THE ADMINISTRATION: Appointments

Key appointments announced last week by President Eisenhower:

¶ To be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs, Nebraska’s smooth, smart Frederick Andrew Seaton, 43, a practiced political hand who was Alf Landon’s secretary during the 1936 presidential campaign, Harold Stassen’s preconvention manager in 1948, and one of the top men in the Eisenhower movement last year. Newspaper Publisher Seaton (the Hastings, Neb. Tribune, and other Midwest papers) was a member of the Nebraska Legislature in 1945-47, served for a year as U.S. Senator, filling the vacancy created by the death of Kenneth S. Wherry. His new assignment: to improve relations between Engine Charlie Wilson’s Department of Defense and Capitol Hill.

¶ To be Administrative Assistant to the President, I. (for Isaac) Jack Martin, 45, an Ohio lawyer who for nine years was secretary and administrative assistant to the late Senator Robert A. Taft. His assignment: to help maintain good relations between the White House and Capitol Hill.

¶ To be Register of the Treasury, Savannah Banker Louis B. Toomer, 60, a Negro. Said Toomer, who will direct the work of 3,000 employees auditing the public debt and checking off paid-up securities: “This shows what the G.O.P. thinks of the Negroes, compared with what the Democrats thought.”