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.
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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-
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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.
Most of the accommoda
tions, however, are cabin-type
with fireplaces that get year
around use what with the 4S
degree overnight tempera
tures.
There Is no early morning
breakfast rush at the rcstau
rants. The smell appeal of
your own bacon frying in that
crisp mountain air washes out
the desire to "eat out.
The lunch and dinner hour
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the visitors partHkc of the
wide variety of recreation
available.
There is golf at former ro
deo roper Sunny Edwards 3
300-yard nine-hole golf course
(third highest in the U.
horseback trails for the young
sters or oldsters. Including a
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