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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEOFORD. OREGON THURSDAY. JANUARY 17. 1962 Capitol Memo . Oregon Legislative Pay Small Compared To Several States By ZAN STARK ; ' Salem (UPD The proposal to pay Oregon legislators $3, 000 a year plus $20 a day while in ses sion is a big increase over the $60 0 a year plus iravel allow ance that they for merl re received. But it's chi '.en feed compar- A, sum ed to many states. Oregon legislators present ly are workng for nothing. The voters last year author ized senators and representa tives to set new pay scales. L That is why legislative pay will be considered early this -session. : Washington legislators re ceive $1,200 a year plus $25 a day while in session. . In Idaho, legislators receive $10 a day while in session, -plus $15 a day expenses. Lawmakers in Nevada re ceive $25 per day for 60 days. .- Oregon's fourth neighbor ing state. California, pays legislators $6,000 a year, plus ....a,c aim .pit wa.ijr wiu. .attending sessions. , Other high-paying states Include New York, $7,500 a .year; Massachusetts, $6,700 a year plus an expense allow ance; Pennsylvania and Il linois, each $6,000 per year; Michigan, $5,000 per year plus a $1,250 expense allowance; and New Jersey and Ohio, $5,000 per year. . New Hampshire is lowest, .at $200. Rhode Island pays $5 per day for 60 days. Kansas, which pays $5 per day plus $7 a day expenses, with a $300 per session limit, Is near the bottom of the .'scale. ". Other western states pay: Montana, $20 a day while .In session; Utah, $500 per year; Arizona, $1,800 a year plus expenses and travel; Wy oming, $12 a day, plus $12 a day expenses while in session; .Colorado, $2,400 a year plus actual traveling expenses; and New Mexico, $20 a day while .in session. ,' The Union's two newest additions pay these amounts: '.Alaska, $3,000 a year plus $40 a dav during sessions, and Hawaii, $2,500 for each regular session and $1,500 for each budget session, plus expenses. - ": '.- Amounts paid by other .states arc: Alabama, $30 I day while in session; Arkan , sas, $1,200 a year plus $20 a day while in session; Con- : neciicutt, $1,000 a year plus ; $250 expenses; Delaware, $3, 000 a year. Florida. '$100 per month: Georgia, $10 per day plus .$30 a day expenses; Indiana .$1,800 per year; Iowa, $30 a -dav during sessions; K.en- tucky, $25 per day plus $10 a day expenses while in ses sion; Louisiana, $50 a day during 60-day session, $250 a month when not in session. Maine, $800 per year; Maryland, $1,800 per year; Minnesota, $200 per month; Mississippi, $3,000 per bien nial session plus $100 a month while not in session; Missou ri, $125 a month; Nebraska $875 per year. North Carolina, $15 per day up to 120 days, subsist ence and travel allowai ce while in session; North Dako ta, $5 per day plus $1,200 ex penses: Oklahoma, $15 per day up to 75 days in session, $100 per month while not in session. : South Carolina, $1,800 per year; South Dakota, $900 a year plus $10 a day for at tendance at special sessions; Tennessee, $15 per day dur ing session; Texas, $4,800 per year plus per diem while in session; Vermont, $70 per week during session; Virginia, $540 per year plus $720 ex penses; West Virginia, $1,500 per year; and Wisconsin, $300 per month plus up to $175 per month for residence ex pense during session. Some Oregon legislators say privately the proposed $3,000 a year plus $20 a day during sessions is too hieh, Others claim the pay should oe nigner. From the legislators' point of view, this is a bad year to nave to set their own pay uregon laces bia money problems and tax increases this session. Many legislators may hesitate to fight for a realistic pay scale because of the state's troubled financial situation. mil 7 1; 0" " I r EXECUTIVES VISIT - President Kennedy and Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani are shown in the President's office in Wash ington shortly after the Premier arrived for a visit in the capital. Fanfani will meet with other U. S. Officials during his stay. (UPI) City Torn Between Old and New Ways By H. DENNY DAVIS United Prtti International Recife. Brazil - (UPI) - A businessman in a white linen suit, finishing lunch in a fash ionable downtown restaurant, picked up the last piece of bread and thrust it out a near by window. Outside, a hand grabbed the bread and in stantly thrust it into a mouth too hungry to say thanks. This is a common sight in this Seattle-sized city in north east Brazil. Despite booming industrial prosperity, rural poverty has turned this area into the Western Hemi sphere's latest battleground between communism and de mocracy. Egged onward by Peasant league founder Francisco Ju liao, starving peasants fre quently have grabbed their machetes and rusty old muz zle-loaders and tried to seize land from wealthy families that have grown sugar around here for centuries. Amid Recife's skyscrapers, Mayor Miguel Arracs, who works hand in hand with the Communist party, found the votes to elect him governor of Pernambuco state Oct. 7. He takes office in January. Peace Maintained The Brazilian Fourth Army, based in Recife, maintains an uneasy peace, using American-made tanks and an effici ent military intelligence. Crew cut Americans in wash-and-wear suits work day and night in hastily set-up offices scattered all over Re cife. They are trying to make the Alliance for Progress work here, before it is too late. One word, sugar, explains this region's feudal past, its turbulent present and its hopeful future. When world sugar prices were relatively high, this was lush country. Wealthy fam ilies - their names reflecting successive waves of Dutch, Portuguese and Italian immi gration centuries ago - lived aristocratically in plantation mansions and breeze-cooled town houses. Negroes, Indi ans, poor whites - and their light tan progeny - cut the sugar and lived in feudal sta bility. Old Way Doomed After World War II, the world found it was producing too much sugar. Since then it has become more and more