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f Page 10 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1981 State / National 67% vote shuts door Jaycees: No women i i United Press International TULSA, Okla. — U.S. Jaycees chapters have rejected member ship for women for a third time, the organization’s president announced Monday. Jaycees President Gene Honn said chapters across the nation were sent ballots in a referendum to determine whether local chap ters should have the option of accepting women as members. Although less than half — 46 percent — of the about 7,000 Jaycee chapters across the country responded to the referendum, Honn said 67 percent of those chapters voting were against the women’s option. Jaycees chapters have voted three times on the women’s mem bership issue, he said, each time defeating the option. The latest vote, tallied late last week, was the first time the chap ters actually voted by ballot in a referendum, Honn said. Each previous time, he said, a voice vote or straw vote was taken during na tional conventions. Arthur Boutiette, U.S. Jaycees executive vice president, said Monday chapters not adhering to the vote could lose their charters. Some have in the past. “Some metropolitan chapters, a few maybe 20, will be very dis appointed,” he said. Slightly more than a dozen local Jaycees chapters have had their charters revoked by the national organization or have voluntarily lost their national affiliation be cause they allowed women to join, Boutiette said. GENERAL STUDIES STUDENTS Enhance your concentration Dr. Nick Dobrovolsky will teach you how: Tues., Oct. 20th at 7 n.m. in Room 200 8 If you’re talking bicycles, Sand Miyata’s no Syour vocabulary . Some servicemen to receive higher salaries than generals United Press International WASHINGTON — Under the new military pay scale, some servicemen and women could make more than generals and admirals. Capt. Louis Col- bus isn’t gloating or fretting. “If I make more than the admiral, I guess the smartest thing is to keep my mouth shut, take the money and run,” said the Norfolk, Va., Naval Base officer. Some generals and admirals won’t get anything, but the new military pay hikes will mean ab out $600 more a year for pri vates, and captains will collect another $3,000 annually. The wage boost, the second sizable increase in two years, should show up in military pay checks later this month after President Reagan signs the law approved by Congress last week. The raises — ranging from 10 percent to 17 percent according to rank — were passed in an effort to keep skilled and experi enced personnel in the ser vices. For officers, this year’s raise is a flat 14.3 percent, but most generals and admirals will not get any more. That’s because they already are up against the $50,000 pay ceiling imposed on all federal employees. Colbus is a captain with 26 years of Navy service. He has a base pay of $3,849 a month. In cluding $410 in monthly sea pay, his monthly check comes to $4,259. With three straight years of sea duty, Colbus told The Nor folk Virginian-Pilot and Ledger- Star he was “not embarrassed” to make more than an admiral. “When you go to sea, you need enough to maintain a con tingency fund,” he said. “You ought to have enough money so that wife can get a new tire if one blows out, or that she can get the washing machine fixed if it breaks.” Rear Adm. Clinton Taylor, head of the Atlantic Fleet Train ing Command in Norfolk, said he had no complaints about junior officers making more than their superiors. He said the increases would encourage some officers to stay in the Navy, rather than retire after 20 years. The new raise comes on top of an 11.7 percent hike that went into effect last Oct. 1. Congress believes the in creases will put military pay, when fringe benefits are consi dered, on a par with similar civi lian jobs. It remains to be seen if military men and women agree and stay in the service. Basic pay is only part of the income of military personnel. Military personnel also can get non-taxable housing and subsistence allowances, as well as extra pay for special skills# hazardous duty. For example, all officers can get a $94.35 monthly subsistence allowance Under the new pay scale, tie smallest increase— 10 percent — goes to the lowest ranks. Tlie monthly pay for a private wi4 less than two years’ service w| go from $501.30 to $551.40. The monthly pay of a captain with eight years in the servi# will go from $1,753.20 to $2,001 — an annual base pay of a boat $24,000. A colonel with 16yean service will get about $37,5O0i year. An Army staff sergeant, grade E6, with eight years servicew| be paid $1,060.50 per month- $12,720 a year — instead of tke current $910.20 monthly. The base pay for an E9 top sergeant or petty officer can reach $2,130 per month —ak out $25,500 a year — with 28 years’ service. That is 17 per cent above current pay. Vote nears on budget unit United Press International AUSTIN — On Nov. 3, Texas voters again will have an oppor tunity to approve a system to allow someone other than the Texas Legislature to execute budgetary matters. Every two years the Legisla ture adopts the appropriations bill — the document that specifies how much the state will spend for the next two years and where it will spend it. But once the Legislature ad journs, the budget is managed by each state agency under guide lines the lawmakers have pre scribed. Two years ago citizens voted down a proposition that would have given the governor budget execution authority, with the approval of a committee com posed of other state officials. Proposition 3, which will be on the Nov. 3 ballot, would empower the Legislature to authorize a state finance management committee to manage the expenditure of appropriated funds, except consti tutionally dedicated funds. The committee would be com posed of the governor, as chair man of the panel, the lieutenant governor, the speaker and the chairmen of the Senate Finance and State Affairs committees and the House Ways and Means and Appropriations committees. Rep. Bob Simpson, D- Amarillo, sponsored the constitu tional amendment during the Legislature’s regular session ear lier this year. He said, if approved, the constitutional amendment would provide the vehicle for management of antici pated federal block grant funds, and also would save the state money because special sessions would not be required. “Without it, we may have costly special sessions of the Legisla ture,” Simpson said. Opponents of the constitutional amendment contend that the committee would assume some of the budget management power that properly belongs to the ex ecutive branch, and also some of the budget-setting power that properly belongs to the legislative branch. Union leader United Press International CHARLESTON W.Va. — A spokesman for United Mine Workers President Sam Church has denied charges from another top UMW leader that Church is guilty of cronyism and running a one-man show. Willard “Bill” Esselstyn, sec retary-treasurer of the interna tional union, made the charges last week in Beckley at a meeting They also argue that the com mittee could use its power k harass some agency heads h transferring funds from one prof- ram to another solely on thehaa of political considerations. Opponents also say that budr, management is essentially t administrative function, and them is no need for legislative participr' tion. But Simpson said the commi tee could not abuse its authont because strict guidelines would!* set up for the panel to follow. “This committee would have only the authority given itbytk Legislature and would not haw unlimited authority over apprf nations, expenditures or transfer of state funds,” he said. Su we Me wh c f< denies cronyism of the Coal Miner’s Political Ac tion Committee, the UMW’spoli tical arm. Esselstyn told a reporterfroma Beckle'y newspaper he has "hadit up to here” with Church’s admi nistration and added he is serious ly thinking of running for the un ion presidency next year. Eldon Callen, a spokesman for the union, said Monday in Washington that he was not sur prised by Esselstyn’s comments. “I’ve been waiting for Bill to come out in the open with his in tentions,” he said. “We’ve been hearing the undercurrents from him since the last board meeting Esselstyn, who holds the un ion’s third-highest office, toldare- porter Friday that Church is “washed up and blamed him fora “lack of direction” in running the UMW. The secretary-treasurer said his relations with Church were all but severed in May 1980, when Church ordered a reorganization at the union’s international head quarters in Washington. 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