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13 tercups, as w ell as others, which Q am sure would confuse cattle or sheep you m ay have in the back yard. Iris for Every Garden, by Sidney^ B . M itchell (Sorrow s, 1949) must be approached w ith great respect as M r. M itchell has had the Tosfer Memor ia l Plaque awarded him , which is “ reserved for special personalWwards to those contributing to the advance of the genus iris.” is divided into' a learned discussion on beard less and b ^rdecn .i i ^ ^ ^ Perhaps no one .w ill in q u^^^but h e je ^ ^ B te fflglBj how tqKstore pollen and h o ^ T oW sSd it to friends iifWother parts of the country. The book is w ell-illustrated land M r,. M S© ^M ^® nvincedBm e. that he knew whaf^hb was talking about, and w ell desfflfflseflfy the memorial plaque. tions on growing flowers, should restrict your |||ea d i n g ^ » | n M book, Floriculture, by A le x Laurie (M c- G£a|v ^MBL9,^^®s m oaffcb m pl^^and inf or ma tion on s oi 11. d e g ^ M ^ m u a ljs8and perennials, as well ^ ^ K a im m ^infor- mation on rock gardens. Should you find the problem of g a f- dening too com plex, r ^ n ^ B O t it may not be butB® is m uch more amusing. Oregon m aintains 177 state park areas ranging from small H v S sidegffijo areasBgip■'•tog^O00 acres, protecting all types of-;..^^mon areas from the seacoast to high mountains. No entry fees are charged visitors, who are pro vide d wit h picnic facilities in the .la r ger parks. The Colum bia river, f.^ W g ^ B th e boundary bet ween W asm ngton and Oregon, is creW Bed^ith carrying more water than I d ll' the nations other P a cific' coastdstreams combined. A lthough »Bregón as a state has yet to observe it's^first centennial, scien tists say its earliest residents, pre-his- t o M aborigines, came ak long ago as 20,000 yeárs<or before |||e -a g e m am mals became extinct. Grades Within Classes A n important change in the con c e p t and administration of the clas sification plan went into effect in California with the recent adoption of State Personnel Board rules which i m p l e m e n t legislation authorizing “ grade lll within classes.” Under the; rules, the state Personnel Board m ay ils tablish “ graded classes” containing two or three grades. Each grade is assigned a different salary range to reflect a d iffe re n c ^ in degree of dif- ficu lty and responsibility between po sitions. 'The plan thus departs from the traditional definition of a class in that, although the same title and m in im um qualifications; and the ; same tests are' applicable to all positions in the class, a single salary range is* not applicable. Befpre appointment is made' I tova |p^ tion in a graded class, the posi- tion must be allocated to an appro- priate grade in the class, To^ fill a R c a n t^ ^ a tio n 'r in a graded class, the appointing*' authority m ay, according to the rules, appoint from an em ploy ment lab&f reassign an employee from a Position in another grade ih the same class, or fill the piosit^^yfey^re instatement, transfer, or ^demotion. Reassignments from grade to grade within a class are not termed promo- tions and demotions. Appointments from lists for graded classes may be made -to any grade w ithin the class, and eligibles are |||rtifie d as in the casef of appointment to an ungraded class;. The name of an eligible who accepts appointment to a positioW ruj a grade »with ¿^salary range than that of the highest grade in the "cla sse s kept On the -list for certification to positions in the higher grad e ^ w ithiri* the class. Although the C a lifo r n ia rules con tinue to require competitive e x a m inations for promotion from class; To class, competitive exam inations w ill not be held for reassignments to high er grades w ithin a class. Instead, the appointing authoj B I must certify that the employee who is being reas signed to a higher grade w ithin the (Continued on Page 22)