obvious that the old way of life in northeastern Brazil is doomed. Successive federal governments have tried to stabilize the economy. They have set price mini urns, They have jiggered exchange rates to give sugar exporters a better deal. They have ob tained a U.S. sugar quota to assure a fixed market at fixed price. They encouraged sugar consumption at ho e. Nothing worked entirely. The life of the field hand con tinues to get worse. Now everyone, from Recife to Washington, has come to understand that nothing will save the old ways.. This re gion is going to have a revo lution. It will be a peaceful industrial revolution or it will be a Fidel Castro-type Communist revolution. A special federal agency has been set up to direct the peaceful revolution (The Su- pcrintendency of Develop ment of the Northeast, or SUDENE). It is headed by a special cabinet minister, Cel- so Furtado. His enemies call him a Marxist but he has the full backing of his personal friend. President Kennedy Rubber Factory With U.S. financing, a new factory is being set up to make artificial rubber. Alco hol is made from sugar; rub ber will be made from alco hol. Real rubber grows wild in Brazil, but gathering is no longer economical. Alongside Recife's winding canals, other new factories are making rum. Some make vodka and other spirit, too. These factories would have been built in Cuba if it were not for Fidel Castro. The dis tillers who once used -Cuban sugar are making a fresh start here. Their investment repre sents faith in northeastern Brazil. Most Brazilians share this faith. They believe that with U.S. help, northeastern Brazil can collect taxes, build schools, roads factories and remain democratic. Rollins Named to GP City Council Grants Pass - Jack Rollins, Insurance man, was elected to the city council here Wednes day night to fill the vacancy resulting from the resignation of Chester Wilde, Ward 4. The council also elected Reece Jameson president for the new year. A public hearing on con struction and improvement through widening of Bridge St. between the west city limits and Fourth St. was held. '. Property owners of the area seemed to favor the pro posal and an ordinance was adopted to enable the city to proceed with the action. This section is to be made Into an east west artery through city and county co New Mexico Ski Area Boosts Ruidoso's Economy By ED FITE United Press International Ruidoso. N. M. -HOT- The stillness of the land of the whispering pines suddenly is shattered with the cry: ;'They're off." The thoroughbreds and quartcrhorses are off and run ning again at Ruidoso Downs, the week end track which has meant so much to the life blood of this summertime tourist retreat stacked hap- ;l 1-L1 , TAX T I , . M33&Jfc)Q w w5 "I have said, 'It it pleasure to pay tax for to be free cli'ien.' S'malter, you don't understand American too good?" A SPECIAL GROUP OF GIFTWARE Three (3) piece Tantalus LIQUOR SET Reg. 9.95 Now O Mirror and Planter WALL PLAQUE Reg. 9.95 Now CERAMIC RELISH DISH Reg. 4.95 Now large selection of CERAMIC ASH TRAYS . Each 660 330 1 SEIDEN BRASS ASH TRAYS Reg. 5.95 Now Eight (8) day SPOKE WALL CLOCK (Brass and Black) . 476 189 2 Only-Eight (8) day CUCKOO CLOCKS t00 Reg. 45.00 Now OU 30 n Set of Six (6) Insulated COFFEE MUGS (choice of colors) 99 MILK GLASS PITCHER .9J60 Reg. 4.50.... Now O INSULATED ICE BUCKETS 0y)$ Reg. 5.95 Now j) Fifty (50) piece Stainless Steel FLATWARE 8 89 HAIR CUTTING afc89 15 only-Six (6) Piece Stainless Steel STEAK KNIFE SETS 1 99 OUTFIT Only 5 only-Four (4) Piece DRESSER SET Jf"3 Reg. 7.95 Now J PARKER PENS and PENCILS large " selection Prkei plvi a "hare as-pliable '3 Off Tabla of Closeouls Values to 9.95 Your unrestricted choice 1 99 218 E. Main Phone 779-1331 Open Fridays Til P.M. 1. hazardly on the walls of a long, narrow 7,000-foot high canyon. The five furlong track has been the principal lure for many of the three-quarter mil lion visitors who annually swell the population of this village of 2,500 to 20,000 or more each week end from Me morial day through mid-Sep tember. Normally, the end of the racing season has also meant the village had lost its lure. The permanent residents be gan to dig in for the winter. New Ski Area But the new sound "t-r-a-c-k" enters the pic ture this year with opening of a new $1.5 million ski area that promises to turn Ruidoso into a year-round family vacation-land. The sleepy town got a taste last season of the winter won ders a ski run can work when so many skiers came to use the makeshift facilities that accommodations were hard to come by and the town's lone bank showed a healthy jump in deposits. Aside from the race track and ski runs, representing the only major outside capital in the area, Ruidoso could serve as a fine advertisement for the Small Business administra tion. Virtually every business is locally owned and family op erated with Dad and Mom do ing the heavy work and Sis and Bud the minor chores. That fits in well with the village's claim to be a family vacation spot. Many of the permanent residents' were one time tourists who became so enamored of Mother Nature's air conditioning and the lull ing sound of breeze-rustled evergreen and aspen that they never went home. "I didn't start living until I came here," said Vic Lamb, who moved here from the parched plains of west Texas a dozen years ago to buy the 900-circulation weekly news paper and build it from a four- page paper Into a well-read 14-page product with 3.UUU circulation. Lamb is among the host of residents who are against any move to legalize gambling In order to inject fresh financial food into the town coffers. These citizens remember well the sordid conditions dur ing a decade pf "wide open" gambling that gripped Ruido so starting with World War II years. It took, they said, $30,000 a week just to meet the payoff demands that kept the law looking me otner way Now, there are 72 motels or hotels, including one plush new one that even has tele phones in its bathrooms. 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