eG564-3 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT Bus Service Resumes Throughout District As Mechanic Strike Ends For the first time in seven days the cold engines of 1,511 RTD buses roared to life. At precisely 3:11 a.m. Monday, March 6, RTD Operator C. W. Brumwell pulled freshly washed and newly serviced Bus 2106 off the line at Division 2 and line 47 was back in Operation. District buses went out of service at 12:01 a.m. the previous Monday when 650 RTD mechanics went out on strike. Bus operators honored their picket line and Extracar service ended in the District's four-county operating area. A new labor contract cover- ing the mechanics was ratified 153 Operators Saturday, March 4, and approved by RTD Directors. To Receive Safe On Sunday, March 5, mechanics began to ready the Driving Awards District's 1,511 buses for Monday's start of operations. Seven hundred and fifty- three RTD Operators will The ratified agreement pro- receive National Safety vides for: Council safe driving pins for • A 33-month contract the second phase of RTD's retroactive to September 1, • 1971 safety program. 1971. REELECTED—Los Angeles attorney Thomas G. Neusom (left) congratulates Dr. • Pay increases of 51/2% Among the recipients are retroactive to September 1, Norman Topping as the two men were reelected for another term to head the five operators who have dri- District's Board of Directors. 1971, again on September 1, ven for 27 years without a 1972, and on September 1, chargeable accident — four- 1973. teen operators have 26 year Topping and Neusom Reelected to Head RTD Board • A cost-of-living clause, "pins" and 235 operators effective March 1, 1972. Dr. Norman Topping, president of improved public transportation in the Los have pins covering between 20 • Expanded vacation ben- RTD, and Thomas G. Neusom, vice- Angeles area, Dr. Topping is chancellor and 25 years of safe driving. efits. president, were unanimously reelected and former president of the University The operators eligible to • Increased District con- for another term by their fellow Directors of Southern California. wear the 27 year pins are: Ver- tributions to the health and Tuesday (March 7). non C. Engle, Oscar F. welfare fund — from $33.17 The reelection marked Neusom's third A Los Angeles attorney, Neusom was Johnson and Robert W. Steed- to $48.17 per month per term as vice president. appointed to the Board in 1969 by Super- man of Division 9; David B. employee over the period of Topping, an appointee to the Board by visor Kenneth Hahn and is a former White of Division 10; and the contract. Mayor Sam Yorty, has been with the Dis- member of the County's Assessment Edwin H. Bowles of Division trict since 1964. Long an advocate of Appeals Board. RTD General Manager 18. Each of these men have Jack R. Gilstrap said "The driven 27 years without a new contract is fair to the chargeable accident and are employees and equitable to among a very select few the transit riders and the tax- $9 Billion Housing Park-Ride Facility LA. City Council throughout the United States payers of the District whose To Use SB325 Funds eligible to wear that pin. money supports this public Bill Has Provision Growing Steadily "Presentation of the safe agency." driving pins will take place Certain terms of the con- • For Rapid Transit The number of passholders For Rapid Transit after completion of our annual tract, he said, go slightly of RTD's Convention Center system shake-up which is cur- beyond the recommendations A $9 billion housing bill On Thursday of last week Park-Ride facility has been rently underway," remarked of the Governor's Fact- approved by the U.S. Senate (March 3), the Los Angeles increasing at a steady pace as Max L. Rise, general superin- Finding Commission, which March 3 contains provisions City Council voted to additional tenants occupy the tendent of transportation. "I had earlier entered the dispute for subsidizing mass transit impound the city's revenues Arco Plaza complex. have sent the list of Operators between the District and the operating deficits. The bill from Senate Bill 325. eligible for awards to the ATU. contains an amendment by In taking the action, the National Safety Council, each With the move of the law Senator Jacob Javitz (D-New Council spelled out its willing- pin will note the years the "However," he continued, firm of Gibson, Dunn & York) for $400 million a year, ness to contribute $4 million operator has driven without a "since the contract is on the Crutcher and additional Bank for two years, for transit sub- over the next 10 years for chargeable accident. As soon basis of 33 months instead of of