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i TZ1T MtPrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. Marefe II, 19SS Baldock Attacks Barrington Plan On Salary and Job Classification Salem U.R) Adoption of the Barrington salary and job classification plan as it has been presented to the Legislature would result In confusion, dis organization and loss of effi ciency In the operation of the State Highway Department, in the opinion of R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer. Baldock told the Civil Serv ice Commission, which is acting as a review board to consider complaints made by department heads in the classified service concerning the Barrington re port, that the plan would , seri ously hinder the recruiting or keeping of engineers and tech nical personnel. He presented a 29-page re- saiaries for engineers with the j schedule as the kettle men. On highest salaries below the sal aries paid for the same grade of engineers in neighboring states and in industry. In some in stances, he said, the highest Barrington salary recommenda tion was about equal to the low est paid in other' comparable groups. Classed Together . Baldock said that under the report of Barrington and Asso ciates of New York, employees whose duties vary quite widely would be classed together. "For instance," he said, "the driver of a light pickup truck would be in the same category as the drivers of our .heaviest equipment. On the paving crew, port with charts to show that i the paint men and shovelers the proposed plan recommended would be classed in the same PAD SAIL US WE ARE MOVING su.. Discount On Any Item In Our Stock of o PAINTS SUNDRIES o BRUSHES WALL PAPER EfSSOfJ'S 38 South Bartlett and Store Phone 3-3631 the tunnel crews the miner would be rated equally with his helpers." Baldock showed half a dozen examples where the Barrington report classified subordinates in the same salary schedule as their supervisors. Asked by Phillip Joss of Portland, chairman of the Civil Service commission, if he had found any good in the Barring' ton report, Baldock said he had. Plan Falls Short "No one could question the announced objectives of the study made by Barrington asso ciates, the .highway engineer said. "These objectives are that the pay of each position in state service should be fair in com parison with that of all other positions in , the service in view of relative responsibility, and that state salaries as a whole should be in line with those paid by other public and private employers for comparable work." But he added: "Unfortunately the proposed plan falls far short of accomplishing either, of these purposes in so far as the state highway department u con cerned." Examples Cited Baldock cited example after example to show that the Bar rington plan would strike hard est at the group of engineers and technical men in about the middle of the pay schedules, men who are hard to recruit or retain even at present salary schedules. Other state department heads have appeared before the review board, in each case complaining about the Barrington plan, which observers said has little chance for survival at this session. TRADE PUBLISHER DIES . Portland --JflJ.R) Randolf Ed ward Jenness, 54, publisher of the Hawthorne Weekly and the Transportation news here, died yesterday after suffering a heart attack. Veterans Hour Will Note Anniversary; Show Set Tonight The fourth anniversary of the Veterans Hour Variety Show and Radio Quiz, sponsored by the American Legion and radio station KYJC, will be held in the Veterans Administration domicilary center theater at Camp White at 7:45 p.m. today. James C. Dunlevy, manager of the station, will be guest mas ter of ceremonies. Emil Kroeger, commander of American Legion District 13, Jack Vincent, vice commander of District' 13, and R. H. Denning, assistant man ager of the domicilary, will be guests of honor. The radio quiz will again be under the supervision of Frank lin "Jerry" Girard, with Dun levy as guest quiz master. Five members of the Domicilary, will compete for prizes furnished by the merchants of the Rogue River valley. Entertainment Planned The variety show will feature entertainers of the Valley, and on the program will be Miss Edna Doughtery and Foss Kramer, Ashland, in an organ and piano duet of classic and popular music. The Misses San dra and Sharon Laing will give hula and acrobatic dances. Miss Colleen Hope, of the Colleen Hope School of Dance, will fea ture her students in a spring dance revue. A quintet of four young ladies and one young man from the Illinois Valley High school, Cave Junction, known as the IV Ettes will be featured in a group of songs. The program is open to the public. The ladies auxiliary of Dis trict 13 will serve refreshments of coffee and birthday cake after the program. The School of Nursing at Yale University was established in 1923 by a gift from the Rocke feller Foundation. ,It was the first nursing school to require a bachelor's degree for admis sion. Chamber Board Votes To Get BBB Bulletin; Hears of 'Rackets' The board of directors of the Jackson County Chamber ' of Commerce yesterday voted to Herd Improvement Association Elects Lewis Clark, Medford,. and Chester Jensen, Rogue River, have been named to the board of directors of the Jackson County Dairy Herd Improve ment, association, it was an nounced today. The two men were selected at the organization's annual meeting, held last night. Jensen was reelected, and Clark was named to. succeed Mervin Hix son, Talent. Other members of the board of directors, and the positions they held during the past year, are Will R. Hubbard, Central Point, president; Victor Birds eye, Medford, vice - president, and Don Geren, Eagle Point, secretary-treasurer. ' The board of directors will se lect new officers for the coming year. Other action taken at last night's meeting included appro val of incorporation of the association. Jorgensen June Dairy Month Chairman Here Jorgen Jorgensen, owner of Jorgensen's Dairy, Medford, has been appointed chairman of the June Dairy Month committee for Jackson county, it was an nounced today. A meeting of the state June Dairy Month committee has been scheduled in Medford for the evening of April 5. At that time, members of the state group will present material and information available, and will help work out a local program. Purpose of June Dairy Month is to promote the use of dairy products in Oregon, "according to Gordon Coleman, Portland. " ' SLOT MACHINE WIRED Chicago (U.R) When Cook County Sheriff Joseph" D. Loh man took apart slot machines seized in recent raids he found one wired to pay the operator 100 per cent the player noth ing. Instructions on another ma chine ' suggested the operatdr keep coin insert slots well oiled but "use no oil or grease on the pay out slides." subscribe to the twice-monthly bulletin of the Portland Better Business Bureau. It was explained that the bul letin keeps , businessmen and chambers of commerce alerted to rackets which are being con ducted throughout the area, as well as to questionable business enterprises. Don McNeil, man ager of the chamber,- told the board that Medford is a "hot spot" for itinerant operators of questionable concerns and said the bulletin would help the chamber in dealing with the problem. The board voted to encourage I efforts to raise money to pay for a survey of the feasibility of a world's fair or centennial cele bration in Portland in 1959, but declined to vote any of the chamber's budgeted funds for the purpose. It also approved the action of the highway committee in de ciding to ask for an appointment with the state highway commission- at its May meeting to seek construction of a highway to Klamath Falls via McAllis ter Soda springs and Lake O' Woods. Klamath, Lake and Jose phine counties also will join in the petition. In other action, the board voted to make the last payment to the Stanford Research 'Insti tute for studies made relative to the need for a- new hospital in the Medford area; heard re ports from a number of com mittees on work in progress, and voted an increase in the salary of the manager. 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