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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1947)
39 as follows.” The report for Portland, .Oregon; is the only one here reprinted. "Since 1942, salary adjustments have been made at the beginning of thé fis cal year on July U (for Portland clfy employees) o nthe basis*Vf ’$1 per poifit above iW which was determined to be the 1939 salary range. N o adjustment is, made unless the index changes two points of more and the changes^ apply up to $>',200 of .salary. Price indexes for the preceding September and De- cember are averaged, 111 points de ducted and $1 per point paid/tjb eaçh employee per month. Since the begin ning of the w at all employees have had at least,-a $ 57-per-month pay /increase, ¿|p5<of this increase having been granted on July 1, 1946, and *$15 on January 1, 1947.” BORROW ING p N T H E FUTURE Although .Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has a .; non-partisan ' city government, the m atter pf bond .issue-is a sore pointy bectu’se Milwaukee has taken great pride in fact that it is), one of -the few debt-freecities in the country. In Apfil the people. y'oted\on whether the •ci qH should issue public improvement bonds. The Milwaukee Journal has pointed out that the city actually-is not debt- free) One editorial stated: "W hen ypu fail to keep up yoiir plant or make public improvements that :,ar^. becpming necessary, you are ^borrowing against the future as surely as if you floated bonds ,<>r went out and negotiated a cash loan . . . A city run down, to the point where its. very exisfenceis threatened is not debt-free even though f t, may not owe a dollar. It has m ortgagedits future and it has to meet that mortgage.” / American C ity, March, 1947.1 The fate-,, of Lot’s wife was all her own fa u lt;. she firs t turned ¡to rubber, and then turned to salt.H —-H ighw ays o f Happiness. The Amazing Faint for Shakes STUC-CON-TITE Mfg. By MILLER PAINT COMPANY Get it at Your Paint Dealer Premix Concrete Ready to Use—High Discharge Trucks ROSS ISLAND SAND & GRAVEL CO. 4129 S.L. McLoughlin Blvd. Phone LA 2177 I Portland 2. Ore. Dr. E. Boring BORING OPTICAL 383 COURT STREET SALEM, OREGON Ai&o Locations a t . Goos "Bay and Roseburg Phone 6506 John G. Janssen, Mgr. Res. Phone 4725 Fred Milani Res. Phone 8185 PHONE 7781 Klamath Freight Lines Crating - Packing -S to r a g e LOCAL and LONG DISTANCE MOVING Heavy Hauling - Crane and Winch Work 101 Klamath Avenue. Klamath Falls, Oregon
