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Show (pmhuiqtbn kf JamiI Presto Leani.sh, farm-born Rep. Carter Manasco of Alabama, who spent seven years on Capitol Hill before entering Congress in 1941, is boost ing a bill designed to cut expenses and increase efficiency of federal agencies. Secretary to the late Speaker Eankhead, Manasco succeeded his former boss, and is an ardent campaigner cam-paigner for governmental economy. econo-my. Adept at storytelling, enthusiastic enthus-iastic about sports as a morale-builder, morale-builder, he looks younger than his years, partly because of dark hair over his domed forehead and eyes that twinkle behind spectacles. He was bornwas born in 1902 on his great-grandfather's farm in Alabama. Ala-bama. As chairman of the House Committee Com-mittee on Executive Expenditures, the Alabaman recently received from President Truman a letter endorsing the bill to strengthen congressional control over government govern-ment corporation finances and operations, op-erations, somewhat as Manasco's bill provides executive control for federal agencies. "I heartily favor this proposal", the President wrote. "It is a long-delayed long-delayed forward step." Manasco is devoting all his energy en-ergy and knowledge acquired during dur-ing 12 years in Washington to seeing that this forward step and similar steps to produce an orderly system of government, are taken. |