The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 4

Town Talk, Alexandria- Sunday, June 22, 1975 City Salaries Below Average (Continued from Page One) tendent $837 minimum salary is only $133 per month below the average, but the $1,167 maximum trails the average by $285. Salaries for the street repair superintendent ($837 to $1,167) are roughly in line with the other jurisdictions, but the bus superintendent ($897 to $1,227) earns about $200 per month less than his counterpart in other cities. Bus drivers here earn from $516 to $736, about $50 to $80 per month less than they would in the other cities surveyed. Alexandria's purchasing agent earns from $837 to $1,167, about $260 per month less than his equivalent in the other cities. In most of the higher-paid supervisory posts, the salaries are $100 to $200 below the average.

Some city jobs, however, pay more here than in other comparable jurisd- intended to provide comparatives salaictions. ry data to the civil service commission Secretaries, switchboard operators, and the city for consideration and upclerks, building street fore- grading the existing salary schedule." inspectors, men, traffic signal mechanics, and Among jurisdictions surveyed were waste department foremen earn at municipal governments in New Orleleast the equivalent pay offered by the ans, Shreveport, Bossier City, Ruston, other cities and companies. Baton Rouge, Monroe, Lafayette, Thibodeaux, Morgan City, Jefferson ParMost prospective city employes are ish, Mesquite, Huntsville, hired from the ranks of the unemand Pine Bluff and North Little Rock, ployed. Few persons leave private Ark. business to enter the city civil service, mainly because of lower salaries paid, Companies participating in the surMoriarty said.

vey were Central Louisiana Electric The employe turnover in low level Co. (CLECO) of Pineville, Gulf States Utilities Co. in Baton Rouge, and New jobs is estimated at 30 percent, a fig- Public Service. The state termed "very high." As Orleans govure Moriarty ernment also supplied information rea result of the turnover, the city often trains the employes only to lose them quested by Moriarty. a few months later.

Mesquite, Huntsville, Pine Bluff, Moriarty said the survey "is not de- and North Little Rock were contacted signed to be all encompassing, but it is to provide regional comparison. Child Abusers Not Criminals, Say Counselors at Center Here (Continued from Page One) has no normal contact with a parent. In one instance Ritchie cited, the child has no physical or verbal contact with the mother in the home. "The minute the child comes home from school, she is sent to her room and stays there until school time the next morning," he said. Emotional abuse comes in the form of constantly cursing the child or blaming him for what the other parent is.

type of abuse," Ritchie said, "has no socio-economic Physical and emotional neglect is usually found in lower income families and those in which the parents' education is relatively low. Ritchie said there have been five cases of sexual abuse reported to the center, one involving a homosexual. Ritchie said the case worker tries to find out why the other parent allows this to happen. In these five cases, the children have been removed from the homes. Ritchie said a common denominator in every child abuse case is stress to the parent.

The stress is brought on by different things in each case, but often is magnified when the child doesn't live up to parents' expectations. Another factor often overlooked is the parent who was abused as a child. "But most parents don't see themselves in this light," he said. "We do, but it's something we can't often deal with." Many child beatings are unintentional, Ritchie explained. "The parent just gets carried emotional control.

The usual answer is. environmental control to get the child out of the house during the day, either to a day care center, school or to a relative's home." Cases of premeditated child abuse are handled differently, he said. Premeditated abuse is usually a case of the child being cut, burned or bruised where it will not show. "We don't try to work too much with these parents," he said. "We just get the child out of the home." The center does have provisions for removing children when it is necessary.

Ritchie said some children don't realize they are being abused. "They think it's the same for every other child as it is for them." "We don't want people to think we are out to 'get' anyone who whips his child," Ritchie added. "You can whip a child for constructive punishment or you can whip him until he is cut and bleeding and in need of medical is abuse. We don't think of spanking a child as violence." The center has had calls from people who are afraid their son or daughter will abuse their children. "We can talk to these people, but there is really no way of knowing if they would have abused a child or not," added.

"If they do, we know we failed. If they don't we really don't know if the problem existed." Another type of call the center gets is from the parent who is afraid he or she is going to lose control and harm the child. "If we had more calls of this nature, there would be no need for a center of this kind," he said. Sparkman Role in Oil Deal Alleged (Continued from Page One) tained under the Freedom of Information Act prove the senator's intercession, Heller said. "The Commerce Department's Office of Export Administration made the deal possible by approving three licenses which allowed Sparkman's friend, Alabama oilman Bart Chamberlain, to sell cheap domestic crude oil at inflated prices to a refinery in the Bahamas controlled by Hugh Carey's brother, Edward M.

