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2B (Djf Journal Friday. March 1, 1974 City Firemen May Get Overtime IN itl Mt3 MiUflM Mtktttt3 J-'iiaJ ms- 7 By BILL KACZOR Journal Slow Writer Two Pensacola legislators said Thursday they would sponsor repeal of local legislation concerning overtime pay if city officials and firemen could resolve their dispute on the issue. Reps. R. W.

"Smokey" Peaden. a Democrat, and Tom Tobiassen, a Republican, met with Mayor Barney Burks. City Manager Frank Faison. city councilmen and firemen's representatives to discuss legislation affecting both overtime pay and insurance. Last year, laws were passed mandat- AlUAYS AT YOUR SERVICE a 42-hour week saying it would be too costly.

The firemen this year have asked the West Florida legislative delegation to draft legislation mandating a 42-hour week and the Council has passed a resolution asking the legislators not to become involved in what it considers strictly a local matter. The firemen are also dissatisfied with the present city insurance plan under Blue Cross and Blue Shield and want to join with policemen to form an alternate group with a different company. Skipper said city officials have been blocking this move by insisting that members of the new group waive all rights under the present insurance plan. Faison said such notification is necessary to implement the change, giving the city legal authority to cut off payments from one group plan and shift them to another. This issue was apparently resolved when Skipper agreed to get a petition with at least 150 group members' signatures and hold an election of trustees for the new group.

ing overtime pay for all hours over 48 in a 56-hour work week and allowing groups of 150 or more employes to pull out of the city's insurance program, obtain an alterante group plan and retain the city's contribution toward the insurance premiums. The dispute on overtime involves vacation and sick leave pay. The firemen say they should receive overtime pay even for these periods when they are not actually working. The city has refused to make such payments based on an opinion by City Attorney Don Caton. The legislators suggested that a wage scale not including overtime be worked out to the satisfaction of both parties.

The law was passed last year at the request of the firemen, who said they were not being adequately compensated by the city. What the firemen really want is a 42-hour work week, according to John Skipper, president of Pensacola Local 707 of the International Association of Fire Fighters. City Council has refused to implement Dial 432-8580 6508 W. Jock sn Street Bring us Your Next Prescription SAVE! SAVE! 4 9 w. lOCATIONS.

PoU53.2218 TfWffvr 4081 S. BARRANCAS I 0 5ERJ 456.5741 New Equipment Pleases Officers Former Civic Head Johnson i Funeral Rites Slated Friday MUZL REG. I 3-MONTHS I fQsWsl reg. $1.9 8-S ale $1.19 BANSECT liyVJIW SALE COLLAR trj trU pjjiil iff -TV Dr (fiS I Hi 111 I KJVJ SALE VH vH SALE JZJ I Safe Ln SALE rHicl mm ELECTRIC "-c vlfe VAPORIZER 0 I 8-IOHOURS (SUbxI Br3 I AUTOMATIC TURN OFF sui un oho) sue sftu I sau sue viVH, By JIM NORMAN Journal Stall Writer Sheriffs deputies and their officers agreed Thursday the approval of new equipment for the deputies' patrol cars will make their tasks safer and easier. The equipment, approved for purchase Tuesday by the county commission, includes shotguns with locking devices and electronic sirens with public address systems and twin-beacon lights.

According to many deputies and ser-. geants, such equipment could have saved the life of Deputy Charlie Wilkerson, killed Jan. 19 hen he stopped two armed robbery suspects. The shotguns with the locking devices will be hooked to the dashboard and will stand upright, A push of a button will release the shotguns, making them far more accessible than any of the present arrangements used by deputies. Sgt.

J. R. Swinney, a shift sergeant," said some deputies on his shift carry their own shotguns. "They are just regular shotguns and aren't designed for police work. The men don't want to saw off the barrels and ruin them for hunting," he said.

Swinney said those deputies who do carry shotguns have to put them on the floor or in ceiling racks. The time they lose in getting the guns out compared with the new system could be crucial, he club in 1946 and 1947. In 1947, he accepted management of the club and remained in that position through the late 60s. It is now known as Pensacola Greyhound Park. In the late 1940s the federal government returned the Santa Rosa Isalnd Authority to Escambia County and Johnson was appointed by the Board of County Commissioers as one of the original five members to serve on the Santa Rosa Island Advisory Board.

Later, he became a member of the original group of Santa Rosa Island Authority members, a position he resigned in 1952, In 1951, Johnson became executive director of the Fiesta of Five Flags and resigned in 1959. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Odessa M. Johnson of Pensacola; a daughter. Mrs.

Louis Winchester of Tallahassee; a son, Carl T. Johnson Jr. of Pensacola and two grandsons. Funeral serivces for Carl T. Johnson founder and past president of what is now Pensacola Greyhound Park, will be 4 p.m.

Friday in the Immanuel Lutheran Church with the Rev. Donald Hobratschk officiating. He was 80. Mr. Johnson, of 803 N.

19th a native and life-long resident of Pensacola, was the first director of the Fiesta of Five Flags and an original member of the Santa Rosa Island Authority. In 1917, he enlisted in the National Guard Company and was later taken into the Army. After he was discharged in 1918, he worked for several newspapers, including The Pensacola Daily News, The Mobile Press Register where he was circulation director, and The Pensacola News-Journal. In 1947, he helped organize and promote the Pensacola Kennel Club, acting as public relations director for the We have juft received another solid carload of fine Broyhill furniture at special prices and we are passing these savings on to you during our "CARLOAD" SALE. "WRLD "CAR CITY" J.

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