Changes of the Week

> Engineer William A. Pearl, 60, head of the State College of Washington's engineering school, was named Bonneville Power Administrator to succeed Dr. Paul J. Raver, who resigned. Although Pearl has never mixed in the Northwest's public v. private power squabbles, the choice raised charges from public powerites that he was hand-picked by private powermen. Pearl insists he has no partisan interest in public v. private power disputes, though he supports development of the Snake River's Hell's Canyon by multiple private dams instead of one public dam. His reason: the multiple dams will produce more power in less time. Said Pearl: "The question is not one of public v. private power, but one of economy and engineering facts."

> Wesley P. Goss, 54, vice president and general manager of Arizona's Magma Copper Co., moved up to president, succeeding A. J. McNab, who became chairman. One of the West's top mining engineers, Goss bossed development of Magma's famed San Manuel mine, largest underground copper mine in the U.S.

> Joseph Johnson George, 44, chief of Eastern Air Lines' weather services, was named Deputy Chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau, a new job. World War II weather boss for the Army Air Forces in the China-Burma-India Theater, George is today the highest-ranking weatherman in the Air Force Reserve (rank: brigadier general). In his new job, he will boss reorganization of the Weather Bureau and improvement of forecasting techniques along lines he recommended a month ago while chairman of the Commerce Department's Advisory Committee on Weather Services.

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