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I I i Pay Boosts Approved for City's Top Officials Measure Provides Salary Increases of Up to? 17.5 for 39 Municipal Department Heads BY ERWIN BAKER Timet City lureau Chid HOLDUP ON THE FIRE LINE A volunteer almost loses his pants as he tries to help a fireman with a hose at grass fire near Elsinore TO OFFSET ENROLLMENT DROP Pay increases of up to 17.5 for 39 Los Angeles municipal department heads were approved by the City Council Monday, and quickly signed into law by Mayor Tom Bradley. Councilman Ernani Bernardi was the lone dissenter in a 10-1 vote on the measure, which is retroactive to Julyl. Generally, the increased salaries will place Los Angeles municipal executives among the highest paid in the nation, according to City Hall sources. In a related action, the council rejected, 8 to 3 two votes short of passage a proposal to jump the pay of M. Lewis Thompson, manager-secretary of the Fire and Police Pension System, by 20.5 and city Traffic Engineer S.

S. (Sam) Taylor by 17.5 over their current salaries. The council instead approved an 11.3 increase for Thompson and 8.4 hike for Taylor, which means $32,802 for Thompson and $39,546 for Taylor. Bernardi, who supported the Thompson-Taylor "bonus," said he voted against the other increases because they were "unreasonable." His vote, he, said, was a protest against "the whole, salary-setting procedure" which grants "top" personnel $3,000 to $7,000 raises and "bottom" personnel $500 to $600 increases. The merit pay plan under which increases were approved for 32 of the 39 department chiefs is "really phony," he -charged.

Bernardi said he favored a plan under which salaries could be cut or frozen for less than satisfactory performance. Councilmen Edmund D. Edelman, Robert C. Farrell and Dave S. Cunningham, who voted against the added raises for Thompson and Taylor, said it was nothing personal, but that it would threaten the merit pay system under which the mayor, with council assistance, evaluates individual performance as a basis for annual pay adjustments.

Meanwhile, Bradley announced late Monday that he had signed ordinances providing pay raises of 8.3 to" 8.5 for about 16,000 municipal employes covered by "memorandums of understanding." The raises, previously approved by the council, will cost approximately $17 million. From the standpoint of dollars City Engineer- Donald C. Tillman re ceived the largest boost $6,932.16 from $47,731.68 to $54,663.84. That was a 14.5 hike. Percentagewise, Chief Legislative Analyst Kenneth G.

Spiker got the biggest increase 17.5. His salary went up $6,931.60 from $39,546.72 to $46,478.32. City Administrative Officer C. Er-win Piper became the highest paid official in council-controlled departments. His salary was boosted 11.5 $5,929 from $51,782 to $57,711.

If Personnel Committee recommendations for Fire Chief Raymond M. Hill and Chief of Police Edward M. Davis are approved, they will receive the same salary given Piper. Department of Water and Power General Manager and Chief Engineer Robert V. Phillips is the city's highest paid official $73,056.

Airports Department General Manager Clifton A. Moore is next. in line $62,700. Fred Crawford, general manager of the Harbor Department, earns $46,478, but the Harbor Commission is scheduled to consider a raise, as yet unannounced, at its July 17 meeting. Bradley is the city's highest paid elected official $50,000.

Asst. City Administrative Officer Eugene F. Kidder said Monday's Please Turn to Page 20, Col. LA. City College Recruits 720 Students in Phone Drive BY NOEL GREENWOOD Timet Education writer Pair Receive Life Terms for 9 of 17 Slayings in 17 Days STOCKTON (UPI) A judge Monday sentenced two drifters to' life imprisonment for nine killings in a "tragic odyssey" of "l7 murders in 17 days.

Willie Luther Steelman, 29, of Lodi, and Douglas Gretzler, 23, of New York, will never be paroled if Superior Judge Chris Papas' recommendation is followed. Papas sentenced the two men and said they should never be freed because of "the enormity and depravity" of the cold-blooded mass murders. In a few weeks the two convicted slayers will be sent to Arizona to be tried for six other murders in the October-November killing spree last year. In Arizona they could get the death penalty. Two additional slayings in California are charged to the pair.