Carey," Heller said. "This was done at a time when refineries in the United States were starving for crude oil and when the crude that Chamberlain shipped to the Bahamas was covered by federal price controls." Heller's report said the export licenses let Chamberlain to circumvent price controls by selling domestic oil to Carey at $13.51 per barrel. It said a former Sparkman staff member described Chamberlain as "a long time friend and supporter" of the senator. Heller said documents and an interview with Patrick O'Donnell, President Ford's special assistant for legislative affairs, show that Sparkman is continuing to apply pressure to get an additional similar transaction approved. "In an interview, Chamberlain conceded that if he had sold the crude oil (during the embargo) to the Gulf Oil his regular customer, the sale would have been subject to federal price controls, which means he could not have charged more than $5.10 a barrel," Heller said.

Heller said Chamberlain got a total of three export licenses in late 1973 and early 1974 and sold the Carey refinery 985,107 barrels of oil under those licenses at an average price of $13.51 per barrel, reaping an extra $8.3 million compared to what the oil would have brought at the controlled price. areas of the city, a statistic which further supports the contention that trouble makers tend to converge on one area. While one prominent black minister agrees with the theory that troublemakers tend to get together, he also had some interesting ideas about why the particular area and about what might be done to possibly decrease the violent crime rate there. Having parishioners in both SamtownWoodside and in the trouble zone, Rev. Nathaniel Perry said it is his impression that "the family situation" is more stable in Samtown-Woodside.

He said perhaps the ministerial association here could do somthing on a cooperative basis to combat the problem in the trouble zone and added he believes there should be more recreational facilities and programs for young people in that area. "Honkie tonks" are a contributing factor to the crime rate in the area, said Perry. But Police Chief Jack Rodgers said trouble zones tend to change from time to time. Make the trouble zone a place where potential trouble makers don't want to go and they'll go somewhere else, he said. "Where crime is concentrated is where we concentrate our efforts to prevent it monthly we compile statistics on where the crimes are occurring, as well as the types of crimes," commented Rodgers.

"Where we find the highest concentration we step up patrols and investigations." Officers have been patrolling on foot, in the trouble zone. Noting many crimes are committed by young males, Rev. Perry suggests some police-sponsored programs for youths in the trouble zone. That might be a way, he said, to cut down on the crime rate and at the same time improve young people's attitudes toward policemen. "A starting point might be with the citizens in that community who are concerned about law and order," he commented.

While Rodgers acknowledges the crime rate is on the increase, he said the rate of increase is less in Alexandria than in any city of comparable size in the state. As for intentional killings with guns in the city (not just the trouble zone) so far this year there have been six, as compared with a total of nine for the entire year 1974, said Rodgers. One occurred in March, with an arrest being made. There were two in April, with arrest made in one case and none in the other which was ruled justifiable, he said. And in May, there were three, with two arrests and "another arrest pending." Intentional (non-accidental) shootings where victims survived have totaled 22 so far this year; cases of assault with guns (when guns or pointed at or shot at someone but victim is not injured) have totaled at least 20, Rodgers said.

As for the crime rate (including burglaries, thefts, and other property offenses as well as violent crimes) Rodgers continues to blame inflation, increased population and Alexandria's extremely high unemployment rate. Crime Centered in 'Trouble Zone' (Continued from Page One) as well as in cars, a stretch of Lee Street wilson's DASEY PRODUCTS MIRRO' DELUXE 4 QT. PRESSURE COOKER VEAL SEAL-A102377 MEAL Deluxe cooker saves time, heat and energy. Natural tenderizer locks in vitamins, minerals 247782 and flavor. Serve complete home-cooked meals in minutes with no clutter.

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Lamar Ritchie: Discusses child abuse. (Town Talk Staff Photo) Grove Stafford A member of a prominent Rapides Parish family, Stafford attended LSU after graduating from Alexandria High School. Following undergraduate work at LSU, he attended Tulane University, where he received his law degree. He was a veteran of World War I. Stafford was one of the few persons to ever play on both sides in a Tulane-LSU football game.

He received varsity letters in both football and track during his college career. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fraternity. Survivors include two sons, Grove Stafford Jr. of Alexandria and Graham Stafford of New Orleans; two daughters, Mrs. George French of Dallas, and Mrs.

Frank Daniel of Alexandria; a brother, Gordon Stafford of Alexandria; a sister, Mrs. Beryl S. Hollis of New Orleans; 19 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Visitation will be after 10 a.m. today at John Kramer and Son.

A rosary will be recited at 11 a.m. today in the funeral home chapel. Services will be held at 2 p.m. today in Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Park.

The family requests memorials be made to the American Cancer Society. Dies Here at 77. (Continued from Page One) 1951. Stafford was president of the Chamber of Commerce here in 1951-1952 and also served a term as vice president. He was a founder and retired board member of First Federal Savings and Loan Assn.

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