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13 Thursday, March 31, 1994 The Clarion-Ledger Gore From 1A riff mm The American Federation of Teachers plans to rally against the legislative pay raise at 10 a.m. Friday at the Capitol. Legislators voted this ses-sion to give teachers pay raises averaging about 1 ,850 next school year. That compares to a legisla-tive pay raise of $8,640 that passed both houses on Tues- day. A person who serves 20 years in the Legislature with the proposed salary level at $25,840 a year would draw $14,062 a year in retirement benefits beginning at age 60.

Under the current pay level of $17,200, that legislator would draw $9,675 annually in retirement. A one-term legislator at the proposed new level would draw $1 ,875 in annual benefits at retirement, and 1 ,290 under the current pay plan. Legislators participate in two retirement pay plans: the state Public Employees Retirement System and a supplemental plan for legislators only. They pay 7.25 percent of their salary into the PERS plan and 3 percent of their salary into the supplemental plan. Retirement begins at age 60 with at least four years service or at any age with at least 25 years of service.

Source: Public Employees Retirement System Pay raise From 1A Dorsey, who opened it in 1990. "If we gain community empowerment status, it will mean we can have more educational programs, hire more staff and do more outreach and teaching. It'll mean we can expand," she said. "I was very impressed with what I saw and with the quality of health care administered at your clinic," Gore told her. Gore appeared relaxed and at ease at the town meeting as he strode back and forth and used his hands to emphasize his points.

"I'd like to know what we can do about getting daycare centers in all the high schools?" asked LaTonya Parker, 19, of Hollandale, a Simmons High senior with a 2-year-old son. Parker is a member of the Teen Parenting Support Program in the Hollandale Public Schools, which provides day care services and helps students to obtain their high school diploma or its equivalent. "We've seen programs that work extremely well to allow teen mothers to stay in school," said Gore, commending the teen for staying in school to get her diploma. "What provisions are there in the president's health care plan to ensure that health-care services will be available, or conveniently near, small communities in a rural area?" asked Murray Robinson, a Scott businessman. "If we have a system that guarantees medical coverage to citizens, whether they live in a rural or urban area, you're going to see competition to deliver those services," Gore said.

frvV ate passed a bill that would bring in $20 million by changing the due date for insurance premium taxes. The House is expected to consider it today. Also unfunded at this point is $24 million in car-tag relief that has passed both chambers. Lawmakers must finalize the 1995 fiscal year budget by Sunday when the 90-day session is scheduled to end. mentary.

"This is 23 years of teaching for me. I have never seen teachers so outraged." Jackson businessman Charles Doty, a Fordice backer, worries the pay "may open us up to situations where people are running for office for the wrong reason: pay." Meanwhile, legislative budget leaders scrambled to find ways to pay for the salary increase. The Sen hoping it passed because they are going to get it. I think they should have stood up, voted for it and took the criticism, too." Charleston educator Joann Young said she will answer the lawmakers at the ballot box. "As the mother of three school-aged children, I plan to voice my opinion at election time," said Young, 44, a teacher at Charleston Upper Ele- Newman From 1A Rick GuyThe Clarion-Ledger Vice President Al Gore watches Dr.

Clarence Phillips give an oral polio, vaccine to Nekasha Washington, 4, at Greenville's Delta Health Center.1 lawyer until being named to head! the U.S. Department of Justice's' civil division in April. Hunger is the; widower of Gore's sister, Nancy. i "I paid some attention to the lin-i gering damage of the ice Gore said. "I know that there are still some water systems where they, have to boil water.

I stayed abreast' of what was going on in the Delta." "There's going to be competition because they know they're going to get paid adequately. We would also follow that up with an emphasis on rural clinics." The vice president recalled his close ties to Greenville and joked about his unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1988. His brother-in-law Frank Hunger was a Greenville vision was intended to protect American companies doing business in Mexico. Newman said he is looking for investors and has several distributors lined up, but he refused to name them. He also said that based on the NAFTA provision, a Michigan law firm is poised to sue anyone who tries to copy his invention.

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