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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
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