for the future, but Thomas says he will visit South Africa to gather material for a book.

Atty George Windsor, who served as a special agent for OPS, will resume his law practice with the firm of Tibbs, Windsor and Taylor in the District of Columbia. Julia Cooper and Fred Minnis will also enter private practice in D. C.

S. Allen Early plans to enter law practice in Detroit, and Harry Alexander of New Orleans will enter law practice in Washington.

William F. McKinney, who served as assistant to the regional director in Dallas, Texas, has accepted a position with the regional office of the Public Housing Administration of Dallas.

Frank J Hogan, who served as deputy assistant to the district attorney in New York after his graduation from Yale, plans to enter law practice in New York City.

Mrs Dorothy Davis, who was appointed information specialist for OPS in Kansas City, is now director of the Florence Home and Girls in that city.

Harry Watkins, former administrative analyst at OPS, has been given a top level personnel job with the District of Columbia.

Lucius Watson, who served as an accountant in the OPS regional office in New York, has accepted a position with the regional office of the Federal Security Agency of that city.

Dr. Rudolph Jones left his post as OPS price economist to accept the assistant deanship at Fayetteville Teachers college in North Carolina.

William Louis Campfield, who served as OPS cost accountant in the regional office at San Francisco, has accepted a similar position with the army ordnance.

Special OPS agent Clark Frazier of Missouri is now serving as assistant circuit attorney in St. Louis.

An outplacement program has been established in the national office of OPS for the purpose of trying to place dismissed personnel in other jobs before the agency is completely abolished.

This department is doing a fairly good job, said an OPS spokesman, considering the employment freeze which is now on in all government agencies.

Many of the Negro employees, especially those in the higher brackets, left the agency on their own and found new employment when they realized that decontrols were swiftly advancing and OPS was gradually folding.