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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1948)
44 granted. But the price - inflation ac celerated faster. Now they must wait until another legislature meets, unless the budget office can find reserves that might be tapped, something not prob able, in any large amount. The late opinion of the attorney gen eral which holds that income tax sur pluses are, free for spending is of no avail to hard-pressed employes. They are like shipwrecked sailors adrift at sea:’"Water, water all, around; but not a drop to drink.” For legislative, ap propriation is necessary to get it out of We treasury; and before that a supreme court ruling On the issue.; 1 There is, this ray of comfort, that if and when prices istart down, ’as ulti mately they wil|;,- the "white collar worker” will fare better. In public serv- fee the tenure is now more secure, and wage cuts j develop slowly. D uring, the depression , of the 1930s the public employees did take pay cuts, but' they wfere graduated in severity in inverse ratio to the' amount of pay received, and the restoration fay.ored those in the lowest brackets. It is to be hoped that no depression 'o f such magnitude will come.'In the meantime ¡the state should start oiling Its machinery so that its employes may receive adequate compen sation at the earliest moment. ,ON GETTING A BIRTH CERTIFICATE If you’re feeling that your labors ate more hfksome than the neighbors ' And that „others are more favored by the fickle gods ofvf&te; If your heart’s not in your duties and you can’t see this world’s,, beauties, Then come and sit: beside ?me while my story I relate. My \ sister was. but seven when I wasj sent,, from Heaven I 4 On a ] chilly winter morning to bless the family joint.. Whether I fulfilled that mission; (which is just ah, old tradition) | They never quite decided/ but. that’s beside the point.* o The sad part of my .story g started on the morning, gqry,_ That the’ Japs attacked Pearl Harbor ini the misty light of dawn. S ch a n k -R i-L a Modern Cabins - Cafe Fishing Licenses - Tackle Bud and Lili Schank Phone: Tillamook 5F6 Tillamook Oregon Coquille Hotel and Coffee Shop Headquarters for State Employees Coquille, Oregon C o o p e r 's C a fe A Good Place to Eat Steaks and Chicken Dinners Sea Foods North of Florence on Hwy. 101 Eugene Sand & Gravel Co. Producers of Concrete Aggregate Quarry Rock Fill Material Phone 134 Crushed Gravel Washed Sand Garden Loam “COMPLETE SERVICE” EUGENE, OREGON “Helping Eugene Build” P.O. Box 1067 i