Gretzler pleaded guilty to nine murder charges. Steelman waived his right to trial by a jury and was convicted by Papas of the nine murder charges and five robbery charges. In a probation report released at the time of sentencing Gretzler was quoted as saying the two "were just planning to pull a rip" by robbing the grocery store of Walter Parkin in the small town of Victor near Steelman's home town of Lodi. Gretzler said when they went to the Parkin home they did not find the grocer but held his children and a baby-sitter captive waiting for Parkin to come home. Before the grocer returned, the baby-sitter's parents and her boyfriend showed up.

All were held at the home. Steelman later took Parkin to his grocery store and robbed the safe of about $4,000. They then returned to the house where all of the captives were held in a closet, except two children, who were on the bed. "We can't leave them here. They're all witnesses," Steelman said, according to Gretzler's proba- Please Turn to Page 14, Col.

6 CALLED 'HONKY-TONK CARNIVAL' S.F. Fisherman's Wharf Has Cheap Image, Survey Finds City College last fall was the only one of the eight Los Angeles Community College District campuses where enrollment declined. Even with the 2 drop, City College with its 19,185 students remains the biggest in the system. Schall said beefing up enrollment was not the motive behind the telephone campaign, though. "Our concern is reaching more citizens," he said.

Many residents of Los Angeles would like to attend college, but for one reason or another, hesitate to take the first step and apply for admission, Schaal said. The telephone campaign is aimed at overcoming that. "I think," Schall said, "it shows we're human beings and we're personal and we're interested in them getting an education." The first stage of the phone campaign began in April with six students experienced in counseling, who were paid by the college to make the calls. By June, they had worked through a recent list of 7,000 persons who had either dropped out of City Col-lege or, had applied for admission but did not show. up for classes.

The six students were trained in telephone techniques by Pacific Telephone, which helped City College organize the campaign. The second stage of the telephone campaign is now under way, with the target area being Lincoln Heights, Highland Park and Eagle. Rock. Schall said the college knew there were good, prospects for additional enrollment from those areas, so a house by house phone campaign was launched. The returns so far are running 30 "either very interested in taking classes or they've signed up," said Schall.

Schall said the total campaign will cost about $6,000. Traffic Crashes Kill 64 in State During Four-Day Weekend BY RICHARD WEST Tlmt Staff Writer Sixty-four persons were killed in accidents in the state during "the four-day Fourth of July weekend 10 fewer than the number killed in the same period last year, the California Highway Patrol reported A CHP spokesman said the speed limit and the high price '6f gasoline apparently helped to reduce the number of fatalities this year. "At 61 cents a gallon, not many people can afford to take long trips," Sgt. David Helsel commented in Los 'Angeles. Helsel noted there were 1,933 drunken drivers arrested during the holiday period as the result of a i crackdown ordered by CHP Commissioner Walter Pudinski.

Helsel said Pudinski instructed CHP officers "not to be sitting on the ramps" but to "get out and drive in traffic" and that this resulted in "clearing drunken drivers off the road." A combination of low clouds dur-" ing the morning hours, balmy breezes and high humidity kept temperatures pleasantly mild in the Southland coastal and coastal valley areas Monday, as they were during the holiday period. The high temperature at Los Angeles Civic Center peaked at 75 degrees Monday afternoon and is expected to climb no higher than that today. The humidity Monday ranged between 84 and 52. Inland temperatures were running 10 degrees below normal. Winds of up to 30 m.p.h.

sprang up the interior and mountain areas and, according to the National Weather Service, should continue blowing through tonight. According to the extended forecast, moderate temperatures will prevail in the coastal and mountain i areas at least through the end of the week. A score of homes were threatened Monday afternoon when a fire broke out in grass and brush in the 9900 block of Sunland Blvd. in the La Tuna Canyon area and, swept across 1 10 acres. Please Turn to Page 14, Col.

1 Reinecke Will "Plastic" and "honky tonk" were among the descriptions from tourists. The committee's report attributed the loss of fishing boats to other nearby cities to "a severe deteriora-ation of facilities." I "Piers were allowed to rot and instead of being repaired or replaced, they were removed section by section," the report said. As a result, the report said, only 89 of the 161 boats that now dock at the wharf are commercial fishing boats. The rest are pleasure craft. In order to restore the area, the committee suggested several steps, including construction of a $2.8 million breakwater to protect the mooring area.

