Appointments

Last week the White House announced these appointments and nominations:

P:Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation: Wilbur App Dexheimer, 52, veteran (25 years) Reclamation Bureau engineer. Dexheimer was an associate engineer on the Hoover Dam project, built airstrips in China during World War II as General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's staff engineer, helped solve postwar dam problems in Australia, Formosa and Mexico. His name was submitted by Interior Secretary Douglas McKay after the White House turned down the nomination of Marvin Nichols, a hydraulics and sewage engineer, and a Texas Democrat. Although he supported Ike in 1952, Nichols also served Harry Truman as nickel adviser to General Services Administrator Jess Larson, was deeply involved in the sticky affairs of GSA's big Nicaro nickel plant in Cuba. After the facts of the Nicaro mess were told in the June issue of FORTUNE, the White House turned thumbs down on Nichols' appointment.

P:Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board: Guy Farmer, 41. A hardworking, white-haired labor lawyer, Farmer served as an NLRB lawyer during Franklin Roosevelt's Administration. Later, in private practice, he represented management clients, but kept the respect of labor unions by scrupulously fair courtroom performances.

P:Administrator of Veterans Affairs: Harvey V. Higley, 60, a Wisconsin banker, businessman (the Ansul Chemical Co.), politician (onetime state Republican chairman), and former state commander of the American Legion.

P:Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Glenn L. Emmons, 57, a Gallup, N.Mex. banker and longtime friend and popular partisan of the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Ute. Apache and Pueblo tribes in his neighborhood. As commissioner, said Emmons, he will aim to "liquidate the trusteeship of the Indians as quickly as possible," and make them self-supporting citizens.

P:Ambassador to Yugoslavia: James W. Riddleberger, 48, foreign-service careerist, veteran of the postwar Battle for Berlin (political adviser to General Lucius Clay and High Commissioner John J. McCloy) and, for the past year, director of the State Department's Bureau of German Affairs.

P:Ambassador to Turkey: Avra M. Warren, 59, longtime (32 years) foreign serviceman, former Ambassador to Pakistan and the Dominican Republic, Minister to Finland.

P:Ambassador to Ethiopia: Dr. Joseph Simonson, 49, a Lutheran clergyman from Glen Cove. L.I.

P:Ambassador to Liberia: Jess Dwight Locker, 62, a prominent Cincinnati Negro leader and lawyer, six-time member of the city council, an amateur cook.

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