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
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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.
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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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way they're rolling up bigger soles than ever before in
history topping the popularity that has already made
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As any automotive engineer will
Jr. tell you, the goal in automatic
transmissions has long been a
design that would give top acceler
ation and top gas mileage and still
be absolutely smooth.
Well, it's easy to step up accelera
tion, or gas mileage but tough to
do both together unless a lot of
gearshifting takes place, which cuts
down on smoothness.
So Buick engineers looked to avia
tion for the answer and brother!
what a wondrous new magic they
came up with!
They took a leaf from the airplane's
variable pitch propeller which
switches the pitch of its blades one
way for quick take-off and another
way for better gas mileage aloft.
They brought the same principle to
Dynaflow Drive to the twenty
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Dynaflow "stator." They engi
neered these blades to swivel like
the blades of the plane propeller
and with the same results.
In cruising and in all normal driv
ing, the blades are angled for fuel
economy and you get a lot more '
miles from a tankful of gas.
But when you have to move
instantly when you need quick get
away, or a sudden burst of safety
surge power to get out of a tight
spot on the highway you just press
down that gas pedal, and you're off
in a split second.
You've never felt anything like it
before because there's never been
anything like it before in an
automobile.
It's action that's sheer thrill action
that's backed by the highest V8
horsepowers in Buick history
action that's sending Buick sales
soaring to record-high levels.
Come in and try it, at the wheel of
a Buick Special, Century, Super
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Dynfaw Drill is standard on Roadmaster, optional
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And WGiite EDeplhant SaDe!
YMCA GYM O 522 W. SIXTH ST.
To raise money for needed equipment, including wrestling mats, a trampoline, parallel
bars, swinging rings, a spring board, basketballs, a diving board for the swimming pool,
and to repair pool tables.
Pliant SaDe Starts 9 a.m.
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Rummage Sale Starts
9 a.in. Auction 1 p.nn.
ITnDH 5 p.m. - LBegSns
Agaon at 7 pjm.
ITEMS AT THE YMCA AUCTION
Pets
Sporting goods
Farm implements
Clothes for the rummage
Cakes, a pie and preserves
Plants for the garden sale
Toys
Furniture
Musieal instruments
Hay
Tools
Pictures
Bric-a-brae
Building materials
Kitchen ware
Hardware
Yard tools
Anything we can auction!
Published in Cooperation
Meals from the best
restaurants in town
150 feet of Down Spout
and Gutter (new)
Lumber Dimension
and Sheeting
Wrist Watches
(all working)
Trees and Shrubs of all
kinds
Gasoline and Lube Jobs
from many stations
Many services from lawn
mowing to caddying
Buffalo calf '
Haircuts
Furniture
Baby chicks
Jewelry
Gold Fish
Baled straw
Cutlery
Tools
Paint
Truck and car tires
Washing machines
Baby steer
Farm equipment . ,
Sporting goods
' Rummage clothing
Light fixtures
Table silverware
Dressed fryers
Plumbing fixtures
A thousand other bargains
' all sold at auction!
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