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'Governor Wamts 'Long Look' at Pay Fiasis Success of Merit Plan Said Based on aw ah isgjgiigu ray iimw 1 B7 WILLIAM WARREN United Press Correspondent -Salem (U.P.) Success of the new state pay plan recommend ed by Barrington Associates of New York provided the 1955 Legislature adopts it will de c pend on state department heads granting merit raises only when they are deserved, Rep. Orval Eaton of Astoria said Saturday. Rpt "Raton is vice-chairman of the legislative interim ccrn- mittee on retirement and com' pensation. The committee is studying the Barrington report before drafting its own recom c mendations to be submitted to the Joint Ways and Means Com mittee Tuesday. Backs First Section The 3 committee has agreed to ; recommend adoption of the first section of the report dealing with 'new classification of state jobs and a six-step salary structure with an average 30 per cent scale and the top range. t The suggestion, by the Bar s rington group, for a state per sonnel officer, working directly under the governor, will be sub mitted to the ways and means committee for its study. Rep, Eaton said his committee would make no recommendation one way or another about the sug gestion. Members of the State Civil Service Commission met with the committee Saturday with Phillip A. Joss of Portland, chairman, fVio ri-inrirnl cnpaVpr. aerPRinff ; lllb U4. Xl.WKfH ----" O O with Rep. Eaton that proper ad ministration of the merit system is necessary if any graduated pay plan is adopted. Make Careful Stud Rep. Eaton said members of the committee studying state sal aries during the past two years had made a careful survey and found) there were several state employees who,uin their opinion, were not entitled to merit raises. 4irFfr ftancrallir rmr nnmmifinp had found that department heads feel the merit raises are automatic," Rep. Eaton said "This is the wrong conception and this Legislature will certain ly make it clearjthat merit raises to state employees must be earned by competent and effic ient work before they are granted." J To put state employees on a pay basis equal to that of others in the Pacific Coast area, it will cost the state an initial $345,000, Barrington Associates have esti-j mated. Balentine Receives One-Year Probation Portland (U.R) A 54-year old Klamath Falls lawyer re ceived a one-year probation term Friday for failing to file income tax returns in 1950, 1951, and 1952. U. S. Judge Chase Clark of Idaho told the family of the de fendant, U. S. Balentine, that he hadn't "the heart to take him away from you." The Judge, temporarily as signed to Portland, said his leni ency was prompted by a letter from a Klamath Falls judge who described the high character of Balentine. SHOE ON THE OTHER FOOT, ETC. The nation's number one bellhop, Lincoln Mansfield of Reno's Hotel Mapes, is really living it up as he stops over in San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel. Showering him with attention is Eileen Rasmussen, taking a letter; Asst. Mgr. John Stevens, light ing his cigar, and Bell Captain Paui C. Broderick, handing him a newspaper. The 46-year-old Mansfield was selected "Bellman of the Year" by Washington State College's Society of Innkeepers from a field of more than 1000 bellhops. Increased Services, Balanced Budget Pose Problem to Lawmakers 'Autopsy Into Death Of Recluse Slated Portland (U.R) An autopsy was scheduled Saturday into the death of Beryl Elliott, 76-year- old Portland recluse whose body ' -was discovered Friday in her litter strewn home. Police said the woman appar enly had been dead for five days before neighbors J notified the authorities. n A welfare recipient, Miss El liott had the rooms of her home piled waist high with odds and ends. Some rooms were so packed with debris, it was al most impossible to force back the doors. : Welfare workers said the wo man apparently slept on the kitchen floor. ; January Auto Mishaps Kill 22 in Oregon Salem U.R) Traffic acci dents claimed the lives of 22 persons in Oregon last month, according to a tentative count re leased by the secretary of state's office Saturday. The report may be revised up 5 ward as delayed reports reach here or as injured persons die. Multnomah Grand Jury Clears Murder Suspect Portland (U.R) A Multno mah county grand jury has cleared Tom J. Jurich, 62, on a charge of murder. The jury ruled Jurich acted in self defense when he shot and killed David Chapman, 61, af tef the latter fired a shot at him in a Portland cafe. CONFERENCE SET Salem (U.R) The State De partment of Agriculture will hold a conference here next Tuesday to survey the extent of the ragweed problem in Oregon. ' By BILL FORCE United Press Correspondent Salem (U.R) Oregon's law makers Saturday were trying to find out what is most im portant to the state's citizens increased state services or a balanced budget. Will the taxpayers standstill for higher taxes, or will they content themselves with sharp cuts in the amount of services state agencies can offer? That is the dilemma that will face the Joint Ways and Means Committee vrh e n it reconvenes Monday to resume its struggles with the budget requests of the agencies who claim they must have more money to give the new services the people demand. At a special policy meeting Friday, , the committee learned that more than 41 per cent of the costs of state