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INSTRUCTIONS
POSITION TITLES
Thb Civil Service Commission in Departmental Circular No. 438 issued
instructions to the effect that in tho preparation of classification sheets
and othor personiicl reports and actions involving the use of position
titles, the descriptive adjective which has hitherto been’ a part of the
title diould bo omitted; for example, junior cl~rk, CAF-2 will be
written “clerk, CAF-2;’ assistant observer, SP-4, “ObRerwr, SP-4:’
wociate meteorologist, P-8, ‘!meteorologist, P-3” etc.
It has also been decided that the descriptive adjectivc Pliould be omit-
tcd from po8ition titles in preparation of payrolls.
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RENDITION OF WB FORM 4048
JCmployees with raob experience are reminded that W13 Form 4048,
Data on Employee8 Experienced in Radiosonde ObservationP, should be
forwarded to tho Central Office on January 1, 1944. This form is required
from all employees with raob expuricnce who have not previously
rendered this form, and from einployeos who have acquired additional
raob cxperionce during the la~t G months. hference should ba made
to the instruction8 appearing on this form regarding tlic numbor of copios
to be furnished, Officials in Charge are requested to RCW that these instructions
arr followed correctly,
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DISPOSAL OF ROUTINE TELEGRAMS
Jn a memorandum dated October 20, 1943, from the Chief Clerk of
the Department of Commerce, the Bureau is given authority by the
Archivist to dispose of routine tolegranis of transient value (except ad-
ministrative tclegrms filed with correspondence) after they have been in
oxistencc for a period of 8 years. They mag be disposed of as is oustom-
ary with wwte papor and no report of diRposal is required.
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CORRECTION TO CIRCULAR LETTER NO. 123-43
The article by Fulks and Dightnian, referred to in Circular IJottor
No. 128-48, Subject: Constant Level Pressuro Slide Rule, appunrod in
. the Monthly Weathpr Review for March 1941, and not in that for Jan-
uary 1988 as stated in the Circular Letter.
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