Members of the Kansas state guard after July 1, 1943, who are actually present and participate in regular weekly drills provided for by law or regulations, for not less than one and one-half hours, shall receive the following schedule of pay: For each of no more than five such weekly periods in any one month; private, sixty cents; private first class, seventy cents; corporal, eighty cents; sergeant, ninety-five cents; staff sergeant and first sergeant, one dollar; second lieutenant, one dollar and twenty-five cents; first lieutenant, one dollar and fifty cents; captain, two dollars and fifty cents. The rate of pay for a technician fifth grade will be the same as that of a corporal; the rate of pay for a technician fourth grade and a technician third grade will be the same as that of a sergeant.