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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1955)
Page 4 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, June 23, 1955 4 I 4L.H4'fc' 1 rt jfjjljf jf Jf jf STATE PAYROLL BOOST Calm skies are showing over the state employes salary situa tion that are brighter for the state and the employes than they ever have been in the history of state work in Oregon For years the state has been losing money on a heavy turn over of its employes. Too Many beginners were working only un til they were trained to a type of job then left because private in dustry paid more and personality jars were not so unpleasant in smaller offices and industrial crews. The long-delayed salary ad justment plan was launched by the 1953 legislative Interim com mittee who asked that a $50,000 survey and report be prepared by Banington Associates, salary spe cialists of N. Y. This was worked over by the civil service commis sion and modeled to its present form by Civil Service Administra tor Charles W. Terry'- Temmy's work got the unanimous approval of the state emergency board Fri day. The slate legislature appropri ated $1,300,000 to the state emer gency board to provide for salary adjustments of employes in de partments pending upon general fund appropriations. A like amount was authorized bv the legislature for self-sustaining re payments. The total available for this purpose being $2,774,000. Only six department heads and a handfull of the state's 16,000 employees have registered com plaints over the new plan of sal ary adjustments financed by the recent legislature. STATE BOARD OF CONTROL Oregon shouldn't accept federal funds to aid in construction of the $100,000 out patient clinic at the Oregon State Hospital, Gov Paul Patterson said at a meeting of the State Board of Control this week. He advised that it might make it impossible for some cities to get federal funds for hospitals, if the money is allocated by states. Secretary of State Earl T. New bry observed that the state should move to acquire the funds, which of course would be subject lo regular clearance. The Oregon State Medical So ciety failed to convince the board it should increase fees for the out-patient clinic. The top fee will remain $G an hour for those in the $5,000 $0,000 annual salary bracket. The fees will remain Winter-Fat Calves I Net Good Profit In OSC Feed Tests based on income, STATE DEPARTMENT BULLETIN The forthcoming bulletins of state departments will advise employees that all contributions for the United Fund are voluntary and department heads -should guard against using undue in fluence in soliciting donations from employes. The recent legislature author ized a payroll deduction system for state employees contributing to the United Fund. BUS FARE BOOMERS In these lush days when every body is savins that pvprvhodv is making more money than thev , through the winter and then graz " . . - . u : ; . i ever did hefore. the bus trans-i"'e a,lu S'"i'B uran iur ran portal ion people seem to be the only group in the transportation ber 27. Pasture was charged off at $4 per head per month. Reasons behind larger profits from baby beef, Pierce stated, were: (1) voune calves need less on a pound of beef More profits from fattening, , . ' fill i 1 ,cvCo , uau, u.-i,tnan do oldpr animals (2) the for spring markets are possible spring market at $21.50 a hund when feed costs are low, accord- redweight for medium grade ing to tests at the Oregon State slaughter animals was, as usual, college agricultural experiment 'stronger than the fall market at staion. $19 a hundred. All animals were Calves winter-fattened on hay, i from the same high-gaining herd, oariey and low-cost cull peas netted $21 ahead more than the common practice of holding calves on maintenance rations ndustry who is wringing a cry ing towel. The bus company operating between Portland and Oregon City on the east and west side say they are losing money on their present service. State Public Utility Commis sioner Charles H. Heltzel has ordered a public hearing in Port land, June 23. It is expected many customers of the company will attend. The hearing opens at 10 a. m. at the State Office Building. EX-OREGON SOLON DIES Funeral services were conduct ed in Portland last Friday for Lloyd R. Crosby, 65, a cousin of King (. rosby and member of a pioneer Northwest family.' He was a son of Capt. Nathaniel Cros by who built the first house in what is now Portland. The for mer legislator resided 18 years in Oregon and died in Olympia. He served two sessions in the Washington legislature and two sessions in the Oregon legisla ture. COULD DOUBLE BOOMERANG Who will be first, a Democrat or a Republican Leader, to en dorse a study of excessive cam paign expenditures. Could be a points up campaign issue. Heavy election campaign spending got focused attention last week in Seattle when the Western Assn. of Attorneys Gen eral unanimously approved a resolution calling for a study by the Council of State Governments of campaign expenditures. The resolution declared: "Contributions of large sums of money constitute a potential source of danger In that it has the tendency to leave the elected office-holder with a feeling of obligation to campaign contribu tors. "There is a real danger unless this is reversed that elections will become largely a battle of cam paign funds rather than orderly contests to determine the quali fications of respective political candidates." ing and graining them markets. The findings, based on a one year test by Cecil Pierce, animal husbandman at the OSC Eastern Oregon branchy experiment sta tion at Union, were reported at the station's annual field day. Pierce said the full-feed winter ration consisted of two-thirds hay at $18 a ton and barley and cull peas at $18 a ton. The combined barley and pea ration averaged 5'2 pounds daily with one-third of It peas. Calves were on feed 150 days starting December 7. The fall-marketed animals were on irrigated pasture from early May until late September and received sllgntly less than four pounds daily of barley and The findings showed have spe cial importance in areas of Ore gon where pasture is needed for the cow herd and where grains and other concentrated feeds are be employed this summer. She Eight pages of the bulletin are devoted to pictures of pests classified according to crops they attack along with brief expla nations of the damage they do and tne recommendad control The bulletin was prepared by Obc research entomologists H. H, Crowell and H. E. Morrison, re search entomologists, and R. W, specialist. , LEXINGTON NEWS Mrs. Eal Kendall of Ukiah was a Lexington visitor on Tuesday bringing her daughter Janet to the Hughes home where she will reasonable in price, the research' er concluded. Garden Pest Control Guide Issued by OSC Backyard vegetable growers can take much of the guesswork out of the insect pest control by following spraying and dusting programs outlined in a new bul letin published by Oregon State college extension service. Copies of "Vegetable Garden Insect Pests" are available on re quest from county extension agents or the OSC bulletin clerk. ine l-page booklet was ne pared for easy use by the home gardener and gives latest recom mendations for controlling- all cull peas from July 1 to Septem-major garden pests. was accompanied here by her daughter Marilyn and a niece Linda Ann Hedgespeth of Council Grove, Kansas, who is visiting with the Kendalls. Mr. and Mrs. Kendall motored to Ontario, on Sunday where they met Linda and the Kendall's daughter Janet who had been vacationing In j Council Grove with her grand parents. Lucille Kendall return ed home with them after a two weeks visit with Charlene Jones and Janice Wetzel and Margaret Kendall returned home with them. Margaret has been at the Wetzel home for two weeks where all attended vacation Bible school. 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