Arkansas: Win's Way

The high cost of a political career will go higher if Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas becomes a model for fellow Governors. First Rockefeller decided to donate his modest gubernatorial salary of $10,000 a year toward construction of a chapel at a state hospital. Last week he announced that he would supplement the salaries of a dozen state officials in order to attract qualified personnel. Win estimated the cost of that public service to be between $20,000 and $25,000 annually.

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