"Unless the breakwater is built," the report said, "the fishing industry will continue to disappear, the wharf area will become more and more synthetic, visitors will lose interest and business will wither." SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) A public opinion survey has found that many tourists and businessmen think San Francisco's famed Fisherman's Wharf is a "honky-tonk val of cheap sideshows." The survey, released Monday, was undertaken by a citizens' committee at the request of Mayor Joseph L. Alioto to find out ways to restore the area, visited by 12 million tourists each year, as a center of Northern California's commercial fishing industry. In the last few years, the number of boats operating out of the wharf area has declined sharply, while at the same time the number of restaurants, motels, gift shops amd wax museums has multiplied. "The wharf is becoming a farce," said one businessman interviewed by the committee. "Tourists come to see fishermen, fishing boats and fish processing plants.

Instead they get a carnival of cheap Los Angeles City College has taken to the telephone to find new students. The two-year campus, borrowing a technique normally used by sales men pushing their products by phone, has come up. with 720 new students for this fall after a two-month telephone campaign. Stan Schall, coordinator of career education at the college and organizer of the campaign, admits to some -apprehension about being compared with encyclopedia salesmen and others who sell by phone. "We were concerned about that," said Schall.

"But we're not selling anything don't look upon it as a sales campaign." Alien-Smuggler Crackdown Urged BY HAROLD KEEN Time Staff Writer SAN DIEGO Legislation to make It unprofitable to hire or transport illegal aliens was suggested in a report issued Monday by a special federal grand jury which has been studying the problem since last November. The grand jury, assigned to study illegal entry into the United States through Southern California, praised the "hard work and dedication" of the Border Patrol, which it said was "understaffed and under-equipped" to do its job. But the report had hard words for federal judges, whom it accused of aggravating the problem by handing out light sentences to those who smuggle aliens into the country. The special grand jury estimated that there are now as many as 10 million illegal aliens living undetected in the United States. Most of these, the report said, are employed by persons who are not aware of the workers' illegal immigrant status.

But some employers, the report said, deliberately seek to hire such persons because, they know they cannot complain if wages are below legal minimums. Please Turn to Page 20, Col. 1 Liquidate Some He declined to discuss them specifically, but said, "We are very definitely going to have to liquidate some of the things we hold, if not all." The 50-year-old official, who is paid a salary of $35,000 annually, reported Knott established a trustee's account to raise money through mail solicitations for a Reinecke defense fund. "Just how successful it will be, I don't know," Reinecke said. "I haven't got the first report of it yet.

It is totally aside from any political fund raising." He said the drive was launched by Knott last week and a return envelope for contributions bears the Knott's Berry Farm address. Reinecke said he believes, 2,000 to 3,000 requests for contributions were sent. Reinecke, who asserts he is the victim of a "political prosecution" at the hands of Watergate special prosecutor Leon Jaworski, also said he fully expects to be acquitted. Assets to Pay for Perjury Trial fe8 1 ta niiirnii 1 1 1 -inr -ji rmi'if nTniw nri nnr in 1 1 ir i naT ffTff 111 nnirTri rm 1 1 1 1 1 rmfT" ninrr'-mnnn rnr mnnnrrfiinn inTii Jl SACRAMENTO (UPI) Lt. Gov.

Ed Reinecke said Monday that he must liquidate some "if not all" his financial assets to help pay legal fees in his defense and also disclosed that long-time supporter Walter "Knott of Knott's Berry Farm in Orange County is spearheading a drive to establish a Reinecke defense fund. Reinecke, whose federal perjury trial is scheduled for July 15 in Washington, said his legal fees have totaled roughly $55,000 so far "with plenty to go." The Republican officeholder has pleaded innocent to three counts of perjury handed up by a Watergate grand jury April 3. The jury accused him of lying in 1972 to a Senate regarding his knowledge of an offer by International Telephone and Telegraph to underwrite the Republican national convention. The lieutenant governor told UPI that he and his wife Jeanne already were "taking steps" to pay the legal costs, A CLOSE ONE Firemen at Hawthorne airport extinguish flames private plane that, crash landed and caught fire after the engine failed about 100 feet after takeoff. Pilot Dick Young, 62, a veteran of r40 years of flying, and son Gary, 28, escaped without injury Times photo by Jerry Rnhlow A.