The Oregon state employee news. (Salem, Oregon) 1959-1969, January 01, 1959, Image 18

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Newspaper Page TextNEWS FROM OTHER STATE CAPITOLS . . This is a service to O.S.E.A. members who travel in Oregon on business or pleasure. We recommend that you patronize these advertisers whose reasonable rates fit your travel budgets. In- spected by the Staff, Directors and Chapter Officers. It's the eugene hotel Rates Guaranteed W ithin State Allow ance in EUGENE, OREGON Your Host bob ASHBY Former OSEA President AAA OPEN For the Approved "Rest" o f Your Life . . . Timberlodge Motel Coos Bay, Oregon "Where State Employees Always Stay" 24 CHANDLER COFFEE SHOP IT'S COOB BAY'S Your Hosts Fenneman Fitzgerald COMPLETE RESTAURANT The (fyiate'i Medford Hotel FEA TU RING MOTEL at Medford, Oregon 45 Distinctive Hotel Rooms Preferred by State Employees Individual Telephones Reservations Advisable IN BEND IT'S THE ALL NEW . . . PLAZA M OTEL WHERE STATE EMPLOYEES ALWAYS STAY Telephones Ample Television Parking King-Size Beds 1430 Hill St. Ph. EV 2-1621 WATCH US GROW! MARION NEW Motor HOTEL AND VISIT OUR OAK ROOM Enjoy Delicious CHAR-BROILED STEAKS! Call EM 3-4123 200 COMMERCIAL S.E. SALEM PAGE EIGHTEEN HOURS The CANDLE RO O M SERVING CHARCOAL STEAKS and other FINE FOOD until MIDNIGHT Free Parking at Standard Oil Products Next Door FOR THE FOOD THAT BRINGS YOU BACK TO BEND, IT'S THE h id e a w a y IN THE PILOT BUTTE INN WE FEATURE SPECIALTIES FROM OUR CHAR-BROILER Dancing and' Cocktails In Our New Lounge IN PENDLETON IT'S . . Quntb&di RESTAURANT You Can't Beat Home Cooking But We Try Our Best 137 South Main Street ADJUSTMENT FUNDS GENERALLY SOUGHT .CALIFORNIA — The annual salary sur vey report of the California State Personnel Bqard contained a recommendation for a 7%% | raise for state employees, effective next July, as well as a special 5% salary adjustment for state college faculty. Despite a “general reduction in business activity between 1957 and 1958,” the report noted, “salaries and wages in industry continued to rise.” H ILLINOIS -4, Effective January 15 of this year, Illinois state employees received a step increase amounting to 20% of the differential in an employee’s pay on July 1, 1957, and the amount he is to receive next June 30. MAINE — The Maine State Employees Association stressed the need for a pay increase measure to be presented to the 99th Legislature- which resulted in a unani mous recommendation by the Personnel Board to the governor’s budget. committee for an adjustment-type increase. ■ ' MICHIGAN - The Michigan Civil Serv ice Commission authorized an adjustment- type increase for state employees in the highest and lowest job classifications in addition to unanimously approving a 7% across-the-board pay increase. MONTANA — The Legislative Program of the Montana Public Employees Associa tion includes increasing the subsistance' allowance from $7 to $10 within the State; and from $10 to $15 outside the state, per diem. Also an increase in mileage allow ance for use of private cars on state busi ness from 7e to 10c per mile. NEVADA A spokesman for Nevada’s state employees stated that their salaries were about 10% below the pay for com parable jobs in private industry, based on a recent salary survey. A request for a 10% increase was submitted to the Legis lative Commission. NEW YORK — Governor Rockefeller, in his message to the State Legislature, as serted that state workers must have ade quate salaries and other employee incen tives. VERMONT The Vermont State Em ployees Association will seek adoption by the 1959 state legislature of a longevity pay plan for state employees. WASHINGTON — Adoption of one civil service system for all state employees was recommended by Governor Rossellini in his message to the Washington state legislature. WISCONSIN — A recommendation was made by the State Bureau of Personnel that Wisconsin’s 13,500 civil service employes be given salary increases in the next bi ennium, ranging from $10 to $50 a month. A representative of the Wisconsin State Employees Association said salaries of state employees lagged $25 a month behind those for comparable jobs in the state’s private industries. JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1959