No Change for Charlie

Gauging the accomplishments and desires of President Eisenhower's Cabinet members, Washington soothsayers predicted that two would leave the Cabinet before Ike's second term began. The two rated most likely to secede: Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, who seven weeks ago underwent surgery on his esophagus; and Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, who has frequently made plain his hope of retiring as soon as practicable.

Last week the President himself spoke for Summerfield: because of an 1872 act that ends the Postmaster General's appointment after one presidential term and one month more, Ike named the onetime Republican national chairman to the job all over again. "Engine Charlie" Wilson spoke for himself. Returning to his desk after a holiday visit to Michigan, he told newsmen he expected to remain in the Cabinet until the defense budget has been approved by Congress next spring or summer. But he added: "I might change my mind, of course. A man never knows what is going to happen to him these days."

At Augusta, Ga., where he enjoyed a golfing weekend (and firmer control of his putter), the President also:

P: Named Defense Department General Counsel Mansfield D. Sprague, 46, to the job of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Personnel and Reserve, succeeding Carter L. Burgess, who leaves the Administration to become president of Trans World Airlines.

P: Upped E. Perkins McGuire, 52, from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense to Assistant Secretary for Supply and Logistics.

P: Accepted the resignation of Subversive Activities Control Board Chairman Thomas J. Herbert, onetime Ohio governor recently elected a judge of the Ohio Supreme Court.

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