Suggestion Box

At a special ceremony in the Pentagon's inner courtyard one day last week, Army Secretary Wilber Brucker bestowed the largest cash reward ever made by the Army for an employee suggestion: a $10,000 joint award to Stanislaus Danko. 41, and Moe Abramson, 45, career employees at the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N.J. Their idea: an automation process that punches holes in regular printed or etched electronic circuits, drops the leads of components (resistors, tubes) through the holes, dips the leads in a solder bath, soldering all connections in one operation. The Government made the system available free to electronics firms, saved $4,200,000 in lower prices for electronic circuits in its first year of operation. The awards reflected the continued appeal of the incentive policy; last year the Government received 294,000 suggestions, adopted 79,000 ideas, paid out $2,365,000 in awards.

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