America employees last sidies. rapid transit development, as the pins are received, a two years as proposed by the month, the numer of passhol- week will be selected during Commission, we believe the In addition, transit is put on provided federal matching ders increased from 275 to which time we'll present the overall settlement is within the a parity with highways with funds are forthcoming and the 336. The major participant in pins to the operators." framework of the Commis- the grant ratio established on line priorities are agreeable. the program, according to sion's recommendations. a 90-10 basis, rather than Twice yearly RTD presents Charley Haudenschield, The city will join the Dis- safe driving awards to its The Bill, S. 3245, must still "Of particular significance RTD's deputy administrator- trict in seeking federal funds operators. The first phase be approved by the House of is the agreement by labor and planning and real estate, is the for a technical grant to deter- took place during the week of management to hold to the Representatives. mine the financial feasibility Bank of America with 185 September 27 through 5.5% wage increase per year and priority development of October 1 and covered the RTD General Manager passholders. which was a key recommenda- the first-stage rapid transit period from January 1 to June Jack R. Gilstrap joined other tion of the Commission and construction. 30. At that time 817 "pins" transit officials in testifying in "Other major partici- which is the wage guideline of Washington in late February were given out. The second pants," he continued, "in- phase covers the period from the President's Wage and on the need for the legislation clude the Atlantic Richfield July 1 to December 31 and 753 Price Control Board." and wired Senators Cranston Company and the firm of Operators will be receiving Increased costs of the con- and Tunney seeking their sup- Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Give Blood awards for that time. A total tract can be met without a fare port of the measure. Company. Continued on Page 2 Continued on Page 4 . de• PAGE TWO March 10, 1972 RTD FLYER (4); Roy L. Hayes (17); Earl Raymond W. Beckman (18); Napolian Parker (1); Harry A. Williams (1); John C. Williams Safety Awards J. Hennessey (10); Percy B. Buford H. Bell (1); William H. Payne (5); Isam Pegues (4); (1); Algernon A. Wise (10); C. Confinued from Page 1 Hill (19); Harold W. Hopkins Bentley (9); James E. Bernard Charles F. Powell (3); Riley W. Wisler (19); Earl H. Wright of 1,570 safe driving pins will (2); James Hunter (10); Paul (11); Jack W. Blakey (13); 0. Rutherford (21); Walter J. (1); David Young (1). E. Johnson (8); Walter C. Luther Brown (3); Quincy L. Sattiewhite (17); Raymond V. be awarded to operators for Division 8 1971. Johnson (6); Johnnie L. Bush (2); Leroy Carter (5); Thomas (12); Jimmie B. Milton A. Arnold (5); Clinton Operators receiving safe Johnson (3); Charles A. Elliott M. Chavers (1); Thompson (2); Kerma L. A. Baden (10); R. E. Bair (15); driving awards during the sec- Johnson (2); H. Johnson (1); Raymond R. Cuesta (16); Thornton (3); Edward E. N. P. Beauchamp (22); A. B. ond phase of the 1971 program James W. Jones (9); Clyde E. Hugh E. Daniels (6); Curtis Townsend (3); Hillard V. Vic- Bogartz (23); John H. Booth are listed below in alphabeti- Jordan (1); Dexter V. Kern Davis, Jr. (4); Marvin M. kers, Jr. (3); Walter A. Wad- (1); Ronald Borokoff (1); J. L. cal order, by divisions and (8); John H. Kosman (7); Lyle Debrunner (23); George A. R. lington (5); John K. Walker with the number of safe driv- Brandon (14); William E. J. Lampshire (24); Alfred H. Douglas (2); David L. Dukes (2); G. White (1); Benjamin L. ing years in parenthesis Brollier (3); Robert C. Bucha- Lester (18); Everett E. Lewis (3); Harold Fields (1); Williams (2); J. S. Williams behind their name. nan (4); Mercer R. Cantrell (2); Horace Lewis (1); Kon- Aurelien C. Fouroux (14); (2); Walter R. Winbush (1); (14); Donald R. Case (8); stantine M. Lucas (2); Owen Walter R. Franklin (6); Willie Gerald T. Wrenn Division 1 (3). Raymond Cazis (1); W. S. Malone (5); Frank J. Med- Heriberto C. Alvarez (1); J. Franklin (2); James H. Churchill (20); G. K. vedik (15); H. Mendoza (1); Division 6 Stanley R. Anstine (19); Ken- Fuller (14); Oscar Gibson Copenhaver (11); John Corr Edward L. Messner (10); L. G. R. Andrade (20); Homer neth M. Austin (2); Lamar (11); Charles H. Hagen (3); (13); Alma D. Dain (9); C. B. J. Morris (21); Shepperd D. Apel (11); Hugh M. Biggs Ball (4); Fernando Basulto (1); Clemard L. Harvey (9); Dark (13); John Deim (5); Mouldin (2); Samuel Myers Ronald E.