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OREGON STATE <^^Jwenjbgr_of_^ie_Assembly__of G overnrnent^lEm ployees(AGE)^w hichindudes over 500,000 public em plo yees_ VOLUME XI____________ _____________ NOVEMBER, 1969 NUMBER 11 Liebertz-Baxter-Egan Head Delegates re-elected Gerard J. Liebertz to his second term as president o f OSEA at the close of the 27th General Council in Portland Nov. 8. L ie b e rtz , who ran un opposed, is a program ex ecutive fo r the Public Em ployees Retirement System in Portland. R. Fioyd Baxter, Employ ment Division, Salem, was re elected to his second term as vice-president. He was opposed by Delbert C. Chaney, director of District Five and a welder a t Eastern Oregon Hospital and Training Center. Adele L. Egan, Salem, upset incum bent Virginia Norris, Eugene, in the race for secretary-treasurer. Miss Egan works for the Highway De partment. Of the other seven positions on the board of directors, only one incumbent ran for office, and he was re-elected. He is Dr. Lester B. Strickler, Corvallis, who was elected to his second term as insurance director. He was unopposed. New directors were elected to the ¡other six board posts. That is the greatest turnover in b o a rd positions in recent memory. Here are the results President A D E L E L. EG A N Secreta ry-T reasurer R. F L O Y D B A X TE R Vice-Pesident o f those elections: Arther Krichevsky Port land, was elected retirement director over Dr. Paul Bernier, Corvallis. Raymond R uff, Portland, defeated Don Kelley Pendle ton, and Earl Warzynski, The Dalles, in a three-man race fo r civil service director. James Dyer, Eugene, was elected public relations d i rector. He was opposed by George Gearhart, Portland. Margaret Foster, Corvallis, was elected membership d i rector. She was opposed by Naomi Morgan, Wilsonville, and Doris Mayhew, Portland. A. R. Panissidi, Salem, was elected law and legislation d i rector, and Or. Paul Weswig, Corvallis, was elected academic and uncfassified services d i rector. Both ran unopposed. Some 215 delegates, repre senting 16,520 OSEA members throughout the state, attended the three-day convention. They decided the fate of 94 reso lutions submitted by local ch a p te rs, district councils, board committees and the board o f directors. O f the 94 resolutions, 46 were adopted. Only six failed. A total o f 30 were withdrawn by the submitting chapters, tw o were tabled, seven referred to the board and three trans ferred to other General Council committees. Past-Presidents' Council Honors Mrs. Logan's Distinguished Service Mrs. Emily Price Logan, fo r mer two-term commissioner on the old State Industrial Acci dent Commission, was named re c ip ie n t of OSEA's dis tinguished service award by the Past-President's Council at the General Council Nov. 8. The award was presented by Chalmers L. Jones, former two-term president o f OSEA in 1963 and 1964. He said Mrs. Logan has been "people oriented" throughout her life, and praised her more than 44 years o f service to her community, her government and her co-workers. She began that service as a social worker and later director of the Olivia James Settlement House in Boston, Mass., during the latter 1920's and early 1930's. A fte r moving to Oregon with her husband in the late 1930's, she involved herself in various and numerous com m u n ity activities, including such diverse efforts as serving as a board member to the La Grande A rt Center, chairman of the Union County Chapter of the Red Cross, president of the Corvallis League o f Women Voters and later president o f the Oregon League o f Women Voters. She has also been active in MDC IA T A N ARK9. L v JV j A IN M A N A D F n P ° rm sr OSEA President Chalmers Jones praised M rs. E m ily Lo- n u l N U K U gan/s «m cre than 44 years of service to her com munity, her government and her co-workers'* as he named her recipient of the distinguished service award. It is presented each year by OSEA's Past-Presidents' Council. politics, Jones said. In 1958, she was the Democratic candi date fo r the State Senate from Benton County. Last year she served as alternate to Congress- woman Edith Green at the D e m o c ra tic National Con vention in Chicago. Besides her work w ith the old SIAC, Jones said she served other governmental bodies. She was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Juvenile De linquency by Benton County Judge McBee. Former Gov. McKay ap pointed her to the Advisory Committee on Prison and Parole in 1951. Former Gov. Paul Patterson reappointed her to the same committee in 1952. Gov. Tom McCall called on her services in 1966 as a mem ber o f the Planning Committee on Vocational Rehabilitation, Jones said. Mrs. Logan is the first woman to be named recipient of the award, which has been presented annually by the Past- Presidents' Council since 1957. OSEA A m o n g th e resolutions adopted are ones that: * D ire cts the board to examine the potential fo r po litical action by OSEA. * Requests OSEA's president to appoint a "blue ribbon" citizens committee to study fringe benefits in state employ ment. *Calls fo r mandatory re tirem ent o f classified em ployees when they reach 65 years of age. *Calls fo r premium pay fo r e m p lo ye e s w o rkin g night shifts. *Directs OSEA to seek legis lation to increase retirement benefits. (For a summary o f re s o lu tio n s ^ see pages 6 through 11.) Dues Hike Given Nod OSEA dues w ill be increased 50-cents per month as the re sult o f passage o f a resolution by General Council delegates. The increase, which be comes effective Jan. 1, w ill raise dues from $1.50 to $2.00. The resolution, which passed w ith no dissenting votes, listed the following reasons fo r the increase: (1) Membership dues are presently $1.50 per month, and have not been adjusted in the past tw o years. (2) Expenses, salaries, and operating costs have increased to and beyond present dues income. (3) Demands and workloads have increased to and beyond the capacity of present fa cilities and staff. (4) A ll classifications are in need o f complete and guaran teed representation in con junction w ith the newly imple mented collective baragining system. Delegates were told that OSEA would go into the hole to the tune o f over $36,000 next year w ithout the increase. Services and possibly staff would have to be trimmed. SALARY MONEY IN DANGER? Many employees were understandably upset last week to read in their news papers that the Emergency Board had its eyes on the mid-biennium salary fund to help make up the probable $5 to $8 m illion wlefare deficit. For the facts behind the newspaper stories, and fo r OSEA's position on the matter, please read the edi torial on page 4.
