'Governor Wamts 'Long Look' at Pay Fiasis
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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,
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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.
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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.
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