The Nome Nugget

Eisenhower Feels That Businessmen
Heading Armed Services Will Assure
Savings Without Endangering Defense

NEW YORK. (AP)--President-elect Eisenhower is counting on the civilian team of industrialists and businessmen who will head the armed services in his administration to save the taxpayers money without jeopardizing national defense.

Eisenhower reportedly placed much emphasis on a need for what one aide called "sound American business sense" in his now-completed search for a defense high command to direct the spending of billions of dollars.

In his first step to place men with business experience in the Defense Department Eisenhower last month chose Charles E. Wilson, veteran president of General Motors, as Secretary of Defense to head the civilian team.

Eisenhower wanted not only a man who knew production but one schooled in the ways of getting full value out of every dollar. He and Wilson looked for experienced businessmen to head the Army, Navy, and Air Force departments. Friday Eisenhower announced the selection of:

Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, 53, of South Plainfield, N.J., as Secretary of the Army. He is a textile executive and also is chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He also served as a colonel in the Quartermaster General's office during World War II.

Robert B. Anderson, 42, of Vernon, Texas, as Secretary of the Navy. A Democrat, he is manager of a half-million acre ranch, one of the largest in Texas. He also is chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Harold E. Talbott, 64, of New York, as Secretary of the Air Force. He is a member of the Chrysler Corp. finance committee, a former chairman of the board of North American Aviation Company and a former president of the Dayton Wright Company. During the second world war he served as director of aircraft production for the War Production Board.

Eisenhower also named Roger M. Kyes, 46, of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., deputy secretary of defense. Like Wilson, under whom he will serve, Kyes is a General Motors executive-general manager of the corporation's motor truck and coach division.

All of the defense high command appointees are Republicans except Anderson. All are resigning their private jobs.

Aides said Eisenhower is delighted about the business backgrounds of all the men and that he feels their experience should assure savings without endangering national defense.