government have been approved by the vot ers and the Legislature has no power to cut them. They also found that if every state agen cy living off the fat of the gene ral fund were wiped out.except schools, welfare, public institu tions, and veterans' aids, the state would still have a deficit of more ' than 7,000,000,000 to make up. The committee wrestled with three antagonistic concepts of state finance: Retain the princi ple of increasing state services every two years and increase taxes to pay the costs; slap a two year moratorium on state ser vices and hold the dollarand cents level of department bud gets to the 1953-55 level; lop off services and programs where possible and emerge at the end of the legislative session with higher taxes and higher costs but still with a balanced budget and a higher level of services. No decision has been reached yet. The method of levying $80 for every child in Oregon between the ages of four and 20 for education drew some hard looks from the committee. Sen. John C. F. Merrifield (R-Portland) pointed out that the education budget was getting $80 for youngsters who never set foot in a schoolhouse. The net payout to the schools, he said, was close to $102 for each enrolled tu dent. Sen Charles W. Bingnen (R La Grande) said he was commit ted to holding the line on state expenses. He said his constitu ents expected him, if necessary, to demand lower standards of state welfare and lower basic school support allotment. But Sen. John P. Hounsell (R Hood River) replied that if the state doesn't furnish the more than $70,000,000,000 school dis tricts want from the basic school support fund, the difference will simply be made up from local I taxes. Oregonians want no cuts in their educational standards, he said. " Sen. Howard Belton (R-Can-by) : co-chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, empha sized that it is not the big cost items schools, welfare, and in stitutions that will break or balance the budget. . It is the special legislation asking appro priations that will make the dif ference. Examples cited were the bill to increase basic school support to $90 per census child; a bill for compulsory state meat inspection that may cost $1,000, 000,000; and bills for pay increa ses and interim committees. Belton reported that there were almost as many decreased budgets and increased budgets m the requests tor general fund departments, But, he said, their total was insignificant when set against the whopping increases asked for welfare, in stitutions, and building program. That total is nearly $80,000,000,-000. New Plywood Mill Opens af Philomath Philomath (U.R) A new ply wood mill, producing 15,000 square feet of green veneer on each of two daily shifts, has been put into operation here. The mill was built by Benton Timber Products Company on the site of the old Central Wil lamette sawmill, which was de stroyed by fire serveral years ago. Ed Albertsen', Jack Brandis and Don Johnson, Benton coun ty lumbermen, operate the plant. The company employs about 60 men including those at its woods operations. Green veneer produced by the new mill is shipped- to other plants for further processing. Mt, Tabor Uranium Rush Fizzles Out Portland (U.R) Hopei of a prospector that Portland's Mt. Tabor park might be load ed with uranium were dashed Saturday. A radiological team from the city city's civil defense bureau took three sensitive geiger counters to the crater of Mt. Tabor's extinct volcano Friday. The team reported no indications of uranium. Prospector Charles Brudeen had asked the city council for permission to look for urani um there. ARTICLES FILED Salem (U.R) Articles of in corporation were filed this week for Butte Falls Community Club, Inc., of Butte Falls, Jackson county. RENT A New PIANO or ORGAN On A Rentei-Sales Plan You may rent a new Baldwin or Wurlirzer Piano or a Hammond Chord or Spinet Organ for as long as six months and have the rental apply en the purchase of the instrument if you so desire. PURUCKER PIANO HOUSE 1 1 1 North Central Phone 2-5702 Patterson Suggests Two-Step Move for Reclassification Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul Patterson Saturday expressed reservations about the admini strative details of a recommend ation for the reclassification and pay adjustments for state em ployees. The recommendation of Bar rington Associates, Inc., was for appointment of a personnel di rector responsible to the gover nor to administer the wage ad justment and reclassification program. Gov. Patterson said that proposal should be given a "long look." The Barrington recommenda tion was contained in a report submitted Friday to the interim committee on retirement and compensation. The governor tentatively sug gested a two-step program cal ling for the state to adopt the reclassification and salary rec ommendations of. the Barrington firm by allowing the state civil service commission to adminis ter the plan for both classified and unclassiied workers for the time being. The personnel di rector could be appointed later if it appeared advisable, he said. The governor expressed fear that if either the civil service commission or a personnel di rector attempted to tamper with salaries of academic personnel in the state system of higher education, a civil war might be precipitated like that which flared here in 1953. Sunday, February 8, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON); MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Parkland Woman Has New Fogpofe Sitting Record' Parkland, Wash. (U.R) Pretty Kathleen Donhum, who is seven months pregnant, claimed a new world's record of 169 days of flagpole sitting down when she climbed down from her 60 foot high platform here at noon Saturday. Mrs. Donhum, a five-feet, 11-inch blonde, scaled the pole at noon last Aug. 21, determined to break the 152-day flagpole sit ting record and to get enough money from her stunt to buy a house of her own. "Kitty Flagpole," as she became known, isolated herself on her sheltered eight-feet square platform and had only a tele phone and radio to keep in touch with the outside world. Kitty got into her flagpole act by answering the advertise ment of a local fuel company. "The Pochel Fuel Co., ran the ad as a joke," Mrs. Donhum said, "But I took them up on it." . , Kitty explained that she didn't suffer from the elements during her 169 days on the pole. "The platform had a roof and four-foot sides to it," she said, "so I didn't have to worry about rain or falling off when I slept." "I had a radio, a telephone and anything I wanted to read all the comforts of home," she added. Land Classification Hearings Scheduled Salem - (U.R) Hearings on the classification of some 35,500 acres of cutover forest land in seven Oregon counties have been set for Feb. 7 through 15, ac cording to Homer G. Lyon, re forestation director for the state forestry department. A member of the state board of forestry will conduct the public hearings in Linn, Benton, Deschutes, Polk, Lane, Lincoln and Coos counties. All owners of the lands pro posed for classification under the forest tax law have been notified by mail of the hearings. County courts and assessors (and forest wardens have been invited to attend the hearings. .s After being classified, the lands are placed.on a special roll by the assessor," and thereafter carry an annual forest fee of five cents an acre. Any products har vested from such classified lands are subject to a 12Vfc cent yield tax, which go directly to the counties involved. Myrtle Point Logger Gets 2!-Year Term Portland (U.R). Junior Gemes, Myrtle Point logger, was sentenced to 2V2 years in prison Friday for trying to extort $10,000 from a bank official. U. S. Judge Chase Clark of Idaho gave Gemes, 25-year-old father of two children, what he called the shortest sentence "in the history of the country for an offense of this kind." The judge deplored the neces sity of sentencing Gemes to pris on, but said he could not go unpunished for causing Harry Dement, vice-president of the Security Brank at Myrtle Point, and his family to "live in terror" for almost a month. Gemes was arrested by the FBI several months ago for Klamath Timber Theft Brings Term in Jail Portland (U.R) William A. Thompson, 29, Richmond, Calif., received a 60-day federal prison term Friday for the theft of 650 white fir trees near Klam ath Falls last December. " U. S. Judge Chase Clark of Idaho, temporarily assigned to Oregon, sentenced Leslie B. Rob inson, Thompson's . companion, to two years of probation. . Both men pleaded guilty to the theft. The trees, worth $2500, were taken from a freight car at Beatty, Ore., and trucked to El Cerrito, Calif., for sale. threatening the bank official with bodily harm unless the money was paid. Korean War Orphan Reaches Seattle With Adopted Father After Months of Trouble Seattle, Wash. U.R) An excited, gum- chewing Korean war orphan stepped ashore here Saturday with his adopted father, M-Sgt. John F. Cassidy, Santa Cruz, Calif. After 19 months of paper work, delay and loneliness, 3V-year-old Chun Sik had a home. Abandoned along a Pusan railroad track and picked up by a group of soldiers from the 3rd Division when he was six weeks old, Chun Sik is more . familiar with barracks life than home life. "He was a scrawny rascal when we got him," said Cassidy. "We fed him some powdered milk, got a doctor to fix him up, and christened him John Francis." When Cassidy returned to the United States in June, 1952, he put the boy in a Seoul orphan age with instructions to keep him there until the sergeant returned. "I talked it over with my wife, Charlotte, and volunteered for another tour in Korea so I could adopt him," Cassidy said. "It took one more trip before we finally got him." Cassidy will be stationed at Ft. Lewis, Wash., where his wife is expected to join him in a couple of weeks. "I guess I'll just keep him around my office during the day," Cassidy said. "At least he'll eat good." The sergeant is a 23rd Infantry Regimental Food Service Technician better known as a mess sergeant. A Word To Potential Investors If SECURITIES As investment advisors we realize the5 importance of life insurance in estate plan ning, the desirability of reserves in savings banks, and the virtue of good, old-fashioned thrift. With none of these accepted first principles do we quarrel. c But we do feel that the wisdom of intel ligent common stock investment as a basie part of planning is often overlooked. The present expanding economy, with techno logical changes sweeping industry from coal mining to guided missiles, affords many opportunities. There is no quick road to success in investment. But intelligence, application and patience will bring large rewards. 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