PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Dec. 12, 1955

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¶ William C. Whitehead, 61, moved up from executive vice president to president of fast-growing, widely diversified Garrett Corp., of Los Angeles, which does a $100 million-a-year business manufacturing aircraft and industrial equipment. Utah-born Whitehead, a World War I Navy pilot, ran his own flying service in Cleveland, then worked briefly for an aircraft-parts distributor before joining the infant Garrett organization's industrial-tools division in 1938. Four years later he was named manager of Garrett's Airsupply Co., in 1952 became the Garrett Corp.'s executive vice president. He replaces Founder John Clifford Garrett, who moves up to board chairman.

¶ Ross Rizley, 63, was reappointed to a second one-year term as chairman of CAB. A onetime small-town Oklahoma lawyer, Republican Congressman and Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, CAB Chief Rizley has done a notable job cleaning up CAB's backlog of cases. He has also worked to liberalize the regulations governing irregular air carriers to enable them to better compete with established airlines. President Eisenhower also reappointed Democrat Joseph Adams, another champion of competition, as CAB vice chairman.