New Faces at Interior

True to form, cagey Interior Secretary Douglas McKay did a lot of close-to-the-vest picking & choosing before he decided what men he wanted for what departmental jobs. Not until last week, after the other cabinet officers were already on the field with their new lineups, was the list of top Interior Department appointees solid. With the President's approval, McKay tabbed:

P: Ralph Arnold Tudor, 50, California engineer, to be Under Secretary. A West Point graduate, Tudor left the Army in 1929 for a career in civil engineering, got to be head of his own San Francisco firm (specialties: bridges, roads).

P: Clarence Alba Davis, 60, Nebraska lawyer, to be departmental solicitor. Onetime general counsel of the state public-power agency, Davis opposes a federal Missouri Valley authority on the grounds that such projects should be run by the states concerned rather than by the national government.

P: Orme Lewis, 50, Arizona lawyer, to be Assistant Secretary in charge of the Land Management Bureau, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park Service.

P: Fred George Aandahl, 55, North Dakota farmer and politician (ex-Congressman, ex-governor), to be Assistant Secretary in charge of the Division of Water and Power. As a candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination last summer. Aandahl made an enemy of Senator William Langer, also a candidate. Langer won both the primary and the November election, and last week he faced Aandahl at a hearing of the Senate Interior Committee, which passed on the four Interior Department appointees. Happy after all to see a fellow North Dakotan in a high-Government post and a rival North Dakotan out of state politics, Langer okayed Aandahl.

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