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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1947)
.8 RETIREM ENT DATE SET (Continued from page 7) • "Exceptions to the above are as fo l-. lows: "A teacher or instructor not subject to the teachers’ tenure law and serving under a ' contract or appointment for a definite term may continue-iii Ser vice until the end of the school or academic year immediately following December 31, 1947. A person subject to the teachers’ tenure law and serving upder a contract or appointment for a definite term may continue in service until the end of the school term imme diately following December ¿3$, 1947. "A member of the retirement sys4 tern, 65 years of age or older who, is an elected official or person appointed to an office for a definite^ term may re main in service until the end of the term of his office if- such term of office has not been completed-«c^i^or before December 31, 1947.’/ , TW INS AND IRISH FURZE (Cover Picture) 9 By E .A . Rosttfll When spring comes to the* southern Oregon coast near Bandon, the bright yellow flowers of Irish Furze are not f ir behind, adding their1 gay color to the zest of the sea. Up from the beach nearby came these two winsome twins of Bandon along furze bordered paths ju st as Ralph Gifford, State Highway Department photographer, paused to admire this scene before him while, on one of his photographic explorations. No sooner had. he paused than the twins and furze became a part of the Oregon pictorial record which he has been making fo r'th e Travel Informa tion Department for the past 11 years. Through^the I publication of these pic tures' Oregon is brought to the atten tio n of magazine and newspaper read ers far beyond the borders of the heavy er state. The southern Oregon coast has been no exception to the wide publicity Ore gon has enjoyed through pictures taken by Mr. Gifford; its scenic coast, roaring rivers and wondrous beaches are known across'?.,the land through photographs and colored moving pictures distribuí I ted, by the travel department. I Ironically, many things > of beauty have -elements of danger. The hardy yellow flowers and the Sven hardier bushes on which the bloom may be pleasing to the eye and they may paint the landscape w ith thrilling Color, but to natives of the región these flowers-1 H significant only of increasingly dif ficult problems. Many years ago when Oregon was young, Lord George Bennett, an Irish peer, settled along the coast. When a town was, born, he named it Bandoipy honoring his own native village on the Emerald Isle. Then he remembered the pretty yellow fl'owfers of his childhood. So back in the 1870’s he sent for some* plants for his spacious yard and they thrived. I j '' ‘; In fact, they thrived so well they grew beyond' the bounds of Lord Ben nett’s'yard. Through the years, the Irish furze, also known -as , gorse, slowly spread.^enveloping acre after .a c f ^ T o í • day there are thousands of acres along the coast,, north, south and east o f Ban don whic^-^á;y%. succumbed to the un relenting advance of gorse. I Ini? the spring the countryside is alive with its flowers, but blooms have been replaced in th ep ast by searing red and yellow flames as fire scourged-its way through^ stands I of I treacherous gorse. . Efforts have been underway' for .some time to eradicate the pfestiferous shrub. Even aiftefdt- is burned, its oily branches blazing with blast furnace intensity-,/ it„s, roots send forth even more bushes theh before.' Chemicals have' been tried and so ha« grubbing, but the gorse persists. One day its tenacious .reign qyer coast acres may1 be. broken, however, when <|hiah-made measures will best Nature her misunderstood lavishing of fay- , ors on beauty which nourishes never sleeping danger. I
